software patent

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meaningsofsoftwareandpatent

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software
noun[U]
uk
/ˈsɒft.weər/us
/ˈsɑːft.wer/
the instructions that control what a computer does; ...
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patent
noun
uk
/ˈpeɪ.tənt/us
/ˈpæt.ənt/
the official legal right to make or sell an invention for a particular number ...
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(Definition ofsoftwareandpatentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsoftware patent

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The algorithms are openly documented and may be used free ofsoftwarepatentrestrictions.
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The program organizers anticipate having 250 pendingsoftwarepatentapplications reviewed by members of the interested public.
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The expressionsoftwarepatentitself has not been clearly defined.
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The issue ofsoftwarepatentwas an important issue.
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Other material is legal to possess but not to distribute; for example, copyright andsoftwarepatentlaws may forbid its distribution.
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During the 1990s, free software licenses began including clauses, such as patent retaliation, in order to protect againstsoftwarepatentlitigation cases - a problem which had not previously existed.
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Silvers' patent may be regarded as asoftwarepatent, a subject over which there is a great deal of debate.
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We therefore have serious reservations about, for example, a poorly prepared software patents directive, which seems of more benefit to multinationals than to smaller inventors.
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Fourth, the stupidity of using a misleading shorthand description like ‘software patents’, which is deeply misleading.
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Everyone says that they do not want to see software patents.
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Are we voting on replacing the debate on the services directive with the debate on the software patents directive?
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Unlike normal patents, which protect an invention, software patents actually encourage the improper use of ideas.
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The campaign against software patents has been going on for a long time.
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I urge all those opposed to software patents to be present in force.
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For years this office has been issuing so-called software patents, and these have already been enforced up to the highest international level.
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We therefore need to insist on the idea - from which we must not be moved - that software patents are only granted on solid grounds.
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The strategy of those of us who are amending this directive is to prevent any leakage into software patents as such.
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I am persuaded that we will be doing democracy, small and medium-sized enterprises, even, indeed, economic prosperity a favour if we vote against these software patents.
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Software patents are not the way to go.
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Software patents might also be used by large companies as a means of blocking new companies from entering the market.
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