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About Half of the Supposed ‘Growth’ in Patents is Abstract Stuff or ‘Software-Related’ (Patents That Courts Would Quite Likely Reject) (partly about EPO)

=> About Half of the Supposed ‘Growth’ in Patents is Abstract Stuff or ‘Software-Related’ (Patents That Courts Would Quite Likely Reject)

=> Meme: Smoking Päts

=> Meme: Mr. Casino Martti Enäjärvi

=> Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH) Governed by a Criminal for Two Decades

=> EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part V – A Man With a Conviction…

=> Finnish Media Has Already Explained What Sorts of People We’re Dealing With…

=> Part 5 Teaser: Enäjärvi Caught

=> So-called ‘IP’ Statistics for the Baltic States Reveal Very Few Patents

=> Meme: Finnishing Off the European Patent Convention (EPC)

=> EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part IV – Martti Enäjärvi and His “Good Brother” Networks

=> Meme: Only the 'Very Best People' for the Finnish Public Sector

=> Finland Corruption Levels Aren’t What They Seem (or Perceived to Be)

=> EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part III – Introducing the Finnish “Facilitator”

=> Meme: Martti ‘Vichy’ Enäjärvi

=> A Closer Look at Baltic States’ Membership in the EPO and the Significance

=> EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part II – Old Wine in New Bottles…

=> Meme: Finnish Your Coffee

=> Meme: Doyen in the Baltic Region

=> How Finland, With About 20 Times More European Patents Than Baltic States Combined, Has Controlled Those States for the Battistelli Era Regime (and Campinos Era Too)

=> EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part I – More Captured Delegates?

=> Meme: Internal Stacked Committees, Sponsored by Special Interests

=> Expecting the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation to Actually Follow the Law…

=> Joff Wild’s Latest Wild Lies

Patenting Software and Patenting Music (partly about EPO)

=> Patenting Software and Patenting Music

=> Meme: In the EPO, Criminals Get Promoted, Not Arrested

=> Richard Stallman Explains Why He Protests and Condemns the EPO (for Promoting Software Patents in Other Continents, Too)

=> Naming and Shaming 'Captured' Publications That Knowingly and Intentionally Published Fake News About the EU's Unified Patent Court So Far This Week

=> Flashback: Team UPC in 2014 Saying UPC Would Start Next Year (2015)

=> Team UPC Should be Taken to Court by Clients (for Misleading Them, Only for Personal Gain)

=> Warning: Campaign of Disinformation by Team UPC

=> Meme: Who Needs Laws Anyway?

=> Corruption is Everywhere, But EPO Officials Very Well Know the Law and They Know That They Break the Law

=> An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part XIV: No Great Loss…

=> Meme: Every Publisher in Europe Was Supposed to Cover EPO Corruption

=> Meme: Capturing the Situation…

=> Corruption at the EPO’s Governance (or the Administrative Council) is Not Limited to Balkan States

=> An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part XIII: In Good Company…

=> With Its Handling of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement (UPCA), Germany Shows It’s No Better Than Poland or Hungary

=> Meme: Skinny Dipping Double-Dippers

=> Media Participates in Cover-Up — and Thus Enablement — of Rogue Representatives and Mischievous National Delegates Inside the EPO

=> Meme: EPO’s Captured Nations as Bought and Paid-for Votes

=> An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part XII: Captured Delegates on the Administrative Council?

=> When Nations Are Dens of Nepotism and Corruption, Just Like the EPO

=> An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part XI: Captured States in the EU’s Waiting Room

=> Meme: Macedonian State Capture (Control From Afar)

=> Meme: The MaceDoyen

=> When Corrupt Officials Are Put in Charge of Law, Justice, and Patent-Granting Institutions

=> Meme: Drumming Up Support for Illegal Proposals

=> An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part X: A “Fall Guy” For the Deputy Minister?

=> Meme: Patents on ‘Magic’

=> The EPO's Extraordinary Gerrymandering Landscape and Belated Introduction to Goran Gerasinmovski

=> EPO, Europe’s Second-Largest Organisation, as a Hub of Corrupt Politics

=> Meme: North Macedonia is the Same as Germany

=> An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part IX: “There Are Indications of a Violation of the Law…”

=> The Grave Dangers of Politicised Patent Offices and a Politicians-Run EPO

=> Meme: EPO Needs D & I in Opinions and Representation, Too

=> Meme: Too Many Hats

=> An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part VIII: An Inspector Calls

=> Meme: A Statement That Wouldn’t Age Well…

=> An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part VII: An Academic Institution With a Political Mission

=> Meme: There is a Special Place in Hell for the EPO’s Social Dialogue

=> EPO Pinkwashing Helps Nothing Except the Ego of Oppressive and Despotic EPO Management

=> Meme: Honorary Doctorates and Doctored Doctorates

=> EPO is Driving Under the Influence (DUI), Just Like the President's Son

=> Meme: Diplomatic Mill

=> An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part VI: A Learned Legal Luminary

=> Meme: Restoring Peace by Spending 6 Million Euros to Fight Staff in Court (Approved by the EPO’s Administrative Council)

=> Freenode is Now Dead. But is the EPO Too ‘Dead Man Walking’? When Rogues Are Left in Charge…

=> Presumption of Patent Invalidity in Europe

=> An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part V: Sharing Out the Spoils of Public Office

=> An Ode to Josef

=> EPO as a Combat Zone, Governed by Separatists Who Take Bribes

=> Meme: EPO: Over a Month of Non-Compliance With Court Rulings!

