Erik was the first of a bunch of you to send in the story about how BMW is supposedly applying for a patent on a method using technology to solve problems. You can read the patent application for a Method for Systematically Identifying Technology-Based Solutions if you’d like. It’s not quite as broad as the claim on Autoblog that it’s a patent application on “technological creative thinking,” but it is ridiculously broad. Read through the actual claims, and it’s difficult to see how this deserves a patent at all. There shouldn’t be a monopoly on a method for how you solve problems.
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