RE: You have rights.. Software Patents are Ill egal

>The obligation to protect computer programs as literary works
>means e.g. that only those limitations that are applicable to
>literary works may be applied to computer programs.

Can you cite the text of the TRIPS treaty that makes the "e.g." provision? I
can't actually find it. The summary may say this, but the summary is
probably not binding, and may be a translation error.

Phil Hibbs
Capgemini
Aston
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