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In 2017, after heavy involvement and lobbying by Benoît Battistelli, António Campinos (longtime acquaintance of Battistelli) became President-elect of the EPO. We had been writing about Campinos for a number of years before that. EPO staff representatives have alleged, as recently as spring of 2020, that with Campinos they're all back to the Battistelli era.

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2023

=> Translating the Lies of António Campinos (EPO)

=> The Photo Ops Festival of the Funky President António Campinos and Revolt From the Patent Examiners Whom He Perpetually Oppresses

=> António Campinos is Unable to Recruit Patent Examiners, Europe's Largest Patent Office in State of Crisis

=> EPO Central Staff Committee Says António Campinos Became Like Benoît Battistelli After 4 Years at the Office ('Lost From Sight')

=> Meme: António Campinos Wants to Be F***ing President Until 2028

2022

=> EPO President António Campinos 'Too Busy' to Talk to Staff Representatives as Scandals Continue to Pile Up

=> Meme: António Campinos-Controlled (EPO-Commissioned) Surveys Are Just for Show (to Help 'Validate' Lies)

=> António Campinos Could Not Possibly Choose a Worse Time to Show Solidarity With Communist China

=> From About 2-3 Blog Posts Per Day to Not Even One Per Day (After Covering Up for 'Good' EPO Under António Campinos)

=> Meme: The ‘F***ing President’ at the EPO

=> António 'I'm the F***ing President' Campinos Arranges Meeting With EPO Staff to Lie About Staff's Position and Then Crush the Most Basic Rights of Staff

=> They Can't Even Spell UPC Right (in António's Prepared Lobbying Speech to Politicians, Delivered Last Month)

=> António Campinos on Unified Patent Court (UPC) Delays and Trying to Leapfrog the Actual Legal Process (Because It's Illegal)

=> Meme: Criminals Have Feelings Too...

=> António Campinos Once Again Failing to Obey Court Orders, Making Up Ludicrous Excuses for Non-Compliance

=> António Campinos: Portuguese in Absentia (Exile)

=> The António Campinos Photo Ops Tour: Pretending to Support Ukraine While Sending the EPO's Jobs and Applicants' Money to Belarus

=> 4 Years of Monopoly Tony (Mr. Campinos) Violating the Rights of Free Association/Expression/Speech as EPO President

=> There's No Fing Debate With “the Fing President” (What António Campinos Calls Himself!)

=> EPO Steering Off the Road, Just Like the Drunken Son of António Campinos, Who Crashed the Car and Begged for Impunity

=> Meme: President Crybaby

=> People Are Very Angry That Campinos Was Left in Positions of Power Without Any Competition and in Spite of Failing to Fulfill Essential Goals

=> Cautionary Tales About an António Campinos-Run EPO

=> Corrupt António Campinos Bought Himself Another Term by Bribing Voters, Whom None of the Staff Trusts

=> Meme: Benoît Battistelli and António Campino Buying Elections Since 2010

=> EPO Staff Survey's Preliminary Results Published (Almost 2,000 Staff Surveyed), António Campinos Less Trustworthy Than Benoît Battistelli at Similar Points in Their Terms

=> Meme: Speaking Professionally at the EPO

=> Physical Demonstrations Against EPO Considered This Month, Work-to-Rule Industrial Action May Continue, and 96% Think António Campinos Violating the Code of Conduct Means the Office Should Release Recordings

=> Meme: The Wild West of the Cattle-Riding Campino, Tony the Great

=> Like Batka, Like Son

=> National Representatives (Delegations) Need to Listen to EPO Staff When Deciding on the Future of António Campinos

=> António Campinos Needs to be Fired by Month's End (Notice of Permanent End of Term)

=> Meme: A Need for Father's Discipline?

=> EPO Staff Demands Release of the F***ing Recordings of António Campinos Breaching the Code of Conduct of the Office With Repeated Slurs/Swear Words

=> Meme: The Reverse Barroso

=> Diversity and Inclusion at the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> EPO President António Campinos Addresses South America

=> Meme: Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation Can Oust António Campinos Next Month (But Will It?)

