Unified Patent Court Halt Sales of Ventilators Across Europe
1st April 2020
The Unified Patent Court (UPC) has issued an pan-European injunction to halt the sales of ventilators across Europe. The Court ruled that ventilators used by hospitals in the current pandemic of COVID-19 were violating an EPO patent on graphical user interfaces using tabs, granted to Bulldog Diagnostics LLC. Despite the lockdown, crowds started assembling around EPO offices, and the protests quickly escalated into violent riots. Protesters said that patent law cannot live in its own bubble, that lives were more important than profit.
And the myth of ‘intellectual property’ rears its ugly head yet again.
April 1st, 2020 at 11:40
It would seem like such an easy thing to fix. Bureaucracy becomes the defining law and defeats any attempt at sanity.