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Certainly a cool idea and a nice feature, but how on Earth is this patentable?
by alexkay 17y ago
Certainly a cool idea and a nice feature, but how on Earth is this patentable?
- kjbekkelund 17y agoIt is a business method patent. From Wikipedia: A business method may be defined as "a method of operating any aspect of an economic enterprise". It is mainly in the US, Australia, Japan and Singapore that business methods are usual. In Europe this is not regarded as being inventions, and are therefore not patentable. More info on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_method_patent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_method_patent Oh, and _of course_, there is a lot of discussion going on about these kind of patents.
- euroclydon 17y agoThe supreme court is currently reviewing the legality of business method patents in the Bilski case. I have a Google news alert for it, because if they rule broadly enough, many software patents could be overturned. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_re_Bilski http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_re_Bilski