[Cerowrt-devel] Fwd: License File for Open Source Repositories

[Dave Taht]

My christmas wish: that this concurrence becomes a majority opinion.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161005/15280135720/prominent-pro-patent-judge-issues-opinion-declaring-all-software-patents-bad.shtml

On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 6:01 PM, Marc Petit-Huguenin
<marc at petit-huguenin.org> wrote:
> On 12/23/2016 05:35 PM, Jonathan Morton wrote:
>>
>>> On 23 Dec, 2016, at 22:35, Marc Petit-Huguenin <marc at 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
>
>>  - Jonathan Morton
>>
>
>
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Dave Täht
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