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A few items I am working on, besides patent searching, prosecution and possibly writing a new patent application: 1) getting ready to add SVG to website, especially for those who have or will be upgrading to HTML5 soon; 2) getting ready to add non-English script to the website; and 3) getting ready to add python script to website. I hope to add some spreadsheet capability soon.
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Hi everyone, several very important things have been occupying my time lately: a 6-hour presentation for BICSI.org on the topic "Building Information Systems" that I presented on Sunday, February 12, 2012. I took a train there, took about 17 hours from Washington's Union Station to Orlando's Amtrak station (notice that "amtrak" lacks a letter "c").
I stayed at the Wyndham Hotel Buena Vista Lake, that was located nearly across the street from Walt Disney World's Downtown. It was quite a trip through the eastern border of the U.S.
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There are several important topics areas for me to complete before I can "spruce up" this website: 1) adequately "master" the ability to rapidly formulate HTML using javascript/PHP, etc., especially using that impressive IDE called ECLIPSE (thanks to IBM and their generosity in 2001!); 2) adequately master the formulation of graphics objects, including both static and dynamic elements, especially SVG vector, using GIMP and INKSCAPE; and, 3) adequately master the formulation and visualization of information categories. I hope to reach the "adequate mastery" of these areas in due time.
As you are probably already aware, concerning the progress of technology throughout the world, there is a perpetual conflict between the competing forces of inertia: i.e., those that tend to remain stationary (or even that try to revert to the past), and those that tend to change things. One of those "things" is radioactivity, which is both used to "see" far into the past (e.g., carbon and other radioisotope dating methods) and to propel humanity into the future (by the "promise" of adequate Electromotive Force for the near future, with hopes for less risky or dangerous energy sources such as FUSION). Radioactivity is naturally around us, both in the forms that continue to heat the core of our planet, in the form of the CHEMICAL ELEMENT Thorium, and extraterrestrial sources, such as our Nuclear-reactor SUN. Trying to harness this very large source of energy could be compared to the success of atmospheric travel, such as aircraft and rockets.
Yes, we can't "see" the radioactivity without suitable instrumentation (just as we can't see ourselves getting a suntan or sunburn, until after the process is finished), but then we can't see in the dark without a flashlight or infrared devices either, and we are not going to stay put and wait until the sun comes back up again in the morning, are we? No, humanity does not resemble a sunflower that stays put and simply tracks the sun's motion.
The important thing is that we LEARN and UNDERSTAND these phenomena (just as we understand geophysical, atmospheric, solar and other inevitable "natural" phenomena). Math and Science are clearly "must learn" subject topics. Then, once an adequate understanding is achieved, then the subjects of the Humanities will hopefully help us to spread this understanding. Thanks to the wonderful merger of math and science in the technology of computers and related electronic devices, the "word" is apparently "spreading" around this planet to all humanity, as evidenced by the explosive use of cell phones, etc.
However, in putting together a satisfactory course for performing a patent or other technology "search", there needs to be an adequate understanding of the "structure" of information and its categorization (or "classification"), in any and all languages being used. Visualizations are best used with a textual explanation of the information being presented. Several disciplines are needed to "capture" the information and present in a meaningful manner. And efficiency, timeliness, applicability/relevance, accuracy and reliability are all important as well.
201107071625 A few things to mention for now: 1) the USPTO's "complexity factor", its reason for existence, synonyms and its impact both on overall and individual pendency and some buffering techniques used by the USPTO to "balance the playing field"; 2) an upcoming hopefully fun, but nonetheless very important link to a "fun page" including discoveries into the mathematical puzzle called Sudoku, the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements, a little Table of the Nuclides information and the extremely important mathematical concepts of numerical factors and orders of magnitude, as these all pertain to today's education (and continuing education) of pretty much everyone everywhere; and, 3) the inclusion of various graphics elements throughout this website that are very useful and almost unavoidable for explaining concepts, in a generally rhetorical manner.
