[Patents] mental acts x software

[antonio abrantes antonio_abrantes@hotmail.com]

Steve probert wrote: >>> On the other hand, IBM homophone checker looks at 
words two sea weather they arespelt correctly. Most of you reading this 
reply just did that when you read mylast sentence. ... such an invention 
would probably be excluded from patentability as a method for performing a 
mental act<<<

This theory about mental acts was rejected in US courts. Following your 
reasoning the compress algorithms could (in theory) also be reproduced by 
mental acts, the difference beteween the two methods is that the compress 
algorithms are more complex, and can only be implemented by computers. So, 
according your argument: easy mental acts can not be patented and difficult 
mental acts can be patented, write?

Abrantes
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