{"id":73,"date":"2006-01-29T19:22:29","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T01:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/?p=73"},"modified":"2006-01-29T19:22:29","modified_gmt":"2006-01-30T01:22:29","slug":"eff-supreme-court-tackles-dangerous-patent-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"EFF: Supreme Court Tackles Dangerous Patent Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/news\/archives\/2006_01.php#004346\">Supreme Court Tackles Dangerous Patent Ruling<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With computers it should be considered more like a &#8216;trade secret&#8217; than a pattent.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With any food there are only so many ways to prepare it.<\/p>\n<p>Take for instance hamburgers.  You can can boil, microwave, fry, or flame broil it.  That&#8217;s about it, and that&#8217;s what these companies are patenting.<\/p>\n<p>There are only so many ways you can program a computer to read a byte from a disk.  This is exactly what&#8217;s going on.  How you prepare, and store the meat after that in a resturaunt after that it&#8217;s a trade secret.  I don&#8217;t think you can pattent the process.<\/p>\n<p>If a company came along and said they invented auctions, pattented it then all companies wanting to hold an auction would then have to liscence the rights to auction.<\/p>\n<p>Auctioning has been around for years, and the concept wether actual or virtual shouldn&#8217;t even be considered in the pattent process, as well as posting an a bulliten board\/forum, voting just about anything.<\/p>\n<p>You would laugh if you heard of a company pattenting the concept of you standing in a check out line, or picking up a phone, but these are the exact things that are being pattented in the digital world.<\/p>\n<p>Just to name 1 off the top of my head is M$&#8217;s &#8220;double click&#8221; pattent which is just as normal an action as you opening a door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court Tackles Dangerous Patent Ruling With computers it should be considered more like a &#8216;trade secret&#8217; than a pattent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-things-that-get-me-mad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.the-erm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}