Sorry - I didn't mean to say they aren't granted, rather that they're
invalid and the USPO shouldn't be granting them under their own rules.
I know... not very helpful. :-(
cheers,
Christian
On Mar 10, 2010, at 4:58 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote:
Yes, which is why all patents are dressed up. For example, with the
words "system and method". It's a sham. it's the most obvious proof
that the patent system is fundamentally broken: Patents are routinely
handed out for what is pragmatically just an algorithm, but it has to
be dressed up as an implementation because 'those are the rules'. This
is only making patents harder to read, it doesn't change the way they
are being upheld.
On Mar 6, 3:39 pm, Christian Edward Gruber
<[email protected]> wrote:
Side note - you can't patent algorithms, only implementations of
algorithms.
Christian.
On Mar 5, 2010, at 3:05 PM, Casper Bang wrote:
Suing - there's an app for that!
On Mar 5, 8:44 pm, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]>
wrote:
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/carroll/?p=1925&tag=content;col1
I much agree on that - but the real problem here is the current
interpretation of software patents. I'm not completely against
software patents - for instance, if you invent a new algorithm e.g.
for compressing video streams, I think you should have the right to
patent it (I'm not saying that it would be advisable or a good
thing,
on the contrary, I think that FLOSS is better - but that in this
case
there is genuine IP that one might want to control exercising his
right to choose). The problem is when laws allow you to patent
things
such as a listener (!), as the blog describes, assuming the author
correctly interpreted the thing.
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Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere."
java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici -www.tidalwave.it/people
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