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2017

December

=> Raw: Battistelli Had Already Spoiled the Independence of the EPO's Boards of Appeal More Than Half a Decade Ago

=> Raw: EPO Was Forewarned About the Investigative Unit (IU) Turning Against Law-Abiding Dissent Using Illegal Surveillance

=> Raw: Circular Decision-Making as Consultation at the EPO Done by Same Party That Suggests and Approves Changes

=> Raw: The European Patent Office (EPO) is a Cash Cow of Germany

=> Raw: Fake Consultations at the EPO Give the False Impression Legal Procedures Are Followed

=> Raw: Battistelli, Topić and Bergot Are Stonewalling Until Staff Representatives Speak to EPO Staff

=> Raw: Battistelli Nervous About Perception of EPO Nepotism (French Cronyism) and Attacks Those Who Take Note of It

=> Raw: How Battistelli Stacked (to Effectively Control) the Consultation Process Rubber-stamping All His Controversial Proposals

=> Raw: EPO Staff Went on Strike, Referencing -- Among Other Things -- Battistelli's French Nepotism

=> Just 3 Days Before Christmas Judge Corcoran is Told That His Boss Becomes Battistelli, Who Wants to Remain in Control for Years to Come

=> Christoph Ernst Does Not Boss Benoît Battistelli Like He's Supposed to, But Battistelli's Bosses/Colleagues in France Can be Contacted

=> Raw: Željko Topić's “Poorly Veiled Attempt to Intimidate Staff” of the EPO

=> Raw: International Labour Organisation on Incredible (and Unsuitable/Inadequate) Promotions at the European Patent Office

=> Raw: How and Why the EPO Code of Conduct (CoC) Came About

=> Raw: Battistelli Uses External Lawyers to Bully Staff That Complains (Like He Repeatedly Did Against Techrights)

=> Raw: École nationale d’administration (ENA) and the EPO, Where Being French Means Climbing to the Top and Dominating Recruitment/Entryism

=> Raw: Battistelli the Patent Office Shark Shouting From the Rooftop (Isar)

=> Raw: Rights Which the Dutch Court Ruled That the EPO Had Violation

=> Raw: Central Staff Committee of the EPO Warns the Organisation That It Votes in Favour of Breaching Fundamental Rights

=> Raw: When the EPO Violated German Law and ECHR Got Invoked Along With the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht)

=> Battistelli Becomes Judge Corcoran's (Almost) Direct Boss and People Doubt He Will Last Long

=> Raw: Željko Topić Tries to Defend an Illegal Suppression of Labour Rights

=> Raw: EPO Compared to Thatcherism Amid Suppression of Bargaining/Strikes

=> Raw: When the EPO Suppressed Human Rights, Including Strikes, Chairman Jesper Kongstad Supported the Suppression

=> European Patent Office Works With Blue Coat Systems, Enabler of Authoritarian Regimes

=> EPO Surveillance in Scanners and Printers

=> Raw: Staff Union of the EPO Explains the Battistelli Operandi

=> Another Option for EPO Whistleblowers

=> UPC IT Working Group is Chasing Rainbows and Unicorns

=> Raw: Lies Inside the EPO Gazette

=> Raw: EPO Stonewalled Staff Committee, Failing to Reply to About 30 Letters in Succession

=> Raw: Battistelli Threatened EPO Staff Representatives as They Walked Out

=> Raw: “A Vote on Strike Action Has Turned Into a Vote of Non-Confidence.”

=> Raw: Bergot and Topić Sent Threats to Hundreds of EPO Staff as Far Back as Half a Decade Ago

=> Raw: LIFER Strike at the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> Raw: Half of EPO Staff Went on Strike, Topić Gave False Figures

=> Raw: Another Example of Battistelli Trying to Hold the EPO's Central Staff Committee Accountable for Other People's Words

=> Raw: European Patent Office's Willy Minnoye Interferes With Discussion of EPO Policies

=> Raw: Collective Accountability for Staff Committees Over Anonymous Letters?

=> Raw: EPO 'Democracy' With No Separation of Powers and No Access to Justice

=> EPO Remains in Defiance or Violation of ILO Rulings as Corcoran Contract Ends in 3 Days

=> Raw: Battistelli Stacking the Deck of the Internal EPO 'Court'

=> Raw: Battistelli's “Behaviour is Not Only Dangerous for the EPO Staff But is Also Putting the Reputation of the Organisation at Risks.”

=> The Unitary Patent is Dying or Dead, But Team UPC Might Rebrand Again and Reattempt

=> Raw: Benoît Battistelli Names Things the Opposite of What They Really Are

=> Raw: Benoît Battistelli Would Not Openly Discuss Staff Suicides

=> Raw: Lack of Independence of the Boards of Appeal at the EPO Poses a Serious Issue for Unitary Patent-Type Regime (UPC)

=> Raw: How President Benoît Battistelli Exercises Almost Complete Control Over the Legal Process

=> Raw: EPO Staff Union Illustrates Structural Deficiency of the EPO

=> Raw: Consultation Process at the EPO, Rooted in Basic Rules, Has Been Compromised and Stacked by Battistelli

=> Raw: Administrative Council of the EPO Was Warned 4 Years Ago About “Governance and Overall Reputation of the Organisation.”

=> Raw: “The EPO is Redefining the Words “Social” and “Democracy”.”

=> Raw: EPO Classifies Staff Based on Perceived 'Loyalty' and Intimidates/Punishes Those Exercising Their Rights

=> Raw: Contents of Benoît Battistelli's SLAPP Letters to Staff Representatives (Sent on Friday to Limit Access to Legal Advice)

=> Raw: The EPO Trusted and Used BigPulse Until the Question/Outcome No Longer Suited Benoît Battistelli

=> Raw: EPO Had Sent to Staff Representatives Threatening Letters Similar to the Ones Sent to Techrights

=> Raw: EPO Paving the Way to Overstressed Patent Examiners and Decreased Patent Quality

=> Raw: Before the EPO Blocked Techrights and Threatened to Sue It Also Blocked Its Staff Union's Web-Based Platform and Threatened to Sue

=> Raw: Philip Cordery Urged France to Withdraw/End Battistelli's Presidency at the EPO

=> Raw: Battistelli's Circle (Topić and Bergot) Undermines Justice at the European Patent Office

=> Raw: “Social Democracy” at the EPO Means Staff Gets to Comment on Changes That Have Already Been Implemented Anyway

=> Raw: French-Led EPO Gives Air France Non-Exclusive Contract for All Staff Flights (Even Though EPO Lacks Branches in France)

=> Raw: Before Battistelli Sacked Nearly a Handful of Staff Representatives He Warned a Dozen and Had Already Punished Some

=> Raw: PEACES Initiative of the Staff Union of the EPO

=> Patent Justice Deficit Disorder

=> Raw: EPO's “Battistelli is Heading Directly Back to the Middle Ages.”

=> Raw: SUEPO Connected the Unitary Patent (UPC) to Abuses at the European Patent Office

=> Raw: European Patent Organisation Knew About Benoît Battistelli's Gross Nepotism for at Least Four Years, Did Nothing to Stop It

=> Raw: Sylvie Jacobs, President of USF, Warns the Administrative Council of the EPO About Battistelli Nepotism and Other Abuses

=> Raw: How to Tell Benoît Battistelli is Lying

=> Raw: How SUEPO Explained the EPO Situation Three Years Ago

=> Patent Quality Nosedives at EPO, Say Insiders Whose Permanent Contract is About to be Terminated in 8 Days to Increase Pressure to Grant Patents Sparingly

=> Alexander Ramsay is Wrong, Unitary Patent (UPC) Won't Start Any Time Soon and Probably Never

=> “Change of Attitude and Behaviour Needed,” Say Anonymous EPO Workers About the Management and Administrative Council

=> Caricature: The European Patent Office (EPO) Career System

=> Media Blackout in Most European Media Regarding the Latest Major EPO Scandal

=> EPO Judicial Crisis Has Not Ended, But the Administrative Council Certainly Tries to Sell That Impression

=> Christoph Ernst's Inability to Rein in the European Patent Organisation Will Doom Everything

=> PTAB Bashing in the US and the Attack on the Boards of Appeal in Europe All About Lowering Patent Quality

=> Today's Report From the Administrative Council (AC) of the European Patent Organisation 'Tackles' the Most Important Issue: Judge Corcoran

=> Bavarian Regional Parliament Talks About the EPO's Outrageous Decisions to Simply Disregard International Courts

=> CERN Staff Association Condemns the European Patent Office (EPO) for Disobeying ILO/ILOAT Judgments

=> Secrecy Surrounds the Fate of Patrick Corcoran, Even AMBA is Being Kept in the Dark by Carl Josefsson

=> Dr. Siegfried Broß Says UPC is in Constitutional and Democratic Grey Area, Abuses at the European Patent Office Contribute to That

=> “As an EPO Employee, I Am Actually Embarrassed by the Behaviour of the President and the Administrative Council”

=> Battistelli Feels as Though He's Above the Law, So No Wonder He Pursues Software Patents in Europe (Against the Rules)

=> Raw: Benoît Battistelli Has Long Been Obsessed With 'Alternative Facts' (Lying) Regarding Everything

=> Raw: At the EPO “Social Democracy” is Actually a Euphemism for Authoritarian Regime

=> Battistelli’s ‘UPC Buddy’ Michel Barnier Helped Squash EU Intervention in Dysfunctional (Subverted by Battistelli) Administrative Council

=> Raw: “Experienced Examiners Can Examine Anything.” (Even Not in Their Field!)

