Re: [Patents] Re: Technology tool being patented in Europe

[Seth Johnson <seth.johnson@RealMeasures.dyndns.org>]

Like the EOLAS patent, evidently a "technology transfer" from
publicly-funded research.


Slick PR:

> http://www.verum.com/verum/press_releases.shtml
> http://www.verum.com/verum/service_scope.shtml
> http://www.verum.com/verum/recruit.shtml

> http://www.e-consultancy.com/about/press.asp?id=184
> http://www.embedded.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=18902188
> http://www.rainierpr.co.uk/c_verum.html
> http://www.rainierpr.co.uk/staff.html

(It might be interesting sometime to check into the possibility that that PR
firm might run an operation similar to the corrupt "meeting planning"
outfits that function at the Bayh-Dole juncture between pharmaceuticals and
academic medical research.)


Robert Howe, Guy Broadfoot and Guy's wife Philippa hooked up at Oxford; Guy
and Philippa got their Masters together:

"Analytical Software Design" seems to come from "cleanroom software
engineering," "communicating sequential processes" and "failures-diversion
refinement:"

> http://www.intec.rug.ac.be/groupsites/formal/Workshop03/Website.htm#gpb
> http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/philippa.hopcroft/


Cleanroom Software Engineering:

> http://www.rspa.com/reflib/Cleanroom.html
> http://www.criticaljunction.com/werbicki/SENG623/Group/SENG623W03_Cleanroom.pdf


Communicating Sequential Processes:

> http://vl.fmnet.info/csp/


Failures-Diversion Refinement:

> http://www.fsel.com/documentation/fdr2/html/index.html


Seth


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