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For instance, a lot of things which practically speaking are software patents have the form where they describe a system involving a central processing unit, a memory, input/output facilities, instruction-fetching facilities, and means to perform this particular computation. In effect they've written explicitly into the patent all the parts of an ordinary computer, and then they say, &ldquo;Well, this is a physical system which we would like to patent&rdquo;, but really it's just patenting certain software on a computer. There are many subterfuges that they've used.