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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 02 2013 @ 05:37 AM EST |
How about: "No code, no patent".
Might stop the most
blatant abuses (and might start
to actually make patents useful for software
developers)?
-Ash. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, January 02 2013 @ 11:16 AM EST |
These broad, vague patents should be banned outright.
They already are, if only the USPTO examiners would read the USPTO's own Website and apply the instructions
contained therein:
The specification must include a written
description of the invention and of the manner and process of making and using
it, and is required to be in such full, clear, concise, and exact
terms as to enable any person skilled in the technological area to which the
invention pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use
the same.
[emphasis added]
Or to put it another way, the
examiners of these vague [software] patents are acting negligently in carrying
out their duties if they are passing them and issuing them. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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