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marshray on Aug 17, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Federal Circuit case renders many broadly written ...

So an otherwise fundamentally unpatentable algorithm could become patentable "when used in a time-sensitive application"?

nitrogen on Aug 17, 2011 [–]

Or, an otherwise fundamentally unpatentable algorithm with today's core counts could become patentable five to ten years from now when pocket computing power is measured teraflops?

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