🚀 go-pugleaf

mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes in
<1992Mar8.145032.11096@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>:
>
>			    SECTION 5:  PATENTS
>
>		  Article 27:  Patentable Subject Matter
>
> 1.   Subject to the provisions of paragraphs 2 and 3 below, patents shall
> be available for any inventions, whether products or processes, in all
> fields of technology, provided that they are new, involve an inventive step
> and are capable of industrial application.1

This is absolutely insane.  Surely this means I could (say) invent a new
method of multiplying numbers which was better than long multiplication, and
then go around prosecuting people for using my process to multiply numbers in
their heads.


mathew

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