[accessibleimage] Re: Talking Tactile Tablet Contest

Tactile Audio Graphics - NOT new - Patent application is challenged.

No Ms. Rosenblum Talking Graphics have NOT "been made possible" by the
tablet to which you refer. They were made possible 15 years ago. How dare
you write such misleading and untruthful comment to gain profit.

The device that Ms. Rosenblum is referring to is under challenge for misuse
of Intellectual Property, going back to 1987. The Patent application
10/245,815 by Gourgey and Landau (Assignee Ciy University of New York
Research Foundation) is being challenged. The device is not original or
novel in any way. It is a copy of Nomad first released in 1988 and assembled
and distributed in the USA in the early nineties by APH. It is even more a
copy of the develpment of Nomad into the TGD series in 1995 and following. I
demand an apology for that reference Ms. Rosenblum and if necessary from the
University of Arizona.

The so called inventors at the New York company/CUNY have now admitted their
reliance on my systems and have even required the withdrawal of one
published paper by Landau and Wells from their own site! Extraordinary - but
only after the damage is done through their relentless drive for
recognition. Mr Landau has also now caused changes to be made to the content
of  the site of the Royal National College in England. Mr. Landau, described
by Ms. Rosenblum as founder of the company, has decribed the work of his
co-author Wells as "egregious" and "grandiose" and unacceptable because of
'its lack of reference to what the lawyers call my prior art'.Now it seems
to me that Landau et al cannot have it both ways - do damage, offer to
repair it, make exceptional offers of FREE equipment to bend the market and
provide shallow and veiled apologies without any actual action! No Patent -
that is what is required. Let's say it was an honest mistake but the
following paragraphs in the Patent, at least, tell a very different story
[0006, 0007,0028,0034,0035, 0043, 0046, 0059, 0063, 0065, 0068] - each and
everyone of these claims for a US Patent refer to functionality that has
existed, been used and reported for 15 years!

Please refer to the list of publications (prior art) relating to Nomad and
TGD tactile audio systems in www.tactileaudio.com/publications.htm , e.g.
IBM Quarterly and Technology Today 1993, Dodds 1993, AFB review by Shrier
and much more .
A copy of the Landau Gourgey Patent application will be posted on the web
site www.tactileaudio.com/publications.htm in a day or two and decent people
can then compare and decide for themselves the novelty of this
product.(Assignee is City University of New York Research Foundation where I
gave workshops on tactile audio systems in the early and mid nineties and to
where I provided computer code to assist their development of a teaching
program to USE my systems - quite extraordinary!). The purpose of a Patent
is to stop all distribution and sales, therefore of existing tactile audio
systems - in this case they have a fight on their hands. My systems could
have been Patented, but that would not have served anyone well - in this
case we have opportunism backed by some very loose and misleading language.

I am surprised to see the note from Arizona, at one time they used my
systems, through Repro-Tronics Inc. in New Jersey. Might be a good idea to
put toes in the water before jumping in!

By the way - we have been using USB also - and as to the authoring nonsense
that Rosenblum is proselatizing  - that is and always has been the very
PURPOSE of our systems - some caution is advised to Rosenblum.

There are too many decent people out there who have known, used and assesed
out tactile audio systems - some like them, some don't but any claim to
novelty and innovation by Landau, Gourgey, RNC and now Rosenblum is
outrageous and would be shown to be by the hundreds of TGD and earlier Nomad
users in 30 countries.

I wish I could afford to give away 75!

TGD Workshop, including TGD QikTac, TGD Pro, TGD AudioPIX, TGD AudioBRaille,
TGD AudioCAD, TGD AudioTRIP, will be demonstrated at Sight Village in
Birmingham UK in Huly. It already went to CSUN 2004 as it has to every CSUN
for the past 8 years.

Dr. Don Parkes May 21 2004

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lisa Yayla" <fnugg@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <accessibleimage@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 8:05 AM
Subject: [accessibleimage] Talking Tactile Tablet Contest


> Hi,
> Am forwarding the following information from
> L. Penny Rosenblum. Her contact information is
> University of Arizona
> 520-621-1223 (office)
> 520-621-3821 (fax)
> http://www.ed.arizona.edu/rosenblum
>
> Regards,
> Lisa
>
> Talking Graphics Made Possible by the Talking Tactile Tablet
> Enter a Contest to Win One of Your Own!!
>
> Touch Graphics Company, a New York based company founded by
> Mr. Steven Landau, has begun work on a sophisticated
> Authoring Tool that will allow teachers of blind and
> visually impaired students to create their own talking
> tactile pictures for the talking tactile tablet, a new
> computer peripheral device.  The Talking Tactile Tablet,
> better known as the TTT, is an innovative device that plugs
> into the USB port of a computer.  With the Authoring Tool
> software package simple to complex graphics with audio
> capabilities can be created in just a matter of minutes.
> Under a 2 year grant from the National Institute for
> Disability and Rehabilitation Research, Office of Special
> Education and Rehabilitative Services of the United States
> Department of Education Touch Graphics Company will be
> giving away 75 TTTs and the Authoring Tool software
> package.  A contest is being held April 1 to July 31, 2004.
> To learn more about the TTT and to enter the contest visit
> the web site: http://www.ttt-at.com/
>
>

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