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[ PRIVACY Forum ] You can't patent simple math,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PRIVACY Forum mailing list)
Thu Mar 28 15:04:49 2013
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You can't patent simple math, judge tells patent troll Uniloc
http://j.mp/14rfJvM (ars technica)
Math operations aren't automatically unpatentable, but US District
Court Judge Leonard Davis ruled yesterday (PDF) that this one isn't
novel enough to deserve patent protection. Why not? Because the
"invention" claimed was just a decision to round numbers before,
instead of after, an arithmetic computation. Seriously.
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I'm pretty much at the point now where I'd be willing to consider
advocating that software, and business methods, should no longer be
patentable at all. Let the chips fall where they may. I think the
world would be a better place overall.
--Lauren--
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