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Summary: The Unified Patent Court or "Unitary Patent" gets promoted in the same blog post or news item that celebrates dictatorship; that seems appropriate given the nature of the Unified Patent Court, which is a gross violation of laws and constitutions in a high-level institutional way

ISN'T it astounding that EPO management is promoting something unconstitutional, illegal and in defiance of international conventions while bragging about a close relationship with China's government? The king is always right. Right? Ask the courts. They would agree (the king appoints judges). Call it a legacy of Benoît Battistelli, who had inherited the strategy from his French idol, who died so suddenly. Several months ago they did the same with the Saudi regime (old tradition), just days apart from opportunistic pinkwashing. Call it the 'Qatar effect' of the patent world; the Unified Patent Court is basically celebrated by crooks and criminals. They know exactly what they're doing; they know they undermine the law whilst at the same time advertising themselves as "legal professionals".

As noted in the video, António Campinos is doing another photo op. The EPO has its very own "Pooh" (potty-mouthed kangaroo king):



Imagine he was arrogant enough to literally approve this for publication today (considering all the other news about China):

As noted in the video above, China isn't even particularly strategic to the EPO. South Korea and Japan have historically been a lot more signficant, but they have a functioning democracy, unlike China and the EPO (and its latest arrival, Montenegro). ⬆