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lfol = stats
lab = Figures
des = This project aims to create tabular listings and statistics of the patents on programming tasks for the universal computer which the European Patent Office has been granting against the letter and spirit of the written law for the last few years.  For reasons explained below, it is difficult to find out the precise number, but it seems the EPO must have granted at least 20-30,000 software patents before 2005.
kws = Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure, Software Patents, intellectual property, industrial property, IP, I2P, immaterial assets, law of immaterial goods, mathematical method, business methods, Rules of Organisation and Calculation, invention, non-inventions, computer-implemented inventions, computer-implementable inventions, software-related inventions, software-implemented inventions, software patent, computer patents, information patents, technical invention, technical character, technicity, technology, software engineering, industrial character, Patentierbarkeit, substantive patent law, Nutzungsrecht, patent inflation, quelloffen, standardisation, innovation, competition, European Patent Office, General Directorate for the Internal Market, patent movement, patent family, patent establishment, patent law, patent lawyers, lobby
tit = European Software Patent Statistics
sut = Figures gathered in 2001-2004
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