Anyone that knows Brilliouins new patent nr as granted by the Chinese Patent Office?
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Alain Sepeda <[email protected]> wrote: > it seems to protect someone to patent an element, like some patent DNA, > existing discovered plant... > > imagine that you patent element bigmoneynium 312... > however you ca patent the machine to make bigmoneynium 312... > > there was a battle in china I remember to patent or not molecule. > chinese position was that you patent the process to make the molecule, or > the process to cure with a molecule... > > in europe software patent were forbidden because algorithm are ideas. > however a machine that use the algorithm to do something useful is > patentable. but finding a non evident application is an innovation... > > > 2012/9/6 Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]> > >> At 09:44 AM 9/6/2012, Jones Beene wrote: >> >>> >>> From: Teslaalset >>> ** >>> What kind of invention cannot be patented in China? [snip] (6) >>> substances obtained by means of nuclear transformation. >>> >>> >>> Looks like the Chinese, in granting the patent, have determined that >>> Ni-H is not a process which is dependent on Nuclear transmutation. >>> >> >> No, the patent is not a patent for a "substance" obtained by means of >> nuclear transformation. Energy is not a "substance" in the likely meaning >> of that, and, stricly speaking, the patent is for a device or process, not >> a substance. It's not completely clear to me what the prohibition *does* >> refer to. Could a device that is designed and used to create nuclear >> transformations be patented? That's distinct from patenting the substance >> itself. >> >> (Some substances can be patented, to be used for, say, medical purposes. >> But apparently not in China, not if they are obtained by means of nuclear >> transformation.) >> >> >> >
