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Authored by: bprice on Thursday, October 11 2012 @ 06:00 AM EDT |
To do so would be to say that a software engineer's inventions are
not worth as much as a mechanical engineer's; that they somehow require less
inventiveness.
Forbidding patents on math (including programming)
does not say anything about inventiveness of the mathematician vs the
mechanical engineer. It speaks to prior choices each has made: the
mathematician in question has chosen the sub-discipline called programming,
which – like all of mathematics – is an area of unpatentable subject
matter. The ME has chosen to specialize in a field which may contain some
patentable subject matter.
I speak as a retired software engineer. I've been
considered quite inventive, thank you. My patents are in subjects other than
software. --- --Bill. NAL: question the answers, especially mine. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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