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		kenjackson on July 26, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The W3C asks for help finding Prior Art to two App... Many, if not most, claims in SW patents are broad enough that they needn't specify if they are in SW or not. Almost any SW patent can be viewed as running entirely in HW.

brlewis on July 26, 2011 [–]

Wording them so broadly only makes it more clear that they are algorithm patents.

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