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Re:No patent if invention lies only in computer program, say... by chetanahuja on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @12:54AM (#11164833)
"This is quite different from the US Patent office,"

Today it's different from US patent office. For most of the US Patent office's history, it was the same.

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Street_Bank_%26_Trust_Co....

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Re:No patent if invention lies only in computer program, say... by jcranmer on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @02:12PM (#11169322)
The State St. is no longer valid precedent. SCOTUS went well out of its way to emphasize that the State St. decision was completely insane and wrong in Bilski v Kappos even as it struggled to come to grips with a coherent definition. Nevertheless, it's been pretty clear that SCOTUS would rule just about any software patent invalid.
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Re:No patent if invention lies only in computer program, say... by orionblastar on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @02:30AM (#11165146)
Link must have moved here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Street_Bank_%26_Trust_Co....

But yeah I see now that US patent office used to be like India, but now it accepts any patent.

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Re:No patent if invention lies only in computer program, say... by emj on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @05:58AM (#11165841)
META: Seems like the . is stripped from the end of links.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Street_Bank_%26_Trust_Co._v._Signature_Financial_Group,_Inc.
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