The European Patent Office (EPO) Articles

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2021

June

Meme: Timely Timing?

Virtual Injustice — Part 15: A Pandora’s Box… But for Whom?

Virtual Injustice — Part 14: How Mandatory ViCo Became the “New Normal”

Virtual Injustice — Part 13: Let the Games Continue…

EPO: Fake Patents, Fake (Paid-for) Patent Coverage, and Fake Awards for Public Relations Purposes

We Need and Deserve a Saner Patent System in Europe

The EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal Has Already Lost the Case in the Court of Public Opinion

Virtual Injustice — Part 12: Carl Josefsson – Down But Not Out!

Virtual Injustice — Part 11: Perceptive Comments and Caustic Criticism

Meme: When the 'Court' Drops

The EPO's Virtual Injustice and Virtual ('News') Media

Meme: Swedish Justice

Virtual Injustice -- Part 10: Vapid and Superficial Coverage in the 'IP' Blogosphere

Heli Pihlajamaa Promoting Software Patents to Patent Maximalists

The Lying by Team UPC, Led Again by Kevin Mooney

Meme: The Enlarged Bored People With Presidential Decrees

Response to Misinformation From EPO Officials

Meme: Tilting the Scales for Software Patents

Virtual Injustice — Part 9: Heli, the EPO’s Nordic Ice-Queen

Virtual Injustice — Part 8: A Well-Connected ‘IP’ Maximalist

Virtual Injustice — Part 7: Musical Chairs and Revolving Doors

Hardly Shocking and Not At All Surprising That Thugs Who Run the EPO Hired External Thugs to Help Them Oppress Aggrieved Staff

Meme: There Are No Elections in Mafia-Type Regimes; It's About Family and Friends...

Meme: EPO 'Lawfulness' as Crude Budget Wars

A Parade of 'Yes Men': EPO's Budget and Finance Committee as Rubber-stamper of the Dictatorship That Pays the Salary

Meme: Illegal Location, Illegal Methods (Haar ViCo)

The ‘Fixer’ of António Campinos Taints G1/21 (ViCo Hearing)

Virtual Injustice — Part 6: Best Buddies With António

Classic: Old EPO Strike

Virtual Injustice -- Part 5: Benoît's “Friends” in Budapest

EU Already Captured by — and Lying for — Corrupt EPO Officials, Team UPC, and Lobbyists of Multinational Corporations

Meme: Virtual Code of Conduct (ViCoC)

Virtual Injustice — Part 4: Mihály Ficsor, the EPO’s Hungarian “Fixer”

Virtual Injustice — Part 3: All the President’s Men…

EPO ‘ViCo’ Prior Art (or ViCo Going Back to the 1980s)

The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Needs to Get Its Act Together on the EPO's GDPR Violations

EPO ‘ViCo’ Prior Art (~30 Years Ago): Barely Innovative at All

Meme: Lord Justice Sir

The EPO’s Lack of Objective Legal System is No Laughing Matter

Virtual Injustice — Part 2: The ViCo Oral Proceedings of 28 May 2021

Purpose of Patents

Why We Fight for Real Justice at the European Patent Office

Virtual Injustice — Part 1: António’s Increasingly Wonky Legal Fudge Factory

EPO Management Pours Money Down the River, Wasting Budget on Failed and Failing Projects

Time for the Boards of Appeal to Host Their Own Files, Knowing That the Patent Office is Censoring Submissions From the Public

Meme: Judges Aren’t the Enemy

The Correlation Between Software Freedom and Universal Justice

EPO Management: We Listen to Users, Especially Monopolists and Overzealous Litigation Firms

The Kanté of Alicante

The EPO’s Censorship of Stakeholders is a Misguided Case of Digging One’s Own Grave

The Giftküche of Haar (Allegedly a Part of Munich, as the EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal Refuses to Even Check)

Video: 'Shoot the Messenger' Tactics

EPO G 1/21 Update: Fresh Allegations of Cronyism Against Campinos

Never Ever Let Those Who Expose Corruption Be Framed as 'Public Enemies'

Meme: EPOnian ‘Justice’ (Just Us, the Superpowers)

Almost a ‘Media Blackout’ About What Happened Last Friday at the EPO

One Week Since the EPO's Boards of Appeal Came to a Standstill Due to Lack of Independence and Impartiality

Meme: Approving the Actions of the Boss

Some Potentially Good News About the EPO

May

Meme: EPO Bad for Your Health (Even as President)

President of the Boards of Appeal and His ‘Handler’ António Campinos Need to Step Down to Save the EPO

President Campinos is Finished (EPO Crisis Afoot)

Meme: Outsourced Panel to Decide on Legality of Outsourced Panels

Breaking: G1/21 (ViCo Hearing) Going Down the Drain

Postscriptum: Carl Josefsson Sidelined From G 1/21!

Latest News on G 1/21: Another Spanner in the Works

Managing Perceptions for the EPO’s Regime

When the Lips of António Campinos Move...

The Haarian Praetorian Guard

Outline of Recent EPO Series: Kangaroo Courts, German Government Complicity, and Gross Privacy Violations by Unaccountable Officials

Media Colluding With EPO Autocrats Who Break the Law, Aiming to Mislead the Public

They Don't Want Us to Hear...

The Golden Decision

The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 20: Summing up

EPO Propaganda, Looking to Legitimise a Rigged Panel of Judges, Starts With Author Who Did Puff Pieces With António Campinos

An Ode to Jeannine Hoppe and Nikolaus Obrovski

Deciphering the EPO's Media Strategy for Handling Its Illegal Practices, Which It Already Extends Until Next Year (Without Even Waiting for the Kangaroo Court's Ruling)

The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 19: Ladies and Gentlemen, Place Your Bets…

Get Ready for a Torrent of EPO Propaganda

Meme: Judges in Haar Must Behave Themselves

The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 18: Promoting the Illusion of Peace and Haar-mony

Meme: ViCo: Videoconference as ‘Courtroom’

EPO Deciding on the Legality of ViCo… Over ViCo

Article 116(1) EPC and the Stacked Courts Initially Entrusted to Judge Their Own Actions

The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 17: The External Members: Evangelos Chatzikos and Richard Arnold

Nobody Loves the EPO (or EPC) Like the Staff Representatives and the Union, SUEPO

We Need to Save Europe From the Lawlessness of EPO ‘Mafia’ (Corrupt Management That Doesn’t Understand Patents or Law)

Meme: Appeal for Independence

The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 16: The Mystery of the “Missing Signatures”

Leaky and Freaky Patent Office

Rational Patent Office Gone Irrational

The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 15: The EBA Letter of 8 December 2014

Meme: The EPO's Very Special Dept. of Justice

Breaking EPO News Regarding G 1/21: Judge Calle Josefsson Deposed as Chairman

EPO Corruption Impacts Everybody, Even Those Uncaring About Patents and Those Outside Europe

The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 14: Nemo Iudex in Causa Sua?

Say Hey Hi to Inventions and Patents

The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 13: Internal Members: Gunnar Eliasson and Andrea Ritzka

The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 12: Internal Members: Ingo Beckedorf

The EPO Has Slipped Out of Control and Now It's a Mass Litigation “Mafia” With Immunity

António Campinos is Already Worse Than Benoît Battistelli and Maybe More Aggressive as Well

The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 11: The Rapporteur Who Once Was Vice-President

Meme: Captured EPO

An Urgent Need to Fix the EPO, Which is Becoming Rogue at Every Level (Even the 'Legal' Level)

Calle Josefsson as Living Proof That Attacking the Causes You Once Proclaimed to Stand for is Very Profitable

The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 10: A Faustian Pact?

EPO Staff Representatives Not Amused to See an Office That Steals From Staff and Even From Pensioners

Meme: Virtual Prisons for Virtual Hearings (Haarings)

President of the Boards of Appeal, the Star of the Haar Show

Virtual ‘Courts’ Aren’t Courts and Aren’t Suitable Substitutes, Either

Haar Song

The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 9: Squeezing Out the Lifeblood of Democracy?

EPO.org is a Really Awful Source of Information

Meme: When All That Matters is ‘Production’ and ‘Timeliness’

The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 8: The Radical Student “Brotherhood”

Christoph Ernst Lecturing Us on “Transparency” and EPO Corruption (as Well as Assault on the EPC) Becoming a “New Normal”

Jacques Michel and Willy (Guillaume) Minnoye: Stakeholders in EPO Lawlessness

The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 7: Calle’s Strange Metamorphosis

Making up Law at the EPO

Meme: Calle Calling…

The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 6: The Habermasian Who Warned About “Legal Anarchy”

EPO Justice

Meme: Judges the Office Cannot Control Are Just Nazis With Weapons in Their Office...

The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 5: Battistelli’s “Swedish Chef”

The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 4: The President of the Boards of Appeal

Judging the Judges

When EU Authorities Tell You to Complain to the EPO Itself About EPO Privacy Violations...

The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 3: The Current Line-up

Meme: Longing for the Original IP Kat…

The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 2: Just Another Pro Forma Rubber-Stamping Exercise?

The European Campinos Award

Personal Thoughts About the EPO 'Kangaroo Court' Scandal

Doing Justice by Reporting Injustice

The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 1: Rumours of a Kangaroo Court at EPOnia

Europe's Second-Largest Institution, the EPO, is Partly Based in the United States

Mass Litigation Over the Salary Adjustment Procedure (SAP), Basically an Attack on All EPO Staff, Even EPO Pensioners

EPO ‘Dialogue’ With Staff Representatives is as Dead as ‘Dialogue’ With the Union

Then We Take Berlin…

Meme: Who Needs Examination Anyway When There's 'Hey Hi' (AI)?

Europe’s Second-Largest Institution Corrupting the Media and Buying Expensive Puff Pieces

Free Software Proponents Don’t Fall for Bullshit (Same is True for EPO Examiners)

EPO Already Wasting Money on Media Manipulation Campaigns for European Inventor Award

EPO Disregards Animal Welfare

Meme: You Cannot Measure Innovation by the Quantity of Paperwork

The EPO Can Never and Will Never Recover If It Fails to Communicate With People Who Actually Understand the Job of a Patent Office

April

When A Source of Pollution and Corruption Paints Itself Green

Lying and Breaking the Law: Is This the Best Europe's Second-Largest Institution (EPO) Can Do?

Meme: Greenponia

The EPO Abuses Climate Change, Hijacking or Misusing Grassroots Activism for Corporate Public Relations Stunts

At the EPO, the Word “Reform” Means Abolition (Abandonment of Staff)

The European Patent Office Isn’t About Patents Anymore and It’s Run by Clueless People

Meme: EPO Comp-LIE-A**

“Dia da Liberdade” 2021: Some Thoughts For the Day

Behind the Curtains of Cheap and Cheesy PR the EPO is a Machine of Oppression (Against Its Very Own Staff), Tribunal to Rule on Strike Busting

At the EPO, Lawlessness Has Become “a New Normal”

Richard Stallman on How UPC is a Trojan Horse for Software Patents in Europe

Breaking News: EDPS Admits That It is Powerless to Investigate Claims of GDPR Non-compliance at the EPO

What the EPO Has 'Normalised' in Europe...

EPO Staff Union Takes the EPO 'to Court' (the ILO's Tribunal, as the EPO Cannot be Taken to a Proper Court)

Exposing Hard Truths is the First Step or the Path Towards Justice

Meme: Laundering Bribes as ‘Cooperation Money’

EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 20: Taking Stock

Meme: Germany’s Red Cash Cow

EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 19: The Deafening Silence of the Media

EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 18: Zero Tolerance for “Lawless Zones”?

EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 17: Jawohl, Herr Minister!

Over 1,000 EPO Workers Initiate Legal Challenge Against the EPO’s Attack on Salaries (in Defiance of Assurances Made to Workers Who Relocate to Another Country With Whole Families)

An Examination of Correspondence Between the Tweedledum-Tweedledee Duo, Lutz and Ernst

EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 16: An Inimitable Duo

An Ode to Dr. Ernst

During Pandemic, With Rising Inflation, Corrupt EPO Management With Its ‘Shadow Budget’ Cracks Down on Education and Childcare Allowance

EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 15: Different Strokes for Different Folk

EPO President Campinos Lying to JURI

EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 14: The Notorious Revolving Door

All EPO Articles Are Available Over Gemini Protocol

Judge and JURI

EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 13: The Failed Promise of a “Good Governance” Guru…

Challenging Times for EPO Management

Meme: Bundestagate Series Spoiler

Breaking News: Campinos to Appear Before the Legals Affairs Committee of the European Parliament on Monday 12 April

EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 12: A Worthy Successor to His Mentor?

Accessibility and Availability First

EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Appendix (Benoît Battistelli’s Vichy Syndrome): Georges Henri Léon Battistelli and Charles Robert Battistelli

EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 11: The BMJV’s Tweedledee: Dr Christoph Ernst

News Sites That Talk About Patents Have Become Shameless Self-Promotion 'Plugs' by Law Firms (and Sometimes Outright 'Spam' for Litigation)

Meme: Self-styled Judges

EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 10: A Faithful Lapdog Despised and Reviled by EPO Staff

EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 9: A Veritable Virtuoso of Legal Sophistry

A Patent System for Giant Corporations Like Boeing and Airbus, Not for Ordinary European Citizens

EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 8: The EPO’s Tweedledum, Raimund Lutz

Germany’s Inaction on EPO Privacy Abuses and Corruption in General

EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 7: Ms Voßhoff Alerts the Bundestag…

‘Not My Department’: How Privacy Abuses Have Been Treated in Germany

EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 6: Dr Petri Starts the Ball Rolling…

The EPO Scandals Are Partly German Government Scandals, Too

The EPO Bundestagate -- Part 5: The Federal Eagle's Disconcerting Metamorphosis

Milking the EPO and Lying for the EPO

The EPO Bundestagate — Part 4: Parroting the GDPR-Compliance Myth

A BIT Worrying Where the EPO is Going...

Government of Germany Relays Talking Points Directly From the Mouths of EPO Management

EPO is a Zombie Institution Where Managers Have “Repeatedly Used Buzzwords and Catchphrases Like “Digital Transformation”, “Artificial Intelligence” and “Upskilling”, to Name a Few.”

The EPO Bundestagate — Part 3: A “Minor Interpellation” in the German Bundestag

EPO President António Campinos Promoting Microsoft Proprietary Software (Monopoly) and Software Patents

EPO: It is All About Germany, Baby!

The EPO Bundestagate — Part 2: Lack of Parliamentary Oversight, Many Questions and Few Answers…

March

Meme: It Came From the Cloud... in Haar

The EPO Bundestagate — Part 1: How the Bundestag Was (and Continues to be) Misled About EPO Affairs

Coming Up in April: Exposing More EPO Crimes and Advocating Software Freedom

After Crushing Dialogue With the Union (SUEPO) the EPO’s President Does the Same to Staff Representatives

EPO Staff Representation Again Warns About Collapse in Patent Quality (Due to Bad Management), Suggests Potential Improvements

EPO Has Become an Institution of Unbridled Crime, Where Judges Exist Only to Approve the Crimes

EPO Management Bombards the ‘News’ Section to Distract From Unlawful Attacks on the EPO’s Highest Tribunal (This Time in G 1/21)

Meme: EPO Robbed

EPO Robbery Under the Shadow of Pandemic Sweeping Across Europe

EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Summing Up: EPO Administrative Council Still Asleep at the Wheel

As Work/EPO Invalidity Appeals Rejected, More Reasons Emerge to Worry About the Campinos Regime

EPO Has Abandoned Patent Law and Sooner or Later Stakeholders Will Abandon the EPO Just Like Many Examiners Did

Meme: Banking on the EPO's Future

The Sky is the Limit for EPO Management as Patent Quality is Lowered to Gutter Level

EPO Board of Auditors is Incompetent and Patently Unfit for Purpose

EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — The ‘Smoking Gun’: Hard Evidence That the EPO Has Been Lying About GDPR Compliance

Hey, Hi, Welcome to the EPO

Almost 100 Pages of Self-Congratulatory Marketing Isn't a Case of Informing the Administrative Council of the EPO But Misleading It Using Fluff and Buzzwords

EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part XV: Has the EPO Sold Out Its “Digital Sovereignty”?

Ghost of Elizabeth Holmes Still Haunts EPO as Her Patents Are Used to Suppress COVID-19 Research in Europe

EPO Secrecy and Technical Incompetence

Perception Management and Reality Distortion in EPO Coverage, Sometimes Subsidised by the EPO and Typically Funded by Litigation Giants

At the EPO ‘New Normal’ is Synonymous With ‘Breaking the Law’… (EPC, Human Rights and More)

EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part XIV: When is a Conflict of Interest Not a Conflict of Interest?

The Microsoft Deal With the EPO is Illegal For a Lot of Reasons

Meme/Teaser: The European Blackmail Office

Meme: Masking Their Agenda...

The Patent Professionals Have Come to Realise That the EPO Boards of Appeal, Controlled by Office Management, Are Kangaroo Courts

EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part XIII: A Global 'IP' Player

Meme: Drunk on Power, Drunk on Diplomatic Immunity (and Impunity)

EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part XII: Corruption Addendum

EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part XII: Foreign Corrupt Practices, Bid Rigging and “Slush Funds”

The EPO is Drunk and Should Go Home

EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part XI: Close Encounters With the Trust-busters…

EDPS Documents About Microsoft’s Privacy Violations and Much More to Come Regarding the EPO’s Privacy Scandals

The ‘Hey Hi’ of António Campinos Will Survive This

Why We Don’t Expect the Media or Patent ‘News’ Sites to Cover or Even Just Mention EPO Data Scandals

EPO Promoting Illegal Software Patents Under the Guise of NET/Hey Hi

EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part X: The Spectre of GDPR…

Meme/Teaser: Lipstick on EPO in the 'Cloud'

Microsoft Breaking European Privacy Laws While Distracting the Public: The Evidence (a Formal 91-Page Report)

EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part IX: Know Your Vendor…

Response to the EPO's Response to Techrights About Microsoft 'Cloud' (Still Failing to Justify the GDPR Violations)

EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part VIII Addendum

EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part VIII: The Aftermath of Schrems II in Europe

Europe's Second-Largest Institution (EPO) is Not Only Violating the Law But Also Acting in Defiance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

European Patent Office as Apparatus of American/Corporate Imperialism (by Surveillance and More)

EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part VII: Lipstick on a Pig…

Meme: EPO Encryption, Brought to You by (and for) Microsoft to Subvert

The German Constitutional Court Needs to Recognise That the EPO’s Tribunals Are Not Independent and EPC Has Not or Isn’t Being Honoured for Quite Some Time Now

Contacting Your (European) Member of Parliament/Representative to Report EPO-Microsoft GDPR Abuses

Note to Readers: It's Only When We Cover Microsoft-EPO Scandals That We Receive Legal Threats and Other Pressure from the EPO

The (e-)EQE Statement From the EPO Makes Things Even Worse as Victims of the Catastrophic Exam Feel Offended and Angry

EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part VI: A Not-so-safe Harbour

Reporting the European Patent Office and Microsoft for Gross GDPR Violations

EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part V: The EU GDPR

What the EPO's Illegal Outsourcing of Private Data to Microsoft Actually Means (an Issue for Everyone in Europe)

EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part IV: The US CLOUD Act Passes Without Public Debate

The US Government, Fronting Through Microsoft, is Spying on Europe Owing to an Illegal Contract (or Contracts) Signed by Corrupt EPO Officials

EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part III: The PATRIOT Act and Mass Surveillance

EPO Breaking the Law With Microsoft and Promoting Fake 'Encryption' That Violates Confidentiality on Many Levels

EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part II: Steve Rowan Announces Microsoft “Outlook Migration”

Why the Latest EPO Series is Very Important and Also Difficult to Publish

EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part I (Start of Series): Enter the “Cloud of Unknowing…”

EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part I (Intro): A Fresh Data Protection Scandal Brewing at the EPO?

EPO Management Could Really Use a Distraction From the Microsoft Blunder and Data Protection Crimes

Meme: EPO Sells Out Its ‘Digital Sovereignty’ to Microsoft

EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Primer

EPO Does the Unlawful While Leveraging Women’s Rights as an Opportunistic Form of Disguise

Team UPC and Patent-Centric ‘Media’ in Europe Still Committing Suicide (Credibility Sliding Down the Cliff)

Examining Today’s EPO Propaganda About the Disastrous EQE, a Subject of Much Scorn and EPO Corruption

German Decision on Unitary Patent/UPC Will Take Years (and It Doesn’t Matter Because the Whole Thing is Dead Already)

Meme: EPO Management Totally Gets 'Tehc'

The EPO's Software Blunders Are Inevitable Outcome of Technically Clueless Management Which Grants Illegal Patents on Software

‘GatoKeeper’/IP Kat (AstraZeneca) Still Suppressing and Censoring the Public Views or Internal EPO Talks About EPO Corruption

Five Years of António Campinos Coverage in Techrights (We Correctly Predicted His Presidency in March 2016)

In 2021 the EPO Works for Parasites Instead of Scientists (and It Cannot Even Hide That Anymore)

February

EPO President Pushes Illegal Software Patents in South America (Over the Telephone With a Misleading New Puff Piece)

The Administrative Council Needs to Fix the EPO While It’s Still Possible

'These Questions Remain Unanswered': Campinos Became Battistelli Just Halfway Through His Term

‘The One Percent’: Salary Adjustment Procedure (SAP) Supported Only by 1% of EPO Staff

Series Index: How António Campinos Resorted to Union-Busting

For the Record: SUEPO’s Correspondence With ‘King’ António Campinos

EPO Crisis Under António Campinos – Part 5: Quo Usque Tandem?

The Bergot Patent Office (Tantrum First, Innovation Later… or Never)

EPO Crisis Under António Campinos – Part 4: Timeline of the Le Guern Controversy

Reckless, Feckless and Factless Campinos ‘Doing a Donald Trump’ on the Staff Union of His Office

EPO Crisis Under António Campinos – Part 3: Campinos Rallies Behind Bergot

Spineless Campinos Protects Team Battistelli From EPO Staff (and From Accountability) Instead of Protecting Staff From Corruption and From Team Battistelli

Leaky Patent Office

EPO Crisis Under António Campinos - Part 2: Madame Bergot Reportedly Goes Ballistic

The EPO's “Mafia” is Back to Blackmailing Staff Representatives

EPO Crisis Under António Campinos - Part 1: Le Guern's “Disappearance” Triggers Internal Crisis at the European Patent Office (EPO)

EPO Behaves Like a Private Corporation, Pretends to be Poor Only When That Suits Its Agenda

When a Patent Office Becomes a Granting Authority Also for University/Academic Grants (With Strings Attached)

More Broken Promises as EPO Management Pretends That the Office is Poor (While Looting Its Treasury for Personal Gain)

Patents Over Parents at the EPO

EPO Management and ‘The Children’ Who Run the Office

Software Freedom and Patent Systems Are a Political Endeavour (at Least in Part)

The Good, the Bad, and the Truly Awful in Patent Law

EPO Propaganda on Overdrive... to the Point of Breaking the EPO's Web Site

When You Know the EPO Distracts the Media (and Thus the Public) From Something

End of Patent Justice in Europe

The Annual EPO/EUIPO Ritual of Lying to the European Public

Le Guern Leaves the EPO After Attacks on Staff’s (and Pensioners’) Finances Amid Pandemic

Straw Man Arguments That Distract From EPO Scandals

January

When So-called 'Public Servants' Simply Serve Themselves and Their Rich Sponsors/Friends (partly about EPO)

OpenForum Europe (IBM et al) and Linux Foundation Are Boosting and Cooperating With Enemies of Software Freedom (partly about EPO)

SUEPO Will Challenge Retribution Against Staff That Went on Strike to Protest Illegalities at the EPO

Meme: Candidate Campinos is Not President Campinos

Fighting for Free Speech and Censorship Resistance

Fourth Edition of EPO Staff Survey Shows That Work Affairs Continue to Deteriorate Even Further and Almost Nobody Trusts the Management

EPO Staff Likely Going on Strike For a Second Year in a Row

EPO President António Campinos is Still Not Listening, According to Internal EPO Documents

Kluwer Patent Spin and Distortion of Facts (Regarding UPC and More)

EPO Staff Representation Complains That EPO Management Exploits Pandemic and 'House Arrests' to Overwork Staff, Lower Quality

Hey Hi (AI) is Just a Trojan Horse for Illegal Software Patents, According to EPO Management and Litigation Firms It’s in Bed With

The Central Staff Representatives (CSC) of the EPO Are Petitioning to End the Assault on EPO Staff

Team UPC Keeps Pretending That UPCA Can Still be Resurrected (Even Without the UK, Which is Strictly a Requirement)

Sites in Bed With the EPO and UPC 'Covering' the 'News' Without Mentioning Any of the Overt Abuses

Patent Propaganda and UPC Jingoism Instead of Actual News

Unitary Patent is Dead and Lies About the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Aren't Ending

Microsoft Hosts a European Software Patents Propaganda Event (in ‘Hey Hi’ Clothing) Featuring Thierry Breton and Litigation Firms

EPO: We Are a Community, But We Crush and Rob Our Own Staff (Even Pensioners)

EPO Management (Team Campinos) to EPO Pensioners: Drop Dead or Stop Asking Questions That Expose Our Lies

New Leak: Today's EPO Breaks Its Contract With Former Staff of the EPO, Not Just Existing Staff

Can EPO Leaks Published in 2021 Inspire More Media Coverage About EPO Abuses?

2020

December

Reminder: Absolutely Do Not Install Contact-Tracing 'Apps' (They Solve Nothing) (partly about EPO)

Meme: Software Patents in the Patents-as-Buzzwords Office

Meme: EPO Oversight

Video: The Usual Unified Patent Court (UPC) Hilarity Ensues as Same Old Lies Are Recycled by 'IP' Federation, Then Amplified by Team UPC on Boxing Day

Meme: EPO Quality Going Downhill

Meme: Rabid Tony

Meme: How the Grinch Stole EPO Money

Memes: EPO 'Production' During Lockdown and Even Holidays (No Separation Between Home and Work)

The EPO Carol

Meme: Europol for Christmas

Video: If Only Judges and Scientists Governed Today's EPO...

EPO Scandals Are Closely Connected to the UPC Folly

Meme: EPO Personal Targets

The Case of UPC Misinformation and Propaganda Campaigns: The Web (and Google News) as a Noise and Disinformation Machine of Lobbyists and Oligarchy

Holiday Greetings to Readers and Their Loved Ones (partly about EPO)

More Pseudo-Journalism About the Unified Patent Court (UPC), Composed by Those With Stake in the Coup

Christmas for Team UPC

The UPC is Dead, Long Live the German Constitutional Court

Meme: Always Blame the Judges, the Law, and the Lazy Scientists... Not Corrupt Eurocrats

Strategy for Fixing the European Patent Office (EPO)

Focus for Next Year Will Include European Patent Office (EPO) Conflict With the Law Itself

Team UPC Throws Vienna Convention Out the Window and Vienna’s EPO Branch (in EPC) Discarded by EPO Management

Where to Get Accurate News About What's Really Going on at the European Patent Office

Meme: Social Sciences as a Science

Almost Half of Vienna-based EPO Staff Went on Strike This Past Week

The European Buzzwords Office

Video: What the European Patent Office Means by AI and 4IR (a Plot to Advance Illegal Software Patents)

The EPO is Promoting Software Patents This Week, Seeking to Impress the Administrative Council With Illegal Patents

Meme: A Message of Solidarity With EPO Staff

Video: Quick Remarks About the Lack of Oversight at the European Patent Office

This Week We Shall See If the EPO's Administrative Council, Led by Josef Kratochvil, is Complicit in a Financial Scam

Meme: Making Patents Sane Again

Video: The EPO's Media Strategy

EPO Googlebombing, Manipulating the Media, and the Latest Fluff

Coming Soon: Techrights/TechBytes Videos (With Some EPO Focus Too)

Video: EPO Strike Disrupts 'Business as Usual'

Further Dissection of the EPO's Response to EPO Strike (to Commence in Just Over a Day From Now)

How EPO Management Manufactures Non-News to Distract the General Public From EPO Lawbreaking and Strikes (With Help From Paid-for Publishers)

Meme: Nobody to Talk to at the European Patent Office

António Campinos Has Been a 'Lame Duck' for Nearly Two Years Now, But the Administrative Council Failed to Act

Two Years of Absolutely Nothing From António Campinos (Except Photo Ops and Self-Praising Fluff)

You Can Really Tell That EPO Management is Growingly Stressed or Increasingly Worried by Next Week's Strike in All EPO Sites

SUEPO, the Staff Union of the European Patent Office (EPO): António Campinos Gives a “Strong Impression” That “Mr Battistelli is Still Running the Office Through the Trustees He Placed in the House.”

Two Years Ago SUEPO Discussed Rules of Strike With António Campinos and 3 Days From Now EPO Staff in All Sites Goes on Strike

Early Request for António Campinos to Cooperate With EPO Staff Survey (Which Later Showed Less Than 1 in 33 EPO Workers Trust Him)

Old Documents Show That the 'António Campinos Delusion' Lasted Only Months

EPO Bribes of Media/Publishers Pay Off as the Office Uses Lots of Buzzwords to Promote Illegal Agenda and Apparently to Distract From Next Week's Strike

EPO Staff Already Knew Months After António Campinos Had Been Parachuted Into the Office That He Was a 'Budget Butcher'

Paper on “Improving Governance, Transparency and Accountability at the EPO” Shows That António Campinos Has Accomplished Nothing in Half His Term (2.5 Years)

It Looks Like the EPO is Spreading a Bunch of Spammy 'News' (More of the Usual) to Distract From Major Strike Being Organised

Memes: The Other Mercer

EPO's Staff Explains How António Campinos and the Mercers Lie About the Office in Order to Crush and Rob the Staff

EPO Workers Go on Strike Next Week

António Campinos Mastered the 'Art of Ruling' His Father Was Strongly Against

“Clouds Hanging Above the EPO”

Why We Are Publishing Many Internal EPO Documents This Month (and Also Last Month)

Meme: When Settling Means Admitting EPO Culpability

The Words of António Campinos Himself Reveal Him to be a Terrible Negotiator With No Compromising/Diplomatic Language Skills

The Non-dialogue: EPO “Staff Representatives Retire or Resign Before Expiration of Their Term of Office Because of Their Fatigue and Disillusionment.”

Lies and Fake News With Quotation Marks: The Latest Strategy From Team UPC?

The Non-dialogue: “Staff Representatives Were Intimidated, Persecuted, or Both.” How the EPO Under António Campinos Succumbed to Battistelli Monarchy, Leading to Unrest, Strikes

Meme: When Tyranny Has No Race or a Political Wing Diversity Alone Cannot Tackle the Deeper Issues

The Non-dialogue: António Campinos is No Jorge Campinos

Meme: 'Nice' and 'Cool' António Campinos, Now With Extra Sneakers

A Mister António Campinos 'Joins' IAM 'Media' and IAM 'Magazine' (Symptom of Dying Media)

Meme: When a European Patent Office President Was There for Only 2 Years (and Some Staff for Over 40 Years)

EPO Call for Strike in 2019

EPO Management is Lying About the Position of EPO Stakeholders While Compelling Those Stakeholders to Become Accomplices

Meme: The Master Negotiator

What Really Happened Last Year When Workers of the European Patent Office, Europe's Second-Largest Institution, Were About to Go on Strike

Censored EPO Publication: Conflict Resolution Unit (CRU) Unspeakable Because Office Management Buries the Facts

Censored EPO Publication: Staff Cannot Comment on the Administrative Council's Meetings?

Mail: Reader’s Comment on ‘Fraudlinger’

Meme: European Patent Office Violates European Laws

EPO Management Consciously Breaking European Union Laws: Staff and Stakeholders Subjected to Illegal Tactics and Practices, Now Exam Takers As Well

'Social Dialogue' at the EPO Broke Down, Team Campinos is Totally Delusional

The EPO's 2020 Impaired Vision/ViCo: Imposing Illegal Practices on EPO Stakeholders, Not Only on EPO Staff

Censored EPO Publication: Evidence That the Censorship of EPO Staff Representation (Central Staff Committee) Started Months After António Campinos Started His Term

Censored EPO Publication: Staff Representatives Cannot Comment on the Survey Conducted by the Office's Management

Censorship at the EPO is Counterproductive, Rendering the Censored Publications More Seductive and Censored People More Disgruntled

EPO Management Has No Plans Other Than Granting Loads of Invalid Patents (e.g. Software Patents) to Pocket Fees and Then Grift/Gamble With the Money

Meme: Public Servants Who Only Serve Themselves and Their Predecessors (Who Gave Them the Job)

Censored EPO Publication: Battistelli Can Have His Multi-Billion Euro EPO Scam, So Why Can't Campinos Too?

Staff Representation of the EPO Explains to EPO Management That It's Breaking the Law, Robbing the Staff, and Lying to Staff

European Commission's Thierry Breton Covers Up EPO Corruption For His Friend Benoît Battistelli

November

Management of the EPO Dragged to the International Labour Organisation Over Its Assault on the Right to Strike

Meme: Management of the EPO Cannot Let the Staff Breathe or Smell Freedom

“ViCo” is Nothing New (Not Even the Acronym), Done on 9/11 Last Year, Been Possible as Long as the EPO Has Existed

Release: Early Letters and Documents About Financial Hoax Disguised as EPO 'Study'

Managing IP: Puff Pieces Galore for the EPO's Dictatorship (Complete With Buzzwords and PR Stunts)

Release: 4 More Documents and Letters About the Financial Siege at Europe's Second-Largest Institution

One Year Ago: The Last EPO Demonstration Before COVID-19

Meme: Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA) is an Attack on Europe and the European Businesses That Don't Do Litigation

Reasons EPO Staff Decided to Go on Strike This Year (Before or Until Coronavirus Prevented It)

EPO Can Save Money by “Dropping Events Like the Inventor of the Year, Reducing the Number of Managers, Throwing Less Money at Consultants or Bringing the Boards of Appeal Back into Office Buildings.”

The Real Fate of the UPC 'Stunt' in Germany Will be Known Next Month (or Next Year) and There Are Substantial Constitutional Barriers in the Way

Nine Documents About the Financial Siege Against EPO Staff (Past, Present, and Future)

EPO Senior Management (Cabal) “Essentially Deaf to the Proposals From Staff Representatives.”

EPO Management, Led by António Campinos, Attempted to Stifle or Prevent Staff From Being Surveyed

The European Patent Office's Central Staff Committee: Office Cannot Recruit Fit-for-Purpose Patent Examiners Anymore

The Time Coronavirus Helped EPO Management Prevent Staff From Protesting and Going on Strike (March 26th)

Cartoon: After Gambling With Workers' Savings the EPO Can Do Real Estate

Meme: UPC's Pyrrhic Victory

Many Thanks to Free Software, the Demise of Software Patents (in Europe and the US), and So Much More

The UPC and Unitary Patent Song

Open Letter to the German Greens on UPC and Software Patents: Don’t Betray Your Voters and Your Promises, or You Will Regret it

Meme: One Step Away From Replacing Patent Examiners With 'Hey Hi' (AI)

European Patent Office (EPO) Reduced to 'Justice Over the Telephone' and Decree by E-mail

The European Patent Office Should be Run by Patent Examiners (Scientists), Not Politicians

Member of the EPO's Boards of Appeal Explains Why VICOs (or ViCo/Video Conferences/Virtual 'Hearings') Are Not Suitable for Justice

Meme: Things Will Get Amusing When/If EPO Proceedings Are Cancelled Due to Patent Trolls Suing the Platforms Using Software Patents (Granted by the EPO)

Dr. Bausch Questions the Merits and Claims of EPO Management Regarding ViCo ('Skynet' Virtual 'Courts')

Massive Collective Action Begins at the European Patent Office Today, Demanding Change and Forewarning the Management (Litigation)

EPO Management is Still Distracting From the 'Elephant in the Room' by Corrupting Media and Academia

EPO's Central Staff Committee on Latest Meeting With Office Dictator: “No Meaningful Discussion Could Take Place.”

