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Patent Lawyers and EPO Officials Are Parading the Unitary Patent (UPC) in, Despite Lack of Democratic Process

The UPC is a Trojan horse of patent profiteers

Trojan horse



Summary: The Unitary Patent Court (UPC), the latest name of a decade-long effort to increase litigation, damages, injunctions, trolling etc. inside Europe, is being railroaded through the system like a Trojan horse, relying on public apathy (as the public does not know anything about its existence and the harsh reality)

THE UPC, which we wrote about 4 days ago, is a very big deal for the EPO's management. It even sponsored a pro-UPC propaganda event in the US, to take place just days from now with help from patent lawyers and patent lawyers' media. This isn't democracy, it's a coup d'état which merely serves to discredit European democracy.



Amerikat (Ward) from IP Kat continues her push for UPC as if it's already a done deal (it's not) and some "IP & Technology lawyer" promotes this UPC coup which European citizens never got to vote on. It's not just women doing this, but it's almost always patent lawyers, which is quite revealing, is it not? "ADR is also part of the new European #patent framework. Draft #UPC mediation rules now published," the latter wrote.

Benjamin Henrion (FFII) responded by saying: "Rules cannot be written by an administrative committee."

“...in the worst case, they will just copy/paste the rules and ask parliaments to rubberstamp.”
      --Benjamin Henrion (FFII)
"Unitary Patent Court rules and laws cannot be made by an administrative committee," he later added, "only by elected parliaments" ("don't worry," I said, "they can always just bribe some politicians to sign off the rules they pass to them for signing").

A pro-patents account then jumped in to say: "It is supposed to be monitored by EU Council whose members are supposed to be monitored by elected parliaments, monitored by people."

"When was the UPC ever monitored by people other than patent lawyers [and] other profiteers," I responded, comparing them to foxes in the hen house. At this stage Henrion said "that's stealing democracy. There are clear ECHR rulings on this."

"Well, it's not like the patent lawyers always honestly cared about law," I responded, "they game it!" That's what they do for a living, that is what people pay them a lot of money for.

As Henrion put it, "in the worst case, they will just copy/paste the rules and ask parliaments to rubberstamp."

Then, "patentlyGerman" (his occupation isn't hard to guess) said: "The Munich local div of the #UPC will be housed in a boring, but centrally located building" (patent lawyers and propagandists say "will", not "would", as if UPC is already unstoppable and inevitable).

"UPC is a Trojan horse that European citizens neither want nor need (at least those who even know it exists and understand what it's for)."Thankfully, as some people come to realise, Spain is doing the right thing by rejecting the UPC, in spite of political blackmail.

Show us anyone other than patent lawyers (or the EPO) promoting the UPC and we shall award with a prize. All we have here is a coup d'état. UPC is a Trojan horse that European citizens neither want nor need (at least those who even know it exists and understand what it's for).

UPC is a spit in the face of European democracy. It's time for more sites (not sites of patent lawyers) to openly talk about it and properly inform the public.

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