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Story: EU-wide patents 'move closer'

Divide and conquer. With EU wide (software) patent legislation it'll be a matter of time before well sponsored lobbiest and laywers will start exploiting loopholes in the weakest links of the chain they can find. And once that's done the whole EU can "benefit" from it. No thanks.

EU wide legislation would give a huge stick to the bigger cooperations to beat the smaller guys over the head with. Don't do their bidding? They'll sue you with dozens of their own "patents". Sue them? They'll bleed you dry in court no matter how right you are. My pocket is deeper then yours, baby. There's modern justice for you. Even better, using your own tax money against you.

They'll be pouring in money to local authorities that handle their EU wide (software) patent applications the quickest and with the least amount of hazzle. Maybe on paper it'll look that everyone will get the same treatment etc everywhere but that won't be the case in reality.

What's to protect us from such abuse? The same people that went along with software patents in the first place. And the same people that convict and condemn yet still reward (by not making it not profitable) abuse of rules and regulations by big cooperations. Boy, do I feel re-assured now.

Big commercial organizations have been investing huge amounts of effort and money in this software patent thing already. They're willing to spend much much more. Why? Because they don't want a huge return on investment in return? How can they be so certain of such a huge return in investment?

Why is it that most of the big commercial organizations (and patent offices. Duh!) want software patents so bad and most of the smaller organizations (where most of the national cash flow and jobs come from) want to keep existing (copyright) laws? How should our democratic EU politicians react to that?

What the EU should do is to ban software patents all together because if they don't the well sponsored lobbiests will be pushing and crawling until they'll get what they want. Such costly distraction from more important matters should be stopped dead in its tracks sooner then later.

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