Since we have some patent people on here, does anyone have any great resources (that aren't the usual google search spam) to show you examples and how to go about filing your patent without having to dish out big bucks for a patent lawyer and someone to help you write it?
I'm sure glad this one got filed before the door closed on protected innovation forever: <a href="http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=T2QKAAAAEBAJ&dq=Patent+6368227" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=T2QKAAAAEBAJ&dq=P...</a>
"If the court sides with these patent applicants it would open the door for all sorts of “processes.”"<p>Patents are already granted for software and if software is not the description of processes, I don't know what it is. So why say it "would open the door"?...
This is Bilski <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_re_Bilski" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_re_Bilski</a><p><a href="http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2009/06/bilski.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2009/06/bilski.html</a>