Patent That Thought!

Tech companies, including Zynga, ask the courts to reject the notion that abstract ideas can be patented.

5 months 2 weeks ago

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Just because you take an abstract idea and say you do it “on a computer” or “over the Internet” doesn’t mean you deserve a patent, according to an amicus...

Via Tech Crunch

editor's comment

They say there's no such thing as an original idea. I don't think that's true, but I do think that in the tech world a novel idea is only as valuable as the plan of execution and the creative thinking that brings the idea to fruition. I understand the argument that patenting abstract ideas leads not only to oodles of lawsuits, but also stifles creativity and brilliant problem-solving.