A VERY loud minority, including few pharmaceutical behemoths, strive to patent nature and life. They want a monopoly on food, medicine, treatments etc. They strive to easily enforce or assert this monopoly worldwide. They're represented by selected law firms, which lobby -- among other things -- for the UPC.

"They even delete comments that are critical of the UPC."A couple of days ago we saw "Kluwer Patent blogger" (likely Bristows) writing in the UPC boosters' blog about unitary SPCs, which are of interest to pharmaceutical/medical giants. It sounds just like Bristows (they echo similar positions at IP Kat) and the EPO would no doubt be pleased to see what Kluwer Patent Blow, IP Kat and other blogs have turned into. They even delete comments that are critical of the UPC. Following the EPO's worst traditions (Battistelli and his flunkies censor even true statements). Team UPC (as shown at the top) is trying to float rumours that it does not even have; the original poster, who habitually uses the term "Team UPC", is among those who censor views that are hostile towards the UPC. Given the antidemocratic nature of the entire UPC/A process, at least they're consistent (consistently intolerant of plurality of views).

Thorsten Bausch responded calmly: "The latest rumor that I heard is that the Rapporteur Prof. Huber has meanwhile „ordered the files“. Whatever this may mean... Procedurally, the big question is whether the UPC case will be handled in conjunction with the EPO cases or separately."

"EPO abuses are still ongoing and they're part of the constitutional complaint."This can take years. EPO abuses are still ongoing and they're part of the constitutional complaint. They're an integral part of it. Team UPC is just desperately trying to seed doubt or misinformation about this complaint, hoping to bias the outcome (insinuating that FCC judges are only being a 'nuisance' and a 'spurious barrier' amidst an inevitable and trivial outcome, supposedly hindering public/greater good). Even ad hominem attacks (against the complainant) have already been attempted, all in vain of course. They mostly attempted to question the motivations.

A "media partner"of the EPO meanwhile wrote (also 2 days ago): "Benoit Battistelli, President of the EPO, leaves office in a few weeks. His legacy, he says, is a European Unified Patent."

No, it pretty much COLLAPSED! The puff piece from this "media partner" of the EPO will be the subject of our next post, in which we try not to give any 'free' promotion to the event or name/shame people who won awards (other than Battistelli himself!!!). ⬆