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| Authored by: mrisch on Tuesday, June 12 2012 @ 08:14 AM EDT |
But there's a missing link there. Stuff doesn't just happen -
it takes time and money. One of the concerns about software
patents is that they don't take time and money. I get that
part. But when a solution does, we want to create the
incentive to invent. Yes, people have to pay a royalty for 20
years, but in some cases, the solution might not have come
about for many years. I understand with software that's not
true in a lot of cases, and so I share the concern.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Wol on Wednesday, June 13 2012 @ 07:49 AM EDT |
But unfortunately it falls in the realm of magic.
If writing "1+1=2" made bread fall from the sky, it would NOT be a
patent on maths. It would be a patent on making bread fall from the sky. It
would be a valid APPLICATION of maths, as per Diehr.
This is probably the biggest mental block Mr Risch has - the "cargo
cult" that "maths makes things happen". It doesn't. Separate the
maths from the "what happens", and the "what happens" is
patentable. The maths is merely an enabler.
Let's try and word it differently, yet again. MATHS DESCRIBES AN IMAGINARY
WORLD. IMAGINATION IS NOT PATENTABLE.
Cheers,
Wol[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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