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I suppose I didn't mean "patent troll", but instead spoke with a growing distaste for the way patent law is practiced. When I read that article I found difficul
by tel 16y ago
I suppose I didn't mean "patent troll", but instead spoke with a growing distaste for the way patent law is practiced. When I read that article I found difficulty locating where I stood between calling something a compression technique and just... math.
- tzs 16y agoI've never understood the "just math" argument. Couldn't a similar argument be made against all drug patents ("just chemistry"), all mechanical device patents ("just physics"), and so on?
- tel 16y agoOh, I agree that the argument applies more broadly than "just math". I'm also not sure what the ideal patent protects. It seems to lie somewhere on the discovery-invention axis, but I don't know where.