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Math can't be patented and yet you can get a patent for code snippets? This sounds absurd since all code boils down to mathematical manipulation of binary numbe
by skizm 14y ago
Math can't be patented and yet you can get a patent for code snippets? This sounds absurd since all code boils down to mathematical manipulation of binary numbers. I guess if you abstract something enough you can get away with patenting it? Can we patent methods of preparing food now? How about ways to put something together (think ikea)?
Why hasn't anyone patented something like the smartphone yet people can patent something as arbitrary as memory management techniques?
I would say I hate our patent system but I'm just too damn confused by it to form an opinion or explain why I hate it.
- Draco6slayer 14y agoYou can't patent atoms, but you can patent compounds made of those atoms, like a new plastic. Or, if those compounds are already open, you can patent products that combine those compounds into a new shape, like a new blender. You can't patent the human voice or melodies, but you can patent a song. You can't declare that because someone's. product uses raw materials that are patent-free, that their final product isn't really an invention. Every thing is built on some other platform, so that would remove patents entirely.
- Ilmesnkie_Jones 14y agoA song isn't an invention so you would have to copyright it not patent it.
- Draco6slayer 14y agoYes, quite. Sorry. Point being though, you can own an intellectual property even if you can't own the parts and tools that go into it.
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- skizm 14y agoWhy haven't people patented methods for cooking food and sued other restaurants for suspected patent infringement? Patenting solutions to common problems (programming or otherwise) seems crazy to me.