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So non-obvious (by the PTO's standards, or even by some wise person's standards) mathematics should be patentable?
by runningdogx 15y ago
So non-obvious (by the PTO's standards, or even by some wise person's standards) mathematics should be patentable?
- petegrif 15y agoNo. Because the law is perfectly clear on this point. Algorithms cannot be patented.
- bandushrew 15y agocomputer code is 'just' an algorithm. that is simply true. if algorithms cannot be patented then neither can computer code.
- petegrif 15y agodata structures?
- bandushrew 15y agohuh? they contain data. unless you are claiming that the presence of this: struct twiggle { int t; } somehow makes patenting the code that uses it a sensible idea?