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2016

December

=> 2016: The Year EPO Staff Went on Strike, Possibly “Biggest Ever Strike in the History of the EPO.”

=> Open EPO Letter Bemoans Battistelli's Antisocial Autocracy Disguised/Camouflaged Under the Misleading Term “Social Democracy”

=> EPO’s Central Staff Committee Complains About Battistelli’s Bodyguards Fetish and Corruption of the Media

=> Translation of French Texts About Battistelli and His Awful Perception of Omnipotence

=> German Justice Minister Heiko Maas, Who Flagrantly Ignores Serious EPO Abuses, Helps Battistelli's Agenda ('Reform') With the UPC

=> The EPO Under Benoît Battistelli Makes the Mafia Look Like Rookies

=> Bad Service at the European Patent Office (EPO) Escalated in the Form of Complaints to European Authorities/Politicians

=> Leaked: Letter to Quality Support (DQS) at the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> Negative Publicity (Personal or by Association With the EPO) is Devouring the Institution

=> 2017 Will be the Year Team Battistelli Collapsed and EPO 'Reform' Became All About Detoxifying the Organisation

=> Crisis Inside the EPO as Elodie Bergot, Unqualified for Her Job, Fails to Maintain Staffing

=> “Whoever at the EPO Took This Action Clearly Never Heard About the Concept of Separation of Powers”

=> Sean Dennehey, UK Delegate (EPO) and Head of UK IPO, Already Resists Battistelli; Should Also Understand British Businesses Don't Want or Need the UPC

=> IAM is Still the EPO's Favourite Propaganda Mill

=> Accusations of Administrative Council (of the EPO) Complicity in Illicit Retaliation Against Appeal Boards at the Behest of Battistelli

=> With Lucy Neville-Rolfe Out (Confirmed Today!) and Chaos in the EPO's Management, the UPC's Prospects Look Worse Than Ever in the UK and Europe as a Whole

=> No Justice at the EPO, Whose Underlying Purpose Was (Originally) to Do Patents Justice

=> Leaked: After Vicious Attacks on SUEPO -- in Defiance of the Administrative Council's Demands! -- Team Battistelli Pretends to Want Union Recognition

=> 'SIPO Europe': The EPO's Race to the Bottom of Patent Skills and Patent Quality

=> Benoît Battistelli's Reign of Terror at the EPO Milks a Terror Attack Again, Shows Extreme Hypocrisy

=> From Bad to Worse: When a Horrible Regime (EPO) Publicly Makes Itself Look Like One

=> EPO President Benoît Battistelli “Should Be in Prison”

EPO Appeal Boards, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and Other Newsworthy Tidbits (partly about EPO)

=> EPO Appeal Boards, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and Other Newsworthy Tidbits

=> More and More Lobbying for Software Patents, Not Just in Battistelli's EPO But Also in India and the US

=> Not Just in Europe: EPO 'Mafioso' Benoît Battistelli Brings Software Patents (“Computer-Implemented Inventions”) to Another Place That Explicitly Banned Them

=> Fury Over the Administrative Council of the EPO Controlling Nothing and Being Controlled by Battistelli

=> Will the Patent Microcosm of London Please Stop Misleading the Public About UPC?

=> Small Nations With Almost Not a Single European Patent Sign the Death Knell of EPO Patent Quality

=> Why EPO Staff is Up in Arms

=> Vote for Exile of the Boards of Appeal Shows That the Administrative Council of the EPO is Still Compromised and Complicit

=> Big Crack in Team Battistelli: EPO’s Vice-President Willy Minnoye is Leaving!

=> Team UPC Salivating Over Unitary Patent Fantasy Even Though It is Stuck in a Limbo

=> Shame on the German Media for the Media Blackout Surrounding EPO Protests in Munich (and Sometimes Berlin)

=> Confirmed: Judge Carl Josefsson Chosen by the Administrative Council for the Secretive Patent Organisation

=> Rumour: Carl Josefsson to Head EPO Boards of Appeal, Battistelli Unhappy

=> Administrative Council of the EPO Must Recognise Critical Brain Drain, Loss of Talent, Loss of Patent Quality

=> Large Protest Against EPO Management, in Pictures

=> Outside Pressure is Growing: CERN Staff Association Reaffirms Commitment to SUEPO, The Staff Union of the EPO

=> EPO is “Googlebombing” Croatia With Puff Pieces Rather Than Discussion/Coverage of Vice-President's Dark Side

=> EPO Protest Begins and ILO Staff Union Expresses Support for EPO Staff

=> EPO Staff: Mr. Battistelli is Causing Immeasurable Damage to the Office; He is Now Untenable

=> Media Blackout in Croatian Mainstream Media About Criminal Charges Against EPO's Croatian Vice-President and EPO President's Notoriety

=> The EPO Keeps Bullying Examiners and Even Judges, EPO's Mouthpiece PwC Now Bullies Researchers

=> Staff Union of the European Central Bank Blasts Benoît Battistelli

=> Another New Book, This Time From Dr Luke McDonagh, Chronicles the Demise of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement

=> The European Patent Office Suffers Quality Crisis, Finally (Belatedly) Agrees to Publicly Comment on It

=> Benoît Battistelli Besieged

=> Caricature: The European Patent Office Finds Quick Fix for ILO

=> The EPO Sent Its Second 'Monster' to Croatia to Lobby for the Unitary Patent (UPC), Did Not Mention Anything About It

=> EPO 'Reform' Seems to Strive for Echo Chamber Mentality, Elimination of Unions, Crackdown on Experienced (Well-Paid) Employees, and Departure From Patent Quality

=> “Corrupt Benoît Battistelli and Željko Topić Today in Zagreb at 25th Anniversary of SIPO Croatia”

=> EPO Protest This Coming Wednesday Strives to Restore the Rule of Law and Freedom of Speech at the Office

=> The EPO is Collapsing. Attacks on Journalists, Interns as Staff, Patents on Plants, and Bureaucratic Red Tape...

=> Ignore the Bristows UPC Echo Chamber, the UPC is Not Happening

=> British Media Slams Battistelli for Attempting to Cover Up 2 Years of Juridical Abuses With Help From the Administrative Council of the EPO

=> Boards of Appeal Still Under Attack From Team Battistelli While the EPO Proceeds to Granting Patents on Carlsberg BEER!

=> Memo “Deliberately Leaked to Cover up the UPC” With Its Many Associated Issues Amid Brexit

=> The UPC Scam Part VII: A Fine Mess in the Making, as Nothing Can be Made of It Amid/After Brexit

=> The UPC Scam Part VI: The Real Story Which People Missed Due to Puff Pieces Seeded by Battistelli-Bribed Media is That UPC Technically Cannot Come to the UK

=> EPO Spiraling Down the Drain as Experienced Examiners and Judges Are Seemingly Being Replaced by Interns

=> EPO Suicides Greater in Number Than is Widely Reported, Unjust System a Contributor to These

=> Heiko Maas, the SPD “Cash for Access” Affair, and Suspicions of Unwarranted Censorship at IP Kat (Again)

=> Endgame for Battistelli at the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> Les Échos Chamber: Having Corrupted the Media (With EPO Money), Battistelli Now Uses It for More UPC Propaganda

=> Rumour: EPO in Berlin the Next Casualty of Battistelli's 'Reform' (Organisational Suicide Plan)

=> Caricature: the Maas App

=> Leaked: Battistelli Acknowledges Bunk 'Justice' in About 100 Cases at the Internal Appeals Committee of the EPO

=> The UPC Scam Part V: Unitary Patent Regime a Fantasy of Patent Trolls

=> EPO at a Tipping Point: Battistelli Quarrelling With French Politicians, Administrative Council Urged to Act, Staff Unrest Peaking

=> Quality of Patents at the EPO Dependent on the Appeal Boards When Battistelli Assesses Performance Using the Wrong ‘Production’ Yardstick

=> More French Politicians Are Complaining That Benoît Battistelli is a Disgrace to France and Urge for Action

=> Dutch Media Covers Latest EPO Scandals, German Media Totally Absent (a Media Blackout of Convenience)

=> Relocating the Boards of Appeal to Haar is a Poisonous Priority at Battistelli's EPO

=> The Rule of Law and Justice Don't Exist Inside the EPO, Confirms the International Labour Organisation (ILO)

=> A Day in the Life of... Battistelli's Banana Republic

=> Two ILO Decisions on EPO Cases Are Released, at Least One Judgment is Considered Good for Staff

=> Dutch and French Politicians Complain About the European Patent Office, British Media Coverage Regular Now

November

=> The UPC Scam Part IV: Bumps Along the Road for UPC, With or Without the UK and Brexit

=> The UPC Scam Part III: The “Patent Mafia”

=> The UPC Scam Part II: The Patent Echo Chamber at Work, Prematurely Congratulating Itself in Its 'News' Sites

=> The UPC Scam Part I: EPO-Bribed Media Outlets Lie to Brits (and to Europeans) About the UPC

=> European Public Service Union Asks EPO Administrative Council “to Re-establish the Rule of Law at the European Patent Office”

=> ILOAT Decisions: Upcoming Publication of Two EPO Cases (Abuse Against Staff)

=> Mixing Politics and EPO: How Battistelli Defies the Very Basic Rules of the Office

=> EPO DG1 Principal Director “Out of the Muppet Show”

Learning From the Mistakes of the US Patent System (and More Latterly China) When Assessing Patent Maximalism (partly about EPO)

=> Learning From the Mistakes of the US Patent System (and More Latterly China) When Assessing Patent Maximalism

=> The International Labour Organisation Once Again Proves Useless for Labour of the EPO

=> CERN Slams the European Patent Office for Abuse of Employees

=> Patent Attorney Mark Summerfield: EPO Administrative Council “Members Should be Ashamed.”

=> EPO Caricature: Slowing Down Justice and Giving Luxury Cars as Gifts

=> Danger of Letting a Bunch of Patent Law Firms Attempt to Hijack the European Patent System With UPC

=> Caught in a Lie Again: EPO Management Just Cannot Stop Lying, Even About People Whom It Gags Using Threats (to Cover Up Battistelli's Abuses)

=> Benoît Battistelli's Affinity for Tiny Countries Exploits the Ease of 'Buying' Their Votes

=> The Sad State of German Anti-Corruption Authorities and Investigative Journalism, as Demonstrated by the EPO

=> Duplicate Events for Lobbying by Team UPC Meddle in Politics in an Effort to Enrich Itself at Europe's Expense

=> SLAPP-Happy EPO Vice-President Slapped Out of the Municipal Criminal Court in Zagreb for the Third Time!

