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Canada Courts, Patent Office Warns Against Trying To Patent Mathematics

Posted by samzenpus on from the free-numbers dept.

davecb writes "The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) has recently published two notices for patent examiners relating to patent interpretation, and in particular computer-related/business method type patents saying: 'for example, what appears on its face to be a claim for an "art" or a "process" may, on a proper construction, be a claim for a mathematical formula and therefore not patentable subject matter.'"

3 of 215 comments (clear)

  1. Re:You can't patent math by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    You have to add "with an iphone" to the end, otherwise you could do that with paper and pen and that's not patentable.

  2. Re:Matter of time by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ah, the good ol' Slashdot obligatory xkcd

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  3. Re:Uh Oh by Nbrevu · · Score: 3, Funny

    Of course! This is because of prior art. Your so-called 'x' is nothing but a 45 rotation of MY patented '+' symbol for addition.