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Bristows LLP

Bristows LLP is likely the foremost (not only in the UK) liar and public face of Team UPC, a cabal of law firms looking to raid Europe with frivolous patent lawsuits. Bristows LLP has been mentioned in many posts, especially because it was spreading lies for years about the UPC.

  • 03.17.16 On Bristows LLP and Other Self-Serving Non-Practising Voices for Software Patents and UPC Injustice
  • 03.18.16 En Bristows LLP y Otras Egoístas Entidades no Prácticantes Voces por las Patentes de Software y la Injusticia de la UPC
  • 06.21.16 The Conspiracy of Patent Lawyers for UPC and Battistelli’s Role in Preparing by Firing People
  • 09.24.16 Bristows LLP’s Hatred/Disdain of UK/EU Democracy Demonstrated; Says “Not Only Will the Pressure for UK Ratification of the UPC Agreement Continue, But a Decision is Wanted Within Weeks.”
  • 01.17.17 More Fake News About the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Based on Lobbying Tactics From Bristows UPC and the Preparatory Committee
  • 03.10.17 ‘Lobbyists’ Annsley Merelle Ward and Alan Johnson (Bristows) Return to Using IP Kat to Spread Fake News About Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 03.26.17 Thanks to Merpel, the World Knows EPO Scandals a Lot Better, But It’s a Shame That IP Kat Helped UPC
  • 04.01.17 Bristows UPC Delusions Are Back, Attempting to Distract From Bad News (UPC Isn’t Happening)
  • 04.05.17 Is Bristows UPC Falsifying UK-IPO Quotes or Just Using Informal Words to Lobby for the Unitary Patent (UPC)?
  • 04.20.17 Bristows-Run IP Kat Continues to Spread Lies to Promote the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Advance the EPO Management’s Agenda
  • 04.26.17 Blog ‘Takeovers’ by Bristows and Then Censorship: Now This Firm Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Then Deletes Comments That Point Out the Errors
  • 04.28.17 Kather Augenstein and Bristows Shift Attention to Germany in an Effort to Ram the Dying UPC Down Everyone’s Throats
  • 05.03.17 Bristows and IAM: Brits Who Lobby for Patent Trolls in Britain
  • 05.08.17 Death of ‘IP’ Media: Front Groups of Microsoft Described as “Representing SME Developers” by Bristows
  • 06.11.17 Bristows/IP Kat Still Promoting UPC and Patent Trolls, Also Accused of Deleting Comments and “Brown-nosing” Judges to Help Patent Trolls
  • 07.26.17 The ‘New’ IP Kat on Patents: A Front Group for Team UPC (Bristows) and CIPA (British Patent Microcosm)
  • 08.22.17 Bristows LLP Tries Hard to Maintain the Illusion That UPC is Alive, Using Media Placements and Paid Plugs
  • 08.31.17 Bristows Turns British Government Report Which Says Nothing About the UPC Into a Self-Serving Plug and a Lie
  • 11.02.17 UPC is Collapsing, But Bristows LLP is Pushing Propaganda Into the Media, Which Gives Misleading News
  • 11.30.17 Ignore Today’s Fake News From IP Kat/Bristows, the UK is Not Ratifying the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 12.03.17 Bristows Again Rebutted, Few Days After Telling Lies and Spreading Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 12.09.17 Bristows Continues to Lie About Unitary Patent (UPC) in Britain Only to Get Rebutted in Comments, As Usual (Criticism Not Deleted Yet)
  • 12.11.17 Bristows is Being Hammered With Negative Comments For Its Unitary Patent (UPC) Lies
  • 01.07.18 Anonymous “Kluwer Patent Blogger” is Probably Just Bristows LLP Hiding Its Identity While It Publicly Lies or Distorts Facts About UPC
  • 02.20.18 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby, Bristows and IAM Among Others, Downplays Darts-IP/IP2Innovate Report About Rising If Not Soaring Troll Activity in Europe
  • 02.25.18 Changes Introduced by the EPO’s Administrative Council Made It Abundantly Clear That Separation of Powers Does Not Exist for Independence of Judges
  • 03.01.18 The Latest Bristows Spin Distracts From the Fact that Britain Has No Intention of Ratifying UPC and Brexit Agreement Altogether Omits It
  • 05.03.18 Bristows LLP Already Uses Kluwer Patent Blog and IP Kat as Its UPC Megaphone, Now IAM as Well
  • 06.05.18 IP Kat as an Extension of Team UPC After Departure of the Blog’s Founder
  • 09.15.18 The Max Planck Institute’s Determination on UPC’s (Unitary Patent) Demise is Only “Controversial” in the Eyes of Rabid Members of Team UPC
  • 03.04.19 Unitary Patent (UPC/A) Constitutional Complaint Can be Decided in a Matter of Years (If Ever)


  • 04.11.16 FOSS at Risk From Software Patents, Which Are Still Being Promoted by Bristows, IAM, IBM, and Steve Lundberg (Frequent Villains)
  • 04.12.16 FOSS en Riesgo a Causa de las Patentes de Software, Las que Todavía Siguen Siendo Promovidas por Bristows, IAM, IBM, y Steve Lundberg (Los Villanos Usuales)
  • 12.09.16 Ignore the Bristows UPC Echo Chamber, the UPC is Not Happening
  • 04.14.17 No, Bristows, UPC Won’t Happen Just Because You Mislead About It
  • 06.28.17 Bristows LLP is Still Trying to Attach Wings to the UPC and Distract From Serious (Likely Fatal) Barriers to It
  • 06.29.17 The UPC’s Figurehead, Alexander Ramsay, Admits UPC is Stuck, Bristows LLP Comes Up With ‘Alternative Facts’
  • 06.30.17 Former ‘Kats’ Debunk IP Kat (Bristows) on Unitary Patent, Insisting It May Even be Dead
  • 07.06.17 No UPC Progress, Only Further Delays and Lots of Puff Pieces From the EPO and Bristows (Team UPC) Today
  • 07.10.17 Lobbying Against the US Supreme Court’s Landmark Decision (Alice) by Bristows, IBM, David Kappos, IPO, ABA, AIPLA, Adam Mossoff and Kevin Madigan
  • 12.07.17 Watchtroll, AIPPI, Bristows and Others Keep Pushing Software Patents Agenda (in Spite of the Ban)
  • 12.16.17 Bristows LLP/IP Kat Carrying on With Dead UPC Jingoism
  • 02.22.18 As Expected, Bristows and Others Already Lying About UPC Status in Germany, But Doing This Anonymously (to Dodge Accountability for Lies)
  • 06.30.18 Team UPC’s Radicals, Firms Like Bristows LLP, Have Decided That It’s Time to Change Constitutions to Accommodate Clearly Unconstitutional Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 01.19.19 The UPC is Dead. But Bristows is Now Fully Engaged in Necrophilia.
