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Um, no.Um, no.Posted Oct 31, 2008 14:53 UTC (Fri) by AJWM (guest, #15888)In reply to: Um, no. by dwheeler Parent article: Court Greatly Limits Software And Business Method Patents (Techdirt)
The setuid bit patent, one of the earliest "software" patents, was interesting in that it explained ("taught", in patentese) the invention entirely in hardware terms -- i.e., you could build a circuit to implement the setuid function -- thus making it a machine patent.
In any event, Bell Labs released that patent to the public domain.
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