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Comment The patent system is screwed up, so is Wikipedia (Score 1) 169

by mfoetsch on Monday August 16, 2010 @07:35PM (#33269760) Attached to: Town Gets Patent On Being the Center of Europe

The story is based on a bogus Wikipedia entry that doesn't even refer to this as a patent. It's indeed a trademark. I traced it back to its roots: http://bit.ly/bVcJo8

Town Gets Patent On Being the Center of Europe 169

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 16, 2010 @12:23PM from the continental-drift-be-damned dept.

An anonymous reader writes "And you thought software patents were going to far? How about geography patents? Apparently, as a part of the weird fight over what place in Europe represents the 'geophysical center of Europe,' the Austrian town of Frauenkirchen has received a patent (Austrian patent AM 7738/2003) declaring it the center of Europe. Not clear how one 'infringes' on such a patent, but then again, it's not clear why anyone's patenting this either."

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