Fresh 'PSP phone' patent surfaces
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| Sony has long denied rumours that it's working on a PlayStation Portable
| (PSP) phone, but the company has lots of explaining to do now that a new Sony
| Ericsson patent application has come to light detailing just such a device.
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/03/07/psp_sony_ericsson_patent/
Bilski: Much Ado About (almost) Nothing
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| Since then, both the patent law community (see, e.g., here, here and here)
| and the mainstream media (e.g., here and here) have been all atwitter about
| the possibility of a major shift in patent law and the possible end of
| business method or software patents (or both). While the excitement is
| understandable, in this case I think it’s misplaced.
|
| [...]
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| Using that distinction, even if the Federal Circuit (contrary to statute)
| completely eliminates protection for process patents, clever attorneys can
| still get their “business method” patents past the 101 hurdle by casting them
| in the form of machines that manipulate data. Indeed, even Amazon’s
| notorious “1-Click” patent includes claims directed to machines, rather than
| being limited to process claims.
|
| [Comment from zoobab:]
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| Data processing with a pen and paper is not patentable.
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| Why do you argue that Data processing with a calculator is patentable?
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http://www.patentbaristas.com/archives/2008/03/06/bilski-much-ado-about-almost-nothing/
Somebody. Somewhere. Please. Shut down the USPTO already.
There's already a patent for "JPEG on a Web page" and the smiley. What on
earth...?
Related:
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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