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Selden Patent: Quick F Y I | 267 comments | Create New Account
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Being complex does not make it patentable
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 08 2013 @ 10:53 PM EST
quote from last poster "Also i don't believe anybody got a patent for the
concept of a motorized vehicle..."

sigh... google the following "Selden vs Ford court case"

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Sweat of the brow |= copyright
Authored by: Ian Al on Saturday, February 09 2013 @ 11:33 AM EST
However, this judge appears to believe that sweat of the brow = patent.

ยง101 says you can patent a novel and useful invention. It says nothing about the
sweat of the brow being patentable.

---
Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid!

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Being complex does not make it patentable
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 09 2013 @ 01:42 PM EST
People can be very easily fooled by pretty pictures.

It seems that at least one judge was so completely fooled by the pretty
pictures, that she clean forgot what she should have been paying attention to.

Which is precisely what the American system of non-education is designed to
achieve --- pretty pictures are always true, regardless of objective facts,
objective reality, scientific laws, laws of nature, and laws passed by
governments.

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Selden Patent: Quick F Y I
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 09 2013 @ 02:16 PM EST
LONG: History of the Selden Patent Fight

SHORT: One Page Ad posted by Selden in Harper's Magazine promoting the Selden patent

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Being complex does not make it patentable
Authored by: Ronny on Monday, February 11 2013 @ 09:24 AM EST
> nobody should get a patent for a driver-less
> motorized vehicle, regardless of the effort they
> spend developing one

If a driverless vehicle is not patentable then a better mousetrap is not
patentable - both are hardware.

What should not be patentable is (a) the *concept* of a driverless vehicle and
(b) any algorithmic basis for handling the vehicle.


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Coal
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 11 2013 @ 11:53 AM EST
If effort = invention, then every coal miner in the country is entitled to a
patent for the coal he dug.

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