  • 02.23.19 Bristows is Still Hoping to ‘Overthrow’ the Courts and Throw Out Ingve Stjerna’s Complaint (About the Likes of Bristows)


  • 04.10.10 Patents Roundup: Fordham Conference for Software Patents in Europe, NZOSS Responds to Pro-Software Patents Lobbyists, and TurboHercules’ Ties With Microsoft Explained
  • 03.05.13 Microsoft Florian Goes Ad Hominem in AstroTurf Against Android, Oracle and Microsoft Help Apple Attack Google
  • 06.19.13 White House Should Identify USPTO as the Problem, Not Patent Trolls
  • 02.12.16 In Lawyerland, Simulated UPC ‘Trials’ and More Extraordinary EPO Propaganda for Change That Would Harm Europe to Help Patent Lawyers and Their Big Clients
  • 03.26.16 Ingve Björn Stjerna’s New Book About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Why It’s Important
  • 03.29.16 The Media is Still Awash With Unitary Patent (UPC) Misinformation
  • 04.02.16 UPC Lobbying and Propaganda at the Fordham IP Think Tank (‘Conference’) 2016 in New York, With a Clear EPO Role
  • 04.03.16 Cabildeo por la UPC y Propaganda en el Grupo de Interés Fordham IP (‘Conferencia’) 2016 en Nueav York, Con un Claro Rol de la EPO
  • 04.07.16 EPO is on Strike, Battistelli Escapes to London With His Bodyguards for More UPC Lobbying, FTI Consulting Goes for Brussels
  • 04.08.16 La EPO esta en Huelga, Battistelli Escapa a Londres con su Guardia Pretoriana para más Cabildeo por la UPC, FTI Consulting Va a Bruselas
  • 04.12.16 European Patent Lawyers Who Conveniently Promote Software Patents in Spite of the Rules and the EPC
  • 04.18.16 Say the Truth About the US Patent System, Get Attacked by the Patent Propaganda Machine (Disguised as Press)
  • 04.19.16 The ‘Great Conspiracy’ of Patent Lawyers, Lobbyists and Large Corporations for UPC and for Software Patents
  • 04.24.16 ES: Di la Verdad Acerca del Sistema de Patentes de los EE.UU., Conseguiras Ser Atacado por la Máquina Propagandistica de Patentes (Disfrazada de Prensa)
  • 05.09.16 Corporate Imperialism in Europe Through the UPC, the Horrible Patent Deal Almost Nobody Heard of
  • 05.12.16 Raising Barriers to UPC Cancellation and Withdrawal
  • 05.16.16 UPC an Attack Not Only on the European Public But Also on Staff of the EPO
  • 05.18.16 ES: La UPC un Ataque No Sólo Contra el Público Europeo Pero También Contra los Empleados de la EPO
  • 05.24.16 The Media Starts Informing the European Public About the Downsides of UPC While EPO Accelerates Its Lobbying for Ratification
  • 05.28.16 ES: Los Medios de Comunicación Comienzan a Informar al Público Europeo Acercas de las Desventájas de la UPC Mientras que la EPO Acelera su Cabildeo por Ratificación
  • 06.14.16 Enfish Case Has Not Salvaged Software Patents in the US, Proponents of Software Patents Admit
  • 06.20.16 New Paper Demonstrates That Unitary Patent (UPC) is Little More Than a Conspiracy of Patent ‘Professionals’ and Their Self Interest
  • 06.23.16 As Decision on the UK’s EU Status Looms, EPO Deep in a Crisis of Patent Quality
  • 06.23.16 Patent Lawyers Love (and Amplify) Halo and Enfish, Omit or Dismiss Cuozzo and Alice
  • 06.25.16 With UPC Dead for Battistelli’s Entire Remaining Term, No Reason for the EPO or the Administrative Council to Keep Battistelli Around
  • 06.28.16 New Efforts to Work Around Barriers to UPC in Light of ‘Brexit’; Behind These Efforts Are Self-Serving Patent Profiteers
  • 06.28.16 ES: Con la UPC Muerta por el Resto del Termino de Battistelli, No Hay Razón para que la EPO o el Consejo Administrativo Sigan Manteniéndolo Más
  • 06.29.16 Growing Consensus Even Among Patent Professionals That UPC is Dying Everywhere If Not Just in the UK
  • 06.29.16 The Latest Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) Would Have Us Believe That It’s Alive and Well
  • 07.04.16 UPC a Dead Project, as Per Analysis From Foley and Lardner LLP; What Next for Team Battistelli and Team UPC?
