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This is a list of articles about (or which mention) Benoît Battistelli, EPO President from 2010 to 2018 (now at CEIPI). Battistelli is widely regarded as the EPO's worst-ever President.
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05.04.13 The European Patent Office is Breaking the Law Regarding Software Patents, German Parliament Finally Complains
09.15.14 Željko Topić, Benoît Battistelli, and the European Patent Office (EPO): Part II
=> Željko Topić, Benoît Battistelli, and the European Patent Office (EPO): Part II
09.22.14 European Patent Office/Organisation – Suspicion of Improper Collusion Between EPO President and Chairman of the Administrative Council: Part III
10.14.14 The EPO’s Protection Triangle of Battistelli, Kongstad, and Topić: Part VI
=> The EPO’s Protection Triangle of Battistelli, Kongstad, and Topić: Part VI
10.31.14 The EPO Is More Corrupt Under Battistelli Than Under Alison Brimelow: Part VIII
=> The EPO Is More Corrupt Under Battistelli Than Under Alison Brimelow: Part VIII
12.06.14 EPO Imploding: Battistelli Throws a Fit at EPO’s Investigation Unit
=> EPO Imploding: Battistelli Throws a Fit at EPO’s Investigation Unit
12.07.14 EPO Scandal: Benoît Battistelli’s Arrogance Recognised by European Delegations
=> EPO Scandal: Benoît Battistelli’s Arrogance Recognised by European Delegations
12.11.14 France Gets Involved in Battistelli’s Abuses in the EPO – Part XII (Updated)
=> France Gets Involved in Battistelli’s Abuses in the EPO – Part XII (Updated)
12.12.14 Dreaming of a Just Christmas: When a Third of EPO Walks Out to Revolt and European Judges Attack the EPO Over Abuses
12.13.14 News From France and Germany: Battistelli Under Fire, But Not Fired Yet, Just Firing His Opposition
=> News From France and Germany: Battistelli Under Fire, But Not Fired Yet, Just Firing His Opposition
12.31.14 EPO Staff Protests to Continue in the New Year, Techrights to Release New Material
=> EPO Staff Protests to Continue in the New Year, Techrights to Release New Material
01.07.15 Intellectual Property Judges’ Association (IPJA) Speaks Out Against EPO Tyrant Battistelli
=> Intellectual Property Judges’ Association (IPJA) Speaks Out Against EPO Tyrant Battistelli
01.13.15 EPO Misdirections Debunked: Refuting Battistelli’s Nonsense and Bogeyman Theory
=> EPO Misdirections Debunked: Refuting Battistelli’s Nonsense and Bogeyman Theory
01.13.15 Dutch MEP Dennis De Jong, Criticising Battistelli and Topić, Calls for Action Against EPO Management
=> Dutch MEP Dennis De Jong, Criticising Battistelli and Topić, Calls for Action Against EPO Management
01.29.15 An Estimated 1,000 EPO Employees-Strong Legion Engulfs Danish Consulate to Protest Jesper Kongstad’s (of Administrative Council) Protection of Benoît Battistelli
02.17.15 Benoît Battistelli Has Made Oversight of European Patent Office Absolutely Impossible
=> Benoît Battistelli Has Made Oversight of European Patent Office Absolutely Impossible
02.20.15 Benoît Battistelli Once Again Threatens EPO Staff That ‘Dares’ to Protest, Battistelli Exploits Terror Attacks to Pretend to Respect Free Speech
02.24.15 Benoît Battistelli Thinks ‘President’ is Above the Law, Decides to Ignore the Court’s Ruling
=> Benoît Battistelli Thinks ‘President’ is Above the Law, Decides to Ignore the Court’s Ruling
03.24.15 Benoît Battistelli’s EPO is Under Attack From French Politicians Yet Again
=> Benoît Battistelli’s EPO is Under Attack From French Politicians Yet Again
03.24.15 Benoît Battistelli’s EPO Comes Under Fire From Prominent Figures Who Are Key EPO Stakeholders, Expect Battistelli to Resign ‘in the Longer Term’
04.01.15 When Battistelli’s Defender, Dutch Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten, Attacked Europeans’ Right to Demonstrate
04.02.15 When Battistelli’s Defender Ivo Opstelten Turned Out to be Also Defending (Paying) Narcotics Traffickers
04.03.15 English, French and German Translations of De Telegraaf Article About Ivo Opstelten’s Defence of Benoît Battistelli
04.30.15 The EPO’s Tyrant, Benoît Battistelli, is Probably on His Way Out, Threatens to Resign
=> The EPO’s Tyrant, Benoît Battistelli, is Probably on His Way Out, Threatens to Resign
05.21.15 More Utter Shame Unveiled at Battistelli’s EPO: Intimidation Tactics With Help From ‘Control Risks’
=> More Utter Shame Unveiled at Battistelli’s EPO: Intimidation Tactics With Help From ‘Control Risks’
05.25.15 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Benoît Battistelli and Four EPO Suicides
=> Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Benoît Battistelli and Four EPO Suicides
07.11.15 European Censorship: Tyrants of the EPO Blacklist Techrights, Web Site Not Accessible Office-Wide
=> European Censorship: Tyrants of the EPO Blacklist Techrights, Web Site Not Accessible Office-Wide
09.08.15 Benoît Battistelli in Denial Over Suicides in EPO, Accuses and Threatens the Messengers
=> Benoît Battistelli in Denial Over Suicides in EPO, Accuses and Threatens the Messengers
09.09.15 Benoît Battistelli and His Goons From Control Risks (CRG) Try to Crush Unions, Not Just Journalism
=> Benoît Battistelli and His Goons From Control Risks (CRG) Try to Crush Unions, Not Just Journalism
09.23.15 EPO President Benoît Battistelli Compared to Famous Criminals on European Television
=> EPO President Benoît Battistelli Compared to Famous Criminals on European Television
10.04.15 Article Explains Why SUEPO Went Silent Well Over a Week Ago: Nobody is Allowed to Talk to Journalists Without Permission From Battistelli
10.13.15 EPO Staff is Happy, Says EPO Propaganda Still in the Making
=> EPO Staff is Happy, Says EPO Propaganda Still in the Making
10.13.15 Confirmed: Benoît Battistelli is Crushing the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA)
=> Confirmed: Benoît Battistelli is Crushing the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA)
10.19.15 Benoît Battistelli et al in an Allegedly New Campaign of Defamation Against Staff Member
=> Benoît Battistelli et al in an Allegedly New Campaign of Defamation Against Staff Member
10.24.15 SUEPO Reiterates Call for Independent Mediation and “Doubts That There Can Ever be Social Peace With Mr Battistelli as President”
10.30.15 Benoît Battistelli Became an Embarrassment to the European Patent Organisation, Allege EPO Workers
=> Benoît Battistelli Became an Embarrassment to the European Patent Organisation, Allege EPO Workers
11.04.15 The Latest Propaganda From Benoît Battistelli is Promotion of the Unitary Patent (UPC) at Political Levels
11.04.15 The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part II
=> The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part II
11.19.15 Another George Bush Moment: Benoît Battistelli Says EPO Believes in “Fundamental Principles of Freedom, Equality and Justice”
11.22.15 President Battistelli Now Pressures/Threatens Politicians Who ‘Dare’ to Complain About Abuses and Unacceptable Conditions at the EPO
12.01.15 EPO Staff Representatives Highlight to Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’ How Battistelli Deceived Him
=> EPO Staff Representatives Highlight to Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’ How Battistelli Deceived Him
12.04.15 Amid EPO Exodus/Brain Drain, Two Options: ‘Gestapo’ Staff and Assistant to Battistelli Have Quit or Battistelli’s Praetorian Guard is Expanding
12.14.15 Battistelli’s Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part I
=> Battistelli’s Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part I
12.15.15 Battistelli’s Vision of UPC is Closer Contract With Major Applicants (Abroad), Contrary to European Interests
12.15.15 When Europe’s Leading International Patent Litigators Get Fed Up With Benoît Battistelli and Want Him Sent to ‘Exile’
12.16.15 Battistelli Wants to Make “Lobbying in the Field of European and Unitary Patent” a “Prohibited Activity” for All Except Himself
12.18.15 Benoît Battistelli: “An Earthquake Would be Needed for the Administrative Council… Not to Support My Major Proposals.”
12.18.15 Battistelli’s Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part III
=> Battistelli’s Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part III
12.23.15 Managing IP Interview With Battistelli Shows That He’s Either Deluded or Dishonest About EPO Realities
12.26.15 Benoît Battistelli Fails to Get Majority of 38 Member States to Crush the Boards, Which Are Already Being Crushed Anyway (23 Vacant Judge Positions)
01.03.16 British MEP May Soon Complain to Benoît Battistelli About EPO Process, No Closer Contacts With Ordinary Applicants
01.16.16 The Witch-hunt Against Elizabeth Hardon Leads Back to Battistelli
=> The Witch-hunt Against Elizabeth Hardon Leads Back to Battistelli
01.17.16 Battistelli Hopes That People Forget (or Don’t Know About) Criminal Charges Against Željko Topić, But Croatian Media Does Not Forget as Election Imminent
01.18.16 Battistelli’s Legitimacy Under Political Fire After He Fired Staff Representatives, Claims He’s Neither Suitable Nor Eligible to be EPO President
01.19.16 Battistelli “Exacerbated the Penalties Which Were Recommended by the Disciplinary Committees for All Three EPO Unionists” (Under Mock Trial)
01.26.16 No More Defeatism: Battistelli’s Days at the European Patent Office May be Numbered
=> No More Defeatism: Battistelli’s Days at the European Patent Office May be Numbered
01.29.16 Battistelli and His Bodyguards: Paranoia, Megalomania, or Both? Are China-Style ‘Suicide Nets’ Next on the EPO’s Agenda?
02.01.16 Under Battistelli’s Regime the European Patent Office is Rapidly Rotting
=> Under Battistelli’s Regime the European Patent Office is Rapidly Rotting
02.09.16 Besieged Benoît Battistelli Mimics ‘Damage Control’ Tactics of FIFA or Blatter as More Judges Start Getting Involved in EPO Scandals
02.09.16 Even the Legal Community is Upset at Benoît Battistelli for the Damage He Did to the EPO
=> Even the Legal Community is Upset at Benoît Battistelli for the Damage He Did to the EPO
02.09.16 The EPO’s Benoît Battistelli is the Dictator Who Can No Longer Dictate Like He Used to
=> The EPO’s Benoît Battistelli is the Dictator Who Can No Longer Dictate Like He Used to
02.11.16 Only Half a Dozen Cuban Patents Filed at EPO, But Hugely Unpopular Battistelli Goes to Cuba to Garner Cheap Support
02.13.16 Sólo Media Docena de Patentes Cubana Registradas en la OEP, Pero el Trístemente Célebre Battistelli Va a Cuba a Acumular Apoyo Baráto
02.19.16 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
02.22.16 New EPO Rumours About Benoît Battistelli’s Potential Role in the Bygmalion Affair
=> New EPO Rumours About Benoît Battistelli’s Potential Role in the Bygmalion Affair
02.23.16 More Information About Battistelli’s Utterly Miserable Last EPO Moves (Leaked Photo Included)
=> More Information About Battistelli’s Utterly Miserable Last EPO Moves (Leaked Photo Included)
02.23.16 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)
02.25.16 European Patent Office: Battistelli Gets Official Warning
=> European Patent Office: Battistelli Gets Official Warning
02.25.16 The Mass Media Recognises This May be the End of the Battistelli Regime
=> The Mass Media Recognises This May be the End of the Battistelli Regime
02.25.16 Más Información Acerca de los Ultimos Miserables Movimientos de la OEP de Battistelli (Foto Filtrada Incluida)
02.26.16 Even Battistelli-Funded Media Admits That Battistelli is in Deep Trouble Right Now
=> Even Battistelli-Funded Media Admits That Battistelli is in Deep Trouble Right Now
02.26.16 Member States Are Turning Against “Tyrannical” Chief of European Patent Office (Benoît Battistelli)
=> Member States Are Turning Against “Tyrannical” Chief of European Patent Office (Benoît Battistelli)
02.27.16 Confirmed by Dutch Media (Telegraaf): Benoît Battistelli Makes Unreasonable Compensation Demands
=> Confirmed by Dutch Media (Telegraaf): Benoît Battistelli Makes Unreasonable Compensation Demands
02.28.16 Incluso los Medios Financiados por Battistelli Admiten que Actualmente El Se Encuentra en Problemas
=> Incluso los Medios Financiados por Battistelli Admiten que Actualmente El Se Encuentra en Problemas
03.01.16 Battistelli and Godwin’s Law (Comparing One’s Opposition to Nazis)
=> Battistelli and Godwin’s Law (Comparing One’s Opposition to Nazis)
03.02.16 Team Battistelli Uses FFPE to Give an Illusion of EPO Peace With ‘Unions’ and Justify/Support a Now-Famous Lie
03.02.16 Confirmado por los Medios Holandadeses (Telegraaf): Benoît Battistelli Hace Irracionales Demandas de Compensación
03.05.16 Remember What Benoît Battistelli Said About His Salary and His Bonus
=> Remember What Benoît Battistelli Said About His Salary and His Bonus
03.06.16 Busted Battistelli: EPO President Publicly Lies About the State of the EPO, So What About His Secret Contract, Salary and Other Undisclosed Benefits?
03.06.16 Vote for EPO Strike This Tuesday in Order to Replace EPO Management
=> Vote for EPO Strike This Tuesday in Order to Replace EPO Management
03.07.16 Atrapado: Battistelli Presidente de la EPO Publicamente miente Acerca del Estado de su Organización, Así que Acerca de su Contrato Secreto, Salario y otros Ocultos Beneficios?
03.08.16 Claim and Perception: Under Battistelli, EPO More Permissive on Software Patents Than USPTO, In Spite of the EPC
03.08.16 Rumoured Successor of Battistelli, Christoph Ernst, Previously Seen as Antagonist of Battistelli But What About UPC?
03.11.16 EPO Tells La Tribune That Benoît Battistelli’s Salary is “We Don’t Comment on Rumours”
=> EPO Tells La Tribune That Benoît Battistelli’s Salary is “We Don’t Comment on Rumours”
03.12.16 Battistelli Acting Like a Politician, Lobbying for UPC All Across Europe and Coming to London Soon
=> Battistelli Acting Like a Politician, Lobbying for UPC All Across Europe and Coming to London Soon
03.13.16 EPO Under Benoît Battistelli: Nepotism, Misinformation, Poor Patent Quality, Terrible Working Conditions, and Increase in Prices
03.15.16 EPO’s Central Staff Committee Asks Benoît Battistelli to Undo Union-Busting Activities and Obey the Dutch Court’s Judgment
03.16.16 EPO’s Leadership All-time Low: Benoît Battistelli’s Meeting With Secretary Martijn van Dam Explodes
=> EPO’s Leadership All-time Low: Benoît Battistelli’s Meeting With Secretary Martijn van Dam Explodes
03.16.16 Dutch Media (NRC) Cites Documents Leaked to Techrights and EPO Refuses to Comment on Them
=> Dutch Media (NRC) Cites Documents Leaked to Techrights and EPO Refuses to Comment on Them
03.16.16 EPO’s Comite Central De Empleados Pide A Benoît Battistelli Retractarse en sus Actividades Destructivas Contra el Sindicato y a Obedecer a la Corte Holandesa
03.17.16 Institutional Failure and Dirty Tricks: Benoît Battistelli Seemingly Gets Support Like Microsoft Gets Support
03.18.16 Benoît Battistelli Made SUEPO Stronger by Trying to Decapitate It, May in Fact Have Self-Decapitated EPO (President in the Chopping Line)
03.19.16 Conflict at the European Patent Office: Battistelli gets away with a slap on the wrist
=> Conflict at the European Patent Office: Battistelli gets away with a slap on the wrist
03.20.16 Conflicto en la Oficina Europea de Patentes: Battistelli se sale con un tirón de orejas
=> Conflicto en la Oficina Europea de Patentes: Battistelli se sale con un tirón de orejas
03.20.16 The ‘Results’ That Battistelli and His EPO Bunch Brag About Not Believed by Patent Lawyers and Patent Examiners
03.22.16 Los ‘Resultados’ Que Battistellli y Sus Compadres de la EPO se Enorgullece NO son Creídos por los Abogados de Patentes y Exáminadores de Patentes
03.22.16 More Vomit-Inducing Publicity Stunts From Benoît Battistelli and the EPO Management
=> More Vomit-Inducing Publicity Stunts From Benoît Battistelli and the EPO Management
03.25.16 “The Decision of the President [Battistelli to Overstep the Recommendation of the Disciplinary Committee is Arbitrary and Shows Bad Faith.”]
=> “The Decision of the President [Battistelli
03.30.16 EPO Losing Time: Two Weeks Later, Benoît Battistelli Has Made Virtually No Progress to Save Himself From Sacking
04.04.16 Battistelli’s Inner Circle is Expanding With More Miraculous EPO Promotions and Allegedly More Bodyguards
04.05.16 EPO Management Mocks Justice and Bans Judges, Takes Away Their Independence
=> EPO Management Mocks Justice and Bans Judges, Takes Away Their Independence
04.05.16 El Circulo Intimo de Battistelli se Expande Con Más Milagrosas Promociones y Su Guardia Pretoriana También Se Incrementa
04.07.16 EPO is on Strike, Battistelli Escapes to London With His Bodyguards for More UPC Lobbying, FTI Consulting Goes for Brussels
04.08.16 La EPO esta en Huelga, Battistelli Escapa a Londres con su Guardia Pretoriana para más Cabildeo por la UPC, FTI Consulting Va a Bruselas
04.08.16 Busted Battistelli: EPO President Violating the EPO’s Code of Conduct
=> Busted Battistelli: EPO President Violating the EPO’s Code of Conduct
04.09.16 Aja! Battistelli: El Presidente de la EPO President Violando el Código de Conducta de la EPO
=> Aja! Battistelli: El Presidente de la EPO President Violando el Código de Conducta de la EPO
04.10.16 Church of EPO: How Team Battistelli Engineered the Dismissal of People Not Sufficiently Loyal to Them – Part I
04.11.16 La Iglesia de EPO: ¿Como el Equipo de Battistelli Arregló El Despido de la Gente No lo Suficiéntemente Leales a Ellos? – Parte I
04.16.16 Administrative Council “Openly Showed Disapproval of Battistelli’s Behaviour” at the EPO
=> Administrative Council “Openly Showed Disapproval of Battistelli’s Behaviour” at the EPO
04.16.16 Benoît Battistelli “Left in Anger During an Initial Meeting With the State Secretary [Who Started Talking About Working Conditions for the Staff”]
=> Benoît Battistelli “Left in Anger During an Initial Meeting With the State Secretary [Who
04.19.16 Munich State Attorney is Pursuing Criminal Charges Against the European Patent Office
=> Munich State Attorney is Pursuing Criminal Charges Against the European Patent Office
04.30.16 How to Salvage the EPO’s Reputation: Create More Boards of Appeal in Europe and Abolish the Misguided UPC Fantasy
05.01.16 ES: ¿Cómo Salvar la Reputación de la EPO?: Crear Más Jurados de Apelaciónes en Europa y Abolir la Malgíada/Malintencionada Fantasía de la UPC
05.03.16 ES: Gobiernos en Europa Todavía Activos en Contra de la Gerencia de la EPO
=> ES: Gobiernos en Europa Todavía Activos en Contra de la Gerencia de la EPO
05.05.16 Enemies of Europe: A Month After Promoting UPC in London, Benoît Battistelli and the EPO Do This in Helsinki
05.07.16 ES: Los Enemigos de Europ: Un Mes Después de Promover la UPC en Londres, Benoît Battistelli y la EPO Hacen lo Mismo en Helsinki
05.17.16 Two Months Down the Line, Battistelli Has Done None of What the Administrative Council Told Him to Do; He Should be Sacked Next Month
05.20.16 Notorious EPO Tyrant, Benoît Battistelli, Meets Other Tyrants, Reportedly ‘Cleanses’ the Administrative Council
05.21.16 ES: El Notorio Tirano de la EPO, Benoît Battistelli, Se Reune Con Otros Tiranos, Reportes de Que ‘Limpia’ el Consejo Administrativo
05.21.16 EPO Patent ‘Quality’ and ‘Patent Creation’ Myth: Capsule-Based Coffee Sales and Trauma
=> EPO Patent ‘Quality’ and ‘Patent Creation’ Myth: Capsule-Based Coffee Sales and Trauma
05.22.16 Disrupting Battistelli’s Distracting Propaganda: EPO Staff to Protest Again in About a Fortnight
=> Disrupting Battistelli’s Distracting Propaganda: EPO Staff to Protest Again in About a Fortnight
05.22.16 ES: Los Mitos de la EPO ‘Calidad’ de Patentes y de ‘Creación’ de Patentes: Basados en Ventas de Cafe y Trauma
05.24.16 ES: Interrumpiendo la Propagánda Distractante de Battistelli: los Empleados de la EPO Protestará de Nuevo en una Quincena
05.26.16 Victim Card Ends up in Another Blunder for Battistelli and His Six Bodyguards
=> Victim Card Ends up in Another Blunder for Battistelli and His Six Bodyguards
05.29.16 New EPO Caricature: Nouveaux Garde-Vélo (New Bicycle Guards)
=> New EPO Caricature: Nouveaux Garde-Vélo (New Bicycle Guards)
05.29.16 Rumour: Battistelli Wants to Extend the Term of Topić’s EPO Appointment in Spite of Criminal Charges Against Him
05.29.16 Battistelli’s ‘Special Relationship’ With Portugal and the ‘Inventor of the Year’ Charade
=> Battistelli’s ‘Special Relationship’ With Portugal and the ‘Inventor of the Year’ Charade
05.30.16 ES: Tarjeta de Victima Termina en Otra Torpeza para Battistelli Seis de su Guardia Pretoriana
=> ES: Tarjeta de Victima Termina en Otra Torpeza para Battistelli Seis de su Guardia Pretoriana
06.01.16 ES: Rumor: Battistelli Quiere Extender el Periódo de Topic en la EPO a Pesar de los Cargos Criminales en Su Contra
06.01.16 Save the Boards of Appeal to Save the EPO From Battistelli’s Neoliberal Vision and Recipe for Disaster
06.02.16 Closer Look at Players in Battistelli’s Information War: Part I
=> Closer Look at Players in Battistelli’s Information War: Part I
06.04.16 Battistelli is Destroying the European Patent Office and Wasting a Lot of Money Hiding This Fact
=> Battistelli is Destroying the European Patent Office and Wasting a Lot of Money Hiding This Fact
06.05.16 EPO Tyranny Comes Under Fire From Politicians in Luxembourg
=> EPO Tyranny Comes Under Fire From Politicians in Luxembourg
06.07.16 Enlarged Board of Appeals Can Decide Whether Battistelli’s Attack on the Boards Will Become Public
=> Enlarged Board of Appeals Can Decide Whether Battistelli’s Attack on the Boards Will Become Public
06.08.16 ES: Mirada Cercana a los Protagonistas en la Guerra Informativa de Battistelli: Parte 1
=> ES: Mirada Cercana a los Protagonistas en la Guerra Informativa de Battistelli: Parte 1
06.08.16 Goodbye to Patent Quality at the EPO, Thanks to Team Battistelli With Its Extreme Policies
=> Goodbye to Patent Quality at the EPO, Thanks to Team Battistelli With Its Extreme Policies
06.09.16 Battistelli is Said to be Engineering Further Attacks on People Whom He Already Fired From the EPO
=> Battistelli is Said to be Engineering Further Attacks on People Whom He Already Fired From the EPO
06.09.16 Dutch Media Reveals That Battistelli Continues His Vicious War on Staff Unions, Laurent Prunier the Latest Casualty (The Hague)
06.10.16 Tuesday Hearing at Room 131 Regarding Illegally Suspended (and Then Defamed) Judge Who Said the Truth About Serious Abuse at the Top of EPO
06.11.16 ES: Se Dice Que Battistelli Esta Fabricando Más Ataques en Contra de la Gente a la Que Ya Despidió de la EPO
06.11.16 EPO Press Spokesperson and Director External Communications Busy Creating Distractions From EPO Controversies
06.11.16 ES: Medios Holandeses Revelan que Battistelli Continua su Feroz Guerra Contra el Sindicato de Empleados, Laurent Prunier la Última Victima (La Hague)
06.12.16 ES: Audiencia el Martes en la Sala 131 Acerca del Ilegalmente Suspendido (y luego Difamado) Juez Que Dijo la Verdad Acerca de los Serios Abusos en la Cúpula de la EPO
06.13.16 Association of the Members of the Boards of Appeal Urges EPO Administrative Council to End Battistelli’s Coup
06.13.16 Out-of-Control Battistelli Repeatedly Breaks Office Rules and EPC Rules, Then Tries to Change the Rules (Retroactive Legalisation)
06.14.16 Timely ‘Gifts’ From Battistelli to Member States (Shortly Before They Can — and Should — Sack Him)
=> Timely ‘Gifts’ From Battistelli to Member States (Shortly Before They Can — and Should — Sack Him)
06.14.16 Battistelli is Sending Threatening Messages/Letters Again, in Another Desperate Effort to Cover Up His Campaign of Defamation Against EPO Whistleblowers (Updated)
06.15.16 Battistelli’s European Patent Office Broadens FTI Consulting Contract to Undermine the Media, Wastes Millions of Euros
06.15.16 Benoît Battistelli Apparently Breaks the Rules Again and Says That Transparent Trial is Unlawful, Threatens Those Involved
06.17.16 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
06.18.16 ES: Battistelli esta Mandando Mensajes/Cartas Amenazadoras de Nuevo, en Otro Desesperado Esfuerzo de Cubrir su Campaña de Difamación en Contra de Personal de la EPO Que Sacan a Luz la Verdard (Actualizado)
06.18.16 ES: La Oficina Europea de Patentes de Battistelli Amplia su Contrato con el Nefasto FTI Consulting Para Neutralizar a los Medios, Desperdicia Millones de Euros
06.18.16 ES: Oportunos ‘Regalos’ de Battistelli a los Estados Miembros (Poco antes de que Ellos Puedan — y Deberían — Despedirlo)
06.23.16 Looks Increasingly Plausible That Battistelli is Covering up Bogus and/or Illegally-Obtained ‘Evidence’ From the EPO’s Investigative Unit
06.25.16 With UPC Dead for Battistelli’s Entire Remaining Term, No Reason for the EPO or the Administrative Council to Keep Battistelli Around
06.27.16 Caricature: European Patent Office (EPO) Under Battistelli
=> Caricature: European Patent Office (EPO) Under Battistelli
06.28.16 ES: Con la UPC Muerta por el Resto del Termino de Battistelli, No Hay Razón para que la EPO o el Consejo Administrativo Sigan Manteniéndolo Más
06.28.16 Injunction Against Battistelli’s Investigative Unit (Known Internally as ‘Gestapo’) Amid Serious Injustices and Bogus ‘Trials’
06.28.16 ES: Cada Vez Más Parece Que Battistelli está Escondiéndo ‘Evidencia’ Falsa y/o Ilegalmente Obtenda de la Unidad Investigativa de la EPO
06.29.16 Battistelli Attacks Not Only His Staff But Also Patents Themselves (Their Quality) and the Legal Legitimacy Surrounding the EPO
06.29.16 Battistelli is Creating an Atmosphere of Terror at the EPO While Exploiting Terror Attacks to Garner Sympathy
06.29.16 Rumours That EPO President Battistelli Got Sacked to be Replaced by Christoph Ernst Appear to be Baseless
06.29.16 EPO Management Bunker: “The Bailiff Who Came to Deliver the Subpoena was Escorted off the Property by Five Security Guards.”
06.29.16 EPO Caricature: Administrative Council Control of Benoît Battistelli
=> EPO Caricature: Administrative Council Control of Benoît Battistelli
06.29.16 EPO Caricature: Firing Benoît Battistelli
=> EPO Caricature: Firing Benoît Battistelli
06.30.16 Battistelli’s Last Moves Are Desperate Attempts to Crush the Messenger (SUEPO), Which Will Almost Certainly Backfire on (if Not Fire) Battistelli
07.01.16 Battistelli’s Destructive Actions Will Drive EPO Applicants Away to National Patent Offices, Putting at Risk the Whole EU-Wide (and Beyond) Project
07.03.16 ES: Las Acciiónes Destructivas de Battistelli Llevaran a los Aplicantes de la EPO Hacia las Oficinas Nacionales de Patentes, Poniéndo en Riesgo el Proyecto Total de la UE y Más Allá
07.03.16 Grim Situation at the European Patent Office Following Battistelli’s Latest Lawlessness Tendencies, as Explained by Concerned Insiders
07.04.16 Image of Battistelli’s EPO Tarnished in the UK and Elsewhere as Battistelli Warms up to Cuba, Colombia, and Panama
07.05.16 SUEPO “Speechless” About Administrative Council Delegates for “Cavalier Attitude Towards Law-Making” and “Contempt for Consultative Processes”
07.09.16 Battistelli and Team UPC Working Behind Closed Doors to Overcome Brexit and Impose Patent Injustice
=> Battistelli and Team UPC Working Behind Closed Doors to Overcome Brexit and Impose Patent Injustice
07.09.16 ES: La Imagen de la EPO de Battistelli Manchada en el Reino Unido y en Todo Lugar Mientras Battistelli Encanta a Cuba, Colombia, y Panama
07.11.16 Coup D’état in Relation to the European Patent Office
=> Coup D’état in Relation to the European Patent Office
07.11.16 ES: Battistelli y el Equipo UPC Trabajando a Puertas Cerradas para Sobreponerse a Brexit e Imponer la Injusticia de Patentes
07.11.16 Benoît Battistelli’s Attacks on EPO Unions, Judges, Boards, and Even Justice Itself the Subject of Media Fascination
07.13.16 EPO’s Battistelli Continues to Court Small Countries’ Officials and Spin That as “Small Businesses From These Countries”
07.15.16 EPO’s Battistelli, Who Breaks the Law, Subverts the Course of Justice and Refuses to Obey Court Orders, Says the Unthinkable Amid Terror Attacks
07.16.16 This is Why Benoît Battistelli Has 0% Approval Rating Among ‘His’ Staff at the EPO
=> This is Why Benoît Battistelli Has 0% Approval Rating Among ‘His’ Staff at the EPO
07.17.16 ES: La EPO de Battistelli Continúa Cortejando a Officiales de Países Pequeños y su Propaganda de Beneficiar a las “PYMEs de Aquellos Países”
07.17.16 ES: La EPO de Battistelli, Quién Quiebra la Ley, Subvierte el Curso de la Justicia y Rechaza Obedecer las Ordenes de la Corte Dice lo Impensable en Medio de los Actos de Terror
07.18.16 Battistelli Has Implemented De Facto EPO Coup to Remove Oversight, Give Himself Total Power, and Allegedly Give UPC Gifts (Loot) to French Officials
07.27.16 Early Certainty That Benoît Battistelli is Dangerously Clueless and a Major Risk to the EPO
=> Early Certainty That Benoît Battistelli is Dangerously Clueless and a Major Risk to the EPO
07.28.16 To Understand What Battistelli Has Turned the EPO Into Look at Turkey and China
=> To Understand What Battistelli Has Turned the EPO Into Look at Turkey and China
08.06.16 Francis Gurry — Like Benoît Battistelli — Compared to Sepp Blatter of FIFA
=> Francis Gurry — Like Benoît Battistelli — Compared to Sepp Blatter of FIFA
08.08.16 Rumours About Secret EPO Salary of Benoît Battistelli
=> Rumours About Secret EPO Salary of Benoît Battistelli
08.09.16 “EPO Shows an Operating Loss of €145,000,000”
=> “EPO Shows an Operating Loss of €145,000,000”
08.18.16 Turkey Subjected to the European Patent Convention (EPC) But Benoît Battistelli is Not?
=> Turkey Subjected to the European Patent Convention (EPC) But Benoît Battistelli is Not?
08.22.16 Battistelli the Liar Causes a Climate of Confrontation in French Politics, Lies About Patent Quality (Among Many Other Things)
09.03.16 Battistelli is Even Attacking the French, and Not Just in Germany But Also on Dutch Territory
=> Battistelli is Even Attacking the French, and Not Just in Germany But Also on Dutch Territory
09.08.16 Another New Low for the EPO and Battistelli (Updated)
=> Another New Low for the EPO and Battistelli (Updated)
09.12.16 Benoît Battistelli is Putting More EPO Staff Representatives in Front of His Firing Line
=> Benoît Battistelli is Putting More EPO Staff Representatives in Front of His Firing Line
09.13.16 Battistelli is Killing the EPO, in His Own Words…
=> Battistelli is Killing the EPO, in His Own Words…
09.13.16 The Duke Law Patent Quality Conference and the Planned Erosion of Patent Quality at the EPO, for the Sake of So-called ‘Production’
09.15.16 Battistelli is Lying About Patent Quality While It Continues to Nosedive at the EPO as Part of His Neo-liberal ‘Production’ Strategy
09.18.16 EPO President Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are Still Lying, Don’t Believe a Word They Say
=> EPO President Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are Still Lying, Don’t Believe a Word They Say
09.19.16 When EPO Liar-in-Chief Benoît Battistelli Defamed His Staff in Parliament, Comparing Them to Nazis and Criminals
09.20.16 Like Big Tobacco Lobbyists, Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are Just Chronically Lying and Manipulating Politicians With Their Lies
09.23.16 Journalism 101: Do Not Believe Anything That Benoît Battistelli and the EPO’s Management Say (Also Don’t Fall for the UPC Hype)
09.23.16 White Male-Dominated EPO Management Sinks to New Lows, Again
=> White Male-Dominated EPO Management Sinks to New Lows, Again
09.24.16 Patent Quality and Patent Scope the Unspeakable Taboo at the EPO, as Both Are Guillotined by Benoît Battistelli for the Sake of Money
09.27.16 Team Battistelli Intensifies the Attack on the Boards of Appeal Again
=> Team Battistelli Intensifies the Attack on the Boards of Appeal Again
09.29.16 Letter From the Dutch Institute of Patent Attorneys (Nederlandse Orde van Octrooigemachtigden) to the Administrative Council of the EPO
10.03.16 Translation and Response to Battistelli’s Face-Saving ‘Interview’ With Juve
=> Translation and Response to Battistelli’s Face-Saving ‘Interview’ With Juve
10.05.16 Loose Patent Scope Becoming a Publicity Nightmare for the EPO and Battistelli Does a China Outreach (Worst/Most Notorious on Patent Quality)
10.06.16 Battistelli’s Preparation for a Propaganda Session That Excludes EPO Staff Representation
=> Battistelli’s Preparation for a Propaganda Session That Excludes EPO Staff Representation
10.13.16 EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point – Part III: How Benoît Battistelli Planned to Expand His Attacks on EPO Staff (But Failed)
10.16.16 EPO Social Conference Another Example of Astronomical Waste of Money by Benoît Battistelli
=> EPO Social Conference Another Example of Astronomical Waste of Money by Benoît Battistelli
10.18.16 Battistelli Wants Us to Believe a Patent Office in a Freefall (EPO) is “Stronger and More Sustainable”
10.21.16 EPO Caricature: Battistelli’s High Five
=> EPO Caricature: Battistelli’s High Five
10.24.16 Battistelli Plans to Expand the Social [sic ‘Study’ (Then ‘Conference’) Propaganda Until Next Month, Under the ‘Workshop’ Umbrella]
=> Battistelli Plans to Expand the Social [sic
10.26.16 Budget and Finance Committee of the Administrative Council (EPO) Confirms Exile of the Boards of Appeal
11.04.16 In the Case of Frenchman Laurent Prunier, Battistelli Reasserts Himself as Psychopathic Bully
=> In the Case of Frenchman Laurent Prunier, Battistelli Reasserts Himself as Psychopathic Bully
11.04.16 Leaked: An Out-of-Control EPO Union-Busting Parade of Battistelli Marches on in The Hague
=> Leaked: An Out-of-Control EPO Union-Busting Parade of Battistelli Marches on in The Hague
11.05.16 Dismissal of Laurent Prunier Worse Than It Seems as Battistelli Almost ‘Pulls a Hardon’ by Taking Away Pension Rights Too
11.06.16 EPO Ally IAM Magazine Calls Battistelli’s Dismissal of EPO Staff Representative Laurent Prunier “a Needless Own Goal.”
11.08.16 EPO I.U. Cartoon Highlights the Way EPO Staff Feels About the Management Under Battistelli
=> EPO I.U. Cartoon Highlights the Way EPO Staff Feels About the Management Under Battistelli
11.10.16 Battistelli Must Go, Says Yet Another French Politician, Arguing He is “Extremely Damaging to the Image of France”
11.15.16 Guest Post: Behind the GCC Meeting and How Battistelli Finds Excuses for His Union-Busting Campaign at the EPO
11.17.16 Battistelli Should be Made Redundant (Fired) Before All EPO Staff Becomes Redundant in a Defunct Office That Flagrantly Mocks the Law
11.18.16 Drunk on ‘Production’, the European Patent Office (EPO) Grants Patents on Recipes
=> Drunk on ‘Production’, the European Patent Office (EPO) Grants Patents on Recipes
11.26.16 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)
11.29.16 Mixing Politics and EPO: How Battistelli Defies the Very Basic Rules of the Office
=> Mixing Politics and EPO: How Battistelli Defies the Very Basic Rules of the Office
12.03.16 More French Politicians Are Complaining That Benoît Battistelli is a Disgrace to France and Urge for Action
12.06.16 Les Échos Chamber: Having Corrupted the Media (With EPO Money), Battistelli Now Uses It for More UPC Propaganda
12.06.16 Endgame for Battistelli at the European Patent Office (EPO)
=> Endgame for Battistelli at the European Patent Office (EPO)
12.10.16 “Corrupt Benoît Battistelli and Željko Topić Today in Zagreb at 25th Anniversary of SIPO Croatia”
=> “Corrupt Benoît Battistelli and Željko Topić Today in Zagreb at 25th Anniversary of SIPO Croatia”
12.11.16 The EPO Sent Its Second ‘Monster’ to Croatia to Lobby for the Unitary Patent (UPC), Did Not Mention Anything About It
12.12.16 Benoît Battistelli Besieged
=> Benoît Battistelli Besieged
12.13.16 EPO Staff: Mr. Battistelli is Causing Immeasurable Damage to the Office; He is Now Untenable
=> EPO Staff: Mr. Battistelli is Causing Immeasurable Damage to the Office; He is Now Untenable
12.13.16 Media Blackout in Croatian Mainstream Media About Criminal Charges Against EPO’s Croatian Vice-President and EPO President’s Notoriety
12.13.16 Staff Union of the European Central Bank Blasts Benoît Battistelli
=> Staff Union of the European Central Bank Blasts Benoît Battistelli
12.18.16 Not Just in Europe: EPO ‘Mafioso’ Benoît Battistelli Brings Software Patents (“Computer-Implemented Inventions”) to Another Place That Explicitly Banned Them
12.19.16 EPO President Benoît Battistelli “Should Be in Prison”
=> EPO President Benoît Battistelli “Should Be in Prison”
12.19.16 From Bad to Worse: When a Horrible Regime (EPO) Publicly Makes Itself Look Like One
=> From Bad to Worse: When a Horrible Regime (EPO) Publicly Makes Itself Look Like One
12.20.16 Benoît Battistelli’s Reign of Terror at the EPO Milks a Terror Attack Again, Shows Extreme Hypocrisy
=> Benoît Battistelli’s Reign of Terror at the EPO Milks a Terror Attack Again, Shows Extreme Hypocrisy
01.19.17 Farce of an ‘Independence’ for the Boards of Appeal as Another Ally of Benoît Battistelli Enters as Parasite Inside the ‘Overseer’/Host
01.20.17 Battistelli is an Autocrat Above the Law and It’s OK, Holland’s High Council Says
=> Battistelli is an Autocrat Above the Law and It’s OK, Holland’s High Council Says
01.26.17 Conflict Between Benoît Battistelli and Roland Grossenbacher, Former Chairman of the Administrative Council of the EPO
01.27.17 Gurry and Battistelli: When Alternative Facts and Oppression Are Becoming Business as Usual
=> Gurry and Battistelli: When Alternative Facts and Oppression Are Becoming Business as Usual
01.29.17 Battistelli Keeps Filling His Swamp at the European Patent Office for Social Control and Immunity Purposes
01.31.17 Battistelli Brags About Being Unaccountable, But He is Wrong and is Probably in Defiance of the Law
=> Battistelli Brags About Being Unaccountable, But He is Wrong and is Probably in Defiance of the Law
02.01.17 EPO Stakeholders Want Battistelli and His Goons Ousted, They Can Accomplish This by Working Together (Like a Union)
02.02.17 Growing Rift Between EPO Stakeholders and the Office, Due to Battistelli’s Appalling Leadership
=> Growing Rift Between EPO Stakeholders and the Office, Due to Battistelli’s Appalling Leadership
02.06.17 The EPO’s President, Benoît Battistelli, May Have Become One of Europe’s Most Hated People
=> The EPO’s President, Benoît Battistelli, May Have Become One of Europe’s Most Hated People
02.07.17 Battistelli Judges Himself to be Excellent, in the Same Way Other Autocrats Judge Themselves to be Benevolent
02.07.17 Translation: Juve Survey That Shows 0% Approval of Battistelli and Growing Concerns About the EPO
=> Translation: Juve Survey That Shows 0% Approval of Battistelli and Growing Concerns About the EPO
02.12.17 Nazi Analogies at the EPO Are the Work of Battistelli, Who Libels Staff Representatives and Judges by Calling Them Nazis and Criminals
02.12.17 Not Only EPO Staff Are Committing Suicide; the EPO as a Whole is Committing Institutional Suicide
=> Not Only EPO Staff Are Committing Suicide; the EPO as a Whole is Committing Institutional Suicide
02.14.17 For Valentine’s Day, Battistelli Learns to Stop Worrying and Love to Lie
=> For Valentine’s Day, Battistelli Learns to Stop Worrying and Love to Lie
02.20.17 EPO Caricature: Battistelli’s Wall
=> EPO Caricature: Battistelli’s Wall
02.28.17 The Boards of Appeal Openly Complain (in the EPO’s Web Site) About Battistelli, But Don’t Tell Battistelli About It…
03.07.17 With a Week Left Before the Administrative Council’s Meeting, Pressure on Battistelli to Leave the EPO Continues to Grow
03.08.17 Latest EPO ‘Results’ Should be Grounds for Immediate Dismissal of Battistelli Rather Than Celebrations
03.09.17 Ousting of Benoît Battistelli Next Week Seems Feasible, But Jesper Kongstad Protects Rather Than Supervises Battistelli
03.11.17 The Battistelli Mafia and Corsica
=> The Battistelli Mafia and Corsica
03.14.17 Battistelli Receives Another Letter From FICSA, is Urged to Meet EPO Staff Representatives Whom He Fired to Bust the Unions
03.16.17 Benoît Battistelli “Should Not Have Been in Charge of Anything More Involved Than a Hamster Cage Without the Hamster…”
03.17.17 IAM Remains Battistelli’s Propaganda Mill, Helping to Manufacture and Reinforce Lies About Quality
=> IAM Remains Battistelli’s Propaganda Mill, Helping to Manufacture and Reinforce Lies About Quality
03.20.17 Are Lithuania and Latvia the Latest Additions to the List of Benoît Battistelli’s Vassal States?
=> Are Lithuania and Latvia the Latest Additions to the List of Benoît Battistelli’s Vassal States?
03.22.17 The Photos the EPO Absolutely Doesn’t Want the Public to See: Battistelli is Building a Palace Using Stakeholders’ Money
03.22.17 The Battistelli Regime, With Its Endless Scandals, Threatens to Crash the Unitary Patent (UPC), Stakeholders Concerned
03.23.17 “Terror” Patent Office Bemoans Terror, Spreads Lies
=> “Terror” Patent Office Bemoans Terror, Spreads Lies
03.23.17 The Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation Has Just Buried an Innocent Judge That Battistelli Does Not Like
03.26.17 Even the EPO’s Administrative Council No Longer Trusts Its Chairman, Battistelli’s ‘Chinchilla’ Jesper Kongstad
03.27.17 The Crook Goes to Brussels to Lie About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
=> The Crook Goes to Brussels to Lie About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
03.28.17 Benoît Battistelli ‘Pulls an Erdoğan’ Faster Than Erdoğan
=> Benoît Battistelli ‘Pulls an Erdoğan’ Faster Than Erdoğan
03.29.17 Kongstad and Battistelli Have Staged a Coup at the European Patent Organisation (EPO)
=> Kongstad and Battistelli Have Staged a Coup at the European Patent Organisation (EPO)
03.30.17 Director Michelle Lee Across the Table From EPO ‘Mafioso’ Benoît Battistelli
=> Director Michelle Lee Across the Table From EPO ‘Mafioso’ Benoît Battistelli
03.30.17 Devaluation of European Patents is a Recipe for Institutional Suicide and Immeasurable Harm to Europe’s Economy
04.07.17 The European Patent Convention (EPC) is Habitually Being Violated by the President of the EPO
=> The European Patent Convention (EPC) is Habitually Being Violated by the President of the EPO
04.10.17 EPO’s Benoît Battistelli is Again Exploiting Truck Attacks to Spread Lies and Garner Sympathy (for the Abuser)
04.16.17 EPO Patent Quality and Quality of Service Have Become a Disaster, Say EPO Stakeholders
=> EPO Patent Quality and Quality of Service Have Become a Disaster, Say EPO Stakeholders
04.25.17 EPO Fiasco to be Discussed in German Local Authority (Bavarian Parliament) Some Time Today as the Institution Continues Its Avoidable Collapse
04.25.17 Astoundingly, IP Kat Has Become a Leading Source of UPC and Battistelli Propaganda
=> Astoundingly, IP Kat Has Become a Leading Source of UPC and Battistelli Propaganda
05.01.17 The Sickness of the EPO – Part VIII: Allegations That the EPO Has No Honest Doctors, Only ‘Fake’ Ones Subservient to Team Battistelli
05.27.17 Colossal Institutional Failure Surrounding the European Patent Office (EPO) and EPO Chickens Out of Debate About It
06.10.17 IAM ‘Magazine’, an Adjunct or Megaphone to the Battistelli Regime, Called ‘Independent’ by the EPO and Used for ‘Quality’ Propaganda
06.13.17 Battistelli to Leave the European Patent Office Without the Unitary Patent He Repeatedly Promised in Vain Over the Years
06.15.17 Leaked: Job Advertisement for Removing Battistelli From the European Patent Office
=> Leaked: Job Advertisement for Removing Battistelli From the European Patent Office
06.17.17 The Writings on the Wall at the European Patent Office: Number of Directors May Soon Decline From 150 to Just 65-70
06.28.17 Christoph Ernst, Long Speculated to be Battistelli’s Successor, Becomes Battistelli’s ‘Boss’
=> Christoph Ernst, Long Speculated to be Battistelli’s Successor, Becomes Battistelli’s ‘Boss’
07.03.17 It’s Official: Battistelli Will Leave the EPO in Less Than a Year
=> It’s Official: Battistelli Will Leave the EPO in Less Than a Year
07.04.17 EPO Silent About EPO Strikes and Battistelli Leaving
=> EPO Silent About EPO Strikes and Battistelli Leaving
07.08.17 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
07.09.17 French Giants Resort to Patent Trolling While Battistelli Attracts Patent Trolls to Europe
=> French Giants Resort to Patent Trolling While Battistelli Attracts Patent Trolls to Europe
07.13.17 Looking Forward to a Battistelli-less and Kongstad-less European Patent Office
=> Looking Forward to a Battistelli-less and Kongstad-less European Patent Office
08.07.17 German Media Names António Campinos as Likely Successor of Battistelli
=> German Media Names António Campinos as Likely Successor of Battistelli
08.10.17 German Media Paints a Picture of Benoît Battistelli as a Drunken ‘Putin’ Looking to Push UPC at All Costs
08.12.17 Under Battistelli, EPO Ceased to Reward Inventors, Rewards Only Battistelli and Fellow Thugs Instead
=> Under Battistelli, EPO Ceased to Reward Inventors, Rewards Only Battistelli and Fellow Thugs Instead
08.23.17 Benoît Battistelli’s Misbehaviour Condemned the UPC to Death
=> Benoît Battistelli’s Misbehaviour Condemned the UPC to Death
09.10.17 European Patent Office (EPO) Implements Erdoğan-Style or Ottoman-Like Purge for King Battistelli
=> European Patent Office (EPO) Implements Erdoğan-Style or Ottoman-Like Purge for King Battistelli
09.11.17 Upcoming EPO Series: Benoît Battistelli’s ‘Club Med’
=> Upcoming EPO Series: Benoît Battistelli’s ‘Club Med’
09.23.17 Latest EPO Rumours Allege That Benoît Battistelli Rigged the Process of EPO President’s Selection
=> Latest EPO Rumours Allege That Benoît Battistelli Rigged the Process of EPO President’s Selection
10.08.17 Thugs United: Francis Gurry Lecture, Courtesy of Benoît Battistelli
=> Thugs United: Francis Gurry Lecture, Courtesy of Benoît Battistelli
10.10.17 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 VIII: Summary and Photos of Battistelli’s Club Med
10.12.17 The Hogwash Begins: Patent Microcosm’s Media Pretends Campinos is Anything But Battistelli’s French Succession Plan
10.22.17 The Difference Between Alain Pompidou and Benoît Battistelli as EPO President
=> The Difference Between Alain Pompidou and Benoît Battistelli as EPO President
10.26.17 Benoît Battistelli Still Involved in Politics, Probably in Defiance of Clear Rules for International Civil Servants
10.28.17 Fresh Allegations That the Belgian EPO Delegation is Compromised or in Cahoots With Benoît Battistelli
11.05.17 At the EPO Under Battistelli Truth is Being Called “Defamation”
=> At the EPO Under Battistelli Truth is Being Called “Defamation”
11.06.17 Battistelli’s Serious Conflict of Interest in Saint-Germain-en-Laye Disqualifies Him as EPO President
11.09.17 Team Battistelli Snubbed by the EPO’s Representatives of Nations
=> Team Battistelli Snubbed by the EPO’s Representatives of Nations
11.19.17 Update on the EPO’s Crackdown on the Boards of Appeal
=> Update on the EPO’s Crackdown on the Boards of Appeal
11.25.17 In New EPO Interview With Juve, Chairman of the Administrative Council Criticises Battistelli
=> In New EPO Interview With Juve, Chairman of the Administrative Council Criticises Battistelli
11.26.17 “Legal and Administrative Rules at the EPO Are Similar to Those at SIPO” (China)
=> “Legal and Administrative Rules at the EPO Are Similar to Those at SIPO” (China)
11.27.17 Battistelli’s Big Fat Greek Wedding at the EPO’s Budget and Finance Committee
=> Battistelli’s Big Fat Greek Wedding at the EPO’s Budget and Finance Committee
12.03.17 Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos Playing Musical Chairs at CEIPI
=> Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos Playing Musical Chairs at CEIPI
12.03.17 How CEIPI in Strasbourg is Allegedly Facilitating Another Battistelli ‘Scam’ Surrounding the Unitary Patent (UPC)
12.04.17 SUEPO on “the Belief of the President That He is Above the Law.”
=> SUEPO on “the Belief of the President That He is Above the Law.”
