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: Current AwarenessHigh Court says UK-IPO was wrong to reject software-related patent - OUT-LAW.com
By sally
“The High Court has overturned a decision of the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO) to reject a patent application as being nothing more than software. The UK-IPO said that today’s ruling is incompatible with other decisions and will appeal.”
OUT-LAW.com, 18th March 2008
Source: www.out-law.com

Full post as published by Current Awareness on March 18, 2008 (boomark / email).
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