=> Meme: More Than Meets the Eye...

=> An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part IV: A Party Political Animal

=> Meme: The Administrative Council’s Strategy for Saving the EPO: Paying Up (Bribing) the Media and Lawyering Up EPO Staff

=> The Corruption Virus at the EPO, Europe’s Largest and Most Important Patent Office

=> Meme: Competition for the ‘Doyen’ (in the Boardroom or the Bedroom?)

=> An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part III: A Longtime Associate of the Doyen

=> Meme: Doyen for North Macedonia

=> An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part II: A Mysterious Fist-Bumping Masquerade in Skopje

Meme: Inventors as 'Robots' in the Western World and Global South (partly about EPO)

=> Meme: Inventors as 'Robots' in the Western World and Global South

=> The European Patent Organisation Discredits the European Patent System

=> An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part I: A New EPO Balkan Affair?

The Patent Quality Song (partly about EPO)

=> The Patent Quality Song

Meme: Patents for Bots (the Other Kind of ‘Hey Hi’ Patents) (partly about EPO)

=> Meme: Patents for Bots (the Other Kind of ‘Hey Hi’ Patents)

=> EPO Bribing Scholars to Justify Software Patents, Then Using Narrow Surveys to Justify Unlawful Guidelines for Examiners (e.g. Software Patents as ‘Hey Hi’)

=> The EPO is Europe’s Largest Scale Scam (by Far the Largest)

=> Four Weeks of Non-Compliance: EPO Only Accepts Courts That It Rigs and Controls

=> It Almost Feels Like Battistelli Still Runs the EPO (by Extension/Proxy)

=> Meme: Vichyite Battistelli Committed Crimes and His Buddy António Snubs Courts That Confirm These Are Crimes

=> Meme: Nobody and Nothing Harms Europe’s Reputation Like the EPO Does

July

=> For 17 Days (and Counting) António Campinos Has Failed to Respond to Call for Compliance With the Law

=> Raw: Elodie Bergot Breaking the Law by Threatening Against the Exercise of Fundamental Rights

=> European Media Does Not Care About Europe's Second-Largest Institution Crushing Basic Laws and Fundamental Rights

=> Meme: Enforcing ILO-AT Rulings...

=> Meme: Rowan and António Sittin' on a Tree...

=> Meme: António Lost His Power Over Patent Examiners

=> European Patent Office is Going on Strike (or Strikes)

=> Meme: No Crime Goes Unrewarded at the EPO

=> Meme: When Sociopaths or Psychopaths Run Europe's Second-Largest Institution

=> Meme: EPO Asked to Comply With the Law and Correct Behaviour

=> The EPO’s ‘News’ Page Annotated

=> Meme: EPO 2025 (When Most of the Decent Patent Examiners Have Been Chased Away)

=> Where There’s Smoke…

=> Meme: European Patent Mill

=> EPO is in Trouble, It’s Just Covering That Up

=> EPO Examiners Should Be in Charge of EPO Policies, Not Self-Serving Politicians Who Exploit and Flaunt Diplomatic Immunity

=> Meme: If We Don't Agree There's a Gap...

=> EPO Collapsing Under Managerial Corruption and Neglect of Staff

=> The EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal Acknowledges That It’s Rigged Even After a Shuffle

=> Meme: It’s Always an Emergency When You Need to Protect Criminals From Prosecution/Accountability

=> Staff Elements in Working Group on *[Teleworking Explain Lies From EPO Management, Which Isn’t Working (Only Robbing and Stealing From the EPO)

=> EPO Staff Seeking Reparations After Unlawful Practices and a Decade of Abuse by EPO 'Mafia'

Increasing Capacity in Techrights (partly about EPO)

=> Increasing Capacity in Techrights

=> Meme: Couldn't Even Qualify for Management at GAP

=> Philippe Aigrain, Who Fought Against Software Patents, Died This Past Weekend

=> The EPO's Administrative Council Just Chose Another Battistelli (for the Same Toxic Agenda)

=> António Campinos Needs to be Removed From the EPO as Soon as Possible Along With Friends He Brought Over

=> Meme: The EPO's Kakistocracy

=> Video: Mind the Mental Gap

=> Would Never Have Posted This

=> Meme: EPO Telenovela: Sua Vida me Pertence by Tony Campinos

=> EPO Dictator Campinos Continues Crushing EPO Staff, Outpacing Battistelli in Terms of His Abuses

=> UPC @ FCC

Techrights News to Muse (partly about EPO)

=> Techrights News to Muse

=> Meme: Sparkling Wine for Team UPC

=> Chronicles of the Defunct Patent Office/Legal System in Europe

=> Meme: When Timing is Impossible to Ignore

=> Journalists Who Don’t Even Know What the UPC is (or What It’s Called) Carry Water for the Patent Litigation Lobby

=> Arguing With Diplomatic Immunity

=> EPO's Staff Union Fights for the EPO's Survival and Viability

=> ILOAT Finally Overturns Battistelli's Vichyite Strike Regulations

=> Meme: Will EPO Comply?

