{"id":529,"date":"2012-09-11T09:23:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T08:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/Blog\/?p=529"},"modified":"2012-09-11T09:23:05","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T08:23:05","slug":"the-new-robot-patent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/the-new-robot-patent\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Robot Patent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just like the old Robot Patent<\/a> (by Emperor Joseph II<\/a>) this is of course all about rent-seeking.<\/i><\/p>\n

As we’ve noted in The Moby Dick Support Device<\/a>, some egregiously stupid patent-officers started accepting patents based on the un-reasoning that a computer running a program makes it a different computer, just as a bookshelf which is used to store copies of Moby Dick is an entirely different thing than an ordinary bookshelf. <\/p>\n

Now comes the second chapter, enter the robot. Yes, they’re not doing much right now, but watch the flurry of all-new bogus patents rolling in as soon as they will get more useful. Everyone and their lawyers will start patenting everyday actions, coupled with the phrase “with a robot”. <\/p>\n

saulgoode writes at Techdirt<\/a>: <\/p>\n

\nIf the bobble heads at the Patent Office continue on the path they are currently following then we can certainly expect a rush of patents on all kinds of human activity with the caveat of it being done “with a robot” — e.g., dig a hole with a robot, change a tire with a robot, build a swing set with a robot — just as “with a computer” seems to justify patents being issued on things such as getting feedback from a buyer or scrolling through a document.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ah, Arkham Asylum<\/del> Patent Offices, home of the criminally insane. How could one ever, with this concise list of non-patentable matters: EPC, Art. 52<\/a>, come to such a ridiculous interpretation? (Same in the USA, see The Moby Dick Support Device<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just like the old Robot Patent (by Emperor Joseph II) this is of course all about rent-seeking. As we’ve noted in The Moby Dick Support Device, some egregiously stupid patent-officers started accepting patents based on the un-reasoning that a computer running a program makes it a different computer, just as a bookshelf which is used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,88,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-patents-politics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}