On 12 May 2002 at 22:16, Xavi Drudis Ferran wrote:
On hardware, it depends. The criteria is if the invention
uncovers new insight
on nature, physical forces, properties of matter... then it may
be ok.
No - this is science. Laws of nature are not patentable, e.g. Newton could not patent gravity.
Sorry, I didn't express myself right.
I meant to patent new processes or devices created by discovery of new laws of nature, or at least by experimentation of its application to areas where they hadn't been tested. I didn't mean to patent the law of nature, just the process or device that uses it.
And even so, I'm not arguing for any kind of patent. I think they _may_ be useful in those cases. If practitioners think they aren't, then they aren't.