12.05.17 The EPO Relies on Media Cowardice and Complicity (to Not Report Obvious Issues With Battistelli at CEIPI)
12.05.17 French Disgrace: Teachers at CEIPI Not Happy About Benoît Battistelli as Upcoming President of the CEIPI Administrative Board
12.06.17 Another Day of EPO Injustices in Europe and Campinos/Battistelli Connections at CEIPI
=> Another Day of EPO Injustices in Europe and Campinos/Battistelli Connections at CEIPI
12.07.17 Meanwhile in Eponia, Tyrant Battistelli Must be Seeking Advice on How to Refuse to Obey Court’s Orders (Again)
12.09.17 Raw: Scuttling of the General Advisory Committee and Battistelli Stacking the Deck to Have ‘Yes Men’ as Representatives
12.12.17 Battistelli-Campinos Transition Will Be a Smooth One as the Administrative Council Remains the Same and the Boards Still Besieged
12.12.17 Claim: Judge Corcoran to Be Put Under Benoît Battistelli’s Control in DG1
=> Claim: Judge Corcoran to Be Put Under Benoît Battistelli’s Control in DG1
12.13.17 EPO Administrative Council Disallows Discussion About Violations of the Law by Benoît Battistelli
=> EPO Administrative Council Disallows Discussion About Violations of the Law by Benoît Battistelli
12.17.17 Raw: Benoît Battistelli Has Long Been Obsessed With ‘Alternative Facts’ (Lying) Regarding Everything
=> Raw: Benoît Battistelli Has Long Been Obsessed With ‘Alternative Facts’ (Lying) Regarding Everything
12.18.17 Battistelli Feels as Though He’s Above the Law, So No Wonder He Pursues Software Patents in Europe (Against the Rules)
12.18.17 “As an EPO Employee, I Am Actually Embarrassed by the Behaviour of the President and the Administrative Council”
12.23.17 Raw: How to Tell Benoît Battistelli is Lying
=> Raw: How to Tell Benoît Battistelli is Lying
12.23.17 Raw: Sylvie Jacobs, President of USF, Warns the Administrative Council of the EPO About Battistelli Nepotism and Other Abuses
12.25.17 Raw: Before Battistelli Sacked Nearly a Handful of Staff Representatives He Warned a Dozen and Had Already Punished Some
12.25.17 Raw: European Patent Organisation Knew About Benoît Battistelli’s Gross Nepotism for at Least Four Years, Did Nothing to Stop It
12.26.17 Raw: How President Benoît Battistelli Exercises Almost Complete Control Over the Legal Process
=> Raw: How President Benoît Battistelli Exercises Almost Complete Control Over the Legal Process
12.27.17 Raw: Battistelli’s “Behaviour is Not Only Dangerous for the EPO Staff But is Also Putting the Reputation of the Organisation at Risks.”
12.28.17 Raw: Another Example of Battistelli Trying to Hold the EPO’s Central Staff Committee Accountable for Other People’s Words
12.29.17 Battistelli Becomes Judge Corcoran’s (Almost) Direct Boss and People Doubt He Will Last Long
=> Battistelli Becomes Judge Corcoran’s (Almost) Direct Boss and People Doubt He Will Last Long
12.29.17 Raw: Battistelli the Patent Office Shark Shouting From the Rooftop (Isar)
=> Raw: Battistelli the Patent Office Shark Shouting From the Rooftop (Isar)
12.29.17 Raw: Staff Union of the EPO Explains the Battistelli Operandi
=> Raw: Staff Union of the EPO Explains the Battistelli Operandi
12.30.17 Raw: How and Why the EPO Code of Conduct (CoC) Came About
=> Raw: How and Why the EPO Code of Conduct (CoC) Came About
12.30.17 Raw: Battistelli Uses External Lawyers to Bully Staff That Complains (Like He Repeatedly Did Against Techrights)
12.31.17 Raw: How Battistelli Stacked (to Effectively Control) the Consultation Process Rubber-stamping All His Controversial Proposals
12.31.17 Raw: Battistelli Nervous About Perception of EPO Nepotism (French Cronyism) and Attacks Those Who Take Note of It
12.31.17 Raw: Battistelli, Topić and Bergot Are Stonewalling Until Staff Representatives Speak to EPO Staff
=> Raw: Battistelli, Topić and Bergot Are Stonewalling Until Staff Representatives Speak to EPO Staff
01.01.18 Raw: Battistelli Puts ‘Team Battistelli’ in Charge of ‘Scrutinising’ His Proposals
=> Raw: Battistelli Puts ‘Team Battistelli’ in Charge of ‘Scrutinising’ His Proposals
01.03.18 Translation Shows That Carl Josefsson and Christoph Ernst Refuse to Comment on EPO Injustice as It Might Embarrass Battistelli
01.06.18 President Battistelli Has Acted Like a King Since His Early Days at the EPO
=> President Battistelli Has Acted Like a King Since His Early Days at the EPO
01.14.18 Battistelli Was Always (Right From the Start and Since Candidacy) All About Money
=> Battistelli Was Always (Right From the Start and Since Candidacy) All About Money
01.14.18 EPC Foresaw the Administrative Council Overseeing the Patent Office, Jesper Kongstad Made It “Working Together”
01.26.18 The ‘Collusion’: IP Kat’s (Until Recently) Stephen Jones Meets Battistelli to Lobby for the Unitary Patent (UPC)
02.04.18 IAM Magazine, Authored by Benoît Battistelli, is Rubbish Compared to Patent Scholars
=> IAM Magazine, Authored by Benoît Battistelli, is Rubbish Compared to Patent Scholars
02.07.18 Team UPC Resorts to Paid ‘Articles’ and Lobbying With Battistelli in an Effort to Cause the UK and Germany to Ignore Their Own Laws
02.10.18 The Relationship Between IAM and the EPO’s President Battistelli Tightens Further After Payments for UPC Promotion
03.14.18 The EPO is a Mess Under Battistelli and Stakeholders Including Law Firms Will Suffer, Not Just EP Holders
03.21.18 SUEPO: “Today May Be Your Last Chance to Demonstrate Against the Seriously Flawed Reforms That Mr Battistelli Has Imposed” on EPO Staff
03.22.18 Battistelli’s Ongoing Attacks on the Boards Are Helping Unitary Patent (UPC), Which in Turn Helps French Patent Trolls
03.22.18 The Federation of International Civil Servants’ Association: Frenchman “Campinos is Known for Having Close Ties to Mr. Battistelli Who Strongly Supported His Candidacy.”
03.23.18 Guest Post: Battistelli’s Former “Padrone” Facing Corruption Charges in France
=> Guest Post: Battistelli’s Former “Padrone” Facing Corruption Charges in France
03.27.18 The Administrative Council of the EPO Continues to Reaffirm Complicity in Battistelli’s Abuses
=> The Administrative Council of the EPO Continues to Reaffirm Complicity in Battistelli’s Abuses
04.03.18 Benoît Battistelli’s Era Yields Not Only Invalid and Harmful Monopolies But Also Breeds Distrust and Layoffs
04.11.18 One Last Battistelli Heist: Millions of Euros for Saint-Germain-en-Laye
=> One Last Battistelli Heist: Millions of Euros for Saint-Germain-en-Laye
04.18.18 Guest Post: Responding to Your Recent Posting “The European Patent Office Will Never Hold Its Destroyers Accountable”
04.21.18 Short: Calling Battistelli’s Town (Where He Works) “Force for Innovation” to Justify the Funneling of EPO Funds to It
04.22.18 EPO Hoards Billions of Euros (Taken From the Public), Decreases Quality to Get More Money, Reduces Payments to Staff
04.23.18 Holding Benoît Battistelli Accountable After the EPO
=> Holding Benoît Battistelli Accountable After the EPO
04.24.18 The European Patent Office (EPO) Wastes a Lot of Money on External PR Agencies for Battistelli’s ‘Heist’
04.26.18 Reporting Benoît Battistelli Before He Too ‘Pulls a Željko Topić’
=> Reporting Benoît Battistelli Before He Too ‘Pulls a Željko Topić’
05.01.18 A Test for European Media: Will It Cover the Battistelli-TAD Scandal Like It Covered FIFA Scandals?
=> A Test for European Media: Will It Cover the Battistelli-TAD Scandal Like It Covered FIFA Scandals?
05.04.18 Guest Article: Benoît Battistelli’s Election as Deputy Mayor Was Pre-announced in the Local Press
=> Guest Article: Benoît Battistelli’s Election as Deputy Mayor Was Pre-announced in the Local Press
05.05.18 If Anyone Has Defamed the European Patent Organisation/Office (EPO) It’s Benoît Battistelli
=> If Anyone Has Defamed the European Patent Organisation/Office (EPO) It’s Benoît Battistelli
05.13.18 Guest Article: Battistelli’s Salary in Saint-Germain-en-Laye Nearly Quadrupled Last Year
=> Guest Article: Battistelli’s Salary in Saint-Germain-en-Laye Nearly Quadrupled Last Year
05.14.18 Reader’s Post: The Last Delusion of Benoît Battistelli Before His Departure on June 30th
=> Reader’s Post: The Last Delusion of Benoît Battistelli Before His Departure on June 30th
05.17.18 EPO’s Battistelli Taking Days Off Work for Political ‘Duties’ (Parties) in His French Theatre Where He’ll Bring Buckets of EPO Budget (EPO Stakeholders’ Money)
05.18.18 Système Battistelli (ENArque) at the EPO is Inspired by Système Lamy in Saint-Germain-en Laye
=> Système Battistelli (ENArque) at the EPO is Inspired by Système Lamy in Saint-Germain-en Laye
05.27.18 Letting the USPTO Decide on Fees Would Lead to a ‘Battistelli Scenario’
=> Letting the USPTO Decide on Fees Would Lead to a ‘Battistelli Scenario’
06.01.18 In Gross Violation of German Law, as Per EPO Tradition, Fronleichnam ‘Stolen’ by Benoît Battistelli
=> In Gross Violation of German Law, as Per EPO Tradition, Fronleichnam ‘Stolen’ by Benoît Battistelli
06.04.18 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
06.05.18 IP Kat as an Extension of Team UPC After Departure of the Blog’s Founder
=> IP Kat as an Extension of Team UPC After Departure of the Blog’s Founder
06.09.18 Benoît Battistelli Should Have Received an Award for Corruption, But He Completely Controlled the Show in His Own Theatre
06.11.18 Another Victim of Corrupt Benoît Battistelli
=> Another Victim of Corrupt Benoît Battistelli
06.12.18 Corrupt Benoît Battistelli Promotes Software Patents in IAM’s Patent Trolls-Funded Event in the United States
06.20.18 EPO Insiders Correct the Record of Benoît Battistelli’s Tyranny and Abuse of Law: “Legal Harassment and Retaliation”
06.22.18 “Dr Ernst Should be Forced by National Politicians to Step Down With Immediate Effect” After Battistelli’s Latest EPO Scandals
06.25.18 Benoît Battistelli’s ‘Dowry’ From the Administrative Council of the EPO
=> Benoît Battistelli’s ‘Dowry’ From the Administrative Council of the EPO
06.26.18 Battistelli is ‘Pulling a Lamy’ With a Lot More Money at Stake (and Examiners’ Future)
=> Battistelli is ‘Pulling a Lamy’ With a Lot More Money at Stake (and Examiners’ Future)
06.26.18 Perfect Metaphor for Benoît Battistelli: Unfinished Work That Nobody Likes and Which Causes Truly Massive Losses
06.28.18 President Benoît Battistelli is Finished, But the Huge Mess He Has Created is Not
=> President Benoît Battistelli is Finished, But the Huge Mess He Has Created is Not
06.28.18 Eight Years of Battistelli
06.29.18 Insults, Lies and Propaganda on Battistelli’s Last Day at the European Patent Office
=> Insults, Lies and Propaganda on Battistelli’s Last Day at the European Patent Office
07.02.18 First Day for António Campinos is Done, But Some Media is Still Publishing 90th-Minute Battistelli Puff Pieces
07.08.18 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…”
07.08.18 Project Battistelli: Documenting the Ugly and Illegal Things Battistelli Did at the EPO
=> Project Battistelli: Documenting the Ugly and Illegal Things Battistelli Did at the EPO
07.10.18 Signs of Upcoming Changes at EPO: Raimund Lutz, Željko Topić and Other ‘Team Battistelli’ Folks Are Being Replaced
07.17.18 Time for the European Commission to Investigate EPO Corruption Because It May be Partly or Indirectly Connected to EU-IPO, an EU Agency
09.20.18 It Wasn’t Judges With Weapons in Their Office, It Was Benoît Battistelli Who Brought Firearms to the European Patent Office (EPO)
09.23.18 Benoît Battistelli Refuses to Talk to the Media About Bringing Firearms to the EPO
=> Benoît Battistelli Refuses to Talk to the Media About Bringing Firearms to the EPO
09.26.18 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!)
10.01.18 The European Council Fulfills Corrupt Battistelli’s Alleged Promise, Making Christian Archambeau Head of EUIPO
10.11.18 Friend Brings a Friend, Boss Becomes Subordinate: the EPO Under António Campinos is Starting to Look a Lot Like Team Battistelli 2.0
10.13.18 EPO Insider/Märpel Says President Campinos Already Acts Like Battistelli
=> EPO Insider/Märpel Says President Campinos Already Acts Like Battistelli
11.07.18 Guy Ryder (ILO) Should Meet Staff Representatives, Not Corrupt Team Battistelli
=> Guy Ryder (ILO) Should Meet Staff Representatives, Not Corrupt Team Battistelli
11.24.18 António Campinos Has Run Out of Time, EPO Staff Representation Now Views Him as Just Another Battistelli and Wants Immediate Change
01.31.19 President Campinos Maintains Battistelli’s Abusive Sanctions, EPO Staff Increasingly Losing Faith and Hope in Him
02.10.19 Corrupt Battistelli Paid a Fortune (EPO Budget) for Outlaw/Rogue ‘Bodyguards’ From Firm Linked to Russian Oligarch Iskander Makhmudov
02.14.19 Outline/Index of the Alexandre Benalla/Battistelli Scandal
=> Outline/Index of the Alexandre Benalla/Battistelli Scandal
02.23.19 Video: Alexandre Benalla Speaks About His Relationship With Battistelli
=> Video: Alexandre Benalla Speaks About His Relationship With Battistelli
03.05.19 Battistelli’s Presidency Was a Write-off Presidency (of Potentially Billions of Euros in Losses)
=> Battistelli’s Presidency Was a Write-off Presidency (of Potentially Billions of Euros in Losses)
10.07.14 Benoît Battistelli’s Balkan Standards in EPO: Part V
=> Benoît Battistelli’s Balkan Standards in EPO: Part V
11.16.14 How the EPO’s Executive Branch (Battistelli and Topić) Banned Scrutiny and Created Authoritarian Model of Control: Part X
12.09.14 Exclusive: The Enlarged Board of Appeal Complains About Battistelli’s Corrupt Management to the Administrative Council (Updated)
12.28.14 EPO Corruption: Battistelli Augments His ‘Loyals’ Circle With Frederic Angermann and Charm Offensive in Patent Lawyers’ Sites
01.18.15 Battistelli’s Latest Propaganda War Tries to Convince EPO Staff That Željko Topić’s Many Criminal Charges Don’t Exist
01.24.15 As Battistelli Breaks the Rules and Topić Silences Staff, New European Parliament Petition for Tackling the EPO’s Abuses is Needed
02.02.15 Benoît Battistelli and Jesper Kongstad Continue to Blame Everything on SUEPO
=> Benoît Battistelli and Jesper Kongstad Continue to Blame Everything on SUEPO
02.15.15 English Translation of Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About Benoît Battistelli, Željko Topić, and EPO Tyranny
02.19.15 EPO Staff Protests Against Benoît Battistelli’s Lowering of Patents Quality (Scope Expansion and Software Patents for Profit)
03.18.15 Benoît Battistelli Allegedly Turns to Moscow and Putin-Inspired Tactics to Oppress and Suppress EPO Staff (Updated)
03.23.15 Benoît Battistelli’s EPO Comes Under Attack From the British
=> Benoît Battistelli’s EPO Comes Under Attack From the British
03.25.15 The EPO’s Administrative Council is Under Increased Pressure to Rein in and to Finally Stop Benoît Battistelli
03.26.15 The EPO’s Dutch Scandal Leaves Battistelli and His Cronies on the Run
=> The EPO’s Dutch Scandal Leaves Battistelli and His Cronies on the Run
04.08.15 The EPO is Becoming More Like the USPTO Under Benoît Battistelli’s Greed-Driven Reign
=> The EPO is Becoming More Like the USPTO Under Benoît Battistelli’s Greed-Driven Reign
06.18.15 French Newspaper Les Echos Censors Criticism of Benoît Battistelli and the EPO (Updated)
=> French Newspaper Les Echos Censors Criticism of Benoît Battistelli and the EPO (Updated)
07.03.15 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
09.11.15 EPO Has Become Political and Benoît Battistelli is Lobbying for UPC (Large Corporations’ Wishlist)
=> EPO Has Become Political and Benoît Battistelli is Lobbying for UPC (Large Corporations’ Wishlist)
09.25.15 Süddeutsche Zeitung Explains Imminent Federal Scrutiny Against Battistelli’s EPO in Germany
=> Süddeutsche Zeitung Explains Imminent Federal Scrutiny Against Battistelli’s EPO in Germany
10.02.15 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
10.05.15 New Information on Limbo in the Enlarged Board, Courtesy of Illegal Actions by the EPO’s Benoît Battistelli
10.08.15 The Coup D’état of Benoît Battistelli Follows an Imperialist Model, Threatens Opposition and Dissent
=> The Coup D’état of Benoît Battistelli Follows an Imperialist Model, Threatens Opposition and Dissent
10.09.15 Benoît Battistelli’s Office Accused of Institutional Harassment Against EPO Staff in New Letter to the Administrative Council, Calling for External Investigation
10.12.15 Benoît Battistelli’s Group of ‘Loyals’ Crushes Not Only the Independent Boards But Also ‘Unwanted’ Directorates-General
10.28.15 Battistelli’s EPO Loses ‘Customers’ Because It Plays ‘Favourites’ With Large Corporations
=> Battistelli’s EPO Loses ‘Customers’ Because It Plays ‘Favourites’ With Large Corporations
10.28.15 Battistelli’s EPO Loses ‘Customers’ Because It Plays ‘Favourites’ With Large Corporations
=> Battistelli’s EPO Loses ‘Customers’ Because It Plays ‘Favourites’ With Large Corporations
11.03.15 The Benoît Battistelli Way or the Highway: EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal is Being Discredited, SUEPO Web Site is Down Again
11.10.15 The Bureaucratic Nonsense That Came Out of Benoît Battistelli and Jesper Kongstad at EPOPIC
=> The Bureaucratic Nonsense That Came Out of Benoît Battistelli and Jesper Kongstad at EPOPIC
11.19.15 Patent Lawyers Want to Bring Software Patents (Hence Patent Trolls Too) to Europe, Piggyback Battistelli’s Habitual UPC Promotion
11.23.15 EPO President Battistelli Now Intimidates Even National Delegations
=> EPO President Battistelli Now Intimidates Even National Delegations
11.25.15 Debunking the EPO’s Latest Marketing Nonsense From Les Échos and More on Benoît Battistelli’s Nastygram to French Politician
12.06.15 Staff Union of the EPO Responds to Benoît Battistelli’s Alleged Defamation of Staff Representatives
=> Staff Union of the EPO Responds to Benoît Battistelli’s Alleged Defamation of Staff Representatives
12.07.15 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
12.08.15 Team Battistelli Plans to Send to Exile (or Effectively Fire) Law-abiding Staff Because the Staff is Independent and Unwilling to Sack a Whistleblower
12.08.15 Hypocrite in Chief: Benoît Battistelli Compares Staff Union to ‘Mafia’
=> Hypocrite in Chief: Benoît Battistelli Compares Staff Union to ‘Mafia’
12.08.15 EPO’s Team Battistelli is Promoting Only the Oppressors
=> EPO’s Team Battistelli is Promoting Only the Oppressors
12.11.15 Series Teaser: EPO President Battistelli’s Relationship With Power
=> Series Teaser: EPO President Battistelli’s Relationship With Power
12.12.15 A Day After Massive EPO Protest Benoît Battistelli Tries Using Money to Appease Staff
=> A Day After Massive EPO Protest Benoît Battistelli Tries Using Money to Appease Staff
12.16.15 Battistelli’s Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part II
=> Battistelli’s Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part II
12.16.15 Unanimous Negative Opinion on the Proposal of Benoît Battistelli to Eliminate Basic Rights at EPO
=> Unanimous Negative Opinion on the Proposal of Benoît Battistelli to Eliminate Basic Rights at EPO
12.17.15 Benoît Battistelli’s EPO Continues Its Self-Congratulatory PR Charade, Neglecting to Even Acknowledge the Catastrophes Therein
12.19.15 Rumour: Administrative Council Advises Benoît Battistelli Not to Fire Staff Representatives
=> Rumour: Administrative Council Advises Benoît Battistelli Not to Fire Staff Representatives
12.19.15 Jacques Michel (Former EPO VP1), Benoît Battistelli’s EPO, and the Leak of Internal Staff Data to Michel’s Private Venture
12.20.15 Battistelli’s Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part IV
=> Battistelli’s Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part IV
12.21.15 Battistelli’s Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part V
=> Battistelli’s Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part V
12.22.15 Europe Under Siege by Patent Lawyers, UPC Ambitions, and the Administrative Council’s Continued Passive Support of Battistelli
12.24.15 Concerns About the Unitary Patent Court (UPC) Among EPO Staff an Outcome of Battistelli’s Attacks on Staff
12.27.15 Battistelli’s Proposed Changes to Pensions “Difficult to Understand”, “Liable to Cause Instability”, Without Consultation or Justification
12.28.15 Buying Panels and Paying the Media to Cement Personal Agenda: The Bill Gates Common Core Case Mirrors the Battistelli Unitary Patent Case
01.15.16 Massive EPO Protests After Team Battistelli Fires Legitimate Critics and Staff Representatives (Even Those With Young Children)
01.16.16 Masivas Protestas en la OEP Después que el Equipo Battistelli Despide a Críticos y Representates de su Unión (Incluso aquellos con Niños)
01.17.16 Team Battistelli Has Brought Dirty Politics to the EPO, Pension Cuts May be “Blatantly Illegal”
=> Team Battistelli Has Brought Dirty Politics to the EPO, Pension Cuts May be “Blatantly Illegal”
01.20.16 La Legitimidad de Battistelli bajo Fuego Político Después que Despidió Representates de la Unión, Reclamos que El NO es el Indicado or Ineligible para Presidente de la OEP
01.20.16 Benoît Battistelli Blasted by Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’, Who Initiates More Political Actions Against Him
01.20.16 The Next Phase of Union Busting: Battistelli Now Cutting Salaries of Yet More EPO Staff Representatives
01.22.16 Benoît Battistelli es Repréndido por Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’, Quien Ha Iniciado Acciones Políticas en Su Contra
01.23.16 EPO President Battistelli and Vice-President Topić Are Having Political Problems
=> EPO President Battistelli and Vice-President Topić Are Having Political Problems
01.30.16 The Connection Between the EPO’s Investigative Unit/Battistelli Policies and EPO Suicides
=> The Connection Between the EPO’s Investigative Unit/Battistelli Policies and EPO Suicides
01.31.16 Battistelli Y Su Guardia Pretoriana: ¿Paranoia, Megalomanía, o Ambas? ¿Está los ‘Redes de Suicidio’ Estilo-China en la OEP Próxima Agenda?
02.02.16 Münchner Merkur Explains That EPO Staff is Defecting to SUEPO, Even The Council Distrusts Battistelli Now
02.04.16 Benoît Battistelli’s EPO: From Show Trials and Mock Trials to a Self-Aggrandising Propaganda Event Later Today in Rijswijk
02.06.16 Rumours About Dismissal of Benoît Battistelli and New Letter From Union Syndicale Federale Blasting Battistelli’s Behaviour
02.07.16 EPO Staff Responds to Team Battistelli’s Expansion to Include French Economic Propagandist on the Payroll
02.10.16 EPO Brain Drain (Even Directors Fed Up With Team Battistelli) and Rumours About Battistelli Becoming President of the UPC
02.11.16 New EPO Protests Amid Nervous Breakdowns of Spanish EPO Employee (After Institutional Bullying by Battistelli’s Goons), Spain Rejects the Unitary Patent (UPC)
02.13.16 Feedback About Battistelli’s ‘Meet the President’ Event in Rijswijk (4th of February, 2016)
=> Feedback About Battistelli’s ‘Meet the President’ Event in Rijswijk (4th of February, 2016)
02.13.16 Nuevas Protestas Contra La Vil OEP en Medio de Crisis Nerviosa de su Empleado Español (Después del Matoneo Institucional de Los Chacales de Battistelli), España Rechaza la Patente Unitaria UPC
02.18.16 EPO Management Reportedly in a State of Collapse, Rumours Suggest Battistelli Possibly Out Soon, Events Canceled
02.18.16 Open Letter Explains Why Disciplinary Committees at the EPO Have Become a Sham Under Battistelli’s Regime
02.18.16 Team Battistelli Tries to Bend the Rules to Prevent the European Patent Office From Going on Strike
=> Team Battistelli Tries to Bend the Rules to Prevent the European Patent Office From Going on Strike
02.19.16 Source: EPO’s Administrative Council Not Pursuing Battistelli’s Witch-hunt Against a Judge Anymore
=> Source: EPO’s Administrative Council Not Pursuing Battistelli’s Witch-hunt Against a Judge Anymore
02.25.16 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
02.25.16 Nearly a Thousand EPO Employees Prepared to Go on Strike in Just a Fortnight, Team Battistelli Getting Desperate to Stop That
02.25.16 Dutch Media Reinforces Rumours That Battistelli is on His Way Out, Only a Matter of Money Now
=> Dutch Media Reinforces Rumours That Battistelli is on His Way Out, Only a Matter of Money Now
02.25.16 Dutch Report: “External Investigation” Likely to be Launched Into “the Punitive Measures That Battistelli Imposed on Union Members.”
02.25.16 More Fire Power for Team Battistelli With New Promotion of French Lady
=> More Fire Power for Team Battistelli With New Promotion of French Lady
02.25.16 Repurposed Misinformation Campaign: The EPO’s PR Team is Lying to The Register in Order to Help Battistelli Save Face
02.26.16 Next Week Looks Likely to Bring Another Battistelli Crisis at the EPO
=> Next Week Looks Likely to Bring Another Battistelli Crisis at the EPO
02.27.16 Battistelli-Led EPO “Led to Tensions and Even to Suicides Among Employees, Say the Unions”
=> Battistelli-Led EPO “Led to Tensions and Even to Suicides Among Employees, Say the Unions”
03.01.16 Team Battistelli’s New Media Strategy at Times of EPO Emergency
=> Team Battistelli’s New Media Strategy at Times of EPO Emergency
03.02.16 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
03.02.16 UPC Anything But a Certainty With Battistelli on His Way Out, But Patent Lawyers Are Still in Denial
=> UPC Anything But a Certainty With Battistelli on His Way Out, But Patent Lawyers Are Still in Denial
03.03.16 Further Evidence Suggests and Shows Stronger Evidence That Team Battistelli Uses FFPE-EPO as ‘Yellow Union’ Against SUEPO
03.04.16 La UPC No Pasa Nada Con Battistelli de Salida, Pero los Abogados de Patentes Todavía lo Niegan
=> La UPC No Pasa Nada Con Battistelli de Salida, Pero los Abogados de Patentes Todavía lo Niegan
03.04.16 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
03.04.16 Unitary Patent (UPC) Propagandists Are Louder Than Ever as Its Architect in Chief (Battistelli) is Probably About to Get Sacked
03.05.16 Fallout of the FFPE EPO MoU With Battistelli’s Circle
=> Fallout of the FFPE EPO MoU With Battistelli’s Circle
03.09.16 Team Battistelli’s Bergot Reacts to Strike Action
=> Team Battistelli’s Bergot Reacts to Strike Action
03.09.16 Exclusive: Leaked Document Refutes Battistelli’s Words and Shows He is Still Deplored by the Board
=> Exclusive: Leaked Document Refutes Battistelli’s Words and Shows He is Still Deplored by the Board
03.10.16 Video Sheds Light on Policy/Stance of the Man Rumoured to be Battistelli’s Successor at the EPO
=> Video Sheds Light on Policy/Stance of the Man Rumoured to be Battistelli’s Successor at the EPO
03.10.16 The European Patent Office is in a State of Transition, But Not Battistelli’s Transition or ‘Reform’
=> The European Patent Office is in a State of Transition, But Not Battistelli’s Transition or ‘Reform’
03.10.16 Exclusivo: Documento Filtrado Rechaza las Palabras de Battistelli y Muestra Que Todavía es Deplorado por la Junta
03.11.16 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
03.11.16 The Article Which Reinforces Rumours About Christoph Ernst Replacing President Battistelli at the EPO
03.14.16 EPO Rumours About Antonio Campinos as Replacement for Benoît Battistelli
=> EPO Rumours About Antonio Campinos as Replacement for Benoît Battistelli
03.14.16 Old Article About Battistelli’s Right-hand Man, Željko Topić, Highlights Severity of the Whole Situation
03.15.16 Overthrowing Battistelli Only Part of a Bigger Job (Restoration of Quality and Human Decency at the European Patent Office)
03.15.16 Battistelli Unsurprisingly Rejects Opportunity to Salvage His Status, EPO Strike Likely to Proceed Soon
03.16.16 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”
03.16.16 Survey Confirms What Board 28 Already Admits: the European Patent Office is Deep in a State of Crisis Since Benoît Battistelli Took Over
03.16.16 Battistelli No Sorprendio a Nadie al Rechazar la Oportunidad para Salvar su Status, Huelga de la EPO Probablemente Procederá Pronto
03.17.16 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
03.19.16 Reversal Spin: SUEPO Needs to Make Peace Rather Than Benoît Battistelli Needing to Make Peace After Dismissing SUEPO’s Leaders
03.20.16 Propaganda Reversa: La SUEPO Necesita hacer la Paz En Vez que Benoît Battistelli Lo Haga Después de Despedir a los Líderes de SUEPO
03.21.16 Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and the United Kingdom Urge Benoît Battistelli to Allow Independent Investigation of His EPO Union-Busting Moves
03.23.16 FFPE-EPO Says MoU With Battistelli Will “Defend Employment Conditions” (Updated)
=> FFPE-EPO Says MoU With Battistelli Will “Defend Employment Conditions” (Updated)
03.26.16 Battistelli is Trying to Save His EPO Job After Getting Called Out, But Doesn’t Give Back Busted Union Leaders Their Jobs; Strike Imminent
03.27.16 Battistelli esta Tratando de Salvar Su Trabajo en la EPO Despues que le llamaron la Atención, Pero no Regresa su Trabajo A los Lideres Sindicales Despedidos; Huelga Inminente
04.08.16 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
04.09.16 El ¿Porqué 2,657 de los trabajadore de la EPO Fueron Actualmente Menos de los Que Hubieran ido a la Huelga Si No Fuese Por las Obstrucciones de los Chacales de Battistelli
04.11.16 Church of EPO: How Team Battistelli Engineered the Dismissal of People Not Sufficiently Loyal to Them – Part II
04.12.16 La Iglesia de EPO: ¿Como el Equipo de Battistelli Arregló El Despido de la Gente No lo Suficiéntemente Leales a Ellos?– Parte II
04.13.16 Church of EPO: How Team Battistelli Engineered the Dismissal of People Not Sufficiently Loyal to Them – Part III
04.14.16 La Iglesia de EPO: ¿Como el Equipo de Battistelli Arregló El Despido de la Gente No lo Suficiéntemente Leales a Ellos?– Parte III
04.14.16 Needed Urgently: Information About the Secret Meeting of Board 28 and Battistelli’s Yellow Union, FFPE-EPO
04.18.16 Church of EPO: How Team Battistelli Engineered the Dismissal of People Not Sufficiently Loyal to Them – Part IV
04.21.16 Battistelli’s MoU and Photo Op With the Institute of Professional Representatives Helps Disguise Its Harsh Criticism of the EPO
04.22.16 ES: El MOU de Battistelli el Arreglo Fotográfico Con el Instituto Profesional de Representantes Ayuda a Disfrazar el Duro Criticismo de la EPO
04.22.16 In Battistelli’s Mini Union (Minion) It Takes Less Than 10 Votes to ‘Win’ an Election
=> In Battistelli’s Mini Union (Minion) It Takes Less Than 10 Votes to ‘Win’ an Election
04.24.16 ES: Toma Menos de 10 Votos para ‘Ganar’ una Elección en la Mini Unión (Minion) de Battistelli
=> ES: Toma Menos de 10 Votos para ‘Ganar’ una Elección en la Mini Unión (Minion) de Battistelli
05.02.16 Not Just Benoît Battistelli and Willy Minnoye (EPO): Željko Topić Too Thinks He is Above the Law, Avoids the Judges and Courts
05.05.16 US Congress Should Investigate EPO and Battistelli, Not Just WIPO and Francis Gurry
=> US Congress Should Investigate EPO and Battistelli, Not Just WIPO and Francis Gurry
05.10.16 Golden Parachute or Not, Battistelli is Wasting Huge Amounts of Money on His Longtime Bodyguards Fetish
05.11.16 ES: El Congreso de los EE.UU. Debería Investigar a Battistelli, No Sólo a la WIPO y Francis Gurry
=> ES: El Congreso de los EE.UU. Debería Investigar a Battistelli, No Sólo a la WIPO y Francis Gurry
05.11.16 ES: Paracaídas de Oro o No, Battistelli Está Desperdiciándo Dinero Con Su Fetiche de Guardia Pretoriana
05.17.16 If Battistelli Stayed and UPC Became a Reality, Patent Quality at the EPO Would Get a Lot Worse
=> If Battistelli Stayed and UPC Became a Reality, Patent Quality at the EPO Would Get a Lot Worse
05.19.16 Anonymous Commenters Debate Whether Battistelli’s EPO Can Revoke Pensions of Dismissed Employees Who Dare — GASP — Find Alternative Employment
05.21.16 ES: Comentadores Anónimos Debaten Si la EPO de Battistelli Puede Revocar las Pensiones de Empleados Que Se Atreveen — GASP — a Buscar Empleo Alternativo
05.22.16 Corrupting Democracy? Growing Frequency of Rumours That the EPO’s President Battistelli is ‘Buying’ Votes of Small Member States
05.28.16 Battistelli’s Assault on EPO Staff’s Right to Strike in Relation to French Politics and That ‘Bicycle’ Pretext for Crackdowns
06.01.16 ES: El Asalto de Battistelli a los Derechos a la Huelga de sus Empleados en Relación a Políticas Francesas y el Pretexto de la Bicicleta para sus Ataques
06.01.16 Crazed Battistelli is Trying Plan B to Demolish the Boards of Appeal (Quality Control), Praesidium/Association of Members Strikes Back
06.01.16 Battistelli’s Self-Serving ‘European Inventor of the Year’ Charade a Classic Example of Waste and Abuse
06.02.16 Closer Look at Players in Battistelli’s Information War: Part II (BlueCoat)
=> Closer Look at Players in Battistelli’s Information War: Part II (BlueCoat)
06.02.16 Closer Look at Players in Battistelli’s Information War: Part III (Buying the Media, Manufacturing ‘Studies’ With Secret Contracts)
06.03.16 Closer Look at Players in Battistelli’s Information War: Part IV (Wellkom)
=> Closer Look at Players in Battistelli’s Information War: Part IV (Wellkom)
06.05.16 ES: El Loco Battistelli Esta Tratando Plan B Para Destruír las Salas de Apelaciónes (Control de Calidad), Praesidium/Asociación de Miembros Contraataca
06.06.16 Public Proceedings Next Week Could Expose Battistelli’s Incredible and Unprecedented Attack on EPO Judge
06.08.16 ES: Mirada Cercana a los Protagonistas en la Guerra Informativa de Battistelli: Parte II (BlueCoat)
=> ES: Mirada Cercana a los Protagonistas en la Guerra Informativa de Battistelli: Parte II (BlueCoat)
06.08.16 ES: Mirada Cercana a los Protagonistas de la Guerra Informativa de Battistellir: Parte IV (Wellkom)
=> ES: Mirada Cercana a los Protagonistas de la Guerra Informativa de Battistellir: Parte IV (Wellkom)
06.08.16 ES: Mirada Cercana a los Protagonistas en la Guerra Informativa de Battistelli: Parte III (Comprando a los Medios, Fabricando ´estudios´con Contratos Secrétos)
06.09.16 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
06.10.16 EPO ‘Bought’ the Financial Times, Which Now Operates in ‘Mouthpiece Mode’ for Mr. Battistelli
=> EPO ‘Bought’ the Financial Times, Which Now Operates in ‘Mouthpiece Mode’ for Mr. Battistelli
06.10.16 Battistelli’s EPO is Buying Media Coverage for Lobbying Purposes, But Not at Battistelli’s Expense
=> Battistelli’s EPO is Buying Media Coverage for Lobbying Purposes, But Not at Battistelli’s Expense
06.11.16 ES: El Premio al Inventor Europeo 2016 (EIA16) del la EPO No es un Evento de Premiación, es Sólo un Evento de Propaganda y Cabildeo de Battistelli, la EPO Simplemente Paga por Ello
06.12.16 ES: La EPO ‘Compró’ al Financial Times, El Cual Opera a ‘Modo de Vocero’ Para el sr. Battistelli
=> ES: La EPO ‘Compró’ al Financial Times, El Cual Opera a ‘Modo de Vocero’ Para el sr. Battistelli
06.12.16 ES: La EPO de Battistelli Está Comprando Cubrimiénto de los Medios Para Sus Objetivos Cabilderso, Pero No de Los Bolsillos de Battistelli
06.13.16 Another EPO Staff Demonstration Planned for a Fortnight From Now When Battistelli Wishes to Make the EPO Even Crazier
06.13.16 Spontaneous Protest at EPO Today as Battistelli Still Acts Defiantly, Three Days of ‘Trial’ Starting Tomorrow
06.15.16 Benoît Battistelli’s Façade Continues: Exploiting Terror Attacks Again, Throwing Expensive Parties at the EPO’s Expense, Crushing More Workers’ Rights
06.15.16 British Media Tackling Other British Media That the EPO’s Benoît Battistelli Paid for His Propaganda Campaign
06.18.16 No Exaggeration Necessary: the EPO Under Benoît Battistelli Has North Korean Standards of ‘Justice’
=> No Exaggeration Necessary: the EPO Under Benoît Battistelli Has North Korean Standards of ‘Justice’
06.19.16 Patent Examiners and Insiders Acknowledge Profound Demise in Patent Quality Under Battistelli
=> Patent Examiners and Insiders Acknowledge Profound Demise in Patent Quality Under Battistelli
06.20.16 Under Battistelli’s Regime the EPO is a Lawless, Dark Place
=> Under Battistelli’s Regime the EPO is a Lawless, Dark Place
06.20.16 Money Flying to Private Companies Without Tenders at Battistelli’s EPO (by the Tens of Millions!)
=> Money Flying to Private Companies Without Tenders at Battistelli’s EPO (by the Tens of Millions!)
06.21.16 The Conspiracy of Patent Lawyers for UPC and Battistelli’s Role in Preparing by Firing People
=> The Conspiracy of Patent Lawyers for UPC and Battistelli’s Role in Preparing by Firing People
06.23.16 Benoît Battistelli Should Resign in Light of New Leak of Decision in His Vendetta Against Truth-Telling Judge (Updated)
06.27.16 Battistelli May Still be on the Way Out as Pressure Grows in Germany, UPC in Shambles
=> Battistelli May Still be on the Way Out as Pressure Grows in Germany, UPC in Shambles
06.28.16 ES: El Caradura Benoît Battistelli Debería Renunciar a Luz de la Filtrada Nueva Decisión en Su Vendeta en Contra de un Juez que se Atrevió a Decir la Verdad (Actualizado)
06.29.16 The EPO Has Become Battistelli’s Circus and the Administrative Council Has Been Reduced to (Illegal) Circus Animals Controlled With ‘Treats’
06.29.16 Benoît Battistelli Further Weaponises His EPO ‘Stasi’ With CA/52/16
=> Benoît Battistelli Further Weaponises His EPO ‘Stasi’ With CA/52/16
07.01.16 The European Patent Organisation’s Administrative Council Helps Benoît Battistelli Destroy Patent Quality for the Sake of ‘Production’
07.03.16 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
07.04.16 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
07.04.16 UPC a Dead Project, as Per Analysis From Foley and Lardner LLP; What Next for Team Battistelli and Team UPC?
07.06.16 The ‘Administrative’ Council is to Benoît Battistelli What FISA is to the NSA
=> The ‘Administrative’ Council is to Benoît Battistelli What FISA is to the NSA
07.09.16 ES: El Consejo ‘Administrativo’ es para Benoît Battistelli lo que la FISA es para la NSA
=> ES: El Consejo ‘Administrativo’ es para Benoît Battistelli lo que la FISA es para la NSA
07.11.16 Will Battistelli’s Friend/Ally Lucy Neville-Rolfe Shamelessly Attack British Democracy and Push for UPC in Spite of Brexit?
07.15.16 What If EPO Under Battistelli Gets Broken Beyond Repair Just Like the UPC?
=> What If EPO Under Battistelli Gets Broken Beyond Repair Just Like the UPC?
07.17.16 ES: ¿Que si la EPO Bajo Battistelli Se Arruina Sin Posibilidad de Reparación Como la UPC?
=> ES: ¿Que si la EPO Bajo Battistelli Se Arruina Sin Posibilidad de Reparación Como la UPC?
07.17.16 Exploiting Perceived Emergencies/Disasters, Suspending the Rule of Law, and Suspending Judges: How Erdoğan is Like Battistelli, Except the Coup
07.17.16 Benoît Battistelli and Persistratos
=> Benoît Battistelli and Persistratos
07.20.16 EPO USA: Under Battistelli, the ‘European’ Patent Office Emulates All the Mistakes of the USPTO
=> EPO USA: Under Battistelli, the ‘European’ Patent Office Emulates All the Mistakes of the USPTO
07.22.16 Haar Mentioned as Likely Site of Appeal Boards as Their Eradication or Marginalisation Envisioned by UPC Proponent Benoît Battistelli
07.22.16 Glimpse at Patent Systems Across the World: Better Quality Control at the USPTO Post-America Invents Act (2011), Unlike the EPO Post-Battistelli (2010)
07.24.16 Leaked: Boards of Appeal Face ‘Exile’ or ‘Extradition’ in Haar After Standing up to Battistelli
=> Leaked: Boards of Appeal Face ‘Exile’ or ‘Extradition’ in Haar After Standing up to Battistelli
07.27.16 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
07.30.16 Actions by Team Battistelli Against the European Patent Convention (EPC) and the Role Played by Željko Topić in Crushing Opposition
08.03.16 Lucy in the Sky With Battistelli’s Diamonds (EU Budget) But No UPC in Sight
=> Lucy in the Sky With Battistelli’s Diamonds (EU Budget) But No UPC in Sight
08.04.16 Patent Quality in Europe (EPO) Declining Under Battistelli in Spite of the USPTO’s Cautionary Tale
=> Patent Quality in Europe (EPO) Declining Under Battistelli in Spite of the USPTO’s Cautionary Tale
08.09.16 Deviation From (and Violation of) the EPC Under Battistelli at the EPO for the Sake of ‘Production’
=> Deviation From (and Violation of) the EPC Under Battistelli at the EPO for the Sake of ‘Production’
08.11.16 The EPO’s Twitter Account is Drunk (on Battistelli’s Kool-Aid)
=> The EPO’s Twitter Account is Drunk (on Battistelli’s Kool-Aid)
08.12.16 German Media Becomes Aware of Battistelli’s Defiance of the Very Basis of the EPO
=> German Media Becomes Aware of Battistelli’s Defiance of the Very Basis of the EPO
08.16.16 That Time When the Administrative Council Helped Battistelli Crush Oversight (Audit Committee) and What ILO Said About It a Month Ago
08.18.16 Battistelli’s European Patent Office Goes to the United States to Speak About the UPC and Software Patents
08.18.16 The End of an Era at the USPTO as Battistelli-Like (EPO) Granting Policies Are Over
=> The End of an Era at the USPTO as Battistelli-Like (EPO) Granting Policies Are Over
08.22.16 Not Just President Battistelli: EPO Vice-Presidents Are Still Intentionally Misrepresenting EPO Staff
08.28.16 More Lies From President Benoît Battistelli and the EPO Crisis Which Continues to Deepen
=> More Lies From President Benoît Battistelli and the EPO Crisis Which Continues to Deepen
09.01.16 The Long Reach of Battistelli’s Policy of Retribution
=> The Long Reach of Battistelli’s Policy of Retribution
09.06.16 High on EPO: Battistelli’s ‘Social Conference’ Nonsense is Intended to Help Suppress Debate About His Abuses Against Staff and Union-Busting Activities
09.06.16 Convergence Between the EPO and the Media: ‘Managing IP’ as Battistelli and UPC Platform
=> Convergence Between the EPO and the Media: ‘Managing IP’ as Battistelli and UPC Platform
09.11.16 The Collapse of the European Patent Office Under Battistelli Has Already Begun
=> The Collapse of the European Patent Office Under Battistelli Has Already Begun
09.12.16 Brain Drain at the EPO Under Battistelli is Becoming a Critical Problem
=> Brain Drain at the EPO Under Battistelli is Becoming a Critical Problem
09.15.16 Battistelli and His Circle — Not Just Team UPC — Still Delusional About the Prospects of a Unified Patent Court (UPC)
09.19.16 With or Without the UPC (Which Will Probably Never Happen) Battistelli is Crushing the EPO and Ejects Experienced Staff, a Future Without Examination Possible
09.24.16 Released Late on a Friday, EPO Social ‘Study’ (Battistelli-Commissioned Propaganda) Attempts to Blame Staff for Everything
09.26.16 The Moral Depravity of the European Patent Office Under Battistelli
=> The Moral Depravity of the European Patent Office Under Battistelli
09.27.16 The Battistelli Effect: “We Will be Gradually Forced to File Our Patent Applications Outside the EPO in the Interests of Our Clients”
09.28.16 EPO’s Board 28 Notes Battistelli’s “Three Current Investigations/Disciplinary Proceedings Involving SUEPO Members in The Hague.”
09.30.16 Battistelli Locks EPO Staff Union Out of Social Conference So That He Can Lie About the Union and the Social Climate
09.30.16 New Paper Provides Evidence of Sinking Patent Quality at the EPO, Refuting the Liar in Chief Battistelli
10.01.16 Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are at War With European Democracy, Which They View as an Obstacle to Money and Power
10.06.16 Team Battistelli Keeps Lying About Judges and Staff Representatives in Order to Decapitate EPO Staff and Even the ‘Independent’ Boards of Appeal
10.09.16 The Administrative Council Seems to Have No Issues With Battistelli Wasting Millions of Euros Buying the Media and Fake ‘Studies’
10.11.16 The Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) Protested Today in Munich (Against the EPO’s Management) While President Benoît Battistelli Lied
10.13.16 EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point – Part IV: When ~1,200 EPO Workers March in Protest and European Politicians Say “Battistelli Must Go”
10.16.16 As Expected, Benoît Battistelli Puts Longtime Ally Roland Grossenbacher on Top of Boards of Appeal
=> As Expected, Benoît Battistelli Puts Longtime Ally Roland Grossenbacher on Top of Boards of Appeal
10.17.16 EPO Updates: Battistelli in Trouble, Grossenbacher and Battistelli Having a Fight, EPO Doubles Down on Željko Topić
10.18.16 Leaked Documents Shed More Light on What Happened to Alison Brimelow and How Battistelli Rose to Power
10.19.16 Team Battistelli’s Conspiracy Theory: SUEPO is Behind Everything, EPO Management is Trying to Tell the Media
10.19.16 Battistelli-Commissioned PwC ‘Study’: The Raw Outcome Shows Distortion of the Facts at the EPO’s Notorious ‘Social Conference’
10.20.16 Battistelli Ruins Not Only the EPO But Also the Whole of Europe By Ushering in Software Patents That Patent Trolls Love So Much
10.20.16 EPO Spokesman Lies to IP Watch in Order to Save Face and Save the King (Battistelli)
=> EPO Spokesman Lies to IP Watch in Order to Save Face and Save the King (Battistelli)
10.21.16 Battistelli-Commissioned PwC ‘Study’: Survey Comparison Shows Serious Deterioration and Efforts by PwC to Disguise the Truth
10.22.16 Translation of Latest Rant From French MP Philip Cordery About Benoît Battistelli’s Abuses at the EPO
10.23.16 Open Letter Exposing the Farce Which Was Battistelli’s ‘Social Conference’ Coinciding With Further (New) Attacks on EPO Staff Representatives
10.23.16 EPO and the “Iberian Connection”: Patricia García-Escudero Márquez – Battistelli’s Pet Chinchilla on the Boards of Appeal Committee?
10.25.16 No Promising Future For the EPO Under Battistelli (If Any Future At All)
=> No Promising Future For the EPO Under Battistelli (If Any Future At All)
10.25.16 Leaked Minutes From the EPO Reveal That Battistelli is Detached From Reality and Blames Everything on “Union Officials”
10.27.16 ‘Balkan Express’ Teaser: EPO’s Željko Topić, Kuterovac, Campinos, Gurry, Battistelli and the DKPTO (Kongstad)
10.29.16 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
11.10.16 Benoît Battistelli’s Marching Orders in Spain Through His ‘Pet Chinchilla’ Patricia García-Escudero, Whom He Got Overseeing the Boards of Appeal
11.13.16 Call for Disciplinary Procedures and Dismissal of Mr Battistelli, Mr Topić and Ms Bergot at the EPO
=> Call for Disciplinary Procedures and Dismissal of Mr Battistelli, Mr Topić and Ms Bergot at the EPO
11.13.16 Benoît Battistelli Reinforces the Perception That García-Escudero is His Pet Chinchilla at the Board of Appeals Committee (BoAC)
11.14.16 In the European Patent Office, Battistelli Implements Changes That Clearly Defy the Rule of Law
=> In the European Patent Office, Battistelli Implements Changes That Clearly Defy the Rule of Law
11.14.16 Leaked: Proof That Benoît Battistelli Disregarded Orders From the Administrative Council (Again)
=> Leaked: Proof That Benoît Battistelli Disregarded Orders From the Administrative Council (Again)
11.15.16 Leaked Letter Reveals How Battistelli Still Exploits FFPE-EPO (Yellow Union) to Attack the Real EPO Union, SUEPO
11.15.16 Breaking: Dutch Parliament Debate About Immunity of the EPO and the Tyranny of Benoît Battistelli (Updated)
11.16.16 Amid Scapegoating, Union-Shaming and Gagging by Battistelli, SUEPO’s Prunier Provides More Details on Union Busting at the EPO
11.22.16 Crisis at the EPO Deepens as Dutch Parliament Dives in, European Parliament Snubbed by EPO Management, and Battistelli Relies on ‘High Corruption’ States
11.23.16 Union Syndicale Fédérale Writes Letters to the Chinchilla Man of the Administrative Council About Battistelli’s EPO Abuses, No Sign of Reply/Reaction
11.23.16 Caricature: Team Battistelli’s UPC Strategy
=> Caricature: Team Battistelli’s UPC Strategy
11.24.16 Patent Quality at the EPO Depends on the Future of the Boards of Appeal (Which Battistelli is Killing Not So Softly)
11.26.16 Benoît Battistelli’s Affinity for Tiny Countries Exploits the Ease of ‘Buying’ Their Votes
=> Benoît Battistelli’s Affinity for Tiny Countries Exploits the Ease of ‘Buying’ Their Votes
12.01.16 A Day in the Life of… Battistelli’s Banana Republic
=> A Day in the Life of… Battistelli’s Banana Republic
12.02.16 Relocating the Boards of Appeal to Haar is a Poisonous Priority at Battistelli’s EPO
=> Relocating the Boards of Appeal to Haar is a Poisonous Priority at Battistelli’s EPO
12.05.16 Rumour: EPO in Berlin the Next Casualty of Battistelli’s ‘Reform’ (Organisational Suicide Plan)
=> Rumour: EPO in Berlin the Next Casualty of Battistelli’s ‘Reform’ (Organisational Suicide Plan)
12.05.16 Leaked: Battistelli Acknowledges Bunk ‘Justice’ in About 100 Cases at the Internal Appeals Committee of the EPO
12.05.16 EPO at a Tipping Point: Battistelli Quarrelling With French Politicians, Administrative Council Urged to Act, Staff Unrest Peaking
12.05.16 Quality of Patents at the EPO Dependent on the Appeal Boards When Battistelli Assesses Performance Using the Wrong ‘Production’ Yardstick
12.06.16 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
12.08.16 Boards of Appeal Still Under Attack From Team Battistelli While the EPO Proceeds to Granting Patents on Carlsberg BEER!
