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Granting More Fundamentally Wrong Patents Will Mean Reduced Certainty, Not Increased Certainty (partly about EPO)

=> Granting More Fundamentally Wrong Patents Will Mean Reduced Certainty, Not Increased Certainty

=> Patent Quality Continues to Slip in Europe and We Know Who Will Profit From That (and Distract From It)

=> António Campinos Given an Extension to Prove He Respects the Rule of Law

=> Lawlessness at the EPO Means That Software Patents Are Still Being Granted and EPO Judges Have Their Hands Tied

=> The Preparatory Committee of the UPC Does Not Decide for Constitutional Courts

=> The Paid-For UPC Lies

=> The European Patent Office is a Global Threat, Not Just a Threat to Europe

=> Drunk on Power

=> EPO Advertises Jobs for Lawyers That Combat EPO Staff, 'Emergency' Call Surfacing

=> EPO Meltdown and Collapse in Patent Quality Don't Bother Bristows Kat

=> EUIPO/EPO Redundancies While Spending a Billion Euros on Unnecessary Buildings

=> European Patent Quality Totally and Utterly Collapses While Team UPC Hopes It Can Make the Courts 'Kangaroo' Ones

=> António Campinos “Will Have the First Strike on His Hands and Learn That If He Goes Down on This Path He May be Even More Despised Than Battistelli.”

=> An Office of Patent Extremists

=> More Tall Tales From EPOnia - A Little Apéritif to Whet the Appetite…

=> António Campinos as German Sheriff Rather Than Office President

May

=> British Patent Courts Continue to Expose the Collapse in Quality of European Patents

=> António Campinos Didn't Even Last a Year

=> Social 'Studies' and Sponsored 'Articles' Cannot Hide the Fact That EPO is a Terrible Employer Which Currently Harms Europe

=> European Patents Are Eventually Being Revoked. But at Great Expense to Everyone Except Law Firms.

=> Team Campinos Will Try to Make It Difficult to Go on Strike (But Won't Manage to Prevent It)

=> EPO Strikes Further Diminish Chances of UPC Ever Materialising (in Any Shape or Form)

=> EPO Allegedly Becoming Insolvent (Pretext for Cuts), So Staff Gets Punished While Management Takes the Jackpot

=> EPO President Still Not Obeying Courts' Rulings

=> António Campinos Has Run Out of Time and EPO Staff is Going on Strike (Skipping Mere Protests)

=> Quality of Patents is Going Down the Drain and Courts Have Certainly Noticed

=> EUIPO and EPO Abuses Growingly Inseparable

=> The War on Patent Quality

=> Unified Patent Court Won’t Happen Just Because the Litigation Microcosm Wants It

=> Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 4: Happy Birthday to the Kötter Group?

=> The EPO’s Key Function — Like the UPC’s Vision — Has Virtually Collapsed

=> Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 3: “Ein kritikwürdiges Unternehmen”

=> EPO Had a Leakage Problem and Privacy of Stakeholders Was Compromised, Affecting at Least 100 Cases

=> False Hope for Patent Maximalists and Litigation Zealots

=> The Race to the Bottom of Patent Quality at the EPO

=> Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 2: Meet the Kötters

=> Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 1: Urgent Shitstorm Alert

=> Patents That Were Gleefully Granted by the EPO Continue to Perish in Courts

=> Professionally Incompetent EPO Management

=> Did Battistelli 'Steal' ~$100,000,000 Euros From the EPO?

=> The Biased EPO Does Not Want to Hear From Anyone Except Those Who Pay the EPO

=> Team UPC Has Run Out of Arguments, So Now It's Just Writing Anti-Brexit Rants With Testicles in the Headlines

=> Making the Patent System About Productive Actors (Again), Not a Bunch of Law Firms and Trolls

=> Stephen Rowan: From UK-IPO to Operation Coverup of Team António Campinos

=> Lusting for a Unified Patent Court (UPC) That Respects Invalid European Patents, Including Software Patents

=> Illegal Software Patents and Patent Trolls Well Served by European and American Patent Offices But Not Courts

=> Corrupt Battistelli is Back for European Inventor Award 2019 — an Extravagant Ceremony He Has Used to Steal Millions of Euros From the EPO

=> EPO Waste and Mismanagement: Renting Space While Keeping Buildings Empty and Making More of Them

=> Corruption at the EPO is a Threat Not Only to Europe But to Every Continent in the World

=> Why Does the EPO Keep Praising People Who Promote Software Patents, Rewarding Them for Patent Thickets That Harm Software Developers?

