[Patents] industrial application and swpat (fwd)

[seth.johnson@RealMeasures.dyndns.org (Seth Johnson)]

Paul Edward Geller wrote:
> 
> The gut issue rather seems to me: What kind of
> mathematics, alogorithms, etc., must remain in the
> public domain to avoid blocking innovation?


Ummm,

This is really what's being addressed -- but as confronting
the very presupposition of the pro-software patent lobby
that laying claim, in the form of patents, to math and logic
-- *ideal* and *universal* domains that are *intrinsically*
the common wealth, gift and capacity of all of humanity --
makes some reasonable kind of sense.

When you ask,

> What inventive processes should get patent
> protection, against all subsequently developed and
> equivalent processes, to stimulate innovation?


-- you are putting out that presupposition in the way you
present patent protection as a presumption carried in the
goal of stimulating innovation.

Seth Johnson