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'charge' rather than 'voltage'
Authored by: myNym on Tuesday, January 15 2013 @ 05:14 AM EST
Agree with most of your post, this is a minor nit.

Charge is more correct for DRAM, but voltage is more correct
for SRAM and registers. Probably also cache.

Charge is also more accurate for CCDs (image sensor arrays).

To most people, the difference is minor, but for the general
case, voltage is probably more accurate. Even for those
devices that are specifically charge based, that charge is
at some point measured against a voltage threshold to
determine if it is there. (Or against a series of
thresholds when a CCD analog charge is being digitized in
an A-D.)

But your case about them all being arbitrary signs is spot
on. Even our concept of 'voltage' turns out to be of
arbitrary polarity!

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  • Precisely - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 15 2013 @ 10:40 AM EST
Lawyers and Federal Judges perhaps
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 15 2013 @ 10:19 AM EST

I've more faith in the Supreme Court to review my examples and understand what I meant.

Even if the patent Lawyers and Federal Circuit Judges (at least some of them) actually want to patent "a particular pattern of electricity as applied to the telegraph wire" - I'm absolutely positive the Supremes wouldn't allow that.

I have no hope for Patent Lawyers like Gene Quinn to understand why "patenting the process of 2+2= as applied to a calculator" is a very bad idea. Why patenting E=MC2 authored out to "to resolve the sum of energy...." is a bad idea.

I have no hope the Federal Circuit - as long as they keep seeming to do what Gene Quinn said about "the Federal Circuit overruling the Supremes" - will see reason.

So my hope lies in the Supremes. And as a result, they are my audience. And as they've shown in both Bilski and Mayo, they appear inclined to see through the fast talking word play... but they do need to understand in order to see through it.

As a result: Clear, simple explanations with plenty of examples to show that it's just the change in electrical voltage (your preference) that is occurring and everything else is abstract language interpretation.

RAS

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