I think you mean there are certain process/pieces of code which should not be patentable.. Actual Software..If your the guys that created “HALO” I think you should be the only folks to own the rights to market it.
This case I think is about someone grabbing a bit of code and or process developed by someone else and sticking it in their Software... Thats tougher it get;s dodgey. We would not accept Plagarisim in a book.. so why accept it in code?.. But then again code is sort of like building a house.. using 2X4s there are only so many ways to do frame it it...and I know of no one who claims Patent Right of the Framing of a House.. (I wonder if some one did long ago?)
Respectfully Confused on the issue lol
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No problem with that.
It's when people are allowed to patent algorithms that the excitement begins.
If you're going to allow algorithms to be patented, then why not mathematics.
The first guy with a patent gets to collect a royalty for anybody who uses the Pythagorean Theorem!