● 06.17.23
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●● Judges of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Are Resigning Before It Even Starts and Team UPC Sprinkles Candy on This Illegal and Unconstitutional ‘Court’ (Rigged Kangaroo Court Designed to Authorise the EPO’s Abuses Against the EPC)
Posted in Courtroom, Deception, Europe, Patents at 1:28 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: The sordid ploy to construct a bunch of unlawful kangaroo courts for patents (even in unauthorised sites, contrary to the Unified Patent Court Agreement) will not only destroy the European Union’s (EU) credibility on “law and order” or “the rule of law” (they’ve had the audacity to lecture Poland on that; Poland seems like the only country which bothered doing an economic study on the matter, resulting in rejection of the Unified Patent Court); it discredits the patent system as a whole and no amount of bribed “publishers” can correct this
THIS won’t end well. We’ve said it for years already. There are reportedly many “unitary effect” opt-outs, perhaps because many parties expect it to be some temporary charade.
Some time earlier this month a bribed mouthpiece of Team UPC did some hilarious reputation laundering article for ‘judge’ Grabinski. They fell all over themselves to say he had no biases. What a joke! He months earlier he did photo ops with the EPO‘s António Campinos, a friend of Benoît Battistelli, and when I shared those photo in this site core people of the “conspiracy” (Team UPC) contacted me and threatened me with litigation. These are gangsters, not judges. They’re like a mafia pushing European software patents for the sake of money. Follow the money… even JUVE cannot deny where the money came from, not too long before those Grabinski puff pieces.
If the EU (and EC) cannot rectify the matter, this corruption will spread so deeply to the EU (and EUIPO) that they too will collapse, with staff exodus or staff revolting, even engaging in long strikes.
“If the EU (and EC) cannot rectify the matter, this corruption will spread so deeply to the EU (and EUIPO) that they too will collapse, with staff exodus or staff revolting, even engaging in long strikes.”
“Three technically qualified judges (TQJ) have resigned prior to the start of operations of the Unified Patent Court,” Team UPC now admits [1] while Team UPC is just parroting the propaganda from gangsters at the EPO [2]. What on Earth is going on here? “Law” firms openly promote illegal things, citing actual criminals who operate with impunity! How on Earth will that help the EU?
In better news, Unified Patent (no connected to the UPC) awards money to disarm a patent troll which attacked GNU/Linux some years ago (Leigh M. Rothschild) [3] and it challenges some other ludicrous patents as well [4]. Well, occasionally it targets European Patents, seeing that at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) inter partes reviews (IPRs) may get harder to initiate due to the Microsoft mole who currently acts as Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). We hope that Unified Patent will expand in Europe and do a lot more to tackle the injustice here, especially the fake patents’ pandemic.
“It won’t shock us if more UPC judges do the right thing and resign.”
In other patent news/noise, the patent maximalists are again conflating patents with “Innovation” [5]. Florian Müller is back to lobbying for Microsoft and other nefarious entities [6-7], and Patent Docs seems to have devolved into a marketing ‘spam’ site [8-11], with the occasional real ‘article’ [12], pushing their usual agenda. As Techrights put it this morning in IRC: “Wow! A lot of PATENT ‘news’ sites are LITERALLY dying. Completely. Some barely publish anything. This is a graveyard.” The EPO’s mouthpiece, JUVE, keeps lobbying on FRAND [13] (hardly journalism, it is sponsored agenda-pushing) and Müller is almost certainly (I’d say definitely) back on Microsoft’s payroll again, based on his latest junk [13-15].
News about patents has never been this pathetic and misleading. JUVE has become a judge’s reputation laundering agency. It won’t shock us if more UPC judges do the right thing and resign. Have some self respect and dignity. █
Related/contextual items from the news:
●●●● 3 TQJ resignations at the UPC, 9 cases, 800 requests for Unitary Patents
Three technically qualified judges (TQJ) have resigned prior to the start of operations of the Unified Patent Court. According to a UPC announcement, Roman Maksymiw (DE), Grégoire Desrousseaux (FR) en Kirsikka Etuaho (FI) handed in their resignations received prior to 31 May 2023. The reason is not mentioned [...]
●●●● EPO publishes data on unitary patents
●●●● $2,000 for Leigh M. Rothschild entity Symbology Innovations patent prior art
A new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 8,651,369, owned by Symbology Innovations, a Leigh M. Rothschild entity. The ‘369 patent generally relates to enabling a portable electronic device to retrieve information about an object when the object’s symbology, e.g., a barcode, is detected. The patent has been asserted over 100 times but most recently against BrandsMart, Keurig Dr. Pepper, and ADT.The contest will expire on July 31, 2023. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.
●●●● HyperX zero-touch networking patent challenged
On June 13, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 11,522,756, owned and asserted by HyperX Networks, LLC. The ‘756 patent relates to zero-touch provisioning systems and methods, and had been asserted against Ciena.View district court litigations by HyperX. Unified is represented by Raghav Bajaj at Haynes Boone, and by in-house counsel, Michelle Aspen and Roshan Mansinghani.
●●●● Guest post by Prof. Robinson: How We Can Bridge the Innovation Gap
The patent system is a foundational part of the United States’ innovation ecosystem. The country created a national patent system in 1789. While the patent system has evolved over 200 years, it has remained stagnant in one glaring way. The number of inventors and patent professionals that are women or belong to underrepresented racial and ethnic groups is alarmingly low as compared to white men. While this disparity raises concerns about inclusivity, it also raises the possibility that there are untapped reservoirs of creativity and innovation within our borders.
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●●●● 2023-06-16 [Older] OPPO effectively defends 5G standard-essential patent against Nokia’s opposition: EPO upholds claims based on minor clarification; Mannheim trial scheduled for 6/27
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●●●● 2023-06-11 [Older] USPTO Program on Relationship between IP and Climate Change Innovation
●●●● 2023-06-11 [Older] USPTO WE Event on Addressing Global Challenges
●●●● 2023-06-11 [Older] Webinar on Attracting and Winning New Clients
●●●● 2023-06-12 [Older] Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2023)
●●●● UK court takes commercial approach to Apple vs. Optis global FRAND rate
The UK High Court has handed down its sixth judgment in the dispute between Apple and Optis concerning standard essential patents, in doing so cementing the terms of a FRAND licence between the two companies. \
●●●● 2023-06-14 [Older] UPDATED TIMELINE: U.S. court to hear FTC request for preliminary injunction against Microsoft-ActivisionBlizzard next week, merger technically can’t close in June but on track for July
●●●● 2023-06-13 [Older] FTC wants federal court to enjoin Microsoft-ActivisionBlizzard over theory rejected by regulators in charge of 40 countries; UK appeal progressing fast
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