12.08.16 British Media Slams Battistelli for Attempting to Cover Up 2 Years of Juridical Abuses With Help From the Administrative Council of the EPO
12.14.16 Rumour: Carl Josefsson to Head EPO Boards of Appeal, Battistelli Unhappy
=> Rumour: Carl Josefsson to Head EPO Boards of Appeal, Battistelli Unhappy
12.15.16 Big Crack in Team Battistelli: EPO’s Vice-President Willy Minnoye is Leaving!
=> Big Crack in Team Battistelli: EPO’s Vice-President Willy Minnoye is Leaving!
12.17.16 Fury Over the Administrative Council of the EPO Controlling Nothing and Being Controlled by Battistelli
12.18.16 More and More Lobbying for Software Patents, Not Just in Battistelli’s EPO But Also in India and the US
12.20.16 Leaked: After Vicious Attacks on SUEPO — in Defiance of the Administrative Council’s Demands! — Team Battistelli Pretends to Want Union Recognition
12.21.16 Accusations of Administrative Council (of the EPO) Complicity in Illicit Retaliation Against Appeal Boards at the Behest of Battistelli
12.23.16 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
12.27.16 2017 Will be the Year Team Battistelli Collapsed and EPO ‘Reform’ Became All About Detoxifying the Organisation
12.29.16 The EPO Under Benoît Battistelli Makes the Mafia Look Like Rookies
=> The EPO Under Benoît Battistelli Makes the Mafia Look Like Rookies
12.30.16 German Justice Minister Heiko Maas, Who Flagrantly Ignores Serious EPO Abuses, Helps Battistelli’s Agenda (‘Reform’) With the UPC
12.31.16 EPO’s Central Staff Committee Complains About Battistelli’s Bodyguards Fetish and Corruption of the Media
12.31.16 Translation of French Texts About Battistelli and His Awful Perception of Omnipotence
=> Translation of French Texts About Battistelli and His Awful Perception of Omnipotence
12.31.16 Open EPO Letter Bemoans Battistelli’s Antisocial Autocracy Disguised/Camouflaged Under the Misleading Term “Social Democracy”
01.01.17 Video: French State Secretary for Digital Economy Speaks Out Against Benoît Battistelli at Battistelli’s PR Event
01.01.17 No Separation of Powers or Justice at the EPO: Reign of Terror by Battistelli Explained in Letter to the Administrative Council
01.02.17 Battistelli’s Idea of ‘Independent’ ‘External’ ‘Social’ ‘Study’ is Something to BUY From Notorious Firm PwC
01.02.17 Europe Should Listen to SMEs Regarding the UPC, as Battistelli, Team UPC and the Select Committee Lie About It
01.11.17 No End to Battistelli’s Witch-hunts Against the Media, Against Staff, and Against Politicians
=> No End to Battistelli’s Witch-hunts Against the Media, Against Staff, and Against Politicians
01.17.17 Caricature: Battistelli’s New Year’s Resolution (More EPO Lies)
=> Caricature: Battistelli’s New Year’s Resolution (More EPO Lies)
01.18.17 Union-Busting Action by Team Battistelli Takes Heavy Toll, Techrights Will Continue to Expose EPO Injustices to the World
01.23.17 Hilarious: Battistelli Goes to Former French Colony With No Patents to ‘Buy’ the EPO a Perception of Legitimacy
01.23.17 Media Blasts EPO Over Immunity Amid Suicides, Battistelli’s Behaviour Compared to Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s
01.24.17 Leaked: Team Battistelli, Exploiting a Controversial Decision From the Netherlands, is Trying to Squash SUEPO
01.25.17 New Caricature: Benoît Battistelli ‘Takes Care’ of Roland Grossenbacher’s Dissent
=> New Caricature: Benoît Battistelli ‘Takes Care’ of Roland Grossenbacher’s Dissent
01.26.17 French Media Says Benoît Battistelli Turned the Patent Office Into a Sort of North Korea
=> French Media Says Benoît Battistelli Turned the Patent Office Into a Sort of North Korea
01.28.17 Juve Survey: Stakeholders Want Benoît Battistelli Out
=> Juve Survey: Stakeholders Want Benoît Battistelli Out
01.30.17 Everything Benoît Battistelli Does Without Staff Consultation is Without Merit, More So Amid Union-Busting Catastrophe
01.31.17 Battistelli “Got Full Dictatorial Unaccountable Control of a Diplomatically Immune Organisation”
=> Battistelli “Got Full Dictatorial Unaccountable Control of a Diplomatically Immune Organisation”
01.31.17 EPO Members of Team Battistelli Promoted to Shield the Liar in Chief
=> EPO Members of Team Battistelli Promoted to Shield the Liar in Chief
02.02.17 The Quality of European Patents is Nosediving and Those Who Can Put an End to It (Appeal Boards) Are Controlled by Fear of Battistelli
02.03.17 “Team Battistelli Continues With Intimidation Tactics”
=> “Team Battistelli Continues With Intimidation Tactics”
02.07.17 Battistelli’s EPO is Under Fire From Major Applicants for So-called ‘Early Certainty’ (Low Quality and Rushed Patent Examination)
02.07.17 Translation: Battistelli’s Patent Office Remains a Legal Island
=> Translation: Battistelli’s Patent Office Remains a Legal Island
02.27.17 Top Officials in French Government Are Growing Tired of Battistelli’s Abuses at the European Patent Office (EPO)
03.01.17 Battistelli and His Swamp Resurface Very Old News, Possibly to Distract From Boards of Appeal Complaining About Battistelli
03.03.17 What Battistelli Means by Social Democracy at the EPO is What North Korea Means by Democratic People’s Republic
03.05.17 EPO President Benoît Battistelli, Like Far-Right Politicians, is a Great Danger to Europe
=> EPO President Benoît Battistelli, Like Far-Right Politicians, is a Great Danger to Europe
03.05.17 Team Battistelli, Already Grossly Overpaid (With Salary Gone Hidden), Wants Even More Money
=> Team Battistelli, Already Grossly Overpaid (With Salary Gone Hidden), Wants Even More Money
03.08.17 Battistelli’s Shock Doctrine is Coming to the EPO’s Boards of Appeal, Having Already Rattled the Office
03.09.17 ‘Evil Tongues’ Inside and Outside the EPO Explain Why Battistelli’s 2016 ‘Results’ Are Bad While the Media Mindlessly Repeats EPO Management’s Talking Points
03.09.17 Battistelli’s Coup at the EPO Continues: The EPO is Becoming the Cash Cow of Battistelli and His Friends, Until This Cow Will Die
03.14.17 Long New Letter From Battistelli’s ‘Nemesis’, Dutch Secretary of State Martijn van Dam
=> Long New Letter From Battistelli’s ‘Nemesis’, Dutch Secretary of State Martijn van Dam
03.16.17 Battistelli Wants to be ‘King’ for a Decade or Longer, Jesper Kongstad Protects Him
=> Battistelli Wants to be ‘King’ for a Decade or Longer, Jesper Kongstad Protects Him
03.17.17 Whenever Battistelli’s EPO Says Something These Days, Safest to Just Assume It’s a Lie (Because It Typically Is)
03.18.17 EPO Management Deeply Concerned That the Public Has Found Out Quality of European Patents (EPs) Nosedived Under Battistelli’s Regime
03.20.17 Insulting Reversal of Narratives at the EPO: Team Battistelli as the Victim
=> Insulting Reversal of Narratives at the EPO: Team Battistelli as the Victim
03.20.17 Battistelli’s EPO Copies China — Not the US — When it Comes to Patenting Software and Expanding Patent Scope
03.26.17 Yes, Battistelli’s Ban on EPO Strikes (or Severe Limitation Thereof) is a Violation of Human Rights
=> Yes, Battistelli’s Ban on EPO Strikes (or Severe Limitation Thereof) is a Violation of Human Rights
03.28.17 Another Likely Casualty of the Battistelli Regime at the EPO: Validity of Decisions of Terrified Boards of Appeal Judges
03.30.17 As Expected, Photo Op and Battistelli Lies Have Just Come Out, Hilariously Claiming “Higher Quality Patent Procedures”
03.31.17 EPO Central Staff Committee Points Out to Benoît Battistelli That He is in Gross Violation and Contempt of the Founding Document/Treaty of the EPO
03.31.17 Culpability for EPO Injustice in the Administrative Council Chaired by Battistelli’s Protector, Jesper Kongstad
03.31.17 Benoît Battistelli Makes His New Penthouse Financially Self-Sustaining
=> Benoît Battistelli Makes His New Penthouse Financially Self-Sustaining
04.01.17 The Sickness of the EPO – Part VII: 40% of EPO Workers Have Upper Limb Disorder (ULD), Battistelli Covers That Up
04.05.17 IP Kat is Helping Battistelli by Lobbying for the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Spreading Falsehoods
=> IP Kat is Helping Battistelli by Lobbying for the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Spreading Falsehoods
04.09.17 “There is Still No Sufficient Control Over the Despotism of the EPO President, Benoît Battistelli”
=> “There is Still No Sufficient Control Over the Despotism of the EPO President, Benoît Battistelli”
04.10.17 Latest EPO Puff Piece From Benoît Battistelli Shows Desperate Need for (and Inability to Attract) Talent
04.11.17 Latest French Hire of Battistelli Rumoured to be After EPO Workers’ Pensions
=> Latest French Hire of Battistelli Rumoured to be After EPO Workers’ Pensions
04.11.17 Voices of Patent Trolls Are Alive and Well (and Partly Paid by Battistelli’s EPO)
=> Voices of Patent Trolls Are Alive and Well (and Partly Paid by Battistelli’s EPO)
04.14.17 Adding Insult to Suicide: European Commission’s Site Publishes Benoît Battistelli’s EPO Puff Pieces
=> Adding Insult to Suicide: European Commission’s Site Publishes Benoît Battistelli’s EPO Puff Pieces
04.29.17 Battistelli is Busy Securing the Vote of Countries Whose Support and Tickets Are Easy to ‘Buy’
=> Battistelli is Busy Securing the Vote of Countries Whose Support and Tickets Are Easy to ‘Buy’
04.29.17 This is How ‘Independent’ the Boards of Appeal Are Under Battistelli
=> This is How ‘Independent’ the Boards of Appeal Are Under Battistelli
05.03.17 Battistelli’s EPO Has Made Life Itself Patentable
=> Battistelli’s EPO Has Made Life Itself Patentable
05.05.17 Battistelli’s Protector, Jesper Kongstad, Resigns!
=> Battistelli’s Protector, Jesper Kongstad, Resigns!
05.06.17 European Marketing Office: Battistelli-Commissioned ‘Studies’, Puff Pieces, and Revisionism about PACE
05.10.17 Another Victim of Battistelli’s Monarchy: Dutch Contractors
=> Another Victim of Battistelli’s Monarchy: Dutch Contractors
05.12.17 Our Assessment: Unitary Patent (UPC) Will Crumble Along With Battistelli’s Regime at the EPO
=> Our Assessment: Unitary Patent (UPC) Will Crumble Along With Battistelli’s Regime at the EPO
05.13.17 Countries With a Dozen European Patents Are an Easy Photo-Op ‘Sell’ for Battistelli While the EPO’s Demise is Largely Ignored by the Patent Microcosm
05.21.17 Leaked: 2017 European Inventor Award Finalists, or Stooges Whom the Tyrant Battistelli Exploits for PR Purposes and Media Manipulation
05.21.17 New Documents Help Demonstrate That ILO Delivers Institutional Injustice to EPO Employees and Cushions Team Battistelli
05.22.17 Speculations About Battistelli’s End of Term, Campinos at EUIPO, and Failed UPC Ambitions
=> Speculations About Battistelli’s End of Term, Campinos at EUIPO, and Failed UPC Ambitions
05.22.17 Martijn van Dam is Wrong to Believe That Battistelli’s Abuses Are Somehow Acceptable or Tolerable Because His Term is Possibly Ending
06.01.17 Shame on the Administrative Tribunal of ILO for Helping Team Battistelli Abuse EPO Staff
=> Shame on the Administrative Tribunal of ILO for Helping Team Battistelli Abuse EPO Staff
06.05.17 Battistelli’s ‘Boss’, Jesper Kongstad, Rumoured to Have Been Paid by Battistelli
=> Battistelli’s ‘Boss’, Jesper Kongstad, Rumoured to Have Been Paid by Battistelli
06.10.17 Benoît Battistelli is Scheming to Further Erode the Rule of Law and Promote More of His Cronies at the EPO
06.10.17 Tim Moss, Chief Executive of the UK Intellectual Property Office, Will Need to Challenge the Battistelli Regime
06.11.17 No More Battistelli Photo Ops With Michelle Lee as EPO Allies Run Out, Countries Without European Patents Pursued Instead
06.17.17 General Consultative Committee of the EPO Warns About Battistelli’s Plans
=> General Consultative Committee of the EPO Warns About Battistelli’s Plans
06.20.17 At the European Inventor Award Ceremony Benoît Battistelli Lied to a Lot of Scientists and “Media Partners” About the UPC
06.22.17 More Than Six Human Casualties Under Battistelli at the EPO, But the Human Toll Can Become a Lot Worse
06.22.17 Benoît Battistelli Has Lost the Election at the EPO
=> Benoît Battistelli Has Lost the Election at the EPO
06.24.17 SUEPO and the EPO’s Central Staff Committee Condemn Battistelli’s Latest Attempt to Change the Rules in Defiance of Laws
06.26.17 Leaked: Job Opening Advertised as Battistelli’s ‘Mole’ at the Administrative Council, Jesper Kongstad, Leaves in Shame
06.26.17 Voter Suppression Tactics by Team Battistelli Serve to Reaffirm View That the EPO is an Authoritarian Regime Which Loathes Voting
06.28.17 EPO Staff Bemoans “Another Reform à la Battistelli That Only Benefits Battistelli”
=> EPO Staff Bemoans “Another Reform à la Battistelli That Only Benefits Battistelli”
06.28.17 Letter Warns of “Reform Marathon” a Few Days Before Benoît Battistelli’s Job is Offered to Someone Else
06.30.17 The EPO Has Officially Confirmed That Christoph Ernst Will ‘Boss’ (and Soon Replace) Battistelli
=> The EPO Has Officially Confirmed That Christoph Ernst Will ‘Boss’ (and Soon Replace) Battistelli
07.05.17 Suspicion That Antonio Campinos Will Apply for Benoît Battistelli’s Job to Succeed Him
=> Suspicion That Antonio Campinos Will Apply for Benoît Battistelli’s Job to Succeed Him
07.05.17 The EPO’s Liar in Chief, Benoît Battistelli, is Googlebombing Again
=> The EPO’s Liar in Chief, Benoît Battistelli, is Googlebombing Again
07.12.17 The European Patent Office (EPO) Under Benoît Battistelli is Compared to “Soviet Times”
=> The European Patent Office (EPO) Under Benoît Battistelli is Compared to “Soviet Times”
07.13.17 As Expected, Benoît Battistelli Shaved off Billions of Euros Worth of ‘Value’ From European Patents and Thus Alienated Stakeholders
07.14.17 “EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal Has Brought an Unprecedented Level of Certainty to the Law,” But Benoît Battistelli Crushes It
07.15.17 Science|Business Quotes Michel Barnier, Then Speculates Battistelli’s Way to Promote Erroneous Perception of UPC Inevitability
07.18.17 New Paper Explains Why UPC Ratification Efforts Have Been Just About as Corrupt as EPO Under Battistelli
07.20.17 Battistelli’s EPO Abuses May Soon Lead to the Death of the UPC and Return of the Old Order (‘EPO Glory’)
07.30.17 Dutch Government Publication Confirms Battistelli’s Influence Over Smaller EPC States
=> Dutch Government Publication Confirms Battistelli’s Influence Over Smaller EPC States
08.03.17 Benoît Battistelli Distracts From Declining Patent Quality at the EPO by Diverting Attention Away to “Timeliness”
08.18.17 Lack of Independent Judiciary Under the Unitary Patent (Like Boards of Appeal Under Battistelli, in Defiance of the EPC) Will Possibly Kill the Unified Patent Court
08.29.17 Rumours That Another Frenchman is the Only Candidate to Succeed Benoît Battistelli at the EPO
=> Rumours That Another Frenchman is the Only Candidate to Succeed Benoît Battistelli at the EPO
09.02.17 It’s a Family Business: French Succession Plan at EPO After Battistelli’s Departure
=> It’s a Family Business: French Succession Plan at EPO After Battistelli’s Departure
09.05.17 One Week Left for Battistelli’s Coronation of Another Frenchman, António Campinos, to Lobby for UPC?
=> One Week Left for Battistelli’s Coronation of Another Frenchman, António Campinos, to Lobby for UPC?
09.24.17 Battistelli’s Club Med at the EPO – Part I: EPO Validation Agreement With Angola
=> Battistelli’s Club Med at the EPO – Part I: EPO Validation Agreement With Angola
09.27.17 Battistelli Follows German Law Only When It Suits Him, Three Holidays Just Canceled
=> Battistelli Follows German Law Only When It Suits Him, Three Holidays Just Canceled
09.28.17 Battistelli’s Club Med at the EPO – Part II: António Campinos, Benoît Battistelli and the Angolan Connection
09.29.17 EPO Staff Representatives Help Prevent Seventh Suicide Under Benoît Battistelli
=> EPO Staff Representatives Help Prevent Seventh Suicide Under Benoît Battistelli
09.29.17 Battistelli’s Club Med at the EPO – Part III: Angola and the Portuguese “Laundromat”
=> Battistelli’s Club Med at the EPO – Part III: Angola and the Portuguese “Laundromat”
09.30.17 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 IV: The Angolan Patent Office (IAPI) Seems Almost Defunct
10.01.17 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 V: Portugal’s “Golden Visa” Scheme for Angolan Nationals
10.05.17 The European Patent Office’s New Relationship With Former Portuguese Colonies and the Connection to Battistelli’s Choice of Next President
10.06.17 Battistelli’s Club Med at the EPO – Part VI: “When Corruption Rules” in Portugal – Operation Marquês
=> Battistelli’s Club Med at the EPO – Part VI: “When Corruption Rules” in Portugal – Operation Marquês
10.08.17 Battistelli’s Club Med at the EPO – Part VII: Quo Vadis EPO?
=> Battistelli’s Club Med at the EPO – Part VII: Quo Vadis EPO?
10.10.17 Battistelli’s Choice (Campinos) Confirmed as New EPO President
=> Battistelli’s Choice (Campinos) Confirmed as New EPO President
10.10.17 Early Reports Suggest That Battistelli’s Policies Will Remain at the EPO (in the Form of Campinos)
=> Early Reports Suggest That Battistelli’s Policies Will Remain at the EPO (in the Form of Campinos)
10.11.17 Musical Chairs as Battistelli’s ‘Chinchilla’ García-Escudero Márquez Could Reportedly Take António Campinos’ Place
10.12.17 Patent Quality at the EPO (European Patents) is Slipping While Battistelli’s Office Boasts “Expansion of Early Certainty” (Even Worse)
10.12.17 Under Christoph Ernst, the Council is Just a Megaphone of Battistelli’s EPO, Including on Patent Quality
10.17.17 Rumours That António Campinos Initially Had No Competition at All (for Battistelli’s Succession) Are Confirmed
10.17.17 SUEPO Representatives Like Elizabeth Hardon Vindicated as Battistelli’s Detrimental Effect on Patent Quality is Widely Confirmed
10.18.17 Confessions of EPO Insiders Reveal That European Patents (EPs) Have Lost Their Legitimacy/Value Due to Battistelli’s Policies
10.19.17 Europe is Being Robbed by Team Battistelli and the UPC/PPH Would Make Things Worse
=> Europe is Being Robbed by Team Battistelli and the UPC/PPH Would Make Things Worse
10.20.17 Battistelli’s Destruction of the EPO is Bad for Everyone, Even Patent Attorneys
=> Battistelli’s Destruction of the EPO is Bad for Everyone, Even Patent Attorneys
10.21.17 Anonymous Professionals Speak of Benoît Battistelli’s Destruction of the EPO, But Why Does the Media Turn a Blind Eye?
10.31.17 “EPI Makes No Protest When the AC Connives With Battistelli to Trash the Rule of Law”
=> “EPI Makes No Protest When the AC Connives With Battistelli to Trash the Rule of Law”
11.02.17 The Screws Tighten on Benoît Battistelli as His Departure is Just Two Seasons Away, Media Still Largely Complicit
11.05.17 The “Big Holdup” at the EPO: Battistelli Wants Access to the Pension Reserve Fund (PRF)
=> The “Big Holdup” at the EPO: Battistelli Wants Access to the Pension Reserve Fund (PRF)
11.05.17 Raw: Staff Representative Whom Battistelli Drove to Collapse for Wanting to Conduct an EPO Staff Survey (Which Battistelli Had Abolished)
11.08.17 Benoît Battistelli Brews New Scandals in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and in Haar
=> Benoît Battistelli Brews New Scandals in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and in Haar
11.09.17 Patent Office of the Netherlands Expresses Uncertainty About UPC, Voices Concern About Benoît Battistelli’s Attack on Staff
11.11.17 Benoît Battistelli Gives Power to Željko Topić, Not Just to António Campinos
=> Benoît Battistelli Gives Power to Željko Topić, Not Just to António Campinos
11.15.17 Benoît Battistelli and Elodie Bergot Have Just Ensured That EPO Will Get Even More Corrupt
=> Benoît Battistelli and Elodie Bergot Have Just Ensured That EPO Will Get Even More Corrupt
11.16.17 The Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) is Rightly Upset If Not Shocked at What Battistelli and Bergot Are Doing to the Office
11.20.17 Team Battistelli’s Attacks on the EPO Boards of Appeal Predate the Illegal Sanctions Against a Judge
=> Team Battistelli’s Attacks on the EPO Boards of Appeal Predate the Illegal Sanctions Against a Judge
11.23.17 EPO is Imploding as Benoît Battistelli Drains Out Work, Talent, and Justice
=> EPO is Imploding as Benoît Battistelli Drains Out Work, Talent, and Justice
11.25.17 Battistelli’s Home Country, France (Where He is a Politician in Defiance of the Rules), is a Patent Troll
11.25.17 Raw: Battistelli Forbade EPO Strike Ballots at Least Four Times
=> Raw: Battistelli Forbade EPO Strike Ballots at Least Four Times
11.26.17 Early Certainty Battistelli Will be Gone Soon: “JUVE Interview Creates the Impression That Benoit Battistelli’s Term in Office is Already Over.”
11.26.17 Raw: National Delegates at the EPO Stood by and Mostly Supported Battistelli While Six Staff Committed Suicide
11.28.17 Benoît Battistelli and Željko Topić (EPO President and Vice-President) Try to Keep ‘Independent’ Judge in a Limbo
12.07.17 Battistelli’s EPO is Once Again Caught in Very Gross Violation of the European Patent Convention (EPC)
12.07.17 ILO is ‘Forcing’ Team Battistelli to Compensate the Banned Judge and Give Him Back His Job
=> ILO is ‘Forcing’ Team Battistelli to Compensate the Banned Judge and Give Him Back His Job
12.07.17 Battistelli’s ‘Mole’ Lucy Neville-Rolfe is Still Trying to Push Unitary Patent (UPC) Through in the United Kingdom
12.09.17 Raw: Three Years for ‘Justice’ (to be Disregarded by Benoît Battistelli) at ILO and Over a Decade at the EPO
12.10.17 Raw: Battistelli’s Control/Domination Over the Boards of Appeal
=> Raw: Battistelli’s Control/Domination Over the Boards of Appeal
12.12.17 The European Patent Organisation Refrains (For Nearly a Week) From Speaking About Battistelli’s Abuses as Judged by ILO Tribunal
12.14.17 Patrick Corcoran is Innocent, Yet Battistelli Will/May Have the Power to Sack Him Next Month (in DG1)
12.17.17 Battistelli’s ‘UPC Buddy’ Michel Barnier Helped Squash EU Intervention in Dysfunctional (Subverted by Battistelli) Administrative Council
12.25.17 Raw: EPO’s “Battistelli is Heading Directly Back to the Middle Ages.”
=> Raw: EPO’s “Battistelli is Heading Directly Back to the Middle Ages.”
12.25.17 Raw: Battistelli’s Circle (Topić and Bergot) Undermines Justice at the European Patent Office
=> Raw: Battistelli’s Circle (Topić and Bergot) Undermines Justice at the European Patent Office
12.25.17 Raw: Philip Cordery Urged France to Withdraw/End Battistelli’s Presidency at the EPO
=> Raw: Philip Cordery Urged France to Withdraw/End Battistelli’s Presidency at the EPO
12.26.17 Raw: The EPO Trusted and Used BigPulse Until the Question/Outcome No Longer Suited Benoît Battistelli
12.26.17 Raw: Consultation Process at the EPO, Rooted in Basic Rules, Has Been Compromised and Stacked by Battistelli
12.26.17 Raw: Benoît Battistelli Names Things the Opposite of What They Really Are
=> Raw: Benoît Battistelli Names Things the Opposite of What They Really Are
12.26.17 Raw: Contents of Benoît Battistelli’s SLAPP Letters to Staff Representatives (Sent on Friday to Limit Access to Legal Advice)
12.26.17 Raw: Benoît Battistelli Would Not Openly Discuss Staff Suicides
=> Raw: Benoît Battistelli Would Not Openly Discuss Staff Suicides
12.27.17 Raw: Battistelli Stacking the Deck of the Internal EPO ‘Court’
=> Raw: Battistelli Stacking the Deck of the Internal EPO ‘Court’
12.28.17 Raw: Battistelli Threatened EPO Staff Representatives as They Walked Out
=> Raw: Battistelli Threatened EPO Staff Representatives as They Walked Out
12.31.17 Just 3 Days Before Christmas Judge Corcoran is Told That His Boss Becomes Battistelli, Who Wants to Remain in Control for Years to Come
12.31.17 Raw: EPO Staff Went on Strike, Referencing — Among Other Things — Battistelli’s French Nepotism
=> Raw: EPO Staff Went on Strike, Referencing — Among Other Things — Battistelli’s French Nepotism
12.31.17 Raw: Battistelli Had Already Spoiled the Independence of the EPO’s Boards of Appeal More Than Half a Decade Ago
12.31.17 Christoph Ernst Does Not Boss Benoît Battistelli Like He’s Supposed to, But Battistelli’s Bosses/Colleagues in France Can be Contacted
01.01.18 Raw: Battistelli’s Stacking of the General Advisory Committee Not Legal, Asserted Staff Representatives
01.01.18 Raw: Battistelli Comes Up With a “Chief Information Officer” Role and Offers This Position to Man From Same Place as Him
01.01.18 Not Everyone Would Run the European Patent Office Like Benoît Battistelli Does
=> Not Everyone Would Run the European Patent Office Like Benoît Battistelli Does
01.03.18 Battistelli’s Attacks on Judge Corcoran Threaten Not Only the EPC But Also UPC
=> Battistelli’s Attacks on Judge Corcoran Threaten Not Only the EPC But Also UPC
01.06.18 The Mystery and Secrecy of the Decision to Disband the EPO’s Auditory Function After Battistelli Became President
01.06.18 Shortly After His EPO Appointment Benoît Battistelli Already Ignored the Judicial System of the EPO
=> Shortly After His EPO Appointment Benoît Battistelli Already Ignored the Judicial System of the EPO
01.08.18 President Battistelli Silently Curtailed Part Time Home Working Introduced by His British Predecessor, Alison Brimelow
01.09.18 Battistelli’s Year 1 at EPO: General Advisory Committee Not Being Provided Crucial Information
=> Battistelli’s Year 1 at EPO: General Advisory Committee Not Being Provided Crucial Information
01.09.18 Battistelli’s Year 1 at EPO: Using ‘Staff Dignity’ as a Pretext to Attack the Dignity of EPO Staff and Staff Representatives
01.10.18 Benoît Battistelli Lies About Patent Quality; the Numbers Speak for Themselves However
=> Benoît Battistelli Lies About Patent Quality; the Numbers Speak for Themselves However
01.13.18 Less Than Half a Year in the Job, Battistelli Already Disobeys/Disregards Rulings From ILO’s Tribunal
01.13.18 Only Half a Year in the Job, Battistelli Breaks EPO Nomination Rules
=> Only Half a Year in the Job, Battistelli Breaks EPO Nomination Rules
01.13.18 Dr. Derk Visser’s Book About the European Patent Convention (EPC) Explains What Battistelli Has Done
=> Dr. Derk Visser’s Book About the European Patent Convention (EPC) Explains What Battistelli Has Done
01.26.18 The Corcoran Incident Demonstrates That the EPO’s Boards of Appeal Are Threatened and Battistelli Violates Laws
01.30.18 The EPO’s Central Staff Committee Explains How Battistelli’s Attacks on Judge Corcoran Annul Any Perception of Independence
02.06.18 Battistelli Works With IAM and Pays European Media to Promote Software Patents in Europe
=> Battistelli Works With IAM and Pays European Media to Promote Software Patents in Europe
02.08.18 Mark Rutte Under Pressure to Stop Battistelli’s EPO From Violating Laws With Impunity
=> Mark Rutte Under Pressure to Stop Battistelli’s EPO From Violating Laws With Impunity
02.09.18 The EPO’s Working Party on Quality is Battistelli’s Own Ministry of Truth
=> The EPO’s Working Party on Quality is Battistelli’s Own Ministry of Truth
02.12.18 Patent Maximalists Won’t Get Their Way and UPC Will Likely Never Happen (Even After Battistelli)
=> Patent Maximalists Won’t Get Their Way and UPC Will Likely Never Happen (Even After Battistelli)
02.21.18 EPO’s Board 28 Spikes Article 53 in CA/3/18, Apparently After Battistelli Withdrew It
=> EPO’s Board 28 Spikes Article 53 in CA/3/18, Apparently After Battistelli Withdrew It
02.27.18 The EPO’s Appeal Boards Remain Utterly Dependent and Far From Impartial After Battistelli’s Assault on Their Independence
03.01.18 Similar Scandal at the USPTO (to Battistelli’s Nepotism) and Upcoming Lies About ‘Results’ (in Annual Report, Out Next Week)
03.02.18 Battistelli’s Last Four Months: Peak Censorship at the European Patent Office (EPO)
=> Battistelli’s Last Four Months: Peak Censorship at the European Patent Office (EPO)
03.08.18 Benoît Battistelli and Confidants Like Bergot Want to Make a Lot of EPO Staff Redundant Without the Staff Ever Noticing
03.12.18 EPO Patent ‘Growth’ Not Achieved But Demanded/Mandated by Battistelli, by Lowering Quality of Patents/Services
03.13.18 Battistelli Likes to Describe His Critics as ‘Nazis’, Team UPC Will Attempt the Same Thing Against UPC Critics
03.14.18 The EPO Under Battistelli Has Become Like China Under Xi and CPC
=> The EPO Under Battistelli Has Become Like China Under Xi and CPC
03.18.18 UPC/Battistelli Booster IAM Blames Brexit Rather Than EPO Abuses
=> UPC/Battistelli Booster IAM Blames Brexit Rather Than EPO Abuses
03.20.18 Battistelli’s EPO Became Extremely Reliant on China for Distraction and on Endless Supply of Applications (Supply Which Doesn’t Exist)
03.23.18 Team Battistelli and Team UPC Are Both Very Deep in Denial
=> Team Battistelli and Team UPC Are Both Very Deep in Denial
03.25.18 Benoît Battistelli the Latest Example of Massive Bonuses Given to People Who Destroyed Their Own Organisation
03.27.18 Professionals’ Survey: Almost Everybody (90%) Accepts That EPO Patent Quality Has Fallen Under Battistelli
04.07.18 Team UPC’s and Team Battistelli’s Lobbying Not Over Yet, Even Though the UPC is Likely Dead for Good
=> Team UPC’s and Team Battistelli’s Lobbying Not Over Yet, Even Though the UPC is Likely Dead for Good
04.25.18 Battistelli’s EPO Continues to Promote Software Patents and Even Pays the Media to Play Along, Impacting Other Continents
04.25.18 Battistelli Misuses EPO Budget to Saturate the European Media With Puff Pieces About His Event
=> Battistelli Misuses EPO Budget to Saturate the European Media With Puff Pieces About His Event
04.27.18 Like a Cancer, EPO-Bribed Media Continues to Produce Puff Pieces for Benoît Battistelli
=> Like a Cancer, EPO-Bribed Media Continues to Produce Puff Pieces for Benoît Battistelli
04.29.18 Guest Article: Is the EPO Deliberately Disseminating “False Facts” About Benoît Battistelli’s Political Activities in Saint-Germain-en-Laye?
04.29.18 Team UPC and Team Battistelli in IP Kat and IAM
=> Team UPC and Team Battistelli in IP Kat and IAM
05.01.18 Battistelli’s Alleged ‘Success’ is Like That of the United States Mint
=> Battistelli’s Alleged ‘Success’ is Like That of the United States Mint
05.04.18 Elizabeth Holmes Charged With “Massive Fraud” and Team Battistelli Rushes to Distance Itself From Her
05.05.18 The European Patent Organisation (EPO) Stopped Working and It’s Also the Fault of Jesper Kongstad, Not Just Benoît Battistelli
05.05.18 In the Latest EPO Official Journal (April’s Publication) Battistelli’s Next Employer is Mentioned Literally Hundreds of Times and Promoted in 20 Pages out of 75 Pages
05.08.18 Guest Article: More Battistelli Revelations From the Archives of the Municipal Council of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
05.09.18 Rumours Confirmed: Latest EPO Official Journal Misused to Promote Battistelli’s (and Campinos’) Employer, Another EPO Employee Has Just Been ‘Corcoranised’
05.17.18 So-Called ‘System Battistelli’ is Destroying the EPO, Warn Insiders
=> So-Called ‘System Battistelli’ is Destroying the EPO, Warn Insiders
05.17.18 Fishy Things Noticed Ahead of the Passage of a Lot of EPO Budget (Applicants’ Money) to Battistelli’s Other (and Simultaneous) Employer
05.28.18 Guest Series: Système Lamy and Système Battistelli at the European Patent Office (EPO)
=> Guest Series: Système Lamy and Système Battistelli at the European Patent Office (EPO)
05.30.18 Märpel Looks at Benoît Battistelli’s Toxic Financial Affairs at the EPO
=> Märpel Looks at Benoît Battistelli’s Toxic Financial Affairs at the EPO
05.31.18 The EPO’s Lobbying Chief Apparently Came From Saint-Germain-en-Laye 2 Years After Benoît Battistelli
=> The EPO’s Lobbying Chief Apparently Came From Saint-Germain-en-Laye 2 Years After Benoît Battistelli
06.07.18 Marks & Clerk Blames Battistelli’s Victims, the Boards of Appeal, Whose Job Guarded Patent Quality
=> Marks & Clerk Blames Battistelli’s Victims, the Boards of Appeal, Whose Job Guarded Patent Quality
06.07.18 Today, at the Expense of Millions (€) of EPO Budget, Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos Engage in Shameless Self Promotion
06.09.18 Battistelli is Still Patently Delusional About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
=> Battistelli is Still Patently Delusional About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
06.12.18 Battistelli’s EPO is Outdoing North Korea When It Comes to Propaganda and Abuses Against Staff
=> Battistelli’s EPO is Outdoing North Korea When It Comes to Propaganda and Abuses Against Staff
06.14.18 Grünecker, Hoffmann Eitle, Maiwald and Vossius & Partner Find the Courage to Express Concerns About Battistelli’s Ugly Legacy and Low Patent Quality
06.14.18 IAM Concludes Its Latest Anti-§ 101 Think Tank, Featuring Crooked Benoît Battistelli
=> IAM Concludes Its Latest Anti-§ 101 Think Tank, Featuring Crooked Benoît Battistelli
06.14.18 The ’4iP Council’ is a Megaphone of Team UPC and Team Battistelli at the EPO
=> The ’4iP Council’ is a Megaphone of Team UPC and Team Battistelli at the EPO
06.19.18 What Battistelli’s Workers Think of His Latest EPO Propaganda
=> What Battistelli’s Workers Think of His Latest EPO Propaganda
06.21.18 Battistelli and Topić Lose Their Bogus ‘Case’ Against Judge Corcoran After They Defamed Him and Ruined His Career/Life
06.23.18 Mainstream Media in Germany Covers Battistelli’s Corruption at the EPO Just as He Leaves
=> Mainstream Media in Germany Covers Battistelli’s Corruption at the EPO Just as He Leaves
06.27.18 ‘Party Poopers’: Protests Greet Battistelli’s Premature Inauguration of an Unfinished Building That Caused Massive Losses
07.02.18 IAM is Still Working for Benoît Battistelli and His Toxic Agenda
=> IAM is Still Working for Benoît Battistelli and His Toxic Agenda
07.04.18 EPO Protest/s Suppressed Even at the Opening of a Construction Site for Battistelli’s Guests
=> EPO Protest/s Suppressed Even at the Opening of a Construction Site for Battistelli’s Guests
07.04.18 Yesterday’s UPC Event Was a Reminder That Team Battistelli is Still in Charge of the European Patent Organisation, Fronting for Team UPC
07.06.18 German Media Compares Team Battistelli at the EPO to the Mafia
=> German Media Compares Team Battistelli at the EPO to the Mafia
07.17.18 The European Council Needs to Check Battistelli’s Back Room Deals/Back Door/Backchannel With Respect to Christian Archambeau
07.19.18 Mafia Tactics in Team UPC and Battistelli’s Circle
=> Mafia Tactics in Team UPC and Battistelli’s Circle
07.21.18 The EPO (European Patent Office) Under António Campinos is Just Another Battistelli EPO; Still UPC and Software Patents Lobbying
07.24.18 Alexandre Benalla, Macron’s Violent Bodyguard, Was Also Battistelli’s Bodyguard
=> Alexandre Benalla, Macron’s Violent Bodyguard, Was Also Battistelli’s Bodyguard
07.25.18 Dysfunctional State of the EPO and Benoît Battistelli’s Shadow
=> Dysfunctional State of the EPO and Benoît Battistelli’s Shadow
07.30.18 What EPO Staff is ‘Hopeful’ After a Month of António Campinos Doing Absolutely Nothing to Reverse Battistelli’s Ruinous Policies?
08.15.18 President Battistelli ‘Killed’ the EPO; António Campinos Will ‘Finish the Job’
=> President Battistelli ‘Killed’ the EPO; António Campinos Will ‘Finish the Job’
09.13.18 EPO Granted a Controversial European Patent (Under Battistelli) Which May Literally Kill a Lot of People
09.16.18 Battistelli “Has Deeply Hurt the Whole Patent Profession, Examiners as Well as Agents” and Also the Image of France
09.24.18 Reader’s Article: Affaire Benalla Strongly Connected to EPO/OEB/EPA and Former President Benoît Battistelli
09.24.18 Guest Post on Ronan Le Gleut and Benalla at the French Senate (in Light of Battistelli’s Epic Abuses)
09.25.18 The Man Whose Actions Could Potentially Land Team Battistelli in Jail
=> The Man Whose Actions Could Potentially Land Team Battistelli in Jail
09.28.18 In the EPO Under António Campinos and His Predecessor Battistelli Patents Can Almost be Presumed “Invalid” (in Courts)
10.02.18 Nellie Simon Expected to Join the ‘Club Med’ of Battistelli and Campinos
=> Nellie Simon Expected to Join the ‘Club Med’ of Battistelli and Campinos
10.08.18 When It Comes to Patent Quality António Campinos Might be Even Worse Than Benoît Battistelli
=> When It Comes to Patent Quality António Campinos Might be Even Worse Than Benoît Battistelli
10.18.18 IAM and IP Kat Are Still Megaphones of Battistelli and His Agenda
=> IAM and IP Kat Are Still Megaphones of Battistelli and His Agenda
10.24.18 The Patent Microcosm is Trying to Derail Patent Reform and Make Iancu the ‘American Battistelli’
=> The Patent Microcosm is Trying to Derail Patent Reform and Make Iancu the ‘American Battistelli’
10.25.18 António Campinos Just a Quieter Version of Battistelli
=> António Campinos Just a Quieter Version of Battistelli
10.25.18 Battistelli and Team UPC Still Waiting for a Campinos Miracle
=> Battistelli and Team UPC Still Waiting for a Campinos Miracle
10.28.18 EPO President António Campinos Speaks of “Greater Transparency,” But He’s Even More Secretive Than Battistelli and He Lets Patent Quality Slip Further
12.13.18 António Campinos Turns His ‘Boss’ Into His Lapdog, Just Like Battistelli and Kongstad
=> António Campinos Turns His ‘Boss’ Into His Lapdog, Just Like Battistelli and Kongstad
01.26.19 European Patent Quality as Awful Under António Campinos as (If Not Worse Than) Benoît Battistelli and Battistelli Makes a Public Comeback
02.10.19 António Campinos Will Never Hold Battistelli Accountable for His Crimes Because He Too Profits From These
02.12.19 Battistelli’s Bodyguard, Part I: Destruction of Evidence by Alexandre Benalla
=> Battistelli’s Bodyguard, Part I: Destruction of Evidence by Alexandre Benalla
02.13.19 Battistelli’s Bodyguard, Part II: Fishing Expedition for Sources in the Alexandre Benalla ‘Underworld’ Scandal
02.13.19 Battistelli’s Bodyguard, Part IV: Suspected Offenses of Forgery and Possible Falsification
=> Battistelli’s Bodyguard, Part IV: Suspected Offenses of Forgery and Possible Falsification
02.13.19 Battistelli’s Bodyguard, Part III: Mars, France Close Protection (Benalla’s Family), and Russian Oligarchy
02.14.19 Battistelli’s Bodyguard, Part V: Mediapart Explains the ‘Raid’ Attempt, Reporters Without Borders Involved
02.18.19 António Campinos Still Needs to Hold Team Battistelli Accountable for Illegally Bringing Weapons to the EPO
02.19.19 Battistelli Trashed 223 Millions (of Stakeholders’ Euros) on a System That Destroyed the European Patent Office and Made Few Private Corporations a Lot Richer
02.19.19 António Campinos Still Needs to Undo Battistelli’s Union-Busting Activities at the EPO
=> António Campinos Still Needs to Undo Battistelli’s Union-Busting Activities at the EPO
02.22.19 Battistelli’s Bodyguard Has Been Arrested, But Battistelli Should Join Him
=> Battistelli’s Bodyguard Has Been Arrested, But Battistelli Should Join Him
02.23.19 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
02.25.19 English Translation: I Have Huge Respect for Battistelli, Said Alexandre Benalla Under Pressure
=> English Translation: I Have Huge Respect for Battistelli, Said Alexandre Benalla Under Pressure
02.25.19 English Translation: Alexandre Benalla Cannot Tell the Difference Between EPO and the French Republic (or Battistelli and Macron)
02.25.19 Ben and Ben: Benalla and His Enabler, Beny Battistelli
=> Ben and Ben: Benalla and His Enabler, Beny Battistelli
03.04.19 EPO Staff Union: ‘New’ Team Campinos Practice “Reminds Us Strongly of the Battistelli Times.”
=> EPO Staff Union: ‘New’ Team Campinos Practice “Reminds Us Strongly of the Battistelli Times.”
03.12.19 EPO’s Latest ‘Results’ Show That António Campinos Has Already Given Up on Patent Quality and is Just Another Battistelli
03.26.19 The Campinos-Battistelli Strategy is Working: Patent Trolls Are Coming to Europe!
=> The Campinos-Battistelli Strategy is Working: Patent Trolls Are Coming to Europe!
04.12.19 New Building as Perfect Metaphor for the EPO Under the Frenchmen Battistelli and Campinos
=> New Building as Perfect Metaphor for the EPO Under the Frenchmen Battistelli and Campinos
05.09.19 Corrupt Battistelli is Back for European Inventor Award 2019 — an Extravagant Ceremony He Has Used to Steal Millions of Euros From the EPO
05.11.19 Did Battistelli ‘Steal’ ~$100,000,000 Euros From the EPO?
=> Did Battistelli ‘Steal’ ~$100,000,000 Euros From the EPO?
12.08.08 Memo to IBM: Enough with Software Patents, Please
=> Memo to IBM: Enough with Software Patents, Please
09.12.10 WIPO and WTO Are Not International
=> WIPO and WTO Are Not International
01.19.11 Patents Roundup: A Quick Look at Europe
=> Patents Roundup: A Quick Look at Europe
01.20.11 ES: Patentes Resumen: Una Mirada Rápida a Europa
=> ES: Patentes Resumen: Una Mirada Rápida a Europa
04.16.11 The EPO Goes Down the Same Abyss as the USPTO
=> The EPO Goes Down the Same Abyss as the USPTO
10.07.11 EU Patent Failing to Materialise, But EPO and Politicians Begin to Overstep Their Line of Authority to Intervene
12.28.11 EPO and Other Lawyers-dominated Circles Push for Software Patenting
=> EPO and Other Lawyers-dominated Circles Push for Software Patenting
09.08.14 Suspicion of High-Level Corruption at the European Patent Office (EPO): Part I
=> Suspicion of High-Level Corruption at the European Patent Office (EPO): Part I
09.29.14 European Patent Office Disorganisation: Problems With the Audit Mechanisms – Part IV
=> European Patent Office Disorganisation: Problems With the Audit Mechanisms – Part IV
10.20.14 The EPO’s Public Relations Disaster Amid Distrust From Within (and EPO Communications Chief Leaves): Part VII
11.01.14 How to Complain About the EPO to National Delegations in Europe: Part IX
=> How to Complain About the EPO to National Delegations in Europe: Part IX
11.16.14 Special Report: Many Criminal Charges Against EPO Vice-President Željko Topić
=> Special Report: Many Criminal Charges Against EPO Vice-President Željko Topić
11.23.14 Vesna Stilin’s Remarks on Željko Topić: Part XI
=> Vesna Stilin’s Remarks on Željko Topić: Part XI
12.08.14 EPO Staff Protests Today and Protested Last Week, Targeting Corruption in the Institution
=> EPO Staff Protests Today and Protested Last Week, Targeting Corruption in the Institution
12.09.14 Protests Against EPO Corruption Approach 1,000 in Attendance
=> Protests Against EPO Corruption Approach 1,000 in Attendance
12.11.14 Rolling of Heads Likely Imminent at EPO
=> Rolling of Heads Likely Imminent at EPO
12.16.14 Keeping Software Patents Out of Europe Following the Demise of Software Patents in the US
=> Keeping Software Patents Out of Europe Following the Demise of Software Patents in the US
12.28.14 EPO Breaking News: The European Parliament Dismisses Complaint About EPO Abuses
=> EPO Breaking News: The European Parliament Dismisses Complaint About EPO Abuses
01.01.15 EPO Under Fire From European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW)
=> EPO Under Fire From European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW)
01.11.15 The EPO Connection Now a Liability as Administrative Council Has Become a Laughing Stock, Jesper Kongstad to be Targeted by EPO Staff Protests
01.19.15 Translations of Member of the European Parliament Complaining About European Patent Office (EPO)
=> Translations of Member of the European Parliament Complaining About European Patent Office (EPO)
01.20.15 Failure of the EPO Can Derail the Trojan Horse of Software Patents and Patent Trolls
=> Failure of the EPO Can Derail the Trojan Horse of Software Patents and Patent Trolls
01.22.15 The Collapse of European Patent Office Management Culminates With Resignations
=> The Collapse of European Patent Office Management Culminates With Resignations
01.28.15 Breaking: EPO Vice-President Željko Topić Loses Defamation Case in Croatia
=> Breaking: EPO Vice-President Željko Topić Loses Defamation Case in Croatia
01.30.15 Media Coverage of Demonstration Against Jesper Kongstad of the Administrative Council (EPO)
=> Media Coverage of Demonstration Against Jesper Kongstad of the Administrative Council (EPO)
01.30.15 Text of Ruling/Decision Against Željko Topić (Regarding Audi as a Bribe)
=> Text of Ruling/Decision Against Željko Topić (Regarding Audi as a Bribe)
02.01.15 The EPO’s Paid Propaganda Campaign in the Media
=> The EPO’s Paid Propaganda Campaign in the Media
02.03.15 More Press Coverage From the Danish Media About EPO Abuses and Protest at Danish Consulate
=> More Press Coverage From the Danish Media About EPO Abuses and Protest at Danish Consulate
02.08.15 The EPO’s Vice-President Željko Topić and the Case of Ivan Kabalin: Part XIII
=> The EPO’s Vice-President Željko Topić and the Case of Ivan Kabalin: Part XIII
02.11.15 EPO Staff to March to British Consulate to Protest Against the Administrative Council (AC)
=> EPO Staff to March to British Consulate to Protest Against the Administrative Council (AC)
02.11.15 Corruption at the Croatian State Intellectual Property Office Which Željko Topić Came From: Part XV
=> Corruption at the Croatian State Intellectual Property Office Which Željko Topić Came From: Part XV
02.15.15 FFII and the American IP Law Association Comment on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Envisioned by EPO
=> FFII and the American IP Law Association Comment on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Envisioned by EPO
02.15.15 English Translation of Article About Protest at Danish Consulate Over EPO Abuses
=> English Translation of Article About Protest at Danish Consulate Over EPO Abuses
02.15.15 Amid EPO Scandals, Call to Dissolve the EPO and Start All Over Again (With New Management and New Direction)
02.15.15 The Case of Rikard Frgacic Versus the Croatian SIPO: Allegation of Corruption in Relation to Trademark Reassignment Under Željko Topić’s Watch: Part XVI
02.18.15 EPO Scandals: The Story So Far
=> EPO Scandals: The Story So Far
02.19.15 The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys Slams the European Patent Office for Structural Failings
=> The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys Slams the European Patent Office for Structural Failings
02.19.15 Techrights Under Attack Again, Shortly After Important EPO Articles
=> Techrights Under Attack Again, Shortly After Important EPO Articles
02.19.15 Željko Topić’s History in SIPO Leaves a Legacy of Alleged DZIV Vehicles (Bribes), Authorship Abuses, and Intimidation Against Reporters
02.22.15 The EPO’s Sham ‘Internal Investigation’ of EPO Vice-President Željko Topić’s Affairs
=> The EPO’s Sham ‘Internal Investigation’ of EPO Vice-President Željko Topić’s Affairs
03.16.15 EPO Management Still in a Freefall, Tries to Warp/Divert the Debate Away From Its Abuses
=> EPO Management Still in a Freefall, Tries to Warp/Divert the Debate Away From Its Abuses
03.23.15 Politics of Blackmail at the EPO
=> Politics of Blackmail at the EPO
03.24.15 Concerns Over Željko Topić’s Alleged Powerful Links in Croatian Diplomacy
=> Concerns Over Željko Topić’s Alleged Powerful Links in Croatian Diplomacy
03.27.15 Željko Topić and Ivan Šimonović, Two Residues of Ivo Sanader’s Corrupt Regime, Seen as Indirectly Connected
03.29.15 When the EPO Came Under Fire From the Netherlands and Before Systemic Corruption Was Revealed
=> When the EPO Came Under Fire From the Netherlands and Before Systemic Corruption Was Revealed
03.29.15 Techrights Cited by European Politicians in Support of EPO Staff’s Causes
=> Techrights Cited by European Politicians in Support of EPO Staff’s Causes
04.02.15 English, French and German Translations of Dutch Article About EPO Abuses
=> English, French and German Translations of Dutch Article About EPO Abuses
04.02.15 Željko Topić: “SUEPO [Staff Union Has No Standing in This Office. SUEPO Has No Role to Play in This Office.”]
