If granted, the patent could have applied to a wide variety of recommendation algorithms.

Recent technological advances raise questions about how patents apply to genes and life forms, or what standard should cover old business models on the Internet.

The patent applies to its system of deciding which payment method to use to pay each bill.

The patent also applies to its method for setting payment limits for customers.

It is this process to which the new patent applies.

Texas Instruments countered that the patent applied to all chips, regardless of how or from what they are made.

It had been decided, however, that the patent did not apply to bibles printed with notes.

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Palm also argues that the patents, even if valid, do not apply to its system.

The company is using the yeast in France, where American patents do not apply.