=> Meme: It Was Just an Accident

=> Video: Antonio 'F' Campinos in His Very Own Words

=> Meme: Divine Protection

=> António Campinos and the Alicante Clique (EPO Management, Appointed Based on Nepotism Despite Lack of Qualifications) Nowadays Exploiting Kids for PR Charades

=> Meme: Snake on a Plane

=> António Campinos Promotes Software Patents Using Buzzwords and Sketchy Loopholes With Dubious Legal Basis

=> Meme: Jorgotta Be Kidding Us, Campinos!

=> Meme: It’s My Working Party… And I’ll Cry If I Want to!

=> Meme: Monopoly Tony

=> It Took Campinos Three or More Years to Undo Illegal Battistelli Actions on Boards of Appeal and Strike Regulations (Only After Losing at ILO-AT!), But He Does Not Mention That

=> The Lies and Delusions of António Campinos

=> António Campinos Racing Towards Zero Percent (Popularity/Approval Rates), a Lot Lower Than Lukashenko

=> F for Fake: “You will never have such a nice person being the fake President for the next fifty fake years. So you wake up and make agreements with me, or you never will for your fake life.”

=> António: The Antichrist of Jorge Campinos

=> António Campinos Has Dubbed Himself the “F***ing President”

=> Russian Gaspinos

=> What the F Did António Campinos Just Say???

=> When the EPO's Manager or Fake 'Daddy' Gets the 'Hammer' Out

=> Meme: No More Mr. Nice Guy?

=> Meme: Lukampinos

=> Meme: In Just a Few Years António Campinos is Undoing Decades of His Father's Legacy

=> EPO Staff Representatives Warn Delegates of the Council That Campinos is Now Outsourcing the EPO, Just Like He Did EUIPO, in Very Clear Violation of Fundamental Rules

=> António's EPO is Dead, Long Live the EPC?

=> António Campinos Wants to Undo His Father’s Legacy for Several More Years, Spreading Corruption Across Europe and the World

=> Meme: Megaphone of António Campinos

=> BREAKING NEWS/EXCLUSIVE: António Campinos Confirms That He is Seeking Reappointment

=> Meme: Drunk Driving, Like Son of António Campinos

=> 20-22 Vision: António Campinos Still Pillaging and Plundering EPO Staff

=> Meme: Just Another Battistelli

2021

=> Meme: EPO 'Social Dialogue': Blah Blah Blah Blah (But Nothing Gets Changed for the Better)

=> 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021: 4 Years of António Campinos Failing and EPO Granting Loads of Invalid Patents

=> Tomorrow is the First Anniversary of Strike Against President Campinos at the European Patent Office

=> Meme: António Campinos and Socialist Posturing

=> António Campinos as EPO President is Considered Worse Than Benoît Battistelli (in Some Regards) After 3.5 Years in Europe’s Second-Largest Institution

=> EPO Staff Committee Compares the Tactics of António Campinos to Benoît Battistelli’s

=> Meme: Speaking the Same Language

=> António Campinos Thinks Salary Reductions Months Before He Leaves is “Exceptional Social Gesture”

=> EPO “Board 28” Meeting: Imaginary Dialogue Between EPO President Campinos and the Chair of the Administrative Council, Josef Kratochvíl

=> Meme: António Campinos Poured Bleach on a Convicted Criminal

=> António ‘Gap’ Campinos Explains His Plan to Indoctrinate/Brainwash the Public About So-called ‘IP’ (Misleading, Vague Term, Also a Deliberate Misnomer)

=> Two Institutions, Two Dictators

=> EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part IX – António’s Faithful Acolyte in Alicante

=> António Campinos is Not a Patents Person and He Doesn't Belong at the EPO

=> EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part VIII – Pulling for the Portuguese Pretender?