=> Željko Topić: “SUEPO [Staff Union
04.08.15 More Suicides Reported at the Staff-Hostile European Patent Office
=> More Suicides Reported at the Staff-Hostile European Patent Office
04.10.15 New Article Chronicles Suicides and Nervous Breakdowns at the EPO Due to the Management’s Abuses
=> New Article Chronicles Suicides and Nervous Breakdowns at the EPO Due to the Management’s Abuses
04.18.15 More Translations of French Article About the EPO
=> More Translations of French Article About the EPO
04.21.15 9 Millionth US Patent Tells a Story of Failure and USPTO Misconduct
=> 9 Millionth US Patent Tells a Story of Failure and USPTO Misconduct
04.24.15 EPO Management is Trying Hard to Appease Its Critics While Pushing Forth Unitary Patent Agenda
=> EPO Management is Trying Hard to Appease Its Critics While Pushing Forth Unitary Patent Agenda
04.29.15 As Core Issues Still Not Addressed, Another Protest Against EPO Management Scheduled for Tomorrow in Munich, Germany
05.25.15 Süddeutsche Zeitung Says Talking Helps While EPO Management Back-stabs Other Side of the Table
=> Süddeutsche Zeitung Says Talking Helps While EPO Management Back-stabs Other Side of the Table
05.29.15 Propaganda Mode for UPC Agreement Whilst EPO Increasingly Grants Patents on Software
=> Propaganda Mode for UPC Agreement Whilst EPO Increasingly Grants Patents on Software
06.03.15 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
06.04.15 The EPO Sinks Deeper in a Scandal After Paying Public Money for Military-Connected Control Risks to Stalk Journalists and Staff
06.06.15 EPO and Administrative Council Stall Criticism by Pretending to Negotiate With Staff Whilst Actually Attacking It
06.06.15 EPO Officially Confirms That It Specifically Hired Control Risks Group (CRG) to Spy on Journalists and Their Sources
06.07.15 Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About the EPO’s Investigation Unit and Control Risks Group
=> Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About the EPO’s Investigation Unit and Control Risks Group
06.07.15 The High Cost of Low Patent Bar at the EPO
=> The High Cost of Low Patent Bar at the EPO
06.08.15 Spanish Media on Reign of Terror at EPO: Managerial Misconduct, Blocked E-mails (Censorship), and Abuse of Legal Immunity
06.09.15 EPO Surveillance, Threats, and Patronisation of Dutch Legal System Covered in Dutch Article From De Volkskrant
06.09.15 European Patent Office (EPO) Now Uses Keyloggers to Spy on Staff
=> European Patent Office (EPO) Now Uses Keyloggers to Spy on Staff
06.09.15 EPO May be Creating Its Own Lawless NSA (or GCHQ) With Control Risks Group Deal
=> EPO May be Creating Its Own Lawless NSA (or GCHQ) With Control Risks Group Deal
06.09.15 Full Translation of Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About Blackhat Tactics (Keyloggers) in EPO (Updated)
=> Full Translation of Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About Blackhat Tactics (Keyloggers) in EPO (Updated)
06.09.15 When the European Patent Office Lost in Court and Refused to Obey the Law: An Analysis
=> When the European Patent Office Lost in Court and Refused to Obey the Law: An Analysis
06.10.15 More European Politicians Pressure and Sometimes Slam the European Patent Office (EPO) Amid New Scandals
06.12.15 Badische Zeitung Labels European Patent Office (EPO) a Police State for Use of Very Intrusive Mass Surveillance Software (Updated)
06.14.15 EPO Data Protection Officer ‘Just a Dictator’s Minion’, Approved Keyloggers and Hidden Cameras
=> EPO Data Protection Officer ‘Just a Dictator’s Minion’, Approved Keyloggers and Hidden Cameras
06.17.15 More Political Interventions in EPO Abuse Cases
=> More Political Interventions in EPO Abuse Cases
06.17.15 SUEPO to SUE Government of the Netherlands for Protecting the EPO’s Thugs
=> SUEPO to SUE Government of the Netherlands for Protecting the EPO’s Thugs
06.20.15 Better Watch Out or the United States Will Export Software Patents to Europe, Along With Patent Trolls
06.22.15 Demonstration Against European Patent Office Management in Munich This Wednesday
=> Demonstration Against European Patent Office Management in Munich This Wednesday
06.24.15 EPO Protest in Munich and Growing Unpopularity of EPO Management, Media Manipulation by the Management
06.25.15 An Estimated 1,000 EPO Staff in Munich Demonstrated Against EPO Management Yesterday Afternoon
=> An Estimated 1,000 EPO Staff in Munich Demonstrated Against EPO Management Yesterday Afternoon
06.26.15 The Council of Europe Slams the EPO as Political Pressure Grows for EPO Management to Obey the Law
=> The Council of Europe Slams the EPO as Political Pressure Grows for EPO Management to Obey the Law
06.26.15 The EPO’s Circus of Nepotism, Corporatism and Gross Abuse is Promoting the Unitary Patent
=> The EPO’s Circus of Nepotism, Corporatism and Gross Abuse is Promoting the Unitary Patent
06.28.15 After Intervention by the Council of Europe Comes a Detailed Summary of the Situation in the European Patent Office (EPO)
06.30.15 Techrights Confirmed as a Target of EPO Surveillance, With Help From Control Risks Group (CRG)
=> Techrights Confirmed as a Target of EPO Surveillance, With Help From Control Risks Group (CRG)
07.01.15 Munich Press, Münchner Merkur, Slams the Munich-based EPO
=> Munich Press, Münchner Merkur, Slams the Munich-based EPO
07.10.15 EPO Appointments: Standards of a Third World Country
=> EPO Appointments: Standards of a Third World Country
07.16.15 SUEPO Post Vanishes: Belated Self-Censorship or Threats From EPO Management?
=> SUEPO Post Vanishes: Belated Self-Censorship or Threats From EPO Management?
08.04.15 ‘Sanader’s Protégé’ Željko Topić Slammed by Press in His Home Country
=> ‘Sanader’s Protégé’ Željko Topić Slammed by Press in His Home Country
08.05.15 EPO Measures Productivity Using the Wrong Yardstick in Order to Sell Its Racket to the Public
=> EPO Measures Productivity Using the Wrong Yardstick in Order to Sell Its Racket to the Public
08.11.15 Patents Roundup: EPO, Alicestorm, Facebook, ‘Trade’ Agreements, and Google Publicity Stunts
=> Patents Roundup: EPO, Alicestorm, Facebook, ‘Trade’ Agreements, and Google Publicity Stunts
08.21.15 EPO Corruption of Patent Boundaries: Business Methods and Algorithms Patented
=> EPO Corruption of Patent Boundaries: Business Methods and Algorithms Patented
08.27.15 Another Suicide at the EPO, Fifth by Our Count
=> Another Suicide at the EPO, Fifth by Our Count
08.27.15 Censorship, Self-Censorship and Intimidation Now the Modus Operandi at EPO
=> Censorship, Self-Censorship and Intimidation Now the Modus Operandi at EPO
09.09.15 EPO Management May Not Have Resigned (Yet), But the Rest of the Staff is Leaving in Droves
=> EPO Management May Not Have Resigned (Yet), But the Rest of the Staff is Leaving in Droves
09.10.15 The EPO’s Vicious Attacks on Its Very Own Staff Have Peaked (War on Dissent) While Oppressive Patent Regime (UPC) Phased in
09.12.15 EPO Staff Suicides Estimated to Have Grown Tenfold Under Current Regime — Claim
=> EPO Staff Suicides Estimated to Have Grown Tenfold Under Current Regime — Claim
09.17.15 European Patent Office Expands Censorship and Intimidation Against Staff as Pressure Mounts
=> European Patent Office Expands Censorship and Intimidation Against Staff as Pressure Mounts
09.21.15 Dutch Report: EPO Suicides Possibly Caused by Working Conditions Imposed by EPO’s Management
=> Dutch Report: EPO Suicides Possibly Caused by Working Conditions Imposed by EPO’s Management
09.22.15 The European Patent Office’s Autocracy Has Proven the Streisand Effect, Amplifying Its Opposition’s Messages
09.22.15 Dutch Politician John Kerstens Says EPO Investigative Unit is Called ‘the Gestapo’
=> Dutch Politician John Kerstens Says EPO Investigative Unit is Called ‘the Gestapo’
09.23.15 EPO Management Justifies Censorship (Even of Journalists) Using Its Vice-President Željko Topić
=> EPO Management Justifies Censorship (Even of Journalists) Using Its Vice-President Željko Topić
09.24.15 EPO Managers, Patent Lawyers, Commissioners and Other Non-Technical Personnel Tackle Democracy, Alter Laws in Bulk and in Secret
09.24.15 German Press Explains EPO Investigation Unit (I.U.), Struggles to Openly Speak to the Secretive EPO
=> German Press Explains EPO Investigation Unit (I.U.), Struggles to Openly Speak to the Secretive EPO
09.24.15 Europe’s Acceptance of and Resistance to Software Patents, Courtesy of Corporate Front Groups and Courtrooms Respectively
10.02.15 Microsoft’s Secret Special Relationship With EPO Illustrates Serious Corruption at Microsoft and the EPO
10.06.15 Commenters Provide Possible Explanations for Mr Van der Eijk Being on Unlimited Sick Leave
=> Commenters Provide Possible Explanations for Mr Van der Eijk Being on Unlimited Sick Leave
10.06.15 Željko Topić Attacks EPO Staff for ‘Daring’ to Legally Challenge the EPO’s Management Over Its Gross Abuses in Europe
10.07.15 EPO Staff to Disrupt Administrative Council Meeting With Public Demonstration That Raises Awareness of Abuses
10.11.15 Leaked: EPO Prioritises Work for Large Foreign Corporations, Discrimination Not Accidental But Centrally Planned
10.11.15 European Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda Says TPP Will Bring Software Patents to Europe and Other Continents/Countries
10.13.15 Staff of the EPO Under Siege Ahead of Tomorrow’s Demonstration in Munich
=> Staff of the EPO Under Siege Ahead of Tomorrow’s Demonstration in Munich
10.13.15 EPO Management Lobbies for the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Uses This to Advance Software Patents in Europe
10.14.15 EPO Says Crushing Patent Neutrality is a Good Thing® Because Authenticity of Self-Incriminating EPO Document Cannot be Denied
10.14.15 EPO Completely Loses It and Starts Banning Even More Sites Ahead of Today’s Demonstration, UPC Proceeding Behind Closed Doors
10.15.15 Exclusive: Leaked E-mail From Grant Philpott (EPO Principal Telecommunications Director) Shows Collusion Between EPO and Microsoft to Prioritise Most Notorious Patent Bully, Microsoft
10.16.15 The ‘Sherlocks’ of EPO/Spin-Doctoring Pretend That All of the EPO’s Problems Boil Down to One Disgruntled Person (Updated)
10.16.15 EPO is Trademark-Bullying Its Critics, Trying Repeatedly to Remove Bad Publicity With Help From Menacing Legal Threats (SLAPP)
10.16.15 Translation Needed: High Employee Sabotaged European Patent Office (EPO)
=> Translation Needed: High Employee Sabotaged European Patent Office (EPO)
10.16.15 EPO Cleverly Frames Total War Against Its Own Staff as a War Against Nazism
=> EPO Cleverly Frames Total War Against Its Own Staff as a War Against Nazism
10.20.15 German Broadcaster on European Patent Office (EPO) Preferential Treatment for Microsoft and Others
=> German Broadcaster on European Patent Office (EPO) Preferential Treatment for Microsoft and Others
10.21.15 EPO Increases Repressions: Allegedly Bans Staff From Helping Refugees (Updated)
=> EPO Increases Repressions: Allegedly Bans Staff From Helping Refugees (Updated)
10.25.15 How the Chief Information Officer of the EPO is Connected to the President of the EPO
=> How the Chief Information Officer of the EPO is Connected to the President of the EPO
10.26.15 The Deteriorating Working Conditions at the EPO Show Reluctance to Make Talented Staff (or Ill Staff) Happy
10.27.15 Board of Appeal Thwarts a Software Patent Application in the EPO, From Company Indirectly Connected to the EPO
10.27.15 European Patent Organisation: Hallmark of a Corrupted (by Corporations) Entity
=> European Patent Organisation: Hallmark of a Corrupted (by Corporations) Entity
10.28.15 Control Risks Group (CRG), Transparency International, the European Patent Office (EPO) Investigative Unit and the Obvious Conflicts of Interest
10.30.15 EPO Press Spokesperson and Obvious Conflicts of Interest With Supposed Anti-Corruption Group Transparency International
10.30.15 Private Eye Covers the EPO Scandals, Says EPO Hired ‘British Snooping Firm Global Risk Consultants’
=> Private Eye Covers the EPO Scandals, Says EPO Hired ‘British Snooping Firm Global Risk Consultants’
10.30.15 Former German Constitutional Court Judge Denounces the EPO’s Possible Campaign of Defamation Against Judge Accused of Truth-Telling
11.03.15 More European Politicians Take on the EPO for Ignoring the Rule of Law
=> More European Politicians Take on the EPO for Ignoring the Rule of Law
11.04.15 The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part I
=> The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part I
11.04.15 A State Within a State: Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About the EPO’s Bizarre Existence Above the Law
=> A State Within a State: Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About the EPO’s Bizarre Existence Above the Law
11.05.15 Dutch Political Action Against the EPO’s Management Greater Than Previously Estimated
=> Dutch Political Action Against the EPO’s Management Greater Than Previously Estimated
11.05.15 Dutch Political Action Against the EPO’s Management Greater Than Previously Estimated
=> Dutch Political Action Against the EPO’s Management Greater Than Previously Estimated
11.05.15 The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part III
=> The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part III
11.06.15 The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part IV
=> The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part IV
11.07.15 The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part V
=> The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part V
11.08.15 The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part VI
=> The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part VI
11.09.15 The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part VII
=> The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part VII
11.09.15 European Federation of Public Service Unions Pressures Dutch Prime Minister to Take Action Against the EPO’s Violations
11.16.15 EPO: It’s Like a Family Business – Part I
=> EPO: It’s Like a Family Business – Part I
11.17.15 Patent Boundaries in the US and the Risk of Europe Repeating the Mistakes of the US
=> Patent Boundaries in the US and the Risk of Europe Repeating the Mistakes of the US
11.18.15 EPO: It’s Like a Family Business – Part II
=> EPO: It’s Like a Family Business – Part II
11.18.15 Meltdown at the EPO, Massive Staff Protests This Afternoon
=> Meltdown at the EPO, Massive Staff Protests This Afternoon
11.18.15 The EPO’s Management Has Just Reaffirmed Its Possible Role in Contributing to Staff Suicides
=> The EPO’s Management Has Just Reaffirmed Its Possible Role in Contributing to Staff Suicides
11.20.15 Gross Aggression by EPO Management Shows the Urgent Need to Remove Immunity From EPO
=> Gross Aggression by EPO Management Shows the Urgent Need to Remove Immunity From EPO
11.20.15 In an Effort to Counter EPO Staff Narrative (After ~2,000 of Staff Protest) EPO Management Portrays Staff as Violent But Provides No Evidence
11.21.15 German Media Reveals That Out-of-Control EPO Management is Even Threatening and Abusing Lawyers Now
=> German Media Reveals That Out-of-Control EPO Management is Even Threatening and Abusing Lawyers Now
11.21.15 Translation of Thomas Magenheim-Hörmann’s Article in the German Media, Urging European Politicians to Intervene in EPO Chaos and Lawlessness
11.21.15 EPO: It’s Like a Family Business – Part IV
=> EPO: It’s Like a Family Business – Part IV
11.21.15 German Press Says Broken EPO Lets President Severely Punish Staff Not Even Guilty of Any Wrongdoing
=> German Press Says Broken EPO Lets President Severely Punish Staff Not Even Guilty of Any Wrongdoing
11.21.15 It Pays (Off) to ‘Bribe’ the Media: Watch How Les Échos Covers EPO Matters and Self-Censors
=> It Pays (Off) to ‘Bribe’ the Media: Watch How Les Échos Covers EPO Matters and Self-Censors
11.22.15 Rumour About Efforts to Dismiss a Board Judge by Intimidating Boards of Appeal
=> Rumour About Efforts to Dismiss a Board Judge by Intimidating Boards of Appeal
11.23.15 Gross Violation of Workers’ Rights in EPO: Denial of Christmas Vacation/Leave for Slower Workers
=> Gross Violation of Workers’ Rights in EPO: Denial of Christmas Vacation/Leave for Slower Workers
11.23.15 The Bogus Narrative Floated by EPO Management: Our Judges and Examiners Are Armed and Violent
=> The Bogus Narrative Floated by EPO Management: Our Judges and Examiners Are Armed and Violent
11.23.15 A Look at the Latest Gross Deletionism at the EPO’s ‘Media Partner’, French Newspaper Les Échos
=> A Look at the Latest Gross Deletionism at the EPO’s ‘Media Partner’, French Newspaper Les Échos
11.23.15 NRC Handelsblad (Dutch Evening Newspaper) Speaks About EPO’s Refusal to Accept Court Orders From The Hague
11.24.15 Censorship at the EPO Escalates: Now We Have Threats to Sue Publishers
=> Censorship at the EPO Escalates: Now We Have Threats to Sue Publishers
11.24.15 Response to Bogus Accusations That EPO Staff Protests Are Really an Attempt to Derail UPC
=> Response to Bogus Accusations That EPO Staff Protests Are Really an Attempt to Derail UPC
11.24.15 New Heise Article Makes It Clear That ‘Nazi’-Themed Accusations Against the Suspended Board Judge Were Insufficiently Substantiated
11.25.15 EPO Management Needs to Finally Recognise That It Itself is the Issue, Not the Staff or the Unions
=> EPO Management Needs to Finally Recognise That It Itself is the Issue, Not the Staff or the Unions
11.25.15 The Sun King Delusion: The Views of Techrights Are Just a Mirror of EPO Staff Unions
=> The Sun King Delusion: The Views of Techrights Are Just a Mirror of EPO Staff Unions
11.26.15 European Patent Office (EPO) a “Kingdom Above the EU Countries, a Tyranny With ZERO Accountability”
=> European Patent Office (EPO) a “Kingdom Above the EU Countries, a Tyranny With ZERO Accountability”
11.26.15 A Call for Bloggers and Journalists: Did EPO Intimidate and Threaten You Too? Please Speak Out.
=> A Call for Bloggers and Journalists: Did EPO Intimidate and Threaten You Too? Please Speak Out.
11.26.15 Documents Needed: Contract or Information About EPO PR/Media Campaign to Mislead the World
=> Documents Needed: Contract or Information About EPO PR/Media Campaign to Mislead the World
11.26.15 Saving the Integrity of the European Patent Office (EPO)
=> Saving the Integrity of the European Patent Office (EPO)
11.26.15 Guest Post: The EPO, EPC, Unitary Patent and the Money Issue
=> Guest Post: The EPO, EPC, Unitary Patent and the Money Issue
11.27.15 The European Private Office: What Was Once a Public Service is Now Crony Capitalism With Private Contractors
11.27.15 When the EPO Liaised With Capone (Literally) to Silence Bloggers, Delete Articles
=> When the EPO Liaised With Capone (Literally) to Silence Bloggers, Delete Articles
11.27.15 Leaked: EPO Award of €880,000 “in Order to Address the Media Presence of the EPO” (Reputation Laundering)
11.28.15 The Serious Implication of Controversial FTI Consulting Contract: Every Press Article About EPO Could Have Been Paid for by EPO
11.28.15 EPO: We Have Always Been at War With Europe (or Europeans)
=> EPO: We Have Always Been at War With Europe (or Europeans)
11.28.15 What Everyone Needs to Know About the EPO’s New War on Journalism
=> What Everyone Needs to Know About the EPO’s New War on Journalism
11.29.15 How the EPO Twisted Defamation Law in a Failed Bid to Silence Techrights
=> How the EPO Twisted Defamation Law in a Failed Bid to Silence Techrights
11.29.15 Why the European Patent Office Cannot Really Sue and Why It’s All — More Likely Than Not — Just SLAPP
11.30.15 Media Alert: IAM ‘Magazine’ Does Not Protect Sources
=> Media Alert: IAM ‘Magazine’ Does Not Protect Sources
11.30.15 Željko Topić Tries to Do to EPO Staff What He Did in Croatia, Now Crushes Staff Assembly in The Hague
12.01.15 The European Patent Office (EPO) Crushes Not Only Unions But Also the Press and Even Bloggers
=> The European Patent Office (EPO) Crushes Not Only Unions But Also the Press and Even Bloggers
12.01.15 The Spanish EPO Scandal – Part II
=> The Spanish EPO Scandal – Part II
12.02.15 Punto Informatico (Italian Media) About EPO’s Legal Bullying Against Techrights
=> Punto Informatico (Italian Media) About EPO’s Legal Bullying Against Techrights
12.02.15 The Spanish EPO Scandal – Part III
=> The Spanish EPO Scandal – Part III
12.03.15 French Member of Parliament Reacts to EPO Management Amidst Ongoing Attacks on Staff Representatives and Facts-free Information War
12.03.15 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
12.04.15 EPO Does Not Seem to Have Investigators, Only Accusers and Prosecutors (Loyal to the President)
=> EPO Does Not Seem to Have Investigators, Only Accusers and Prosecutors (Loyal to the President)
12.04.15 EurActiv’s Puff Piece for EPO (Amid High-Budget Media Blitz) Reveals Just How Clueless and Tactless the EPO’s President Really is
12.04.15 The Media is Already Flooded With EPO Propaganda, Some Likely Paid for With €73,000-Per-Month ‘Special’ New Budget
12.05.15 EPO All-Time Low: Memorandum From the Praesidium (of the Boards of Appeal) Complains to the Administrative Council About Latest Questionable Moves
12.05.15 Like JPMorgan, EPO Management Has Started a Defamatory Smear Campaign Against Critics
=> Like JPMorgan, EPO Management Has Started a Defamatory Smear Campaign Against Critics
12.06.15 The Tail That Wags the Dog: How an EPO President Virtually Controls the Administrative Council (AC)
=> The Tail That Wags the Dog: How an EPO President Virtually Controls the Administrative Council (AC)
12.06.15 Article Highlights EPO’s Capitalist Venture Tendencies, Seeking to Just Maximize Profit, Irrespective of Public Interests and Human Factors
12.06.15 No Wonder Staff of the EPO Gets Sick of the Management, Which Games Sickness Statistics in Order to Delude the World
12.06.15 The EPO’s PR Agency is Connected to Fracking AstroTurf in the United States
=> The EPO’s PR Agency is Connected to Fracking AstroTurf in the United States
12.06.15 EPO “Synonymous With Psychological Depressions, Nervous Breakdowns, and Even Suicides”
=> EPO “Synonymous With Psychological Depressions, Nervous Breakdowns, and Even Suicides”
12.06.15 Suppression of Voices Critical of the European Patent Office (EPO)
=> Suppression of Voices Critical of the European Patent Office (EPO)
12.06.15 The USPTO, With All Its Serious Issues, Increasingly Looks Like the EPO’s Role Model
=> The USPTO, With All Its Serious Issues, Increasingly Looks Like the EPO’s Role Model
12.07.15 FRAND Tax, Patent Trolls as Satellites of Large Patent Aggressors, EPO Puff Pieces, and Another Imminent EPO Protest
12.07.15 New WIPR Survey Shows 96% of Respondents Are Concerned About the Situation at the European Patent Office (EPO)
12.08.15 Lawyers’ Response to Incredible Accusations From EPO Management and Its Praetorian Guard
=> Lawyers’ Response to Incredible Accusations From EPO Management and Its Praetorian Guard
12.08.15 EPO Management: Associating a Whistleblowing Judge With Nazism and Weapons, Associating Staff Representatives With Snipers!
12.08.15 EPO ‘Investigators’ Are Almost Technically Illiterate, Definitely Biased by Design
=> EPO ‘Investigators’ Are Almost Technically Illiterate, Definitely Biased by Design
12.08.15 Chairman of the Administrative Council Failed to Stop Suspension (and Potential Firing) of EPO Staff Representatives
12.09.15 Union Busting at the European Patent Office, Dressed Up as ‘Investigation’
=> Union Busting at the European Patent Office, Dressed Up as ‘Investigation’
12.10.15 Contacting National Delegations to Complain About the European Patent Office (EPO)
=> Contacting National Delegations to Complain About the European Patent Office (EPO)
12.10.15 Tightening Media Control: European Patent Office (EPO) Silences Blogs of Critics by Intimidation, Lawsuits
12.10.15 A Little Taste of European Patent Office ‘Justice’
=> A Little Taste of European Patent Office ‘Justice’
12.10.15 The EPO’s Double Standard on Confidentiality
=> The EPO’s Double Standard on Confidentiality
12.12.15 EPO Central Staff Committee Warns That EPO President Illegally Changes the Rules to Remove the Rights of the Accused, Crush Dissent/Unions
12.12.15 IAM ‘Magazine’ Protects Patent Trolls, Blocks People Who Disapprove
=> IAM ‘Magazine’ Protects Patent Trolls, Blocks People Who Disapprove
12.12.15 EPO ‘Sweetener’ for Administrative Council National Delegates
=> EPO ‘Sweetener’ for Administrative Council National Delegates
12.12.15 The European Patent Office is a Lobby Organisation, Was and Still is Lobbying for Expansion of Patent Scope (Also to Software) Through UPC
12.13.15 When SUEPO Called the EPO a “Public Service Organisation Out of Control”
=> When SUEPO Called the EPO a “Public Service Organisation Out of Control”
12.14.15 Watch Out For the EPO-SUEPO Parity Spin
=> Watch Out For the EPO-SUEPO Parity Spin
12.14.15 EPO No Longer in the ‘Business’ of Just Granting Patents But Politics and Lobbying Also
=> EPO No Longer in the ‘Business’ of Just Granting Patents But Politics and Lobbying Also
12.14.15 Heise Article Tackles EPO ‘Feud’ (Union Busting in Disguise), Techrights’ Remarks Follow
=> Heise Article Tackles EPO ‘Feud’ (Union Busting in Disguise), Techrights’ Remarks Follow
12.15.15 Very High Proportion of EPO Staff in Berlin Goes to the Streets to Protest and to Defend SUEPO From the Union Busters
12.15.15 More Than Half of US Patent Lawsuits Filed in the Patent Trolls’ Docket, the Eastern District of Texas
12.15.15 In a Case Involving Microsoft, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Originator of Software Patents) Squashes Software Patents
12.15.15 Ahead of Tomorrow’s Administrative Council Meeting EPO Staff Representatives Warn Heads of Delegations About Union Busting and Other Abuses
12.16.15 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
12.16.15 Great News: Software Patents Stopped in India, For Now…
=> Great News: Software Patents Stopped in India, For Now…
12.16.15 New WIPO Figures Reinforce Reality Where More Patents Needn’t Imply More Innovation, Just Lower Standards
12.16.15 UPC and Patent Trolls: The Connection Revisited
=> UPC and Patent Trolls: The Connection Revisited
12.17.15 Administrative Council Does Not Crush the Boards But Does Crush the Unions (Suspension Duration Sextupled)
12.17.15 EPO Union Responds to Željko Topić and Raimund Lutz’s Attempt to Intimidate Staff That Joins Unions
=> EPO Union Responds to Željko Topić and Raimund Lutz’s Attempt to Intimidate Staff That Joins Unions
12.17.15 Ahead of Administrative Council Meeting, General Consultative Committee Warned of “Witch Hunt in Pursuit of SUEPO Officials” (Union Busting)
12.18.15 EPO Irrelevancy, Two Decades to be Granted an EPO Patent, Outrage Over Patents on Plants in EPO
=> EPO Irrelevancy, Two Decades to be Granted an EPO Patent, Outrage Over Patents on Plants in EPO
12.18.15 EPI Silently Removes Criticism of the European Patent Office/Organisation, Techrights Preserves It
=> EPI Silently Removes Criticism of the European Patent Office/Organisation, Techrights Preserves It
12.19.15 Watch Out for ‘Divide and Rule’ Tactics From the Control Risks- and FTI Consulting-Steered EPO
=> Watch Out for ‘Divide and Rule’ Tactics From the Control Risks- and FTI Consulting-Steered EPO
12.19.15 EPO Pays FTI Consulting (Nearly a Million Bucks), Which Pays IAM for Pro-UPC Propaganda Event
=> EPO Pays FTI Consulting (Nearly a Million Bucks), Which Pays IAM for Pro-UPC Propaganda Event
12.19.15 Patent Maximalism and the Patent Trolls Epidemic Which It Leads to Not a Problem for Patent Lawyers
=> Patent Maximalism and the Patent Trolls Epidemic Which It Leads to Not a Problem for Patent Lawyers
12.19.15 Microsoft is Entrapping Android With Infamous (ex)FAT Patents and Turning Android Phones Into Microsoft Listening Devices (Bugs)
12.20.15 An Atmosphere of Revolt Inside the European Patent Office
=> An Atmosphere of Revolt Inside the European Patent Office
12.20.15 More Sunday Humour: Fictional Diary From the European Patent Office
=> More Sunday Humour: Fictional Diary From the European Patent Office
12.20.15 Software Patents Are Being Defeated to the Detriment of Large Multinationals, Their Patent Lawyers, and Patent Trolls Who Piggyback Them
12.21.15 The Forgotten History of IAM ‘Magazine’ as EPO Management’s Megaphone and EPO Union Basher
=> The Forgotten History of IAM ‘Magazine’ as EPO Management’s Megaphone and EPO Union Basher
12.22.15 Translation of the Latest Communiqué About the Administrative Council, No Longer Published by ‘President’
12.22.15 EPO Level of Trust Reaches All-Time Low: Workers Distrust the Available Phones in Their Offices, Use Mobiles Instead
12.23.15 EPO Administrative Council: the Situation is “Detrimental to the Proper Functioning of the Office and the Public Image of the Whole Organisation”
12.24.15 I-AM EPO: How the Record of the EPO’s Management Dispute With Staff and the EPC is Being Rewritten by EPO-Funded Media
12.24.15 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part I: An Introduction
=> Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part I: An Introduction
12.26.15 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part II: Patent Office as a Cancer
=> Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part II: Patent Office as a Cancer
12.26.15 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part III: Death in the Family
=> Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part III: Death in the Family
12.26.15 Summary of the EPO-Europatis Series
=> Summary of the EPO-Europatis Series
12.26.15 EPO Whistleblowing: How (Not) to Use Machines at the Office
=> EPO Whistleblowing: How (Not) to Use Machines at the Office
12.26.15 Europatis: “Turnover of €211,800 and Zero Employees”
=> Europatis: “Turnover of €211,800 and Zero Employees”
12.26.15 Loose Data ‘Protection’ and Likely Privacy Infringements at the EPO: Here’s Who Gets Employees’ Internal Data
12.27.15 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part IV: Criticism Regarding Patent Scope is Verboten
=> Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part IV: Criticism Regarding Patent Scope is Verboten
12.27.15 Revolving Doors of High-Level EPO Management: Jacques Michel and the Questel Deal With the EPO
=> Revolving Doors of High-Level EPO Management: Jacques Michel and the Questel Deal With the EPO
01.03.16 The Long EPO Queue for European SMEs That Cannot Hop Like Multinational Corporations
=> The Long EPO Queue for European SMEs That Cannot Hop Like Multinational Corporations
01.04.16 Diputado Euro Britanico se quejara a Benoit Batistelli sobre el Proceso de la OEP, No Existe un Contacto Cercano con Aplicantes Ordinarios
01.04.16 La Larga Cola Para Las PYMEs Europeas que No Pueden Evitar Como Si lo Hace las Corporaciones Multinacionales
01.04.16 Shedding Light on the Secretive Mock Trial of Elizabeth Hardon and Others (EPO Union Busting)
=> Shedding Light on the Secretive Mock Trial of Elizabeth Hardon and Others (EPO Union Busting)
01.05.16 So Much for ‘Vocal Minority’… Half of EPO Staff Signed Petition in Support of SUEPO
=> So Much for ‘Vocal Minority’… Half of EPO Staff Signed Petition in Support of SUEPO
01.05.16 Patent Lawyers and People in ‘IP’ Jobs Warp the Debate About the Patent System: EPO-Funded Writers, Glorification of Patent Trolls, and Software Patents
01.10.16 A Busy Week Ahead for the EPO’s Management as Union-busting Efforts Culminate
=> A Busy Week Ahead for the EPO’s Management as Union-busting Efforts Culminate
01.10.16 How the EPO Imposes Secrecy Around Mock ‘Trials’ and What the EPO Calls ‘Violence’
=> How the EPO Imposes Secrecy Around Mock ‘Trials’ and What the EPO Calls ‘Violence’
01.12.16 Transparency is Sunlight in the Kingdom of the EPO Vampires
=> Transparency is Sunlight in the Kingdom of the EPO Vampires
01.13.16 Germany Needs to Respect the European Patent Convention and Stop Issuing Software Patents, Also Reject UPC
01.14.16 La Ofícina Europea de Patentes (OEP) Sigue Completamente Abusiva
=> La Ofícina Europea de Patentes (OEP) Sigue Completamente Abusiva
01.14.16 The EPO is Manufacturing Propaganda Again, Releasing Misleading Figures to the Media
=> The EPO is Manufacturing Propaganda Again, Releasing Misleading Figures to the Media
01.15.16 How the EPO Prevented Scapegoats (‘Defendants’) in Its Mock ‘Trials’ From Actually Presenting a Defense
01.15.16 Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’ Lashes Out at EPO for Firing Staff Representatives
=> Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’ Lashes Out at EPO for Firing Staff Representatives
01.15.16 Hundreds of EPO Staff at The Hague (Including Managers) Spontaneously Protested Today, Making Almost Half of All Staff Present
01.16.16 Summarising the Latest Attacks by the European Patent Office (EPO) on European Society, With Complicity of Corporate Media
01.16.16 La OEP Está Manufacturando Propaganda de Nuevo Publicando Engañosas Figuras a los Medios de Comunicación
01.16.16 EPO Staff Protests in Berlin and Vienna
=> EPO Staff Protests in Berlin and Vienna
01.16.16 Transparencia es Luz del Sol en el Reino de los Vampiros de la OEP
=> Transparencia es Luz del Sol en el Reino de los Vampiros de la OEP
01.17.16 ¿Cómo la OEP Evitó Que Sus Chivos Expiatorios (´Acusados´) Presentes sus Defensas en los ¨Juicios¨ Contra Ellos
01.17.16 Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’ Responde Críticamente a la OEP por Despedir a Sus Representates
=> Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’ Responde Críticamente a la OEP por Despedir a Sus Representates
01.17.16 Unitary Patent (UPC) Highlights Reality Behind the EPO’s Management and Its Multinational/Overseas Bosses
01.18.16 European Patent Office (EPO) is Not “the Real World” But a Parallel Universe Without Any Regard for the Rule of Law
01.18.16 Techrights Needs Translations as Another EPO Staff Protest Looms
=> Techrights Needs Translations as Another EPO Staff Protest Looms
01.18.16 French Politician Philip Cordery Calls the EPO Authoritarian, Says the Union-busting Decisions Are Purely Scandalous
01.19.16 SLAPP-Happy EPO Vice-President Željko Topić Loses Croatian Defamation Lawsuit — AGAIN!
=> SLAPP-Happy EPO Vice-President Željko Topić Loses Croatian Defamation Lawsuit — AGAIN!
01.19.16 EPO Management and Its PR Team a Den of Liars, Even Lying to Their Own Staff
=> EPO Management and Its PR Team a Den of Liars, Even Lying to Their Own Staff
01.19.16 Poor Journalism From Süddeutsche Zeitung Perpetuates the EPO Management’s Lies
=> Poor Journalism From Süddeutsche Zeitung Perpetuates the EPO Management’s Lies
01.19.16 Tomorrow’s EPO Protest to Target Union-busting Actions Disguised as ‘Social Dialogue’ or ‘Union Recognition’
01.20.16 Politico Frances Philip Cordery llama a la OEP por lo que es: Autoritarian, Dice las Decisiones Destructivas Contra la Unión Son Puramente Escándalosas
01.20.16 The EPO’s PR Team May be Trying a New ‘Damage Control’ Strategy Amid Historic Protests by Staff
=> The EPO’s PR Team May be Trying a New ‘Damage Control’ Strategy Amid Historic Protests by Staff
01.20.16 La Corte Unitaria de Patentes (UPC) Resalta la Realidad Detrás la Gerencia de la OEP y sus Jefes de las Multinacionales del Extranjero
01.20.16 EPO/FTI Consulting-funded Event for UPC Will Be Stuffed With Mega-corporations from the United States
01.20.16 In Unison, Nations Hop Aboard the Unitary Patent Train Wreck, For (Foreign) Corporate Gain at Europe’s Expense
01.23.16 Additional Information About EPO Management and Its Abuses, as Told by Anonymous Comments
=> Additional Information About EPO Management and Its Abuses, as Told by Anonymous Comments
01.24.16 Dismissal of EPO Staff Representatives Does Not Eliminate Them as EPO Staff Sticks Together, Shares the Burden, the Pain
01.24.16 Süddeutsche Zeitung After FTI Consulting Deal: EPO Ghostwriter or Journalism?
=> Süddeutsche Zeitung After FTI Consulting Deal: EPO Ghostwriter or Journalism?
01.24.16 Eventos de Consultantes Promovido para la Corte Unitaria de Patentes por la OEP/FTI, Estará Repleto de Mega-Corporaciones de los Estados Unidos
01.26.16 Despido de los Representantes de Empleados de la OEP No los Elimina, Al Unirse los Empleados Comparten la Carga y el Dolor
01.26.16 EPO Protest in The Hague This Week Targets Next Wave of Silent (by Gag Orders) Union Busting
=> EPO Protest in The Hague This Week Targets Next Wave of Silent (by Gag Orders) Union Busting
01.26.16 The EPO Goes Lobbying Even More Heavily in Brussels, Reveals New Job Advertisement
=> The EPO Goes Lobbying Even More Heavily in Brussels, Reveals New Job Advertisement
01.26.16 Newly-Released Badinter Report Shows That by Treating Staff Like Garbage the European Patent Office is Violating Fundamental Rights
01.28.16 Independent Dutch Investigation to Commence Into the Working Conditions at the European Patent Office in Rijswijk
01.28.16 EPO Protests Earn Coverage on Dutch Television, Programme Starts Now (10PM CET)
=> EPO Protests Earn Coverage on Dutch Television, Programme Starts Now (10PM CET)
01.28.16 EPO Staff at The Hague to Protest Shortly; Here is Why We Should All Support Them
=> EPO Staff at The Hague to Protest Shortly; Here is Why We Should All Support Them
01.28.16 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”
01.29.16 Dutch Media’s Coverage of Protest at The Hague Leaves VP1 Minnoye a New Laughing Stock of the EPO’s Staff
01.30.16 When European SMEs Make the Mistake of Relying on the EPO’s Integrity, Now Want to Even SUE the EPO
=> When European SMEs Make the Mistake of Relying on the EPO’s Integrity, Now Want to Even SUE the EPO
01.30.16 Translation: What If the European Patent Office Were to Torture?
=> Translation: What If the European Patent Office Were to Torture?
01.31.16 When European Parliament/Commission Gets Embroiled in the EPO Scandals
=> When European Parliament/Commission Gets Embroiled in the EPO Scandals
01.31.16 MEP Konstantina Kouneva (Former Trade Unionist) Again Takes Action Against the European Patent Office for Union-Busting Actions
02.02.16 SUEPO (EPO Staff Union) Appears to Have Launched a New and Improved Web Site After Attempts to Crush (‘Decapitate’) SUEPO
02.03.16 The Most Detailed Explanation (Yet) of What’s Wrong With the EPO
=> The Most Detailed Explanation (Yet) of What’s Wrong With the EPO
02.04.16 Caricature of the Day: EPO President
=> Caricature of the Day: EPO President
02.04.16 European Patent Office Pretends It’s Business as Usual and Prepares New Vanity Pieces
=> European Patent Office Pretends It’s Business as Usual and Prepares New Vanity Pieces
02.05.16 Readers’ Article: A Strange Conspiracy of Silence in the German Media (Part II)
=> Readers’ Article: A Strange Conspiracy of Silence in the German Media (Part II)
02.06.16 The ‘Offenses’ of EPO Staff Representatives Boil Down to Truth-Telling
=> The ‘Offenses’ of EPO Staff Representatives Boil Down to Truth-Telling
02.08.16 ‘Aversion to Change’ Propaganda From the EPO Echoes or Parrots Lenin and Stalin
=> ‘Aversion to Change’ Propaganda From the EPO Echoes or Parrots Lenin and Stalin
02.08.16 Latest Propaganda From the EPO’s Management an Effort to Make the EPO the Tool of Megacorporations
=> Latest Propaganda From the EPO’s Management an Effort to Make the EPO the Tool of Megacorporations
02.08.16 The European Patent Office “is Acting as Though the Law Does Not Apply to It.”
=> The European Patent Office “is Acting as Though the Law Does Not Apply to It.”
02.09.16 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.”
02.09.16 Several Political Parties Directly Challenge the European Patent Office for Ignoring the Law, Not Obeying Court Orders
02.09.16 La Más Detallada Explicación (hasta ahora) de ¿Qué esta mal con la OEP?
=> La Más Detallada Explicación (hasta ahora) de ¿Qué esta mal con la OEP?
02.10.16 La Oficina Europea de Patentes Pretende que No Pasa Nada y Prepara una Feria de Vanidad
=> La Oficina Europea de Patentes Pretende que No Pasa Nada y Prepara una Feria de Vanidad
02.10.16 Member of European Parliament Brings Up “Ongoing Violations of the Fundamental and Employment Rights of the Staff of EPO”
02.11.16 Nepotismo de la UPC, Abusos Políticos, y el Envolvimiento en la UPC de la Firma ¨Legal¨ que la OEP Contrato para Matonear a Techrights
02.11.16 Miembro del Parlamente Europe Resalta ¨Las Continuas Violaciones de los Fundamentales Derechos de los Empleados de la OEP¨
02.12.16 In Lawyerland, Simulated UPC ‘Trials’ and More Extraordinary EPO Propaganda for Change That Would Harm Europe to Help Patent Lawyers and Their Big Clients
02.13.16 The European Patent Office, Aloof/Apathetic to Inventors and Human Rights, Simply Cannot be Trusted With the Unitary Patent (UPC)
02.15.16 Última Propaganda de la Gerencia de la OEP un Esfuerzo para hacer de ella la Herramienta de las Grandes Corporaciones
02.15.16 La Oficina Europea de Patentes, Por Encima/Apatética a los Inventores y los Derechos Humanos, Simplemente NO Puede Ser Confíada con la Patente Unitaria (UPC)
02.15.16 With Software Patents, “the [Low Level of the USPTO Has Now Be[en] Reached by the EPO”]
=> With Software Patents, “the [Low
02.16.16 How the European Patent Office (EPO) is Crushing Staff Unions and Why EPO Staff Has a Moral Duty to Protest
02.16.16 The Abuses of the EPO’s Management Against Staff Extend to Their Families
=> The Abuses of the EPO’s Management Against Staff Extend to Their Families
02.16.16 The European Patent Office (EPO) Openly Advocates Software Patents Despite the Rules
=> The European Patent Office (EPO) Openly Advocates Software Patents Despite the Rules
02.16.16 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)
02.16.16 Con Patentes de Software, “el [Bajo Nivel de la UPSTO Ahora Ha Sido Alcanzado por la OEP”]
=> Con Patentes de Software, “el [Bajo
02.16.16 Transcript of EPO Official Admitting on Television (Nieuwsuur Interview) That Courts Are of No Interest to Him
02.16.16 A New MUST-READ Article From Croatia About EPO Vice-President Željko Topić, Condemning His Behaviour Even Inside the EPO
02.18.16 Danish Left’s Alternate for European Parliament Slams the European Patent Office While Staff Protests Are Again Ignored by the German Media
02.18.16 The EPO’s Patent Coup in Europe Moves on With Conflict of Interests-Plagued German Authorities for UPC
02.22.16 More Political Action in France, Still Firmly Against the Largely French EPO Management
=> More Political Action in France, Still Firmly Against the Largely French EPO Management
02.22.16 The European Patent Office’s Head of Recruitment and Talent Management Quits, More People Reportedly Exit Quietly
02.22.16 Germany, Which Allows People in Europe and Abroad to Patent Software (EPC Shunned), Simply Cannot be Trusted With the EPO and UPC
02.22.16 La Oficina Europea de Patentes (OEP) Abiertamente Aboga por las Patentes de Software a Pesar de las Reglas
02.24.16 EPO-Funded Unitary Patent (UPC) Propaganda Events and the Latest on the Undemocratic (Even Antidemocratic) UPC Push
02.24.16 Federation of International Civil Servants’ Associations Bemoans EPO Climate of “Fear, Threats, Intimidation or Retaliation”
02.24.16 Possible Connections Found Between WIPO Misconduct and “a Dozen Serious Criminal Charges” Against EPO’s Željko Topić
02.26.16 In Apple/Samsung Patent Lawsuits Over Android/Linux, Only Patent Lawyers Are Winning (Again)
=> In Apple/Samsung Patent Lawsuits Over Android/Linux, Only Patent Lawyers Are Winning (Again)
02.26.16 Article Translation (de Volkskrant): EPO Employees Are Tired of Tyranny and Take to the Streets
=> Article Translation (de Volkskrant): EPO Employees Are Tired of Tyranny and Take to the Streets
02.26.16 Censorship in Land of So-called ‘Social Dialogue’: EPO is Still Blocking Techrights Web Site, But There Are Exceptions/Loopholes
02.26.16 New Evidence Emerges, Showing That Unitary Patent (UPC) is Indeed an SME Killer That Negatively Affects Europe for Patent Lawyers’ Sake
02.27.16 Media Alert: Spokespeople of the EPO Are Lying to Journalists
=> Media Alert: Spokespeople of the EPO Are Lying to Journalists
02.27.16 EPO “Management by Fear… Within a System Which is Not Subject to Any Outside Control.”
=> EPO “Management by Fear… Within a System Which is Not Subject to Any Outside Control.”
02.28.16 Nueva Evidencia Emerge, Mostrando que La Corte Unitaria de Patentes es en Realidad un Asesino de PYMEs Que Afecta a Europa para Beneficio de los Abogados de Patentes
02.29.16 After Alice, Patent Trial and Appeal Board is Invalidating Software Patents and Other Abstract Patents
02.29.16 Update on Civil Complaints and Criminal Complaints Against EPO Vice-President Željko Topić in Lufthansa/Airplus Case
03.01.16 EPO Attracts Complaints Over (Mental) Torture Against Staff
=> EPO Attracts Complaints Over (Mental) Torture Against Staff
03.02.16 German Television to Cover the EPO Scandals at 9 PM (CET) Tonight — Half an Hour From Now (Updated)
=> German Television to Cover the EPO Scandals at 9 PM (CET) Tonight — Half an Hour From Now (Updated)
03.03.16 Overview of Today’s Growing Press Coverage About the European Patent Office
=> Overview of Today’s Growing Press Coverage About the European Patent Office
03.03.16 EPO Propaganda is Already Sticking in Some Media
=> EPO Propaganda is Already Sticking in Some Media
03.03.16 In the EPO’s Official Photo Op, “Only One of the Faces is Actually FFPE-EPO”
=> In the EPO’s Official Photo Op, “Only One of the Faces is Actually FFPE-EPO”
03.03.16 EPO Media Strategy: Call the Whistleblowers Nazis and Criminals
=> EPO Media Strategy: Call the Whistleblowers Nazis and Criminals
03.03.16 3/3 is EPO Propaganda Day: Techrights to Respond and Alert the Media About Misinformation
=> 3/3 is EPO Propaganda Day: Techrights to Respond and Alert the Media About Misinformation
03.04.16 3/3 es Día Para Propaganda de la OEP: Techrights Responderá y Alertará Contra las Mentiras delos Medios
03.04.16 “FFPE-EPO Was Set up About 9 Years Ago With Management Encouragement”
=> “FFPE-EPO Was Set up About 9 Years Ago With Management Encouragement”
03.05.16 JUVE Translation: EPO Quick to Announce Success Story of Dialogue with Small Unions
=> JUVE Translation: EPO Quick to Announce Success Story of Dialogue with Small Unions
03.05.16 EPO and IAM: a Marriage of Convenience
=> EPO and IAM: a Marriage of Convenience
03.05.16 Forget Staff Union-busting ‘Strike Ballots’, How About Ballots on Presidential Matters?
=> Forget Staff Union-busting ‘Strike Ballots’, How About Ballots on Presidential Matters?
03.05.16 Despite Its Propaganda Campaign (‘Union Recognition’ and ‘Results’) the EPO’s Management is Totally Flipping Out
03.06.16 Traducción JUVE: EPO Lista Para Anunciar la Exitósa Historia de Diálogo Con Sindicatos Pequeños
=> Traducción JUVE: EPO Lista Para Anunciar la Exitósa Historia de Diálogo Con Sindicatos Pequeños
03.06.16 EPO y IAM: un Matrimonio de Conveniencia
=> EPO y IAM: un Matrimonio de Conveniencia
03.06.16 The EPO’s Media Strategy at Work: Union Feuds and Group Fracturing
=> The EPO’s Media Strategy at Work: Union Feuds and Group Fracturing
03.07.16 Software Patents Are a Dying Breed in the United States and the EPO Should Take Notice
=> Software Patents Are a Dying Breed in the United States and the EPO Should Take Notice
03.08.16 4,062 of Staff Vote on EPO Strike, Over 91% in Favour
=> 4,062 of Staff Vote on EPO Strike, Over 91% in Favour
03.08.16 The Federal Circuit, a So-called ‘Court’, Increasingly Refuted by US Courts and the Appeal Board (PTAB)
03.08.16 Apple’s Software Patents Tax on Android (Linux) Devices Put in Perspective
=> Apple’s Software Patents Tax on Android (Linux) Devices Put in Perspective
03.08.16 Super Tuesday: EPO Workers Are Voting for a Strike Today
=> Super Tuesday: EPO Workers Are Voting for a Strike Today
03.09.16 Another EPO Protest Next Week, Strategically Planned to Coincide With the Administrative Council’s Meeting
03.09.16 Caricature of the Day: Recognising FFPE EPO
=> Caricature of the Day: Recognising FFPE EPO
03.09.16 Rumours and Unverified Claims Suggest That EPO President is “Bribing” for Perceived Support
=> Rumours and Unverified Claims Suggest That EPO President is “Bribing” for Perceived Support
03.10.16 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
03.10.16 A Patent Office or a Lobbying Firm? ‘European’ Patent Office (EPO) Sticking its Nose in UPC Matters Again.
03.11.16 Business Profit Over Science: Patent Scope at the EPO Has Gone So Badly Out of Control That Even the European Parliament is Complaining
03.12.16 The EPO ‘Results’ Are Bunk
03.13.16 L’Office Européen des Brevets (OEB/European Patent Office) Kontrovers Coverage
=> L’Office Européen des Brevets (OEB/European Patent Office) Kontrovers Coverage
03.14.16 English Transcript of Bayerischer Rundfunk Coverage About EPO
=> English Transcript of Bayerischer Rundfunk Coverage About EPO
03.14.16 French Transcript of Bayerischer Rundfunk Coverage About EPO
=> French Transcript of Bayerischer Rundfunk Coverage About EPO
03.14.16 German Transcript of Bayerischer Rundfunk Coverage About EPO
=> German Transcript of Bayerischer Rundfunk Coverage About EPO
03.14.16 EPO Hypocritically Responds to TV Program by Defamation/Mocking of the Dead and Threats to the Media (Truth as Defamation?)
