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

[Hartmut Pilch <phm@a2e.de>]

> Well, I personally would think a legal process against EPO would be 
> at least a good signal for politicians. It should show that the EPO
> is probably doing something wrong. Such a process would of course take
> quite a long time (as all today's legal processes), so it wouldn't 
> really matter if we win or not, if the process lasts long enough.
> Having a postivie judgement before the next important vote would 
> of course be much better.
> 
> IMHO it is important to show the world, that the EPO is doing criminal 
> acts. Whether we're able to send those folks to prison someday is 
> written on another paper - but definitively marking the EPO as "criminal"
> would probably bring us much points in the fight.
> 
> Would you agree/disagree ? Why ?

I can't even find any sensible statement to agree or disagree with in the 
above.

What process?  where do you want to go and sue the EPO for infringement of 
criminal law?

> Who would have the resources to go to court ? FFII ?

Questions like these shouldn't be asked on a public list at all, 
especially to one that does not constitute a "we" group.

There is no "we" of whose ressources anybody here can dispose.

Usually it is a good idea to get a few things done yourself before you 
start discussions about how other people should be doing what you want to 
get done.

I have learned during these years to consider questions such as the above 
as a kind of trolling that must not be fed.

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