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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Over the Air Signal Capture
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Eric Blossom |
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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Over the Air Signal Capture |
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Sun, 16 Jan 2005 11:39:02 -0800 |
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On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 07:39:58PM -0600, Rick Parrish wrote:
> address@hidden wrote:
>
> >What are the thoughts on an IMBE CODEC? Isn't that covered by a patent?
> >
> >
> It is patented by DVSI. It's available under "RAND" terms (Reasonable
> And Non-Discriminatory). The patents have been out there for a while ...
> there may not be much life left in them. If you search for patents
> assigned to DVSI you'll find a few dated from 1989 to 1992 or so. Those
> probably apply to IMBE. Patents filed after 1993 probably pertain to
> AMBE, not IMBE.
>
> -rick
Thanks,
The other question is whether the patents are any good.
Just because the PTO issued the patent doesn't mean that it's
non-obvious to a practitioner skilled in the arts.
Eric