Patent US5443036 – Method of exercising a cat

Re:Patent US5443036 – Method of exercising a cat by WildUtah on Friday October 23, 2015 @09:21AM (#10438366)

That doesn't stop software patents on literally millions of long established practices.

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Re:Patent US5443036 – Method of exercising a cat by TeMPOraL on Friday October 23, 2015 @09:33AM (#10438409)

Can we get a patent on prior art itself?

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Re:Patent US5443036 – Method of exercising a cat by chris_wot on Friday October 23, 2015 @10:20AM (#10438690)

Only if there is no prior art.

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Re:Patent US5443036 – Method of exercising a cat by TeMPOraL on Friday October 23, 2015 @10:21AM (#10438701)

So it's prior art all the way down?

Also, does the patent on all prior art cover itself?

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Re:Patent US5443036 – Method of exercising a cat by chris_wot on Friday October 23, 2015 @01:15PM (#10439929)

IANAL, but I doubt you can patent recursion either.

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Re:Patent US5443036 – Method of exercising a cat by TeMPOraL on Friday October 23, 2015 @01:30PM (#10440015)

"A method for defining an computational operation, performed by a computer system or a mechanical equivalent of thereof, in terms of the same computational operation performed by the identical system. Such computational operation is defined in such a way it consists of two separate computational suboperations - one and only one of them is defined completely in terms of the composed computational operation itself."

Sounds like it could fly with USPTO.

(And if it doesn't, you can try and confuse people by patenting Y combinator.)

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