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3 March 2014Patents

German court finds Microsoft map patent invalid

The Federal Patent Court of Germany has decided that the German part of Microsoft’s European Patent EP0845124, which covers a computer system for identifying local resources in a map, is invalid due to lack of inventive step.

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