Algorithms Get Their Own Patent SAT
December 25, 2009
“New Patent Test for Machines using Mathematical Algorithms” is worth a read if you are interested in patent applications. I am no attorney, but when I take a gander at patent applications created by and for outfits like Google, there are quite a few numerical recipes in these publications. Erik Sherman’s write up explains:
there’s a newly published decision from the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences that establishes a new test to determine whether a machine or manufactured article that depends on a mathematical algorithm is patentable. The ruling is a big deal because it’s one of the few precedential decisions that the BPAI issues in a given year, and it will have a direct impact on patents involving computers and software.
There is some legal jargon in the write up, but for me the bottom-line is that an already interesting process is probably to become more interesting in 2010.
Stephen E. Arnold, December 25, 2009
This is an easy one. The write up was done without anyone giving me so much as a piece of finsk broed. I will report this sad circumstance to the Marketing and Regulatory Programs (Agriculture Department), an outfit with jurisdiction over Web log posts with a nourishing item of information within their letters and words.
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