Summary: This video discusses the latest two "news" items from the EPO (first in about a month!) and part 19 of the current series, which ends tomorrow

THE rationale for patent law is well documented. The original purpose of patents was explained very clearly. But has patent law been warped in favour of litigation profiteers? Or only their largest clients? Are we still rewarding actual scientists? To encourage disclosure rather than feed opportunistic patent trolls with trivial so-called 'inventions'?

"It's hard not to feel like some of the existing system has been co-opted by a shameless agenda of corporate subjugation and maybe colonisation, in effect offering generous financial rewards to facilitators in their home countries, enabling foreign occupation (by monopolistic/multinational corporations) and elimination of domestic competition."What good are patent offices in nations that barely have any patents and sometimes lack basics like foods? Patents are not edible, are they? It's hard not to feel like some of the existing system has been co-opted by a shameless agenda of corporate subjugation and maybe colonisation, in effect offering generous financial rewards to facilitators in their home countries, enabling foreign occupation (by monopolistic/multinational corporations) and elimination of domestic competition. Who does today's EPO work for? In the case of 'ViCo' (especially G 1/21) we've seen that even the rule of law isn't being respected because ad hoc shortcuts are chosen instead; for no reason other than to protect litigation zealots, not science. ⬆