  • 07.14.16 Deathwatch of the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPC)
  • 08.03.16 Lucy in the Sky With Battistelli’s Diamonds (EU Budget) But No UPC in Sight
  • 08.09.16 “EPO is Quickly Turning Into a Registration System”
  • 08.11.16 ‘Constitutional Crisis’ at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 09.08.16 A New Wave of the EPO’s Much-Expected Propaganda Push, Aided by ‘Managing IP’ and IAM ‘Magazine’
  • 09.13.16 Team UPC Has Not Grown Tired of Kicking a Dead (Trojan) Horse
  • 09.13.16 Team UPC Has Not Grown Tired of Kicking a Dead (Trojan) Horse
  • 09.15.16 Battistelli and His Circle — Not Just Team UPC — Still Delusional About the Prospects of a Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • 09.18.16 EPO President Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are Still Lying, Don’t Believe a Word They Say
  • 09.20.16 Like Big Tobacco Lobbyists, Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are Just Chronically Lying and Manipulating Politicians With Their Lies
  • 09.23.16 Journalism 102: Do Not Become Like ‘Managing IP’ or IAM ‘Magazine’ (the Megaphones of the EPO’s Management)
  • 09.27.16 After the EPO Paid the Financial Times to Produce Propaganda the Newspaper Continues to Produce UPC Puff Pieces, Just Ahead of EU Council Meeting
  • 09.27.16 The US Supreme Court Might Soon Tighten Patent Scope in the United States Even Further, the USPTO Produces Patent Maximalism Propaganda
  • 09.29.16 IP Kat is Lobbying Heavily for the UPC, Courtesy of Team UPC
  • 09.29.16 Team UPC is Interjecting Itself Into the Media Ahead of Tomorrow’s Lobbying Push Against the European Council and Against European Interests
  • 09.30.16 Unprecedented Levels of UPC Lobbying by Big Business Europe (Multinationals) and Their Patent Law Firms
  • 10.01.16 Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are at War With European Democracy, Which They View as an Obstacle to Money and Power
  • 10.05.16 Echo Chamber’s Lobbying: Team UPC Citing Team UPC as ‘Proof’ Regarding the UPC
  • 10.09.16 Has IP Kat’s Unofficial (Self-)Censorship Policy Expanded From Protecting the EPO’s Image to Protecting the UPC?
  • 10.09.16 The UPC is Dead, Says Opinion Partly Funded by Team UPC, But Patent Scope in Europe Remains an Issue
  • 10.11.16 “Very Mysterious Things Going on at the IPKat Recently”
  • 10.13.16 The EPO is Out of Control on (Patent) Scope and Team UPC Floods the Media in a Desperate Last Attempt
  • 11.07.16 Don’t Believe Team UPC; the UPC is Going Nowhere Fast
  • 11.18.16 Like Team UPC, the Internet Association (Megacorporations’ Front Group) Hijacks the Voice of Small Businesses in an Effort to Steer Patent Policy Against Them
  • 11.27.16 Danger of Letting a Bunch of Patent Law Firms Attempt to Hijack the European Patent System With UPC
  • 11.29.16 The UPC Scam Part I: EPO-Bribed Media Outlets Lie to Brits (and to Europeans) About the UPC
  • 11.29.16 The UPC Scam Part II: The Patent Echo Chamber at Work, Prematurely Congratulating Itself in Its ‘News’ Sites
  • 11.29.16 The UPC Scam Part IV: Bumps Along the Road for UPC, With or Without the UK and Brexit
  • 12.11.16 The EPO Sent Its Second ‘Monster’ to Croatia to Lobby for the Unitary Patent (UPC), Did Not Mention Anything About It
  • 12.11.16 Supreme Cases and Some Supreme Outcomes That Tighten Patent Scope in the United States
  • 12.13.16 Another New Book, This Time From Dr Luke McDonagh, Chronicles the Demise of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement
  • 12.15.16 Team UPC Salivating Over Unitary Patent Fantasy Even Though It is Stuck in a Limbo
  • 12.16.16 Will the Patent Microcosm of London Please Stop Misleading the Public About UPC?
  • 12.21.16 No Justice at the EPO, Whose Underlying Purpose Was (Originally) to Do Patents Justice
  • 01.18.17 A Lot More Fake News About the UPC, Trying to Convince People That the UK is Ratifying (It’s Not, It Cannot)
  • 02.03.17 Team UPC Continues to be a Premier Source of Fake News About Unitary Patent in the United Kingdom
  • 02.13.17 UPC Petition Launched to Halt Ratification Plans in the United Kingdom Amid Nefarious Back Room Deals
  • 02.14.17 EPO-Connected Writers Are Using Alternative Facts or Fake News to Promote the Unitary Patent in British Media
  • 02.23.17 UPC Roundup: War on the Appeal Boards, British Motion Against the UPC, Fröhlinger Recalled, and Fake News About Spain
  • 02.26.17 Wouter Pors and Other UPC Boosters Believe That Repeating the Lies Will Potentially Make Them Truths
  • 02.28.17 New Survey Shows That Even Patent Professionals Know That Team UPC is Lying About Unitary Patent Roadmaps
  • 03.02.17 EPO Budget Obscures and Distorts Facts About the Unitary Patent (UPC) in a Classic Antidemocratic Exercise by an Unaccountable Institution
  • 03.04.17 Jo Johnson: UPC Agreement is “Currently Only Open to EU Member States” (i.e. Britain Cannot Join or Ratify)
  • 03.05.17 The Very Thought of UPC in the UK “is a Perfect Example of What Lobbying Can Achieve!”
  • 03.12.17 Germany Cannot Ratify the UPC Because Britain is Leaving the EU and Unitary Patent Strongly/Strictly Depends on the UK
  • 03.12.17 British Site ‘Managing IP’ Continues to Organise UPC Lobbying Events to Promote the Unitary Patent in the UK, Isle of Man, Maybe Even Ireland and Beyond
  • 03.12.17 No, Spain is Not Joining the UPC, That’s Just What UPC Lobbyists Want Everyone to Believe
  • 03.13.17 How Big a Lie is Team UPC Spreading About Germany and Unitary Patent? A Must Read.