Growing Concerns That EPO Staff Has Been Placed Under de Facto House Arrest by an Entirely Unaccountable Office

Internal Error: Unified Patent Court and Unitary Patent Incompatible With the Constitution and Basic Laws

The EPO is Using Hype Wave and Buzzword to Promote Illegal Software Patents in a So-Called “Digital Conference”

Dutch Delegation and German Delegation at the Administrative Council of the EPO Upset at the Office for Secrecy, Working Behind the Scenes to Crush Productive Staff

Legal Action at the European Patent Office (EPO) Leveraged Against Management... for Robbing EPO Staff and Robbing Europe, by Extension

New Position Paper on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Says It’s “Not the Best Solution for Europe” — Clearly an Understatement

Mortality Rates Increase at the EPO and Christmases (or Holidays) During Corona Mean Fewer Days Off

Newly Abnormal: A Crackdown on EPO Staff and Labour Rights in 'Survey' Clothing (Willis Towers Watson)

IAM Celebrating and Glorifying Illegal Patents With Fake 'Awards' and Bogus 'Endorsements'

Been There, Done That: Team UPC's 'October' Becomes 'Early November' and Now Late November

The Only Real Dialogue the 'European' Patent Office is Having... is With Litigation Parasites, Even Foreign Ones

Inside the EPO During Corona: SUEPO (EPO Staff Union) and the Central Staff Committee Blast the Office for Illegal Practices and Threaten Legal Action

Inside the EPO During Corona: The EPO is Violating Workers'/Stakeholders' Privacy and Breaking Data Protection Law (Again)

Conduct of EPO Management Lacks “Basis in Legality” According to EPO Staff Representatives

Inside the EPO During Corona: Managers Don't Think of the Children, Cut Their Budget for First Time in Half a Century

Inside the EPO During Corona: Sending Staff Home to Justify Cutting Their Benefits and Maybe Even Key Allowances

Inside the EPO During Corona: Acting Chairperson of the Central Staff Committee of the EPO Suggests Involving Staff Representatives in Corona Task Force

Inside the EPO During Corona: There's No Rule of Law Anymore and That Takes Its Toll on 'Low-Level' Staff

Two Years Without Progress on Impartiality of Internal Tribunals at the European Patent Office (EPO)

Inside the EPO During Corona: EPO Staff Representatives Grew Increasingly Frustrated in June as EPO Had Acted Like a Law-Infringing Monarchy, Not a Public Institution

Inside the EPO During Corona: The Office Management Never Cared About the Well-being of Staff (and Still Doesn't)

The Stench Follows and Spreads: Another UPC Lie Now Followed by Lies From the Government of Germany

Inside the EPO During Corona: The Hoax 'Study' From Campinos and Donald Trump Associate (Mercer) Debunked, EPO Management Uninterested Because Facts Are Inconvenient

SUEPO's EPO Staff Survey: Confidence in Staff Representatives at All-Time High and Confidence in EPO President at Only 3%

Inside the EPO During Corona: Half a Year Ago EPO Management Was a 'Superspreader' of COVID-19 and It Broke the Law Regarding Masks

European Patent Office Union (SUEPO) Reiterates Its Allegation, Backed by Professionals, That the Management is Crushing the Office and Its Staff Based on a Manufactured “Hoax”

Judges at the EPO (Boards of Appeal) Can Still be Punished for Ruling 'Unfavourably' on Patent Maximalism

Inside the EPO During Corona: The EPO is Silently Shrinking in Vienna and Dictator António Campinos Defends His Bully and Union Buster, Elodie Bergot

Inside the EPO During Corona: António Campinos Running Europe's Monopolies-Granting Monopoly Like a Shop With Essentials While Crushing Those Who 'Stock the Shelves'

EPO Staff Representatives Explain Why the Appeals Committee is Flawed and Transparency is Lacking

Inside the EPO During Corona: COVID-in-the-Head António Campinos Acts Like a Maniac and Starts Shouting at Meetings (Refusing to Listen to Anybody or Accept Reality)

Inside the EPO During Corona: Letter to Stephen Rowan About EPO Management Exploiting the Pandemic to Demand Harder Work (Instead of Loosening and Lowering Expectations/Workload)

Nobody Was Ever Punished for Bullying Laurent Prunier (Bergot and Others Kept Their EPO Jobs and They Continue to Oppress and Silence Staff Representatives)

Inside the EPO During Corona: The European Patent Office (EPO), in Clear Violation of the Law and the EPC, Forces Parties to Join Surveillance Sessions (American Spying Companies) to Squash False European Patents

Inside the EPO During Corona: The EPO's Fat Cash Cow is Decreasing Salaries of Staff During a Public Crisis

Inside the EPO During Corona: The António Campinos Monologue, Talking Inwards While Pretending to Represent the EPO's Interests

Inside the EPO During Corona: More Microsoft and More Corruption/Nepotism From António Campinos (Loyal Friends Get Top Jobs to Cover Up/Perpetuate Scandals)

Inside the EPO During Corona: The EPO Recklessly Breaking the Law With Videoconference (ViCo) for European Patents

Something About to Hit the Fan at the EPO

Monday Will Not be “Early November”

Inside the EPO During Corona: Sweep-up Man Christoph Ernst Abuses Notion of Leave (Break From Work)

Inside the EPO During Corona: Repressive Tyrant António Campinos Still Blocking Techrights and Still Preventing Staff Representatives From Speaking Openly to Staff

Not Even a Pandemic That Kills Millions of People Will Stop the EPO Regime From Granting Loads of Fake Patents (Monopolies That Save Nobody)

Inside the EPO During Corona: The Eye in the Sky(pe)

Inside the EPO During Corona: Death Toll of Benoît Battistelli's 'Suicide Wave' Will be Exceeded by the 'Corona Wave' of António Campinos

Inside the EPO During Corona: Cameras and Microphones in EPO People's Private Homes “Have Been Broadly Welcomed by the Patent Profession” (the Law and EPO Staff Don't Count)

Inside the EPO During Corona: “We All Should be Creative and Open” Was the Excuse to Break the Rules and Violate Laws/Constitutions at the EPO (European Patent Office)

Inside the EPO During Corona: 'Sick' António Campinos Uses a Global Sickness to Illegally Rob EPO Staff, Already Besieged by the Pandemic

Inside the EPO During Corona: Like Benoît Battistelli, António Campinos Leaves Out Staff Representation Out of Consultation Regarding Unprecedented Health Crisis Which Impacts Staff

Inside the EPO During Corona: The Management of the European Patent Office Was (Fore)Warned About Exploiting a Public Health Crisis

Inside the EPO During Corona: A New Series About the European Patent Office During European Lock-downs

The Vote on the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA) Will Happen... Last Month?!

EPO Insider Explains “Team Leaders” and the Downfall of the EPO

Meme: António Campinos is the EPO's 'Fanta' (Making EPO Fascism Seem Acceptable, Gentle, Caring and Kind)

Meme: EPO as a Looted Institution Where Crime is the 'Norm' Nowadays

The EPO is Pushing Illegal Software Patents Together With WIPO

The EPO's Love Affair With Authoritarian Regimes Accompanies Europe's Embrace of Lawless, Unconstitutional Patent Regimes

Team UPC and Team Campinos Are Causing Constitutional Crises in Germany (Even Amid Pandemic)

October

Meme: Two Dictators: How the EPO Shuffled the Dictatorship's Cards

2020: The Year the Patent System Converged With Naked Fascism

Meme: When EPO Staff Claims to be 'Ill' or 'Sick'... During a Pandemic's European Peak

The EPO Has Relegated or Lowered Itself to Extremely Poor Standards

The European Commission is Still M.I.A. Regarding EPO Corruption (and the EPO's Management Plays Dirty, as Always)

We’ve Relegated UPC ‘Fake News’ to Our Daily Links (Because It Has Gotten Increasingly Ridiculous)

Cartoon: Internal EPO Caricature About the Direction the Office Has Taken

EPO Management is Making Patent Examiners Poorer and Shuts Out the Union

EPO Management is Violating COVID-19 Rules That Managers Gladly Flout While Threatening Staff (Because They're Above the Law, Which They Routinely Break)

This Did Not Age Well: UPC to Start... 5 Years Ago

EPO Management Threatens People Who Come Back to Work

The EPO is Far Too Rogue to Reform Itself

Watchtroll Demonises People Wrongly Accused of Patent Infringement (or Sued Using Fake Patents), Suggests or Insinuates EPO is More Lenient Than Today's USPTO

Credibility Crisis of UPC Boosters

Propaganda Regarding UPC Legislation Progresses Through Bristows (as Usual)

Greenwashing the Corruption of the European Patent Office

September

EPO Management Looks for New and 'Innovative' Ways to Exploit Scientists and Distract From EPO Corruption

The Latest Greenwashing Campaign by the EPO is Just 'Chinese Propaganda'

High-Profile and Invalid (Invalidated) European Patents Harm the Presumption of Validity of European Patents

Epitaph for (Death of) Patent-Centric Media: Litigation Giant Bird & Bird Nowadays Doing Ads as 'Podcasts' in Think Tank Site 'Managing IP'

More EPO Disclosures: An Explanation of How an EPO Survey Plots to Dismantle the EPO's Staff

Germany Would Violate 3 International Agreements With the Unitary Patent, Says FFII

Meme: António Campinos Fools Nobody at the EPO Anymore

EPO Gradually Becomes a Set of Private Corporations (Some Aren't Even European and Work Against Europeans)

António Campinos is Believed to be “Dismantling” the EPO

Solidarity at the EPO Means Resisting the EPO's Management and Supporting Colleagues

Meme: EPO Cannot Recover by Brushing Aside Issues and by Bribing the Media

Team UPC Has Run Out of Allies as Even Patent Lawyers Increasingly Distance Themselves and Only Junior Staff is Still Willing to Lie for the Team

EPO Oral Proceedings Have Been Outsourced to the United States (Proprietary Software With Surveillance Back Doors)

Team UPC Wants Germany to Break International Law

Fake Patents Granted by the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA) and the EPO's Misleading Propaganda Video Series (Conflating Patents With Other Things) Exploits Dead People

UPC 'Progress' or Hoax?

Meme: António the Computer Genius

Information Deficit at the European Patent Office

Law360 Says the EPO's Popularity is Decreasing

August

Managing 'Intellectual Property' (Managing 'IP') is Promoting Software Patents for a Fee

Six Years of EPO Scandals

Unpublished EPO Material

Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) on the European Commission 'Public' Consultation Regarding a Misnomer

Meme: Always Masking the EPO

Bergot-Streisand Effect: The EPO Tried to Spike These Publications (and Succeeded for 4 Years Until This Was Ruled Unlawful)

The Central Staff Committee of the EPO Remarks on Unlawful Censorship by the Office

EPO Censorship Rebuked by Former UK Human Rights Judge

EPO Should Quit Blaming COVID-19 for Its Demise

Team UPC Has Almost Vanished

Europe Deserves Better Than Today's EPO

European Patent Office Management Swims With Sharks and Liars

Meme: Testosterone Patent Office

The Criminals Who Run the EPO Are Exploiting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People to Distract From Their Corruption and Crimes

EPO Workers Are Losing Their Homes and Losing Their Time Off; It's All About So-called 'Production'

Managing IP Still Champions Fake 'News' for Team UPC

July

It's Good to be King (of EPOnia)

Meme: Demolishing Facts, As Always, With Help From IAM 'Magazine'

When the Mainstream German Media Stops Reporting or Even Talking About EPO Scandals for No Valid Reason/s

Meme: Party Time in EPOnia

Weeks of DDOS Attacks Simply Mean We're Effective and This Illegal DDOS Campaign Won't Discourage Techrights (partly about EPO)

Meme: EPO Administrative Council Replaced One Dude With a Dud

EPO Management Wants to Introduce 'Code of Conduct' With Which to Impose Censorship of Staff Representatives' Communications With Staff

Contrary to Common Myths, Free Software and GNU/Linux Are Typically Way Ahead of Proprietary Software (Which Copies and Then Patents) (partly about EPO)

Golden Cages Are Still Cages and Working From Home Can Become a Legal Mess (partly about EPO)

No Real Holiday in EPOnia ('Island' of the European Patent Office)

Techrights Supports the EU. That Does Not Mean Support for Today's EPO. The EPO Lost Its Way (and Head).

Meme: European Patent Optics

The EPO is Still a Sordid Mess and the Media Doesn't Talk About That, So Where Do We Go From Here?

Art 7(2) UPCA Doomed Unitary Patent (UPC) for Good

Meme: Inhumane EPO

Ten Years Since 'EPO 9/11'

Judging by What the EPO Did to European Media, in Effect Dooming It, Workers of the EPO Are Right to Call Their Managers “Mafia”

EQE to Become Another Example of EPO Outsourcing

Meme: This Did Not Age Well, Did It?

EPO Insider on Unitary Patent (UPC): “There is No Longer a Legal Context and No One Left to Implement It and Nothing to Be Rescued.”

A Very Corrupt EPO Uses COVID-19 to Pretend to be Benevolent (Politicians Running Technical Institutions as Recipe for Failure)

Meme: Team UPC Layoffs Are Next

Very Strong Consensus That the UPC is Dead for Good (The UPC Hopefuls Might Try Another Thing, But It Can Take Almost a Decade)

As Techrights Predicted All Along, UPC Support Would Become a Self-Inflicted Wound for Germany and the EU (or European Commission)

Meme/Humour: July 20, 2020: Independence From UPC

The General Consensus is That UPC is Dead, Which Means Many European Patents Are Also Dead (or Zombies)

Unified Patents Comes to Europe, Challenging Bogus Software Patents That EPO Should Never Have Granted

Meme/Humour: This is Just How Crazy Team UPC Has Become

Final Death for UPC: UK Officially Withdraws, Leaving Only France

Marketing Illegal Things at the European Patent Office and Amplifying Old Lies About UPC

When You Break the Law and Have Nothing Positive to Say Why Not Exploit COVID-19 for Cheap, Fact-Free Marketing/Self-Promotion Along With a Superficial 'Study'?

The Enlarged Board of Appeal Cannot Independently Rule on the Matter of Software Patentability

Meme/Humour: EPO Wants Only Obedient and Mindless Workers

Team UPC and Other UPC Boosters Twist the Facts, Deliberately Lie and Rely on De Facto 'Moles' in Powerful Roles/Seats

Humour/Meme: EPO Needs Management That Understands and Pursues Science, Not Litigation

'IP5' Patent Offices May Have Become the Biggest Threat to the Patent System (partly about EPO)

Meme: EPO Accountability 2020?

Thierry Breton and the European Commission Must Answer Perfectly Legitimate Questions About European Patent Office Corruption

Marks & Clerk Reveals That António Campinos, With Zero Experience in Software, is Lobbying Judges (Who Are Supposed to be Independent But Are Actually Controlled by Him) to Open the Floodgates to Illegal Software Patents

The EPO's Corruption is Like a Cancer That Has Spread to and Infected the EU as Well

Humour/Meme: Today's EPO is Run by Con Men and Fraudsters

Chinese EPO

Humour/Meme: EPO is Recruiting

SUEPO (the EPO's Staff Union): “EPO Will Let Highly Experienced Examiners and Formalities Officers Leave Without Any Possibility of Knowledge Transfer to New Recruits”

Leaked: EPO's Revised Operational Plan Exploits COVID-19 to Attack EPO Staff

Commissioner Thierry Breton, Acting Like a Patent Maximalists' 'Mole' (as Expected All Along), is Now Formally Lying for Team UPC

EPO Management Has Hunted Down Journalists and Killed Journalism

Reminder: EPO Management Failed to Provide Staff With Facial Masks (as Advised/Required by Law)

The EPO's Misleading 'Studies' Are Just More of the Same Perception Management Routines

Humour/Meme: Half a Decade Has Passed and EPO Management Was Never Held Accountable for Illegal Surveillance

Humour/Meme: High on Production, Stoned on Pseudoscience

Missing From EPO Management: Actual Scientists

Humour: The 'Orange One' Does Not Respect Judges Either

António Campinos: President or Quasi-Autocratic Corporate Puppet?

The Media Continues to Ignore Corruption of António Campinos

A Call for Patent Sanity

European FRAND (Related to SEP) Proponent and Famed Programmer Comes to Realise That It's Actually a “Scam”

Not Even a Single Corporate Journalist Has Written Anything About These Very Important Bits of News

Humour: COVID-19 is Very, Very Afraid of Human Beings Making More Monopolies Instead of Fighting Together

The News is Never 'Slow', It's Just Journalism That's Slowing Down (and Investigative Journalism Coming Under Attack)

Humour: IAM Ranked Top for Quality of EPO Propaganda

When They're Done With Patents on Foods and Recipes They'll Have Patents on Fashion, Taste and Smell

António Campinos Should Speak to Peasants, Not Litigation Lawyers

Christine Lambrecht (German Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection) Ignores the Fact That Even Patent Experts Reject the Unitary Patent (UPC)

Humour: A Union in Whose Interests?

FFPE EPO Has Rendered Itself Obsolete by Liaising With Benoît Battistelli

Humour: Bigger is Always Better When You're a Deluded Maximalist

'Managing Intellectual Property' Managing to Become Uncritical Parrot of EPO Management

Humour: European Patents Only Useful Outside the Legal Framework?

The Lock-downs Are Over and Still Zero Media Coverage About EPO Scandals and Corruption

After 2 Years and 2 Days António Campinos is a Perfect Leader, Fostering EPO Abuses While Smiling

Humour: As If Monopolies for Life Will Save People's Lives...

June

EPO Management Celebrates the Lowering of Patent Quality While Granting Invalid Patents (IPs) Instead of European Patents (EPs)

Humour: There's Always a Way... (to Grant Patents on Almost Anything)

Crocodiles Can Only Ever Fake Empathy (just partly about EPO; the latter parts)

“Technological Progress is Like an Axe in the Hands of a Pathological Criminal,” Albert Einstein, Famous European Patent Clerk

Greenwashing and Exploitation of COVID-19 by EPO Management, Aided by Deeply Compromised (Corrupt) Media

European Patents on Life (GMO) That Only Enrich Lawyers, Facilitating the War on Genetics and Generics (Access to Medicines)

Humour: European Inventor Award (EIA) Still a Hallmark of EPO Corruption

Latest EPO Cartoon: Lufthansa

António Campinos is Just an Empty Suit: 2 Years in the Office and Only 3% Approval Rate (Worse Than Battistelli)

Humour: EPO Still Above the Law in 2020

The EPO's 'Early Certainty From Google' Approach (“Closest Prior Art”) Means Loads of Fake European Patents and Frivolous Litigation/Shakedowns

Christine Lambrecht and Ajit Pai: Twins Separated at Birth and Their Political Horse Trading

Lawyers That Lie Chronically

Humour: Litigation Industry-Run Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (“BMJV”)

Reminder to German Readers: Please Lodge Polite Complaints Against the Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (“BMJV”) Trying to Undermine the Constitution

How to Tell the German Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (“BMJV”) That Violating the Constitution is Not Acceptable

Humour: Diverse EPO Panel

Corporate Media is (or as) a Barrier to Truth (partly about issues of EPO censorship)

Confidential: Dispute Over Establishment of EPO in Munich (January 1974)

Germany Has a Major Constitutional and Reputational Crisis Due to Team UPC

Despite the Silence, EPO Staff May be More Repressed Than Ever, Hope is Being Lost

EPO Staff Union: “Buzzwords Are Indicators of Empty Statements Which Make the Communication Artificial and Simply Show a Lack of Authenticity.”

EPO 2020 Vision: Billions for Gambling, No Money for Masks (for Staff's Safety)

UPC is Coming, It's Coming!!!

Tilmann and Tilmann: Has Juve Been Reduced to a Team UPC Propaganda Apparatus?

EPO 'Killing the Young' for So-called 'Production' (of Patent Monopolies for the Rich)

Humour: Rendering the FCC, Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, Obsolete

FFII Takes Stance Against the German Federal Ministry of Justice for Breaking the Law to Appease Team UPC

Humour: A Buzzword for Every European Patent

Using 'Hey Hi' (AI) and Mindless Buzzwords to Spread Confusion and Blur the Gap Between Computer-Generated Patents and Patents on Algorithms

Battistelli's and Bergot's Unforgettable Attack on the Right to Strike Still Defended by the 'Nice' President Campinos

EPO Never Gave Staff Any Time to Rest and Now It Wants Everyone Back at the Office With COVID-19 (for Which There's No Solution Yet)

Self-Harming Acts: Germany's Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection Cares Neither About Justice Nor Consumers (or German SMEs)

Contrary to What 'Managing IP' Tells Readers, Australia Still Rejects Software Patents (partly about EPO)

Humour: António Skypinos

EPO Has “the Worst Pension System, the Worst Career System, and the Worst Salary Adjustment Procedure in the World of International Organisations” (Whilst Amassing Money It's Not Allowed to Have)

Team UPC Keeps Perpetuating the Fiction UPCA Will be Ratified Soon (It Cannot, It's Illegal)

EPO Uses Microsoft to Illegally Spy on EPO Staff Inside Their Homes, Uses Microsoft's Tactics of Hijacking Trademarks and Mottos

SUEPO (Staff Union of EPO): “The Imbalance Between the Importance of (Patent) Quality and Quantity Remains a Cause for Concern” and Only 3% of EPO Staff Has Confidence in President Campinos

Humour: European Pandemic Office

Defunct EPO in the Age of Defunct UPC (Even If EPO Fakes 'Quality' and Team UPC Keeps Faking 'Progress')

IAM's EPO Propaganda Helps Perpetuate Crimes and Corruption

Internal Publication About the EPO's Financial Fraud

Team UPC is Betraying Italy Like It Did Spain, As It Envisions France (Paris) as Replacement for Italy (Milan) Amid Brexit

Raw: How Microsoft and/or the EPO Killed an Important EPO Story About Their SLAPP Against Techrights and Others

The Huge Damage (Except for Patent Lawyers' Bottom Line) Caused by Fake European Patents

Sword Group Violates Its Own Commitment by Working for the EPO

All They Want is Litigation, Not Innovation

The Past Does Not Go Away, Except From Short-Term Memories

May

EPO's Illegal Patents and Massive Corruption Go Unnoticed by Corporate Media and Sites That Cover Patent News

Sick Alexander Ramsey is Using a Public Health Crisis to Lie About the Unitary Patent, Whose Fall Made Him Redundant and/or Obsolete

Weaponised Media Promoting an Illegal Patent System (UPC), Exploiting Major Pandemic in the Process

The EPO Became a Very Radical Institution

UPC Lies That Make One Laugh...

EPO Propaganda on Steroids (or on EPO)

Breton (EU) 'Joins' Team UPC to Help His Buddy Battistelli... Again

Working From Home on Patent Monopolies Would Lower Their Quality and Perceived Legitimacy

The Attitude of António Campinos Toward Courts and Toward Justice Same as Benoît Battistelli's

Ode to the 'Orange One'

Home Working at the EPO: Your Corporate, Global Monopolies Will Be Rubber-stamped From Private Homes

The Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court Book

Spillover: Team UPC Trying to Fill Up the Cup 'Half Empty'

The EPO Continues to Publicly Brag About Granting Illegal Patents to Fake 'Production' (It's Not Really Production But Abuse of the Granting Authority)

The Industrial Revolution 5.0 (or 6.0) - Symptom of Totally Incompetent Management at the European Patent Office

Same Casting, Same Management, Exactly the Same Agenda at the European Patent Office

Further Complications Ahead for Team UPC as Unitary Patent-Type Plans Become Untenable and Complaints Pile Up

Amid Lock-Down the EPO is Still Laughing at the Law

EPO Comes Home

EPO-FLIER: Do Your Best

Why is the EPO Advertising Microsoft?

The Radicals Are the Patent Boosters, Not the Sceptics and Rationalists

Constitutional Court’s Justice Huber Reaffirms Substantial Concerns About Viability of the Unitary Patent/UPC

How the EPO Muzzled Critical Media: The Case of IP Kat

It is Not Possible to Prevent Software Patent Grants in Europe as Long as the EPO is Profoundly Corrupt and the EU Looks the Other Way

Not Even One Single Article About the EPO's Attacks on the EPO’s Boards of Appeal

Taylor Wessing's Latest UPC Spin: No More/Additional Complaints Against UPC Lodged

Groups Like 'No Patents on Seeds!' and 'Friends of the Earth Germany' Respond to Bayer's GMO Patents (Previously Monsanto) in Light of EPO's Watered-Down Decision

EPO Still Needs to Close the GM/GMO Loophole (You Don't Get to 'Own' Life by Arbitrarily Tinkering With Life's Code)

The GMO Loophole Prevails at EPO Though Allowing People to Patent Life and Nature (or Even Mathematics) Harms Europe For the Sake of Litigation Euros

During Public Health Crisis the European Patent Office Operates Further Outside the Rule of Law (Exploiting This Crisis)

Reinforcing the EPO's Illegal Actions for Power and Profit

EPO 'Courts' Outsourced to Microsoft

Hair (and Heir) Management at the EPO

Fake Technological 'Advancement' (or 'Efficiencies'): EPO Still Breaking the Law and the Ever-So-Shy Media Refuses to Talk About That

EFF Should Also Speak About the EPO Granting Software Patents Against the Law

A Europe That Works for Patent Trolls and Their Legal Representatives

The EPO is Not Changing

Media That Contains Lies Because It is Designed to Contain Lies (Including UPC Lies)

How Many More Lives Will the European Patent Office Destroy?

EPO is Killing Free Software and Personal Privacy During Quarantine or Lock-Down

New Cartoon: EPO Dialogue

April

Evidence of Profound European Patent Office Corruption in Official Journal 4/2020

COVID-19 Crisis: When EPO Outsources Everything to a Surveillance System of Microsoft and the NSA

Tidying Up 13 Years of EPO Archives

The Litigation 'Industry' is Not a Real Industry and Team UPC Sought to Harm Real, Productive Industries

EPO: A Lawless Institution That Makes Its Staff Look Bad

Hope Alone Won't Bring the Dead Back to Life; Team UPC Has Entered Embalming Stage

The Rise of Bribed Media and Bribed Academia as Cynical 'Journalism' and 'Research' About Patents

Greenwashing and Peace-washing Patents We Can Never Coexist With (and the Law Forbids Anyway)

USPTO and EPO Openly Brag About Breaking the (Case)Law to Grant Software Patents That Courts Would Reject, Even the Very Highest Courts

3,500 Articles Later the EPO Remains a Cruel and Unjust Place Governed by Despots

EPO and So-called 'Watchdog' Compatible in the Judge-Bashing Sense

UPC Totally Still Has Momentum

France Keeps Winning European Inventor Award (Millions of Euros of EPO Budget)

The Role Played by Media Controlled by Litigation Companies in Promoting the Unitary Patent (UPC) Ploy

The Covert Corruption of Publishers That Cover Patent 'News'

European Law Firms Are Marketing Illegal Software Patents Using Meaningless Buzzwords

JUVE Has a Prank 'Survey' That's Just UPC Lobbying (As Usual)

EPO Management is Trying to Violate the EPC and Justify Its Illegal Software Patent Grants During a Pandemic's Peak

British Government Again Confirms Death of the UPC, But Team UPC is Not Listening

Technical Computer-Implemented Digital Videogame AI on the Blockchain

Mask Against the European Patent Convention

Almost a Month Later Lies Persist About the “Fate of the Unified Patent Court” and Software Patents It Was Supposed to Introduce/Cement

The Fall of the UPC: Series Index

EPO 'Mafia': Break the Law and Send Mafia-Like Entities to Bully People Who Point Out the Lawbreaking

The European Patent Office Admits That It's Faking Its 'Results' by Granting Loads of Illegal Software Patents

What They Told Us About the UPC...

The Fall of the UPC - Part XX: Summary and Conclusions

The Fall of the UPC – Part XIX: How Law Firms Responded to the Collapse of the UPC (Lying Was All Too Common)

The Fall of the UPC - Part XVIII: Media 'Scratching' the Bottom of the Barrel

More Threats From Elodie Bergot: The EPO is Back in a State of Disarray and That Authoritarian Atmosphere of Fear

Campinos Uses Donald Trump Associates to Attack the EPO's Staff Amid Coronavirus Pandemic (Whilst Also Threatening Staff Representatives)

EPO Staff Union (SUEPO): “We Are Back to Battistelli's Times”

The Fall of the UPC - Part XVII: Bardehle Pagenberg in 'Corona Zombie' Mode

The Fall of the UPC - Part XVI: What's Reality Got to Do With It? Ask Hogan Lovells.

The Fall of the UPC - Part XV: A Three-Week Parade of Lies From Team UPC and Its Media Collaborators

Coronavirus Has Not Slowed Down the EPO's Promotion of Illegal Software Patents

The Fall of the UPC - Part XIV: Media Owned and Controlled by Law Firms Did Not Properly Cover the Decision of the German Constitutional Court (FCC)

Software Patents Remain Junk Patents in the United States (Not Enforceable), Whereas the EPO Keeps Granting Them and Promoting Them

The Fall of the UPC - Part XIII: A Death Worth Celebrating and Many Lies Worth Debunking

When the Decision is OK and the Judge's Motivations Are Also OK

The Fall of the UPC - Part XII: Doing the Unthinkable by Blaming the Judge's (Justice's) Wife?

The Fall of the UPC - Part XI: Lies Told by Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie (BDI) in Süddeutsche Zeitung

EPO is Just Like Some Cruel Political Party and Not a Patent Office

Digitalisation and Digital Technologies as a Ploy to Justify Illegal Software Patents

The Fall of the UPC - Part X: How We Shall Catalogue UPC Lies

Digital Communication, Digitalisation and Videogaming Among the EPO's Latest Smokescreens for Illegal and Abstract Patents on Algorithms

Emotional Blackmail for Illegal Software Patents

March

The Fall of the UPC - Part IX: Campinos Opens His Mouth One Week Later (and It's That Hilarious Delusion Again)

Pretending EPO Corruption Stopped Under António Campinos When It is in Fact a Lot Worse in Several Respects/Aspects (Than It Was Under Benoît Battistelli)

The Fall of the UPC - Part VIII: Team UPC Celebrates Death, Not Life

Faking Production With Fake Patents on Software

With the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Out of the Way Focus Will Return to EPO Corruption

'Team UPC' Last Week

The Fall of the UPC - Part VII: Lies and Revisionism About the Reasons for the UPC's Ultimate Demise (to Leave the Door Open for More Failed Attempts)

The Fall of the UPC - Part VI: Drowning in Material

FFII: EU Software Patent Court Stopped by Constitutional Court, Patent Industry Will Try Again

The Fall of the UPC - Part V: Pretending That Opponents of the Unitary Patent Simply Don't Exist

The Fall of the UPC - Part IV: IP Kat Became Just a Team UPC Megaphone

The Fall of the UPC - Part III: Pure Comedy From Watchtroll and Its UPC Lobbyists From Managing IP

The Fall of the UPC – Part II: Team UPC Will Pay Dearly — for Years If Not a Decade to Come — for Having Repeatedly Lied About Unitary Patent/Unified Patent Court (UPC)

The Fall of the UPC - Part I: Geeks (Engineers) Celebrate and the EPO Has Lost Its Tongue

USPTO's and EPO's Leaderships Have Similar Technical and Ethical Problems (partly about EPO)

Good Friday (FCC buries UPC)

What Diplomatic Immunity Means to Bundesverfassungsgericht

Germany's FCC and Its Decision on UPC May Not Matter Much Anymore (and the Government in Berlin Knows That)

Biggest Threats to Software Freedom (Which Almost Nobody Talks About) (partly about EPO)

New Article by Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna on UPC Lies Regarding SMEs

Series Index: “Doyen” for a Yen

EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Epilogue

Everybody Knows UPC is Over, Even Those Who Still Attempt to Lie to the Public (and to Their Clients)

The Result of a Patent Office That Destroyed Patent Quality and Departed From the Underlying Law (Which Was Supposed to Govern and Be Enforced)

Lost in Corona: Dutch Court Rules That Seat Agreement Signed Between the EPO and the Dutch Government Violates Article 45 TFEU

Infringing the Fundamental Laws in the Name of Combating Infringements

EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Part 4 - The Role of the EPO Vice-President of DG5 (Christoph Ernst)

EQE From the Back Door

EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Part 3 - How to Become a European Patent Attorney Without Passing the EQE

EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Part 2 - Behind the Scenes at Topić IP d.o.o.

Same as the Old Boss

The Battle Against Software Patents Rages on

EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Part 1 - António and the Balkan Express Connection

EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Teaser

Understanding Thierry Breton: Looking Back

Ask Former EPO President Alison Brimelow What EPO Means to International Women's Day

Today's UPC 'Debate' is a Farce, Stuffed by the Litigation 'Industry' Instead of British Industry

European Granting Convention

António Campinos Sponging Off the EPO

JURI Committee (the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs) Buries the Unitary Patent (UPC) for Good

António Campinos is Just as Corrupt as Benoît Battistelli, Top Jobs Offered as 'Endowments'

IAM Works (Lies) for Corrupt EPO Management and for Team UPC, Now Behind Paywalls (Possibly to Limit Critics' Access, Lowering Scrutiny and Fact-Checking)

The Collapse of European Patent Quality is Rather Obvious and EPO Management Cannot Hide it Forever

Financial and Legal Corruption Scandal in France (INPI) Implicating the Person Benoît Battistelli Put in Charge of the EPO's Finances

After the Death of the UPC the Next Casualty is the Credibility of Media That Promotes It

EPO Corruption Has Killed in Germany and the Netherlands Far More Than Coronavirus (Covid-19) Did

EPO Presflash 002: Diversity and Inclusion (Humour)

EPO Lobbyists and Team UPC Lobbying Arms Disguised as News Sites

Large German Publisher Helps EPO Cover Up Abuses While Relaying Lies (Which Are in Turn Relayed to EPO Staff)

Inverted Narratives: UPC Thugs Are Being Framed as Poor Victims and Patent Trolls Claim to be the Target of Violence

EPO Outsourcing Policy and Patent Scope to Litigation Giants

Team UPC Has Already Moved Ahead to the Next Propaganda Phase (UPC Without the UK, Which It Very Strictly Requires)

The Next Task is Defeating European Software Patents Because the Media Certainly Isn't Doing Its Job

February

EUIPO and EPO Celebrate Corruption in Croatia

Death of the UPC (Unitary Patent) Confirmed by the British Government

The EU's EUIPO Will Later Today Help the EPO (Run by EUIPO's Former Chief) Promote Illegal Software Patents

Growing Acceptance That There's No Future to the UPC System and the Unitary Patent

Team UPC: Many Mouths and No Ears

Team UPC Insults Judges Because the UPC is Dead and UPC Lobbyists Have Nothing Left to Lose

FFII Press Release: Germany Can No Longer Ratify the Unitary Patent Due to Brexit and the Established AETR Case-law, says FFII

EPO and Other Patent Updates Over RSS

When It Comes to a Unitary Patent System, Bad (or Intentionally Dishonest) Legal Advice Has Become the Norm

Battistelli Blocked Techrights at EPO (Banned for More Than 5 Years), So CEIPI Won't Respect Access to Information Either

Anatomy of a Crime and Protection From Prosecution

Today's EPO is a Fraud Managed by Frauds

Another New 'Clown' for the UPC 'Circus'

Sometimes ILO-AT is Good for Nothing But Law Firms in or Around Switzerland

The European Patent Office Continues to Violate the European Patent Convention (EPC) With Impunity While the European Commission Lets That Happen

EPO Staff Representatives to Challenge Ridiculous and Unnecessary Austerity Measures

You're Almost Guaranteed to Lose the Argument When You Call People Who Plant Seeds 'Pirates'

Unified Patent Corruption

6 Years in Limbo After EPO Abuses Because ILO is Far Too Slow for Timely Justice (If Any at All)

“Nothing Has Changed,” Team UPC Says About UPC and Brexit

The EPO Would Declare It a Success Story If It Granted a Million European Patents a Year

The Latest Talking Point of Team UPC: Ignore Brexit, UPC Will Miraculously Come Very Soon! (Somehow!)

Wasting (Misusing) Money on 'Researchers' and So-called 'Studies' Only Reinforces the Perception That the EPO Attacks Science With Its Money, Just Like Climate Deniers and Big Tobacco Lobby

The Office of Philpott and Pol Pot

January

Collapse of the UPC is “Business as Usual” According to Bristows LLP

The EPO's Epic Waste of Money (300 Million Euros) Ended up Not Only a Fire Hazard But Also a Suffocation Risk

The Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organization (ILO-AT) is Moot, EPO Plays It Like a Fiddle

EPO as a Kakistocracy of Lies and Bribes

Enablers of Constitutional Violations and Unified Patent Court (Unitary Patent) Dreams

Today's EPO Stands for Nothing at All (Except Faking 'Production' to Amass Money for Gambling)

Patent Scavenging or Racing to the Bottom of Patent Quality

EPO and UPC Can Become the Next 'Dieselgate'

EPO: Goodbye to the Rule of Law and Hey Hi, AI!

When the Monopolists and the Patent Litigation Industry Hijack the News They Control the Narrative

When EPO Press Coverage Boils Down to Lobbying, Press Releases, EPO Lies, and Bribery

The Patent Microcosm is Really Panicking as European Patents on Life and Other Spurious Junk (Invalid Patents) Are Successfully Rejected

Poor Excuses for Granting Poor (and Often Illegal/Invalid) Patents

Media Reactions to the EPO Coming to Grips With Fake Patents That It Granted (Spoiler: the Media is Controlled by Lawyers of Monopolists and EPO Partners)

European Commission Pushes for Even Greater Patent Maximalism Instead of Rationality, Patent Zealots' Site Cherry-Picks China as Whipping Boy

CRISPR Patents Disallowed, But Where Are the Journalists?

Judges Reject EPO Patents on Life as Constitutional Complaints Against the EPO Pile Up in Germany

The European Patent Organisation Continues to 'Piss All Over' Separation of Powers

Zealots of Team UPC (Patent Litigation) Now Attacking the Courts and the Judges, Removing Their Mask on the Face of Things...

It's Only Factual and Truthful to Point Out That About Half of the EPO's Management Committee Are From the President's Nation (and Many Are Underqualified Friends of His)

Stranger Than Fiction: Team UPC's Mental Condition

Systematic Abandonment of the Independence of Judiciary at the EPO (or Collective Amnesia)

The Media's Obligation is Not to Repeat the Lies of EPO Management, But Money Changes Things

EPO Management Already Meddles in (Illegally and in Clear Violation of the EPC) BoA Cases. Now It Does the Same to Bundesverfassungsgericht (FCC, Germany's Constitutional Court).

'Artificial' 'Growth' (in Number of Fake Patents)

The Moment That EPO 'Club Med' (Nepotism Galore) Pretends It's Actually Elected Officials and Lawmakers

Missing in Action: Investigative Reporting About the European Patent Office

Unitary Patent (UPC) Has Just Been Shot Again, But Team UPC is Unlikely to Talk About It

The Concept of Confidentiality May be Self-Defeating in the Context of Patents

An EPO Without EPC or With a Faked EPC

The EPO's Mrs. UPC is Rumoured to Have Retired Just Like the UPC

European Patent Office (EPO) Granting Patents on Surveillance Software

How IP Kat Had Become a Patent Litigation Pressure Group Until the Site's Founder Left

We Will Never Have a Meaningful Debate About Patents When the Media Calls Algorithms “AI” and the EPO is Called “EU Patent Office”

Invalid Patents 'Great Again'? (partly about EPO)

2019

December

In 2018 and in 2019 António Campinos Has in Effect Been a Guardian of Battistelli's Corruption

Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement (UPCA) Will be Ratified in the Year 202020

Bristows and AstraZeneca (IP Kat) Won't Offer Balanced Coverage of EPO Patent Cases

Who Will Merpel be in 2020? (Now Defending Battistelli's Attacks on EPO Judges and Serious Violations of the EPC)

Thierry Breton: Why He Matters to EPO Affairs (and a Lot More in Europe If Not the World, Not Just in France)

Not Everything Needs to Be Patented

D Young & Co LLP Spreading Team UPC Talking Points

EPO G 1/19 (Software Patents Case) Already Compromised by Overt Violations of the European Patent Convention (EPC)

EPO Throws DABUS Under the Bus... But for the Wrong Reasons

Understanding Thierry Breton: A Happy Ending - for Some at Least.

