Now that Oracle has "taken off the gloves", we can all have another good laugh at what the US Patent and Trademark Office thinks are "new and novel" uses worthy of patent protection.
You can find a version of the complaint here.
Anyone with even a rudimentary education in Computer Science can see that these "patents" are really not specific-enough to be granted. Based on this, anyone who "gets there first" can patent such industry-stopping concepts as: data compression, use of fork() to make copy a process, etc. I'm no genius, but isn't that what fork() was designed to do?
Good thing no one thought to patent these gems:
- Method and System for Logarithmically Partitioning and Ordering Data aka Quick Sort or Heap Sort,
- Method and System for Constant-time Data Storage and Access aka Hash Table.
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