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2018

December

=> Even Joff Wild and the Patent Trolls' Lobby Finally Admit Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead

=> The Demise of the UPC 'Legislative Coup' Continued in 2018

=> The Quality of European Patents Likely Declined Even Further in 2018

=> UPC Died in 2016 or 2017; But the EPO Continues to Issue Fake Software Patents That European Courts Reject

=> Today's EPO Envisions a Europe of Patent Trolls, Not of Science and Technology

=> Team UPC Belatedly Admits Lying About the German UPC Complaint (Fabricated 'Rumours')

=> EPO: Adherence to the Law at the Office Postponed Indefinitely, 'Reform' Going Ahead (Divergence From the Law)

=> UPC Would Mean Patent Scope Gone Out of Control and Beyond/Above the Law

=> Immunity of the European Patent Office Has Helped Shield Dangerous Thugs From Justice

=> Patent Law Firms' War on Facts and Constant Lying About Unitary Patent

=> EPO Chief Economist Yann Ménière Keynote Speaker at Patent Trolls-Funded Event Set Up by the Patent Trolls' Lobby

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

=> The European Patent Troll Wants as Much Litigation as Possible

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

=> EPO Trust, Leadership and Commitment

=> With 'Brexit' in a Lot of Headlines Team UPC Takes the Unitary Patent Lies up a Notch

=> The EPO Not Only Abandoned the EPC But Also the Biotech Directive

=> Patents on Abstract Things and on Life (or Patents Which Threaten Lives) Merely Threaten the Very Legitimacy of Patent Offices, Including EPO

=> Florian Müller's Article About SEPs and the EPO

=> EPO Vice-President Željko Topić in New Article About Corruption in Croatia

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

=> Team UPC is Still Spreading False Rumours in an Effort to Trick Politicians and Pressure Judges

=> Patents on Life and Patents That Kill the Poor Would Only Delegitimise the European Patent Office

=> EPO 'Untapped Potential'

=> The European Patent Organisation is Like a Private Club and Roland Grossenbacher is Back in It

=> The European Patent Office Remains a Lawless Place Where Judges Are Afraid of the Banker in Chief

=> Many of the Same People Are Still in Charge of the European Patent Office Even Though They Broke the Law

=> EPO, in Its Patent Trolls-Infested Forum, Admits It is Granting Bogus Software Patents Under the Guise of 'Blockchain'

=> The Patent Litigation Bubble is Imploding in the US While the UPC Dies in Europe

=> EPO Management Keeps Embarrassing Itself, UPC More Dead Than Before, and Nokia Turns Aggressive

Patent Trolls, USPTO Director Andrei Iancu and Section 101 (partly about EPO)

=> Patent Trolls, USPTO Director Andrei Iancu and Section 101

=> Be Wary of the Latest Lies About the Unified Patent Court (UPC), Courtesy of CIPA and Marks & Clerk (Team UPC)

=> EPO Management High-Fiving Patent Propaganda Sites Like 'Managing IP' While Granting Illegitimate Patents on Algorithms

=> “ILO Gave the EPO Medical Committee a Good Slapping”

=> Science Minister Sam Gyimah, Who Tactlessly Ratified UPC in the UK, Has Just Resigned

=> Patent Offices Reward Microsoft for Corruption

November

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

=> Even Sites That Served UPC Propaganda for Years (for These Sites' Owners) Have Come to Admit That the UPC Might Already be Dead

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

=> Clouding Abstract Software Patents Using Acronyms and Buzzwords

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

The Demise of Software Patents in Patent Courts Worldwide Would Mean Much-Needed Staff Cuts in Litigation Giants (partly about EPO)

=> The Demise of Software Patents in Patent Courts Worldwide Would Mean Much-Needed Staff Cuts in Litigation Giants

=> EPO Nowadays Closely Associates With Site That Attacks, Insults and Calls for Resignations of Judges (Those Who Scrutinise Patents)

=> EPO's Head of Human Resources Elodie Bergot “Condemned for Harassment in France When She Worked for the Caisse Assurance Retraites”

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

=> Team UPC Refuses to Stop Lying, Pays Money to Spread Its Unified Patent Court (UPC) Lies in the Media

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

=> To Mask the Decline in Patent Quality, e.g. Granting of Software Patents a.k.a. Computer-Implemented Inventions (CII), EPO Makes Oppositions Harder

=> Patent Trolls in EPO Events That Promote Software Patents

=> Appalling Patent Quality at the European Patent Office, More Lies About the Unified Patent Court (UPC), and Assault on Those Who Warned About It All Along

=> Germany Likes EPO in Munich, Litigation Factory in Düsseldorf and Mannheim (Like Eastern District of Texas)

=> The European Patent Office is Attracting Patent Trolls

=> The European Patent Office Comes up With a Plethora of New Buzzwords by Which to Refer to Software Patents

=> Patent Maximalists in Europe Keep Mentioning China Even Though It Barely Matters to European Patents

=> Team UPC Has Been Reduced to Lies, Lies, and More Lies about the Unified Patent Court Agreement

Ignoring and Bashing Courts: Is This the Future of Patent Offices in the West? (partly about EPO)

=> Ignoring and Bashing Courts: Is This the Future of Patent Offices in the West?

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

=> Science Minister Sam Gyimah and the EPO Are Eager to Attack Science by Bringing Patent Trolls to Europe/European Union and the United Kingdom

=> USF Revisits EPO Abuses, Highlighting an Urgent Need for Action

=> Second Day of EPOPIC: Yet More Promotion of Software Patents in Europe in Defiance of Courts, EPC, Parliament and Common Sense

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

=> WIPO Corruption and Coverup Mirror EPO Tactics

=> The USPTO and EPO Pretend to Care About Patent Quality by Mingling With the Terms “Patent” and “Quality”

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

=> Team UPC, Fronting for Patent Trolls From the US, is Calling Facts “Resistance”

=> Guest Post: EPO Spins Censorship of Staff Representation

=> EPO 'Outsourcing' Rumours

=> Pro-Litigation Front Groups Like CIPA and Team UPC Control the EPO, Which Shamelessly Grants Software Patents

=> Latest Loophole: To Get Software Patents From the EPO One Can Just Claim That They're 'on a Car'

=> The Huge Cost of Wrongly-Granted European Patents, Recklessly Granted by the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> EPO Stacking up Buzzwords (4IR, AI, Now SDV) to Compel Examiners to Grant Patents on Algorithms

=> EPO Needs to Publicly Apologise for Granting Bogus/Fake Patents to Aggressive Companies Like Monsanto (Now Bayer)

=> The Death of the UPC is Only a “Tragedy” for Patent Trolls and Their Facilitators

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

=> European Software Patents: From AI to Blockchains and Now... Self-Driving Vehicles

=> Guy Ryder (ILO) Should Meet Staff Representatives, Not Corrupt Team Battistelli

=> The European Patent Office Lost Its Way, Found Buzzwords Instead

=> Managing IP and Law Gazette Speak for Patent Trolls and Team UPC (Which Supports and Profits From Trolls)

=> Blockchain Hype Exploited by the EPO and by Patent Law Firms to Wrongly Assert Free/Libre Software Can Coexist With Software Patents

=> EPO Granting European Patents on Nature and on Thoughts

=> Team UPC's Last Resort: Stacked Panels, Anonymously Belittling the Opposition (e.g. Ingve Björn Stjerna) and Taking Control of the Media

=> António Campinos Continues to Conflate Speed With Quality

=> Today the EPO Has Officially Lowered Patent Quality by Allowing Software Patents by Means of Dog Whistles

October

=> Team UPC Hijacks the Debate in the Media and in British Parliament

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

=> The EPO Lost Any Sense of Shame About Granting Patents on Software, Which It Openly Welcomes and Even Encourages

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

=> Lobbying and Blackmail Rewarded? JUVE Awards Team UPC Firm Bardehle Pagenberg, Which Represents Microsoft's Worst Patent Troll, Intellectual Ventures.