=> For 17 Days (and Counting) António Campinos Has Failed to Respond to Call for Compliance With the Law

=> Meme: António Lost His Power Over Patent Examiners

=> António Campinos Needs to be Removed From the EPO as Soon as Possible Along With Friends He Brought Over

=> Meme: The EPO's Kakistocracy

=> Video: Mind the Mental Gap

=> Meme: EPO Telenovela: Sua Vida me Pertence by Tony Campinos

=> EPO Dictator Campinos Continues Crushing EPO Staff, Outpacing Battistelli in Terms of His Abuses

=> Video: ILO-AT Caseload Shows That António Campinos Failed and Should be Sacked by the Administrative Council of the EPO

=> Delay After Delay, Blunder After Blunder, the ‘New Normal’ of António Campinos Faces Obstacles

=> The Already-Weak Impression of EPO Lawfulness (Under António Campinos) is Over

=> Meme: Trying to Become More Evil Than Battistelli After 3 Years in Office

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

=> 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)

=> When the Lips of António Campinos Move...

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

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

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

=> The ‘Hey Hi’ of António Campinos Will Survive This

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

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

=> 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)

=> Meme: Candidate Campinos is Not President Campinos

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

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

2020

=> Meme: Rabid Tony

=> 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)

=> 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 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)

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

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

=> 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.”

=> 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)

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

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

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

=> 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'

=> 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: 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: Repressive Tyrant António Campinos Still Blocking Techrights and Still Preventing Staff Representatives From Speaking Openly to Staff

=> 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: '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

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

=> Meme: António Campinos Fools Nobody at the EPO Anymore

=> António Campinos is Believed to be “Dismantling” the EPO

=> Meme: António the Computer Genius

=> 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

=> 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

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

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

=> 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

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

=> 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”

=> 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)

=> Series Index: “Doyen” for a Yen

=> EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Epilogue

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

=> 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.

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

=> EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Teaser

=> António Campinos Sponging Off the EPO

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

2019

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

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

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

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

=> EPO Staff Resolution Against Neoliberal Policies of António Campinos

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

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

=> The EPO's President Campinos is a Liar

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

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

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

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

=> Campinos is Already Widely Seen as Battistelli the Second, Even Among EPO Stakeholders

=> António Campinos is Almost 100% the Same as Benoît Battistelli

=> Tribalism Still a Major Problem at the European Patent Office

=> The New (Staged and Scripted) Video of António Campinos Feels Like a Drunken Satire

=> The EPO Needs a President Who Obeys the Law, Not One Who Obeys Battistelli

=> Required Reading: Mental State of Team Battistelli/Campinos

=> EPO Directors Would be Wise to Rebel Against Team Campinos While They Still Have the Job

=> Leaked: Harassment of EPO Directors by Team Campinos

=> When the EPO is Run by Politicians It’s Expected to Be Aggressive and Corrupt Like Purely Political Establishments

=> António Campinos — Unlike His Father — Engages in Imperialism (Using Invalid Patents)

=> António Campinos Takes EPO Waste and Corruption to Unprecedented Levels and Scale

=> António Campinos Given an Extension to Prove He Respects the Rule of Law

=> Drunk on Power

=> 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.”

=> More Tall Tales From EPOnia - A Little Apéritif to Whet the Appetite…

=> António Campinos as German Sheriff Rather Than Office President

=> António Campinos Didn't Even Last a Year

=> Team Campinos Will Try to Make It Difficult to Go on Strike (But Won't Manage to Prevent It)

=> EPO President Still Not Obeying Courts' Rulings

=> António Campinos Has Run Out of Time and EPO Staff is Going on Strike (Skipping Mere Protests)

=> EUIPO and EPO Abuses Growingly Inseparable

=> Stephen Rowan: From UK-IPO to Operation Coverup of Team António Campinos

=> Union Syndicale Federale (USF) Writes to António Campinos Again Regarding the Appalling Atmosphere at the EPO

=> "Dia da Liberdade" in Portugal -- Wilted Carnations in EPOnia

=> António Campinos Would Not Refer to the EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeal If He Did Not Control the Outcomes

=> 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

=> New Building as Perfect Metaphor for the EPO Under the Frenchmen Battistelli and Campinos

EPO Still Wasting Budget, Paying Media and Academics for Spin*António Campinos is Already Paying a Lot of Money to Craft an Alternate Reality at the European Patent Office

