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Re:Apple is patenting Swift features by pnw_hazor on Friday January 25, 2019 @01:33PM (#19000868)
So-called software patents are always drafted as machines that can perform the claimed actions. These machines are comprised of one or more hardware components, including some hardware components that can execute machine readable instructions.

(There really is no such thing as a software patent.)

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Re:Apple is patenting Swift features by pbhjpbhj on Friday January 25, 2019 @03:02PM (#19001934)
In Europe we do manage to make that distinction, though it is nuanced, and it specifically excludes the "program on a media" or "program in the physical memory of a computer" methods of trying to make all software appear to be physically technological.
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Re:Apple is patenting Swift features by pnw_hazor on Friday January 25, 2019 @03:57PM (#19002422)
True, through many well-drafted US "software patents" can be successfully prosecuted in the EU without too much trouble.
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