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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 28 2013 @ 12:50 PM EDT |
1. All inventions are combinations of known components (or at least 99% are).
2. Using a hammer to hit a nail is no longer patentable, because it is not new.
3. A particular method of pealing a tomato using a hammer in a particular way
might be patentable as it would seem to be new and not obvious.
4. While on the first day of the existence of a computer it may have been
envisioned that any data processing imaginable could be done by a computer, that
does not make every use of a computer to process data known or obvious.
For example, I respectfully submit that while one may have, on that day,
thought that some day computers would be able able to "understand"
human speech and respond appropriately thereto, every method for getting a
computer to understand and respond to speech was not known or obvious.
Accordingly, particular methods for getting a computer to understand and respond
to speech are patentable.
Moreover, providing a computer with instructions to implement such a method does
make a new machine or at least improves the old machine. Either way the
combination of computer and instructions is patentable.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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