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Posted by: Chris Rankin (Wednesday 15 December 2004, 9:13 AM)

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Simon, something tells me you're not a programmer. You wouldn't be a patent lawyer, by any chance, would you?

I think everyone was laughing because the UK Patent Offiice was 'patently' incapable of defining a 'technical contribution'.

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