> What's wrong with wanting to sell a better gizmo?
> If I went to the hassle of writing a complex piece of
> software to do image enhancements enough to read a barcode
> on a cruddy 18x18 64 level grayscale mouse image, I'd think the
> right to sell it would be with the programmer who did all the work,
> not with some company that says it was their idea.

But that company probably has lots of programmers working for them who have 
likely already developed the core algorithm and software.  I don't think 
they could file the patent unless they had some description of the algorithm 
they were going to use.  Otherwise, like you say, it would be like Logitech 
saying they were going to patent using a webcam to do face recognition.

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