=> Video: ILO-AT Caseload Shows That António Campinos Failed and Should be Sacked by the Administrative Council of the EPO

=> Among 43 New Judgments From ILO-AT, Which ‘Oversees’ Dozens of Institutions, 25 (More Than 58%) Concern the EPO’s Staff

=> Living the EPO Lie

=> EPO Management: A Mafia That Discourages Journalism and Reduces Truth to Anonymous Whispers (Ducking Detection by the Mafia)

=> European Patent Office (EPO) and the EPO's Administrative Council Both Complicit in Illegal Outsourcing to Microsoft (and Industrial Espionage)

=> The EPO's Administrative Council Has Just Shown Evidence of Its Complicity (Again)

=> Holiday for António, Glass and Metal Cages for the Rest of Us

=> Making EPO Crimes a ‘New Normal’

=> EPO’s “Towards a New Normal” Hogwash Just Another Attempt to Make Unlawful and Unconstitutional Policies Seem OK and ‘Normalised’

=> Meme: EPO Airlines

=> Delay After Delay, Blunder After Blunder, the ‘New Normal’ of António Campinos Faces Obstacles

=> Techrights Statement on Today's EPO Hearing (Enlarged Board of Appeal)

=> 'ViCo' Technical Issues Already Curtail the Case About EPO 'ViCo', Decision Cannot be Issued Today!

=> Meme: Making EBoA Great Again

=> Court on Call (or Calle)

=> EPO Circus Versus European Constitutions

=> EPO Run by Completely and Totally Incompetent and Irresponsible People

=> EPO Referral Case G 1/21: It's Popcorn Time!

June

=> The Already-Weak Impression of EPO Lawfulness (Under António Campinos) is Over

=> More G1/21 Scandals as the Stacked Panel Scrambles to Cover Up the Misconduct

=> Communications of the Boards of Appeal of the EPO Still Controlled by the Office, Which Also Censors Public Input Submissions (Observations)

=> Meme: Trying to Become More Evil Than Battistelli After 3 Years in Office

=> EPO Treats Staff as Disposable, Hence More Reluctant to Defy Unlawful Guidelines and Policies

=> What to Do If the Techrights Web Site is Offline

=> EPO ViCo on Trial

=> Meme: The EPO’s Hand on the Scales (With Fixers Inside the Most Important Hearings)

=> The European Patent Office (EPO) Articles, Almost 3,500 of Them in Total, Now Listed in Gemini

=> G 1/21 is a Catastrophe for the EPO’s Legitimacy

=> Meme: Timely Timing?

=> Virtual Injustice — Part 15: A Pandora’s Box… But for Whom?

=> Virtual Injustice — Part 14: How Mandatory ViCo Became the “New Normal”

=> Virtual Injustice — Part 13: Let the Games Continue…

=> EPO: Fake Patents, Fake (Paid-for) Patent Coverage, and Fake Awards for Public Relations Purposes

=> We Need and Deserve a Saner Patent System in Europe

=> The EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal Has Already Lost the Case in the Court of Public Opinion

=> Virtual Injustice — Part 12: Carl Josefsson – Down But Not Out!

=> Virtual Injustice — Part 11: Perceptive Comments and Caustic Criticism

=> Meme: When the 'Court' Drops

=> The EPO's Virtual Injustice and Virtual ('News') Media

=> Meme: Swedish Justice

=> Virtual Injustice -- Part 10: Vapid and Superficial Coverage in the 'IP' Blogosphere

=> Heli Pihlajamaa Promoting Software Patents to Patent Maximalists

=> The Lying by Team UPC, Led Again by Kevin Mooney

=> Meme: The Enlarged Bored People With Presidential Decrees

=> Response to Misinformation From EPO Officials

=> Meme: Tilting the Scales for Software Patents

=> Virtual Injustice — Part 9: Heli, the EPO’s Nordic Ice-Queen

=> Virtual Injustice — Part 8: A Well-Connected ‘IP’ Maximalist

=> Virtual Injustice — Part 7: Musical Chairs and Revolving Doors

=> Hardly Shocking and Not At All Surprising That Thugs Who Run the EPO Hired External Thugs to Help Them Oppress Aggrieved Staff

=> Meme: There Are No Elections in Mafia-Type Regimes; It's About Family and Friends...

