Any of you guys waiting to see what the supreme court decides?
I really hope they narrow down software patents. They are way too strong ATM.
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Any of you guys waiting to see what the supreme court decides?
I really hope they narrow down software patents. They are way too strong ATM.
I don't actually know what case you're referring to but I would agree that software patents have been too broad. If similar rules had been applied to cars then I think that Ford would be the only company producing cars with four wheels.
Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International, a legal case about software patents that the United States Supreme Court will hear in 2014, presents the issue whether certain claims about a computer-implemented, electronic escrow service for facilitating financial transactions concern abstract ideas ineligible for patent protection.[1] It is the first Supreme Court case on the patentability of software since Gottschalk v. Benson in 1972.[2] This case could establish a test of patent-eligibility that clarifies under what circumstances one may patent software or can be found to be infringing on a software patent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_C..._International
Really, as already noted, software patents are overly broad. Patently so, I would say...
The central issue is that a lot of these concepts have already been 'discovered', and even implemented, but technology, such as high speed connectivity, wasn't available to realize the invention.