=> EPO and the Art of Distraction, Disinformation

=> Report From Yesterday's EPO Protest at The Hague, Which Several Politicians Attended

=> Asking Team UPC or the EPO About the UPC is Like Asking Clinton About Winning Presidential Elections

=> Patent Quality at the EPO Depends on the Future of the Boards of Appeal (Which Battistelli is Killing Not So Softly)

=> Video and Audio: Press Coverage From Today's EPO Protest at The Hague

=> Union Syndicale Fédérale Writes Letters to the Chinchilla Man of the Administrative Council About Battistelli's EPO Abuses, No Sign of Reply/Reaction

=> European Patent Office Workers Take Action Against 'Tyrannical' Director

=> Employees of European Patent Office Take Action Against Culture of Fear

=> Anonymous EPO Staff: EPO Management's Moral Compass is Broken

=> EPO Protest Tomorrow at The Hague

=> Caricature: Team Battistelli's UPC Strategy

=> Caricature: EPO ‘Voting’ When All Votes Are Equal Irrespective of Country’s Size

=> Crisis at the EPO Deepens as Dutch Parliament Dives in, European Parliament Snubbed by EPO Management, and Battistelli Relies on 'High Corruption' States

=> Cases Against the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Demise of Transparency International (Which EPO Partly 'Absorbed')

=> European Media, Dutch Parliament and Spectacularly Enough Even IP Kat (Yes, It's Back!) Subject the EPO to Serious Scrutiny

=> Drunk on ‘Production’, the European Patent Office (EPO) Grants Patents on Recipes

=> Like Team UPC, the Internet Association (Megacorporations' Front Group) Hijacks the Voice of Small Businesses in an Effort to Steer Patent Policy Against Them

=> Cheapening of Patents at the EPO, Cheapening of Staff of the EPO, and Emergence of Large Corporations' Tax Evasion Using Piles of Patents

=> Battistelli Should be Made Redundant (Fired) Before All EPO Staff Becomes Redundant in a Defunct Office That Flagrantly Mocks the Law

=> Amid Scapegoating, Union-Shaming and Gagging by Battistelli, SUEPO's Prunier Provides More Details on Union Busting at the EPO

=> The EPO Lowering Patent Quality, Accused of Issuing Invalid Patents, and Promoting Software Patents (Hence Trolls)

=> Violations of Human Rights at the EPO in the Name of Fraud Prevention

=> Breaking: Dutch Parliament Debate About Immunity of the EPO and the Tyranny of Benoît Battistelli

=> Leaked Letter Reveals How Battistelli Still Exploits FFPE-EPO (Yellow Union) to Attack the Real EPO Union, SUEPO

=> Guest Post: Behind the GCC Meeting and How Battistelli Finds Excuses for His Union-Busting Campaign at the EPO

=> Leaked: Proof That Benoît Battistelli Disregarded Orders From the Administrative Council (Again)

=> In the European Patent Office, Battistelli Implements Changes That Clearly Defy the Rule of Law

=> Elodie Bergot's Double Standards: Can Flagrantly Defame EPO Staff Representatives on the Intranet (Union-Shaming), But Cannot Publish Facts

=> Call for Disciplinary Procedures and Dismissal of Mr Battistelli, Mr Topić and Ms Bergot at the EPO

=> EPO Caricature: Fabricating Evidence

=> Benoît Battistelli Reinforces the Perception That García-Escudero is His Pet Chinchilla at the Board of Appeals Committee (BoAC)

=> Decline in Patent Quality at the EPO Increasingly Reaffirmed by More Branches, Insiders, and Even the European Commission

=> Battistelli Must Go, Says Yet Another French Politician, Arguing He is “Extremely Damaging to the Image of France”

=> SUEPO (EPO Staff Union) “Fears Now That the Intention Behind This Blow is “to Destroy” the Union.”

=> “Not My President“: The Sentiment of European Patent Office Staff Towards Their Fascistic Boss

=> Benoît Battistelli's Marching Orders in Spain Through His 'Pet Chinchilla' Patricia García-Escudero, Whom He Got Overseeing the Boards of Appeal

=> EPO Social Workshops on Monday and Tuesday? No, EPO Staff up in Arms!

=> At EPOPIC Today, As Expected, Software Patents Courtesy of EPO

=> EPO I.U. Cartoon Highlights the Way EPO Staff Feels About the Management Under Battistelli

=> Don't Believe Team UPC; the UPC is Going Nowhere Fast

=> Threats to Dismissed EPO Staff Representative Allegedly Hold Pension (Blackmail Point) to Silence Him Even After Unjust Dismissal, Munich Goes Protesting for Him

=> EPO Ally IAM Magazine Calls Battistelli's Dismissal of EPO Staff Representative Laurent Prunier “a Needless Own Goal.”

=> The Death of Patent Quality at the EPO and the European Commission's Latest Smackdown of the EPO's Patent Maximalism

=> UPC a Threat to the Boards of Appeal at the EPO (Soon Haar) and to Patent Quality in Europe

=> Dismissal of Laurent Prunier Worse Than It Seems as Battistelli Almost 'Pulls a Hardon' by Taking Away Pension Rights Too

=> EPO President Benoît Hernandez About the Social Atmosphere and Life’s Great Joys

=> Has the Advisor of Željko Topić Just Quit, Got Sacked, or is EPO Vice-President Topić Gaining Even Greater Powers?

=> In the Case of Frenchman Laurent Prunier, Battistelli Reasserts Himself as Psychopathic Bully

=> Leaked: An Out-of-Control EPO Union-Busting Parade of Battistelli Marches on in The Hague

=> Caricature: European Patent Office as Mordor

=> Breaking the European Patent System With the UPC Hammer, Courtesy of the EPO and Lawyers-Centric 'News' Sites

=> Patent Maximalism is Destroying the European Patent Office (Just a Paperwork Assembly Line), Exile of Boards Ensures No Turnaround

October

 The Insane World of Patent Maximalism and Professor Joshua Pearce’s Case for Weakening Patent Rights (partly covers EPO)

=> The Insane World of Patent Maximalism and Professor Joshua Pearce’s Case for Weakening Patent Rights

=> FTC Slams Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), Effectively Patent Trolls, Which Are a Growing Problem in Europe

=> The Patent Trolls Are Moving East as Patents on Software Lose Their Lustre in the United States

=> The Former Chief Economist of the EPO Warns That Battistelli's Implicit Policy of Lowering Patent Quality (for Quantity) Will Bring Patent Trolls to Europe

=> How to Tell You're Deliberately Not Covering Important EPO Scandals

=> The EPO's Balkan Express Keeps Chugging Along Despite Predictions of Derailment

=> Advice to Journalists: Stop Repeating Propaganda of the EPO, a Serial Liar With a Track Record

=> Leaked: Ljiljana Kuterovac Covering Željko Topić's (EPO) Back

=> Leaked: Budget and Finance Committee Outcomes That Jeopardise What's Left of the EPO's Future

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

=> Budget and Finance Committee of the Administrative Council (EPO) Confirms Exile of the Boards of Appeal

=> Leaked: EPO's Vice-President Willie Minnoye Saying the Unsayable, Then Threatening Anyone Who Keeps Record (Evidence) of It

=> Puff Pieces of the EPO-IPO (EPO+EUIPO) Have Begun to Appear Amid New Evidence of Brain Drain, Lowered Standards

=> Leaked: Minutes From the Administrative Council of the EPO Regarding the 'Reform' (Exile) of the Boards of Appeal

=> No Promising Future For the EPO Under Battistelli (If Any Future At All)

=> Leaked Minutes From the EPO Reveal That Battistelli is Detached From Reality and Blames Everything on “Union Officials”

=> Battistelli Plans to Expand the Social {sic} 'Study' (Then 'Conference') Propaganda Until Next Month, Under the 'Workshop' Umbrella

=> EPO and EUIPO Join Hands to Release Propaganda (for European Media to Parrot) Some Time Tomorrow

=> UPC Preparatory Committee Puts the Brakes on UPC Amid Brexit and Growing Uncertainty

=> Updates Regarding EPO and BoAC: Unrest and Injustice Carry on

=> EPO and the “Iberian Connection”: Patricia García-Escudero Márquez – Battistelli’s Pet Chinchilla on the Boards of Appeal Committee?

=> Open Letter Exposing the Farce Which Was Battistelli’s ‘Social Conference’ Coinciding With Further (New) Attacks on EPO Staff Representatives

=> Translation of Latest Rant From French MP Philip Cordery About Benoît Battistelli’s Abuses at the EPO

=> Battistelli-Commissioned PwC ‘Study’: Leaked Document Shows PwC’s Dishonesty and Misrepresentation of EPO Staff

=> Battistelli-Commissioned PwC ‘Study’: Survey Comparison Shows Serious Deterioration and Efforts by PwC to Disguise the Truth

=> EPO Teaser - The "Iberian Connection" - Some Photos of García-Escudero and His Royal/Government Connections

=> Disruption to Site's Service

=> EPO Caricature: Battistelli's High Five

=> Battistelli Ruins Not Only the EPO But Also the Whole of Europe By Ushering in Software Patents That Patent Trolls Love So Much

=> EPO Spokesman Lies to IP Watch in Order to Save Face and Save the King (Battistelli)

=> Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead, But ‘Managing IP’ and Selfish Patent Law Firms Still Try to Resurrect It

=> Battistelli-Commissioned PwC ‘Study’: The Raw Outcome Shows Distortion of the Facts at the EPO’s Notorious ‘Social Conference’

=> Addendum: EPO’s Alberto Casado Cerviño, WIPO’s Francis Gurry, and EUIPO’s Archambeau

=> Worrisome Connections Between EPO VP2 Alberto Casado Cerviño and Patricia García-Escudero Márquez

=> EPO Caricature: EQE Questions

=> The Long History or Seeds of Control by Fear and Punishment at the EPO

=> Subject of the European Patent Office’s Abuses Raised in European Parliament by Ulrike Müller (ALDE)

=> French Article About the EPO "Crisis"

=> Battistelli Wants Us to Believe a Patent Office in a Freefall (EPO) is “Stronger and More Sustainable”

=> Leaked Documents Shed More Light on What Happened to Alison Brimelow and How Battistelli Rose to Power

=> Leaked: Outcomes of 149th Administrative Council's Meeting at the European Patent Organisation

=> Danish Press Coverage of the European Patent Office and the Problems Explored by Techrights

=> EPO Updates: Battistelli in Trouble, Grossenbacher and Battistelli Having a Fight, EPO Doubles Down on Željko Topić

=> EPO Social Conference Another Example of Astronomical Waste of Money by Benoît Battistelli

=> UPC Preparatory Committee Projects Optimism in an Effort to Salvage Its Dying Project, the Unitary/Unified Patent

=> Outline of Latest Press Coverage Regarding the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> As Expected, Benoît Battistelli Puts Longtime Ally Roland Grossenbacher on Top of Boards of Appeal

=> EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point - Part V: “Siegfried Bross as President of the Boards of Appeal!”

=> EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point – Part IV: When ~1,200 EPO Workers March in Protest and European Politicians Say “Battistelli Must Go”

=> EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point – Part III: How Benoît Battistelli Planned to Expand His Attacks on EPO Staff (But Failed)

=> EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point - Part II: More Photos From Today's Protest at The Hague

=> EPO Caricature: EPO-Funded PwC on EPO Happiness

=> EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point – Part I: Protest at The Hague and the Huge Things at Stake

=> The EPO is Out of Control on (Patent) Scope and Team UPC Floods the Media in a Desperate Last Attempt

=> Index: Our Jesper Kongstad Series of Danish Stories

=> Addendum II: Article About the Kongstads' Villa Becoming a Breeding Farm for the Fur Industry

=> Addendum I: Danish Fur Industry - Further Information Regarding Political Lobbying

=> Danish Stories - Part V: Jesper Kongstad's Chinchilla Fur Farming

=> “Very Mysterious Things Going on at the IPKat Recently”

=> Danish Puff Pieces: Latest 'Puff Pieces' From Denmark About the Opening of a New DKPTO Branch Office

=> The Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) Protested Today in Munich (Against the EPO's Management) While President Benoît Battistelli Lied

=> New Letter to the Delegates of the Administrative Council

=> New Caricature: President Blatter Speaks to the Administrative Council of the EPO

=> From World's Best to World's Worst: China's SIPO (Worst of Asia) and France (Worst of Europe) the Vision for EPO

=> Has IP Kat's Unofficial (Self-)Censorship Policy Expanded From Protecting the EPO's Image to Protecting the UPC?

=> The UPC is Dead, Says Opinion Partly Funded by Team UPC, But Patent Scope in Europe Remains an Issue

=> The Administrative Council Seems to Have No Issues With Battistelli Wasting Millions of Euros Buying the Media and Fake ‘Studies’

=> Addendum II: FJORDBLINK MEDICAL ApS - Further Information and a Mystery

=> Addendum I: FJORDBLINK MEDICAL ApS Technically Housed in Jesper Kongstad's New Mansion?