=> Meme: EPO 'Lawfulness' as Crude Budget Wars

=> A Parade of 'Yes Men': EPO's Budget and Finance Committee as Rubber-stamper of the Dictatorship That Pays the Salary

=> Meme: Illegal Location, Illegal Methods (Haar ViCo)

=> The ‘Fixer’ of António Campinos Taints G1/21 (ViCo Hearing)

=> Virtual Injustice — Part 6: Best Buddies With António

=> Classic: Old EPO Strike

=> Virtual Injustice -- Part 5: Benoît's “Friends” in Budapest

=> EU Already Captured by — and Lying for — Corrupt EPO Officials, Team UPC, and Lobbyists of Multinational Corporations

=> Meme: Virtual Code of Conduct (ViCoC)

=> Virtual Injustice — Part 4: Mihály Ficsor, the EPO’s Hungarian “Fixer”

=> Virtual Injustice — Part 3: All the President’s Men…

=> EPO ‘ViCo’ Prior Art (or ViCo Going Back to the 1980s)

=> The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Needs to Get Its Act Together on the EPO's GDPR Violations

=> EPO ‘ViCo’ Prior Art (~30 Years Ago): Barely Innovative at All

=> Meme: Lord Justice Sir

=> The EPO’s Lack of Objective Legal System is No Laughing Matter

=> Virtual Injustice — Part 2: The ViCo Oral Proceedings of 28 May 2021

=> Purpose of Patents

=> Why We Fight for Real Justice at the European Patent Office

=> Virtual Injustice — Part 1: António’s Increasingly Wonky Legal Fudge Factory

=> EPO Management Pours Money Down the River, Wasting Budget on Failed and Failing Projects

=> Time for the Boards of Appeal to Host Their Own Files, Knowing That the Patent Office is Censoring Submissions From the Public

=> Meme: Judges Aren’t the Enemy

=> The Correlation Between Software Freedom and Universal Justice

=> EPO Management: We Listen to Users, Especially Monopolists and Overzealous Litigation Firms

=> The Kanté of Alicante

=> The EPO’s Censorship of Stakeholders is a Misguided Case of Digging One’s Own Grave

=> The Giftküche of Haar (Allegedly a Part of Munich, as the EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal Refuses to Even Check)

=> Video: 'Shoot the Messenger' Tactics

=> EPO G 1/21 Update: Fresh Allegations of Cronyism Against Campinos

=> Never Ever Let Those Who Expose Corruption Be Framed as 'Public Enemies'

=> Meme: EPOnian ‘Justice’ (Just Us, the Superpowers)

=> Almost a ‘Media Blackout’ About What Happened Last Friday at the EPO

=> One Week Since the EPO's Boards of Appeal Came to a Standstill Due to Lack of Independence and Impartiality

=> Meme: Approving the Actions of the Boss

=> Some Potentially Good News About the EPO

May

=> Meme: EPO Bad for Your Health (Even as President)

=> President of the Boards of Appeal and His ‘Handler’ António Campinos Need to Step Down to Save the EPO

=> President Campinos is Finished (EPO Crisis Afoot)

=> Meme: Outsourced Panel to Decide on Legality of Outsourced Panels

=> Breaking: G1/21 (ViCo Hearing) Going Down the Drain

=> Postscriptum: Carl Josefsson Sidelined From G 1/21!

=> Latest News on G 1/21: Another Spanner in the Works

=> Managing Perceptions for the EPO’s Regime

=> When the Lips of António Campinos Move...

=> The Haarian Praetorian Guard

=> Outline of Recent EPO Series: Kangaroo Courts, German Government Complicity, and Gross Privacy Violations by Unaccountable Officials

=> Media Colluding With EPO Autocrats Who Break the Law, Aiming to Mislead the Public

=> They Don't Want Us to Hear...

=> The Golden Decision

=> The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 20: Summing up

=> EPO Propaganda, Looking to Legitimise a Rigged Panel of Judges, Starts With Author Who Did Puff Pieces With António Campinos

=> An Ode to Jeannine Hoppe and Nikolaus Obrovski

=> Deciphering the EPO's Media Strategy for Handling Its Illegal Practices, Which It Already Extends Until Next Year (Without Even Waiting for the Kangaroo Court's Ruling)

=> The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 19: Ladies and Gentlemen, Place Your Bets…

=> Get Ready for a Torrent of EPO Propaganda

=> Meme: Judges in Haar Must Behave Themselves

=> The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 18: Promoting the Illusion of Peace and Haar-mony

=> Meme: ViCo: Videoconference as ‘Courtroom’

=> EPO Deciding on the Legality of ViCo… Over ViCo

=> Article 116(1) EPC and the Stacked Courts Initially Entrusted to Judge Their Own Actions

=> The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 17: The External Members: Evangelos Chatzikos and Richard Arnold

=> Nobody Loves the EPO (or EPC) Like the Staff Representatives and the Union, SUEPO

=> We Need to Save Europe From the Lawlessness of EPO ‘Mafia’ (Corrupt Management That Doesn’t Understand Patents or Law)

=> Meme: Appeal for Independence

=> The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 16: The Mystery of the “Missing Signatures”

=> Leaky and Freaky Patent Office

=> Rational Patent Office Gone Irrational

=> The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 15: The EBA Letter of 8 December 2014

=> Meme: The EPO's Very Special Dept. of Justice

=> Breaking EPO News Regarding G 1/21: Judge Calle Josefsson Deposed as Chairman

=> EPO Corruption Impacts Everybody, Even Those Uncaring About Patents and Those Outside Europe

=> The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 14: Nemo Iudex in Causa Sua?

