http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl? ... 6&from=rss
It's a good thing that the patent office is no longer incompetent and granting patents on basic mathematics like... I don't know... maybe algorithms in software.Industry sources have told SpaceDaily that the patent is regarded as legal "trite", as basic physics has been rebranded as a "process", and that the patent wouldn't stand up to any significant level of court scrutiny and was only registered at the time as "the patent office was incompetent when it came to space matters".
