The Supreme Court did uphold a patent on a software-controlled rubber-curing machine in 1981, but its ruling emphasized that this was because the patent covered a physical machine that happened to have a software component, rather than claiming a software technique by itself.

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To make matters worse, there are signs that the piqueteros are now being used in a long-running battle between Mr Kirchner and Mr Duhalde for control of the ruling Peronist party's machine in the Buenos Aires rustbelt.

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But parliamentary elections are scheduled for next year and a party backed by money and insider support could help break the stranglehold of the corruption-tainted ruling party, whose patronage machine has squeezed the life out of Egypt's lacklustre existing opposition.

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Still, he was able to utilize a series of Sony HVR-Z1U HDV cameras inside "prop 50-caliber machine-gun ammunition cases" after ruling out Panasonic's HVX-200 due to a lack of FireStore availability, and eventually blended a good bit of that content into the feature film.

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Lula wants Mr Sarney to swing the weight of the PMDB, and its patronage machine, behind Dilma Rousseff, the probable candidate of the ruling Workers' Party in the presidential election next year.

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In Palm Beach and Broward Counties, Harris effectively shut down attempt to conduct manual recount the votes there when her office issued a ruling that "a counting error" means that a machine fails to read a properly marked ballot.

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Thus, the Stayart ruling is philosophically consistent with the recent opinion in Multi-Time Machine v.

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The board cited a ruling by Harris' office that hand recounts may only be conducted if there is evidence of voting machine failure.

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