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German appeal court upholds Microsoft FAT patent
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| The German appeal court has overturned a
| decision by the German Federal Patent Tribunal
| to declare Microsoft's patent for the File
| Allocation Table (FAT) file system invalid. In
| judgement number X ZR 27/07, handed down on
| Tuesday, the tenth civil division of the
| Karlsruhe-based court confirmed the
| enforceability of the company's commercial
| rights in Germany. It has not yet published
| its reasoning, but has confirmed the decision
| in a short press release (German language
| link).
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/German-appeal-court-upholds-Microsoft-FAT-patent-985550.html
Microsoft gets its FAT Patent back in Germany
http://slashdot.org/submission/1222248/Microsoft-gets-its-FAT-Patent-back-in-Germany
Recent:
Germany: Open Fight on Biotechnology, Patents, and CIIs.
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| What should be duly noticed is that high-profile representatives of
| centre-right political parties are openly lobbying against patentability of
| biotechnological inventions, for example Mr SÃder (CSU), Minister for
| Healthcare & Ecological Affairs of Bavaria. One prominent reason for this
| surely is of populist nature: There are general elections for the European
| Parliament and for the German Parliament ("Bundestag") later this year. As
| utilisation of genetically modified organisms in food chains is hopeless
| unpopular in Germany and angrily attacked in particular by conservative
| farmers in Bavaria, there is a big incentive for politicians to go exactly
| that way as demonstrated yesterday.
|
| [...]
|
| While most of the media coverage was directed to the EP 1651777 B1 patent,
| FFII had attempted to jump on the bandwagon by joining the rally, pointing
| towards patents on CIIs or, vulgo software patents. To this end they had
| invited a well-known heavyweight, namely Mr Richard M. Stallman himself.
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http://www.ipjur.com/blog2/index.php?/archives/63-Germany-Open-Fight-on-Biotechnology,-Patents,-and-CIIs..htm
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