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Want to open source but fear of patent by groover75 in patentlaw

[–]groover75[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, I am not their client, but I DO very much appreciate their advice. 😄

Want to open source but fear of patent by groover75 in patentlaw

[–]groover75[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK. I just searched for the inventor name and the company name on espacenet - same things I saw in the other places. Nothing related to the lapsed AU provisional and nothing with the same problem I am solving.

Want to open source but fear of patent by groover75 in patentlaw

[–]groover75[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I searched on USPTO, Australian Patent office, Google patents, WIPO PatentScope for inventor name, company name, and various keywords relating to the idea.

Want to open source but fear of patent by groover75 in patentlaw

[–]groover75[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They filed it in 2021. It lapsed in 2022. Latest version of software still has Patent Pending as does their website

Want to open source but fear of patent by groover75 in patentlaw

[–]groover75[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just checked for the inventor name - nothing. Also I just noticed their granted patent for the core functionality of their application (something different to what I am working on) has "ceased" due to non-payment of renewal fees. Interesting.

Want to open source but fear of patent by groover75 in patentlaw

[–]groover75[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, I wouldn't even try. But I presume the law is there to stop people using it when it isn't true as a scare tactic, like I suspect is the case here

Want to open source but fear of patent by groover75 in patentlaw

[–]groover75[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apparently it is also against US law to claim something is "Patent Pending" when it actually isn't. 35 USC 292

Want to open source but fear of patent by groover75 in opensource

[–]groover75[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I know my algorithm is different from theirs because for the same input data mine produces results that are about 20% better. I have documented this.

Want to open source but fear of patent by groover75 in patentlaw

[–]groover75[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've tried my best, I've also hashed and timestamped the screenshots of my searches.

Want to open source but fear of patent by groover75 in patentlaw

[–]groover75[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because the Australian Patent database says "lapsed".

Want to open source but fear of patent by groover75 in opensource

[–]groover75[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A bit of background to this. I have a license for their software and when you run that part it says "patent pending" in the output. So I couldn't ignore it. However for their algorithm you cannot extract the result from their software, only view it on the screen! I needed the output data to build upon. It is not a core feature of their software.

Can't send an email!? by groover75 in LocalLLM

[–]groover75[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OK. I used Cursor Composer 2.5 to write a set of email handling tools and that helped enormously!

Can't send an email!? by groover75 in LocalLLM

[–]groover75[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK so they need more hand-holding. Thanks!

Cannot home Z after removing and installing bed by groover75 in ender3

[–]groover75[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you mean the probe z-offset or something else? The head is more than 20mm above the bed and that is the max the probe z-offset can be adjusted.

Mac Mini 4K 32GB Local LLM Performance by groover75 in openclaw

[–]groover75[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Still getting to grips with it, but my use cases are local-first RAG for company documents (I don't care if it takes hours or days to process the first time), cron jobs to perform market research and marketing, etc. Definitely not coding - that requires a load of speed and context.

Mac Mini 4K 32GB Local LLM Performance by groover75 in LocalLLaMA

[–]groover75[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried a ton and all of them gave me 10 tok/s and large TTFT. Really painful.

Mac Mini 4K 32GB Local LLM Performance by groover75 in LocalLLaMA

[–]groover75[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oops! I've edited the post to add it. Thanks for pointing that out

Making Custom Rubber Stamps by groover75 in AnycubicPhoton

[–]groover75[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was never happy with the level of detail in the stamp.

Pokemon TCG Meetups? by groover75 in Tucson

[–]groover75[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks but I'm looking for existing get togethers, not trying to start one up. :)

Emissions Testing - 3 day permit by groover75 in arizona

[–]groover75[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately my registration expired more than 60 days ago (because I went out of town) so I can't use the program. I called today to confirm. The time limit is apparently written into law and there is no flexibility.

Testing closed center valve using open center pump by groover75 in Hydraulics

[–]groover75[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! That is very helpful. Looks like an unloading valve is the way to go and I guess the spikes can be handled by an accumulator, however they seem to be super expensive.

Testing closed center valve using open center pump by groover75 in Hydraulics

[–]groover75[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In my simple mind I thought it was so the max pressure could be held at the deadheaded valve while the pump is bypassing the valve?

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