=> The EPO Has Found 'Creative' New Ways to Bribe the Media and Promote Software Patents

=> EPO Busy Distracting From Miscarriage/Abuse of Justice at the EPO (Both Office and Organisation)

=> Bristows LLP/IP Kat Carrying on With Dead UPC Jingoism

=> Patrick Corcoran is Innocent, Yet Battistelli Will/May Have the Power to Sack Him Next Month (in DG1)

=> EPO Administrative Council Disallows Discussion About Violations of the Law by Benoît Battistelli

=> Judge Corcoran Got His User ID/Desk Back (as ILO Asked), But Cannot Perform Actual Work

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

=> German Media Helps Cover Up -- Not Cover -- the Latest EPO Scandal

=> Team UPC's Tilmann Defends Rogue Vote at 1 AM in the Morning With Just 5% of Politicians (Those With Vested Interests) Attending

=> The EPO Protest Tomorrow Isn't Just About Judge Corcoran But About the EPO as a Whole

=> Claim: Judge Corcoran to Be Put Under Benoît Battistelli's Control in DG1

=> The European Patent Organisation Refrains (For Nearly a Week) From Speaking About Battistelli's Abuses as Judged by ILO Tribunal

=> Carl Josefsson Lets Judge Patrick Corcoran Come Back to Work at the EPO

=> Bristows is Being Hammered With Negative Comments For Its Unitary Patent (UPC) Lies

=> Judge Corcoran Turns to His Government for Help and EPO 'House Ban' is Finally Lifted

=> Raw: Battistelli's Control/Domination Over the Boards of Appeal

=> Raw: Conflicts of Interest of EPO Vice-President

=> Raw: Three Years for 'Justice' (to be Disregarded by Benoît Battistelli) at ILO and Over a Decade at the EPO

=> Raw: Scuttling of the General Advisory Committee and Battistelli Stacking the Deck to Have 'Yes Men' as Representatives

=> Like the EPO, Taiwan/China (SIPO) Harm SMEs With a Policy of Patent Maximalism Which Fosters Litigation, Not Innovation

=> Bristows Continues to Lie About Unitary Patent (UPC) in Britain Only to Get Rebutted in Comments, As Usual (Criticism Not Deleted Yet)

=> The European Union Now Repeats Paid Propaganda From the EPO (Regarding the Unitary Patent)

=> European Media Covers the Latest EPO Scandal and the EPO's Refusal to Obey Orders of a Court

=> Antonius Tangena From the European Patent Institute (EPI) 'Aids' Željko Topić's Appointment at the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> SUEPO Announces Protest, EPO Distracts From the Scandal, and Readers Spill the Beans

=> EPO Scandal Spills Over to Irish Media, So It's Time for the Backstory

=> Battistelli's EPO is Once Again Caught in Very Gross Violation of the European Patent Convention (EPC)

=> Less Than 24 Hours Later the EPO Already Refuses to Obey Court Orders From ILO

=> ILO Said Give the Judge His Job Back, But Christoph Ernst's Administrative Council Will Likely Let Him Go (Unemployed)

=> Meanwhile in Eponia, Tyrant Battistelli Must be Seeking Advice on How to Refuse to Obey Court's Orders (Again)

=> Battistelli's 'Mole' Lucy Neville-Rolfe is Still Trying to Push Unitary Patent (UPC) Through in the United Kingdom

=> ILO is 'Forcing' Team Battistelli to Compensate the Banned Judge and Give Him Back His Job

=> International Labour Organisation/ILOAT for UPC Yet Another Problem for Unitary Patent-Style Regime

=> CEIPI and EPO: The Story So Far

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

=> The Latest Noise About UPC in the UK

=> The EPO Relies on Media Cowardice and Complicity (to Not Report Obvious Issues With Battistelli at CEIPI)

=> The European Patent Office Enrages the Powerless to Empower the Super-Powerful (Outside Europe)

=> French Disgrace: Teachers at CEIPI Not Happy About Benoît Battistelli as Upcoming President of the CEIPI Administrative Board

=> Unified Patent Court (UPC) is “Fata Morgana”

=> Raw: The EPO's Pattern of Using “Security” as Pretext for Ban on Protests

=> SUEPO on “the Belief of the President That He is Above the Law.”

=> How CEIPI in Strasbourg is Allegedly Facilitating Another Battistelli 'Scam' Surrounding the Unitary Patent (UPC)

=> Guest Post: Free Dental Care in BRD (Banana Republik Deutschland)

=> Bristows Again Rebutted, Few Days After Telling Lies and Spreading Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC)

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

=> The European Patent Office No Longer Acts Like a Patent Office But a Prosecutor

=> Irish Media Coverage of the EPO

=> EPO Caricature: Son of Campinos

November

=> Ignore Today’s Fake News From IP Kat/Bristows, the UK is Not Ratifying the Unitary Patent (UPC)

=> EPO Fiasco Deepens While the Media Writes Puff Pieces About the EPO

=> EPO's Minnoye “Pushed for Quick Searches and Quick Grants, With the Result That Every Recent File Was De Facto Dealt With Under PACE.”

=> ILO is About to Publish “Exceptional” Decisions, Most of Them Regarding the EPO

=> EPO Spreads Two Lies Today, One About Patent 'Production' and Another About 'Quality'

=> EPO Budget (Users' Money) Has Been Corrupting Media and Academia

=> Buzzwords/Terms Like “Industry 4.0” or ICT as Cover for CII (Software Patents) at the EPO

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

=> EPO is Already Going 'Dark' Like in China

=> French Stress Levels at the EPO and Replacement of Patent Quality With 'Autopilot' (Like INPI, France)

=> Benoît Battistelli and Željko Topić (EPO President and Vice-President) Try to Keep 'Independent' Judge in a Limbo

=> Battistelli's Big Fat Greek Wedding at the EPO's Budget and Finance Committee

=> Raw: Open Letter Regarding Likely Violations of the EPC and Damage to the EPO's Reputation

=> Raw: Administrative Council of the EPO Blocked an Audit of the EPO for Corruption

=> “Legal and Administrative Rules at the EPO Are Similar to Those at SIPO” (China)

=> Raw: National Delegates at the EPO Stood by and Mostly Supported Battistelli While Six Staff Committed Suicide

=> Early Certainty Battistelli Will be Gone Soon: “JUVE Interview Creates the Impression That Benoit Battistelli’s Term in Office is Already Over.”

=> Raw: Central Staff Committee Requested EPO Audit by Transparency International One Year Before EPO Simply Hired Transparency International's Director to Become EPO Spokesperson

=> Raw: Battistelli Forbade EPO Strike Ballots at Least Four Times

=> Raw: Stacking the Deck to Interfere With a Fair Election at the EPO

=> EPO Becoming Like China is Something to Worry About, Not Something to Celebrate

=> In New EPO Interview With Juve, Chairman of the Administrative Council Criticises Battistelli

=> Even UPC Proponents Admit UPC is Dead: “This is the End, My Friend”

=> EPO Uses Bunk 'Study' and Team UPC Uses Italy to Prop Up Delusions About the Unitary Patent

=> Battistelli's Home Country, France (Where He is a Politician in Defiance of the Rules), is a Patent Troll

=> Raw: The EPO's Elodie Bergot Suppressed Staff Representation While Cracking Down on Staff's Rights

=> Raw: Why EPO Host Nations (Netherlands and Germany) Turn a Blind Eye to Horrific Scenarios

=> Raw: EPO 'Social Democracy' is Like a 1AM Vote on UPC by Only 5% of Politicians

=> Amid Constitutional Court Barrier, Unitary Patent (UPC) Looks Dead Even to UPC Proponents, the EPO's UPC 'Study' Comes Under Fire

=> The European Patent Office Has Become the 'Foxconn' of Patent Offices

=> EPO is Imploding as Benoît Battistelli Drains Out Work, Talent, and Justice

=> Team Battistelli's Attacks on the EPO Boards of Appeal Predate the Illegal Sanctions Against a Judge

=> Update on the EPO's Crackdown on the Boards of Appeal

=> EPO 'Business' From the United States Has Nosedived and UPC is on Its Death Throes

=> Today's EPO and Team UPC Do Not Work for Europe But Actively Work Against Europe

=> The Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) is Rightly Upset If Not Shocked at What Battistelli and Bergot Are Doing to the Office

=> EPO Continues to Disobey the Law on Software Patents in Europe

=> Benoît Battistelli and Elodie Bergot Have Just Ensured That EPO Will Get Even More Corrupt

=> Declines in Patent Quality at the EPO and 'Independent' Judges Can No Longer Say a Thing

=> The EPO is Now Corrupting Academia, Wasting Stakeholders' Money Lying to Stakeholders About the Unitary Patent (UPC)

=> Decline of Skills Level of Staff Like Examiners and Impartiality (Independence) of Judges at the EPO Should Cause Concern, Alarm

=> The Patent Trolls' Lobby is Losing the Battle for Europe

=> Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead to the EPO and ANSERA is Not the Answer as Patent Quality Declines and Talented Staff Leaves

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

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

=> Consensus Around the High Likelihood That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead and Backlash Against Deniers of It

=> The EPO in the Hands of Politicians Who Serve Their Towns Rather Than Users of the EPO

=> Team Battistelli Snubbed by the EPO's Representatives of Nations

=> Administrative Council of the EPO is Concerned That the Office is Largely German and Male, Recruitment Bar Has Fallen

=> Patent Office of the Netherlands Expresses Uncertainty About UPC, Voices Concern About Benoît Battistelli's Attack on Staff

=> Benoît Battistelli Brews New Scandals in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and in Haar

=> Kluwer Patent Blog Down for Over a Day, Key Article Archived, UPC Deception Carries On

=> Expect an Avalanche of Bad Patents (Including Software Patents) From the EPO to Become Invalid, Shaving Off a Lot of Imaginary Value

=> Jacques Michel's EUROPATIS and Questel at EPOPIC Event, Which EPO Uses for Lobbying Purposes

=> Kluwer Patent Blog is Down/Sabotaged, But UPC and EPO Spin Carries on in Other Sites

=> Battistelli's Serious Conflict of Interest in Saint-Germain-en-Laye Disqualifies Him as EPO President

=> Raw: Staff Representative Whom Battistelli Drove to Collapse for Wanting to Conduct an EPO Staff Survey (Which Battistelli Had Abolished)

=> At the EPO Under Battistelli Truth is Being Called “Defamation”

=> The “Big Holdup” at the EPO: Battistelli Wants Access to the Pension Reserve Fund (PRF)

=> European Patent Office No Longer “Strives to Stand out as a Model International Public-Service Organisation”

=> In October, Silence in the Media Regarding EPO Scandals Turned From Self-Censorship Into Censorship

