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2015

December

=> EPO Coverage to Increase in 2016, Including UPC Reality Checks

=> EPO a “European Institution Which Does Not Fall Under EU Law”

=> Buying Panels and Paying the Media to Cement Personal Agenda: The Bill Gates Common Core Case Mirrors the Battistelli Unitary Patent Case

=> Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part IV: Criticism Regarding Patent Scope is Verboten

=> Revolving Doors of High-Level EPO Management: Jacques Michel and the Questel Deal With the EPO

=> Battistelli’s Proposed Changes to Pensions “Difficult to Understand”, “Liable to Cause Instability”, Without Consultation or Justification

=> EPO Whistleblowing: How (Not) to Use Machines at the Office

=> Summary of the EPO-Europatis Series

=> Loose Data 'Protection' and Likely Privacy Infringements at the EPO: Here's Who Gets Employees' Internal Data

=> Europatis: “Turnover of €211,800 and Zero Employees”

=> Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part III: Death in the Family

=> Benoît Battistelli Fails to Get Majority of 38 Member States to Crush the Boards, Which Are Already Being Crushed Anyway (23 Vacant Judge Positions)

=> Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part II: Patent Office as a Cancer

=> Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part I: An Introduction

=> Concerns About the Unitary Patent Court (UPC) Among EPO Staff an Outcome of Battistelli’s Attacks on Staff

=> I-AM EPO: How the Record of the EPO's Management Dispute With Staff and the EPC is Being Rewritten by EPO-Funded Media

=> Managing IP Interview With Battistelli Shows That He's Either Deluded or Dishonest About EPO Realities

=> EPO Administrative Council: the Situation is “Detrimental to the Proper Functioning of the Office and the Public Image of the Whole Organisation”

=> Europe Under Siege by Patent Lawyers, UPC Ambitions, and the Administrative Council’s Continued Passive Support of Battistelli

=> Translation of the Latest Communiqué About the Administrative Council, No Longer Published by ‘President’

=> EPO Level of Trust Reaches All-Time Low: Workers Distrust the Available Phones in Their Offices, Use Mobiles Instead

=> The Forgotten History of IAM 'Magazine' as EPO Management's Megaphone and EPO Union Basher

=> Upcoming Series: The EPO as ‘Public’ Service for Private Profits

=> Battistelli’s Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part V

=> An Atmosphere of Revolt Inside the European Patent Office

=> More Sunday Humour: Fictional Diary From the European Patent Office

=> Battistelli's Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part IV

=> EPO Management Discovers Media is Against It

=> Watch Out for ‘Divide and Rule’ Tactics From the Control Risks- and FTI Consulting-Steered EPO

=> Jacques Michel (Former EPO VP1), Benoît Battistelli’s EPO, and the Leak of Internal Staff Data to Michel’s Private Venture

=> Rumour: Administrative Council Advises Benoît Battistelli Not to Fire Staff Representatives

=> EPO Pays FTI Consulting (Nearly a Million Bucks), Which Pays IAM for Pro-UPC Propaganda Event

=> EPI Silently Removes Criticism of the European Patent Office/Organisation, Techrights Preserves It

=> EPO Irrelevancy, Two Decades to be Granted an EPO Patent, Outrage Over Patents on Plants in EPO

=> Benoît Battistelli: “An Earthquake Would be Needed for the Administrative Council... Not to Support My Major Proposals.”

=> Battistelli's Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part III

=> EPO Union Responds to Željko Topić and Raimund Lutz's Attempt to Intimidate Staff That Joins Unions

=> Ahead of Administrative Council Meeting, General Consultative Committee Warned of “Witch Hunt in Pursuit of SUEPO Officials” (Union Busting)

=> Administrative Council Does Not Crush the Boards But Does Crush the Unions (Suspension Duration Sextupled)

=> EPO Attacks Staff Representatives’ Right to Work Just One Week Before Christmas

=> Members of the European Parliament Slam the EPO for Patent Maximalism That Led to Granting of Patents on Plants

=> Benoît Battistelli's EPO Continues Its Self-Congratulatory PR Charade, Neglecting to Even Acknowledge the Catastrophes Therein

=> Battistelli Wants to Make “Lobbying in the Field of European and Unitary Patent” a “Prohibited Activity” for All Except Himself

=> European Patent Institute (EPI) Not Happy With the EPO’s Terrible Treatment of the Boards of Appeal

=> AIPPI Sends Angry Letter to the Administrative Council Regarding the EPO's Attacks on the Boards and Staff Unions, Saying it Damages the EPO's Function and Reputation)

=> New WIPO Figures Reinforce Reality Where More Patents Needn't Imply More Innovation, Just Lower Standards

=> Unanimous Negative Opinion on the Proposal of Benoît Battistelli to Eliminate Basic Rights at EPO

