[Patents] industrial application and swpat (fwd)

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

Paul Edward Geller wrote:
> 
> Actually, my "etc." included theoretical physics, etc.  Here the problem
> arises: How to distinguish these abstract structures from "inventions"?
> The criterion in question -- "industriality" or "utility" -- provides some
> clues, but we have seen that it gets hard to apply in hard cases.  All I
> meant to say that it cannot be clarified by looking in dictionaries.  We
> have to look to the purpose(s) of the criterion itself. -- Cordially, Paul


The idea of whether software patents make sense, is being
addressed.

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