=> Even One of the UPC's Biggest Boosters, Wolters Kluwer, Admits UPC is in Trouble

=> University College London (UCL) Becomes Part of the Patent Fanatics Lobby, Supported by the EPO’s PR Firm FTI Consulting

=> The Screws Tighten on Benoît Battistelli as His Departure is Just Two Seasons Away, Media Still Largely Complicit

=> UPC is Collapsing, But Bristows LLP is Pushing Propaganda Into the Media, Which Gives Misleading News

October

=> “EPI Makes No Protest When the AC Connives With Battistelli to Trash the Rule of Law”)

=> The Diminishing Value of European Patents (EPs)

=> Irregularities at the EPO and UPC (Unitary Patent) Dodgy Dealings Should Draw Ire

=> Belgium's Jérôme Debrulle, the EPO and the UPC Connection

=> Fresh Allegations That the Belgian EPO Delegation is Compromised or in Cahoots With Benoît Battistelli

=> The Financial Handling of the EPO is Incredibly Scandalous

=> Patent Scope in Europe Should Not be Decided by the Self-Serving Patent Law Firms, But They Totally Dominate the Media

=> French Politician Claudine Lepage Confronts the EPO Again, Mentions the Hague Court

=> Benoît Battistelli Still Involved in Politics, Probably in Defiance of Clear Rules for International Civil Servants

=> New EPC Cartoon

=> Professor Siegfried Broß Again Complains About the Situation at the EPO and Issues With the UPC

=> The European Commission Has Essentially Invalided Many European Patents (EPs) for Being Out of Scope; Are Software Patents (CII) Next?

=> The EPO is Breaking the Law and Its Employees Cannot Speak About It

=> Big Blow for the Unitary Patent (UPC) as Even Patent Professionals Say “It’s Dead”

=> IP Kat Admits It Was Its Own Choice to Censor (Delete) Many Comments About the European Patent Office

=> Freedom of Expression is Dying Not Only at the EPO But Also Outside the EPO (Media Coverage of the EPO)

=> What If Lionel Baranes Was EPO President?

=> The Last Comment in IP Kat (Before Censorship) Was About Patent Quality at the EPO

=> In the European Patent Office, One Gets Rewarded for Mentally Torturing ('Interrogating') Staff

=> IP Kat Participates in Deletion of Information About EPO Scandals

=> SUEPO Has Just Warned That Patent Quality at the EPO is About to Get Even Worse

=> The EPO No Longer Measures Quality of Patents; Instead It Publishes Fake Statistics

=> Speaking of “Social Democracy” While Suffering Extreme Democratic Deficiency

=> Management by Intimidation Has Caused Deaths at the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> The Difference Between Alain Pompidou and Benoît Battistelli as EPO President

=> The Darker Past of the Next President of the EPO - Part IV: Links Between CGD (Former Employer of António Campinos) and the INPI

=> Anonymous Professionals Speak of Benoît Battistelli's Destruction of the EPO, But Why Does the Media Turn a Blind Eye?

=> The Darker Past of the Next President of the EPO - Part III: More Details About Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Former Employer of Campinos

=> UPC Looks Like More of a Distant Dream (or Nightmare) as Germany Adds Another Two Months' Delay

=> Battistelli's Destruction of the EPO is Bad for Everyone, Even Patent Attorneys

=> The Spanish Supreme Court Rejects the EPO's “Problem and Solution Approach” While Quality of European Patents Nosedives

=> Europe is Being Robbed by Team Battistelli and the UPC/PPH Would Make Things Worse

=> Team UPC Continues to Promote Illusion of UPC Progress Where There's None

=> António Campinos: A True EPO Reformer or More of the Same?

=> Juve Has Confirmed That António Campinos is French

=> Darker Past of the Next President of the EPO - Part II: António Campinos at Banco Caixa Geral de Depósitos

=> SUEPO to the Media, Regarding Campinos: “No Comment, It’s Too Dangerous”

=> Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) Willing to Work With Campinos But Foresees Difficulties

=> The Darker Past of the Next President of the EPO - Part I: Introduction

=> Patent Firms From the United States Try Hard to Push the Unitary Patent (UPC), Which Would Foment Litigation Wars in Europe

=> Confessions of EPO Insiders Reveal That European Patents (EPs) Have Lost Their Legitimacy/Value Due to Battistelli's Policies

=> IAM is Wrong, the Narrative Isn't Changing, Except in the Battistelli-Funded (at EPO's Expense) Financial Times

=> SUEPO Representatives Like Elizabeth Hardon Vindicated as Battistelli's Detrimental Effect on Patent Quality is Widely Confirmed

=> Rumours That António Campinos Initially Had No Competition at All (for Battistelli's Succession) Are Confirmed

=> EPO Stakeholders Complain That the New Chairman Does Not Grasp the Issues at the EPO (or Denies These)

=> Monika Ermert's Reports About the Crisis at the EPO and IP Kat's Uncharacteristically Shallow Coverage

=> The Systematic Erosion of Workers’ Rights and Holidays at the EPO Goes Years Back

=> Articles in English and German Speak About the Decline in Quality of European Patents (Granted by the EPO)

=> The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Rotting Like the European Patent Office

=> Lying and Faking Now a Standard Procedure at the European Patent Office

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

=> Under Christoph Ernst, the Council is Just a Megaphone of Battistelli's EPO, Including on Patent Quality

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

=> Patent Quality at the EPO (European Patents) is Slipping While Battistelli's Office Boasts “Expansion of Early Certainty” (Even Worse)

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

=> With Surveillance Recruits at the EPO, Are (or Were) DNA Tests Ever on the Agenda?

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

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

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

=> Jesper Kongstad Was Not Honest About Early Retirement, He is Joining the Private Sector

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

=> EPO Protest at 12:30 in Munich and Why EPO Staff Should Attend

=> Microsoft Lobbying, the EPO, and Software Patents Disguised as 'Internet of Things'

=> Depressing State of Affairs at the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> Thugs United: Francis Gurry Lecture, Courtesy of Benoît Battistelli

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

=> Additional Complaints About the Unitary Patent (UPC) Pile Up in Germany, Here's How to Submit More

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

=> The European Patent Office's New Relationship With Former Portuguese Colonies and the Connection to Battistelli's Choice of Next President

=> EPO Makes European SMEs More Vulnerable to Litigation From the Former Soviet Union

=> Nepotism at the EPO Has Reached Truly Toxic Levels

=> EPO Management Gambled on Europe Being a Patent Litigation Hub/Capital, But It's All Coming Down in Flames Now

US Supreme Court Defends Position on Alice, Maintaining/Cementing a Ban on Software Patents Like the Rest of the World (partly about EPO)

=> US Supreme Court Defends Position on Alice, Maintaining/Cementing a Ban on Software Patents Like the Rest of the World

=> Death of European Patent Quality: The EPO Officially Sends the Appeal Boards to Exile Despite the UPC Going Nowhere

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

September

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

=> Jesper Kongstad's Last Day is Today, But the EPO Remains a Sordid Mess Like the UPC

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

=> EPO Staff Representatives Help Prevent Seventh Suicide Under Benoît Battistelli

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

=> The Effects of ILO and the EPO on Disability

=> The EPO Continues to Lie About the UPC and About SMEs, Even Several Times Per Day Now

=> European Patent Expired, But $70,000,000 in 'Damages'

=> EPO Now a Megaphone of IP Europe, a Front Group of Patent Maximalists

=> The Unitary Patent (UPC) is Now Rotting in Ireland

=> Battistelli Follows German Law Only When It Suits Him, Three Holidays Just Canceled

=> EPO Lies About the UPC, Violations of Human Rights, and 'Green' European Patents

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

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

Intellectual Ventures, GNU/Linux/Android/FOSS Patents, and the Ascent of European Patent Trolls (partly about EPO)

=> Intellectual Ventures, GNU/Linux/Android/FOSS Patents, and the Ascent of European Patent Trolls

=> The EPO's Latest Lies About the UPC and SMEs Unraveled, Long-Term Plan Described as Daunting

=> In an Effort to Push the Unitary Patent (UPC), EPO and the Liar in Chief Spread the Famous Lie About SMEs

=> UPC Threatens to Weaponise Software Patents in Countries That Forbade These

=> The Latest Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and CIPO's Participation in Those

=> Citing the European Patent Convention, Spanish Court Tosses Lawsuit With EPO-Granted European Patent

=> European Patent Office Continues to Paint a Rosy UPC Picture Even Though the UPC May Already be Dead

=> Tax Evasion by Patent Boxes and Lies About Small Businesses (SMEs) in the Corporate Media

=> The UPC Fantasy is Going Nowhere as Complaints and Paperwork Pile Up

=> At Event of EPO SLAPP Firm, a Suggestion That the UPC Should be Scrapped Because It’s Stuck

=> Watchtroll Helps the EPO Peddle Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC)

=> EPO Gets Together With Patent Radicals to Promote Software Patents

=> Patent Boxes Are for Tax Avoidance, But in the Land of Tax Avoidance (Switzerland) No Avoidance for Software Patents

=> Latest Attempts to Blow Air Into the Sails of the Sinking Unitary Patent (UPC)

=> Ingve Stjerna's Complaint Casts a Shadow Over the Unconstitutional Unified Patent Court (UPC)

=> Upcoming EPO Series: Benoît Battistelli's 'Club Med'

=> “The Constitutional Problems Linked to the UPC are Far From Being Minor”

=> EPO Guest Article: “Pope” Benoît Refuses to Recognise Reformation Day 2017!