EPO Management is Always Right

Understanding Thierry Breton: “Oh, Dem Golden Slippers…”

Understanding Thierry Breton: A “Club Med” Coup in Brussels?

The EPO Likes “Hey Hi” (AI) Only When It Lets Actual Humans Fake 'Production'

Understanding Thierry Breton: Little Miss Ladson Goes to Brussels

Journalism in the Area of Patents and the Domain of Patent Litigation is Dead

More 'Fake News' About Unified Patent Court (UPC) and Battistelli's CEIPI Emerges as a Booster

Understanding Thierry Breton: The “Killer Shark” Resurfaces…

Issues Cannot be Treated in Complete Isolation When Everything is Connected

Understanding Thierry Breton: Concordia, Integritas, Industria

Understanding Thierry Breton: Emmanuel Macron and His “Joker” in Brussels

Unitary Patent (UPC) Should Become Synonymous With Lies, Coups, Entryism, Lobbying and Bullying

European Patents Losing Their Appeal, Lustre and Glamour

Only the EPO Goes as Far as Bribing Publishers (the Media) to Promote Software Patents and Publish Fictional Stories

EU Needs to Show That It Cares About SMEs and Not 'European Champions' That Are Actually Foreign Monopolies

At the EPO Money — Not Quality — is King

The EPO's Strategic Failure 2023

EPO Promoting Software Patents in Countries Where These Are Illegal

Actions Against EPO Corruption and Unitary Patent (UPC) Injustice/Lobbying

Demonstration Against Unitary Software Patents, Thursday 12 Dec in Brussels

Fake European Patents (on Algorithms) Leading to Fake Embargoes

Unitary Patent (UPC) Died Along With the Credibility of Managing IP and the Rest of the UPC Lobby

The EPO Rejects Innovation

Europeans Still Need to Save the European Patent Office From Those Who Attack Its Patent Quality

'Priceless' Tickets to the EPO's Back End and Team UPC

New EPO Leak Shows That the Rumours and Jokes Are Partly True and We Know Who 'Runs the Show'

13 Years of UPC Promises

Is Water Wet?

The EPO's President Admits He's Illegally Granting Software Patents (CII, 4IR, IoT, AI and Blockchain Mean Software Patents at the EPO)

Maximalists Cherry-Picking the So-Called 'Corbyn' 'Leak' for Their Patent Agenda While the US Lobbies Britain for Software Patents and Worse

November

Management of the EPO is Afraid of Scientists and Judges

The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Dead and Alexander Ramsay is Only Making a Total Fool of Himself

Many European Patents Lack Validity and Blogs/Press Won't Talk About That

5 Out of 6 EPO Workers Vote for a Strike as Quality (and Validity) of Patents Continues to Fall

Team UPC is So Drunk on Kool-Aid That It Has Become Truly Comical!

Understanding Thierry Breton: Thierry and the EPO's “Sun-King”

JUVE Has Become Little But a Team UPC Propaganda Site

The Collapse of European Patents Continues

Even the US is Surprised or Baffled by Post-Brexit Unified Patent Court (UPC) Fantasies, Reveal Secret Documents

Just About Everything the EPO Tells Stakeholders, Media and Even Its Own Workers is the Opposite of What's True

Understanding Thierry Breton: “Mister Cash” and “Madame Bailout”

Understanding Thierry Breton: Thierry & Nicolas – a Bromance That Turned Sour?

German Constitutional Court Attempts to Distance Itself From Prof. Huber’s 'Interview' With Team UPC

EPO Misuses Patent-Granting Powers to Help Litigation, Not Science

Britain 'Taking Back Control' From the Wrong Institution; the EPO is the Greater Culprit

Understanding Thierry Breton: More Influential Friends in High Places

Global Patent Warming

Teaser: “Enriching Exchanges”

Understanding Thierry Breton: Socialising With the Elite

Justice Peter Huber Speaking to a Front Group of Team UPC May Compromise the Integrity of the FCC and Its Outcomes

Injustice at Every Level Would Simply Doom the Entire Patent System

Understanding Thierry Breton: Thierry and the $100 Billion Man

Understanding Thierry Breton: Atos Healthcare - “The Ugly Face of Business”

Justice Peter Huber of the German Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) Calls 'Bullshit' a Rumour Nobody Really Spreads

Understanding Thierry Breton: What Thierry Did Next...

EPO Geared Towards Financial Exploitation of Europe Instead of Serving Europe

Understanding Thierry Breton: Noël Forgeard and His “Golden Parachute”

We've Already Entered the Era When Patents Should be Presumed Invalid

Understanding Thierry Breton: Insider-Trading Scandal at EADS

Openwashing Institutionalised NPEs (OIN) and Software Patents With Notorious Managers From the EPO

Understanding Thierry Breton: The “Cost-Killer” Tries to Tame the National Debt

to Last Week’s Thierry Breton Hearing

Unitary Patent is Dead Partly Because the EPO Demonstrated That EPC is Being Routinely Violated, Illegal Patents Granted

Understanding Thierry Breton: Chirac’s Entrepreneurial “Joker”

Koch's Reply to EPO Through ILO and Techrights' Interpretation of Koch v EPO Documents Help Show That ILO-AT is Played by EPO Management

EPO Running ILO's Tribunal (ILO-AT) 'in a Loop' to Perpetually Delay and Drain the EPO's Complainants (Aggrieved Staff) Out of Money

ILO is Not Functioning and ILO-AT Helps the Abusive Management of the European Patent Office

Understanding Thierry Breton: Moral Responsibility for “a Capitalism That Kills”?

FOSSPatents Conference is Against FOSS, Promoting the FOSS-Hostile Construct Known as RAND or FRAND

Europe is Under Attack

Understanding Thierry Breton: Toxic Management Goes on Trial in France

Thierry Breton’s Video/Live Grilling is Over, But the Grilling Continues Online

The EPO's Low Patent Quality is Not Just Suicidal; It is Illegal

Techrights' Interpretation of Koch v EPO: The EPO's Management Still Attacks Staff Representatives

Understanding Thierry Breton: “Mister Cash” Arrives at France Télécom

The Breton-Battistelli Relationship and Breton Hiding His Employment Record at Rothschild & Cie Banque

A Lot of EPO Staff on Dutch Land Protested (Despite Abusive Threats From Management) and a Strike is Reportedly Next

Understanding Thierry Breton: In the Beginning...

Teaser: Thierry Breton and His Disquieting Past

EPO and EU: People Behind the Faces

EPO Corruption Compared to Cocaine Scandals in Antwerp

SUEPO Showed That the Media Won't Cover EPO Corruption Until Half the Workers March in the Streets

SUEPO Protests Against Management of the European Patent Office Brought Back Discussions About Corruption

Video: Dutch Media on EPO Protest

Think Tanks, Bristows, 'Simmons' and 'Birds' Can Only Ever Lie to Us About the Dead Unified Patent Court (UPC)

The EPO's Management is Trying Really Hard to Distract the Media From EPO Unrest (and It Has Been Partly Successful)

'Artificial Intelligence' (AI) Will Only Doom Patent Offices If It's Used to Stamp Millions of Invalid Patents (IPs)

Quick Mention: Some Dutch Media Covers Dutch EPO Protest

The EPO 'Patent Factory' Likes the IAM Copy-Paste Factory

PR ‘Innovation’: Bombarding the Media With Puff Pieces to Distract From EPO Staff Actions Against Corrupt Management

It Feels Like EPO Management is Trying to Distract the Media and the Staff From Today's Big Protest

SUEPO Organises Hague Protest — Second EPO Protest in a Fortnight, Targeting the Portuguese Embassy in The Hague

The EPO Instructs European Examiners to Grant Junk Patents on Algorithms (Maths and Stats)

The European Patent Office (EPO) Carelessly Shows the Only 'Small' 'Businesses' It Serves Are Law Firms and Patent Trolls

António Campinos and Comrade Iancu (US) Both Push Software Patents Into Europe to the Detriment of Small Businesses and Developers

The European Courts Won't be Receptive When European Patent (EP) Just Means Invalid Patent (IP)

The European Union is Harmed by EPO Abuses

Meme: EPO Tyranny Irrespective of One's Name/Brand

The EPO's Staff Lacks the Autonomy Crucially Needed to Decide Whether European Patents Granted by the EPO Are Indeed Legitimate

Today's EPO is Working Against Europe

October

Immunity Breeds Lawlessness

Today's EPO is an Illegal Institution Promoting and Granting Illegal Patents

Yesterday in EPOPIC Andrei Iancu and António Campinos Shared a Salad of Ridiculous Buzzwords

EPO May be Financially Defrauding the Public and Its Employees

Patent Evergreening Kills

An Illegal Practice: The EPO Continues to Grant Unlawful Patents and Then Brag About These

EPO Advertises Questel and Rather Extremist Views on Patents

The Media is Not Observing But Actively Participating in Patent Lies of the EPO and Self-Serving Law Firms

G1/19: Enlarged Board of Appeal Bombarded by Monopolies, Law Firms and EPO President in Favour of Software Patenting

EPO Management Plays With -- and for -- the Wrong People

Reforming (Fixing) the EPO is the Goal

Humour: EPO Has the Solution

EPO Staff Protested Today and SUEPO Explains Why

EPO Diplomatic Immunity

Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna Reveals How the German Government Actively Ignored SMEs to Push the Notorious 'Unitary Patent' Sham

SUEPO Protest Tomorrow. All EPO Staff in Munich Ought to Attend and Prepare to Strike Too.

EPO Will Need a Lot More Than Photo Ops and Hoax 'Studies' to Restore the Perception of Lawfulness

EPO: It’s Only Getting Worse

It Has Begun: EPO Staff Protests Against António Campinos (Starting Wednesday)

European Patent Office and US Patent and Trademark Office Cranks Discovered Buzzwords, Stopped Worrying, Started Granting Patents They Know to be Fake

“The True Hypocrite is the One Who Ceases to Perceive His Deception, the One Who Lies With Sincerity,” Said André Paul Guillaume Gide (Nobel Prize in Literature)

The EPO Cannot Guard Fake European Patents From Scrutiny (in the Long Run)

New EPO Meme: Who Wants to Make Billions From a 'Public' Monopoly?

EPO Staff Union and Staff Representatives Ought to Demand EPO Stops Bullying Publishers and Censoring Their Sites

Bribes, Lies, Fundamental Violations of the Law and Cover-Up: This is Today's European Patent Office

EPO Staff Resolution Against Neoliberal Policies of António Campinos

Raw: EPO Comes Under Fire for Lowering Patent Quality Under the Orwellian Guise of “Collaborative Quality Improvements” (CQI)

When They Run Out of Things to Patent They'll Patent Nature Itself...

EPO Boards of Appeal Need Courage and Structural Disruption to Halt Software Patents in Europe

Professor Dr. Maximilian Haedicke on Lack of Separation of Powers at the EPO (Which Dooms UPC)

“The Stupidest Patent/Tax Policy Ever”

Meme: Software Patents at the EPO

Today's EPO is Working for Patent Trolls and the 'Aye Pee' (IP) 'Industry' Instead of Science

The Campinos Car Crash

Software Patents (or Monopolies on Algorithms) Are Not 'Property' and They're Not Even Legally Valid

The EPO's Universal Patent Injustice Concealed With Polyglottic Tricks

António Campinos, With Diplomatic Immunity, Continues Breaking the Law by Granting Patents the EU and EPC Forbade

EPO is Trying to 'Force-Feed' Europe Some Fake Patents by Hijacking Courts

If the EPO Plans to Go 'Virtually' Private (Outside Contracting), Then Failing It Would be Deliberate

The EPO is Gradually Being Outsourced to Private, For-Profit, Unaccountable and Notorious Companies]

EPO President Campinos is Just a Great Pretender With 'Soft Power' Skills

The EPO's President Campinos is a Liar

EPO a Hostage of Law (Litigation) Firms

EPO Management Flies Halfway Across the Globe for Photo Ops in Country With 0.02% of European Patents

The Injustice at the EPO Deepens, From Examination to Oppositions/Appeals and From BoA to Courts (UPC Prospects)

The EPO's Endgame: Robbing EPO Staff to Enrich Private Companies

EPO Leak: António Campinos Announces Impending Cuts While Outsourcing to Private Firms Like Serco

The EPO's 'Solution' to Being Caught Granting Illegal Patents is to Punish Those Who Show That

AI and Other Nonsensical Technobabble Exploited by EPO Management to Do Illegal Things

Corruption on Every Level Persists at the European Patent Office

Today's EPO is Pursuing 'Troll Justice' (Bullying and Blackmail), Not Real Justice

EPO Releases Decision Regarding G 2/19 (the 'Haar Question') in a Language Only About 10% of Member States Speak

The EPO Keeps Breaking the Law While Trying to Legalise What's Illegal

EPO Makes Guidelines for Examination That Formally Allow Software Patents in Defiance of European Law

The Greenwashing and Chronic Lying From the EPO Spreads to EU Through EUIPO

September

Even IP Kat Explains Why the EPO and the EUIPO Are Lying Through Their Teeth With a Paid-for So-called ‘Study’

EPO: Same Old Abuses, More Fake Patents, But Slightly Different Faces

Only Weeks After Czech Government Rejects UPC (Unitary Patent) António Campinos Flies There, Apparently in Order to Lobby Government Officials

EU Parliament Needs to Clarify Once Again That Software Patents Granted by the EPO Are Illegal and Void

Media as Propaganda Apparatus of Patent Offices Which Are Run for and by Lawyers and Law Firms

The European Patent Office's Relationship With Licensing Executives Society International (LESI) Shows Whose Interests Today's Management Really Serves

EPO Logic: Businesses That Have Trademarks and/or Patents Have Only Succeeded Because of Trademarks and/or Patents

Corporate Media Covering (Amplifying) EPO Lies But Not EPO Abuses

The EPO and the USPTO Keep Granting Illegal Patents and Mainstream Media Doesn't Talk About That

Patent Maximalists Have Ruined the European Patent Office, Which Became a Lying Organisation That Bullies Everyone

EPO Under Fire From EU Parliament, But Patent Trolls Already Storm Europe, Emboldened by Low Quality of European Patent

Patent Extremism is Not Normal and Not an Innocent Mindset

When Patent 'Professionals' Sound Like Children Who Learned to Parrot Some Intentionally-Misleading Buzzwords, Myths and Lies

The European Parliament Needs to Become More Outspoken About EPO Abuses

When the EPO Sees Itself as Above European Law, Grants Patents in Defiance of the EPC (Its Founding Document) and Violates Staff's Labour Rights/Protections (International Law)

Update on Koch v EPO: Internal Appeals Committee (IAC) Composition Still Likely Illegal

EPO is Not European

The EPO's Central Staff Committee and SUEPO (Staff Union) Respond to “Fascist Bills” Supported by EPO President António Campinos

Storm Brewing in the European Patent Office After a Hot Summer

EPO President Along With Bristows, Managing IP and Other Team UPC Boosters Are Lobbying for Software Patents in Clear and Direct Violation of the EPC

Illegal/Invalid Patents (IPs) Have Become the 'Norm' in Europe

Patent Maximalists, Orbiting the European Patent Office, Work to 'Globalise' a System of Monopolies on Everything

Unitary Patent (UPC) Promotion by Team Battistelli 'Metastasising' in Private Law Firms

EPO: Give Us Low-Quality Patent Applications, Patent Trolls Have Use for Those

Patent Charlatans and Frauds Are Doing a Disservice to Europe and to Europe's Patent System

The European Patent Convention (“EPC”) Does Not Allow Patenting of Life Itself

European Patent Office's Cooperation and Collaboration With Patent Trolls Instead of Science and Technology

Koch Explains the Dirty Games the European Patent Office Plays at ILO

When ILO 'Justice' for EPO Staff Gets 'Lost in the Post'

Serco's Censorship of Media or EPO's Censorship of Media? Either Way, There's a Profound Media Crisis in Europe.

National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI France) Not Immune Like the EPO and the Courts Find it Guilty of Mismanagement

EPO Rating Cartoon

The Corrupt EPO Apparently Hides Its Serco Outsourcing Deal

Jo Johnson Quitting Twice in Two Years is a Terrible Sign for the Unitary Patent (UPC)

Fake Software Patents in Europe (Invalid Patents) Would Only Discourage or Drive Away the European Software Industry, But Lawyers Don't Care

Patent Trolls Are Destroying Free/Open Source Software and They're Coming to Europe, Thanks to the European Patent Office

Bristows UPC Propaganda (in Pseudonymous Form) Shames the Government's Officials in Order to Install Corrupt Officials

The Electronic Frontier Foundation Opposes Software Patents (in the US), So Why Does It Keep 100% Silent About Europe and the EPO?

EPO Cannot With a Straight Face Lecture People About the Law (Which It Routinely and Knowingly Violates)

August

The Judges of the Boards of Appeal Are Still Controlled by the European Patent Office and European Patent Quality is Therefore in a Freefall

The Admission Phase/Stage: Even Team UPC is Coming to Grips With the UPC's Demise

The Collapse of the UPC Would Further Decrease the Perceived Value of European Patents, Which European Courts Rightly Reject

Updates on Koch v EPO, Anette Koch’s Case Which the EPO Would Rather Nobody Heard About

USPTO and EPO: Call Software Patents 'Hey Hi' ('AI') and Use Microsoft Software (or Else!)

Patent Maximalists Refuse to Accept That Their War on Patent Quality Also Dooms a Pan-European Patent Court System

Managing IP as Team UPC's Megaphone and Lobbying Front

No More Rights for EPO Staff?

Some Patent Attorneys Dislike Techrights Not Because It's Wrong But Because Software Patents Are Wrong (and Sometimes Illegal)

Edward as a Nodder to Team UPC Kool-Aid

Guest Post: António Campinos' European Patent Office Redefines Modern Slavery in the Heart of Europe in 2019

EPO Cannot Handle Patent Justice With a Backlog of About 10,000 Cases at the Boards of Appeal

The European Patent Office Increases Surveillance: Can't Get Food Without Being Spied on

Breaking the Law Has Become the Norm at the European Patent Office

Patent Prosecution Highways and Examination Highways Are Dooming the EPO

Software Patents Won't Come Back Just Because They're (Re)Framed/Branded as "HEY HI" (AI)

IP Kat Pays the Price for Being a Megaphone of Team UPC

The EPO's War on the Convention on the Grant of European Patents 2000 (EPC 2000), Not Just Brexit, Kills the Unitary Patent (UP/UPC) and Dooms Justice

Spreading False Rumours or What's Most Likely Lies (Falsehoods) Won't Help Restore Justice at the EPO

Europe is Gradually Becoming a Hotspot for Patent Litigation and Trolls as Patent Quality Decreases

The EPO is Still Violating the EPC Every Day

The Tight Embrace of the 'Hey Hi' (AI) Hype is Strangling the Patent System

IP Kat as Amplifier of Team UPC at a Time When UPC is Dead

Honest Media Regarding Patent Matters is Dead

Lies, Lies and More Lies From the EPO (While Corporate Media in Europe Plays Along)

Germany's Infamous Patent Troll IPCom Shows That the EPO's Failure Hurts Not Only Germany But the Whole of Europe and Customers in General

European Media on the Death of the Unitary Patent (UP/UPC/UPCA)

António Campinos Puts European Patent Quality on a Suicide Diet/Plan and All EPO Staff on Notice

Patent Trolls' Paradise: The EPO is a Rubber-Stamping Machine, So Why Not Automatically Generate Patent Applications?

The EPO and the European Media Continue to Ignore or Cover Up the Haar Case

EPO Not Only an Eyesore But Also an Environmental Liability

The Boards' (of Appeal) Fear of Enforcing the Law (EPC) Will Doom the European Patent Office

July

Today's European Patent Office (EPO) Stifles Access to Medicine With Its More Dubious European Patents

The American Patent Microcosm Models Its Lobbying for Software Patents Based on the EPO's Ongoing Violations of the EPC

Prime Minister Boris Johnson Has Turned Into a Complete Joke the Cabinet Entrusted to Deal With UPC Limbo

Patent Trolls Are Not a Solved Problem and They Are Definitely a Growing Problem in Europe

Europe's Lowered Patent Standards

IP Kat Used to Blast the EPO for Profound Lack of Justice. Now It's Just Meowing With the EPO's Management.

Anything to Distract From the EPO's Plunging Patent Quality

EPO is Fast Becoming the Office of Invalid Patents (IPs)

EPO Continues to Grant Hundreds of Thousands of Illegal Software Patents and the Media Doesn't Care

Greenwashing to Distract From the EPO Breaking the Law, Rigging Justice and Its Own Courts

EPO Gradually Becoming the World's Most Permissive (Low Patent Quality) Patent Office by Consciously Violating the EPC

Companies That Collapse Because the European Patent Office (EPO) Gave Them Fake Patents in a Hurry

Demand for European Patents Will Continue to Decrease If a Lot of European Patents Turn Out to be Invalid, Worthless

2 Days Later (Case in Progress) and Still Media Silence About G 2/19

Index: G 2/19 (Enlarged Board of Appeal, EPO)

EPO Looney Tunes – Part 4: G 2/19 - Faites Vos Jeux…

Media Not Interested in G 2/19, Which Demonstrates Patent Justice is Nowadays Impossible at the EPO

EPO Looney Tunes – Part 3: The Legal Line-up for G 2/19

EPO Looney Tunes - Part 2: The “Difficult Legacy” and Its Dark Historical Shadow

EPO Noise Machine Turned On as Haar Hearing Kicks Off, Patrick Corcoran Defamed Again

EPO Looney Tunes - Part 1: Is D-Day Approaching for Battistelli’s “Difficult Legacy”?

Patent Certainty Waning, But That's Still OK for Patent Trolls

European Media Continues to Ignore the EPO Crisis While Law Firms and EPO Management Cover Things Up

Campinos is Already Widely Seen as Battistelli the Second, Even Among EPO Stakeholders

EPO Further Harms Justice and Quality by Weakening Processes Associated With the EPO’s Boards of Appeal

EPO 'Tackles' Patent Quality Concerns by Issuing New Report With “Quality” in the Title

Anonymous Comments Are the Only Thing of Value Left at IP Kat

EPO-Bribed Media Speaks to Team UPC, Produces UPC Puff Pieces With Plenty of Falsehoods and (Forbidden) Software Patents Advocacy

Another Day of Misleading Media Coverage About the EPO and More Squashed European Patents

Higher Patent Quality and More Patent Justice Rather Than Buzzwords and Litigation

Only a Matter of Time Before the European Patent Bubble Implodes

Only After Millions Were Spent on Lawyers Microsoft's Patent Troll in Europe Loses European Patent Used to Shake Down Android (Linux) Vendors

Ethiopian Media Gamed by EPO Management, Just Like European Media

The EPO's Administrative Council is Drunk on Cooperation Money (Bribes)

The European Patent Office is Disconnected From the Rule of Law and European Media Could Not Care Less

António Campinos is Almost 100% the Same as Benoît Battistelli

EPO Management Exacerbates Its Patent Invalidity Crisis by Rushing Examination Even Further in New Pilots

The EPO is More Interested in Silencing Its Critics Than in Actually Correcting Injustices

June

Tribalism Still a Major Problem at the European Patent Office

The New (Staged and Scripted) Video of António Campinos Feels Like a Drunken Satire

Director Iancu and President Benoît Battistelli Disappeared

EPO Staff, Lawyers and Courts Are Growing Tired of the Debased Patent Office and Administrative Council

UPC Was the EPO's (and Patent Maximalists') Attempt to Abolish Patent Justice

The EPO's “Collaborative Quality Improvements” (CQI), Formerly Known as “Team Collaboration Project,” Shows the EPO Grossly Violating the Law, Granting Patents in Clear Violation of the EPC

EPO CQI: Raw Leak of the Latest EPO 'Ingenuity'

The EPO Has Successfully Muzzled the Media

The European Patent Office Remains a Crooked Patent Office That Harms Staff and Abolishes the Rule of Law

USPTO and EPO Faking Growth by Granting Patents on Everything in Nature, But Campaigners Strike Back

IBM Happy That Patent Quality at EPO Collapsed and It's Easy to Get Software Patents

Patent Extremism: Stacking the Panels, the Surveys, the Hearings, the Debates

The EPO Needs a President Who Obeys the Law, Not One Who Obeys Battistelli

With Water (Treatment) Already Patented It Won't Take Long for Patents (and Patent Royalties) on Air

What Patents the EPO Has Just Awarded (With a Special Reward), Not Just Granted

Required Reading: Mental State of Team Battistelli/Campinos

EPO Directors Would be Wise to Rebel Against Team Campinos While They Still Have the Job

American Front Group Open Invention Network (Riding the Linux Brand) is a Proponent of Software Patents in Europe

Say 'Hey Hi' to Software Patents

Leaked: Harassment of EPO Directors by Team Campinos

Patent Professionals in Europe Have Devolved Into a Marketing Industry

Ignore the EPO's Dumb Festival and Focus on the Abuses Against the Workforce and Its Quality of Work

Indifference or Even Hostility Towards Patent Quality Results in Grave Injustice

'AI Taskforce' is Actually a Taskforce for Software Patents

Weaponising Russophobia Against One's Critics

When the EPO is Run by Politicians It’s Expected to Be Aggressive and Corrupt Like Purely Political Establishments

As European Patent Office Management Covers up Collapse in Patent Quality Don't Expect UPC to Ever Kick Off

António Campinos — Unlike His Father — Engages in Imperialism (Using Invalid Patents)

António Campinos Takes EPO Waste and Corruption to Unprecedented Levels and Scale

The EPO is a Patent Troll's Wet Dream

EPO Spreading Patent Extremists' Ideology to the Whole World, Now to South Korea

Leaked Financial 'Study' Document Shows EPO Management and Mercer Engaging in an Elaborate “Hoax”

Measuring Patent Quality and Employer Quality in Europe

Granting More Fundamentally Wrong Patents Will Mean Reduced Certainty, Not Increased Certainty (partly about EPO)

Patent Quality Continues to Slip in Europe and We Know Who Will Profit From That (and Distract From It)

António Campinos Given an Extension to Prove He Respects the Rule of Law

Lawlessness at the EPO Means That Software Patents Are Still Being Granted and EPO Judges Have Their Hands Tied

The Preparatory Committee of the UPC Does Not Decide for Constitutional Courts

The Paid-For UPC Lies

The European Patent Office is a Global Threat, Not Just a Threat to Europe

Drunk on Power

EPO Advertises Jobs for Lawyers That Combat EPO Staff, 'Emergency' Call Surfacing

EPO Meltdown and Collapse in Patent Quality Don't Bother Bristows Kat

EUIPO/EPO Redundancies While Spending a Billion Euros on Unnecessary Buildings

European Patent Quality Totally and Utterly Collapses While Team UPC Hopes It Can Make the Courts 'Kangaroo' Ones

António Campinos “Will Have the First Strike on His Hands and Learn That If He Goes Down on This Path He May be Even More Despised Than Battistelli.”

An Office of Patent Extremists

More Tall Tales From EPOnia - A Little Apéritif to Whet the Appetite…

António Campinos as German Sheriff Rather Than Office President

May

British Patent Courts Continue to Expose the Collapse in Quality of European Patents

António Campinos Didn't Even Last a Year

Social 'Studies' and Sponsored 'Articles' Cannot Hide the Fact That EPO is a Terrible Employer Which Currently Harms Europe

European Patents Are Eventually Being Revoked. But at Great Expense to Everyone Except Law Firms.

Team Campinos Will Try to Make It Difficult to Go on Strike (But Won't Manage to Prevent It)

EPO Strikes Further Diminish Chances of UPC Ever Materialising (in Any Shape or Form)

EPO Allegedly Becoming Insolvent (Pretext for Cuts), So Staff Gets Punished While Management Takes the Jackpot

EPO President Still Not Obeying Courts' Rulings

António Campinos Has Run Out of Time and EPO Staff is Going on Strike (Skipping Mere Protests)

Quality of Patents is Going Down the Drain and Courts Have Certainly Noticed

EUIPO and EPO Abuses Growingly Inseparable

The War on Patent Quality

Unified Patent Court Won’t Happen Just Because the Litigation Microcosm Wants It

Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 4: Happy Birthday to the Kötter Group?

The EPO’s Key Function — Like the UPC’s Vision — Has Virtually Collapsed

Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 3: “Ein kritikwürdiges Unternehmen”

EPO Had a Leakage Problem and Privacy of Stakeholders Was Compromised, Affecting at Least 100 Cases

False Hope for Patent Maximalists and Litigation Zealots

The Race to the Bottom of Patent Quality at the EPO

Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 2: Meet the Kötters

Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 1: Urgent Shitstorm Alert

Patents That Were Gleefully Granted by the EPO Continue to Perish in Courts

Professionally Incompetent EPO Management

Did Battistelli 'Steal' ~$100,000,000 Euros From the EPO?

The Biased EPO Does Not Want to Hear From Anyone Except Those Who Pay the EPO

Team UPC Has Run Out of Arguments, So Now It's Just Writing Anti-Brexit Rants With Testicles in the Headlines

Making the Patent System About Productive Actors (Again), Not a Bunch of Law Firms and Trolls

Stephen Rowan: From UK-IPO to Operation Coverup of Team António Campinos

Lusting for a Unified Patent Court (UPC) That Respects Invalid European Patents, Including Software Patents

Illegal Software Patents and Patent Trolls Well Served by European and American Patent Offices But Not Courts

Corrupt Battistelli is Back for European Inventor Award 2019 — an Extravagant Ceremony He Has Used to Steal Millions of Euros From the EPO

EPO Waste and Mismanagement: Renting Space While Keeping Buildings Empty and Making More of Them

Corruption at the EPO is a Threat Not Only to Europe But to Every Continent in the World

Why Does the EPO Keep Praising People Who Promote Software Patents, Rewarding Them for Patent Thickets That Harm Software Developers?

The EPO is a Threat to Software Developers Everywhere, Not Just in Europe

Even IAM Admits That When It Comes to Patents It's Quality That Counts, Not Quantity

It's 2019 and Team UPC is Still Composing 'Fake News' (Lobbying Disguised as Reporting)

Even EPO Patent 'Justice' is Now Measured in Industrial Terms Like 'Production' Rather Than Accuracy

EPO in 2019: Pushing (and Bribing) for Buzzwords to Bypass/Cheat the Law Whilst Abolishing the Court System

Lack of Justice at the EPO Continues to Usher in Fake Patents on Abstract Things

Union Syndicale Federale (USF) Writes to António Campinos Again Regarding the Appalling Atmosphere at the EPO

April

Haar is Where EPO Justice Came to Meet Euthanasia

The 'Technical Effect' of Attacking the Independence of Judges at the Boards of Appeal and Ignoring/Breaking the Law

"Dia da Liberdade" in Portugal -- Wilted Carnations in EPOnia

The Quality of Patents is Connected to the Quality of Life of Patent Examiners

Supreme Court of the UK, Which Habitually Throws Out European Patents, May Overturn Troublesome Unwired Planet v Huawei Decision

German Federal Patent Court Curbs the Patent Maximalism of the EPO, Which Promotes Patents on Nature and/or Maths Every Single Day

António Campinos Would Not Refer to the EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeal If He Did Not Control the Outcomes

USPTO and EPO Both Slammed for Abandoning Patent Quality and Violating the Law/Caselaw in Order to Grant Illegitimate Patents on Life/Nature and Mathematics

The EPO's Use of Phrases Like “High-Quality Patent Services” Means They Know High-Quality European Patents Are 'Bygones'

The Likes of Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA), Team Campinos and Team UPC Don't Represent Europe But Hurt Europe

Largest Patent Offices Try to Leave Courts in a State of Disarray to Enable the Granting of Fake Patents in the US and Europe

The European Patent Office Does Not Care About the Law, Today's Management Constantly Attempts to Bypass the Law

Corporate Media Will Never Cover the EPO's Violations of the Law With Respect to Patent Scope

Patent Maximalists Are Enabling Injustices and Frauds

Caricature: EPO Standing Tall

The EPO is Slipping Out of Control Again and It's Another Battistelli-Like Mess With Disregard for the Rule of Law and Patent Scope

Global Finance Magazine Spreads Lies About the Unitary Patent and German Constitutional Court

New Building as Perfect Metaphor for the EPO Under the Frenchmen Battistelli and Campinos

EPO Still Wasting Budget, Paying Media and Academics for Spin

EPO Benefits European Patent Trolls With Dodgy European Patents

The Myth of Quality of European Patents

António Campinos is Already Paying a Lot of Money to Craft an Alternate Reality at the European Patent Office

Who Does the Legal System Really Serve or Favour in European Patent Disputes?

The Media is (Still) Failing to Cover EPO Corruption

The EPO’s Incredulous Survey: Management’s Voice, Management’s Future — EPO Staff ‘Engagement’ Spin (Denial of Issues)

Only One in Six EPO Workers Trusts the Management, According to New Survey Skewed by Management

Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) — Like MedTech at the EPO — Just Another Dodge for Illegitimate Software Patents

Europe's EPO Has Become France’s INPI

Even Patent Maximalists Are Not Happy With António Campinos Referring Question of Patents on Life to the Enlarged Board of Appeal

The European Patent Office Will Come to Regret the Fake Patents It Has Granted for Short-Term Financial Gains

EPO Management is Knowingly and Consciously Granting Invalid European Patents, Including Patents on Life and Nature

The Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) Warns About the Granting of Tens of Thousands of Invalid European Patents Every Year

The EPO Continues Granting Bogus Patents on Mathematics and Nature, But There's Hope Over the Horizon

EPO Judges Lack Independence and the Internal Courts Are Seen to be Lacking Legitimacy (Decisions' Validity) Under António Campinos

Artificially-Intelligent Blockchained Internet of Things Industrial Revolutionary CII or Software Patents by Any Other Name

Patent Trolls Destroy the European Economy Because EPO Gives Them Questionable Patents

March

The UK Supreme Court's Latest Decision is Ammunition for the FCC to Scuttle the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA)

A March in Brussels Next Month, Disgruntled EPO Staff Invited

There's No Administrative Council at the EPO Anymore. It's Like a Stamping 'Department' of the Office and the Same Goes for the Boards of Appeal.

Tall Tales From the Land of EPOnia: Indications of High-Level Club Med/EUIPO “Entryism”

European Patents Found to be Invalid and Deemed Impotent in the Highest British Court (Again)

The European Patent Scope is a Lost Cause, Does Not Exist Anymore

The EPO is Still a Software Patents Propaganda Machine and Thus an Enemy of Software Developers in Europe

Dimitris Xenos on Unconstitutional Supranational Arrangements for Patent Law: Leaving Out the Elected Legislators and the People’s Participatory Rights

The Campinos-Battistelli Strategy is Working: Patent Trolls Are Coming to Europe!

The Unified Patent Court is Dead, But Doubts Remain Over the EPO's Appeal Boards' Ability to Rule Independently Against Patents on Nature and Code

Why the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO) Cannot Ignore Judges, Whereas the EPO Can (and Does)

The European Patent Office Needs to Put Lives Before Profits

“Criminal Organisation”

Team UPC (Unitary Patent) is a Headless Chicken

António Campinos Makes Up Claims About Patent Quality, Only to be Rebutted by Examiners, Union (Anyone But the 'Puff Pieces' Industry)

CEN and CENELEC Agreement With the EPO Shows That It's Definitely the European Commission's 'Department'

Decisions Made Inside the European Patent Organisation (EPO) Lack Credibility Because Examiners and Judges Lack Independence

Team UPC Buries Its Credibility Deeper in the Grave

The EPO Has Sadly Taken a Side and It's the Patent Trolls' Side

To Team UPC the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Has Become a Joke and the European Patent Office (EPO) Never Mentions It Anymore

Stopping António Campinos and His Software Patents Agenda (Not Legal in Europe) Would Require Independent Courts

The EPO and the USPTO Are Granting Fake Patents on Software, Knowing That Courts Would Reject These

EPO 'Results' Are, As Usual, Not Measured Correctly

Good News Everyone! UPC Ready to Go... in 2015!

EPO's Latest 'Results' Show That António Campinos Has Already Given Up on Patent Quality and is Just Another Battistelli

EPO Examiner: “I Have Been Against Software Patents and Eventually 3/4 of My Job is Examining Software Patent Applications.”

Europe Will Pay a High Price for Software Patents Advocacy by António Campinos in Europe's Patent-Granting Authority

António Campinos — Like His Father — Lacks Support From Colleagues, Endorsed Only From the Top

From Patents on Chewing Gum to Toothpaste Patents: How the EPO Came to Focus on Speed and Volume, Not Quality

European Patent Office Press Releases (Two in Two Days) Are Disguised as 'News' and Tell the Opposite of the Truth

António Campinos Will Not Tackle Any of the Lingering Issues at the European Patent Office

Immunity Stripped by the Supreme Court of the United States, Opening the Possibility of Ending Immunity of the EPO As Well

The Tide Has Turned Against Patents on Life in Europe

Patent Law Firms Are Truly (and Visibly) Panicking Over the Demise of Software Patents

3,000 Posts About the European Patent Office and Why We'll Maintain Our Focus on It

Fraud at the European Patent Office, But All Those Arrested Are Perpetrators Without Misused Immunity

Power and Corruption: How European Patent Office Nepotism and Despotism Open Doors

Quality Issues at the European Patent Office Can Lead It Down the Same Downward Path as the Unified Patent Court (UPC)

Truly and Completely Out of Control, the Unhinged European Patent Office Calls Applicants “Customers” While Offering Patents on Nature, Life, Maths

The EPO Technical/Enlarged Board of Appeal Would, Potentially (If It Enjoyed Actual Independence), Serve a 'European Alice' and Eliminate All/Most Software Patents in Europe

Battistelli's Presidency Was a Write-off Presidency (of Potentially Billions of Euros in Losses)

The Technical Board of Appeal Will Need True Independence to Squash Software Patents at the EPO (T 0489/14)

Unitary Patent (UPC/A) Constitutional Complaint Can be Decided in a Matter of Years (If Ever)

European Patent Office Careers Bad for One's Health, Properly Assessing Patents is 'Professional Incompetence' Now

EPO Staff Union: 'New' Team Campinos Practice “Reminds Us Strongly of the Battistelli Times.”