On PTAB, Andrei Iancu is to the Patent Litigation Giants What Ajit Pai is to Big Telecom (Former Employers) (partly about EPO)

=> On PTAB, Andrei Iancu is to the Patent Litigation Giants What Ajit Pai is to Big Telecom (Former Employers)

=> The EPO is Trying to Make Software Patents Look and Feel 'Healthy'

=> António Campinos Just a Quieter Version of Battistelli

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

=> EPO: Software Patents Are Allowed, Just Say 'AI' in the Patent Applications and We'll Compel Examiners to Grant

=> Pretty Revealing That EPO Management Promotes Software Patents and IP Kat Promotes Patent Trolls

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

=> German Court on UPC Constitutional Complaint: “No Oral Hearing is Currently Scheduled. A Decision Date is Not Foreseeable at Present.”

=> The Identity Crisis of the European Patent Office, Wrongly Believing It Exists to Serve Lawyers and Patent Trolls Outside Europe

=> Ingve Björn Stjerna Has Just Warned That If Team UPC and the European Patent Office Rigged the Proceedings of the German Constitutional Court, Consequences Would be Significant

=> It's Almost 2019 and Team UPC is Still Pretending Unitary Patent (UPC) Exists, Merely Waiting for Britain to Join

=> IAM and IP Kat Are Still Megaphones of Battistelli and His Agenda

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

=> Corporate Media's Failure to Cover Patents Properly and Our New Hosting Woes

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

=> Quality of Patents Granted by the EPO is Still Low and Nobody Will Benefit Except Lawyers, Jubilant Over Growing Lenience on Software Patents

=> 100 Days Into the Term of Campinos There is Already an EPO Suicide

=> Friend Brings a Friend, Boss Becomes Subordinate: the EPO Under António Campinos is Starting to Look a Lot Like Team Battistelli 2.0

=> UPC Cowardice: Team UPC Uses Cloaks of Anonymity to Discredit Authors of Scholarly UPC Paper They Don't Like

=> New EPO Guidelines: Granting European Patents on Business Methods, Algorithms, Mental Acts and Other Abstract Stuff

=> António Campinos Makes Excuses for Granting European Patents on Software in Spite of the EPC

Antibody Patents Should Not be Allowed (Nor Should CRISPR Patents) (partly about EPO)

=> Antibody Patents Should Not be Allowed (Nor Should CRISPR Patents)

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

The Era of Fake Patents (or Software Patents) is Upon Us (partly about EPO)

=> The Era of Fake Patents (or Software Patents) is Upon Us

=> The European Patent Office Has Assaulted Patent Quality While Trying to Distract From That

=> The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Obsolete for More Reasons Than the German Constitutional Court, But Team UPC in the UK Refuses to Give Up

=> Patents on Life and on Algorithms in Europe Will Doom the EPO

=> Europe is Getting Flooded With Software Patents, Repeating the Mistakes Made by the United States

=> Submissive, Bribed and EPO-Connected Media Organisations Help Perpetuate Corruption by Failing or Refusing to Cover It

=> More Patents Would Mean More Tax Evasion for Large Corporations and More Taxes/Duties on Society

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

=> The European Council Fulfills Corrupt Battistelli's Alleged Promise, Making Christian Archambeau Head of EUIPO

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

September

=> AIPPI is Led by Team UPC's People and 'AIPPI Congress Report' Published by Team UPC

=> Team UPC Wants More (Patent) Taxes on Society While Defending/Shielding the Super-rich From Taxes That Might Otherwise Benefit Society

=> Superficially Artificial or Artificially Superficial Patents on 'AI' Are Fake Patents

=> How Team UPC is Reacting to the Demise of EPO- and EU-Connected Court That Would Have Put Patent Maximalists in Charge

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

=> EPO Central Staff Committee: 30 Percent of Staff Are in Principle Targetable as ‘Challenging People’

=> French Media Confirms Alexandre Benalla Just One of Six Battistelli Bodyguards, Employed at the Cost of €8,000-€10,000 Per Month (for Benalla Alone!)

=> Lots of UPC Noise/News This Week Over a Document Which Merely Weakens Commitment to the UPC

=> Director Iancu and President Campinos Both Serve the Litigation 'Industry' Instead of Science and Technology

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

=> The Man Whose Actions Could Potentially Land Team Battistelli in Jail

=> Reader's Article: Affaire Benalla Strongly Connected to EPO/OEB/EPA and Former President Benoît Battistelli

=> Guest Post on Ronan Le Gleut and Benalla at the French Senate (in Light of Battistelli's Epic Abuses)

=> Benoît Battistelli Refuses to Talk to the Media About Bringing Firearms to the EPO

=> Advocacy of the Unitary Patent System Has Become Almost Identical to the 'Leave' (Brexit) Campaign

Bogus Patents Which Oughtn't Have Been Granted Make Products Deliberately Worse, Reducing Innovation and Worsening Customers' Experience (partly about EPO)

=> Bogus Patents Which Oughtn't Have Been Granted Make Products Deliberately Worse, Reducing Innovation and Worsening Customers' Experience

=> EPO is Like a Patent Litigation (Without Actual Trial) Office, Not a Patent Examination Office

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

=> Criticism of Unitary Patent (UPC) Agreement Doomed the UPC and Patent Trolls' Plan -- Along With the Litigation Lobby -- for Unified 'Extortion Vector'

=> It Wasn't Judges With Weapons in Their Office, It Was Benoît Battistelli Who Brought Firearms to the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> Today's European Patent Office (EPO) Works for Large, Foreign Pharmaceutical Companies in Pursuit of Patents on Nature, Life, and Essential/Basic Drugs

=> The EPO Has Quit Pretending That It Cares About Patent Quality, All It Cares About is Quantity of Lawsuits

=> IAM, Watchtroll and the EPO Still Spread the Mentality of Patent Maximalism

=> Battistelli “Has Deeply Hurt the Whole Patent Profession, Examiners as Well as Agents” and Also the Image of France

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

=> The Max Planck Institute's Determination on UPC's (Unitary Patent) Demise is Only “Controversial” in the Eyes of Rabid Members of Team UPC

=> Max Planck Institute Pours More Water on the Dying Unitary Patent (UPC)

=> EPO Seals Many Death Sentences With Acceptance of EP 2604620

=> EPO Granted a Controversial European Patent (Under Battistelli) Which May Literally Kill a Lot of People

=> Patents on Life at the EPO Are a Symptom of Declining Patent Quality

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

=> Fresh Rumours of Further Accelerated Layoffs at the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> 35 U.S.C. § 101 Squashes Already-Granted US Patents, Europe Needs Post-Grant Appeals to Accomplish the Same Because EPO Grants Software Patents

=> CIPA and EPO, Two UPC Boosters, Get Together to Promote Software Patents in Spite of the EPC

=> Election of New Vice-Presidents at EPO Seems Rigged, Say Insiders and Former Insiders

=> 'Reformist' Campinos Seems to be Accelerating EPO Layoffs by Removing Without Warning Staff That's Perceived as Not Loyal Enough

=> Even Overzealous Patent Maximalists Nowadays Admit That Time is Running Out for the Unitary Patent (UPC)

=> António Campinos: New Caricature by EPO Insiders

=> EPO Has “Far Too High Production Targets” Which “Deteriorates the Quality of Products Delivered”