=> Danish Stories - Part IV: Jesper Kongstad and FJORDBLINK MEDICAL ApS

=> Rumour: The European Patent Office Intends to Sack Staff Representatives at The Hague Like It Did in Munich

=> Danish Stories - Part III: Jesper Kongstad a Danish Civil Servant With a Distinctly Entrepreneurial Streak

=> Team Battistelli Keeps Lying About Judges and Staff Representatives in Order to Decapitate EPO Staff and Even the 'Independent' Boards of Appeal

=> Battistelli's Preparation for a Propaganda Session That Excludes EPO Staff Representation

=> Addendum II: Photos of Troel Lund Poulsen With Fur

=> Addendum I: Photos of Troel Lund Poulsen and Michael Dithmer

=> Danish Stories - Part II: Kongstad's Political Masters in Denmark and Rumoured Connections to the Venstre Party

=> Echo Chamber's Lobbying: Team UPC Citing Team UPC as 'Proof' Regarding the UPC

=> Loose Patent Scope Becoming a Publicity Nightmare for the EPO and Battistelli Does a China Outreach (Worst/Most Notorious on Patent Quality)

=> No Justice Even for a Judge at the EPO, as the Whole Institution is Beyond Rotten and Quite Corrupt

=> Staff of the EPO is Going Out in Protest (Munich and The Hague) While EPO Management Buys European Media to Control This Media, Promote UPC

=> Addendum: Controversial Chinchilla Farming by the Kongstad Family

=> Introduction to Jesper Kongstad, EPO Chairman of the Administrative Council

=> Danish Fairy Tales and Legends: The Secret Life of Jesper Kongstad

=> Translation and Response to Battistelli’s Face-Saving ‘Interview’ With Juve

=> Not Just the European Patent Office But the Organisation Too a Culprit in Immunity and Impunity

=> Immunity of the European Patent Office and Lack of Oversight Within the Organisation Mean That It's a Rogue Entity Above the Law

=> Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are at War With European Democracy, Which They View as an Obstacle to Money and Power

What If EPO Under Battistelli Gets Broken Beyond Repair Just Like the UPC? (Spanish translation )

=> What If EPO Under Battistelli Gets Broken Beyond Repair Just Like the UPC?

=> Spanish translation

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EPO’s Battistelli, Who Breaks the Law, Subverts the Course of Justice and Refuses to Obey Court Orders, Says the Unthinkable Amid Terror Attacks (Spanish translation )

=> EPO’s Battistelli, Who Breaks the Law, Subverts the Course of Justice and Refuses to Obey Court Orders, Says the Unthinkable Amid Terror Attacks

=> Spanish translation

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=> Deathwatch of the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPC)

=> EPO Management on Trial Tomorrow, But It Stated Upfront It Would Not Obey the Legal Ruling While It Rigs Its Own Rulings

EPO's Battistelli Continues to Court Small Countries' Officials and Spin That as “Small Businesses From These Countries” (Spanish translation )

=> EPO's Battistelli Continues to Court Small Countries' Officials and Spin That as “Small Businesses From These Countries”

=> Spanish translation

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=> Hot Summer: EPO Management on Trial This Week

=> “We Need to Inform {Politicians, Journalists ... Ministers or Representatives} that the Whole European Patent System is at Risk.”

=> Will Battistelli's Friend/Ally Lucy Neville-Rolfe Shamelessly Attack British Democracy and Push for UPC in Spite of Brexit?

=> Coup D’état in Relation to the European Patent Office

=> Benoît Battistelli's Attacks on EPO Unions, Judges, Boards, and Even Justice Itself the Subject of Media Fascination

Battistelli and Team UPC Working Behind Closed Doors to Overcome Brexit and Impose Patent Injustice (Spanish translation )

=> Battistelli and Team UPC Working Behind Closed Doors to Overcome Brexit and Impose Patent Injustice

=> Spanish translation

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=> Weapons of Mass Distraction at the EPO Cost the EPO Millions of Euros

The ‘Administrative’ Council is to Benoît Battistelli What FISA is to the NSA (Spanish translation )

=> The ‘Administrative’ Council is to Benoît Battistelli What FISA is to the NSA

=> Spanish translation

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=> Decline of Patent Quality at the EPO to Further Exacerbate With Latest Crackdown on Appeal Boards

=> SUEPO “Speechless” About Administrative Council Delegates for “Cavalier Attitude Towards Law-Making” and “Contempt for Consultative Processes”

Potential Alignment of Special Interests at Mishcon de Reya: EPO, Microsoft, and Brexit (or UPC) (Spanish translation )

=> Potential Alignment of Special Interests at Mishcon de Reya: EPO, Microsoft, and Brexit (or UPC)

=> Spanish translation

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=> Team Battistelli Parties Like It's Still 2010 (Pre-Battistelli Governance), Fails to Acknowledge Demise of EPO as Popular Employer and Instead Lies to Staff

Image of Battistelli’s EPO Tarnished in the UK and Elsewhere as Battistelli Warms up to Cuba, Colombia, and Panama (Spanish translation )

=> Image of Battistelli’s EPO Tarnished in the UK and Elsewhere as Battistelli Warms up to Cuba, Colombia, and Panama

=> Spanish translation

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=> UPC a Dead Project, as Per Analysis From Foley and Lardner LLP; What Next for Team Battistelli and Team UPC?

=> The European Patent Organisation Jokes About Independence on the 4th of July (US Independence Day)

=> Grim Situation at the European Patent Office Following Battistelli's Latest Lawlessness Tendencies, as Explained by Concerned Insiders

IAM's Latest Take on the UPC: Dead End For Another 2.5 Years (At Least) With No Effective Workarounds (Spanish translation )

=> IAM's Latest Take on the UPC: Dead End For Another 2.5 Years (At Least) With No Effective Workarounds

=> Spanish translation

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=> Post-Jeremy IP Kat Deems It OK to Publish Anonymous Comment Comparing Techrights to “Daesh” While Censoring Polite Response to That

=> What Team Battistelli Claims to be Independence of the Boards of Appeal Actually a Likely Dismissal Plan for ‘Unwanted’ Judge (and Maybe His Protectors), Potentially Permanent Unemployment Plan

Battistelli's Destructive Actions Will Drive EPO Applicants Away to National Patent Offices, Putting at Risk the Whole EU-Wide (and Beyond) Project (Spanish translation )

=> Battistelli's Destructive Actions Will Drive EPO Applicants Away to National Patent Offices, Putting at Risk the Whole EU-Wide (and Beyond) Project

=> Spanish translation

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As Expected, 'Team UPC' Continues Fighting for Its Project's Survival in Spite of 'Brexit' (Spanish translation )

=> As Expected, 'Team UPC' Continues Fighting for Its Project's Survival in Spite of 'Brexit'

=> Spanish translation

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Realistic English Translation of EPO Announcement About Crushing of Patent Quality (Spanish translation )

=> Realistic English Translation of EPO Announcement About Crushing of Patent Quality

=> Spanish translation

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=> The European Patent Organisation’s Administrative Council Helps Benoît Battistelli Destroy Patent Quality for the Sake of ‘Production’

=> At the European Patent Organisation the Administrative Council Does Not Care About Staff

=> EPO Leak: Administrative Council’s Latest Meeting Report

June

=> Publicly-Available Information About the Meeting of the EPO’s Administrative Council

=> Battistelli's Last Moves Are Desperate Attempts to Crush the Messenger (SUEPO), Which Will Almost Certainly Backfire on (if Not Fire) Battistelli

=> EPO Staff Representative Jesus Areso Explains the Crisis to the Administrative Council

=> Shadows of Alleged Criminality Over the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> You Know That UPC is Quite Likely Dead (at Least in the UK) When Even Baroness Neville-Rolfe Dodges the Question

=> Short Report From Today's EPO Protest in Munich

=> Growing Consensus Even Among Patent Professionals That UPC is Dying Everywhere If Not Just in the UK

=> Battistelli Attacks Not Only His Staff But Also Patents Themselves (Their Quality) and the Legal Legitimacy Surrounding the EPO

=> Battistelli is Creating an Atmosphere of Terror at the EPO While Exploiting Terror Attacks to Garner Sympathy

=> Rumours That EPO President Battistelli Got Sacked to be Replaced by Christoph Ernst Appear to be Baseless

=> The EPO Has Become Battistelli's Circus and the Administrative Council Has Been Reduced to (Illegal) Circus Animals Controlled With 'Treats'

=> The Latest Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) Would Have Us Believe That It’s Alive and Well

=> EPO Management Bunker: “The Bailiff Who Came to Deliver the Subpoena was Escorted off the Property by Five Security Guards.”

=> Benoît Battistelli Further Weaponises His EPO ‘Stasi’ With CA/52/16

=> EPO Caricature: Administrative Council Control of Benoît Battistelli

=> EPO Caricature: Firing Benoît Battistelli

=> New Efforts to Work Around Barriers to UPC in Light of ‘Brexit’; Behind These Efforts Are Self-Serving Patent Profiteers

=> Injunction Against Battistelli’s Investigative Unit (Known Internally as ‘Gestapo’) Amid Serious Injustices and Bogus ‘Trials’

=> From Alleged Organised Crime to Vice-President of the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> Battistelli May Still be on the Way Out as Pressure Grows in Germany, UPC in Shambles

=> Caricature: European Patent Office (EPO) Under Battistelli

Techrights (Almost) at 10: From Software Patents to Novell and to Present Focus on EPO (reflection)

=> Techrights (Almost) at 10: From Software Patents to Novell and to Present Focus on EPO

With UPC Dead for Battistelli's Entire Remaining Term, No Reason for the EPO or the Administrative Council to Keep Battistelli Around (Spanish translation )

=> With UPC Dead for Battistelli's Entire Remaining Term, No Reason for the EPO or the Administrative Council to Keep Battistelli Around

=> Spanish translation

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Benoît Battistelli Should Resign in Light of New Leak of Decision in His Vendetta Against Truth-Telling Judge (Spanish translation )

=> Benoît Battistelli Should Resign in Light of New Leak of Decision in His Vendetta Against Truth-Telling Judge

=> Spanish translation

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Fake Patents on Software From Fake Australian ‘Inventor’ of Bitcoin and the Globally-Contagious Nature of EPO Patent Scope (just partly about the EPO)

=> Fake Patents on Software From Fake Australian ‘Inventor’ of Bitcoin and the Globally-Contagious Nature of EPO Patent Scope

Looks Increasingly Plausible That Battistelli is Covering up Bogus and/or Illegally-Obtained ‘Evidence’ From the EPO’s Investigative Unit (Spanish translation )

=> Looks Increasingly Plausible That Battistelli is Covering up Bogus and/or Illegally-Obtained ‘Evidence’ From the EPO’s Investigative Unit

=> Spanish translation

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=> As Decision on the UK’s EU Status Looms, EPO Deep in a Crisis of Patent Quality

=> Another Demonstration by European Patent Office (EPO) Staff on Same Day as Administrative Council’s Meeting

=> IP Europe’s UPC Lobbying and the EPO Connection

=> EPO “Recruitment of Brits is Down by 80%”

=> The Conspiracy of Patent Lawyers for UPC and Battistelli's Role in Preparing by Firing People

=> EPO Self-Censorship by IP Kat or Just Censorship of Opinions That IP Kat Does Not Share/Accept

=> Caricature: Bygmalion Patent Office

=> Under Battistelli’s Regime the EPO is a Lawless, Dark Place

=> New Paper Demonstrates That Unitary Patent (UPC) is Little More Than a Conspiracy of Patent ‘Professionals’ and Their Self Interest

=> Money Flying to Private Companies Without Tenders at Battistelli’s EPO (by the Tens of Millions!)

=> Patent Examiners and Insiders Acknowledge Profound Demise in Patent Quality Under Battistelli

=> The Rule of Money and Power, Not the Rule of Law, at the European Patent Office

=> Brain Drain at the EPO: Qualified Patent Examiners Leave in Droves, Young Ones Blindly Loyal to Management Reduce Patent Quality

=> No Exaggeration Necessary: the EPO Under Benoît Battistelli Has North Korean Standards of ‘Justice’

=> When the EPO’s PR Team Says About UPC (Unitary Patent) That It Can be Delayed It Means Derailed or Called Off

=> Benoît Battistelli Admits That UPC is Not a Done Deal, in Spite of His Expensive PR and Misleading Media Coverage That He Had the EPO Pay Untold Millions For

=> Benoît Battistelli Apparently Breaks the Rules Again and Says That Transparent Trial is Unlawful, Threatens Those Involved

=> Benoît Battistelli’s Façade Continues: Exploiting Terror Attacks Again, Throwing Expensive Parties at the EPO’s Expense, Crushing More Workers’ Rights

=> EPO Crisis: What If There Was an Administrative Council Meeting and Nobody Came?

