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Working Around Patents with Evolutionary Design
An anonymous reader writes "Using computational trial-and-error allowed a Stanford team to come up with a patent-free WiFi antenna. Patent rules are tricky to formulate as self-interest dictates that the claim is as general as possible. Patent fences effectively can build a substantive competitive barrier to markets. Using evolutionary tactics may be a way to legally and ethically bypass these roadblocks."
and then you patent the resulting design.
Intelligent design loses out yet again.
If X is the new Y, and Y is "X is the new Y", solve for X.
divine intervention.
In that case, I will create a patent circumvention method patent circumvention method and place it in the public domain.
Just means the orginal patent they were trying to circumvent wasnt drawn up properly.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
this is nonsense. In the theory of evolution data is mostly lost and note gained so function is lost and not gained. The only time data is added is with some sort of fluke mutation in which case the mutation alone will not help and so will be cast aside (according to evolution). This is known as irreducibly complex and is one of the biggest arguments from many scientists against evolution or at least against the standard theory of evolution. The evolution that happens here is closely monitored and designed around certain criteria in order to reach a certain goal. The person who wrote the article is obviously expressing his own views and not those of a an unbiased journalist when he says at the end that this clearly proves darwin right once again. Indeed I doubt leading evolutionist scientists would care to relate these two barely related forms of evolution.
You could say that Cisco... patented themselves into a corner this time.