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      - A new enhanced search and examination system providing an
    international search and opinion on compliance with main patentability
    criteria will be available very early in the procedure;

No good can come of this.

The specific danger is that WIPO will look at an application for a
patent that covers software, say "This complies with the main
patentability criteria", and then countries that are not on their
guard will follow along.