03.14.16 EPO Protest in Munich in a Couple of Days
=> EPO Protest in Munich in a Couple of Days
03.15.16 Consequences of Straining Staff: Patent Quality at the European Patent Office Has Gotten Rather Terrible
03.16.16 Reader’s Article: “Guantanamo Possible in Germany”
=> Reader’s Article: “Guantanamo Possible in Germany”
03.17.16 Better Late Than Never: Bavarian Parliament Intervenes in EPO Affairs Amidst Abuses
=> Better Late Than Never: Bavarian Parliament Intervenes in EPO Affairs Amidst Abuses
03.17.16 In the Mainstream Media, the European Patent Office is Already Becoming Another FIFA, Lies Aplenty as Last Remaining ‘Damage Control’ Strategy
03.17.16 Investigation Into Working Conditions at the European Patent Office Will Commence
=> Investigation Into Working Conditions at the European Patent Office Will Commence
03.18.16 Translation of Article Highlights Bavarian Political Motion, Protest Scale and Severity in Munich
=> Translation of Article Highlights Bavarian Political Motion, Protest Scale and Severity in Munich
03.18.16 Article Highlights Madness When It Comes to Overstressing EPO Staff and Pushing Towards Overpatenting (Even Life!) in Pursuit of Profits
03.20.16 European Patent Office: Administrative Council gives the President a bollocking
=> European Patent Office: Administrative Council gives the President a bollocking
03.21.16 De Telegraaf Says There is Reorganisation Under Way at the European Patent Office
=> De Telegraaf Says There is Reorganisation Under Way at the European Patent Office
03.21.16 EPO Scandals in British Media: Third Time in Private Eye
=> EPO Scandals in British Media: Third Time in Private Eye
03.22.16 Union Syndicale Federale Slams FFPE-EPO for Helping Abusive EPO Management by Signing a Malicious, Divisive Document
03.24.16 Their Masters’ Voice (Who Block Techrights): FFPE-EPO Openly Discourages Members From Reading Techrights
03.25.16 La Voz de Sus Amos (¿Quiénes Bloquean Techrights?): La FFPE-EPO Abiertamente Desalienta a Sus Miembros a Leer Techrights
03.25.16 Letter Says EPO MoU “Raises Questions About FFPE’s Credibility as a Federation of Genuine Staff Unions”
03.26.16 Ingve Björn Stjerna’s New Book About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Why It’s Important
=> Ingve Björn Stjerna’s New Book About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Why It’s Important
03.28.16 Kroatische Lobistin für UN im Zentrum des intarnationalen Skandals in EPA
=> Kroatische Lobistin für UN im Zentrum des intarnationalen Skandals in EPA
03.29.16 Crisis Deepens at the European Patent Office, General Strike Planned for Next Thursday
=> Crisis Deepens at the European Patent Office, General Strike Planned for Next Thursday
03.30.16 Further Militarisation of the European Patent Office Amid Crisis and After Request of Fair and Just Treatment of Staff
03.30.16 Microsoft at EPO: A Look Into the Relationship
=> Microsoft at EPO: A Look Into the Relationship
03.30.16 SUEPO Publishes Translations of German Media Reports About the EPO
=> SUEPO Publishes Translations of German Media Reports About the EPO
03.31.16 SUEPO Publica Traducciones de los Medios Alemanes Acerca de la EPO
=> SUEPO Publica Traducciones de los Medios Alemanes Acerca de la EPO
04.01.16 Microsoft en la EPO: Una Mirada a la Relación
=> Microsoft en la EPO: Una Mirada a la Relación
04.02.16 EUIPO and the Shady Relation to the EPO
=> EUIPO and the Shady Relation to the EPO
04.02.16 UPC Lobbying and Propaganda at the Fordham IP Think Tank (‘Conference’) 2016 in New York, With a Clear EPO Role
04.03.16 EPO Strike in 3.5 Days Effective in All Sites, Lots for EPO Staff to be Angry About
=> EPO Strike in 3.5 Days Effective in All Sites, Lots for EPO Staff to be Angry About
04.03.16 EUIPO y sus Sospechosa Relación con la EPO
=> EUIPO y sus Sospechosa Relación con la EPO
04.03.16 Cabildeo por la UPC y Propaganda en el Grupo de Interés Fordham IP (‘Conferencia’) 2016 en Nueav York, Con un Claro Rol de la EPO
04.04.16 EPO Management Says Not a Word About Strike This Week, Not Informing Customers/Stakeholders Either
=> EPO Management Says Not a Word About Strike This Week, Not Informing Customers/Stakeholders Either
04.05.16 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
04.05.16 European Patent Office Insists That Obeying the Law is Not Realistic, UPC Another Example of That
=> European Patent Office Insists That Obeying the Law is Not Realistic, UPC Another Example of That
04.06.16 From US Military to International Banking and External ‘Review’ of EPO ‘Investigations’ (Union-Busting and War on Dissent)
04.06.16 Staff Union of the European Patent Office Sends Out a Striking Message With a T-Shirts Campaign
=> Staff Union of the European Patent Office Sends Out a Striking Message With a T-Shirts Campaign
04.07.16 European Patent Office Half Empty Today
=> European Patent Office Half Empty Today
04.07.16 On Day of Strike FFPE-EPO Reaffirms Status as Yellow (Fake/Management-Leaning) Union, Receives ‘Gifts’
04.08.16 Oficina Europea De Patentes Vacía Hasta la Mitad Hoy
=> Oficina Europea De Patentes Vacía Hasta la Mitad Hoy
04.08.16 Desde los Militares de los Estados Unidos a la Banca Internacional y la ´Revisión´ Externa de las Investigaciones de la EPO (Golpes a la Unión y Guerra contra los Disidentes)
04.08.16 EPSU Explains Why SUEPO Fights for More Than Just EPO Employees and for Rights of Workers at International Institutions
04.09.16 EPSU Explica Porqué la SUEPO Lucha Por Más que los Empleados de la EPO Y Los Derechos de los Trabajadores de Instituciones Internacionales
04.09.16 Patents Roundup: US Patent System/Landscape Disqualified, Corrupted, Saturated With Patent Trolls, and Funded by Microsoft
04.10.16 With Software Patents in Autonomous Cars Few Giants Want a Monopoly on Driving, Not Just Physical Car Components
04.10.16 What is Known (and Not Known) About Attacks on Croatian Portal That Exposed Željko Topić, the Notorious EPO Vice-President
04.11.16 Resumen de Patentes: Systema/Paisaje de Patentes de los EE.UU. Descalificado, Corrupto, Saturado Con Trolles de Patentes, y Financiado Por y Para Microsoft
04.13.16 Patent Fights Over Reform Focus (Marginalising Small Actors), Courts (Judges) Versus Patent Offices (Large Businesses)
04.14.16 Croatian News Site Explains Where Criminal Cases Against EPO Vice-President Željko Topić Stand
=> Croatian News Site Explains Where Criminal Cases Against EPO Vice-President Željko Topić Stand
04.14.16 US Lobbyist for Software Patents, David Kappos, Uses EPO’s Snubbing of the EPC to Spread Misinformation and Patent Monopolies on Software/Algorithms
04.16.16 European Patent Office and Human Rights Violations: Article Translation Into English Reveals Upcoming Lawsuit Against the EPO Over Institutional Harassment
04.17.16 European Patent Office and Violaciónes a los Derechos Humanos: Traducción de Artículo Revela Juicio Pendiente Contra la EPO por Acoso Instituciónal
04.19.16 European Patent Office Deemphasising Quality and Looking to Replace the Key Workers
=> European Patent Office Deemphasising Quality and Looking to Replace the Key Workers
04.19.16 EPO Integrity on the Line: The Story of Željko Topić’s Controversial Diploma – Part II
=> EPO Integrity on the Line: The Story of Željko Topić’s Controversial Diploma – Part II
04.19.16 The ‘Great Conspiracy’ of Patent Lawyers, Lobbyists and Large Corporations for UPC and for Software Patents
04.20.16 EPO’s European Inventor Award Still a Subject of Embarrassment, Media Manipulation, Waste of Public Money, and Shameless Self-Promotion
04.21.16 Growing Threats of Software Patents in Europe and the FRAND Trap Which Microsoft Promotes/Lobbies For
04.21.16 EPO Integrity on the Line: The Story of Željko Topić’s Controversial Diploma – Part IV
=> EPO Integrity on the Line: The Story of Željko Topić’s Controversial Diploma – Part IV
04.22.16 The Chaos in the EPO Impacts Stakeholders
=> The Chaos in the EPO Impacts Stakeholders
04.22.16 ES: Creciéntes Amenazas de las Patentes de Software en Europa y la Trampa FRAND Que Microsoft Promueve/Cabildea
04.22.16 More Patents Don’t Mean More Innovation, Just More Money for Patent Lawyers and Patent Offices
=> More Patents Don’t Mean More Innovation, Just More Money for Patent Lawyers and Patent Offices
04.23.16 ES: Más Patentes No Significa Más Innovación, Simplemente Más Dinero Para los Abogados de Patentes y las Oficinas de Patentes
04.24.16 The EPO’s Departure From Truth and Entrance Into the Realms of Chinese Industrial-Grade Propaganda
=> The EPO’s Departure From Truth and Entrance Into the Realms of Chinese Industrial-Grade Propaganda
04.24.16 Patents Roundup: Marijuana Patents, Patent Satellites, Patent Trolls, Wars, and Merchants (Notably Lawyers)
04.26.16 A Farce of a System: How SIPO, USPTO, and Increasingly the EPO Too Turn Into Filing Systems (No Proper Examination/Filtering Required)
04.27.16 ES: La Departura de la Readidad de la EPO Y Su Entrada en la Esféra Industrial China de Propaganda
=> ES: La Departura de la Readidad de la EPO Y Su Entrada en la Esféra Industrial China de Propaganda
04.27.16 ES: Una Fársa de Sistema: ¿Cómo la SIPO, USPTO, y cada vez más la EPO se Convierten en Llenado de Patentes (No Se Requiere Propia Examinación)
04.28.16 If EPO “Form of Thinking Were to be Followed, Guantanamo on German Soil Would be Possible.”
=> If EPO “Form of Thinking Were to be Followed, Guantanamo on German Soil Would be Possible.”
04.28.16 Amid Referendum “the New European Unitary Patent System is Likely to Collapse Before It Started”
=> Amid Referendum “the New European Unitary Patent System is Likely to Collapse Before It Started”
04.29.16 ES: ”Si la Forma de Pensar de la EPO fuese Seguida, Guantánamo Sería Posible en Suelo Alemán.”
=> ES: ”Si la Forma de Pensar de la EPO fuese Seguida, Guantánamo Sería Posible en Suelo Alemán.”
05.01.16 The European Patent Office Still Silently Abusive, Will Pay $15,000 in Compensation to Female Worker After Belated ILO Judgment
05.02.16 The European Spam Office (EPO)
=> The European Spam Office (EPO)
05.02.16 ES: La Oficina Europea de Patentes Todavía Sigilósamente Abusiva, Pagará $15,000 en Compensasió a Trabajadora Tras un Tardío Fallo de la ILO
05.02.16 Governments in Europe Still Active Against EPO Management
=> Governments in Europe Still Active Against EPO Management
05.05.16 You Need to Become Proprietary Software Customer (Microsoft Recommended) to Interact with the European Patent Office
05.09.16 Corporate Imperialism in Europe Through the UPC, the Horrible Patent Deal Almost Nobody Heard of
=> Corporate Imperialism in Europe Through the UPC, the Horrible Patent Deal Almost Nobody Heard of
05.10.16 EPO an Ill Organisation, Lots to Protest Against Tomorrow
=> EPO an Ill Organisation, Lots to Protest Against Tomorrow
05.12.16 Italian Television to Cover EPO Abuses, Bringing the Outrage to the Mainstream in Another Country
=> Italian Television to Cover EPO Abuses, Bringing the Outrage to the Mainstream in Another Country
05.12.16 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Statistics and New Chief Judge Who is Really a Scientist
=> Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Statistics and New Chief Judge Who is Really a Scientist
05.14.16 ES: La USPTO Sigue Jodiéndo a la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos Al Continuar Emitiéndo Patentes de Software que Son Totalmente Fálsas
05.14.16 ES: Estadísticas del Tribunal de Juicio de Patentes y Jurado de Patentes (PTAB) y El Nuevo Juez Supremo Quién Realmente es un Científico
05.15.16 Relying on EPO, CAFC — Originator of Software Patents in the US — Tries to Bring Them Back Into Play in Microsoft Case
05.15.16 UPC is Class War (the Rich Fighting Everyone Else), Hence the Increasing Militarisation of the European Patent Office
05.16.16 UPC an Attack Not Only on the European Public But Also on Staff of the EPO
=> UPC an Attack Not Only on the European Public But Also on Staff of the EPO
05.17.16 ES: La UPC es Guerra de Classes (los Ricos contra Todo el Mundo), He Aqu el Porque de la Militarización de la Oficina Europea de Patentes
05.18.16 ES: La UPC un Ataque No Sólo Contra el Público Europeo Pero También Contra los Empleados de la EPO
=> ES: La UPC un Ataque No Sólo Contra el Público Europeo Pero También Contra los Empleados de la EPO
05.18.16 Another Almost Empty EPO Presentation at The Hague
=> Another Almost Empty EPO Presentation at The Hague
05.19.16 It’s All Just Artificial Distractions From EPO Management, ‘Yellow’ Union Comes Under Scrutiny Again
=> It’s All Just Artificial Distractions From EPO Management, ‘Yellow’ Union Comes Under Scrutiny Again
05.21.16 ES: Otra Casi Vacía Presentación de la EPO en La Hague
=> ES: Otra Casi Vacía Presentación de la EPO en La Hague
05.22.16 IP3 Demonstrates That Today’s Patent Systems Devolve Into a Conglomerates’ Game, Won’t Protect the Mythical Small Inventor
05.24.16 Some Details About How the EPO’s President is Rumoured to be ‘Buying’ Votes and Why It’s Grounds/Basis for “Immediate Dismissal”
05.24.16 Documents Show Zagreb Police Department in Investigation of Vice-President of the European Patent Office
05.25.16 The Latest EPO Victim Card (Played by Željko Topić) Should be Treated as Seriously as Those Bogus Claims of Violence by a Judge (Updatedx3)
05.26.16 Warning: EPO Surveillance May Have Just Gotten Even More Intrusive
=> Warning: EPO Surveillance May Have Just Gotten Even More Intrusive
05.26.16 EPO Management Under Growing Stress From Croatian Law Enforcement Authorities, German Politicians, Italian Media
05.26.16 The EPO is Doing Great, Says EPO-Connected ‘News’ Site
=> The EPO is Doing Great, Says EPO-Connected ‘News’ Site
05.26.16 Italian Report About EPO Now Available in English
=> Italian Report About EPO Now Available in English
05.28.16 ES: Algunos Detalles Acerca de ¿Cómo el Presidente de la EPO Es Rumoreado Estar Comprando Votos, y el Porqué es Suficientemente Base Para un Despido Inmediato?
05.28.16 ES: La Gerencia de la EPO Bajo Creciénte Estres por las Autoridades Legales Croatas, Políticas Alemanas, y los Medios Italianos
05.30.16 ES: Advertencia: La Vigilancia de la EPO Surveillance Puede Haberse Convertido en Más Intrusiva
=> ES: Advertencia: La Vigilancia de la EPO Surveillance Puede Haberse Convertido en Más Intrusiva
05.30.16 ES: La EPO esta Excelente, Dice Sitio de ‘Noticias’ Conectado a Ella
=> ES: La EPO esta Excelente, Dice Sitio de ‘Noticias’ Conectado a Ella
05.30.16 The EPO’s Media Partners Like Les Echos Already Produce EPO Puff Pieces (Marketing/Stenography)
=> The EPO’s Media Partners Like Les Echos Already Produce EPO Puff Pieces (Marketing/Stenography)
05.31.16 Extremely Dodgy Dealings at the European Patent Office
=> Extremely Dodgy Dealings at the European Patent Office
06.01.16 As Bavarian Parliament Expresses Disdain Over EPO Leadership’s Abuses German Media Listens and Staff Union Releases New Survey
06.01.16 ES: Tratos Extremádamente Astutos en La Oficina Europea de Patentes
=> ES: Tratos Extremádamente Astutos en La Oficina Europea de Patentes
06.01.16 Vice-President of the European Patent Office Under Many Police Investigations
=> Vice-President of the European Patent Office Under Many Police Investigations
06.01.16 FFPE-EPO Going Ad Hominem Against FICSA, Brings Nationality Into It
=> FFPE-EPO Going Ad Hominem Against FICSA, Brings Nationality Into It
06.01.16 ES: Los Socios de la EPO en los Medios Como Les Echos Ya Están Produciendo Piezas de Hojaldre para la EPO (Stenografíá/Marketing)
06.03.16 How the EPO Helped Prop Up — With ‘European Inventor Award 2015′ — a Fraud That Killed a Lot of People
06.05.16 ES: El Egoísta Desfile de ‘El Inventor Europeo del Año’ Un Clásico Ejemplo de Desperdicio y Abuso
=> ES: El Egoísta Desfile de ‘El Inventor Europeo del Año’ Un Clásico Ejemplo de Desperdicio y Abuso
06.06.16 Media Sites Still Filled to the Rim With Pro-Software Patents Propaganda (Lies by Omission)
=> Media Sites Still Filled to the Rim With Pro-Software Patents Propaganda (Lies by Omission)
06.06.16 Spangenberg’s Reputation Laundering, Parasitic Taxes on Products Everyone Uses, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Calls Patent Trolling “Extortion”
06.06.16 The Enemy Within: How Patent Lawyers, Their Media and the Whole Patent Establishment Became an Enemy to Their Nations
06.07.16 Streisand Effect Award Won by EPO: It Has Just Blocked IP Kat Blog (Updatedx7)
=> Streisand Effect Award Won by EPO: It Has Just Blocked IP Kat Blog (Updatedx7)
06.07.16 Politicians Susann Biedefeld (MdL) and Agnes Jongerius (S and D) the Latest to Express Anger at EPO’s Management Over Its Abuses
06.07.16 EPO Protest Tomorrow: Help the Media (Not ‘Media Partners’ in EPO Management’s Pocket) See What EPO Staff Really Thinks (Updated)
06.07.16 EPO’s Old Spokesman (10 Years in Munich) Resigns Again After Only 5 Weeks, EPO is Just Buying the Media Now
06.07.16 Perpetual Attack on EPO Staff, Even After the Staff Leaves the EPO
=> Perpetual Attack on EPO Staff, Even After the Staff Leaves the EPO
06.10.16 The Commission is Complicit in EPO Abuses, According to Marc Tarabella
=> The Commission is Complicit in EPO Abuses, According to Marc Tarabella
06.10.16 The EPO is in a Mess So Sordid That It Pays for Positive Publicity, Further Abolishes Labour Rights (to Punish Whistleblowers) and More
06.10.16 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)
06.12.16 Why Anonymous Dissent Against EPO on Google Platforms May be Risky
=> Why Anonymous Dissent Against EPO on Google Platforms May be Risky
06.12.16 ES: La Comisión es Complice en los Abusos de la EPO, De Acuerdo a Marc Tarabella
=> ES: La Comisión es Complice en los Abusos de la EPO, De Acuerdo a Marc Tarabella
06.13.16 The Corruption of the Media: EPO Budget as a Gift to Broadcasters Under the EIA2016 Umbrella, FTI Consulting Contracts
06.13.16 Bought Media Coverage at the European Patent Office
=> Bought Media Coverage at the European Patent Office
06.13.16 Report From Thursday Protest in EPO Munich Branch/Headquarters
=> Report From Thursday Protest in EPO Munich Branch/Headquarters
06.14.16 Detailed Account of Today’s ‘Trial’ of a Judge Who Said the Truth About the EPO
=> Detailed Account of Today’s ‘Trial’ of a Judge Who Said the Truth About the EPO
06.14.16 EPO and Its ‘Buddies’ in the Media Lobby for the UPC in Spite of and in the Face of Resistance
=> EPO and Its ‘Buddies’ in the Media Lobby for the UPC in Spite of and in the Face of Resistance
06.14.16 Endgame of Manipulating Media With Payments and PR: The ‘Blame Everything and Everyone But EPO Management’ Tactics
06.15.16 EPO Crisis: What If There Was an Administrative Council Meeting and Nobody Came?
=> EPO Crisis: What If There Was an Administrative Council Meeting and Nobody Came?
06.15.16 EPO Brain Drain Goes All the Way to the Top as Head of Patent Administration Abruptly Resigns
=> EPO Brain Drain Goes All the Way to the Top as Head of Patent Administration Abruptly Resigns
06.15.16 EPO Investigative Unit Causes “Trauma, Will Ruin the Health or Even the Family”
=> EPO Investigative Unit Causes “Trauma, Will Ruin the Health or Even the Family”
06.18.16 Brain Drain at the EPO: Qualified Patent Examiners Leave in Droves, Young Ones Blindly Loyal to Management Reduce Patent Quality
06.18.16 When the EPO’s PR Team Says About UPC (Unitary Patent) That It Can be Delayed It Means Derailed or Called Off
06.18.16 The Rule of Money and Power, Not the Rule of Law, at the European Patent Office
=> The Rule of Money and Power, Not the Rule of Law, at the European Patent Office
06.18.16 ES: La EPO y sus ‘Compadres’ en los Medios Cabildean por la UPC a Pesar de y Enfrentar Resistencia
=> ES: La EPO y sus ‘Compadres’ en los Medios Cabildean por la UPC a Pesar de y Enfrentar Resistencia
06.19.16 Jericho Systems Threatens Alice, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Threatens the Patent Trial and Appeal (PTAB)
06.20.16 New Paper Demonstrates That Unitary Patent (UPC) is Little More Than a Conspiracy of Patent ‘Professionals’ and Their Self Interest
06.21.16 Supreme Court on Cuozzo v Lee Another Major Loss for Software Patents in the United States
=> Supreme Court on Cuozzo v Lee Another Major Loss for Software Patents in the United States
06.21.16 Caricature: Bygmalion Patent Office
=> Caricature: Bygmalion Patent Office
06.21.16 EPO Self-Censorship by IP Kat or Just Censorship of Opinions That IP Kat Does Not Share/Accept (Updated)
06.22.16 EPO “Recruitment of Brits is Down by 80%”
=> EPO “Recruitment of Brits is Down by 80%”
06.22.16 IP Europe’s UPC Lobbying and the EPO Connection
=> IP Europe’s UPC Lobbying and the EPO Connection
06.23.16 Fake Patents on Software From Fake Australian ‘Inventor’ of Bitcoin and the Globally-Contagious Nature of EPO Patent Scope
06.23.16 As Decision on the UK’s EU Status Looms, EPO Deep in a Crisis of Patent Quality
=> As Decision on the UK’s EU Status Looms, EPO Deep in a Crisis of Patent Quality
06.23.16 Another Demonstration by European Patent Office (EPO) Staff on Same Day as Administrative Council’s Meeting
06.26.16 Patents Roundup: Bad Quality (USPTO), Bad Analysis (India), Bad Microsoft, Bad Actors (Trolls), Bad Scope (Software Patents), and the Ugly
06.27.16 Techrights (Almost) at 10: From Software Patents to Novell and to Present Focus on EPO
=> Techrights (Almost) at 10: From Software Patents to Novell and to Present Focus on EPO
06.27.16 From Alleged Organised Crime to Vice-President of the European Patent Office (EPO)
=> From Alleged Organised Crime to Vice-President of the European Patent Office (EPO)
06.28.16 New Efforts to Work Around Barriers to UPC in Light of ‘Brexit’; Behind These Efforts Are Self-Serving Patent Profiteers
06.29.16 Short Report From Today’s EPO Protest in Munich
=> Short Report From Today’s EPO Protest in Munich
06.29.16 Keeping the Guard and Securing Society From Software Patents
=> Keeping the Guard and Securing Society From Software Patents
06.29.16 Growing Consensus Even Among Patent Professionals That UPC is Dying Everywhere If Not Just in the UK
=> Growing Consensus Even Among Patent Professionals That UPC is Dying Everywhere If Not Just in the UK
06.29.16 The Latest Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) Would Have Us Believe That It’s Alive and Well
=> The Latest Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) Would Have Us Believe That It’s Alive and Well
06.30.16 Publicly-Available Information About the Meeting of the EPO’s Administrative Council
=> Publicly-Available Information About the Meeting of the EPO’s Administrative Council
06.30.16 EPO Staff Representative Jesus Areso Explains the Crisis to the Administrative Council
=> EPO Staff Representative Jesus Areso Explains the Crisis to the Administrative Council
06.30.16 You Know That UPC is Quite Likely Dead (at Least in the UK) When Even Baroness Neville-Rolfe Dodges the Question (Updated)
06.30.16 Shadows of Alleged Criminality Over the European Patent Office (EPO)
=> Shadows of Alleged Criminality Over the European Patent Office (EPO)
07.01.16 Realistic English Translation of EPO Announcement About Crushing of Patent Quality
=> Realistic English Translation of EPO Announcement About Crushing of Patent Quality
07.01.16 Goodbye Halo, Hello Revisionism (or How Patent Profiteers Perfume a Terrible SCOTUS Decision That Helps Patent Trolls)
07.01.16 EPO Leak: Administrative Council’s Latest Meeting Report (Updated)
=> EPO Leak: Administrative Council’s Latest Meeting Report (Updated)
07.01.16 At the European Patent Organisation the Administrative Council Does Not Care About Staff
=> At the European Patent Organisation the Administrative Council Does Not Care About Staff
07.01.16 No Expectation of the US Patent System Getting Fixed Any Time Soon
=> No Expectation of the US Patent System Getting Fixed Any Time Soon
07.01.16 As Expected, ‘Team UPC’ Continues Fighting for Its Project’s Survival in Spite of ‘Brexit’
=> As Expected, ‘Team UPC’ Continues Fighting for Its Project’s Survival in Spite of ‘Brexit’
07.02.16 ES: Traduccción Realista al Español del Anuncio de la EPO Acerca de Aplastar la Calidad de Patentes
=> ES: Traduccción Realista al Español del Anuncio de la EPO Acerca de Aplastar la Calidad de Patentes
07.02.16 ES: Como Era de Esperarse, El ´Equipo UPC´ Continúa Luchando para que Su Proyecto Sobreviva a Pesar de Brexit
07.03.16 Post-Jeremy IP Kat Deems It OK to Publish Anonymous Comment Comparing Techrights to “Daesh” While Censoring Polite Response to That
07.03.16 IAM’s Latest Take on the UPC: Dead End For Another 2.5 Years (At Least) With No Effective Workarounds
07.04.16 The European Patent Organisation Jokes About Independence on the 4th of July (US Independence Day)
=> The European Patent Organisation Jokes About Independence on the 4th of July (US Independence Day)
07.05.16 Decline of Patent Quality at the EPO to Further Exacerbate With Latest Crackdown on Appeal Boards
=> Decline of Patent Quality at the EPO to Further Exacerbate With Latest Crackdown on Appeal Boards
07.05.16 Potential Alignment of Special Interests at Mishcon de Reya: EPO, Microsoft, and Brexit (or UPC)
=> Potential Alignment of Special Interests at Mishcon de Reya: EPO, Microsoft, and Brexit (or UPC)
07.07.16 Weapons of Mass Distraction at the EPO Cost the EPO Millions of Euros
=> Weapons of Mass Distraction at the EPO Cost the EPO Millions of Euros
07.09.16 ES: La Última Opinión de IAM en la UPC: En un Callejón sin Salida por Otros 2.5 Años (Por lo Menos) Con no Salidas Efectivas
07.10.16 ES: El Alineamiénto Potential de Intereses Especiales con Mishcon de Reya: EPO, Microsoft, y Brexit (o la UPC)
07.11.16 China Mimics Patent Protectionism and Patent Aggression Strategies of Other Countries
=> China Mimics Patent Protectionism and Patent Aggression Strategies of Other Countries
07.11.16 “We Need to Inform [Politicians, Journalists ... Ministers or Representatives that the Whole European Patent System is at Risk.”]
=> “We Need to Inform [Politicians, Journalists ... Ministers or Representatives
07.12.16 Hot Summer: EPO Management on Trial This Week
=> Hot Summer: EPO Management on Trial This Week
07.13.16 Fourth-Busiest Quarter for Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), Which Invalidates Software Patents That USPTO Foolishly or Selfishly Granted
07.14.16 EPO Management on Trial Tomorrow, But It Stated Upfront It Would Not Obey the Legal Ruling While It Rigs Its Own Rulings
07.14.16 Deathwatch of the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPC)
=> Deathwatch of the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPC)
07.16.16 The Importance of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and High-Quality Patents (Not Software Patents)
07.17.16 Whistleblower Protection Desperately Needed at the European Patent Office
=> Whistleblower Protection Desperately Needed at the European Patent Office
07.17.16 Microsoft and Its Patent Minions at Nokia Still Have Patent Stacking Ambitions Against Android/Linux OEMs
07.18.16 EPO Social [sic Report is a Big Pile of Lies That Responsible Journalists Must Ignore]
07.22.16 Patents Roundup: BlackBerry, Huawei, PTAB, GAO, Aggressive Universities With Patents, and Software Patents in Europe
07.22.16 EPO Insiders Explain Why the EPO’s Examination Quality Rapidly Declines and Will Get Even Worse Because of Willy Minnoye
07.22.16 EPO Attaché Albert Keyack Viewed as Somewhat of a Mole, Reporting From the US Embassy in Brazil Until Shortly Before the Temer Coup
07.24.16 The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) Comes Across as Against Software Patents, Relates to the EPO as Well
07.24.16 In the US, Patent Trolls Engage in Patent Wars and Shakedowns, Whereas in China/Korea Large Android OEMs Sue One Another
07.26.16 Almost Everything That the Government Accountability Office Says is Applicable to the EPO
=> Almost Everything That the Government Accountability Office Says is Applicable to the EPO
07.26.16 Kluwer Thinks People Are Clueless About the Unitary Patent System and Pretends It’s Business as Usual
07.26.16 Munich Attack Mentioned by EPO But Not Ansbach
=> Munich Attack Mentioned by EPO But Not Ansbach
07.28.16 EPO Loses More Than 80% of Cases at the International Labour Organisation (ILO)
=> EPO Loses More Than 80% of Cases at the International Labour Organisation (ILO)
07.30.16 EPO Crushed the Boards of Appeal (i.e. Quality Control) and Insiders Explain Why
=> EPO Crushed the Boards of Appeal (i.e. Quality Control) and Insiders Explain Why
07.30.16 The Illusion of Patents as Necessary for Maintaining Western Dominance Increasingly Debunked
=> The Illusion of Patents as Necessary for Maintaining Western Dominance Increasingly Debunked
08.01.16 The USPTO’s Dark Legacy of Software Patents Still the Cause of Spurious/Frivolous Litigation, Residue Which is Software Patent Trolls and Lawyers Will Try to Change the Law
08.01.16 Software Patents Still a Problem in Europe (in Spite of the European Patent Convention), the UPC Would Make Things Worse
08.02.16 Patent Lawyers Continue to Shoot the Messenger (Attack PTAB) in a Desperate Effort to Salvage Software Patents and Other Rubbish
08.02.16 The Protocol on Privileges and Immunities of the UPC is a Dead End, But Team UPC Tries to Ram it Down Europeans’ Throats
08.06.16 How Low-Quality USPTO Patents Made the US Fertile Ground for Patent Trolling
=> How Low-Quality USPTO Patents Made the US Fertile Ground for Patent Trolling
08.08.16 EPO’s Vice-President Willy Minnoye Was Rumoured to be Leaving
=> EPO’s Vice-President Willy Minnoye Was Rumoured to be Leaving
08.09.16 “EPO is Quickly Turning Into a Registration System”
=> “EPO is Quickly Turning Into a Registration System”
08.09.16 The Problem With Overpatenting: The Google Example
=> The Problem With Overpatenting: The Google Example
08.09.16 Rumours About Likely Salary of (or Compensation to) Jesper Kongstad of the EPO Administrative Council
08.11.16 ‘Constitutional Crisis’ at the European Patent Office (EPO)
=> ‘Constitutional Crisis’ at the European Patent Office (EPO)
08.12.16 In Its War Against Android/Linux, Apple Supported by Non-Producing/Non-Practicing Parasites, Whereas Technology Companies Support the Android OEM
08.14.16 Pushers of Software Patents Outside the United States (Which is Belatedly Squashing These Patents)
=> Pushers of Software Patents Outside the United States (Which is Belatedly Squashing These Patents)
08.14.16 Patent Microcosm Shuts Out the Poor: Unified Patent Court (UPC) Promotion by Practising Law Institute (PLI) Only for the Wealthy
08.15.16 Clawing Back the Staff Benefits at the European Patent Office (EPO)
=> Clawing Back the Staff Benefits at the European Patent Office (EPO)
08.16.16 The EPO’s Administrative Council Keeps Postponing Debate About Grounds for Firing the President
=> The EPO’s Administrative Council Keeps Postponing Debate About Grounds for Firing the President
08.16.16 Personal Audio LLC and Patent Troll Jim Logan Demonstrate the Harms of Software Patents and Why They Must Never Spread to Europe
08.19.16 The Cost/Toll of the ‘New’ EPO and Where All That Money Goes or Comes From
=> The Cost/Toll of the ‘New’ EPO and Where All That Money Goes or Comes From
08.22.16 The Collapse of Software Patents and Patent Law Firms Trying to “Overcome” Alice
=> The Collapse of Software Patents and Patent Law Firms Trying to “Overcome” Alice
08.25.16 Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice Calls the European Patent Office “Rotten”, Other Sources Scrutinise Recent Moves
08.26.16 The EPO, USPTO, and Patent Microcosm Peddle Myths About Patents in Public Universities and Research
=> The EPO, USPTO, and Patent Microcosm Peddle Myths About Patents in Public Universities and Research
08.26.16 The EPO’s Francesco Zaccà Presenting in Turin Alongside Patent Trolls (Like the Patent Mafia Sisvel) and Lobbyists/Front Groups for Software Patents, UPC
08.26.16 Erosion of Patent Quality Enables Patent Extortion With Large Portfolios of Low Validity Rate
=> Erosion of Patent Quality Enables Patent Extortion With Large Portfolios of Low Validity Rate
08.28.16 The United States Has Gotten Over Software Patents
=> The United States Has Gotten Over Software Patents
08.29.16 Nothing Whatsoever Has Improved at the European Patent Office, It’s Just Summer’s Recess (and Silence)
08.29.16 Let Them Eat Patents
09.02.16 UPC Threatens to Send the European Patent Office Circling Down the Drain
=> UPC Threatens to Send the European Patent Office Circling Down the Drain
09.03.16 Specialists in Public International Law Bemoan Privacy Violations at the European Patent Office
=> Specialists in Public International Law Bemoan Privacy Violations at the European Patent Office
09.03.16 The European Patent Office is Utterly Desperate for Attention as Its Status Worldwide Sinks and It Resorts to ‘Spamming’ All Major Universities in Europe
09.04.16 Internal USPTO Documents Reveal a Battle and Protest Over Software Patenting
=> Internal USPTO Documents Reveal a Battle and Protest Over Software Patenting
09.04.16 There is No Future for the UPC in Spite of What the EPO and the Patent Microcosm Keep Telling Us
=> There is No Future for the UPC in Spite of What the EPO and the Patent Microcosm Keep Telling Us
09.05.16 The EPO’s Assistant/Secretary for Bergot (Nepotism Supreme) Demonstrates a Race to the Bottom With Temporary Appointments, Operation ‘Clean House’
09.05.16 Patent System in the US Must Revert Back to Original Goals or Lose Credibility
=> Patent System in the US Must Revert Back to Original Goals or Lose Credibility
09.08.16 The European Privacy Offender (EPO) Sells Data But Only to the Rich and Powerful
=> The European Privacy Offender (EPO) Sells Data But Only to the Rich and Powerful
09.08.16 A New Wave of the EPO’s Much-Expected Propaganda Push, Aided by ‘Managing IP’ and IAM ‘Magazine’
=> A New Wave of the EPO’s Much-Expected Propaganda Push, Aided by ‘Managing IP’ and IAM ‘Magazine’
09.11.16 New Paper Outlines Concerns That the EPO as a Patent Examination Office is Dying, Gradually Turning Into a Registration Office
09.12.16 EU Law and UPC: Brought to You by Microsoft and the European Patent Office
=> EU Law and UPC: Brought to You by Microsoft and the European Patent Office
09.13.16 Web Site ‘Managing IP’ is Managing to Come Across as an EPO Mouthpiece
=> Web Site ‘Managing IP’ is Managing to Come Across as an EPO Mouthpiece
09.13.16 Team UPC Has Not Grown Tired of Kicking a Dead (Trojan) Horse
=> Team UPC Has Not Grown Tired of Kicking a Dead (Trojan) Horse
09.13.16 Team UPC Has Not Grown Tired of Kicking a Dead (Trojan) Horse
=> Team UPC Has Not Grown Tired of Kicking a Dead (Trojan) Horse
09.14.16 As Part of So-called ‘Reforms’, the EPO’s President is Gradually Eliminating the Boards of Appeal, Not Just Their Independence
09.18.16 After McRO v Namco Case (at CAFC) the Patent Microcosm Works Overtime to Produce Pro-Software Patents Propaganda, Smear the Supreme Court
09.20.16 For Abuse Like Plagiarism and Malpractice, the US Patent System is Still World Champion
=> For Abuse Like Plagiarism and Malpractice, the US Patent System is Still World Champion
09.20.16 Microsoft and Patent Law Firms in the United States Can’t Stop Writing About McRo in a Coordinated Push to Resurrect Software Patents
09.20.16 The EPO’s ‘Investigative’ Function is Totally Out of Control and Continues to Get Bigger, Whitewashed by So-called ‘Review’
09.23.16 Journalism 102: Do Not Become Like ‘Managing IP’ or IAM ‘Magazine’ (the Megaphones of the EPO’s Management)
09.24.16 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.”
09.25.16 The EPO Does Not Want Skilled (and ‘Expensive’) Staff, Layoffs a Growing Concern
=> The EPO Does Not Want Skilled (and ‘Expensive’) Staff, Layoffs a Growing Concern
09.25.16 What Insiders Are Saying About the Sad State of the European Patent Office (EPO)
=> What Insiders Are Saying About the Sad State of the European Patent Office (EPO)
09.27.16 After the EPO Paid the Financial Times to Produce Propaganda the Newspaper Continues to Produce UPC Puff Pieces, Just Ahead of EU Council Meeting
09.27.16 The EPO’s Continued Push for Software Patents, Marginalisation of Appeals (Reassessment), and Deviation From the EPC
09.28.16 Cementing Autocracy: The European Patent Office Against Democracy, Against Media, and Against the Rule of Law
09.29.16 Leaked: Conclusions of the Secretive EPO Board 28 Meeting (8th of September 2016)
=> Leaked: Conclusions of the Secretive EPO Board 28 Meeting (8th of September 2016)
09.29.16 IP Kat is Lobbying Heavily for the UPC, Courtesy of Team UPC
=> IP Kat is Lobbying Heavily for the UPC, Courtesy of Team UPC
10.01.16 Immunity of the European Patent Office and Lack of Oversight Within the Organisation Mean That It’s a Rogue Entity Above the Law
10.02.16 Not Just the European Patent Office But the Organisation Too a Culprit in Immunity and Impunity
=> Not Just the European Patent Office But the Organisation Too a Culprit in Immunity and Impunity
10.03.16 Alice/Section 101 Still Spelling Doom for Proponents of Software Patents, Including Some Patent Law Firms
10.04.16 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
10.04.16 Introduction to Jesper Kongstad, EPO Chairman of the Administrative Council
=> Introduction to Jesper Kongstad, EPO Chairman of the Administrative Council
10.04.16 Danish Fairy Tales and Legends: The Secret Life of Jesper Kongstad
=> Danish Fairy Tales and Legends: The Secret Life of Jesper Kongstad
10.05.16 No Justice Even for a Judge at the EPO, as the Whole Institution is Beyond Rotten and Quite Corrupt
=> No Justice Even for a Judge at the EPO, as the Whole Institution is Beyond Rotten and Quite Corrupt
10.07.16 Rumour: The European Patent Office Intends to Sack Staff Representatives at The Hague Like It Did in Munich
10.09.16 From World’s Best to World’s Worst: China’s SIPO (Worst of Asia) and France (Worst of Europe) the Vision for EPO
10.09.16 Has IP Kat’s Unofficial (Self-)Censorship Policy Expanded From Protecting the EPO’s Image to Protecting the UPC?
10.09.16 The UPC is Dead, Says Opinion Partly Funded by Team UPC, But Patent Scope in Europe Remains an Issue
=> The UPC is Dead, Says Opinion Partly Funded by Team UPC, But Patent Scope in Europe Remains an Issue
10.10.16 New Letter to the Delegates of the Administrative Council
=> New Letter to the Delegates of the Administrative Council
10.11.16 “Very Mysterious Things Going on at the IPKat Recently”
=> “Very Mysterious Things Going on at the IPKat Recently”
10.12.16 Addendum II: Article About the Kongstads’ Villa Becoming a Breeding Farm for the Fur Industry
=> Addendum II: Article About the Kongstads’ Villa Becoming a Breeding Farm for the Fur Industry
10.13.16 EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point – Part I: Protest at The Hague and the Huge Things at Stake
10.13.16 The EPO is Out of Control on (Patent) Scope and Team UPC Floods the Media in a Desperate Last Attempt
10.14.16 EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point – Part V: “Siegfried Bross as President of the Boards of Appeal!”
10.16.16 UPC Preparatory Committee Projects Optimism in an Effort to Salvage Its Dying Project, the Unitary/Unified Patent
10.16.16 Outline of Latest Press Coverage Regarding the European Patent Office (EPO)
=> Outline of Latest Press Coverage Regarding the European Patent Office (EPO)
10.18.16 The Long History or Seeds of Control by Fear and Punishment at the EPO
=> The Long History or Seeds of Control by Fear and Punishment at the EPO
10.18.16 French Article About the EPO “Crisis”
=> French Article About the EPO “Crisis”
10.18.16 Leaked: Outcomes of 149th Administrative Council’s Meeting at the European Patent Organisation
=> Leaked: Outcomes of 149th Administrative Council’s Meeting at the European Patent Organisation
10.19.16 Worrisome Connections Between EPO VP2 Alberto Casado Cerviño and Patricia García-Escudero Márquez
=> Worrisome Connections Between EPO VP2 Alberto Casado Cerviño and Patricia García-Escudero Márquez
10.19.16 Addendum: EPO’s Alberto Casado Cerviño, WIPO’s Francis Gurry, and EUIPO’s Archambeau
=> Addendum: EPO’s Alberto Casado Cerviño, WIPO’s Francis Gurry, and EUIPO’s Archambeau
10.20.16 Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead, But ‘Managing IP’ and Selfish Patent Law Firms Still Try to Resurrect It
10.21.16 Disruption to Site’s Service
=> Disruption to Site’s Service
10.24.16 Updates Regarding EPO and BoAC: Unrest and Injustice Carry on
=> Updates Regarding EPO and BoAC: Unrest and Injustice Carry on
10.24.16 EPO and EUIPO Join Hands to Release Propaganda (for European Media to Parrot) Some Time Tomorrow
=> EPO and EUIPO Join Hands to Release Propaganda (for European Media to Parrot) Some Time Tomorrow
10.24.16 UPC Preparatory Committee Puts the Brakes on UPC Amid Brexit and Growing Uncertainty
=> UPC Preparatory Committee Puts the Brakes on UPC Amid Brexit and Growing Uncertainty
10.25.16 Leaked: Minutes From the Administrative Council of the EPO Regarding the ‘Reform’ (Exile) of the Boards of Appeal
10.25.16 Puff Pieces of the EPO-IPO (EPO+EUIPO) Have Begun to Appear Amid New Evidence of Brain Drain, Lowered Standards
10.26.16 Leaked: EPO’s Vice-President Willie Minnoye Saying the Unsayable, Then Threatening Anyone Who Keeps Record (Evidence) of It
10.27.16 Leaked: Budget and Finance Committee Outcomes That Jeopardise What’s Left of the EPO’s Future
=> Leaked: Budget and Finance Committee Outcomes That Jeopardise What’s Left of the EPO’s Future
10.28.16 The EPO’s Balkan Express Keeps Chugging Along Despite Predictions of Derailment
=> The EPO’s Balkan Express Keeps Chugging Along Despite Predictions of Derailment
10.28.16 Leaked: Ljiljana Kuterovac Covering Željko Topić’s (EPO) Back
=> Leaked: Ljiljana Kuterovac Covering Željko Topić’s (EPO) Back
10.30.16 FTC Slams Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), Effectively Patent Trolls, Which Are a Growing Problem in Europe
10.30.16 Courts Are Being Showered With Motions to Invalidate Software Patents, Former USPTO Officials Like Kappos and Stoll in a Panic
10.31.16 The Insane World of Patent Maximalism and Professor Joshua Pearce’s Case for Weakening Patent Rights
=> The Insane World of Patent Maximalism and Professor Joshua Pearce’s Case for Weakening Patent Rights
11.02.16 Patent Maximalism is Destroying the European Patent Office (Just a Paperwork Assembly Line), Exile of Boards Ensures No Turnaround
11.02.16 Breaking the European Patent System With the UPC Hammer, Courtesy of the EPO and Lawyers-Centric ‘News’ Sites
11.04.16 Has the Advisor of Željko Topić Just Quit, Got Sacked, or is EPO Vice-President Topić Gaining Even Greater Powers?
11.05.16 The Death of Patent Quality at the EPO and the European Commission’s Latest Smackdown of the EPO’s Patent Maximalism
11.07.16 Where the Sun Rises (Far East) and Software Patents Emanate (US) Come the Patent Trolls
=> Where the Sun Rises (Far East) and Software Patents Emanate (US) Come the Patent Trolls
11.07.16 Threats to Dismissed EPO Staff Representative Allegedly Hold Pension (Blackmail Point) to Silence Him Even After Unjust Dismissal, Munich Goes Protesting for Him
11.08.16 EPO Social Workshops on Monday and Tuesday? No, EPO Staff up in Arms!
=> EPO Social Workshops on Monday and Tuesday? No, EPO Staff up in Arms!
11.08.16 At EPOPIC Today, As Expected, Software Patents Courtesy of EPO
=> At EPOPIC Today, As Expected, Software Patents Courtesy of EPO
11.10.16 SUEPO (EPO Staff Union) “Fears Now That the Intention Behind This Blow is “to Destroy” the Union.”
=> SUEPO (EPO Staff Union) “Fears Now That the Intention Behind This Blow is “to Destroy” the Union.”
11.10.16 “Not My President“: The Sentiment of European Patent Office Staff Towards Their Fascistic Boss
=> “Not My President“: The Sentiment of European Patent Office Staff Towards Their Fascistic Boss
11.12.16 Decline in Patent Quality at the EPO Increasingly Reaffirmed by More Branches, Insiders, and Even the European Commission
11.13.16 IAM’s Interest in Patent Trolls Going Global, Capitalising on Declining Patent Quality
=> IAM’s Interest in Patent Trolls Going Global, Capitalising on Declining Patent Quality
11.14.16 Elodie Bergot’s Double Standards: Can Flagrantly Defame EPO Staff Representatives on the Intranet (Union-Shaming), But Cannot Publish Facts
11.15.16 Correcting Bias in Patent Law Firms’ Articles About Software Patents, Advice to Small Businesses, and Letting Machines Generate Patents
11.15.16 Violations of Human Rights at the EPO in the Name of Fraud Prevention
=> Violations of Human Rights at the EPO in the Name of Fraud Prevention
11.16.16 The EPO Lowering Patent Quality, Accused of Issuing Invalid Patents, and Promoting Software Patents (Hence Trolls)
11.18.16 Concerns Over ‘Terror’ Patent Office: New Article From Dutch Media (Telegraaf)
=> Concerns Over ‘Terror’ Patent Office: New Article From Dutch Media (Telegraaf)
11.18.16 Like Team UPC, the Internet Association (Megacorporations’ Front Group) Hijacks the Voice of Small Businesses in an Effort to Steer Patent Policy Against Them
11.19.16 European Media, Dutch Parliament and Spectacularly Enough Even IP Kat (Yes, It’s Back!) Subject the EPO to Serious Scrutiny
11.20.16 Cases Against the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Demise of Transparency International (Which EPO Partly ‘Absorbed’)
11.20.16 Patent Maximalists Would Have Us Believe That Patent Trolls Are Beneficial and Admirable
=> Patent Maximalists Would Have Us Believe That Patent Trolls Are Beneficial and Admirable
11.22.16 China’s Shot in Its Own Foot Repeats the United States’ Error on Software Patents
=> China’s Shot in Its Own Foot Repeats the United States’ Error on Software Patents
11.23.16 Anonymous EPO Staff: EPO Management’s Moral Compass is Broken
=> Anonymous EPO Staff: EPO Management’s Moral Compass is Broken
11.23.16 Employees of European Patent Office Take Action Against Culture of Fear
=> Employees of European Patent Office Take Action Against Culture of Fear
11.23.16 EPO Protest Tomorrow at The Hague
=> EPO Protest Tomorrow at The Hague
11.23.16 European Patent Office Workers Take Action Against ‘Tyrannical’ Director
=> European Patent Office Workers Take Action Against ‘Tyrannical’ Director
11.24.16 Giants of Asia: India More Restrictive on Patent Scope, China More Lenient
=> Giants of Asia: India More Restrictive on Patent Scope, China More Lenient
11.24.16 Video and Audio: Press Coverage From Today’s EPO Protest at The Hague
=> Video and Audio: Press Coverage From Today’s EPO Protest at The Hague
11.25.16 EPO and the Art of Distraction, Disinformation
=> EPO and the Art of Distraction, Disinformation
11.25.16 Report From Yesterday’s EPO Protest at The Hague, Which Several Politicians Attended
=> Report From Yesterday’s EPO Protest at The Hague, Which Several Politicians Attended
11.26.16 Duplicate Events for Lobbying by Team UPC Meddle in Politics in an Effort to Enrich Itself at Europe’s Expense
11.27.16 Danger of Letting a Bunch of Patent Law Firms Attempt to Hijack the European Patent System With UPC
=> Danger of Letting a Bunch of Patent Law Firms Attempt to Hijack the European Patent System With UPC
11.28.16 Patent Attorney Mark Summerfield: EPO Administrative Council “Members Should be Ashamed.”
=> Patent Attorney Mark Summerfield: EPO Administrative Council “Members Should be Ashamed.”
