Posted on 06/04/2006 12:57:28 PM PDT by Read2Know
SARATOGA SPRINGS -- It all started last winter, with a faulty remote starter on her 1996 Chevrolet Lumina.
Like many others, Sarah Dodge dreaded the thought of having to brave the elements to warm up her car before school.
In today's world of high-tech gizmos, the 18-year-old senior at Saratoga Springs High School figured there had to be a better solution.
Turns out, there was -- and now Sarah is the first student in a pre-engineering program at the school to have a federal patent pending, teacher Michael Gallagher said.
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Cellphones trigger WOT bombs. Already been done. Obvious. Application to remote starter -- obvious. Anything that turns on by a relay contact.
You are talking Common Sense, which does not have much to do with Patent Office Rulings, especially lately.
Some patents still meet that standard. But there are too many foolish patents issued. Not foolish in one regard though -- IP has no bounds. One workable business model today is that a company dedicated to ruthless expansion of its IP territory by all means of legal thuggery and extortion can quickly and bountifully succeed. Just have to be ruthless, unmerciful, brazen and well-shod. Patents and copyrights are just the legal excuse to run what is a protection racket. Racket as in RICO. The mob. They'll be into the business in time. It's a natural for them.
Remote starting isn't new. But putting it in a cell phone is. Hopefully, the technology has some sort of security built in.
Well, that is a possibility. GM cars can already call GM through the onstar system.
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