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Town Gets Patent On Being the Center of Europe

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 16, 2010 @04:23AM 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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Re:Doubtful by danlip · 2010-08-16 05:05 · Score: 4, Insightful

Austria must be some small country. never heard of that one..
Seriously? Ever hear of Vienna (in Austria), one of the most important cities in European cultural history? Mozart? Strauss? Freud? Schrödinger? and many others.