There are various browsers being used throughout this planet which handle graphics elements in somewhat different ways. Visitors wanting to experience and have an understanding of the concepts being presented in this website will probably want to enable their browsers (e.g., by preference or options settings) to handle these graphics efficiently and/or at least rapidly. Otherwise, visitors are urged to consider switching their browsers, if at all possible (I know, it's not possible to switch browsers on most hand-held or smart phone devices) or devices to those that can handle graphics elements better and faster. Hopefully, you will understand why graphics information is so very important in conveying information, even though the visual interface (i.e., the display screen) is strictly two-dimensional. This requires, of course, that the graphics contain some embellishments to bring out the three-dimensional appearance of the information being conveyed. That is why I am spending time learning the raster-based drawing tool called GIMP and the vector-based drawing tool called Inkscape.
As you are probably already aware, concerning the progress of technology throughout the world, there is a perpetual conflict between the competing forces of inertia: i.e., those that tend to remain stationary (or even that try to revert to the past), and those that tend to change things. One of those "things" is radioactivity, which is both used to "see" far into the past (e.g., carbon and other radioisotope dating methods) and to propel humanity into the future (by the "promise" of adequate Electromotive Force for the near future, with hopes for less risky or dangerous energy sources such as FUSION). Radioactivity is naturally around us, both in the forms that continue to heat the core of our planet, in the form of the CHEMICAL ELEMENT Thorium, and extraterrestrial sources, such as our Nuclear-reactor SUN. Trying to harness this very large source of energy could be compared to the success of atmospheric travel, such as aircraft and rockets.
Yes, we can't "see" the radioactivity without suitable instrumentation (just as we can't see ourselves getting a suntan or sunburn, until after the process is finished), but then we can't see in the dark without a flashlight or infrared devices either, and we are not going to stay put and wait until the sun comes back up again in the morning, are we? No, humanity does not resemble a sunflower that stays put and simply tracks the sun's motion.
The important thing is that we LEARN and UNDERSTAND these phenomena (just as we understand geophysical, atmospheric, solar and other inevitable "natural" phenomena). Math and Science are clearly "must learn" subject topics. Then, once an adequate understanding is achieved, then the subjects of the Humanities will hopefully help us to spread this understanding. Thanks to the wonderful merger of math and science in the technology of computers and related electronic devices, the "word" is apparently "spreading" around this planet to all humanity, as evidenced by the explosive use of cell phones, etc.
However, in putting together a satisfactory course for performing a patent or other technology "search", there needs to be an adequate understanding of the "structure" of information and its categorization (or "classification"), in any and all languages being used. Visualizations are best used with a textual explanation of the information being presented. Several disciplines are needed to "capture" the information and present in a meaningful manner. And efficiency, timeliness, applicability/relevance, accuracy and reliability are all important as well.
201107071625 A few things to mention for now: 1) the USPTO's "complexity factor", its reason for existence, synonyms and its impact both on overall and individual pendency and some buffering techniques used by the USPTO to "balance the playing field"; 2) an upcoming hopefully fun, but nonetheless very important link to a "fun page" including discoveries into the mathematical puzzle called Sudoku, the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements, a little Table of the Nuclides information and the extremely important mathematical concepts of numerical factors and orders of magnitude, as these all pertain to today's education (and continuing education) of pretty much everyone everywhere; and, 3) the inclusion of various graphics elements throughout this website that are very useful and almost unavoidable for explaining concepts, in a generally rhetorical manner.
There are various browsers being used throughout this planet which handle graphics elements in somewhat different ways. Visitors wanting to experience and have an understanding of the concepts being presented in this website will probably want to enable their browsers (e.g., by preference or options settings) to handle these graphics efficiently and/or at least rapidly. Otherwise, visitors are urged to consider switching their browsers, if at all possible (I know, it's not possible to switch browsers on most hand-held or smart phone devices) or devices to those that can handle graphics elements better and faster. Hopefully, you will understand why graphics information is so very important in conveying information, even though the visual interface (i.e., the display screen) is strictly two-dimensional. This requires, of course, that the graphics contain some embellishments to bring out the three-dimensional appearance of the information being conveyed. That is why I am spending time learning the raster-based drawing tool called GIMP and the vector-based drawing tool called Inkscape.
