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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 06 2013 @ 08:59 PM EST |
Actually, mathematics is patentable. Software is mathematics and they issue
patents on software :-) Whether it is supposed to be patentable is a different
question.
Regarding the article, it is not suggesting qualifications in mathematics is
applicable to patents on mathematics only. Even the most uncontroversial patent
on a genuine technical invention will have an element of mathematics behind it.
That does not mean that the mathematics itself is being patented, but a grasp of
mathematics would help in understanding the design.
That said, an understanding of the pure mathematics is probably not enough. You
can be an expert in complex numbers, but unless you understand it in connection
with the world of electrical engineering, it will not help in understanding a
patent on a new type of AC generator.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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