[Meme] Tilting the Scales for Software Patents
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2021-06-17 07:53:42 UTC
- Modified: 2021-06-17 07:53:42 UTC
Summary: Shovelling up lots of patents, even worthless patents such as software patents, dooms the EPO (EPC violations, lawlessness), dooms European professionals, but the wrong people have been put in charge and courts are being intimidated by them
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