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But it's crucial to note that the part of the GATT agreement which deals with patents does not require software patents. Many experts who have studied this, for instance in Europe, make this claim. And the reason is that they interpret technical effect as: there is a specific physical consequence or physical system going on. And so the software that doesn't do that doesn't have to be in the domain that patents can cover.