Re: [Patents] CPTech submission to PCT reform working group

[Gregory Aharonian <srctran@world.std.com>]

> An internet protocol is authored, not invented. People write code, they
> don't invent it.

That's silly reasoning.  Look at some dictionary definitions of "invent":

    - to devise by thinking

Well, Internet protocols are devised by thinking (though maybe your
protocols are devised without any thinking).

    - to produce (as something useful) for the first time through
      the use of the imagination or of ingenious thinking and
      experiment.

Well, Internet protocols are produced/written (as something useful) for
the first time (version 1.0 of protocol drafts implies first) through
the use of the imagination or of ingenious thinking (about protocols)
and experiment (using a technical protocol engineering design tool).

Other dictionaries have similar definitions.  Internet protocols are
invented.

Greg Aharonian