The Collapse of Poor-Quality European Patents Continues in European Courts

Lesson From the United States: Overly Permissive Patent Policy (Maximalism) Can Drive Technology Companies Away

T 0489/14: Will the European Patent Organisation Put an End to Software Patents at Long Last?

February

The Latest Brexit Developments Add Another Nail (Among Many) to the Unified Patent Court's (UPC) Coffin

Teff Just One Among Countless Examples of Sheer Disregard for Patent Quality

English Translation: Alexandre Benalla Thinks He Can Carry a Weapon in Germany

English Translation: Alexandre Benalla on His Work Experience (or Lack Thereof)

English Translation: Alexandre Benalla Cannot Tell the Difference Between EPO and the French Republic (or Battistelli and Macron)

English Translation: I Have Huge Respect for Battistelli, Said Alexandre Benalla Under Pressure

Croatian Media on Fake Diplomas and the EPO Connection

There is Still a Patent Quality Crisis at the EPO

Ben and Ben: Benalla and His Enabler, Beny Battistelli

Alexandre Benalla's Time at the EPO, in His Own Words

Video: Alexandre Benalla Explains His Activities Within the European Patent Office

Bruno Retailleau on Alexandre Benalla's Perjury

Video: Alexandre Benalla on Carrying Weapons in Munich's EPO Premises (Strictly Illegal in Germany)

Bristows is Still Hoping to 'Overthrow' the Courts and Throw Out Ingve Stjerna's Complaint (About the Likes of Bristows)

Video: Alexandre Benalla Speaks About His Relationship With Battistelli

Hallmark of Corruption: Benalla and Fellow Thugs Paid Roughly the Same Salary as Battistelli (Each!) and There's a New Chinese Contract Worth €7.2 Million

EPO Insider Video: Nouvel an Architectural Hazard, Not Just a Fire Hazard

The European Patent Office Goes Down a Very Slippery Slope by Promoting and Defending Patents on Life/Nature in Defiance of Parliament and the EPC

Software Patents Are in a Freefall in Courts Worldwide, But the EPO Keeps Granting and Promoting These

Team UPC Excited Over Nothing, President Campinos Rarely Even Mentions UPC Anymore

Battistelli's Bodyguard Has Been Arrested, But Battistelli Should Join Him

How Long Can the EPO Bend the Rules Before the Avalanche of Invalid Software Patents?

Battistelli Trashed 223 Millions (of Stakeholders' Euros) on a System That Destroyed the European Patent Office and Made Few Private Corporations a Lot Richer

What Happened in the United States Now Happens in Europe: Lots of Patents Turn Out to Be Bunk, Fake, Bogus, Invalid and Thus Worthless

Stephen Rowan's and Nellie Simon's Letter to EPO Staff: eDossier Has “Not Reached the Required Quality Levels.”

Search Matters Not at the European Patent Office

António Campinos Still Needs to Undo Battistelli's Union-Busting Activities at the EPO

António Campinos Still Needs to Hold Team Battistelli Accountable for Illegally Bringing Weapons to the EPO

How Many/Most EPO Examiners View 'President' António Campinos

Courts in Disagreement: Warning on Wrongly-Granted European Patents and the Looming Collapse of All Software Patents in Europe

EPO Grants Fake European Patents — Including Software Patents — and European Courts Keep Rejecting These

Nobody But Patent Trolls and Litigators Will Benefit From the Corruption of the European Patent Office

Outline/Index of the Alexandre Benalla/Battistelli Scandal

“EPO Lawlessness Again”

Unitary Patent (UPC) is All About Imposing Patent Maximalists' Ideology of Greed and Self Interest on Courts in the Name of 'Unification' or 'Consistency' or 'Community'

Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part V: Mediapart Explains the 'Raid' Attempt, Reporters Without Borders Involved

Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part IV: Suspected Offenses of Forgery and Possible Falsification

Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part III: Mars, France Close Protection (Benalla's Family), and Russian Oligarchy

Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part II: Fishing Expedition for Sources in the Alexandre Benalla 'Underworld' Scandal

Innovating the Idea That Software Patents (Monopolies on Algorithms) Are Covering 'Artificial' 'Intelligence' (AI and ML as Loopholes)

Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part I: Destruction of Evidence by Alexandre Benalla

Gross Violations of the EPC at the European Patent Office as Principal Priority Turns Against Science and Technology

European Patent Office’s Exploitation of the ‘AI’ Catchphrase/Buzzword to Grant Patents on Algorithms in Defiance of the Rules, the Law, and Common Sense

Corrupt Battistelli Paid a Fortune (EPO Budget) for Outlaw/Rogue 'Bodyguards' From Firm Linked to Russian Oligarch Iskander Makhmudov

António Campinos Will Never Hold Battistelli Accountable for His Crimes Because He Too Profits From These

EPO President Campinos Works With Patent Trolls and With Team UPC to Promote Software Patents

Teff is Not an Invention. Teff is Nature.

UPC Part of the Litigation 'Industry' Lobby and the Efforts to Change (Significantly Lower) Patent Quality Bar/Scope

The Attack on the Independence of the European Judges Has Apparently Expanded to the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht)

EPO Boards of Appeal Still Need Independence

Bogus European Patents Kill Cancer Patients, But EPO Still Has the Audacity to Ride the Wave of World Cancer Day

Concerns About Stephan Harbarth's Unitary Patent (UPC) Vested Interests and His Entrance Into the Constitutional Court That Decides on UPC

The European Patent Office's Promotion of Software Patents Overlooks Ongoing 'Spillage' of the Patent Crisis to Patent Courts (Rejecting Such Patents)

The Reputation of the EPO is Ruined But Now It Ruins the Lives of Staff and Europeans

January

Fake Software Patents, Patent Trolls and Assault on Generic Medicine in Europe

President Campinos Maintains Battistelli's Abusive Sanctions, EPO Staff Increasingly Losing Faith and Hope in Him

People Are Dying Because of Low Quality of (Wrongly-Granted) European Patents

The EPO Continues to Grant Software Patents Even Though Many European Patents Are Being Invalidated Already

"HE DID NOTHING Since He Arrived, Full Stop." What EPO People Make of President Campinos...

The Management of the EPO Will Not Manage to Recruit Any Talent If It's Killing Its Own Staff

Compensation for Damages and Discrimination: The Case (One Among Several) Against EPO Vice-President Topić

Another Call for EPO Leaks

The USPTO Used to Pose a Threat to European Software Developers. Now It's the EPO Posing a Threat to Software Developers Worldwide.

British Courts Once Again Reject Bogus European Patents Granted on Software

European Patent Quality as Awful Under António Campinos as (If Not Worse Than) Benoît Battistelli and Battistelli Makes a Public Comeback

Declining Patent Quality and Lies About Software Patents at the EPO

Team UPC Has Been Reduced to a Self-Satirising Drama Show

The Whitewashing of the EPO Under António Campinos

Software Patents Are a Dying Breed, So Marks & Clerk and Other Legal Monoliths Promote the EPO's Buzzwords (Loopholes)

A Fortnight After His Diplomatic Immunity Ends Outgoing EPO Vice-President Željko Topić is in Court in Zagreb, Croatia

JUVE Creates English Site, Promotes Unified Patent Court (UPC)

EPO Defying Patent Restrictions/Limits From the European Parliament, the European Commission and the European Countries It Claims to Represent

The UPC is Dead. But Bristows is Now Fully Engaged in Necrophilia.

Brexit Has Failed, But So Has the Unitary Patent (UPC)

IBM, Which Will Soon be Buying Red Hat, is Promoting Software Patents in Europe

Team UPC on Dead UPC: Choosing Gowns for Corpses

Council of Europe (CoE) Recognises There's No Justice at the EPO

European Patent Office a Textbook Example of Lawless, Rogue Institutions

IP Kat Has Turned From EPO Critic (to the Point of Being Blocked by the EPO) to EPO Whitewasher That Gags EPO Whistleblowers

The EPO's Low Patent Quality Can Kill the European Software Industry and Kill People Too

The Fiction That Spain (or Italy) Can Salvage the UPC

EPO President “Campinos is Wasting His Credibility With “Sweet” Communiqués Full of Hot Air and Storytelling”

European Patent Office Saga in 2019: “95% of the People Responsible for the Misery Are Still in Place and Have Not Even Been Rebuked”

EPO Corruption is Helping Patent Maximalists in the United States

EPO Leaks

The German Constitutional Court's Decision on Unitary Patent (UPC) is Very, Very Far

The EPO is So Backwards That the Boss Has Just Become Subservient to the Subject of Oversight

The Real Harm of Really Bad European Patent Grants

2018

December

Even Joff Wild and the Patent Trolls' Lobby Finally Admit Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead

The Demise of the UPC 'Legislative Coup' Continued in 2018

The Quality of European Patents Likely Declined Even Further in 2018

UPC Died in 2016 or 2017; But the EPO Continues to Issue Fake Software Patents That European Courts Reject

Today's EPO Envisions a Europe of Patent Trolls, Not of Science and Technology

Team UPC Belatedly Admits Lying About the German UPC Complaint (Fabricated 'Rumours')

EPO: Adherence to the Law at the Office Postponed Indefinitely, 'Reform' Going Ahead (Divergence From the Law)

UPC Would Mean Patent Scope Gone Out of Control and Beyond/Above the Law

Immunity of the European Patent Office Has Helped Shield Dangerous Thugs From Justice

Patent Law Firms' War on Facts and Constant Lying About Unitary Patent

EPO Chief Economist Yann Ménière Keynote Speaker at Patent Trolls-Funded Event Set Up by the Patent Trolls' Lobby

The European Patent Organisation (EPO) Loses Legitimacy If (or When) Christoph Ernst Becomes Subservient to António Campinos

The European Patent Troll Wants as Much Litigation as Possible

António Campinos Turns His 'Boss' Into His Lapdog, Just Like Battistelli and Kongstad

EPO Trust, Leadership and Commitment

With 'Brexit' in a Lot of Headlines Team UPC Takes the Unitary Patent Lies up a Notch

The EPO Not Only Abandoned the EPC But Also the Biotech Directive

Patents on Abstract Things and on Life (or Patents Which Threaten Lives) Merely Threaten the Very Legitimacy of Patent Offices, Including EPO

Florian Müller's Article About SEPs and the EPO

EPO Vice-President Željko Topić in New Article About Corruption in Croatia

The Quality of European Patents Continues to Deteriorate Under António Campinos and Software Patents Are Advocated Every Day

Team UPC is Still Spreading False Rumours in an Effort to Trick Politicians and Pressure Judges

Patents on Life and Patents That Kill the Poor Would Only Delegitimise the European Patent Office

EPO 'Untapped Potential'

The European Patent Organisation is Like a Private Club and Roland Grossenbacher is Back in It

The European Patent Office Remains a Lawless Place Where Judges Are Afraid of the Banker in Chief

Many of the Same People Are Still in Charge of the European Patent Office Even Though They Broke the Law

EPO, in Its Patent Trolls-Infested Forum, Admits It is Granting Bogus Software Patents Under the Guise of 'Blockchain'

The Patent Litigation Bubble is Imploding in the US While the UPC Dies in Europe

EPO Management Keeps Embarrassing Itself, UPC More Dead Than Before, and Nokia Turns Aggressive

Patent Trolls, USPTO Director Andrei Iancu and Section 101 (partly about EPO)

Be Wary of the Latest Lies About the Unified Patent Court (UPC), Courtesy of CIPA and Marks & Clerk (Team UPC)

EPO Management High-Fiving Patent Propaganda Sites Like 'Managing IP' While Granting Illegitimate Patents on Algorithms

“ILO Gave the EPO Medical Committee a Good Slapping”

Science Minister Sam Gyimah, Who Tactlessly Ratified UPC in the UK, Has Just Resigned

Patent Offices Reward Microsoft for Corruption

November

António Campinos is Working for Patent Trolls at the Expense of Science and Technology

Even Sites That Served UPC Propaganda for Years (for These Sites' Owners) Have Come to Admit That the UPC Might Already be Dead

Union Syndicale Fédérale Tells António Campinos to End 'Political' Cases Against EPO Staff Representatives

Clouding Abstract Software Patents Using Acronyms and Buzzwords

127th Session of ILO Tribunal Rulings Will Deal With European Patent Organisation Complaints (Appeals) Tomorrow Afternoon, Staff Grows Tired of Office President António Campinos

The Demise of Software Patents in Patent Courts Worldwide Would Mean Much-Needed Staff Cuts in Litigation Giants (partly about EPO)

EPO Nowadays Closely Associates With Site That Attacks, Insults and Calls for Resignations of Judges (Those Who Scrutinise Patents)

EPO's Head of Human Resources Elodie Bergot “Condemned for Harassment in France When She Worked for the Caisse Assurance Retraites”

António Campinos Has Run Out of Time, EPO Staff Representation Now Views Him as Just Another Battistelli and Wants Immediate Change

Team UPC Refuses to Stop Lying, Pays Money to Spread Its Unified Patent Court (UPC) Lies in the Media

Thanksgiving EPO Roundup: UPC Lies, Software Patents Considered Harmful and SUEPO Condemns Union-Busting Activities (Which Carry on Under António Campinos)

To Mask the Decline in Patent Quality, e.g. Granting of Software Patents a.k.a. Computer-Implemented Inventions (CII), EPO Makes Oppositions Harder

Patent Trolls in EPO Events That Promote Software Patents

Appalling Patent Quality at the European Patent Office, More Lies About the Unified Patent Court (UPC), and Assault on Those Who Warned About It All Along

Germany Likes EPO in Munich, Litigation Factory in Düsseldorf and Mannheim (Like Eastern District of Texas)

The European Patent Office is Attracting Patent Trolls

The European Patent Office Comes up With a Plethora of New Buzzwords by Which to Refer to Software Patents

Patent Maximalists in Europe Keep Mentioning China Even Though It Barely Matters to European Patents

Team UPC Has Been Reduced to Lies, Lies, and More Lies about the Unified Patent Court Agreement

Ignoring and Bashing Courts: Is This the Future of Patent Offices in the West? (partly about EPO)

A Question of Debt: António Campinos, Lexology, Law Gazette, and Sam Gyimah

Science Minister Sam Gyimah and the EPO Are Eager to Attack Science by Bringing Patent Trolls to Europe/European Union and the United Kingdom

USF Revisits EPO Abuses, Highlighting an Urgent Need for Action

Second Day of EPOPIC: Yet More Promotion of Software Patents in Europe in Defiance of Courts, EPC, Parliament and Common Sense

Allegations That António Campinos 'Bought' His Presidency and is Still Paying for it

WIPO Corruption and Coverup Mirror EPO Tactics

The USPTO and EPO Pretend to Care About Patent Quality by Mingling With the Terms “Patent” and “Quality”

Yannis Skulikaris Promotes Software Patents at EPOPIC, Defending the Questionable Practice Under António Campinos

Team UPC, Fronting for Patent Trolls From the US, is Calling Facts “Resistance”

Guest Post: EPO Spins Censorship of Staff Representation

EPO 'Outsourcing' Rumours

Pro-Litigation Front Groups Like CIPA and Team UPC Control the EPO, Which Shamelessly Grants Software Patents

Latest Loophole: To Get Software Patents From the EPO One Can Just Claim That They're 'on a Car'

The Huge Cost of Wrongly-Granted European Patents, Recklessly Granted by the European Patent Office (EPO)

EPO Stacking up Buzzwords (4IR, AI, Now SDV) to Compel Examiners to Grant Patents on Algorithms

EPO Needs to Publicly Apologise for Granting Bogus/Fake Patents to Aggressive Companies Like Monsanto (Now Bayer)

The Death of the UPC is Only a “Tragedy” for Patent Trolls and Their Facilitators

The António Campinos Private/Secret Meeting With ILO Officials a Slap Across the Face to Employees of the European Patent Office

European Software Patents: From AI to Blockchains and Now... Self-Driving Vehicles

Guy Ryder (ILO) Should Meet Staff Representatives, Not Corrupt Team Battistelli

The European Patent Office Lost Its Way, Found Buzzwords Instead

Managing IP and Law Gazette Speak for Patent Trolls and Team UPC (Which Supports and Profits From Trolls)

Blockchain Hype Exploited by the EPO and by Patent Law Firms to Wrongly Assert Free/Libre Software Can Coexist With Software Patents

EPO Granting European Patents on Nature and on Thoughts

Team UPC's Last Resort: Stacked Panels, Anonymously Belittling the Opposition (e.g. Ingve Björn Stjerna) and Taking Control of the Media

António Campinos Continues to Conflate Speed With Quality

Today the EPO Has Officially Lowered Patent Quality by Allowing Software Patents by Means of Dog Whistles

October

Team UPC Hijacks the Debate in the Media and in British Parliament

EPO Insider: Under António Campinos “the Union Busting Done by the Administration Continues Even Worse Than Before”

The EPO Lost Any Sense of Shame About Granting Patents on Software, Which It Openly Welcomes and Even Encourages

EPO President António Campinos Speaks of “Greater Transparency,” But He's Even More Secretive Than Battistelli and He Lets Patent Quality Slip Further

Lobbying and Blackmail Rewarded? JUVE Awards Team UPC Firm Bardehle Pagenberg, Which Represents Microsoft's Worst Patent Troll, Intellectual Ventures.

On PTAB, Andrei Iancu is to the Patent Litigation Giants What Ajit Pai is to Big Telecom (Former Employers) (partly about EPO)

The EPO is Trying to Make Software Patents Look and Feel 'Healthy'

António Campinos Just a Quieter Version of Battistelli

Battistelli and Team UPC Still Waiting for a Campinos Miracle

EPO: Software Patents Are Allowed, Just Say 'AI' in the Patent Applications and We'll Compel Examiners to Grant

Pretty Revealing That EPO Management Promotes Software Patents and IP Kat Promotes Patent Trolls

The EPO Under António Campinos Has Opened More Doors to Software Patents and Only Litigators Are Happy

German Court on UPC Constitutional Complaint: “No Oral Hearing is Currently Scheduled. A Decision Date is Not Foreseeable at Present.”

The Identity Crisis of the European Patent Office, Wrongly Believing It Exists to Serve Lawyers and Patent Trolls Outside Europe

Ingve Björn Stjerna Has Just Warned That If Team UPC and the European Patent Office Rigged the Proceedings of the German Constitutional Court, Consequences Would be Significant

It's Almost 2019 and Team UPC is Still Pretending Unitary Patent (UPC) Exists, Merely Waiting for Britain to Join

IAM and IP Kat Are Still Megaphones of Battistelli and His Agenda

EPO Under António Campinos Relaxes the Rules on Software Patenting and the Litigation 'Industry' Loves That

Corporate Media's Failure to Cover Patents Properly and Our New Hosting Woes

EPO Insider/Märpel Says President Campinos Already Acts Like Battistelli

Quality of Patents Granted by the EPO is Still Low and Nobody Will Benefit Except Lawyers, Jubilant Over Growing Lenience on Software Patents

100 Days Into the Term of Campinos There is Already an EPO Suicide

Friend Brings a Friend, Boss Becomes Subordinate: the EPO Under António Campinos is Starting to Look a Lot Like Team Battistelli 2.0

UPC Cowardice: Team UPC Uses Cloaks of Anonymity to Discredit Authors of Scholarly UPC Paper They Don't Like

New EPO Guidelines: Granting European Patents on Business Methods, Algorithms, Mental Acts and Other Abstract Stuff

António Campinos Makes Excuses for Granting European Patents on Software in Spite of the EPC

Antibody Patents Should Not be Allowed (Nor Should CRISPR Patents) (partly about EPO)

When It Comes to Patent Quality António Campinos Might be Even Worse Than Benoît Battistelli

The Era of Fake Patents (or Software Patents) is Upon Us (partly about EPO)

The European Patent Office Has Assaulted Patent Quality While Trying to Distract From That

The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Obsolete for More Reasons Than the German Constitutional Court, But Team UPC in the UK Refuses to Give Up

Patents on Life and on Algorithms in Europe Will Doom the EPO

Europe is Getting Flooded With Software Patents, Repeating the Mistakes Made by the United States

Submissive, Bribed and EPO-Connected Media Organisations Help Perpetuate Corruption by Failing or Refusing to Cover It

More Patents Would Mean More Tax Evasion for Large Corporations and More Taxes/Duties on Society

Nellie Simon Expected to Join the ‘Club Med’ of Battistelli and Campinos

The European Council Fulfills Corrupt Battistelli's Alleged Promise, Making Christian Archambeau Head of EUIPO

EPO Under António Campinos an Unprecedented Booster of Software Patents

September

AIPPI is Led by Team UPC's People and 'AIPPI Congress Report' Published by Team UPC

Team UPC Wants More (Patent) Taxes on Society While Defending/Shielding the Super-rich From Taxes That Might Otherwise Benefit Society

Superficially Artificial or Artificially Superficial Patents on 'AI' Are Fake Patents

How Team UPC is Reacting to the Demise of EPO- and EU-Connected Court That Would Have Put Patent Maximalists in Charge

In the EPO Under António Campinos and His Predecessor Battistelli Patents Can Almost be Presumed “Invalid” (in Courts)

EPO Central Staff Committee: 30 Percent of Staff Are in Principle Targetable as ‘Challenging People’

French Media Confirms Alexandre Benalla Just One of Six Battistelli Bodyguards, Employed at the Cost of €8,000-€10,000 Per Month (for Benalla Alone!)

Lots of UPC Noise/News This Week Over a Document Which Merely Weakens Commitment to the UPC

Director Iancu and President Campinos Both Serve the Litigation 'Industry' Instead of Science and Technology

António Campinos Goes to UPC-Hostile Country, UPC Continues to Languish and Team UPC Carries on Pushing for Software Patents in Europe (Courts Also)

The Man Whose Actions Could Potentially Land Team Battistelli in Jail

Reader's Article: Affaire Benalla Strongly Connected to EPO/OEB/EPA and Former President Benoît Battistelli

Guest Post on Ronan Le Gleut and Benalla at the French Senate (in Light of Battistelli's Epic Abuses)

Benoît Battistelli Refuses to Talk to the Media About Bringing Firearms to the EPO

Advocacy of the Unitary Patent System Has Become Almost Identical to the 'Leave' (Brexit) Campaign

Bogus Patents Which Oughtn't Have Been Granted Make Products Deliberately Worse, Reducing Innovation and Worsening Customers' Experience (partly about EPO)

EPO is Like a Patent Litigation (Without Actual Trial) Office, Not a Patent Examination Office

Philippe Cadre From the French National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) Wants to Join António Campinos

Criticism of Unitary Patent (UPC) Agreement Doomed the UPC and Patent Trolls' Plan -- Along With the Litigation Lobby -- for Unified 'Extortion Vector'

It Wasn't Judges With Weapons in Their Office, It Was Benoît Battistelli Who Brought Firearms to the European Patent Office (EPO)

Today's European Patent Office (EPO) Works for Large, Foreign Pharmaceutical Companies in Pursuit of Patents on Nature, Life, and Essential/Basic Drugs

The EPO Has Quit Pretending That It Cares About Patent Quality, All It Cares About is Quantity of Lawsuits

IAM, Watchtroll and the EPO Still Spread the Mentality of Patent Maximalism

Battistelli “Has Deeply Hurt the Whole Patent Profession, Examiners as Well as Agents” and Also the Image of France

António Campinos Needs to Listen to Doctors Without Borders (MSF) et al to Salvage What's Left of Public Consent for the EPO

The Max Planck Institute's Determination on UPC's (Unitary Patent) Demise is Only “Controversial” in the Eyes of Rabid Members of Team UPC

Max Planck Institute Pours More Water on the Dying Unitary Patent (UPC)

EPO Seals Many Death Sentences With Acceptance of EP 2604620

EPO Granted a Controversial European Patent (Under Battistelli) Which May Literally Kill a Lot of People

Patents on Life at the EPO Are a Symptom of Declining Patent Quality

Patentability of Software Constantly Pushed by the EPO Under António Campinos With Help From IAM, CIPA, IPO and Other Litigation Front Groups

Fresh Rumours of Further Accelerated Layoffs at the European Patent Office (EPO)

35 U.S.C. § 101 Squashes Already-Granted US Patents, Europe Needs Post-Grant Appeals to Accomplish the Same Because EPO Grants Software Patents

CIPA and EPO, Two UPC Boosters, Get Together to Promote Software Patents in Spite of the EPC

Election of New Vice-Presidents at EPO Seems Rigged, Say Insiders and Former Insiders

'Reformist' Campinos Seems to be Accelerating EPO Layoffs by Removing Without Warning Staff That's Perceived as Not Loyal Enough

Even Overzealous Patent Maximalists Nowadays Admit That Time is Running Out for the Unitary Patent (UPC)

António Campinos: New Caricature by EPO Insiders

EPO Has “Far Too High Production Targets” Which “Deteriorates the Quality of Products Delivered”

The António Campinos-Led EPO is Over-Relying on Bogus and Abstract Software Patents to Fill the Gaps

A Retreat From Patent Quality Means a Retreat of Patent Applicants

Coming to Grips With the Fact That EPO Layoffs Are Already in Effect

August

Feeling Shut Out of the European Patent System, Team UPC Persists With Misleading Claims and Falsehoods

António Campinos Already Implements a 'Shadow' Layoffs Method at the EPO

Stupid European Patent: Hairdressing Salon and Mobile Building for the Same

The Unitary Patent (UPC) is Not Delayed; It's Dead and Without Any Major Rework It Will Go Nowhere

In Koch v EPO, a Rare Glimpse at Tricks the EPO Employs at the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organisation (ILO)

Admissibility of the Unitary Patent Constitutional Complaint Was Likely the Final Nail in the Coffin of the Unified Patent Court (UPC)

Almost Two Months After the ILO Ruling Staff Representative Brumme is Finally Back on the Job at EPO

President Battistelli 'Killed' the EPO; António Campinos Will 'Finish the Job'

Patent Lawyers Writing Patent Law for Their Own Enrichment Rather Than for Innovation (partly about EPO)

EPO-Style Problem-Solution: Tackling Backlog by Granting Lots of Low-Quality (Bogus) European Patents, Causing a Surge in Troll/Frivolous Litigation

The Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement is Paralysed, So Team UPC is Twisting Old News

WeMove.EU Tackles Low Patent Quality at the European Patent Office (EPO)

Racing to the Bottom, the António Campinos-Led EPO Continues to Promote Software Patents, Just Like China

Playing With Words and Buzzwords in a Landscape of Software Patents Rejections (partly about EPO)

Law Firms Are Offering Very Misleading and Self-Serving Advice Regarding 'Unitary' Effect for European Patents

António Campinos is Not Improving Patent Quality or Even the Social Climate at the EPO (False Promises)

The EPO's Systematic Attacks on Justice and on Judges Have Likely Played the Biggest Role in the Death of Unitary Patent (UPC)

The EPO's Administrative Council is Not Interested in Saving the EPO, Only 'Producing' as Many (Low-Quality) Patents as Possible

Government Decision to Start Corruption Investigation Into Croatia Airlines and Its Director Jasmin Bajic Could Implicate EPO Vice-President

July

SUEPO Seems to be Disappointed by António Campinos as His First Month in Office Comes to an End

What EPO Staff is 'Hopeful' After a Month of António Campinos Doing Absolutely Nothing to Reverse Battistelli's Ruinous Policies?

The Golden Cage of the EPO is No Longer Golden and It Increasingly Looks Like It's Shutting Down, However Gradually

The EPO Abandoned Patent Quality and António Campinos Has No Intention of Changing That

Reader's Post: How the EPO Silently Halves Salaries of Senior EPO Staff (or Gets Rid of Them)

Correspondence With Dražen Petrović Reveals That ILO-AT is Indeed an Employer's Court, Favouring EPO Management Over EPO Staff

António Campinos, Four Weeks on the Job, Still in Defiance/Violation of ILO Rulings, Still Engaging in PR and Face-Saving Distraction Instead

Dysfunctional State of the EPO and Benoît Battistelli's Shadow

As the Quality of European Patents Sinks António Campinos Must Heed China's Warning, Not Copy SIPO/TIPO

Alexandre Benalla, Macron's Violent Bodyguard, Was Also Battistelli's Bodyguard

Under António Campinos the EPO's Appeal Boards, Including the Enlarged Board of Appeal, Still Lack Independence

China Belatedly Tackles Patent Trolls, Albeit After Giving Them the Green Light With Broad and Low-Quality Patents Such as Software Patents (partly about EPO)

'Efficiency' in Action: António Campinos is Sending Jobs Abroad, Then Gagging Critics

The EPO (European Patent Office) Under António Campinos is Just Another Battistelli EPO; Still UPC and Software Patents Lobbying

Erosion of Patent Justice in Europe With Kangaroo Courts and Low-Quality European Patents

Mafia Tactics in Team UPC and Battistelli's Circle

The EPO — Like the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and Unitary Patent System — is an Untenable Mess

Software Patents Royalty (Tax) Campaign by IBM, a Serial Patent Bully, and the EPO's Participation in All This

The European Council Needs to Check Battistelli's Back Room Deals/Back Door/Backchannel With Respect to Christian Archambeau

Yesterday's Misleading News From Team UPC and Its Aspiring Management of the Unified Patent Court (UPC)

Time for the European Commission to Investigate EPO Corruption Because It May be Partly or Indirectly Connected to EU-IPO, an EU Agency

Cautionary Tale: ILO Administrative Tribunal Cases (Appeals) 'Intercepted' Under António Campinos

Number of Oppositions to Grants/Awards of European Patents at the EPO Has Skyrocketed, Based on Internal Data

'Transaction' Complete: Former EPO Executive From Belgium Takes the Seat of António Campinos at EU-IPO

EPO Abuses Against People With Disabilities Followed by Legal Bullying?

Weeks Later António Campinos Still in Noncompliance With the Courts (ILO’s Tribunal)

Constitutionality and CJEU as Barriers, the UPC Agreement (UPCA) is Already Moot in the United Kingdom

It's Not About EPO 'Backlog' But About Faking 'Production' by Lowering Standards

The Lack of Genuine, Honest Discussion About Patent Quality Means That Under António Campinos Software Patents Will Continue to be Granted, Campinos Strives to Make Them 'Unitary'

Signs of Upcoming Changes at EPO: Raimund Lutz, Željko Topić and Other 'Team Battistelli' Folks Are Being Replaced

Actions — Not Mere Words — Are Needed to Improve Patent Quality and Climate at the European Patent Office

Project Battistelli: Documenting the Ugly and Illegal Things Battistelli Did at the EPO

Battistelli's 'Legacy' Up in Flames as Britain is “Ending the Jurisdiction of the CJEU in the UK, With No More Preliminary References from UK Courts…”

One Week of António Campinos at the EPO: Early Uncertainty

Team UPC Suggested Changing Constitutions to Facilitate the Unconstitutional UPC. It Didn't Go Well...

German Media Compares Team Battistelli at the EPO to the Mafia

No, Europe Does Not Gear up for the Unitary Patent, But Team UPC Wants Everyone to Think So and EPO Amplifies These Lies

António Campinos Tries to Come Across as a Goodwill Manager, But He Will be Judged by His Actions, Not by His Words

EPO Protest/s Suppressed Even at the Opening of a Construction Site for Battistelli's Guests

Cartoon on Brexistelli: “The End of a Dictatorship”

Staff Union of the EPO: “ILO-AT Remains Very Much an Employer’s Court” (Not Employees')

Yesterday's UPC Event Was a Reminder That Team Battistelli is Still in Charge of the European Patent Organisation, Fronting for Team UPC

First Act of António Campinos: Pushing the Unconstitutional Unitary Patent (UPC)

IAM is Still Working for Benoît Battistelli and His Toxic Agenda

First Day for António Campinos is Done, But Some Media is Still Publishing 90th-Minute Battistelli Puff Pieces

Asked by the Media Why European Inventor Award Was Held in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the EPO Refuses to Explain

Patent Law Firms Have Become Debased and Intolerant of Courts/Judges, Just Like EPO Management (partly about EPO)

Stop Patenting Life, Nature is Not an Invention (partly about EPO)

The EPO's Attacks on Bloggers Other Than Me (and ILO-AT Being Utterly Unpredictable)

Welcoming António Campinos, New President of the European Patent Office

June

Team UPC's Radicals, Firms Like Bristows LLP, Have Decided That It's Time to Change Constitutions to Accommodate Clearly Unconstitutional Unitary Patent (UPC)

Union Syndicale Fédérale: Apparently ILO Considered Kicking Out the EPO for Repeatedly Refusing and Failing to Obey the Law

WirtschaftsWoche Authors Articles About Corruption of the European Patent Office

Insults, Lies and Propaganda on Battistelli's Last Day at the European Patent Office

Three Days Later Still Not a Single Word From the EPO About Union Busting Gone Awry and Court Orders to Reinstate/Promote Staff Representatives

Eight Years of Battistelli

President Benoît Battistelli is Finished, But the Huge Mess He Has Created is Not

'Party Poopers': Protests Greet Battistelli's Premature Inauguration of an Unfinished Building That Caused Massive Losses

SUEPO and EPO Staff Respond to Yesterday's ILO-AT Rulings on Malika Weaver, Ion Brumme, and Elizabeth Hardon

J A Kemp Pushing the Boundaries of Patent Scope in Europe With Antibodies and SPCs

Corruption at the EPO Should be a Subject Anybody Can Speak About, Even Insiders

Something is Clearly Wrong and Patently Defunct at ILO/ILO-AT

Perfect Metaphor for Benoît Battistelli: Unfinished Work That Nobody Likes and Which Causes Truly Massive Losses

Battistelli is 'Pulling a Lamy' With a Lot More Money at Stake (and Examiners' Future)

This Afternoon ILO Has an Opportunity to Salvage Its Reputation (or Reaffirm Growing Suspicions That It Has Been Compromised by the EPO)

The EPO Seems to Have Corrupted ILO/ILO-AT Like It Corrupted the Media and Academia (Using 'Toxic' EPO Budget)

Benoît Battistelli's 'Dowry' From the Administrative Council of the EPO

The ILO Tribunal: Is It Still Worthy of Our Trust?

Nearly Half of Patent Applications at the EPO Are (at Least Partly) Software Patents, According to the EPO, and Not Many Patents Are European (Foreign, Not Domestic)

Patent Factory Europe (PFE) is a Patent Troll's Publicity Stunt, Attempting to Frame a Predator as the Small Businesses' Friend and Ally

Mainstream Media in Germany Covers Battistelli's Corruption at the EPO Just as He Leaves

“Dr Ernst Should be Forced by National Politicians to Step Down With Immediate Effect” After Battistelli's Latest EPO Scandals

Battistelli and Topić Lose Their Bogus 'Case' Against Judge Corcoran After They Defamed Him and Ruined His Career/Life

Even Media of the Patent Microcosm Mentions the Decline in Quality of Patents at the EPO, Based on Its Very Own Stakeholders, While IAM Ignores the News

EPO Insiders Correct the Record of Benoît Battistelli’s Tyranny and Abuse of Law: “Legal Harassment and Retaliation”

Articles About a Unitary Patent System Are Lies and Marketing From Law Firms With 'Lawsuits Lust'

The Decline in Patent Quality at the EPO Causes Frivolous Lawsuits That Only Lawyers Profit From

What Battistelli's Workers Think of His Latest EPO Propaganda

More Media Reports About Decline in Quality of European Patents (Granted by the EPO)

Beware Team UPC's Biggest Two Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC)

Diversity at the EPO

The EPO's Response to the Open Letter About Decline in Patent Quality as the Latest Example of Arrogance and Resistance to Facts, Truth

The 'Artificial Intelligence' (AI) Hype, Propped Up by Events of the European Patent Office (EPO), is Infectious and It Threatens Patent Quality Worldwide

The '4iP Council' is a Megaphone of Team UPC and Team Battistelli at the EPO

Grünecker, Hoffmann Eitle, Maiwald and Vossius & Partner Find the Courage to Express Concerns About Battistelli's Ugly Legacy and Low Patent Quality

IAM Concludes Its Latest Anti-§ 101 Think Tank, Featuring Crooked Benoît Battistelli

Buzzwords and Three-Letter Acronyms Still Abused by the EPO to Grant a Lot of Patents on Algorithms

Corrupt Benoît Battistelli Promotes Software Patents in IAM's Patent Trolls-Funded Event in the United States

The EPO’s ‘Expert’ Georg Weber is Still Advocating Software Patents in Europe (But He Disguises Them Using Buzzwords)

Battistelli's EPO is Outdoing North Korea When It Comes to Propaganda and Abuses Against Staff

Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe Blind to Its Participation in a Scam Around Patents on Nature (latter parts about the EPO)

Another Victim of Corrupt Benoît Battistelli

Everyone Talks About Apple's Notorious Design Patents But Not About 'Abstract' European Patents Used Against Apple and Linux

Benoît Battistelli Should Have Received an Award for Corruption, But He Completely Controlled the Show in His Own Theatre

Battistelli is Still Patently Delusional About the Unitary Patent (UPC)

Patents on Nature, Life and the Environment: Lessons From EPO and Australian Courts

Marks & Clerk Blames Battistelli’s Victims, the Boards of Appeal, Whose Job Guarded Patent Quality

Today, at the Expense of Millions (€) of EPO Budget, Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos Engage in Shameless Self Promotion

What Team UPC Wants: Patent Trolls, Unified Patent Court (UPC), Software Patents, and Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs)

IP Kat as an Extension of Team UPC After Departure of the Blog's Founder

The Demise of the EPO and Collapse of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) May Mean That António Campinos Will Soon Fire ~15% of the Workforce

IAM and EPO Are Almost Inseparable

As European Patent Office Goes Down in Many Aspects/Respects (Quality, Employee Profiles and More) IAM -- the EPO's Mouthpiece -- Claims “Patent Renaissance”, Repeats EPO Lies

Change of Government in Spain Does Not Change the Fact That Unitary Patent (UPC) Would be Terrible for Spanish Companies

The European Patent Office Dominates Media Coverage in the Form of Paid-For Puff Pieces, Suppresses Coverage About Corruption

Team UPC Turns to a Spanish 'Flavour' of Unitary Patent Propaganda (Just Like Last Year)

In Gross Violation of German Law, as Per EPO Tradition, Fronleichnam 'Stolen' by Benoît Battistelli

The EPO's Lobbying Chief Apparently Came From Saint-Germain-en-Laye 2 Years After Benoît Battistelli

Software Patents Are a Dying Breed of Patents Except in China (and Maybe EPO) (partly about EPO)

May

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

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

Märpel Looks at Benoît Battistelli's Toxic Financial Affairs at the EPO

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

EUROCHAMBRES is an Echo Chamber of the Patent Litigation 'Industry' Hoping to Mislead the EU's Competitiveness Council on UPC

The European Patent Office: From Patent Maximalism to Corruption and Gerrymandering

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

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

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

Software Patents Advocacy and UPC Lies Go Hand in Hand

Index for EPO and Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of "Toxic Loans" Series

Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of "Toxic Loans": Quo Vadis EPO?

Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of "Toxic Loans": The SIDRU “Toxic Loan” Débâcle a Case of “Take the Money and Run...”

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

The Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court (UPC): This Week's Latest Spin and Lies

Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of "Toxic Loans": The SIDRU “Toxic Loan” Débâcle and Criticism of Lamy From Local Opposition Groups

New EPO Caricature: The Rubber Stamp

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

EPO Validation in Former French Colonies That Have Zero European Patents

Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of "Toxic Loans": The Cautionary Tale of SIDRU and Its “Toxic Loans”

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

Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of "Toxic Loans": The Emperor’s New Investment Guidelines

Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of "Toxic Loans": Cautionary Tale for the EPO?

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

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

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

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

Today's EPO Financially Rewards Abuses and Violations of the Law

So-Called 'System Battistelli' is Destroying the EPO, Warn Insiders

Rise in Patent Trolls' Activity in Germany Noted Amid Declining Patent Quality at the EPO

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)

The EPO's 'Inventor Award' Scam: Part III

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

The EPO Has Become Extremely Corrupt and Dishonest

Reader's Post: The Last Delusion of Benoît Battistelli Before His Departure on June 30th

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

Guest Article: Battistelli's Salary in Saint-Germain-en-Laye Nearly Quadrupled Last Year

EPO Staff Deprived and Denied Basic Rights, Even Justice, But Almost Nobody in the 'Mainstream' Wants to Talk About It

The EPO's 'Inventor Award' Scam: Part II

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

The EPO's 'Inventor Award' Scam: Part I

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

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

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

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

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

Forward Pharma an Example of the Devastating Effect of Granting Patents in Error -- A Problem Appeal Boards Must Correct

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

Rumour: The European Patent Office Has Just 'Done a Patrick Corcoran' Again (Forced Removal)

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

The European Patent Office's Decline in Patent Quality a 'Blessing' in Disguise But Mostly a Curse to Apple

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

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

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

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

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

Guest Article: Benoît Battistelli's Election as Deputy Mayor Was Pre-announced in the Local Press

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

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

The European Patent Office Has Become a Kakistocracy

Not Enough Opposition/s to Wrongly-Granted European Patents

Battistelli's Alleged 'Success' is Like That of the United States Mint

People Are Belatedly Asking All Those 'Awkward' Questions About UPC and the Lies Told by Team UPC

A Test for European Media: Will It Cover the Battistelli-TAD Scandal Like It Covered FIFA Scandals?

April

The European Patent System is Nowadays Based on a 'Banana Republic' Model

Team UPC and Team Battistelli in IP Kat and IAM

Guest Article: Is the EPO Deliberately Disseminating “False Facts” About Benoît Battistelli's Political Activities in Saint-Germain-en-Laye?

EPO Gazette: The Obligatory EPO Propaganda That Paints an Oppressive Office as 'Fun and Games'

Even Vocal Proponents of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Admit That There Are 'Holes' in the Announcement From Sam Gyimah

Short: EPO Paid for 'Study' (Corrupting Academia) to Push Unitary Patent Agenda, Then Advertised the Outcome

Short: The EPO is Limiting Itself to Microsoft Office and PowerPoint (the 'Special Relationship')

Short: Adding a Sense of Fear/Perceived Threat to the EPO With Number Plate Recognition (Surveillance)

Short: Quality, Quality, Quality, Quality. Just Keep Repeating This Lie and Hope It'll Stick.

British Technology News Sites Point Out the Absurdity of Ratifying UPC in the UK Amid Brexit

The EPO Grants Software Patents Under the 'CII' Umbrella, Mass Litigation in Europe Already a Problem

Short: EPO Brags About EPO-Bribed Media Covering EPO-Funded 'Study'

In Protest of IP Kat No Longer Covering EPO Abuses, Märpel Rises in “R.I.P. Kat”

Short: EPO Says That Most (Over 50%) of Patent Applications at the EPO Are Software Patents

Sam Gyimah Did What Was Expected Since 2016, But Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Still Completely Stuck in Most Important Country and Is Not Compatible With Brexit

Like a Cancer, EPO-Bribed Media Continues to Produce Puff Pieces for Benoît Battistelli

World IP Day, a Propaganda Opportunity for Patent Maximalists, is Becoming More About Feminism (partly about EPO)

Britain Has Not Fully Completed Unified Patent Court (UPC) Ratification and It Remains Incompatible With Brexit

With Unified Patent Court (UPC) on Its Death Throes, Team UPC Now Resorts to Promoting Pertinent Parts of the Agreement (UPCA)

Reporting Benoît Battistelli Before He Too 'Pulls a Željko Topić'

Battistelli Misuses EPO Budget to Saturate the European Media With Puff Pieces About His Event

Battistelli's EPO Continues to Promote Software Patents and Even Pays the Media to Play Along, Impacting Other Continents

The European Patent Office (EPO) Wastes a Lot of Money on External PR Agencies for Battistelli's 'Heist'

Today's EPO is Not Compatible With the Law and It's Grossly Incompatible With Truth and Justice

Holding Benoît Battistelli Accountable After the EPO

Today's European Patent Office Works for Patent Extremists and for Team UPC Rather Than for Europe or for Innovation

The EPO is Dying and Those Who Have Killed It Are Becoming Very Rich in the Process

Short: Just Keep Repeating the Lie (“Quality”) Until People Might Believe It

EPO Hoards Billions of Euros (Taken From the Public), Decreases Quality to Get More Money, Reduces Payments to Staff

Short: Calling Battistelli's Town (Where He Works) “Force for Innovation” to Justify the Funneling of EPO Funds to It

Short: EPO Bribes the Media and Then Brags About the Paid-for Outcome to Staff

Short: EPO's “Working Party for Quality” is to Quality What the “Democratic People's Republic of Korea” is to Democracy

Short: This Spring's Message From the EPO's President (Corrected)

Short: Highly Misleading and Unscientific Graphics From the EPO for an Illusion of Growth

Short: EPO Explains to Examiners Why They Should and Apparently Can Grant Software Patents (in Spite of EPC)

When News About the EPO is Dominated by Sponsored 'Reports' and Press Releases Because Publishers Are Afraid of (or Bribed by) the EPO

The Boards of Appeal at the European Patent Organisation (EPO) Complain That They Are Understaffed, Not Just Lacking the Independence They Depend on

Guest Post: Responding to Your Recent Posting “The European Patent Office Will Never Hold Its Destroyers Accountable”

The EPO in 2018: Partnering With Saudi Arabia and Cambodia (With Zero European Patents)

The EPO Continues to Lie About Patent Quality Whilst Openly Promoting Software Patents, Even Outside Europe

The European Patent Office (EPO) Grants Patents in Error, Insiders Are Complaining That It's the Management's Fault

The European Patent Office Will Never Hold Its Destroyers Accountable

With Liars Like These...

Killing Patent Quality and Encouraging ‘Covert’ Software Patents Using the Buzzwords Du Jour

Crisis of Quality at the EPO Extends to Staff (Notably Examiners) and Management as Institutional Integrity is Severely Compromised

The 'Blockchaining' of Software Patents (to Dodge the Rules/Guidelines) Now Coming to Europe

One Last Battistelli Heist: Millions of Euros for Saint-Germain-en-Laye

EPO in 'Low Profile' Mode, Only to be Mentioned in Relation to India's Oil Drilling/Miners

Patent Maximalists Against Patent Quality and Against the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Organisation (EPO)

Team UPC’s and Team Battistelli's Lobbying Not Over Yet, Even Though the UPC is Likely Dead for Good

'SIPO Europe': More Low-Quality Patents at Lower Costs

The European Patent Office (EPO) Will Need to Acknowledge It Has a Patent Quality Issue, Then Tackle It or Perish

The Mass Litigation Lobby Craves for Patent Armageddon (partly about EPO)

Benoît Battistelli's Era Yields Not Only Invalid and Harmful Monopolies But Also Breeds Distrust and Layoffs

Anonymous USPTO Whistleblower Explained Internal Management Affairs Last Month (partly about EPO)

(Joke) António Campinos Withdraws From Plan to Directly Run the EPO, Patent Office to be Run by Google ‘AI’ Instead

EPO is Untrustworthy

March

Senator Jean-Yves Leconte Accuses EPO and/or ILO of Injustice, But Don't Expect Media to Notice or Cover It

Patent Quality, Not Quantity, is What Really Matters

The Administrative Council of the EPO Continues to Reaffirm Complicity in Battistelli's Abuses

Professionals' Survey: Almost Everybody (90%) Accepts That EPO Patent Quality Has Fallen Under Battistelli

Benoît Battistelli the Latest Example of Massive Bonuses Given to People Who Destroyed Their Own Organisation

China's Equivalent of PTAB and BoA, the Patent Reexamination Board (PRB), Can Confirm Some Chinese Patents Are of Low Quality (partly about EPO)

Team Battistelli and Team UPC Are Both Very Deep in Denial

Guest Post: Battistelli's Former “Padrone” Facing Corruption Charges in France

The European Patent Office’s (EPO) Declining Patent Quality 'Tackled' by Making Appeals/Oppositions Harder and More Expensive

The Federation of International Civil Servants' Association: Frenchman “Campinos is Known for Having Close Ties to Mr. Battistelli Who Strongly Supported His Candidacy.”

Japan is Becoming Firmer on Patents, Whereas China Goes in the Opposite Direction (partly about EPO)

Battistelli's Ongoing Attacks on the Boards Are Helping Unitary Patent (UPC), Which in Turn Helps French Patent Trolls

SUEPO: “Today May Be Your Last Chance to Demonstrate Against the Seriously Flawed Reforms That Mr Battistelli Has Imposed” on EPO Staff

Battistelli's EPO Became Extremely Reliant on China for Distraction and on Endless Supply of Applications (Supply Which Doesn't Exist)

UPC/Battistelli Booster IAM Blames Brexit Rather Than EPO Abuses

European Commission Again Urged to Tackle Abuses at the European Patent Office (EPO)

Luxembourg Can Become a Hub of Patent Trolls If the EPO Carries on With Its 'Reforms', Even Without the UPC

The Patent 'Printing Machine' of the EPO Will Spawn Many Lawsuits and Extortions (Threats of Lawsuits), in Effect Taxing Europe

Deleted EPO Tweets and Promotion of Software Patents Amid Complaints About Abuse and Demise of Patent Quality

Guest Post: Suspected “Whitewashing” Operations by Željko Topić in Croatia

Monumental Effort to Highlight Decline in Quality of European Patents (a Quarter of Examiners Sign Petition in Spite of Fear), Yet Barely Any Press Coverage

Careful Not to Conflate UPC Critics With AfD or Anti-EU Elements

EPO Staff Has Just Warned the National Delegates That EPO's Decline (in Terms of Patent Quality and Staff Welfare) Would Be Beneficial to Patent Trolls

The EPO is a Mess Under Battistelli and Stakeholders Including Law Firms Will Suffer, Not Just EP Holders

The EPO Under Battistelli Has Become Like China Under Xi and CPC

Willy Minnoye (EPO) Threatened Staff With Disabilities Said to Have Been Caused by the EPO Work Pressures

EPO Staff Union Organises Protest to Complain About Inability “of the Office to Recruit the Highly Qualified Staff it Needs.”

Battistelli Likes to Describe His Critics as 'Nazis', Team UPC Will Attempt the Same Thing Against UPC Critics

Session in Bavaria to Discuss the Abuses of the European Patent Office Later Today

EPO Patent 'Growth' Not Achieved But Demanded/Mandated by Battistelli, by Lowering Quality of Patents/Services

Doubt Over Independence of Judges at the EPO Clouds Reason in Deciding Regarding Patents on Life

Glimmer of Hope for the EPO's Boards of Appeal as Bavarian Parliament 'Regroups' on Tuesday

The EPO's PR Department Receives Return on Investment (Puff Pieces) for Paying the Media

The European Patent Office (EPO) Ought to Lead in Patent Scope, Not Slide to the Bottom of the Pile

Patent Trolls and Their Lobbyists Continue to Attack Academics Who Warn About Patent Trolls in Europe

EPO Hires External PR Agencies to Control Coverage of Its Annual Report, Deny Investigative Journalism

Benoît Battistelli and Confidants Like Bergot Want to Make a Lot of EPO Staff Redundant Without the Staff Ever Noticing

The Right-Wing Alternative für Deutschland Opposes Unitary Patent (UPC), Just Like UKIP in Britain

Guest Post: EPO Defrauds Small Patent Applicant Company, Asha Nutrition Sciences, in Collusion with Applicant’s Own Lawyer…

EPO Annual Results/Report: Revenue From Patent Applications is Apparently Down Yet Again and Work is Running Out

There's No Patent Trolls Problem in Europe, Say Law Firms That Represent and Front for Patent Trolls

The European Patent Office is Buying 'Alternative Facts' and Its Annual Report Will be More of the Same

Dr. Thorsten Bausch: Quality of European Patents Going Down, “Likely Caused by the Current EPO Policy Focusing too Much on 'Production'.”

UPC and Beyond: Constitutional Issues Cannot be Brushed Under the Carpet

EPO Annual Report Will Dominate the News Next Week, Whereas Unitary Patent (UPC) is a Goner

Next Week's Annual Report From the EPO Will Say Nothing About Decline in Patent Quality

Battistelli's Last Four Months: Peak Censorship at the European Patent Office (EPO)

Élodie Bergot Meets Barbra Streisand: Here is the Letter the EPO's Bergot is Trying Really Hard to Hide/Censor

European Patent Office (EPO) in Chaos and Attempting to Silence the Staff Would Only Exacerbate Matters

The Latest Bristows Spin Distracts From the Fact that Britain Has No Intention of Ratifying UPC and Brexit Agreement Altogether Omits It

Élodie Bergot Threatens Staff Representatives Who Spread Information About the EPO

The UPC is Dead, But Team UPC is Lying to British Politicians in an Effort to Trick Them

USF Warns Campinos (EPO President in 4 Months) of “Extreme” Situation at the EPO

The European Patent Office (EPO) Should Lead the Way in Combating Patents on Nature and on Life

Similar Scandal at the USPTO (to Battistelli's Nepotism) and Upcoming Lies About 'Results' (in Annual Report, Out Next Week)

February

The EPO's Appeal Boards Remain Utterly Dependent and Far From Impartial After Battistelli's Assault on Their Independence

EPO Refuses to Admit that Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Dead, But It's Boosting Others Who Are Lying About It for a Living

Changes Introduced by the EPO's Administrative Council Made It Abundantly Clear That Separation of Powers Does Not Exist for Independence of Judges

The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Dead, But Spin From Team UPC is Now Abundant

EPO Roundup: Low Profile, Employment Changes, Patent Trolls, Refusal to Obey Courts, and Animal Breeding Patents

As Expected, Bristows and Others Already Lying About UPC Status in Germany, But Doing This Anonymously (to Dodge Accountability for Lies)

Further Attacks on EPO Staff and the Appeal Boards; Former EPO Boards of Appeal Member Speaks About EPO Scandals

End of the UPC Lobby and Withdrawal of UPCA May Seem Imminent

EPO's Board 28 Spikes Article 53 in CA/3/18, Apparently After Battistelli Withdrew It

Rumour: European Patent Office to Lay Off a Significant Proportion of Its Workforce

The Patent Trolls' Lobby, Bristows and IAM Among Others, Downplays Darts-IP/IP2Innovate Report About Rising If Not Soaring Troll Activity in Europe

The Patent Microcosm's Embrace of Buzzwords and False Marketing Strives to Make Patent Examiners Redundant and Patent Quality Extremely Low

Today, at 12:30 CET, Bavarian State Parliament Will Speak About EPO Abuses

Another Loud Warning From EPO Workers About the Decline of Patent Quality

UPC Optimism Languishes Even Among Paid UPC Propagandists Such as IAM

UPC Has Done Nothing for Europe Except Destruction of the EPO and Imminent Layoffs Due to Lack of Applications and Lowered Value of European Patents

Bavarian State Parliament Has Upcoming Debate About Issues Which Can Thwart UPC for Good

The EPO is Being Destroyed and There's Nothing Left to Replace It Except National Patent Offices

The Latest Lies About Unitary Patent (UPC) and the EPO

Speech Deficit and No Freedom of Association at the EPO

No, Britain is Not Ratifying 'Unitary' Anything, But Team UPC Insinuates It Will (Desperate Effort to Affect Tomorrow's Outcome)

The EPO's Paid Promotion of Software Patents Gets Patent Maximalists All Excited and Emboldened

The EPO Now Censors the Central Staff Committee Like It Used to Censor SUEPO

Watch Out for Buzzwords That Are Used to Mask Patents on Software, Even in Europe

EPO Opposition to CRISPR Patents Has Wide-Ranging and Far-Reaching Impact, But Mind Not the Lobbyists

Patent Maximalists Won't Get Their Way and UPC Will Likely Never Happen (Even After Battistelli)

Pharma Patents Have Become Harder to Enforce, So IAM Together With the Patent Microcosm Sets Up Lobbying Events (partly about EPO)

Statistics About Patents in the US Are Encouraging as These Suggest Ongoing Improvements (partly about EPO)

In Spite of Suppression Attempts, Resistance to UPC and EPO Tyranny Still Enters Kluwer Patent Blog

The Relationship Between IAM and the EPO's President Battistelli Tightens Further After Payments for UPC Promotion

Lawyer Fraud and the Unified Patent Court (UPC)

Team UPC is Working Overtime to Impose UPC on Europe, Based on a Pile of Lies

The EPO's Working Party on Quality is Battistelli's Own Ministry of Truth

When INPI Met INPI and IAM Met the EPO

The UPC Lobby Wants to Crush the Boards of Appeal (BoA) While EPO Changes Rules of Procedure of the BoA

Mark Rutte Under Pressure to Stop Battistelli's EPO From Violating Laws With Impunity

Team UPC Resorts to Paid 'Articles' and Lobbying With Battistelli in an Effort to Cause the UK and Germany to Ignore Their Own Laws

Patent Filings in India Are Declining, Just Like at the European Patent Office (partly about EPO)

Battistelli Works With IAM and Pays European Media to Promote Software Patents in Europe

IAM Magazine, Authored by Benoît Battistelli, is Rubbish Compared to Patent Scholars

India and Europe Do Not Permit Software Patents, But Patent Law Firms Try to Work Around the Law

Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on "Jurisdictional Immunity of International Organisations and Rights of Their Staff"

The European Council Confirms That the Unitary/Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA) is “Outside the Legal Framework of the European Union”

Too Much to Cover Up at the EPO, the UN, and UN Agencies

January

The UPC/SEP/FRAND Lobby Has Resorted to Just Insulting the Opposition

Patent Justice at the EPO is as Bad as Justice for Workers

Even Kluwer Patent Blog Decides to Comment on the EPO's Bizarre Financial Behaviour

The Failure of ILO’s Administrative Tribunal Highlights Poor State of Justice in Europe and Worldwide

A Danish Company Has Just Collapsed Due to Patent Quality Issues at the EPO

ILO Has Once Again Let Down Labour at the EPO by Siding With Union Busters

The EPO's Central Staff Committee Explains How Battistelli's Attacks on Judge Corcoran Annul Any Perception of Independence

Another Blow for the Unitary Patent (UPC) as More Delays Are Confirmed, Court Won't Rule on Constitutional Issues Any Time Soon

Patents on Life at the European Patent Office (EPO)

Quality of Service and Quality of Patents at the EPO Are Both at Peril

The Corcoran Incident Demonstrates That the EPO's Boards of Appeal Are Threatened and Battistelli Violates Laws

The 'Collusion': IP Kat's (Until Recently) Stephen Jones Meets Battistelli to Lobby for the Unitary Patent (UPC)

Sam Gyimah Replaced Jo Johnson More Than a Fortnight Ago, But Team UPC Has Ignored It Until Now

The EPO is Already in Violation of ILO Rulings on Judge Corcoran

A European Unitary Patent-Like System (e.g. UPC) is Not Compatible With Law; Expect it to Rot Away at the German Federal Constitutional Court

Justice Still Elusive at the EPO and ILOAT, But a Glimmer of Hope Remains

Team UPC Has Been Reduced to Rubble and Misinformation

CRISPR Patent Debacle Demonstrated That Opposition Divisions Do Their Job, But Also Highlighted Serious Deficiency in Patent-Granting Process

Confidence in European Patents (EPs) is Eroding and Stakeholders Are Already Suffering

Even More Uncertain a Future for the Independence of the EPO Boards of Appeal as Judge Corcoran Too Gets Sent to 'Exile'

The Response to Accusations of Censorship by Team UPC? Yet More Censorship to Shield UPC From Criticism

Team UPC Calls Critics of the UPC Idiots, Deletes Their Comments, and Blocks Them

How the Opposition to CRISPR Patents at the EPO Sent Shockwaves Through the Industry

Patent Quality (Not Numbers) as an Asset: Oppositions, Appeals and Rejections at the EPO

The EPO Ignores This Week's Decision Which Demonstrates Patent Scope Gone Awry; Software Patents Brought Up Again

Patent Prosecution Highway: Low-Quality Patents for High-Frequency Patent Aggressors

Press Coverage About the EPO Board Revoking Broad's CRISPR Patent

No Patents on Life (CRISPR), Said EPO Boards of Appeal Just a Few Hours Ago

Only Two Weeks on the Job, Judge Patrick Corcoran is Already Being Threatened by EPO Management

EPO Board of Appeal Has an Opportunity to Stop Controversial Patents on Life

EPO Management and Team UPC Carry on Lying About Unified Patent Court, Sinking to New Lows in the Process

EPO Scandals Played a Considerable Role in Sinking the Unified Patent Court (UPC)

European Patent Office Causes Physical Harm to Employees, Then Fires Them

Battistelli Was Always (Right From the Start and Since Candidacy) All About Money

“Under the Intergovernmental EPC System It is Difficult to Speak of a Functional Separation of Powers”

Automotives, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 Among the Buzz Terms Used to Bypass Alice and the EPC Nowadays

EPC Foresaw the Administrative Council Overseeing the Patent Office, Jesper Kongstad Made It “Working Together”

2010: Blaming the Messenger (SUEPO) for Staff Unhappiness at the European Patent Office (EPO)

2010: Deterioration of Working Conditions (e.g. Office Space) for EPO Staff

Budget at the EPO Decided Before Consultation

Less Than Half a Year in the Job, Battistelli Already Disobeys/Disregards Rulings From ILO's Tribunal

Only Half a Year in the Job, Battistelli Breaks EPO Nomination Rules

Dr. Derk Visser's Book About the European Patent Convention (EPC) Explains What Battistelli Has Done

Late on a Friday is a Good Time to Spread Misinformation About Unified Patent Court (UPC) Without Being Challenged

EPO Lobby and Team UPC's 'Resistance' to the UPC Opposition in Germany

126th Session of the ILO Administrative Tribunal is Around the Corner and EPO Staff Representatives Will Have Their Cases Heard Soon

The European Parliament JURI Mission to Munich Looks Like Complicity With EPO Abuses

Benoît Battistelli Lies About Patent Quality; the Numbers Speak for Themselves However

Jo Johnson's Departure is Another Major Blow for Team UPC (Unified Patent Court)

Battistelli's Year 1 at EPO: General Advisory Committee Not Being Provided Crucial Information

Battistelli's Year 1 at EPO: Using 'Staff Dignity' as a Pretext to Attack the Dignity of EPO Staff and Staff Representatives

Possible Explanation for German Media Barely Covering Very Major EPO Scandals

For European Patents to Maintain Value the EPO Must Fix Patent Quality and Attract 'Expensive' (High-Calibre) Staff

President Battistelli Silently Curtailed Part Time Home Working Introduced by His British Predecessor, Alison Brimelow

How the Creation of a Role for 'Chief Information Officer' at the EPO Came About

Anonymous “Kluwer Patent Blogger” is Probably Just Bristows LLP Hiding Its Identity While It Publicly Lies or Distorts Facts About UPC

The Mystery and Secrecy of the Decision to Disband the EPO's Auditory Function After Battistelli Became President

Shortly After His EPO Appointment Benoît Battistelli Already Ignored the Judicial System of the EPO

Staff of the EPO Has Had No Concrete Participatory Role at the EPO for at Least 7 Years

President Battistelli Has Acted Like a King Since His Early Days at the EPO

Élodie Bergot's HR Roadmap Explained by EPO Staff Representatives

The European Patent Office Suffers an Unprecedented Patent Quality Crisis Reminiscent of the World's Worst Offices

Sane Responses to the Latest Pressure From Team UPC Amid Brexit Negotiations

The EPO's Attack on the Boards of Appeal Dooms the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Team UPC Alters Its Tactics

Translation Shows That Carl Josefsson and Christoph Ernst Refuse to Comment on EPO Injustice as It Might Embarrass Battistelli

Battistelli's Attacks on Judge Corcoran Threaten Not Only the EPC But Also UPC

Job Applicants at the EPO Disappointed, Reference Made in Interview to Slavery

EPO Management Claims “Higher Quality Patents” and Everyone at the EPO Knows That It's a Face-Saving Lie

2018 Starts at the EPO and Both EPC and UPC Are in State of Crisis

EPO Has Become an 'Investment Bank'

Raw: Separation of Powers Obliterated by EPO President and Vice-Presidents

Raw: Battistelli's Stacking of the General Advisory Committee Not Legal, Asserted Staff Representatives

Raw: Battistelli Puts ‘Team Battistelli’ in Charge of ‘Scrutinising’ His Proposals

Raw: EPO Violates ILO Rulings by Denying the Consultation Process Access to Vital Information

Raw: Justice at the EPO Sometimes Comes Before Death

EPO Insiders: EPO Has Become a Hoarder Rather Than a Patent Office

Raw: Battistelli Comes Up With a "Chief Information Officer" Role and Offers This Position to Man From Same Place as Him

Raw: Central Staff Committee Explains the Upper Limb Disorder (ULD) Crisis at the EPO

Raw: The EPO's Disregard for Christmas and New Year's Days Off

How Institut International des Brevets (IIB), INPADOC and Other Historic Endeavours Relate to EPO and DG1/DG2

Not Everyone Would Run the European Patent Office Like Benoît Battistelli Does

2016

December

2016: The Year EPO Staff Went on Strike, Possibly “Biggest Ever Strike in the History of the EPO.”

Open EPO Letter Bemoans Battistelli's Antisocial Autocracy Disguised/Camouflaged Under the Misleading Term “Social Democracy”

EPO’s Central Staff Committee Complains About Battistelli’s Bodyguards Fetish and Corruption of the Media

Translation of French Texts About Battistelli and His Awful Perception of Omnipotence

German Justice Minister Heiko Maas, Who Flagrantly Ignores Serious EPO Abuses, Helps Battistelli's Agenda ('Reform') With the UPC

The EPO Under Benoît Battistelli Makes the Mafia Look Like Rookies

Bad Service at the European Patent Office (EPO) Escalated in the Form of Complaints to European Authorities/Politicians

Leaked: Letter to Quality Support (DQS) at the European Patent Office (EPO)

Negative Publicity (Personal or by Association With the EPO) is Devouring the Institution

2017 Will be the Year Team Battistelli Collapsed and EPO 'Reform' Became All About Detoxifying the Organisation

Crisis Inside the EPO as Elodie Bergot, Unqualified for Her Job, Fails to Maintain Staffing

“Whoever at the EPO Took This Action Clearly Never Heard About the Concept of Separation of Powers”

Sean Dennehey, UK Delegate (EPO) and Head of UK IPO, Already Resists Battistelli; Should Also Understand British Businesses Don't Want or Need the UPC

IAM is Still the EPO's Favourite Propaganda Mill

Accusations of Administrative Council (of the EPO) Complicity in Illicit Retaliation Against Appeal Boards at the Behest of Battistelli

With Lucy Neville-Rolfe Out (Confirmed Today!) and Chaos in the EPO's Management, the UPC's Prospects Look Worse Than Ever in the UK and Europe as a Whole

No Justice at the EPO, Whose Underlying Purpose Was (Originally) to Do Patents Justice

Leaked: After Vicious Attacks on SUEPO -- in Defiance of the Administrative Council's Demands! -- Team Battistelli Pretends to Want Union Recognition

'SIPO Europe': The EPO's Race to the Bottom of Patent Skills and Patent Quality

Benoît Battistelli's Reign of Terror at the EPO Milks a Terror Attack Again, Shows Extreme Hypocrisy

From Bad to Worse: When a Horrible Regime (EPO) Publicly Makes Itself Look Like One

EPO President Benoît Battistelli “Should Be in Prison”

EPO Appeal Boards, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and Other Newsworthy Tidbits (partly about EPO)

More and More Lobbying for Software Patents, Not Just in Battistelli's EPO But Also in India and the US

Not Just in Europe: EPO 'Mafioso' Benoît Battistelli Brings Software Patents (“Computer-Implemented Inventions”) to Another Place That Explicitly Banned Them

Fury Over the Administrative Council of the EPO Controlling Nothing and Being Controlled by Battistelli

Will the Patent Microcosm of London Please Stop Misleading the Public About UPC?

Small Nations With Almost Not a Single European Patent Sign the Death Knell of EPO Patent Quality

Why EPO Staff is Up in Arms

Vote for Exile of the Boards of Appeal Shows That the Administrative Council of the EPO is Still Compromised and Complicit

Big Crack in Team Battistelli: EPO’s Vice-President Willy Minnoye is Leaving!

Team UPC Salivating Over Unitary Patent Fantasy Even Though It is Stuck in a Limbo

Shame on the German Media for the Media Blackout Surrounding EPO Protests in Munich (and Sometimes Berlin)

Confirmed: Judge Carl Josefsson Chosen by the Administrative Council for the Secretive Patent Organisation

Rumour: Carl Josefsson to Head EPO Boards of Appeal, Battistelli Unhappy

Administrative Council of the EPO Must Recognise Critical Brain Drain, Loss of Talent, Loss of Patent Quality

Large Protest Against EPO Management, in Pictures

Outside Pressure is Growing: CERN Staff Association Reaffirms Commitment to SUEPO, The Staff Union of the EPO

EPO is “Googlebombing” Croatia With Puff Pieces Rather Than Discussion/Coverage of Vice-President's Dark Side

EPO Protest Begins and ILO Staff Union Expresses Support for EPO Staff

EPO Staff: Mr. Battistelli is Causing Immeasurable Damage to the Office; He is Now Untenable

Media Blackout in Croatian Mainstream Media About Criminal Charges Against EPO's Croatian Vice-President and EPO President's Notoriety

The EPO Keeps Bullying Examiners and Even Judges, EPO's Mouthpiece PwC Now Bullies Researchers

Staff Union of the European Central Bank Blasts Benoît Battistelli

Another New Book, This Time From Dr Luke McDonagh, Chronicles the Demise of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement

The European Patent Office Suffers Quality Crisis, Finally (Belatedly) Agrees to Publicly Comment on It

Benoît Battistelli Besieged

Caricature: The European Patent Office Finds Quick Fix for ILO

The EPO Sent Its Second 'Monster' to Croatia to Lobby for the Unitary Patent (UPC), Did Not Mention Anything About It

EPO 'Reform' Seems to Strive for Echo Chamber Mentality, Elimination of Unions, Crackdown on Experienced (Well-Paid) Employees, and Departure From Patent Quality

“Corrupt Benoît Battistelli and Željko Topić Today in Zagreb at 25th Anniversary of SIPO Croatia”

EPO Protest This Coming Wednesday Strives to Restore the Rule of Law and Freedom of Speech at the Office

The EPO is Collapsing. Attacks on Journalists, Interns as Staff, Patents on Plants, and Bureaucratic Red Tape...

Ignore the Bristows UPC Echo Chamber, the UPC is Not Happening

British Media Slams Battistelli for Attempting to Cover Up 2 Years of Juridical Abuses With Help From the Administrative Council of the EPO

Boards of Appeal Still Under Attack From Team Battistelli While the EPO Proceeds to Granting Patents on Carlsberg BEER!

Memo “Deliberately Leaked to Cover up the UPC” With Its Many Associated Issues Amid Brexit

The UPC Scam Part VII: A Fine Mess in the Making, as Nothing Can be Made of It Amid/After Brexit

The UPC Scam Part VI: The Real Story Which People Missed Due to Puff Pieces Seeded by Battistelli-Bribed Media is That UPC Technically Cannot Come to the UK

EPO Spiraling Down the Drain as Experienced Examiners and Judges Are Seemingly Being Replaced by Interns

EPO Suicides Greater in Number Than is Widely Reported, Unjust System a Contributor to These

Heiko Maas, the SPD “Cash for Access” Affair, and Suspicions of Unwarranted Censorship at IP Kat (Again)

Endgame for Battistelli at the European Patent Office (EPO)

Les Échos Chamber: Having Corrupted the Media (With EPO Money), Battistelli Now Uses It for More UPC Propaganda

Rumour: EPO in Berlin the Next Casualty of Battistelli's 'Reform' (Organisational Suicide Plan)

Caricature: the Maas App

Leaked: Battistelli Acknowledges Bunk 'Justice' in About 100 Cases at the Internal Appeals Committee of the EPO

The UPC Scam Part V: Unitary Patent Regime a Fantasy of Patent Trolls

EPO at a Tipping Point: Battistelli Quarrelling With French Politicians, Administrative Council Urged to Act, Staff Unrest Peaking

Quality of Patents at the EPO Dependent on the Appeal Boards When Battistelli Assesses Performance Using the Wrong ‘Production’ Yardstick

More French Politicians Are Complaining That Benoît Battistelli is a Disgrace to France and Urge for Action

Dutch Media Covers Latest EPO Scandals, German Media Totally Absent (a Media Blackout of Convenience)

Relocating the Boards of Appeal to Haar is a Poisonous Priority at Battistelli's EPO

The Rule of Law and Justice Don't Exist Inside the EPO, Confirms the International Labour Organisation (ILO)

A Day in the Life of... Battistelli's Banana Republic

Two ILO Decisions on EPO Cases Are Released, at Least One Judgment is Considered Good for Staff

Dutch and French Politicians Complain About the European Patent Office, British Media Coverage Regular Now

November

The UPC Scam Part IV: Bumps Along the Road for UPC, With or Without the UK and Brexit

The UPC Scam Part III: The “Patent Mafia”

The UPC Scam Part II: The Patent Echo Chamber at Work, Prematurely Congratulating Itself in Its 'News' Sites

The UPC Scam Part I: EPO-Bribed Media Outlets Lie to Brits (and to Europeans) About the UPC

European Public Service Union Asks EPO Administrative Council “to Re-establish the Rule of Law at the European Patent Office”

ILOAT Decisions: Upcoming Publication of Two EPO Cases (Abuse Against Staff)

Mixing Politics and EPO: How Battistelli Defies the Very Basic Rules of the Office

EPO DG1 Principal Director “Out of the Muppet Show”

Learning From the Mistakes of the US Patent System (and More Latterly China) When Assessing Patent Maximalism (partly about EPO)

The International Labour Organisation Once Again Proves Useless for Labour of the EPO

CERN Slams the European Patent Office for Abuse of Employees

Patent Attorney Mark Summerfield: EPO Administrative Council “Members Should be Ashamed.”

EPO Caricature: Slowing Down Justice and Giving Luxury Cars as Gifts

Danger of Letting a Bunch of Patent Law Firms Attempt to Hijack the European Patent System With UPC

Caught in a Lie Again: EPO Management Just Cannot Stop Lying, Even About People Whom It Gags Using Threats (to Cover Up Battistelli's Abuses)

Benoît Battistelli's Affinity for Tiny Countries Exploits the Ease of 'Buying' Their Votes

The Sad State of German Anti-Corruption Authorities and Investigative Journalism, as Demonstrated by the EPO

Duplicate Events for Lobbying by Team UPC Meddle in Politics in an Effort to Enrich Itself at Europe's Expense

SLAPP-Happy EPO Vice-President Slapped Out of the Municipal Criminal Court in Zagreb for the Third Time!

