The EPO is Lying or Just Strategically Faking It. There's No 'Unitary Effect' at the EPO. There's No Unitary Patent or Unified Patent Court (UPC) Either.

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2023-01-03 09:45:45 UTC
Modified: 2023-01-03 11:01:09 UTC

Video download link | md5sum 1d785a06e1bc440f4b806426dbd77fbb There is No Unitary Effect at EPO Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0

Summary: Don't fall for the "unitary effect" ploy or the scam; the European Patents Office (EPO) boasts requests for something that does not exist, might never exist, or simply collapse shortly after its false start

THE EPO, being run by liars and thugs (Benoît Battistelli and his mate António Campinos since 2010) not only pretends that European software patents are magically OK, especially if framed as "HEY HI" (AI) or some other nonsense. It now pretends that applicants can request "unitary effect". It's shown in the video above. We joked about it with some memes earlier this month. ⬆

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