=> EPO Brain Drain Goes All the Way to the Top as Head of Patent Administration Abruptly Resigns

=> EPO Investigative Unit Causes “Trauma, Will Ruin the Health or Even the Family”

=> British Media Tackling Other British Media That the EPO’s Benoît Battistelli Paid for His Propaganda Campaign

Battistelli’s European Patent Office Broadens FTI Consulting Contract to Undermine the Media, Wastes Millions of Euros (Spanish translation )

=> Battistelli’s European Patent Office Broadens FTI Consulting Contract to Undermine the Media, Wastes Millions of Euros

=> Spanish translation

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=> Endgame of Manipulating Media With Payments and PR: The ‘Blame Everything and Everyone But EPO Management’ Tactics

=> Detailed Account of Today's 'Trial' of a Judge Who Said the Truth About the EPO

Timely ‘Gifts’ From Battistelli to Member States (Shortly Before They Can — and Should — Sack Him) (Spanish translation )

=> Timely ‘Gifts’ From Battistelli to Member States (Shortly Before They Can — and Should — Sack Him)

=> Spanish translation

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EPO and Its ‘Buddies’ in the Media Lobby for the UPC in Spite of and in the Face of Resistance (Spanish translation )

=> EPO and Its ‘Buddies’ in the Media Lobby for the UPC in Spite of and in the Face of Resistance

=> Spanish translation

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Battistelli is Sending Threatening Messages/Letters Again, in Another Desperate Effort to Cover Up His Campaign of Defamation Against EPO Whistleblowers (Spanish translation )

=> Battistelli is Sending Threatening Messages/Letters Again, in Another Desperate Effort to Cover Up His Campaign of Defamation Against EPO Whistleblowers

=> Spanish translation

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=> Another EPO Staff Demonstration Planned for a Fortnight From Now When Battistelli Wishes to Make the EPO Even Crazier

=> Bought Media Coverage at the European Patent Office

=> New Essay: EPO “president and Council are morally corrupt”

=> Report From Thursday Protest in EPO Munich Branch/Headquarters

=> Spontaneous Protest at EPO Today as Battistelli Still Acts Defiantly, Three Days of ‘Trial’ Starting Tomorrow

=> Out-of-Control Battistelli Repeatedly Breaks Office Rules and EPC Rules, Then Tries to Change the Rules (Retroactive Legalisation)

=> Association of the Members of the Boards of Appeal Urges EPO Administrative Council to End Battistelli’s Coup

=> The Corruption of the Media: EPO Budget as a Gift to Broadcasters Under the EIA2016 Umbrella, FTI Consulting Contracts

=> Why Anonymous Dissent Against EPO on Google Platforms May be Risky

=> EPO Press Spokesperson and Director External Communications Busy Creating Distractions From EPO Controversies

=> The EPO is in a Mess So Sordid That It Pays for Positive Publicity, Further Abolishes Labour Rights (to Punish Whistleblowers) and More

EPO 'Bought' the Financial Times, Which Now Operates in 'Mouthpiece Mode' for Mr. Battistelli (Spanish translation )

=> EPO 'Bought' the Financial Times, Which Now Operates in 'Mouthpiece Mode' for Mr. Battistelli

=> Spanish translation

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Battistelli’s EPO is Buying Media Coverage for Lobbying Purposes, But Not at Battistelli’s Expense (Spanish translation )

=> Battistelli’s EPO is Buying Media Coverage for Lobbying Purposes, But Not at Battistelli’s Expense

=> Spanish translation

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The Commission is Complicit in EPO Abuses, According to Marc Tarabella (Spanish translation )

=> The Commission is Complicit in EPO Abuses, According to Marc Tarabella

=> Spanish translation

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Tuesday Hearing at Room 131 Regarding Illegally Suspended (and Then Defamed) Judge Who Said the Truth About Serious Abuse at the Top of EPO (Spanish translation )

=> Tuesday Hearing at Room 131 Regarding Illegally Suspended (and Then Defamed) Judge Who Said the Truth About Serious Abuse at the Top of EPO

=> Spanish translation

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=> Photos From Yesterday's EPO Protest at The Hague, Reports From Munich and The Hague Staff Protests (About 1,200 in Attendance in Spite of Heavy Rain)

Battistelli is Said to be Engineering Further Attacks on People Whom He Already Fired From the EPO (Spanish translation )

=> Battistelli is Said to be Engineering Further Attacks on People Whom He Already Fired From the EPO

=> Spanish translation

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Dutch Media Reveals That Battistelli Continues His Vicious War on Staff Unions, Laurent Prunier the Latest Casualty (The Hague) (Spanish translation )

=> Dutch Media Reveals That Battistelli Continues His Vicious War on Staff Unions, Laurent Prunier the Latest Casualty (The Hague)

=> Spanish translation

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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 (Spanish translation )

=> 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

=> Spanish translation

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=> Caricature of the Day: Presidential Brakes

=> Leaks Required: EPO's Plan to Crush the Appeal Boards and Media Contracts for Puff Pieces

=> Goodbye to Patent Quality at the EPO, Thanks to Team Battistelli With Its Extreme Policies

=> EPO Powers Up Its Spam Machines, 'Media Partners' Start Their Prepared 'Articles' (Puff Pieces)

=> Time to Call Out Joff Wild (IAM’s Editor in Chief) for His EPO-Connected UPC Propaganda, Other Agenda-Pushing Initiatives

=> Enlarged Board of Appeals Can Decide Whether Battistelli’s Attack on the Boards Will Become Public

=> Perpetual Attack on EPO Staff, Even After the Staff Leaves the EPO

=> EPO Protest Tomorrow: Help the Media (Not 'Media Partners' in EPO Management's Pocket) See What EPO Staff Really Thinks

=> EPO’s Old Spokesman (10 Years in Munich) Resigns Again After Only 5 Weeks, EPO is Just Buying the Media Now

=> Politicians Susann Biedefeld (MdL) and Agnes Jongerius (S and D) the Latest to Express Anger at EPO's Management Over Its Abuses

=> Streisand Effect Award Won by EPO: It Has Just Blocked IP Kat Blog

=> Today’s Caricature: European Patent Office (EPO) ‘Social Study’

=> Public Proceedings Next Week Could Expose Battistelli's Incredible and Unprecedented Attack on EPO Judge

The Enemy Within: How Patent Lawyers, Their Media and the Whole Patent Establishment Became an Enemy to Their Nations (partly about the EPO)

=> The Enemy Within: How Patent Lawyers, Their Media and the Whole Patent Establishment Became an Enemy to Their Nations

=> EPO Tyranny Comes Under Fire From Politicians in Luxembourg

=> Battistelli is Destroying the European Patent Office and Wasting a Lot of Money Hiding This Fact

=> Software Patents in Europe and the UPC Already a Problem

=> How the EPO Helped Prop Up — With ‘European Inventor Award 2015′ — a Fraud That Killed a Lot of People

Closer Look at Players in Battistelli’s Information War: Part IV (Wellkom) (Spanish translation )

=> Closer Look at Players in Battistelli’s Information War: Part IV (Wellkom)

=> Spanish translation

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Closer Look at Players in Battistelli’s Information War: Part III (Buying the Media, Manufacturing ‘Studies’ With Secret Contracts) (Spanish translation )

=> Closer Look at Players in Battistelli’s Information War: Part III (Buying the Media, Manufacturing ‘Studies’ With Secret Contracts)

=> Spanish translation

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Closer Look at Players in Battistelli's Information War: Part II (BlueCoat) (Spanish translation )

=> Closer Look at Players in Battistelli's Information War: Part II (BlueCoat)

=> Spanish translation

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Closer Look at Players in Battistelli's Information War: Part I (Spanish translation )

=> Closer Look at Players in Battistelli's Information War: Part I

=> Spanish translation

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=> Save the Boards of Appeal to Save the EPO From Battistelli’s Neoliberal Vision and Recipe for Disaster

=> As Bavarian Parliament Expresses Disdain Over EPO Leadership's Abuses German Media Listens and Staff Union Releases New Survey

=> FFPE-EPO Going Ad Hominem Against FICSA, Brings Nationality Into It

=> Vice-President of the European Patent Office Under Many Police Investigations

Battistelli’s Self-Serving ‘European Inventor of the Year’ Charade a Classic Example of Waste and Abuse (Spanish translation )

=> Battistelli’s Self-Serving ‘European Inventor of the Year’ Charade a Classic Example of Waste and Abuse

=> Spanish translation

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Crazed Battistelli is Trying Plan B to Demolish the Boards of Appeal (Quality Control), Praesidium/Association of Members Strikes Back (Spanish translation )

=> Crazed Battistelli is Trying Plan B to Demolish the Boards of Appeal (Quality Control), Praesidium/Association of Members Strikes Back

=> Spanish translation

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May

=> Data Mining Company: EPO is Like Suicide

Extremely Dodgy Dealings at the European Patent Office (Spanish translation )

=> Extremely Dodgy Dealings at the European Patent Office

=> Spanish translation

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The EPO's Media Partners Like Les Echos Already Produce EPO Puff Pieces (Marketing/Stenography) (Spanish translation )

=> The EPO's Media Partners Like Les Echos Already Produce EPO Puff Pieces (Marketing/Stenography)

=> Spanish translation

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Unitary Microsoft: EPO Excludes People Who Are Not Microsoft Customers From UPC Participation (Spanish translation )

=> Unitary Microsoft: EPO Excludes People Who Are Not Microsoft Customers From UPC Participation

=> Spanish translation

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=> New EPO Caricature: Nouveaux Garde-Vélo (New Bicycle Guards)

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

Rumour: Battistelli Wants to Extend the Term of Topić's EPO Appointment in Spite of Criminal Charges Against Him (Spanish translation )

=> Rumour: Battistelli Wants to Extend the Term of Topić's EPO Appointment in Spite of Criminal Charges Against Him

=> Spanish translation

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Battistelli's Assault on EPO Staff's Right to Strike in Relation to French Politics and That 'Bicycle' Pretext for Crackdowns (Spanish translation )

=> Battistelli's Assault on EPO Staff's Right to Strike in Relation to French Politics and That 'Bicycle' Pretext for Crackdowns

=> Spanish translation

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=> Vice-President of the EPO Under Investigation: Treason, Abuse, Violations, Giving and Receiving Bribes

EPO Management Warns People About Scams When the EPO's Management is Itself Falling for Scams (Spanish translation )

=> EPO Management Warns People About Scams When the EPO's Management is Itself Falling for Scams

=> Spanish translation

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Warning: EPO Surveillance May Have Just Gotten Even More Intrusive (Spanish translation )

=> Warning: EPO Surveillance May Have Just Gotten Even More Intrusive

=> Spanish translation

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Victim Card Ends up in Another Blunder for Battistelli and His Six Bodyguards (Spanish translation )

=> Victim Card Ends up in Another Blunder for Battistelli and His Six Bodyguards

=> Spanish translation

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=> Italian Report About EPO Now Available in English

The EPO is Doing Great, Says EPO-Connected ‘News’ Site (Spanish translation )

=> The EPO is Doing Great, Says EPO-Connected ‘News’ Site

=> Spanish translation

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EPO Management Under Growing Stress From Croatian Law Enforcement Authorities, German Politicians, Italian Media (Spanish translation )

=> EPO Management Under Growing Stress From Croatian Law Enforcement Authorities, German Politicians, Italian Media

=> Spanish translation

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=> The Latest EPO Victim Card (Played by Željko Topić) Should be Treated as Seriously as Those Bogus Claims of Violence by a Judge