EPO and the Art of Distraction, Disinformation

Report From Yesterday's EPO Protest at The Hague, Which Several Politicians Attended

Asking Team UPC or the EPO About the UPC is Like Asking Clinton About Winning Presidential Elections

Patent Quality at the EPO Depends on the Future of the Boards of Appeal (Which Battistelli is Killing Not So Softly)

Video and Audio: Press Coverage From Today's EPO Protest at The Hague

Union Syndicale Fédérale Writes Letters to the Chinchilla Man of the Administrative Council About Battistelli's EPO Abuses, No Sign of Reply/Reaction

European Patent Office Workers Take Action Against 'Tyrannical' Director

Employees of European Patent Office Take Action Against Culture of Fear

Anonymous EPO Staff: EPO Management's Moral Compass is Broken

EPO Protest Tomorrow at The Hague

Caricature: Team Battistelli's UPC Strategy

Caricature: EPO ‘Voting’ When All Votes Are Equal Irrespective of Country’s Size

Crisis at the EPO Deepens as Dutch Parliament Dives in, European Parliament Snubbed by EPO Management, and Battistelli Relies on 'High Corruption' States

Cases Against the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Demise of Transparency International (Which EPO Partly 'Absorbed')

European Media, Dutch Parliament and Spectacularly Enough Even IP Kat (Yes, It's Back!) Subject the EPO to Serious Scrutiny

Drunk on ‘Production’, the European Patent Office (EPO) Grants Patents on Recipes

Like Team UPC, the Internet Association (Megacorporations' Front Group) Hijacks the Voice of Small Businesses in an Effort to Steer Patent Policy Against Them

Cheapening of Patents at the EPO, Cheapening of Staff of the EPO, and Emergence of Large Corporations' Tax Evasion Using Piles of Patents

Battistelli Should be Made Redundant (Fired) Before All EPO Staff Becomes Redundant in a Defunct Office That Flagrantly Mocks the Law

Amid Scapegoating, Union-Shaming and Gagging by Battistelli, SUEPO's Prunier Provides More Details on Union Busting at the EPO

The EPO Lowering Patent Quality, Accused of Issuing Invalid Patents, and Promoting Software Patents (Hence Trolls)

Violations of Human Rights at the EPO in the Name of Fraud Prevention

Breaking: Dutch Parliament Debate About Immunity of the EPO and the Tyranny of Benoît Battistelli

Leaked Letter Reveals How Battistelli Still Exploits FFPE-EPO (Yellow Union) to Attack the Real EPO Union, SUEPO

Guest Post: Behind the GCC Meeting and How Battistelli Finds Excuses for His Union-Busting Campaign at the EPO

Leaked: Proof That Benoît Battistelli Disregarded Orders From the Administrative Council (Again)

In the European Patent Office, Battistelli Implements Changes That Clearly Defy the Rule of Law

Elodie Bergot's Double Standards: Can Flagrantly Defame EPO Staff Representatives on the Intranet (Union-Shaming), But Cannot Publish Facts

Call for Disciplinary Procedures and Dismissal of Mr Battistelli, Mr Topić and Ms Bergot at the EPO

EPO Caricature: Fabricating Evidence

Benoît Battistelli Reinforces the Perception That García-Escudero is His Pet Chinchilla at the Board of Appeals Committee (BoAC)

Decline in Patent Quality at the EPO Increasingly Reaffirmed by More Branches, Insiders, and Even the European Commission

Battistelli Must Go, Says Yet Another French Politician, Arguing He is “Extremely Damaging to the Image of France”

SUEPO (EPO Staff Union) “Fears Now That the Intention Behind This Blow is “to Destroy” the Union.”

“Not My President“: The Sentiment of European Patent Office Staff Towards Their Fascistic Boss

Benoît Battistelli's Marching Orders in Spain Through His 'Pet Chinchilla' Patricia García-Escudero, Whom He Got Overseeing the Boards of Appeal

EPO Social Workshops on Monday and Tuesday? No, EPO Staff up in Arms!

At EPOPIC Today, As Expected, Software Patents Courtesy of EPO

EPO I.U. Cartoon Highlights the Way EPO Staff Feels About the Management Under Battistelli

Don't Believe Team UPC; the UPC is Going Nowhere Fast

Threats to Dismissed EPO Staff Representative Allegedly Hold Pension (Blackmail Point) to Silence Him Even After Unjust Dismissal, Munich Goes Protesting for Him

EPO Ally IAM Magazine Calls Battistelli's Dismissal of EPO Staff Representative Laurent Prunier “a Needless Own Goal.”

The Death of Patent Quality at the EPO and the European Commission's Latest Smackdown of the EPO's Patent Maximalism

UPC a Threat to the Boards of Appeal at the EPO (Soon Haar) and to Patent Quality in Europe

Dismissal of Laurent Prunier Worse Than It Seems as Battistelli Almost 'Pulls a Hardon' by Taking Away Pension Rights Too

EPO President Benoît Hernandez About the Social Atmosphere and Life’s Great Joys

Has the Advisor of Željko Topić Just Quit, Got Sacked, or is EPO Vice-President Topić Gaining Even Greater Powers?

In the Case of Frenchman Laurent Prunier, Battistelli Reasserts Himself as Psychopathic Bully

Leaked: An Out-of-Control EPO Union-Busting Parade of Battistelli Marches on in The Hague

Caricature: European Patent Office as Mordor

Breaking the European Patent System With the UPC Hammer, Courtesy of the EPO and Lawyers-Centric 'News' Sites

Patent Maximalism is Destroying the European Patent Office (Just a Paperwork Assembly Line), Exile of Boards Ensures No Turnaround

October

The Insane World of Patent Maximalism and Professor Joshua Pearce’s Case for Weakening Patent Rights (partly covers EPO)

FTC Slams Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), Effectively Patent Trolls, Which Are a Growing Problem in Europe

The Patent Trolls Are Moving East as Patents on Software Lose Their Lustre in the United States

The Former Chief Economist of the EPO Warns That Battistelli's Implicit Policy of Lowering Patent Quality (for Quantity) Will Bring Patent Trolls to Europe

How to Tell You're Deliberately Not Covering Important EPO Scandals

The EPO's Balkan Express Keeps Chugging Along Despite Predictions of Derailment

Advice to Journalists: Stop Repeating Propaganda of the EPO, a Serial Liar With a Track Record

Leaked: Ljiljana Kuterovac Covering Željko Topić's (EPO) Back

Leaked: Budget and Finance Committee Outcomes That Jeopardise What's Left of the EPO's Future

'Balkan Express' Teaser: EPO's Željko Topić, Kuterovac, Campinos, Gurry, Battistelli and the DKPTO (Kongstad)

Budget and Finance Committee of the Administrative Council (EPO) Confirms Exile of the Boards of Appeal

Leaked: EPO's Vice-President Willie Minnoye Saying the Unsayable, Then Threatening Anyone Who Keeps Record (Evidence) of It

Puff Pieces of the EPO-IPO (EPO+EUIPO) Have Begun to Appear Amid New Evidence of Brain Drain, Lowered Standards

Leaked: Minutes From the Administrative Council of the EPO Regarding the 'Reform' (Exile) of the Boards of Appeal

No Promising Future For the EPO Under Battistelli (If Any Future At All)

Leaked Minutes From the EPO Reveal That Battistelli is Detached From Reality and Blames Everything on “Union Officials”

Battistelli Plans to Expand the Social {sic} 'Study' (Then 'Conference') Propaganda Until Next Month, Under the 'Workshop' Umbrella

EPO and EUIPO Join Hands to Release Propaganda (for European Media to Parrot) Some Time Tomorrow

UPC Preparatory Committee Puts the Brakes on UPC Amid Brexit and Growing Uncertainty

Updates Regarding EPO and BoAC: Unrest and Injustice Carry on

EPO and the “Iberian Connection”: Patricia García-Escudero Márquez – Battistelli’s Pet Chinchilla on the Boards of Appeal Committee?

Open Letter Exposing the Farce Which Was Battistelli’s ‘Social Conference’ Coinciding With Further (New) Attacks on EPO Staff Representatives

Translation of Latest Rant From French MP Philip Cordery About Benoît Battistelli’s Abuses at the EPO

Battistelli-Commissioned PwC ‘Study’: Leaked Document Shows PwC’s Dishonesty and Misrepresentation of EPO Staff

Battistelli-Commissioned PwC ‘Study’: Survey Comparison Shows Serious Deterioration and Efforts by PwC to Disguise the Truth

EPO Teaser - The "Iberian Connection" - Some Photos of García-Escudero and His Royal/Government Connections

Disruption to Site's Service

EPO Caricature: Battistelli's High Five

Battistelli Ruins Not Only the EPO But Also the Whole of Europe By Ushering in Software Patents That Patent Trolls Love So Much

EPO Spokesman Lies to IP Watch in Order to Save Face and Save the King (Battistelli)

Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead, But ‘Managing IP’ and Selfish Patent Law Firms Still Try to Resurrect It

Battistelli-Commissioned PwC ‘Study’: The Raw Outcome Shows Distortion of the Facts at the EPO’s Notorious ‘Social Conference’

Addendum: EPO’s Alberto Casado Cerviño, WIPO’s Francis Gurry, and EUIPO’s Archambeau

Worrisome Connections Between EPO VP2 Alberto Casado Cerviño and Patricia García-Escudero Márquez

EPO Caricature: EQE Questions

The Long History or Seeds of Control by Fear and Punishment at the EPO

Subject of the European Patent Office’s Abuses Raised in European Parliament by Ulrike Müller (ALDE)

French Article About the EPO "Crisis"

Battistelli Wants Us to Believe a Patent Office in a Freefall (EPO) is “Stronger and More Sustainable”

Leaked Documents Shed More Light on What Happened to Alison Brimelow and How Battistelli Rose to Power

Leaked: Outcomes of 149th Administrative Council's Meeting at the European Patent Organisation

Danish Press Coverage of the European Patent Office and the Problems Explored by Techrights

EPO Updates: Battistelli in Trouble, Grossenbacher and Battistelli Having a Fight, EPO Doubles Down on Željko Topić

EPO Social Conference Another Example of Astronomical Waste of Money by Benoît Battistelli

UPC Preparatory Committee Projects Optimism in an Effort to Salvage Its Dying Project, the Unitary/Unified Patent

Outline of Latest Press Coverage Regarding the European Patent Office (EPO)

As Expected, Benoît Battistelli Puts Longtime Ally Roland Grossenbacher on Top of Boards of Appeal

EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point - Part V: “Siegfried Bross as President of the Boards of Appeal!”

EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point – Part IV: When ~1,200 EPO Workers March in Protest and European Politicians Say “Battistelli Must Go”

EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point – Part III: How Benoît Battistelli Planned to Expand His Attacks on EPO Staff (But Failed)

EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point - Part II: More Photos From Today's Protest at The Hague

EPO Caricature: EPO-Funded PwC on EPO Happiness

EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point – Part I: Protest at The Hague and the Huge Things at Stake

The EPO is Out of Control on (Patent) Scope and Team UPC Floods the Media in a Desperate Last Attempt

Index: Our Jesper Kongstad Series of Danish Stories

Addendum II: Article About the Kongstads' Villa Becoming a Breeding Farm for the Fur Industry

Addendum I: Danish Fur Industry - Further Information Regarding Political Lobbying

Danish Stories - Part V: Jesper Kongstad's Chinchilla Fur Farming

“Very Mysterious Things Going on at the IPKat Recently”

Danish Puff Pieces: Latest 'Puff Pieces' From Denmark About the Opening of a New DKPTO Branch Office

The Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) Protested Today in Munich (Against the EPO's Management) While President Benoît Battistelli Lied

New Letter to the Delegates of the Administrative Council

New Caricature: President Blatter Speaks to the Administrative Council of the EPO

From World's Best to World's Worst: China's SIPO (Worst of Asia) and France (Worst of Europe) the Vision for EPO

Has IP Kat's Unofficial (Self-)Censorship Policy Expanded From Protecting the EPO's Image to Protecting the UPC?

The UPC is Dead, Says Opinion Partly Funded by Team UPC, But Patent Scope in Europe Remains an Issue

The Administrative Council Seems to Have No Issues With Battistelli Wasting Millions of Euros Buying the Media and Fake ‘Studies’

Addendum II: FJORDBLINK MEDICAL ApS - Further Information and a Mystery

Addendum I: FJORDBLINK MEDICAL ApS Technically Housed in Jesper Kongstad's New Mansion?

Danish Stories - Part IV: Jesper Kongstad and FJORDBLINK MEDICAL ApS

Rumour: The European Patent Office Intends to Sack Staff Representatives at The Hague Like It Did in Munich

Danish Stories - Part III: Jesper Kongstad a Danish Civil Servant With a Distinctly Entrepreneurial Streak

Team Battistelli Keeps Lying About Judges and Staff Representatives in Order to Decapitate EPO Staff and Even the 'Independent' Boards of Appeal

Battistelli's Preparation for a Propaganda Session That Excludes EPO Staff Representation

Addendum II: Photos of Troel Lund Poulsen With Fur

Addendum I: Photos of Troel Lund Poulsen and Michael Dithmer

Danish Stories - Part II: Kongstad's Political Masters in Denmark and Rumoured Connections to the Venstre Party

Echo Chamber's Lobbying: Team UPC Citing Team UPC as 'Proof' Regarding the UPC

Loose Patent Scope Becoming a Publicity Nightmare for the EPO and Battistelli Does a China Outreach (Worst/Most Notorious on Patent Quality)

No Justice Even for a Judge at the EPO, as the Whole Institution is Beyond Rotten and Quite Corrupt

Staff of the EPO is Going Out in Protest (Munich and The Hague) While EPO Management Buys European Media to Control This Media, Promote UPC

Addendum: Controversial Chinchilla Farming by the Kongstad Family

Introduction to Jesper Kongstad, EPO Chairman of the Administrative Council

Danish Fairy Tales and Legends: The Secret Life of Jesper Kongstad

Translation and Response to Battistelli’s Face-Saving ‘Interview’ With Juve

Not Just the European Patent Office But the Organisation Too a Culprit in Immunity and Impunity

Immunity of the European Patent Office and Lack of Oversight Within the Organisation Mean That It's a Rogue Entity Above the Law

Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are at War With European Democracy, Which They View as an Obstacle to Money and Power

September

Dutch Court Rules Against SUEPO (in a Reversal), But EPO Management Would Have Ignored the Ruling Even If SUEPO Won

New Paper Provides Evidence of Sinking Patent Quality at the EPO, Refuting the Liar in Chief Battistelli

Battistelli Locks EPO Staff Union Out of Social Conference So That He Can Lie About the Union and the Social Climate

Unprecedented Levels of UPC Lobbying by Big Business Europe (Multinationals) and Their Patent Law Firms

Team UPC is Interjecting Itself Into the Media Ahead of Tomorrow's Lobbying Push Against the European Council and Against European Interests

IP Kat is Lobbying Heavily for the UPC, Courtesy of Team UPC

Leaked: Conclusions of the Secretive EPO Board 28 Meeting (8th of September 2016)

Letter From the Dutch Institute of Patent Attorneys (Nederlandse Orde van Octrooigemachtigden) to the Administrative Council of the EPO

EPO's Board 28 Notes Battistelli's “Three Current Investigations/Disciplinary Proceedings Involving SUEPO Members in The Hague."

Cementing Autocracy: The European Patent Office Against Democracy, Against Media, and Against the Rule of Law

Team Battistelli Intensifies the Attack on the Boards of Appeal Again

After the EPO Paid the Financial Times to Produce Propaganda the Newspaper Continues to Produce UPC Puff Pieces, Just Ahead of EU Council Meeting

The EPO's Continued Push for Software Patents, Marginalisation of Appeals (Reassessment), and Deviation From the EPC

The Battistelli Effect: “We Will be Gradually Forced to File Our Patent Applications Outside the EPO in the Interests of Our Clients”

The Moral Depravity of the European Patent Office Under Battistelli

What Insiders Are Saying About the Sad State of the European Patent Office (EPO)

The EPO Does Not Want Skilled (and 'Expensive') Staff, Layoffs a Growing Concern

Patent Quality and Patent Scope the Unspeakable Taboo at the EPO, as Both Are Guillotined by Benoît Battistelli for the Sake of Money

Bristows LLP's Hatred/Disdain of UK/EU Democracy Demonstrated; Says “Not Only Will the Pressure for UK Ratification of the UPC Agreement Continue, But a Decision is Wanted Within Weeks.”

Released Late on a Friday, EPO Social 'Study' (Battistelli-Commissioned Propaganda) Attempts to Blame Staff for Everything

White Male-Dominated EPO Management Sinks to New Lows, Again

Journalism 102: Do Not Become Like 'Managing IP' or IAM 'Magazine' (the Megaphones of the EPO’s Management)

Journalism 101: Do Not Believe Anything That Benoît Battistelli and the EPO’s Management Say (Also Don’t Fall for the UPC Hype)

Like Big Tobacco Lobbyists, Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are Just Chronically Lying and Manipulating Politicians With Their Lies

The EPO's 'Investigative' Function is Totally Out of Control and Continues to Get Bigger, Whitewashed by So-called 'Review'

With or Without the UPC (Which Will Probably Never Happen) Battistelli is Crushing the EPO and Ejects Experienced Staff, a Future Without Examination Possible

When EPO Liar-in-Chief Benoît Battistelli Defamed His Staff in Parliament, Comparing Them to Nazis and Criminals

EPO President Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are Still Lying, Don't Believe a Word They Say

Battistelli is Lying About Patent Quality While It Continues to Nosedive at the EPO as Part of His Neo-liberal ‘Production’ Strategy

Battistelli and His Circle — Not Just Team UPC — Still Delusional About the Prospects of a Unified Patent Court (UPC)

As Part of So-called 'Reforms', the EPO's President is Gradually Eliminating the Boards of Appeal, Not Just Their Independence

Team UPC Has Not Grown Tired of Kicking a Dead (Trojan) Horse

Battistelli is Killing the EPO, in His Own Words...

Web Site 'Managing IP' is Managing to Come Across as an EPO Mouthpiece

The Duke Law Patent Quality Conference and the Planned Erosion of Patent Quality at the EPO, for the Sake of So-called 'Production'

Brain Drain at the EPO Under Battistelli is Becoming a Critical Problem

EU Law and UPC: Brought to You by Microsoft and the European Patent Office

Benoît Battistelli is Putting More EPO Staff Representatives in Front of His Firing Line

New Paper Outlines Concerns That the EPO as a Patent Examination Office is Dying, Gradually Turning Into a Registration Office

The Collapse of the European Patent Office Under Battistelli Has Already Begun

A New Wave of the EPO's Much-Expected Propaganda Push, Aided by 'Managing IP' and IAM 'Magazine'

The European Privacy Offender (EPO) Sells Data But Only to the Rich and Powerful

Another New Low for the EPO and Battistelli

Convergence Between the EPO and the Media: ‘Managing IP’ as Battistelli and UPC Platform

High on EPO: Battistelli’s ‘Social Conference’ Nonsense is Intended to Help Suppress Debate About His Abuses Against Staff and Union-Busting Activities

The EPO’s Assistant/Secretary for Bergot (Nepotism Supreme) Demonstrates a Race to the Bottom With Temporary Appointments, Operation ‘Clean House’

There is No Future for the UPC in Spite of What the EPO and the Patent Microcosm Keep Telling Us

The EPO is Wasting a Fortune and Flying to Other Continents in an Apparent Effort to Recruit (Because Brain Drain Continues Very Rapidly)

Battistelli is Even Attacking the French, and Not Just in Germany But Also on Dutch Territory

Specialists in Public International Law Bemoan Privacy Violations at the European Patent Office

The European Patent Office is Utterly Desperate for Attention as Its Status Worldwide Sinks and It Resorts to ‘Spamming’ All Major Universities in Europe

UPC Threatens to Send the European Patent Office Circling Down the Drain

The Long Reach of Battistelli’s Policy of Retribution

August

Nothing Whatsoever Has Improved at the European Patent Office, It's Just Summer's Recess (and Silence)

More Lies From President Benoît Battistelli and the EPO Crisis Which Continues to Deepen

The EPO's Francesco Zaccà Presenting in Turin Alongside Patent Trolls (Like the Patent Mafia Sisvel) and Lobbyists/Front Groups for Software Patents, UPC

The EPO, USPTO, and Patent Microcosm Peddle Myths About Patents in Public Universities and Research

Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice Calls the European Patent Office “Rotten”, Other Sources Scrutinise Recent Moves

Not Just President Battistelli: EPO Vice-Presidents Are Still Intentionally Misrepresenting EPO Staff

Battistelli the Liar Causes a Climate of Confrontation in French Politics, Lies About Patent Quality (Among Many Other Things)

The Cost/Toll of the 'New' EPO and Where All That Money Goes or Comes From

The End of an Era at the USPTO as Battistelli-Like (EPO) Granting Policies Are Over

Battistelli's European Patent Office Goes to the United States to Speak About the UPC and Software Patents

Turkey Subjected to the European Patent Convention (EPC) But Benoît Battistelli is Not?

Personal Audio LLC and Patent Troll Jim Logan Demonstrate the Harms of Software Patents and Why They Must Never Spread to Europe

That Time When the Administrative Council Helped Battistelli Crush Oversight (Audit Committee) and What ILO Said About It a Month Ago

The EPO's Administrative Council Keeps Postponing Debate About Grounds for Firing the President

A Surge of Staff Complaints About the European Patent Office Drowns the System, Disservice to Justice Noted

Clawing Back the Staff Benefits at the European Patent Office (EPO)

Patent Microcosm Shuts Out the Poor: Unified Patent Court (UPC) Promotion by Practising Law Institute (PLI) Only for the Wealthy

German Media Becomes Aware of Battistelli's Defiance of the Very Basis of the EPO

‘Constitutional Crisis’ at the European Patent Office (EPO)

The EPO’s Twitter Account is Drunk (on Battistelli’s Kool-Aid)

Rumours About Likely Salary of (or Compensation to) Jesper Kongstad of the EPO Administrative Council

Deviation From (and Violation of) the EPC Under Battistelli at the EPO for the Sake of 'Production'

“EPO Shows an Operating Loss of €145,000,000”

“EPO is Quickly Turning Into a Registration System”

EPO's Vice-President Willy Minnoye Was Rumoured to be Leaving

Rumours About Secret EPO Salary of Benoît Battistelli

Managing IP (MIP) Organises a UPC Event (European Patent ‘Reform’ Forum), the Largest Patent Microcosm/Corporate Players Dominate Through Fee Discrimination

Francis Gurry — Like Benoît Battistelli — Compared to Sepp Blatter of FIFA

Patent Quality in Europe (EPO) Declining Under Battistelli in Spite of the USPTO's Cautionary Tale

Lucy in the Sky With Battistelli's Diamonds (EU Budget) But No UPC in Sight

The Protocol on Privileges and Immunities of the UPC is a Dead End, But Team UPC Tries to Ram it Down Europeans’ Throats

Software Patents Still a Problem in Europe (in Spite of the European Patent Convention), the UPC Would Make Things Worse

July

Actions by Team Battistelli Against the European Patent Convention (EPC) and the Role Played by Željko Topić in Crushing Opposition

EPO Crushed the Boards of Appeal (i.e. Quality Control) and Insiders Explain Why

EPO Loses More Than 80% of Cases at the International Labour Organisation (ILO)

To Understand What Battistelli Has Turned the EPO Into Look at Turkey and China

Patent Lawyers Move Closer to Battistelli’s Rubber-stamping Office While the Appeal Boards Pushed Away as Collective Punishment Which Masks Decline in Patent Quality

Early Certainty That Benoît Battistelli is Dangerously Clueless and a Major Risk to the EPO

Munich Attack Mentioned by EPO But Not Ansbach

Kluwer Thinks People Are Clueless About the Unitary Patent System and Pretends It's Business as Usual

Almost Everything That the Government Accountability Office Says is Applicable to the EPO

Leaked: Boards of Appeal Face 'Exile' or 'Extradition' in Haar After Standing up to Battistelli

Haar Mentioned as Likely Site of Appeal Boards as Their Eradication or Marginalisation Envisioned by UPC Proponent Benoît Battistelli

EPO Attaché Albert Keyack Viewed as Somewhat of a Mole, Reporting From the US Embassy in Brazil Until Shortly Before the Temer Coup

EPO Insiders Explain Why the EPO's Examination Quality Rapidly Declines and Will Get Even Worse Because of Willy Minnoye

Glimpse at Patent Systems Across the World: Better Quality Control at the USPTO Post-America Invents Act (2011), Unlike the EPO Post-Battistelli (2010)

EPO USA: Under Battistelli, the ‘European’ Patent Office Emulates All the Mistakes of the USPTO

Battistelli Has Implemented De Facto EPO Coup to Remove Oversight, Give Himself Total Power, and Allegedly Give UPC Gifts (Loot) to French Officials

EPO Social Report is a Big Pile of Lies That Responsible Journalists Must Ignore

Exploiting Perceived Emergencies/Disasters, Suspending the Rule of Law, and Suspending Judges: How Erdoğan is Like Battistelli, Except the Coup

After the FTI Consulting-EPO Reputation Laundering Deal's Expansion in Germany Süddeutsche Zeitung 'Forgets' That the EPO Even Exists

Benoît Battistelli and Persistratos

Whistleblower Protection Desperately Needed at the European Patent Office

This is Why Benoît Battistelli Has 0% Approval Rating Among ‘His’ Staff at the EPO

What If EPO Under Battistelli Gets Broken Beyond Repair Just Like the UPC?

EPO’s Battistelli, Who Breaks the Law, Subverts the Course of Justice and Refuses to Obey Court Orders, Says the Unthinkable Amid Terror Attacks

Deathwatch of the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPC)

EPO Management on Trial Tomorrow, But It Stated Upfront It Would Not Obey the Legal Ruling While It Rigs Its Own Rulings

EPO's Battistelli Continues to Court Small Countries' Officials and Spin That as “Small Businesses From These Countries”

Hot Summer: EPO Management on Trial This Week

“We Need to Inform {Politicians, Journalists ... Ministers or Representatives} that the Whole European Patent System is at Risk.”

Will Battistelli's Friend/Ally Lucy Neville-Rolfe Shamelessly Attack British Democracy and Push for UPC in Spite of Brexit?

Coup D’état in Relation to the European Patent Office

Benoît Battistelli's Attacks on EPO Unions, Judges, Boards, and Even Justice Itself the Subject of Media Fascination

Battistelli and Team UPC Working Behind Closed Doors to Overcome Brexit and Impose Patent Injustice

Weapons of Mass Distraction at the EPO Cost the EPO Millions of Euros

The ‘Administrative’ Council is to Benoît Battistelli What FISA is to the NSA

Decline of Patent Quality at the EPO to Further Exacerbate With Latest Crackdown on Appeal Boards

SUEPO “Speechless” About Administrative Council Delegates for “Cavalier Attitude Towards Law-Making” and “Contempt for Consultative Processes”

Potential Alignment of Special Interests at Mishcon de Reya: EPO, Microsoft, and Brexit (or UPC)

Team Battistelli Parties Like It's Still 2010 (Pre-Battistelli Governance), Fails to Acknowledge Demise of EPO as Popular Employer and Instead Lies to Staff

Image of Battistelli’s EPO Tarnished in the UK and Elsewhere as Battistelli Warms up to Cuba, Colombia, and Panama

UPC a Dead Project, as Per Analysis From Foley and Lardner LLP; What Next for Team Battistelli and Team UPC?

The European Patent Organisation Jokes About Independence on the 4th of July (US Independence Day)

Grim Situation at the European Patent Office Following Battistelli's Latest Lawlessness Tendencies, as Explained by Concerned Insiders

IAM's Latest Take on the UPC: Dead End For Another 2.5 Years (At Least) With No Effective Workarounds

Post-Jeremy IP Kat Deems It OK to Publish Anonymous Comment Comparing Techrights to “Daesh” While Censoring Polite Response to That

What Team Battistelli Claims to be Independence of the Boards of Appeal Actually a Likely Dismissal Plan for ‘Unwanted’ Judge (and Maybe His Protectors), Potentially Permanent Unemployment Plan

Battistelli's Destructive Actions Will Drive EPO Applicants Away to National Patent Offices, Putting at Risk the Whole EU-Wide (and Beyond) Project

As Expected, 'Team UPC' Continues Fighting for Its Project's Survival in Spite of 'Brexit' [[Image:Flag_es.gif]])

Realistic English Translation of EPO Announcement About Crushing of Patent Quality

The European Patent Organisation’s Administrative Council Helps Benoît Battistelli Destroy Patent Quality for the Sake of ‘Production’

At the European Patent Organisation the Administrative Council Does Not Care About Staff

EPO Leak: Administrative Council’s Latest Meeting Report

June

Publicly-Available Information About the Meeting of the EPO’s Administrative Council

Battistelli's Last Moves Are Desperate Attempts to Crush the Messenger (SUEPO), Which Will Almost Certainly Backfire on (if Not Fire) Battistelli

EPO Staff Representative Jesus Areso Explains the Crisis to the Administrative Council

Shadows of Alleged Criminality Over the European Patent Office (EPO)

You Know That UPC is Quite Likely Dead (at Least in the UK) When Even Baroness Neville-Rolfe Dodges the Question

Short Report From Today's EPO Protest in Munich

Growing Consensus Even Among Patent Professionals That UPC is Dying Everywhere If Not Just in the UK

Battistelli Attacks Not Only His Staff But Also Patents Themselves (Their Quality) and the Legal Legitimacy Surrounding the EPO

Battistelli is Creating an Atmosphere of Terror at the EPO While Exploiting Terror Attacks to Garner Sympathy

Rumours That EPO President Battistelli Got Sacked to be Replaced by Christoph Ernst Appear to be Baseless

The EPO Has Become Battistelli's Circus and the Administrative Council Has Been Reduced to (Illegal) Circus Animals Controlled With 'Treats'

The Latest Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) Would Have Us Believe That It’s Alive and Well

EPO Management Bunker: “The Bailiff Who Came to Deliver the Subpoena was Escorted off the Property by Five Security Guards.”

Benoît Battistelli Further Weaponises His EPO ‘Stasi’ With CA/52/16

EPO Caricature: Administrative Council Control of Benoît Battistelli

EPO Caricature: Firing Benoît Battistelli

New Efforts to Work Around Barriers to UPC in Light of ‘Brexit’; Behind These Efforts Are Self-Serving Patent Profiteers

Injunction Against Battistelli’s Investigative Unit (Known Internally as ‘Gestapo’) Amid Serious Injustices and Bogus ‘Trials’

From Alleged Organised Crime to Vice-President of the European Patent Office (EPO)

Battistelli May Still be on the Way Out as Pressure Grows in Germany, UPC in Shambles

Caricature: European Patent Office (EPO) Under Battistelli

Techrights (Almost) at 10: From Software Patents to Novell and to Present Focus on EPO (reflection)

With UPC Dead for Battistelli's Entire Remaining Term, No Reason for the EPO or the Administrative Council to Keep Battistelli Around

Benoît Battistelli Should Resign in Light of New Leak of Decision in His Vendetta Against Truth-Telling Judge

Fake Patents on Software From Fake Australian ‘Inventor’ of Bitcoin and the Globally-Contagious Nature of EPO Patent Scope (just partly about the EPO)

Looks Increasingly Plausible That Battistelli is Covering up Bogus and/or Illegally-Obtained ‘Evidence’ From the EPO’s Investigative Unit

As Decision on the UK’s EU Status Looms, EPO Deep in a Crisis of Patent Quality

Another Demonstration by European Patent Office (EPO) Staff on Same Day as Administrative Council’s Meeting

IP Europe’s UPC Lobbying and the EPO Connection

EPO “Recruitment of Brits is Down by 80%”

The Conspiracy of Patent Lawyers for UPC and Battistelli's Role in Preparing by Firing People

EPO Self-Censorship by IP Kat or Just Censorship of Opinions That IP Kat Does Not Share/Accept

Caricature: Bygmalion Patent Office

Under Battistelli’s Regime the EPO is a Lawless, Dark Place

New Paper Demonstrates That Unitary Patent (UPC) is Little More Than a Conspiracy of Patent ‘Professionals’ and Their Self Interest

Money Flying to Private Companies Without Tenders at Battistelli’s EPO (by the Tens of Millions!)

Patent Examiners and Insiders Acknowledge Profound Demise in Patent Quality Under Battistelli

The Rule of Money and Power, Not the Rule of Law, at the European Patent Office

Brain Drain at the EPO: Qualified Patent Examiners Leave in Droves, Young Ones Blindly Loyal to Management Reduce Patent Quality

No Exaggeration Necessary: the EPO Under Benoît Battistelli Has North Korean Standards of ‘Justice’

When the EPO’s PR Team Says About UPC (Unitary Patent) That It Can be Delayed It Means Derailed or Called Off

Benoît Battistelli Admits That UPC is Not a Done Deal, in Spite of His Expensive PR and Misleading Media Coverage That He Had the EPO Pay Untold Millions For

Benoît Battistelli Apparently Breaks the Rules Again and Says That Transparent Trial is Unlawful, Threatens Those Involved

Benoît Battistelli’s Façade Continues: Exploiting Terror Attacks Again, Throwing Expensive Parties at the EPO’s Expense, Crushing More Workers’ Rights

EPO Crisis: What If There Was an Administrative Council Meeting and Nobody Came?

EPO Brain Drain Goes All the Way to the Top as Head of Patent Administration Abruptly Resigns

EPO Investigative Unit Causes “Trauma, Will Ruin the Health or Even the Family”

British Media Tackling Other British Media That the EPO’s Benoît Battistelli Paid for His Propaganda Campaign

Battistelli’s European Patent Office Broadens FTI Consulting Contract to Undermine the Media, Wastes Millions of Euros

Endgame of Manipulating Media With Payments and PR: The ‘Blame Everything and Everyone But EPO Management’ Tactics

Detailed Account of Today's 'Trial' of a Judge Who Said the Truth About the EPO

Timely ‘Gifts’ From Battistelli to Member States (Shortly Before They Can — and Should — Sack Him)

EPO and Its ‘Buddies’ in the Media Lobby for the UPC in Spite of and in the Face of Resistance

Battistelli is Sending Threatening Messages/Letters Again, in Another Desperate Effort to Cover Up His Campaign of Defamation Against EPO Whistleblowers

Another EPO Staff Demonstration Planned for a Fortnight From Now When Battistelli Wishes to Make the EPO Even Crazier

Bought Media Coverage at the European Patent Office

New Essay: EPO “president and Council are morally corrupt”

Report From Thursday Protest in EPO Munich Branch/Headquarters

Spontaneous Protest at EPO Today as Battistelli Still Acts Defiantly, Three Days of ‘Trial’ Starting Tomorrow

Out-of-Control Battistelli Repeatedly Breaks Office Rules and EPC Rules, Then Tries to Change the Rules (Retroactive Legalisation)

Association of the Members of the Boards of Appeal Urges EPO Administrative Council to End Battistelli’s Coup

The Corruption of the Media: EPO Budget as a Gift to Broadcasters Under the EIA2016 Umbrella, FTI Consulting Contracts

Why Anonymous Dissent Against EPO on Google Platforms May be Risky

EPO Press Spokesperson and Director External Communications Busy Creating Distractions From EPO Controversies

The EPO is in a Mess So Sordid That It Pays for Positive Publicity, Further Abolishes Labour Rights (to Punish Whistleblowers) and More

EPO 'Bought' the Financial Times, Which Now Operates in 'Mouthpiece Mode' for Mr. Battistelli

Battistelli’s EPO is Buying Media Coverage for Lobbying Purposes, But Not at Battistelli’s Expense

The Commission is Complicit in EPO Abuses, According to Marc Tarabella

Tuesday Hearing at Room 131 Regarding Illegally Suspended (and Then Defamed) Judge Who Said the Truth About Serious Abuse at the Top of EPO

Photos From Yesterday's EPO Protest at The Hague, Reports From Munich and The Hague Staff Protests (About 1,200 in Attendance in Spite of Heavy Rain)

Battistelli is Said to be Engineering Further Attacks on People Whom He Already Fired From the EPO

Dutch Media Reveals That Battistelli Continues His Vicious War on Staff Unions, Laurent Prunier the Latest Casualty (The Hague)

EPO’s European Inventor Award 2016 (EIA16) is Not an Award Event, It Is a Propaganda and Lobbying Event of Battistelli, EPO Just Foots the Bill

Caricature of the Day: Presidential Brakes

Leaks Required: EPO's Plan to Crush the Appeal Boards and Media Contracts for Puff Pieces

Goodbye to Patent Quality at the EPO, Thanks to Team Battistelli With Its Extreme Policies

EPO Powers Up Its Spam Machines, 'Media Partners' Start Their Prepared 'Articles' (Puff Pieces)

Time to Call Out Joff Wild (IAM’s Editor in Chief) for His EPO-Connected UPC Propaganda, Other Agenda-Pushing Initiatives

Enlarged Board of Appeals Can Decide Whether Battistelli’s Attack on the Boards Will Become Public

Perpetual Attack on EPO Staff, Even After the Staff Leaves the EPO

EPO Protest Tomorrow: Help the Media (Not 'Media Partners' in EPO Management's Pocket) See What EPO Staff Really Thinks

EPO’s Old Spokesman (10 Years in Munich) Resigns Again After Only 5 Weeks, EPO is Just Buying the Media Now

Politicians Susann Biedefeld (MdL) and Agnes Jongerius (S and D) the Latest to Express Anger at EPO's Management Over Its Abuses

Streisand Effect Award Won by EPO: It Has Just Blocked IP Kat Blog

Today’s Caricature: European Patent Office (EPO) ‘Social Study’

Public Proceedings Next Week Could Expose Battistelli's Incredible and Unprecedented Attack on EPO Judge

The Enemy Within: How Patent Lawyers, Their Media and the Whole Patent Establishment Became an Enemy to Their Nations (partly about the EPO)

EPO Tyranny Comes Under Fire From Politicians in Luxembourg

Battistelli is Destroying the European Patent Office and Wasting a Lot of Money Hiding This Fact

Software Patents in Europe and the UPC Already a Problem

How the EPO Helped Prop Up — With ‘European Inventor Award 2015′ — a Fraud That Killed a Lot of People

Closer Look at Players in Battistelli’s Information War: Part IV (Wellkom)

Closer Look at Players in Battistelli’s Information War: Part III (Buying the Media, Manufacturing ‘Studies’ With Secret Contracts)

Closer Look at Players in Battistelli's Information War: Part II (BlueCoat)

Closer Look at Players in Battistelli's Information War: Part I

Save the Boards of Appeal to Save the EPO From Battistelli’s Neoliberal Vision and Recipe for Disaster

As Bavarian Parliament Expresses Disdain Over EPO Leadership's Abuses German Media Listens and Staff Union Releases New Survey

FFPE-EPO Going Ad Hominem Against FICSA, Brings Nationality Into It

Vice-President of the European Patent Office Under Many Police Investigations

Battistelli’s Self-Serving ‘European Inventor of the Year’ Charade a Classic Example of Waste and Abuse

Crazed Battistelli is Trying Plan B to Demolish the Boards of Appeal (Quality Control), Praesidium/Association of Members Strikes Back

May

Data Mining Company: EPO is Like Suicide

Extremely Dodgy Dealings at the European Patent Office

The EPO's Media Partners Like Les Echos Already Produce EPO Puff Pieces (Marketing/Stenography)

Unitary Microsoft: EPO Excludes People Who Are Not Microsoft Customers From UPC Participation

New EPO Caricature: Nouveaux Garde-Vélo (New Bicycle Guards)

Battistelli's 'Special Relationship' With Portugal and the 'Inventor of the Year' Charade

Rumour: Battistelli Wants to Extend the Term of Topić's EPO Appointment in Spite of Criminal Charges Against Him

Battistelli's Assault on EPO Staff's Right to Strike in Relation to French Politics and That 'Bicycle' Pretext for Crackdowns

Vice-President of the EPO Under Investigation: Treason, Abuse, Violations, Giving and Receiving Bribes

EPO Management Warns People About Scams When the EPO's Management is Itself Falling for Scams

Warning: EPO Surveillance May Have Just Gotten Even More Intrusive

Victim Card Ends up in Another Blunder for Battistelli and His Six Bodyguards

Italian Report About EPO Now Available in English

The EPO is Doing Great, Says EPO-Connected ‘News’ Site

EPO Management Under Growing Stress From Croatian Law Enforcement Authorities, German Politicians, Italian Media

The Latest EPO Victim Card (Played by Željko Topić) Should be Treated as Seriously as Those Bogus Claims of Violence by a Judge

The Media Starts Informing the European Public About the Downsides of UPC While EPO Accelerates Its Lobbying for Ratification

Some Details About How the EPO’s President is Rumoured to be ‘Buying’ Votes and Why It’s Grounds/Basis for “Immediate Dismissal”

Documents Show Zagreb Police Department in Investigation of Vice-President of the European Patent Office

Disrupting Battistelli's Distracting Propaganda: EPO Staff to Protest Again in About a Fortnight

Corrupting Democracy? Growing Frequency of Rumours That the EPO’s President Battistelli is ‘Buying’ Votes of Small Member States

EPO Patent ‘Quality’ and ‘Patent Creation’ Myth: Capsule-Based Coffee Sales and Trauma

Notorious EPO Tyrant, Benoît Battistelli, Meets Other Tyrants, Reportedly 'Cleanses' the Administrative Council

It’s All Just Artificial Distractions From EPO Management, ‘Yellow’ Union Comes Under Scrutiny Again

Anonymous Commenters Debate Whether Battistelli’s EPO Can Revoke Pensions of Dismissed Employees Who Dare — GASP — Find Alternative Employment

Another Almost Empty EPO Presentation at The Hague

If Battistelli Stayed and UPC Became a Reality, Patent Quality at the EPO Would Get a Lot Worse

Two Months Down the Line, Battistelli Has Done None of What the Administrative Council Told Him to Do; He Should be Sacked Next Month

UPC an Attack Not Only on the European Public But Also on Staff of the EPO

UPC is Class War (the Rich Fighting Everyone Else), Hence the Increasing Militarisation of the European Patent Office

Relying on EPO, CAFC -- Originator of Software Patents in the US -- Tries to Bring Them Back Into Play in Microsoft Case

Raising Barriers to UPC Cancellation and Withdrawal

Italian Television to Cover EPO Abuses, Bringing the Outrage to the Mainstream in Another Country

EPO an Ill Organisation, Lots to Protest Against Tomorrow

Golden Parachute or Not, Battistelli is Wasting Huge Amounts of Money on His Longtime Bodyguards Fetish

A Soup of UPC Lies Courtesy of the EPO, Patent Lawyers, and Large Clients (Like Multinational Corporations)

European Digital SME Alliance: Unified Patent Court (UPC) “Unconstitutional”, Harms SMEs, Brings Software Patents to Europe, “Should be Based on EU Law and Not on an International Agreement.”

