"Software patents" refer to legal protection granted to inventors or companies for their software-based inventions. It enables them to exclusively own the rights to their innovative software products or features for a specific period of time.
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- Some companies, anxious to enact further reform limiting the proliferation of software patent lawsuits, are lobbying for further legislative reform as well. (btlj.org)
- One of the worst problems with software patents is a phenomenon known as functional claiming. (eff.org)
- There can be no doubt: we have a problem with low - quality, abstract software patents in this country. (eff.org)
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