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noun
A patent claim to a computer program, written in the form of a claim to an article of manufacture: a computer-readable medium on which are encoded, typically, instructions for carrying out a process.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
Topics: law
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History
Named after the legal decision In re Beauregard.
