No patent if invention lies only in computer program, says Indian Patent Office

Re:No patent if invention lies only in computer program, say... by raverbashing on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @04:27AM (#11165535)

> I spent most of my career as an engineer working on R&D for software that would likely sit in a baseband in a production implementation. We spent millions of dollars building it, and nothing comparable is publicly available. The secret sauce in a baseband is definitely the sort of thing that's in short supply.

A lot of those millions of dollars are because you have crappy processes, crappy tools ("rational" ones for example), base-level engineers (with some exception) and stupid management

I bet most of your "secret sauce" is mostly application of Computer Science 101/201

I know, those softwares are complicated. But I'm not feeling sorry for most big companies who like to justify cost with their own crap dragging them down

(And yeah, I know, telecom protocols are awful)

That's why Android and Apple wiped traditional phone companies

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Re:No patent if invention lies only in computer program, say... by f00fc0d3 on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @05:03AM (#11165646)

You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. I am doing baseband SW in tier1 vendor, and we have no processes, crappy tools (maybe you consider git and clang a crappy tool?) and don't give a flying f##k about management.

...and this is funny that you consider advanced signal processing, numerical analysis, SoC architecture, discrete optimization a CS 101 - what a joke.

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Re:No patent if invention lies only in computer program, say... by raverbashing on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @05:43AM (#11165781)

> maybe you consider git and clang a crappy tool?

No I don't, and good for you that doesn't work with bozos that like ClearCrap, oops, ClearCase. Apparently they evolved

> that you consider advanced signal processing

No, I don't consider that simple, but sometimes the frontend signal processing is split (DSP stays in one part and higher level processing in another part)

> numerical analysis, SoC architecture, discrete optimization

Well, SoC architecture is hardware, no?

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Re:No patent if invention lies only in computer program, say... by mangamadaiyan on Thursday February 25, 2016 @12:47AM (#11172615)

Why the downvotes?

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Re:No patent if invention lies only in computer program, say... by icebraining on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @07:12AM (#11166122)

Google and Apple don't write their own baseband software.

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Re:No patent if invention lies only in computer program, say... by raverbashing on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @08:31AM (#11166517)

Yes, and companies that have worked in that area have left the mobile phone marked (Qualcomm and Philips for example)

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Re:No patent if invention lies only in computer program, say... by icebraining on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @08:50AM (#11166662)

I don't understand what you mean.

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