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Unified Patent Court/UPC/Unitary Patent: Our Latest Fake News Watch (and Some Occasional Reminders That This is in Fact Faked, But Team UPC Does Not Care What's Legal and What's True)



Miquel Montañá (Clifford Chance): UPC: four reasons on why the PPA is not legally in force: Reality check

Webinar on Women and the Unified Patent Court: Femmewashing; Vapourware; Patents are about gender now?

Netherlands: UPC Sunrise Period: Decide On Opting Out Your European Patents: Wake up, everyone! It's SUNRISE! Opting out of something that does not exist? Talk about false prophecies...

Mondaq/Worldwide: Guide To The Unified Patent Court (UPC): Guide to something which does not exist, just like 10 years ago... I profit more when I mislead you

JD Supra/The Unified Patent Court is (Finally) Coming to Europe and Bringing Some Pretty Fundamental Changes with It: Illegal and unconstitutional; You have said it every year for over 10 years; It's not about Europe but about suing Europe

Goodwin Procter LLP - Sabrina Poulos and Maria C. Smith: The Unified Patent Court is (Finally) Coming to Europe and Bringing Some Pretty Fundamental Changes with It: Googlebombing services for law firms

Lexology/The Unified Patent Court - Work areas - Getting The Deal Through: Pay to be lied to

Rouse - Rebecca Baines/What can SMEs expect from the Unified Patent Court? Totally false; UPC is an SME killer, but they don't want to tell you that

The National Law Review/EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS: Intellectual Property — Will the Unified Patent Court Change Everything? [PODCAST]: Monopoly, not a right; Say patents, not this meaningless BS, 'IP'; Very loaded question. It wants us to assume UPC is already a reality.

Gill Jennings & Every LLP: The Unified Patent Court: Pay us money for consultation on something that does not exist! Will or would? There are many legal obstacles, don't wish or fake them away; Uppercase P, lawyers need to get the formalities right

Ronny Amirsehhi/Europe Welcomes a New Era of Patent Litigation under UPC: Europe or litigation firms? Nothing to do with innovation. Paid-for plugs, not journalism, not even pretending otherwise

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP - Sebastian Moore, Emily Bottle, Rachel Montagnon and Trevor Lowe: UPC Advisory Committee and UPC Budget Committee hold inaugural meetings: More shills and lobbyists; Webchats... For something they fake

Patrick Wingrove/MIP: UPC plan to limit doc access will ‘kill system from start’: counsel:  The voice of patent trolls for many years already; In something that cannot legally exist? Vienna Convention and all? Straw man etc.

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP - Rachel Montagnon: UPC hopes to be operational by end of 2022 or early 2023 and opt-out sunrise period to start immediately Germany deposits instrument of ratification: No, the UK needs to ratify but cannot ratify, so this is a disaster in the making

Golda Lai and 	M. Andrew Holtman/Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP: Unified Patent Court to Officially Open in Europe: No, it cannot

Golda Lai and 	M. Andrew Holtman/Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP: Unified Patent Court to Officially Open in Europe: Scattering the fake news some more, as this is the lobbying tactic since 2021

JWP Patent & Trademark Attorneys - Piotr Godlewski: Life science entities proceeding before the European Patent Office faced with a difficult choice to make: False. Make believe. You've been saying this for ages.

Taylor Wessing - Verena Bertram, Michael Schächinger, Philipp Krusemarck, Jan Phillip Rektorschek and Alina Krukover: Patents: The Unified Patent Court: No such patents; Multinationals' court

Bardehle Pagenberg - Georg Anetsberger, Alexander Haertel, Tobias Kaufmann and Klaus Reindl: The Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court - What applicants and patent proprietors need to know already now: Four boosters of illegal software patents, hoping to replace or bypass patent courts with some  kangaroo court/s connected to the EPO, the granting authority; Already or now? Based on fake new spread by UPC boosters/profiteers

Bardehle Pagenberg - Georg Anetsberger, Alexander Haertel, Tobias Kaufmann and Klaus Reindl: The Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court - What applicants and patent proprietors need to know already now: What we cannot do with quality of arguments we make up for with quantities of copies, spread around the Web to mislead

Bardehle Pagenberg - Joachim Mader: Unitary Patents - Differences to regular EP patents: Fictional as none exist

Lexology/JWP Patent & Trademark Attorneys - Tomasz Gawliczek: Unitary Patent system shall improve the effectiveness of innovation protection in the EU: Litigation revenue for protectionism; No, patents are not innovation, they are monopolies; Based on fake news and illegal moves by the lobbyists

JWP Patent & Trademark Attorneys - Tomasz Gawliczek: Unitary Patent system shall improve the effectiveness of innovation protection in the EU:  Look, ma! My firm pays to googlebomb the term 'Unitary Patent' with my lies. We get paid to lie.

Berggren Oy - Michael Nielsen and Mariella Massaro: The European Patent Attorney Who Cried Wolf: How To Stop the Unified Patent Court From Eating All Your Sheep: Like lying about the UPC happening 'soon' since 2010?

Summary: Debunking lies (and liars) without sending them any traffic is no easy task; we hope that the annotated screenshots help equip the general public with information as well as evidence of the lies; we'll do a video on this subject shortly...

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