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Klaus 'Kangaroo' Grabinski Does Not Understand Software Development 'As Such', He is a Symptom of the Patent System's Loss of Legitimacy (Acting to Curtail, Not Advance, Science)

Summary: EPO corruption has become a major threat to the legitimacy of the German government, the German legal system, the European Union, and the European Commission because the Unified Patent Court (UPC) is advancing through the political process without consultation with actual scientists and in defiance of laws, constitutions, and conventions

THIS site has been doing 'housework' the past few days, owing to some slowdown in the US (holidays).



Meanwhile, however, comments in the 'blogosphere' challenge the EPO's UPC propaganda. This propaganda, done in tandem with Team UPC, intensified a lot lately. They know it is illegal, they know it's unconsititutional, so they make a lot of noise about it arriving regardless, hoping to bury fact-checking efforts or much-needed sanity checks.

People start to realise that UPC is a court by corporations, for corporations. It's not a real court. It's just business. To quote just one of the comments: "What’s next, quarterly results?"

The first comment mocks the photo op of António Campinos and Klaus 'Kangaroo' Grabinski: "Does anyone have more context? The information itself is not more than “two top guys in IP matters are having a field day”. Proceedings before UPC simply do not work without an instant data exchange with EPO, so what is the point of a November 2022 agreement? Does it settle things that are already practice in background? Since the UPC is dependent from EPO data and case experience (training judges), does the EPO get something in return? Is the agreement open to the public?"

"UPC is making it hard to opt out," one reader told us, "because they want money, the more patents that fall within their jurisdiction, the better."

Grabinski quotes "as such" as an excuse for his support of European software patents, as we noted before.

"There is a summary on ipkat about a conf in 2019 where Grabinski says the exclusion of swpats (software patents) can be ignored with as such," the FFII has told us and its president publicly wrote the other day: "Klaus Grabinski as president of the UPC, meaning he has the last word over software patents in Europe #upc #swpat ..." (software patents)

Here's a screenshot from the 2019 conference report, composed by a longtime proponent of software patents, Annsley Merelle Ward (no, she never wrote any code, but she worked for Bristows, a fervent booster of software patent litigation through the UPC).

Grabinski on software patents

On the record.

There is growing interest from the media, though we don't wish to say where or who. This will ultimately harm the credibility of the German government and the EU, set aside EPO.

We still have a bunch of revelations to unleash and media studies these issues closely. Some politicians are also being briefed.

Interview request



Hi Roy, I work on a story about the UPC and the technical judges it plans to use. In your articles you mention talking to politicians about it. Do you have a suggestion who would be outspoken about it. If there is someone from Germany, that would be great.

Also, you mention a lobby behind the UPC. Could you be more specific? Thanks so much,

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Set aside media and politicians, what will happen when the general public finds out about this crooked "court" and the rigged process by which it was advanced?

Team UPC can shout from the rooftops, day and night, that UPC is coming "soon" (we're heard this for over 7 years), but it'll be far more complicated. Time will show the complications involved.

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