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| Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Thursday, October 25 2012 @ 12:18 AM EDT |
Other older composites use aluminum for aircraft or Kraft paper for construction
products.
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Rsteinmetz - IANAL therefore my opinions are illegal.
"I could be wrong now, but I don't think so."
Randy Newman - The Title Theme from Monk
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| Authored by: Ian Al on Thursday, October 25 2012 @ 04:16 AM EDT |
Civil engineers have been making concrete honeycomb floors filled with screed
for ages.
Perhaps the patent has the novel idea of skinning the honeycomb on both sides.
Oh, silly me, the bees own that patent!
The bees probably licensed it to the aircraft industry.
BTW, don't expect me to buy tickets to ride in a concrete aeroplane.
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| Authored by: globularity on Thursday, October 25 2012 @ 06:48 AM EDT |
Any patent examiner who is unaware of the work of Pierre Luigi nervi should not
be looking at any patents on concrete. If it can be done with concrete the
Italians have probably done it long ago. Nervi's work only had one skin but it
was true honeycomb rather than a load of concrete pipe being used as spacers for
the skins. The mind boggles, the concept of spacing load bearing members as far
from the neutral axis as possible while avoiding buckling dates back over
century the concept is simple and obvious, the construction techniques are
where the ingenuity lies, this application doesn't even have an inventive
construction technique
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| Authored by: albert on Thursday, October 25 2012 @ 07:21 PM EDT |
USPTOs patent fee generator at work. Seems like it's infecting everything, not
just software patents. I suspect their 'patent everything' policy flowed down
from above, like manna from heaven, or something else from somewhere closer.
Here's a couple of fees that jumped out at me:
1. Request for ex parte reexamination, $17,750
2. Request for supplemental examination, $5,140
3. Petition to institute an inter partes review, 27,200
4. Petition to institute a post-grant or a covered business method review,
35,800
The beauty of this system is this: The more bad patents you grant, the more you
make on challenges; it's a positive feedback system.
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| Authored by: JamesK on Friday, October 26 2012 @ 12:31 PM EDT |
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Doing "it" with concrete isn't either.
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I recall reading, several years ago, about a safety feature at some airports to
safely stop jets that overrun the runway. If I'm not mistaken, it uses concrete
"foam" that crumbles easily under the weight of the aircraft and in
the process produces drag to stop it. It was certainly in the news, in August
2003, when an Air France 747, landing in severe weather, ran off the end of the
runway and into a ravine at Toronto's Pearson airport.
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