That joke which is called the Unified Patent Court (UPC) "Preparatory Committee" is so biased that it's not even funny. We wrote about it many times before.

"Every year they have been telling us "next year" and a week or so from now people are supposed to have the impression that UPC will materialise "later this year"."Alexander Ramsay, whose entire career depends on UPC boosting, will continue to pretend that the Unitary Patent is not dead. That's just his job. That's what he's paid for. That's also how firms like Bristows profit; they derive income from misleading clients. Here's their latest and 5 hours apart from the above (by Myles Jelf) came a similar post at Kluwer Patent Blog. This is probably Bristows staff writing anonymously again in order to mislead the public (without accountability). Well, liars and crooks don't want to put their names next to what they know to be false. Either way, based on its own blog alone, Bristows seems to be once again spreading the lies late on a Friday in order to avoid harsh responses/corrections; no response for the first 7 or so hours (when we checked last night) and moments ago (we checked again) there was still nothing. So nobody is correcting them. Bristows' own site does not allow comments at all; neither does this page from Ramsay.

What does that say? We're supposed to think that UPC is coming next year. How many times have we heard that before? Every year they have been telling us "next year" and a week or so from now people are supposed to have the impression that UPC will materialise "later this year".

Clever marketing? No. Lies.

As a side note, Techrights will also be covering EPO affairs during Xmas/NYE. It's an opportunity to publish things we never got around to publishing. We have plenty to publish. ⬆