  • 03.13.17 What Appears Like News Sites or Blogs About Patents and ‘IP’ Got Polluted by Lobbying That Peddles Corporate Agenda
  • 03.21.17 What the Patent Microcosm is Saying About the EPO and the UPC
  • 03.24.17 Bernhard Rapkay, Former MEP and Rapporteur on Unitary Patent, Shoots Down UPC Hopes While UPC Hopefuls Recognise That Spain Isn’t Interested Either
  • 03.27.17 The Crook Goes to Brussels to Lie About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 04.02.17 Team UPC ‘Took Over’ IP Kat, Readers Don’t Believe What It Says
  • 04.06.17 At the Courts, Another Reminder of PTAB’s Importance and Ericsson’s War (via Patent Trolls) Against Linux and Android
  • 04.06.17 The EPO’s Management is Silencing Its Critics by Sheer Intimidation
  • 04.09.17 Lying Has Become the Norm When It Comes to the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 04.09.17 Asian Companies Already Suffer From Patent Maximalism/Radicalism and UPC Would Make Things Even Worse
  • 04.19.17 Another Final Nail in the UPC Coffin: UK General Election
  • 04.21.17 Expect Team UPC to Remain in Deep Denial About the Unitary Patent/Unified Court (UPC) Having No Prospects
  • 04.22.17 The European Patent Office Has Just Killed a Cat (or Skinned a ‘Kat’)
  • 04.23.17 For the Fordham Echo Chamber (Patent Maximalism), Judges From the EPO Boards of Appeal Are Not Worth Entertaining
  • 04.25.17 Astoundingly, IP Kat Has Become a Leading Source of UPC and Battistelli Propaganda
  • 04.27.17 Team UPC and CIPA Are Lobbying, Publishing Puff Pieces, and Rewriting the Law for Unitary Patent (UPC) Behind Closed Doors
  • 04.30.17 Unified Patent Propaganda Courtesy of a Cabal of Firms That Constructed the UPC
  • 05.09.17 ‘European Media Intervention Award’ (EIA), EPO Censorship, Self-Censorship, and Paid ‘Media Partners’
  • 05.10.17 Team UPC Still Twists and Fabricates Statements to Make It Seem Like Unitary Patent is Happening Soon
  • 05.27.17 The United States Has Already Tackled Both Software Patents and Patent Trolls
  • 05.30.17 The Silencing of Critics of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in Media and in Blogs
  • 06.01.17 Patent Trolls in Europe and the Looming Collapse of the UPC
  • 06.11.17 The British Election May Have Just ‘Killed’ the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 06.12.17 German Barrier to the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Bound to Bring the Insidious Plans to a Halt
  • 06.13.17 In Spite of Censorship by IP Kat, Issues Associated With UPC Had Become Apparent, Even Before Germany Halted Ratification
  • 06.13.17 A Massive Proponent of UPC, CIPA, Enters IP Kat, as Readers Call Out Stacked UPC ‘Panels’
  • 06.14.17 Even UPC Proponents, Paid by the EPO’s PR Firm, Admit That UPC May Never Happen
  • 06.15.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) Will Start “Real Soon” Now… Said Team UPC For So Many Years
  • 06.17.17 Appalling Press Coverage Regarding the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 06.20.17 At the European Inventor Award Ceremony Benoît Battistelli Lied to a Lot of Scientists and “Media Partners” About the UPC
  • 06.24.17 The Tide Has Turned Against the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and It Finally Looks as ‘Alive’ as TPP
  • 06.25.17 Wouter Pors Under Fire for Lying or Manipulating in the Name of the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 07.02.17 The Decline in Patent Quality at the European Patent Office (EPO) Already Causes Mass Abandonment of Patents
  • 07.04.17 EPO Silent About EPO Strikes and Battistelli Leaving
  • 07.05.17 Expect No Progress Whatsoever on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) During the Summer and Likely Too Little Even in Fall
  • 07.08.17 On the EPO’s Premises, Investigation After a Small Fall But Not After Suicide of Staff
  • 07.09.17 Supreme Court Saves the Day as Latest Statistics Reveal Slump in Patent Litigation (Mostly Trolls) in the Eastern District of Texas
  • 07.11.17 In an Age of Mass Deception by Team UPC Benjamin Henrion (FFII) to Deliver a Talk About UPC and Software Patents
  • 07.14.17 Michel Barnier, Once a Leading Proponent of UPC, No Longer Certain the UK Can Fit in or That UPC Will Happen
  • 07.19.17 The British Government May be Pulling Out of the UPC Fantasy, Team UPC in Panic or Denial About It
  • 07.20.17 Unified Patent Court (UPC): A Conspiracy of Lies and Silence
  • 07.25.17 Patent Maximalists Continue to Warp the Debate/Media Coverage About Patents in Britain
  • 08.01.17 90% of WIPR Readers Give Up Hope on Unitary Patent (UPC) in the UK, But Team UPC Keeps Lying About It
  • 08.03.17 Antonio Campinos in Charge of the EPO Would Mean Greater EUIPO/EPO Overlap
  • 08.08.17 EPO Already Thinks It’s the UPC (Which Will Likely Never Happen)
  • 08.18.17 Lack of Independent Judiciary Under the Unitary Patent (Like Boards of Appeal Under Battistelli, in Defiance of the EPC) Will Possibly Kill the Unified Patent Court
  • 08.23.17 Benoît Battistelli’s Misbehaviour Condemned the UPC to Death
  • 08.30.17 IP Kat Missing in Action as Unitary Patent (UPC) Rots
  • 09.02.17 ‘Building the Evidence Base on the Performance of the UK Patent System’ Put in Perspective and Threats From Patent Maximalists
  • 09.05.17 One Week Left for Battistelli’s Coronation of Another Frenchman, António Campinos, to Lobby for UPC?
