The US Publication of our first patent is fully open for public scrutiny as of March 19, 2009. The international version of the same can also be found . We are being brave now by filing internationally in all Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) countries, but sometime in year 2010 we would have to enter the National Phase in specific countries based on the market size. See if you can figure out how Figures 8, 9A and 9B work.
When a member of first mentioned ROFLThing to us I didn’t know what to expect and frankly was a bit skeptical on how the event would turn out. Having attended the event last weekend I can unequivocally say that ROFLThing rocks and we are extremely grateful for being invited. In fact, it was a humbling experience for me to see how much more work we need to do to keep up with such a fast pace and innovative crowd. However, we did meet some great people that we intend to keep in touch with, but let’s spend some time talking about the event
We arrived about an hour before registration started, setup our station at the bar in the basement, and within a few minutes we had a long queue of people waiting for lattes.
This lasted for the whole 6 hours of the conference which left us pretty exhausted at the end. Even though we only got to see a couple of the speakers, we met most of the conference as they either ordered a latte or stopped by to visit the station. My favorite was the Tron Guy (see above), , and the event organizer’s (Tim Hwang) Mom who got a kick out of seeing her son’s image on a latte.
I don’t think that I have photos of all of the images, but needless to say there was an interesting/disturbing mix. A big thanks to everyone involved with ROFLThing, and I hope that we will get invited back to future events. I will leave you with some comments from Steve Garfield, and please check out our as well.
I wanted to give a quick update that I am furiously working on creating a post commemorating the Inauguration VIP private party that we did on Jan 20th. It was quite a wild weekend, and in order to completely capture the mood, I will be writing a long post detailing the events from the weekend and the Inauguration day itself. Sorry for the delay, but there is a lot of content, and so many things to say. Please check back frequently, and here are a couple images to wet the appetite.