... study¹

Study of the effects of allowing patent claims for computer-implemented inventions, a joint study by MERIT (University of Maastricht, Netherlands), Centre of Intellectual Property Law CIER (University of Utrecht, Netherlands), Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Telecommunication Engineering School at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain and Centre for Research on Innovation and Internationalization (CESPRI) at Bocconi University, Milan, Italy.

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... follows²

We do not consider meanings that are not relevant for the current discussion.

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... new.³

This counter-intuitive situation was pointed out to us by Reinier Bakels [2].

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... Engineering/Capabilities:⁴

Here and in the following paragraphs we will suggest several hypothetical inventions which we characterize in a very global manner by refraining from giving actual details. In a real case, such details would be essential.

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... behavior.⁵

This strategy is used in Extreme/Agile Programming [3].

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