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USPTO Promotes Microsoft Monopoly and Proprietary Software
Classic example of vendor capture; Microsoft engaged in endless and well-documented corruption to push OOXML and now the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) participates in this marketing propaganda; moreover it financially penalises people who don’t use Microsoft’s proprietary formats; this is certainly what Microsoft lobbied for. “Just got this from the USPTO,” a reader told us about this new E-mail and Web page (promoted via E-mail). “I’m not too savvy on this DOCX stuff, but I notice the word “surcharge,” and I guess they’ve figured out another way to scam fees from Linux users.” Similarly, the EPO was illegally outsourced to Microsoft. They infiltrate and take over patent offices, just like that.
EPO Propaganda, Looking to Legitimise a Rigged Panel of Judges, Starts With Author Who Did Puff Pieces With António Campinos
Managing Intellectual Property [sic] (Managing IP) shames itself by reaffirming its status as mouthpiece for the litigation industry and for EPO management; there's no sense of shame in these so-called 'journalists'
Links 25/5/2021: Inkscape 1.1 and LibreOffice 7.2 Alpha 1
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An Ode to Jeannine Hoppe and Nikolaus Obrovski
When judges reinvent themselves as agents of misinformation
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 communications strategy for handling G 1/21 (kangaroo court to approve EPC and GDPR violations) will be interesting; the management is already extending this illegal practice until next year, without bothering to see the legal ramifications or assessment to be composed by Wim Van der Eijk, a former Vice-President at the EPO itself (another conflict of interest)
IRC Proceedings: Monday, May 24, 2021
IRC logs for Monday, May 24, 2021
The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 19: Ladies and Gentlemen, Place Your Bets…
The EPO‘s BoA decision on G 1/21 seems to have already been made by virtue of stacking; but it’s not entirely impossible that following the removal of Beckedorf and Josefsson (it happened after writing this series) something surprising will happen
Links 24/5/2021: OpenMandriva Lx 4.3 RC, GZDoom 4.6.0
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Get Ready for a Torrent of EPO Propaganda
The media campaign of the EPO is about to kick off, whatever its nature may be (the strategy), with the intention of diverting attention away from kangaroo courts
Links 24/5/2021: Linux 5.13 RC3 and pgAdmin 4 v5.3
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IRC Proceedings: Sunday, May 23, 2021
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[Meme] Judges in Haar Must Behave Themselves
Don't forget that the Office devoted a whole unit to spying on unions and judges; it's not like they have something to hide, right?
The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 18: Promoting the Illusion of Peace and Haar-mony
Contrary to what EPO management has attempted to convey (using agents of Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos, including Carl Josefsson), things aren’t rosy at Haar, where European software patents and many other bad things are being approved under pressure from clueless and ruthless EPO management
Links 23/5/2021: New Libreboot Release and KDE Goals Update
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Using a Single-Board Computer to Monitor IPFS
IPFS is light and simple enough to run from one’s home, even on a low-voltage machine, and the code below can be used as a baseline for monitoring IPFS activity 24/7
[Meme] ViCo: Videoconference as 'Courtroom'
Very few people (in public discourse at least) have bothered pointing out how truly laughable it is that judges and parties in high-stake disputes connect to servers of some private, for-profit, foreign company to hold a hearing from living rooms, bedrooms, and sometimes even bathrooms
EPO Deciding on the Legality of ViCo... Over ViCo
The EPO‘s Enlarged Board of Appeals (EBA) will start discussing the legality of ViCo under scenarios where either party (or both) in a dispute rejects ViCo even though ViCo itself is, in my assessment, totally illegal and only being pushed using the ‘carte blanche’ of “pandemic” (as if patent disputes are “essential” or even critical)
Links 23/5/2021: Ardour 6.7 and GNU Parallel 20210522
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Article 116(1) EPC and the Stacked Courts Initially Entrusted to Judge Their Own Actions
There's growing awareness of the catastrophic setup, allegedly designed to rule in favour of unlawful procedures; we expect the EPO to bombard the media in the coming days (to blind people or lead them away from the controversy)
The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 17: The External Members: Evangelos Chatzikos and Richard Arnold
A closer examination of Evangelos Chatzikos (Greece) and Richard Arnold (UK) as external members in case no. G 1/21, which starts later this week
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, May 22, 2021
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Techrights Does Reporting, Not Clickbait or Paid-for Spam
The calamity seen across publishers (not limited to any particular area or segment) is partly due to a lack of trust, which is sometimes the fault of these publishers (desperate money-grabbing moves and click-bait-centric strategies)
Links 22/5/2021: Lakka 3.0, Stable RHEL Release
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Hating Freenode or Its Owner Based on Distorted Version of History
Anti-Freenode abuse has become more apparent this past day or so; a lot of the anger is based on misinformation or misunderstandings
Nobody Loves the EPO (or EPC) Like the Staff Representatives and the Union, SUEPO
The situation at the EPO is untenable; only the staff representatives and union attempt to rectify matters
We Need to Save Europe From the Lawlessness of EPO 'Mafia' (Corrupt Management That Doesn't Understand Patents or Law)
The Boards of Appeal of the EPO still lack (and crave for) independence; a lot of cases can be stacked and their outcome accordingly rigged to serve the agenda of the Office
Freenode Ads/Company Banners Are a 2-Decade Tradition Which Predates PIA/LTM
Screenshots to dispel revisionist history; all those screenshots can be clicked on for full view and verified with the Internet Archive
IRC Proceedings: Friday, May 21, 2021
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[Meme] Appeal for Independence
The Boards of Appeal have been robbed and have lost their independence because EPO President, which they’re supposed to decide on, actually controls them
The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 16: The Mystery of the “Missing Signatures”
The independence of the Boards of Appeal has long been compromised (and António Campinos recently exploited that to green-light European software patents), as judges pointed out repeatedly, so we look back at who protested this and who did not
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