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Re:A patent lawsuit against GNOME by alexanderdmitri on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @07:32PM (#21076717)
> If they describe a bulb full of dichloromethane with a tube leading up to a beak, then it's not patentable.

That seems pretty specific ... what would be an analogous software scenario?

Re:A patent lawsuit against GNOME by CobrastanJorji on Thursday September 26, 2019 @01:15PM (#21083082)
Problem: customers find ordering things online to be cumbersome and time consuming. We need a for repeat customers to place orders as simply as possible.

Programmers/UX designers brainstorming session includes several ideas, including this one: What if we remembered customer addresses and credit card info and just had a single button that said "buy"?

Patent denied.