Subj : Re: Software Patents
To   : comp.programming
From : Scott Moore
Date : Mon Jul 11 2005 01:10 pm

mr_reznat@yahoo.com wrote:

> momentarily fixed for recording and reporting purposes."  So the claim
> represents patentable subject matter, consistent with patent law (35
> U.S.C. 101):
> 
>     Whoever invents or discovers any new and
>     useful process, machine, manufacture, or
>     composition of matter, or any new and
>     useful improvement thereof, may obtain a
>     patent therefor, subject to the conditions
>     and requirements of this title.
> 
> How would you rewrite the law to eliminate "software" patents?
> 

You have what we had BEFORE software patents. The patent office refused to
issue software patents on the grounds that stored computers were already
invented, and programs that ran on them were not novel nor patentable.

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