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Thanks for stopping by. I have coded the javascript to change the navigation icons from blue to green using the rollover method. This may seem like a relatively minor improvement, but it is actually a major step in moving this website toward the goal of general usability, general applicability, and general currency (at least). The icons were made using Inkscape (I incorrectly wrote GIMP here earlier, but Inkscape is the "other" free drawing software I actually used.)
For those of you wondering just what the heck kind of "patent work" I have been doing recently that may qualify me to discuss or give any patent search course whatsoever, you are welcome to download the following patent documents (free at pat2pdf.org): 20100243650, 20100295742 and 20110094906, all of which I essentially researched and wrote. Now, of course, one or two of the applications were "adjusted" by the client after I had submitted the application, e.g., by adding some material to "beef up" the material. Although the subject matter was searched (in the very "broadest" sense), I still did my own search to make sure that I was not "wasting" my time writing a patent application that had no chance in hell of being issued into a patent by the USPTO.
I will post a list of the 40-50 patent applications I wrote for Litman Law during the period from April 2002 to January 2003 ranging widely in subject matter. If you really want this list fast, you can email me at franlorin@siberkhem.com.
Besides writing these applications, I also searched, wrote and assisted in prosecuting a couple other patent applications, which I hope to post soon. I still have quite a bit of coding to learn, as well as the interfaces (e.g., IDEs such as Eclipse) in order to post the information faster and make it more accessible online, without limitations of the type of device used to access this site. Not a small task, I assure you.
For those of you wondering just what the heck kind of "patent work" I have been doing recently that may qualify me to discuss or give any patent search course whatsoever, you are welcome to download the following patent documents (free at pat2pdf.org): 20100243650, 20100295742 and 20110094906, all of which I essentially researched and wrote. Now, of course, one or two of the applications were "adjusted" by the client after I had submitted the application, e.g., by adding some material to "beef up" the material. Although the subject matter was searched (in the very "broadest" sense), I still did my own search to make sure that I was not "wasting" my time writing a patent application that had no chance in hell of being issued into a patent by the USPTO.
I will post a list of the 40-50 patent applications I wrote for Litman Law during the period from April 2002 to January 2003 ranging widely in subject matter. If you really want this list fast, you can email me at franlorin@siberkhem.com.
Besides writing these applications, I also searched, wrote and assisted in prosecuting a couple other patent applications, which I hope to post soon. I still have quite a bit of coding to learn, as well as the interfaces (e.g., IDEs such as Eclipse) in order to post the information faster and make it more accessible online, without limitations of the type of device used to access this site. Not a small task, I assure you.
201105271844 For all those of you who continue to stop by this website for a convenient detailed patent search course, I wish I could report to you with full confidence that this site will be completely up and running very soon, but unfortunately, I cannot. At this time I am completing my detailed study of Javascript, which is an nearly ubiquitous software used in conjunction with HTML (along with PHP, etc., of course). However, Javascript is now being incorporated in the W3C's latest HTML5 standard that came out in late 2010. Much of this software technology has only "bossomed" in the past 5-15 years.
In addition, I am also watching the useful videos on Java and C++ provided by Stanford Office of Professional Development free of charge (see YouTube.com), especially courses 106A and 106B. I am using the Eclipse IDE to write and test the code. By the way, Eclipse IDE is also very useful in building Android applications, which are gradually becoming ubiquitous in the smart phone market.
So, I hope you can imagine how much "catching up" I still need to do to bring the presentation aspects of this course consistent with today's standards and useful in today's media products.
In addition, I have been helping one client in obtaining a patent (it is currently in prosecution at the USPTO), and working my way to having an on-line patent search reporting and tracking system available for my clients as soon as possible. Besides providing a patent search report online for clients to download (securely, of course), a progress page will hopefully track the steps being taken to produce and unfinished report all the way to completion.
