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In re Alappat ruling by US CAFC on 29 July 1994
In re Alappat, 33 F.3d 1526, 1543 (Fed. Cir. 1994), USA.
Excerpts
As cited by SAP in their amicus brief for the 2008 in re Bilski case:
- "[i]t is estimated that 85-90% of the world's technology is disclosed only in patent documents." (Newman, J., concurring)
Of course, using this quote when discussing software is disingenuous given the massive, complete, and freely reusable information disclosed by free software such as GNU/Linux, and given that many authorities have said of software patents that the disclosure is useless.
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