  • 09.06.17 Juve Reveals That Ingve Stjerna is the ‘UPC Slayer’ While the EPO Continues to Lobby, Mislead
  • 09.07.17 Personal Attacks, Censorship of Comments and More Nefarious Tricks Expected in the Wake of UPC Panic
  • 09.10.17 European Patent Office in Shambles and the EU’s Brexit Position Paper Suggests UPC is Off the Agenda
  • 09.11.17 “The Constitutional Problems Linked to the UPC are Far From Being Minor”
  • 09.13.17 Latest Attempts to Blow Air Into the Sails of the Sinking Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 09.15.17 The UPC Fantasy is Going Nowhere as Complaints and Paperwork Pile Up
  • 09.21.17 The Latest Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and CIPO’s Participation in Those
  • 09.23.17 The Mohawk-PTAB Fiasco Threatens the Tribe’s Reputation More Than It Threatens PTAB
  • 09.26.17 EPO Lies About the UPC, Violations of Human Rights, and ‘Green’ European Patents
  • 09.27.17 The Unitary Patent (UPC) is Now Rotting in Ireland
  • 09.30.17 Jesper Kongstad’s Last Day is Today, But the EPO Remains a Sordid Mess Like the UPC
  • 10.02.17 Death of European Patent Quality: The EPO Officially Sends the Appeal Boards to Exile Despite the UPC Going Nowhere
  • 10.04.17 EPO Management Gambled on Europe Being a Patent Litigation Hub/Capital, But It’s All Coming Down in Flames Now
  • 10.14.17 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Rotting Like the European Patent Office
  • 10.19.17 The Spanish Supreme Court Rejects the EPO’s “Problem and Solution Approach” While Quality of European Patents Nosedives
  • 10.19.17 Team UPC Continues to Promote Illusion of UPC Progress Where There’s None
  • 10.20.17 Battistelli’s Destruction of the EPO is Bad for Everyone, Even Patent Attorneys
  • 10.20.17 UPC Looks Like More of a Distant Dream (or Nightmare) as Germany Adds Another Two Months’ Delay
  • 10.23.17 IP Kat Participates in Deletion of Information About EPO Scandals
  • 10.24.17 Freedom of Expression is Dying Not Only at the EPO But Also Outside the EPO (Media Coverage of the EPO)
  • 10.26.17 Professor Siegfried Broß Again Complains About the Situation at the EPO and Issues With the UPC
  • 11.04.17 IP Kat Peddles Patent Trolls and Software Patents Agenda
  • 11.04.17 Even One of the UPC’s Biggest Boosters, Wolters Kluwer, Admits UPC is in Trouble
  • 11.08.17 Kluwer Patent Blog is Down/Sabotaged, But UPC and EPO Spin Carries on in Other Sites
  • 11.08.17 Kluwer Patent Blog Down for Over a Day, Key Article Archived, UPC Deception Carries On
  • 11.09.17 Consensus Around the High Likelihood That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead and Backlash Against Deniers of It
  • 11.10.17 More Microsoft AstroTurfing by Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) and Mingorance
  • 11.15.17 Benoît Battistelli and Elodie Bergot Have Just Ensured That EPO Will Get Even More Corrupt
  • 11.16.17 The Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) is Rightly Upset If Not Shocked at What Battistelli and Bergot Are Doing to the Office
  • 11.17.17 Today’s EPO and Team UPC Do Not Work for Europe But Actively Work Against Europe
  • 11.17.17 EPO ‘Business’ From the United States Has Nosedived and UPC is on Its Death Throes
  • 11.20.17 Team Battistelli’s Attacks on the EPO Boards of Appeal Predate the Illegal Sanctions Against a Judge
  • 11.23.17 Amid Constitutional Court Barrier, Unitary Patent (UPC) Looks Dead Even to UPC Proponents, the EPO’s UPC ‘Study’ Comes Under Fire
  • 11.25.17 EPO Uses Bunk ‘Study’ and Team UPC Uses Italy to Prop Up Delusions About the Unitary Patent
  • 11.30.17 The SEP/Patent Trolls’ Lobby Insults the Victims, Calling Them “Free Riders”
  • 12.02.17 The European Patent Office No Longer Acts Like a Patent Office But a Prosecutor
  • 12.05.17 The Latest Noise About UPC in the UK
  • 12.05.17 Unified Patent Court (UPC) is “Fata Morgana”
  • 12.07.17 International Labour Organisation/ILOAT for UPC Yet Another Problem for Unitary Patent-Style Regime
  • 12.07.17 Battistelli’s ‘Mole’ Lucy Neville-Rolfe is Still Trying to Push Unitary Patent (UPC) Through in the United Kingdom
  • 12.10.17 Patents Are Becoming a Welfare System for the Rich and Powerful
  • 12.12.17 Battistelli-Campinos Transition Will Be a Smooth One as the Administrative Council Remains the Same and the Boards Still Besieged
  • 12.18.17 “As an EPO Employee, I Am Actually Embarrassed by the Behaviour of the President and the Administrative Council”
  • 12.21.17 EPO Judicial Crisis Has Not Ended, But the Administrative Council Certainly Tries to Sell That Impression
  • 12.21.17 Media Blackout in Most European Media Regarding the Latest Major EPO Scandal
  • 12.23.17 Alexander Ramsay is Wrong, Unitary Patent (UPC) Won’t Start Any Time Soon and Probably Never
  • 12.28.17 UPC IT Working Group is Chasing Rainbows and Unicorns
  • 12.28.17 EPO Remains in Defiance or Violation of ILO Rulings as Corcoran Contract Ends in 3 Days
  • 01.01.18 FRAND is Unfair, Unreasonable and Discriminatory; Ericsson is Still a FRAND Troll
  • 01.05.18 The EPO’s Attack on the Boards of Appeal Dooms the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Team UPC Alters Its Tactics
  • 01.06.18 Sane Responses to the Latest Pressure From Team UPC Amid Brexit Negotiations
  • 01.13.18 Late on a Friday is a Good Time to Spread Misinformation About Unified Patent Court (UPC) Without Being Challenged
  • 01.14.18 Blockchain Becomes the Target Not Only of Financial Institutions With Software Patents But Also Trolls