=> Battistelli's Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part II

=> UPC and Patent Trolls: The Connection Revisited

=> Very High Proportion of EPO Staff in Berlin Goes to the Streets to Protest and to Defend SUEPO From the Union Busters

=> Ahead of Tomorrow's Administrative Council Meeting EPO Staff Representatives Warn Heads of Delegations About Union Busting and Other Abuses

=> Battistelli's Vision of UPC is Closer Contract With Major Applicants (Abroad), Contrary to European Interests

=> When Europe's Leading International Patent Litigators Get Fed Up With Benoît Battistelli and Want Him Sent to 'Exile'

=> Watch Out For the EPO-SUEPO Parity Spin

=> Heise Article Tackles EPO ‘Feud’ (Union Busting in Disguise), Techrights’ Remarks Follow

=> Battistelli’s Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part I

=> EPO No Longer in the ‘Business’ of Just Granting Patents But Politics and Lobbying Also

=> Keeping the European Patent Office (EPO) Out of Politics Amid the EPO's Campaign to Deceive the Media, Politicians

=> When SUEPO Called the EPO a “Public Service Organisation Out of Control”

=> The EPO’s Failed (Dismissed) Attempt to Dismiss a Judge Alleged to Have Communicated About EPO Abuses

=> The European Patent Office is a Lobby Organisation, Was and Still is Lobbying for Expansion of Patent Scope (Also to Software) Through UPC

=> EPO Censored Itself After Publishing a Document Which Had Been Leaked Anyway

=> EPO Central Staff Committee Warns That EPO President Illegally Changes the Rules to Remove the Rights of the Accused, Crush Dissent/Unions

=> A Day After Massive EPO Protest Benoît Battistelli Tries Using Money to Appease Staff

=> EPO 'Sweetener' for Administrative Council National Delegates

=> New Private Eye Article Says EPO “Doesn't Actually Deny That There's a Fast-Track Project Allowing Big Firms to Queue-Jump”

=> Series Teaser: EPO President Battistelli's Relationship With Power

=> EPO Scandals in Private Eye Again

=> Photos From EPO Protest in Munich

=> A Little Taste of European Patent Office 'Justice'

=> The EPO’s Double Standard on Confidentiality

=> Contacting National Delegations to Complain About the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> EPO Vice-President Željko Topić Formally Weakens the Right to Strike, Threatens Financial Retaliation

=> Surveillance Audits at the EPO

=> Tightening Media Control: European Patent Office (EPO) Silences Blogs of Critics by Intimidation, Lawsuits

=> Union Busting at the European Patent Office, Dressed Up as 'Investigation'

=> An Introduction and an Overview of European Patent Office (EPO) Scandals

=> Software Patents and EPO Coverage

=> Watch Out for the Latest EPO Charm Offensive in the Media, Greenwashing Being the Theme Du Jour

=> EPO 'Investigators' Are Almost Technically Illiterate, Definitely Biased by Design

=> Chairman of the Administrative Council Failed to Stop Suspension (and Potential Firing) of EPO Staff Representatives

=> EPO's Team Battistelli is Promoting Only the Oppressors

=> Legal Analysis Reveals That EPO Principal Director for Human Resources (Bergot) Resorts to “Gross Violation of Due Process”

=> Hypocrite in Chief: Benoît Battistelli Compares Staff Union to ‘Mafia’

=> Lawyers’ Response to Incredible Accusations From EPO Management and Its Praetorian Guard

=> EPO Management: Associating a Whistleblowing Judge With Nazism and Weapons, Associating Staff Representatives With Snipers!

=> Team Battistelli Plans to Send to Exile (or Effectively Fire) Law-abiding Staff Because the Staff is Independent and Unwilling to Sack a Whistleblower

=> FRAND Tax, Patent Trolls as Satellites of Large Patent Aggressors, EPO Puff Pieces, and Another Imminent EPO Protest

=> The EPO is Trying to Make It a Serious Offense to Merely Inform Colleagues About Oneself (or Others) Being Subjected to Institutional Harassment/Witch-hunt by Team Battistelli

=> Did the EPO Spike a BBC Story Regarding Discriminatory Practices, Legal Bullying of Bloggers, and/or Microsoft Bias?

