Comment on TiVo successfully defends patent for "time-warp" DVRComments−nitrogen15yHerein lies the big problem with software patents: patents are supposed to cover inventions, but with software they cover ideas. A completely different implementation in code could still infringe a sufficiently vague software patent.
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Herein lies the big problem with software patents: patents are supposed to cover inventions, but with software they cover ideas. A completely different implementation in code could still infringe a sufficiently vague software patent.