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 <!-- Winter 2011 -->
+<eventitem date="2011-03-17" time="04:30 PM" room="MC2034" title="Software Patents">
+  
+    <short><p><i>by Stanley Khaing</i>. What are the requirements for obtaining a patent? Should software be patentable?</p></short>
+
+<abstract>
+	<p>Stanley Khaing is a lawyer from Waterloo whose areas of practice are software and high technology. He will be discussing software patents. In particular, he will be addressing the following questions:</p>
+	<ul>
+	<li>What are the requirements for obtaining a patent?</li>
+	<li>Should software be patentable?</li>
+	</ul>
+</abstract>
+
+</eventitem>
 <eventitem date="2011-02-17" time="07:00 PM" room="MC2017" title="A Smorgasbord of Perl Talks">
   
     <short><p><i>by KW Perl Mongers</i>. These talks are intended for programmers who are curious about the Swiss Army Chainsaw of languages, Perl.</p></short>