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It's an Electrical Engineering class at Marquette in Milwaukee WI USA. But it was more an offhand comment by the teacher than a part of the lesson.
by kgermino 17y ago
It's an Electrical Engineering class at Marquette in Milwaukee WI USA. But it was more an offhand comment by the teacher than a part of the lesson.
- georgecmu 17y agoAs another offhand comment, a lot of people believe that algorithms are not patentable. From http://www.lawtechjournal.com/notes/2003/10_030727_fagerland.php http://www.lawtechjournal.com/notes/2003/10_030727_fagerland... /* "You can't patent an 'algorithm'" */ Not true. An algorithm, even a mathematical algorithm, is patentable unless (1) it is not sufficiently disclosed to overcome the "abstract idea" exception, or (2) it is executed with no useful application in mind.26 This description of just what an "algorithm" is may be helpful: "Although one may devise a computer algorithm for the Pythagorean theorem, it is the step-by-step process which instructs the computer to solve the theorem which is the algorithm, rather than the theorem itself."27 Under Alappat, the algorithm might be patentable. The theorem itself, being an abstract idea, certainly would not.