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Topic: Bitcoins and DNA (Read 703 times)

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June 14, 2013, 02:07:17 AM
#4
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  Wink
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June 14, 2013, 01:24:32 AM
#3
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.
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June 13, 2013, 11:48:32 PM
#2
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.
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June 13, 2013, 11:39:30 PM
#1
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
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