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business processAn action taken in the course of conducting business. Whether manual or automated, all processes require input and generate output. Depending on the level of viewing and modeling, a process can be a single task or a complicated procedure such as building a product. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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State Street Bank asked the court to declare this invention to be unpatentable as a mere mathematical algorithm or as a business method. At the center of those disputes is Yahoo, which claims to have acquired a patent that protects the business method behind paid search advertising, stemming from its purchase of Pasadena-based Overture Services Inc. As the discussion regarding the pros and cons of business method patents heats up for nonprofits, two high profile organizations have decided not to join the Nonprofit Innovation Alliance (NIA), a group dedicated to removing the perceived threat of patent abuse within the sector. |
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