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To live by illusion must be interesting | 191 comments | Create New Account
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To live by illusion must be interesting
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, April 02 2013 @ 05:45 PM EDT
The posted claim is not to software. It is to a method of displaying
something.

Abstract does not mean not physical. The courts do not use "abstract"
the same way you do. They are not clear. But, as near as I can tell, when the
courts have recently used the word "abstract" they mean so broad or
vague as to encompass all methods of achieving a recited goal.

Hence: hedging might be abstract whereas:placing a bet on 36 and also placing a
bet on red and on even, a specific way to hedge, is not abstract.

using "software" to collect data might be vague and abstract, but the
specific software that is collecting my keystrokes and arranging them as a
comment post and claimed as a method for doing so, said claim reciting the
required steps is not vague or abstract.

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