Summary: Global patent system (with software patents through the central court) is further and faster approaching a reality thanks in part to the EU Presidency of the EU Council

LAST month we archived some Cablegate material that helped show how the EU Patent had been negotiated and what its outcome was under names like patent "harmonisation" or Community Patent. Justified objections kept it at bay and there were those who schemed to blackmail those who opposed.

According to this post from a lawyers' blog (with two PDFs), the UPLS (another failed name for the same travesty) found itself getting a boost in Poland:

The Future Unified Patent Litigation System in the European Union, Academy of European Law's conference, organised in the framework of the Polish EU Presidency of the EU Council, Friday 23 September 2011

Poland's presidency in the EU did some mean things with patents [1, 2, 3]. Something needs to be done, at the very least berating those who are responsible. According to Wikipedia "The Council meets in various formations where its composition depends on the topic discussed." The Swedish and Czech [1, 2] presidencies (2009) were equally bad

The interests of European people are disregarded in favour of those of multinationals. ⬆