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

=> A Retreat From Patent Quality Means a Retreat of Patent Applicants

=> Coming to Grips With the Fact That EPO Layoffs Are Already in Effect

August

=> Feeling Shut Out of the European Patent System, Team UPC Persists With Misleading Claims and Falsehoods

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

=> Stupid European Patent: Hairdressing Salon and Mobile Building for the Same

=> The Unitary Patent (UPC) is Not Delayed; It's Dead and Without Any Major Rework It Will Go Nowhere

=> In Koch v EPO, a Rare Glimpse at Tricks the EPO Employs at the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organisation (ILO)

=> Admissibility of the Unitary Patent Constitutional Complaint Was Likely the Final Nail in the Coffin of the Unified Patent Court (UPC)

=> Almost Two Months After the ILO Ruling Staff Representative Brumme is Finally Back on the Job at EPO

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

Patent Lawyers Writing Patent Law for Their Own Enrichment Rather Than for Innovation (partly about EPO)

=> Patent Lawyers Writing Patent Law for Their Own Enrichment Rather Than for Innovation

=> EPO-Style Problem-Solution: Tackling Backlog by Granting Lots of Low-Quality (Bogus) European Patents, Causing a Surge in Troll/Frivolous Litigation

=> The Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement is Paralysed, So Team UPC is Twisting Old News

=> WeMove.EU Tackles Low Patent Quality at the European Patent Office (EPO)

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

Playing With Words and Buzzwords in a Landscape of Software Patents Rejections (partly about EPO)

=> Playing With Words and Buzzwords in a Landscape of Software Patents Rejections

=> Law Firms Are Offering Very Misleading and Self-Serving Advice Regarding 'Unitary' Effect for European Patents

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

=> The EPO's Systematic Attacks on Justice and on Judges Have Likely Played the Biggest Role in the Death of Unitary Patent (UPC)

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

=> Government Decision to Start Corruption Investigation Into Croatia Airlines and Its Director Jasmin Bajic Could Implicate EPO Vice-President

July

=> SUEPO Seems to be Disappointed by António Campinos as His First Month in Office Comes to an End

=> What EPO Staff is 'Hopeful' After a Month of António Campinos Doing Absolutely Nothing to Reverse Battistelli's Ruinous Policies?

=> The Golden Cage of the EPO is No Longer Golden and It Increasingly Looks Like It's Shutting Down, However Gradually

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

=> Reader's Post: How the EPO Silently Halves Salaries of Senior EPO Staff (or Gets Rid of Them)

=> Correspondence With Dražen Petrović Reveals That ILO-AT is Indeed an Employer's Court, Favouring EPO Management Over EPO Staff

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

=> Dysfunctional State of the EPO and Benoît Battistelli's Shadow

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

=> Alexandre Benalla, Macron's Violent Bodyguard, Was Also Battistelli's Bodyguard

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

China Belatedly Tackles Patent Trolls, Albeit After Giving Them the Green Light With Broad and Low-Quality Patents Such as Software Patents (partly about EPO)

=> China Belatedly Tackles Patent Trolls, Albeit After Giving Them the Green Light With Broad and Low-Quality Patents Such as Software Patents

=> 'Efficiency' in Action: António Campinos is Sending Jobs Abroad, Then Gagging Critics

=> The EPO (European Patent Office) Under António Campinos is Just Another Battistelli EPO; Still UPC and Software Patents Lobbying

=> Erosion of Patent Justice in Europe With Kangaroo Courts and Low-Quality European Patents

=> Mafia Tactics in Team UPC and Battistelli's Circle

=> The EPO — Like the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and Unitary Patent System — is an Untenable Mess

=> Software Patents Royalty (Tax) Campaign by IBM, a Serial Patent Bully, and the EPO's Participation in All This

=> The European Council Needs to Check Battistelli's Back Room Deals/Back Door/Backchannel With Respect to Christian Archambeau

=> Yesterday's Misleading News From Team UPC and Its Aspiring Management of the Unified Patent Court (UPC)

=> Time for the European Commission to Investigate EPO Corruption Because It May be Partly or Indirectly Connected to EU-IPO, an EU Agency

=> Cautionary Tale: ILO Administrative Tribunal Cases (Appeals) 'Intercepted' Under António Campinos

=> Number of Oppositions to Grants/Awards of European Patents at the EPO Has Skyrocketed, Based on Internal Data

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

=> EPO Abuses Against People With Disabilities Followed by Legal Bullying?

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

=> Constitutionality and CJEU as Barriers, the UPC Agreement (UPCA) is Already Moot in the United Kingdom

=> It's Not About EPO 'Backlog' But About Faking 'Production' by Lowering Standards

=> The Lack of Genuine, Honest Discussion About Patent Quality Means That Under António Campinos Software Patents Will Continue to be Granted, Campinos Strives to Make Them 'Unitary'

=> Signs of Upcoming Changes at EPO: Raimund Lutz, Željko Topić and Other 'Team Battistelli' Folks Are Being Replaced

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

=> Project Battistelli: Documenting the Ugly and Illegal Things Battistelli Did at the EPO

=> Battistelli's 'Legacy' Up in Flames as Britain is “Ending the Jurisdiction of the CJEU in the UK, With No More Preliminary References from UK Courts…”

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

=> Team UPC Suggested Changing Constitutions to Facilitate the Unconstitutional UPC. It Didn't Go Well...

=> German Media Compares Team Battistelli at the EPO to the Mafia

=> No, Europe Does Not Gear up for the Unitary Patent, But Team UPC Wants Everyone to Think So and EPO Amplifies These Lies

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

=> EPO Protest/s Suppressed Even at the Opening of a Construction Site for Battistelli's Guests

=> Cartoon on Brexistelli: “The End of a Dictatorship”

=> Staff Union of the EPO: “ILO-AT Remains Very Much an Employer’s Court” (Not Employees')

=> Yesterday's UPC Event Was a Reminder That Team Battistelli is Still in Charge of the European Patent Organisation, Fronting for Team UPC

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

=> IAM is Still Working for Benoît Battistelli and His Toxic Agenda

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

=> Asked by the Media Why European Inventor Award Was Held in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the EPO Refuses to Explain

Patent Law Firms Have Become Debased and Intolerant of Courts/Judges, Just Like EPO Management (partly about EPO)

=> Patent Law Firms Have Become Debased and Intolerant of Courts/Judges, Just Like EPO Management

Stop Patenting Life, Nature is Not an Invention (partly about EPO)

=> Stop Patenting Life, Nature is Not an Invention

=> The EPO's Attacks on Bloggers Other Than Me (and ILO-AT Being Utterly Unpredictable)

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

June

=> Team UPC's Radicals, Firms Like Bristows LLP, Have Decided That It's Time to Change Constitutions to Accommodate Clearly Unconstitutional Unitary Patent (UPC)

=> Union Syndicale Fédérale: Apparently ILO Considered Kicking Out the EPO for Repeatedly Refusing and Failing to Obey the Law

=> WirtschaftsWoche Authors Articles About Corruption of the European Patent Office

=> Insults, Lies and Propaganda on Battistelli's Last Day at the European Patent Office

=> Three Days Later Still Not a Single Word From the EPO About Union Busting Gone Awry and Court Orders to Reinstate/Promote Staff Representatives

=> Eight Years of Battistelli

=> President Benoît Battistelli is Finished, But the Huge Mess He Has Created is Not

=> 'Party Poopers': Protests Greet Battistelli's Premature Inauguration of an Unfinished Building That Caused Massive Losses

=> SUEPO and EPO Staff Respond to Yesterday's ILO-AT Rulings on Malika Weaver, Ion Brumme, and Elizabeth Hardon

=> J A Kemp Pushing the Boundaries of Patent Scope in Europe With Antibodies and SPCs

=> Corruption at the EPO Should be a Subject Anybody Can Speak About, Even Insiders

=> Something is Clearly Wrong and Patently Defunct at ILO/ILO-AT

=> Perfect Metaphor for Benoît Battistelli: Unfinished Work That Nobody Likes and Which Causes Truly Massive Losses

=> Battistelli is 'Pulling a Lamy' With a Lot More Money at Stake (and Examiners' Future)

=> This Afternoon ILO Has an Opportunity to Salvage Its Reputation (or Reaffirm Growing Suspicions That It Has Been Compromised by the EPO)

=> The EPO Seems to Have Corrupted ILO/ILO-AT Like It Corrupted the Media and Academia (Using 'Toxic' EPO Budget)

=> Benoît Battistelli's 'Dowry' From the Administrative Council of the EPO

=> The ILO Tribunal: Is It Still Worthy of Our Trust?