=> The EPO is a Threat to Software Developers Everywhere, Not Just in Europe

=> Even IAM Admits That When It Comes to Patents It's Quality That Counts, Not Quantity

=> It's 2019 and Team UPC is Still Composing 'Fake News' (Lobbying Disguised as Reporting)

=> Even EPO Patent 'Justice' is Now Measured in Industrial Terms Like 'Production' Rather Than Accuracy

=> EPO in 2019: Pushing (and Bribing) for Buzzwords to Bypass/Cheat the Law Whilst Abolishing the Court System

=> Lack of Justice at the EPO Continues to Usher in Fake Patents on Abstract Things

=> Union Syndicale Federale (USF) Writes to António Campinos Again Regarding the Appalling Atmosphere at the EPO

April

=> Haar is Where EPO Justice Came to Meet Euthanasia

=> The 'Technical Effect' of Attacking the Independence of Judges at the Boards of Appeal and Ignoring/Breaking the Law

=> "Dia da Liberdade" in Portugal -- Wilted Carnations in EPOnia

=> The Quality of Patents is Connected to the Quality of Life of Patent Examiners

=> Supreme Court of the UK, Which Habitually Throws Out European Patents, May Overturn Troublesome Unwired Planet v Huawei Decision

=> German Federal Patent Court Curbs the Patent Maximalism of the EPO, Which Promotes Patents on Nature and/or Maths Every Single Day

=> António Campinos Would Not Refer to the EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeal If He Did Not Control the Outcomes

=> USPTO and EPO Both Slammed for Abandoning Patent Quality and Violating the Law/Caselaw in Order to Grant Illegitimate Patents on Life/Nature and Mathematics

=> The EPO's Use of Phrases Like “High-Quality Patent Services” Means They Know High-Quality European Patents Are 'Bygones'

=> The Likes of Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA), Team Campinos and Team UPC Don't Represent Europe But Hurt Europe

=> Largest Patent Offices Try to Leave Courts in a State of Disarray to Enable the Granting of Fake Patents in the US and Europe

=> The European Patent Office Does Not Care About the Law, Today's Management Constantly Attempts to Bypass the Law

=> Corporate Media Will Never Cover the EPO's Violations of the Law With Respect to Patent Scope

=> Patent Maximalists Are Enabling Injustices and Frauds

=> Caricature: EPO Standing Tall

=> The EPO is Slipping Out of Control Again and It's Another Battistelli-Like Mess With Disregard for the Rule of Law and Patent Scope

=> Global Finance Magazine Spreads Lies About the Unitary Patent and German Constitutional Court

=> New Building as Perfect Metaphor for the EPO Under the Frenchmen Battistelli and Campinos

=> EPO Still Wasting Budget, Paying Media and Academics for Spin

=> EPO Benefits European Patent Trolls With Dodgy European Patents

=> The Myth of Quality of European Patents

=> António Campinos is Already Paying a Lot of Money to Craft an Alternate Reality at the European Patent Office

=> Who Does the Legal System Really Serve or Favour in European Patent Disputes?

=> The Media is (Still) Failing to Cover EPO Corruption

=> The EPO’s Incredulous Survey: Management’s Voice, Management’s Future — EPO Staff ‘Engagement’ Spin (Denial of Issues)

=> Only One in Six EPO Workers Trusts the Management, According to New Survey Skewed by Management

=> Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) — Like MedTech at the EPO — Just Another Dodge for Illegitimate Software Patents

=> Europe's EPO Has Become France’s INPI

=> Even Patent Maximalists Are Not Happy With António Campinos Referring Question of Patents on Life to the Enlarged Board of Appeal

=> The European Patent Office Will Come to Regret the Fake Patents It Has Granted for Short-Term Financial Gains

=> EPO Management is Knowingly and Consciously Granting Invalid European Patents, Including Patents on Life and Nature

=> The Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) Warns About the Granting of Tens of Thousands of Invalid European Patents Every Year

=> The EPO Continues Granting Bogus Patents on Mathematics and Nature, But There's Hope Over the Horizon

=> EPO Judges Lack Independence and the Internal Courts Are Seen to be Lacking Legitimacy (Decisions' Validity) Under António Campinos

=> Artificially-Intelligent Blockchained Internet of Things Industrial Revolutionary CII or Software Patents by Any Other Name

=> Patent Trolls Destroy the European Economy Because EPO Gives Them Questionable Patents

March

=> The UK Supreme Court's Latest Decision is Ammunition for the FCC to Scuttle the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA)

=> A March in Brussels Next Month, Disgruntled EPO Staff Invited

=> There's No Administrative Council at the EPO Anymore. It's Like a Stamping 'Department' of the Office and the Same Goes for the Boards of Appeal.

