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Re:Apple Never Invented Anything by lutusp on Sunday September 02, 2012 @07:13PM (#4468494)
No. One can discover mathematics, but mathematics cannot be patented. One can discover an ancient civilization ... and so forth. There are many more examples, and they're not patentable.
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Re:Apple Never Invented Anything by DanBC on Sunday September 02, 2012 @09:12PM (#4468748)
One could discover a gene sequence that ... oh, wait.
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Re:Apple Never Invented Anything by cromwellian on Monday September 03, 2012 @12:40PM (#4470949)
RSA encryption is pure number theory math and it was patented.
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