11.29.16 The UPC Scam Part I: EPO-Bribed Media Outlets Lie to Brits (and to Europeans) About the UPC
=> The UPC Scam Part I: EPO-Bribed Media Outlets Lie to Brits (and to Europeans) About the UPC
11.29.16 CERN Slams the European Patent Office for Abuse of Employees
=> CERN Slams the European Patent Office for Abuse of Employees
11.29.16 European Public Service Union Asks EPO Administrative Council “to Re-establish the Rule of Law at the European Patent Office”
11.29.16 The International Labour Organisation Once Again Proves Useless for Labour of the EPO
=> The International Labour Organisation Once Again Proves Useless for Labour of the EPO
11.29.16 Learning From the Mistakes of the US Patent System (and More Latterly China) When Assessing Patent Maximalism
11.29.16 The UPC Scam Part III: The “Patent Mafia”
=> The UPC Scam Part III: The “Patent Mafia”
11.29.16 The UPC Scam Part II: The Patent Echo Chamber at Work, Prematurely Congratulating Itself in Its ‘News’ Sites
11.29.16 The UPC Scam Part IV: Bumps Along the Road for UPC, With or Without the UK and Brexit
=> The UPC Scam Part IV: Bumps Along the Road for UPC, With or Without the UK and Brexit
12.01.16 Two ILO Decisions on EPO Cases Are Released, at Least One Judgment is Considered Good for Staff
=> Two ILO Decisions on EPO Cases Are Released, at Least One Judgment is Considered Good for Staff
12.01.16 Dutch and French Politicians Complain About the European Patent Office, British Media Coverage Regular Now
12.01.16 The Rule of Law and Justice Don’t Exist Inside the EPO, Confirms the International Labour Organisation (ILO)
12.03.16 Dutch Media Covers Latest EPO Scandals, German Media Totally Absent (a Media Blackout of Convenience)
12.05.16 Caricature: the Maas App
12.05.16 The UPC Scam Part V: Unitary Patent Regime a Fantasy of Patent Trolls
=> The UPC Scam Part V: Unitary Patent Regime a Fantasy of Patent Trolls
12.06.16 EPO Spiraling Down the Drain as Experienced Examiners and Judges Are Seemingly Being Replaced by Interns
12.06.16 EPO Suicides Greater in Number Than is Widely Reported, Unjust System a Contributor to These
=> EPO Suicides Greater in Number Than is Widely Reported, Unjust System a Contributor to These
12.06.16 Heiko Maas, the SPD “Cash for Access” Affair, and Suspicions of Unwarranted Censorship at IP Kat (Again)
12.06.16 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 VII: A Fine Mess in the Making, as Nothing Can be Made of It Amid/After Brexit
12.08.16 Memo “Deliberately Leaked to Cover up the UPC” With Its Many Associated Issues Amid Brexit
=> Memo “Deliberately Leaked to Cover up the UPC” With Its Many Associated Issues Amid Brexit
12.09.16 The EPO is Collapsing. Attacks on Journalists, Interns as Staff, Patents on Plants, and Bureaucratic Red Tape…
12.09.16 Ignore the Bristows UPC Echo Chamber, the UPC is Not Happening
=> Ignore the Bristows UPC Echo Chamber, the UPC is Not Happening
12.10.16 EPO Protest This Coming Wednesday Strives to Restore the Rule of Law and Freedom of Speech at the Office
12.11.16 EPO ‘Reform’ Seems to Strive for Echo Chamber Mentality, Elimination of Unions, Crackdown on Experienced (Well-Paid) Employees, and Departure From Patent Quality
12.12.16 Caricature: The European Patent Office Finds Quick Fix for ILO
=> Caricature: The European Patent Office Finds Quick Fix for ILO
12.13.16 The EPO Keeps Bullying Examiners and Even Judges, EPO’s Mouthpiece PwC Now Bullies Researchers
=> The EPO Keeps Bullying Examiners and Even Judges, EPO’s Mouthpiece PwC Now Bullies Researchers
12.13.16 The European Patent Office Suffers Quality Crisis, Finally (Belatedly) Agrees to Publicly Comment on It
12.13.16 Another New Book, This Time From Dr Luke McDonagh, Chronicles the Demise of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement
12.14.16 Outside Pressure is Growing: CERN Staff Association Reaffirms Commitment to SUEPO, The Staff Union of the EPO
12.14.16 EPO is “Googlebombing” Croatia With Puff Pieces Rather Than Discussion/Coverage of Vice-President’s Dark Side
12.14.16 Administrative Council of the EPO Must Recognise Critical Brain Drain, Loss of Talent, Loss of Patent Quality
12.15.16 Vote for Exile of the Boards of Appeal Shows That the Administrative Council of the EPO is Still Compromised and Complicit
12.15.16 Shame on the German Media for the Media Blackout Surrounding EPO Protests in Munich (and Sometimes Berlin)
12.15.16 Team UPC Salivating Over Unitary Patent Fantasy Even Though It is Stuck in a Limbo
=> Team UPC Salivating Over Unitary Patent Fantasy Even Though It is Stuck in a Limbo
12.16.16 Why EPO Staff is Up in Arms
=> Why EPO Staff is Up in Arms
12.16.16 Will the Patent Microcosm of London Please Stop Misleading the Public About UPC?
=> Will the Patent Microcosm of London Please Stop Misleading the Public About UPC?
12.16.16 Small Nations With Almost Not a Single European Patent Sign the Death Knell of EPO Patent Quality
=> Small Nations With Almost Not a Single European Patent Sign the Death Knell of EPO Patent Quality
12.18.16 With $2.5 Billion in Claimed (and Won) ‘Damages’ in One Single Patent Case of a Pharmaceutical Giant, Does the Patents for ‘Small Guy’ Myth Still Pass Muster?
12.19.16 EPO Appeal Boards, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and Other Newsworthy Tidbits
=> EPO Appeal Boards, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and Other Newsworthy Tidbits
12.19.16 Software Patents in the US: The Patent Office Gives Blank Checks (Let the Courts Worry About Examination!) and the Patent Microcosm Tries to Undermine Alice, Still
12.20.16 ‘SIPO Europe’: The EPO’s Race to the Bottom of Patent Skills and Patent Quality
=> ‘SIPO Europe’: The EPO’s Race to the Bottom of Patent Skills and Patent Quality
12.21.16 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
12.21.16 No Justice at the EPO, Whose Underlying Purpose Was (Originally) to Do Patents Justice
=> No Justice at the EPO, Whose Underlying Purpose Was (Originally) to Do Patents Justice
12.22.16 IAM is Still the EPO’s Favourite Propaganda Mill
=> IAM is Still the EPO’s Favourite Propaganda Mill
12.23.16 “Whoever at the EPO Took This Action Clearly Never Heard About the Concept of Separation of Powers”
=> “Whoever at the EPO Took This Action Clearly Never Heard About the Concept of Separation of Powers”
12.26.16 Crisis Inside the EPO as Elodie Bergot, Unqualified for Her Job, Fails to Maintain Staffing
=> Crisis Inside the EPO as Elodie Bergot, Unqualified for Her Job, Fails to Maintain Staffing
12.27.16 Negative Publicity (Personal or by Association With the EPO) is Devouring the Institution
=> Negative Publicity (Personal or by Association With the EPO) is Devouring the Institution
12.27.16 Bad Service at the European Patent Office (EPO) Escalated in the Form of Complaints to European Authorities/Politicians
12.31.16 2016: The Year EPO Staff Went on Strike, Possibly “Biggest Ever Strike in the History of the EPO.”
=> 2016: The Year EPO Staff Went on Strike, Possibly “Biggest Ever Strike in the History of the EPO.”
01.01.17 FFPE-EPO is a Zombie (if Not Dead) Yellow Union Whose Only de Facto Purpose Has Been Attacking the EPO’s Staff Union
01.01.17 When EPO Vice-President, Who Will Resign Soon, Made a Mockery of the EPO
=> When EPO Vice-President, Who Will Resign Soon, Made a Mockery of the EPO
01.01.17 EPO Select Committee is Wrong About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
=> EPO Select Committee is Wrong About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
01.02.17 Teaser: Corruption Indictments Brought Against Vice-President of the European Patent Office (EPO)
=> Teaser: Corruption Indictments Brought Against Vice-President of the European Patent Office (EPO)
01.03.17 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part V: Suspension of Salary and Unfair Trials
=> Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part V: Suspension of Salary and Unfair Trials
01.03.17 New Article From Heise Explains Erosion of Patent Quality at the European Patent Office (EPO)
=> New Article From Heise Explains Erosion of Patent Quality at the European Patent Office (EPO)
01.05.17 Technical Failure of the European Patent Office (EPO) a Growing Cause for Concern
=> Technical Failure of the European Patent Office (EPO) a Growing Cause for Concern
01.05.17 The Productivity Commission Warns Against Patent Maximalism, Which is Where China (SIPO) is Heading Along With EPO
01.07.17 2017: Latest Year That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Still Stuck in a Limbo
=> 2017: Latest Year That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Still Stuck in a Limbo
01.10.17 FFPE-EPO, the EPO Management’s Pet/Yellow Union, Helps Union-Busting (Against SUEPO) in Letter to Notorious Vice-President
01.11.17 The Patent Microcosm is Already Sucking up to Donald Trump in an Effort to Enrich Itself at Everyone’s Expense
01.12.17 Brexit Means No UPC (Unified Patent Court)
=> Brexit Means No UPC (Unified Patent Court)
01.15.17 EPO Abuses Come Under Fire From Politicians in Luxembourg
=> EPO Abuses Come Under Fire From Politicians in Luxembourg
01.15.17 Constitutionality as a Barrier and Brexit Barriers to UPC Keep the Whole Pipe Dream Deadlocked
=> Constitutionality as a Barrier and Brexit Barriers to UPC Keep the Whole Pipe Dream Deadlocked
01.15.17 America Invents Act Improved Patent Quality, But Right Wingers Threaten to Make It Worse Again
=> America Invents Act Improved Patent Quality, But Right Wingers Threaten to Make It Worse Again
01.17.17 EPO Totally Silent for a Month, But Deep Inside There Are Serious Cracks
=> EPO Totally Silent for a Month, But Deep Inside There Are Serious Cracks
01.18.17 Rumours Suggest That EPO Management is Aware of Decline in Patent Quality and is Thus Actively Lying About it to the Media/Public
01.20.17 Beware Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
=> Beware Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
01.21.17 ‘Reform’ at the EPO Means Destroying the Staff Union, Crushing Patent Examiners, and Imposing on Europe a System It Does Not Want (UPC)
01.23.17 Patent Trolls Like Finjan Holdings and Thomas Edison; the Latest Loss for Software Patents in the US and Their Move to China
01.24.17 The EPO’s Freedom to Disregard the Law and Abuse Employees is “Being Taken up by the Council of Europe”
01.24.17 The European Patent Office is Googlebombing and Bamboozling the Public About Quality of European Patents
01.24.17 China Drowns in Worthless Patents, the United States (FTC) Bemoans Patent Trolls, and Australia is Urged by Its Commission to Decommission Software Patents
01.26.17 Journalists Have Learned to Ignore Claims From the EPO’s Management, Which Habitually Lies to Journalists
01.29.17 Revealed: Lack of Justice at the European Patent Office (EPO), No Valid Courts
=> Revealed: Lack of Justice at the European Patent Office (EPO), No Valid Courts
02.01.17 Someone Needs to Explain/Remind EPO Management That Software Patents Are Not (Supposed to Be) Valid in Europe
02.01.17 The Netherlands With Its Bizarre Decision to Let the EPO Violate Dutch Law, Now in English
=> The Netherlands With Its Bizarre Decision to Let the EPO Violate Dutch Law, Now in English
02.02.17 International Labour Organisation to Issue More Judgments on ‘Above the Law’ European Patent Office Next Week
02.03.17 Weekend Talk in Brussels to Speak of “Open Patents”, Relevant to the EPO at Times of Growing Lenience on Software Patents
02.05.17 Culture of Terror at The European Patent Office Escalates Thanks to Dutch Government’s Complicity
=> Culture of Terror at The European Patent Office Escalates Thanks to Dutch Government’s Complicity
02.06.17 Questions Arise About Patent Policy and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board Amid Deregulation by Trump
=> Questions Arise About Patent Policy and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board Amid Deregulation by Trump
02.07.17 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part VI: Fear Climate and Antipathy Now the ‘Norm’
=> Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part VI: Fear Climate and Antipathy Now the ‘Norm’
02.07.17 The European Patent Office Officially Dishonours Justice, So It’s Time for SUEPO to Become Clandestine
02.07.17 Reception of the New German Ambassador (Dirk Brengelmann) at the EPO, in Presence of the Stasi-Like Investigative Unit
02.08.17 Laughable and Misleading: What the EPO Has Become Amid an Avalanche of Bad News
=> Laughable and Misleading: What the EPO Has Become Amid an Avalanche of Bad News
02.08.17 The News the EPO is Distracting From: No Justice for EPO Workers at ILO (Necessitating Immediate Removal of Immunity)
02.08.17 Immunity of the Intellectual Property Office of the European Union Causes Outrage in Spanish Media
=> Immunity of the Intellectual Property Office of the European Union Causes Outrage in Spanish Media
02.09.17 This is Why Many People at the EPO Commit Suicide
=> This is Why Many People at the EPO Commit Suicide
02.13.17 Leaked E-mails From the EPO’s Roberto Vacca Reveal That Patent Quality at the European Patent Office Has Become Farcical
02.13.17 UPC Petition Launched to Halt Ratification Plans in the United Kingdom Amid Nefarious Back Room Deals
02.14.17 Growingly Desperate for Applicants Amid Brain Drain, EPO Pays Breitbart ‘News’
=> Growingly Desperate for Applicants Amid Brain Drain, EPO Pays Breitbart ‘News’
02.14.17 Leaked: European Patent Office a Fire Hazard Waiting to Cause Tragedy (Possible Deaths)
=> Leaked: European Patent Office a Fire Hazard Waiting to Cause Tragedy (Possible Deaths)
02.14.17 EPO-Connected Writers Are Using Alternative Facts or Fake News to Promote the Unitary Patent in British Media
02.15.17 Claude Rouiller (ILOAT) and ILO Rulings Effectively Disregarded by the European Patent Office
=> Claude Rouiller (ILOAT) and ILO Rulings Effectively Disregarded by the European Patent Office
02.15.17 The European Patent Office Looks More and More Like the Sicilian Mafia Every Day
=> The European Patent Office Looks More and More Like the Sicilian Mafia Every Day
02.16.17 Yet More Complaints About the European Patent Office in the Bavarian Regional Government
=> Yet More Complaints About the European Patent Office in the Bavarian Regional Government
02.16.17 Guest Post: EPO, an Idyllic Place to Work
=> Guest Post: EPO, an Idyllic Place to Work
02.16.17 EPO Staff Representatives to Escalate Complaint About Severe Injustices to the EPO’s Secretive Board 28
02.16.17 Open Patent Office is Not the Solution; Ending Software Patents is the Solution
=> Open Patent Office is Not the Solution; Ending Software Patents is the Solution
02.16.17 New Survey Reveals That High Patent Quality, or Elimination of Bad Patents, is Desirable to Patent Holders
02.17.17 Our Assessment: EPO Wants a Lot of Low-Quality Patents and Low-Paid Staff With UPC (Prosecution Galore)
02.19.17 The EPO is Becoming an Embarrassment to Europe and a Growing Threat to the European Union
=> The EPO is Becoming an Embarrassment to Europe and a Growing Threat to the European Union
02.20.17 Lack of Justice in and Around the EPO Drawing Scrutiny
=> Lack of Justice in and Around the EPO Drawing Scrutiny
02.21.17 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part VII: EPO Hypocrisy on Cancer and Lack of Feedback to and From ECPC
02.22.17 Report From Yesterday’s Debate About the European Patent Office (EPO) at the Bavarian Landtag
=> Report From Yesterday’s Debate About the European Patent Office (EPO) at the Bavarian Landtag
02.23.17 The Sickness of the EPO – Part III: Invalidity and Suicides
=> The Sickness of the EPO – Part III: Invalidity and Suicides
02.23.17 The Sickness of the EPO – Part IV: Cruel Management That Deliberately Attacks the Sick and the Weak
=> The Sickness of the EPO – Part IV: Cruel Management That Deliberately Attacks the Sick and the Weak
02.23.17 UPC Roundup: War on the Appeal Boards, British Motion Against the UPC, Fröhlinger Recalled, and Fake News About Spain
02.24.17 Yes, There is Definitely Brain Drain (Experience Deficit) at the European Patent Office and Stakeholders Feel It
02.26.17 The EPO’s Race to the Bottom in Recruitment and Early Retirements Explained by an Insider
=> The EPO’s Race to the Bottom in Recruitment and Early Retirements Explained by an Insider
02.26.17 Wouter Pors and Other UPC Boosters Believe That Repeating the Lies Will Potentially Make Them Truths
=> Wouter Pors and Other UPC Boosters Believe That Repeating the Lies Will Potentially Make Them Truths
02.27.17 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part VIII: When Governed by Criminals, Truth-Tellers Are Cast as Criminals and Criminals as Justice Deliverers
02.28.17 Does the EPO Want Patent Quality to Decline Against the USPTO and Become Akin to SIPO?
=> Does the EPO Want Patent Quality to Decline Against the USPTO and Become Akin to SIPO?
02.28.17 Web Site of French Senator Richard Yung Cracked Just Days After Criticising the EPO
=> Web Site of French Senator Richard Yung Cracked Just Days After Criticising the EPO
03.01.17 Justice is Dead Not Only at the European Patent Office But Also the Whole European Patent Organisation
03.01.17 MIP (Managing IP) International Patent Forum 2017 to Have EPO and UPC Propaganda, as Before
=> MIP (Managing IP) International Patent Forum 2017 to Have EPO and UPC Propaganda, as Before
03.01.17 Now is the Time to Sign the Petition Against the Unitary Patent (UPC)
=> Now is the Time to Sign the Petition Against the Unitary Patent (UPC)
03.02.17 EPO Budget Obscures and Distorts Facts About the Unitary Patent (UPC) in a Classic Antidemocratic Exercise by an Unaccountable Institution
03.02.17 China Adopts Software Patents and IAM ‘Magazine’ (Lobbyists) Continues to Shame India Into It
=> China Adopts Software Patents and IAM ‘Magazine’ (Lobbyists) Continues to Shame India Into It
03.03.17 The Sickness of the EPO – Part VI: Firing Handicapped People and Hiring Unskilled, Inexperienced, ‘Cheap’ Staff
03.03.17 Dutch Foreign Minister Reads the Riot Act to EPO Vice-President Willy/Guillaume Minnoye
=> Dutch Foreign Minister Reads the Riot Act to EPO Vice-President Willy/Guillaume Minnoye
03.04.17 EPO Mimics Interpol, But Interpol Should Raid the EPO and End the Management’s Abuses Once and for All
03.04.17 Using “China!” and Distortion of Data From Lex Machina, the Litigation Lobby Promotes Software Patents
03.05.17 The Very Thought of UPC in the UK “is a Perfect Example of What Lobbying Can Achieve!”
=> The Very Thought of UPC in the UK “is a Perfect Example of What Lobbying Can Achieve!”
03.06.17 ILO: “EPO Threaten(s) the Ability of the Administrative Tribunal of the ILO to Serve All Other Organizations”
03.07.17 Caricature: ‘Posterrorism’ at the EPO
=> Caricature: ‘Posterrorism’ at the EPO
03.07.17 EPO Record Low on Quality of European Patents (EPs) in 2016
=> EPO Record Low on Quality of European Patents (EPs) in 2016
03.07.17 Raise Your Glass to the Monopoly — New Article About the European Patent Office Losing It on Patent Scope
03.07.17 Another Delegation Antagonistic on EPO Matters is ‘Decapitated’ (Sean Dennehey)
=> Another Delegation Antagonistic on EPO Matters is ‘Decapitated’ (Sean Dennehey)
03.08.17 Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Bert Koenders: Rapid Improvements in European Patent Office or Else ‘High Level’ Action
03.08.17 The European Patent Office is Wasting Its Already Limited Budget on Misleading Press Releases/Paid-for Coverage That Overlook Sharp Decline in Patent Quality
03.08.17 EPO “Too Industry-Friendly, Say the Critics”
=> EPO “Too Industry-Friendly, Say the Critics”
03.10.17 After EPO Sanctions Against IP Kat (Censorship of More Than 10,000 Articles) Even Merpel Throws in the Towel
03.10.17 ‘Lobbyists’ Annsley Merelle Ward and Alan Johnson (Bristows) Return to Using IP Kat to Spread Fake News About Unitary Patent (UPC)
03.11.17 The EPO is Lying About Patent Quality in Its Official Web Site
=> The EPO is Lying About Patent Quality in Its Official Web Site
03.11.17 Information From SUEPO on the Functional Allowance Reveals How Top-Level Management Intends to ‘Rob’ the Cash Cow (EPO Budget)
03.11.17 Why Techrights is Nowadays Focused on the EPO and UPC (Unitary Patent)
=> Why Techrights is Nowadays Focused on the EPO and UPC (Unitary Patent)
03.11.17 Higher Patent Quality Guarded Even Under the Trump Administration While the EPO Goes the Other Way
=> Higher Patent Quality Guarded Even Under the Trump Administration While the EPO Goes the Other Way
03.12.17 Germany Cannot Ratify the UPC Because Britain is Leaving the EU and Unitary Patent Strongly/Strictly Depends on the UK
03.12.17 British Site ‘Managing IP’ Continues to Organise UPC Lobbying Events to Promote the Unitary Patent in the UK, Isle of Man, Maybe Even Ireland and Beyond
03.12.17 Fake News From the EPO and Team UPC About Unitary Patent in the UK in Spite of Brexit
=> Fake News From the EPO and Team UPC About Unitary Patent in the UK in Spite of Brexit
03.12.17 No, Spain is Not Joining the UPC, That’s Just What UPC Lobbyists Want Everyone to Believe
=> No, Spain is Not Joining the UPC, That’s Just What UPC Lobbyists Want Everyone to Believe
03.13.17 Ten Years Later, Microsoft Admission on Dirty Tricks and Borderline Corruption Which It Uses to This Day in Order to Suppress GNU/Linux Adoption in Desktops
03.14.17 Unscientific and Offensive: EPO Deletes From the Map Countries Where Number of Applications at the EPO Has Declined!
03.14.17 EPO Protest Tomorrow, Heads of Delegations Informed Regarding the Reasons
=> EPO Protest Tomorrow, Heads of Delegations Informed Regarding the Reasons
03.14.17 The European Patent Office is in a State of Collapse and It Coughs Up Rubbish Patents Until Its Death
03.14.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) Misinformation in Spanish Media and EPO-Connected (Paid) Media That Lobbies Spain
03.14.17 Patent Trolling Allegedly Runs in the Blood (or Interests) of the Trump Family, in Spite of the USPTO’s and Courts’ Growing Hostility Towards Patent Trolls
03.15.17 New Examples of Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC), Courtesy of Patent Law Firms Looking to Prey on Gullible SMEs
03.16.17 CERN Staff Association “Profoundly Shocked by the Situation That Has Persisted in the European Patent Office (EPO)”
03.16.17 Incredibly Unscientific: EPO is Making up Excuses for Decline in Patent Applications
=> Incredibly Unscientific: EPO is Making up Excuses for Decline in Patent Applications
03.16.17 German Media is Not Covering EPO Scandals and Instead Repeating Patently False Claims From EPO Management
03.16.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) and “Breach of EU Law”
=> Unitary Patent (UPC) and “Breach of EU Law”
03.17.17 The EPO’s Abuses and Claims of Immunity From Prosecution Increasingly Fracture the Dutch Establishment
03.17.17 Hidden Away in a Barely-Viewed Video is the Map of Europe Which the EPO Hides, as It Demonstrates Decline in Applications That EPO Cannot Deny
03.17.17 UPC Fake News Rising Sharply as Door Closes for Unitary Patent Ratification and Jo Johnson ‘Needs’ to Believe the UPC Will Actually Happen
03.18.17 European Directives and Boards of Appeal Desperately Needed to Keep EPO Patent Scope in Check
=> European Directives and Boards of Appeal Desperately Needed to Keep EPO Patent Scope in Check
03.18.17 Governance Crisis at EPO Deepens After Latest Meeting of the Administrative Council, Necessitating Urgent Outside Intervention
03.18.17 Letter From European Public Services Organisation (IPSO) to Angela Merkel and Heiko Maas Regarding EPO Union-Busting Catastrophe
03.20.17 Supposedly ‘Pampered’ Prisoners Are Still Prisoners of the EPO
=> Supposedly ‘Pampered’ Prisoners Are Still Prisoners of the EPO
03.21.17 EPO Caricature: Low Patent Quality Not an Achievement
=> EPO Caricature: Low Patent Quality Not an Achievement
03.21.17 Tough Day for the EPO’s Media/Press/PR Team, Trying ‘Damage Control’ After Important Techrights Publications
03.21.17 EPO Reduces the World to Just Seven Nations to Bolster an Illusion of Growing ‘Demand’ for European Patents
03.21.17 In IAM, Asian Courts That Deliver Justice Are “Unfriendly” and Asian Patent Trolls Are Desirable
=> In IAM, Asian Courts That Deliver Justice Are “Unfriendly” and Asian Patent Trolls Are Desirable
03.21.17 “Then They Came For Me—And There Was No One Left To Speak For Me.”
=> “Then They Came For Me—And There Was No One Left To Speak For Me.”
03.21.17 Letter to Angela Merkel Expresses Concerns About Impact of EPO Scandals on Germany and Its Image
=> Letter to Angela Merkel Expresses Concerns About Impact of EPO Scandals on Germany and Its Image
03.21.17 At EPO “I Have the Feeling That Lowering Quality is Part of a Concerted Plan.”
=> At EPO “I Have the Feeling That Lowering Quality is Part of a Concerted Plan.”
03.21.17 What the Patent Microcosm is Saying About the EPO and the UPC
=> What the Patent Microcosm is Saying About the EPO and the UPC
03.22.17 The EPO is Lying to Its Own Staff About ILO and Endless (Over 2 Years) EPO Mistrials
=> The EPO is Lying to Its Own Staff About ILO and Endless (Over 2 Years) EPO Mistrials
03.22.17 EPO’s Georg Weber Continues Horrifying Trend of EPO Promoting Software Patents in Defiance of Directive, EPC, and Common Sense
03.23.17 Nepotism at the European Patent Office and Suspicious Absence of Tenders for Big Projects
=> Nepotism at the European Patent Office and Suspicious Absence of Tenders for Big Projects
03.24.17 Bernhard Rapkay, Former MEP and Rapporteur on Unitary Patent, Shoots Down UPC Hopes While UPC Hopefuls Recognise That Spain Isn’t Interested Either
03.25.17 Depressing EPO News: Attacks on Staff, Attacks on Life, Brain Drain, Patents on Life, Patent Trolls Come to Germany, and Spain Being Misled
03.25.17 Judge and Justice Bashing in the United States, EPC Bashing at the EPO
=> Judge and Justice Bashing in the United States, EPC Bashing at the EPO
03.25.17 Looking for EPO Nepotism? Forget About Jouve and Look Closely at Europatis Instead.
=> Looking for EPO Nepotism? Forget About Jouve and Look Closely at Europatis Instead.
03.26.17 With IP Kat Coverage of EPO Scandals Coming to an End (Officially), Techrights and The Register Remain to Cover New Developments
03.26.17 His Master’s Voice, Jesper Kongstad, Blocks Discussion of Investigative and Disciplinary Procedures at the EPO
03.26.17 Heiko Maas and the State of Germany Viewed as Increasingly Complicit in EPO Scandals and Toxic UPC Agenda
03.26.17 Thanks to Merpel, the World Knows EPO Scandals a Lot Better, But It’s a Shame That IP Kat Helped UPC
=> Thanks to Merpel, the World Knows EPO Scandals a Lot Better, But It’s a Shame That IP Kat Helped UPC
03.26.17 EPO Critics Threatened by Self-Censorship, Comment Censorship, and a Growing Threat to Anonymity
=> EPO Critics Threatened by Self-Censorship, Comment Censorship, and a Growing Threat to Anonymity
03.27.17 The EPO’s HR Roadmap Retrospective
=> The EPO’s HR Roadmap Retrospective
03.28.17 In Attempt to Promote the Horrific UPC (Poor Quality of Patents Everywhere), Minnoye and Casado Cerviño Attack Their Own Staff for Saying the Truth
03.28.17 A “Perfect Recipe for Fraud” at the European Patent Office (EPO)
=> A “Perfect Recipe for Fraud” at the European Patent Office (EPO)
03.28.17 Techrights Was Right About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
=> Techrights Was Right About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
03.29.17 Recognising the Death of Software Patents, Microsoft’s Largest Ally in India Belatedly Joins the Linux-Centric Open Invention Network
03.30.17 EPO is a Laughing Stock in International Media This Week (Quality of Patents) After Decades-Long Reputation Building
03.30.17 Leaked: Meeting in Secret, Jesper Kongstad-Led Council Decides EPO Judge is Guilty Until Proven Innocent
03.30.17 Deconstructing the Latest ‘Damage Control’ From Team UPC Amid Demise of Unitary Patent Pipe Dreams
=> Deconstructing the Latest ‘Damage Control’ From Team UPC Amid Demise of Unitary Patent Pipe Dreams
03.31.17 EPO Likes to Pretend to be Tolerated in Spite of Patenting Life, Seeds, Plants and More
=> EPO Likes to Pretend to be Tolerated in Spite of Patenting Life, Seeds, Plants and More
03.31.17 In Spite of Confirmation, Uncertainty and Doubt Still Being Cast on Michelle Lee’s USPTO Leadership (by Her Opponents)
04.01.17 Bristows UPC Delusions Are Back, Attempting to Distract From Bad News (UPC Isn’t Happening)
=> Bristows UPC Delusions Are Back, Attempting to Distract From Bad News (UPC Isn’t Happening)
04.01.17 ‘Managing IP’ (MIP) is Seeding UPC Optimism Based on Nothing Concrete
=> ‘Managing IP’ (MIP) is Seeding UPC Optimism Based on Nothing Concrete
04.01.17 The ‘New’ (Nouvel) Building of the EPO Has Dark (and Potentially Fiery) Secrets
=> The ‘New’ (Nouvel) Building of the EPO Has Dark (and Potentially Fiery) Secrets
04.01.17 Bad Patent Quality (and Software Patents) Good for Patent Law Firms and Trolls, But Not for Anybody Else
04.02.17 The Litigation Lobby is Causing Chaos in Patent Offices, Still in a Coordinated Effort to Convert Patents Into Nothing But Legal Chaos That Harms Science
04.02.17 Growing Suspicions of Planned Obsolescence at the European Patent Office
=> Growing Suspicions of Planned Obsolescence at the European Patent Office
04.02.17 Team UPC ‘Took Over’ IP Kat, Readers Don’t Believe What It Says
=> Team UPC ‘Took Over’ IP Kat, Readers Don’t Believe What It Says
04.03.17 As a Bargaining Chip, UPC (Unitary Patent/Unified Patent Court) is a Curse, Not a Gift
=> As a Bargaining Chip, UPC (Unitary Patent/Unified Patent Court) is a Curse, Not a Gift
04.04.17 Latest EPO Crisis: Junk Patents Granted in Preparation for Vision of Europe as Litigation Central (UPC)
04.04.17 Reign of Fear (Even Terror) at EPO Prevents People From Speaking About Injustices
=> Reign of Fear (Even Terror) at EPO Prevents People From Speaking About Injustices
04.05.17 Is Bristows UPC Falsifying UK-IPO Quotes or Just Using Informal Words to Lobby for the Unitary Patent (UPC)?
04.06.17 Like EPO ‘Grants’ (up 40% in a Year), Patent Trolls in Europe Are Growing at Double-Digit Rates (Now 20% of All German Lawsuits)
04.06.17 The EPO’s Management is Silencing Its Critics by Sheer Intimidation
=> The EPO’s Management is Silencing Its Critics by Sheer Intimidation
04.06.17 Thorsten Bausch (Hoffmann Eitle) Bemoans Declining Quality (Service and Patents) at the European Patent Office
04.07.17 IP Kat or IP Troll? IP2Innovate Warns That UPC Would Help Patent Trolls While IP Kat Promotes UPC
=> IP Kat or IP Troll? IP2Innovate Warns That UPC Would Help Patent Trolls While IP Kat Promotes UPC
04.09.17 Caricature: EPO President and the EPC
=> Caricature: EPO President and the EPC
04.09.17 The Latest on the Collapse of the European Patent Office (EPO)
=> The Latest on the Collapse of the European Patent Office (EPO)
04.09.17 Lying Has Become the Norm When It Comes to the Unitary Patent (UPC)
=> Lying Has Become the Norm When It Comes to the Unitary Patent (UPC)
04.09.17 Asian Companies Already Suffer From Patent Maximalism/Radicalism and UPC Would Make Things Even Worse
04.10.17 These Terrifying Comments From Patent Practitioners Suggest They Too Believe UPC is Intended to Make EPO Virtually Obsolete
04.10.17 IAM ‘Magazine’ in a Campaign to Destroy India’s IT Industry and Help Patent Trolls There
=> IAM ‘Magazine’ in a Campaign to Destroy India’s IT Industry and Help Patent Trolls There
04.11.17 The European Patent Office Has Entered a Dark Era of Anti-Science and Fake ‘Research’
=> The European Patent Office Has Entered a Dark Era of Anti-Science and Fake ‘Research’
04.11.17 Institutional Corruption in the US Patent System Leaves the Door Open to Meddling and Foul Play by the Patent Microcosm
04.11.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) is Stuck as the “British Are Hesitant in UPC Ratification,” According to New Report
04.12.17 It’s Not Natural for the European Patent Office to Make Nature Patentable
=> It’s Not Natural for the European Patent Office to Make Nature Patentable
04.13.17 Awful Quality of EPO-Granted European Patents (EPs) Becomes a Mainstream Topic
=> Awful Quality of EPO-Granted European Patents (EPs) Becomes a Mainstream Topic
04.14.17 The Gradual Fall If Not Sudden Collapse of Patent Trolls Associated With Microsoft
=> The Gradual Fall If Not Sudden Collapse of Patent Trolls Associated With Microsoft
04.14.17 No, Bristows, UPC Won’t Happen Just Because You Mislead About It
=> No, Bristows, UPC Won’t Happen Just Because You Mislead About It
04.19.17 The Patent Microcosm Keeps Attacking Every Patent Office/System That is Doing the Right Thing
=> The Patent Microcosm Keeps Attacking Every Patent Office/System That is Doing the Right Thing
04.19.17 Another Final Nail in the UPC Coffin: UK General Election
=> Another Final Nail in the UPC Coffin: UK General Election
04.20.17 Bristows-Run IP Kat Continues to Spread Lies to Promote the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Advance the EPO Management’s Agenda
04.21.17 Expect Team UPC to Remain in Deep Denial About the Unitary Patent/Unified Court (UPC) Having No Prospects
04.22.17 The European Patent Office Has Just Killed a Cat (or Skinned a ‘Kat’)
=> The European Patent Office Has Just Killed a Cat (or Skinned a ‘Kat’)
04.22.17 Yann Ménière Resorts to Buzzwords to Recklessly Promote Floods of Patents, Dooming the EPO Amid Decline in Patent Applications
04.23.17 EPO Staff Representatives Fired Using “Disciplinary Committee That Was Improperly Composed” as Per ILO’s Decision
04.23.17 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part IX: Testament to the Fear of an Autocratic Regime
=> Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part IX: Testament to the Fear of an Autocratic Regime
04.23.17 Why Authorities in the Netherlands Need to Strip the EPO of Immunity and Investigate Fire Safety Violations
04.26.17 Blog ‘Takeovers’ by Bristows and Then Censorship: Now This Firm Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Then Deletes Comments That Point Out the Errors
04.27.17 China’s Suffering From Patent Maximalism Has Europe Forewarned
=> China’s Suffering From Patent Maximalism Has Europe Forewarned
04.27.17 The Latest Expensive PR Blitz of the EPO, Led by Jana Mittermaier and Rainer Osterwalder Under the ‘European Inventor Award’ Banner
04.29.17 Patent Snake Oil From Brunel University London and PatentDive
=> Patent Snake Oil From Brunel University London and PatentDive
04.30.17 Alice">High Courts in the United States Still Neither Grappling/Interfering With PTAB Nor Overturning Alice
04.30.17 Unified Patent Propaganda Courtesy of a Cabal of Firms That Constructed the UPC
=> Unified Patent Propaganda Courtesy of a Cabal of Firms That Constructed the UPC
05.01.17 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part X: When EPO Calls the Truth “Defamation”
=> Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part X: When EPO Calls the Truth “Defamation”
05.02.17 At IAM Event in Korea, Patent Trolls in the Panels and Advocacy of Software Patents From the EPO
=> At IAM Event in Korea, Patent Trolls in the Panels and Advocacy of Software Patents From the EPO
05.04.17 The EPO’s Administrative Council (AC) is “Amazingly Complicit” or “Awfully Compliant” (Like Much of the Media and Much of the System)
05.04.17 Latest WIPO Scandal, Echoing EPO Scandals, Demonstrates Freedom of the Press Coming Under Attack From International Patent Institutions
05.06.17 Translations and Speculations About Jesper Kongstad’s Planned Departure From the EPO
=> Translations and Speculations About Jesper Kongstad’s Planned Departure From the EPO
05.07.17 ILO Gives the European Patent Office Unfair Advantage in Disputes With Staff
=> ILO Gives the European Patent Office Unfair Advantage in Disputes With Staff
05.08.17 Death of ‘IP’ Media: Front Groups of Microsoft Described as “Representing SME Developers” by Bristows
05.08.17 The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) Against the European Patent Office (EPO), Lower House to Debate the Issue Today
05.08.17 All Members of the European Parliament Get Warned About the Deterioration at the European Patent Office (EPO)
05.09.17 (Almost) Live Blog From Today’s Debate About the EPO in Dutch Parliament (Updated)
=> (Almost) Live Blog From Today’s Debate About the EPO in Dutch Parliament (Updated)
05.09.17 ‘European Media Intervention Award’ (EIA), EPO Censorship, Self-Censorship, and Paid ‘Media Partners’
05.09.17 SUEPO Releases Statement About Its Complaint Regarding the EPO’s Immunity, Filed Yesterday at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg
05.10.17 English-Speaking Media Catches Up With Latest Twists in EPO Fiasco, Including Appeal to the European Court of Human Rights
05.10.17 English-Speaking Media Catches Up With Latest Twists in EPO Fiasco, Including Appeal to the European Court of Human Rights
05.10.17 Team UPC Still Twists and Fabricates Statements to Make It Seem Like Unitary Patent is Happening Soon
05.11.17 The Sickness of the EPO – Part IX: Using Confidential Medical Records as a Weapon Against Staff
=> The Sickness of the EPO – Part IX: Using Confidential Medical Records as a Weapon Against Staff
05.11.17 The EPO is in Disarray and Additional Complaints to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) May Be Imminent
05.11.17 By Promoting the UPC, in Defiance of Public Will, the EPO Has Become Patent Trolls’ Best Friend
=> By Promoting the UPC, in Defiance of Public Will, the EPO Has Become Patent Trolls’ Best Friend
05.12.17 The European Patent Office Has a Long History/Track Record of ‘Screwing’ Contractors
=> The European Patent Office Has a Long History/Track Record of ‘Screwing’ Contractors
05.14.17 The US Supreme Court Consults USPTO Director Michelle Lee Regarding the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Which is Invalidating Software Patents With CAFC’s Approval
05.20.17 EPO: Can the Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) Still Save It?
=> EPO: Can the Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) Still Save It?
05.21.17 Media and Staff Association Elections at EPO and WIPO Are Compromised
=> Media and Staff Association Elections at EPO and WIPO Are Compromised
06.05.17 EPO Workers May be About to Go on Strike Again
=> EPO Workers May be About to Go on Strike Again
06.10.17 The US Supreme Court Stops Software Patents While They Spread Elsewhere in the World
=> The US Supreme Court Stops Software Patents While They Spread Elsewhere in the World
06.11.17 German Media Would Rather Write Articles About Beer Than About Serious and Unprecedented EPO Scandals
06.11.17 European Patent Office May Become Just a Mirage of Examination Office, Much Like INPI (France)
=> European Patent Office May Become Just a Mirage of Examination Office, Much Like INPI (France)
06.11.17 The British Election May Have Just ‘Killed’ the Unitary Patent (UPC)
=> The British Election May Have Just ‘Killed’ the Unitary Patent (UPC)
06.12.17 Is the EPO Pushing Prepared ‘Articles’ (Ghostwriting) Through Shepard Fox Communications?
=> Is the EPO Pushing Prepared ‘Articles’ (Ghostwriting) Through Shepard Fox Communications?
06.12.17 The EPO is Committing Suicide by Granting Invalid Patents That No Recipient Should Ever Desire
=> The EPO is Committing Suicide by Granting Invalid Patents That No Recipient Should Ever Desire
06.12.17 German Barrier to the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Bound to Bring the Insidious Plans to a Halt
=> German Barrier to the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Bound to Bring the Insidious Plans to a Halt
06.12.17 Technical Incompetence at the European Patent Office (EPO)
=> Technical Incompetence at the European Patent Office (EPO)
06.13.17 In Spite of Censorship by IP Kat, Issues Associated With UPC Had Become Apparent, Even Before Germany Halted Ratification
06.13.17 A Massive Proponent of UPC, CIPA, Enters IP Kat, as Readers Call Out Stacked UPC ‘Panels’
=> A Massive Proponent of UPC, CIPA, Enters IP Kat, as Readers Call Out Stacked UPC ‘Panels’
06.13.17 The UPC Gravy Train is Claimed to Have Been “Halted” in Germany and More Oppositions or Constitutional Complaints Are on Their Way
06.14.17 Caricature: Balance of Justice at the European Patent Office
=> Caricature: Balance of Justice at the European Patent Office
06.14.17 Even UPC Proponents, Paid by the EPO’s PR Firm, Admit That UPC May Never Happen
=> Even UPC Proponents, Paid by the EPO’s PR Firm, Admit That UPC May Never Happen
06.15.17 EPO Management Wastes Millions of Euros on a Silly, Gratuitous, Self-Serving Festival While EPO Staff is Planning Another Strike
06.15.17 Software Patents in Europe Are Still Promoted by the EPO, Even in Defiance of the Ban
=> Software Patents in Europe Are Still Promoted by the EPO, Even in Defiance of the Ban
06.16.17 Leaked: European Patent Office Still Uses Microsoft Windows XP… in 2017
=> Leaked: European Patent Office Still Uses Microsoft Windows XP… in 2017
06.17.17 European Patent Office (EPO) Whistleblowing Guidelines
=> European Patent Office (EPO) Whistleblowing Guidelines
06.20.17 Contact Details for the EPO’s Administrative Council Delegations
=> Contact Details for the EPO’s Administrative Council Delegations
06.20.17 Another Suicide Reported at the EPO While the Paid-for Media Focuses on ‘European Inventor Award’ Charade
06.20.17 Don’t Forget to Vote for EPO Strike This Week (Thursday)
=> Don’t Forget to Vote for EPO Strike This Week (Thursday)
06.21.17 EPO’s Elodie Bergot Calls Staff Suicide Just ‘Passing Away’, Pretends to Care
=> EPO’s Elodie Bergot Calls Staff Suicide Just ‘Passing Away’, Pretends to Care
06.22.17 You Know That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is in Huge Peril When Its Biggest Fans Admit It’s Unlikely to Happen Even Next Year
06.23.17 Workers of the European Patent Office (EPO) Are Going on Strike Again, Almost 90% Voted in Favour
=> Workers of the European Patent Office (EPO) Are Going on Strike Again, Almost 90% Voted in Favour
06.24.17 Potential Targets of European Patent Office (EPO) Whistleblowing
=> Potential Targets of European Patent Office (EPO) Whistleblowing
06.24.17 The STRONGER Patents Act is One Among Several New Pushes for Patent Chaos in the United States
=> The STRONGER Patents Act is One Among Several New Pushes for Patent Chaos in the United States
06.24.17 The Tide Has Turned Against the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and It Finally Looks as ‘Alive’ as TPP
=> The Tide Has Turned Against the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and It Finally Looks as ‘Alive’ as TPP
06.25.17 Systemic Injustice at the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Causes Serious Harm to Complainants’ Health, Including EPO Complainants
06.25.17 The US Patent Office (USPTO) Should Now be Headed by Drew Hirshfeld, a Patent Examiner Who Rose to the Top, Not a Lawyer Like Joseph Matal
06.25.17 Wouter Pors Under Fire for Lying or Manipulating in the Name of the Unitary Patent (UPC)
=> Wouter Pors Under Fire for Lying or Manipulating in the Name of the Unitary Patent (UPC)
06.26.17 Latest EPO Caricature: Staff Committee Maintains Integrity
=> Latest EPO Caricature: Staff Committee Maintains Integrity
06.26.17 EPO Strikes in All Four EPO Sites for Two Days This Month and Next Month, Under the “Respect Staff” Banner
06.28.17 Ignore the Press Releases and Puff Pieces, the EPO is Going on Strikes
=> Ignore the Press Releases and Puff Pieces, the EPO is Going on Strikes
06.28.17 Bristows LLP is Still Trying to Attach Wings to the UPC and Distract From Serious (Likely Fatal) Barriers to It
06.29.17 Feedback From the Administrative Council Meeting at The Hague: Worse Than Anyone Expected
=> Feedback From the Administrative Council Meeting at The Hague: Worse Than Anyone Expected
06.29.17 European Patent Office is on Strike Until Tuesday and Insiders Study the New Head of the Organisation
06.29.17 Lack of Patent Quality at the EPO Already Leads to the Axing of Many European Patents (EPs) in Bulk
=> Lack of Patent Quality at the EPO Already Leads to the Axing of Many European Patents (EPs) in Bulk
06.29.17 The UPC’s Figurehead, Alexander Ramsay, Admits UPC is Stuck, Bristows LLP Comes Up With ‘Alternative Facts’
06.30.17 Former ‘Kats’ Debunk IP Kat (Bristows) on Unitary Patent, Insisting It May Even be Dead
=> Former ‘Kats’ Debunk IP Kat (Bristows) on Unitary Patent, Insisting It May Even be Dead
07.01.17 The Future of the EPO Does Not Look Encouraging as Injustice and Abuse Carry On While the Press Looks the Other Way
07.02.17 The Decline in Patent Quality at the European Patent Office (EPO) Already Causes Mass Abandonment of Patents
07.03.17 India Has No Software Patents “Per Se” Just Like Europe Has No Software Patents “As Such”
=> India Has No Software Patents “Per Se” Just Like Europe Has No Software Patents “As Such”
07.03.17 4 Days of Strike in a Row (Including Weekend), But Tomorrow is No Independence Day at the EPO
=> 4 Days of Strike in a Row (Including Weekend), But Tomorrow is No Independence Day at the EPO
07.03.17 4 Days of Strike in a Row (Including Weekend), But Tomorrow is No Independence Day at the EPO
=> 4 Days of Strike in a Row (Including Weekend), But Tomorrow is No Independence Day at the EPO
07.05.17 Death Trap: The ‘New’ (Nouvel) Building of the EPO
=> Death Trap: The ‘New’ (Nouvel) Building of the EPO
07.06.17 Weeks Later, British Media Writes About British EPO Worker That Committed Suicide and the Administrative Council’s ‘Coverup’
07.06.17 No UPC Progress, Only Further Delays and Lots of Puff Pieces From the EPO and Bristows (Team UPC) Today
07.06.17 EPO Plans to Replace Examiners With Software, Yielding Poor Results
=> EPO Plans to Replace Examiners With Software, Yielding Poor Results
07.06.17 Elżbieta Bieńkowska Cares More About the Unitary Patent Coup D’état (Which She Encourages) Than She Cares About the Rule of Law and People’s Lives
07.08.17 The EPO Goes on a Greenwashing PR Campaign After Granting Patents on Life, Seeds, Plants and Genome
=> The EPO Goes on a Greenwashing PR Campaign After Granting Patents on Life, Seeds, Plants and Genome
07.08.17 Patent Trolls Are Still a Problem, But Microsoft Remains One of the Biggest Patent Trolls (Non-Practicing in Mobile)
07.08.17 On the EPO’s Premises, Investigation After a Small Fall But Not After Suicide of Staff
=> On the EPO’s Premises, Investigation After a Small Fall But Not After Suicide of Staff
07.10.17 Subtle Shaming of EPO Staff by EPO Management Earlier Today
=> Subtle Shaming of EPO Staff by EPO Management Earlier Today
07.10.17 Lobbying Against the US Supreme Court’s Landmark Decision (Alice) by Bristows, IBM, David Kappos, IPO, ABA, AIPLA, Adam Mossoff and Kevin Madigan
07.13.17 Status and Potency of European Patents Compromised
=> Status and Potency of European Patents Compromised
07.16.17 Guest Post: Is Germany’s UPC Ratification Postponement Related to Problems at the EPO?
=> Guest Post: Is Germany’s UPC Ratification Postponement Related to Problems at the EPO?
07.16.17 Serious Factual Errors in UPC Coverage at Science|Business and Lack of Coverage in the General Media
=> Serious Factual Errors in UPC Coverage at Science|Business and Lack of Coverage in the General Media
07.22.17 Lack of Independence of the Boards of Appeal at the European Patent Organisation (EPO) a Fatal Blow for the UPC
07.22.17 Patent Troll MPEG-LA Expands From Software Patents to Patents on Life While USPTO is Virtually Headless
07.25.17 How the EPO’s Terrible Decisions May Implicate the Government of Germany and Lufthansa
=> How the EPO’s Terrible Decisions May Implicate the Government of Germany and Lufthansa
07.26.17 The ‘New’ IP Kat on Patents: A Front Group for Team UPC (Bristows) and CIPA (British Patent Microcosm)
07.26.17 The Latest Lies From the EPO (Regarding Quality) and the Reason the UPC Won’t Happen (Any Time Soon at Least)
07.27.17 Value of European Patents (EPs) is Diminishing, EPs Get Invalidated, and EPO Insiders Bemoan the Management’s Lies About Patent Quality
07.29.17 Anonymous Comments Discuss Erosion of Lawful Activity at the EPO, Lowered Patent Quality, Software Patents, and Trump Comparisons
07.30.17 PACE of Prosecution Prioritised Over Quality of Patents and Examination
=> PACE of Prosecution Prioritised Over Quality of Patents and Examination
07.31.17 German Media Finally Waking up to EPO Scandals?
=> German Media Finally Waking up to EPO Scandals?
08.01.17 Heiko Maas May Need to Belatedly Answer Complaint About Illegal Spying on Staff at the EPO
=> Heiko Maas May Need to Belatedly Answer Complaint About Illegal Spying on Staff at the EPO
08.01.17 90% of WIPR Readers Give Up Hope on Unitary Patent (UPC) in the UK, But Team UPC Keeps Lying About It
08.02.17 EPO: Germans “Discover That Behind the Mad Figures, the Granted Patents Are of Crap Quality and That This Does Not Serve Their Interests”
08.02.17 Vultures of the Financial World Are Ruining the Patent System
=> Vultures of the Financial World Are Ruining the Patent System
08.03.17 Antonio Campinos in Charge of the EPO Would Mean Greater EUIPO/EPO Overlap
=> Antonio Campinos in Charge of the EPO Would Mean Greater EUIPO/EPO Overlap
08.03.17 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part II: Andrej Matijević and Željko Topić
=> EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part II: Andrej Matijević and Željko Topić
08.03.17 High Cost of Erroneous Patent Grants
=> High Cost of Erroneous Patent Grants
08.04.17 The Next President of the EPO May Also be French and Without Background in Science
=> The Next President of the EPO May Also be French and Without Background in Science
08.05.17 Professor Siegfried Broß Has a Long New Article About the EPO
=> Professor Siegfried Broß Has a Long New Article About the EPO
08.07.17 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part VII: Immunity for Topić (EPO VP4) Just When He Really Needed It
08.08.17 Adobe Speaks Out Against Patent Maximalism and Software Patents Are on the Retreat
=> Adobe Speaks Out Against Patent Maximalism and Software Patents Are on the Retreat
08.08.17 EPO Already Thinks It’s the UPC (Which Will Likely Never Happen)
=> EPO Already Thinks It’s the UPC (Which Will Likely Never Happen)
08.09.17 Sinking Patent Quality at the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO)
=> Sinking Patent Quality at the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO)
08.09.17 When It Comes to Software Patents, the EPO Has Become Among the Worst in the World
=> When It Comes to Software Patents, the EPO Has Become Among the Worst in the World
08.11.17 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part X: In Closing
=> EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part X: In Closing
08.12.17 The Corruption of the European Patent Office and CIPO’s (Canada) Participation in This
=> The Corruption of the European Patent Office and CIPO’s (Canada) Participation in This
08.15.17 The EPO is Paying Journalists For Trips Abroad and May be Buying Fake Twitter Followers (Still)
=> The EPO is Paying Journalists For Trips Abroad and May be Buying Fake Twitter Followers (Still)
08.15.17 The Collapse of Patent Quality at the EPO is Inviting to Europe Some of the World’s Worst Patent Trolls
08.18.17 The Staff Union of the EPO Has Long Warned About Declining Patent Quality
=> The Staff Union of the EPO Has Long Warned About Declining Patent Quality
08.18.17 The EPO’s Management Needs a Perception of Security Crisis
=> The EPO’s Management Needs a Perception of Security Crisis
08.20.17 Quality of European Patents Has Sunk, Value Diminished
=> Quality of European Patents Has Sunk, Value Diminished
08.22.17 Bristows LLP Tries Hard to Maintain the Illusion That UPC is Alive, Using Media Placements and Paid Plugs
08.23.17 UPC Hopefuls (Litigation Firms) Come to Life Amid Unitary Patent EPO Text, But Nothing New to See Here
08.25.17 At EPO, “Producing Stronger Patents (or Being Able to Produce Them) is Also a Matter of Professional Pride for the Examiners”
08.27.17 How Much Longer Can Guy Ryder and Claude Rouiller Ignore Abuses and Cement Injustice at the EPO?
=> How Much Longer Can Guy Ryder and Claude Rouiller Ignore Abuses and Cement Injustice at the EPO?