=> Latest Updates on UPC Constitutional Complaint in Germany and Brexit Barrier to UPC in Britain

=> The EPO Has Become a Stasi and Newly-Recruited Staff Are Its Informants

=> European Patent Office (EPO) Implements Erdoğan-Style or Ottoman-Like Purge for King Battistelli

=> European Patent Office in Shambles and the EU’s Brexit Position Paper Suggests UPC is Off the Agenda

=> EPO Management is Lobbying for Software Patents and the UPC in ICT Seminar 2017

=> Personal Attacks, Censorship of Comments and More Nefarious Tricks Expected in the Wake of UPC Panic

=> SUEPO Protests Against the Apparent Complicity of ILO in EPO Abuses

=> Juve Reveals That Ingve Stjerna is the 'UPC Slayer' While the EPO Continues to Lobby, Mislead

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

August

=> Bristows Turns British Government Report Which Says Nothing About the UPC Into a Self-Serving Plug and a Lie

=> EPO Silencers of the Media - Part II: EPO-Funded Vice-President Topić Has Ongoing SLAPP Cases

=> The Dark Side of WIPO and Attempts to Suppress Information Mirror the EPO's Tactics

=> IP Kat Missing in Action as Unitary Patent (UPC) Rots

=> Rumours That Another Frenchman is the Only Candidate to Succeed Benoît Battistelli at the EPO

=> Hiring of German Judges for UPC Has Been Halted as the Future of UPC as a Whole Now in Doubt

=> How Much Longer Can Guy Ryder and Claude Rouiller Ignore Abuses and Cement Injustice at the EPO?

=> EPO Silencers of the Media - Part I: Introduction

=> At EPO, “Producing Stronger Patents (or Being Able to Produce Them) is Also a Matter of Professional Pride for the Examiners”

=> UPC Hopefuls (Litigation Firms) Come to Life Amid Unitary Patent EPO Text, But Nothing New to See Here

=> Benoît Battistelli's Misbehaviour Condemned the UPC to Death

=> Bristows LLP Tries Hard to Maintain the Illusion That UPC is Alive, Using Media Placements and Paid Plugs

=> Quality of European Patents Has Sunk, Value Diminished

=> Lack of Independent Judiciary Under the Unitary Patent (Like Boards of Appeal Under Battistelli, in Defiance of the EPC) Will Possibly Kill the Unified Patent Court

=> The Staff Union of the EPO Has Long Warned About Declining Patent Quality

=> The EPO's Management Needs a Perception of Security Crisis

=> Corruption at the European Patent Office and Systematic Bullying That Leads People to Suicide/Bankruptcy

=> The Collapse of Patent Quality at the EPO is Inviting to Europe Some of the World's Worst Patent Trolls

=> The EPO is Paying Journalists For Trips Abroad and May be Buying Fake Twitter Followers (Still)

The Farce Which is Nokia's Patent Portfolio, a Ripoff of Other People's Ideas (and Patents) (partly about EPO)

=> The Farce Which is Nokia's Patent Portfolio, a Ripoff of Other People's Ideas (and Patents)

=> The Corrupt European Patent Office (EPO) Appears to be SLAPPing Judges Now

=> The Corruption of the European Patent Office and CIPO's (Canada) Participation in This

=> Under Battistelli, EPO Ceased to Reward Inventors, Rewards Only Battistelli and Fellow Thugs Instead

=> EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government - Part X: In Closing

=> German Media Paints a Picture of Benoît Battistelli as a Drunken 'Putin' Looking to Push UPC at All Costs

=> EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government - Part IX: Potentially Fatal Injury to Air Plus Trademark Holder

=> When It Comes to Software Patents, the EPO Has Become Among the Worst in the World

Sinking Patent Quality at the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) (partly about EPO)

=> Sinking Patent Quality at the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO)

=> EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government - Part VIII: Outcome at DZIV (Zagreb) Miraculously Known Six Months in Advance

=> EPO Already Thinks It's the UPC (Which Will Likely Never Happen)

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

=> EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government - Part VII: Immunity for Topić (EPO VP4) Just When He Really Needed It

=> German Media Names António Campinos as Likely Successor of Battistelli

=> EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government - Part VI: The Complaint to Merkel

=> Software Patents and the Unified Patent Court (Talk From Friday)

=> EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government - Part V: Lufthansa and Croatia Airlines Overlap

=> EPO Directors Who Care About Patent Quality Are Being Kicked Out as Quality Continues to Plunge

=> EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government - Part IV: Tena Mišetić, Ivan Mišetić, Croatia Airlines, Lufthansa, and Deutsche Telekom

=> Professor Siegfried Broß Has a Long New Article About the EPO

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

=> EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government - Part III: DZIV and EPO Nepotism

=> EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government - Part II: Andrej Matijević and Željko Topić

=> Benoît Battistelli Distracts From Declining Patent Quality at the EPO by Diverting Attention Away to “Timeliness”

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

=> EPO: Germans “Discover That Behind the Mad Figures, the Granted Patents Are of Crap Quality and That This Does Not Serve Their Interests”

=> 90% of WIPR Readers Give Up Hope on Unitary Patent (UPC) in the UK, But Team UPC Keeps Lying About It

=> Heiko Maas May Need to Belatedly Answer Complaint About Illegal Spying on Staff at the EPO

July

=> German Media Finally Waking up to EPO Scandals?

=> PACE of Prosecution Prioritised Over Quality of Patents and Examination

=> Dutch Government Publication Confirms Battistelli's Influence Over Smaller EPC States

=> EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government - Part I: Further Information About Andrej Matijević

=> Anonymous Comments Discuss Erosion of Lawful Activity at the EPO, Lowered Patent Quality, Software Patents, and Trump Comparisons

=> Value of European Patents (EPs) is Diminishing, EPs Get Invalidated, and EPO Insiders Bemoan the Management's Lies About Patent Quality

=> The 'New' IP Kat on Patents: A Front Group for Team UPC (Bristows) and CIPA (British Patent Microcosm)

=> The Latest Lies From the EPO (Regarding Quality) and the Reason the UPC Won't Happen (Any Time Soon at Least)

=> Lufthansa Leaks? Nokia Leaks? Prepare for Further Digging Into EPO Scandals

=> How the EPO's Terrible Decisions May Implicate the Government of Germany and Lufthansa

Patent Maximalists Continue to Warp the Debate/Media Coverage About Patents in Britain (partly about UPC)

=> Patent Maximalists Continue to Warp the Debate/Media Coverage About Patents in Britain

=> STRASBOURG: Representative of Lufthansa Accused of Corruption

=> Lack of Independence of the Boards of Appeal at the European Patent Organisation (EPO) a Fatal Blow for the UPC

=> STRASBOURG: Vertreter der Lufthansa wegen Korruption angeklagt

=> Battistelli's EPO Abuses May Soon Lead to the Death of the UPC and Return of the Old Order ('EPO Glory')

=> Unified Patent Court (UPC): A Conspiracy of Lies and Silence

=> The British Government May be Pulling Out of the UPC Fantasy, Team UPC in Panic or Denial About It

=> New Paper Explains Why UPC Ratification Efforts Have Been Just About as Corrupt as EPO Under Battistelli

=> Software Patents Lobbying at IAM Strives to Reinforce the Positions of Patent Maximalists

=> UPC Puff Piece in the Scottish Media is Just an Advertisement by Marks & Clerk

=> Serious Factual Errors in UPC Coverage at Science|Business and Lack of Coverage in the General Media

=> Guest Post: Is Germany's UPC Ratification Postponement Related to Problems at the EPO?

=> European Commission Betrays the Public by Promoting Software Patents

=> Science|Business Quotes Michel Barnier, Then Speculates Battistelli's Way to Promote Erroneous Perception of UPC Inevitability

=> “EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal Has Brought an Unprecedented Level of Certainty to the Law,” But Benoît Battistelli Crushes It

=> Michel Barnier, Once a Leading Proponent of UPC, No Longer Certain the UK Can Fit in or That UPC Will Happen

=> Status and Potency of European Patents Compromised

=> As Expected, Benoît Battistelli Shaved off Billions of Euros Worth of 'Value' From European Patents and Thus Alienated Stakeholders

=> Looking Forward to a Battistelli-less and Kongstad-less European Patent Office

=> The European Patent Office (EPO) Under Benoît Battistelli is Compared to “Soviet Times”

=> The EPO Should Throw Away All Software Patents in the Same Way It Threw Away Patents on Plants and Animals

=> In an Age of Mass Deception by Team UPC Benjamin Henrion (FFII) to Deliver a Talk About UPC and Software Patents

=> Subtle Shaming of EPO Staff by EPO Management Earlier Today

=> French Giants Resort to Patent Trolling While Battistelli Attracts Patent Trolls to Europe

=> The EPO Goes on a Greenwashing PR Campaign After Granting Patents on Life, Seeds, Plants and Genome

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

=> On the EPO's Premises, Investigation After a Small Fall But Not After Suicide of Staff

=> Elżbieta Bieńkowska Cares More About the Unitary Patent Coup D'état (Which She Encourages) Than She Cares About the Rule of Law and People's Lives

=> EPO Plans to Replace Examiners With Software, Yielding Poor Results

=> Weeks Later, British Media Writes About British EPO Worker That Committed Suicide and the Administrative Council's 'Coverup'

=> No UPC Progress, Only Further Delays and Lots of Puff Pieces From the EPO and Bristows (Team UPC) Today

=> The EPO's Liar in Chief, Benoît Battistelli, is Googlebombing Again

=> Expect No Progress Whatsoever on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) During the Summer and Likely Too Little Even in Fall

=> Death Trap: The ‘New’ (Nouvel) Building of the EPO

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

=> EPO Silent About EPO Strikes and Battistelli Leaving

=> It's Official: Battistelli Will Leave the EPO in Less Than a Year

=> 4 Days of Strike in a Row (Including Weekend), But Tomorrow is No Independence Day at the EPO

=> The Decline in Patent Quality at the European Patent Office (EPO) Already Causes Mass Abandonment of Patents

=> The Future of the EPO Does Not Look Encouraging as Injustice and Abuse Carry On While the Press Looks the Other Way

June

=> Caricature: Charlie EPO

=> Former 'Kats' Debunk IP Kat (Bristows) on Unitary Patent, Insisting It May Even be Dead

=> The EPO Has Officially Confirmed That Christoph Ernst Will 'Boss' (and Soon Replace) Battistelli

=> Lack of Patent Quality at the EPO Already Leads to the Axing of Many European Patents (EPs) in Bulk

=> Feedback From the Administrative Council Meeting at The Hague: Worse Than Anyone Expected

=> The UPC's Figurehead, Alexander Ramsay, Admits UPC is Stuck, Bristows LLP Comes Up With 'Alternative Facts'

=> European Patent Office is on Strike Until Tuesday and Insiders Study the New Head of the Organisation

