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You can't patent a concept. You can only patent a process, a machine, an article of manufacture, or a composition of matter. And the invention must be described
by otterley 5y ago
You can't patent a concept. You can only patent a process, a machine, an article of manufacture, or a composition of matter. And the invention must be described sufficiently such that a practitioner skilled in the relevant art can reproduce the subject matter.
- monocasa 5y agoYou can patent a software process or machine running classes of software in the US as long as it doesn't conflict with Alice Corp's test which is analogous to what I mean by concept in this case. And his patents are extremely well documented in the patents so that they can be reproduced. I guess if someone manually cranked through the math for each video's set of pixels they wouldn't be infringing, but oncologists aren't really ok with waiting a year for results. Any practical implementation would be infringing. And like I said, I'm pretty anti US structures around intellectual property (including software patents), but I'm not for the only ones being able to circumvent the legal process being entities with large banks of capital.