Bonum Certa Men Certa

[Meme] EPO's Monkey Business: Lowering the Patent Examination Bar

Related: [Meme] Monkey See, Monkey Do (Secret Meetings in Eastern Forests) | The EPO's 'Early Certainty From Google' Approach (“Closest Prior Art”) Means Loads of Fake European Patents and Frivolous Litigation/Shakedowns | Search Matters Not at the European Patent Office | António Campinos Makes Excuses for Granting European Patents on Software in Spite of the EPC | The EPO Under António Campinos Has Opened More Doors to Software Patents and Only Litigators Are Happy | EPO G 1/19 (Software Patents Case) Already Compromised by Overt Violations of the European Patent Convention (EPC)

If 'closest prior art' not the same, then grant patent

Summary: As we shall show in a moment, EPO President António Campinos has lowered the quality of patents and applications; sooner or later he might outsource the job to 'livestock'

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