{"id":238,"date":"2007-10-10T07:22:33","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T05:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=238"},"modified":"2007-10-10T07:22:33","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T05:22:33","slug":"ibm-can-one-patent-offshoring-of-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/ibm-can-one-patent-offshoring-of-work\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM: Can one patent offshoring of work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"id\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/images.slashdot.org\/topics\/topicibm.gif\" align=\"left\" \/> Well, IBM in the US think so. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=07\/09\/29\/1734209&amp;from=rss\">Slashdot<\/a> I found this article.&#xA0; As far as I know to patent something it need to be original work and no prior art should exist.&#xA0; Surely IBM was not the first to come up with this concept, whether it be offshoring the work to India and any other country for that matter. <\/p>\n<p>I quote from the <a href=\"http:\/\/appft1.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;d=PG01&amp;p=1&amp;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&amp;r=1&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;s1=%2220070162321%22.PGNR.&amp;OS=DN\/20070162321&amp;RS=DN\/20070162321\">patent<\/a> application:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A method for identifying human-resource work content to outsource offshore of an organization. The method is provided on a computer readable medium and includes the steps of identifying at least one task being performed by an organization; associating each identified task with a functional group within a plurality of functional groups related to the organization; determining information about individual human resources spent on each task; determining task information about human resources spent on the plurality of tasks, the task information based on the determined information about individual human resources spent on each task; using the determined task information to determine a value of each task; and outsourcing tasks having a value lower than a predefined limit to at least one of offshore and to a low cost supplier.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#xA0;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:7f4163ea-b549-4345-955b-cf5671d6132e\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati Tags:  \t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/ibm\/\" rel=\"tag\">ibm<\/a> \t\t,  \t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/patent\/\" rel=\"tag\">patent<\/a> \t\t,  \t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/offshoring\/\" rel=\"tag\">offshoring<\/a> \t\t,  \t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/outsourcing\/\" rel=\"tag\">outsourcing<\/a> \t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, IBM in the US think so. Via Slashdot I found this article.&#xA0; As far as I know to patent something it need to be original work and no prior art should exist.&#xA0; Surely IBM was not the first to <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/ibm-can-one-patent-offshoring-of-work\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  IBM: Can one patent offshoring of work?<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ibm","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}