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Article #335Re: Boycott on Unisys still effective
From: nickm
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 1995 02:16
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 1995 02:16
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How the fuck does a SOFTWARE ALGORITHM get patented! No matter what kind of legal tissue paper Unisys' lawyers wrap this technology in (they describe it as a piece of hardware) - it's a software algorithm, i.e. and IDEA - which is NOT SUPPOSED TO BE PATENTABLE! Just because the patent office continues to make the same mistakes every time a patent is reviewed doesn't mean that a patent is valid. WAKE UP, PATENT OFFICE. You're ruining the whole software business, which is one of the US's big strengths. The US Patent Office is staffed by a bunch of losers who tend to believe whatever their big 'customers', like Unisys, throw at them. So someone develops a mathematical idea or software article, fully intending for it to be realized as software, and files a patent pretending it can be built as a new gadget, like it's a new grain harvester or something. The patent office buys this line and issues an all-encompassing patent on an IDEA. This whole software patent shit is getting way out of hand. E-MAIL these losers and tell them that you're not going to allow them to hamstring the vibrant, exciting US software industry.
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