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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 24 2013 @ 08:27 AM EDT |
So let me lay it out for you. Unequivocally, software needs
to get a
divorce from patents. There should be no software
patents,
period.
Computers are rather universal tools. A claim does not
become patentworthy by adding "on a computer" to it (which is the real madness
here), but I don't see how "on a computer" makes it lose its
patentability, either.
Patentability does not stand and fall with phrases
like "with a lathe" or "with a screw".
It does not even fall if you can
build a machine completely from standard parts.
And a general purpose
computer/processor is a standard part. The problem is that the patent
clerks can't distinguish trivial hogwash from inventive uses because they have
no clue about computers but still need to make decisions.
Probably partly a
problem of their education having happened at a time when computing devices were
not seminal for technology.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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