Surtout, j'utilize aussi le site par le Bibliotèque Française pour trouver l'information de l'histoire des brêvets et des technologies pour ajouter dans ce website.
En als dat niet genoeg is, dan ben ik ook van bewig om deze site te vertalen, ten minsten en paar paginas om te beginnen. Dus, ja, natuurlijk neemt deze website een lange tijd te verbeteren, maar bijna zonder geld kan ik alleen en beetje doen iedere keer dat hierop werk. Tot volgende keer, en het is nog niet te lang nu voor je een mooije "online" (of ann-lijn) program kan hier bekijken.
In addition, I am also watching the useful videos on Java and C++ provided by Stanford Office of Professional Development free of charge (see YouTube.com), especially courses 106A and 106B. I am using the Eclipse IDE to write and test the code. By the way, Eclipse IDE is also very useful in building Android applications, which are gradually becoming ubiquitous in the smart phone market.
So, I hope you can imagine how much "catching up" I still need to do to bring the presentation aspects of this course consistent with today's standards and useful in today's media products.
In addition, I have been helping one client in obtaining a patent (it is currently in prosecution at the USPTO), and working my way to having an on-line patent search reporting and tracking system available for my clients as soon as possible. Besides providing a patent search report online for clients to download (securely, of course), a progress page will hopefully track the steps being taken to produce and unfinished report all the way to completion.
Surtout, j'utilize aussi le site par le Bibliotèque Française pour trouver l'information de l'histoire des brêvets et des technologies pour ajouter dans ce website.
En als dat niet genoeg is, dan ben ik ook van bewig om deze site te vertalen, ten minsten en paar paginas om te beginnen. Dus, ja, natuurlijk neemt deze website een lange tijd te verbeteren, maar bijna zonder geld kan ik alleen en beetje doen iedere keer dat hierop werk. Tot volgende keer, en het is nog niet te lang nu voor je een mooije "online" (of ann-lijn) program kan hier bekijken.
201104201956 Familiarizing myself with the file structures on my host site, as well as structuring my own file structure, takes some time to get "used to". This includes having plenty of "screen shots" as I practice various features in my plethora of software packages, including my two main FREE drawing packages: GIMP and Inkscape, GCC and the Eclipse IDE for Java, BIRT, javascript, Python and Perl. Yes, each software package requires its own file structure.
Add to these packages, jQuery and PHP5, and possibly Ruby-on-Rails (once I figure out how to "add it in", and a lot of time is being spent learning and practicing. The BIRT, by the way, is an online report management system that is FREE and competes with some expensive packages, such as SAP, which is used in Europe.
The unordered list at the left is being made with button graphics that I am creating as I go along. So, plenty of "details" still to work out. Eventually, I plan to return to writing the Patent Search Course, but hopefully with added SVG and other "visualizations" to help grapple with the enormity of what a patent search and, for that matter, ANY technical search for cutting edge technology and related features.
Nowadays, there is plenty of talk about a "green revolution" to include solar and wind power. Hopefully, these industries can produce a good initial stock of photovoltaics and generators, etc. before any more nuclear problems arise. Remember that in order to produce the photovoltaics and generators for these "clean technologies", plenty of energy will be required, which our nuclear plants currently provide and provide well and cheaply. The next generation of nuclear plants will be much better equipped to withstand environmental and other disasters by being fail-safe using gravity or other non-powered containment devices. Maybe individual cities or even companies will be authorized to build their own 100-300 MW nuclear-based units? That's part of the "new technology" as well. Remember that radioactivity is just as "natural" as the oil and gas we draw from the depths of the crust. Without it, our planet would be cold and the sun would not give off its light. The heat produced from the natural radioactivity of our planet (of course, add to that the heat produced by the various other physical processes also taking place in the mantle, which is roughly 40-50% of the total) is preventing us from drilling deeper than about 8-20km in most places. So, we can only actually "mine" a narrow portion of the crust as a result to obtain the minerals and other resources that are so important to the expansion and progress of our civilization.
