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Authored by: PolR on Thursday, July 19 2012 @ 06:51 PM EDT |
Yes I confirmed that. I also said something else: the amount of disclosure which
is required for software is almost trivial because the court think the typical
programmer is an extremely capable person. You should check this news pick: Why
Patentable Subject Matter Matters for Software. The article (the
downloadable PDF) explains the consequences of Fonar:
In the
context of software, enablement is all but trivial because, as a matter of law,
a person with ordinary skill in the art of software is a capable computer
programmer. Thus, quixotically, the “inventor” of a software-based invention
never has to code anything to get a patent. In fact, he doesn’t even have to
know how to code himself. He can simply describe in broad terms what he might
have coded and leave it up to the public—namely unwary independent inventors—to
do the actual work.
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