Matt Giuca <matt.giuca@gmail.com> writes:
To put it another way, if the idea can be quickly conveyed in a meeting with lawyers, then it *is an idea and not an invention* and should never have been patented. Patents are awarded for inventions, not ideas -- something the system seems to have forgotten.
That's very succinctly put, Matt. Consider it an idea I will copy :-) I hope you're saying this on the software patent discussion group Ben S. indicated earlier; this kind of thinking sounds like it would be very helpful there. -- \ “I was once walking through the forest alone and a tree fell | `\ right in front of me, and I didn't hear it.” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney