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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 03:14 AM EDT |
The mathematics is old, but the application is new. You can try to find the
oldest
relevant mathematics you want and take it all the way back to 1 + 1 =
2, it
won't change the fact that none of it was
applied to converting
continuous gestures on a touchscreen keyboard into
discrete words until the
Swype guys did it. (Unless there is some prior art we
are unaware of, of
course.)
All engineering is the application of mathematics, logic and
known facts, yet
there are new developments all the time. As such, all
forms
of engineering (to my knowledge) are protectable by patents. The same
applies
to software.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 12:34 PM EDT |
Given the most recent Supreme Court ruling, it is that the
outcome must be greater than the sum of the individual
components. The grand idea here is not unique but then ideas
are not patentable anyhow. Also, many of the steps involved
are very well known, but not all claims in a patent have to
be new. Consequently, there has to be at least one claim
that puts all the steps together in a sufficiently unique
way that forms the patent. Otherwise any patent that
describes a existing things like a car or computer, would be
rejected. As pointed out by this article, it is easy to see
the forest and forget the trees.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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