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Neil Williams wrote: | | I'm searching for a form of words that confines an invention to a specific set | of groups. If a program is to be patented on Windows, I believe that the | implementation of a compatible or equivalent program on a different | architecture, operating system, platform or subsystem cannot infringe the | patent because the process of creating a ported program to an unsupported | architecture itself involves a new inventive step. In essence:
Nope patents cover ideas, if there were some genuine creative invention worthy of patenting, then it would be worthy of patenting on all implementations using the same innovation.
| What I want to avoid is a patent on a program written in VB or C# on WinXP | being used to pursue developers of a program written in Python, C or Lua on | GNU.
| This cross-platform, cross-language stuff is ridiculous and completely | contrary to how software is developed.
Which is precisely why patents are a bad idea in software, but I don't think trying to find a "more acceptable" patent is the right approach.
| The other feature of this is that it requires the software to be READY (or at | least written) when the patent is filed
I think patents need a working implementation, that was certainly the case when are issued for machinery.
It may not be the case for "business processes", but then I fail to see how patenting a business process, assists the greater good, and thus why the creator should be rewarded. Surely if it is that good an idea he aleady made his fortune using it in business.
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