=> Tall Tales From the Land of EPOnia: Indications of High-Level Club Med/EUIPO “Entryism”

=> European Patents Found to be Invalid and Deemed Impotent in the Highest British Court (Again)

=> The European Patent Scope is a Lost Cause, Does Not Exist Anymore

=> The EPO is Still a Software Patents Propaganda Machine and Thus an Enemy of Software Developers in Europe

=> Dimitris Xenos on Unconstitutional Supranational Arrangements for Patent Law: Leaving Out the Elected Legislators and the People’s Participatory Rights

=> The Campinos-Battistelli Strategy is Working: Patent Trolls Are Coming to Europe!

=> The Unified Patent Court is Dead, But Doubts Remain Over the EPO's Appeal Boards' Ability to Rule Independently Against Patents on Nature and Code

=> Why the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO) Cannot Ignore Judges, Whereas the EPO Can (and Does)

=> The European Patent Office Needs to Put Lives Before Profits

=> “Criminal Organisation”

=> Team UPC (Unitary Patent) is a Headless Chicken

=> António Campinos Makes Up Claims About Patent Quality, Only to be Rebutted by Examiners, Union (Anyone But the 'Puff Pieces' Industry)

=> CEN and CENELEC Agreement With the EPO Shows That It's Definitely the European Commission's 'Department'

=> Decisions Made Inside the European Patent Organisation (EPO) Lack Credibility Because Examiners and Judges Lack Independence

=> Team UPC Buries Its Credibility Deeper in the Grave

=> The EPO Has Sadly Taken a Side and It's the Patent Trolls' Side

=> To Team UPC the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Has Become a Joke and the European Patent Office (EPO) Never Mentions It Anymore

=> Stopping António Campinos and His Software Patents Agenda (Not Legal in Europe) Would Require Independent Courts

=> The EPO and the USPTO Are Granting Fake Patents on Software, Knowing That Courts Would Reject These

=> EPO 'Results' Are, As Usual, Not Measured Correctly

=> Good News Everyone! UPC Ready to Go... in 2015!

=> EPO's Latest 'Results' Show That António Campinos Has Already Given Up on Patent Quality and is Just Another Battistelli

=> EPO Examiner: “I Have Been Against Software Patents and Eventually 3/4 of My Job is Examining Software Patent Applications.”

=> Europe Will Pay a High Price for Software Patents Advocacy by António Campinos in Europe's Patent-Granting Authority

=> António Campinos — Like His Father — Lacks Support From Colleagues, Endorsed Only From the Top

=> From Patents on Chewing Gum to Toothpaste Patents: How the EPO Came to Focus on Speed and Volume, Not Quality

=> European Patent Office Press Releases (Two in Two Days) Are Disguised as 'News' and Tell the Opposite of the Truth

=> António Campinos Will Not Tackle Any of the Lingering Issues at the European Patent Office

=> Immunity Stripped by the Supreme Court of the United States, Opening the Possibility of Ending Immunity of the EPO As Well

=> The Tide Has Turned Against Patents on Life in Europe

=> Patent Law Firms Are Truly (and Visibly) Panicking Over the Demise of Software Patents

=> 3,000 Posts About the European Patent Office and Why We'll Maintain Our Focus on It

=> Fraud at the European Patent Office, But All Those Arrested Are Perpetrators Without Misused Immunity

=> Power and Corruption: How European Patent Office Nepotism and Despotism Open Doors

=> Quality Issues at the European Patent Office Can Lead It Down the Same Downward Path as the Unified Patent Court (UPC)

=> Truly and Completely Out of Control, the Unhinged European Patent Office Calls Applicants “Customers” While Offering Patents on Nature, Life, Maths

=> The EPO Technical/Enlarged Board of Appeal Would, Potentially (If It Enjoyed Actual Independence), Serve a 'European Alice' and Eliminate All/Most Software Patents in Europe

=> Battistelli's Presidency Was a Write-off Presidency (of Potentially Billions of Euros in Losses)

=> The Technical Board of Appeal Will Need True Independence to Squash Software Patents at the EPO (T 0489/14)

=> Unitary Patent (UPC/A) Constitutional Complaint Can be Decided in a Matter of Years (If Ever)

=> European Patent Office Careers Bad for One's Health, Properly Assessing Patents is 'Professional Incompetence' Now

=> EPO Staff Union: 'New' Team Campinos Practice “Reminds Us Strongly of the Battistelli Times.”

