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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 04 2013 @ 11:25 PM EST |
Facts:
The hard drive is physical, like paper.
The only thing
that exists on the hard drive is a magnetic toggle, like the lead we put on
paper.
Software is nothing more then the words on the paper.
The
words have no physical embodiment. They are nothing more then abstract meanings
in our thoughts.
The software is no different.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 04 2013 @ 11:29 PM EST |
The facts:
The cpu is physical, like the telegraph!
The cpu
operates by having electricity run through it's pathways!
Nothing but
electricity moves through the CPU!
I believe it's well established Law that
electricity flowing - such as through the telegraph - is not patentable subject
matter.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 04 2013 @ 11:31 PM EST |
Call it memory, call it hard drive, the facts are:
Memory is the same as
the hard drive.
It is a magnetic toggle on a physical device that can
store a magnetic field!
The same reasoning that applied to the hard
drive applies to RAM storage!
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 04 2013 @ 11:35 PM EST |
If by "data structures" you mean "hard drive, RAM" - already
covered.
If by "data structures" you mean the arrays embodied in the
programming language all you're doing is pointing to an abstract concept
embodied within an abstract concept.
You might as well claim the abstract
concept of a "chapter" exists in a book. Nope, it doesn't. Just because we see
a title "chapter 2" doesn't alter the fact that it's nothing more then lead on
paper that we give mental meaning to.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 04 2013 @ 11:41 PM EST |
Software, as a pattern of signals, is no different then the pattern of the
message:
.... . .-.. .-.. ---
.-- --- .-. .-.. -..
as applied to
the telegraph.
I have absolutely no doubt the Supreme's would reject any
morse message, no matter how complex, to be patented.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, January 04 2013 @ 11:50 PM EST |
When you add 5 abstract things together and pile them all on top of each
other:
You still only have the abstract!
There is absolutely no weight
of matter to software! A 100 million digit number multiplied by zero is still
zero.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 06 2013 @ 12:35 AM EST |
The two closest examples that come to mind are:
1. Mask ROMs in cartridges
2. Algorithms ("IP cores") in HDLs (e.g. SystemC) synthesized to hard
silicon
Obvious rebuttals, but I'd still be interested in seeing yours:
1. Not actually the software itself, but a representation that must be sensed by
another machine (at the very least, a program counter) to yield sequential
operations. Does not actually perform a process by itself. Also superseded by
mask work rights?
2. A specific-purpose machine that performs a hard-wired process, no longer
"soft".
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- I'd say: Fail - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, January 06 2013 @ 12:54 PM EST
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 08 2013 @ 07:50 AM EST |
Yet the CPU is manufactured by the application of synthesis to a logical design
expressed in a high level language.
The same CPU can be simulated on a general purpose CPU during development to
validate its correct operation.
If the CPU is small enough, it can be downloaded into the CMOS configuration
memory of an FPGA.
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