[Meme] Protecting European Patent Courts From EPO 'Mafia'

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2021-10-15 18:38:45 UTC
Modified: 2021-10-15 18:38:45 UTC

EPO is ours. Next: UPC! Stay out of our business! UPCA: It's illegal
UPC is an attempt to do to all patent courts in the EU what litigation lobbyists did to the EPO, which actually used to be good

Summary: With flagrant disregard for court rulings (or workarounds to dodge actual compliance) it seems clear that today's EPO management is allergic to justice and to judges; European Patents perish at unprecedented levels in national European courts and it should be kept that way

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[Meme] Protecting European Patent Courts From EPO 'Mafia'

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