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try "criticism of EU patent law" I can't find the original article. It was pretty silly, around 2008 or 2009, the court ruled something basically opposite to the written intent. I think it had to do with a really low barrier to prior-art-baseed-invalidation, but that might have been another weakness
The other difference is that common law cares for the written intent, while under civil law judges should seek the underlying intent - which can be opposite to what is written down. One recurring examples I've seen in German law training (but IANAL): two parties agree on the sale of a certain type of fish but use the wrong (Norwegian?) word in the contract. What fish is this contract about? Correct answer: What they…
Re: Google News to shut down in Spain
#271Europe has a stronger copyright which has actually proven a bit more sane than our software patent woes; both granting more protection than copyright but less than an algorithm patent.