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“Privacy is a transaction cost”

One day in class, our instructor Brian mentioned a professor of his who claimed that “privacy is a transaction cost.” In other words, the only reason privacy exists in the first place is because it was too much trouble for anyone to bother monitoring everything they would otherwise want to. There’s no innate [...]

How much of an abstraction is patentable?

You’ll have to wait to find out.
In 1997 a couple guys including one named Bilski applied for a patent on a particular method of hedging financial risk. In May 2008 the US Federal Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Bilski’s claim for various reasons, including the partial rejection of a previous test of patentability that [...]

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