Comment on Why can't Facebook sue Google when most of UI ideas in G+ seems to be copied?Comments−ig115yYou can't own ideas, only implementations of ideas.−dstein15ySure you can, every software patent grants ownership of an idea regardless of whether it is implemented, or even an invention.−petegrif15yNo - it has to be an invention. In other words, whether someone chooses to implement it or not the description section of the patent has to describe the invention in such detail that it can be implemented by someone with ordinary skill in the art.
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You can't own ideas, only implementations of ideas.
Sure you can, every software patent grants ownership of an idea regardless of whether it is implemented, or even an invention.
No - it has to be an invention. In other words, whether someone chooses to implement it or not the description section of the patent has to describe the invention in such detail that it can be implemented by someone with ordinary skill in the art.