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patenting printers vs patenting software

patenting printers vs patenting software

Posted Nov 27, 2012 2:20 UTC (Tue) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
In reply to: patenting printers vs patenting software by giraffedata
Parent article: LCE: All watched over by machines of loving grace

"...they reach incorrect conclusions about how patent law works."

They may reach incorrect conclusions about how patent law is imagined, or perhaps intended(*), to work, but largely correct conclusions about how it does, in fact, work. How it does work does not, in fact, make sense. It's not hard to confuse people with examples of how to apply something that does not actually make sense.

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_defense

(*) Intended by whom?


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