The Media Starts Informing the European Public About the Downsides of UPC While EPO Accelerates Its Lobbying for Ratification (Spanish translation )

=> The Media Starts Informing the European Public About the Downsides of UPC While EPO Accelerates Its Lobbying for Ratification

=> Spanish translation

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Some Details About How the EPO’s President is Rumoured to be ‘Buying’ Votes and Why It’s Grounds/Basis for “Immediate Dismissal” (Spanish translation )

=> Some Details About How the EPO’s President is Rumoured to be ‘Buying’ Votes and Why It’s Grounds/Basis for “Immediate Dismissal”

=> Spanish translation

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=> Documents Show Zagreb Police Department in Investigation of Vice-President of the European Patent Office

Disrupting Battistelli's Distracting Propaganda: EPO Staff to Protest Again in About a Fortnight (Spanish translation )

=> Disrupting Battistelli's Distracting Propaganda: EPO Staff to Protest Again in About a Fortnight

=> Spanish translation

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=> Corrupting Democracy? Growing Frequency of Rumours That the EPO’s President Battistelli is ‘Buying’ Votes of Small Member States

EPO Patent ‘Quality’ and ‘Patent Creation’ Myth: Capsule-Based Coffee Sales and Trauma (Spanish translation )

=> EPO Patent ‘Quality’ and ‘Patent Creation’ Myth: Capsule-Based Coffee Sales and Trauma

=> Spanish translation

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Notorious EPO Tyrant, Benoît Battistelli, Meets Other Tyrants, Reportedly 'Cleanses' the Administrative Council (Spanish translation )

=> Notorious EPO Tyrant, Benoît Battistelli, Meets Other Tyrants, Reportedly 'Cleanses' the Administrative Council

=> Spanish translation

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=> It’s All Just Artificial Distractions From EPO Management, ‘Yellow’ Union Comes Under Scrutiny Again

Anonymous Commenters Debate Whether Battistelli’s EPO Can Revoke Pensions of Dismissed Employees Who Dare — GASP — Find Alternative Employment (Spanish translation )

=> Anonymous Commenters Debate Whether Battistelli’s EPO Can Revoke Pensions of Dismissed Employees Who Dare — GASP — Find Alternative Employment

=> Spanish translation

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Another Almost Empty EPO Presentation at The Hague (Spanish translation )

=> Another Almost Empty EPO Presentation at The Hague

=> Spanish translation

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=> If Battistelli Stayed and UPC Became a Reality, Patent Quality at the EPO Would Get a Lot Worse

=> Two Months Down the Line, Battistelli Has Done None of What the Administrative Council Told Him to Do; He Should be Sacked Next Month

UPC an Attack Not Only on the European Public But Also on Staff of the EPO (Spanish translation )

=> UPC an Attack Not Only on the European Public But Also on Staff of the EPO

=> Spanish translation

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UPC is Class War (the Rich Fighting Everyone Else), Hence the Increasing Militarisation of the European Patent Office (Spanish translation )

=> UPC is Class War (the Rich Fighting Everyone Else), Hence the Increasing Militarisation of the European Patent Office

=> Spanish translation

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=> Relying on EPO, CAFC -- Originator of Software Patents in the US -- Tries to Bring Them Back Into Play in Microsoft Case

=> Raising Barriers to UPC Cancellation and Withdrawal

=> Italian Television to Cover EPO Abuses, Bringing the Outrage to the Mainstream in Another Country

=> EPO an Ill Organisation, Lots to Protest Against Tomorrow

Golden Parachute or Not, Battistelli is Wasting Huge Amounts of Money on His Longtime Bodyguards Fetish (Spanish translation )

=> Golden Parachute or Not, Battistelli is Wasting Huge Amounts of Money on His Longtime Bodyguards Fetish

=> Spanish translation

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A Soup of UPC Lies Courtesy of the EPO, Patent Lawyers, and Large Clients (Like Multinational Corporations) (Spanish translation )

=> A Soup of UPC Lies Courtesy of the EPO, Patent Lawyers, and Large Clients (Like Multinational Corporations)

=> Spanish translation

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=> European Digital SME Alliance: Unified Patent Court (UPC) “Unconstitutional”, Harms SMEs, Brings Software Patents to Europe, “Should be Based on EU Law and Not on an International Agreement.”

=> Corporate Imperialism in Europe Through the UPC, the Horrible Patent Deal Almost Nobody Heard of

Enemies of Europe: A Month After Promoting UPC in London, Benoît Battistelli and the EPO Do This in Helsinki (Spanish translation )

=> Enemies of Europe: A Month After Promoting UPC in London, Benoît Battistelli and the EPO Do This in Helsinki

=> Spanish translation

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=> You Need to Become Proprietary Software Customer (Microsoft Recommended) to Interact with the European Patent Office

US Congress Should Investigate EPO and Battistelli, Not Just WIPO and Francis Gurry (Spanish translation )

=> US Congress Should Investigate EPO and Battistelli, Not Just WIPO and Francis Gurry

=> Spanish translation

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=> Amid French Political Actions Against EPO Management French Consulate the Target of Next Week's EPO Staff Protest

New Paper About the UPC Explains Why It is Bad for Small- and Medium-sized European Businesses (Spanish translation )

=> New Paper About the UPC Explains Why It is Bad for Small- and Medium-sized European Businesses

=> Spanish translation

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Governments in Europe Still Active Against EPO Management (Spanish translation )

=> Governments in Europe Still Active Against EPO Management

=> Spanish translation

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=> The European Spam Office (EPO)

=> Not Just Benoît Battistelli and Willy Minnoye (EPO): Željko Topić Too Thinks He is Above the Law, Avoids the Judges and Courts

The European Patent Office Still Silently Abusive, Will Pay $15,000 in Compensation to Female Worker After Belated ILO Judgment (Spanish translation )

=> The European Patent Office Still Silently Abusive, Will Pay $15,000 in Compensation to Female Worker After Belated ILO Judgment

=> Spanish translation

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April

 How to Salvage the EPO’s Reputation: Create More Boards of Appeal in Europe and Abolish the Misguided UPC Fantasy (Spanish translation )

=> How to Salvage the EPO’s Reputation: Create More Boards of Appeal in Europe and Abolish the Misguided UPC Fantasy

=> Spanish translation

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=> The European Copy-Paste Office (EPO)

=> Amid Referendum “the New European Unitary Patent System is Likely to Collapse Before It Started”

If EPO “Form of Thinking Were to be Followed, Guantanamo on German Soil Would be Possible.” (Spanish translation )

=> If EPO “Form of Thinking Were to be Followed, Guantanamo on German Soil Would be Possible.”

=> Spanish translation

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A Farce of a System: How SIPO, USPTO, and Increasingly the EPO Too Turn Into Filing Systems (No Proper Examination/Filtering Required) (Spanish translation )

=> A Farce of a System: How SIPO, USPTO, and Increasingly the EPO Too Turn Into Filing Systems (No Proper Examination/Filtering Required)

=> Spanish translation

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The EPO’s Departure From Truth and Entrance Into the Realms of Chinese Industrial-Grade Propaganda (Spanish translation )

=> The EPO’s Departure From Truth and Entrance Into the Realms of Chinese Industrial-Grade Propaganda

=> Spanish translation

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Fighting Back Against Limitations on Software Development in Europe (Spanish translation )

=> Fighting Back Against Limitations on Software Development in Europe

=> Spanish translation

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In Battistelli’s Mini Union (Minion) It Takes Less Than 10 Votes to ‘Win’ an Election (Spanish translation )

=> In Battistelli’s Mini Union (Minion) It Takes Less Than 10 Votes to ‘Win’ an Election

=> Spanish translation

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=> The Chaos in the EPO Impacts Stakeholders

=> EPO Integrity on the Line: The Story of Željko Topić's Controversial Diploma - Part V

Growing Threats of Software Patents in Europe and the FRAND Trap Which Microsoft Promotes/Lobbies For (Spanish translation )

=> Growing Threats of Software Patents in Europe and the FRAND Trap Which Microsoft Promotes/Lobbies For

=> Spanish translation

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Battistelli’s MoU and Photo Op With the Institute of Professional Representatives Helps Disguise Its Harsh Criticism of the EPO (Spanish translation )

=> Battistelli’s MoU and Photo Op With the Institute of Professional Representatives Helps Disguise Its Harsh Criticism of the EPO

=> Spanish translation

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Bavarian Parliament Discusses EPO Abuses (Spanish translation )

=> Bavarian Parliament Discusses EPO Abuses

=> Spanish translation

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=> EPO Integrity on the Line: The Story of Željko Topić’s Controversial Diploma – Part IV

=> EPO's European Inventor Award Still a Subject of Embarrassment, Media Manipulation, Waste of Public Money, and Shameless Self-Promotion

=> EPO Integrity on the Line: The Story of Željko Topić’s Controversial Diploma – Part III

=> The 'Great Conspiracy' of Patent Lawyers, Lobbyists and Large Corporations for UPC and for Software Patents

=> European Patent Office Deemphasising Quality and Looking to Replace the Key Workers

=> Munich State Attorney is Pursuing Criminal Charges Against the European Patent Office

=> EPO Integrity on the Line: The Story of Željko Topić’s Controversial Diploma – Part II

=> Bavarian Parliament to Discuss the EPO’s Abuses in 24 Hours

=> EPO Integrity on the Line: The Story of Željko Topić's Controversial Diploma - Part I

=> Church of EPO: How Team Battistelli Engineered the Dismissal of People Not Sufficiently Loyal to Them – Part IV

=> Benoît Battistelli “Left in Anger During an Initial Meeting With the State Secretary Who Started Talking About Working Conditions for the Staff”

=> Administrative Council “Openly Showed Disapproval of Battistelli’s Behaviour” at the EPO

European Patent Office and Human Rights Violations: Article Translation Into English Reveals Upcoming Lawsuit Against the EPO Over Institutional Harassment (Spanish translation )

=> European Patent Office and Human Rights Violations: Article Translation Into English Reveals Upcoming Lawsuit Against the EPO Over Institutional Harassment

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

=> European Patent Office a Microsoft Stronghold: GNU/Linux and Mac Support Seemingly Just Dumped

=> Totally Inappropriate: The European Patent Office is Still Intervening in European Law and Politics

=> US Lobbyist for Software Patents, David Kappos, Uses EPO’s Snubbing of the EPC to Spread Misinformation and Patent Monopolies on Software/Algorithms

=> Needed Urgently: Information About the Secret Meeting of Board 28 and Battistelli's Yellow Union, FFPE-EPO

=> Croatian News Site Explains Where Criminal Cases Against EPO Vice-President Željko Topić Stand

Church of EPO: How Team Battistelli Engineered the Dismissal of People Not Sufficiently Loyal to Them – Part III (Spanish translation )

=> Church of EPO: How Team Battistelli Engineered the Dismissal of People Not Sufficiently Loyal to Them – Part III

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

Church of EPO: How Team Battistelli Engineered the Dismissal of People Not Sufficiently Loyal to Them – Part II (Spanish translation )

=> Church of EPO: How Team Battistelli Engineered the Dismissal of People Not Sufficiently Loyal to Them – Part II

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

=> What is Known (and Not Known) About Attacks on Croatian Portal That Exposed Željko Topić, the Notorious EPO Vice-President

Church of EPO: How Team Battistelli Engineered the Dismissal of People Not Sufficiently Loyal to Them - Part I (Spanish translation )

=> Church of EPO: How Team Battistelli Engineered the Dismissal of People Not Sufficiently Loyal to Them - Part I

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

Busted Battistelli: EPO President Violating the EPO’s Code of Conduct (Spanish translation )

=> Busted Battistelli: EPO President Violating the EPO’s Code of Conduct

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

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 (Spanish translation )

=> 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

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

EPSU Explains Why SUEPO Fights for More Than Just EPO Employees and for Rights of Workers at International Institutions (Spanish translation )

=> EPSU Explains Why SUEPO Fights for More Than Just EPO Employees and for Rights of Workers at International Institutions

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

European Patent Office Half Empty Today (Spanish translation )

=> European Patent Office Half Empty Today

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

=> On Day of Strike FFPE-EPO Reaffirms Status as Yellow (Fake/Management-Leaning) Union, Receives ‘Gifts’

EPO is on Strike, Battistelli Escapes to London With His Bodyguards for More UPC Lobbying, FTI Consulting Goes for Brussels (Spanish translation )

=> EPO is on Strike, Battistelli Escapes to London With His Bodyguards for More UPC Lobbying, FTI Consulting Goes for Brussels

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

From US Military to International Banking and External ‘Review’ of EPO ‘Investigations’ (Union-Busting and War on Dissent) (Spanish translation )

=> From US Military to International Banking and External ‘Review’ of EPO ‘Investigations’ (Union-Busting and War on Dissent)

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

=> Staff Union of the European Patent Office Sends Out a Striking Message With a T-Shirts Campaign

=> 7 Reasons to Join the Strike at the European Patent Office

Show Solidarity to Fellow EPO Workers. Go on Strike Tomorrow. (Spanish translation )

=> Show Solidarity to Fellow EPO Workers. Go on Strike Tomorrow.

