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Authored by: capt.Hij on Tuesday, November 27 2012 @ 03:53 PM EST
Apple v Samsung demonstrated why it is a good idea to keep knowledgeable people
off the jury. People who see this stuff
daily have biases and preconceptions that may be unquestioned
and extremely difficult for a person to challenge. People in
the field have a wide variety of experiences and assumptions.
For example, some programmers out there think that software
patents are a wonderful thing. I would not want such a person
on the Apple v Samsung jury. Such a person would likely
refuse to look at the other point of view.

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Authored by: tiger99 on Tuesday, November 27 2012 @ 03:54 PM EST
I think your definition describes it much more clearly than any patent ever would. Fortunately there is very considerable prior art, and if anyone ever did try to patent something like grep, Groklaw and others would very quickly and efficiently identify the prior art.

Now how about awk, or sed? Indispensible tools, which sadly those who use the dumbed-down bug-ridden bloatware OS may never know about. I have seen them contriving, badly, to manipulate text with a spreadsheet, and taking hours to get it almost right, when a one-liner in awk would have done it much more easily.

It would have been a very bad thing if those basic and enormously powerful tools had ever been patented.

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