=> Nearly Half of Patent Applications at the EPO Are (at Least Partly) Software Patents, According to the EPO, and Not Many Patents Are European (Foreign, Not Domestic)

=> Patent Factory Europe (PFE) is a Patent Troll's Publicity Stunt, Attempting to Frame a Predator as the Small Businesses' Friend and Ally

=> Mainstream Media in Germany Covers Battistelli's Corruption at the EPO Just as He Leaves

=> “Dr Ernst Should be Forced by National Politicians to Step Down With Immediate Effect” After Battistelli's Latest EPO Scandals

=> Battistelli and Topić Lose Their Bogus 'Case' Against Judge Corcoran After They Defamed Him and Ruined His Career/Life

=> Even Media of the Patent Microcosm Mentions the Decline in Quality of Patents at the EPO, Based on Its Very Own Stakeholders, While IAM Ignores the News

=> EPO Insiders Correct the Record of Benoît Battistelli’s Tyranny and Abuse of Law: “Legal Harassment and Retaliation”

=> Articles About a Unitary Patent System Are Lies and Marketing From Law Firms With 'Lawsuits Lust'

=> The Decline in Patent Quality at the EPO Causes Frivolous Lawsuits That Only Lawyers Profit From

=> What Battistelli's Workers Think of His Latest EPO Propaganda

=> More Media Reports About Decline in Quality of European Patents (Granted by the EPO)

=> Beware Team UPC's Biggest Two Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC)

=> Diversity at the EPO

=> The EPO's Response to the Open Letter About Decline in Patent Quality as the Latest Example of Arrogance and Resistance to Facts, Truth

=> The 'Artificial Intelligence' (AI) Hype, Propped Up by Events of the European Patent Office (EPO), is Infectious and It Threatens Patent Quality Worldwide

=> The '4iP Council' is a Megaphone of Team UPC and Team Battistelli at the EPO

=> Grünecker, Hoffmann Eitle, Maiwald and Vossius & Partner Find the Courage to Express Concerns About Battistelli's Ugly Legacy and Low Patent Quality

=> IAM Concludes Its Latest Anti-§ 101 Think Tank, Featuring Crooked Benoît Battistelli

=> Buzzwords and Three-Letter Acronyms Still Abused by the EPO to Grant a Lot of Patents on Algorithms

=> Corrupt Benoît Battistelli Promotes Software Patents in IAM's Patent Trolls-Funded Event in the United States

=> The EPO’s ‘Expert’ Georg Weber is Still Advocating Software Patents in Europe (But He Disguises Them Using Buzzwords)

=> Battistelli's EPO is Outdoing North Korea When It Comes to Propaganda and Abuses Against Staff

Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe Blind to Its Participation in a Scam Around Patents on Nature (latter parts about the EPO)

=> Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe Blind to Its Participation in a Scam Around Patents on Nature

=> Another Victim of Corrupt Benoît Battistelli

=> Everyone Talks About Apple's Notorious Design Patents But Not About 'Abstract' European Patents Used Against Apple and Linux

=> Benoît Battistelli Should Have Received an Award for Corruption, But He Completely Controlled the Show in His Own Theatre

=> Battistelli is Still Patently Delusional About the Unitary Patent (UPC)

=> Patents on Nature, Life and the Environment: Lessons From EPO and Australian Courts

=> Marks & Clerk Blames Battistelli’s Victims, the Boards of Appeal, Whose Job Guarded Patent Quality

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

=> What Team UPC Wants: Patent Trolls, Unified Patent Court (UPC), Software Patents, and Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs)

=> IP Kat as an Extension of Team UPC After Departure of the Blog's Founder

=> The Demise of the EPO and Collapse of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) May Mean That António Campinos Will Soon Fire ~15% of the Workforce

=> IAM and EPO Are Almost Inseparable

=> As European Patent Office Goes Down in Many Aspects/Respects (Quality, Employee Profiles and More) IAM -- the EPO's Mouthpiece -- Claims “Patent Renaissance”, Repeats EPO Lies

=> Change of Government in Spain Does Not Change the Fact That Unitary Patent (UPC) Would be Terrible for Spanish Companies

=> The European Patent Office Dominates Media Coverage in the Form of Paid-For Puff Pieces, Suppresses Coverage About Corruption

=> Team UPC Turns to a Spanish 'Flavour' of Unitary Patent Propaganda (Just Like Last Year)

=> In Gross Violation of German Law, as Per EPO Tradition, Fronleichnam 'Stolen' by Benoît Battistelli

=> The EPO's Lobbying Chief Apparently Came From Saint-Germain-en-Laye 2 Years After Benoît Battistelli

Software Patents Are a Dying Breed of Patents Except in China (and Maybe EPO) (partly about EPO)

=> Software Patents Are a Dying Breed of Patents Except in China (and Maybe EPO)

May

=> The EPO is Demolishing European Law With Terms Like ICT, CII, AI, and 4IR

=> IP Kat is Still Acting as a Propaganda Front for UPC (and EU Software Patents) Lobbying by US-Based Front Groups

=> Märpel Looks at Benoît Battistelli's Toxic Financial Affairs at the EPO

=> St. Germain’s “Système Lamy” and Its EPO Clone - Part 3: Shooting the Messengers and Defaming Opponents

=> EUROCHAMBRES is an Echo Chamber of the Patent Litigation 'Industry' Hoping to Mislead the EU's Competitiveness Council on UPC

=> The European Patent Office: From Patent Maximalism to Corruption and Gerrymandering

=> St. Germain’s “Système Lamy” and Its EPO Clone - Part 2: Misinformation and Silencing of Dissent

=> St. Germain’s “Système Lamy” and Its EPO Clone - Part 1: Rubber-stamp Committees and Secret Meetings

=> Guest Series: Système Lamy and Système Battistelli at the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> Software Patents Advocacy and UPC Lies Go Hand in Hand

=> Index for EPO and Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of "Toxic Loans" Series

=> Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of "Toxic Loans": Quo Vadis EPO?

=> Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of "Toxic Loans": The SIDRU “Toxic Loan” Débâcle a Case of “Take the Money and Run...”

=> EPO, a Longtime Privacy Offender, Uses General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Day to Lie to the Public

=> The Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court (UPC): This Week's Latest Spin and Lies

=> Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of "Toxic Loans": The SIDRU “Toxic Loan” Débâcle and Criticism of Lamy From Local Opposition Groups

=> New EPO Caricature: The Rubber Stamp

=> Perpetuating the Big Lie That Unitary Patent (UPC) is About to Kick Off

=> EPO Validation in Former French Colonies That Have Zero European Patents

=> Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of "Toxic Loans": The Cautionary Tale of SIDRU and Its “Toxic Loans”

=> France is Irrelevant to Whether or Not UPC Ever Becomes a Reality, Moving/Outsourcing de Facto Patent Examination to European Courts Managed in/Presided by France

=> Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of "Toxic Loans": The Emperor’s New Investment Guidelines

=> Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of "Toxic Loans": Cautionary Tale for the EPO?