=> Outside Interventions Sought in EPO Amid Scandals, New Intervention Comes From OHIM

=> New WIPR Survey Shows 96% of Respondents Are Concerned About the Situation at the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> Staff Union of the EPO Responds to Benoît Battistelli’s Alleged Defamation of Staff Representatives

=> Article Highlights EPO’s Capitalist Venture Tendencies, Seeking to Just Maximize Profit, Irrespective of Public Interests and Human Factors

=> EPO “Synonymous With Psychological Depressions, Nervous Breakdowns, and Even Suicides”

=> The EPO's PR Agency is Connected to Fracking AstroTurf in the United States

=> No Wonder Staff of the EPO Gets Sick of the Management, Which Games Sickness Statistics in Order to Delude the World

=> The Tail That Wags the Dog: How an EPO President Virtually Controls the Administrative Council (AC)

=> Suppression of Voices Critical of the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> The USPTO, With All Its Serious Issues, Increasingly Looks Like the EPO’s Role Model

=> More Than 2,000 People, Including Directors, Said to Have Protested in Munich (About HALF of All EPO Staff Including The Hague Protest)

=> Like JPMorgan, EPO Management Has Started a Defamatory Smear Campaign Against Critics

=> European Private Office (EPO) Increasingly the Subject of Media Scrutiny Despite Huge Spendings on Reputation Laundering

=> EPO All-Time Low: Memorandum From the Praesidium (of the Boards of Appeal) Complains to the Administrative Council About Latest Questionable Moves

=> EPO Does Not Seem to Have Investigators, Only Accusers and Prosecutors (Loyal to the President)

=> The Media is Already Flooded With EPO Propaganda, Some Likely Paid for With €73,000-Per-Month 'Special' New Budget

=> EurActiv's Puff Piece for EPO (Amid High-Budget Media Blitz) Reveals Just How Clueless and Tactless the EPO's President Really is

=> Amid EPO Exodus/Brain Drain, Two Options: 'Gestapo' Staff and Assistant to Battistelli Have Quit or Battistelli's Praetorian Guard is Expanding

=> Impact of Software Patents and Excessive/Unregulated Profit Motives at USPTO: Now Even Common Encryption (i.e. Computer Security) Under Patent Attacks

=> French Member of Parliament Reacts to EPO Management Amidst Ongoing Attacks on Staff Representatives and Facts-free Information War

=> EPO Staff Protest Statistics: Over 2,600 Signatures (So Far) in Petition, About 800 Staff in The Hague Protest, Much More to Come in Munich

=> EPO “Intranet Fails to Present Any Negative Press Cuttings, Reports and Reactions From the Media”

=> The Spanish EPO Scandal – Part III

=> New EPO Job Advertisement Reveals Gestapo-Like ‘Deep State’, Operating Outside the Rule of Law and Managed Secretly by a Tyrannical President

=> Punto Informatico (Italian Media) About EPO's Legal Bullying Against Techrights

=> The European Patent Office (EPO) Crushes Not Only Unions But Also the Press and Even Bloggers

=> The Spanish EPO Scandal – Part II

=> EPO Staff Representatives Highlight to Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’ How Battistelli Deceived Him

November

=> Željko Topić Tries to Do to EPO Staff What He Did in Croatia, Now Crushes Staff Assembly in The Hague

=> The Spanish EPO Scandal – Part I

=> Media Alert: IAM ‘Magazine’ Does Not Protect Sources

=> Public Protests by European Patent Office (EPO) Staff Weaken the EPO's Attacks on the Media

=> Why the European Patent Office Cannot Really Sue and Why It's All -- More Likely Than Not -- Just SLAPP

=> How the EPO Twisted Defamation Law in a Failed Bid to Silence Techrights

=> The Latest EPO Spin: Staff Protesters Compared to ‘Anti-Patent Campaigners’ or ‘Against UPC’

=> The Serious Implication of Controversial FTI Consulting Contract: Every Press Article About EPO Could Have Been Paid for by EPO

=> EPO: We Have Always Been at War With Europe (or Europeans)

=> What Everyone Needs to Know About the EPO's New War on Journalism

=> EPO Did Not Want to Take Down One Techrights Article, It Wanted to Take Down Many Articles Using Intimidation, SLAPPing, and Psychological Manipulation Late on a Friday Night

=> The European Private Office: What Was Once a Public Service is Now Crony Capitalism With Private Contractors

=> When the EPO Liaised With Capone (Literally) to Silence Bloggers, Delete Articles

=> Blogger Who Wrote About the EPO's Abuses Retires

=> Leaked: EPO Award of €880,000 “in Order to Address the Media Presence of the EPO” (Reputation Laundering)

=> Documents Needed: Contract or Information About EPO PR/Media Campaign to Mislead the World

=> Guest Post: The EPO, EPC, Unitary Patent and the Money Issue

=> Saving the Integrity of the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> A Call for Bloggers and Journalists: Did EPO Intimidate and Threaten You Too? Please Speak Out.

