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Apple: Trust us, we've patented parts of Swift, and thus chunks of other programming languages, for your own good

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Re: Genuine Question

I vaguely recall some archaic process via which you can, for a significantly reduced fee, register an idea with a patent authority without requesting an actual patent.

Anyone know what this is called, assuming it still exists anywhere?

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