Re: [Patents] EPO grants Acacia patent on video streaming]

[Hartmut Pilch <phm@a2e.de>]

> >Maybe it would also be necessary to organise some kind of demo outside the
> >court, so that the judiciary may know which is the authority that it
> >should follow, ....
> 
> Ah yes, Hartmut's version of democracy: the anarchic rule of the mob.

You know well why you elided the last part of the sentence: "if they can't 
just apply the law".

The rules for interpretation of law are learnt in 1st semester courses of 
law in university, and can be seen well in this text from Prof. Lenz which 
we still need to translate

        http://swpat.ffii.org/analysis/epc52/exeg/

But lawyers often don't like laws.  They prefer that everything should be 
somehow balanced out through caselaw and precedent, dominated by people 
who can afford to pay lawyers and fight out lawsuits, not by elected 
lawmakers. 

Judges should better pay attention that that doesn't happen.  If they 
create their own authoritarian system instead of following the 
rules of division of power, then the "mob" must come out and show them 
where the real authority lies.

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