Add to these packages, jQuery and PHP5, and possibly Ruby-on-Rails (once I figure out how to "add it in", and a lot of time is being spent learning and practicing. The BIRT, by the way, is an online report management system that is FREE and competes with some expensive packages, such as SAP, which is used in Europe.
The unordered list at the left is being made with button graphics that I am creating as I go along. So, plenty of "details" still to work out. Eventually, I plan to return to writing the Patent Search Course, but hopefully with added SVG and other "visualizations" to help grapple with the enormity of what a patent search and, for that matter, ANY technical search for cutting edge technology and related features.
Nowadays, there is plenty of talk about a "green revolution" to include solar and wind power. Hopefully, these industries can produce a good initial stock of photovoltaics and generators, etc. before any more nuclear problems arise. Remember that in order to produce the photovoltaics and generators for these "clean technologies", plenty of energy will be required, which our nuclear plants currently provide and provide well and cheaply. The next generation of nuclear plants will be much better equipped to withstand environmental and other disasters by being fail-safe using gravity or other non-powered containment devices. Maybe individual cities or even companies will be authorized to build their own 100-300 MW nuclear-based units? That's part of the "new technology" as well. Remember that radioactivity is just as "natural" as the oil and gas we draw from the depths of the crust. Without it, our planet would be cold and the sun would not give off its light. The heat produced from the natural radioactivity of our planet (of course, add to that the heat produced by the various other physical processes also taking place in the mantle, which is roughly 40-50% of the total) is preventing us from drilling deeper than about 8-20km in most places. So, we can only actually "mine" a narrow portion of the crust as a result to obtain the minerals and other resources that are so important to the expansion and progress of our civilization.
201104041619 As you visitors who stop by this website from time to time
(by the way, THANKS!), might readily see, I have divided this page into
a left-side panel (for navigation) and a right-side panel (content)
Also, I have made Verdana the preferred font-family as the font-type
for the content text. Yes, this seems like a very small change after
such a long time has passed since this website was first made available
on the Internet (back in 2008!). However, besides helping my few
current clients in doing intensive paid work (which was less than $10k
altogether in 2010), I have spent considerable time learning about
several relatively new software packages that appear to me to be very
important in web site development productivity, including at least:
- Eclipse (an OpenSource integrated development environment for several languages including Java, C++ and Eclipse's own BIRT, a report generating system),
- GIMP, Inkscape, and Blender (OpenSource raster, vector and animation packages), and
- Jquery.
In addition, I am now adding
content and modifying the HTML, etc. on my PC BEFORE I upload it to my
hosting server. This last item is a big change, since it was previously
difficult to "see" all my HTML, CSS, Javascript changes, etc. without
first changing my web page on my Host server and then reloading the
page on my Firefox browser. However, now that I can use Firebug,
these changes are visible immediately in my browser. I hope to send a
financial contribution to the developer(s) of Firebug as soon as I am
able. Also, I use the freeware Scite to check the
overall consistency of my various "div" and "span" blocks to make sure
all opening and closing tags are properly matched. Once I have settled
on the "best" buttons to use, e.g., for links, etc., then those changes
should appear as well, very soon I think. Once those buttons are
determined (and produced on GIMP or Inkscape), I will continue to add
more content that most of you probably wanted to see when you came to
visit this website.
201012191123: Some of you may have noticed that webpages are progressively loading with ever-increasing amounts of "baggage", like images and video clips, etc. In this website, my intention is to avoid such unnecessary "baggage" as much as possible. However, financial circumstances beyond my control may unfortunately require that such "baggage" be included in the near future, i.e., the supposedly "unnecessary baggage" may become "necessary". Welcome to the "real" world, right?
This brings me to the rapidly developing field of Graphic Design. Graphic Design and its sibling, marketing design, brings together ideas from current "culture" and pragmatics to achieve a desired result. In my case, the purpose for this website has been to present facts regarding performing technical/patent searches on existing freely accessible databases, to obtain accurate information on which to base decisions regarding patents, e.g., whether to file an application or how to respond to an assertion of infringement.
