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That doesn't stop software patents on literally millions of long established practices.
by WildUtah 11y ago
That doesn't stop software patents on literally millions of long established practices.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoCan we get a patent on prior art itself?
- chris_wot 11y agoOnly if there is no prior art.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoSo it's prior art all the way down? Also, does the patent on all prior art cover itself?
- chris_wot 11y agoIANAL, but I doubt you can patent recursion either.
- TeMPOraL 11y ago"A method for defining an computational operation, performed by a computer system or a mechanical equivalent of thereof, in terms of the same computational operation performed by the identical system. Such computational operation is defined in such a way it consists of two separate computational suboperations - one and only one of them is defined completely in terms of the composed computational operation itself." Sounds like it could fly with USPTO. (And if it doesn't, you can try and confuse people by patenting Y combinator.)