=> European Patent Office (EPO) a “Kingdom Above the EU Countries, a Tyranny With ZERO Accountability”

=> EPO Management Needs to Finally Recognise That It Itself is the Issue, Not the Staff or the Unions

=> Even the EPO Central Staff Committee is Unhappy With EPO Management

=> Debunking the EPO’s Latest Marketing Nonsense From Les Échos and More on Benoît Battistelli’s Nastygram to French Politician

=> The Sun King Delusion: The Views of Techrights Are Just a Mirror of EPO Staff Unions

=> United They Stand: FFPE-EPO Supports Suspended Staff Representatives From SUEPO

=> Censoring WIPR Article About Censorship by EPO

=> Censorship at the EPO Escalates: Now We Have Threats to Sue Publishers

=> Response to Bogus Accusations That EPO Staff Protests Are Really an Attempt to Derail UPC

=> New Heise Article Makes It Clear That 'Nazi'-Themed Accusations Against the Suspended Board Judge Were Insufficiently Substantiated

=> European Central Bank Staff Committee Adds to Growing Pressure on Abusive EPO Management

=> Gross Violation of Workers’ Rights in EPO: Denial of Christmas Vacation/Leave for Slower Workers

=> The Bogus Narrative Floated by EPO Management: Our Judges and Examiners Are Armed and Violent

=> Support SUEPO or End Up Like They and Some of the Boards Did

=> NRC Handelsblad (Dutch Evening Newspaper) Speaks About EPO's Refusal to Accept Court Orders From The Hague

=> EPO President Battistelli Now Intimidates Even National Delegations

=> A Look at the Latest Gross Deletionism at the EPO’s ‘Media Partner’, French Newspaper Les Échos

=> Rumour About Efforts to Dismiss a Board Judge by Intimidating Boards of Appeal

=> President Battistelli Now Pressures/Threatens Politicians Who ‘Dare’ to Complain About Abuses and Unacceptable Conditions at the EPO

=> EPO: It’s Like a Family Business – Part IV

=> Translation of Thomas Magenheim-Hörmann's Article in the German Media, Urging European Politicians to Intervene in EPO Chaos and Lawlessness

=> German Press Says Broken EPO Lets President Severely Punish Staff Not Even Guilty of Any Wrongdoing

=> German Media Reveals That Out-of-Control EPO Management is Even Threatening and Abusing Lawyers Now

=> It Pays (Off) to ‘Bribe’ the Media: Watch How Les Échos Covers EPO Matters and Self-Censors

=> ‘Leaked’ PDF Shows How EPO Management Tried to Crush Judge Who ‘Dared’ to Criticise EPO Management

=> EPO: It’s Like a Family Business – Part III

=> In an Effort to Counter EPO Staff Narrative (After ~2,000 of Staff Protest) EPO Management Portrays Staff as Violent But Provides No Evidence

=> Gross Aggression by EPO Management Shows the Urgent Need to Remove Immunity From EPO

=> Patent Lawyers Want to Bring Software Patents (Hence Patent Trolls Too) to Europe, Piggyback Battistelli's Habitual UPC Promotion

=> Another George Bush Moment: Benoît Battistelli Says EPO Believes in “Fundamental Principles of Freedom, Equality and Justice”

=> Meltdown at the EPO, Massive Staff Protests This Afternoon

=> The EPO's Management Has Just Reaffirmed Its Possible Role in Contributing to Staff Suicides

=> EPO: It's Like a Family Business - Part II

=> EPO: It’s Like a Family Business – Part I

=> The EPO is Criticised Again for Serving the Monsanto (and Syngenta) Agenda

=> The Bureaucratic Nonsense That Came Out of Benoît Battistelli and Jesper Kongstad at EPOPIC

=> New Reports Highlight Need to Crack Down on the European Patent Office and Microsoft

=> European Federation of Public Service Unions Pressures Dutch Prime Minister to Take Action Against the EPO's Violations

=> The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part VII

=> The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part VI

=> The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part V

=> The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part IV

=> IP Kat Bemoans Crushing of the EPO’s Boards by an Increasingly Paranoid EPO Management

=> The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part III

=> Dutch Political Action Against the EPO’s Management Greater Than Previously Estimated

=> The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part II

=> The Latest Propaganda From Benoît Battistelli is Promotion of the Unitary Patent (UPC) at Political Levels

=> A State Within a State: Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About the EPO's Bizarre Existence Above the Law

=> The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part I

=> More European Politicians Take on the EPO for Ignoring the Rule of Law

=> The Benoît Battistelli Way or the Highway: EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal is Being Discredited, SUEPO Web Site is Down Again

=> EPO “Careering Towards the Precipice of Disaster”

October

=> Private Eye Covers the EPO Scandals, Says EPO Hired 'British Snooping Firm Global Risk Consultants'

=> Former German Constitutional Court Judge Denounces the EPO’s Possible Campaign of Defamation Against Judge Accused of Truth-Telling

=> Benoît Battistelli Became an Embarrassment to the European Patent Organisation, Allege EPO Workers

=> The International Labour Organisation Highlights Problems of Broader Dimensions at EPO

=> EPO Press Spokesperson and Obvious Conflicts of Interest With Supposed Anti-Corruption Group Transparency International

