My one in a million patent collision - easee vs ibis vision
Back in 2021 I was a bit down as a CTO of easee, but then decided to do what I do best: innovate. It turns out that roughly around the same time, IBIS Vision, one of our UK competitors, was doing the same thing. They filed " GB2612366A - Method and system for eye testing " and we filed " NL2029579A - Guiding a user to a test position for performing a computer-based eye exam ." . This describes almost exactly the same ingenious solution and completely randomly, has EXACTLY the same priority date of November 1st 2021. Legal implications What follows is a bit of a legal quagmire. Easee would not be able to attack IBIS, and neither could IBIS attack easee, because both had valid patents for the same invention. Who would be able to expand into other regions though? And could one of the parties license their patent to other entities? So many questions. The invention We were trying to figure out how to estimate the distance of the user to the screen at which they performed...