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Authored by: stegu on Monday, October 15 2012 @ 04:39 AM EDT |
> storage medium (and other physical constructs) can be patentable.
Although certainly not in the form used today for
storage medium claims: "We claim this old and
known storage medium, only now with this new software
stored on it." That is literally claiming a patent
on data, and it is a problematic abuse of the system.
Storing data on a medium can not make it patent
eligible as a new invention, because storing data
is its intended use.
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- Agreed - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 15 2012 @ 09:57 AM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 17 2012 @ 12:35 PM EDT |
My understanding: Come up with a new and useful way to build a general purpose
computer, with a clear advantage over every method used before, and that would
be patentable. Other people could still make general purpose computers the old
way, or come up with yet another new way that's even better. But using a general
purpose computer to do what general purpose computers do should never be
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