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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 20 2012 @ 06:19 PM EDT |
Well, if the process of knitting the sweater was not patentable, and the Jaquard
loom was already patented, then "producing that sweater on a Jaquard
loom" should not be patentable.
If the sweater was novel enough that it was worthy of a patent, then producing
it on a Jaquard loom might be one implementation that would be covered by the
patent for producing the sweater. But an unpatentable sweater on an
already-patented loom? No way.
(Which means that I'm not disagreeing with your point, just with a lot of
software patents...)
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 20 2012 @ 06:31 PM EDT |
The way in which the cards in the Jacquard loom are novel is a *copyrightable*
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, July 21 2012 @ 03:29 PM EDT |
Read your old forty's and 50's science fiction. Methods for Computer
based voice recognition have been worked on for decades. Litttle piece
by little piece the thing has been built. Do you think we would have
the tablet computer today, if we hadn't seen it in operation decades
ago?
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