=> EPO Still Wasting Budget, Paying Media and Academics for Spin

=> António Campinos is Already Paying a Lot of Money to Craft an Alternate Reality at the European Patent Office

=> The EPO’s Incredulous Survey: Management’s Voice, Management’s Future — EPO Staff ‘Engagement’ Spin (Denial of Issues)

=> Even Patent Maximalists Are Not Happy With António Campinos Referring Question of Patents on Life to the Enlarged Board of Appeal

=> EPO Judges Lack Independence and the Internal Courts Are Seen to be Lacking Legitimacy (Decisions' Validity) Under António Campinos

=> Tall Tales From the Land of EPOnia: Indications of High-Level Club Med/EUIPO “Entryism”

=> The Campinos-Battistelli Strategy is Working: Patent Trolls Are Coming to Europe!

=> António Campinos Makes Up Claims About Patent Quality, Only to be Rebutted by Examiners, Union (Anyone But the 'Puff Pieces' Industry)

=> Stopping António Campinos and His Software Patents Agenda (Not Legal in Europe) Would Require Independent Courts

=> EPO's Latest 'Results' Show That António Campinos Has Already Given Up on Patent Quality and is Just Another Battistelli

=> 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

=> António Campinos Will Not Tackle Any of the Lingering Issues at the European Patent Office

=> EPO Staff Union: 'New' Team Campinos Practice “Reminds Us Strongly of the Battistelli Times.”

=> Team UPC Excited Over Nothing, President Campinos Rarely Even Mentions UPC Anymore

=> 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

=> 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

=> President Campinos Maintains Battistelli's Abusive Sanctions, EPO Staff Increasingly Losing Faith and Hope in Him

=> "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

=> European Patent Quality as Awful Under António Campinos as (If Not Worse Than) Benoît Battistelli and Battistelli Makes a Public Comeback

=> The Whitewashing of the EPO Under António Campinos

=> EPO President “Campinos is Wasting His Credibility With “Sweet” Communiqués Full of Hot Air and Storytelling”

2018

=> The European Patent Organisation (EPO) Loses Legitimacy If (or When) Christoph Ernst Becomes Subservient to António Campinos

=> António Campinos Turns His 'Boss' Into His Lapdog, Just Like Battistelli and Kongstad

=> The Quality of European Patents Continues to Deteriorate Under António Campinos and Software Patents Are Advocated Every Day

=> António Campinos is Working for Patent Trolls at the Expense of Science and Technology

=> Union Syndicale Fédérale Tells António Campinos to End 'Political' Cases Against EPO Staff Representatives

=> 127th Session of ILO Tribunal Rulings Will Deal With European Patent Organisation Complaints (Appeals) Tomorrow Afternoon, Staff Grows Tired of Office President António Campinos

=> António Campinos Has Run Out of Time, EPO Staff Representation Now Views Him as Just Another Battistelli and Wants Immediate Change

=> Thanksgiving EPO Roundup: UPC Lies, Software Patents Considered Harmful and SUEPO Condemns Union-Busting Activities (Which Carry on Under António Campinos)

=> A Question of Debt: António Campinos, Lexology, Law Gazette, and Sam Gyimah

=> Allegations That António Campinos 'Bought' His Presidency and is Still Paying for it

=> Yannis Skulikaris Promotes Software Patents at EPOPIC, Defending the Questionable Practice Under António Campinos

=> The António Campinos Private/Secret Meeting With ILO Officials a Slap Across the Face to Employees of the European Patent Office

=> António Campinos Continues to Conflate Speed With Quality

=> EPO Insider: Under António Campinos “the Union Busting Done by the Administration Continues Even Worse Than Before”

=> EPO President António Campinos Speaks of “Greater Transparency,” But He's Even More Secretive Than Battistelli and He Lets Patent Quality Slip Further

=> António Campinos Just a Quieter Version of Battistelli

=> Battistelli and Team UPC Still Waiting for a Campinos Miracle

=> The EPO Under António Campinos Has Opened More Doors to Software Patents and Only Litigators Are Happy

