irutiw22

Since you work in this field, I'd be interested if you would really qualify this as innovation. I have posted already in several places in this thread about the fact that Bionic Reader is at least 3 years old already. Someone else also dug up the patent application: The rules to make the text bold in Bionic Reader in its simplest form (i.e. ignoring things like setting Saccade manually) apparently is just a very very simple if-else that takes 3 lines of code.

Also, have you patented BeeLine as well?

I think the opposite is true. Patents are hampering further progress that would built upon the innovation or make use of it to increase productivity. but said progress often is not happening, if the costs of obtaining a license is high, or if first tedious communication has to happen with the author to obtain green light to use his invention. Rapid innovation looks different.

If you innovate without filing a patent, you get a head start. The time the you have until other catch on - that is how you can monetize your invention.

I have mentioned this a few times here already, but I will mention it again, even if I risk looking like a spammer, as it seems this point hans't been made strongly enough in this thread: This discovery is not new.

A different company published almost an identical product more than 3 years ago (see https://web.archive.org/web/20190119032121/http://br.craftwo... as well as my top-level comment).

So I am absolutely against patenting something that is 1) not new 2) that has a very simple implementation and could thus easily be disseminated widely if patents weren't "protecting" it. Reminds me strongly of the various patent wars regarding scrolling on the smartphone and other simple user interface gestures; in the end everyone looses out.

Just FYI, as I detailed in my top-level comment: While it is a really nice tool, it is already a few years old, so I'm not sure if it qualifies as innovative. See: https://web.archive.org/web/20190119032121/http://br.craftwo...

More info detailed at my top-level comment.

For everyone who think this is new stuff: It is not new. There was another company in the German speaking space, Vienna more exactly, see craftworks.at, that offered almost the exact same product already back in 2019, perhaps even earlier, also called "Bionic Reading". In the current version of the website this does not appear, but it is saved in archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20190119032121/http://br.craftwo...

Perhaps the author of the current offering worked at craftworks at that time, then left and took his IP with him, I don't know.