I get the impression that these days you can patent just about anything, and instead of challenging your claims the patent examiners leave it to be settled later. A few years (probably one or two decades!) ago someone managed to patent the idea of a difference Fourier to detect binding, ignoring the many decades of prior art. As far as I am aware no-one ever tried to enforce that patent.
Randy > On 28 Jul 2023, at 09:17, Winter, Graeme (DLSLtd,RAL,LSCI) > <00006a19cead4548-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: > > Discussion topics: > > - does this have any hope of being enforced since - as you point out - it is > a pretty obvious next step from X-rays > - does anyone else who is _already doing this_ care > - should we (individuals, not community) be patenting the obvious / ideas / > “inventions” just in case? > > (well aware that the authors of said patent will wake up to this in a few > hours) > > Personally, I am not comfortable with this, but maybe I am a dinosaur? > > Graeme > >> On 28 Jul 2023, at 09:13, Tim Gruene <tim.gru...@univie.ac.at> wrote: >> >> Hi Graeme, >> >> do you want to discuss whether obvious steps can be patented? >> >> Cheers, >> Tim >> >> >> On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 07:45:38 +0000 "Winter, Graeme (DLSLtd,RAL,LSCI)" >> <00006a19cead4548-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: >> >>> Interesting >>> >>> https://www.freepatentsonline.com/20230228695.pdf >>> >>> Patent for use of electron diffraction to assess ligand binding >>> >>> Stumbled across this because the patent application cites my work - >>> felt that this would be of interest to the community >>> >>> … discuss? >>> >>> Graeme >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> -- >> Tim Gruene >> Head of the Centre for X-ray Structure Analysis >> Faculty of Chemistry >> University of Vienna >> >> Phone: +43-1-4277-70202 >> >> GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A >> >> ######################################################################## >> >> To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: >> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 >> >> This message was issued to members of http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a >> mailing list hosted by http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/, terms & conditions are >> available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/ > > > -- > This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential, copyright and or > privileged material, and are for the use of the intended addressee only. If > you are not the intended addressee or an authorised recipient of the > addressee please notify us of receipt by returning the e-mail and do not use, > copy, retain, distribute or disclose the information in or attached to the > e-mail. > Any opinions expressed within this e-mail are those of the individual and not > necessarily of Diamond Light Source Ltd. > Diamond Light Source Ltd. cannot guarantee that this e-mail or any > attachments are free from viruses and we cannot accept liability for any > damage which you may sustain as a result of software viruses which may be > transmitted in or with the message. > Diamond Light Source Limited (company no. 4375679). Registered in England and > Wales with its registered office at Diamond House, Harwell Science and > Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0DE, United Kingdom > > > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > > This message was issued to members of http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a > mailing list hosted by http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/, terms & conditions are > available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/ ----- Randy J. Read Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge Cambridge Institute for Medical Research Tel: +44 1223 336500 The Keith Peters Building Hills Road E-mail: rj...@cam.ac.uk Cambridge CB2 0XY, U.K. www-structmed.cimr.cam.ac.uk ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