=> Christoph Ernst, Long Speculated to be Battistelli's Successor, Becomes Battistelli's 'Boss'

=> Bristows LLP is Still Trying to Attach Wings to the UPC and Distract From Serious (Likely Fatal) Barriers to It

=> Letter Warns of “Reform Marathon” a Few Days Before Benoît Battistelli's Job is Offered to Someone Else

=> EPO Staff Bemoans “Another Reform à la Battistelli That Only Benefits Battistelli”

=> Ignore the Press Releases and Puff Pieces, the EPO is Going on Strikes

=> EPO Strikes in All Four EPO Sites for Two Days This Month and Next Month, Under the “Respect Staff” Banner

=> Latest EPO Caricature: Staff Committee Maintains Integrity

=> Voter Suppression Tactics by Team Battistelli Serve to Reaffirm View That the EPO is an Authoritarian Regime Which Loathes Voting

=> Leaked: Job Opening Advertised as Battistelli’s ‘Mole’ at the Administrative Council, Jesper Kongstad, Leaves in Shame

=> Wouter Pors Under Fire for Lying or Manipulating in the Name of the Unitary Patent (UPC)

=> Systemic Injustice at the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Causes Serious Harm to Complainants' Health, Including EPO Complainants

=> SUEPO and the EPO’s Central Staff Committee Condemn Battistelli’s Latest Attempt to Change the Rules in Defiance of Laws

=> The Tide Has Turned Against the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and It Finally Looks as 'Alive' as TPP

=> Potential Targets of European Patent Office (EPO) Whistleblowing

=> Primer to the Crisis and Scandals at the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> Workers of the European Patent Office (EPO) Are Going on Strike Again, Almost 90% Voted in Favour

=> Benoît Battistelli Has Lost the Election at the EPO

=> You Know That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is in Huge Peril When Its Biggest Fans Admit It's Unlikely to Happen Even Next Year

=> More Than Six Human Casualties Under Battistelli at the EPO, But the Human Toll Can Become a Lot Worse

=> EPO's Elodie Bergot Calls Staff Suicide Just 'Passing Away', Pretends to Care

=> The Administrative Tribunal of ILO Will Deliver EPO Judgments in Six Days

=> Another Suicide Reported at the EPO While the Paid-for Media Focuses on ‘European Inventor Award’ Charade

=> At the European Inventor Award Ceremony Benoît Battistelli Lied to a Lot of Scientists and “Media Partners” About the UPC

=> Contact Details for the EPO's Administrative Council Delegations

=> Don't Forget to Vote for EPO Strike This Week (Thursday)

=> European Patent Office (EPO) Whistleblowing Guidelines: Motivation and Impact of Leaks

=> Appalling Press Coverage Regarding the Unitary Patent (UPC)

=> The Writings on the Wall at the European Patent Office: Number of Directors May Soon Decline From 150 to Just 65-70

=> European Patent Office (EPO) Whistleblowing Guidelines

=> General Consultative Committee of the EPO Warns About Battistelli's Plans

=> Leaked: European Patent Office Still Uses Microsoft Windows XP... in 2017

=> Unitary Patent (UPC) Will Start “Real Soon” Now... Said Team UPC For So Many Years

=> EPO Management Wastes Millions of Euros on a Silly, Gratuitous, Self-Serving Festival While EPO Staff is Planning Another Strike

=> Software Patents in Europe Are Still Promoted by the EPO, Even in Defiance of the Ban

=> Leaked: Job Advertisement for Removing Battistelli From the European Patent Office

=> Even UPC Proponents, Paid by the EPO's PR Firm, Admit That UPC May Never Happen

=> Caricature: Balance of Justice at the European Patent Office

=> A Massive Proponent of UPC, CIPA, Enters IP Kat, as Readers Call Out Stacked UPC 'Panels'

=> In Spite of Censorship by IP Kat, Issues Associated With UPC Had Become Apparent, Even Before Germany Halted Ratification

=> The UPC Gravy Train is Claimed to Have Been “Halted” in Germany and More Oppositions or Constitutional Complaints Are on Their Way

=> Battistelli to Leave the European Patent Office Without the Unitary Patent He Repeatedly Promised in Vain Over the Years

=> The EPO is Committing Suicide by Granting Invalid Patents That No Recipient Should Ever Desire

=> Is the EPO Pushing Prepared 'Articles' (Ghostwriting) Through Shepard Fox Communications?

=> German Barrier to the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Bound to Bring the Insidious Plans to a Halt

=> Technical Incompetence at the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> Bristows/IP Kat Still Promoting UPC and Patent Trolls, Also Accused of Deleting Comments and “Brown-nosing” Judges to Help Patent Trolls

=> The British Election May Have Just 'Killed' the Unitary Patent (UPC)

=> No More Battistelli Photo Ops With Michelle Lee as EPO Allies Run Out, Countries Without European Patents Pursued Instead

=> European Patent Office May Become Just a Mirage of Examination Office, Much Like INPI (France)

=> German Media Would Rather Write Articles About Beer Than About Serious and Unprecedented EPO Scandals

=> Benoît Battistelli is Scheming to Further Erode the Rule of Law and Promote More of His Cronies at the EPO

=> Tim Moss, Chief Executive of the UK Intellectual Property Office, Will Need to Challenge the Battistelli Regime

=> IAM 'Magazine', an Adjunct or Megaphone to the Battistelli Regime, Called 'Independent' by the EPO and Used for 'Quality' Propaganda

=> EPO Workers May be About to Go on Strike Again

=> Battistelli's 'Boss', Jesper Kongstad, Rumoured to Have Been Paid by Battistelli

=> Patent Trolls in Europe and the Looming Collapse of the UPC

=> Shame on the Administrative Tribunal of ILO for Helping Team Battistelli Abuse EPO Staff

May

=> The Silencing of Critics of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in Media and in Blogs

=> Colossal Institutional Failure Surrounding the European Patent Office (EPO) and EPO Chickens Out of Debate About It

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

=> Martijn van Dam is Wrong to Believe That Battistelli's Abuses Are Somehow Acceptable or Tolerable Because His Term is Possibly Ending

=> Media and Staff Association Elections at EPO and WIPO Are Compromised

=> New Documents Help Demonstrate That ILO Delivers Institutional Injustice to EPO Employees and Cushions Team Battistelli

=> Leaked: 2017 European Inventor Award Finalists, or Stooges Whom the Tyrant Battistelli Exploits for PR Purposes and Media Manipulation

=> EPO: Can the Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) Still Save It?

=> Countries With a Dozen European Patents Are an Easy Photo-Op 'Sell' for Battistelli While the EPO's Demise is Largely Ignored by the Patent Microcosm

=> Our Assessment: Unitary Patent (UPC) Will Crumble Along With Battistelli's Regime at the EPO

=> The European Patent Office Has a Long History/Track Record of 'Screwing' Contractors

=> The Sickness of the EPO – Part IX: Using Confidential Medical Records as a Weapon Against Staff

=> The EPO is in Disarray and Additional Complaints to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) May Be Imminent

=> By Promoting the UPC, in Defiance of Public Will, the EPO Has Become Patent Trolls' Best Friend

=> Team UPC Still Twists and Fabricates Statements to Make It Seem Like Unitary Patent is Happening Soon

=> English-Speaking Media Catches Up With Latest Twists in EPO Fiasco, Including Appeal to the European Court of Human Rights

=> Another Victim of Battistelli's Monarchy: Dutch Contractors

=> 'European Media Intervention Award' (EIA), EPO Censorship, Self-Censorship, and Paid 'Media Partners'

=> (Almost) Live Blog From Today's Debate About the EPO in Dutch Parliament

=> SUEPO Releases Statement About Its Complaint Regarding the EPO's Immunity, Filed Yesterday at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg

=> The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) Against the European Patent Office (EPO), Lower House to Debate the Issue Today

Death of ‘IP’ Media: Front Groups of Microsoft Described as “Representing SME Developers” by Bristows (partly about EPO)

=> Death of ‘IP’ Media: Front Groups of Microsoft Described as “Representing SME Developers” by Bristows

=> All Members of the European Parliament Get Warned About the Deterioration at the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> ILO Gives the European Patent Office Unfair Advantage in Disputes With Staff

=> Translations and Speculations About Jesper Kongstad's Planned Departure From the EPO

=> European Marketing Office: Battistelli-Commissioned 'Studies', Puff Pieces, and Revisionism about PACE

=> Battistelli's Protector, Jesper Kongstad, Resigns!

=> The EPO's Administrative Council (AC) is “Amazingly Complicit” or “Awfully Compliant” (Like Much of the Media and Much of the System)

=> Latest WIPO Scandal, Echoing EPO Scandals, Demonstrates Freedom of the Press Coming Under Attack From International Patent Institutions

=> Bristows and IAM: Brits Who Lobby for Patent Trolls in Britain

=> Battistelli's EPO Has Made Life Itself Patentable

=> At IAM Event in Korea, Patent Trolls in the Panels and Advocacy of Software Patents From the EPO

=> The Sickness of the EPO – Part VIII: Allegations That the EPO Has No Honest Doctors, Only 'Fake' Ones Subservient to Team Battistelli

=> Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part X: When EPO Calls the Truth “Defamation”

April

=> Unified Patent Propaganda Courtesy of a Cabal of Firms That Constructed the UPC

=> Twitter Shadowbans Critics of the EPO Now?