=> Say Hey Hi to Inventions and Patents

=> The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 13: Internal Members: Gunnar Eliasson and Andrea Ritzka

=> The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 12: Internal Members: Ingo Beckedorf

=> The EPO Has Slipped Out of Control and Now It's a Mass Litigation “Mafia” With Immunity

=> António Campinos is Already Worse Than Benoît Battistelli and Maybe More Aggressive as Well

=> The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 11: The Rapporteur Who Once Was Vice-President

=> Meme: Captured EPO

=> An Urgent Need to Fix the EPO, Which is Becoming Rogue at Every Level (Even the 'Legal' Level)

=> Calle Josefsson as Living Proof That Attacking the Causes You Once Proclaimed to Stand for is Very Profitable

=> The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 10: A Faustian Pact?

=> EPO Staff Representatives Not Amused to See an Office That Steals From Staff and Even From Pensioners

=> Meme: Virtual Prisons for Virtual Hearings (Haarings)

=> President of the Boards of Appeal, the Star of the Haar Show

=> Virtual ‘Courts’ Aren’t Courts and Aren’t Suitable Substitutes, Either

=> Haar Song

=> The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 9: Squeezing Out the Lifeblood of Democracy?

=> EPO.org is a Really Awful Source of Information

=> Meme: When All That Matters is ‘Production’ and ‘Timeliness’

=> The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 8: The Radical Student “Brotherhood”

=> Christoph Ernst Lecturing Us on “Transparency” and EPO Corruption (as Well as Assault on the EPC) Becoming a “New Normal”

=> Jacques Michel and Willy (Guillaume) Minnoye: Stakeholders in EPO Lawlessness

=> The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 7: Calle’s Strange Metamorphosis

=> Making up Law at the EPO

=> Meme: Calle Calling…

=> The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 6: The Habermasian Who Warned About “Legal Anarchy”

=> EPO Justice

=> Meme: Judges the Office Cannot Control Are Just Nazis With Weapons in Their Office...

=> The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 5: Battistelli’s “Swedish Chef”

=> The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 4: The President of the Boards of Appeal

=> Judging the Judges

=> When EU Authorities Tell You to Complain to the EPO Itself About EPO Privacy Violations...

=> The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 3: The Current Line-up

=> Meme: Longing for the Original IP Kat…

=> The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 2: Just Another Pro Forma Rubber-Stamping Exercise?

=> The European Campinos Award

=> Personal Thoughts About the EPO 'Kangaroo Court' Scandal

=> Doing Justice by Reporting Injustice

=> The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 1: Rumours of a Kangaroo Court at EPOnia

=> Europe's Second-Largest Institution, the EPO, is Partly Based in the United States

=> Mass Litigation Over the Salary Adjustment Procedure (SAP), Basically an Attack on All EPO Staff, Even EPO Pensioners

=> EPO ‘Dialogue’ With Staff Representatives is as Dead as ‘Dialogue’ With the Union

=> Then We Take Berlin…

=> Meme: Who Needs Examination Anyway When There's 'Hey Hi' (AI)?

=> Europe’s Second-Largest Institution Corrupting the Media and Buying Expensive Puff Pieces

=> Free Software Proponents Don’t Fall for Bullshit (Same is True for EPO Examiners)

=> EPO Already Wasting Money on Media Manipulation Campaigns for European Inventor Award

=> EPO Disregards Animal Welfare

=> Meme: You Cannot Measure Innovation by the Quantity of Paperwork

=> The EPO Can Never and Will Never Recover If It Fails to Communicate With People Who Actually Understand the Job of a Patent Office

April

=> When A Source of Pollution and Corruption Paints Itself Green

=> Lying and Breaking the Law: Is This the Best Europe's Second-Largest Institution (EPO) Can Do?

=> Meme: Greenponia

=> The EPO Abuses Climate Change, Hijacking or Misusing Grassroots Activism for Corporate Public Relations Stunts

=> At the EPO, the Word “Reform” Means Abolition (Abandonment of Staff)

=> The European Patent Office Isn’t About Patents Anymore and It’s Run by Clueless People

=> Meme: EPO Comp-LIE-A**

=> “Dia da Liberdade” 2021: Some Thoughts For the Day

=> Behind the Curtains of Cheap and Cheesy PR the EPO is a Machine of Oppression (Against Its Very Own Staff), Tribunal to Rule on Strike Busting

=> At the EPO, Lawlessness Has Become “a New Normal”

=> Richard Stallman on How UPC is a Trojan Horse for Software Patents in Europe

=> Breaking News: EDPS Admits That It is Powerless to Investigate Claims of GDPR Non-compliance at the EPO

=> What the EPO Has 'Normalised' in Europe...

=> EPO Staff Union Takes the EPO 'to Court' (the ILO's Tribunal, as the EPO Cannot be Taken to a Proper Court)

=> Exposing Hard Truths is the First Step or the Path Towards Justice

=> Meme: Laundering Bribes as ‘Cooperation Money’

=> EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 20: Taking Stock

=> Meme: Germany’s Red Cash Cow

=> EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 19: The Deafening Silence of the Media

=> EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 18: Zero Tolerance for “Lawless Zones”?

=> EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 17: Jawohl, Herr Minister!