=> EPO Under António Campinos Relaxes the Rules on Software Patenting and the Litigation 'Industry' Loves That

=> EPO Insider/Märpel Says President Campinos Already Acts Like Battistelli

=> 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

=> 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

=> When It Comes to Patent Quality António Campinos Might be Even Worse Than Benoît Battistelli

=> Nellie Simon Expected to Join the ‘Club Med’ of Battistelli and Campinos

=> EPO Under António Campinos an Unprecedented Booster of Software Patents

=> In the EPO Under António Campinos and His Predecessor Battistelli Patents Can Almost be Presumed “Invalid” (in Courts)

=> António Campinos Goes to UPC-Hostile Country, UPC Continues to Languish and Team UPC Carries on Pushing for Software Patents in Europe (Courts Also)

=> Philippe Cadre From the French National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) Wants to Join António Campinos

=> António Campinos Needs to Listen to Doctors Without Borders (MSF) et al to Salvage What's Left of Public Consent for the EPO

=> Patentability of Software Constantly Pushed by the EPO Under António Campinos With Help From IAM, CIPA, IPO and Other Litigation Front Groups

=> 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

=> António Campinos: New Caricature by EPO Insiders

=> The António Campinos-Led EPO is Over-Relying on Bogus and Abstract Software Patents to Fill the Gaps

=> António Campinos Already Implements a 'Shadow' Layoffs Method at the EPO

=> President Battistelli 'Killed' the EPO; António Campinos Will 'Finish the Job'

=> Racing to the Bottom, the António Campinos-Led EPO Continues to Promote Software Patents, Just Like China

=> António Campinos is Not Improving Patent Quality or Even the Social Climate at the EPO (False Promises)

=> The EPO's Administrative Council is Not Interested in Saving the EPO, Only 'Producing' as Many (Low-Quality) Patents as Possible

=> 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 EPO Abandoned Patent Quality and António Campinos Has No Intention of Changing That

=> António Campinos, Four Weeks on the Job, Still in Defiance/Violation of ILO Rulings, Still Engaging in PR and Face-Saving Distraction Instead

=> As the Quality of European Patents Sinks António Campinos Must Heed China's Warning, Not Copy SIPO/TIPO

=> Under António Campinos the EPO's Appeal Boards, Including the Enlarged Board of Appeal, Still Lack Independence

=> '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

=> 'Transaction' Complete: Former EPO Executive From Belgium Takes the Seat of António Campinos at EU-IPO

=> Weeks Later António Campinos Still in Noncompliance With the Courts (ILO’s Tribunal)

=> 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'

=> Actions — Not Mere Words — Are Needed to Improve Patent Quality and Climate at the European Patent Office

=> One Week of António Campinos at the EPO: Early Uncertainty

=> António Campinos Tries to Come Across as a Goodwill Manager, But He Will be Judged by His Actions, Not by His Words

=> First Act of António Campinos: Pushing the Unconstitutional Unitary Patent (UPC)

=> First Day for António Campinos is Done, But Some Media is Still Publishing 90th-Minute Battistelli Puff Pieces

=> Welcoming António Campinos, New President of the European Patent Office

=> Today, at the Expense of Millions (€) of EPO Budget, Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos Engage in Shameless Self Promotion

=> 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

=> António Campinos Will Push Toward a France-Based Unified Patent Court (UPC)

=> (Joke) António Campinos Withdraws From Plan to Directly Run the EPO, Patent Office to be Run by Google ‘AI’ Instead

=> The Federation of International Civil Servants' Association: Frenchman “Campinos is Known for Having Close Ties to Mr. Battistelli Who Strongly Supported His Candidacy.”

