[OT] EU patents [was Microsoft filled patent applications for scoped and immutable types]

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On Friday, 29 August 2014 at 10:30:49 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
> What's really bad is that there is also CETA, which is an 
> agreement between the EU and Canada, and which is nothing than 
> an inconspicuous back door to achieve much of the same thing as 
> TTIP. Unfortunately it has gotten basically no media attention 
> at all (at least in Germany, TTIP has been mentioned several 
> times at least), despite being ratified soon, and despite its 
> potentially far reaching consequences for the western society 
> in general.
>
> You can get an overview on Wikipedia. Apart from the patent 
> system and several environmental "unifications", an especially 
> concerning part is ISDS:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_Trade_and_Investment_Partnership#National_sovereignty_and_Investor_State_Dispute_Settlements_.28ISDS.29

I don't want to live on this planet anymore >_<
..yet again.