Lodging securities at the patent office.

American securities companies are quietly taking advantage of a legal distinction in intellectual property law that, though barring the patenting of securities themselves, allows the computer systems and programs necessary to support them to be protected by patents. The ability to gain indirect con...

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Publicado en:Economist Vol. 316; pp. 65 - 66
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Economist Newspaper Limited August 25 1990
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