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English Court Allows Patents For "Complex" Software

Posted by timothy on from the first-a-trickle dept.

jonbryce writes "The court of appeal in England has ruled that companies should be granted patents for 'complex' software products. In this particular case, Symbian had written something that makes mobile phones run faster. The court case has received very little attention because of the bank crisis, but it can be appealed to the House of Lords and then the European Court of Justice."

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  1. Oh wow. by jd · · Score: 5, Funny

    I took it as meaning "any program that cannot be expressed as an integer, by means of a Turing Machine, but requires an imaginary component".

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