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I must be misunderstanding something. I know that clean room implementation has been used to avoid trade secret and copyright claims, but that seems to have li
by timwiseman 17y ago
I must be misunderstanding something.
I know that clean room implementation has been used to avoid trade secret and copyright claims, but that seems to have little relevance in this case. If anything, it seems to somewhat show the need to have a patent protect developments like this.
- jacquesm 17y agoI think it argues the exact opposite, if your device can simply be reverse engineered by observing the inputs and outputs then it shouldn't be patentable. That means you can treat it as a black box without any knowledge of what is going on inside and produce an identical black box with a possibly completely different implementation on the inside. These guys are essentially trying to patent something that can be expressed as a mathematical formula, and in my opinion that should not be possible. Reduce it to an absurdity, imagine the patent on 'Pi' or a patent on calculus. Does it seem 'right' to you that such a thing should be patentable ? If any group of mathematicians skilled in the art could come up with it that alone should have been grounds for dismissal, just being the first should not give you an automatic entitlement.