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(-->, Ideas not able to get patent), only on "inventions". | 1347 comments | Create New Account

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Need to return to fundamental definition of invention....

Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 10 2012 @ 10:48 PM EDT

A new idea that solves a practical problem....as embodied in a piece of
machinery.

That "AHA" moment, embodied in machinery, creating a useful result, is
*EXACTLY* what is supposed to be patentable, if it is sufficiently nonobvious to
one skilled in the art.

Not that I don't see a problem: which art? Forward Error Correction? General
software? Making smartphones?

To push the example a bit far, we have pretty good mathematical descriptions of
a laser...would you call what goes on in a laser a mathematical operation, and
therefore unpatentable?

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

Need to return to fundamental definition of invention.... - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 07:34 AM EDT
Now if I apply my Physics - Authored by: Wol on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 03:22 PM EDT
there is a difference between a mathematical description - Authored by: jesse on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 03:22 PM EDT
- there is a difference between a mathematical description - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 18 2012 @ 08:51 AM EDT

(-->, Ideas not able to get patent), only on "inventions".

Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 03:25 PM EDT

Ideas not able to get patent, only on "inventions".
Then you apply the test, once you think it is an invention (you make it and it
works), it has to be valid under the rules of patentable inventions.

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