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A sane voice. Trademark/copyright is enough to protect your product, only in rare cases should a patent be awarded for an algorithm (think RSA).

• josephlord 14y ago
  RSA is more clearly maths (which should be unpatentable) than a UI patent like the scroll bounce which is defined by an imperative if this then do that process and directly affects the world state (by causing light to be projected into it). I think for software patents do more harm than good but it is incredibly hard and dangerous to try to carve out special rules to keep the few good ones (even if we could agree on which those are).
• darkestkhan 14y ago
  There shouldn't be any patents for algorithms - algorithms are math, and math is not patentable.
  • radarsat1 14y ago
    Mechanical diagrams are also math.
    • jlgreco 14y ago
      Algorithms and mechanical diagrams are both math in the same way that the Pythagorean Theorem and a picture of some triangles are both math.
  • eckyptang 14y ago
    Math is all prior art!