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How about a hardware invention/device made entirely of FPGAs?
by idibidiart 11y ago
How about a hardware invention/device made entirely of FPGAs?
- hodwik 11y agoPatents are generally structured like "Method for solving XYZ problem". You could patent your FPGA invention, sure, but that wouldn't stop someone from re-implementing it in code.
- josaka 11y agoI'd be curious to hear a principled explanation for why a patent on a circuit implementing algorithm should be patentable while the same functionality is not worth protecting when encoded in memory as software.