  • 01.22.18 Team UPC Calls Critics of the UPC Idiots, Deletes Their Comments, and Blocks Them
  • 01.24.18 Team UPC Has Been Reduced to Rubble and Misinformation
  • 01.25.18 Sam Gyimah Replaced Jo Johnson More Than a Fortnight Ago, But Team UPC Has Ignored It Until Now
  • 01.25.18 A European Unitary Patent-Like System (e.g. UPC) is Not Compatible With Law; Expect it to Rot Away at the German Federal Constitutional Court
  • 01.26.18 The ‘Collusion’: IP Kat’s (Until Recently) Stephen Jones Meets Battistelli to Lobby for the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 01.28.18 The European Commission and the Failure to Stop the FRAND/SEP Lobby
  • 01.31.18 The UPC/SEP/FRAND Lobby Has Resorted to Just Insulting the Opposition
  • 02.07.18 Team UPC Resorts to Paid ‘Articles’ and Lobbying With Battistelli in an Effort to Cause the UK and Germany to Ignore Their Own Laws
  • 02.08.18 The UPC Lobby Wants to Crush the Boards of Appeal (BoA) While EPO Changes Rules of Procedure of the BoA
  • 02.09.18 Team UPC is Working Overtime to Impose UPC on Europe, Based on a Pile of Lies
  • 02.10.18 Lawyer Fraud and the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • 02.10.18 The Relationship Between IAM and the EPO’s President Battistelli Tightens Further After Payments for UPC Promotion
  • 02.11.18 In Spite of Suppression Attempts, Resistance to UPC and EPO Tyranny Still Enters Kluwer Patent Blog
  • 02.12.18 Patent Maximalists Won’t Get Their Way and UPC Will Likely Never Happen (Even After Battistelli)
  • 02.13.18 EPO Opposition to CRISPR Patents Has Wide-Ranging and Far-Reaching Impact, But Mind Not the Lobbyists
  • 02.14.18 No, Britain is Not Ratifying ‘Unitary’ Anything, But Team UPC Insinuates It Will (Desperate Effort to Affect Tomorrow’s Outcome)
  • 02.15.18 Speech Deficit and No Freedom of Association at the EPO
  • 02.15.18 The EPO is Being Destroyed and There’s Nothing Left to Replace It Except National Patent Offices
  • 02.15.18 The Latest Lies About Unitary Patent (UPC) and the EPO
  • 02.17.18 UPC Has Done Nothing for Europe Except Destruction of the EPO and Imminent Layoffs Due to Lack of Applications and Lowered Value of European Patents
  • 02.18.18 UPC Optimism Languishes Even Among Paid UPC Propagandists Such as IAM
  • 02.21.18 End of the UPC Lobby and Withdrawal of UPCA May Seem Imminent
  • 02.23.18 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Dead, But Spin From Team UPC is Now Abundant
  • 02.25.18 Allergan/Mohawk ‘Sovereign Immunity’ Patent Scam (Dodging PTAB) Backfires Spectacularly
  • 03.01.18 The UPC is Dead, But Team UPC is Lying to British Politicians in an Effort to Trick Them
  • 03.02.18 Battistelli’s Last Four Months: Peak Censorship at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 03.03.18 EPO Annual Report Will Dominate the News Next Week, Whereas Unitary Patent (UPC) is a Goner
  • 03.06.18 There’s No Patent Trolls Problem in Europe, Say Law Firms That Represent and Front for Patent Trolls
  • 03.07.18 The Right-Wing Alternative für Deutschland Opposes Unitary Patent (UPC), Just Like UKIP in Britain
  • 03.08.18 Patent Trolls and Their Lobbyists Continue to Attack Academics Who Warn About Patent Trolls in Europe
  • 03.09.18 The EPO’s PR Department Receives Return on Investment (Puff Pieces) for Paying the Media
  • 03.10.18 Glimmer of Hope for the EPO’s Boards of Appeal as Bavarian Parliament ‘Regroups’ on Tuesday
  • 03.13.18 Battistelli Likes to Describe His Critics as ‘Nazis’, Team UPC Will Attempt the Same Thing Against UPC Critics
  • 03.15.18 Careful Not to Conflate UPC Critics With AfD or Anti-EU Elements
  • 03.15.18 EPO Staff Has Just Warned the National Delegates That EPO’s Decline (in Terms of Patent Quality and Staff Welfare) Would Be Beneficial to Patent Trolls
  • 03.16.18 Deleted EPO Tweets and Promotion of Software Patents Amid Complaints About Abuse and Demise of Patent Quality
  • 03.17.18 Luxembourg Can Become a Hub of Patent Trolls If the EPO Carries on With Its ‘Reforms’, Even Without the UPC
  • 03.23.18 Team Battistelli and Team UPC Are Both Very Deep in Denial
  • 03.26.18 On Media Hype, Software Patents, and 35 U.S.C. § 101 Which Annuls Both
  • 03.29.18 Senator Jean-Yves Leconte Accuses EPO and/or ILO of Injustice, But Don’t Expect Media to Notice or Cover It
  • 04.03.18 The Mass Litigation Lobby Craves for Patent Armageddon
  • 04.04.18 The European Patent Office (EPO) Will Need to Acknowledge It Has a Patent Quality Issue, Then Tackle It or Perish
  • 04.07.18 Team UPC’s and Team Battistelli’s Lobbying Not Over Yet, Even Though the UPC is Likely Dead for Good
  • 04.22.18 The EPO is Dying and Those Who Have Killed It Are Becoming Very Rich in the Process
  • 04.24.18 Today’s EPO is Not Compatible With the Law and It’s Grossly Incompatible With Truth and Justice
  • 04.26.18 Britain Has Not Fully Completed Unified Patent Court (UPC) Ratification and It Remains Incompatible With Brexit
  • 04.26.18 With Unified Patent Court (UPC) on Its Death Throes, Team UPC Now Resorts to Promoting Pertinent Parts of the Agreement (UPCA)
  • 04.27.18 Sam Gyimah Did What Was Expected Since 2016, But Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Still Completely Stuck in Most Important Country and Is Not Compatible With Brexit
  • 04.28.18 In Protest of IP Kat No Longer Covering EPO Abuses, Märpel Rises in “R.I.P. Kat”
  • 04.29.18 Even Vocal Proponents of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Admit That There Are ‘Holes’ in the Announcement From Sam Gyimah