=> Battistelli is Busy Securing the Vote of Countries Whose Support and Tickets Are Easy to ‘Buy’

=> Patent Snake Oil From Brunel University London and PatentDive

=> This is How 'Independent' the Boards of Appeal Are Under Battistelli

=> Kather Augenstein and Bristows Shift Attention to Germany in an Effort to Ram the Dying UPC Down Everyone's Throats

=> Team UPC and CIPA Are Lobbying, Publishing Puff Pieces, and Rewriting the Law for Unitary Patent (UPC) Behind Closed Doors

=> China's Suffering From Patent Maximalism Has Europe Forewarned

=> The Latest Expensive PR Blitz of the EPO, Led by Jana Mittermaier and Rainer Osterwalder Under the ‘European Inventor Award’ Banner

=> Patent Quality Crisis and Unprecedented Trouble at the European Patent Office (EPO) Negatively Affect Legitimate Companies in the US As Well

=> Blog 'Takeovers' by Bristows and Then Censorship: Now This Firm Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Then Deletes Comments That Point Out the Errors

=> Astoundingly, IP Kat Has Become a Leading Source of UPC and Battistelli Propaganda

=> EPO Fiasco to be Discussed in German Local Authority (Bavarian Parliament) Some Time Today as the Institution Continues Its Avoidable Collapse

=> Why Authorities in the Netherlands Need to Strip the EPO of Immunity and Investigate Fire Safety Violations

=> Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part IX: Testament to the Fear of an Autocratic Regime

=> For the Fordham Echo Chamber (Patent Maximalism), Judges From the EPO Boards of Appeal Are Not Worth Entertaining

=> EPO Staff Representatives Fired Using “Disciplinary Committee That Was Improperly Composed” as Per ILO's Decision

=> The European Patent Office Has Just Killed a Cat (or Skinned a 'Kat')

=> Yann Ménière Resorts to Buzzwords to Recklessly Promote Floods of Patents, Dooming the EPO Amid Decline in Patent Applications

=> At the EPO, Seeding of Puff Piece in the Press/Academia Sometimes Transparent Enough to View

=> Expect Team UPC to Remain in Deep Denial About the Unitary Patent/Unified Court (UPC) Having No Prospects

=> EPO in 2017: Erroneously Grant a Lot of Patents in Bulk or Get Sacked

=> Bristows-Run IP Kat Continues to Spread Lies to Promote the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Advance the EPO Management's Agenda

=> Another Final Nail in the UPC Coffin: UK General Election

=> EPO Patent Quality and Quality of Service Have Become a Disaster, Say EPO Stakeholders

=> Adding Insult to Suicide: European Commission's Site Publishes Benoît Battistelli's EPO Puff Pieces

=> No, Bristows, UPC Won't Happen Just Because You Mislead About It

=> Awful Quality of EPO-Granted European Patents (EPs) Becomes a Mainstream Topic

=> Politician Links UPC to EPO Abuses and Slams the European Commission for Overlooking EPO Tragedies Like “Violations of Fundamental Rights” and Deaths

=> It's Not Natural for the European Patent Office to Make Nature Patentable

=> Unitary Patent (UPC) is Stuck as the “British Are Hesitant in UPC Ratification,” According to New Report

=> The European Patent Office Has Entered a Dark Era of Anti-Science and Fake 'Research'

=> Voices of Patent Trolls Are Alive and Well (and Partly Paid by Battistelli’s EPO)

=> Latest French Hire of Battistelli Rumoured to be After EPO Workers' Pensions

=> EPO's Benoît Battistelli is Again Exploiting Truck Attacks to Spread Lies and Garner Sympathy (for the Abuser)

=> These Terrifying Comments From Patent Practitioners Suggest They Too Believe UPC is Intended to Make EPO Virtually Obsolete

=> Latest EPO Puff Piece From Benoît Battistelli Shows Desperate Need for (and Inability to Attract) Talent

=> “There is Still No Sufficient Control Over the Despotism of the EPO President, Benoît Battistelli”

=> Asian Companies Already Suffer From Patent Maximalism/Radicalism and UPC Would Make Things Even Worse

=> Lying Has Become the Norm When It Comes to the Unitary Patent (UPC)

=> The Latest on the Collapse of the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> Caricature: EPO President and the EPC

=> IP Kat or IP Troll? IP2Innovate Warns That UPC Would Help Patent Trolls While IP Kat Promotes UPC

=> The European Patent Convention (EPC) is Habitually Being Violated by the President of the EPO

=> Like EPO 'Grants' (up 40% in a Year), Patent Trolls in Europe Are Growing at Double-Digit Rates (Now 20% of All German Lawsuits)

=> The EPO's Management is Silencing Its Critics by Sheer Intimidation

=> Thorsten Bausch (Hoffmann Eitle) Bemoans Declining Quality (Service and Patents) at the European Patent Office

=> Is Bristows UPC Falsifying UK-IPO Quotes or Just Using Informal Words to Lobby for the Unitary Patent (UPC)?

=> IP Kat is Helping Battistelli by Lobbying for the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Spreading Falsehoods

=> EPO Scandals the Focus of Bavarian Parliament Tomorrow

=> Latest EPO Crisis: Junk Patents Granted in Preparation for Vision of Europe as Litigation Central (UPC)

=> Reign of Fear (Even Terror) at EPO Prevents People From Speaking About Injustices

=> As a Bargaining Chip, UPC (Unitary Patent/Unified Patent Court) is a Curse, Not a Gift

=> Politicians Hubert Aiwanger, Florian Streibl, Gabi Schmidt and Others Fight for EPO Workers in Bavarian Parliament

=> Growing Suspicions of Planned Obsolescence at the European Patent Office

=> Team UPC 'Took Over' IP Kat, Readers Don't Believe What It Says

=> The UK’s Involvement in a Hypothetical UPC Post-Brexit Far From Certain, Admits Law Firm, Contrary to Those Who Stand to Profit

=> The Sickness of the EPO – Part VII: 40% of EPO Workers Have Upper Limb Disorder (ULD), Battistelli Covers That Up

=> The 'New' (Nouvel) Building of the EPO Has Dark (and Potentially Fiery) Secrets

=> Bristows UPC Delusions Are Back, Attempting to Distract From Bad News (UPC Isn't Happening)

=> ‘Managing IP’ (MIP) is Seeding UPC Optimism Based on Nothing Concrete

Bad Patent Quality (and Software Patents) Good for Patent Law Firms and Trolls, But Not for Anybody Else (partly covers the EPO)

=> Bad Patent Quality (and Software Patents) Good for Patent Law Firms and Trolls, But Not for Anybody Else

=> Benoît Battistelli Makes His New Penthouse Financially Self-Sustaining

March

=> EPO Central Staff Committee Points Out to Benoît Battistelli That He is in Gross Violation and Contempt of the Founding Document/Treaty of the EPO

=> EPO Likes to Pretend to be Tolerated in Spite of Patenting Life, Seeds, Plants and More

=> Culpability for EPO Injustice in the Administrative Council Chaired by Battistelli's Protector, Jesper Kongstad

=> Leaked: Meeting in Secret, Jesper Kongstad-Led Council Decides EPO Judge is Guilty Until Proven Innocent

=> Deconstructing the Latest 'Damage Control' From Team UPC Amid Demise of Unitary Patent Pipe Dreams

=> As Expected, Photo Op and Battistelli Lies Have Just Come Out, Hilariously Claiming “Higher Quality Patent Procedures”

=> Devaluation of European Patents is a Recipe for Institutional Suicide and Immeasurable Harm to Europe's Economy

=> EPO is a Laughing Stock in International Media This Week (Quality of Patents) After Decades-Long Reputation Building

=> Director Michelle Lee Across the Table From EPO ‘Mafioso’ Benoît Battistelli

=> March 29th: The Day the Unitary Patent (UPC) Died

=> Kongstad and Battistelli Have Staged a Coup at the European Patent Organisation (EPO)

=> Europe as the World's Laughing Stock When it Comes to Patent Quality/Scope and the Coming Appeals

=> In Attempt to Promote the Horrific UPC (Poor Quality of Patents Everywhere), Minnoye and Casado Cerviño Attack Their Own Staff for Saying the Truth

=> Another Likely Casualty of the Battistelli Regime at the EPO: Validity of Decisions of Terrified Boards of Appeal Judges

=> Benoît Battistelli 'Pulls an Erdoğan' Faster Than Erdoğan

=> A “Perfect Recipe for Fraud” at the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> Techrights Was Right About the Unitary Patent (UPC)

=> Patents on Life and Patents on Software Serve to Show That EPO Patent Quality Fell Well Behind the US (PTO)

=> The Crook Goes to Brussels to Lie About the Unitary Patent (UPC)

=> The EPO's HR Roadmap Retrospective

=> His Master's Voice, Jesper Kongstad, Blocks Discussion of Investigative and Disciplinary Procedures at the EPO

=> Heiko Maas and the State of Germany Viewed as Increasingly Complicit in EPO Scandals and Toxic UPC Agenda

=> With IP Kat Coverage of EPO Scandals Coming to an End (Officially), Techrights and The Register Remain to Cover New Developments

=> Everyone, Including Patent Law Firms, Will Suffer From the Demise of the EPO

=> Yes, Battistelli's Ban on EPO Strikes (or Severe Limitation Thereof) is a Violation of Human Rights

=> Even the EPO's Administrative Council No Longer Trusts Its Chairman, Battistelli's 'Chinchilla' Jesper Kongstad

=> Thanks to Merpel, the World Knows EPO Scandals a Lot Better, But It's a Shame That IP Kat Helped UPC

=> EPO Critics Threatened by Self-Censorship, Comment Censorship, and a Growing Threat to Anonymity

=> Judge and Justice Bashing in the United States, EPC Bashing at the EPO

=> Looking for EPO Nepotism? Forget About Jouve and Look Closely at Europatis Instead.

=> Depressing EPO News: Attacks on Staff, Attacks on Life, Brain Drain, Patents on Life, Patent Trolls Come to Germany, and Spain Being Misled

=> Bernhard Rapkay, Former MEP and Rapporteur on Unitary Patent, Shoots Down UPC Hopes While UPC Hopefuls Recognise That Spain Isn't Interested Either

=> The Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation Has Just Buried an Innocent Judge That Battistelli Does Not Like

=> Nepotism at the European Patent Office and Suspicious Absence of Tenders for Big Projects

=> “Terror” Patent Office Bemoans Terror, Spreads Lies

=> The EPO is Lying to Its Own Staff About ILO and Endless (Over 2 Years) EPO Mistrials

=> EPO’s Georg Weber Continues Horrifying Trend of EPO Promoting Software Patents in Defiance of Directive, EPC, and Common Sense

=> The Battistelli Regime, With Its Endless Scandals, Threatens to Crash the Unitary Patent (UPC), Stakeholders Concerned

=> The Photos the EPO Absolutely Doesn't Want the Public to See: Battistelli is Building a Palace Using Stakeholders' Money

=> “Then They Came For Me—And There Was No One Left To Speak For Me.”

