An opportunity to End Software Patents: ESP briefs Court in its historic rehearing of the Bilski case [LWN.net]

An opportunity to End Software Patents: ESP briefs Court in its historic rehearing of the Bilski case

Posted Apr 12, 2008 16:03 UTC (Sat) by Richard_J_Neill (subscriber, #23093)
In reply to: An opportunity to End Software Patents: ESP briefs Court in its historic rehearing of the Bilski case by jgjf
Parent article: An opportunity to End Software Patents: ESP briefs Court in Bilski case rehearing

I think the analog of "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" is that "in a widely
educated society, all patents fail the 'obviousness' test". Because practically every new
development is "obvious to one skilled in the art", patents should only be awarded for ideas
so novel that only one person in a billion could come up with them!

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An opportunity to End Software Patents: ESP briefs Court in its historic rehearing of the Bilski case

Posted Apr 14, 2008 4:21 UTC (Mon) by nlucas (subscriber, #33793) [Link]

Saw an interesting idea recently, which seems obvious, but have never seen anyone using it
earlier:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8SsGjjMEEDw

Uses technology that could be done 1000 years ago, but no one did it before (from my
knowledge).

Now, could this be patentable? I can imagine a full range of devices (maybe using optic
fibers) that would allow a lot of people to don't waste money on day lights (specially on warm
climates).