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Has Microsoft lost patent power over Linux in UK?

September 21st, 2007 · No Comments

Microsoft claims that Linux infringes 235 patents, but if it wants to fight it out in a UK court, it had better think again.

Andrew Katz, a solicitor at UK law firm Moorcrofts, points out that those patents simply don’t apply under UK law. Rather than use patents, Europeans take the far more sensible view, in his opinion, of using copyright law to protect intellectual property in software…

Original post by Jason Stamper and software by Elliott Back

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