=> Battistelli's EPO Loses 'Customers' Because It Plays 'Favourites' With Large Corporations

=> Secret Deals at the EPO Discredit Europe and Need to Stop Immediately

=> Control Risks Group (CRG), Transparency International, the European Patent Office (EPO) Investigative Unit and the Obvious Conflicts of Interest

=> In the United States, USPTO Helps Create Trolls, Whereas in Europe, the EPO Itself is the Troll

=> Board of Appeal Thwarts a Software Patent Application in the EPO, From Company Indirectly Connected to the EPO

=> European Patent Organisation: Hallmark of a Corrupted (by Corporations) Entity

=> The Deteriorating Working Conditions at the EPO Show Reluctance to Make Talented Staff (or Ill Staff) Happy

=> EPO Slammed for Granting Patents on Life

=> How the Chief Information Officer of the EPO is Connected to the President of the EPO

=> SUEPO Reiterates Call for Independent Mediation and “Doubts That There Can Ever be Social Peace With Mr Battistelli as President”

=> US Patent 'Industry' (Parasites) Defends Patently Broken System That It Profits From, Pushes for UPC in Europe

=> Techrights to Increase Coverage of EPO Scandals and the Unitary Patent

=> Slate Magazine Explains Why Excessive Patenting is a Bad Thing, Gives a Cautionary Tale for EPO and Others

=> EPO Increases Repressions: Allegedly Bans Staff From Helping Refugees

=> German Broadcaster on European Patent Office (EPO) Preferential Treatment for Microsoft and Others

=> Benoît Battistelli et al in an Allegedly New Campaign of Defamation Against Staff Member

=> German Media Shows Discriminatory EPO Practices More Than Just a ‘Pilot’ (Reaching Second Half of 2016), Started When Microsoft Pressured EPO (Lodged Complaints)

=> EPO Cleverly Frames Total War Against Its Own Staff as a War Against Nazism

=> EPO is Trademark-Bullying Its Critics, Trying Repeatedly to Remove Bad Publicity With Help From Menacing Legal Threats (SLAPP)

=> The 'Sherlocks' of EPO/Spin-Doctoring Pretend That All of the EPO's Problems Boil Down to One Disgruntled Person

=> EPO’s Jeremy Philpott Confirms That Discriminatory (Software) Patent Processing Practices Started With Microsoft, Because of Microsoft

=> Translation Needed: High Employee Sabotaged European Patent Office (EPO)

=> EPO Says Crushing Patent Neutrality is a Good Thing® Because Authenticity of Self-Incriminating EPO Document Cannot be Denied

=> EPO Completely Loses It and Starts Banning Even More Sites Ahead of Today's Demonstration, UPC Proceeding Behind Closed Doors

=> Staff of the EPO Under Siege Ahead of Tomorrow's Demonstration in Munich

=> EPO Management Lobbies for the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Uses This to Advance Software Patents in Europe

=> Confirmed: Benoît Battistelli is Crushing the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA)

=> EPO Staff is Happy, Says EPO Propaganda Still in the Making

=> EPO Management is Running Out of Time as More Media Remarks on Its Abuses

=> Benoît Battistelli's Group of 'Loyals' Crushes Not Only the Independent Boards But Also 'Unwanted' Directorates-General

=> Leaked: EPO Prioritises Work for Large Foreign Corporations, Discrimination Not Accidental But Centrally Planned

=> Benoît Battistelli's Office Accused of Institutional Harassment Against EPO Staff in New Letter to the Administrative Council, Calling for External Investigation

=> Bad News for the EPO's Judicial Independence and Due Process in Next Week's Administrative Council (AC) Meeting

=> The Coup D'état of Benoît Battistelli Follows an Imperialist Model, Threatens Opposition and Dissent

=> EPO Staff to Disrupt Administrative Council Meeting With Public Demonstration That Raises Awareness of Abuses

=> Željko Topić Attacks EPO Staff for ‘Daring’ to Legally Challenge the EPO’s Management Over Its Gross Abuses in Europe

=> Commenters Provide Possible Explanations for Mr Van der Eijk Being on Unlimited Sick Leave

=> With Software Patents in Europe (and Pushes for the Same Thing in Australia and India) Patent Trolls Now Come to Europe, Attack Android/Linux

=> New Information on Limbo in the Enlarged Board, Courtesy of Illegal Actions by the EPO’s Benoît Battistelli

=> Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna Explains Why the UPC (“Unitary Patent“ System) is an Undemocratic Sham Whilst UPC Silently Advanced by Patent Lawyers and Politicians

=> Article Explains Why SUEPO Went Silent Well Over a Week Ago: Nobody is Allowed to Talk to Journalists Without Permission From Battistelli