=> USF Warns Campinos (EPO President in 4 Months) of “Extreme” Situation at the EPO

2017

=> Battistelli-Campinos Transition Will Be a Smooth One as the Administrative Council Remains the Same and the Boards Still Besieged

=> Another Day of EPO Injustices in Europe and Campinos/Battistelli Connections at CEIPI

=> Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos Playing Musical Chairs at CEIPI

=> EPO Caricature: Son of Campinos

=> Pressure is Growing for Christoph Ernst to Stop Destruction of Career System Ahead of Arrival of Campinos as EPO President

=> Benoît Battistelli Gives Power to Željko Topić, Not Just to António Campinos

=> Next EPO President Will Continue a Cooperation Which Does Not Exist

=> Truly Terrible 'Journalism' About António Campinos Boils Down to Lobbying and Agenda-Pushing

=> The Hogwash Begins: Patent Microcosm's Media Pretends Campinos is Anything But Battistelli's French Succession Plan

=> Musical Chairs as Battistelli's 'Chinchilla' García-Escudero Márquez Could Reportedly Take António Campinos' Place

=> Battistelli’s Choice (Campinos) Confirmed as New EPO President

=> Judge Cuno Tarfusser Wants to Become the Next EPO President

=> Early Reports Suggest That Battistelli's Policies Will Remain at the EPO (in the Form of Campinos)

=> Battistelli's Club Med at the EPO – Part VIII: Summary and Photos of Battistelli's Club Med

=> Battistelli's Club Med at the EPO – Part VII: Quo Vadis EPO?

=> Battistelli's Club Med at the EPO – Part VI: “When Corruption Rules” in Portugal - Operation Marquês

=> Battistelli's Club Med at the EPO – Part V: Portugal's “Golden Visa” Scheme for Angolan Nationals

=> Battistelli's Club Med at the EPO – Part IV: The Angolan Patent Office (IAPI) Seems Almost Defunct

=> Battistelli's Club Med at the EPO – Part III: Angola and the Portuguese “Laundromat”

=> Battistelli's Club Med at the EPO – Part II: António Campinos, Benoît Battistelli and the Angolan Connection

=> Battistelli's Club Med at the EPO – Part I: EPO Validation Agreement With Angola

=> Latest EPO Rumours Allege That Benoît Battistelli Rigged the Process of EPO President's Selection

=> One Week Left for Battistelli's Coronation of Another Frenchman, António Campinos, to Lobby for UPC?

=> Today, Koen Lievens From EPO is Promoting Pursuits of Software Patents in Defiance of the European Rules

=> Deepening EPO Crisis and a New Report Titled “EPO Patent Filing a Rigged Game in Europe”

=> EPO Silencers of the Media - Part V: Jadranka Oklobdžija Versus EPO Vice-President Topić

=> EPO Silencers of the Media - Part IV: Response to SLAPP Tactics From EPO Vice-President Željko Topić

=> What Germany and the EPO Could (and Should) Learn From Australia About Patent Scope

=> ‘Building the Evidence Base on the Performance of the UK Patent System’ Put in Perspective and Threats From Patent Maximalists

=> It's a Family Business: French Succession Plan at EPO After Battistelli's Departure

=> EPO Silencers of the Media - Part III: EPO Vice-President Topić Takes Association of Writers and Journalists to Court

=> The Very Political Background of António Campinos, Allegedly a Forefront Candidate to Lead the European Patent Office Next Year

=> The Next President of the EPO May Also be French and Without Background in Science

=> Antonio Campinos in Charge of the EPO Would Mean Greater EUIPO/EPO Overlap

=> If Antonio Campinos (EUIPO) Takes Over the EPO With Alberto Casado Cerviño (Former OHIM/EUIPO) in Charge of Patent Granting, Subversive Loyalty to Battistelli Will Remain

=> Suspicion That Antonio Campinos Will Apply for Benoît Battistelli's Job to Succeed Him

=> Speculations About Battistelli's End of Term, Campinos at EUIPO, and Failed UPC Ambitions

=> Immunity of the Intellectual Property Office of the European Union Causes Outrage in Spanish Media

2016

=> 'Balkan Express' Teaser: EPO's Željko Topić, Kuterovac, Campinos, Gurry, Battistelli and the DKPTO (Kongstad)

=> Battistelli's 'Special Relationship' With Portugal and the 'Inventor of the Year' Charade

=> EPO Rumours About Antonio Campinos as Replacement for Benoît Battistelli

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