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Study for US Congress outlines options against patent trolls (The H)Study for US Congress outlines options against patent trolls (The H)Posted Sep 9, 2012 7:41 UTC (Sun) by Seegras (subscriber, #20463)In reply to: Study for US Congress outlines options against patent trolls (The H) by Wol Parent article: Study for US Congress outlines options against patent trolls (The H)
> Of course, you then need to clarify that putting that number on
> to a general purpose computer doesn't make a new patentable machine,
Oh, the famous "Moby Dick Support Device" http://seegras.discordia.ch/Blog/the-moby-dick-support-de...
I still can't understand the logic behind that (and the fact that courts and lawyers use a definition of "algorithm" in patent lawsuits which is completely at odds with reality -- I mean you can't just legislate Pi to be exactly 3, can't you?).
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Study for US Congress outlines options against patent trolls (The H) Posted Sep 9, 2012 22:43 UTC (Sun) by shmget (subscriber, #58347) [Link]
"I mean you can't just legislate Pi to be exactly 3, can't you?)."
In the US ?, sure you can try.. that has been attempted before:
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