POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.off-topic: US Patent System, now with 20% less stupidity: Re: US Patent System, now with 20% less stupidity

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From: Darren New
Date: 14 Jul 2009 02:14:35
Message: <4a5c224b$1@news.povray.org>

Chambers wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> Apparently, now US patents either have to be about how to build 
>> something ("transforming one thing into another") or about a specific 
>> machine (excluding that which you can build on a general purpose 
>> computer).
> 
> So, does this rule out software patents?

Define "software patent".  I would think so, yes.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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    back to version 1.0."
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