THE UPC is all about litigation. It's about demoting examination and rewarding the litigation 'industry'. This is what the EPO's scandalous management has been eager to achieve, leaving even legislation to the litigation 'industry' and its tentacles. It's horrible. It's truly horrid. How it has gotten as far it has probably merits multi-volume books.

"Is the EPO eager to leave every business in Europe vulnerable and exposed to litigation from all around the world, including troll-rich (i.e. ethically-poor) countries?"Yesterday, the EPO spoke about the "Patent Prosecution Highway" (PPH) again, which is related only indirectly to the UPC. The puff piece (caution: link to the EPO's Web site, which means the EPO can harvest IP addresses) was titled "EPO and Eurasian Patent Office agree to launch Patent Prosecution Highway" and it's more of that Battistelli-style self-aggrandising nonsense.

Is the EPO eager to leave every business in Europe vulnerable and exposed to litigation from all around the world, including troll-rich (i.e. ethically-poor) countries? Because that's what the UPC would achieve.

"Why does Team UPC hate democracy, accountability, public participation and rational patent law so much?"We recently showed that Team UPC was actively lying about what had happened in Germany. It may be doing so again, starting with Kather Augenstein in its scarcely-known 'blog' and also Bristows. They promote this in Twitter right now. Yesterday, Mr. Weber from Kather Augenstein could be seen sucking up to Bristows in comments about patent trolls which operate in the UK -- something which Bristows too likes (it's mutual, as Bristows mentions him too) and he tweeted more of his usual stuff, pretending that the UPC is inevitable (it's not at all), basically marketing for his employer, which uses the UPC as a marketing opportunity even if it's a recipe for plenty of trolls in Germany (already a real and growing problem). "We hopefully we'll [sic] all be much smarter (and working in front of the UPC) in one year," he wrote.

Hopefully, eh? Not even hiding these antidemocratic desires anymore? Why does Team UPC hate democracy, accountability, public participation and rational patent law so much? They alienate themselves, all in the name of sheer greed. ⬆