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schestowitz | > Brussels, 1st April 2012 -- The Council of European ministers agreed | Apr 03 15:04 |
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schestowitz | > today on the location of the future European Patent Court, which is | Apr 03 15:04 |
schestowitz | > going to be located in Sealand, 10 kilometers off the English coast. The | Apr 03 15:04 |
schestowitz | > European patent community has finally achieved independence from elected | Apr 03 15:04 |
schestowitz | > parliaments. | Apr 03 15:05 |
schestowitz | > | Apr 03 15:05 |
schestowitz | > Georg Friedrich Reichmann, patent attorney in Munich, is happy about the | Apr 03 15:05 |
schestowitz | > agreement: "Sealand is the perfect location for the court. Since the | Apr 03 15:05 |
schestowitz | > patent system is a very special part of law, it should have its own | Apr 03 15:05 |
schestowitz | > court clearly detached from the law of the Member States. It is the | Apr 03 15:05 |
schestowitz | > final victory for the patent community to achieve independence - we have | Apr 03 15:05 |
schestowitz | > been trying to achieve that for more than 50 years." | Apr 03 15:05 |
schestowitz | > | Apr 03 15:05 |
schestowitz | > Jan Schultz, a respected patent judge of Germany, comments: "I am a bit | Apr 03 15:05 |
schestowitz | > concerned with the accessibility of the place, but I am sure the British | Apr 03 15:05 |
schestowitz | > government will provide helicopters at the disposal of the judges and | Apr 03 15:05 |
schestowitz | > the litigants. Flying judges will become a reality." | Apr 03 15:05 |
schestowitz | > | Apr 03 15:05 |
schestowitz | > An ex-member of the European Court of Justice, who wanted to remain | Apr 03 15:05 |
schestowitz | > anonymous, mentioned to us: "Sealand is not part of the European Union, | Apr 03 15:05 |
schestowitz | > and it reflects the non-EU nature of this agreement. The European | Apr 03 15:05 |
schestowitz | > Parliament has basically committed suicide in patent law by giving green | Apr 03 15:05 |
schestowitz | > light to that kind of agreement." | Apr 03 15:05 |
schestowitz | > | Apr 03 15:05 |
schestowitz | > A press spokesman of the EPO said: "The European Patent Convention (EPC) | Apr 03 15:05 |
schestowitz | > is the perfect legal instrument for the foundations of the court. The | Apr 03 15:05 |
schestowitz | > EPO is based on the EPC, and we have enjoyed very much our independence | Apr 03 15:05 |
schestowitz | > from elected politicians for nearly 30 years." | Apr 03 15:05 |
schestowitz | > | Apr 03 15:05 |
schestowitz | > Erik Angström, from the PirateBay: "We did not succeed in raising enough | Apr 03 15:05 |
schestowitz | > funds to buy Sealand, now the patent establishment succeeded in raising | Apr 03 15:05 |
schestowitz | > more money than we did. Nevertheless, will use the money raised to | Apr 03 15:05 |
schestowitz | > purchase another island somewhere, to declare it a sovereign nation like | Apr 03 15:05 |
schestowitz | > the european patent community did". | Apr 03 15:05 |
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