=> Chairman of the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA) and EPO Vice-President of DG3 Suspiciously on Unlimited Sick Leave After Benoît Battistelli's Unprecedented Attacks on Other EBoA Staff

=> Microsoft's Secret Special Relationship With EPO Illustrates Serious Corruption at Microsoft and the EPO

September

=> Süddeutsche Zeitung Explains Imminent Federal Scrutiny Against Battistelli’s EPO in Germany

=> EPO Managers, Patent Lawyers, Commissioners and Other Non-Technical Personnel Tackle Democracy, Alter Laws in Bulk and in Secret

=> Europe’s Acceptance of and Resistance to Software Patents, Courtesy of Corporate Front Groups and Courtrooms Respectively

=> German Press Explains EPO Investigation Unit (I.U.), Struggles to Openly Speak to the Secretive EPO

=> Translation Needed of Article About EPO Threats Against SUEPO’s Elizabeth Hardon

=> EPO Management Justifies Censorship (Even of Journalists) Using Its Vice-President Željko Topić

=> EPO President Benoît Battistelli Compared to Famous Criminals on European Television

=> Dutch Politician John Kerstens Says EPO Investigative Unit is Called ‘the Gestapo’

=> The European Patent Office's Autocracy Has Proven the Streisand Effect, Amplifying Its Opposition's Messages

=> Dutch Report: EPO Suicides Possibly Caused by Working Conditions Imposed by EPO’s Management

=> European Patent Office Expands Censorship and Intimidation Against Staff as Pressure Mounts

=> EPO Staff Suicides Estimated to Have Grown Tenfold Under Current Regime -- Claim

=> EPO Has Become Political and Benoît Battistelli is Lobbying for UPC (Large Corporations' Wishlist)

=> The EPO’s Vicious Attacks on Its Very Own Staff Have Peaked (War on Dissent) While Oppressive Patent Regime (UPC) Phased in

=> Benoît Battistelli and His Goons From Control Risks (CRG) Try to Crush Unions, Not Just Journalism

=> EPO Management May Not Have Resigned (Yet), But the Rest of the Staff is Leaving in Droves

=> Benoît Battistelli in Denial Over Suicides in EPO, Accuses and Threatens the Messengers

August

=> Censorship, Self-Censorship and Intimidation Now the Modus Operandi at EPO

=> Patent Practitioners: "The Unitary Patent Might be Able to Open the Floodgates for Software Patents in Europe"

=> Another Suicide at the EPO, Fifth by Our Count

=> EPO Corruption of Patent Boundaries: Business Methods and Algorithms Patented

=> EPO Measures Productivity Using the Wrong Yardstick in Order to Sell Its Racket to the Public

=> ‘Sanader’s Protégé’ Željko Topić Slammed by Press in His Home Country

July

=> Patents Expansion in Europe May be Looming

=> SUEPO Post Vanishes: Belated Self-Censorship or Threats From EPO Management?

=> European Censorship: Tyrants of the EPO Blacklist Techrights, Web Site Not Accessible Office-Wide

=> EPO Appointments: Standards of a Third World Country

=> Europe Goes Down a Dark Route When It Comes to Patent Scope and Centralisation

=> Amid Controversy, Political Scrutiny and Increased Media Pressure Željko Topić and Benoît Battistelli Allegedly Cancel Today’s Trip to Zagreb (Croatia) Where Topić Faces Many Criminal Charges

=> Translation of Pierre-Yves Le Borgn' Speech Against EPO Management and New Parliamentarian Interventions

=> Munich Press, Münchner Merkur, Slams the Munich-based EPO

=> Speculations About the EPO's Possible Role in DDOS Attacks

June

=> Techrights Confirmed as a Target of EPO Surveillance, With Help From Control Risks Group (CRG)

=> DDOS Attacks Against Techrights

=> After Intervention by the Council of Europe Comes a Detailed Summary of the Situation in the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> The Council of Europe Slams the EPO as Political Pressure Grows for EPO Management to Obey the Law

=> The EPO’s Circus of Nepotism, Corporatism and Gross Abuse is Promoting the Unitary Patent

=> An Estimated 1,000 EPO Staff in Munich Demonstrated Against EPO Management Yesterday Afternoon

=> EPO Protest in Munich and Growing Unpopularity of EPO Management, Media Manipulation by the Management

=> Demonstration Against European Patent Office Management in Munich This Wednesday

=> French Newspaper Les Echos Censors Criticism of Benoît Battistelli and the EPO

=> SUEPO to SUE Government of the Netherlands for Protecting the EPO’s Thugs

=> More Political Interventions in EPO Abuse Cases

=> Translation of Süddeutsche Zeitung Article Calling for External Oversight of Data Protection at the EPO

=> EPO Data Protection Officer 'Just a Dictator's Minion', Approved Keyloggers and Hidden Cameras

