What Is A Software Patent?
CATO Unbound series on Public Choice and Patents. Db's response to Ms. Mulligan. I am astounded that CATO does not include any patent experts in their discussion. This has lead to articles full of mis-information and out and out ignorance regarding the specifics of patent law, including claim construction. Ms. Mulligan is a law professor, writing and teaching on technology and law. She does not appear to have a technical background, nor is she a patent attorney.
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J Nicholas Gross • a day ago
Do me a favor Christina, please produce one reputable scientist who will attest that electrons are NOT “matter” or don’t…. matter. All computing machines and software manipulate, control and rely on electrons, which, last time I checked my late instructor Richard Feynman's treatise, are in the physical world, not the metaphysical world some of the ivory tower anti-patent crowd seems to live in. Thus, your definition of what should be patentable still clearly encompasses software method patents. I guess the anti SW patent folk will have to go back the virtual drawing board to "invent" some other slippery artificial distinction to protect the cause.
check your premise.
http://patentu.blogspot.mx/2014/09/elect...
If she's against all software paents, what about FPGA firmware? What about embedded software colloquially referred to as firmware b/c it's not meant to be updated frequently?
It seems like she's saying if I make a box that does something useful, new, and non-obvious, I can patent it. But I can't patent it if the box contains only an FPGA eval board with firmware I developed. Why not?