|
|
|
| Authored by: PolR on Monday, March 11 2013 @ 02:53 PM EDT |
How do you distinguish a modification of a machine which makes a new patentable
machine from one which doesn't?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
|
| |
| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, March 11 2013 @ 03:26 PM EDT |
You are indulging in a fallacy.
Adding a text to speech functionality to a computer is multi-part process. You
might have to design the sound output device - and that, if novel and
non-obvious (think about the days before the soundblaster card when all a
computer could do was beep, maybe at multiple pitches but that was the limit) is
potentially patentable.
With that hardware in place, however, you do not, in any way, change the machine
into a new one by creating efficient code to take text and assemble
corresponding phonemes in any spoken language. The fact that to date nobody had
made it do so does not change the fact that in following your algorithm the
computer is functioning exactly within its previous design parameters, using no
functionality that it did not already have before your program were loaded. The
machine is no more changed than is the press in my studio when I take out the
chase with the text for my holiday greeting card and replace it with the one
containing the scoring rule to make the cards fold neatly.
Translation to mongolian? thats even simpler. There you are simply converting
one symbol set to another according to well-understood grammatical and
syntactical rules for each symbol set involved.
New ways of using existing capabilities of a machine do not make it a new
machine. If I come up with a design for a new widget and instructions to feed
into a CNC rig to make it, I might have invented the widget but I haven't
changed the CNC rig into a new machine.
To apply the principle of reductio ad absurdum, if I have a 3/4" nut to
undo and I rummage in my car for the lug wrench and employ that for the purpose
I am simply using the existing capability of that lug wrench to undo 3/4"
nuts, I haven't invented a new type of wrench simply by having the idea of using
it on a different type of nut.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
|
|
|
|
|