=> Badische Zeitung Labels European Patent Office (EPO) a Police State for Use of Very Intrusive Mass Surveillance Software

=> More European Politicians Pressure and Sometimes Slam the European Patent Office (EPO) Amid New Scandals

=> EPO Comes Under Fire From the Bavarian Data Protection Supervisor After the Spying Scandal

=> Full Translation of Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About Blackhat Tactics (Keyloggers) in EPO

=> EPO Surveillance, Threats, and Patronisation of Dutch Legal System Covered in Dutch Article From De Volkskrant

=> European Patent Office (EPO) Now Uses Keyloggers to Spy on Staff

=> When the European Patent Office Lost in Court and Refused to Obey the Law: An Analysis

=> EPO May be Creating Its Own Lawless NSA (or GCHQ) With Control Risks Group Deal

=> The European Patent Office Has Become Militarised

=> Spanish Media on Reign of Terror at EPO: Managerial Misconduct, Blocked E-mails (Censorship), and Abuse of Legal Immunity

=> The High Cost of Low Patent Bar at the EPO

=> Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About the EPO's Investigation Unit and Control Risks Group

=> EPO and Administrative Council Stall Criticism by Pretending to Negotiate With Staff Whilst Actually Attacking It

=> EPO Officially Confirms That It Specifically Hired Control Risks Group (CRG) to Spy on Journalists and Their Sources

=> The EPO Sinks Deeper in a Scandal After Paying Public Money for Military-Connected Control Risks to Stalk Journalists and Staff

=> EPO Corruption Compared to FIFA Corruption While ‘Control Risks’ Helps EPO Hide/Suppress Evidence of Corruption; Calls on German Authorities to Crack Down on Both

=> EPO Reluctantly (and Privately) Confirms Giving Public Money for Military-connected ‘Control Risks’ to Spy on Journalists and Their Sources While Techrights is Under Fresh DDOS Attacks

May

=> The EPO Still Wastes Public Money on Publicity Stunts and 'Reputation Management' Campaigns

=> Propaganda Mode for UPC Agreement Whilst EPO Increasingly Grants Patents on Software

=> Patent Scope at the EPO is Totally Out of Control, UPC Will Make Things Worse

=> Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Benoît Battistelli and Four EPO Suicides

=> Süddeutsche Zeitung Says Talking Helps While EPO Management Back-stabs Other Side of the Table

=> More Utter Shame Unveiled at Battistelli’s EPO: Intimidation Tactics With Help From ‘Control Risks’

April

=> The EPO’s Tyrant, Benoît Battistelli, is Probably on His Way Out, Threatens to Resign

=> As Core Issues Still Not Addressed, Another Protest Against EPO Management Scheduled for Tomorrow in Munich, Germany

=> EPO Management is Trying Hard to Appease Its Critics While Pushing Forth Unitary Patent Agenda

=> More Translations of French Article About the EPO

=> New Article Chronicles Suicides and Nervous Breakdowns at the EPO Due to the Management’s Abuses

=> The EPO is Becoming More Like the USPTO Under Benoît Battistelli's Greed-Driven Reign

=> More Suicides Reported at the Staff-Hostile European Patent Office

=> English, French and German Translations of De Telegraaf Article About Ivo Opstelten’s Defence of Benoît Battistelli

=> The EPO’s Dutch Appeal Court Judgment Controversy: List of Political Interventions

=> Željko Topić: ‘SUEPO {Staff Union} Has No Standing in This Office. SUEPO Has No Role to Play in This Office.’

=> English, French and German Translations of Dutch Article About EPO Abuses

=> When Battistelli’s Defender Ivo Opstelten Turned Out to be Also Defending (Paying) Narcotics Traffickers

=> When Battistelli’s Defender, Dutch Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten, Attacked Europeans’ Right to Demonstrate

March

=> When the EPO Came Under Fire From the Netherlands and Before Systemic Corruption Was Revealed

=> Techrights Cited by European Politicians in Support of EPO Staff’s Causes

=> Željko Topić and Ivan Šimonović, Two Residues of Ivo Sanader’s Corrupt Regime, Seen as Indirectly Connected

=> The EPO’s Dutch Scandal Leaves Battistelli and His Cronies on the Run

=> The EPO's Administrative Council is Under Increased Pressure to Rein in and to Finally Stop Benoît Battistelli

=> Concerns Over Željko Topić’s Alleged Powerful Links in Croatian Diplomacy

=> Benoît Battistelli’s EPO Comes Under Fire From Prominent Figures Who Are Key EPO Stakeholders, Expect Battistelli to Resign ‘in the Longer Term’

=> Benoît Battistelli’s EPO is Under Attack From French Politicians Yet Again

=> Politics of Blackmail at the EPO

=> Benoît Battistelli's EPO Comes Under Attack From the British

=> The Royal Norwegian Department of Labour on the Right of European Patent Office (EPO) Workers to Strike