=> Over 1,000 EPO Workers Initiate Legal Challenge Against the EPO’s Attack on Salaries (in Defiance of Assurances Made to Workers Who Relocate to Another Country With Whole Families)

=> An Examination of Correspondence Between the Tweedledum-Tweedledee Duo, Lutz and Ernst

=> EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 16: An Inimitable Duo

=> An Ode to Dr. Ernst

=> During Pandemic, With Rising Inflation, Corrupt EPO Management With Its ‘Shadow Budget’ Cracks Down on Education and Childcare Allowance

=> EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 15: Different Strokes for Different Folk

=> EPO President Campinos Lying to JURI

=> EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 14: The Notorious Revolving Door

=> All EPO Articles Are Available Over Gemini Protocol

=> Judge and JURI

=> EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 13: The Failed Promise of a “Good Governance” Guru…

=> Challenging Times for EPO Management

=> Meme: Bundestagate Series Spoiler

=> Breaking News: Campinos to Appear Before the Legals Affairs Committee of the European Parliament on Monday 12 April

=> EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 12: A Worthy Successor to His Mentor?

=> Accessibility and Availability First

=> EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Appendix (Benoît Battistelli’s Vichy Syndrome): Georges Henri Léon Battistelli and Charles Robert Battistelli

=> EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 11: The BMJV’s Tweedledee: Dr Christoph Ernst

=> News Sites That Talk About Patents Have Become Shameless Self-Promotion 'Plugs' by Law Firms (and Sometimes Outright 'Spam' for Litigation)

=> Meme: Self-styled Judges

=> EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 10: A Faithful Lapdog Despised and Reviled by EPO Staff

=> EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 9: A Veritable Virtuoso of Legal Sophistry

=> A Patent System for Giant Corporations Like Boeing and Airbus, Not for Ordinary European Citizens

=> EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 8: The EPO’s Tweedledum, Raimund Lutz

=> Germany’s Inaction on EPO Privacy Abuses and Corruption in General

=> EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 7: Ms Voßhoff Alerts the Bundestag…

=> ‘Not My Department’: How Privacy Abuses Have Been Treated in Germany

=> EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 6: Dr Petri Starts the Ball Rolling…

=> The EPO Scandals Are Partly German Government Scandals, Too

=> The EPO Bundestagate -- Part 5: The Federal Eagle's Disconcerting Metamorphosis

=> Milking the EPO and Lying for the EPO

=> The EPO Bundestagate — Part 4: Parroting the GDPR-Compliance Myth

=> A BIT Worrying Where the EPO is Going...

=> Government of Germany Relays Talking Points Directly From the Mouths of EPO Management

=> EPO is a Zombie Institution Where Managers Have “Repeatedly Used Buzzwords and Catchphrases Like “Digital Transformation”, “Artificial Intelligence” and “Upskilling”, to Name a Few.”

=> The EPO Bundestagate — Part 3: A “Minor Interpellation” in the German Bundestag

=> EPO President António Campinos Promoting Microsoft Proprietary Software (Monopoly) and Software Patents

=> EPO: It is All About Germany, Baby!

=> The EPO Bundestagate — Part 2: Lack of Parliamentary Oversight, Many Questions and Few Answers…

March

=> Meme: It Came From the Cloud... in Haar

=> The EPO Bundestagate — Part 1: How the Bundestag Was (and Continues to be) Misled About EPO Affairs

=> Coming Up in April: Exposing More EPO Crimes and Advocating Software Freedom

=> After Crushing Dialogue With the Union (SUEPO) the EPO’s President Does the Same to Staff Representatives

=> EPO Staff Representation Again Warns About Collapse in Patent Quality (Due to Bad Management), Suggests Potential Improvements

=> EPO Has Become an Institution of Unbridled Crime, Where Judges Exist Only to Approve the Crimes

=> EPO Management Bombards the ‘News’ Section to Distract From Unlawful Attacks on the EPO’s Highest Tribunal (This Time in G 1/21)

=> Meme: EPO Robbed

=> EPO Robbery Under the Shadow of Pandemic Sweeping Across Europe

=> EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Summing Up: EPO Administrative Council Still Asleep at the Wheel

=> As Work/EPO Invalidity Appeals Rejected, More Reasons Emerge to Worry About the Campinos Regime

=> EPO Has Abandoned Patent Law and Sooner or Later Stakeholders Will Abandon the EPO Just Like Many Examiners Did

=> Meme: Banking on the EPO's Future

=> The Sky is the Limit for EPO Management as Patent Quality is Lowered to Gutter Level

=> EPO Board of Auditors is Incompetent and Patently Unfit for Purpose

=> EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — The ‘Smoking Gun’: Hard Evidence That the EPO Has Been Lying About GDPR Compliance

=> Hey, Hi, Welcome to the EPO

=> Almost 100 Pages of Self-Congratulatory Marketing Isn't a Case of Informing the Administrative Council of the EPO But Misleading It Using Fluff and Buzzwords

=> EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part XV: Has the EPO Sold Out Its “Digital Sovereignty”?

