Bonum Certa Men Certa

Reforming Versus Rebooting Versus Destroying Institutions

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 09, 2024

Mountain and overcast sky

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.

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

European Patent Office (EPO) Series: The Centre (in Portugal) Falls Apart…
Luís Montenegro became embroiled in a conflict-of-interest controversy
Links 10/06/2026: More Microsoft Layoffs, Sweden to "Ban Mobile Phones in Schools"
Links for the day
 
SLAPP Censorship - Part 103 Out of 200: Telling People What They Know and Don't Know About Death Threats They Receive
patronising letters sent on behalf of the Serial Strangler from Microsoft
IBM Genies in the Bottle
for ordinary people working who at at IBM, it's not hard to see that IBM is floundering
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, June 10, 2026
IRC logs for Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Links 11/06/2026: LF Openwashing of Slop and "Azerbaijan Bans TikTok and Other Social Media Apps in School"
Links for the day
IBM Lost About 18% of Its "Market Value" This Month
In IBM's case, a lot of the latest "pump" was Arvind's "quantum" hype/fantasy
Gemini Links 10/06/2026: Signal to Noise, Cancer, and Permacomputing
Links for the day
Communities and "Prosumers."
today's meetup will be about community
Gemini and Gopher Links 10/06/2026: Roasting, Changes, and Harms of Slop
Links for the day
Microsoft Azure Shrinking With More Mass Layoffs
"Reports suggest the layoffs will impact close to 200 out of 400 workers, who are set to cease employment at Azure on July 6"
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, June 09, 2026
IRC logs for Tuesday, June 09, 2026
European Patent Office (EPO) Series: The Centre-Right "Social Democratic Party" in Portugal
Quite an achievement for a former Maoist radical and aspiring champion of the Portuguese proletariat to be invited to join Goldman Sachs
SLAPP Censorship - Part 102 Out of 200: Maybe One Day Whistleblowers From Brett Wilson LLP Will Tell Us What Really Happened
Maybe one day some former staff of Brett Wilson LLP will also approach us to blow the whistle
What LibreOffice and TDF Get Right About Document Formats (and What They Get Wrong)
OOXML is a phantom - it is something nobody implements, not even Microsoft!
Gemini Links 09/06/2026: "The Mist of the Lands Between", Board Game Concept
Links for the day
2026: The Year Slop Companies "Made an Exit" (Threw in the Towel Over to Wall Street)
Remember 2026 as the year two major slop companies (which we won't name) sought an IPO
Links 09/06/2026: NSO Group still cracking, "FOI tribunal throws out £14k costs claim against journalist Barnie Choudhury"
Links for the day
Links 09/06/2026: "Smartphones Broke Dating" and "EU Open Source Strategy"
Links for the day
Cannot Speak About IBM Wrongdoing or Jobs Being Sent Overseas (Lower Salaries)
IBM has long attacked the media, the whistleblowers, and even online forums
European Patent Office (EPO) Series: The CIA-Funded Centre-Left in Portugal
In the political turmoil which followed the fall of the old regime, the communists seemed to be acquiring a dominant position and there was a very real risk that Portugal could end up aligned with the Eastern Bloc if they were not stopped
This Coming Friday
Richard Stallman (RMS)
Yesterday Afternoon The Register MS Published a Fake Article That Says "AI" 31 Times Because It Got Paid to Do This
What will happen when all those loans for slop (Ponzi scheme) stop and companies' marketing budgets - which include media bribes for hype campaigns - are no more?
Extraordinary General Meeting of Staff Union of the European Patent Office Ahead of Intensifying Strikes
We will, in the meantime, run a series about EPO corruption, which is now connected to corruption in Portugal and to corruption inside the EU
Several Slopfarms That Target "Linux" Seem to Have Died
Or perished severely
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, June 08, 2026
IRC logs for Monday, June 08, 2026
Gemini Links 09/06/2026: Tanana River, Cassette Beasts, and Emacs
Links for the day