protection

"...how best to offer protection to inventors working in this highly technical field? It is an important question, and not really one that as been properly answered."

but one side of that part of the question *has* been answered - I call it the 'corollary defence';

a computer program etc. is not patentable 'as such', therefore no computer program etc. 'as such' can be in breach of a patent.

That protects the vast majority of people working in "this highly technical field".

yes?

AndyD 8-)#