  • 04.29.18 Team UPC and Team Battistelli in IP Kat and IAM
  • 05.01.18 People Are Belatedly Asking All Those ‘Awkward’ Questions About UPC and the Lies Told by Team UPC
  • 05.03.18 Marks & Clerk is Still Pushing Patent Maximalism Agenda in Europe and Britain, Including UPC/UPCA/Unitary Patent (UP)
  • 05.07.18 Rumour: The European Patent Office Has Just ‘Done a Patrick Corcoran’ Again (Forced Removal)
  • 05.09.18 Barker Brettell is Wrong About Unified Patent Court (UPC) and the United Kingdom
  • 05.09.18 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Not Happening, But Kluwer Patent Blog Pretends It’s Already in Force
  • 05.17.18 Rise in Patent Trolls’ Activity in Germany Noted Amid Declining Patent Quality at the EPO
  • 05.22.18 France is Irrelevant to Whether or Not UPC Ever Becomes a Reality, Moving/Outsourcing de Facto Patent Examination to European Courts Managed in/Presided by France
  • 05.24.18 Perpetuating the Big Lie That Unitary Patent (UPC) is About to Kick Off
  • 05.25.18 The Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court (UPC): This Week’s Latest Spin and Lies
  • 05.30.18 EUROCHAMBRES is an Echo Chamber of the Patent Litigation ‘Industry’ Hoping to Mislead the EU’s Competitiveness Council on UPC
  • 05.31.18 IP Kat is Still Acting as a Propaganda Front for UPC (and EU Software Patents) Lobbying by US-Based Front Groups
  • 06.01.18 In Gross Violation of German Law, as Per EPO Tradition, Fronleichnam ‘Stolen’ by Benoît Battistelli
  • 06.02.18 Team UPC Turns to a Spanish ‘Flavour’ of Unitary Patent Propaganda (Just Like Last Year)
  • 06.07.18 What Team UPC Wants: Patent Trolls, Unified Patent Court (UPC), Software Patents, and Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs)
  • 06.09.18 Battistelli is Still Patently Delusional About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 06.12.18 Battistelli’s EPO is Outdoing North Korea When It Comes to Propaganda and Abuses Against Staff
  • 06.14.18 The ’4iP Council’ is a Megaphone of Team UPC and Team Battistelli at the EPO
  • 06.19.18 Articles About a Unitary Patent System Are Lies and Marketing From Law Firms With ‘Lawsuits Lust’
  • 06.29.18 Insults, Lies and Propaganda on Battistelli’s Last Day at the European Patent Office
  • 07.02.18 IAM is Still Working for Benoît Battistelli and His Toxic Agenda
  • 07.03.18 First Act of António Campinos: Pushing the Unconstitutional Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 07.04.18 Yesterday’s UPC Event Was a Reminder That Team Battistelli is Still in Charge of the European Patent Organisation, Fronting for Team UPC
  • 07.06.18 Team UPC Suggested Changing Constitutions to Facilitate the Unconstitutional UPC. It Didn’t Go Well…
  • 07.11.18 The Lack of Genuine, Honest Discussion About Patent Quality Means That Under António Campinos Software Patents Will Continue to be Granted, Campinos Strives to Make Them ‘Unitary’
  • 07.13.18 Weeks Later António Campinos Still in Noncompliance With the Courts (ILO’s Tribunal)
  • 07.13.18 Constitutionality and CJEU as Barriers, the UPC Agreement (UPCA) is Already Moot in the United Kingdom
  • 07.17.18 Yesterday’s Misleading News From Team UPC and Its Aspiring Management of the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • 07.31.18 SUEPO Seems to be Disappointed by António Campinos as His First Month in Office Comes to an End
  • 08.01.18 The EPO’s Administrative Council is Not Interested in Saving the EPO, Only ‘Producing’ as Many (Low-Quality) Patents as Possible
  • 08.11.18 EPO-Style Problem-Solution: Tackling Backlog by Granting Lots of Low-Quality (Bogus) European Patents, Causing a Surge in Troll/Frivolous Litigation
  • 08.21.18 Admissibility of the Unitary Patent Constitutional Complaint Was Likely the Final Nail in the Coffin of the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • 09.06.18 Even Overzealous Patent Maximalists Nowadays Admit That Time is Running Out for the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 09.22.18 EPO is Like a Patent Litigation (Without Actual Trial) Office, Not a Patent Examination Office
  • 09.23.18 Advocacy of the Unitary Patent System Has Become Almost Identical to the ‘Leave’ (Brexit) Campaign
  • 09.25.18 António Campinos Goes to UPC-Hostile Country, UPC Continues to Languish and Team UPC Carries on Pushing for Software Patents in Europe (Courts Also)
  • 09.26.18 Lots of UPC Noise/News This Week Over a Document Which Merely Weakens Commitment to the UPC
  • 09.28.18 How Team UPC is Reacting to the Demise of EPO- and EU-Connected Court That Would Have Put Patent Maximalists in Charge
  • 09.30.18 AIPPI is Led by Team UPC’s People and ‘AIPPI Congress Report’ Published by Team UPC
  • 10.06.18 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Obsolete for More Reasons Than the German Constitutional Court, But Team UPC in the UK Refuses to Give Up
  • 10.11.18 UPC Cowardice: Team UPC Uses Cloaks of Anonymity to Discredit Authors of Scholarly UPC Paper They Don’t Like
  • 10.18.18 IAM and IP Kat Are Still Megaphones of Battistelli and His Agenda
  • 10.20.18 The Identity Crisis of the European Patent Office, Wrongly Believing It Exists to Serve Lawyers and Patent Trolls Outside Europe
  • 10.24.18 Pretty Revealing That EPO Management Promotes Software Patents and IP Kat Promotes Patent Trolls
  • 10.25.18 Battistelli and Team UPC Still Waiting for a Campinos Miracle
  • 10.27.18 Lobbying and Blackmail Rewarded? JUVE Awards Team UPC Firm Bardehle Pagenberg, Which Represents Microsoft’s Worst Patent Troll, Intellectual Ventures.
