Court Bans Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram in Germany

From what I can tell (the translation isn&#x27;t perfect), one of the patents BlackBerry sued them over is being able to &quot;email entire chat history&quot;. Also, &quot;switching from one chat to another&quot; and &quot;friend proposals&quot;.<p>Lmao. This stuff is ridiculous. I&#x27;m so glad my country (India) doesn&#x27;t have software patents.<p>Edit: so I looked it up, and the software patent situation is kinda weird here:<p>&gt; Software Patents in India is granted for an embedded software in a mobile application, and&#x2F;or software plus hardware combination. However, patent law in India does not allow patent protection for software per se, whereby patenting a computer program is prohibited.

Clickbait title. They are not banned. Blackberry won a patent case but there is no reason the apps can&#x27;t be changed.<p>(Current HN thread title: &quot;Court Bans Whatsapp, Facebook and Instagram in Germany&quot;)

Fuck software patents.

Anyone knows wat’s the state of software patent laws at the european parliement ?<p>I remember they tried to create some laws that would be enforceable in all countries of the union, but i’m not clear on what’s the situation now.<p>I’m actually pretty surprise software patent exist in germany.. i was pretty sure europe was software-patente free..

The DeepL translation is a bit easier to read: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastebin.com&#x2F;raw&#x2F;8PngEFcs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastebin.com&#x2F;raw&#x2F;8PngEFcs</a>

Interesting to see that Blackberry still has enough money to dare something this ridiculous. I thought they were completely irrelevant by now.

How would this be enforced?<p>Is the Play Store going to remove those apps from the devices that are located in Germany?

Software patents shouldn’t even be a thing. Actually there shouldn’t be any patents at all.<p>They only hinder development. If someone comes up with a solution&#x2F;product&#x2F;whatever that is better than the original, they should be able to create that.<p>If this harms the original creator they’ll be forced to keep up and make their own thing better again.<p>Competition is always good. It makes people strive to be better.