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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 13 2012 @ 07:14 PM EDT |
A valid point. But we've wandered enough that I think it no longer addresses my
original point.
I'm patenting a digital electronic device. It's not just a low-level chip (TTL
NAND gate), but it could be built out of them. Or, it could be implemented in
an FPGA. The description of this invention is not in terms of voltage levels,
it's in terms of logic (though it may say something like "a TTL TRUE
voltage level", the point is the "true", not the 2.0 V
threshold).
Now: I am claiming that this invention, expressed in terms of digital logic, is
patentable as software if and only if it is patentable as hardware. That is,
the issue isn't that it's software, the issue is that it's digital logic. (It
isn't just software that's math. All digital logic is math.)
Note well: I don't claim that such an invention *is* patentable, even if
implemented in hardware. All I'm saying is that if one is patentable, the other
must be. If one is unpatentable, the other must be.
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