Sooner or later your logic becomes impossible because it becomes obviously
contradictory.
And therin lies the biggest problem with why most of the
solutions that are trying to "fix the software patent problem" will fail.....
because they don't actual fix the underlying problem.
What is the
underlying problem?
Software is abstract and can not be embodied in a
physical form!
Therein lies a contradiction in the current applied
Law:
1) Abstract concepts are not patentable subject matter!
And
2)
Let's treat abstract concepts as physical embodiments!
One of them has to
give sooner or later or the problems will remain.
Given the second
principle exists only because fast talking Lawyers managed to convince a number
of individuals that software really is physical - I'd say 2 will be the one to
give if nothing else changes. If Congress decides to make abstract concepts
patentable and the Supreme's and President allow it - then we're (the US and
anyone who wishes to do business with/in the US) all in for an even nastier
time.
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