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

=> Christian Archambeau on the Verge of EUIPO and EPO, Making the Two Less Distinguishable

=> EPO Management Mocks Justice and Bans Judges, Takes Away Their Independence

=> European Patent Office Insists That Obeying the Law is Not Realistic, UPC Another Example of That

=> EPO’s Board 28 Scheduled to Have What Looks Like an Emergency Meeting, EPO Management Pretends Staff Strikes and Crisis (Board 28′s Word) Don’t Mean a Thing

Battistelli's Inner Circle is Expanding With More Miraculous EPO Promotions and Allegedly More Bodyguards (Spanish translation )

=> Battistelli's Inner Circle is Expanding With More Miraculous EPO Promotions and Allegedly More Bodyguards

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

=> EPO Management Says Not a Word About Strike This Week, Not Informing Customers/Stakeholders Either

=> EPO Strike in 3.5 Days Effective in All Sites, Lots for EPO Staff to be Angry About

UPC Lobbying and Propaganda at the Fordham IP Think Tank (‘Conference’) 2016 in New York, With a Clear EPO Role (Spanish translation )

=> UPC Lobbying and Propaganda at the Fordham IP Think Tank (‘Conference’) 2016 in New York, With a Clear EPO Role

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

EUIPO and the Shady Relation to the EPO (Spanish translation )

=> EUIPO and the Shady Relation to the EPO

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

March

 (Satire) New EPO Marketing Campaign: Drive Your Audi Home (Spanish translation )

=> New EPO Marketing Campaign: Drive Your Audi Home

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

Hope at the End of the Tunnel as More Software Patents Are Squashed in the US (also covers quality decline at EPO) (Spanish translation )

=> Hope at the End of the Tunnel as More Software Patents Are Squashed in the US

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

Microsoft at EPO: A Look Into the Relationship (Spanish translation )

=> Microsoft at EPO: A Look Into the Relationship

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

=> Further Militarisation of the European Patent Office Amid Crisis and After Request of Fair and Just Treatment of Staff

SUEPO Publishes Translations of German Media Reports About the EPO (Spanish translation )

=> SUEPO Publishes Translations of German Media Reports About the EPO

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

=> EPO Losing Time: Two Weeks Later, Benoît Battistelli Has Made Virtually No Progress to Save Himself From Sacking

UPC Would Bring Software Patents to Europe and Open the Floodgates to Litigation (Spanish translation )

=> UPC Would Bring Software Patents to Europe and Open the Floodgates to Litigation

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

=> The Media is Still Awash With Unitary Patent (UPC) Misinformation

=> Crisis Deepens at the European Patent Office, General Strike Planned for Next Thursday

Scandalous: European Patent Office Serves Only Microsoft Customers With Filing Software (Spanish translation )

=> Scandalous: European Patent Office Serves Only Microsoft Customers With Filing Software

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

=> Kroatische Lobistin für UN im Zentrum des intarnationalen Skandals in EPA

=> Preserving Material About the European Patent Office (EPO) and Abuses by EPO Management

=> Ingve Björn Stjerna’s New Book About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Why It’s Important

Battistelli is Trying to Save His EPO Job After Getting Called Out, But Doesn’t Give Back Busted Union Leaders Their Jobs; Strike Imminent (Spanish translation )

=> Battistelli is Trying to Save His EPO Job After Getting Called Out, But Doesn’t Give Back Busted Union Leaders Their Jobs; Strike Imminent

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

=> “The Decision of the President Battistelli to Overstep the Recommendation of the Disciplinary Committee is Arbitrary and Shows Bad Faith.”

=> Letter Says EPO MoU “Raises Questions About FFPE's Credibility as a Federation of Genuine Staff Unions”

Their Masters’ Voice (Who Block Techrights): FFPE-EPO Openly Discourages Members From Reading Techrights (Spanish translation )

=> Their Masters’ Voice (Who Block Techrights): FFPE-EPO Openly Discourages Members From Reading Techrights

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

=> Ongoing Investigations: EPO’s Attacks on the Media

=> FFPE-EPO Says MoU With Battistelli Will “Defend Employment Conditions”

=> Why Bayerischer Rundfunk Videos About the European Patent Office Have Been Removed

=> Union Syndicale Federale Slams FFPE-EPO for Helping Abusive EPO Management by Signing a Malicious, Divisive Document

=> More Vomit-Inducing Publicity Stunts From Benoît Battistelli and the EPO Management

=> De Telegraaf Says There is Reorganisation Under Way at the European Patent Office

=> EPO Scandals in British Media: Third Time in Private Eye

=> Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and the United Kingdom Urge Benoît Battistelli to Allow Independent Investigation of His EPO Union-Busting Moves

The ‘Results’ That Battistelli and His EPO Bunch Brag About Not Believed by Patent Lawyers and Patent Examiners (Spanish translation )

=> The ‘Results’ That Battistelli and His EPO Bunch Brag About Not Believed by Patent Lawyers and Patent Examiners

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

=> European Patent Office: Administrative Council gives the President a bollocking

Conflict at the European Patent Office: Battistelli gets away with a slap on the wrist (Spanish translation )

=> Conflict at the European Patent Office: Battistelli gets away with a slap on the wrist

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

=> International Labour Organisation Should Ask EPO Staff About the Surge in Cases, Not Just EPO Management, Which Chronically Lies

Reversal Spin: SUEPO Needs to Make Peace Rather Than Benoît Battistelli Needing to Make Peace After Dismissing SUEPO’s Leaders (Spanish translation )

=> Reversal Spin: SUEPO Needs to Make Peace Rather Than Benoît Battistelli Needing to Make Peace After Dismissing SUEPO’s Leaders

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

=> Article Highlights Madness When It Comes to Overstressing EPO Staff and Pushing Towards Overpatenting (Even Life!) in Pursuit of Profits

=> Benoît Battistelli Made SUEPO Stronger by Trying to Decapitate It, May in Fact Have Self-Decapitated EPO (President in the Chopping Line)

=> Translation of Article Highlights Bavarian Political Motion, Protest Scale and Severity in Munich

=> Better Late Than Never: Bavarian Parliament Intervenes in EPO Affairs Amidst Abuses

=> Insider's Account (Not Face-Saving EPO Statement) Reveals That Even Battistelli's Allies Turn Against Him, EPO 'Results' Not Believed by Some, and Munich Protests Break Records

=> Institutional Failure and Dirty Tricks: Benoît Battistelli Seemingly Gets Support Like Microsoft Gets Support

=> Investigation Into Working Conditions at the European Patent Office Will Commence

=> In the Mainstream Media, the European Patent Office is Already Becoming Another FIFA, Lies Aplenty as Last Remaining 'Damage Control' Strategy

=> Survey Confirms What Board 28 Already Admits: the European Patent Office is Deep in a State of Crisis Since Benoît Battistelli Took Over

=> Exclusive: New Leaked Document Shows Board 28 Surprised Battistelli and Had a Long Unilateral Argument With Him Over Union-Busting ('Disciplinary Cases'), Called It a “Crisis”

=> Dutch Media (NRC) Cites Documents Leaked to Techrights and EPO Refuses to Comment on Them

=> EPO’s Leadership All-time Low: Benoît Battistelli’s Meeting With Secretary Martijn van Dam Explodes

=> Reader's Article: “Guantanamo Possible in Germany”

Battistelli Unsurprisingly Rejects Opportunity to Salvage His Status, EPO Strike Likely to Proceed Soon (Spanish translation )

=> Battistelli Unsurprisingly Rejects Opportunity to Salvage His Status, EPO Strike Likely to Proceed Soon

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

=> Consequences of Straining Staff: Patent Quality at the European Patent Office Has Gotten Rather Terrible

=> Overthrowing Battistelli Only Part of a Bigger Job (Restoration of Quality and Human Decency at the European Patent Office)

=> French High-Quality Video About the European Patent Office

=> English High-Quality Video About the European Patent Office

=> German High-Quality Video About the European Patent Office

EPO's Central Staff Committee Asks Benoît Battistelli to Undo Union-Busting Activities and Obey the Dutch Court's Judgment (Spanish translation )

=> EPO's Central Staff Committee Asks Benoît Battistelli to Undo Union-Busting Activities and Obey the Dutch Court's Judgment

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

=> Old Article About Battistelli's Right-hand Man, Željko Topić, Highlights Severity of the Whole Situation

=> French Transcript of Bayerischer Rundfunk Coverage About EPO

=> English Transcript of Bayerischer Rundfunk Coverage About EPO

=> German Transcript of Bayerischer Rundfunk Coverage About EPO

=> EPO Hypocritically Responds to TV Program by Defamation/Mocking of the Dead and Threats to the Media (Truth as Defamation?)

=> EPO Protest in Munich in a Couple of Days

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

=> EPO Under Benoît Battistelli: Nepotism, Misinformation, Poor Patent Quality, Terrible Working Conditions, and Increase in Prices

=> European Patent Office Kontrovers TV Coverage (English Version)

=> L’Office Européen des Brevets (OEB/European Patent Office) Kontrovers Coverage

=> Kontrovers Coverage of Abuses at the European Patent Office (With Subtitles Added)

=> Benjamin Henrion's (FFII) FOSDEM Talk About UPC and Software Patents in Europe

=> The EPO 'Results' Are Bunk

=> Battistelli Acting Like a Politician, Lobbying for UPC All Across Europe and Coming to London Soon

=> Business Profit Over Science: Patent Scope at the EPO Has Gone So Badly Out of Control That Even the European Parliament is Complaining

=> The European Patent Organisation’s Administrative Council Can Stop the Strike by Agreeing/Working to Reintegrate Staff Representatives and End Benoît Battistelli’s Witch-hunts

=> EPO Tells La Tribune That Benoît Battistelli’s Salary is “We Don’t Comment on Rumours”

=> The Article Which Reinforces Rumours About Christoph Ernst Replacing President Battistelli at the EPO

=> Central Staff Committee of the European Patent Office Asks the Chairman of the Administrative Council to Take Action Next Week or Risk General (Office-Wide) Strike

=> A Patent Office or a Lobbying Firm? ‘European’ Patent Office (EPO) Sticking its Nose in UPC Matters Again.

=> The European Patent Office is in a State of Transition, But Not Battistelli's Transition or 'Reform'

=> Video Sheds Light on Policy/Stance of the Man Rumoured to be Battistelli's Successor at the EPO

Patent Attorney Joeri Beetz Explains Why EPO Results Are a Lie (Spanish translation )

=> Patent Attorney Joeri Beetz Explains Why EPO Results Are a Lie

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

=> Rumours and Unverified Claims Suggest That EPO President is “Bribing” for Perceived Support

=> Another EPO Protest Next Week, Strategically Planned to Coincide With the Administrative Council’s Meeting

Exclusive: Leaked Document Refutes Battistelli's Words and Shows He is Still Deplored by the Board (Spanish translation )

=> Exclusive: Leaked Document Refutes Battistelli's Words and Shows He is Still Deplored by the Board

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

=> Team Battistelli’s Bergot Reacts to Strike Action

=> Caricature of the Day: Recognising FFPE EPO

=> 4,062 of Staff Vote on EPO Strike, Over 91% in Favour

=> Claim and Perception: Under Battistelli, EPO More Permissive on Software Patents Than USPTO, In Spite of the EPC

=> Rumoured Successor of Battistelli, Christoph Ernst, Previously Seen as Antagonist of Battistelli But What About UPC?