=> What the Patent Microcosm is Saying About the EPO and the UPC

=> Tough Day for the EPO's Media/Press/PR Team, Trying 'Damage Control' After Important Techrights Publications

=> At EPO “I Have the Feeling That Lowering Quality is Part of a Concerted Plan.”

=> EPO Reduces the World to Just Seven Nations to Bolster an Illusion of Growing 'Demand' for European Patents

=> Letter to Angela Merkel Expresses Concerns About Impact of EPO Scandals on Germany and Its Image

=> EPO Caricature: Low Patent Quality Not an Achievement

=> Are Lithuania and Latvia the Latest Additions to the List of Benoît Battistelli's Vassal States?

=> Supposedly 'Pampered' Prisoners Are Still Prisoners of the EPO

=> Insulting Reversal of Narratives at the EPO: Team Battistelli as the Victim

=> Battistelli's EPO Copies China -- Not the US -- When it Comes to Patenting Software and Expanding Patent Scope

=> “EPO Continues to Grant Software Patents”

=> Governance Crisis at EPO Deepens After Latest Meeting of the Administrative Council, Necessitating Urgent Outside Intervention

=> EPO Management Deeply Concerned That the Public Has Found Out Quality of European Patents (EPs) Nosedived Under Battistelli's Regime

=> European Directives and Boards of Appeal Desperately Needed to Keep EPO Patent Scope in Check

=> Letter From European Public Services Organisation (IPSO) to Angela Merkel and Heiko Maas Regarding EPO Union-Busting Catastrophe

=> IAM Remains Battistelli's Propaganda Mill, Helping to Manufacture and Reinforce Lies About Quality

=> Hidden Away in a Barely-Viewed Video is the Map of Europe Which the EPO Hides, as It Demonstrates Decline in Applications That EPO Cannot Deny

=> The EPO's Abuses and Claims of Immunity From Prosecution Increasingly Fracture the Dutch Establishment

=> UPC Fake News Rising Sharply as Door Closes for Unitary Patent Ratification and Jo Johnson 'Needs' to Believe the UPC Will Actually Happen

=> Whenever Battistelli's EPO Says Something These Days, Safest to Just Assume It's a Lie (Because It Typically Is)

=> German Media is Not Covering EPO Scandals and Instead Repeating Patently False Claims From EPO Management

=> Benoît Battistelli “Should Not Have Been in Charge of Anything More Involved Than a Hamster Cage Without the Hamster...”

=> Unitary Patent (UPC) and “Breach of EU Law”

=> Incredibly Unscientific: EPO is Making up Excuses for Decline in Patent Applications

=> Battistelli Wants to be 'King' for a Decade or Longer, Jesper Kongstad Protects Him

=> CERN Staff Association “Profoundly Shocked by the Situation That Has Persisted in the European Patent Office (EPO)”

=> New Examples of Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC), Courtesy of Patent Law Firms Looking to Prey on Gullible SMEs

=> Unitary Patent (UPC) Misinformation in Spanish Media and EPO-Connected (Paid) Media That Lobbies Spain

=> The European Patent Office is in a State of Collapse and It Coughs Up Rubbish Patents Until Its Death

=> Unscientific and Offensive: EPO Deletes From the Map Countries Where Number of Applications at the EPO Has Declined!

=> Battistelli Receives Another Letter From FICSA, is Urged to Meet EPO Staff Representatives Whom He Fired to Bust the Unions

=> Long New Letter From Battistelli's 'Nemesis', Dutch Secretary of State Martijn van Dam

=> EPO Protest Tomorrow, Heads of Delegations Informed Regarding the Reasons

=> How Big a Lie is Team UPC Spreading About Germany and Unitary Patent? A Must Read.

=> Germany Cannot Ratify the UPC Because Britain is Leaving the EU and Unitary Patent Strongly/Strictly Depends on the UK

=> British Site 'Managing IP' Continues to Organise UPC Lobbying Events to Promote the Unitary Patent in the UK, Isle of Man, Maybe Even Ireland and Beyond

=> No, Spain is Not Joining the UPC, That's Just What UPC Lobbyists Want Everyone to Believe

=> Fake News From the EPO and Team UPC About Unitary Patent in the UK in Spite of Brexit

=> Higher Patent Quality Guarded Even Under the Trump Administration While the EPO Goes the Other Way

=> Information From SUEPO on the Functional Allowance Reveals How Top-Level Management Intends to 'Rob' the Cash Cow (EPO Budget)

=> The Battistelli Mafia and Corsica

=> The EPO is Lying About Patent Quality in Its Official Web Site

=> Why Techrights is Nowadays Focused on the EPO and UPC (Unitary Patent)

=> After EPO Sanctions Against IP Kat (Censorship of More Than 10,000 Articles) Even Merpel Throws in the Towel

=> 'Lobbyists' Annsley Merelle Ward and Alan Johnson (Bristows) Return to Using IP Kat to Spread Fake News About Unitary Patent (UPC)

=> Battistelli's Coup at the EPO Continues: The EPO is Becoming the Cash Cow of Battistelli and His Friends, Until This Cow Will Die

=> 'Evil Tongues' Inside and Outside the EPO Explain Why Battistelli's 2016 'Results' Are Bad While the Media Mindlessly Repeats EPO Management's Talking Points

=> Ousting of Benoît Battistelli Next Week Seems Feasible, But Jesper Kongstad Protects Rather Than Supervises Battistelli

=> Latest EPO 'Results' Should be Grounds for Immediate Dismissal of Battistelli Rather Than Celebrations

=> Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Bert Koenders: Rapid Improvements in European Patent Office or Else 'High Level' Action

=> The European Patent Office is Wasting Its Already Limited Budget on Misleading Press Releases/Paid-for Coverage That Overlook Sharp Decline in Patent Quality

=> Battistelli's Shock Doctrine is Coming to the EPO's Boards of Appeal, Having Already Rattled the Office

=> EPO “Too Industry-Friendly, Say the Critics”

=> Caricature: 'Posterrorism' at the EPO

=> Raise Your Glass to the Monopoly -- New Article About the European Patent Office Losing It on Patent Scope

=> EPO Record Low on Quality of European Patents (EPs) in 2016

=> Another Delegation Antagonistic on EPO Matters is 'Decapitated' (Sean Dennehey)

=> With a Week Left Before the Administrative Council's Meeting, Pressure on Battistelli to Leave the EPO Continues to Grow

=> The EPO's Connections to or Facilitation of Bayer and Monsanto Explored in New Article

=> ILO: “EPO Threaten(s) the Ability of the Administrative Tribunal of the ILO to Serve All Other Organizations”

=> The Very Thought of UPC in the UK “is a Perfect Example of What Lobbying Can Achieve!”

=> Team Battistelli, Already Grossly Overpaid (With Salary Gone Hidden), Wants Even More Money

=> EPO President Benoît Battistelli, Like Far-Right Politicians, is a Great Danger to Europe

=> Poisonous Patents at the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> EPO Mimics Interpol, But Interpol Should Raid the EPO and End the Management's Abuses Once and for All

=> Dutch Foreign Minister Reads the Riot Act to EPO Vice-President Willy/Guillaume Minnoye

=> The Sickness of the EPO – Part VI: Firing Handicapped People and Hiring Unskilled, Inexperienced, 'Cheap' Staff

=> What Battistelli Means by Social Democracy at the EPO is What North Korea Means by Democratic People's Republic

=> EPO Budget Obscures and Distorts Facts About the Unitary Patent (UPC) in a Classic Antidemocratic Exercise by an Unaccountable Institution

=> Supplying Techrights With Leaked Material

=> MIP (Managing IP) International Patent Forum 2017 to Have EPO and UPC Propaganda, as Before

=> Battistelli and His Swamp Resurface Very Old News, Possibly to Distract From Boards of Appeal Complaining About Battistelli

=> Now is the Time to Sign the Petition Against the Unitary Patent (UPC)

=> Justice is Dead Not Only at the European Patent Office But Also the Whole European Patent Organisation

February

=> The Boards of Appeal Openly Complain (in the EPO's Web Site) About Battistelli, But Don't Tell Battistelli About It...

=> Web Site of French Senator Richard Yung Cracked Just Days After Criticising the EPO

=> New Survey Shows That Even Patent Professionals Know That Team UPC is Lying About Unitary Patent Roadmaps

=> Does the EPO Want Patent Quality to Decline Against the USPTO and Become Akin to SIPO?

=> Top Officials in French Government Are Growing Tired of Battistelli's Abuses at the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part VIII: When Governed by Criminals, Truth-Tellers Are Cast as Criminals and Criminals as Justice Deliverers

=> The Sickness of the EPO – Part V: Shedding Light on Institutional Abuse Against Ill and/or Disabled Individuals

=> The EPO's Race to the Bottom in Recruitment and Early Retirements Explained by an Insider

=> Wouter Pors and Other UPC Boosters Believe That Repeating the Lies Will Potentially Make Them Truths

=> IAM, Greased up by the EPO, Continues Lobbying by Shaming Tactics for the UPC, Under the Guise of 'News'

=> Patent Scope Gone Awry: European Vegetable Patents Office?

