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This reeks of patenting an existing idea. Prior art is surely in the actions of manual phone operators who encounter moody callers. Merely adding computers to a
by sjwright 9y ago
This reeks of patenting an existing idea. Prior art is surely in the actions of manual phone operators who encounter moody callers. Merely adding computers to a mechanism does not automatically make it a novel invention.
- hirsin 9y agoBy that logic the nail gun is invalidated by the prior art of swinging hammers... Automating a mechanism, or even just more efficiently automating it, should be patentable.
- sjwright 9y agoNovel inventions that comprise a specific nail gun mechanism should be patentable. The concept of mechanizing nail insertion should not be. This is not a patent on voice analysis algorithms to detect a human's mood, it's just taking an existing invented workflow and replacing "human analysis" with "computer analysis".