[ClearCase_guy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2866406/posts

This thread from the other day honored a 100-year-old woman who honorably served her country as a radio operator long ago.

The stupid journalist quoted her as saying that she received Morris code.

[gorush]

He painted this. His friend James Fennimore Cooper was often sitting with him while he was painting.

[DuncanWaring]

Things being patented have to be “reduced to practice”. Otherwise, Gene Roddenbery could have patented the transporter.

Even if Morse did patent “the Web”, patents expire after 17 years.

[piytar]

This journalist must be illiterate. Seriously. 35 USC 101 defines what is patentable. Here it is:

Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.

Gee, new methods for doing things with computers would be processes. However, naked ideas and laws of nature are not patentable. Google it...

[Bobalu]

Software patents are just as stupid as Morse trying to patent the use of electromagnetism.