THERE is a reason why we haven't been covering patent affairs recently. The European Patent Office (EPO) has no signal coming out of it -- not even from SUEPO (holidays may contribute to that) -- to the point where there's not much to see or hear. Blogs that used to cover court cases and affairs of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) are also very quiet this month, and this has been going on for weeks (July also).

"...sites I've followed for many years (for coverage on matters like copyrights and patents) are really not doing well. They hardly publish anything at all. It's like COVID-19 killed them."Given this lack of activity, and our reliance on new information, there's not much we can say about Iancu, Campinos, and Battistelli (who virtually vanished some time in 2018; hard to even find a single photo of him since then, except maybe very few).

Readers who are following us for patent news will probably see a resurgence after the holidays, but sites I've followed for many years (for coverage on matters like copyrights and patents) are really not doing well. They hardly publish anything at all. It's like COVID-19 killed them.

Over the past few weeks we've been super-busy studying police reports, technology issues and antitrust matters. As soon as we find more information of interest and relevance about patents we'll get back to that. That's a promise. ⬆