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Couldn't agree more. If anything we need new legislation that reminds the patent office that doing math on a computer is the same thing as doing math, and the c
by akersten 5y ago
Couldn't agree more. If anything we need new legislation that reminds the patent office that doing math on a computer is the same thing as doing math, and the concept of software patents is clearly invalid by definition.
Moving in the opposite direction is insanity.
- mindcrime 5y agoIf anything we need new legislation that reminds the patent office that doing math on a computer is the same thing as doing math, and the concept of software patents is clearly invalid by definition. Absolutely. And as for "life sciences discoveries" - that's treading on some dangerous ground if we drift into the possibility of allowing patenting of human genes (see "Orphan Black"), or locking other naturally existing compounds and genetic sequences behind a patent. And you know companies are going to try to do all of the above, and probably other Bad Ideas that I can't even conceive of.
- R0b0t1 5y agoThe problem with introducing legislation like that is you end up with the default assumption that it did not exist before the legislation.