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0 pointsAlbertCory2y ago0 comments

As Ripley would say, nuking it from orbit is the only way to be sure.

Whatever rules you attempt to come up with, the lawyers will nitpick them to death and find some way to keep junk patents alive. For years, everyone in the legal profession looked forward to the CLS Bank v. Alice case at the Supreme Court as the Final Word on software patents. That was 2014.

My article:

https://albertcory50.substack.com/p/lets-vote-on-it

lists some of the patents that have been upheld since CLS Bank.

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pclmulqdq2y ago

Very interesting blog. I might be n = 1 as a software engineer who occasionally reads patents to learn how they work, but I also have some experience with the patent system and can read "patentese" better than most. They often leak more details than their papers.

I think a key point here is that Alice is clear as dirt on its intentions. SCOTUS could have come up with a much cleaner test but didn't, and has had the option to clarify their thinking several times since then but has never taken it. I guess patents aren't "sexy" enough.

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