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From: old.timer@tiscali.co.uk
To: "Seth Johnson" <seth.johnson@RealMeasures.dyndns.org>, "Jean-Baptiste Soufron" <jbsoufron@free.fr>
Cc: patents@aful.org
Subject: Re: [Patents] newsscan: Software patent limits 'go too far'
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 09:52:35 +0100

Seth Johnson wrote:

>It says software is different and not covered by patents.  >That's what
"as such" means.

But that's not what it means to me.  For example, a single apple is an apple
"as such".  But a bowl of mixed fruit with an apple in it cannot be called
an apple "as such" - not by any stretch of the imagination.

A computer program may well be a computer program "as such", but an invention
that involves (among other things) a computer program cannot be a computer
program "as such".

"Mr Anonymous Coward"

Re: [Patents] newsscan: Software patent limits 'go too far', (continued)

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