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It's about software

Posted May 10, 2012 8:08 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544)
In reply to: Does no one see the implications for patents? by drag
Parent article: SAS v. WPL decision addresses boundaries of copyrights on software (opensource.com)

> The entire point of patents is to 'monopolize' ideas.

And for *software*, the ECJ says that would be bad for society.

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