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Title: Bitcoins and DNA Post by: Fizpok on June 14, 2013, 04:39:30 AM First of all, I am just kidding, don't shoot...
Here: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-398_8njq.pdf Human DNA cannot be patented, but sequences that it does not contain are patentable. Now, we have the most powerfull computation network, and we can produce Google (100^100) patents, claiming rights to entire field of human genetics. Can we do merged computations? As a nice side effect, the patent registration system will be efficiently DDos'ed :) Title: Re: Bitcoins and DNA Post by: AliceWonder on June 14, 2013, 04:48:32 AM This gives me an interesting dilemna.
I'm generally in favor of hardware patents but opposed to software patents. DNA patents would be for a physical product but DNA also is software code. Title: Re: Bitcoins and DNA Post by: Fizpok on June 14, 2013, 06:24:32 AM As it just occured to me, I can patent a pattern, or a range of patterns, perhaps. Say, range of 51-characters patterns starting with 5...
And that will be the end of Bitcoin. Title: Re: Bitcoins and DNA Post by: threeip on June 14, 2013, 07:07:17 AM As it just occured to me, I can patent a pattern, or a range of patterns, perhaps. Say, range of 51-characters patterns starting with 5... And that will be the end of Bitcoin. Like anyone on the internet has never stolen something before ;) |