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So-called software patents are always drafted as machines that can perform the claimed actions. These machines are comprised of one or more hardware components,
by pnw_hazor 8y ago
So-called software patents are always drafted as machines that can perform the claimed actions. These machines are comprised of one or more hardware components, including some hardware components that can execute machine readable instructions.
(There really is no such thing as a software patent.)
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoIn Europe we do manage to make that distinction, though it is nuanced, and it specifically excludes the "program on a media" or "program in the physical memory of a computer" methods of trying to make all software appear to be physically technological.
- pnw_hazor 8y agoTrue, through many well-drafted US "software patents" can be successfully prosecuted in the EU without too much trouble.