USPTO calling data "tangible" result
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| I want to see how data processing is producing tangible result. Mere
| processing a data produces new data. And data is not tangible.
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http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-41760/uspto-calling-data-tangible-result
Also of intrest:
dcacm.org: Past Events
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| Dr. Moglen states that free software is a fundamental requirement for a
| democratic and free society which is surrounded by and dependent upon
| technical devices. He asserts that only if the software controlling these
| devices is open to all can we balance power equally.
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| His talk was about software patents: the danger that they present to a free
| society, to the free flow of information, and to future innovation.
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http://dcacm.org/announce.html
The system was corrupted.
Related:
Amazon Sneaks One-Click Past the Patent System
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| By changing the word 'a' to 'the' and adding the phrase 'purchasable through
| a shopping cart model,' lawyers for Amazon.com have apparently managed to
| reinstate two of CEO Jeff Bezos' 1-Click Patent claims that were rejected a
| month earlier.
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/22/1756237&from=rss
Patent Reformers O'Reilly, Bezos Mum on 1-Click
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| Equally untalkative was Bezos, who deflected questions on the damage done by
| Calveley's DIY legal effort, telling a Wall Street analyst to 'refer to our
| public filings' (although nothing on the subject appears in the 8-K and 10-Q
| filings).
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/27/1144222&from=rss
USPTO Increases Scope Of Amazon's 1-Click Patent
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| It apparently found its way into the hands of a sympathetic (and impatient)
| USPTO Examiner who had earlier defended his friends for approving 1-Click
| in the first place and referred 1-Click naysayers to a letter to the WSJ
| penned by the ex-Commissioner for Patents.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070605/104036.shtml
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