Bonum Certa Men Certa

Wouter Pors and Other UPC Boosters Believe That Repeating the Lies Will Potentially Make Them Truths

Patent prosecutors' coup: Telling lies to politicians in order to rush them into accepting an undesirable (to member states) system

Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Reference: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies



Summary: The lobbying campaign for UPC, or hopeful lies (sometimes mere rumours) disguised as "news", continues to rely on false perceptions that the UPC is just a matter of time and may actually materialise this year

THE UPC is always "real soon now". It has been like this every year for a number of years and it's part of an old and dirty strategy. Team UPC even advertises job openings for jobs that do not exist and probably will never exist, adding to it a potentially felonious element.



"Team UPC even advertises job openings for jobs that do not exist and probably will never exist, adding to it a potentially felonious element."Wouter Pors, partner of law firm Bird & Bird, was mentioned here many times over the years, for instance when he wrote about Battistelli and the UPC [1, 2]. Pors is not stupid; he's actually an astute person, so whenever he too resorts to the inevitability brainwash from Team UPC (typically the likes of Bristows play this game) we're rather disappointed. This new blog post by Wouter Pors (found via UPC proponents) in his pro-UPC site repeats what we're expecting from shoddy lobbyists, with loaded sentences such as: "How to prepare for the upcoming Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court, which are expected to start functioning on 1 December of this year?"

No, they're not expected to start then (if ever, at all!). That's just the line echoed by Battistelli's PR department and Team UPC, which is itself financially-vested in this whole Trojan horse. If they keep repeating these lies, how many people will actually believe them? If we believed all the previous projections and forecasts for the UPC, we would be called foolish, but every prediction we have made about the UPC so far turned out to be true, including back in the days when UPC was called something else.

"Team UPC seems to be recycling its own talking points -- at times gross distortion of facts -- in an effort to mislead politicians, making them convinced that the UPC is inevitable."People must learn to recognise which blogs are little more than UPC propaganda/lobbying sites. There are several of them out there, including some that get co-opted (like IP Kat, at least until recently). Look out there not only for stuff that's called "UPCBlog"; see these two new tweets [1, 2] linking to this blog post. "UPCBlog" says: "the Spanish Socialist Worker’s party (PSOE) -the opposition party- called on the Spanish government to reconsider joining the unitary patent and the UPC."

Actually, nothing news here. Even Spaniards has already debunked this.

Team UPC seems to be recycling its own talking points -- at times gross distortion of facts -- in an effort to mislead politicians, making them convinced that the UPC is inevitable. Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna recently published a paper, taking note of this ugly strategy.

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