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	Also computer programs are subject to copyright protection, provided that they are individual works. According to the Copyright Act not the idea underlying the computer program is protected, but the concrete computer program as an arrangement of a succession of instructions. The contrary thereof is the patented software-related invention. The patentability thereof requires that the invention comprises a technical component or a solution to a technical problem.