[Meme] Get Ready for Unified Patent Court (UPC) to be Taken to Court
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2022-01-25 16:09:06 UTC
Modified: 2022-01-25 16:09:06 UTC
Courts aren't a tally or straw poll of headlines produced by (or for) patent litigation firms with a crystal clear conflict of interest
In 2017 (5 years ago) Germany put UPCA on the ice; expect something similar this year (Team UPC has already shifted or shied away from saying "2022"; now it says "2023" because it has always been "some time next year")
The consensus in comments we see is, IBM is a terrible place to work in, treatment of its workers is appalling, it's utterly foolish to relocate in an effort to retain a job at IBM, and it's foolish to join the company in the first place
Yesterday we read that it was quite cruel how IBM (or Red Hat) compelled staff to pretend to be happily leaving or "retiring" when the reality was, they had been pushed out with some "package"
If patent law had been applied to novels in the 1880s, great books would not have been written. If the EU applies it to software, every computer user will be restricted, says Richard Stallman
So the real extent of layoffs is greater than what's publicly stated (there are silent layoffs) [...] Whatever IBM says about the scope, scale, or magnitude of the "RAs", it doesn't tell the full story