=> Ghost of Elizabeth Holmes Still Haunts EPO as Her Patents Are Used to Suppress COVID-19 Research in Europe

=> EPO Secrecy and Technical Incompetence

=> Perception Management and Reality Distortion in EPO Coverage, Sometimes Subsidised by the EPO and Typically Funded by Litigation Giants

=> At the EPO ‘New Normal’ is Synonymous With ‘Breaking the Law’… (EPC, Human Rights and More)

=> EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part XIV: When is a Conflict of Interest Not a Conflict of Interest?

=> The Microsoft Deal With the EPO is Illegal For a Lot of Reasons

=> Meme/Teaser: The European Blackmail Office

=> Meme: Masking Their Agenda...

=> The Patent Professionals Have Come to Realise That the EPO Boards of Appeal, Controlled by Office Management, Are Kangaroo Courts

=> EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part XIII: A Global 'IP' Player

=> Meme: Drunk on Power, Drunk on Diplomatic Immunity (and Impunity)

=> EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part XII: Corruption Addendum

=> EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part XII: Foreign Corrupt Practices, Bid Rigging and “Slush Funds”

=> The EPO is Drunk and Should Go Home

=> EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part XI: Close Encounters With the Trust-busters…

=> EDPS Documents About Microsoft’s Privacy Violations and Much More to Come Regarding the EPO’s Privacy Scandals

=> The ‘Hey Hi’ of António Campinos Will Survive This

=> Why We Don’t Expect the Media or Patent ‘News’ Sites to Cover or Even Just Mention EPO Data Scandals

=> EPO Promoting Illegal Software Patents Under the Guise of NET/Hey Hi

=> EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part X: The Spectre of GDPR…

=> Meme/Teaser: Lipstick on EPO in the 'Cloud'

=> Microsoft Breaking European Privacy Laws While Distracting the Public: The Evidence (a Formal 91-Page Report)

=> EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part IX: Know Your Vendor…

=> Response to the EPO's Response to Techrights About Microsoft 'Cloud' (Still Failing to Justify the GDPR Violations)

=> EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part VIII Addendum

=> EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part VIII: The Aftermath of Schrems II in Europe

=> Europe's Second-Largest Institution (EPO) is Not Only Violating the Law But Also Acting in Defiance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

=> European Patent Office as Apparatus of American/Corporate Imperialism (by Surveillance and More)

=> EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part VII: Lipstick on a Pig…

=> Meme: EPO Encryption, Brought to You by (and for) Microsoft to Subvert

=> The German Constitutional Court Needs to Recognise That the EPO’s Tribunals Are Not Independent and EPC Has Not or Isn’t Being Honoured for Quite Some Time Now

=> Contacting Your (European) Member of Parliament/Representative to Report EPO-Microsoft GDPR Abuses

=> Note to Readers: It's Only When We Cover Microsoft-EPO Scandals That We Receive Legal Threats and Other Pressure from the EPO

=> The (e-)EQE Statement From the EPO Makes Things Even Worse as Victims of the Catastrophic Exam Feel Offended and Angry

=> EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part VI: A Not-so-safe Harbour

=> Reporting the European Patent Office and Microsoft for Gross GDPR Violations

=> EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part V: The EU GDPR

=> What the EPO's Illegal Outsourcing of Private Data to Microsoft Actually Means (an Issue for Everyone in Europe)

=> EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part IV: The US CLOUD Act Passes Without Public Debate

=> The US Government, Fronting Through Microsoft, is Spying on Europe Owing to an Illegal Contract (or Contracts) Signed by Corrupt EPO Officials

=> EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part III: The PATRIOT Act and Mass Surveillance

=> EPO Breaking the Law With Microsoft and Promoting Fake 'Encryption' That Violates Confidentiality on Many Levels

=> EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part II: Steve Rowan Announces Microsoft “Outlook Migration”

=> Why the Latest EPO Series is Very Important and Also Difficult to Publish

=> EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part I (Start of Series): Enter the “Cloud of Unknowing…”

=> EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part I (Intro): A Fresh Data Protection Scandal Brewing at the EPO?

=> EPO Management Could Really Use a Distraction From the Microsoft Blunder and Data Protection Crimes

=> Meme: EPO Sells Out Its ‘Digital Sovereignty’ to Microsoft

=> EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Primer

=> EPO Does the Unlawful While Leveraging Women’s Rights as an Opportunistic Form of Disguise

=> Team UPC and Patent-Centric ‘Media’ in Europe Still Committing Suicide (Credibility Sliding Down the Cliff)

=> Examining Today’s EPO Propaganda About the Disastrous EQE, a Subject of Much Scorn and EPO Corruption

=> German Decision on Unitary Patent/UPC Will Take Years (and It Doesn’t Matter Because the Whole Thing is Dead Already)

=> Meme: EPO Management Totally Gets 'Tehc'

=> The EPO's Software Blunders Are Inevitable Outcome of Technically Clueless Management Which Grants Illegal Patents on Software

=> ‘GatoKeeper’/IP Kat (AstraZeneca) Still Suppressing and Censoring the Public Views or Internal EPO Talks About EPO Corruption

=> Five Years of António Campinos Coverage in Techrights (We Correctly Predicted His Presidency in March 2016)

=> In 2021 the EPO Works for Parasites Instead of Scientists (and It Cannot Even Hide That Anymore)

February

=> EPO President Pushes Illegal Software Patents in South America (Over the Telephone With a Misleading New Puff Piece)

=> The Administrative Council Needs to Fix the EPO While It’s Still Possible

=> 'These Questions Remain Unanswered': Campinos Became Battistelli Just Halfway Through His Term

=> ‘The One Percent’: Salary Adjustment Procedure (SAP) Supported Only by 1% of EPO Staff

=> Series Index: How António Campinos Resorted to Union-Busting

=> For the Record: SUEPO’s Correspondence With ‘King’ António Campinos

=> EPO Crisis Under António Campinos – Part 5: Quo Usque Tandem?

