{"id":39121,"date":"2009-11-10T05:35:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T10:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091106\/1122416833.shtml"},"modified":"2009-11-10T05:35:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T10:35:36","slug":"bmw-trying-to-patent-technological-problem-solving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/39121","title":{"rendered":"BMW Trying To Patent Technological Problem Solving"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>. You can read the patent application for a Method for Systematically Identifying Technology-Based Solutions<\/a> if you’d like. It’s not quite<\/i> 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.<\/p>\n

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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}