On 10/07/2016 07:21 AM, John McKown wrote: > https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/10/07/0455200/prominent-pro-patent-judge-issues-opinion-declaring-all-software-patents-bad > > http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/opinions-orders/15-1769.Opinion.9-28-2016.1.PDF > Amazing! The courts may finally be on the verge of returning patents to what they were intended to protect: the invention of physical objects that require significant investment in physical infrastructure to research, develop, and manufacture -- not concepts and algorithms that can be discovered or re-discovered by anyone with a writing instrument and a recording media just by employing basic concepts of logic and algorithmic design. Congress had no idea what they were doing when they opened the door to software and business method patents. Joel C. Ewing
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