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Authored by: Wol on Saturday, June 15 2013 @ 05:02 PM EDT |
Bear in mind my comments about a patent should publish a trade secret ...
The Bessemer furnace - as a machine for making steel - is patentable. The steel
that comes out of it should not be.
(And I've just thought of another little glitch in my reasoning - if I invent
the Bessemer process and then sell furnaces, should I be able to patent it? I
think actually yes, because it dissuades me from keeping it to myself to use it.
But that obviously makes the "products are not patentable" rule rather
greyer in implementation.)
And so we both agree that the sword itself should not be patentable :-) But the
method of making it actually changes the internal structure of the steel -
alters the "composition of matter", so the *process* by which we
achieve that should be patentable.
Cheers,
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