Judge Says Mathematical Algorithms Can’t Be Patented

Re:Judge Says Mathematical Algorithms Can’t Be Patented by lisper on Thursday March 28, 2013 @03:05PM (#5456971)

Thanks.

But this is still perplexing: Surely, Linux just uses IEEE754 floating point, which predates this patent by 15 years?

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Re:Judge Says Mathematical Algorithms Can’t Be Patented by pavanky on Thursday March 28, 2013 @05:35PM (#5457814)

You would be surprised by the sheer number of idiotic patents out in the wild.

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Re:Judge Says Mathematical Algorithms Can’t Be Patented by sthu11182 on Thursday March 28, 2013 @05:57PM (#5457940)

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