08.29.17 Hiring of German Judges for UPC Has Been Halted as the Future of UPC as a Whole Now in Doubt
=> Hiring of German Judges for UPC Has Been Halted as the Future of UPC as a Whole Now in Doubt
08.31.17 EPO Silencers of the Media – Part II: EPO-Funded Vice-President Topić Has Ongoing SLAPP Cases
=> EPO Silencers of the Media – Part II: EPO-Funded Vice-President Topić Has Ongoing SLAPP Cases
08.31.17 The Dark Side of WIPO and Attempts to Suppress Information Mirror the EPO’s Tactics
=> The Dark Side of WIPO and Attempts to Suppress Information Mirror the EPO’s Tactics
08.31.17 Trump’s USPTO Nominee is a Supporter of Software Patents
=> Trump’s USPTO Nominee is a Supporter of Software Patents
09.01.17 EPO Silencers of the Media – Part III: EPO Vice-President Topić Takes Association of Writers and Journalists to Court
09.02.17 Japan (Kyoto) Based Nintendo Suffers From Texas, the World’s Capital of Patent Litigation
=> Japan (Kyoto) Based Nintendo Suffers From Texas, the World’s Capital of Patent Litigation
09.03.17 EPO Silencers of the Media – Part IV: Response to SLAPP Tactics From EPO Vice-President Željko Topić
=> EPO Silencers of the Media – Part IV: Response to SLAPP Tactics From EPO Vice-President Željko Topić
09.03.17 What Germany and the EPO Could (and Should) Learn From Australia About Patent Scope
=> What Germany and the EPO Could (and Should) Learn From Australia About Patent Scope
09.05.17 EPO Silencers of the Media – Part V: Jadranka Oklobdžija Versus EPO Vice-President Topić
=> EPO Silencers of the Media – Part V: Jadranka Oklobdžija Versus EPO Vice-President Topić
09.05.17 Today, Koen Lievens From EPO is Promoting Pursuits of Software Patents in Defiance of the European Rules
09.05.17 Deepening EPO Crisis and a New Report Titled “EPO Patent Filing a Rigged Game in Europe”
=> Deepening EPO Crisis and a New Report Titled “EPO Patent Filing a Rigged Game in Europe”
09.06.17 Juve Reveals That Ingve Stjerna is the ‘UPC Slayer’ While the EPO Continues to Lobby, Mislead
=> Juve Reveals That Ingve Stjerna is the ‘UPC Slayer’ While the EPO Continues to Lobby, Mislead
09.07.17 SUEPO Protests Against the Apparent Complicity of ILO in EPO Abuses
=> SUEPO Protests Against the Apparent Complicity of ILO in EPO Abuses
09.10.17 The EPO Has Become a Stasi and Newly-Recruited Staff Are Its Informants
=> The EPO Has Become a Stasi and Newly-Recruited Staff Are Its Informants
09.10.17 Latest Updates on UPC Constitutional Complaint in Germany and Brexit Barrier to UPC in Britain
=> Latest Updates on UPC Constitutional Complaint in Germany and Brexit Barrier to UPC in Britain
09.10.17 European Patent Office in Shambles and the EU’s Brexit Position Paper Suggests UPC is Off the Agenda
=> European Patent Office in Shambles and the EU’s Brexit Position Paper Suggests UPC is Off the Agenda
09.11.17 “Reprehensible” Judge Rodney Gilstrap Ignores the Supreme Court of the United States
=> “Reprehensible” Judge Rodney Gilstrap Ignores the Supreme Court of the United States
09.11.17 EPO Guest Article: “Pope” Benoît Refuses to Recognise Reformation Day 2017!
=> EPO Guest Article: “Pope” Benoît Refuses to Recognise Reformation Day 2017!
09.11.17 Ingve Stjerna’s Complaint Casts a Shadow Over the Unconstitutional Unified Patent Court (UPC)
=> Ingve Stjerna’s Complaint Casts a Shadow Over the Unconstitutional Unified Patent Court (UPC)
09.13.17 Latest Attempts to Blow Air Into the Sails of the Sinking Unitary Patent (UPC)
=> Latest Attempts to Blow Air Into the Sails of the Sinking Unitary Patent (UPC)
09.15.17 Watchtroll Helps the EPO Peddle Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
=> Watchtroll Helps the EPO Peddle Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
09.15.17 The UPC Fantasy is Going Nowhere as Complaints and Paperwork Pile Up
=> The UPC Fantasy is Going Nowhere as Complaints and Paperwork Pile Up
09.17.17 Citing the European Patent Convention, Spanish Court Tosses Lawsuit With EPO-Granted European Patent
=> Citing the European Patent Convention, Spanish Court Tosses Lawsuit With EPO-Granted European Patent
09.21.17 The Latest Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and CIPO’s Participation in Those
=> The Latest Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and CIPO’s Participation in Those
09.21.17 In an Effort to Push the Unitary Patent (UPC), EPO and the Liar in Chief Spread the Famous Lie About SMEs
09.21.17 UPC Threatens to Weaponise Software Patents in Countries That Forbade These
=> UPC Threatens to Weaponise Software Patents in Countries That Forbade These
09.22.17 Intellectual Ventures, GNU/Linux/Android/FOSS Patents, and the Ascent of European Patent Trolls
=> Intellectual Ventures, GNU/Linux/Android/FOSS Patents, and the Ascent of European Patent Trolls
09.22.17 The EPO’s Latest Lies About the UPC and SMEs Unraveled, Long-Term Plan Described as Daunting
=> The EPO’s Latest Lies About the UPC and SMEs Unraveled, Long-Term Plan Described as Daunting
09.24.17 Fake News About Software Patents in the United States
=> Fake News About Software Patents in the United States
09.24.17 PTAB Supreme Court Case (Oil States) is a Case of Patent Parasites Versus the Producing Industry
=> PTAB Supreme Court Case (Oil States) is a Case of Patent Parasites Versus the Producing Industry
09.26.17 EPO Lies About the UPC, Violations of Human Rights, and ‘Green’ European Patents
=> EPO Lies About the UPC, Violations of Human Rights, and ‘Green’ European Patents
09.27.17 EPO Now a Megaphone of IP Europe, a Front Group of Patent Maximalists
=> EPO Now a Megaphone of IP Europe, a Front Group of Patent Maximalists
09.28.17 The EPO Continues to Lie About the UPC and About SMEs, Even Several Times Per Day Now
=> The EPO Continues to Lie About the UPC and About SMEs, Even Several Times Per Day Now
09.28.17 The Effects of ILO and the EPO on Disability
=> The Effects of ILO and the EPO on Disability
09.30.17 Jesper Kongstad’s Last Day is Today, But the EPO Remains a Sordid Mess Like the UPC
=> Jesper Kongstad’s Last Day is Today, But the EPO Remains a Sordid Mess Like the UPC
10.02.17 Death of European Patent Quality: The EPO Officially Sends the Appeal Boards to Exile Despite the UPC Going Nowhere
10.02.17 The Software Patents/Litigation Industry is Dying in the United States and China Takes This Heavy Burden
10.04.17 Nepotism at the EPO Has Reached Truly Toxic Levels
=> Nepotism at the EPO Has Reached Truly Toxic Levels
10.04.17 EPO Management Gambled on Europe Being a Patent Litigation Hub/Capital, But It’s All Coming Down in Flames Now
10.05.17 EPO Makes European SMEs More Vulnerable to Litigation From the Former Soviet Union
=> EPO Makes European SMEs More Vulnerable to Litigation From the Former Soviet Union
10.08.17 Depressing State of Affairs at the European Patent Office (EPO)
=> Depressing State of Affairs at the European Patent Office (EPO)
10.09.17 EPO Protest at 12:30 in Munich and Why EPO Staff Should Attend
=> EPO Protest at 12:30 in Munich and Why EPO Staff Should Attend
10.10.17 Judge Cuno Tarfusser Wants to Become the Next EPO President
=> Judge Cuno Tarfusser Wants to Become the Next EPO President
10.11.17 With Surveillance Recruits at the EPO, Are (or Were) DNA Tests Ever on the Agenda?
=> With Surveillance Recruits at the EPO, Are (or Were) DNA Tests Ever on the Agenda?
10.12.17 Truly Terrible ‘Journalism’ About António Campinos Boils Down to Lobbying and Agenda-Pushing
=> Truly Terrible ‘Journalism’ About António Campinos Boils Down to Lobbying and Agenda-Pushing
10.14.17 Lying and Faking Now a Standard Procedure at the European Patent Office
=> Lying and Faking Now a Standard Procedure at the European Patent Office
10.14.17 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Rotting Like the European Patent Office
=> The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Rotting Like the European Patent Office
10.15.17 Articles in English and German Speak About the Decline in Quality of European Patents (Granted by the EPO)
10.16.17 Monika Ermert’s Reports About the Crisis at the EPO and IP Kat’s Uncharacteristically Shallow Coverage
10.16.17 The Systematic Erosion of Workers’ Rights and Holidays at the EPO Goes Years Back
=> The Systematic Erosion of Workers’ Rights and Holidays at the EPO Goes Years Back
10.17.17 EPO Stakeholders Complain That the New Chairman Does Not Grasp the Issues at the EPO (or Denies These)
10.18.17 Patent Firms From the United States Try Hard to Push the Unitary Patent (UPC), Which Would Foment Litigation Wars in Europe
10.18.17 The Darker Past of the Next President of the EPO – Part I: Introduction
=> The Darker Past of the Next President of the EPO – Part I: Introduction
10.18.17 Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) Willing to Work With Campinos But Foresees Difficulties
=> Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) Willing to Work With Campinos But Foresees Difficulties
10.19.17 The Darker Past of the Next President of the EPO – Part II: António Campinos at Banco Caixa Geral de Depósitos
10.19.17 SUEPO to the Media, Regarding Campinos: “No Comment, It’s Too Dangerous”
=> SUEPO to the Media, Regarding Campinos: “No Comment, It’s Too Dangerous”
10.19.17 Juve Has Confirmed That António Campinos is French
=> Juve Has Confirmed That António Campinos is French
10.19.17 António Campinos: A True EPO Reformer or More of the Same?
=> António Campinos: A True EPO Reformer or More of the Same?
10.19.17 The Spanish Supreme Court Rejects the EPO’s “Problem and Solution Approach” While Quality of European Patents Nosedives
10.21.17 In the United States, the Patent ‘Industry’ is a Dying Breed and China Adopts This Destructive Force
=> In the United States, the Patent ‘Industry’ is a Dying Breed and China Adopts This Destructive Force
10.21.17 US Patents Appeal Board Attacked by the Patent ‘Industry’, Defended by Federal Courts, and Dodged by Patent Trolls
10.22.17 Management by Intimidation Has Caused Deaths at the European Patent Office (EPO)
=> Management by Intimidation Has Caused Deaths at the European Patent Office (EPO)
10.22.17 The Darker Past of the Next President of the EPO – Part IV: Links Between CGD (Former Employer of António Campinos) and the INPI
10.22.17 The Darker Past of the Next President of the EPO – Part IV: Links Between CGD (Former Employer of António Campinos) and the INPI
10.22.17 Speaking of “Social Democracy” While Suffering Extreme Democratic Deficiency
=> Speaking of “Social Democracy” While Suffering Extreme Democratic Deficiency
10.22.17 The EPO No Longer Measures Quality of Patents; Instead It Publishes Fake Statistics
=> The EPO No Longer Measures Quality of Patents; Instead It Publishes Fake Statistics
10.23.17 IP Kat Participates in Deletion of Information About EPO Scandals
=> IP Kat Participates in Deletion of Information About EPO Scandals
10.23.17 In the European Patent Office, One Gets Rewarded for Mentally Torturing (‘Interrogating’) Staff
=> In the European Patent Office, One Gets Rewarded for Mentally Torturing (‘Interrogating’) Staff
10.23.17 SUEPO Has Just Warned That Patent Quality at the EPO is About to Get Even Worse
=> SUEPO Has Just Warned That Patent Quality at the EPO is About to Get Even Worse
10.24.17 What If Lionel Baranes Was EPO President?
=> What If Lionel Baranes Was EPO President?
10.24.17 Freedom of Expression is Dying Not Only at the EPO But Also Outside the EPO (Media Coverage of the EPO)
10.25.17 IP Kat Admits It Was Its Own Choice to Censor (Delete) Many Comments About the European Patent Office
10.26.17 The EPO is Breaking the Law and Its Employees Cannot Speak About It (Updated)
=> The EPO is Breaking the Law and Its Employees Cannot Speak About It (Updated)
10.26.17 Big Blow for the Unitary Patent (UPC) as Even Patent Professionals Say “It’s Dead”
=> Big Blow for the Unitary Patent (UPC) as Even Patent Professionals Say “It’s Dead”
10.26.17 Professor Siegfried Broß Again Complains About the Situation at the EPO and Issues With the UPC
=> Professor Siegfried Broß Again Complains About the Situation at the EPO and Issues With the UPC
10.28.17 French Politician Claudine Lepage Confronts the EPO Again, Mentions the Hague Court
=> French Politician Claudine Lepage Confronts the EPO Again, Mentions the Hague Court
10.28.17 The Financial Handling of the EPO is Incredibly Scandalous
=> The Financial Handling of the EPO is Incredibly Scandalous
10.28.17 Patent Scope in Europe Should Not be Decided by the Self-Serving Patent Law Firms, But They Totally Dominate the Media
10.30.17 Irregularities at the EPO and UPC (Unitary Patent) Dodgy Dealings Should Draw Ire
=> Irregularities at the EPO and UPC (Unitary Patent) Dodgy Dealings Should Draw Ire
10.30.17 Belgium’s Jérôme Debrulle, the EPO and the UPC Connection
=> Belgium’s Jérôme Debrulle, the EPO and the UPC Connection
10.30.17 The Diminishing Value of European Patents (EPs)
=> The Diminishing Value of European Patents (EPs)
11.02.17 UPC is Collapsing, But Bristows LLP is Pushing Propaganda Into the Media, Which Gives Misleading News
11.02.17 University College London (UCL) Becomes Part of the Patent Fanatics Lobby, Supported by the EPO’s PR Firm FTI Consulting
11.04.17 In October, Silence in the Media Regarding EPO Scandals Turned From Self-Censorship Into Censorship
=> In October, Silence in the Media Regarding EPO Scandals Turned From Self-Censorship Into Censorship
11.08.17 Jacques Michel’s EUROPATIS and Questel at EPOPIC Event, Which EPO Uses for Lobbying Purposes
=> Jacques Michel’s EUROPATIS and Questel at EPOPIC Event, Which EPO Uses for Lobbying Purposes
11.08.17 Kluwer Patent Blog is Down/Sabotaged, But UPC and EPO Spin Carries on in Other Sites
=> Kluwer Patent Blog is Down/Sabotaged, But UPC and EPO Spin Carries on in Other Sites
11.09.17 Administrative Council of the EPO is Concerned That the Office is Largely German and Male, Recruitment Bar Has Fallen
11.09.17 The EPO in the Hands of Politicians Who Serve Their Towns Rather Than Users of the EPO
=> The EPO in the Hands of Politicians Who Serve Their Towns Rather Than Users of the EPO
11.09.17 Consensus Around the High Likelihood That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead and Backlash Against Deniers of It
11.11.17 Next EPO President Will Continue a Cooperation Which Does Not Exist
=> Next EPO President Will Continue a Cooperation Which Does Not Exist
11.13.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead to the EPO and ANSERA is Not the Answer as Patent Quality Declines and Talented Staff Leaves
11.13.17 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby is Losing the Battle for Europe
=> The Patent Trolls’ Lobby is Losing the Battle for Europe
11.14.17 Decline of Skills Level of Staff Like Examiners and Impartiality (Independence) of Judges at the EPO Should Cause Concern, Alarm
11.15.17 The EPO is Now Corrupting Academia, Wasting Stakeholders’ Money Lying to Stakeholders About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
11.15.17 Declines in Patent Quality at the EPO and ‘Independent’ Judges Can No Longer Say a Thing
=> Declines in Patent Quality at the EPO and ‘Independent’ Judges Can No Longer Say a Thing
11.16.17 EPO Continues to Disobey the Law on Software Patents in Europe
=> EPO Continues to Disobey the Law on Software Patents in Europe
11.17.17 Today’s EPO and Team UPC Do Not Work for Europe But Actively Work Against Europe
=> Today’s EPO and Team UPC Do Not Work for Europe But Actively Work Against Europe
11.17.17 EPO ‘Business’ From the United States Has Nosedived and UPC is on Its Death Throes
=> EPO ‘Business’ From the United States Has Nosedived and UPC is on Its Death Throes
11.23.17 The European Patent Office Has Become the ‘Foxconn’ of Patent Offices
=> The European Patent Office Has Become the ‘Foxconn’ of Patent Offices
11.25.17 EPO Becoming Like China is Something to Worry About, Not Something to Celebrate
=> EPO Becoming Like China is Something to Worry About, Not Something to Celebrate
11.25.17 Raw: The EPO’s Elodie Bergot Suppressed Staff Representation While Cracking Down on Staff’s Rights
=> Raw: The EPO’s Elodie Bergot Suppressed Staff Representation While Cracking Down on Staff’s Rights
11.25.17 Raw: Central Staff Committee Requested EPO Audit by Transparency International One Year Before EPO Simply Hired Transparency International’s Director to Become EPO Spokesperson
11.25.17 Raw: Stacking the Deck to Interfere With a Fair Election at the EPO
=> Raw: Stacking the Deck to Interfere With a Fair Election at the EPO
11.25.17 EPO Uses Bunk ‘Study’ and Team UPC Uses Italy to Prop Up Delusions About the Unitary Patent
=> EPO Uses Bunk ‘Study’ and Team UPC Uses Italy to Prop Up Delusions About the Unitary Patent
11.25.17 Even UPC Proponents Admit UPC is Dead: “This is the End, My Friend”
=> Even UPC Proponents Admit UPC is Dead: “This is the End, My Friend”
11.26.17 Patently-O is Still Trying to Derail Patent Reform in the United States
=> Patently-O is Still Trying to Derail Patent Reform in the United States
11.28.17 EPO Budget (Users’ Money) Has Been Corrupting Media and Academia
=> EPO Budget (Users’ Money) Has Been Corrupting Media and Academia
11.28.17 Pressure is Growing for Christoph Ernst to Stop Destruction of Career System Ahead of Arrival of Campinos as EPO President
11.28.17 EPO is Already Going ‘Dark’ Like in China
=> EPO is Already Going ‘Dark’ Like in China
11.28.17 French Stress Levels at the EPO and Replacement of Patent Quality With ‘Autopilot’ (Like INPI, France)
11.29.17 EPO Spreads Two Lies Today, One About Patent ‘Production’ and Another About ‘Quality’
=> EPO Spreads Two Lies Today, One About Patent ‘Production’ and Another About ‘Quality’
11.30.17 ILO is About to Publish “Exceptional” Decisions, Most of Them Regarding the EPO
=> ILO is About to Publish “Exceptional” Decisions, Most of Them Regarding the EPO
11.30.17 EPO’s Minnoye “Pushed for Quick Searches and Quick Grants, With the Result That Every Recent File Was De Facto Dealt With Under PACE.”
11.30.17 EPO Fiasco Deepens While the Media Writes Puff Pieces About the EPO
=> EPO Fiasco Deepens While the Media Writes Puff Pieces About the EPO
12.01.17 Irish Media Coverage of the EPO
=> Irish Media Coverage of the EPO
12.02.17 The European Patent Office No Longer Acts Like a Patent Office But a Prosecutor
=> The European Patent Office No Longer Acts Like a Patent Office But a Prosecutor
12.03.17 Guest Post: Free Dental Care in BRD (Banana Republik Deutschland)
=> Guest Post: Free Dental Care in BRD (Banana Republik Deutschland)
12.04.17 Raw: The EPO’s Pattern of Using “Security” as Pretext for Ban on Protests
=> Raw: The EPO’s Pattern of Using “Security” as Pretext for Ban on Protests
12.05.17 Unified Patent Court (UPC) is “Fata Morgana”
=> Unified Patent Court (UPC) is “Fata Morgana”
12.06.17 CEIPI and EPO: The Story So Far
=> CEIPI and EPO: The Story So Far
12.07.17 Less Than 24 Hours Later the EPO Already Refuses to Obey Court Orders From ILO (Updated)
=> Less Than 24 Hours Later the EPO Already Refuses to Obey Court Orders From ILO (Updated)
12.07.17 ILO Said Give the Judge His Job Back, But Christoph Ernst’s Administrative Council Will Likely Let Him Go (Unemployed)
12.08.17 Antonius Tangena From the European Patent Institute (EPI) ‘Aids’ Željko Topić’s Appointment at the European Patent Office (EPO)
12.08.17 European Media Covers the Latest EPO Scandal and the EPO’s Refusal to Obey Orders of a Court
=> European Media Covers the Latest EPO Scandal and the EPO’s Refusal to Obey Orders of a Court
12.08.17 EPO Scandal Spills Over to Irish Media, So It’s Time for the Backstory
=> EPO Scandal Spills Over to Irish Media, So It’s Time for the Backstory
12.08.17 SUEPO Announces Protest, EPO Distracts From the Scandal, and Readers Spill the Beans
=> SUEPO Announces Protest, EPO Distracts From the Scandal, and Readers Spill the Beans
12.11.17 Judge Corcoran Turns to His Government for Help and EPO ‘House Ban’ is Finally Lifted
=> Judge Corcoran Turns to His Government for Help and EPO ‘House Ban’ is Finally Lifted
12.12.17 Carl Josefsson Lets Judge Patrick Corcoran Come Back to Work at the EPO
=> Carl Josefsson Lets Judge Patrick Corcoran Come Back to Work at the EPO
12.12.17 German Media Helps Cover Up — Not Cover — the Latest EPO Scandal
=> German Media Helps Cover Up — Not Cover — the Latest EPO Scandal
12.12.17 The EPO Protest Tomorrow Isn’t Just About Judge Corcoran But About the EPO as a Whole
=> The EPO Protest Tomorrow Isn’t Just About Judge Corcoran But About the EPO as a Whole
12.12.17 Team UPC’s Tilmann Defends Rogue Vote at 1 AM in the Morning With Just 5% of Politicians (Those With Vested Interests) Attending
12.16.17 EPO Busy Distracting From Miscarriage/Abuse of Justice at the EPO (Both Office and Organisation)
=> EPO Busy Distracting From Miscarriage/Abuse of Justice at the EPO (Both Office and Organisation)
12.17.17 The EPO Has Found ‘Creative’ New Ways to Bribe the Media and Promote Software Patents
=> The EPO Has Found ‘Creative’ New Ways to Bribe the Media and Promote Software Patents
12.17.17 Raw: At the EPO “Social Democracy” is Actually a Euphemism for Authoritarian Regime
=> Raw: At the EPO “Social Democracy” is Actually a Euphemism for Authoritarian Regime
12.19.17 Today’s Report From the Administrative Council (AC) of the European Patent Organisation ‘Tackles’ the Most Important Issue: Judge Corcoran
12.19.17 Bavarian Regional Parliament Talks About the EPO’s Outrageous Decisions to Simply Disregard International Courts
12.19.17 PTAB Bashing in the US and the Attack on the Boards of Appeal in Europe All About Lowering Patent Quality
12.19.17 Secrecy Surrounds the Fate of Patrick Corcoran, Even AMBA is Being Kept in the Dark by Carl Josefsson
12.19.17 Dr. Siegfried Broß Says UPC is in Constitutional and Democratic Grey Area, Abuses at the European Patent Office Contribute to That
12.19.17 French and Korean Patent Trolls
=> French and Korean Patent Trolls
12.20.17 Christoph Ernst’s Inability to Rein in the European Patent Organisation Will Doom Everything
=> Christoph Ernst’s Inability to Rein in the European Patent Organisation Will Doom Everything
12.21.17 EPO Judicial Crisis Has Not Ended, But the Administrative Council Certainly Tries to Sell That Impression
12.21.17 Media Blackout in Most European Media Regarding the Latest Major EPO Scandal
=> Media Blackout in Most European Media Regarding the Latest Major EPO Scandal
12.23.17 Raw: How SUEPO Explained the EPO Situation Three Years Ago
=> Raw: How SUEPO Explained the EPO Situation Three Years Ago
12.23.17 Patent Quality Nosedives at EPO, Say Insiders Whose Permanent Contract is About to be Terminated in 8 Days to Increase Pressure to Grant Patents Sparingly
12.23.17 “Change of Attitude and Behaviour Needed,” Say Anonymous EPO Workers About the Management and Administrative Council
12.25.17 Raw: French-Led EPO Gives Air France Non-Exclusive Contract for All Staff Flights (Even Though EPO Lacks Branches in France)
12.25.17 Raw: PEACES Initiative of the Staff Union of the EPO
=> Raw: PEACES Initiative of the Staff Union of the EPO
12.25.17 Patent Justice Deficit Disorder
=> Patent Justice Deficit Disorder
12.25.17 Raw: SUEPO Connected the Unitary Patent (UPC) to Abuses at the European Patent Office
=> Raw: SUEPO Connected the Unitary Patent (UPC) to Abuses at the European Patent Office
12.26.17 Raw: Lack of Independence of the Boards of Appeal at the EPO Poses a Serious Issue for Unitary Patent-Type Regime (UPC)
12.26.17 Raw: Administrative Council of the EPO Was Warned 4 Years Ago About “Governance and Overall Reputation of the Organisation.”
12.26.17 Raw: EPO Had Sent to Staff Representatives Threatening Letters Similar to the Ones Sent to Techrights
12.26.17 Raw: “The EPO is Redefining the Words “Social” and “Democracy”.”
=> Raw: “The EPO is Redefining the Words “Social” and “Democracy”.”
12.26.17 Raw: EPO Paving the Way to Overstressed Patent Examiners and Decreased Patent Quality
=> Raw: EPO Paving the Way to Overstressed Patent Examiners and Decreased Patent Quality
12.27.17 The Unitary Patent is Dying or Dead, But Team UPC Might Rebrand Again and Reattempt
=> The Unitary Patent is Dying or Dead, But Team UPC Might Rebrand Again and Reattempt
12.28.17 Raw: Collective Accountability for Staff Committees Over Anonymous Letters?
=> Raw: Collective Accountability for Staff Committees Over Anonymous Letters?
12.28.17 Raw: EPO ‘Democracy’ With No Separation of Powers and No Access to Justice
=> Raw: EPO ‘Democracy’ With No Separation of Powers and No Access to Justice
12.28.17 Raw: Bergot and Topić Sent Threats to Hundreds of EPO Staff as Far Back as Half a Decade Ago
=> Raw: Bergot and Topić Sent Threats to Hundreds of EPO Staff as Far Back as Half a Decade Ago
12.28.17 Raw: LIFER Strike at the European Patent Office (EPO)
=> Raw: LIFER Strike at the European Patent Office (EPO)
12.28.17 Raw: EPO Stonewalled Staff Committee, Failing to Reply to About 30 Letters in Succession
=> Raw: EPO Stonewalled Staff Committee, Failing to Reply to About 30 Letters in Succession
12.28.17 UPC IT Working Group is Chasing Rainbows and Unicorns
=> UPC IT Working Group is Chasing Rainbows and Unicorns
12.28.17 EPO Remains in Defiance or Violation of ILO Rulings as Corcoran Contract Ends in 3 Days
=> EPO Remains in Defiance or Violation of ILO Rulings as Corcoran Contract Ends in 3 Days
12.28.17 Raw: European Patent Office’s Willy Minnoye Interferes With Discussion of EPO Policies
=> Raw: European Patent Office’s Willy Minnoye Interferes With Discussion of EPO Policies
12.29.17 European Patent Office Works With Blue Coat Systems, Enabler of Authoritarian Regimes
=> European Patent Office Works With Blue Coat Systems, Enabler of Authoritarian Regimes
12.29.17 Raw: EPO Compared to Thatcherism Amid Suppression of Bargaining/Strikes
=> Raw: EPO Compared to Thatcherism Amid Suppression of Bargaining/Strikes
12.29.17 Another Option for EPO Whistleblowers
=> Another Option for EPO Whistleblowers
12.29.17 Raw: Željko Topić Tries to Defend an Illegal Suppression of Labour Rights
=> Raw: Željko Topić Tries to Defend an Illegal Suppression of Labour Rights
12.30.17 Raw: International Labour Organisation on Incredible (and Unsuitable/Inadequate) Promotions at the European Patent Office
12.31.17 Raw: EPO Was Forewarned About the Investigative Unit (IU) Turning Against Law-Abiding Dissent Using Illegal Surveillance
12.31.17 Raw: Circular Decision-Making as Consultation at the EPO Done by Same Party That Suggests and Approves Changes
01.01.18 Raw: Central Staff Committee Explains the Upper Limb Disorder (ULD) Crisis at the EPO
=> Raw: Central Staff Committee Explains the Upper Limb Disorder (ULD) Crisis at the EPO
01.01.18 How Institut International des Brevets (IIB), INPADOC and Other Historic Endeavours Relate to EPO and DG1/DG2
01.01.18 Raw: EPO Violates ILO Rulings by Denying the Consultation Process Access to Vital Information
=> Raw: EPO Violates ILO Rulings by Denying the Consultation Process Access to Vital Information
01.01.18 Raw: The EPO’s Disregard for Christmas and New Year’s Days Off
=> Raw: The EPO’s Disregard for Christmas and New Year’s Days Off
01.01.18 Raw: Separation of Powers Obliterated by EPO President and Vice-Presidents
=> Raw: Separation of Powers Obliterated by EPO President and Vice-Presidents
01.02.18 2018 Starts at the EPO and Both EPC and UPC Are in State of Crisis
=> 2018 Starts at the EPO and Both EPC and UPC Are in State of Crisis
01.03.18 EPO Management Claims “Higher Quality Patents” and Everyone at the EPO Knows That It’s a Face-Saving Lie
01.03.18 Job Applicants at the EPO Disappointed, Reference Made in Interview to Slavery
=> Job Applicants at the EPO Disappointed, Reference Made in Interview to Slavery
01.05.18 The EPO’s Attack on the Boards of Appeal Dooms the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Team UPC Alters Its Tactics
01.06.18 Staff of the EPO Has Had No Concrete Participatory Role at the EPO for at Least 7 Years
=> Staff of the EPO Has Had No Concrete Participatory Role at the EPO for at Least 7 Years
01.06.18 The European Patent Office Suffers an Unprecedented Patent Quality Crisis Reminiscent of the World’s Worst Offices
01.06.18 Sane Responses to the Latest Pressure From Team UPC Amid Brexit Negotiations
=> Sane Responses to the Latest Pressure From Team UPC Amid Brexit Negotiations
01.07.18 China’s Self-Destructive Patent Policy Will Replace Assembly Lines of Products With Assembly Lines of Low-Quality Patents and Lawsuits
01.08.18 How the Creation of a Role for ‘Chief Information Officer’ at the EPO Came About
=> How the Creation of a Role for ‘Chief Information Officer’ at the EPO Came About
01.09.18 For European Patents to Maintain Value the EPO Must Fix Patent Quality and Attract ‘Expensive’ (High-Calibre) Staff
01.10.18 The European Parliament JURI Mission to Munich Looks Like Complicity With EPO Abuses
=> The European Parliament JURI Mission to Munich Looks Like Complicity With EPO Abuses
01.10.18 Jo Johnson’s Departure is Another Major Blow for Team UPC (Unified Patent Court)
=> Jo Johnson’s Departure is Another Major Blow for Team UPC (Unified Patent Court)
01.11.18 126th Session of the ILO Administrative Tribunal is Around the Corner and EPO Staff Representatives Will Have Their Cases Heard Soon
01.14.18 2010: Blaming the Messenger (SUEPO) for Staff Unhappiness at the European Patent Office (EPO)
=> 2010: Blaming the Messenger (SUEPO) for Staff Unhappiness at the European Patent Office (EPO)
01.14.18 Budget at the EPO Decided Before Consultation
=> Budget at the EPO Decided Before Consultation
01.14.18 “Under the Intergovernmental EPC System It is Difficult to Speak of a Functional Separation of Powers”
01.14.18 European Patent Office Causes Physical Harm to Employees, Then Fires Them
=> European Patent Office Causes Physical Harm to Employees, Then Fires Them
01.16.18 EPO Management and Team UPC Carry on Lying About Unified Patent Court, Sinking to New Lows in the Process
01.17.18 EPO Board of Appeal Has an Opportunity to Stop Controversial Patents on Life
=> EPO Board of Appeal Has an Opportunity to Stop Controversial Patents on Life
01.17.18 Only Two Weeks on the Job, Judge Patrick Corcoran is Already Being Threatened by EPO Management
=> Only Two Weeks on the Job, Judge Patrick Corcoran is Already Being Threatened by EPO Management
01.18.18 Patent Prosecution Highway: Low-Quality Patents for High-Frequency Patent Aggressors
=> Patent Prosecution Highway: Low-Quality Patents for High-Frequency Patent Aggressors
01.19.18 The EPO Ignores This Week’s Decision Which Demonstrates Patent Scope Gone Awry; Software Patents Brought Up Again
01.20.18 Patent Quality (Not Numbers) as an Asset: Oppositions, Appeals and Rejections at the EPO
=> Patent Quality (Not Numbers) as an Asset: Oppositions, Appeals and Rejections at the EPO
01.22.18 How the Opposition to CRISPR Patents at the EPO Sent Shockwaves Through the Industry
=> How the Opposition to CRISPR Patents at the EPO Sent Shockwaves Through the Industry
01.23.18 Confidence in European Patents (EPs) is Eroding and Stakeholders Are Already Suffering
=> Confidence in European Patents (EPs) is Eroding and Stakeholders Are Already Suffering
01.23.18 Even More Uncertain a Future for the Independence of the EPO Boards of Appeal as Judge Corcoran Too Gets Sent to ‘Exile’
01.24.18 CRISPR Patent Debacle Demonstrated That Opposition Divisions Do Their Job, But Also Highlighted Serious Deficiency in Patent-Granting Process
01.25.18 The EPO is Already in Violation of ILO Rulings on Judge Corcoran
=> The EPO is Already in Violation of ILO Rulings on Judge Corcoran
01.25.18 Justice Still Elusive at the EPO and ILOAT, But a Glimmer of Hope Remains
=> Justice Still Elusive at the EPO and ILOAT, But a Glimmer of Hope Remains
01.25.18 Sam Gyimah Replaced Jo Johnson More Than a Fortnight Ago, But Team UPC Has Ignored It Until Now
=> Sam Gyimah Replaced Jo Johnson More Than a Fortnight Ago, But Team UPC Has Ignored It Until Now
01.25.18 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
01.27.18 Quality of Service and Quality of Patents at the EPO Are Both at Peril
=> Quality of Service and Quality of Patents at the EPO Are Both at Peril
01.27.18 Patents on Life at the European Patent Office (EPO)
=> Patents on Life at the European Patent Office (EPO)
01.27.18 Another Blow for the Unitary Patent (UPC) as More Delays Are Confirmed, Court Won’t Rule on Constitutional Issues Any Time Soon
01.30.18 ILO Has Once Again Let Down Labour at the EPO by Siding With Union Busters
=> ILO Has Once Again Let Down Labour at the EPO by Siding With Union Busters
01.30.18 A Danish Company Has Just Collapsed Due to Patent Quality Issues at the EPO
=> A Danish Company Has Just Collapsed Due to Patent Quality Issues at the EPO
01.30.18 The Failure of ILO’s Administrative Tribunal Highlights Poor State of Justice in Europe and Worldwide
01.31.18 Even Kluwer Patent Blog Decides to Comment on the EPO’s Bizarre Financial Behaviour
=> Even Kluwer Patent Blog Decides to Comment on the EPO’s Bizarre Financial Behaviour
01.31.18 Patent Justice at the EPO is as Bad as Justice for Workers
=> Patent Justice at the EPO is as Bad as Justice for Workers
01.31.18 The UPC/SEP/FRAND Lobby Has Resorted to Just Insulting the Opposition
=> The UPC/SEP/FRAND Lobby Has Resorted to Just Insulting the Opposition
02.01.18 Too Much to Cover Up at the EPO, the UN, and UN Agencies
=> Too Much to Cover Up at the EPO, the UN, and UN Agencies
02.03.18 The European Council Confirms That the Unitary/Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA) is “Outside the Legal Framework of the European Union”
02.08.18 When INPI Met INPI and IAM Met the EPO
=> When INPI Met INPI and IAM Met the EPO
02.08.18 The UPC Lobby Wants to Crush the Boards of Appeal (BoA) While EPO Changes Rules of Procedure of the BoA
02.09.18 Team UPC is Working Overtime to Impose UPC on Europe, Based on a Pile of Lies
=> Team UPC is Working Overtime to Impose UPC on Europe, Based on a Pile of Lies
02.11.18 The Patent Litigation ‘Industry’ Celebrates Outcome of Berkheimer v HP, But It’s Not About § 101
=> The Patent Litigation ‘Industry’ Celebrates Outcome of Berkheimer v HP, But It’s Not About § 101
02.11.18 Pharma Patents Have Become Harder to Enforce, So IAM Together With the Patent Microcosm Sets Up Lobbying Events
02.11.18 In Spite of Suppression Attempts, Resistance to UPC and EPO Tyranny Still Enters Kluwer Patent Blog
=> In Spite of Suppression Attempts, Resistance to UPC and EPO Tyranny Still Enters Kluwer Patent Blog
02.11.18 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby, IAM, Does Puff Pieces for GE’s Patent Litigation Arm (Soon to Keynote IAM Event)
02.13.18 Watch Out for Buzzwords That Are Used to Mask Patents on Software, Even in Europe
=> Watch Out for Buzzwords That Are Used to Mask Patents on Software, Even in Europe
02.13.18 EPO Opposition to CRISPR Patents Has Wide-Ranging and Far-Reaching Impact, But Mind Not the Lobbyists
02.14.18 The EPO Now Censors the Central Staff Committee Like It Used to Censor SUEPO
=> The EPO Now Censors the Central Staff Committee Like It Used to Censor SUEPO
02.14.18 The EPO’s Paid Promotion of Software Patents Gets Patent Maximalists All Excited and Emboldened
=> The EPO’s Paid Promotion of Software Patents Gets Patent Maximalists All Excited and Emboldened
02.14.18 No, Britain is Not Ratifying ‘Unitary’ Anything, But Team UPC Insinuates It Will (Desperate Effort to Affect Tomorrow’s Outcome)
02.15.18 Bavarian State Parliament Has Upcoming Debate About Issues Which Can Thwart UPC for Good
=> Bavarian State Parliament Has Upcoming Debate About Issues Which Can Thwart UPC for Good
02.15.18 Speech Deficit and No Freedom of Association at the EPO
=> Speech Deficit and No Freedom of Association at the EPO
02.15.18 The EPO is Being Destroyed and There’s Nothing Left to Replace It Except National Patent Offices
=> The EPO is Being Destroyed and There’s Nothing Left to Replace It Except National Patent Offices
02.15.18 The Latest Lies About Unitary Patent (UPC) and the EPO
=> The Latest Lies About Unitary Patent (UPC) and the EPO
02.17.18 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
02.20.18 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby, Bristows and IAM Among Others, Downplays Darts-IP/IP2Innovate Report About Rising If Not Soaring Troll Activity in Europe
02.20.18 Another Loud Warning From EPO Workers About the Decline of Patent Quality
=> Another Loud Warning From EPO Workers About the Decline of Patent Quality
02.20.18 The Patent Microcosm’s Embrace of Buzzwords and False Marketing Strives to Make Patent Examiners Redundant and Patent Quality Extremely Low
02.21.18 Rumour: European Patent Office to Lay Off a Significant Proportion of Its Workforce
=> Rumour: European Patent Office to Lay Off a Significant Proportion of Its Workforce
02.22.18 Further Attacks on EPO Staff and the Appeal Boards; Former EPO Boards of Appeal Member Speaks About EPO Scandals
02.22.18 As Expected, Bristows and Others Already Lying About UPC Status in Germany, But Doing This Anonymously (to Dodge Accountability for Lies)
02.23.18 EPO Roundup: Low Profile, Employment Changes, Patent Trolls, Refusal to Obey Courts, and Animal Breeding Patents
02.23.18 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Dead, But Spin From Team UPC is Now Abundant
=> The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Dead, But Spin From Team UPC is Now Abundant
02.25.18 Changes Introduced by the EPO’s Administrative Council Made It Abundantly Clear That Separation of Powers Does Not Exist for Independence of Judges
02.27.18 EPO Refuses to Admit that Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Dead, But It’s Boosting Others Who Are Lying About It for a Living
03.01.18 The Latest Bristows Spin Distracts From the Fact that Britain Has No Intention of Ratifying UPC and Brexit Agreement Altogether Omits It
03.01.18 Élodie Bergot Threatens Staff Representatives Who Spread Information About the EPO
=> Élodie Bergot Threatens Staff Representatives Who Spread Information About the EPO
03.01.18 European Patent Office (EPO) in Chaos and Attempting to Silence the Staff Would Only Exacerbate Matters
03.01.18 The UPC is Dead, But Team UPC is Lying to British Politicians in an Effort to Trick Them
=> The UPC is Dead, But Team UPC is Lying to British Politicians in an Effort to Trick Them
03.02.18 Élodie Bergot Meets Barbra Streisand: Here is the Letter the EPO’s Bergot is Trying Really Hard to Hide/Censor
03.03.18 China’s Patent System is a Trade Barrier and a Legal Wall Preventing Fair Competition With the Communist Party of China (CPC)
03.03.18 Next Week’s Annual Report From the EPO Will Say Nothing About Decline in Patent Quality
=> Next Week’s Annual Report From the EPO Will Say Nothing About Decline in Patent Quality
03.03.18 EPO Annual Report Will Dominate the News Next Week, Whereas Unitary Patent (UPC) is a Goner
=> EPO Annual Report Will Dominate the News Next Week, Whereas Unitary Patent (UPC) is a Goner
03.06.18 The European Patent Office is Buying ‘Alternative Facts’ and Its Annual Report Will be More of the Same
03.06.18 Dr. Thorsten Bausch: Quality of European Patents Going Down, “Likely Caused by the Current EPO Policy Focusing too Much on ‘Production’.”
03.06.18 There’s No Patent Trolls Problem in Europe, Say Law Firms That Represent and Front for Patent Trolls
=> There’s No Patent Trolls Problem in Europe, Say Law Firms That Represent and Front for Patent Trolls
03.07.18 The Right-Wing Alternative für Deutschland Opposes Unitary Patent (UPC), Just Like UKIP in Britain
=> The Right-Wing Alternative für Deutschland Opposes Unitary Patent (UPC), Just Like UKIP in Britain
03.07.18 EPO Annual Results/Report: Revenue From Patent Applications is Apparently Down Yet Again and Work is Running Out
03.08.18 EPO Hires External PR Agencies to Control Coverage of Its Annual Report, Deny Investigative Journalism
03.08.18 The European Patent Office (EPO) Ought to Lead in Patent Scope, Not Slide to the Bottom of the Pile
=> The European Patent Office (EPO) Ought to Lead in Patent Scope, Not Slide to the Bottom of the Pile
03.09.18 The EPO’s PR Department Receives Return on Investment (Puff Pieces) for Paying the Media
=> The EPO’s PR Department Receives Return on Investment (Puff Pieces) for Paying the Media
03.10.18 Watchtroll is Back to Attacking Judges of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Because It Can’t Tolerate Justice
03.12.18 Doubt Over Independence of Judges at the EPO Clouds Reason in Deciding Regarding Patents on Life
=> Doubt Over Independence of Judges at the EPO Clouds Reason in Deciding Regarding Patents on Life
03.13.18 EPO Staff Union Organises Protest to Complain About Inability “of the Office to Recruit the Highly Qualified Staff it Needs.”
03.13.18 Session in Bavaria to Discuss the Abuses of the European Patent Office Later Today
=> Session in Bavaria to Discuss the Abuses of the European Patent Office Later Today
03.13.18 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby (IAM) Already Pressures Andrei Iancu, Inciting a USPTO Director Against PTAB
03.13.18 Willy Minnoye (EPO) Threatened Staff With Disabilities Said to Have Been Caused by the EPO Work Pressures
03.15.18 Careful Not to Conflate UPC Critics With AfD or Anti-EU Elements
=> Careful Not to Conflate UPC Critics With AfD or Anti-EU Elements
03.15.18 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
03.15.18 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
03.16.18 Deleted EPO Tweets and Promotion of Software Patents Amid Complaints About Abuse and Demise of Patent Quality
03.17.18 The Patent ‘Printing Machine’ of the EPO Will Spawn Many Lawsuits and Extortions (Threats of Lawsuits), in Effect Taxing Europe
03.17.18 Luxembourg Can Become a Hub of Patent Trolls If the EPO Carries on With Its ‘Reforms’, Even Without the UPC
03.17.18 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Carries on Enforcing § 101, Invalidating Software Patents and Upsetting the Patent ‘Industry’ in the Process
03.18.18 China Has Become Very Aggressive With Patents
=> China Has Become Very Aggressive With Patents
03.19.18 Blocks and Paywalls Won’t Protect the Patent Trolls’ Lobby From Scrutiny/Fact-Checking
=> Blocks and Paywalls Won’t Protect the Patent Trolls’ Lobby From Scrutiny/Fact-Checking
03.19.18 News About Patents is Often Just Advertisements Composed Directly or Indirectly by Companies That Sell Patents and Patent Services
03.19.18 Patent Maximalists Keep Coming Up With New Terms and Buzzwords to Bypass the Practical Ban on Software Patents
03.22.18 Japan is Becoming Firmer on Patents, Whereas China Goes in the Opposite Direction
=> Japan is Becoming Firmer on Patents, Whereas China Goes in the Opposite Direction
03.23.18 The European Patent Office’s (EPO) Declining Patent Quality ‘Tackled’ by Making Appeals/Oppositions Harder and More Expensive
03.25.18 Where Opposition to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB, AIA) Has Come From Over the Past Week If Not Year
03.26.18 On Media Hype, Software Patents, and 35 U.S.C. § 101 Which Annuls Both
=> On Media Hype, Software Patents, and 35 U.S.C. § 101 Which Annuls Both
03.29.18 Patent Quality, Not Quantity, is What Really Matters
=> Patent Quality, Not Quantity, is What Really Matters
04.01.18 António Campinos Withdraws From Plan to Directly Run the EPO, Patent Office to be Run by Google ‘AI’ Instead
04.01.18 EPO is Untrustworthy
04.01.18 Anonymous USPTO Whistleblower Explained Internal Management Affairs Last Month
=> Anonymous USPTO Whistleblower Explained Internal Management Affairs Last Month
04.03.18 ‘Patent Imperialism’ in the United States and China
=> ‘Patent Imperialism’ in the United States and China
04.04.18 The European Patent Office (EPO) Will Need to Acknowledge It Has a Patent Quality Issue, Then Tackle It or Perish
04.04.18 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Breaks More Records, This Time Number of Post-Grant Review Petitions
04.05.18 ‘SIPO Europe’: More Low-Quality Patents at Lower Costs
=> ‘SIPO Europe’: More Low-Quality Patents at Lower Costs
04.07.18 Patent Maximalists Against Patent Quality and Against the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Organisation (EPO)
04.10.18 EPO in ‘Low Profile’ Mode, Only to be Mentioned in Relation to India’s Oil Drilling/Miners
=> EPO in ‘Low Profile’ Mode, Only to be Mentioned in Relation to India’s Oil Drilling/Miners
04.12.18 Patent Trolls in the United States Show the Importance of Stopping Software Patents (Trolls’ Favourite) Worldwide
04.14.18 Crisis of Quality at the EPO Extends to Staff (Notably Examiners) and Management as Institutional Integrity is Severely Compromised
04.14.18 Killing Patent Quality and Encouraging ‘Covert’ Software Patents Using the Buzzwords Du Jour
=> Killing Patent Quality and Encouraging ‘Covert’ Software Patents Using the Buzzwords Du Jour
04.16.18 With Liars Like These…
04.16.18 The European Patent Office Will Never Hold Its Destroyers Accountable
=> The European Patent Office Will Never Hold Its Destroyers Accountable
04.17.18 The EPO Continues to Lie About Patent Quality Whilst Openly Promoting Software Patents, Even Outside Europe
04.18.18 The EPO in 2018: Partnering With Saudi Arabia and Cambodia (With Zero European Patents)
=> The EPO in 2018: Partnering With Saudi Arabia and Cambodia (With Zero European Patents)
04.19.18 The Boards of Appeal at the European Patent Organisation (EPO) Complain That They Are Understaffed, Not Just Lacking the Independence They Depend on
04.21.18 Short: EPO’s “Working Party for Quality” is to Quality What the “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” is to Democracy
04.21.18 Short: EPO Explains to Examiners Why They Should and Apparently Can Grant Software Patents (in Spite of EPC)
04.21.18 Short: Highly Misleading and Unscientific Graphics From the EPO for an Illusion of Growth
=> Short: Highly Misleading and Unscientific Graphics From the EPO for an Illusion of Growth
04.22.18 The EPO is Dying and Those Who Have Killed It Are Becoming Very Rich in the Process
=> The EPO is Dying and Those Who Have Killed It Are Becoming Very Rich in the Process
04.22.18 Today’s European Patent Office Works for Patent Extremists and for Team UPC Rather Than for Europe or for Innovation
04.22.18 Short: Just Keep Repeating the Lie (“Quality”) Until People Might Believe It
=> Short: Just Keep Repeating the Lie (“Quality”) Until People Might Believe It
04.22.18 Shelston IP Keeps Pressuring IP Australia to Allow Software Patents and Harm Software Development
=> Shelston IP Keeps Pressuring IP Australia to Allow Software Patents and Harm Software Development
04.24.18 Patent Maximalists Step Things Up With Director Andrei Iancu and It’s Time for Scientists to Fight Back
04.26.18 Britain Has Not Fully Completed Unified Patent Court (UPC) Ratification and It Remains Incompatible With Brexit
04.26.18 With Unified Patent Court (UPC) on Its Death Throes, Team UPC Now Resorts to Promoting Pertinent Parts of the Agreement (UPCA)
04.26.18 World IP Day, a Propaganda Opportunity for Patent Maximalists, is Becoming More About Feminism
=> World IP Day, a Propaganda Opportunity for Patent Maximalists, is Becoming More About Feminism
04.27.18 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
04.28.18 Short: EPO Brags About EPO-Bribed Media Covering EPO-Funded ‘Study’
=> Short: EPO Brags About EPO-Bribed Media Covering EPO-Funded ‘Study’
04.28.18 In Protest of IP Kat No Longer Covering EPO Abuses, Märpel Rises in “R.I.P. Kat”
=> In Protest of IP Kat No Longer Covering EPO Abuses, Märpel Rises in “R.I.P. Kat”
04.28.18 New Zealand and India, Two Nations That Reject Software Patents, Are Still Besieged by Patent Law Firms
04.28.18 British Technology News Sites Point Out the Absurdity of Ratifying UPC in the UK Amid Brexit
=> British Technology News Sites Point Out the Absurdity of Ratifying UPC in the UK Amid Brexit
04.28.18 The EPO Grants Software Patents Under the ‘CII’ Umbrella, Mass Litigation in Europe Already a Problem
04.29.18 Short: Adding a Sense of Fear/Perceived Threat to the EPO With Number Plate Recognition (Surveillance)
04.29.18 Even Vocal Proponents of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Admit That There Are ‘Holes’ in the Announcement From Sam Gyimah
04.30.18 The European Patent System is Nowadays Based on a ‘Banana Republic’ Model
=> The European Patent System is Nowadays Based on a ‘Banana Republic’ Model
05.01.18 People Are Belatedly Asking All Those ‘Awkward’ Questions About UPC and the Lies Told by Team UPC
=> People Are Belatedly Asking All Those ‘Awkward’ Questions About UPC and the Lies Told by Team UPC
05.02.18 Not Enough Opposition/s to Wrongly-Granted European Patents
=> Not Enough Opposition/s to Wrongly-Granted European Patents
05.03.18 The European Patent Office Has Become a Kakistocracy
=> The European Patent Office Has Become a Kakistocracy
05.03.18 Bristows LLP Already Uses Kluwer Patent Blog and IP Kat as Its UPC Megaphone, Now IAM as Well
=> Bristows LLP Already Uses Kluwer Patent Blog and IP Kat as Its UPC Megaphone, Now IAM as Well
05.03.18 Marks & Clerk is Still Pushing Patent Maximalism Agenda in Europe and Britain, Including UPC/UPCA/Unitary Patent (UP)
05.04.18 From Saint-Germain-en-Laye to Strasbourg, Even the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Might Side With Nicolas Sárközy’s Thug at the EPO
05.06.18 Covering Software Patents For 12 Years
=> Covering Software Patents For 12 Years
05.07.18 Rumour: The European Patent Office Has Just ‘Done a Patrick Corcoran’ Again (Forced Removal)
=> Rumour: The European Patent Office Has Just ‘Done a Patrick Corcoran’ Again (Forced Removal)
05.08.18 Forward Pharma an Example of the Devastating Effect of Granting Patents in Error — A Problem Appeal Boards Must Correct
05.09.18 Barker Brettell is Wrong About Unified Patent Court (UPC) and the United Kingdom
=> Barker Brettell is Wrong About Unified Patent Court (UPC) and the United Kingdom
05.09.18 EPO Policy (Squashing Examination) is Already Crashing Stocks, Destroying Companies
=> EPO Policy (Squashing Examination) is Already Crashing Stocks, Destroying Companies
05.09.18 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Not Happening, But Kluwer Patent Blog Pretends It’s Already in Force
05.10.18 EPO Scandals Are Far Worse Than FIFA’s (or Even Emissionsgate/Dieselgate), But Will European Media Belatedly Realise This?
