On 2018-08-21 11:02, Wol's lists wrote:
A patent is protected by copyright because it is not a thing. It's the thing it describes that is protected by patent.
Obligatory "I am not a lawyer", but I took a class on intellectual property at university.
Patents and copyrights are different beasts, so one should be careful not to conflate them.
Patents are entirely concerned with inventions, that is novel, useful, and non-obvious solutions to specific problems that result either in an actual product or a practical process.
Copyrights, on the other hand, offer protection for the tangible expression of an idea in an original medium as well as non-transformative derivations into other media.
What is important here is patents can and do protect both things (products) and non-things (processes). However, copyrights only protect things (tangible expressions), not non-things (ideas).
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