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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 10 2012 @ 08:23 PM EDT |
"There are lots of data compression methods out there that very few, if
any,
people could have come up with within a couple of months."
This doesn't make it patentable, just time consuming. I always thought trade
secrets protected skilled knowledge.
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| Authored by: jvillain on Sunday, June 10 2012 @ 11:22 PM EDT |
A number of compression algorithms came about due to advancements in other
fields. Mathematical analysis of analog signals for example. Just because you
can do the same thing more efficiently in software shouldn't make it a new
patent. Especially since the software is still doing the same thing you started
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 12:29 AM EDT |
The method or concept of encrypted messages is VERY old and
has been used on battle fields for thousands of years. Same
where the idea of compression of a message has been used too
(language has evolved using this method and concept).
Just because a computer CHIP is not used to make it faster,
etc and someone wrote a new story about the age old tale,
then that, is not something ever worthy of a patent.
The hardware is (design only) because all it is doing is
something old (basics of computers are now fairly old) ...
but, a new design, "might" be something that can be
protected by patent, because it was/is non-obvious, an
invention that is unique and new (slowly getting old).
Just because of hardware, does not mean everything old, that
is put now on a computer, is now new (method and concept is
very very old).
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| Authored by: ais523 on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 01:57 AM EDT |
For what it's worth, I came up with arithmetic coding independently myself (a
long time after it had been invented, but before I learned of its existence or
its name). So the patent there isn't useful because it didn't teach me anything,
it's just restricting me from doing something I could do anyway.
I appreciate that there could be novel compression algorithms that require
patents because nobody else could come up with them, but I can't think of any.
The problem is really that the obviousness bar is set far too low.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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