=> The Collapse of Poor-Quality European Patents Continues in European Courts

=> Lesson From the United States: Overly Permissive Patent Policy (Maximalism) Can Drive Technology Companies Away

=> T 0489/14: Will the European Patent Organisation Put an End to Software Patents at Long Last?

February

=> The Latest Brexit Developments Add Another Nail (Among Many) to the Unified Patent Court's (UPC) Coffin

=> Teff Just One Among Countless Examples of Sheer Disregard for Patent Quality

=> English Translation: Alexandre Benalla Thinks He Can Carry a Weapon in Germany

=> English Translation: Alexandre Benalla on His Work Experience (or Lack Thereof)

=> English Translation: Alexandre Benalla Cannot Tell the Difference Between EPO and the French Republic (or Battistelli and Macron)

=> English Translation: I Have Huge Respect for Battistelli, Said Alexandre Benalla Under Pressure

=> Croatian Media on Fake Diplomas and the EPO Connection

=> There is Still a Patent Quality Crisis at the EPO

=> Ben and Ben: Benalla and His Enabler, Beny Battistelli

=> Alexandre Benalla's Time at the EPO, in His Own Words

=> Video: Alexandre Benalla Explains His Activities Within the European Patent Office

=> Bruno Retailleau on Alexandre Benalla's Perjury

=> Video: Alexandre Benalla on Carrying Weapons in Munich's EPO Premises (Strictly Illegal in Germany)

=> Bristows is Still Hoping to 'Overthrow' the Courts and Throw Out Ingve Stjerna's Complaint (About the Likes of Bristows)

=> Video: Alexandre Benalla Speaks About His Relationship With Battistelli

=> Hallmark of Corruption: Benalla and Fellow Thugs Paid Roughly the Same Salary as Battistelli (Each!) and There's a New Chinese Contract Worth €7.2 Million

=> EPO Insider Video: Nouvel an Architectural Hazard, Not Just a Fire Hazard

=> The European Patent Office Goes Down a Very Slippery Slope by Promoting and Defending Patents on Life/Nature in Defiance of Parliament and the EPC

=> Software Patents Are in a Freefall in Courts Worldwide, But the EPO Keeps Granting and Promoting These

=> Team UPC Excited Over Nothing, President Campinos Rarely Even Mentions UPC Anymore

=> Battistelli's Bodyguard Has Been Arrested, But Battistelli Should Join Him

=> How Long Can the EPO Bend the Rules Before the Avalanche of Invalid Software Patents?

=> Battistelli Trashed 223 Millions (of Stakeholders' Euros) on a System That Destroyed the European Patent Office and Made Few Private Corporations a Lot Richer

=> What Happened in the United States Now Happens in Europe: Lots of Patents Turn Out to Be Bunk, Fake, Bogus, Invalid and Thus Worthless

=> Stephen Rowan's and Nellie Simon's Letter to EPO Staff: eDossier Has “Not Reached the Required Quality Levels.”

=> Search Matters Not at the European Patent Office

=> António Campinos Still Needs to Undo Battistelli's Union-Busting Activities at the EPO

=> António Campinos Still Needs to Hold Team Battistelli Accountable for Illegally Bringing Weapons to the EPO

=> How Many/Most EPO Examiners View 'President' António Campinos

=> Courts in Disagreement: Warning on Wrongly-Granted European Patents and the Looming Collapse of All Software Patents in Europe

=> EPO Grants Fake European Patents — Including Software Patents — and European Courts Keep Rejecting These

=> Nobody But Patent Trolls and Litigators Will Benefit From the Corruption of the European Patent Office

=> Outline/Index of the Alexandre Benalla/Battistelli Scandal

=> “EPO Lawlessness Again”

=> Unitary Patent (UPC) is All About Imposing Patent Maximalists' Ideology of Greed and Self Interest on Courts in the Name of 'Unification' or 'Consistency' or 'Community'

=> Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part V: Mediapart Explains the 'Raid' Attempt, Reporters Without Borders Involved

=> Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part IV: Suspected Offenses of Forgery and Possible Falsification

=> Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part III: Mars, France Close Protection (Benalla's Family), and Russian Oligarchy

=> Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part II: Fishing Expedition for Sources in the Alexandre Benalla 'Underworld' Scandal

=> Innovating the Idea That Software Patents (Monopolies on Algorithms) Are Covering 'Artificial' 'Intelligence' (AI and ML as Loopholes)

=> Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part I: Destruction of Evidence by Alexandre Benalla

=> Gross Violations of the EPC at the European Patent Office as Principal Priority Turns Against Science and Technology

=> European Patent Office’s Exploitation of the ‘AI’ Catchphrase/Buzzword to Grant Patents on Algorithms in Defiance of the Rules, the Law, and Common Sense

=> Corrupt Battistelli Paid a Fortune (EPO Budget) for Outlaw/Rogue 'Bodyguards' From Firm Linked to Russian Oligarch Iskander Makhmudov

=> António Campinos Will Never Hold Battistelli Accountable for His Crimes Because He Too Profits From These

=> EPO President Campinos Works With Patent Trolls and With Team UPC to Promote Software Patents

=> Teff is Not an Invention. Teff is Nature.

