Etymology

Beauregard claim

Today it means: 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. Full definition →

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The story

Named after the legal decision In re Beauregard.

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