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Canada seems to allow software patents [1]. Amazon got a Canadian patent for their one-click stuff, as mentioned in that Wikipedia article.

Here's a Canadian patent on accelerated finite field operations on an elliptic curve [2]. Here's one on public key cryptography using elliptic curves [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_Canadia...

[2] https://brevets-patents.ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/patent/23...

[3] https://patents.google.com/patent/CA2129203A1/en



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