Intellectual Property and Economic Prosperity: Friends or Foes?
One of the USPTO report’s most frequently discussed findings was that “IP-intensive” industries employ a lot of people: “Direct employment in the subset of most IP-intensive industries identified in this report amounted to 27.1 million jobs in 2010, while indirect activities associated with these industries provided an additional 12.9 million jobs throughout the economy in 2010, for a total of 40.0 million jobs, or 27.7 percent of all jobs in the economy.”
You're incapable of admitting when you're wrong. But, anyone can tell. THAT is when you resort to ad hominem, as above.
BTW how did you give yourself 374 points in one day?
BTW how did you give yourself 374 points in one day?
Do you actually read what you write?
A logic circuit consists of transistors and many other elements in different combinations of sub-circuits such as flip flops that maintain a binary state through clock cycle. Logic circuits, or switching circuits, change the binary state. They do not rewire the circuit.
You haven't addressed, or apparently understood, anything I wrote about the role of transistors in logic circuits and their complete separation from software. Software does not address the implementation of logic circuits.
An invention is a physical manifestation, and IP is the documentation of the idea, correct?
A "switching circuit" represents binary signals, not "rewiring" anything. The "switching" is from one combination of binary states to another. Different machines use different circuits and components that operate logically equivalently.
The changing states of individual transistors, which in turn and in combination represent the state of the machine at each step in a sequence, are a consequence of combinations of binary inputs that ultimately affect every physical component. They are are not "told what to do" by software, from which they are entirely decoupled in the layered software/hardware. The software has no 'knowledge' of any individual transistors, or whether transistors are used at all (though they usually are).
The bad metaphor of "rewiring a computer" is a simplistic fallacy substituting for the role of software written for a specific purpose sequentially directing the operation of a computer when it is read in and interpreted as combinations of input voltages. The IP is in the logic of the high level operations of the software and their intended purpose, but which must be implemented on some computer to direct the sequential states represented in whatever machine is used to process the input and produce the required output in a physical form -- changing a display, producing text or numerical results, signals controlling another device, etc. So it is also more than "just the logic".
the IP is ALWAYS the logic (how to), no matter what the underlying tech is. we are talking about the invention itself, not the IP. One is a property right. the other is the thing for which you have the right in. they are not the same. it's an easy mistake. I make it all the time, and get yelled at for. :)
Couldn't make the premier either, it seems. Too bad. Is Kaila there? I would hope so.
"Switches do not rewire a circuit, they are components that are part of a circuit. But a switching circuit in a computer means that the transistors change the binary states which they represent by the voltage differences across them. Logic circuits in computers operate with binary signals represented by voltages at the lower and upper range, with several elements employed to control each transistor. The states change with each increment of the clock, with a different state for each step of the program (at the machine language level). It is these voltage states that are "switched" from one logical configuration to another. They do not not "rewire the circuit". Whatever you are trying to say you aren't using the correct terminology."
IF you wanted the wiring to remain the same, there would be no use for a switch. hence "re-wired." The whole point of a switch is to open and close (the changes in voltages). sophistry
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