However, several factors combine to tilt him away from taking this approach alone: these include (i) the sheer complexity of the mechanisms for operating the proposed system which will be as hard to amend and fine-tune as it has been to establish in the first place, (ii) its plainly divisive nature, (iii) the absurdly convoluted structure for litigating unitary patents and matters relating to them, (iv) the fact that the realities relating to the satisfactory governance of the European Patent Office… [read post]

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