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

[Dicebot via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 29 August 2014 at 02:10:57 UTC, Russel Winder via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Jérôme,
>
> On Thu, 2014-08-28 at 11:53 +0200, "Jérôme M. Berger" via 
> Digitalmars-d
> wrote:
> […]
>> PPS: IANAL but I have had lots of contacts with patent lawyers 
>> and I
>> have taken part in several patent disputes as an expert 
>> witness.
>> However, this was in France so most of my knowledge applies to
>> French law and things may be different in the US.
>
> Are you tracking the new EU unitary patent and TTIP activity? 
> We need to
> make sure the US does impose on the EU the same insane patent 
> framework
> the US has.

Any links to quickly get into the topic? This is first time I 
hear about it.