=> UPC Part of the Litigation 'Industry' Lobby and the Efforts to Change (Significantly Lower) Patent Quality Bar/Scope

=> The Attack on the Independence of the European Judges Has Apparently Expanded to the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht)

=> EPO Boards of Appeal Still Need Independence

=> Bogus European Patents Kill Cancer Patients, But EPO Still Has the Audacity to Ride the Wave of World Cancer Day

=> Concerns About Stephan Harbarth's Unitary Patent (UPC) Vested Interests and His Entrance Into the Constitutional Court That Decides on UPC

=> The European Patent Office's Promotion of Software Patents Overlooks Ongoing 'Spillage' of the Patent Crisis to Patent Courts (Rejecting Such Patents)

=> The Reputation of the EPO is Ruined But Now It Ruins the Lives of Staff and Europeans

January

=> Fake Software Patents, Patent Trolls and Assault on Generic Medicine in Europe

=> President Campinos Maintains Battistelli's Abusive Sanctions, EPO Staff Increasingly Losing Faith and Hope in Him

=> People Are Dying Because of Low Quality of (Wrongly-Granted) European Patents

=> The EPO Continues to Grant Software Patents Even Though Many European Patents Are Being Invalidated Already

=> "HE DID NOTHING Since He Arrived, Full Stop." What EPO People Make of President Campinos...

=> The Management of the EPO Will Not Manage to Recruit Any Talent If It's Killing Its Own Staff

=> Compensation for Damages and Discrimination: The Case (One Among Several) Against EPO Vice-President Topić

=> Another Call for EPO Leaks

=> The USPTO Used to Pose a Threat to European Software Developers. Now It's the EPO Posing a Threat to Software Developers Worldwide.

=> British Courts Once Again Reject Bogus European Patents Granted on Software

=> European Patent Quality as Awful Under António Campinos as (If Not Worse Than) Benoît Battistelli and Battistelli Makes a Public Comeback

=> Declining Patent Quality and Lies About Software Patents at the EPO

=> Team UPC Has Been Reduced to a Self-Satirising Drama Show

=> The Whitewashing of the EPO Under António Campinos

=> Software Patents Are a Dying Breed, So Marks & Clerk and Other Legal Monoliths Promote the EPO's Buzzwords (Loopholes)

=> A Fortnight After His Diplomatic Immunity Ends Outgoing EPO Vice-President Željko Topić is in Court in Zagreb, Croatia

=> JUVE Creates English Site, Promotes Unified Patent Court (UPC)

=> EPO Defying Patent Restrictions/Limits From the European Parliament, the European Commission and the European Countries It Claims to Represent

=> The UPC is Dead. But Bristows is Now Fully Engaged in Necrophilia.

=> Brexit Has Failed, But So Has the Unitary Patent (UPC)

=> IBM, Which Will Soon be Buying Red Hat, is Promoting Software Patents in Europe

=> Team UPC on Dead UPC: Choosing Gowns for Corpses

=> Council of Europe (CoE) Recognises There's No Justice at the EPO

=> European Patent Office a Textbook Example of Lawless, Rogue Institutions

=> IP Kat Has Turned From EPO Critic (to the Point of Being Blocked by the EPO) to EPO Whitewasher That Gags EPO Whistleblowers

=> The EPO's Low Patent Quality Can Kill the European Software Industry and Kill People Too

=> The Fiction That Spain (or Italy) Can Salvage the UPC

=> EPO President “Campinos is Wasting His Credibility With “Sweet” Communiqués Full of Hot Air and Storytelling”

=> European Patent Office Saga in 2019: “95% of the People Responsible for the Misery Are Still in Place and Have Not Even Been Rebuked”

=> EPO Corruption is Helping Patent Maximalists in the United States

=> EPO Leaks

=> The German Constitutional Court's Decision on Unitary Patent (UPC) is Very, Very Far

=> The EPO is So Backwards That the Boss Has Just Become Subservient to the Subject of Oversight

=> The Real Harm of Really Bad European Patent Grants

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