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> From the judges order: Nothing in the ‘073 patent evinces an inventive idea beyond the idea of the patent holder to be the first to patent the computerization of a fundamental process that has occurred all through human history."

It strikes me that a large number of patents would evaporate if this standard were more universally applied.



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