Comments on: Google patents computing in a trailer http://insidehpc.com/2007/10/10/google-patents-computing-in-a-trailer/ HPC News Without the Noise for Supercomputing Professionals | insideHPC Sun, 19 May 2013 10:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: hypo http://insidehpc.com/2007/10/10/google-patents-computing-in-a-trailer/#comment-13514 hypo Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:29:30 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/2007/10/10/google-patents-computing-in-a-trailer/#comment-13514 Perhaps one day the Supreme Court will take a case and strike down a ruling for the plaintiff suing a defendant under a patent infringement lawsuit with the explanation that you cannot patent an obvious solution to a problem that can reasonably be solved with basic common sense. Maybe they already have. What is so special about prefabricating a data center in a shipping container or other mobile container? Save patent protection for something that really required some original thinking. If Google did some original engineering work on packaging, cooling or maybe a special shockproof transportation method, now that would justify a patent. Perhaps one day the Supreme Court will take a case and strike down a ruling for the plaintiff suing a defendant under a patent infringement lawsuit with the explanation that you cannot patent an obvious solution to a problem that can reasonably be solved with basic common sense.

Maybe they already have.

What is so special about prefabricating a data center in a shipping container or other mobile container?

Save patent protection for something that really required some original thinking.

If Google did some original engineering work on packaging, cooling or maybe a special shockproof transportation method, now that would justify a patent.

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