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contribution to rebutting Arlene McCarthy's software patent "factsheet"

contribution to rebutting Arlene McCarthy's software patent "factsheet"

Posted Sep 8, 2003 17:54 UTC (Mon) by mly (guest, #2171)
In reply to: contribution to rebutting Arlene McCarthy's software patent "factsheet" by eru
Parent article: Arlene McCarthy's software patent "factsheet"

Oh no. As long as it solves a "technical problem", it is
basically patentable. The solution doesn't need to be
technical. BTW, there is no definition of "technical" in
the directive, but maybe that's just a legal technicality? ;)


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