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Code patent case

Category: Technology
Posted on: March 24, 2008 7:03 PM, by Greg Laden

The [British] government is appealing against a High Court decision that granted Symbian a patent on a computer program.
The ruling overturns a refusal by the UK Intellectual Property Office to give the mobile phone firm a patent.

The case is being watched with interest because before now it was rarely possible to patent dedicated computer programs in Europe.

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