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Posted in Europe, Patents at 6:56 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: Despite seemingly democratic structures, the EPO and its ilk manage to sneak in a restructuring of the patent systems in Europe
Early in the week we found some troubling news about software patents in Europe. Gérald Sédrati-Dinet says about the unitary patent that “approval is planed for Dec 5, Dec 22 is the ceremony”
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“Even worse,” Ben jamin responds. He thought it was something more benign in comparison:
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Unitary Patent to be approved by the Council next 22 December with a signature ceremony.
He carried on arguing [1, 2, 3, 4] while patent lawyers from Germany got baffled: “Why does the #EU webpage showing the time schedule for agreement on Unified Patent Court not work any more?”
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There is a discussion about software standards inside patents [1, 2] and the lawyers’ powwow [1, 2, 3, 4] gravitates towards the position that within a few days we may have a rather troubling presentation:
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EPO presentation about the Unitary Patent, the patent system designed outside Europe and its institutions ur1.ca/66vqa
December 5th is named as the big day and it is the same day that I fly away for a week (for vacation). Hopefully there are many European activists out there who will inform others and do something to stop this. █
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