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A patent is at best a recipe, and expertise on how to make the stuff work best in the real world is still extremely valuable.
by makeitdouble 3y ago
A patent is at best a recipe, and expertise on how to make the stuff work best in the real world is still extremely valuable.
- tadfisher 3y agoA recipe isn't patentable on its own, though. For most inventions you either need to demonstrate you have already built the thing, or have provided the thing to the PTO along with the application. For software, though, it seems you don't need to do either.