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Re:GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright by bdowling on Monday July 05, 2021 @08:09PM (#27743044)
> Look - here’s a helpful lawyer’s template for including for-loops as a claim in your own patents:

A claim on a combination of elements in which one element is an iterative component is not the same as claim on all iterative components everywhere.

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Re:GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright by dahart on Monday July 05, 2021 @08:26PM (#27743123)
True, correct. I didn’t intend for my comment to be interpreted as suggesting that a claim in a patent is the same thing as a whole patent, I was just pointing out a fun fact.
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