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

=> Aurélien Pétiaud's ILO Case (EPO Appeal) an Early Sign That ILO Protects Abusers and Power, Not Workers

=> Système Battistelli (ENArque) at the EPO is Inspired by Système Lamy in Saint-Germain-en Laye

=> Fishy Things Noticed Ahead of the Passage of a Lot of EPO Budget (Applicants' Money) to Battistelli's Other (and Simultaneous) Employer

=> Today's EPO Financially Rewards Abuses and Violations of the Law

=> So-Called 'System Battistelli' is Destroying the EPO, Warn Insiders

=> Rise in Patent Trolls' Activity in Germany Noted Amid Declining Patent Quality at the EPO

=> EPO's Battistelli Taking Days Off Work for Political 'Duties' (Parties) in His French Theatre Where He'll Bring Buckets of EPO Budget (EPO Stakeholders' Money)

=> The EPO's 'Inventor Award' Scam: Part III

=> EPO Has Become Overzealous About Software Patents, Probably More So Than Almost Anywhere Else

=> The EPO Has Become Extremely Corrupt and Dishonest

=> Reader's Post: The Last Delusion of Benoît Battistelli Before His Departure on June 30th

=> EPO-Funded Propaganda for Software Patents Reaches as Far as East Asia and the EPO Then Brags About That

=> Guest Article: Battistelli's Salary in Saint-Germain-en-Laye Nearly Quadrupled Last Year

=> EPO Staff Deprived and Denied Basic Rights, Even Justice, But Almost Nobody in the 'Mainstream' Wants to Talk About It

=> The EPO's 'Inventor Award' Scam: Part II

=> Report on the (Mal)Functioning of the ILOAT From the 332nd Session of the ILO Governing Body

=> The EPO's 'Inventor Award' Scam: Part I

=> EPO Scandals Are Far Worse Than FIFA's (or Even Emissionsgate/Dieselgate), But Will European Media Belatedly Realise This?

=> Barker Brettell is Wrong About Unified Patent Court (UPC) and the United Kingdom

=> Rumours Confirmed: Latest EPO Official Journal Misused to Promote Battistelli's (and Campinos') Employer, Another EPO Employee Has Just Been 'Corcoranised'

=> The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Not Happening, But Kluwer Patent Blog Pretends It's Already in Force

=> EPO Policy (Squashing Examination) is Already Crashing Stocks, Destroying Companies

=> Forward Pharma an Example of the Devastating Effect of Granting Patents in Error -- A Problem Appeal Boards Must Correct

=> Guest Article: More Battistelli Revelations From the Archives of the Municipal Council of Saint-Germain-en-Laye

=> Rumour: The European Patent Office Has Just 'Done a Patrick Corcoran' Again (Forced Removal)

=> News From the Frontline: EPO Continues Unabated on Its Destructive Path

=> The European Patent Office's Decline in Patent Quality a 'Blessing' in Disguise But Mostly a Curse to Apple

=> If Anyone Has Defamed the European Patent Organisation/Office (EPO) It's Benoît Battistelli

=> The European Patent Organisation (EPO) Stopped Working and It's Also the Fault of Jesper Kongstad, Not Just Benoît Battistelli

=> In the Latest EPO Official Journal (April's Publication) Battistelli's Next Employer is Mentioned Literally Hundreds of Times and Promoted in 20 Pages out of 75 Pages

=> From Saint-Germain-en-Laye to Strasbourg, Even the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Might Side With Nicolas Sárközy's Thug at the EPO

=> Elizabeth Holmes Charged With “Massive Fraud” and Team Battistelli Rushes to Distance Itself From Her

=> Guest Article: Benoît Battistelli's Election as Deputy Mayor Was Pre-announced in the Local Press

=> Bristows LLP Already Uses Kluwer Patent Blog and IP Kat as Its UPC Megaphone, Now IAM as Well

=> Marks & Clerk is Still Pushing Patent Maximalism Agenda in Europe and Britain, Including UPC/UPCA/Unitary Patent (UP)

=> The European Patent Office Has Become a Kakistocracy

=> Not Enough Opposition/s to Wrongly-Granted European Patents

=> Battistelli's Alleged 'Success' is Like That of the United States Mint

=> People Are Belatedly Asking All Those 'Awkward' Questions About UPC and the Lies Told by Team UPC

=> A Test for European Media: Will It Cover the Battistelli-TAD Scandal Like It Covered FIFA Scandals?

April

=> The European Patent System is Nowadays Based on a 'Banana Republic' Model

=> Team UPC and Team Battistelli in IP Kat and IAM

=> Guest Article: Is the EPO Deliberately Disseminating “False Facts” About Benoît Battistelli's Political Activities in Saint-Germain-en-Laye?

=> EPO Gazette: The Obligatory EPO Propaganda That Paints an Oppressive Office as 'Fun and Games'

=> Even Vocal Proponents of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Admit That There Are 'Holes' in the Announcement From Sam Gyimah

=> Short: EPO Paid for 'Study' (Corrupting Academia) to Push Unitary Patent Agenda, Then Advertised the Outcome

=> Short: The EPO is Limiting Itself to Microsoft Office and PowerPoint (the 'Special Relationship')

=> Short: Adding a Sense of Fear/Perceived Threat to the EPO With Number Plate Recognition (Surveillance)

=> Short: Quality, Quality, Quality, Quality. Just Keep Repeating This Lie and Hope It'll Stick.

=> British Technology News Sites Point Out the Absurdity of Ratifying UPC in the UK Amid Brexit

=> The EPO Grants Software Patents Under the 'CII' Umbrella, Mass Litigation in Europe Already a Problem

=> Short: EPO Brags About EPO-Bribed Media Covering EPO-Funded 'Study'

=> In Protest of IP Kat No Longer Covering EPO Abuses, Märpel Rises in “R.I.P. Kat”

=> Short: EPO Says That Most (Over 50%) of Patent Applications at the EPO Are Software Patents

=> Sam Gyimah Did What Was Expected Since 2016, But Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Still Completely Stuck in Most Important Country and Is Not Compatible With Brexit

=> Like a Cancer, EPO-Bribed Media Continues to Produce Puff Pieces for Benoît Battistelli

World IP Day, a Propaganda Opportunity for Patent Maximalists, is Becoming More About Feminism (partly about EPO)

=> World IP Day, a Propaganda Opportunity for Patent Maximalists, is Becoming More About Feminism

=> Britain Has Not Fully Completed Unified Patent Court (UPC) Ratification and It Remains Incompatible With Brexit

=> With Unified Patent Court (UPC) on Its Death Throes, Team UPC Now Resorts to Promoting Pertinent Parts of the Agreement (UPCA)

=> Reporting Benoît Battistelli Before He Too 'Pulls a Željko Topić'

=> Battistelli Misuses EPO Budget to Saturate the European Media With Puff Pieces About His Event

=> Battistelli's EPO Continues to Promote Software Patents and Even Pays the Media to Play Along, Impacting Other Continents

=> The European Patent Office (EPO) Wastes a Lot of Money on External PR Agencies for Battistelli's 'Heist'

=> Today's EPO is Not Compatible With the Law and It's Grossly Incompatible With Truth and Justice

