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Groklaw's Proposed Response to the USPTO's Request for Suggested Topics for Future Discussion - Care to Help? ~pj | 335 comments | Create New Account

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Groklaw's Proposed Response to the USPTO's Request for Suggested Topics for Future Discussion - Care to Help? ~pj

Authored by: Gringo_ on Tuesday, March 12 2013 @ 07:02 PM EDT

"Why is it impossible for some new software to rise to the level of an invention?"

Well, I have to admit, sometimes it can, in my opinion. However, the USPTO is completely incapable of separating what is really "invention" from the mundane. Of course, that would be a problem for anybody - to agree on what truly represents invention, and to that degree, it is not fair to blame USPTO. However, they don't even try to make any distinctions, and the result is that for every true software invention, they have issued a thousand other patents for mundane software.

Of course, that is not the only problem, but here you are just asking me if software can rise to the level of invention.

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