CI License question

[eluser]Vheissu[/eluser]
Courtesy of the internet:

"Patents are basically copyrights for inventions, defined by U.S. patent law as "any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof." Unlike copyrights, patents protect the idea or design of the invention, rather than the tangible form of the invention itself. Consequently, patenting something is a much trickier procedure than copyrighting something."

"Patents are the most complicated type of intellectual property, as well as the most restrictive. To patent an invention, you have to meet a number of requirements. First of all, the invention must be sufficiently novel. That is, it must be substantially unlike anything that is already patented, has already been on the market or has been written about in a publication. In fact, you can't even patent your own invention if it has been on the market or discussed in publications for more than a year."

So are you telling us that your client has an idea so unique built on top of Codeigniter that nobody else has ever thought of or created (in any form) that it can be patentable? Perhaps if not a patent, then you could still copyright the idea / code: http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cach...Tdgz90HK0w