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LAST night we wrote about what happened in Britain, having written about the situation in Germany a day earlier. Not only the EPO is totally quiet about it. Team UPC too is silent; as if there's a conspiracy of silence -- the belief that if nobody speaks about it, then maybe nobody will notice.

"The whole thing is corrupt from start to finish."IAM, a UK-based lobbying site, has written not a thing since. It has been two days. Regarding the "UK Government refusal to go ahead with Unified Patent Court," one reader told us, "Kluwer, ipkat, Bristows et al are pretty silent on this so far..."

We checked again this morning. Still nothing!

Those are all sites that are habitually occupied (and written) by Bristows, where Bristows also deletes comments it does not agree with (they got caught doing this, repeatedly in fact).

But again, such if the nature of Team UPC. The whole thing is corrupt from start to finish. How long before all politicians realise this? Remember how they advertised job openings for positions that may never ever exist? Then tacitly admitted it?

UPC is important for only one thing: it helps demonstrate that in many pertinent European nations (and EU authorities too) systemic corruption prevails. Laws can virtually be bought. ⬆