  • 11.04.18 Team UPC’s Last Resort: Stacked Panels, Anonymously Belittling the Opposition (e.g. Ingve Björn Stjerna) and Taking Control of the Media
  • 11.08.18 The Death of the UPC is Only a “Tragedy” for Patent Trolls and Their Facilitators
  • 11.17.18 Team UPC Has Been Reduced to Lies, Lies, and More Lies about the Unified Patent Court Agreement
  • 11.22.18 Thanksgiving EPO Roundup: UPC Lies, Software Patents Considered Harmful and SUEPO Condemns Union-Busting Activities (Which Carry on Under António Campinos)
  • 11.24.18 Team UPC Refuses to Stop Lying, Pays Money to Spread Its Unified Patent Court (UPC) Lies in the Media
  • 11.29.18 Even Sites That Served UPC Propaganda for Years (for These Sites’ Owners) Have Come to Admit That the UPC Might Already be Dead
  • 12.05.18 The Patent Litigation Bubble is Imploding in the US While the UPC Dies in Europe
  • 12.06.18 The European Patent Office Remains a Lawless Place Where Judges Are Afraid of the Banker in Chief
  • 12.09.18 Team UPC is Still Spreading False Rumours in an Effort to Trick Politicians and Pressure Judges
  • 12.11.18 With ‘Brexit’ in a Lot of Headlines Team UPC Takes the Unitary Patent Lies up a Notch
  • 12.13.18 The European Patent Troll Wants as Much Litigation as Possible
  • 12.21.18 Team UPC Belatedly Admits Lying About the German UPC Complaint (Fabricated ‘Rumours’)
  • 12.22.18 UPC Died in 2016 or 2017; But the EPO Continues to Issue Fake Software Patents That European Courts Reject
  • 01.11.19 The Fiction That Spain (or Italy) Can Salvage the UPC
  • 01.15.19 Team UPC on Dead UPC: Choosing Gowns for Corpses
  • 01.20.19 JUVE Creates English Site, Promotes Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • 01.25.19 Team UPC Has Been Reduced to a Self-Satirising Drama Show
  • 02.22.19 Team UPC Excited Over Nothing, President Campinos Rarely Even Mentions UPC Anymore
  • 03.05.19 Truly and Completely Out of Control, the Unhinged European Patent Office Calls Applicants “Customers” While Offering Patents on Nature, Life, Maths
  • 03.06.19 Quality Issues at the European Patent Office Can Lead It Down the Same Downward Path as the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • 03.14.19 Good News Everyone! UPC Ready to Go… in 2015!
  • 03.20.19 Team UPC Buries Its Credibility Deeper in the Grave
  • 03.21.19 Team UPC (Unitary Patent) is a Headless Chicken
  • 03.22.19 The European Patent Office Needs to Put Lives Before Profits
  • 03.27.19 The European Patent Scope is a Lost Cause, Does Not Exist Anymore
  • 03.28.19 European Patents Found to be Invalid and Deemed Impotent in the Highest British Court (Again)
  • 03.30.19 The UK Supreme Court’s Latest Decision is Ammunition for the FCC to Scuttle the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA)
  • 04.01.19 Patent Trolls Destroy the European Economy Because EPO Gives Them Questionable Patents
  • 04.02.19 EPO Judges Lack Independence and the Internal Courts Are Seen to be Lacking Legitimacy (Decisions’ Validity) Under António Campinos
  • 04.13.19 Patent Maximalists Are Enabling Injustices and Frauds
  • 04.20.19 The Likes of Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA), Team Campinos and Team UPC Don’t Represent Europe But Hurt Europe
  • 04.24.19 Supreme Court of the UK, Which Habitually Throws Out European Patents, May Overturn Troublesome Unwired Planet v Huawei Decision
  • 04.27.19 The ‘Technical Effect’ of Attacking the Independence of Judges at the Boards of Appeal and Ignoring/Breaking the Law
  • 05.02.19 EPO in 2019: Pushing (and Bribing) for Buzzwords to Bypass/Cheat the Law Whilst Abolishing the Court System
  • 05.03.19 In the Courts, Where Patents Are Assessed Independently, Geeks Are Winning the Battle Against Parasitic Litigation Firms
  • 05.05.19 It’s 2019 and Team UPC is Still Composing ‘Fake News’ (Lobbying Disguised as Reporting)
  • 05.11.19 Team UPC Has Run Out of Arguments, So Now It’s Just Writing Anti-Brexit Rants With Testicles in the Headlines
  • 05.14.19 Patents That Were Gleefully Granted by the EPO Continue to Perish in Courts
  • 05.15.19 False Hope for Patent Maximalists and Litigation Zealots
  • 05.16.19 The EPO’s Key Function — Like the UPC’s Vision — Has Virtually Collapsed
  • 05.18.19 Unified Patent Court Won’t Happen Just Because the Litigation Microcosm Wants It


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