Beauregard claim
English
Etymology
Named after the legal decision
In re Beauregard
.
Noun
Beauregard
claim
(
plural
Beauregard claims
)
(
US
,
law
)
A
patent
claim to a
computer
program
, written in the form of a claim to an
article
of
manufacture
: a computer-readable
medium
on which are
encoded
, typically,
instructions
for carrying out a
process
.