Software patents to me are exactly patents on the process of "enter 2 + 2 =
on a calculator and read the result on the screen".
Sorry. The
Calculator was the patented invention. To use the device for nothing more then
what it was built for should not be patentable. Your not building something
bigger like adding computer controls to gyros and such to create the first
robot.... you're using it strictly for it's most basic application.
To
patent that formula is analogous to meaning you can also patent "use a pencil
and 10 weight paper to author your biography" and you can patent "use a pencil
and 12 weight paper to author your biography" and you can patent "use a pen and
10 weight paper to author your biography".
And I have no idea where to
begin to try and explain to someone who actually believes you should be able to
patent using a pencil vs a pen why that should not be so. To myself there's so
much obviously wrong with that, to suggest to do it leaves me stunned at the (in
my humble opinion) absurdity of the suggestion itself.
It's like when
someone actually wanted to create a Law that says PI = 3!
Just...
WOW!
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