From: Rich Brown <richb.hanover@gmail.com>
To: cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] License File for Open Source Repositories
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2016 12:20:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0E80357B-A2E9-4CC5-8808-BCBC2E214848@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.3.1482598801.26091.cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net>
> On 12/23/2016 05:35 PM, Jonathan Morton wrote:
>>
>>> On 23 Dec, 2016, at 22:35, Marc Petit-Huguenin <marc@petit-huguenin.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Aren't communication protocols mathematics, e.g. propositions in linear logic, and so unpatentable?
>>
>> I would agree with that assessment. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to stop patent offices from issuing such patents and courts from hearing cases brought on them
>
> Maybe one day they'll reject these kind of applications the same way they reject application for perpetual machines:
>
> http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&d=PG01&Query=CCL%2F%2274%22%2FDIG.9
Maybe the moon will fall out of the sky :-(
But that CAFC court ruling is mildly encouraging.
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