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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 12 2012 @ 06:06 PM EDT

Every computer program is a pure, abstract mathematical algorithm.

Period.

If you want to patent something which is actually legally patentable, you have
to patent the interaction between the computer program, the computer it's
running on (which had better not be just "a general purpose computer
invented by someone else"), and the real world. You know,
"Computer-controlled rubber curing".

The *very same program* can be run on a completely different computer to do
"simulated rubber curing" and it wouldn't be patentable. The program
itself is just a mathematical algorithm.

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All of the above n/t

Authored by: PJ on Saturday, May 12 2012 @ 06:55 PM EDT

If you know him, ask him.

Anyone know Gosling well enough to ask him
how he justifies the '104 patent?

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All of the above n/t - Authored by: BJ on Sunday, May 13 2012 @ 03:18 PM EDT
- All of the above n/t - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 14 2012 @ 06:13 PM EDT

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