[Meme] Repeating American Mistakes by Treating Patent Applicants Like 'Clients' or 'Customers'
The sole goal now is to grant as many patent monopolies as possible, irrespective of their merit, and then to stack patent courts with lots of plaintiff-friendly judges (with financial ties to the litigation meta-industry). The EPO must be regulated or discarded.
The EPO is misusing its powers:
The corporate domination dooms patent offices, which deviate away from their original goals and risk becoming just some bureaucracy in the business of making money (at the collective expense of the general public). █
"Small enterprises generally adopt a rather negative position towards the current increasing granting of patents for software and algorithms because they fear that these will hamper or eventually even impede their work (more than 85%)." —German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Study of the Innovation Performance of German Software Companies, 2006, p. 86