THE European Patent Office (EPO) is 100% mute when it comes to UPC/UPCA. António Campinos has not mentioned it even once this year. Team UPC is another matter.
"Team UPC spreads baseless rumours. It knows it is lying, but it doesn't want to be held accountable for these lies."Yesterday we wrote about the latest from Bristows, which already speaks about UPC robes (for judges) and venues as if the FCC does not exist, Brexit never happened, and UPC is just about to kick off. Yesterday (later on in the day) they also published an exact copy, word by word, knowing nobody reads the blog. Bristows, the firm, published its blog post, for a fee, in another site or two (as usual over the past year or so). Then it published it a third time with different wording and an added picture (Italian flag). It is again hiding behind “Kluwer Patent blogger”, as if nobody will know who wrote it...
Team UPC is an appalling bunch; they're antidemocratic, they're manipulative liars, they're censors and they're anonymous cowards who hide behind fake names. This has become increasingly so in recent years because the only way to promote UPC is to intentionally lie about it. Even IAM (the patent trolls' lobby, paid to promote the UPC) could no longer sustain all this chronic lying and virtually threw in the towel. Team UPC will never give up. "An overview of the INPI's measures to reduce the patent backlog" is the title of some self-promotional piece that IAM has just published regarding Brazil. They want us to think that speed matters more than accuracy/quality. Well, go tell that to law firms that make business out of monopolies and lawsuits. Bogus patents don't worry them as it's their clients that pay the price.
"The EPO has become stuffed/stacked with so many phony European Patents and it's starting to show."Last but not least, we've just noticed Daniel Rowe of Dehns (Team UPC) taking note of EP 2429542, which the Enlarged Board of Appeals will look into. "In an appeal from a decision of the Examining Division on EP 2429542," he explained, "this point is being challenged and the question has now been referred up to the Enlarged Board of Appeal."
It's about "double patenting" -- the sort of thing patent maximalism leads to. The EPO has become stuffed/stacked with so many phony European Patents and it's starting to show. If these patents are really that bad, why should they be decided on in courts outside the country of the accused/defendant? Why should the same people who grant these bogus patents have leverage over the branch that rules on them? No separation of powers? ⬆
