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Algorithms are not patentable. Alice v. CLS Bank Int’l, Supreme Court 2014, holds that abstract ideas "merely requiring generic computer implementation fails to
by riazrizvi 4y ago
Algorithms are not patentable. Alice v. CLS Bank Int’l, Supreme Court 2014, holds that abstract ideas "merely requiring generic computer implementation fails to transform that abstract idea into a patent-eligible invention.”
But at the same time, just because a patent includes an algorithm, it is not necessarily invalidated.
- puffoflogic 4y agoAlice only matters if you can afford to get your case before SCOTUS (i.e., both money and political influence). The federal circuit has demonstrated they have no problem whatsoever with ignoring Alice and thumbing their nose at SCOTUS.
- activitypea 4y agotell that to John Carmack
- marcosdumay 4y agoNearly all of those histories about patent trolling are for code running in a general purpose computer, with your standard I/O peripherals and the only effect on the real world being changing pixels on a screen. AFAIK those patents are illegal on every single country. But it doesn't stop honest people from losing fortunes over them.