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IAM, Greased up by the EPO, Continues Lobbying by Shaming Tactics for the UPC, Under the Guise of 'News'

Nelson Wild

Nelson Wild



Summary: The shrill and well-paid writers of IAM are still at it, promoting the Unitary Patent (UPC) at every opportunity and every turn

"There are 650 MPs," IAM's official account wrote. "The one signature in support is Douglas Carswell's. He tabled the motion 🙂 This looks like it's going nowhere..."



Actually no. And this isn't the first time shaming tactics (formally classified as psychological manipulation) are used by IAM to promote the UPC; we covered some examples before.

Notice the smile and remember that IAM was PAID for the pro-UPC propaganda it had done and continues to do. Some of the money came from EPO's PR agency, as we showed here before.

The strident Joff Wild is trying to paint UPC sceptics and critics themselves as raucous and disconnected from facts, even when he himself gets the facts wrong. Hypocrisy has no bounds here...

"The strident Joff Wild is trying to paint UPC sceptics and critics themselves as raucous and disconnected from facts, even when he himself gets the facts wrong."Around the same time IAM also wrote: "UPC movement in Spain? Country's National Commission for Markets & Competition recommends joining unitary system." (linking to this page in Spanish)

Bristows LLP and EPOThe problem is, as Benjamin Henrion already pointed out, "CNMC does not promote competition." Here is some background in English and here is some recent criticism, noting that "it seems clear that for whatever reason the intensity of competition enforcement in Spain has been diminished and that much of the momentum established by the CNC has been lost."

UPC would harm competition a great deal and profoundly damage small companies, such as those which dominate the Spanish economy (unlike, say, the US economy).

"UPC would harm competition a great deal and profoundly damage small companies, such as those which dominate the Spanish economy (unlike, say, the US economy)."Looking outside the spheres of Team UPC, the EPO, and their propaganda mills (such as IAM), here we have Dr. Luke McDonagh, a London academic, stating: "You know you've done your job as an academic when you speak to a journalist for 20 mins & leave him more confused than before!"

McDonagh alludes to Ian Dunt, whom he spoke to. Dunt wrote: "Patents: There is no area of the Brexit debate where it's harder to get firm opinion on what it entails. It is an unspeakable mess. [...] Only solid conclusion I can get to is that Theresa May was deeply unwise to make such a firm promise on the ECJ. But then we knew that."

"We can expect Team UPC, the EPO, and their official sites (including unofficial and peripheral fake news sites) to continue to tell us all that the UPC is unstoppable, inevitable and so on."As we noted here before, McDonagh is one among several academics who point out the obvious -- that UPC is untenable in post-Brexit Britain. "I will be speaking at the UK European Law Association at KCL on 13th March 18:00," he wrote separately, "on #Brexit and the #UPC http://www.ukael.org/ #patents"

We can expect Team UPC, the EPO, and their official sites (including unofficial and peripheral fake news sites) to continue to tell us all that the UPC is unstoppable, inevitable and so on. People out there have already learned to recognise which sites or blogs are an extension or a megaphone of Team UPC (some even got co-opted). They have been doing that for many years. It's their lobbying strategy, as Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna too recently noted.

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