Bonum Certa Men Certa

Reforming Versus Rebooting Versus Destroying Institutions

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 09, 2024

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TONIGHT, probably at around midnight (if the coffee works as expected), we'll cover this week's first 'bombshell' [1, 2], based on internal EPO publications. Having just mentioned so-called "Insurance Companies" (companies that seek excuses not to cover anything, unless you can afford to sue them or they simply have no plausible means of denying claims), let's be clear what our goals are when it comes to fake courts, an utterly corrupt agency for trademarks in the EU, and a patent office that boasts about breaking laws (justifying illegalities by talking about "money").

Our goal isn't to harm the EU (we're actually pro-EU, most of us are just concerned about the direction it has taken with obvious corruption and unconstitutional "courts"). We don't seek to eliminate the EPO, either. We never said all patents should be abolished, we've always focused on abstract patents, covering things like so-called "business methods" and algorithms.

It's possible to make a better world (a cliche, sure) by dealing with existing structures and 'reforming' them by showing to the population "at large" what's wrong and what can be improved. Sure, the culprits and perpetrators will try to gag publishers (that's what corrupt autocrats always do, universally). But as long as some true justice exists somewhere, redemption and truth (or transparency) will come about, somehow, even if very much belatedly. That's why Julian Assange is in Australia right now with his wife and kids. That's why Boris Johnson more or less disappeared.

Destroying the EPO isn't the goal and isn't likely to succeed either unless patents are somehow suspended globally and all past patents get annulled. Rebooting would likely mean flushing down all the managers and starting afresh; it would take some heck of a "jubilee" for that to happen and likely result in other people from the same "industry" (i.e. lawyers) taking control again, emboldened by law firms' lobby groups, e.g. European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW, formerly EPLA) and CIPA. Reforming would simply not go far enough; they tried this before, it boils down to lip service.

At the moment we strive to expose the truth or shine light on pertinent facts. That, we hope, will lead to some solutions, over time. In order to cure a disease one must first pursue a reliable and accurate diagnosis.

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