Crimes of the EPO Are Costing Everybody in Europe
THE EPO is continuing its decade-long tradition of overt corruption. It actually started more than a decade ago when Benoît Battistelli seized (actually bought, as in bribed for) power, but it intensified around 2013 or 2014 when we started covering those things more closely. António Campinos, Battistelli's friend, has been more of the same.
Nowadays the EPO grants loads of illegal European software patents under the guise of "AI" (a deliberate loophole), which means that European software companies can be sued in a kangaroo court anywhere in the EU (if they're based in the EU) and have to pay huge court fees even if they don't infringe on any patents at all, set aside the fact that software patents aren't meant to be granted in Europe in the first place.
Since virtually everyone in Europe is a user of software (almost nobody is a forest dweller like in countries near the equator), this impacts everybody. █