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+ rich digital signature

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+ extensible web server

+ default feedback

+ intuitive network configuration

+ e-business broking

+ whole display in a partial window

+ flash file system

+ shopping cart

+ mobile compression

+ translating to SQL

+ visualising a process

+ marking used blocks

+ compression on demand

+ generating buying incentives from cooking recipes

+ language learning by comparing one's pronounciation to that of a teacher

+ testing learned material in schools

+ including context data in input

+ virtual interpreter

+ CORBA object inheritance

+ binary oriented set sequencing

+ network gateway

+ de19747603

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+ Programmed Infusion

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Dynamic pricing Anyone who replaces a price tag with a user-editable pricing function is infringing on a patent in Europe. The following dependent claims let the patentee become the owner of a large part of the problems of modern e-commerce.

	European Commission wants Unlimited Patentability! Directive Draft by BSA
	Counter-Proposal
	Call for Action

patent application (A): claims, description and abstract granted version (B1): The EPO publishes the patent as a collection of graphical files, which we concatenate into one huge PDF file and, by OCR batch processing, reduce to a text file.