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Aaron Priven says:
>...Patents rarely cover software...

Actually software patents are being issued like they are going out of
style.  The Wall Street Journal ran an article on software patents the
week before last.  One thing I *know* Apple has patented are 'regions.'

There are some companies that do nothing but live off royalties for
simple common software functions.  For example, one company patented
the process of ORing the pixels of a character display, and EVERYONE
who uses inverse text has to pay them royalties!

Check out the article--very interesting