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Re:The W3C asks for help finding Prior Art to two Apple Pate... by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @09:53AM (#2807306)
>There have been several instances, however, where large American companies have tried to get Europe to allow software patents. Luckily so far all of these have been blocked:

Nonsense. We have software patents in Europe too.

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Re:The W3C asks for help finding Prior Art to two Apple Pate... by ig1 on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @11:15AM (#2807701)
It's somewhat complex, but in general most of the contentious US software patents wouldn't be valid in the EU, which is why Europe has only seen a handful of software patent cases over the last decade.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_the_Euro...

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