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German court ruling X ZR 27/07, upholding MS FAT patent – as text

Below is the text, and links to machine translations to English, of the recent German court ruling “X ZR 27/07”.

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By Ciaran, 15 years4 years ago
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German court ruling Xa ZB 20/08, upholding Siemens patent – as text

The below is the text, and links to machine translations to English, of a recent German court ruling that seems to uphold software patents.

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By Ciaran, 15 years4 years ago
Case Law

German January 2009 ruling – as text

(Note: the original title incorrectly said “2010”)

Germany’s Federal High Court, the Bundesgerichtshof, handed out a ruling that some say upholds a software patent. The ruling was published as a PDF. I converted it to text here so that we can use online translation services to read it in English. Below is the full text in German. Here are links to automatic translations to English:

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By Ciaran, 15 years4 years ago
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