Deutsche Presse-Agentur and Software Patents

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• 2004-07-13 DPA spreads german business method patent david vs goliath story -- based on an ungranted patent, with unverified claims about payments from McDonald's food chain

• Most of the german reporting about the Council decision 2004-05-18 was based on a report from DPA which gets quite a lot wrong and uncritically treats some of Bolkestein's lies as truths. Yet this report does not really justify dubbing DPA as "Deutsche Propaganda-Agentur".