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
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Dear Kevin,
A similar incident from just two weeks ago, in Europe in our case, was resolved
by travelling to the regional FedEx package collection/distribution center to
recover the dry-shipper in person. This involved gaining access to the FedEx
center and talking to the right people.
I would
Hi Graeme,
do you want to discuss whether obvious steps can be patented?
Cheers,
Tim
On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 07:45:38 + "Winter, Graeme (DLSLtd,RAL,LSCI)"
<6a19cead4548-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote:
> Interesting
>
> https://www.freepatentsonline.com/20230228695.pdf
>
> Patent for
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?
(w
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
Hi Graeme,
in my experience, institutions encourage patents. I suppose it is a
simple way to demonstrate that Universities produce something of value
(money is easy to count, value of thought is not).
Personally, I think research should be as open as possible, in
hardware, software, and publicatio
In my observation, a patent for a real invention can be very valuable
On the other hand, a patent might be issued for something that isn't really
an invention (as Randy says) - sure, it's a patent, but it has little value.
I'm told venture capitalists like patents
I sometimes apply for a patent
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FedEx missing deadlines on "overnight" shipments is not uncommon, I advise
everyone to ship dewars to arrive at least one extra day in advance.
Also, their online tracking page could be better. They show the original
expected delivery time even if the shipment has already missed an intermediate
Dear Graeme,
Yes indeed, interesting.
There are clearly aspects of microED of proteins which might be documented as
non-obvious otherwise it wouldn’t have been a bit stuck ie without the
widespread community take up until recent years.
In terms of a concept patent, which this might be interprete
Hello, I don't do anything MAC but maybe shipping dewars would be a good
situation for an Apple Airtag, which I read about recently, or equivalent, if
there are any?
Best wishes, Jon Cooper. jon.b.coo...@protonmail.com
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I’m left wondering which aspects of the patent application are novel and
haven’t already been published elsewhere in the list of references (which
include a number of Tamir’s other papers).
Others will know - can you patent something that you have already published in
a paper? I try to steer cl
The AirTag is a good idea, I shall implement that. I’ve had samples stuck
from Canada to US, also in Memphis. It was just protein on dry ice but
needless to say when it arrived it was very dry but no ice.
Hopefully you will be lucky and retrieve your samples within the next 14
days.
Jürgen
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Hi Harry
On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 12:54 PM Harry Powell <
193323b1e616-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote:
> I’m left wondering which aspects of the patent application are novel and
> haven’t already been published elsewhere in the list of references (which
> include a number of Tamir’s other
Hi folks
I note that the installation pages for ccp4i2 tell me that I need _exactly_
version 2.8.0 of XQuartz so that things like Coot, iMosflm, etc will work. The
problem with that is that my TrueType fonts seem to have disappeared from
XEmacs and I’m left with the spidery bit-mapped fonts (I
Dear fellow crystallographers,
I would like to draw your attention to the call for proposals for the
XALOC beamline at the ALBA synchrotron, open until the 4th of September
2023. The call is for experiments to be performed during the whole year
of 2024.
Some features of XALOC:
* Recently
There are certainly a large number of bad patents being issued,
particularly in the US. The patent office here seems to have decided
that it is easier (for them) to just approve most every application and
let the courts filter out the bad ones, which requires years of work for
lawyers and b
>
> "A method for soaking ligands into
> macromolecule (e.g. protein) crystals (e.g. microcrystals) on EM (e.g.
> TEM) grids is presented. One or more crystals on the grid are soaked
> simultaneously using standard cryo-EM vitrification equipment." So, the
> only claim of novelty is for soaking in
Dear all,
Just a note as we have been experimenting with this lately after some lost
shipments.
We went with Lightbug pro and are ordering more of those.
https://lightbug.io/product/pro/
One can customize it to send updates only when moving out of the premises or
geofence to significantly lowe
Hi all, thanks for the responses on and off list.
Yesterday I got my case assigned to someone in the international shipping
division, gave a physical description of my shipping case and expressed the
perishable nature of the contents. My dewar turned up in Calgary last night and
was just delive
Hi everyone,
We are running an Instruct-ERIC Soft X-ray Tomography workshop/school at
beamline B24 at the UK synchrotron Diamond Light Source 11th - 15th of
September.
This is an exciting opportunity for young or experienced investigators to gain
valuable hands-on experience with our pipeli
Hi all,
In addition to the statements above, our experience has shown that using
the Customs broker as described on the CLS webpage has been helpful. Our
weekly shipments from Seattle to Saskatoon typically make it overnight,
worst case the next day.
Also, test your dewars. They should keep cold f
Hi Jan, Kevin,
Our experience shipping from San Francisco to CLS has ranged from arrival
on 2nd day to 10th day (both extreme), most commonly on 3rd or 4th day,
irrespective of using the CLS recommended customs broker or FedEx as the
international broker. The main parameter is likely if the packag
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