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There's going to be a whole slew of these, similar to the "existing process, but on a computer" patents that were all struck down with *Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank
by ukuina 2y ago
There's going to be a whole slew of these, similar to the "existing process, but on a computer" patents that were all struck down with *Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International*.
- yorwba 2y agoYeah, the "idea" in question looks neither original enough to be patentable nor practical enough that anyone would want to use it (a food container shaped like a Koch snowflake, really?) but the Bundesgerichtshof only ruled that the applicant's third attempt to fill in the application form fulfills the formal criteria, by clearly identifying the human who is claiming the patent. This art collective is celebrating it as a big victory, but their original plan of having the AI listed as the inventor was thoroughly rejected, as it was in other countries.