=> Yes, There is Definitely Brain Drain (Experience Deficit) at the European Patent Office and Stakeholders Feel It

=> The Sickness of the EPO – Part IV: Cruel Management That Deliberately Attacks the Sick and the Weak

=> UPC Roundup: War on the Appeal Boards, British Motion Against the UPC, Fröhlinger Recalled, and Fake News About Spain

=> The Sickness of the EPO – Part III: Invalidity and Suicides

=> Report From Yesterday's Debate About the European Patent Office (EPO) at the Bavarian Landtag

=> French Politician Richard Yung Tells the Government About Abuses at the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> The Sickness of the EPO – Part II: Background Information and Insights

=> EPO Cartoon/Caricature by KrewinkelKrijst

=> The Sickness of the EPO – Part I: Motivation for New Series of Articles

=> Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part VII: EPO Hypocrisy on Cancer and Lack of Feedback to and From ECPC

=> EPO Caricature: Battistelli's Wall

=> Paid-for UPC Proponent, IAM 'Magazine', Debunked on UPC Again

=> Lack of Justice in and Around the EPO Drawing Scrutiny

=> The EPO is Becoming an Embarrassment to Europe and a Growing Threat to the European Union

=> Technicolor, Having Turned Into a Patent Troll, Attacks Android/Tizen/Linux With Patents in Europe

=> Our Assessment: EPO Wants a Lot of Low-Quality Patents and Low-Paid Staff With UPC (Prosecution Galore)

=> Yet More Complaints About the European Patent Office in the Bavarian Regional Government

=> EPO Staff Representatives to Escalate Complaint About Severe Injustices to the EPO's Secretive Board 28

New Survey Reveals That High Patent Quality, or Elimination of Bad Patents, is Desirable to Patent Holders (the latter half of it deals with the EPO)

=> New Survey Reveals That High Patent Quality, or Elimination of Bad Patents, is Desirable to Patent Holders

=> Open Patent Office is Not the Solution; Ending Software Patents is the Solution

=> New Scholarly Paper Says “UK’s Withdrawal From the EU Could Mean That the Entire (Unitary Patent) System Will Not Go Into Effect”

=> Guest Post: EPO, an Idyllic Place to Work

=> Claude Rouiller (ILOAT) and ILO Rulings Effectively Disregarded by the European Patent Office

=> The European Patent Office Looks More and More Like the Sicilian Mafia Every Day

=> EPO-Connected Writers Are Using Alternative Facts or Fake News to Promote the Unitary Patent in British Media

=> Leaked: European Patent Office a Fire Hazard Waiting to Cause Tragedy (Possible Deaths)

=> For Valentine's Day, Battistelli Learns to Stop Worrying and Love to Lie

=> Growingly Desperate for Applicants Amid Brain Drain, EPO Pays Breitbart ‘News’

=> UPC Petition Launched to Halt Ratification Plans in the United Kingdom Amid Nefarious Back Room Deals

=> Leaked E-mails From the EPO's Roberto Vacca Reveal That Patent Quality at the European Patent Office Has Become Farcical

=> Claims That EPO Commits a Crime and Should be Prosecuted in the Netherlands

=> Nazi Analogies at the EPO Are the Work of Battistelli, Who Libels Staff Representatives and Judges by Calling Them Nazis and Criminals

=> Not Only EPO Staff Are Committing Suicide; the EPO as a Whole is Committing Institutional Suicide

=> This is Why Many People at the EPO Commit Suicide

=> Video: 123rd Session of ILO Tribunal Judgments Session Talks About EPO

=> The News the EPO is Distracting From: No Justice for EPO Workers at ILO (Necessitating Immediate Removal of Immunity)

=> Laughable and Misleading: What the EPO Has Become Amid an Avalanche of Bad News

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

=> Battistelli's EPO is Under Fire From Major Applicants for So-called 'Early Certainty' (Low Quality and Rushed Patent Examination)

=> Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part VI: Fear Climate and Antipathy Now the ‘Norm’

=> Reception of the New German Ambassador (Dirk Brengelmann) at the EPO, in Presence of the Stasi-Like Investigative Unit

=> Translation: Juve Survey That Shows 0% Approval of Battistelli and Growing Concerns About the EPO

=> Translation: Battistelli's Patent Office Remains a Legal Island

=> Battistelli Judges Himself to be Excellent, in the Same Way Other Autocrats Judge Themselves to be Benevolent

=> The European Patent Office Officially Dishonours Justice, So It's Time for SUEPO to Become Clandestine

=> The EPO's President, Benoît Battistelli, May Have Become One of Europe's Most Hated People

=> Culture of Terror at The European Patent Office Escalates Thanks to Dutch Government's Complicity

=> No, IAM, UPC Did Not “Spring Back to Life”

=> Team UPC Continues to be a Premier Source of Fake News About Unitary Patent in the United Kingdom

=> Weekend Talk in Brussels to Speak of “Open Patents”, Relevant to the EPO at Times of Growing Lenience on Software Patents

=> “Team Battistelli Continues With Intimidation Tactics”

=> Growing Rift Between EPO Stakeholders and the Office, Due to Battistelli’s Appalling Leadership

=> New WIPR Survey and Other Data Points Suggest That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead, at Least in the UK

=> The Quality of European Patents is Nosediving and Those Who Can Put an End to It (Appeal Boards) Are Controlled by Fear of Battistelli

=> International Labour Organisation to Issue More Judgments on ‘Above the Law’ European Patent Office Next Week

=> EPO Stakeholders Want Battistelli and His Goons Ousted, They Can Accomplish This by Working Together (Like a Union)

=> Someone Needs to Explain/Remind EPO Management That Software Patents Are Not (Supposed to Be) Valid in Europe

=> The Netherlands With Its Bizarre Decision to Let the EPO Violate Dutch Law, Now in English

January

=> Battistelli Brags About Being Unaccountable, But He is Wrong and is Probably in Defiance of the Law

=> Battistelli “Got Full Dictatorial Unaccountable Control of a Diplomatically Immune Organisation”

=> EPO Members of Team Battistelli Promoted to Shield the Liar in Chief

=> Everything Benoît Battistelli Does Without Staff Consultation is Without Merit, More So Amid Union-Busting Catastrophe

=> Revealed: Lack of Justice at the European Patent Office (EPO), No Valid Courts

=> Battistelli Keeps Filling His Swamp at the European Patent Office for Social Control and Immunity Purposes

=> Juve Survey: Stakeholders Want Benoît Battistelli Out

=> The European Spam Office: 37% of Twitter 'Followers' Are Fake, Maybe Even Paid For (Waste of EPO Budget)

=> Gurry and Battistelli: When Alternative Facts and Oppression Are Becoming Business as Usual

=> French Media Says Benoît Battistelli Turned the Patent Office Into a Sort of North Korea

=> Conflict Between Benoît Battistelli and Roland Grossenbacher, Former Chairman of the Administrative Council of the EPO

=> Journalists Have Learned to Ignore Claims From the EPO's Management, Which Habitually Lies to Journalists

=> New Caricature: Benoît Battistelli ‘Takes Care’ of Roland Grossenbacher’s Dissent

=> The European Patent Office is Googlebombing and Bamboozling the Public About Quality of European Patents

=> The EPO’s Freedom to Disregard the Law and Abuse Employees is “Being Taken up by the Council of Europe”

=> Leaked: Team Battistelli, Exploiting a Controversial Decision From the Netherlands, is Trying to Squash SUEPO

=> Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna: UPC's “Entry Into Force is Not at all Secured,” Contrary to What Team UPC Says

=> Media Blasts EPO Over Immunity Amid Suicides, Battistelli's Behaviour Compared to Dominique Strauss-Kahn's

=> Hilarious: Battistelli Goes to Former French Colony With No Patents to 'Buy' the EPO a Perception of Legitimacy

=> ‘Reform’ at the EPO Means Destroying the Staff Union, Crushing Patent Examiners, and Imposing on Europe a System It Does Not Want (UPC)

=> EPO Abuses Now Make the Netherlands Look Like a Facilitator of Human/Labour Rights Abuses

=> Battistelli is an Autocrat Above the Law and It's OK, Holland's High Council Says

=> Beware Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC)

=> Corporate (Wall Street) Media Agrees That Brexit Dooms the Unitary Patent (UPC)

=> Farce of an 'Independence' for the Boards of Appeal as Another Ally of Benoît Battistelli Enters as Parasite Inside the 'Overseer'/Host

=> Union-Busting Action by Team Battistelli Takes Heavy Toll, Techrights Will Continue to Expose EPO Injustices to the World

=> A Lot More Fake News About the UPC, Trying to Convince People That the UK is Ratifying (It's Not, It Cannot)

=> Rumours Suggest That EPO Management is Aware of Decline in Patent Quality and is Thus Actively Lying About it to the Media/Public

=> Resumption of EPO Propaganda ('Meet the President') Officially Starts Tomorrow

=> Caricature: Battistelli’s New Year’s Resolution (More EPO Lies)

=> More Fake News About the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Based on Lobbying Tactics From Bristows UPC and the Preparatory Committee

=> EPO Totally Silent for a Month, But Deep Inside There Are Serious Cracks

=> ‘Financial Director’ Publishes Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC)

=> EPO Abuses Come Under Fire From Politicians in Luxembourg

=> Constitutionality as a Barrier and Brexit Barriers to UPC Keep the Whole Pipe Dream Deadlocked

=> Brexit Means No UPC (Unified Patent Court)

=> No End to Battistelli's Witch-hunts Against the Media, Against Staff, and Against Politicians

=> FFPE-EPO, the EPO Management's Pet/Yellow Union, Helps Union-Busting (Against SUEPO) in Letter to Notorious Vice-President

=> 2017: Latest Year That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Still Stuck in a Limbo

=> The Productivity Commission Warns Against Patent Maximalism, Which is Where China (SIPO) is Heading Along With EPO

=> Technical Failure of the European Patent Office (EPO) a Growing Cause for Concern

=> New Article From Heise Explains Erosion of Patent Quality at the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part V: Suspension of Salary and Unfair Trials

=> Teaser: Corruption Indictments Brought Against Vice-President of the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> 365 Days Later, German Justice Minister Heiko Maas Remains Silent and Thus Complicit in EPO Abuses on German Soil

=> Battistelli's Idea of 'Independent' 'External' 'Social' 'Study' is Something to BUY From Notorious Firm PwC

=> Europe Should Listen to SMEs Regarding the UPC, as Battistelli, Team UPC and the Select Committee Lie About It

=> Video: French State Secretary for Digital Economy Speaks Out Against Benoît Battistelli at Battistelli's PR Event

=> When EPO Vice-President, Who Will Resign Soon, Made a Mockery of the EPO

=> No Separation of Powers or Justice at the EPO: Reign of Terror by Battistelli Explained in Letter to the Administrative Council

=> FFPE-EPO is a Zombie (if Not Dead) Yellow Union Whose Only de Facto Purpose Has Been Attacking the EPO's Staff Union

=> EPO Select Committee is Wrong About the Unitary Patent (UPC)

=> Techrights

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