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Old 11-04-2009, 10:25 AM   #31
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Originally Posted by Daithi View Post
No, BOb had it right. Patents are for devices and NOT for ideas.
Copyright applies to written material.
Patents are not just for devices - you can patent processes, techniques etc. For example, there are cases of things like business methods and software algorithms being patented. Many of these patentable things could reasonably be described as ideas.

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