Open Letter to the German Greens on UPC and software patents: don’t betray your voters and your promises, or you will regret it https://t.co/lPGNVsyXLV
#upc#swpat@GreensEFA @GermanGreens
Is Germany competing with Hungary and Poland on the “Worst Rule of Law Award” with its rushed ratification of the Unitary Patent? https://t.co/bOeTol2iA0 via @FFII@zoobab
Da wird mal wieder ein supranationales Monstrum erschaffen - diesmal ein Patentgericht das mit mässiger Legitimation z.B. Softwarepatente durchsetzen kann - und die Presse schweigt weitgehend.
https://t.co/mSRmhWFYnE
FFII oppose the third attempt to impose software patents in Europe via the UPC, patent law should not operate in the isolation and silence of a Trappist Monastry https://t.co/VPpGd0EK6V
Here we go again - another call from the BVerfG to President Steinmeier awaits. Another three or four years for a decision. Does this give industry the certainty it needs?
"In the Hansard for 9 March 2017 (Plenarprotokoll 18/221) mentioned in the BVerfG decision, there is a speech by Renate Künast which clearly suggests opposition by the B90/Grünen fraction" https://t.co/K3eaWdLk5T
Milan will loose the UPC seat to Paris, says Tilmann in his latest paper in GRUR: "the Central Chamber of Paris has to take over the tasks of the London branch until further notice without any regulation being necessary." #upc#italy#brexit
Brexit: FFII rejects the proposal by the German Ministry of Justice to present the Agreement on the Unified Patent Court (UPCA) to the German Parliament for ratification
https://t.co/dNA5I5KaqG #upc#consultation#patent
Unitary Patent: Germany is ignoring Brexit, European law, its Constitutional Court and Italians https://t.co/xoTpdn6EmE #upc#swpat#brexit#europe#patent#italy
"The Unitary Patent is another attempt to validate and expand software patents in Europe. Software development is a key sector on which whole industries depend. The agreement would reserve to the CJEU only a say in a few limited technical matters." https://t.co/RvVDImNuK7
Greens voted against the Unitary Patent at EU level, but voted for it at the German level, so much for a pan-european party "This will likely depend on the German Greens. In the past they have [...] voted in favour." https://t.co/NFw321BM3p