Patents are about sharing information – don't shroud them in secrecy

Re:Patents are about sharing information – don't shroud them... by excessive on Saturday October 26, 2019 @10:14PM (#21367494)

Thank you for your reply, it does actually change how I see the prior art thing played out.

> Often, folks think that they've found prior art if they find one thing in one document and another thing elsewhere. Nope.

Still, I think there must be something profoundly broken if you find the exact math in an old book, and the new patent basically says, "do that math on a computer".

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Re:Patents are about sharing information – don't shroud them... by analog31 on Saturday October 26, 2019 @11:22PM (#21367709)

I'd be inclined to agree with you. In fact, as I understand it there are new rules that specifically address so called "with a computer" patents. You weren't supposed to be able to patent a math formula, so instead, people would patent a machine that carries out a math formula.

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