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Patently inadequate

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The biggest change to U.S. patent law in nearly 60 years brings many changes, but fails to solve the software industry's most vexing problems.

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        cover image Communications of the ACM
        Communications of the ACM  Volume 55, Issue 7
        July 2012
        120 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/2209249
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