American patents could be voided in Europe

[Anaconda_]

I just read a report that in retaliation to Greenland threats, European leaders are planning to introduce trade blocks with America, and part of that is a potential voiding of American patents. What could this mean for the camera industry? Suddenly everyone can put compressed raw into their cameras without having to argue with RED? 

https://en.people.cn/n3/2026/0119/c90000-20415649.html
"The mechanism would allow immediate retaliation, including punitive tariffs, market bans, financial sanctions, and the suspension of U.S. patents and licences, without recourse to the United Nations or the World Trade Organization."

[eatstoomuchjam]

As Doctorow said, Europe could also finally remove anti-circumvention laws since one of the only reasons to implement them in the first place was to avoid tariffs from the US.

[Andrew - EOSHD]

On 1/19/2026 at 8:21 AM, Anaconda_ said:

I just read a report that in retaliation to Greenland threats, European leaders are planning to introduce trade blocks with America, and part of that is a potential voiding of American patents. What could this mean for the camera industry? Suddenly everyone can put compressed raw into their cameras without having to argue with RED? 

https://en.people.cn/n3/2026/0119/c90000-20415649.html
"The mechanism would allow immediate retaliation, including punitive tariffs, market bans, financial sanctions, and the suspension of U.S. patents and licences, without recourse to the United Nations or the World Trade Organization."

The US government twats underestimates how angry Europe is over the greenland BS and the damage we can do.

The EU and UK are one of the biggest economies in the world along with China and the US.

I am not sure why the US would want to piss us off.

But we could ask Canada and Australia to join a customs union.

We would even go all the way and have them join the EU.

UK could rejoin too.

We could sell the trillion dollars of US bonds and crash the US economy.

But what is rarely talked about is the US services industry.

They are deeply embedded in European life but this might change.

VISA, Mastercard, Apple, X and many American banks could suddenly find themselves kicked out of Europe and replaced by European companies.

Imagine the damage that would do to the Americans. eBay and PayPal would lose almost half of their global market share.

[Ilkka Nissila]

On 1/25/2026 at 9:51 PM, Andrew - EOSHD said:

The US government twats underestimates how angry Europe is over the greenland BS and the damage we can do.

The EU and UK are one of the biggest economies in the world along with China and the US.

I am not sure why the US would want to piss us off.

But we could ask Canada and Australia to join a customs union.

We would even go all the way and have them join the EU.

UK could rejoin too.

We could sell the trillion dollars of US bonds and crash the US economy.

But what is rarely talked about is the US services industry.

They are deeply embedded in European life but this might change.

VISA, Mastercard, Apple, X and many American banks could suddenly find themselves kicked out of Europe and replaced by European companies.

Imagine the damage that would do to the Americans. eBay and PayPal would lose almost half of their global market share.

You are correct that the economic impact of European countries replacing those services with our own systems would be huge on the US. Also the loss of influence would be significant. But I suspect somehow that Europe doesn't have the self-confidence to actually go through it. They should, though. But Trump's admin is quick to anger and reacts to even small threats to their plans. Starmer threatened to shut down Twitter/X after the latest scandal (of AI generated sexually explicit images of users based on their photos). JD Vance has said that if UK shut down UK residents' access to X then the US will pull out from Nato. This is how much they are intent on bringing a Trump style admin and politics to UK. I think we need to coordinate action with Canada, UK, EU, Japan, Australia and develop alternatives to all this technology and services and eventually sell all financial assets in the US and shut down Meta, Alphabet, X, use a new financial services system which not US based or influenced and simply live in a world free of US influence and coercion now that that country has revealed its true colors. The remaining problem is the majority of military power is now concentrated under undemocratic, autocratic governments which could cause problems if they feel they are losing the economic and social influence over the democratic and free parts of the world.