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- Newsgroups: comp.patents
- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!basser.cs.su.oz.au!news
- From: rrb@seismo.CSS.GOV (Robert Blandford)
- Subject: [DISC] software patents
- Organization: Basser Dept of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:50:43 GMT
- Approved: patents@cs.su.oz.au
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.084932.15672@cs.su.oz.au>
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- Keywords: software patents US world
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- What is the current comparative status of software patents in the US
- as compared to the rest of the world? As a hypothetical example,
- suppose someone came up with something as innovative as the spreadsheet
- concept today. Would it be patentable in the US? And how about the
- rest of the world?
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