A civil war in Europe between the very rich Europeans (who help their rich friends overseas) and the rest of Europe

THE EPO is scandalous for many reasons, one of which is the loyalty to multinational corporations at the expense of Europe. IAM 'magazine', which organises an event in favour of the UPC (with funding from the EPO), said earlier this morning that the event "boasts a world-class speaking faculty, with senior representatives from the likes of the European Patent Office, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Nokia and Ericsson, as well as a number of leading European-based private practice lawyers, attorneys and intermediaries, all slated to take part."

"And there's a firm in the US, FTI Consulting, helping to fund this (at the behest of the EPO) by paying a publisher."So what we have here are many US companies, patent lawyers, and EPO managers. Great, isn't it? And there's a firm in the US, FTI Consulting, helping to fund this (at the behest of the EPO) by paying a publisher. Nothing wrong here. Not at all! Shut your eyes and pretend that everything Battistelli says about the UPC is true. Battistelli would never lie!

'Amerikat' (Annsley Merelle Ward), a booster of software patents and of the UPC (for quite some time now), currently speaks about the UPC as though it's already some kind of inevitable reality (it's not). Dugie Standeford from IP Watch speaks about the UPC as a "priority in 2016," but whose? Patent lawyers' and Team Battistelli's? "Work on the unitary patent system continues," he wrote, "and there’s an increased focus on the issue of patents versus plant breeders’ rights."

We wrote about patents on plants many times before, sometimes in relation to Europe. ⬆