=> Holding Benoît Battistelli Accountable After the EPO

=> Today's European Patent Office Works for Patent Extremists and for Team UPC Rather Than for Europe or for Innovation

=> The EPO is Dying and Those Who Have Killed It Are Becoming Very Rich in the Process

=> Short: Just Keep Repeating the Lie (“Quality”) Until People Might Believe It

=> EPO Hoards Billions of Euros (Taken From the Public), Decreases Quality to Get More Money, Reduces Payments to Staff

=> Short: Calling Battistelli's Town (Where He Works) “Force for Innovation” to Justify the Funneling of EPO Funds to It

=> Short: EPO Bribes the Media and Then Brags About the Paid-for Outcome to Staff

=> Short: EPO's “Working Party for Quality” is to Quality What the “Democratic People's Republic of Korea” is to Democracy

=> Short: This Spring's Message From the EPO's President (Corrected)

=> Short: Highly Misleading and Unscientific Graphics From the EPO for an Illusion of Growth

=> Short: EPO Explains to Examiners Why They Should and Apparently Can Grant Software Patents (in Spite of EPC)

=> When News About the EPO is Dominated by Sponsored 'Reports' and Press Releases Because Publishers Are Afraid of (or Bribed by) the EPO

=> The Boards of Appeal at the European Patent Organisation (EPO) Complain That They Are Understaffed, Not Just Lacking the Independence They Depend on

=> Guest Post: Responding to Your Recent Posting “The European Patent Office Will Never Hold Its Destroyers Accountable”

=> The EPO in 2018: Partnering With Saudi Arabia and Cambodia (With Zero European Patents)

=> The EPO Continues to Lie About Patent Quality Whilst Openly Promoting Software Patents, Even Outside Europe

=> The European Patent Office (EPO) Grants Patents in Error, Insiders Are Complaining That It's the Management's Fault

=> The European Patent Office Will Never Hold Its Destroyers Accountable

=> With Liars Like These...

=> Killing Patent Quality and Encouraging ‘Covert’ Software Patents Using the Buzzwords Du Jour

=> Crisis of Quality at the EPO Extends to Staff (Notably Examiners) and Management as Institutional Integrity is Severely Compromised

=> The 'Blockchaining' of Software Patents (to Dodge the Rules/Guidelines) Now Coming to Europe

=> One Last Battistelli Heist: Millions of Euros for Saint-Germain-en-Laye

=> EPO in 'Low Profile' Mode, Only to be Mentioned in Relation to India's Oil Drilling/Miners

=> Patent Maximalists Against Patent Quality and Against the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Organisation (EPO)

=> Team UPC’s and Team Battistelli's Lobbying Not Over Yet, Even Though the UPC is Likely Dead for Good

=> 'SIPO Europe': More Low-Quality Patents at Lower Costs

=> The European Patent Office (EPO) Will Need to Acknowledge It Has a Patent Quality Issue, Then Tackle It or Perish

The Mass Litigation Lobby Craves for Patent Armageddon (partly about EPO)

=> The Mass Litigation Lobby Craves for Patent Armageddon

=> Benoît Battistelli's Era Yields Not Only Invalid and Harmful Monopolies But Also Breeds Distrust and Layoffs

Anonymous USPTO Whistleblower Explained Internal Management Affairs Last Month (partly about EPO)

=> Anonymous USPTO Whistleblower Explained Internal Management Affairs Last Month

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

=> EPO is Untrustworthy

March

=> Senator Jean-Yves Leconte Accuses EPO and/or ILO of Injustice, But Don't Expect Media to Notice or Cover It

=> Patent Quality, Not Quantity, is What Really Matters

=> The Administrative Council of the EPO Continues to Reaffirm Complicity in Battistelli's Abuses

=> Professionals' Survey: Almost Everybody (90%) Accepts That EPO Patent Quality Has Fallen Under Battistelli

=> Benoît Battistelli the Latest Example of Massive Bonuses Given to People Who Destroyed Their Own Organisation

China's Equivalent of PTAB and BoA, the Patent Reexamination Board (PRB), Can Confirm Some Chinese Patents Are of Low Quality (partly about EPO)

=> China's Equivalent of PTAB and BoA, the Patent Reexamination Board (PRB), Can Confirm Some Chinese Patents Are of Low Quality

=> Team Battistelli and Team UPC Are Both Very Deep in Denial

=> Guest Post: Battistelli's Former “Padrone” Facing Corruption Charges in France

=> The European Patent Office’s (EPO) Declining Patent Quality 'Tackled' by Making Appeals/Oppositions Harder and More Expensive

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

Japan is Becoming Firmer on Patents, Whereas China Goes in the Opposite Direction (partly about EPO)

=> Japan is Becoming Firmer on Patents, Whereas China Goes in the Opposite Direction

=> Battistelli's Ongoing Attacks on the Boards Are Helping Unitary Patent (UPC), Which in Turn Helps French Patent Trolls

=> SUEPO: “Today May Be Your Last Chance to Demonstrate Against the Seriously Flawed Reforms That Mr Battistelli Has Imposed” on EPO Staff

=> Battistelli's EPO Became Extremely Reliant on China for Distraction and on Endless Supply of Applications (Supply Which Doesn't Exist)

=> UPC/Battistelli Booster IAM Blames Brexit Rather Than EPO Abuses

=> European Commission Again Urged to Tackle Abuses at the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> Luxembourg Can Become a Hub of Patent Trolls If the EPO Carries on With Its 'Reforms', Even Without the UPC

=> The Patent 'Printing Machine' of the EPO Will Spawn Many Lawsuits and Extortions (Threats of Lawsuits), in Effect Taxing Europe

=> Deleted EPO Tweets and Promotion of Software Patents Amid Complaints About Abuse and Demise of Patent Quality

=> Guest Post: Suspected “Whitewashing” Operations by Željko Topić in Croatia

=> Monumental Effort to Highlight Decline in Quality of European Patents (a Quarter of Examiners Sign Petition in Spite of Fear), Yet Barely Any Press Coverage

=> Careful Not to Conflate UPC Critics With AfD or Anti-EU Elements

=> EPO Staff Has Just Warned the National Delegates That EPO's Decline (in Terms of Patent Quality and Staff Welfare) Would Be Beneficial to Patent Trolls

=> The EPO is a Mess Under Battistelli and Stakeholders Including Law Firms Will Suffer, Not Just EP Holders

=> The EPO Under Battistelli Has Become Like China Under Xi and CPC

=> Willy Minnoye (EPO) Threatened Staff With Disabilities Said to Have Been Caused by the EPO Work Pressures

=> EPO Staff Union Organises Protest to Complain About Inability “of the Office to Recruit the Highly Qualified Staff it Needs.”

=> Battistelli Likes to Describe His Critics as 'Nazis', Team UPC Will Attempt the Same Thing Against UPC Critics

=> Session in Bavaria to Discuss the Abuses of the European Patent Office Later Today

=> EPO Patent 'Growth' Not Achieved But Demanded/Mandated by Battistelli, by Lowering Quality of Patents/Services

=> Doubt Over Independence of Judges at the EPO Clouds Reason in Deciding Regarding Patents on Life

=> Glimmer of Hope for the EPO's Boards of Appeal as Bavarian Parliament 'Regroups' on Tuesday

=> The EPO's PR Department Receives Return on Investment (Puff Pieces) for Paying the Media

=> The European Patent Office (EPO) Ought to Lead in Patent Scope, Not Slide to the Bottom of the Pile

=> Patent Trolls and Their Lobbyists Continue to Attack Academics Who Warn About Patent Trolls in Europe

=> EPO Hires External PR Agencies to Control Coverage of Its Annual Report, Deny Investigative Journalism

=> Benoît Battistelli and Confidants Like Bergot Want to Make a Lot of EPO Staff Redundant Without the Staff Ever Noticing

=> The Right-Wing Alternative für Deutschland Opposes Unitary Patent (UPC), Just Like UKIP in Britain

=> Guest Post: EPO Defrauds Small Patent Applicant Company, Asha Nutrition Sciences, in Collusion with Applicant’s Own Lawyer…

=> EPO Annual Results/Report: Revenue From Patent Applications is Apparently Down Yet Again and Work is Running Out

=> There's No Patent Trolls Problem in Europe, Say Law Firms That Represent and Front for Patent Trolls

=> The European Patent Office is Buying 'Alternative Facts' and Its Annual Report Will be More of the Same

=> Dr. Thorsten Bausch: Quality of European Patents Going Down, “Likely Caused by the Current EPO Policy Focusing too Much on 'Production'.”

