why wouldn't they be patentable?? I mean you're using a machine to transform something through a process. Thats to the letter what a process patent is. The recipe exclusion was carved out when common sense played a roll in patent eligibility. That was long ago and we now let patents fly without any realistic presumption of validity. I can't for the life of me understand why you could patent something like a vague concept (like how you setup your web site) and not an actual formula. I mean drugs are patentable .. why the hell not recopies? They pass all of the tests of transformation and usefulness. Supplements and powders really blur the line.. The implosion is eminent, at this point we should just push for more radical patent protections so we can get public opinion involved and then we just wait for the grandstanding to begin.
The reason patents have a 20 year life cycle is because that's how long it took to produce enough of a given product at the turn of the century to establish a market presence. Today top tech companies are like ten years old. The constitutional passage was written in a time before the industrial revolution let alone the digital one.
I mean the AK is the #1 weapon of the third world, is their respect for IP so overpowering that they would just spend more on the original because its the right thing to do?
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I mean the AK is the #1 weapon of the third world, is their respect for IP so overpowering that they would just spend more on the original because its the right thing to do?
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