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05/01 One Week Later, as Expected, the Patent Trolls’ Lobby Continues to Moan About Oil States and Tries to Bring Another Challenge to PTAB (at the Supreme Court Level)

05/01 The Software Patenting Hopefuls Still Hope to Convince Patent Examiners (or the USPTO’s Leadership) to Keep Granting Software Patents Which US Courts Repeatedly Reject

05/01 Battistelli’s Alleged ‘Success’ is Like That of the United States Mint

05/02 Links 2/5/2018: Focus on New Ubuntu and Fedora, Deb Nicholson joins Conservancy

05/02 RPX, RIP

05/02 How the Patent Microcosm and Patent Extremists Cover Oil States More Than a Week Later

05/02 Not Enough Opposition/s to Wrongly-Granted European Patents

05/03 The European Patent Office Has Become a Kakistocracy

05/03 Links 3/5/2018: Cinnamon 3.8 and GCC 8.1 Released

05/03 Bristows LLP Already Uses Kluwer Patent Blog and IP Kat as Its UPC Megaphone, Now IAM as Well

05/03 Marks & Clerk is Still Pushing Patent Maximalism Agenda in Europe and Britain, Including UPC/UPCA/Unitary Patent (UP)

05/04 Links 4/5/2018: Kubernetes and GSoC in Headlines

05/04 From Saint-Germain-en-Laye to Strasbourg, Even the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Might Side With Nicolas Sárközy’s Thug at the EPO

05/04 Guest Article: Benoît Battistelli’s Election as Deputy Mayor Was Pre-announced in the Local Press

05/04 Elizabeth Holmes Charged With “Massive Fraud” and Team Battistelli Rushes to Distance Itself From Her

05/05 The European Patent Office’s Decline in Patent Quality a ‘Blessing’ in Disguise But Mostly a Curse to Apple

05/05 Microsoft/Intellectual Ventures: Still Pairing to Tax the Entire World With Patent Lawsuits and Extortion

05/05 Post-Alice, Using Software Patents, Microsoft-Backed Patent Troll Finjan Continues Suing Microsoft’s Competitors

05/05 If Anyone Has Defamed the European Patent Organisation/Office (EPO) It’s Benoît Battistelli

05/05 The European Patent Organisation (EPO) Stopped Working and It’s Also the Fault of Jesper Kongstad, Not Just Benoît Battistelli

05/05 Tesla’s ‘Truckload’ of ‘Open’ Patents Cannot Save It From a Nuisance Lawsuit in Arizona

05/05 In the Latest EPO Official Journal (April’s Publication) Battistelli’s Next Employer is Mentioned Literally Hundreds of Times and Promoted in 20 Pages out of 75 Pages

05/06 The Board Continues to Leverage 35 USC § 101/Alice to Invalidate More and More Software Patents in the United States

05/06 Patents Are Neither Ownership Nor Inventorship But a Temporarily-Granted Monopoly

05/06 Links 6/5/2018: Crostini and Red Hat Summit 2018 Coming

05/06 Alice/Section 101 and PTAB Continue to Eliminate Software Patents While Patent Lawyers Attempt to Distract From Oil States (US Supreme Court’s Decision)

05/06 Patents Roundup: Nintendo, Watchtroll’s Lies, Judge Reyna’s Latest Decision (Disc Disease), and Bayh-Dole

05/06 Software Patents Are Not Allowed in Canada, But the Patent Microcosm is Trying to Change That

05/06 Covering Software Patents For 12 Years

05/07 News From the Frontline: EPO Continues Unabated on Its Destructive Path

05/07 Links 7/5/2018: Linux 4.17 RC4 and Mesa 18.0.3

05/07 Rumour: The European Patent Office Has Just ‘Done a Patrick Corcoran’ Again (Forced Removal)

05/08 Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Continues to Deny Patents Based on Stricter Standards

05/08 Links 8/5/2018: Red Hat’s Event and Microsoft Openwashing

05/08 Guest Article: More Battistelli Revelations From the Archives of the Municipal Council of Saint-Germain-en-Laye

05/08 Forward Pharma an Example of the Devastating Effect of Granting Patents in Error — A Problem Appeal Boards Must Correct

05/09 Barker Brettell is Wrong About Unified Patent Court (UPC) and the United Kingdom

05/09 Rumours Confirmed: Latest EPO Official Journal Misused to Promote Battistelli’s (and Campinos’) Employer, Another EPO Employee Has Just Been ‘Corcoranised’

