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The thing is I would actually favor software patents if it required the patent applicant to submit all related source code to the public domain. Software is th
by jobu 14y ago
The thing is I would actually favor software patents if it required the patent applicant to submit all related source code to the public domain. Software is the only medium of creation that is essentially a double-monopoly with copyright and patent protection.
- thirdtruck 14y agoYou've hit on one of my biggest pet peeves when it comes to software patents: by the time you've described the "invention" at a low-enough level to actually allow replication by future patent readers, the resulting patent would be nigh-indistinguishable from actual code.
- dllthomas 14y agoAnd/or would be math.
- diminoten 14y ago"Software patents" aren't implementation specific. I can get a "software patent" on my business model, written entirely in the English language. Literal software patents don't exist in the US system. You don't patent code, you patent what code does, so if you had to submit code, that would put an undue burden on an inventor - now I have to write code to implement my new method of delivering coffee to your house? But I don't even use any code!