Corporate Imperialism in Europe Through the UPC, the Horrible Patent Deal Almost Nobody Heard of

Enemies of Europe: A Month After Promoting UPC in London, Benoît Battistelli and the EPO Do This in Helsinki

You Need to Become Proprietary Software Customer (Microsoft Recommended) to Interact with the European Patent Office

US Congress Should Investigate EPO and Battistelli, Not Just WIPO and Francis Gurry

Amid French Political Actions Against EPO Management French Consulate the Target of Next Week's EPO Staff Protest

New Paper About the UPC Explains Why It is Bad for Small- and Medium-sized European Businesses

Governments in Europe Still Active Against EPO Management

The European Spam Office (EPO)

Not Just Benoît Battistelli and Willy Minnoye (EPO): Željko Topić Too Thinks He is Above the Law, Avoids the Judges and Courts

The European Patent Office Still Silently Abusive, Will Pay $15,000 in Compensation to Female Worker After Belated ILO Judgment

April

How to Salvage the EPO’s Reputation: Create More Boards of Appeal in Europe and Abolish the Misguided UPC Fantasy

The European Copy-Paste Office (EPO)

Amid Referendum “the New European Unitary Patent System is Likely to Collapse Before It Started”

If EPO “Form of Thinking Were to be Followed, Guantanamo on German Soil Would be Possible.”

A Farce of a System: How SIPO, USPTO, and Increasingly the EPO Too Turn Into Filing Systems (No Proper Examination/Filtering Required)

The EPO’s Departure From Truth and Entrance Into the Realms of Chinese Industrial-Grade Propaganda

Fighting Back Against Limitations on Software Development in Europe

In Battistelli’s Mini Union (Minion) It Takes Less Than 10 Votes to ‘Win’ an Election

The Chaos in the EPO Impacts Stakeholders

EPO Integrity on the Line: The Story of Željko Topić's Controversial Diploma - Part V

Growing Threats of Software Patents in Europe and the FRAND Trap Which Microsoft Promotes/Lobbies For

Battistelli’s MoU and Photo Op With the Institute of Professional Representatives Helps Disguise Its Harsh Criticism of the EPO

Bavarian Parliament Discusses EPO Abuses

EPO Integrity on the Line: The Story of Željko Topić’s Controversial Diploma – Part IV

EPO's European Inventor Award Still a Subject of Embarrassment, Media Manipulation, Waste of Public Money, and Shameless Self-Promotion

EPO Integrity on the Line: The Story of Željko Topić’s Controversial Diploma – Part III

The 'Great Conspiracy' of Patent Lawyers, Lobbyists and Large Corporations for UPC and for Software Patents

European Patent Office Deemphasising Quality and Looking to Replace the Key Workers

Munich State Attorney is Pursuing Criminal Charges Against the European Patent Office

EPO Integrity on the Line: The Story of Željko Topić’s Controversial Diploma – Part II

Bavarian Parliament to Discuss the EPO’s Abuses in 24 Hours

EPO Integrity on the Line: The Story of Željko Topić's Controversial Diploma - Part I

Church of EPO: How Team Battistelli Engineered the Dismissal of People Not Sufficiently Loyal to Them – Part IV

Benoît Battistelli “Left in Anger During an Initial Meeting With the State Secretary Who Started Talking About Working Conditions for the Staff”

Administrative Council “Openly Showed Disapproval of Battistelli’s Behaviour” at the EPO

European Patent Office and Human Rights Violations: Article Translation Into English Reveals Upcoming Lawsuit Against the EPO Over Institutional Harassment

European Patent Office a Microsoft Stronghold: GNU/Linux and Mac Support Seemingly Just Dumped

Totally Inappropriate: The European Patent Office is Still Intervening in European Law and Politics

US Lobbyist for Software Patents, David Kappos, Uses EPO’s Snubbing of the EPC to Spread Misinformation and Patent Monopolies on Software/Algorithms

Needed Urgently: Information About the Secret Meeting of Board 28 and Battistelli's Yellow Union, FFPE-EPO

Croatian News Site Explains Where Criminal Cases Against EPO Vice-President Željko Topić Stand

Church of EPO: How Team Battistelli Engineered the Dismissal of People Not Sufficiently Loyal to Them – Part III

Church of EPO: How Team Battistelli Engineered the Dismissal of People Not Sufficiently Loyal to Them – Part II

What is Known (and Not Known) About Attacks on Croatian Portal That Exposed Željko Topić, the Notorious EPO Vice-President

Church of EPO: How Team Battistelli Engineered the Dismissal of People Not Sufficiently Loyal to Them - Part I

Busted Battistelli: EPO President Violating the EPO’s Code of Conduct

Why 2,657 EPO Workers Going on Strike is Actually a Lot Less Than Would Strike If It Wasn't for Obstructions From Team Battistelli

EPSU Explains Why SUEPO Fights for More Than Just EPO Employees and for Rights of Workers at International Institutions

European Patent Office Half Empty Today

On Day of Strike FFPE-EPO Reaffirms Status as Yellow (Fake/Management-Leaning) Union, Receives ‘Gifts’

EPO is on Strike, Battistelli Escapes to London With His Bodyguards for More UPC Lobbying, FTI Consulting Goes for Brussels

From US Military to International Banking and External ‘Review’ of EPO ‘Investigations’ (Union-Busting and War on Dissent)

Staff Union of the European Patent Office Sends Out a Striking Message With a T-Shirts Campaign

7 Reasons to Join the Strike at the European Patent Office

Show Solidarity to Fellow EPO Workers. Go on Strike Tomorrow.

Christian Archambeau on the Verge of EUIPO and EPO, Making the Two Less Distinguishable

EPO Management Mocks Justice and Bans Judges, Takes Away Their Independence

European Patent Office Insists That Obeying the Law is Not Realistic, UPC Another Example of That

EPO’s Board 28 Scheduled to Have What Looks Like an Emergency Meeting, EPO Management Pretends Staff Strikes and Crisis (Board 28′s Word) Don’t Mean a Thing

Battistelli's Inner Circle is Expanding With More Miraculous EPO Promotions and Allegedly More Bodyguards

EPO Management Says Not a Word About Strike This Week, Not Informing Customers/Stakeholders Either

EPO Strike in 3.5 Days Effective in All Sites, Lots for EPO Staff to be Angry About

UPC Lobbying and Propaganda at the Fordham IP Think Tank (‘Conference’) 2016 in New York, With a Clear EPO Role

EUIPO and the Shady Relation to the EPO

March

New EPO Marketing Campaign: Drive Your Audi Home

Hope at the End of the Tunnel as More Software Patents Are Squashed in the US (also covers quality decline at EPO)

Microsoft at EPO: A Look Into the Relationship

Further Militarisation of the European Patent Office Amid Crisis and After Request of Fair and Just Treatment of Staff

SUEPO Publishes Translations of German Media Reports About the EPO

EPO Losing Time: Two Weeks Later, Benoît Battistelli Has Made Virtually No Progress to Save Himself From Sacking

UPC Would Bring Software Patents to Europe and Open the Floodgates to Litigation

The Media is Still Awash With Unitary Patent (UPC) Misinformation

Crisis Deepens at the European Patent Office, General Strike Planned for Next Thursday

Scandalous: European Patent Office Serves Only Microsoft Customers With Filing Software

Kroatische Lobistin für UN im Zentrum des intarnationalen Skandals in EPA

Preserving Material About the European Patent Office (EPO) and Abuses by EPO Management

Ingve Björn Stjerna’s New Book About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Why It’s Important

Battistelli is Trying to Save His EPO Job After Getting Called Out, But Doesn’t Give Back Busted Union Leaders Their Jobs; Strike Imminent

“The Decision of the President Battistelli to Overstep the Recommendation of the Disciplinary Committee is Arbitrary and Shows Bad Faith.”

Letter Says EPO MoU “Raises Questions About FFPE's Credibility as a Federation of Genuine Staff Unions”

Their Masters’ Voice (Who Block Techrights): FFPE-EPO Openly Discourages Members From Reading Techrights

Ongoing Investigations: EPO’s Attacks on the Media

FFPE-EPO Says MoU With Battistelli Will “Defend Employment Conditions”

Why Bayerischer Rundfunk Videos About the European Patent Office Have Been Removed

Union Syndicale Federale Slams FFPE-EPO for Helping Abusive EPO Management by Signing a Malicious, Divisive Document

More Vomit-Inducing Publicity Stunts From Benoît Battistelli and the EPO Management

De Telegraaf Says There is Reorganisation Under Way at the European Patent Office

EPO Scandals in British Media: Third Time in Private Eye

Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and the United Kingdom Urge Benoît Battistelli to Allow Independent Investigation of His EPO Union-Busting Moves

The ‘Results’ That Battistelli and His EPO Bunch Brag About Not Believed by Patent Lawyers and Patent Examiners

European Patent Office: Administrative Council gives the President a bollocking

Conflict at the European Patent Office: Battistelli gets away with a slap on the wrist

International Labour Organisation Should Ask EPO Staff About the Surge in Cases, Not Just EPO Management, Which Chronically Lies

Reversal Spin: SUEPO Needs to Make Peace Rather Than Benoît Battistelli Needing to Make Peace After Dismissing SUEPO’s Leaders

Article Highlights Madness When It Comes to Overstressing EPO Staff and Pushing Towards Overpatenting (Even Life!) in Pursuit of Profits

Benoît Battistelli Made SUEPO Stronger by Trying to Decapitate It, May in Fact Have Self-Decapitated EPO (President in the Chopping Line)

Translation of Article Highlights Bavarian Political Motion, Protest Scale and Severity in Munich

Better Late Than Never: Bavarian Parliament Intervenes in EPO Affairs Amidst Abuses

Insider's Account (Not Face-Saving EPO Statement) Reveals That Even Battistelli's Allies Turn Against Him, EPO 'Results' Not Believed by Some, and Munich Protests Break Records

Institutional Failure and Dirty Tricks: Benoît Battistelli Seemingly Gets Support Like Microsoft Gets Support

Investigation Into Working Conditions at the European Patent Office Will Commence

In the Mainstream Media, the European Patent Office is Already Becoming Another FIFA, Lies Aplenty as Last Remaining 'Damage Control' Strategy

Survey Confirms What Board 28 Already Admits: the European Patent Office is Deep in a State of Crisis Since Benoît Battistelli Took Over

Exclusive: New Leaked Document Shows Board 28 Surprised Battistelli and Had a Long Unilateral Argument With Him Over Union-Busting ('Disciplinary Cases'), Called It a “Crisis”

Dutch Media (NRC) Cites Documents Leaked to Techrights and EPO Refuses to Comment on Them

EPO’s Leadership All-time Low: Benoît Battistelli’s Meeting With Secretary Martijn van Dam Explodes

Reader's Article: “Guantanamo Possible in Germany”

Battistelli Unsurprisingly Rejects Opportunity to Salvage His Status, EPO Strike Likely to Proceed Soon

Consequences of Straining Staff: Patent Quality at the European Patent Office Has Gotten Rather Terrible

Overthrowing Battistelli Only Part of a Bigger Job (Restoration of Quality and Human Decency at the European Patent Office)

French High-Quality Video About the European Patent Office

English High-Quality Video About the European Patent Office

German High-Quality Video About the European Patent Office

EPO's Central Staff Committee Asks Benoît Battistelli to Undo Union-Busting Activities and Obey the Dutch Court's Judgment

Old Article About Battistelli's Right-hand Man, Željko Topić, Highlights Severity of the Whole Situation

French Transcript of Bayerischer Rundfunk Coverage About EPO

English Transcript of Bayerischer Rundfunk Coverage About EPO

German Transcript of Bayerischer Rundfunk Coverage About EPO

EPO Hypocritically Responds to TV Program by Defamation/Mocking of the Dead and Threats to the Media (Truth as Defamation?)

EPO Protest in Munich in a Couple of Days

EPO Rumours About Antonio Campinos as Replacement for Benoît Battistelli

EPO Under Benoît Battistelli: Nepotism, Misinformation, Poor Patent Quality, Terrible Working Conditions, and Increase in Prices

European Patent Office Kontrovers TV Coverage (English Version)

L’Office Européen des Brevets (OEB/European Patent Office) Kontrovers Coverage

Kontrovers Coverage of Abuses at the European Patent Office (With Subtitles Added)

Benjamin Henrion's (FFII) FOSDEM Talk About UPC and Software Patents in Europe

The EPO 'Results' Are Bunk

Battistelli Acting Like a Politician, Lobbying for UPC All Across Europe and Coming to London Soon

Business Profit Over Science: Patent Scope at the EPO Has Gone So Badly Out of Control That Even the European Parliament is Complaining

The European Patent Organisation’s Administrative Council Can Stop the Strike by Agreeing/Working to Reintegrate Staff Representatives and End Benoît Battistelli’s Witch-hunts

EPO Tells La Tribune That Benoît Battistelli’s Salary is “We Don’t Comment on Rumours”

The Article Which Reinforces Rumours About Christoph Ernst Replacing President Battistelli at the EPO

Central Staff Committee of the European Patent Office Asks the Chairman of the Administrative Council to Take Action Next Week or Risk General (Office-Wide) Strike

A Patent Office or a Lobbying Firm? ‘European’ Patent Office (EPO) Sticking its Nose in UPC Matters Again.

The European Patent Office is in a State of Transition, But Not Battistelli's Transition or 'Reform'

Video Sheds Light on Policy/Stance of the Man Rumoured to be Battistelli's Successor at the EPO

Patent Attorney Joeri Beetz Explains Why EPO Results Are a Lie

Rumours and Unverified Claims Suggest That EPO President is “Bribing” for Perceived Support

Another EPO Protest Next Week, Strategically Planned to Coincide With the Administrative Council’s Meeting

Exclusive: Leaked Document Refutes Battistelli's Words and Shows He is Still Deplored by the Board

Team Battistelli’s Bergot Reacts to Strike Action

Caricature of the Day: Recognising FFPE EPO

4,062 of Staff Vote on EPO Strike, Over 91% in Favour

Claim and Perception: Under Battistelli, EPO More Permissive on Software Patents Than USPTO, In Spite of the EPC

Rumoured Successor of Battistelli, Christoph Ernst, Previously Seen as Antagonist of Battistelli But What About UPC?

Super Tuesday: EPO Workers Are Voting for a Strike Today

Software Patents Are a Dying Breed in the United States and the EPO Should Take Notice

The EPO’s Media Strategy at Work: Union Feuds and Group Fracturing

Kontrovers: German Program (With Subtitles) About the European Patent Office

Vote for EPO Strike This Tuesday in Order to Replace EPO Management

Busted Battistelli: EPO President Publicly Lies About the State of the EPO, So What About His Secret Contract, Salary and Other Undisclosed Benefits?

Fallout of the FFPE EPO MoU With Battistelli's Circle

EPO and IAM: a Marriage of Convenience

JUVE Translation: EPO Quick to Announce Success Story of Dialogue with Small Unions

Forget Staff Union-busting 'Strike Ballots', How About Ballots on Presidential Matters?

Remember What Benoît Battistelli Said About His Salary and His Bonus

Despite Its Propaganda Campaign (‘Union Recognition’ and ‘Results’) the EPO’s Management is Totally Flipping Out

Why the Letter in Support of Battistelli is Worse Than a Lie and Should be Thrown to the Wastebasket by the Organisation’s Administrative Council

“FFPE-EPO Was Set up About 9 Years Ago With Management Encouragement”

Unitary Patent (UPC) Propagandists Are Louder Than Ever as Its Architect in Chief (Battistelli) is Probably About to Get Sacked

EPO Cartoon: The Presence of Justice

EPO Strike Still Planned, More Details to be Published Soon

Further Evidence Suggests and Shows Stronger Evidence That Team Battistelli Uses FFPE-EPO as 'Yellow Union' Against SUEPO

EPO Propaganda is Already Sticking in Some Media

Overview of Today’s Growing Press Coverage About the European Patent Office

In the EPO’s Official Photo Op, “Only One of the Faces is Actually FFPE-EPO”

3/3 is EPO Propaganda Day: Techrights to Respond and Alert the Media About Misinformation

EPO Media Strategy: Call the Whistleblowers Nazis and Criminals

Team Battistelli Uses FFPE to Give an Illusion of EPO Peace With 'Unions' and Justify/Support a Now-Famous Lie

German Television to Cover the EPO Scandals at 9 PM (CET) Tonight — Half an Hour From Now

EPO at Boiling Point: Why Battistelli is Believed to be Paid About $2,000,000 Per Year and Who Created and Circulated a Letter in His Support

UPC Anything But a Certainty With Battistelli on His Way Out, But Patent Lawyers Are Still in Denial

Brace Yourselves for Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Tomorrow the European Patent Office Will Spread Propaganda Based on Half Truths and Misdirection

Battistelli and Godwin's Law (Comparing One's Opposition to Nazis)

Team Battistelli’s New Media Strategy at Times of EPO Emergency

Ongoing Investigation: Why Mainstream Media -- and German Media in Particular -- Has Mostly Ignored Latest Developments at the EPO

EPO Attracts Complaints Over (Mental) Torture Against Staff

February

Update on Civil Complaints and Criminal Complaints Against EPO Vice-President Željko Topić in Lufthansa/Airplus Case

Problems of Governance in International Organizations: the EPO

Media Alert: Spokespeople of the EPO Are Lying to Journalists

Confirmed by Dutch Media (Telegraaf): Benoît Battistelli Makes Unreasonable Compensation Demands

EPO “Management by Fear… Within a System Which is Not Subject to Any Outside Control.”

Battistelli-Led EPO “Led to Tensions and Even to Suicides Among Employees, Say the Unions”

Member States Are Turning Against “Tyrannical” Chief of European Patent Office (Benoît Battistelli)

Next Week Looks Likely to Bring Another Battistelli Crisis at the EPO

Article Translation (de Volkskrant): EPO Employees Are Tired of Tyranny and Take to the Streets

Censorship in Land of So-called ‘Social Dialogue’: EPO is Still Blocking Techrights Web Site, But There Are Exceptions/Loopholes

Even Battistelli-Funded Media Admits That Battistelli is in Deep Trouble Right Now

New Evidence Emerges, Showing That Unitary Patent (UPC) is Indeed an SME Killer That Negatively Affects Europe for Patent Lawyers’ Sake

Dutch Report: “External Investigation” Likely to be Launched Into “the Punitive Measures That Battistelli Imposed on Union Members.”

Repurposed Misinformation Campaign: The EPO’s PR Team is Lying to The Register in Order to Help Battistelli Save Face

Dutch Media Reinforces Rumours That Battistelli is on His Way Out, Only a Matter of Money Now

The English Version of the Central Staff Committee’s Open Letter to the Praesidium of the Administrative Council Regarding Battistelli’s ‘Social Study’ EPO Propaganda

Nearly a Thousand EPO Employees Prepared to Go on Strike in Just a Fortnight, Team Battistelli Getting Desperate to Stop That

More Fire Power for Team Battistelli With New Promotion of French Lady

European Patent Office: Battistelli Gets Official Warning

The Mass Media Recognises This May be the End of the Battistelli Regime

Further Militarisation of the EPO

The EPO’s Investigative Unit (I.U.) Called ‘Gestapo’ on Dutch Television

Possible Connections Found Between WIPO Misconduct and “a Dozen Serious Criminal Charges” Against EPO’s Željko Topić

EPO-Funded Unitary Patent (UPC) Propaganda Events and the Latest on the Undemocratic (Even Antidemocratic) UPC Push

Federation of International Civil Servants’ Associations Bemoans EPO Climate of “Fear, Threats, Intimidation or Retaliation”

More Information About Battistelli's Utterly Miserable Last EPO Moves (Leaked Photo Included)

Request of Transcription and Translation: FICSA Letter Against EPO, French Media on EPO Abuses

New Leak: Battistelli’s Circle, Now Fighting for Survival, Circulates a Letter (and Why Some at the EPO Believe It’s a Form of Blackmail)

Leaked: Board 28 Message to Heads of Delegation of the Administrative Council (EPO)

The European Patent Office’s Head of Recruitment and Talent Management Quits, More People Reportedly Exit Quietly

“Bavarian Government is Unable to Become Involved in the Business Operations of Supra-national Organizations” Like EPO

More Political Action in France, Still Firmly Against the Largely French EPO Management

New EPO Rumours About Benoît Battistelli's Potential Role in the Bygmalion Affair

Germany, Which Allows People in Europe and Abroad to Patent Software (EPC Shunned), Simply Cannot be Trusted With the EPO and UPC

Call for Information: Separating EPO Rumours From Confirmed Facts

Patent Trolls and the Rise of Non-Practicing Parasites Not Just in the US But Also in Europe

A Preview of Injunctions/Raids Heaven in Europe With the Unitary Patent (Continent-Wide Bans and Embargoes by Patent Lawyers)

Source: EPO’s Administrative Council Not Pursuing Battistelli’s Witch-hunt Against a Judge Anymore

Rumours Suggest That Battistelli, Already Enjoying Life With a Huge (But Still Secret) Salary, Wants More Than a Decade’s Worth of Salary to Leave

EPO Management Reportedly in a State of Collapse, Rumours Suggest Battistelli Possibly Out Soon, Events Canceled

Open Letter Explains Why Disciplinary Committees at the EPO Have Become a Sham Under Battistelli's Regime

Team Battistelli Tries to Bend the Rules to Prevent the European Patent Office From Going on Strike

The EPO's Patent Coup in Europe Moves on With Conflict of Interests-Plagued German Authorities for UPC

Danish Left's Alternate for European Parliament Slams the European Patent Office While Staff Protests Are Again Ignored by the German Media

Patent Lawyers and EPO Officials Are Parading the Unitary Patent (UPC) in, Despite Lack of Democratic Process

How the European Patent Office (EPO) is Crushing Staff Unions and Why EPO Staff Has a Moral Duty to Protest

The European Patent Office (EPO) Openly Advocates Software Patents Despite the Rules

Transcript of EPO Official Admitting on Television (Nieuwsuur Interview) That Courts Are of No Interest to Him

Caricature of the Day: Willy Minnoye (EPO) Above the Law

A New MUST-READ Article From Croatia About EPO Vice-President Željko Topić, Condemning His Behaviour Even Inside the EPO

EPO VP1 Willy Minnoye and His Bizarre Claims About Systematic Crackdown on the EPO Unions (More Than Half a Dozen People Targeted is Clearly Not a Coincidence)

The Abuses of the EPO’s Management Against Staff Extend to Their Families

With Software Patents, “the Low Level of the USPTO Has Now Been Reached by the EPO”

The European Patent Office, Aloof/Apathetic to Inventors and Human Rights, Simply Cannot be Trusted With the Unitary Patent (UPC)

Feedback About Battistelli’s ‘Meet the President’ Event in Rijswijk (4th of February, 2016)

In Lawyerland, Simulated UPC 'Trials' and More Extraordinary EPO Propaganda for Change That Would Harm Europe to Help Patent Lawyers and Their Big Clients

New EPO Protests Amid Nervous Breakdowns of Spanish EPO Employee (After Institutional Bullying by Battistelli's Goons), Spain Rejects the Unitary Patent (UPC)

Only Half a Dozen Cuban Patents Filed at EPO, But Hugely Unpopular Battistelli Goes to Cuba to Garner Cheap Support

EPO Brain Drain (Even Directors Fed Up With Team Battistelli) and Rumours About Battistelli Becoming President of the UPC

More Than 20 Years in the Line: European Patent Office and Claims of European Convention on Human Rights Infringement Against Applicants/Stakeholders

UPC Nepotism, Political Abuses, and UPC Involvement From the Legal Firm That EPO Hired to Bully Techrights

Member of European Parliament Brings Up “Ongoing Violations of the Fundamental and Employment Rights of the Staff of EPO”

Besieged Benoît Battistelli Mimics 'Damage Control' Tactics of FIFA or Blatter as More Judges Start Getting Involved in EPO Scandals

Several Political Parties Directly Challenge the European Patent Office for Ignoring the Law, Not Obeying Court Orders

Even the Legal Community is Upset at Benoît Battistelli for the Damage He Did to the EPO

EPO Union (SUEPO) Getting Busted: “More and More People are Joining the Union, but Fewer and Fewer People Dare to Take on Leading Positions There.”

The EPO's Benoît Battistelli is the Dictator Who Can No Longer Dictate Like He Used to

The European Patent Office “is Acting as Though the Law Does Not Apply to It.”

Latest Propaganda From the EPO's Management an Effort to Make the EPO the Tool of Megacorporations

'Aversion to Change' Propaganda From the EPO Echoes or Parrots Lenin and Stalin

The Alice Case Continues to Smash Software Patents (This Time OpenTV’s); Will the EPO Ever Pay Attention?

EPO Staff Responds to Team Battistelli's Expansion to Include French Economic Propagandist on the Payroll

UPC: To Understand Who Would Benefit From It Just Look at Who's Promoting It (Like TPP)

The ‘Offenses’ of EPO Staff Representatives Boil Down to Truth-Telling

Rumours About Dismissal of Benoît Battistelli and New Letter From Union Syndicale Federale Blasting Battistelli’s Behaviour

Readers' Article: A Strange Conspiracy of Silence in the German Media (Part II)

European Patent Office Pretends It's Business as Usual and Prepares New Vanity Pieces

Readers’ Article: A Strange Conspiracy of Silence in the German Media (Part I)

Benoît Battistelli’s EPO: From Show Trials and Mock Trials to a Self-Aggrandising Propaganda Event Later Today in Rijswijk

Caricature of the Day: EPO President

Company Known as European Patent Office Provides Tips on How to Patent Software in Europe

The Most Detailed Explanation (Yet) of What's Wrong With the EPO

SUEPO (EPO Staff Union) Appears to Have Launched a New and Improved Web Site After Attempts to Crush (‘Decapitate’) SUEPO

Münchner Merkur Explains That EPO Staff is Defecting to SUEPO, Even The Council Distrusts Battistelli Now

Slides of New Talk Which Explains the Connection Between the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Software Patents

Under Battistelli’s Regime the European Patent Office is Rapidly Rotting

January

MEP Konstantina Kouneva (Former Trade Unionist) Again Takes Action Against the European Patent Office for Union-Busting Actions

Political Complaints About European Patent Office Abuses Keep Flooding in After Firing of Staff Representatives (Busting of Unions)

Richard Stallman: European Software Patents Are Back With the Unitary Patent Court (UPC)

When European Parliament/Commission Gets Embroiled in the EPO Scandals

When European SMEs Make the Mistake of Relying on the EPO’s Integrity, Now Want to Even SUE the EPO

Translation: What If the European Patent Office Were to Torture?

The Connection Between the EPO’s Investigative Unit/Battistelli Policies and EPO Suicides

Battistelli and His Bodyguards: Paranoia, Megalomania, or Both? Are China-Style ‘Suicide Nets’ Next on the EPO’s Agenda?

Dutch Media’s Coverage of Protest at The Hague Leaves VP1 Minnoye a New Laughing Stock of the EPO’s Staff

Dutch Television Talks About EPO Conflict and Today’s Protest at The Hague, Previous Protests Too

Independent Dutch Investigation to Commence Into the Working Conditions at the European Patent Office in Rijswijk

EPO Protests Earn Coverage on Dutch Television, Programme Starts Now (10PM CET)

Over a Thousand People Protest at The Hague; The EPO’s PR Team is Lying Again About the Busting of Staff Unions, Pretends There is “Union Recognition”

EPO Staff at The Hague to Protest Shortly; Here is Why We Should All Support Them

No More Defeatism: Battistelli’s Days at the European Patent Office May be Numbered

EPO Protest in The Hague This Week Targets Next Wave of Silent (by Gag Orders) Union Busting

The EPO Goes Lobbying Even More Heavily in Brussels, Reveals New Job Advertisement

Newly-Released Badinter Report Shows That by Treating Staff Like Garbage the European Patent Office is Violating Fundamental Rights

Philip Cordery Says the EPO Situation is Well Known to All, as Attested by the Numerous Press Articles, Political Actions, or Administrative Recommendations

Süddeutsche Zeitung After FTI Consulting Deal: EPO Ghostwriter or Journalism?

Dismissal of EPO Staff Representatives Does Not Eliminate Them as EPO Staff Sticks Together, Shares the Burden, the Pain

Union-Busting Strategies Backfire: After Additional EPO Protests/Actions (Over 2,000 in Attendance With More to Come) a STRIKE is Being Planned

Additional Information About EPO Management and Its Abuses, as Told by Anonymous Comments

EPO Implicitly Acknowledges Declining Patent Quality by Agreeing to Finally Dump Some Monsanto GMO Patents

EPO President Battistelli and Vice-President Topić Are Having Political Problems

Two More EPO Protests on Their Way, Thousands of Employees Projected to Attend Overall

In Unison, Nations Hop Aboard the Unitary Patent Train Wreck, For (Foreign) Corporate Gain at Europe’s Expense

The EPO’s PR Team May be Trying a New ‘Damage Control’ Strategy Amid Historic Protests by Staff

Benoît Battistelli Blasted by Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’, Who Initiates More Political Actions Against Him

The Next Phase of Union Busting: Battistelli Now Cutting Salaries of Yet More EPO Staff Representatives

EPO/FTI Consulting-funded Event for UPC Will Be Stuffed With Mega-corporations from the United States

SLAPP-Happy EPO Vice-President Željko Topić Loses Croatian Defamation Lawsuit -- AGAIN!

Poor Journalism From Süddeutsche Zeitung Perpetuates the EPO Management's Lies

EPO Management and Its PR Team a Den of Liars, Even Lying to Their Own Staff

Battistelli “Exacerbated the Penalties Which Were Recommended by the Disciplinary Committees for All Three EPO Unionists” (Under Mock Trial)

Tomorrow's EPO Protest to Target Union-busting Actions Disguised as 'Social Dialogue' or 'Union Recognition'

Techrights Needs Translations as Another EPO Staff Protest Looms

French Politician Philip Cordery Calls the EPO Authoritarian, Says the Union-busting Decisions Are Purely Scandalous

European Patent Office (EPO) is Not “the Real World” But a Parallel Universe Without Any Regard for the Rule of Law

Battistelli's Legitimacy Under Political Fire After He Fired Staff Representatives, Claims He's Neither Suitable Nor Eligible to be EPO President

Team Battistelli Has Brought Dirty Politics to the EPO, Pension Cuts May be “Blatantly Illegal”

Unitary Patent (UPC) Highlights Reality Behind the EPO’s Management and Its Multinational/Overseas Bosses

Battistelli Hopes That People Forget (or Don’t Know About) Criminal Charges Against Željko Topić, But Croatian Media Does Not Forget as Election Imminent

Summarising the Latest Attacks by the European Patent Office (EPO) on European Society, With Complicity of Corporate Media

The EPO “Hearing Was a Mockery.”

The Witch-hunt Against Elizabeth Hardon Leads Back to Battistelli

EPO Staff Protests in Berlin and Vienna

How the EPO Prevented Scapegoats ('Defendants') in Its Mock 'Trials' From Actually Presenting a Defense

Hundreds of EPO Staff at The Hague (Including Managers) Spontaneously Protested Today, Making Almost Half of All Staff Present

Pierre-Yves Le Borgn' Lashes Out at EPO for Firing Staff Representatives

Massive EPO Protests After Team Battistelli Fires Legitimate Critics and Staff Representatives (Even Those With Young Children)

The EPO is Manufacturing Propaganda Again, Releasing Misleading Figures to the Media

Germany Needs to Respect the European Patent Convention and Stop Issuing Software Patents, Also Reject UPC

Transparency is Sunlight in the Kingdom of the EPO Vampires

The European Patent Office (EPO) Still Quietly Abusive

How the EPO Imposes Secrecy Around Mock 'Trials' and What the EPO Calls 'Violence'

Not Just Three (or Even Six) EPO Staff Representatives Under Attack

A Busy Week Ahead for the EPO's Management as Union-busting Efforts Culminate

The European Patent Office (EPO) Doesn’t Like Spanish, So Why Should the Spanish Tolerate the EPO?

Patent Lawyers Say It “Remains to be Seen How the EPO Will Limit the Number of PACE Requests an Applicant Can Make”

Patent Lawyers and People in 'IP' Jobs Warp the Debate About the Patent System: EPO-Funded Writers, Glorification of Patent Trolls, and Software Patents

So Much for ‘Vocal Minority’… Half of EPO Staff Signed Petition in Support of SUEPO

The European Patent Office (EPO) Has Become a Propaganda Mill After the FTI Consulting Deal

Shedding Light on the Secretive Mock Trial of Elizabeth Hardon and Others (EPO Union Busting)

The Long EPO Queue for European SMEs That Cannot Hop Like Multinational Corporations

What the European Patent Office (EPO) Looks Like to European SMEs

British MEP May Soon Complain to Benoît Battistelli About EPO Process, No Closer Contacts With Ordinary Applicants

German and European Patent Attorney Warns That UPC Would Bring More Patent Trolls to Europe, With Help From the EPO

Meeting the EPO’s PR Team and Learning Its Dirty Tricks

European Patent Office (EPO) Starts New Year With Hogwash

2015

December

EPO Coverage to Increase in 2016, Including UPC Reality Checks

EPO a “European Institution Which Does Not Fall Under EU Law”

Buying Panels and Paying the Media to Cement Personal Agenda: The Bill Gates Common Core Case Mirrors the Battistelli Unitary Patent Case

Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part IV: Criticism Regarding Patent Scope is Verboten

Revolving Doors of High-Level EPO Management: Jacques Michel and the Questel Deal With the EPO

Battistelli’s Proposed Changes to Pensions “Difficult to Understand”, “Liable to Cause Instability”, Without Consultation or Justification

EPO Whistleblowing: How (Not) to Use Machines at the Office

Summary of the EPO-Europatis Series

Loose Data 'Protection' and Likely Privacy Infringements at the EPO: Here's Who Gets Employees' Internal Data

Europatis: “Turnover of €211,800 and Zero Employees”

Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part III: Death in the Family

Benoît Battistelli Fails to Get Majority of 38 Member States to Crush the Boards, Which Are Already Being Crushed Anyway (23 Vacant Judge Positions)

Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part II: Patent Office as a Cancer

Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part I: An Introduction

Concerns About the Unitary Patent Court (UPC) Among EPO Staff an Outcome of Battistelli’s Attacks on Staff

I-AM EPO: How the Record of the EPO's Management Dispute With Staff and the EPC is Being Rewritten by EPO-Funded Media

Managing IP Interview With Battistelli Shows That He's Either Deluded or Dishonest About EPO Realities

EPO Administrative Council: the Situation is “Detrimental to the Proper Functioning of the Office and the Public Image of the Whole Organisation”

Europe Under Siege by Patent Lawyers, UPC Ambitions, and the Administrative Council’s Continued Passive Support of Battistelli

Translation of the Latest Communiqué About the Administrative Council, No Longer Published by ‘President’

EPO Level of Trust Reaches All-Time Low: Workers Distrust the Available Phones in Their Offices, Use Mobiles Instead

The Forgotten History of IAM 'Magazine' as EPO Management's Megaphone and EPO Union Basher

Upcoming Series: The EPO as ‘Public’ Service for Private Profits

Battistelli’s Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part V

An Atmosphere of Revolt Inside the European Patent Office

More Sunday Humour: Fictional Diary From the European Patent Office

Battistelli's Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part IV

EPO Management Discovers Media is Against It

Watch Out for ‘Divide and Rule’ Tactics From the Control Risks- and FTI Consulting-Steered EPO

Jacques Michel (Former EPO VP1), Benoît Battistelli’s EPO, and the Leak of Internal Staff Data to Michel’s Private Venture

Rumour: Administrative Council Advises Benoît Battistelli Not to Fire Staff Representatives

EPO Pays FTI Consulting (Nearly a Million Bucks), Which Pays IAM for Pro-UPC Propaganda Event

EPI Silently Removes Criticism of the European Patent Office/Organisation, Techrights Preserves It

EPO Irrelevancy, Two Decades to be Granted an EPO Patent, Outrage Over Patents on Plants in EPO

Benoît Battistelli: “An Earthquake Would be Needed for the Administrative Council... Not to Support My Major Proposals.”

