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Go, look at those Lodsys patents from a few days back...descriptions uselessly vague | 1347 comments | Create New Account

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Go, look at those Lodsys patents from a few days back...descriptions uselessly vague

Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 18 2012 @ 09:19 AM EDT

And should be invalid for that reason, even if it *weren't* describing software,
and therefore trying to patent mathematics.

My (limited) experience with patent lawyers and software patents has been that
they take a description of the software process from the engineers, and mangle
it into legalese with no understanding of how it actually works, resulting in a
broad, general, and under-specified description of a 'process' they don't
understand. This invariably results in a patent which inadequately describes
and discloses the purported invention, but at the same time attempts to cover
any and all methods of reaching the end result.

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