[music-dsp] Sound compression patents

[Richard Dobson]

The thing that puzzles me about this problem is that surely these trivial ideas 
are nevertheless documented in pedagogical resources somewhere? At what point 
does this trivial idea move from being too advanced for a school or hobbyist 
textbook to being too trivial for an undergraduate one? It is of course the 
publication of prior art that is key to invalidating a patent.

Richard Dobson




Tóth László wrote:

>>If that is simple or trivial, then why nobody invented it earlier? Many
>>patents are as simple but nobody invented them before.
>>
> 
> The trap here is that if an idea seems trivial, then most people won't
> think of it as an invention. They will simply use it. So it won't be
> documented anywhere, and somebody clever enough may get it patented,
> simply because it wasn't earlier. Most people aren't greedy enough to keep
> on thinking whether every little idea they come up with could be patented or
> not?
>