No they didn't forget anything. Location based search isn't innovative. Pick up your 'local' yellow pages look up anything you want. Thats a location based search. Just putting something on the web doesn't make it an innovation. Otherwise a simple act of ringing up a transaction online would have been patentable. Email would have been patentable etc.
Also keep in mind some pacemakers have 'receivers' to transfer data and even firmware back and forth. So you cant completely shield them off. One of the folks I know used to joke about upgrading her grandfather.
I would love to see all software patents thrown out. When i first looked into patent law in 1981 you couldn't patent software because it was considered math.
In the end software is the simple turning on and off of switches. There are only so many ways you can achieve the same goal. If you wanted to create the proverbial "Hello World" program on say the PC hardware palatform, and have the code execute and produce exactly the same results, you can candy coat it however you want, you can use whatever high level language you want, but in the end the underlying functionality will be the same. You are telling the computer what address to flip from 1 to 0.
Software should never have been patentable. Source code copyrightable, sure, but never patentable.
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I would love to see all software patents thrown out. When i first looked into patent law in 1981 you couldn't patent software because it was considered math.
In the end software is the simple turning on and off of switches. There are only so many ways you can achieve the same goal. If you wanted to create the proverbial "Hello World" program on say the PC hardware palatform, and have the code execute and produce exactly the same results, you can candy coat it however you want, you can use whatever high level language you want, but in the end the underlying functionality will be the same. You are telling the computer what address to flip from 1 to 0.
Software should never have been patentable. Source code copyrightable, sure, but never patentable.
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