05/09 Links 9/5/2018: Firefox 60 and CrossOver 17.5

05/09 Microsoft is Attacking the Competition Through Patent Trolls Based in Texas, Armed by Microsoft’s Former Management

05/09 EPO Policy (Squashing Examination) is Already Crashing Stocks, Destroying Companies

05/09 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Not Happening, But Kluwer Patent Blog Pretends It’s Already in Force

05/10 Links 10/5/2018: Battle for Wesnoth 1.14, Tails 3.7, Devuan 2.0 RC

05/10 EPO Scandals Are Far Worse Than FIFA’s (or Even Emissionsgate/Dieselgate), But Will European Media Belatedly Realise This?

05/10 Report on the (Mal)Functioning of the ILOAT From the 332nd Session of the ILO Governing Body

05/10 The EPO’s ‘Inventor Award’ Scam: Part I

05/11 Links 11/5/2018: New CentOS, X.Org Server 1.20, Rust 1.26, Krita 4.0.2, Cutelyst 2.3.0 and Kdenlive 18.04.1

05/12 The Patent Trolls’ Lobbyists Continue to Deny That the Concept of Trolling Even Exists or Needs Addressing

05/12 The EPO’s ‘Inventor Award’ Scam: Part II

05/12 EPO Staff Deprived and Denied Basic Rights, Even Justice, But Almost Nobody in the ‘Mainstream’ Wants to Talk About It

05/12 Patents on Life (or Supposed ‘Gene-Editing’/CRISPR) Are a Gross Distortion of the Raison D’être of Patents

05/12 Companies in the Red Resort to Patent Litigation Rather Than Creation

05/12 Links 12/5/2018: Wine 3.8 and Scientific Linux 7.5

05/13 Guest Article: Battistelli’s Salary in Saint-Germain-en-Laye Nearly Quadrupled Last Year

05/13 CAFC is Under Attack by the Patent Microcosm, Whose Scrutiny is Starting to Resemble PTAB-Bashing

05/13 Debunking the Usual Omission of GNU

05/13 District of Delaware is Becoming Patent Litigation ‘Infestation’ Zone, According to Lex Machina’s Data

05/13 The Patent Microcosm is ‘Snookering’ Andrei Iancu on PTAB Deforms and Broadest Reasonable Interpretation (BRI), Amongst Other Things

05/13 The Evil, Truly ‘Evil’ Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and the Courts Have the Audacity to Verify/Disprove Patent Validity

05/13 Software Patents in the United States: It’s a Lot More Difficult, But Patent Examiners Must Watch Out for Buzzwords and Hype/Marketing

05/13 Three Weeks After Oil States the Patent Microcosm Has Already ‘Buried’ the Subject and 35 U.S.C. § 101 is Under Threat

05/13 Links 13/5/2018: RC5 of Linux 4.17, SparkyLinux 4.8, Malicious Package Found on the Ubuntu Snap Store

05/13 Alice/Section 101 is Fine Because Copyrights Already Cover Software and Patents Are Inadequate for Code

05/13 EPO-Funded Propaganda for Software Patents Reaches as Far as East Asia and the EPO Then Brags About That

05/13 The Supreme Court’s SAS Decision and the Race/Campaign to Undermine PTAB With Iancu’s Help

05/14 It Doesn’t Take a Genius to See That Microsoft Still Attacks GNU/Linux With Patents to Make Billions of Dollars in ‘Protection’ Money

05/14 Reader’s Post: The Last Delusion of Benoît Battistelli Before His Departure on June 30th

05/14 A Sham and a Scam: How Patent Extremists Continue to Promote a Mohawks and Allergan Ploy Against PTAB, Even After Oil States

05/15 A Google-Centric and Google-Led Patent Pool Won’t Protect GNU/Linux But Merely ‘Normalise’ Software Patents

05/15 The Anti-PTAB (Patent Quality), Anti-§ 101 Lobby is Losing Its Mind and It Has Become Amusing to Observe

05/15 Apple and Microsoft Are Still Suing Companies — Using Patents of Course — Which ‘Dare’ Compete (by Leveraging GNU/Linux)

05/15 The Patent Microcosm is Still Looking for Ways to Bypass CAFC/PTAB Invalidation of Many US Patents

