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An inventor describes her new algorithm purely as a mathematical method for compressing data, with no specified technical implementation. Under section 1(2) of the Patents Act 1977, how is such subject matter treated?

It is excluded as such, but a claim producing a technical contribution may be allowable It is automatically patentable because algorithms are inventions It is excluded absolutely and can never form part of any patent It is patentable only if registered as a design first

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It is excluded as such, but a claim producing a technical contribution may be allowable

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