Summary: A quick look at the (relative) irrelevance of Baltic states to the EPO, where they enjoy a vote as powerful as that of the UK, France, Germany and other large economies with hundreds of thousands of patents
"The national Patent Offices of the Baltic States publish official statistics relating to "IP" protection," a reader has told us. "Most of the registration activity is in the area of "trademarks" and "designs", with very little under "patents"."
"crash will be way bigger than dot.com burst in 90s. and that was Internet, actually transformative technology, not this expensive AI toy with direct dependency on the energy input which is not scalable"
Looking at many sites that are full of slop images is becoming an eye sore and hallmark of text too likely generated by LLMs or 'assisted' (tainted) by them
On 12 March and 16 June 2025, staff representation met with the administration in the Local Occupational Health, Safety and Ergonomics Committee (LOHSEC) in Munich