04.03.20

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Emotional Blackmail for Illegal Software Patents

Posted in Europe, Humour, Patents at 7:29 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Blackmail Patents

Summary: Semantic tactics the European Patent Office (EPO) uses to promote software patents in Europe and may theoretically use in the future (satire)

Software patents
CII
ICT
Digital Tech
Digitisation
Hey hi (AI)
God patents
4th industrial revolution
Grant it or die!
“For the children” patents
Patent or “the terrorists win”
“Protect the universe” patents
Epoch patents
Patents only murderers would oppose
You still oppose these???
How can you look yourself in the mirror?
Alright then…
Join the EPO circus

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