05/15 Links 15/5/2018: Black Duck’s Latest FUD and the EFF’s EFFail FUD Debunked Further

05/15 The EPO Has Become Extremely Corrupt and Dishonest

05/15 EPO Has Become Overzealous About Software Patents, Probably More So Than Almost Anywhere Else

05/15 Inter Partes Reviews (IPRs) Make the United States a Much Better Place for Innovation and Creation

05/15 Xiaomi, Samsung, TCL and Others Demonstrate That in a World With an Abundance of Stupid Patents Like Design Patents Nobody is Safe

05/16 The EPO’s ‘Inventor Award’ Scam: Part III

05/16 Links 16/5/2018: Cockpit 168, GCompris 0.91, DHCP Bug

05/17 Links 18/5/2018: AsteroidOS 1.0 Released, More Snyk/Black Duck FUD

05/17 EPO’s Battistelli Taking Days Off Work for Political ‘Duties’ (Parties) in His French Theatre Where He’ll Bring Buckets of EPO Budget (EPO Stakeholders’ Money)

05/17 So-Called ‘System Battistelli’ is Destroying the EPO, Warn Insiders

05/17 Today’s EPO Financially Rewards Abuses and Violations of the Law

05/17 Fishy Things Noticed Ahead of the Passage of a Lot of EPO Budget (Applicants’ Money) to Battistelli’s Other (and Simultaneous) Employer

05/17 In Australia the Productivity Commission Decides/Guides Patent Law

05/17 Rise in Patent Trolls’ Activity in Germany Noted Amid Declining Patent Quality at the EPO

05/18 Système Battistelli (ENArque) at the EPO is Inspired by Système Lamy in Saint-Germain-en Laye

05/19 Aurélien Pétiaud’s ILO Case (EPO Appeal) an Early Sign That ILO Protects Abusers and Power, Not Workers

05/19 CIPU is Amplifying Misleading Propaganda From the Chamber of Commerce

05/19 LOT Network is a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

05/19 Links 19/5/2018: Mesa 18.0.4 and Vim 8.1

05/19 Microsoft Attacks the Vulnerable Using Software Patents in Order to Maintain Fear and Give the Perception of Microsoft ‘Safety’

05/19 ‘Nokification’ in Hong Kong and China (PRC)

05/19 A Year After TC Heartland the Patent Microcosm is Trying to ‘Dilute’ This Supreme Court’s Decision or Work Around It

05/19 Patent Law Firms That Profit From Software Patent Applications and Lawsuits Still ‘Pull a Berkheimer’ to Attract Business in Vain

05/20 In Apple v Samsung Patents That Should Never Have Been Granted May Result in a Billion Dollars in ‘Damages’

05/20 Links 20/5/2018: KDevelop 5.2.2 and 5.2.3, FreeBSD 11.2 Beta 2

05/20 The Attacks on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Have Lost Momentum and the Patent Microcosm Begrudgingly Gives Up

05/20 Software Patenting and Successful Litigation a Very Difficult Task Under 35 U.S.C. § 101

05/20 António Campinos Will Push Toward a France-Based Unified Patent Court (UPC)

05/21 Links 21/5/2018: Linux 4.17 RC6, GIMP 2.10.2

05/22 Chamber of Commerce Lies About the United States Like It Lies About Other Countries for the Sole Purpose of Patent Maximalism

05/22 Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans”: Cautionary Tale for the EPO?

05/22 Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans”: The Emperor’s New Investment Guidelines

05/22 Links 22/5/2018: Parrot 4.0, Spectre Number 4

05/22 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

05/23 Links 23/5/2018: DragonFlyBSD 5.2.1 and Kata Containers 1.0 Released

05/23 Masking Abstract Patents in the Age of Alice/§ 101 in the United States

05/23 EPO Validation in Former French Colonies That Have Zero European Patents

05/23 Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans”: The Cautionary Tale of SIDRU and Its “Toxic Loans”

05/23 PTAB’s Latest Applications of 35 U.S.C. § 101 and Obviousness Tests to Void U.S. Patents

05/24 Walmart, Bank of America, Allied Security Trust (AST) and the Rush for ‘Blockchain’ Patents

05/24 Perpetuating the Big Lie That Unitary Patent (UPC) is About to Kick Off

05/24 Privacy Statement

05/24 Links 24/5/2018: RIP Robin “Roblimo” Miller, Qt 5.11 Released

05/24 New EPO Caricature: The Rubber Stamp

05/24 Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans”: The SIDRU “Toxic Loan” Débâcle and Criticism of Lamy From Local Opposition Groups

