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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 02:18 PM EDT |
You really don't understand software, do you?
OK, let's try this again. The programmable loom is designed to run with *all
possible* punchcards, including those yet to be invented in the future.
The punchcard patterns themselves are copyrightable, but as abstract information
conveyances, they are not patentable.
The combination of the programmable loom with the punchcards is not patentable
either, because the programmable loom was designed to be used with *all
possible* punchcards.
The patentable invention was the Jacquard loom. This prevents the patenting of
Jacquard loom Plus Particular Punchcard.
This is not complicated but patent lawyers seem to have trouble with it for some
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| Authored by: ThrPilgrim on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 06:56 PM EDT |
I expect the number of people objecting to a Patent on a programmable loom to be
minimal, certainty I would not be counted amongst them. But please tell me where
the novelty and non obviousness of feeding a different set of instructions comes
into it.
According to those who support software patents a new program makes a new
machine. So using this analogy, adding a new pattern to a programmable loom
makes a different loom.
But how novel is that, is adding one red fibre to the end of a pattern to
produce a copy of the Bayeux Tapestry, a novel idea and if not what about 2 red
fibres.
How about one red and one blue, what is it that makes the 'program' novel and
non obvious. As I can get from any pattern to any other simply by adding new or
removing old instructions to the original program at random and choosing to keep
or remove the inserts or deletions depending on how close my transformation gets
to the new pattern.
This can be done also by enumerating all the patterns, which must be enumerable
otherwise we could not write them down for the programmable loom.
So you could start a pattern 1 and keep going until you find the number of the
pattern that matches what you want to produce. There is nothing novel or non
obvious in counting.
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