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- From: PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>
- To: Gregory Aharonian <srctran@world.std.com>
- Cc: <patents@aful.org>, John Tobey <jtobey@john-edwin-tobey.org>
- Subject: Re: [Patents] Hardware N Software
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 05:40:06 +0100 (CET)
> The important invention for a new computing process is what is
> critical to be disclosed in a patent application and claimed.
> That it is implemented in hardware or software is both irrelevant
> to patent law, and increasingly an arbitrary choice made by a
> hardware/software codesign tool.
which shows that in these cases there is no invention.
> To allow the patentability of the hardware but not the software is a
> distinction with no basis in mathematics or logic. Hardware and
> software are economic choices to be made in producing and
> manufacturing a new device.
Indeed. There is no invention in the hardware if its use is only an
economic choice.
--
Hartmut Pilch http://phm.ffii.org/
Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation http://swpat.ffii.org/
100,000 signatures against software patents http://www.noepatents.org/
- Re: [Patents] Hardware N Software, (continued)
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