[pizza234]

This kind of patent is nothing more than what clever and dedicated people could do. I'm sure that in the history of filming one could find such setup - for how many decades have instructional videos be produced?

They just, as good weasels, found a weaselly way to patent an not-so-special idea, and patented it, with the assumption that if somebody finds a similar way of filming, say, 4 feet from the ground instead of 3, he certainly not going to have a few million dollars to proceed in court - we're talking about yoga, not android devices (ahem...).

Keep in mind, most importantly, that asserting that this patent is ridiculous doesn't equal or implies that any idea should be free for anyone to copy.

[darkstar999]

> nothing more than what clever and dedicated people could do

_All_ patents are "nothing more than what clever and dedicated people could do".

I'm not defending this particular patent, I just wanted to refute that part of your argument.

[al2o3cr]

Depends on what you read into "clever", I'd say. The standard for novelty that the USPTO uses makes anything "obvious to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the subject matter pertains" non-patentable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_having_ordinary_skill_in...