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Bristows LLP Tries Hard to Maintain the Illusion That UPC is Alive, Using Media Placements and Paid Plugs

Related: Bristows LLP is Still Trying to Attach Wings to the UPC and Distract From Serious (Likely Fatal) Barriers to It

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Summary: Ever-so-desperate efforts to keep the Unitary Patent (UPC) in headlines, even though nothing is happening and nothing is likely to happen any time soon

THE EPO's management is on holiday, so not much is said about the UPC nowadays. The UPC is in a seriously fatal state. Only jingoistic nonsense would have people believe otherwise.



"Bristows, part of Team UPC, has already infiltrated Kluwer Patent Blog and IP Kat for the purpose of UPC marketing/lies. Therein, in blogs not associated directly with Bristows, these people have been deleting comments they don't like/agree with (not good for their financial interests)."We have been writing for nearly a decade about the UPC as a vehicle for software patents in Europe and lots of software patent trolls which accompany these, essentially creating lots of "demand" for litigation (mind Bristows "brown-nosing" British judges to advance trolling in the UK). This week, Bristows is literally paying to spread its blog posts to other sites. Luke Maunder's nonsense is now in Lexology (megaphone of Battistelli, as of yesterday), attributed to "Bristows LLP".

Bristows, part of Team UPC, has already infiltrated Kluwer Patent Blog and IP Kat for the purpose of UPC marketing/lies. Therein, in blogs not associated directly with Bristows, these people have been deleting comments they don't like/agree with (not good for their financial interests). Now, in a multi-part 'interview' form, Managing IP does that also, basically becoming a platform for lies. Kingsley Egbuonu is beating the dead UPC (Trojan) horse. This dead horse, which Managing IP has promoted for its own interests for a number of years, is described in rather mystifying terms like: "The UK has made remarkable progress towards ratifying the UPC Agreement" (actually, not really).

"We certainly hope that readers already know where publications like IAM and Managing IP stand on this debate.""In the first of a two-part article," Egbuonu says of himself, "Kingsley Egbuonu spoke to Alan Johnson of Bristows about UK’s preparations, post-Brexit participation and the impact of being outside the system" (there is no such participation, but they continue to peddle this illusion as though it's a given).

We certainly hope that readers already know where publications like IAM and Managing IP stand on this debate. They're been little more than paid cheerleaders of Battistelli's agenda for a number of years.

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