Abuse Inside the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) - Part VII: Washing Their Hands After Corruption and Abuse
"Tragedy or comedy?"
We already wrote a great deal about how the UPC was illegally ratified despite European courts ruling it was unconstitutional. Poland found it to be detrimental to its economy, set aside that it's illegal and unconstitutional. But this is the "new normal"; illegal is "OK" as long as some business crosscut (litigation 'industry') and foreign companies with lobbyists around Brussels insist on it. This is not acceptable. People do not wish to live in a society like this, wherein the rich control everything, including courts and patent offices that grant them monopolies. This is corruption - the sort of thing states were meant to guard the ordinary person against. That's why voting exists - a form of accountability.
In Part I we mentioned a publication in Polish. It's called StoWI. It covers some of these issues. The latest issue, as its authors explain, closes with a stark conclusion: "society must either initiate genuine reform or accept the continued degradation of legal and institutional standards."
In Part II and Part III we gave examples of some of the illegalities. In Part IV, Part V, and in Part VI we showed it had already escalated to the political level in Poland.
So who's going to hold all those crooks accountable? Some of them exercise or enjoy impunity now. They're in corrupt institutions that get away with the corruption because of their political connections, just like in the EPO.
As a reader put it, StoWI's editorial team states [or illuminates] the drama of [so-called] IP [intellectual property] at the Polish Patent Office and the EUIPO. And asks: tragedy or comedy?
Well, stay tuned for plenty more. We plan to delve or go deep down to pertinent issues, including those alluded to in prior parts.
In the EPO we said the hands were washing one another and the face (a common analogy that works in many languages). Well, it's time for the general public to know and properly understand what's going on in these [so-called] IP [intellectual property] offices in Europe. Who are they actually serving and who was meant to be served (if they functioned properly and weren't a broad, cross-national hub of bribery)? █