Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 04:47 PM EST |
that someone might come up with a new process that requires the newly available
speed.
Take the rubber curing machine as an example. If, as some have contended, the
combination of hardware and software together should be patentable, then it may
be that with a faster processor, you can shave some time off the process by
changing the software, thus changing the overall machine, and thus creating a
new, patentable adaptation to the previous machine. (If you don't believe that
the machine in Diamond should have been patentable, then you won't believe this
should work, but if the combination of hardware and software in Diamond was
validly patentable, then either that patent foreclosed any other use of a
computer to cure rubber, or you can create a _different_ machine to do the same
task, possibly simply with a different software load.)
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