Europe's 'one patent court to rule them all' vision may be destroyed by EPO shenanigans The freeze on long-held plans to approve a single patent court for Europe is a result of the actions of the president of the European Patent Office, according to German media reports. The Unified Patent Court (UPC) has been in progress since 2012, but last month Germany's constitutional court unexpectedly ordered a halt to …
And sooner or later it may indeed all come tumbling down, king Humpty-Dumpty turning into Ozymandias, seeing himself dismissed and his work reversed - and what many people will see is "well sanity does ultimately prevail more often than you'd think after all". Yet what I'll see is "thank heavens he was the lunatic he was, because a slightly more reserved creep biding his time with some more patience and with less flash might just have gotten away with all of the same things and more - and heck knows in how many other places that's exactly what _is_ happening; we're _so_ fucked..."
I know the workings of many European institutions are a bit strange, and influenced by many external factors, but WTF has anyone continued to support this dangerous clown? Has anyone any good suggestions why the Danish bod was so keep to support him?
We need a lot more transparency about the people involved.
It is high time this nutjob is brought back under control. Erase his tenure, burn his career, trash every one of his decisions and put in place someone who is capable of advancing the whole process, not derailing it.
Oh, and can the nutjob have his pension revoked ? Please ? It would really be grating for him to get full benefits in retirement - he certainly doesn't deserve it;
And most importantly totalitarian, with complete impunity, because of some ridiculous protocol that allows anything "international" in designation to violate human, civil and workers' rights.
Hopefully the ECHR will put an end to that travesty, and with it all future tin-pot Euro-dictators like "King" Battistelli.
"We're international so we get to do whatever we like and we're untouchable by your laws" is one of the oft-repeated critiques of most european institutions by the whole leave campaign.
So while we're calling Batistelli an arse, we can lay "at least partially responsible for brexit becoming a thing" at his door too by being exactly the thing they were going on about.
at what has gone on? Don't any commenters here have any experience in corporate or non-profit organizations (we expect it in clearly labeled politics)? The only rare thing is how long it has gone on, but I doubt he is more the one sigma above median for "entrenched petty dictator of allegedly noble group".
It's just that the EPO has a bit more visibility than the East Frogbottom Library Acquisitions Committee.
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