Friday, February 5, 2021 These should be the top five priorities for those organizations seeking to promote balanced patent policy Things haven't recently gone too well for those opposing patentee overcompensation in the information and communications technology sector and trollish litigation tactics. The German patent injunction reform effort is now at a point where even communists demand strong intellectual property protection. To turn that one around, with the end of the term approaching fast, is like trying to win a chess match after losing too many pieces. But there are five other contexts in which the camp that is making itself completely ridiculous in the German reform process could still bring about really positive developments. The following order does not indicate the relative importance of each item, but is related to how soon one would have to take action: