03.13.16

Kontrovers Coverage of Abuses at the European Patent Office (With Subtitles Added)

Posted in Europe, Patents at 12:58 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: A video of the recent Bayerischer Rundfunk program which dealt with the European Patent Office (primarily but not only in Munich)

THE recent (beginning of this month) Kontrovers program about the EPO is no longer available online (there’s a 5-day catchup period and the link we provided before now returns a 404 error). We now have the program in one complete piece, not in two parts (hosted over at YouTube). Someone sent it to us with German subtitles for the sake of viewers who are deaf. In order to avoid software patents/traps associated with many multimedia formats we have encoded the video in Ogg format and here it is below (should be playable in most modern Web browsers).


Next to come are the French and English versions. █

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