=> How the European Patent Office (Management) is Spying on Its Very Own Staff

=> Translation of Full Judgment Against Željko Topić in Croatian Defamation Case Over Bribery (Mercedes/Audi) and More

=> Benoît Battistelli Allegedly Turns to Moscow and Putin-Inspired Tactics to Oppress and Suppress EPO Staff

=> Rikard Frgačić Explains Željko Topić's Behaviour and the Lufthansa Case

=> Video: How the Željko Topić-Led SIPO Betrayed Croatians

=> EPO Management Still in a Freefall, Tries to Warp/Divert the Debate Away From Its Abuses

February

=> The EPO’s Sham ‘Internal Investigation’ of EPO Vice-President Željko Topić’s Affairs

=> Benoît Battistelli Once Again Threatens EPO Staff That ‘Dares’ to Protest, Battistelli Exploits Terror Attacks to Pretend to Respect Free Speech

=> The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys Slams the European Patent Office for Structural Failings

=> Techrights Under Attack Again, Shortly After Important EPO Articles

=> EPO Staff Protests Against Benoît Battistelli’s Lowering of Patents Quality (Scope Expansion and Software Patents for Profit)

=> Breaking: European Patent Office Sued by Its Own Staff in The Hague, Must Unblock Staff’s Voices

=> Željko Topić's History in SIPO Leaves a Legacy of Alleged DZIV Vehicles (Bribes), Authorship Abuses, and Intimidation Against Reporters

=> Željko Peratović Slammed for Whitewashing Željko Topić After Publishing Important Piece on Behalf of Key Sources

=> Benoît Battistelli Has Made Oversight of European Patent Office Absolutely Impossible

=> English Translation of Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About Benoît Battistelli, Željko Topić, and EPO Tyranny

=> Amid EPO Scandals, Call to Dissolve the EPO and Start All Over Again (With New Management and New Direction)

=> FFII and the American IP Law Association Comment on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Envisioned by EPO

=> English Translation of Article About Protest at Danish Consulate Over EPO Abuses

=> EPO Staff to March to British Consulate to Protest Against the Administrative Council (AC)

=> The EPO's Digital War (Censorship) Against Staff Web Site

=> Cyberattacks on SUEPO Server Raise More Questions

=> The European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW) is Again Protesting Against EPO as More Crackdowns by EPO Management Reveal Depth of Abuse

=> English Translation of Ruling Against Željko Topić (EPO VP) in Croatian Court

=> German Translation of Ruling Against Željko Topić, the EPO's Vice-President

=> More Press Coverage From the Danish Media About EPO Abuses and Protest at Danish Consulate

=> Benoît Battistelli and Jesper Kongstad Continue to Blame Everything on SUEPO

=> Catarina Holtz From the EPO Boards of Appeal Explains Bad Behaviour of the Management With Regards to EPC 2000

=> The EPO's Paid Propaganda Campaign in the Media

January

=> Media Coverage of Demonstration Against Jesper Kongstad of the Administrative Council (EPO)

=> Text of Ruling/Decision Against Željko Topić (Regarding Audi as a Bribe)

=> An Estimated 1,000 EPO Employees-Strong Legion Engulfs Danish Consulate to Protest Jesper Kongstad's (of Administrative Council) Protection of Benoît Battistelli

=> Breaking: EPO Vice-President Željko Topić Loses Defamation Case in Croatia

=> As Battistelli Breaks the Rules and Topić Silences Staff, New European Parliament Petition for Tackling the EPO’s Abuses is Needed

=> The Collapse of European Patent Office Management Culminates With Resignations

=> Vesna Stilin Renews Her Fight for Justice in Željko Topić Case (EPO VP)

=> Failure of the EPO Can Derail the Trojan Horse of Software Patents and Patent Trolls

=> Translations of Member of the European Parliament Complaining About European Patent Office (EPO)

=> Battistelli's Latest Propaganda War Tries to Convince EPO Staff That Željko Topić's Many Criminal Charges Don't Exist

=> Dutch MEP Dennis De Jong, Criticising Battistelli and Topić, Calls for Action Against EPO Management

=> EPO Misdirections Debunked: Refuting Battistelli’s Nonsense and Bogeyman Theory

=> The EPO Connection Now a Liability as Administrative Council Has Become a Laughing Stock, Jesper Kongstad to be Targeted by EPO Staff Protests

=> Intellectual Property Judges’ Association (IPJA) Speaks Out Against EPO Tyrant Battistelli

=> Investigation Unit a Complete Farce Inside the EPO

=> Just in: Fresh Call From Croatia to Arrest EPO Vice-President Željko Topić

=> EPO Under Fire From European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW)

=> Techrights

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