Am Dienstag, den 08.01.2008, 12:17 +0000 schrieb Rui Miguel Silva Seabra:
No, they should demand EPO to ungrant them.
They can't do that, of course,
Exactly. All the discussions that the EC should have invalidated the patents are void, because the EC has no control whatsoever over the EPO.
because the EPO has a greater power than EC.
That's a strange view - there are a lot of organisations that the EC has no influence upon (and IMHO it has to be that way in a democracy).
That there is *no* other institution that controls and influences the EPO in a democratic way is a severe bug in the system, but you can't blame the EC for that.
Thanks, Reinhard