05.10.18 The EPO’s ‘Inventor Award’ Scam: Part I
=> The EPO’s ‘Inventor Award’ Scam: Part I
05.12.18 The EPO’s ‘Inventor Award’ Scam: Part II
=> The EPO’s ‘Inventor Award’ Scam: Part II
05.12.18 EPO Staff Deprived and Denied Basic Rights, Even Justice, But Almost Nobody in the ‘Mainstream’ Wants to Talk About It
05.13.18 Alice/Section 101 is Fine Because Copyrights Already Cover Software and Patents Are Inadequate for Code
05.13.18 EPO-Funded Propaganda for Software Patents Reaches as Far as East Asia and the EPO Then Brags About That
05.15.18 The EPO Has Become Extremely Corrupt and Dishonest
=> The EPO Has Become Extremely Corrupt and Dishonest
05.16.18 The EPO’s ‘Inventor Award’ Scam: Part III
=> The EPO’s ‘Inventor Award’ Scam: Part III
05.17.18 Today’s EPO Financially Rewards Abuses and Violations of the Law
=> Today’s EPO Financially Rewards Abuses and Violations of the Law
05.17.18 Rise in Patent Trolls’ Activity in Germany Noted Amid Declining Patent Quality at the EPO
=> Rise in Patent Trolls’ Activity in Germany Noted Amid Declining Patent Quality at the EPO
05.19.18 Aurélien Pétiaud’s ILO Case (EPO Appeal) an Early Sign That ILO Protects Abusers and Power, Not Workers
05.19.18 LOT Network is a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
=> LOT Network is a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
05.20.18 The Attacks on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Have Lost Momentum and the Patent Microcosm Begrudgingly Gives Up
05.20.18 António Campinos Will Push Toward a France-Based Unified Patent Court (UPC)
=> António Campinos Will Push Toward a France-Based Unified Patent Court (UPC)
05.22.18 Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans”: Cautionary Tale for the EPO?
=> Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans”: Cautionary Tale for the EPO?
05.22.18 Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans”: The Emperor’s New Investment Guidelines
=> Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans”: The Emperor’s New Investment Guidelines
05.22.18 France is Irrelevant to Whether or Not UPC Ever Becomes a Reality, Moving/Outsourcing de Facto Patent Examination to European Courts Managed in/Presided by France
05.23.18 EPO Validation in Former French Colonies That Have Zero European Patents
=> EPO Validation in Former French Colonies That Have Zero European Patents
05.23.18 Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans”: The Cautionary Tale of SIDRU and Its “Toxic Loans”
05.24.18 Perpetuating the Big Lie That Unitary Patent (UPC) is About to Kick Off
=> Perpetuating the Big Lie That Unitary Patent (UPC) is About to Kick Off
05.24.18 New EPO Caricature: The Rubber Stamp
=> New EPO Caricature: The Rubber Stamp
05.24.18 Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans”: The SIDRU “Toxic Loan” Débâcle and Criticism of Lamy From Local Opposition Groups
05.25.18 EPO, a Longtime Privacy Offender, Uses General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Day to Lie to the Public
05.25.18 The Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court (UPC): This Week’s Latest Spin and Lies
=> The Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court (UPC): This Week’s Latest Spin and Lies
05.26.18 Index for EPO and Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans” Series
=> Index for EPO and Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans” Series
05.26.18 Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans”: The SIDRU “Toxic Loan” Débâcle a Case of “Take the Money and Run…”
05.26.18 Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans”: Quo Vadis EPO?
=> Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans”: Quo Vadis EPO?
05.27.18 The Patent Extremists Resort to Trump-Styled China-Baiting in an Effort to Destroy US Patent Policy
=> The Patent Extremists Resort to Trump-Styled China-Baiting in an Effort to Destroy US Patent Policy
05.27.18 Software Patents Advocacy and UPC Lies Go Hand in Hand
=> Software Patents Advocacy and UPC Lies Go Hand in Hand
05.29.18 St. Germain’s “Système Lamy” and Its EPO Clone – Part 1: Rubber-stamp Committees and Secret Meetings
=> St. Germain’s “Système Lamy” and Its EPO Clone – Part 1: Rubber-stamp Committees and Secret Meetings
05.29.18 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 2: Misinformation and Silencing of Dissent
05.30.18 The European Patent Office: From Patent Maximalism to Corruption and Gerrymandering
=> The European Patent Office: From Patent Maximalism to Corruption and Gerrymandering
05.30.18 EUROCHAMBRES is an Echo Chamber of the Patent Litigation ‘Industry’ Hoping to Mislead the EU’s Competitiveness Council on UPC
05.30.18 St. Germain’s “Système Lamy” and Its EPO Clone – Part 3: Shooting the Messengers and Defaming Opponents
05.31.18 IP Kat is Still Acting as a Propaganda Front for UPC (and EU Software Patents) Lobbying by US-Based Front Groups
05.31.18 Software Patents Are a Dying Breed of Patents Except in China (and Maybe EPO)
=> Software Patents Are a Dying Breed of Patents Except in China (and Maybe EPO)
06.02.18 The European Patent Office Dominates Media Coverage in the Form of Paid-For Puff Pieces, Suppresses Coverage About Corruption
06.03.18 The Quality of Patents Really Matters Because Without It the Patents Will All Lose Value/Purpose
=> The Quality of Patents Really Matters Because Without It the Patents Will All Lose Value/Purpose
06.03.18 Finnegan, IAM and Other Proponents of Patent Trolls Try to Dominate the Debate About Patent Scope and Oversight
06.04.18 IAM and EPO Are Almost Inseparable
=> IAM and EPO Are Almost Inseparable
06.05.18 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
06.10.18 Everyone Talks About Apple’s Notorious Design Patents But Not About ‘Abstract’ European Patents Used Against Apple and Linux
06.11.18 Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe Blind to Its Participation in a Scam Around Patents on Nature
=> Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe Blind to Its Participation in a Scam Around Patents on Nature
06.12.18 The EPO’s ‘Expert’ Georg Weber is Still Advocating Software Patents in Europe (But He Disguises Them Using Buzzwords)
06.12.18 IPBC, a Patent Trolls-Funded Event of IAM, is Advancing the Attacks on Section 101/Alice
=> IPBC, a Patent Trolls-Funded Event of IAM, is Advancing the Attacks on Section 101/Alice
06.13.18 Buzzwords and Three-Letter Acronyms Still Abused by the EPO to Grant a Lot of Patents on Algorithms
=> Buzzwords and Three-Letter Acronyms Still Abused by the EPO to Grant a Lot of Patents on Algorithms
06.15.18 The ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI) Hype, Propped Up by Events of the European Patent Office (EPO), is Infectious and It Threatens Patent Quality Worldwide
06.15.18 In the United States the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, Which Assures Patent Quality, is Still Being Smeared by Law Firms That Profit From Patent Maximalism, Lawsuits
06.15.18 The EPO’s Response to the Open Letter About Decline in Patent Quality as the Latest Example of Arrogance and Resistance to Facts, Truth
06.17.18 The Affairs of the USPTO Have Turned Into Somewhat of a Battle Against the Courts, Which Are Simply Applying the Law to Invalidate US Patents
06.18.18 More Media Reports About Decline in Quality of European Patents (Granted by the EPO)
=> More Media Reports About Decline in Quality of European Patents (Granted by the EPO)
06.18.18 Beware Team UPC’s Biggest Two Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
=> Beware Team UPC’s Biggest Two Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
06.18.18 Diversity at the EPO
06.19.18 The Decline in Patent Quality at the EPO Causes Frivolous Lawsuits That Only Lawyers Profit From
=> The Decline in Patent Quality at the EPO Causes Frivolous Lawsuits That Only Lawyers Profit From
06.19.18 Articles About a Unitary Patent System Are Lies and Marketing From Law Firms With ‘Lawsuits Lust’
=> Articles About a Unitary Patent System Are Lies and Marketing From Law Firms With ‘Lawsuits Lust’
06.21.18 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
06.24.18 The ILO Tribunal: Is It Still Worthy of Our Trust?
=> The ILO Tribunal: Is It Still Worthy of Our Trust?
06.24.18 The Dangerous Adoption of Patents on Life and Nature
=> The Dangerous Adoption of Patents on Life and Nature
06.24.18 Patent Factory Europe (PFE) is a Patent Troll’s Publicity Stunt, Attempting to Frame a Predator as the Small Businesses’ Friend and Ally
06.24.18 Patent Extremism — Like All Extremes — Leads to Bad Outcomes
=> Patent Extremism — Like All Extremes — Leads to Bad Outcomes
06.24.18 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)
06.25.18 The EPO Seems to Have Corrupted ILO/ILO-AT Like It Corrupted the Media and Academia (Using ‘Toxic’ EPO Budget)
06.26.18 Something is Clearly Wrong and Patently Defunct at ILO/ILO-AT (Updated)
=> Something is Clearly Wrong and Patently Defunct at ILO/ILO-AT (Updated)
06.26.18 This Afternoon ILO Has an Opportunity to Salvage Its Reputation (or Reaffirm Growing Suspicions That It Has Been Compromised by the EPO)
06.27.18 J A Kemp Pushing the Boundaries of Patent Scope in Europe With Antibodies and SPCs
=> J A Kemp Pushing the Boundaries of Patent Scope in Europe With Antibodies and SPCs
06.27.18 Corruption at the EPO Should be a Subject Anybody Can Speak About, Even Insiders
=> Corruption at the EPO Should be a Subject Anybody Can Speak About, Even Insiders
06.27.18 SUEPO and EPO Staff Respond to Yesterday’s ILO-AT Rulings on Malika Weaver, Ion Brumme, and Elizabeth Hardon
06.29.18 WirtschaftsWoche Authors Articles About Corruption of the European Patent Office
=> WirtschaftsWoche Authors Articles About Corruption of the European Patent Office
06.29.18 Three Days Later Still Not a Single Word From the EPO About Union Busting Gone Awry and Court Orders to Reinstate/Promote Staff Representatives
06.29.18 Union Syndicale Fédérale: Apparently ILO Considered Kicking Out the EPO for Repeatedly Refusing and Failing to Obey the Law
06.30.18 Team UPC’s Radicals, Firms Like Bristows LLP, Have Decided That It’s Time to Change Constitutions to Accommodate Clearly Unconstitutional Unitary Patent (UPC)
07.01.18 PTAB Agrees With Patent Examiners on Rejections of Applications Based on Alice/Section 101, But Watch Out for the Spin
07.01.18 The EPO’s Attacks on Bloggers Other Than Me (and ILO-AT Being Utterly Unpredictable)
=> The EPO’s Attacks on Bloggers Other Than Me (and ILO-AT Being Utterly Unpredictable)
07.01.18 Welcoming António Campinos, New President of the European Patent Office
=> Welcoming António Campinos, New President of the European Patent Office
07.02.18 Asked by the Media Why European Inventor Award Was Held in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the EPO Refuses to Explain
07.03.18 First Act of António Campinos: Pushing the Unconstitutional Unitary Patent (UPC)
=> First Act of António Campinos: Pushing the Unconstitutional Unitary Patent (UPC)
07.04.18 António Campinos Tries to Come Across as a Goodwill Manager, But He Will be Judged by His Actions, Not by His Words
07.04.18 Staff Union of the EPO: “ILO-AT Remains Very Much an Employer’s Court” (Not Employees’)
=> Staff Union of the EPO: “ILO-AT Remains Very Much an Employer’s Court” (Not Employees’)
07.05.18 Abstract Ideas and Mental (Thoughts) Type of Claims Still Deemed Patent-Ineligible, Buzzwords Are Used Instead
07.05.18 No, Europe Does Not Gear up for the Unitary Patent, But Team UPC Wants Everyone to Think So and EPO Amplifies These Lies
07.06.18 Team UPC Suggested Changing Constitutions to Facilitate the Unconstitutional UPC. It Didn’t Go Well…
=> Team UPC Suggested Changing Constitutions to Facilitate the Unconstitutional UPC. It Didn’t Go Well…
07.07.18 One Week of António Campinos at the EPO: Early Uncertainty
=> One Week of António Campinos at the EPO: Early Uncertainty
07.07.18 IAM Keeps Promoting Brian Yates and His New Patent Troll, iPEL, Which is About to Become Very Aggressive
07.08.18 In Spite of Resistance From the Patent Microcosm the USPTO Strives to Improve Patent Quality
=> In Spite of Resistance From the Patent Microcosm the USPTO Strives to Improve Patent Quality
07.09.18 Actions — Not Mere Words — Are Needed to Improve Patent Quality and Climate at the European Patent Office
07.11.18 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’
07.12.18 It’s Not About EPO ‘Backlog’ But About Faking ‘Production’ by Lowering Standards
=> It’s Not About EPO ‘Backlog’ But About Faking ‘Production’ by Lowering Standards
07.13.18 Weeks Later António Campinos Still in Noncompliance With the Courts (ILO’s Tribunal)
=> Weeks Later António Campinos Still in Noncompliance With the Courts (ILO’s Tribunal)
07.13.18 Constitutionality and CJEU as Barriers, the UPC Agreement (UPCA) is Already Moot in the United Kingdom
07.14.18 Number of Oppositions to Grants/Awards of European Patents at the EPO Has Skyrocketed, Based on Internal Data
07.14.18 ‘Transaction’ Complete: Former EPO Executive From Belgium Takes the Seat of António Campinos at EU-IPO
07.15.18 Cautionary Tale: ILO Administrative Tribunal Cases (Appeals) ‘Intercepted’ Under António Campinos
=> Cautionary Tale: ILO Administrative Tribunal Cases (Appeals) ‘Intercepted’ Under António Campinos
07.15.18 IAM/Joff Wild May Have Become a de Facto Media Partner of the Patent Troll iPEL
=> IAM/Joff Wild May Have Become a de Facto Media Partner of the Patent Troll iPEL
07.17.18 Software Patents Royalty (Tax) Campaign by IBM, a Serial Patent Bully, and the EPO’s Participation in All This
07.17.18 Yesterday’s Misleading News From Team UPC and Its Aspiring Management of the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
07.18.18 IAM is Pushing SEPs/FRAND Agenda for Patent Trolls and Monopolists That Fund IAM
=> IAM is Pushing SEPs/FRAND Agenda for Patent Trolls and Monopolists That Fund IAM
07.19.18 Some US Patents’ Quality is So Low That There’s a Garden Clearance/Fire Sale
=> Some US Patents’ Quality is So Low That There’s a Garden Clearance/Fire Sale
07.19.18 Erosion of Patent Justice in Europe With Kangaroo Courts and Low-Quality European Patents
=> Erosion of Patent Justice in Europe With Kangaroo Courts and Low-Quality European Patents
07.22.18 Can Trade Secrets Litigation Replace (in Part) Patent Litigation?
=> Can Trade Secrets Litigation Replace (in Part) Patent Litigation?
07.24.18 Under António Campinos the EPO’s Appeal Boards, Including the Enlarged Board of Appeal, Still Lack Independence
07.25.18 As the Quality of European Patents Sinks António Campinos Must Heed China’s Warning, Not Copy SIPO/TIPO
07.26.18 António Campinos, Four Weeks on the Job, Still in Defiance/Violation of ILO Rulings, Still Engaging in PR and Face-Saving Distraction Instead
07.28.18 The EPO Abandoned Patent Quality and António Campinos Has No Intention of Changing That
=> The EPO Abandoned Patent Quality and António Campinos Has No Intention of Changing That
07.31.18 SUEPO Seems to be Disappointed by António Campinos as His First Month in Office Comes to an End
=> SUEPO Seems to be Disappointed by António Campinos as His First Month in Office Comes to an End
08.02.18 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and Federal Circuit (CAFC) Both Smeared (Judge-Bashing Tactics) for Correctly Applying Patent Law as They See Fit
08.02.18 The EPO’s Systematic Attacks on Justice and on Judges Have Likely Played the Biggest Role in the Death of Unitary Patent (UPC)
08.04.18 António Campinos is Not Improving Patent Quality or Even the Social Climate at the EPO (False Promises)
08.07.18 Racing to the Bottom, the António Campinos-Led EPO Continues to Promote Software Patents, Just Like China
08.09.18 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement is Paralysed, So Team UPC is Twisting Old News
=> The Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement is Paralysed, So Team UPC is Twisting Old News
08.14.18 Patent Lawyers Writing Patent Law for Their Own Enrichment Rather Than for Innovation
=> Patent Lawyers Writing Patent Law for Their Own Enrichment Rather Than for Innovation
08.16.18 Almost Two Months After the ILO Ruling Staff Representative Brumme is Finally Back on the Job at EPO
=> Almost Two Months After the ILO Ruling Staff Representative Brumme is Finally Back on the Job at EPO
08.16.18 USPTO Craziness: Changing Rules to Punish PTAB Petitioners and Reward Microsoft for Corruption at ISO
08.18.18 If David Chiles Turned the USPTO Into a ‘Microsoft Shop’ That Might Explain Three Days (or More) of Outages
08.21.18 Admissibility of the Unitary Patent Constitutional Complaint Was Likely the Final Nail in the Coffin of the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
08.25.18 The Unitary Patent (UPC) is Not Delayed; It’s Dead and Without Any Major Rework It Will Go Nowhere
=> The Unitary Patent (UPC) is Not Delayed; It’s Dead and Without Any Major Rework It Will Go Nowhere
08.27.18 Stupid European Patent: Hairdressing Salon and Mobile Building for the Same
=> Stupid European Patent: Hairdressing Salon and Mobile Building for the Same
08.30.18 António Campinos Already Implements a ‘Shadow’ Layoffs Method at the EPO
=> António Campinos Already Implements a ‘Shadow’ Layoffs Method at the EPO
08.30.18 Feeling Shut Out of the European Patent System, Team UPC Persists With Misleading Claims and Falsehoods
09.01.18 Coming to Grips With the Fact That EPO Layoffs Are Already in Effect
=> Coming to Grips With the Fact That EPO Layoffs Are Already in Effect
09.02.18 Eligibility Analysis Based on Section 101 Ought to Invalidate All Software Patents and Repel Further Applications
09.02.18 The Patent Public Advisory Committee (PPAC) Needs to Instruct the Patent Office to Stop Treating Applicants as Customers/Clients
09.04.18 The António Campinos-Led EPO is Over-Relying on Bogus and Abstract Software Patents to Fill the Gaps
=> The António Campinos-Led EPO is Over-Relying on Bogus and Abstract Software Patents to Fill the Gaps
09.04.18 A Retreat From Patent Quality Means a Retreat of Patent Applicants
=> A Retreat From Patent Quality Means a Retreat of Patent Applicants
09.05.18 EPO Has “Far Too High Production [sic Targets” Which “Deteriorates the Quality of Products [sic] Delivered”]
=> EPO Has “Far Too High Production [sic
09.05.18 CCIA Speaks Out and EFF Lashes Out at Andrei Iancu’s USPTO for Trying to Work Around the Law and Ignore Courts Because of Patent Maximalists’ Agenda
09.06.18 ‘Reformist’ Campinos Seems to be Accelerating EPO Layoffs by Removing Without Warning Staff That’s Perceived as Not Loyal Enough
09.07.18 CIPA and EPO, Two UPC Boosters, Get Together to Promote Software Patents in Spite of the EPC
=> CIPA and EPO, Two UPC Boosters, Get Together to Promote Software Patents in Spite of the EPC
09.07.18 Election of New Vice-Presidents at EPO Seems Rigged, Say Insiders and Former Insiders
=> Election of New Vice-Presidents at EPO Seems Rigged, Say Insiders and Former Insiders
09.07.18 IAM Media Engages in Trademark Violations While Trying to Misrepresent Free/Open Source Software in Relation to Software Patents
09.08.18 35 U.S.C. § 101 Squashes Already-Granted US Patents, Europe Needs Post-Grant Appeals to Accomplish the Same Because EPO Grants Software Patents
09.09.18 The Battle Over PTAB Determines the Fate of Patent Quality in the United States
=> The Battle Over PTAB Determines the Fate of Patent Quality in the United States
09.11.18 Fresh Rumours of Further Accelerated Layoffs at the European Patent Office (EPO)
=> Fresh Rumours of Further Accelerated Layoffs at the European Patent Office (EPO)
09.11.18 Patentability of Software Constantly Pushed by the EPO Under António Campinos With Help From IAM, CIPA, IPO and Other Litigation Front Groups
09.13.18 EPO Seals Many Death Sentences With Acceptance of EP 2604620
=> EPO Seals Many Death Sentences With Acceptance of EP 2604620
09.14.18 Max Planck Institute Pours More Water on the Dying Unitary Patent (UPC)
=> Max Planck Institute Pours More Water on the Dying Unitary Patent (UPC)
09.15.18 António Campinos Needs to Listen to Doctors Without Borders (MSF) et al to Salvage What’s Left of Public Consent for the EPO
09.15.18 The Max Planck Institute’s Determination on UPC’s (Unitary Patent) Demise is Only “Controversial” in the Eyes of Rabid Members of Team UPC
09.16.18 IAM, Watchtroll and the EPO Still Spread the Mentality of Patent Maximalism
=> IAM, Watchtroll and the EPO Still Spread the Mentality of Patent Maximalism
09.18.18 The EPO Has Quit Pretending That It Cares About Patent Quality, All It Cares About is Quantity of Lawsuits
09.22.18 EPO is Like a Patent Litigation (Without Actual Trial) Office, Not a Patent Examination Office
=> EPO is Like a Patent Litigation (Without Actual Trial) Office, Not a Patent Examination Office
09.22.18 Philippe Cadre From the French National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) Wants to Join António Campinos
09.25.18 Technology Groups and Innovators Bemoan Attempts to Override the Courts to Promote Patent Maximalists’ Agenda by USPTO Director Andrei Iancu
09.26.18 Director Iancu and President Campinos Both Serve the Litigation ‘Industry’ Instead of Science and Technology
10.01.18 EPO Under António Campinos an Unprecedented Booster of Software Patents
=> EPO Under António Campinos an Unprecedented Booster of Software Patents
10.03.18 More Patents Would Mean More Tax Evasion for Large Corporations and More Taxes/Duties on Society
=> More Patents Would Mean More Tax Evasion for Large Corporations and More Taxes/Duties on Society
10.04.18 Europe is Getting Flooded With Software Patents, Repeating the Mistakes Made by the United States
=> Europe is Getting Flooded With Software Patents, Repeating the Mistakes Made by the United States
10.04.18 Submissive, Bribed and EPO-Connected Media Organisations Help Perpetuate Corruption by Failing or Refusing to Cover It
10.05.18 Patents on Life and on Algorithms in Europe Will Doom the EPO
=> Patents on Life and on Algorithms in Europe Will Doom the EPO
10.07.18 The Era of Fake Patents (or Software Patents) is Upon Us
=> The Era of Fake Patents (or Software Patents) is Upon Us
10.08.18 U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Under Andrei Iancu Subjected to an Assault on Patent Quality
=> U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Under Andrei Iancu Subjected to an Assault on Patent Quality
10.09.18 António Campinos Makes Excuses for Granting European Patents on Software in Spite of the EPC
=> António Campinos Makes Excuses for Granting European Patents on Software in Spite of the EPC
10.11.18 New EPO Guidelines: Granting European Patents on Business Methods, Algorithms, Mental Acts and Other Abstract Stuff
10.11.18 UPC Cowardice: Team UPC Uses Cloaks of Anonymity to Discredit Authors of Scholarly UPC Paper They Don’t Like
10.13.18 Quality of Patents Granted by the EPO is Still Low and Nobody Will Benefit Except Lawyers, Jubilant Over Growing Lenience on Software Patents
10.13.18 100 Days Into the Term of Campinos There is Already an EPO Suicide
=> 100 Days Into the Term of Campinos There is Already an EPO Suicide
10.15.18 Corporate Media’s Failure to Cover Patents Properly and Our New Hosting Woes
=> Corporate Media’s Failure to Cover Patents Properly and Our New Hosting Woes
10.18.18 It’s Almost 2019 and Team UPC is Still Pretending Unitary Patent (UPC) Exists, Merely Waiting for Britain to Join
10.19.18 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
10.23.18 The EPO Under António Campinos Has Opened More Doors to Software Patents and Only Litigators Are Happy
10.24.18 Pretty Revealing That EPO Management Promotes Software Patents and IP Kat Promotes Patent Trolls
=> Pretty Revealing That EPO Management Promotes Software Patents and IP Kat Promotes Patent Trolls
10.25.18 EPO: Software Patents Are Allowed, Just Say ‘AI’ in the Patent Applications and We’ll Compel Examiners to Grant
10.26.18 The EPO is Trying to Make Software Patents Look and Feel ‘Healthy’
=> The EPO is Trying to Make Software Patents Look and Feel ‘Healthy’
10.26.18 On PTAB, Andrei Iancu is to the Patent Litigation Giants What Ajit Pai is to Big Telecom (Former Employers)
10.28.18 The ITC Makes Embargo Using Almost-Expired Patents a Business Strategy of Intimidation and Harassment
10.29.18 PTAB- And Court-Bashing USPTO Director Consistent With ‘Presidential’ Behaviour in Age of Donald Trump
10.30.18 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Judges Oughtn’t Attend Patent Lawyers’ Echo Chamber Events Like the AIPLA Annual Meeting
10.30.18 Team UPC Hijacks the Debate in the Media and in British Parliament
=> Team UPC Hijacks the Debate in the Media and in British Parliament
11.01.18 António Campinos Continues to Conflate Speed With Quality
=> António Campinos Continues to Conflate Speed With Quality
11.01.18 Today the EPO Has Officially Lowered Patent Quality by Allowing Software Patents by Means of Dog Whistles
11.04.18 EPO Granting European Patents on Nature and on Thoughts
=> EPO Granting European Patents on Nature and on Thoughts
11.04.18 Law Firms Won’t Improve Patent Quality Because Quality in Patenting Limits Their Ability to Sue (Profit Irrespective of the Outcome)
11.05.18 Blockchain Hype Exploited by the EPO and by Patent Law Firms to Wrongly Assert Free/Libre Software Can Coexist With Software Patents
11.05.18 The USPTO Under Director Andrei Iancu Actively Disses the Courts and Attacks Fundamental Patent Law
=> The USPTO Under Director Andrei Iancu Actively Disses the Courts and Attacks Fundamental Patent Law
11.06.18 The European Patent Office Lost Its Way, Found Buzzwords Instead
=> The European Patent Office Lost Its Way, Found Buzzwords Instead
11.07.18 European Software Patents: From AI to Blockchains and Now… Self-Driving Vehicles
=> European Software Patents: From AI to Blockchains and Now… Self-Driving Vehicles
11.08.18 EPO Stacking up Buzzwords (4IR, AI, Now SDV) to Compel Examiners to Grant Patents on Algorithms
=> EPO Stacking up Buzzwords (4IR, AI, Now SDV) to Compel Examiners to Grant Patents on Algorithms
11.08.18 The António Campinos Private/Secret Meeting With ILO Officials a Slap Across the Face to Employees of the European Patent Office
11.08.18 EPO Needs to Publicly Apologise for Granting Bogus/Fake Patents to Aggressive Companies Like Monsanto (Now Bayer)
11.08.18 The Death of the UPC is Only a “Tragedy” for Patent Trolls and Their Facilitators
=> The Death of the UPC is Only a “Tragedy” for Patent Trolls and Their Facilitators
11.10.18 Latest Loophole: To Get Software Patents From the EPO One Can Just Claim That They’re ‘on a Car’
=> Latest Loophole: To Get Software Patents From the EPO One Can Just Claim That They’re ‘on a Car’
11.11.18 Automation of Searches Will Not Solve the Legitimacy Problem Caused by Patents Lust
=> Automation of Searches Will Not Solve the Legitimacy Problem Caused by Patents Lust
11.11.18 Guest Post: EPO Spins Censorship of Staff Representation
=> Guest Post: EPO Spins Censorship of Staff Representation
11.11.18 EPO ‘Outsourcing’ Rumours
11.11.18 The Federal Circuit and PTAB Are Not Slowing Down; Patent Maximalists Claim It’s ‘Harassment’ to Question a Patent’s Validity
11.12.18 Team UPC, Fronting for Patent Trolls From the US, is Calling Facts “Resistance”
=> Team UPC, Fronting for Patent Trolls From the US, is Calling Facts “Resistance”
11.13.18 The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is Working for Patent Trolls and Patent Maximalists
=> The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is Working for Patent Trolls and Patent Maximalists
11.13.18 The USPTO and EPO Pretend to Care About Patent Quality by Mingling With the Terms “Patent” and “Quality”
11.13.18 Yannis Skulikaris Promotes Software Patents at EPOPIC, Defending the Questionable Practice Under António Campinos
11.14.18 Allegations That António Campinos ‘Bought’ His Presidency and is Still Paying for it
=> Allegations That António Campinos ‘Bought’ His Presidency and is Still Paying for it
11.14.18 USF Revisits EPO Abuses, Highlighting an Urgent Need for Action
=> USF Revisits EPO Abuses, Highlighting an Urgent Need for Action
11.14.18 WIPO Corruption and Coverup Mirror EPO Tactics
=> WIPO Corruption and Coverup Mirror EPO Tactics
11.14.18 Science Minister Sam Gyimah and the EPO Are Eager to Attack Science by Bringing Patent Trolls to Europe/European Union and the United Kingdom
11.15.18 Ignoring and Bashing Courts: Is This the Future of Patent Offices in the West?
=> Ignoring and Bashing Courts: Is This the Future of Patent Offices in the West?
11.15.18 A Question of Debt: António Campinos, Lexology, Law Gazette, and Sam Gyimah
=> A Question of Debt: António Campinos, Lexology, Law Gazette, and Sam Gyimah
11.18.18 The European Patent Office is Attracting Patent Trolls
=> The European Patent Office is Attracting Patent Trolls
11.20.18 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
11.21.18 To Mask the Decline in Patent Quality, e.g. Granting of Software Patents a.k.a. Computer-Implemented Inventions (CII), EPO Makes Oppositions Harder
11.22.18 Thanksgiving EPO Roundup: UPC Lies, Software Patents Considered Harmful and SUEPO Condemns Union-Busting Activities (Which Carry on Under António Campinos)
11.24.18 EPO’s Head of Human Resources Elodie Bergot “Condemned for Harassment in France When She Worked for the Caisse Assurance Retraites”
11.24.18 EPO Nowadays Closely Associates With Site That Attacks, Insults and Calls for Resignations of Judges (Those Who Scrutinise Patents)
11.25.18 Patents Are Not Property
11.29.18 António Campinos is Working for Patent Trolls at the Expense of Science and Technology
=> António Campinos is Working for Patent Trolls at the Expense of Science and Technology
11.29.18 Union Syndicale Fédérale Tells António Campinos to End ‘Political’ Cases Against EPO Staff Representatives
11.29.18 Even Sites That Served UPC Propaganda for Years (for These Sites’ Owners) Have Come to Admit That the UPC Might Already be Dead
12.01.18 EPO Management High-Fiving Patent Propaganda Sites Like ‘Managing IP’ While Granting Illegitimate Patents on Algorithms
12.02.18 Patent Trolls, USPTO Director Andrei Iancu and Section 101
=> Patent Trolls, USPTO Director Andrei Iancu and Section 101
12.03.18 EPO Management Keeps Embarrassing Itself, UPC More Dead Than Before, and Nokia Turns Aggressive
=> EPO Management Keeps Embarrassing Itself, UPC More Dead Than Before, and Nokia Turns Aggressive
12.05.18 EPO, in Its Patent Trolls-Infested Forum, Admits It is Granting Bogus Software Patents Under the Guise of ‘Blockchain’
12.06.18 Many of the Same People Are Still in Charge of the European Patent Office Even Though They Broke the Law
12.06.18 The European Patent Office Remains a Lawless Place Where Judges Are Afraid of the Banker in Chief
=> The European Patent Office Remains a Lawless Place Where Judges Are Afraid of the Banker in Chief
12.07.18 The European Patent Organisation is Like a Private Club and Roland Grossenbacher is Back in It
=> The European Patent Organisation is Like a Private Club and Roland Grossenbacher is Back in It
12.09.18 EPO ‘Untapped Potential’
12.09.18 The Quality of European Patents Continues to Deteriorate Under António Campinos and Software Patents Are Advocated Every Day
12.12.18 EPO Trust, Leadership and Commitment
=> EPO Trust, Leadership and Commitment
12.13.18 The European Patent Troll Wants as Much Litigation as Possible
=> The European Patent Troll Wants as Much Litigation as Possible
12.15.18 EPO Chief Economist Yann Ménière Keynote Speaker at Patent Trolls-Funded Event Set Up by the Patent Trolls’ Lobby
12.15.18 The European Patent Organisation (EPO) Loses Legitimacy If (or When) Christoph Ernst Becomes Subservient to António Campinos
12.15.18 Immunity of the European Patent Office Has Helped Shield Dangerous Thugs From Justice
=> Immunity of the European Patent Office Has Helped Shield Dangerous Thugs From Justice
12.19.18 EPO: Adherence to the Law at the Office Postponed Indefinitely, ‘Reform’ Going Ahead (Divergence From the Law)
12.21.18 Today’s EPO Envisions a Europe of Patent Trolls, Not of Science and Technology
=> Today’s EPO Envisions a Europe of Patent Trolls, Not of Science and Technology
12.22.18 UPC Died in 2016 or 2017; But the EPO Continues to Issue Fake Software Patents That European Courts Reject
12.24.18 The Quality of European Patents Likely Declined Even Further in 2018
=> The Quality of European Patents Likely Declined Even Further in 2018
01.03.19 The EPO is So Backwards That the Boss Has Just Become Subservient to the Subject of Oversight
=> The EPO is So Backwards That the Boss Has Just Become Subservient to the Subject of Oversight
01.08.19 EPO Corruption is Helping Patent Maximalists in the United States
=> EPO Corruption is Helping Patent Maximalists in the United States
01.09.19 European Patent Office Saga in 2019: “95% of the People Responsible for the Misery Are Still in Place and Have Not Even Been Rebuked”
01.10.19 EPO President “Campinos is Wasting His Credibility With “Sweet” Communiqués Full of Hot Air and Storytelling”
01.11.19 The EPO’s Low Patent Quality Can Kill the European Software Industry and Kill People Too
=> The EPO’s Low Patent Quality Can Kill the European Software Industry and Kill People Too
01.12.19 IP Kat Has Turned From EPO Critic (to the Point of Being Blocked by the EPO) to EPO Whitewasher That Gags EPO Whistleblowers
01.13.19 European Patent Office a Textbook Example of Lawless, Rogue Institutions
=> European Patent Office a Textbook Example of Lawless, Rogue Institutions
01.21.19 A Fortnight After His Diplomatic Immunity Ends Outgoing EPO Vice-President Željko Topić is in Court in Zagreb, Croatia
01.22.19 Software Patents Are a Dying Breed, So Marks & Clerk and Other Legal Monoliths Promote the EPO’s Buzzwords (Loopholes)
01.22.19 The Whitewashing of the EPO Under António Campinos
=> The Whitewashing of the EPO Under António Campinos
01.27.19 British Courts Once Again Reject Bogus European Patents Granted on Software
=> British Courts Once Again Reject Bogus European Patents Granted on Software
01.29.19 “HE DID NOTHING Since He Arrived, Full Stop.” What EPO People Make of President Campinos…
=> “HE DID NOTHING Since He Arrived, Full Stop.” What EPO People Make of President Campinos…
01.29.19 Compensation for Damages and Discrimination: The Case (One Among Several) Against EPO Vice-President Topić
01.29.19 The EPO Continues to Grant Software Patents Even Though Many European Patents Are Being Invalidated Already
01.29.19 The Management of the EPO Will Not Manage to Recruit Any Talent If It’s Killing Its Own Staff
=> The Management of the EPO Will Not Manage to Recruit Any Talent If It’s Killing Its Own Staff
01.31.19 Fake Software Patents, Patent Trolls and Assault on Generic Medicine in Europe
=> Fake Software Patents, Patent Trolls and Assault on Generic Medicine in Europe
02.01.19 Stupid Acquisition of the Month (or Year): Red Hat Selling Itself to the World’s Biggest Lobbying Power for Software Patents
02.01.19 The Reputation of the EPO is Ruined But Now It Ruins the Lives of Staff and Europeans
=> The Reputation of the EPO is Ruined But Now It Ruins the Lives of Staff and Europeans
02.02.19 The European Patent Office’s Promotion of Software Patents Overlooks Ongoing ‘Spillage’ of the Patent Crisis to Patent Courts (Rejecting Such Patents)
02.02.19 Concerns About Stephan Harbarth’s Unitary Patent (UPC) Vested Interests and His Entrance Into the Constitutional Court That Decides on UPC
02.06.19 The Attack on the Independence of the European Judges Has Apparently Expanded to the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht)
02.06.19 EPO Boards of Appeal Still Need Independence
=> EPO Boards of Appeal Still Need Independence
02.07.19 UPC Part of the Litigation ‘Industry’ Lobby and the Efforts to Change (Significantly Lower) Patent Quality Bar/Scope
02.09.19 EPO President Campinos Works With Patent Trolls and With Team UPC to Promote Software Patents
=> EPO President Campinos Works With Patent Trolls and With Team UPC to Promote Software Patents
02.11.19 The American Software Patents Lobby Has Died
=> The American Software Patents Lobby Has Died
02.12.19 Innovating the Idea That Software Patents (Monopolies on Algorithms) Are Covering ‘Artificial’ ‘Intelligence’ (AI and ML as Loopholes)
02.12.19 USPTO Director Iancu Works for Anti-SCOTUS (Against Section 101) Lobbyists
=> USPTO Director Iancu Works for Anti-SCOTUS (Against Section 101) Lobbyists
02.12.19 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
02.12.19 Gross Violations of the EPC at the European Patent Office as Principal Priority Turns Against Science and Technology
02.16.19 Nobody But Patent Trolls and Litigators Will Benefit From the Corruption of the European Patent Office
02.16.19 EPO Grants Fake European Patents — Including Software Patents — and European Courts Keep Rejecting These
02.17.19 How Many/Most EPO Examiners View ‘President’ António Campinos
=> How Many/Most EPO Examiners View ‘President’ António Campinos
02.19.19 Search Matters Not at the European Patent Office
=> Search Matters Not at the European Patent Office
02.19.19 What Happened in the United States Now Happens in Europe: Lots of Patents Turn Out to Be Bunk, Fake, Bogus, Invalid and Thus Worthless
02.22.19 Software Patents Are in a Freefall in Courts Worldwide, But the EPO Keeps Granting and Promoting These
02.22.19 Team UPC Excited Over Nothing, President Campinos Rarely Even Mentions UPC Anymore
=> Team UPC Excited Over Nothing, President Campinos Rarely Even Mentions UPC Anymore
02.23.19 EPO Insider Video: Nouvel an Architectural Hazard, Not Just a Fire Hazard
=> EPO Insider Video: Nouvel an Architectural Hazard, Not Just a Fire Hazard
02.24.19 Video: Alexandre Benalla Explains His Activities Within the European Patent Office
=> Video: Alexandre Benalla Explains His Activities Within the European Patent Office
02.24.19 Alexandre Benalla’s Time at the EPO, in His Own Words
=> Alexandre Benalla’s Time at the EPO, in His Own Words
02.24.19 Bruno Retailleau on Alexandre Benalla’s Perjury
=> Bruno Retailleau on Alexandre Benalla’s Perjury
02.24.19 Video: Alexandre Benalla on Carrying Weapons in Munich’s EPO Premises (Strictly Illegal in Germany)
=> Video: Alexandre Benalla on Carrying Weapons in Munich’s EPO Premises (Strictly Illegal in Germany)
02.25.19 English Translation: Alexandre Benalla on His Work Experience (or Lack Thereof)
=> English Translation: Alexandre Benalla on His Work Experience (or Lack Thereof)
02.25.19 English Translation: Alexandre Benalla Thinks He Can Carry a Weapon in Germany
=> English Translation: Alexandre Benalla Thinks He Can Carry a Weapon in Germany
02.25.19 Croatian Media on Fake Diplomas and the EPO Connection
=> Croatian Media on Fake Diplomas and the EPO Connection
02.25.19 There is Still a Patent Quality Crisis at the EPO
=> There is Still a Patent Quality Crisis at the EPO
02.27.19 Teff Just One Among Countless Examples of Sheer Disregard for Patent Quality
=> Teff Just One Among Countless Examples of Sheer Disregard for Patent Quality
02.28.19 The Latest Brexit Developments Add Another Nail (Among Many) to the Unified Patent Court’s (UPC) Coffin
03.02.19 The Collapse of Poor-Quality European Patents Continues in European Courts
=> The Collapse of Poor-Quality European Patents Continues in European Courts
03.05.19 Truly and Completely Out of Control, the Unhinged European Patent Office Calls Applicants “Customers” While Offering Patents on Nature, Life, Maths
03.05.19 The Technical Board of Appeal Will Need True Independence to Squash Software Patents at the EPO (T 0489/14)
03.06.19 Power and Corruption: How European Patent Office Nepotism and Despotism Open Doors
=> Power and Corruption: How European Patent Office Nepotism and Despotism Open Doors
03.06.19 Fraud at the European Patent Office, But All Those Arrested Are Perpetrators Without Misused Immunity
03.08.19 Patent Law Firms Are Truly (and Visibly) Panicking Over the Demise of Software Patents
=> Patent Law Firms Are Truly (and Visibly) Panicking Over the Demise of Software Patents
03.08.19 António Campinos Will Not Tackle Any of the Lingering Issues at the European Patent Office
=> António Campinos Will Not Tackle Any of the Lingering Issues at the European Patent Office
03.09.19 European Patent Office Press Releases (Two in Two Days) Are Disguised as ‘News’ and Tell the Opposite of the Truth
03.10.19 Europe Will Pay a High Price for Software Patents Advocacy by António Campinos in Europe’s Patent-Granting Authority
03.11.19 EPO Examiner: “I Have Been Against Software Patents and Eventually 3/4 of My Job is Examining Software Patent Applications.”
03.13.19 In the Age of Trumpism EFF Needs to Repeatedly Remind Director Iancu That He is Not a Judge and He Cannot Ignore the Courts
03.14.19 Good News Everyone! UPC Ready to Go… in 2015!
=> Good News Everyone! UPC Ready to Go… in 2015!
03.15.19 Stopping António Campinos and His Software Patents Agenda (Not Legal in Europe) Would Require Independent Courts
03.19.19 The EPO Has Sadly Taken a Side and It’s the Patent Trolls’ Side
=> The EPO Has Sadly Taken a Side and It’s the Patent Trolls’ Side
03.20.19 Decisions Made Inside the European Patent Organisation (EPO) Lack Credibility Because Examiners and Judges Lack Independence
03.21.19 António Campinos Makes Up Claims About Patent Quality, Only to be Rebutted by Examiners, Union (Anyone But the ‘Puff Pieces’ Industry)
03.22.19 “Criminal Organisation”
03.22.19 Why the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO) Cannot Ignore Judges, Whereas the EPO Can (and Does)
03.24.19 Just Published: Irrational Ignorance at the Patent Office
=> Just Published: Irrational Ignorance at the Patent Office
03.27.19 The European Patent Scope is a Lost Cause, Does Not Exist Anymore
=> The European Patent Scope is a Lost Cause, Does Not Exist Anymore
03.27.19 The EPO is Still a Software Patents Propaganda Machine and Thus an Enemy of Software Developers in Europe
03.29.19 Tall Tales From the Land of EPOnia: Indications of High-Level Club Med/EUIPO “Entryism”
=> Tall Tales From the Land of EPOnia: Indications of High-Level Club Med/EUIPO “Entryism”
03.30.19 A March in Brussels Next Month, Disgruntled EPO Staff Invited
=> A March in Brussels Next Month, Disgruntled EPO Staff Invited
03.30.19 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.
03.30.19 What Happened to the Linux Foundation?
=> What Happened to the Linux Foundation?
03.31.19 Technology Groups Implore the Deplorable Patent Office of Iancu and Trump
=> Technology Groups Implore the Deplorable Patent Office of Iancu and Trump
04.01.19 Patent Trolls Destroy the European Economy Because EPO Gives Them Questionable Patents
=> Patent Trolls Destroy the European Economy Because EPO Gives Them Questionable Patents
04.02.19 EPO Judges Lack Independence and the Internal Courts Are Seen to be Lacking Legitimacy (Decisions’ Validity) Under António Campinos
04.03.19 The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) ‘Disses’ Iancu’s Guidance on 35 U.S.C. § 101, Sides With the Supreme Court (Alice) and Caselaw
04.03.19 The EPO Continues Granting Bogus Patents on Mathematics and Nature, But There’s Hope Over the Horizon
04.05.19 The European Patent Office Will Come to Regret the Fake Patents It Has Granted for Short-Term Financial Gains
04.06.19 Even Patent Maximalists Are Not Happy With António Campinos Referring Question of Patents on Life to the Enlarged Board of Appeal
04.08.19 Europe’s EPO Has Become France’s INPI
=> Europe’s EPO Has Become France’s INPI
04.08.19 The EPO’s Incredulous Survey: Management’s Voice, Management’s Future — EPO Staff ‘Engagement’ Spin (Denial of Issues)
04.08.19 Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) — Like MedTech at the EPO — Just Another Dodge for Illegitimate Software Patents
04.08.19 Only One in Six EPO Workers Trusts the Management, According to New Survey Skewed by Management
=> Only One in Six EPO Workers Trusts the Management, According to New Survey Skewed by Management
04.09.19 The Media is (Still) Failing to Cover EPO Corruption
=> The Media is (Still) Failing to Cover EPO Corruption
04.09.19 Who Does the Legal System Really Serve or Favour in European Patent Disputes?
=> Who Does the Legal System Really Serve or Favour in European Patent Disputes?
04.10.19 António Campinos is Already Paying a Lot of Money to Craft an Alternate Reality at the European Patent Office
04.11.19 EPO Still Wasting Budget, Paying Media and Academics for Spin
=> EPO Still Wasting Budget, Paying Media and Academics for Spin
04.12.19 Caricature: EPO Standing Tall
=> Caricature: EPO Standing Tall
04.13.19 Patent Maximalists Are Enabling Injustices and Frauds
=> Patent Maximalists Are Enabling Injustices and Frauds
04.14.19 ‘Poor’ (Multi-Millionaire) Novell CEO, Who Colluded With Steve Ballmer Against GNU/Linux, is Trying to Censor Techrights
04.16.19 Corporate Media Will Never Cover the EPO’s Violations of the Law With Respect to Patent Scope
=> Corporate Media Will Never Cover the EPO’s Violations of the Law With Respect to Patent Scope
04.18.19 The European Patent Office Does Not Care About the Law, Today’s Management Constantly Attempts to Bypass the Law
04.20.19 The Likes of Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA), Team Campinos and Team UPC Don’t Represent Europe But Hurt Europe
04.20.19 Largest Patent Offices Try to Leave Courts in a State of Disarray to Enable the Granting of Fake Patents in the US and Europe
04.22.19 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
04.24.19 German Federal Patent Court Curbs the Patent Maximalism of the EPO, Which Promotes Patents on Nature and/or Maths Every Single Day
04.26.19 “Dia da Liberdade” in Portugal — Wilted Carnations in EPOnia
=> “Dia da Liberdade” in Portugal — Wilted Carnations in EPOnia
05.01.19 Lack of Justice at the EPO Continues to Usher in Fake Patents on Abstract Things
=> Lack of Justice at the EPO Continues to Usher in Fake Patents on Abstract Things
05.02.19 EPO in 2019: Pushing (and Bribing) for Buzzwords to Bypass/Cheat the Law Whilst Abolishing the Court System
05.02.19 Even EPO Patent ‘Justice’ is Now Measured in Industrial Terms Like ‘Production’ Rather Than Accuracy
=> Even EPO Patent ‘Justice’ is Now Measured in Industrial Terms Like ‘Production’ Rather Than Accuracy
05.03.19 In the Courts, Where Patents Are Assessed Independently, Geeks Are Winning the Battle Against Parasitic Litigation Firms
05.05.19 It’s 2019 and Team UPC is Still Composing ‘Fake News’ (Lobbying Disguised as Reporting)
=> It’s 2019 and Team UPC is Still Composing ‘Fake News’ (Lobbying Disguised as Reporting)
05.07.19 Why Does the EPO Keep Praising People Who Promote Software Patents, Rewarding Them for Patent Thickets That Harm Software Developers?
05.07.19 Even IAM Admits That When It Comes to Patents It’s Quality That Counts, Not Quantity
=> Even IAM Admits That When It Comes to Patents It’s Quality That Counts, Not Quantity
05.09.19 Lusting for a Unified Patent Court (UPC) That Respects Invalid European Patents, Including Software Patents
05.09.19 EPO Waste and Mismanagement: Renting Space While Keeping Buildings Empty and Making More of Them
=> EPO Waste and Mismanagement: Renting Space While Keeping Buildings Empty and Making More of Them
05.09.19 Stephen Rowan: From UK-IPO to Operation Coverup of Team António Campinos
=> Stephen Rowan: From UK-IPO to Operation Coverup of Team António Campinos
05.11.19 Making the Patent System About Productive Actors (Again), Not a Bunch of Law Firms and Trolls
=> Making the Patent System About Productive Actors (Again), Not a Bunch of Law Firms and Trolls
05.15.19 The Race to the Bottom of Patent Quality at the EPO
=> The Race to the Bottom of Patent Quality at the EPO
05.16.19 The EPO’s Key Function — Like the UPC’s Vision — Has Virtually Collapsed
=> The EPO’s Key Function — Like the UPC’s Vision — Has Virtually Collapsed
05.17.19 Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 4: Happy Birthday to the Kötter Group?
=> Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 4: Happy Birthday to the Kötter Group?
05.18.19 The War on Patent Quality
08.29.16 Links 29/8/2016: Linux 4.8 RC4, Maru OS Source Code
=> Links 29/8/2016: Linux 4.8 RC4, Maru OS Source Code
=> Techrights
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