The Supreme Court did uphold a patent on a software-controlled rubber-curing machine in 1981, but its ruling emphasized that this was because the patent covered a physical machine that happened to have a software component, rather than claiming a software technique by itself.
To make matters worse, there are signs that the piqueteros are now being used in a long-running battle between Mr Kirchner and Mr Duhalde for control of the ruling Peronist party's machine in the Buenos Aires rustbelt.
Still, he was able to utilize a series of Sony HVR-Z1U HDV cameras inside "prop 50-caliber machine-gun ammunition cases" after ruling out Panasonic's HVX-200 due to a lack of FireStore availability, and eventually blended a good bit of that content into the feature film.