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Even Team Battistelli is Sometimes Admitting -- Out in Public! -- That Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Neither Legal Nor Desirable

Video download link | md5sum 6b334ef318c0bd9f414896b358c65e3e Even Former EPO Chiefs Reject the UPC Lies Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0



Summary: Daniel X. Thomas and other people who are "too old to punish" (consequences to their career profoundly minimised owing to seniority) are among those who push back against the Unitary Patent or Unified Patent Court (UPC); any sane person -- not a career-climbing litigation zealot -- can identify the pertinent facts and realise that what's going on here is an injustice of unprecedented proportions in the patent discipline

THE video above deals with 13 annotated screenshots from today (gathered over the past week) and 17 new comments against the UPC. If one puts aside fake news and shameless self-promotion, it seems abundantly clear that UPC is neither legal nor desirable. Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos as EPO presidents have acted like agents of Team UPC, striving to lower patent quality in anticipation of kangaroo courts with docile judges across the EU.



"There's that old cliché about UPC always coming "next year" (and next year they'll say "next year" again)."The perils of Team UPC have lasted over a decade. They've groomed Campinos (he attended and spoke in a UPC lobbying event in his very first week as EPO President). But he's letting out the expletives. His approval rates among staff are near 0% (3% two years ago; the only way has been down since then).

As shown above, even former executives of the EPO, who worked and still work with Battistelli, agree that the UPC is a terrible conspiracy (of law firms and their largest clients; they conspire against the European public). The pushback is very apparent and rumours we've seen suggest a legal action is inevitable if not imminent. There's that old cliché about UPC always coming "next year" (and next year they'll say "next year" again).

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