This brings me to the rapidly developing field of Graphic Design. Graphic Design and its sibling, marketing design, brings together ideas from current "culture" and pragmatics to achieve a desired result. In my case, the purpose for this website has been to present facts regarding performing technical/patent searches on existing freely accessible databases, to obtain accurate information on which to base decisions regarding patents, e.g., whether to file an application or how to respond to an assertion of infringement.
The following webpages are optimized for browsers using Firefox with Javascript turned ON. Future support for IE (windows and Mac), Opera, Safari, PDAs and hand-held devices, and aural is expected (i.e., optimization for these browsers is expected later). I am still researching various CMS (content management systems) and CMV (Content-model-view) software systems to determine how to best present and update the course information. Moodle is a self-contained course creation software package that touts its ability to put together an online course of instruction. I don't know yet, since I am still learning about it. I need to include a "wiki"-style version and editing control, to track changes. Hopefully, the package(s) I use here will be able to display the information on any existing device. Also, alternative languages (first French and Dutch) are planned as well. My spoken Dutch and French are somewhat passable (no one in the US actually consistently uses the term "fluent" in relation to language ability, and since most English-speaking US-born people don't really speak any other language, knowing ANY language other than English is often mistakenly called "fluent"), but I am certainly not "fluent" in these languages. Nevertheless, certain aspects of translation are very important, for example, the substitution of "industrial" for "intellectual" in "IP", especially in French-language countries.
Why review these online courses by Siberkhem? The first reason is that it's FREE! - the second is that it is UP-TO-DATE and includes cites to current online sources; therefore, you can evaluate the information as you go along to determine its accuracy - however, if you distrust such web sources as WIKIPEDIA.ORG (which was compared with Encyclopedia Britannica by Nature Magazine to be equal or superior), then you might want to take an expensive course at a warm resort at your company's expense for a similar (but possibly inferior) course for $1000-$2000 per person. It's your choice.
So who is writing this course? Answer: an experienced technical writer, ex-patent examiner, chemical engineer, and computer programmer. Most importantly, the writer of this course is INDEPENDENT of any commercial ties whatsoever. Therefore, you can expect the content to be UNIQUE, WELL-RESEARCHED, WELL-WRITTEN and WELL-DOCUMENTED. And if you want to learn about all aspects of patents from an independent source with these quality indicia, you have come to the right place. This is a constantly evolving subject, so expect to see periodic updates with relevant source cites to keep you informed and up-to-date. Also, please visit the accompanying weblog giving information generally related to patent and other intellectual property, and patent searching information, see Siberkhem's IP Blog:
Siberkhem's IP Blog
Or for the blog generally related to additional content related to the Patent Search Course Lessons
Siberkhem PatentLessons Blog.
Siberkhem's IP Blog
Or for the blog generally related to additional content related to the Patent Search Course Lessons
Siberkhem PatentLessons Blog.
And you may even want to visit an earlier SiberKhem website that will be gradually completed, remodeled and brought up to date:
Overview of entire patent process lifetime
Overview of entire patent process lifetime
This course is further intended to provided online training for candidates who wish to perform thorough searches and write reports in accordance with the requirements of the Accelerated Examination Support Document for the Accelerated Examination Procedure of the USPTO [http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/accelerated/], that began on August 25, 2006.
Using the "div" and "br" html codes for now 20100619074 link to "Gulf of Mexico" or "Cesspool of England"?, and maybe Falklands to follow...)
201006211929 "Problem" is addressable either by one or a combination of these: chemical (burn, disperse), mechanical (separate, mix), or biomedical (bacteria, yeast). Of course, coastal areas may also effectively protect shorelines from the open sea and to filter seawater reaching the shore.
201006211929 "Problem" is addressable either by one or a combination of these: chemical (burn, disperse), mechanical (separate, mix), or biomedical (bacteria, yeast). Of course, coastal areas may also effectively protect shorelines from the open sea and to filter seawater reaching the shore.
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