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PTO Eliminates "Technological Arts" Requirement
MdntToker writes to tell us that the Patent Board has issued an opinion which removes the existing procedure of rejecting patents under 35 U.S.C. 101 as outside of the "technological arts". From the article: "Our determination is that there is currently no judicially recognized separate "technological arts" test to determine patent eligible subject matter under 101. We decline to create one. Therefore, it is apparent that the examiner's rejection can not be sustained."
Who's going to jump on the patent that eliminates the process for processing the elimination of patent requirements?
I really have no idea what this means. And since I can't install linux on it, I'm gonna go back to surfing pr0n.
I think I'll patent the making of the "I have a patent on stupid patents" jokes that appear below.
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
...how it was that wrestlers could have "patented moves."
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I guess now they actually can.
You can never go home again... but I guess you can shop there.
This is an idea I wish I had patented. Imagine patenting the concept of patents before there was such thing as patents. The royalties from the patent office alone would be enough to retire on.
...space time.
You ALL owe me bigtime.
If anyone was thinking about actually going to some of these headquarters and just punching the shit out of some of these people, I am here to highly encourage you!
"But that won't be the end of it: microphones in the toilet will be listening to make sure it doesn't sound like the tune to some Britney Spears song, while cameras examine the shape of the turds to see if they resemble a corporate logo. I can't wait to see which company owns the rights to each particular method for wiping your ass."
No, no, no... FTA:
"[the patented process must] 'produce a useful, concrete, tangible result' without being a 'law of nature, physical phenomenon or abstract idea.'"
My craps are rarely like concrete, and are often regarded by my wife to be physical phenomena. So not patentable on two accounts.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
Please, provide me with some more details about your patent idea and I will be glad to assist you.
My craps are rarely like concrete, and are often regarded by my wife to be physical phenomena. So not patentable on two accounts.
Well, mine often are like concrete and at the least are quite tangible. Not to mention the event more closely resemble a spiritual phenomena (including much speaking in tongues and biblical references).So that means that at least mine are patentable!
Gotta go. Prune juice just kicked in.
Essentially the ruling states that ANY process regardless of whether or not it's performed using a device or results IN a device.
IE, I can now patent my process for making hamburgers into meat balls.
Or to dial a phone.
Or the methodology behind replying to a slashdot post. (NOT the code for doing so, the *idea* behind a posting forum.)
In Soviet Russia patent technological arts requirement rejects YOU!
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Now class, please turn your books to the section on "Integral Calculus". This class has been liscensed and authorized by Megacorp - holders of patents on the power rule. Please note that any integrals referencing the trigonometric functions must also credit the proper patent holder. sin = George Smith, cos = Megacorp, tan = Umbrella Corp. For a list of all current patent holders on Mathematics please reference "How Freaking Retarded Can We Be (2010 Edition)". Always pay your liscense fees! No calculation without compensation. Or was that "No taxation without representation"?
But most peoples' time on the throne sounds a lot better than any song Britney ever "sang."
-paul
Pistol caliber is like religion: everyone has their favourite, and theirs is the only right choice.
1) I lack the training to be able to argue about this properly
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shall offer a customer an item/good/idea/etc
I'll see your patent on selling items, and raise you one patent on selling the license to use an item.
The business shall offer a customer a non-exclusive, terminatable, license to use a product in exchange for currency or promisary note. The product will remain the property of said business, and the customer agrees to return or destroy the product upon the demand of said business.
I hereby claim a method of losslessly compressing audio, to wit, I claim that:
...
1) audio exists,
2) it can be losslessly compressed,
3) there exists some algorithm to compress audio losslessly,
4)
5) profit.
Item 4 is redacted to protect valuable trade secrets under the DMCA and Patriot Act.