Battistelli's Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part III

EPO Union Responds to Željko Topić and Raimund Lutz's Attempt to Intimidate Staff That Joins Unions

Ahead of Administrative Council Meeting, General Consultative Committee Warned of “Witch Hunt in Pursuit of SUEPO Officials” (Union Busting)

Administrative Council Does Not Crush the Boards But Does Crush the Unions (Suspension Duration Sextupled)

EPO Attacks Staff Representatives’ Right to Work Just One Week Before Christmas

Members of the European Parliament Slam the EPO for Patent Maximalism That Led to Granting of Patents on Plants

Benoît Battistelli's EPO Continues Its Self-Congratulatory PR Charade, Neglecting to Even Acknowledge the Catastrophes Therein

Battistelli Wants to Make “Lobbying in the Field of European and Unitary Patent” a “Prohibited Activity” for All Except Himself

European Patent Institute (EPI) Not Happy With the EPO’s Terrible Treatment of the Boards of Appeal

AIPPI Sends Angry Letter to the Administrative Council Regarding the EPO's Attacks on the Boards and Staff Unions, Saying it Damages the EPO's Function and Reputation)

New WIPO Figures Reinforce Reality Where More Patents Needn't Imply More Innovation, Just Lower Standards] (a discussion about the EPO and UPC included)

Unanimous Negative Opinion on the Proposal of Benoît Battistelli to Eliminate Basic Rights at EPO

Battistelli's Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part II

UPC and Patent Trolls: The Connection Revisited

Very High Proportion of EPO Staff in Berlin Goes to the Streets to Protest and to Defend SUEPO From the Union Busters

Ahead of Tomorrow's Administrative Council Meeting EPO Staff Representatives Warn Heads of Delegations About Union Busting and Other Abuses

Battistelli's Vision of UPC is Closer Contract With Major Applicants (Abroad), Contrary to European Interests

When Europe's Leading International Patent Litigators Get Fed Up With Benoît Battistelli and Want Him Sent to 'Exile'

Watch Out For the EPO-SUEPO Parity Spin

Heise Article Tackles EPO ‘Feud’ (Union Busting in Disguise), Techrights’ Remarks Follow

Battistelli’s Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part I

EPO No Longer in the ‘Business’ of Just Granting Patents But Politics and Lobbying Also

Keeping the European Patent Office (EPO) Out of Politics Amid the EPO's Campaign to Deceive the Media, Politicians

When SUEPO Called the EPO a “Public Service Organisation Out of Control”

The EPO’s Failed (Dismissed) Attempt to Dismiss a Judge Alleged to Have Communicated About EPO Abuses

The European Patent Office is a Lobby Organisation, Was and Still is Lobbying for Expansion of Patent Scope (Also to Software) Through UPC

EPO Censored Itself After Publishing a Document Which Had Been Leaked Anyway

EPO Central Staff Committee Warns That EPO President Illegally Changes the Rules to Remove the Rights of the Accused, Crush Dissent/Unions

A Day After Massive EPO Protest Benoît Battistelli Tries Using Money to Appease Staff

EPO 'Sweetener' for Administrative Council National Delegates

New Private Eye Article Says EPO “Doesn't Actually Deny That There's a Fast-Track Project Allowing Big Firms to Queue-Jump”

Series Teaser: EPO President Battistelli's Relationship With Power

EPO Scandals in Private Eye Again

Photos From EPO Protest in Munich

A Little Taste of European Patent Office 'Justice'

The EPO’s Double Standard on Confidentiality

Contacting National Delegations to Complain About the European Patent Office (EPO)

EPO Vice-President Željko Topić Formally Weakens the Right to Strike, Threatens Financial Retaliation

Surveillance Audits at the EPO

Tightening Media Control: European Patent Office (EPO) Silences Blogs of Critics by Intimidation, Lawsuits

Union Busting at the European Patent Office, Dressed Up as 'Investigation'

An Introduction and an Overview of European Patent Office (EPO) Scandals

Software Patents and EPO Coverage

Watch Out for the Latest EPO Charm Offensive in the Media, Greenwashing Being the Theme Du Jour

EPO 'Investigators' Are Almost Technically Illiterate, Definitely Biased by Design

Chairman of the Administrative Council Failed to Stop Suspension (and Potential Firing) of EPO Staff Representatives

EPO's Team Battistelli is Promoting Only the Oppressors

Legal Analysis Reveals That EPO Principal Director for Human Resources (Bergot) Resorts to “Gross Violation of Due Process”

Hypocrite in Chief: Benoît Battistelli Compares Staff Union to ‘Mafia’

Lawyers’ Response to Incredible Accusations From EPO Management and Its Praetorian Guard

EPO Management: Associating a Whistleblowing Judge With Nazism and Weapons, Associating Staff Representatives With Snipers!

Team Battistelli Plans to Send to Exile (or Effectively Fire) Law-abiding Staff Because the Staff is Independent and Unwilling to Sack a Whistleblower

FRAND Tax, Patent Trolls as Satellites of Large Patent Aggressors, EPO Puff Pieces, and Another Imminent EPO Protest

The EPO is Trying to Make It a Serious Offense to Merely Inform Colleagues About Oneself (or Others) Being Subjected to Institutional Harassment/Witch-hunt by Team Battistelli

Did the EPO Spike a BBC Story Regarding Discriminatory Practices, Legal Bullying of Bloggers, and/or Microsoft Bias?

Outside Interventions Sought in EPO Amid Scandals, New Intervention Comes From OHIM

New WIPR Survey Shows 96% of Respondents Are Concerned About the Situation at the European Patent Office (EPO)

Staff Union of the EPO Responds to Benoît Battistelli’s Alleged Defamation of Staff Representatives

Article Highlights EPO’s Capitalist Venture Tendencies, Seeking to Just Maximize Profit, Irrespective of Public Interests and Human Factors

EPO “Synonymous With Psychological Depressions, Nervous Breakdowns, and Even Suicides”

The EPO's PR Agency is Connected to Fracking AstroTurf in the United States

No Wonder Staff of the EPO Gets Sick of the Management, Which Games Sickness Statistics in Order to Delude the World

The Tail That Wags the Dog: How an EPO President Virtually Controls the Administrative Council (AC)

Suppression of Voices Critical of the European Patent Office (EPO)

The USPTO, With All Its Serious Issues, Increasingly Looks Like the EPO’s Role Model

More Than 2,000 People, Including Directors, Said to Have Protested in Munich (About HALF of All EPO Staff Including The Hague Protest)

Like JPMorgan, EPO Management Has Started a Defamatory Smear Campaign Against Critics

European Private Office (EPO) Increasingly the Subject of Media Scrutiny Despite Huge Spendings on Reputation Laundering

EPO All-Time Low: Memorandum From the Praesidium (of the Boards of Appeal) Complains to the Administrative Council About Latest Questionable Moves

EPO Does Not Seem to Have Investigators, Only Accusers and Prosecutors (Loyal to the President)

The Media is Already Flooded With EPO Propaganda, Some Likely Paid for With €73,000-Per-Month 'Special' New Budget

EurActiv's Puff Piece for EPO (Amid High-Budget Media Blitz) Reveals Just How Clueless and Tactless the EPO's President Really is

Amid EPO Exodus/Brain Drain, Two Options: 'Gestapo' Staff and Assistant to Battistelli Have Quit or Battistelli's Praetorian Guard is Expanding

Impact of Software Patents and Excessive/Unregulated Profit Motives at USPTO: Now Even Common Encryption (i.e. Computer Security) Under Patent Attacks] (a large portion speaks about patent scope at the EPO and privatisation, nepotism etc.)

French Member of Parliament Reacts to EPO Management Amidst Ongoing Attacks on Staff Representatives and Facts-free Information War

EPO Staff Protest Statistics: Over 2,600 Signatures (So Far) in Petition, About 800 Staff in The Hague Protest, Much More to Come in Munich

EPO “Intranet Fails to Present Any Negative Press Cuttings, Reports and Reactions From the Media”

The Spanish EPO Scandal – Part III

New EPO Job Advertisement Reveals Gestapo-Like ‘Deep State’, Operating Outside the Rule of Law and Managed Secretly by a Tyrannical President

Punto Informatico (Italian Media) About EPO's Legal Bullying Against Techrights

The European Patent Office (EPO) Crushes Not Only Unions But Also the Press and Even Bloggers

The Spanish EPO Scandal – Part II

EPO Staff Representatives Highlight to Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’ How Battistelli Deceived Him

November

Željko Topić Tries to Do to EPO Staff What He Did in Croatia, Now Crushes Staff Assembly in The Hague

The Spanish EPO Scandal – Part I

Media Alert: IAM ‘Magazine’ Does Not Protect Sources

Public Protests by European Patent Office (EPO) Staff Weaken the EPO's Attacks on the Media

Why the European Patent Office Cannot Really Sue and Why It's All -- More Likely Than Not -- Just SLAPP

How the EPO Twisted Defamation Law in a Failed Bid to Silence Techrights

The Latest EPO Spin: Staff Protesters Compared to ‘Anti-Patent Campaigners’ or ‘Against UPC’

The Serious Implication of Controversial FTI Consulting Contract: Every Press Article About EPO Could Have Been Paid for by EPO

EPO: We Have Always Been at War With Europe (or Europeans)

What Everyone Needs to Know About the EPO's New War on Journalism

EPO Did Not Want to Take Down One Techrights Article, It Wanted to Take Down Many Articles Using Intimidation, SLAPPing, and Psychological Manipulation Late on a Friday Night

The European Private Office: What Was Once a Public Service is Now Crony Capitalism With Private Contractors

When the EPO Liaised With Capone (Literally) to Silence Bloggers, Delete Articles

Blogger Who Wrote About the EPO's Abuses Retires

Leaked: EPO Award of €880,000 “in Order to Address the Media Presence of the EPO” (Reputation Laundering)

Documents Needed: Contract or Information About EPO PR/Media Campaign to Mislead the World

Guest Post: The EPO, EPC, Unitary Patent and the Money Issue]

Saving the Integrity of the European Patent Office (EPO)

A Call for Bloggers and Journalists: Did EPO Intimidate and Threaten You Too? Please Speak Out.

European Patent Office (EPO) a “Kingdom Above the EU Countries, a Tyranny With ZERO Accountability”

EPO Management Needs to Finally Recognise That It Itself is the Issue, Not the Staff or the Unions

Even the EPO Central Staff Committee is Unhappy With EPO Management

Debunking the EPO’s Latest Marketing Nonsense From Les Échos and More on Benoît Battistelli’s Nastygram to French Politician

The Sun King Delusion: The Views of Techrights Are Just a Mirror of EPO Staff Unions

United They Stand: FFPE-EPO Supports Suspended Staff Representatives From SUEPO

Censoring WIPR Article About Censorship by EPO]

Censorship at the EPO Escalates: Now We Have Threats to Sue Publishers

Response to Bogus Accusations That EPO Staff Protests Are Really an Attempt to Derail UPC

New Heise Article Makes It Clear That 'Nazi'-Themed Accusations Against the Suspended Board Judge Were Insufficiently Substantiated

European Central Bank Staff Committee Adds to Growing Pressure on Abusive EPO Management

Gross Violation of Workers’ Rights in EPO: Denial of Christmas Vacation/Leave for Slower Workers

The Bogus Narrative Floated by EPO Management: Our Judges and Examiners Are Armed and Violent

Support SUEPO or End Up Like They and Some of the Boards Did

NRC Handelsblad (Dutch Evening Newspaper) Speaks About EPO's Refusal to Accept Court Orders From The Hague

EPO President Battistelli Now Intimidates Even National Delegations

A Look at the Latest Gross Deletionism at the EPO’s ‘Media Partner’, French Newspaper Les Échos

Rumour About Efforts to Dismiss a Board Judge by Intimidating Boards of Appeal

President Battistelli Now Pressures/Threatens Politicians Who ‘Dare’ to Complain About Abuses and Unacceptable Conditions at the EPO

EPO: It’s Like a Family Business – Part IV

Translation of Thomas Magenheim-Hörmann's Article in the German Media, Urging European Politicians to Intervene in EPO Chaos and Lawlessness

German Press Says Broken EPO Lets President Severely Punish Staff Not Even Guilty of Any Wrongdoing

German Media Reveals That Out-of-Control EPO Management is Even Threatening and Abusing Lawyers Now

It Pays (Off) to ‘Bribe’ the Media: Watch How Les Échos Covers EPO Matters and Self-Censors

‘Leaked’ PDF Shows How EPO Management Tried to Crush Judge Who ‘Dared’ to Criticise EPO Management

EPO: It’s Like a Family Business – Part III

In an Effort to Counter EPO Staff Narrative (After ~2,000 of Staff Protest) EPO Management Portrays Staff as Violent But Provides No Evidence

Gross Aggression by EPO Management Shows the Urgent Need to Remove Immunity From EPO

Patent Lawyers Want to Bring Software Patents (Hence Patent Trolls Too) to Europe, Piggyback Battistelli's Habitual UPC Promotion

Another George Bush Moment: Benoît Battistelli Says EPO Believes in “Fundamental Principles of Freedom, Equality and Justice”

Meltdown at the EPO, Massive Staff Protests This Afternoon

The EPO's Management Has Just Reaffirmed Its Possible Role in Contributing to Staff Suicides

EPO: It's Like a Family Business - Part II

EPO: It’s Like a Family Business – Part I

The EPO is Criticised Again for Serving the Monsanto (and Syngenta) Agenda

The Bureaucratic Nonsense That Came Out of Benoît Battistelli and Jesper Kongstad at EPOPIC

New Reports Highlight Need to Crack Down on the European Patent Office and Microsoft

European Federation of Public Service Unions Pressures Dutch Prime Minister to Take Action Against the EPO's Violations

The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part VII

The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part VI

The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part V

The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part IV

IP Kat Bemoans Crushing of the EPO’s Boards by an Increasingly Paranoid EPO Management

The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part III

Dutch Political Action Against the EPO’s Management Greater Than Previously Estimated

The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part II

The Latest Propaganda From Benoît Battistelli is Promotion of the Unitary Patent (UPC) at Political Levels

A State Within a State: Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About the EPO's Bizarre Existence Above the Law

The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part I

More European Politicians Take on the EPO for Ignoring the Rule of Law

The Benoît Battistelli Way or the Highway: EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal is Being Discredited, SUEPO Web Site is Down Again

EPO “Careering Towards the Precipice of Disaster”

October

Private Eye Covers the EPO Scandals, Says EPO Hired 'British Snooping Firm Global Risk Consultants'

Former German Constitutional Court Judge Denounces the EPO’s Possible Campaign of Defamation Against Judge Accused of Truth-Telling

Benoît Battistelli Became an Embarrassment to the European Patent Organisation, Allege EPO Workers

The International Labour Organisation Highlights Problems of Broader Dimensions at EPO

EPO Press Spokesperson and Obvious Conflicts of Interest With Supposed Anti-Corruption Group Transparency International

Battistelli's EPO Loses 'Customers' Because It Plays 'Favourites' With Large Corporations

Secret Deals at the EPO Discredit Europe and Need to Stop Immediately

Control Risks Group (CRG), Transparency International, the European Patent Office (EPO) Investigative Unit and the Obvious Conflicts of Interest

In the United States, USPTO Helps Create Trolls, Whereas in Europe, the EPO Itself is the Troll

Board of Appeal Thwarts a Software Patent Application in the EPO, From Company Indirectly Connected to the EPO

European Patent Organisation: Hallmark of a Corrupted (by Corporations) Entity

The Deteriorating Working Conditions at the EPO Show Reluctance to Make Talented Staff (or Ill Staff) Happy

EPO Slammed for Granting Patents on Life

How the Chief Information Officer of the EPO is Connected to the President of the EPO

SUEPO Reiterates Call for Independent Mediation and “Doubts That There Can Ever be Social Peace With Mr Battistelli as President”

US Patent 'Industry' (Parasites) Defends Patently Broken System That It Profits From, Pushes for UPC in Europe

Techrights to Increase Coverage of EPO Scandals and the Unitary Patent

Slate Magazine Explains Why Excessive Patenting is a Bad Thing, Gives a Cautionary Tale for EPO and Others

EPO Increases Repressions: Allegedly Bans Staff From Helping Refugees

German Broadcaster on European Patent Office (EPO) Preferential Treatment for Microsoft and Others

Benoît Battistelli et al in an Allegedly New Campaign of Defamation Against Staff Member

German Media Shows Discriminatory EPO Practices More Than Just a ‘Pilot’ (Reaching Second Half of 2016), Started When Microsoft Pressured EPO (Lodged Complaints)

EPO Cleverly Frames Total War Against Its Own Staff as a War Against Nazism

EPO is Trademark-Bullying Its Critics, Trying Repeatedly to Remove Bad Publicity With Help From Menacing Legal Threats (SLAPP)

The 'Sherlocks' of EPO/Spin-Doctoring Pretend That All of the EPO's Problems Boil Down to One Disgruntled Person

EPO’s Jeremy Philpott Confirms That Discriminatory (Software) Patent Processing Practices Started With Microsoft, Because of Microsoft

Translation Needed: High Employee Sabotaged European Patent Office (EPO)

EPO Says Crushing Patent Neutrality is a Good Thing® Because Authenticity of Self-Incriminating EPO Document Cannot be Denied

EPO Completely Loses It and Starts Banning Even More Sites Ahead of Today's Demonstration, UPC Proceeding Behind Closed Doors

Staff of the EPO Under Siege Ahead of Tomorrow's Demonstration in Munich

EPO Management Lobbies for the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Uses This to Advance Software Patents in Europe

Confirmed: Benoît Battistelli is Crushing the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA)

EPO Staff is Happy, Says EPO Propaganda Still in the Making

EPO Management is Running Out of Time as More Media Remarks on Its Abuses

Benoît Battistelli's Group of 'Loyals' Crushes Not Only the Independent Boards But Also 'Unwanted' Directorates-General

Leaked: EPO Prioritises Work for Large Foreign Corporations, Discrimination Not Accidental But Centrally Planned

Benoît Battistelli's Office Accused of Institutional Harassment Against EPO Staff in New Letter to the Administrative Council, Calling for External Investigation

Bad News for the EPO's Judicial Independence and Due Process in Next Week's Administrative Council (AC) Meeting

The Coup D'état of Benoît Battistelli Follows an Imperialist Model, Threatens Opposition and Dissent

EPO Staff to Disrupt Administrative Council Meeting With Public Demonstration That Raises Awareness of Abuses

Željko Topić Attacks EPO Staff for ‘Daring’ to Legally Challenge the EPO’s Management Over Its Gross Abuses in Europe

Commenters Provide Possible Explanations for Mr Van der Eijk Being on Unlimited Sick Leave

With Software Patents in Europe (and Pushes for the Same Thing in Australia and India) Patent Trolls Now Come to Europe, Attack Android/Linux

New Information on Limbo in the Enlarged Board, Courtesy of Illegal Actions by the EPO’s Benoît Battistelli

Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna Explains Why the UPC (“Unitary Patent“ System) is an Undemocratic Sham Whilst UPC Silently Advanced by Patent Lawyers and Politicians

Article Explains Why SUEPO Went Silent Well Over a Week Ago: Nobody is Allowed to Talk to Journalists Without Permission From Battistelli

Chairman of the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA) and EPO Vice-President of DG3 Suspiciously on Unlimited Sick Leave After Benoît Battistelli's Unprecedented Attacks on Other EBoA Staff

Microsoft's Secret Special Relationship With EPO Illustrates Serious Corruption at Microsoft and the EPO

September

Süddeutsche Zeitung Explains Imminent Federal Scrutiny Against Battistelli’s EPO in Germany

EPO Managers, Patent Lawyers, Commissioners and Other Non-Technical Personnel Tackle Democracy, Alter Laws in Bulk and in Secret

Europe’s Acceptance of and Resistance to Software Patents, Courtesy of Corporate Front Groups and Courtrooms Respectively

German Press Explains EPO Investigation Unit (I.U.), Struggles to Openly Speak to the Secretive EPO

Translation Needed of Article About EPO Threats Against SUEPO’s Elizabeth Hardon

EPO Management Justifies Censorship (Even of Journalists) Using Its Vice-President Željko Topić

EPO President Benoît Battistelli Compared to Famous Criminals on European Television

Dutch Politician John Kerstens Says EPO Investigative Unit is Called ‘the Gestapo’

The European Patent Office's Autocracy Has Proven the Streisand Effect, Amplifying Its Opposition's Messages

Dutch Report: EPO Suicides Possibly Caused by Working Conditions Imposed by EPO’s Management

European Patent Office Expands Censorship and Intimidation Against Staff as Pressure Mounts

EPO Staff Suicides Estimated to Have Grown Tenfold Under Current Regime -- Claim

EPO Has Become Political and Benoît Battistelli is Lobbying for UPC (Large Corporations' Wishlist)

The EPO’s Vicious Attacks on Its Very Own Staff Have Peaked (War on Dissent) While Oppressive Patent Regime (UPC) Phased in

Benoît Battistelli and His Goons From Control Risks (CRG) Try to Crush Unions, Not Just Journalism

EPO Management May Not Have Resigned (Yet), But the Rest of the Staff is Leaving in Droves

Benoît Battistelli in Denial Over Suicides in EPO, Accuses and Threatens the Messengers

August

Censorship, Self-Censorship and Intimidation Now the Modus Operandi at EPO

Patent Practitioners: "The Unitary Patent Might be Able to Open the Floodgates for Software Patents in Europe"

Another Suicide at the EPO, Fifth by Our Count

EPO Corruption of Patent Boundaries: Business Methods and Algorithms Patented

EPO Measures Productivity Using the Wrong Yardstick in Order to Sell Its Racket to the Public

‘Sanader’s Protégé’ Željko Topić Slammed by Press in His Home Country

July

Patents Expansion in Europe May be Looming

SUEPO Post Vanishes: Belated Self-Censorship or Threats From EPO Management?

European Censorship: Tyrants of the EPO Blacklist Techrights, Web Site Not Accessible Office-Wide

EPO Appointments: Standards of a Third World Country

Europe Goes Down a Dark Route When It Comes to Patent Scope and Centralisation

Amid Controversy, Political Scrutiny and Increased Media Pressure Željko Topić and Benoît Battistelli Allegedly Cancel Today’s Trip to Zagreb (Croatia) Where Topić Faces Many Criminal Charges

Translation of Pierre-Yves Le Borgn' Speech Against EPO Management and New Parliamentarian Interventions

Munich Press, Münchner Merkur, Slams the Munich-based EPO

Speculations About the EPO's Possible Role in DDOS Attacks

June

Techrights Confirmed as a Target of EPO Surveillance, With Help From Control Risks Group (CRG)

DDOS Attacks Against Techrights

After Intervention by the Council of Europe Comes a Detailed Summary of the Situation in the European Patent Office (EPO)

The Council of Europe Slams the EPO as Political Pressure Grows for EPO Management to Obey the Law

The EPO’s Circus of Nepotism, Corporatism and Gross Abuse is Promoting the Unitary Patent

An Estimated 1,000 EPO Staff in Munich Demonstrated Against EPO Management Yesterday Afternoon

EPO Protest in Munich and Growing Unpopularity of EPO Management, Media Manipulation by the Management

Demonstration Against European Patent Office Management in Munich This Wednesday

French Newspaper Les Echos Censors Criticism of Benoît Battistelli and the EPO

SUEPO to SUE Government of the Netherlands for Protecting the EPO’s Thugs

More Political Interventions in EPO Abuse Cases

Translation of Süddeutsche Zeitung Article Calling for External Oversight of Data Protection at the EPO

EPO Data Protection Officer 'Just a Dictator's Minion', Approved Keyloggers and Hidden Cameras

Badische Zeitung Labels European Patent Office (EPO) a Police State for Use of Very Intrusive Mass Surveillance Software

More European Politicians Pressure and Sometimes Slam the European Patent Office (EPO) Amid New Scandals

EPO Comes Under Fire From the Bavarian Data Protection Supervisor After the Spying Scandal

Full Translation of Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About Blackhat Tactics (Keyloggers) in EPO

EPO Surveillance, Threats, and Patronisation of Dutch Legal System Covered in Dutch Article From De Volkskrant

European Patent Office (EPO) Now Uses Keyloggers to Spy on Staff

When the European Patent Office Lost in Court and Refused to Obey the Law: An Analysis

EPO May be Creating Its Own Lawless NSA (or GCHQ) With Control Risks Group Deal

The European Patent Office Has Become Militarised

Spanish Media on Reign of Terror at EPO: Managerial Misconduct, Blocked E-mails (Censorship), and Abuse of Legal Immunity

The High Cost of Low Patent Bar at the EPO

Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About the EPO's Investigation Unit and Control Risks Group

EPO and Administrative Council Stall Criticism by Pretending to Negotiate With Staff Whilst Actually Attacking It

EPO Officially Confirms That It Specifically Hired Control Risks Group (CRG) to Spy on Journalists and Their Sources

The EPO Sinks Deeper in a Scandal After Paying Public Money for Military-Connected Control Risks to Stalk Journalists and Staff

EPO Corruption Compared to FIFA Corruption While ‘Control Risks’ Helps EPO Hide/Suppress Evidence of Corruption; Calls on German Authorities to Crack Down on Both

EPO Reluctantly (and Privately) Confirms Giving Public Money for Military-connected ‘Control Risks’ to Spy on Journalists and Their Sources While Techrights is Under Fresh DDOS Attacks

May

The EPO Still Wastes Public Money on Publicity Stunts and 'Reputation Management' Campaigns

Propaganda Mode for UPC Agreement Whilst EPO Increasingly Grants Patents on Software

Patent Scope at the EPO is Totally Out of Control, UPC Will Make Things Worse

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Benoît Battistelli and Four EPO Suicides

Süddeutsche Zeitung Says Talking Helps While EPO Management Back-stabs Other Side of the Table

More Utter Shame Unveiled at Battistelli’s EPO: Intimidation Tactics With Help From ‘Control Risks’

April

The EPO’s Tyrant, Benoît Battistelli, is Probably on His Way Out, Threatens to Resign

As Core Issues Still Not Addressed, Another Protest Against EPO Management Scheduled for Tomorrow in Munich, Germany

EPO Management is Trying Hard to Appease Its Critics While Pushing Forth Unitary Patent Agenda

More Translations of French Article About the EPO

New Article Chronicles Suicides and Nervous Breakdowns at the EPO Due to the Management’s Abuses

The EPO is Becoming More Like the USPTO Under Benoît Battistelli's Greed-Driven Reign

More Suicides Reported at the Staff-Hostile European Patent Office

English, French and German Translations of De Telegraaf Article About Ivo Opstelten’s Defence of Benoît Battistelli

The EPO’s Dutch Appeal Court Judgment Controversy: List of Political Interventions

Željko Topić: ‘SUEPO {Staff Union} Has No Standing in This Office. SUEPO Has No Role to Play in This Office.’

English, French and German Translations of Dutch Article About EPO Abuses

When Battistelli’s Defender Ivo Opstelten Turned Out to be Also Defending (Paying) Narcotics Traffickers

When Battistelli’s Defender, Dutch Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten, Attacked Europeans’ Right to Demonstrate

March

When the EPO Came Under Fire From the Netherlands and Before Systemic Corruption Was Revealed

Techrights Cited by European Politicians in Support of EPO Staff’s Causes

Željko Topić and Ivan Šimonović, Two Residues of Ivo Sanader’s Corrupt Regime, Seen as Indirectly Connected

The EPO’s Dutch Scandal Leaves Battistelli and His Cronies on the Run

The EPO's Administrative Council is Under Increased Pressure to Rein in and to Finally Stop Benoît Battistelli

Concerns Over Željko Topić’s Alleged Powerful Links in Croatian Diplomacy

Benoît Battistelli’s EPO Comes Under Fire From Prominent Figures Who Are Key EPO Stakeholders, Expect Battistelli to Resign ‘in the Longer Term’

Benoît Battistelli’s EPO is Under Attack From French Politicians Yet Again

Politics of Blackmail at the EPO

Benoît Battistelli's EPO Comes Under Attack From the British

The Royal Norwegian Department of Labour on the Right of European Patent Office (EPO) Workers to Strike

How the European Patent Office (Management) is Spying on Its Very Own Staff

Translation of Full Judgment Against Željko Topić in Croatian Defamation Case Over Bribery (Mercedes/Audi) and More

Benoît Battistelli Allegedly Turns to Moscow and Putin-Inspired Tactics to Oppress and Suppress EPO Staff

Rikard Frgačić Explains Željko Topić's Behaviour and the Lufthansa Case

Video: How the Željko Topić-Led SIPO Betrayed Croatians

EPO Management Still in a Freefall, Tries to Warp/Divert the Debate Away From Its Abuses

February

The EPO’s Sham ‘Internal Investigation’ of EPO Vice-President Željko Topić’s Affairs

Benoît Battistelli Once Again Threatens EPO Staff That ‘Dares’ to Protest, Battistelli Exploits Terror Attacks to Pretend to Respect Free Speech

The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys Slams the European Patent Office for Structural Failings

Techrights Under Attack Again, Shortly After Important EPO Articles

EPO Staff Protests Against Benoît Battistelli’s Lowering of Patents Quality (Scope Expansion and Software Patents for Profit)

Breaking: European Patent Office Sued by Its Own Staff in The Hague, Must Unblock Staff’s Voices

Željko Topić's History in SIPO Leaves a Legacy of Alleged DZIV Vehicles (Bribes), Authorship Abuses, and Intimidation Against Reporters

Željko Peratović Slammed for Whitewashing Željko Topić After Publishing Important Piece on Behalf of Key Sources

Benoît Battistelli Has Made Oversight of European Patent Office Absolutely Impossible

English Translation of Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About Benoît Battistelli, Željko Topić, and EPO Tyranny

Amid EPO Scandals, Call to Dissolve the EPO and Start All Over Again (With New Management and New Direction)

FFII and the American IP Law Association Comment on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Envisioned by EPO

English Translation of Article About Protest at Danish Consulate Over EPO Abuses

EPO Staff to March to British Consulate to Protest Against the Administrative Council (AC)

The EPO's Digital War (Censorship) Against Staff Web Site

Cyberattacks on SUEPO Server Raise More Questions

The European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW) is Again Protesting Against EPO as More Crackdowns by EPO Management Reveal Depth of Abuse

English Translation of Ruling Against Željko Topić (EPO VP) in Croatian Court

German Translation of Ruling Against Željko Topić, the EPO's Vice-President

More Press Coverage From the Danish Media About EPO Abuses and Protest at Danish Consulate

Benoît Battistelli and Jesper Kongstad Continue to Blame Everything on SUEPO

Catarina Holtz From the EPO Boards of Appeal Explains Bad Behaviour of the Management With Regards to EPC 2000

The EPO's Paid Propaganda Campaign in the Media

January

Media Coverage of Demonstration Against Jesper Kongstad of the Administrative Council (EPO)

Text of Ruling/Decision Against Željko Topić (Regarding Audi as a Bribe)

An Estimated 1,000 EPO Employees-Strong Legion Engulfs Danish Consulate to Protest Jesper Kongstad's (of Administrative Council) Protection of Benoît Battistelli

Breaking: EPO Vice-President Željko Topić Loses Defamation Case in Croatia

As Battistelli Breaks the Rules and Topić Silences Staff, New European Parliament Petition for Tackling the EPO’s Abuses is Needed

The Collapse of European Patent Office Management Culminates With Resignations

Vesna Stilin Renews Her Fight for Justice in Željko Topić Case (EPO VP)

Failure of the EPO Can Derail the Trojan Horse of Software Patents and Patent Trolls

Battistelli's Latest Propaganda War Tries to Convince EPO Staff That Željko Topić's Many Criminal Charges Don't Exist

Translations of Member of the European Parliament Complaining About European Patent Office (EPO)

Dutch MEP Dennis De Jong, Criticising Battistelli and Topić, Calls for Action Against EPO Management

EPO Misdirections Debunked: Refuting Battistelli’s Nonsense and Bogeyman Theory

The EPO Connection Now a Liability as Administrative Council Has Become a Laughing Stock, Jesper Kongstad to be Targeted by EPO Staff Protests

Investigation Unit a Complete Farce Inside the EPO

Just in: Fresh Call From Croatia to Arrest EPO Vice-President Željko Topić

EPO Under Fire From European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW)

Intellectual Property Judges’ Association (IPJA) Speaks Out Against EPO Tyrant Battistelli

2014

EPO Imploding: Battistelli Throws a Fit at EPO’s Investigation Unit

EPO and UPC in Europe Now the Hope of Patent Maximalists, China Too is Assimilating

EPO Scandal: Benoît Battistelli's Arrogance Recognised by European Delegations

EPO Staff Protests Today and Protested Last Week, Targeting Corruption in the Institution

Exclusive: The Enlarged Board of Appeal Complains About Battistelli’s Corrupt Management to the Administrative Council

Protests Against EPO Corruption Approach 1,000 in Attendance

Rolling of Heads Likely Imminent at EPO

Dreaming of a Just Christmas: When a Third of EPO Walks Out to Revolt and European Judges Attack the EPO Over Abuses

EPO Corruption: Battistelli Augments His ‘Loyals’ Circle With Frederic Angermann and Charm Offensive in Patent Lawyers’ Sites

EPO Breaking News: The European Parliament Dismisses Complaint About EPO Abuses

EPO Staff Protests to Continue in the New Year, Techrights to Release New Material

Special report on EPO

The Case of Rikard Frgacic Versus the Croatian SIPO: Allegation of Corruption in Relation to Trademark Reassignment Under Željko Topić’s Watch: Part XVI

Corruption at the Croatian State Intellectual Property Office Which Željko Topić Came From: Part XV

The EPO Shaken by Croatian Revelations: Part XIV

The EPO’s Vice-President Željko Topić and the Case of Ivan Kabalin: Part XIII

France Gets Involved in Battistelli's Abuses in the EPO - Part XII

Vesna Stilin’s Remarks on Željko Topić: Part XI

Special Report: Many Criminal Charges Against EPO Vice-President Željko Topić

How the EPO’s Executive Branch (Battistelli and Topić) Banned Scrutiny and Created Authoritarian Model of Control: Part X

How to Complain About the EPO to National Delegations in Europe: Part IX

The EPO Is More Corrupt Under Battistelli Than Under Alison Brimelow: Part VIII

The EPO’s Public Relations Disaster Amid Distrust From Within (and EPO Communications Chief Leaves): Part VII

The EPO’s Protection Triangle of Battistelli, Kongstad, and Topić: Part VI

Benoît Battistelli’s Balkan Standards in EPO: Part V

European Patent Office Disorganisation: Problems With the Audit Mechanisms – Part IV

European Patent Office/Organisation – Suspicion of Improper Collusion Between EPO President and Chairman of the Administrative Council: Part III

Željko Topić, Benoît Battistelli, and the European Patent Office (EPO): Part II

Suspicion of High-Level Corruption at the European Patent Office (EPO): Part I

2013

The EPO Has Gone Rogue, Disregards the Law

With Unitary Patent Scheme, EPO Pushes Hard for Software Patenting (More Leech Income)

2012

EPO Decides to Listen to Anti-Patents Stance, USPTO Censors It

Google Helps EPO Manage Monopolies, Unitary Patent Aided

EPO Advisory Board Likes Patents

2011

EPO and Other Lawyers-dominated Circles Push for Software Patenting

Cablegate: USPTO, JPO, and EPO Prepare a Global Patent System

EPO More Popular/Responsive Than the USPTO

EU Patent Failing to Materialise, But EPO and Politicians Begin to Overstep Their Line of Authority to Intervene

EPO Thinks More Patent Business (Filings) is a Good Thing, US Commerce Secretary Realises it is Not

2010

US Patent Colonisation: EPO Promotes Machine Translation, New Zealand Still Resistant

“EPO Still Operating in a Vacuum”

USPTO Wants Feedback About Post-Bilski Guidelines, EPO Might Let Monsanto Patent Life

Lessons to the UK-IPO and EPO, Courtesy of USPTO Failure

Backlash Against The European Patent Office (EPO), The Extended Board of Appeal (EBoA), and Trolls-Friendly Patent Systems

BSA Blames Lack of Patents for Europe Being ‘Behind’, EPO Loses €2 Million in Kaupthing Bankruptcy

Patents Roundup: USPTO Grants Patents on Hotdogs and Harbours Pyramid Schemes, EPO in Transition, and Apple Turns Nasty

2009

What on Earth is the EPO Doing?

The EPO Does Not Work for European Citizens

EPO in State of Turmoil, Patents Kill

EPO and the Swiss Department of Justice Want to Make Some Free Software a Crime

Goodbye, Alison Brimelow (EPO President)

Is the EPO Selling Out to Microsoft?

Patents Roundup: Microsoft, CSIRO, Patent Hawk, and “Corrupt, Malicious” EPO

European Patent Office Continues March for Software Patents

2008

Alison Brimelow (EPO) Criticised for Referral to Enlarged Board of Appeal

Patent Problems: Google Unresolved, Bilski Resolved, EPO to be Resolved?

The EPO Crisis and Microsoft’s Patent Trolls

Patents Roundup: EPO Patent Numbers Decrease; Bilski Revisited

Software Patents Roundup: EPO, USPTO and Acacia