{"id":239,"date":"2008-04-24T03:50:48","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T08:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/239"},"modified":"2008-04-24T03:50:48","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T08:50:48","slug":"patent-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/239","title":{"rendered":"Patent Nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you think things can&#8217;t get any sillier.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space-travel.com\/reports\/Boeing_Patent_Shuts_Down_AMC_14_Lunar_Flyby_Salvage_Attempt_999.html\">Boeing Patent Shuts Down AMC-14 Lunar Flyby Salvage Attempt<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Primarily this is because SES is currently suing Boeing for an unrelated New Skies matter in the order of $50 million dollars &#8211; and Boeing told SES that the patent was only available if SES Americom dropped the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Industry sources have told SpaceDaily that the patent is regarded as legal &#8220;trite&#8221;, as basic physics has been rebranded as a &#8220;process&#8221;, and that the patent wouldn&#8217;t stand up to any significant level of court scrutiny<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The patent in question: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/patents?id=9EAFAAAAEBAJ&amp;dq=6,116,545\">Free return lunar flyby transfer method for geosynchronous satellites<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you think things can&#8217;t get any sillier. Boeing Patent Shuts Down AMC-14 Lunar Flyby Salvage Attempt Primarily this is because SES is currently suing Boeing for an unrelated New Skies matter in the order of $50 million dollars &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/239\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}