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by CamperBob2 2101 days ago
FWIW patents cover inventions, not ideas.

A true but useless statement. An idea is not patentable. An idea implemented in a computer program is.

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"An idea implemented in a computer program is."

Not according to EPC art52.2 (in Europe).

And not according to Alice jurisprudence (in the US).

But the patent lobby, including the patent offices, are at work trying to destroy those.