Walter Banks wrote:

> Let me give one example (out of many) of a particularly bad patent

Following up last weeks discussion on why the patent process is flawed.
There is a lot of prior art and obvious solutions to one skilled in the
field.

The following patent application (As  far as I know it has not yet been
issued) is very bad. Not only does it not advance the science the
approach is sub optimal

Conversion of floating-point numbers from binary into string format

http://www.freshpatents.com/Conversion-of-floating-point-numbers-from-binary-into-string-format-dt20070830ptan20070203965.php

Regards,

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Walter Banks
Byte Craft Limited
http://www.bytecraft.com





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