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The Italian government should grant an amnesty for this immediately. Lives are on the line. There is no question about what the right thing to do in this situat

• tyre 7y ago
  Agreed. Parliament can grant pardons. They should come out and say, "Anyone prosecuted for patent infringement over this valve will be pardoned." There aren't many clear, easy choices in a situation like this. Here's one.
  • hedora 7y ago
    They can probably also move to invalidate the patent. There is precedent for this sort of thing in the US, at least.
  • manmal 7y ago
    IANAL but I‘m not sure it would work this way since parliament cannot directly influence the judge. And I think this wouldn’t be a criminal case, so they would have to change patent laws (might take too long now), or find a different way - eg they could promise to fully reimburse all infringers of this patent though.
  • regularfry 7y ago
    That's actually the wrong way round. In order to be pardoned, they first have to be found guilty, so they need to go through the expense of defending themselves. What's needed is to prevent the cases from getting that far in the first place, which could be done by the government taking possession of any relevant patents for the duration and issuing a time-limited license.
• poiuyt098 7y ago
  > Lives are on the line You could say that about many patents, probably most medicine ones. Also no one would want to do business with Italy, and it probably breaks EU & international laws.