I would love to see the video of Stephen Lau's 1994 lecture showing SRI TerraVision.<p>CAFC affirms invalidity of geographic map visualization patent asserted against Google Earth:<p><a href="https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/10/25/cafc-affirms-invalidity-geographic-map-visualization-patent-asserted-against-google-earth/id=89554/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2017/10/25/cafc-affirms-invalidit...</a><p>>In affirming the district court, the Federal Circuit found against Art+Com’s arguments that Google did not provide clear and convincing evidence that the invention of the asserted claims were put into public use. Google’s argument on this point revolved around a 1994 recording of a lecture given by Stephen Lau, then of the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), on a geographical visualization system known as SRI TerraVision. Lau also gave testimony during the Delaware trial on the operation of the SRI TerraVision system. Google also brought an expert witness who gave his opinion that the SRI TerraVision system anticipates the asserted claims.<p>ART+COM INNOVATIONPOOL GMBH, Plaintiff-Appellant v. GOOGLE LLC, Defendant-Appellee:<p><a href="https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-federal-circuit/1878050.html" rel="nofollow">https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-federal-circuit/1878050.html</a><p>>Google introduced several forms of evidence in support of this effort. First, it called Stephen Lau as a witness, who testified that, while he was employed at the federally funded, not-for-profit company Stanford Re-search Institute (“SRI”), he helped develop SRI TerraVision, “an earth visualization application” that “used a co[arse-to-fine] algorithm to retrieve images [sic] data across the network from multiple servers.” Trial Tr. 1029 ll. 9–18. He further testified that SRI TerraVision was part of the “MAGIC project,” an “umbrella federally funded research project” that focused on terrain visualization. Id. at 1030 ll. 9–12, 1043 ll. 5–10. He also testified both that he wrote about 89 percent of the source code underlying SRI TerraVision and that the project was meant to be put into the public domain. Id. at 1030–32, 1151. Lau further testified that SRI TerraVision allowed a user to navigate around a two- or three-dimensional representation of a graphical area and to zoom in and out to different levels of detail, and described how SRI TerraVision drew its image data from a network of multiple servers spread across the country. Id. at 1034–35, 1051.<p>>While Lau was on the stand, Google displayed a 1994 VHS tape in which the narrator walks the viewer through the operation of SRI TerraVision. J.A. 2565. In the tape, the narrator describes how a user can move from a low-resolution picture of a larger geographic area to a higher-resolution picture of a smaller geographic area using a “multi-resolution pyramid.” J.A. 2565, 3532–33. The narrator continues:<p>I did find this video of ART+COM's Terravision:<p>T-Vision aka TerraVision (1994):<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjZ-wh5jykk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjZ-wh5jykk</a><p>>This video is (C) Joachim Sauter, ART+COM and Deutsche Telekom. Found it on Joachim Sauter's website. Merely sharing it with the world, funnily on a Google platform :D