Re: [Hampshire] Online Petitions at Downing St

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:42:51 +0000
Sean Gibbins <sean@???> wrote:

> Patents are supposed to increase the rate of innovation by
> publicising how inventions work. Reading a software patent gives no
> useful information for creating or improving software. All patents
> are writen in a sufficiently cryptic language to prevent them from
> being of any use. Once decoded, the patents turn out to be for
> something so obvious that programmers find them laughable.

I think I read somewhere that it was originally intended that a
competent person should be able to re-create the 'invention' from the
details given in the patent document.

If written in the cryptic way described, this should then mean the
patent is invalid.

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John Lewis
Debian Linux with Geneweb genealogy application