04.26.18
With Unified Patent Court (UPC) on Its Death Throes, Team UPC Now Resorts to Promoting Pertinent Parts of the Agreement (UPCA)
Patent extremists — like manufacturers of arms — rely on endless wars (litigation/feuds/threats)
Reference: Supplementary protection certificate
Summary: The latest writings about the Unitary Patent and agenda related to it, courtesy of the same people, firms and Web sites that spent several years lobbying for the UPC (i.e. for their own wallets)
TEAM UPC has been very quite over the past month. This was expected because the whole process had ground to a halt. There’s almost nothing to report and even EPO management barely mentions the UPC nowadays.
Something called “corporate disputes magazine” (never heard of it before, sounds like some pro-ISDS rag) wrote this misleading new piece which it then promoted by saying: “Despite the lingering uncertainty caused by #Brexit, the UK is inching closer to ratifying the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement…”
“Team UPC has been very quite over the past month.”“Clearly nonsensical wishful thinking,” I’ve responded to them, “because there has been no progress on this in Britain. UPC or Unitary Patent is a failed, begone coup attempt.”
This is their “FEATURE Article” and it’s not even long or insightful.
Another new tweet, citing this page in Bulgarian, says that “Bulgaria’s government files proposal with parliament to ratify the protocol to the #unifiedpatentcourt agreement.”
“There’s almost nothing to report and even EPO management barely mentions the UPC nowadays.”“Irrelevant,” I’ve told them, “as Germany and the UK are two thirds of those who must ratify and won’t [and thus] UPC is dead.” (the other third is France, Battistelli’s home country and also Barnier’s, the other UPC booster).
Team UPC still refuses to let go; a couple of days ago some vocal promoters of the UPC, Managing IP, were at it again. UPC agenda was again being pushed, this time at the “European Life Sciences Forum”. From their summary (the rest is behind paywall): “The UPC, second medical use patents, the doctrine of equivalents, SPCs, AI and much more were discussed at the European Life Sciences Forum…”
“Team UPC still refuses to let go; a couple of days ago some vocal promoters of the UPC, Managing IP, were at it again.”They even mention SPCs. One can imagine whose crowd was there: the embargo maximalists.
It’s worth noting that these articles about Europe are written not even by Europeans (e.g. Michael Loney in New York). They’re promoting SEP/FRAND in Europe. Managing IP also promotes embargoes by legal bullying, using its lobbying events that are stacked by bullies (as intended). See what they said a couple of days ago about “Managing IP’s International Patent Forum in London”:
European in-house counsel gave insights into the licensing of standard-essential patents at Managing IP’s International Patent Forum in London last month.
This is the kind of thing Team UPC constantly lobbies for.
“This is the kind of thing Team UPC constantly lobbies for.”About a day ago Team UPC/Bristows via Christopher Weber (Kather Augenstein) wrote about “injunctive relief” (euphemisms for embargoes) and later came Bristows’ SPC agenda and Patrick Wingrove’s article about Tilman Breitenstein. It’s all about litigation, embargoes, raids etc. That’s basically the vision Team UPC has for Europe. Will it ever happen? Well, we certainly won’t let it. It’s good for almost nobody except the litigation and protectionism ‘industry’. █
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