05/24 Stupid Blogs, Stupid Lawsuits, and Stupid Patents

05/25 EPO, a Longtime Privacy Offender, Uses General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Day to Lie to the Public

05/25 The Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court (UPC): This Week’s Latest Spin and Lies

05/25 Links 25/5/2018: OpenSUSE 15 Leap Released, PostgreSQL 11 Beta

05/26 Index for EPO and Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans” Series

05/26 Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans”: The SIDRU “Toxic Loan” Débâcle a Case of “Take the Money and Run…”

05/26 Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans”: Quo Vadis EPO?

05/26 Links 26/5/2018: Wine 3.9, KStars 2.9.6, Bodhi 3.8.0, FreeBSD 11.2 Beta 3

05/27 The Way Things Are Going in the Eastern District of Texas and Other US District Courts, South Korean Companies Might as Well Exit the US Like They Exit China

05/27 The Patent Extremists Resort to Trump-Styled China-Baiting in an Effort to Destroy US Patent Policy

05/27 On Ethics of Patent Lawyers

05/27 The Irish Knowledge Development Box (KDB) is Just Another Tax Evasion Ploy

05/27 Another Week of Federal Circuit Supporting PTAB and Acting Tough for Patent Quality in the United States

05/27 Software Patents Advocacy and UPC Lies Go Hand in Hand

05/27 Techrights at 24,000

05/27 IAM Warns That China is Outpacing the United States at Granting Rubbish, Unproductive Patents on Abstract Things

05/27 Letting the USPTO Decide on Fees Would Lead to a ‘Battistelli Scenario’

05/28 Links 28/5/2018: Linux 4.17 RC7, Fedora 26 EOL Soon

05/28 Microsoft and Its Patent Trolls Face an Uphill Battle in a Patent System Which is Increasingly Hostile Towards Software Patents

05/28 Supreme Court Justices and 35 U.S.C. § 101 Are Fixing the USPTO, Voiding ‘Fake Patents’

05/28 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and Patent Reform (AIA) Generally Too Popular to Stop, But Patent Law Firms Helped by Andrei Iancu Keep Trying

05/28 Guest Series: Système Lamy and Système Battistelli at the European Patent Office (EPO)

05/28 Companies Now Have the Incentive to Remove/Move All Operations Out of the Eastern District of Texas (If Not Texas in General)

05/29 Links 29/5/2018: KBibTeX 0.7.95, LG’s Thin Client Monitor With Ubuntu Linux Support

05/29 St. Germain’s “Système Lamy” and Its EPO Clone – Part 1: Rubber-stamp Committees and Secret Meetings

05/29 St. Germain’s “Système Lamy” and Its EPO Clone – Part 2: Misinformation and Silencing of Dissent

05/29 High US Court Rules Against Patents on GUIs

05/30 The European Patent Office: From Patent Maximalism to Corruption and Gerrymandering

05/30 EUROCHAMBRES is an Echo Chamber of the Patent Litigation ‘Industry’ Hoping to Mislead the EU’s Competitiveness Council on UPC

05/30 The Chinese Patent System Does a Fine Job Devouring China, But Sites of the Litigation ‘Industry’ Are Absolutely Loving It!

05/30 St. Germain’s “Système Lamy” and Its EPO Clone – Part 3: Shooting the Messengers and Defaming Opponents

05/30 Märpel Looks at Benoît Battistelli’s Toxic Financial Affairs at the EPO

05/30 USPTO Has a ‘Revolving Doors’ Problem

05/31 Links 31/5/2018: Many Stable Kernels, Cutelyst 2.4.0, Cockpit 169, MAAS 2.4.0, Rust 1.26.1

05/31 IP Kat is Still Acting as a Propaganda Front for UPC (and EU Software Patents) Lobbying by US-Based Front Groups

05/31 The EPO’s Lobbying Chief Apparently Came From Saint-Germain-en-Laye 2 Years After Benoît Battistelli

05/31 The Open Invention Network (OIN) is Becoming an Even Greater Part of the Problem, Embracing Software Patents Through Hype

05/31 Software Patents Are a Dying Breed of Patents Except in China (and Maybe EPO)

05/31 The EPO is Demolishing European Law With Terms Like ICT, CII, AI, and 4IR

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