Patent 6418323 Wireless mobile phone with Morse code and related capabilities
I see there are at least two of us!
The purpose is so you can secretly text other people under the table while in a boring meeting.
Besides, I'm pretty sure the patent has expired.
My motivation on this was simply that I am an inventor, and what's an inventor without a patent here and there? The stuff I invented for D has not been patented.
Patents are supposed to protect innovators, to encourage public release of innovative ideas. Yet your patent would stifle useful, though in this case not particulalry innovative or broadly useful, tools.
what is being protected by your patent, and others like it? An afternoon of thought. Not even a prototype in your patent, just lazy half assed schematics.
patents like yours hold back society. Again, not this patent in particular, but the many like it. Just look at patent trolls. Usless dregs of society, making things difficult for true innovators by abusing a system that was supposed to benefit humanity.
Keep in mind that phones at the time did not have side buttons, the side buttons on my iphone are ergonomically unsuitable for use as a morse key, are in the wrong location for it, and there wasn't an app store then.
I've also had many people copy my ideas, steal my software, and claim they invented them and wrote them. It gets a little tiring. I've used a registered copyright to stop some of those claims. Having a patent means I can solidly claim originality.
I also hoped someone would see the patent and want to implement it, as I was focused on other things.
Conversely a person could start patenting obvious ideas (morse code + cell phone seems like one) and then thousands of people independently arrive at the idea unaware of prior work. So now all that legal paperwork backing meant to fight off the startup type, the dragon, is used on an innocent - he who fights dragons should be careful not to become a dragon himself
IMO the patent system here is transformed into a "first person who calls dibs is the winner!" type free for all, and we get professional dib-callers. And the reason why it happens is the content of the patent, the ideation, execution, is all rote simple and not all that innovative.
I am not arguing against the concept of patents either, just that in their modern implementation they are not fit for the purpose they are supposed to have.
I went to his memorial service. There was quite a crowd there. Eric created a ripple in the universe.