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Straw Man Arguments That Distract From EPO Scandals

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Summary: The patent boosters and zealots -- or the same firms that prop up the deeply misguided and harmful UPCA -- are happy to float narratives of EPO managers who oppress their staff and do a disservice to stakeholders (actual scientists, not mass litigation profiteers)

THE latest piece (of [something]) at Kluwer Patent Blog is more of the same fluff about the EPO, basically playing along with Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos. They paint the EPO as some benevolent institution looking to improve and they paint the "issues" as things that barely are (illusionary straw men).



"They paint the EPO as some benevolent institution looking to improve and they paint the "issues" as things that barely are (illusionary straw men)."With the exception of one blogger there (Dr. Bausch), that blog continues to be a lovefest of Team UPC, mostly in bed with the EPO status quo. Not to even mention some sites like JUVE, Managing IP, IAM, and IP Kat.

Cat upside downThe video is just a spontaneous response and the short story is, all the signal is, as usual, in the comments.

It is really sad that nowadays, as the 'news' is mostly PR and the Web is infested with shameless self-promotion of law firms, one needs to rely on comments or whistleblowers to receive actual information as opposed to self-serving spin -- something for which Team UPC became so notorious.

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