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Re:Court Bans Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram in Germany by legulere on Saturday December 07, 2019 @02:51AM (#21729050)
We also don’t have software patents per se in Europe, but that doesn’t keep patent offices granting bullshit patents like this one
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Re:Court Bans Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram in Germany by stingraycharles on Saturday December 07, 2019 @02:57AM (#21729071)
But in this case it’s not just the patent office granting a patent, but actually winning a case in court as well. How does that work when supposedly software patents are not applicable?
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Re:Court Bans Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram in Germany by rots on Saturday December 07, 2019 @03:10AM (#21729101)
https://fsfe.org/campaigns/swpat/swpat.en.html

It's complicated, The European Patent Convention states that software is not patentable. But laws are always interpreted by courts, and in this case interpretations of the law differ.

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Re:Court Bans Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram in Germany by Stiju on Saturday December 07, 2019 @03:16AM (#21729120)
I’m not really sure how it works but can’t Facebook take it to the EU court and win this case?
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