{"id":125,"date":"2008-05-13T06:08:36","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T14:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2009-07-11T04:15:14","modified_gmt":"2009-07-11T04:15:14","slug":"attempt-to-patent-a-mental-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/attempt-to-patent-a-mental-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Attempt to patent a mental process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David A. Wheeler says, &#8220;The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, DC just heard arguments in the Bilski case, where the appellant (Bilski) is arguing that a completely mental process should get a patent. The fact that this was even entertained demonstrates why the patent system has truly descended into new levels of madness. At least the PTO rejected the application.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wheeler goes on to explain why [patents on information is lunacy](http:\/\/www.dwheeler.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/09#bilski-information-is-physical)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David A. Wheeler says, &#8220;The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, DC just heard arguments in the Bilski case, where the appellant (Bilski) is arguing that a completely mental process should get a patent. The fact that this was even entertained demonstrates why the patent system has truly descended into new &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/attempt-to-patent-a-mental-process\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Attempt to patent a mental process&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaredrobinson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}