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Random thought: it's pretty absurd to claim copyright on an empty program, but if this behavior was sufficiently innovative, could one patent an empty program?
by jasonmp85 9y ago
Random thought: it's pretty absurd to claim copyright on an empty program, but if this behavior was sufficiently innovative, could one patent an empty program?
- bdowling 9y agoPatentable subject matter under U.S. law consists exclusively of "any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof". 35 USC 101. So, a program may implement a patented process or it may be a piece of a patented machine, but it won't be patentable in itself.