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●● It Might Be Too Late for the German Government to Fix the EPO (It Had a Lot to Do With This Current Mess)

Posted in Courtroom, Europe, Law, Patents at 11:42 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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Summary: The German government played a considerable role in EPO abuses, not just tolerated them, not to mention how it is replacing patent courts with kangaroo courts that are illegal and unconstitutional (but are plaintiff-friendly and obscenely industry-connected, i.e. they presume junk patents have merit); is there any hope of redemption left?

=> obscenely industry-connected

THE status of the EPO is not good. Stakeholders, such as prolific patent applicants, are dissatisfied. Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos crushed the Rule of Law to basically grant as many patents as possible. Who exactly is served by low-quality, invalid, non-compliant (w.r.t. the European Patent Convention) junk patents, including software patents?

=> EPO | Benoît Battistelli | António Campinos | software patents

“It became akin to organised (white-collar) crime where even the overseeing authorities are complicit.”

Aside from legal challenges by patent examiners we’re seeing some profound attitudinal changes, not limited to stakeholders complaining but also changes in the German government's attitude.

=> stakeholders complaining | changes in the German government's attitude

One can hope for substantial remedial actions, but they would have to be so wide-ranging and deep that perhaps every single person in the EPO’s management must be removed, along with the enablers at EUIPO and the EU/EC at large. There are ‘moles’. Well-connected and coordinated corruption of this scale is difficult to tackle. It can take decades to solve (or dissolve). It became akin to organised (white-collar) crime where even the overseeing authorities are complicit.

=> EUIPO

As the video above notes, they love blaming “the far-right”. But they selectively assess their own actions. Bad governments cause people to turn to extreme “alternatives”. Fix it before it’s too late and potentially irreversible. █

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