=> Super Tuesday: EPO Workers Are Voting for a Strike Today

=> Software Patents Are a Dying Breed in the United States and the EPO Should Take Notice

=> The EPO’s Media Strategy at Work: Union Feuds and Group Fracturing

=> Kontrovers: German Program (With Subtitles) About the European Patent Office

=> Vote for EPO Strike This Tuesday in Order to Replace EPO Management

Busted Battistelli: EPO President Publicly Lies About the State of the EPO, So What About His Secret Contract, Salary and Other Undisclosed Benefits? (Spanish translation )

=> Busted Battistelli: EPO President Publicly Lies About the State of the EPO, So What About His Secret Contract, Salary and Other Undisclosed Benefits?

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

=> Fallout of the FFPE EPO MoU With Battistelli's Circle

EPO and IAM: a Marriage of Convenience (Spanish translation )

=> EPO and IAM: a Marriage of Convenience

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

JUVE Translation: EPO Quick to Announce Success Story of Dialogue with Small Unions (Spanish translation )

=> JUVE Translation: EPO Quick to Announce Success Story of Dialogue with Small Unions

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

=> Forget Staff Union-busting 'Strike Ballots', How About Ballots on Presidential Matters?

=> Remember What Benoît Battistelli Said About His Salary and His Bonus

=> Despite Its Propaganda Campaign (‘Union Recognition’ and ‘Results’) the EPO’s Management is Totally Flipping Out

=> Why the Letter in Support of Battistelli is Worse Than a Lie and Should be Thrown to the Wastebasket by the Organisation’s Administrative Council

=> “FFPE-EPO Was Set up About 9 Years Ago With Management Encouragement”

=> Unitary Patent (UPC) Propagandists Are Louder Than Ever as Its Architect in Chief (Battistelli) is Probably About to Get Sacked

=> EPO Cartoon: The Presence of Justice

=> EPO Strike Still Planned, More Details to be Published Soon

=> Further Evidence Suggests and Shows Stronger Evidence That Team Battistelli Uses FFPE-EPO as 'Yellow Union' Against SUEPO

=> EPO Propaganda is Already Sticking in Some Media

=> Overview of Today’s Growing Press Coverage About the European Patent Office

=> In the EPO’s Official Photo Op, “Only One of the Faces is Actually FFPE-EPO”

3/3 is EPO Propaganda Day: Techrights to Respond and Alert the Media About Misinformation (Spanish translation )

=> 3/3 is EPO Propaganda Day: Techrights to Respond and Alert the Media About Misinformation

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

=> EPO Media Strategy: Call the Whistleblowers Nazis and Criminals

=> Team Battistelli Uses FFPE to Give an Illusion of EPO Peace With 'Unions' and Justify/Support a Now-Famous Lie

=> German Television to Cover the EPO Scandals at 9 PM (CET) Tonight — Half an Hour From Now

=> EPO at Boiling Point: Why Battistelli is Believed to be Paid About $2,000,000 Per Year and Who Created and Circulated a Letter in His Support

UPC Anything But a Certainty With Battistelli on His Way Out, But Patent Lawyers Are Still in Denial (Spanish translation )

=> UPC Anything But a Certainty With Battistelli on His Way Out, But Patent Lawyers Are Still in Denial

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

=> Brace Yourselves for Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Tomorrow the European Patent Office Will Spread Propaganda Based on Half Truths and Misdirection

=> Battistelli and Godwin's Law (Comparing One's Opposition to Nazis)

=> Team Battistelli’s New Media Strategy at Times of EPO Emergency

=> Ongoing Investigation: Why Mainstream Media -- and German Media in Particular -- Has Mostly Ignored Latest Developments at the EPO

=> EPO Attracts Complaints Over (Mental) Torture Against Staff

February

=> Update on Civil Complaints and Criminal Complaints Against EPO Vice-President Željko Topić in Lufthansa/Airplus Case

=> Problems of Governance in International Organizations: the EPO

=> Media Alert: Spokespeople of the EPO Are Lying to Journalists

Confirmed by Dutch Media (Telegraaf): Benoît Battistelli Makes Unreasonable Compensation Demands (Spanish translation )

=> Confirmed by Dutch Media (Telegraaf): Benoît Battistelli Makes Unreasonable Compensation Demands

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

=> EPO “Management by Fear… Within a System Which is Not Subject to Any Outside Control.”

=> Battistelli-Led EPO “Led to Tensions and Even to Suicides Among Employees, Say the Unions”

=> Member States Are Turning Against “Tyrannical” Chief of European Patent Office (Benoît Battistelli)

=> Next Week Looks Likely to Bring Another Battistelli Crisis at the EPO

=> Article Translation (de Volkskrant): EPO Employees Are Tired of Tyranny and Take to the Streets

=> Censorship in Land of So-called ‘Social Dialogue’: EPO is Still Blocking Techrights Web Site, But There Are Exceptions/Loopholes

Even Battistelli-Funded Media Admits That Battistelli is in Deep Trouble Right Now (Spanish translation )

=> Even Battistelli-Funded Media Admits That Battistelli is in Deep Trouble Right Now

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

New Evidence Emerges, Showing That Unitary Patent (UPC) is Indeed an SME Killer That Negatively Affects Europe for Patent Lawyers’ Sake (Spanish translation )

=> New Evidence Emerges, Showing That Unitary Patent (UPC) is Indeed an SME Killer That Negatively Affects Europe for Patent Lawyers’ Sake

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

=> Dutch Report: “External Investigation” Likely to be Launched Into “the Punitive Measures That Battistelli Imposed on Union Members.”

=> Repurposed Misinformation Campaign: The EPO’s PR Team is Lying to The Register in Order to Help Battistelli Save Face

=> Dutch Media Reinforces Rumours That Battistelli is on His Way Out, Only a Matter of Money Now

=> The English Version of the Central Staff Committee’s Open Letter to the Praesidium of the Administrative Council Regarding Battistelli’s ‘Social Study’ EPO Propaganda

=> Nearly a Thousand EPO Employees Prepared to Go on Strike in Just a Fortnight, Team Battistelli Getting Desperate to Stop That

=> More Fire Power for Team Battistelli With New Promotion of French Lady

=> European Patent Office: Battistelli Gets Official Warning

=> The Mass Media Recognises This May be the End of the Battistelli Regime

=> Further Militarisation of the EPO

=> The EPO’s Investigative Unit (I.U.) Called ‘Gestapo’ on Dutch Television

=> Possible Connections Found Between WIPO Misconduct and “a Dozen Serious Criminal Charges” Against EPO’s Željko Topić

=> EPO-Funded Unitary Patent (UPC) Propaganda Events and the Latest on the Undemocratic (Even Antidemocratic) UPC Push

=> Federation of International Civil Servants’ Associations Bemoans EPO Climate of “Fear, Threats, Intimidation or Retaliation”

More Information About Battistelli's Utterly Miserable Last EPO Moves (Leaked Photo Included) (Spanish translation )

=> More Information About Battistelli's Utterly Miserable Last EPO Moves (Leaked Photo Included)

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

=> Request of Transcription and Translation: FICSA Letter Against EPO, French Media on EPO Abuses

=> New Leak: Battistelli’s Circle, Now Fighting for Survival, Circulates a Letter (and Why Some at the EPO Believe It’s a Form of Blackmail)

=> Leaked: Board 28 Message to Heads of Delegation of the Administrative Council (EPO)

=> The European Patent Office’s Head of Recruitment and Talent Management Quits, More People Reportedly Exit Quietly

=> “Bavarian Government is Unable to Become Involved in the Business Operations of Supra-national Organizations” Like EPO

=> More Political Action in France, Still Firmly Against the Largely French EPO Management

=> New EPO Rumours About Benoît Battistelli's Potential Role in the Bygmalion Affair

=> Germany, Which Allows People in Europe and Abroad to Patent Software (EPC Shunned), Simply Cannot be Trusted With the EPO and UPC

=> Call for Information: Separating EPO Rumours From Confirmed Facts

Patent Trolls and the Rise of Non-Practicing Parasites Not Just in the US But Also in Europe (Spanish translation )

=> Patent Trolls and the Rise of Non-Practicing Parasites Not Just in the US But Also in Europe

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

=> A Preview of Injunctions/Raids Heaven in Europe With the Unitary Patent (Continent-Wide Bans and Embargoes by Patent Lawyers)

=> Source: EPO’s Administrative Council Not Pursuing Battistelli’s Witch-hunt Against a Judge Anymore

=> Rumours Suggest That Battistelli, Already Enjoying Life With a Huge (But Still Secret) Salary, Wants More Than a Decade’s Worth of Salary to Leave

=> EPO Management Reportedly in a State of Collapse, Rumours Suggest Battistelli Possibly Out Soon, Events Canceled

=> Open Letter Explains Why Disciplinary Committees at the EPO Have Become a Sham Under Battistelli's Regime

=> Team Battistelli Tries to Bend the Rules to Prevent the European Patent Office From Going on Strike

=> The EPO's Patent Coup in Europe Moves on With Conflict of Interests-Plagued German Authorities for UPC

=> Danish Left's Alternate for European Parliament Slams the European Patent Office While Staff Protests Are Again Ignored by the German Media

Patent Lawyers and EPO Officials Are Parading the Unitary Patent (UPC) in, Despite Lack of Democratic Process (Spanish translation )

=> Patent Lawyers and EPO Officials Are Parading the Unitary Patent (UPC) in, Despite Lack of Democratic Process

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

=> How the European Patent Office (EPO) is Crushing Staff Unions and Why EPO Staff Has a Moral Duty to Protest

The European Patent Office (EPO) Openly Advocates Software Patents Despite the Rules (Spanish translation )

=> The European Patent Office (EPO) Openly Advocates Software Patents Despite the Rules

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

=> Transcript of EPO Official Admitting on Television (Nieuwsuur Interview) That Courts Are of No Interest to Him

=> Caricature of the Day: Willy Minnoye (EPO) Above the Law

=> A New MUST-READ Article From Croatia About EPO Vice-President Željko Topić, Condemning His Behaviour Even Inside the EPO

=> EPO VP1 Willy Minnoye and His Bizarre Claims About Systematic Crackdown on the EPO Unions (More Than Half a Dozen People Targeted is Clearly Not a Coincidence)

=> The Abuses of the EPO’s Management Against Staff Extend to Their Families

With Software Patents, “the Low Level of the USPTO Has Now Been Reached by the EPO” (Spanish translation )

=> With Software Patents, “the Low Level of the USPTO Has Now Been Reached by the EPO”

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

The European Patent Office, Aloof/Apathetic to Inventors and Human Rights, Simply Cannot be Trusted With the Unitary Patent (UPC) (Spanish translation )

=> The European Patent Office, Aloof/Apathetic to Inventors and Human Rights, Simply Cannot be Trusted With the Unitary Patent (UPC)

=> Spanish translation

=> gemini://gemini.techrights.org/wiki/Image:Flag_es.gif/

=> Feedback About Battistelli’s ‘Meet the President’ Event in Rijswijk (4th of February, 2016)

=> In Lawyerland, Simulated UPC 'Trials' and More Extraordinary EPO Propaganda for Change That Would Harm Europe to Help Patent Lawyers and Their Big Clients

New EPO Protests Amid Nervous Breakdowns of Spanish EPO Employee (After Institutional Bullying by Battistelli's Goons), Spain Rejects the Unitary Patent (UPC) (Spanish translation )

