From baldauf@medium.net Sat, 30 Oct 1999 00:29:39 +0200
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 00:29:39 +0200
From: Xuan Baldauf baldauf@medium.net
Subject: [Patents] Re: [Patents] wide realm of future patentability


PILCH Hartmut wrote:

> A current tendency of the patent system is to formulate the principles
> that
>
> - anything "technical", e.g. anything that makes use of
>   natural laws to perform a certain function, is patentable
> - a Turing machine is a device that makes use of natural laws

[snap]

AFAIK a turing machine is a kind of virtual computer. Virtual computer
processing (like processing a turing machine) can be done without any
knowledge of natural law, only simple math is needed. (e.g. you could
simulate
a turing machine using a sheed of paper and a pen) Patent guidelines
currently
say that math (including mathematical proof) is not patentable. So any
given
turing machine cannot be patentable.

=3D> every process of executing a computer program is not patentable

Please tell me that (and where) I am wrong.

cu,
Xu=E2n Baldauf.




