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Authored by: jesse on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 08:44 AM EST |
The computer itself does not.
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Authored by: myNym on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 10:55 AM EST |
What was patented was the rubber curing process.
What the US Supreme Court found was that just because
software was included in the over-all design did not make
the process unpatentable.
If I took that very same mathematical algorithm, and ran it
on a machine that simply _simulated_ a rubber curing
process, but did not cure rubber, I would not be violating
the patent.
The software was not patented. The rubber curing process
was.
Of course, some patent lawyers thought they spotted a
loophole in the "math cannot be patented" precedents, and
ran with it.
They were wrong, and it's time to shut them down.
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