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jgeralnik on Jan 31, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: UK High Court Finds Programming Languages Uncopyri...

So in the case of software, how is a patent different from a copyright on your code?

ig1 on Jan 31, 2013 [–]

UK law (and EU law) doesn't recognise software patents.

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