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Re: pic: ThunderChickens Patent

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Re: pic: ThunderChickens Patent

All's I found....

"Dobrusin Thennisch PC sponsors FIRST Robotics Team, “Thunderchickens” for 2010 season"

http://patentco.com/
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Re: pic: ThunderChickens Patent

Did 217 patent the CCT?

That wouldn't take 8 years though, would it?
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Re: pic: ThunderChickens Patent

It does say patent pending which means application process. I searched the apps, and didn't find it yet, but sometimes those take a year or so to before they can be found in the public domain.

The typical timing I am used to is 2-6 years. 2 for a big company wiht a lot of resources on a realtively uncontested application. Who know how long if there are some hot button claims. My last one required the clamis be re-submittted several times. Each resubmition seems to add on 6-months to a year.
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Re: pic: ThunderChickens Patent

148 also had one of these on their robot. I believe it might be for their drive system.
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Did 217 patent the CCT?

That wouldn't take 8 years though, would it?
That patent appears to still be pending. http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-...&RS=IN/copioli
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Re: pic: ThunderChickens Patent

I believe 217 and 148 co-patented the overall design of their robot(s) this year. They had a write-up about it in their daily newsletter in Atlanta.
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Re: pic: ThunderChickens Patent

Yeah, I remember seeing the same newspaper as Collin, and that sounds right.
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Re: pic: ThunderChickens Patent

they developed their drive system sometime this last summer however (according to my Thunderchicken team member resources) and one of the people on the patent list is a former Thunderchicken. He is now one of our mentors for Crevolution #2851 and the last time he was on TC was 2003. Unless he did it in secret, he did not help with this drive train and therefor it has to be something else.
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Re: pic: ThunderChickens Patent

I'm no where near a legal expert, so why the patent?

I recall a previous thread where a team was looking to patent something related to their robot (some wheel, I think) and the general consensus was that it wasn't worth it.
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I'm no where near a legal expert, so why the patent?

I recall a previous thread where a team was looking to patent something related to their robot (some wheel, I think) and the general consensus was that it wasn't worth it.
I doubt it was for legal reasons to prevent someone else from using their design.

It was probably because it's very cool to be able to say you hold a patent and to show the students the process you'd go through, were you in industry.
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Re: pic: ThunderChickens Patent

I think they are patenting a new ranking system for tournaments.

I'm thinking of filing one that is:

Overall rank = (Team Number -1346)^2 +1

Then I'll donate the license to FIRST, and we'll go to a first week regional before anyone notices the gaping flaw in the system.

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P.S. Oh! Darn! Now I've publicly disclosed my brilliant invention... I'd better file ASAP.
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Re: pic: ThunderChickens Patent

turns out (after asking my mentor) this thing never actually went through. It was for the thunder chicken drive train back in 2002. It is some crazy awesome crab-drive I think.
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Re: pic: ThunderChickens Patent

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I'm no where near a legal expert, so why the patent?

I recall a previous thread where a team was looking to patent something related to their robot (some wheel, I think) and the general consensus was that it wasn't worth it.
If the method was the nonadrive I think the patent is invalid anyway. They can grant you a patent for something but for many methods they grant patents and find out later on that it was invalid to begin with. Which if it is the nonadrive I believe it is the case.

For a patent to be valid must be new, non-obvious, and useful or industrially applicable. Useful? I think so. Industrially applicable? Again I'd say yes. Non-obvious? Maybe. New? I don't think so. I have seen this method multiple times over the years in CAD. It must have been new or obvious to who ever thought up the SpamThingAcon years ago (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...spamthingacon). 343's omni-drive is another drive system to look at when considering new/non-obvious. The new and non-obvious I am not sure I buy.

Maybe an exercise in the patent process, which is great. Maybe it's a neat way to display a patent firm's sponsorship. I wouldn't be especially worried about using the design in the FIRST arena. I probably wouldn't go selling these types of systems, not for fear of violating a patent, but financially you could be locked up for years in court even if you are right and the patent is indeed invalid.

Your team was probably correct, unless it was a new, non-obvious wheel I'd think the patent wasn't worth it.

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