To Whom It May Concern:
If you wish to correct the situation there is
a very simple solution at your disposal. Change the Law
wording
From:
Software is not patentable as such.
To:
Software
is not patentable.
If you remove the "as such" the Patent Lawyers will not
have any wiggle room to play with. The Patent Office will not have any wiggle
room to play with.
"as such" serves no useful purpose except to provide
wiggle room.
I am a concerned software developer who does not view
anything he does with software as any different then creating formulas that can
be done with the mind - with pencil and paper.
The "magic" is in having
built the computer - the device that can process abstract concepts following the
rules we learn in such subjects as math. No one argues against the
patentability of the physical - the computer hardware. Only against the
patentibility of the abstract - that which can be done in the mind and has no
physical form. To patent the abstract is nothing less then to patent
thought.
If anyone wishes to argue software has physical form, ask them
to prove it. If it exists in the physical - like a table - they should be able
to very easily point at the physical form.
Thank you for your
time,
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