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

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

Correction: based on the slide show on their site, Philippa is probably
Guy's daughter, not his wife.

So far, I see no indications anywhere that the "process" that's being
patented is even being "computer-implemented."  LOL


Seth


Seth Johnson wrote:
> 
> 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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