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so the driver of the car is a patentable improvement? | 756 comments | Create New Account
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so the driver of the car is a patentable improvement?
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 20 2012 @ 02:00 PM EDT
And you completely missed the point.

The act of you, as a human being (I assume) getting into a car and driving
it is a patentable improvement over just a car by your logic.

We aren't talking about replacing a human driver.


A computer is not magic.
Software is a list of instructions,
Nothing more.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

And they must look for patentability *purely* in the driving mechanism.
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 20 2012 @ 06:19 PM EDT
But software is just math, and math isn't patentable.

Likewise, a human driver isn't patentable because you didn't invent the human
driver.

What software "machine patents" are trying to get away with is saying
"I know none of the parts are patentable, but if I stick them together in
the obvious way recommended by the manual, please give me a patent now".

It's unacceptable.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

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