one personal observation having read a few
software
patent claims is that the claims themselves
may occasionally take
something that is already established
practice in the mechanical, material
world, and try to
patent it just because it has now been represented in
software.
It would be like you getting
copyright
on a song if it was released as a vinyl album, then me
taking
the same recording, and producing CDs, and filing for
a new copyright,
even though we both used the same
underlying source
material.
When we discuss it in
copyright terms
using this analogy it sounds completely, utterly
ridiculous.
Yet when patent lawyers get arguing about it, they
seem to
think their perspective is implicitly correct.
I'm sorry.
I was trying to follow along, though I just
got up and my brain isn't fully in
gear, but you totally
lost me when you started comparing patents and copyright
as
if they were the same thing. They are not. They are totally
different
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