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Breadth, or exception?Breadth, or exception?Posted Mar 24, 2006 1:14 UTC (Fri) by kirkengaard (subscriber, #15022)In reply to: up2date yes, apt-get no by allesfresser Parent article: Apple patents automatic software updates
"It will be appreciated by those of ordinary skill in the art that the present invention can be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics thereof."
I would read that more comfortably; patents cover the form, not the idea. "Practitioners will notice that you can implement this idea in other forms."
Or I'd *like* to, but for the "... without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics thereof." It's the "essential characteristics" language that hurts my brain. How much fudge factor is that when you say "Other forms possible", but say "... that will have the same characteristics." :(
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