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Authored by: Wol on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 09:32 AM EDT |
If you can't produce a physical example, it's abstract ...
It may still be abstract even if you can, but at least that's one bright line
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Cheers,
Wol[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 12:22 PM EDT |
Does the invention depend on the properties of physical (/chemical/biological)
substances -- e.g. if we use the wrong materials, does that make the invention
suddenly work or not work?
Then it's tangible.
There is no equivalent in abstract stuff. Math exists independent of the
physical world.
Note that if this were enforced properly, the only allowable software patents
would be patents on abusing the hardware -- for instance, making hard drives do
"races" marching across the floor would be patentable. Any patent
which wasn't based on hardware oddities and irregularities would be thrown out
because it's abstract.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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