=> New EPO Protests Amid Nervous Breakdowns of Spanish EPO Employee (After Institutional Bullying by Battistelli's Goons), Spain Rejects the Unitary Patent (UPC)

=> Spanish translation

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Only Half a Dozen Cuban Patents Filed at EPO, But Hugely Unpopular Battistelli Goes to Cuba to Garner Cheap Support (Spanish translation )

=> Only Half a Dozen Cuban Patents Filed at EPO, But Hugely Unpopular Battistelli Goes to Cuba to Garner Cheap Support

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=> EPO Brain Drain (Even Directors Fed Up With Team Battistelli) and Rumours About Battistelli Becoming President of the UPC

=> More Than 20 Years in the Line: European Patent Office and Claims of European Convention on Human Rights Infringement Against Applicants/Stakeholders

UPC Nepotism, Political Abuses, and UPC Involvement From the Legal Firm That EPO Hired to Bully Techrights (Spanish translation )

=> UPC Nepotism, Political Abuses, and UPC Involvement From the Legal Firm That EPO Hired to Bully Techrights

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Member of European Parliament Brings Up “Ongoing Violations of the Fundamental and Employment Rights of the Staff of EPO” (Spanish translation )

=> Member of European Parliament Brings Up “Ongoing Violations of the Fundamental and Employment Rights of the Staff of EPO”

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=> Besieged Benoît Battistelli Mimics 'Damage Control' Tactics of FIFA or Blatter as More Judges Start Getting Involved in EPO Scandals

=> Several Political Parties Directly Challenge the European Patent Office for Ignoring the Law, Not Obeying Court Orders

=> Even the Legal Community is Upset at Benoît Battistelli for the Damage He Did to the EPO

=> EPO Union (SUEPO) Getting Busted: “More and More People are Joining the Union, but Fewer and Fewer People Dare to Take on Leading Positions There.”

=> The EPO's Benoît Battistelli is the Dictator Who Can No Longer Dictate Like He Used to

=> The European Patent Office “is Acting as Though the Law Does Not Apply to It.”

Latest Propaganda From the EPO's Management an Effort to Make the EPO the Tool of Megacorporations (Spanish translation )

=> Latest Propaganda From the EPO's Management an Effort to Make the EPO the Tool of Megacorporations

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=> 'Aversion to Change' Propaganda From the EPO Echoes or Parrots Lenin and Stalin

=> The Alice Case Continues to Smash Software Patents (This Time OpenTV’s); Will the EPO Ever Pay Attention?

=> EPO Staff Responds to Team Battistelli's Expansion to Include French Economic Propagandist on the Payroll

=> UPC: To Understand Who Would Benefit From It Just Look at Who's Promoting It (Like TPP)

=> The ‘Offenses’ of EPO Staff Representatives Boil Down to Truth-Telling

=> Rumours About Dismissal of Benoît Battistelli and New Letter From Union Syndicale Federale Blasting Battistelli’s Behaviour

=> Readers' Article: A Strange Conspiracy of Silence in the German Media (Part II)

European Patent Office Pretends It's Business as Usual and Prepares New Vanity Pieces (Spanish translation )

=> European Patent Office Pretends It's Business as Usual and Prepares New Vanity Pieces

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=> Readers’ Article: A Strange Conspiracy of Silence in the German Media (Part I)

=> Benoît Battistelli’s EPO: From Show Trials and Mock Trials to a Self-Aggrandising Propaganda Event Later Today in Rijswijk

=> Caricature of the Day: EPO President

=> Company Known as European Patent Office Provides Tips on How to Patent Software in Europe

The Most Detailed Explanation (Yet) of What's Wrong With the EPO (Spanish translation )

=> The Most Detailed Explanation (Yet) of What's Wrong With the EPO

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=> SUEPO (EPO Staff Union) Appears to Have Launched a New and Improved Web Site After Attempts to Crush (‘Decapitate’) SUEPO

=> Münchner Merkur Explains That EPO Staff is Defecting to SUEPO, Even The Council Distrusts Battistelli Now

Slides of New Talk Which Explains the Connection Between the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Software Patents (Spanish translation )

=> Slides of New Talk Which Explains the Connection Between the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Software Patents

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=> Under Battistelli’s Regime the European Patent Office is Rapidly Rotting

January

=> MEP Konstantina Kouneva (Former Trade Unionist) Again Takes Action Against the European Patent Office for Union-Busting Actions

=> Political Complaints About European Patent Office Abuses Keep Flooding in After Firing of Staff Representatives (Busting of Unions)

Richard Stallman: European Software Patents Are Back With the Unitary Patent Court (UPC) (Spanish translation )

=> Richard Stallman: European Software Patents Are Back With the Unitary Patent Court (UPC)

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=> When European Parliament/Commission Gets Embroiled in the EPO Scandals

=> When European SMEs Make the Mistake of Relying on the EPO’s Integrity, Now Want to Even SUE the EPO

=> Translation: What If the European Patent Office Were to Torture?

=> The Connection Between the EPO’s Investigative Unit/Battistelli Policies and EPO Suicides

Battistelli and His Bodyguards: Paranoia, Megalomania, or Both? Are China-Style ‘Suicide Nets’ Next on the EPO’s Agenda? (Spanish translation )

=> Battistelli and His Bodyguards: Paranoia, Megalomania, or Both? Are China-Style ‘Suicide Nets’ Next on the EPO’s Agenda?

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=> Dutch Media’s Coverage of Protest at The Hague Leaves VP1 Minnoye a New Laughing Stock of the EPO’s Staff

=> Dutch Television Talks About EPO Conflict and Today’s Protest at The Hague, Previous Protests Too

=> Independent Dutch Investigation to Commence Into the Working Conditions at the European Patent Office in Rijswijk

=> EPO Protests Earn Coverage on Dutch Television, Programme Starts Now (10PM CET)

=> Over a Thousand People Protest at The Hague; The EPO’s PR Team is Lying Again About the Busting of Staff Unions, Pretends There is “Union Recognition”

=> EPO Staff at The Hague to Protest Shortly; Here is Why We Should All Support Them

=> No More Defeatism: Battistelli’s Days at the European Patent Office May be Numbered

=> EPO Protest in The Hague This Week Targets Next Wave of Silent (by Gag Orders) Union Busting

=> The EPO Goes Lobbying Even More Heavily in Brussels, Reveals New Job Advertisement

=> Newly-Released Badinter Report Shows That by Treating Staff Like Garbage the European Patent Office is Violating Fundamental Rights

Philip Cordery Says the EPO Situation is Well Known to All, as Attested by the Numerous Press Articles, Political Actions, or Administrative Recommendations (Spanish translation )

=> Philip Cordery Says the EPO Situation is Well Known to All, as Attested by the Numerous Press Articles, Political Actions, or Administrative Recommendations

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=> Süddeutsche Zeitung After FTI Consulting Deal: EPO Ghostwriter or Journalism?

Dismissal of EPO Staff Representatives Does Not Eliminate Them as EPO Staff Sticks Together, Shares the Burden, the Pain (Spanish translation )

=> Dismissal of EPO Staff Representatives Does Not Eliminate Them as EPO Staff Sticks Together, Shares the Burden, the Pain

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=> Union-Busting Strategies Backfire: After Additional EPO Protests/Actions (Over 2,000 in Attendance With More to Come) a STRIKE is Being Planned

=> Additional Information About EPO Management and Its Abuses, as Told by Anonymous Comments

=> EPO Implicitly Acknowledges Declining Patent Quality by Agreeing to Finally Dump Some Monsanto GMO Patents

=> EPO President Battistelli and Vice-President Topić Are Having Political Problems

=> Two More EPO Protests on Their Way, Thousands of Employees Projected to Attend Overall

=> In Unison, Nations Hop Aboard the Unitary Patent Train Wreck, For (Foreign) Corporate Gain at Europe’s Expense

=> The EPO’s PR Team May be Trying a New ‘Damage Control’ Strategy Amid Historic Protests by Staff

Benoît Battistelli Blasted by Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’, Who Initiates More Political Actions Against Him (Spanish translation )

=> Benoît Battistelli Blasted by Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’, Who Initiates More Political Actions Against Him

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=> The Next Phase of Union Busting: Battistelli Now Cutting Salaries of Yet More EPO Staff Representatives

EPO/FTI Consulting-funded Event for UPC Will Be Stuffed With Mega-corporations from the United States (Spanish translation )

=> EPO/FTI Consulting-funded Event for UPC Will Be Stuffed With Mega-corporations from the United States

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=> SLAPP-Happy EPO Vice-President Željko Topić Loses Croatian Defamation Lawsuit -- AGAIN!

=> Poor Journalism From Süddeutsche Zeitung Perpetuates the EPO Management's Lies

=> EPO Management and Its PR Team a Den of Liars, Even Lying to Their Own Staff

=> Battistelli “Exacerbated the Penalties Which Were Recommended by the Disciplinary Committees for All Three EPO Unionists” (Under Mock Trial)

=> Tomorrow's EPO Protest to Target Union-busting Actions Disguised as 'Social Dialogue' or 'Union Recognition'

=> Techrights Needs Translations as Another EPO Staff Protest Looms

French Politician Philip Cordery Calls the EPO Authoritarian, Says the Union-busting Decisions Are Purely Scandalous (Spanish translation )

=> French Politician Philip Cordery Calls the EPO Authoritarian, Says the Union-busting Decisions Are Purely Scandalous

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=> European Patent Office (EPO) is Not “the Real World” But a Parallel Universe Without Any Regard for the Rule of Law

Battistelli's Legitimacy Under Political Fire After He Fired Staff Representatives, Claims He's Neither Suitable Nor Eligible to be EPO President (Spanish translation )

=> Battistelli's Legitimacy Under Political Fire After He Fired Staff Representatives, Claims He's Neither Suitable Nor Eligible to be EPO President

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=> Team Battistelli Has Brought Dirty Politics to the EPO, Pension Cuts May be “Blatantly Illegal”

Unitary Patent (UPC) Highlights Reality Behind the EPO’s Management and Its Multinational/Overseas Bosses (Spanish translation )

=> Unitary Patent (UPC) Highlights Reality Behind the EPO’s Management and Its Multinational/Overseas Bosses

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=> Battistelli Hopes That People Forget (or Don’t Know About) Criminal Charges Against Željko Topić, But Croatian Media Does Not Forget as Election Imminent

=> Summarising the Latest Attacks by the European Patent Office (EPO) on European Society, With Complicity of Corporate Media

=> The EPO “Hearing Was a Mockery.”

=> The Witch-hunt Against Elizabeth Hardon Leads Back to Battistelli

=> EPO Staff Protests in Berlin and Vienna

How the EPO Prevented Scapegoats ('Defendants') in Its Mock 'Trials' From Actually Presenting a Defense (Spanish translation )

=> How the EPO Prevented Scapegoats ('Defendants') in Its Mock 'Trials' From Actually Presenting a Defense

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=> Hundreds of EPO Staff at The Hague (Including Managers) Spontaneously Protested Today, Making Almost Half of All Staff Present

Pierre-Yves Le Borgn' Lashes Out at EPO for Firing Staff Representatives (Spanish translation )

=> Pierre-Yves Le Borgn' Lashes Out at EPO for Firing Staff Representatives

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Massive EPO Protests After Team Battistelli Fires Legitimate Critics and Staff Representatives (Even Those With Young Children) (Spanish translation )

=> Massive EPO Protests After Team Battistelli Fires Legitimate Critics and Staff Representatives (Even Those With Young Children)

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The EPO is Manufacturing Propaganda Again, Releasing Misleading Figures to the Media (Spanish translation )

=> The EPO is Manufacturing Propaganda Again, Releasing Misleading Figures to the Media

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=> Germany Needs to Respect the European Patent Convention and Stop Issuing Software Patents, Also Reject UPC

Transparency is Sunlight in the Kingdom of the EPO Vampires (Spanish translation )

=> Transparency is Sunlight in the Kingdom of the EPO Vampires

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