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Germany
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Contents
Legislation
Patent office practice
To be added.
Articles
See also
Case law
Digital Circuits
- Full name: X ZB 11/98 – Digital Circuits, 13th December 1999
This important ruling introduced the test of "controllable natural forces".
This legal wording was used in the EU by the anti-swpat campaign in September 2003.
External links
- FFII page about a 1976 BGH decision, which also has a handful of other good links near the top
- FFII page about the 2002 ruling with "forces of nature" (Google translation to English)
- FFII wiki about the Vistaprint case (Google translation to English)
- FFII wiki listing software patent cases, most in German courts (Google translation to English)
