> Anyone who attempts to do so will either need to be secretive and bribey to pull it off and will then also have to hope that no one ever finds out because if they did, then in any legal proceedings that come due
What do you mean by this? What aspects of their conduct would someone need to be secretive about?
A patent can be challenged in court. Newegg has had a couple of loud victories over this, and in some cases have challenged the validity of the patent, basically asking the court to review whether the original patent that is at the crux of the case should have been issued in the first place.
If the patent, on review in court, fails the originality, novelty, or lack of prior art review, the patent can be dissolved.
A patent filed on a prompt would most likely fail the novelty/prior art review phase of the patent application, so the only way a patent could succeed being granted in the first place would be through extreme secrecy and probably bribery of a patent agent to push the patent through.
All patents issued by the USPTO are public though. For you to get a utility patent you need to publicly share exactly what is done. This is supposed to be the reason patents exist in the first place. And in return for publicly sharing, you get exclusive rights for some period of time. In that regard there really isn’t any secrecy
Just because you have the patent does not mean you will win all infringement claims though, as you noted with those Newegg cases
I agree. Patents are only useful in a court of law, and as a deterrent to prevent deep pocketed outsiders from stealing your idea (out of fear that they would lose any infringement lawsuits and therefore a lot of money).
If your patent is crap, like the one that could feasibly be put on a prompt, then there is only the thinnest veneer of protection for your prompt idea, so it's pointless to make one if there is any value more than the 10-30 lawyer hours needed to take it to court and destroy it.
I also have PSC. Pretty scary how little is known about how to treat it. The facebook group for it seems like a good resource. Ive been on oral vancomycin for about two years and it has normalized my enzymes, at least
You should try to convince the others on the Facebook groups to undergo full genome DNA sequencing (around $1K USD, usually not covered by insurance, I would pay for the other patients if I were you, their data is more than worth it given it’s your life on the line) and submit the data to patient networks and orphan drug groups. There are lots of bioinformatics methods now (thanks to mostly advances in ML among other things) that can derive insights into the problem, without any physical assays or laboratory tests.
DNA sequencing has been done, we know the HLA[1] is a part of the disease. I don't think any more DNA will help find a cure or even a way to help. PSC is a complex "black box" disease. A person can have the DNA but not have the disease.
BUT... bile and fecal samples still seem to be of high value for data collection. I've spoken with the doctors at PSC Partners to start advocating this collection, but they've noted that they don't have a way to process and store. Yet other clinicians have been doing this. I want to look into this more to help bring it all together (data is fun!), but haven't had to the time (single parent).
I use a stethoscope to listen for airflow in the lungs and murmurs of the heart. In both cases I would still order more imaging before finalizing a treatment plan unless it is for something emergent. Ultrasound cannot assess airflow well so I don't see it replacing the stethoscope in that regard.
My unpopular opinion is that point of care ultrasound is a fad and will eventually be phased out of physician workflows. This is because I haven't seen it actually change someone's medical decision making. More often, people use it as a means to justify why they haven't actually made a treatment decision yet.
The only way I could see it have adoption is if actual radiologists (which as of now are the only physicians that went through standardized examination confirming competency in reading ultrasound studies) started doing rounds in the ER and on the wards.
Abstractly I wouldn’t mind that, but it would take massive system level changes to make this feasible. We used to do ICU rounds are my institution but we’re struggling to keep up with the ever increasing volume of cross sectional imaging studies. Our outpatient X-rays are going unreported for > 1 month. Even some routine MRs embarrassingly.
Volumes are getting insane, in some places I’ve worked I’ve had to keep up with 80+ CTs and 100 x-rays on an 8 hour evening ER/inpatient shift (never leave at 8 hours).
is this for your own record keeping or to hand to a doctor in event of emergency?
for your own record keeping I've seen many people put all their accumulated files into a folder (digital or physical) and keep it somewhere safe.
for the event of emergency, just print the progress notes from all your recent clinic visits (by law the office has to provide access to patients for this now) and put the last year's in a physical manilla envelope (emphasis on physical)
Ya pretty cool that someone from Ghana living in Canada could send $5000 worth of crypto to their family without a bank intervening. Also pretty cool that they could be paid per second instead of weekly or monthly using something like Superfluid.
If these are problems that don’t exist for you, consider yourself lucky and remind yourself of the opportunities for many that you’re advocating against.
How are the people in Ghana transform that crypto allegedly worth 5000$ in real money or in things from real life, like paying utilities, food, transport costs and others?
Its easy for me to forget that the majority of people working in tech are employed by companies offering centralized services. The majority of these companies have little to gain from traction of cryptocurrency and many have no plan in place to benefit from web3. Not surprising to me that people shun the hand that does not feed them.
What do you mean by this? What aspects of their conduct would someone need to be secretive about?