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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 15 2013 @ 04:55 PM EDT |
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR: I -- I have a sort of
4 analytical problem. I find it
very, very difficult to
5
conceive how you can patent a sequential
numbering
6 system by nature, in the same way that I have a problem
7 in
thinking that someone could get a
patent on the
8 computer binary code
merely because they throw a certain
9 number of things on a
piece of paper
in a certain order.
10 I always thought that to have a patent you
11 had
to take something and add to what nature does.
So
12 how do you add to
nature when all you are doing is
13 copying its sequence?
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 15 2013 @ 06:55 PM EDT |
The meaning of that quote just dawned on me:
That's a failure of
the patent law. It doesn't patent ideas.
If that actually says
what Justice Sotomayor believes:
ideas should be patentable - and it's a
failure of patent law that they are not
I guess Justice Sotomayor forgot
the whole idea to patent inventions was to immediately disclose the knowledge -
the idea - to the public. The exchange is lost completely if the idea itself is
patentable.
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