=> UPC and Beyond: Constitutional Issues Cannot be Brushed Under the Carpet

=> EPO Annual Report Will Dominate the News Next Week, Whereas Unitary Patent (UPC) is a Goner

=> Next Week's Annual Report From the EPO Will Say Nothing About Decline in Patent Quality

=> Battistelli's Last Four Months: Peak Censorship at the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> Élodie Bergot Meets Barbra Streisand: Here is the Letter the EPO's Bergot is Trying Really Hard to Hide/Censor

=> European Patent Office (EPO) in Chaos and Attempting to Silence the Staff Would Only Exacerbate Matters

=> The Latest Bristows Spin Distracts From the Fact that Britain Has No Intention of Ratifying UPC and Brexit Agreement Altogether Omits It

=> Élodie Bergot Threatens Staff Representatives Who Spread Information About the EPO

=> The UPC is Dead, But Team UPC is Lying to British Politicians in an Effort to Trick Them

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

=> The European Patent Office (EPO) Should Lead the Way in Combating Patents on Nature and on Life

=> Similar Scandal at the USPTO (to Battistelli's Nepotism) and Upcoming Lies About 'Results' (in Annual Report, Out Next Week)

February

=> The EPO's Appeal Boards Remain Utterly Dependent and Far From Impartial After Battistelli's Assault on Their Independence

=> EPO Refuses to Admit that Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Dead, But It's Boosting Others Who Are Lying About It for a Living

=> Changes Introduced by the EPO's Administrative Council Made It Abundantly Clear That Separation of Powers Does Not Exist for Independence of Judges

=> The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Dead, But Spin From Team UPC is Now Abundant

=> EPO Roundup: Low Profile, Employment Changes, Patent Trolls, Refusal to Obey Courts, and Animal Breeding Patents

=> As Expected, Bristows and Others Already Lying About UPC Status in Germany, But Doing This Anonymously (to Dodge Accountability for Lies)

=> Further Attacks on EPO Staff and the Appeal Boards; Former EPO Boards of Appeal Member Speaks About EPO Scandals

=> End of the UPC Lobby and Withdrawal of UPCA May Seem Imminent

=> EPO's Board 28 Spikes Article 53 in CA/3/18, Apparently After Battistelli Withdrew It

=> Rumour: European Patent Office to Lay Off a Significant Proportion of Its Workforce

=> The Patent Trolls' Lobby, Bristows and IAM Among Others, Downplays Darts-IP/IP2Innovate Report About Rising If Not Soaring Troll Activity in Europe

=> The Patent Microcosm's Embrace of Buzzwords and False Marketing Strives to Make Patent Examiners Redundant and Patent Quality Extremely Low

=> Today, at 12:30 CET, Bavarian State Parliament Will Speak About EPO Abuses

=> Another Loud Warning From EPO Workers About the Decline of Patent Quality

=> UPC Optimism Languishes Even Among Paid UPC Propagandists Such as IAM

=> UPC Has Done Nothing for Europe Except Destruction of the EPO and Imminent Layoffs Due to Lack of Applications and Lowered Value of European Patents

=> Bavarian State Parliament Has Upcoming Debate About Issues Which Can Thwart UPC for Good

=> The EPO is Being Destroyed and There's Nothing Left to Replace It Except National Patent Offices

=> The Latest Lies About Unitary Patent (UPC) and the EPO

=> Speech Deficit and No Freedom of Association at the EPO

=> No, Britain is Not Ratifying 'Unitary' Anything, But Team UPC Insinuates It Will (Desperate Effort to Affect Tomorrow's Outcome)

=> The EPO's Paid Promotion of Software Patents Gets Patent Maximalists All Excited and Emboldened

=> The EPO Now Censors the Central Staff Committee Like It Used to Censor SUEPO

=> Watch Out for Buzzwords That Are Used to Mask Patents on Software, Even in Europe

=> EPO Opposition to CRISPR Patents Has Wide-Ranging and Far-Reaching Impact, But Mind Not the Lobbyists

=> Patent Maximalists Won't Get Their Way and UPC Will Likely Never Happen (Even After Battistelli)

Pharma Patents Have Become Harder to Enforce, So IAM Together With the Patent Microcosm Sets Up Lobbying Events (partly about EPO)

=> Pharma Patents Have Become Harder to Enforce, So IAM Together With the Patent Microcosm Sets Up Lobbying Events

Statistics About Patents in the US Are Encouraging as These Suggest Ongoing Improvements (partly about EPO)

=> Statistics About Patents in the US Are Encouraging as These Suggest Ongoing Improvements

=> In Spite of Suppression Attempts, Resistance to UPC and EPO Tyranny Still Enters Kluwer Patent Blog

=> The Relationship Between IAM and the EPO's President Battistelli Tightens Further After Payments for UPC Promotion

=> Lawyer Fraud and the Unified Patent Court (UPC)

=> Team UPC is Working Overtime to Impose UPC on Europe, Based on a Pile of Lies

=> The EPO's Working Party on Quality is Battistelli's Own Ministry of Truth

=> When INPI Met INPI and IAM Met the EPO

=> The UPC Lobby Wants to Crush the Boards of Appeal (BoA) While EPO Changes Rules of Procedure of the BoA

=> Mark Rutte Under Pressure to Stop Battistelli's EPO From Violating Laws With Impunity

=> Team UPC Resorts to Paid 'Articles' and Lobbying With Battistelli in an Effort to Cause the UK and Germany to Ignore Their Own Laws

Patent Filings in India Are Declining, Just Like at the European Patent Office (partly about EPO)

=> Patent Filings in India Are Declining, Just Like at the European Patent Office

=> Battistelli Works With IAM and Pays European Media to Promote Software Patents in Europe

=> IAM Magazine, Authored by Benoît Battistelli, is Rubbish Compared to Patent Scholars

=> India and Europe Do Not Permit Software Patents, But Patent Law Firms Try to Work Around the Law

=> Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on "Jurisdictional Immunity of International Organisations and Rights of Their Staff"

=> The European Council Confirms That the Unitary/Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA) is “Outside the Legal Framework of the European Union”

=> Too Much to Cover Up at the EPO, the UN, and UN Agencies

January

=> The UPC/SEP/FRAND Lobby Has Resorted to Just Insulting the Opposition

=> Patent Justice at the EPO is as Bad as Justice for Workers

=> Even Kluwer Patent Blog Decides to Comment on the EPO's Bizarre Financial Behaviour

=> The Failure of ILO’s Administrative Tribunal Highlights Poor State of Justice in Europe and Worldwide

=> A Danish Company Has Just Collapsed Due to Patent Quality Issues at the EPO

=> ILO Has Once Again Let Down Labour at the EPO by Siding With Union Busters

=> The EPO's Central Staff Committee Explains How Battistelli's Attacks on Judge Corcoran Annul Any Perception of Independence

