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Beauregard claim
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English
Etymology
Named after the legal decision In re Beauregard.
Noun
en US legal 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.
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