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With Milan getting the third central division (with #Paris, #Munich), we now have an extremely central #Europe and civil-law based top end of the #UPC.
Coupled with #Brexit and #Ireland's deferred ratification, this means the hard-fought common-law provisions will be consigned to history long before Ireland joins.
What is most depressing is the #UK done all the hard work in getting the #UPC states to include (UK and Irish) common-law provisions in the UPC Rules. The UK then threw away the advantages of this work by withdrawing after Brexit.
#Ireland was thus handed by the UK/Brexit a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to carve our own niche in the valuable world of European IP litigation.
Our politicians' crippling lack of ambition and backbone was so severe that we did not even fight for it.
#ip #law
It is unfortunate if a politician fights hard to create an opportunity that ultimately goes elsewhere, especially if the opportunity is worth 100s of jobs and 100s of millions (at least).
It is wasteful to lose this much by meekly fighting after someone else has done all the hard work to carve out the opportunity
I do not even know what to call it when you just do not bother trying for such a massive result after others have carved out your opportunity.
Corrupt? Economically shameful?