=> Another Blow for the Unitary Patent (UPC) as More Delays Are Confirmed, Court Won't Rule on Constitutional Issues Any Time Soon

=> Patents on Life at the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> Quality of Service and Quality of Patents at the EPO Are Both at Peril

=> The Corcoran Incident Demonstrates That the EPO's Boards of Appeal Are Threatened and Battistelli Violates Laws

=> The 'Collusion': IP Kat's (Until Recently) Stephen Jones Meets Battistelli to Lobby for the Unitary Patent (UPC)

=> Sam Gyimah Replaced Jo Johnson More Than a Fortnight Ago, But Team UPC Has Ignored It Until Now

=> The EPO is Already in Violation of ILO Rulings on Judge Corcoran

=> A European Unitary Patent-Like System (e.g. UPC) is Not Compatible With Law; Expect it to Rot Away at the German Federal Constitutional Court

=> Justice Still Elusive at the EPO and ILOAT, But a Glimmer of Hope Remains

=> Team UPC Has Been Reduced to Rubble and Misinformation

=> CRISPR Patent Debacle Demonstrated That Opposition Divisions Do Their Job, But Also Highlighted Serious Deficiency in Patent-Granting Process

=> Confidence in European Patents (EPs) is Eroding and Stakeholders Are Already Suffering

=> Even More Uncertain a Future for the Independence of the EPO Boards of Appeal as Judge Corcoran Too Gets Sent to 'Exile'

=> The Response to Accusations of Censorship by Team UPC? Yet More Censorship to Shield UPC From Criticism

=> Team UPC Calls Critics of the UPC Idiots, Deletes Their Comments, and Blocks Them

=> How the Opposition to CRISPR Patents at the EPO Sent Shockwaves Through the Industry

=> Patent Quality (Not Numbers) as an Asset: Oppositions, Appeals and Rejections at the EPO

=> The EPO Ignores This Week's Decision Which Demonstrates Patent Scope Gone Awry; Software Patents Brought Up Again

=> Patent Prosecution Highway: Low-Quality Patents for High-Frequency Patent Aggressors

=> Press Coverage About the EPO Board Revoking Broad's CRISPR Patent

=> No Patents on Life (CRISPR), Said EPO Boards of Appeal Just a Few Hours Ago

=> Only Two Weeks on the Job, Judge Patrick Corcoran is Already Being Threatened by EPO Management

=> EPO Board of Appeal Has an Opportunity to Stop Controversial Patents on Life

=> EPO Management and Team UPC Carry on Lying About Unified Patent Court, Sinking to New Lows in the Process

=> EPO Scandals Played a Considerable Role in Sinking the Unified Patent Court (UPC)

=> European Patent Office Causes Physical Harm to Employees, Then Fires Them

=> Battistelli Was Always (Right From the Start and Since Candidacy) All About Money

=> “Under the Intergovernmental EPC System It is Difficult to Speak of a Functional Separation of Powers”

=> Automotives, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 Among the Buzz Terms Used to Bypass Alice and the EPC Nowadays

=> EPC Foresaw the Administrative Council Overseeing the Patent Office, Jesper Kongstad Made It “Working Together”

=> 2010: Blaming the Messenger (SUEPO) for Staff Unhappiness at the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> 2010: Deterioration of Working Conditions (e.g. Office Space) for EPO Staff

=> Budget at the EPO Decided Before Consultation

=> Less Than Half a Year in the Job, Battistelli Already Disobeys/Disregards Rulings From ILO's Tribunal

=> Only Half a Year in the Job, Battistelli Breaks EPO Nomination Rules

=> Dr. Derk Visser's Book About the European Patent Convention (EPC) Explains What Battistelli Has Done

=> Late on a Friday is a Good Time to Spread Misinformation About Unified Patent Court (UPC) Without Being Challenged

=> EPO Lobby and Team UPC's 'Resistance' to the UPC Opposition in Germany

=> 126th Session of the ILO Administrative Tribunal is Around the Corner and EPO Staff Representatives Will Have Their Cases Heard Soon

=> The European Parliament JURI Mission to Munich Looks Like Complicity With EPO Abuses

=> Benoît Battistelli Lies About Patent Quality; the Numbers Speak for Themselves However

=> Jo Johnson's Departure is Another Major Blow for Team UPC (Unified Patent Court)

=> Battistelli's Year 1 at EPO: General Advisory Committee Not Being Provided Crucial Information

=> Battistelli's Year 1 at EPO: Using 'Staff Dignity' as a Pretext to Attack the Dignity of EPO Staff and Staff Representatives

=> Possible Explanation for German Media Barely Covering Very Major EPO Scandals

=> For European Patents to Maintain Value the EPO Must Fix Patent Quality and Attract 'Expensive' (High-Calibre) Staff

=> President Battistelli Silently Curtailed Part Time Home Working Introduced by His British Predecessor, Alison Brimelow

=> How the Creation of a Role for 'Chief Information Officer' at the EPO Came About

=> Anonymous “Kluwer Patent Blogger” is Probably Just Bristows LLP Hiding Its Identity While It Publicly Lies or Distorts Facts About UPC

=> The Mystery and Secrecy of the Decision to Disband the EPO's Auditory Function After Battistelli Became President

=> Shortly After His EPO Appointment Benoît Battistelli Already Ignored the Judicial System of the EPO

=> Staff of the EPO Has Had No Concrete Participatory Role at the EPO for at Least 7 Years

=> President Battistelli Has Acted Like a King Since His Early Days at the EPO

=> Élodie Bergot's HR Roadmap Explained by EPO Staff Representatives

=> The European Patent Office Suffers an Unprecedented Patent Quality Crisis Reminiscent of the World's Worst Offices

=> Sane Responses to the Latest Pressure From Team UPC Amid Brexit Negotiations

=> The EPO's Attack on the Boards of Appeal Dooms the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Team UPC Alters Its Tactics

=> Translation Shows That Carl Josefsson and Christoph Ernst Refuse to Comment on EPO Injustice as It Might Embarrass Battistelli

=> Battistelli's Attacks on Judge Corcoran Threaten Not Only the EPC But Also UPC

=> Job Applicants at the EPO Disappointed, Reference Made in Interview to Slavery

=> EPO Management Claims “Higher Quality Patents” and Everyone at the EPO Knows That It's a Face-Saving Lie

=> 2018 Starts at the EPO and Both EPC and UPC Are in State of Crisis

=> EPO Has Become an 'Investment Bank'

=> Raw: Separation of Powers Obliterated by EPO President and Vice-Presidents

=> Raw: Battistelli's Stacking of the General Advisory Committee Not Legal, Asserted Staff Representatives

=> Raw: Battistelli Puts ‘Team Battistelli’ in Charge of ‘Scrutinising’ His Proposals

=> Raw: EPO Violates ILO Rulings by Denying the Consultation Process Access to Vital Information

=> Raw: Justice at the EPO Sometimes Comes Before Death

=> EPO Insiders: EPO Has Become a Hoarder Rather Than a Patent Office

=> Raw: Battistelli Comes Up With a "Chief Information Officer" Role and Offers This Position to Man From Same Place as Him

=> Raw: Central Staff Committee Explains the Upper Limb Disorder (ULD) Crisis at the EPO

=> Raw: The EPO's Disregard for Christmas and New Year's Days Off

=> How Institut International des Brevets (IIB), INPADOC and Other Historic Endeavours Relate to EPO and DG1/DG2

=> Not Everyone Would Run the European Patent Office Like Benoît Battistelli Does

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