=> The Bergot Patent Office (Tantrum First, Innovation Later… or Never)

=> EPO Crisis Under António Campinos – Part 4: Timeline of the Le Guern Controversy

=> Reckless, Feckless and Factless Campinos ‘Doing a Donald Trump’ on the Staff Union of His Office

=> EPO Crisis Under António Campinos – Part 3: Campinos Rallies Behind Bergot

=> Spineless Campinos Protects Team Battistelli From EPO Staff (and From Accountability) Instead of Protecting Staff From Corruption and From Team Battistelli

=> Leaky Patent Office

=> EPO Crisis Under António Campinos - Part 2: Madame Bergot Reportedly Goes Ballistic

=> The EPO's “Mafia” is Back to Blackmailing Staff Representatives

=> EPO Crisis Under António Campinos - Part 1: Le Guern's “Disappearance” Triggers Internal Crisis at the European Patent Office (EPO)

=> EPO Behaves Like a Private Corporation, Pretends to be Poor Only When That Suits Its Agenda

=> When a Patent Office Becomes a Granting Authority Also for University/Academic Grants (With Strings Attached)

=> More Broken Promises as EPO Management Pretends That the Office is Poor (While Looting Its Treasury for Personal Gain)

=> Patents Over Parents at the EPO

=> EPO Management and ‘The Children’ Who Run the Office

=> Software Freedom and Patent Systems Are a Political Endeavour (at Least in Part)

=> The Good, the Bad, and the Truly Awful in Patent Law

=> EPO Propaganda on Overdrive... to the Point of Breaking the EPO's Web Site

=> When You Know the EPO Distracts the Media (and Thus the Public) From Something

=> End of Patent Justice in Europe

=> The Annual EPO/EUIPO Ritual of Lying to the European Public

=> Le Guern Leaves the EPO After Attacks on Staff’s (and Pensioners’) Finances Amid Pandemic

=> Straw Man Arguments That Distract From EPO Scandals

January

 When So-called 'Public Servants' Simply Serve Themselves and Their Rich Sponsors/Friends (partly about EPO)

=> When So-called 'Public Servants' Simply Serve Themselves and Their Rich Sponsors/Friends

OpenForum Europe (IBM et al) and Linux Foundation Are Boosting and Cooperating With Enemies of Software Freedom (partly about EPO)

=> OpenForum Europe (IBM et al) and Linux Foundation Are Boosting and Cooperating With Enemies of Software Freedom

=> SUEPO Will Challenge Retribution Against Staff That Went on Strike to Protest Illegalities at the EPO

=> Meme: Candidate Campinos is Not President Campinos

=> Fighting for Free Speech and Censorship Resistance

=> Fourth Edition of EPO Staff Survey Shows That Work Affairs Continue to Deteriorate Even Further and Almost Nobody Trusts the Management

=> EPO Staff Likely Going on Strike For a Second Year in a Row

=> EPO President António Campinos is Still Not Listening, According to Internal EPO Documents

=> Kluwer Patent Spin and Distortion of Facts (Regarding UPC and More)

=> EPO Staff Representation Complains That EPO Management Exploits Pandemic and 'House Arrests' to Overwork Staff, Lower Quality

=> Hey Hi (AI) is Just a Trojan Horse for Illegal Software Patents, According to EPO Management and Litigation Firms It’s in Bed With

=> The Central Staff Representatives (CSC) of the EPO Are Petitioning to End the Assault on EPO Staff

=> Team UPC Keeps Pretending That UPCA Can Still be Resurrected (Even Without the UK, Which is Strictly a Requirement)

=> Sites in Bed With the EPO and UPC 'Covering' the 'News' Without Mentioning Any of the Overt Abuses

=> Patent Propaganda and UPC Jingoism Instead of Actual News

=> Unitary Patent is Dead and Lies About the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Aren't Ending

=> Microsoft Hosts a European Software Patents Propaganda Event (in ‘Hey Hi’ Clothing) Featuring Thierry Breton and Litigation Firms

=> EPO: We Are a Community, But We Crush and Rob Our Own Staff (Even Pensioners)

=> EPO Management (Team Campinos) to EPO Pensioners: Drop Dead or Stop Asking Questions That Expose Our Lies

=> New Leak: Today's EPO Breaks Its Contract With Former Staff of the EPO, Not Just Existing Staff

=> Can EPO Leaks Published in 2021 Inspire More Media Coverage About EPO Abuses?

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