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So a Judge Perusing a Legal Document is a Patentable Process? | 179 comments | Create New Account
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My Response to Judge Moore
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, March 16 2013 @ 04:23 PM EDT
Consider, for example, the following patent claim.
26. A data processing system to enable the exchange of an obligation between parties, the system comprising:

    a floor broker,

    having a phone perched on each shoulder,

    with sufficient monitor screens to display

        (a) information about a first account for a first party, independent from a second account maintained by a first exchange institution, and

        (b) information about a third account for a second party, independent from a fourth account maintained by a second exchange institution; and

[...]
Is this a claim for a machine? The Sun Microsystems 670mp appears to offer the possibility of faster, more accurate transactions. But the two colums of "exasperative detail" and the pages of figured flow charts "satisfy [my] predilections" only insofar as they codify transactions that had been performed by human operators for maybe a hundred years. The speed and accuracy of the transactions was not at suit, it was the method, system, and media claims at issue
because, albeit computer-implemented, they recite no more than an abstract fundamental mechanism of financial intermediation with no inventive concept.
What dismays the more simple minded folks around here is that learned Judges can also fall for fairground banter if it's dressed up in the right legal prose.

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  • My Response to You - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 19 2013 @ 10:44 AM EDT
    • It's Both - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 19 2013 @ 02:34 PM EDT
So a Judge Perusing a Legal Document is a Patentable Process?
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, March 22 2013 @ 04:34 AM EDT
Is a Judge reading a document in a legal case a patentable process? Quote:
Judge Moore "Actually no, we know that's not right because we have the specifications of the patent.. which aaa if you look at columns 7 and 8 span 2 full columns of exasperative detail about how for example .. 'the processing unit 20 comprises 3 interlinked data processers, such as the sun 670mp manufactured by Sun Microsystems, each processing unit runs operational systems software such as sun microsystems os 4.1.2 as well as applications software. The applications software is shown in the flow charts accompanying this patent ie figures 8 through 16 and figures 18 through 40 which contain detailed flow charts that would certainly satisfy anybody's predilections regarding an algorithm disclosure for sofware purposes .... Perry "your honor" .. this is so far from just a computer doing an abstract idea .. I can't even imagine how you can characterize it as such."
Let us go over the evidence:

You have a biological data processor inside the Judge's head, containing a Broca's Area for processing incoming sound, and a Wernicke's Area for processing intentional speech. It is controlled by genetic means which permit it to process abstract and concrete data. It has Input and Output Channels which are likewise controlled by genetic means.

Genetic means are patentable matters.

It is connected by technological means including artificial body hair (clothing), artificial lighting, to various external technical means of processing speech, light, temperature, etc.

Judge Moore, Your Honour, this is so far from just a brain doing an abstract idea ... I can't even imagine how you can characterize it as such.

Ergo, Judges Perusing Legal Documents are Patentable Processes.

Wesley Parish

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