P3D Re: Patents

[fj834@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Dr. George A. Themelis)]

>OK, suppose I file a patent application describing a processing method by 
>which a regulation basketball is lightly dusted with powdered sugar, at which
>point it reduces in volume to the size of a golf ball, permitting it to be 
>easily transported, and when the powdered sugar is brushed off, the basketball
>returns to its original volume?

How about just taking the air off and putting it back again? (if reducing
the volume is the issue) :-)

To photo-3d members:  I think the "patent" discussion is getting off-topic so
please try and limit your postings to stereo-related subjects or continue
the discussion with stereo-related examples.

I have a stereo-related story on this:  When I interviewed OSPS member
Don Peck (interview will appear in a future issue of the Stereogram BTW)
he recalled how he filled for a patent on his "stereogram" idea.  The
patent officer could not see stereo because he had a problem with his
eyes.  Yet, he issued the patent even though he could not verify it
himself.

George Themelis


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