Next Month Marks 11 Years Since Our In-Depth EPO Coverage
SLAPPs only backfired on the EPO, which was instantaneously elevated in coverage priority
In July 2014, some time after we had moved, we finally kicked off a series about EPO corruption. We wrote about it as recently as 2 hours ago and since 2014 we wrote a lot about that topic. We've probably published over 5,000 articles about the EPO alone. We're told that "almost everyone" at the EPO reads this site. The EPO employs about 7,000 people, not counting contractors and stakeholders.
When the EPO lawyered up against me I promised myself to focus on the EPO even more. That has paid off. I have no regrets. I only wish I had greater capacity.
The same is happening to Microsoft right now. We may spend the next 5 years or 10 years or whatever it takes (in terms of time) to document the Microsoft SLAPPs. We have literally hundreds of pages full of material about it and they're not published only because the cases must finish first. We generally refrain from divulging in-suit material. It's common sense and common courtesy.
Regarding the EPO, later today we'll show that staff continues to be oppressed. Apparently granting millions of monopolies to non-European companies (in order for them to exploit those monopolies inside Europe) isn't good enough. The EPO wants obedient slaves that do not properly examine patent applications on tight deadlines and if obedience is "insufficient", then they try to outsource tasks to slop. It is a major, major scandal, which we shall revisit a lot in years to come. See for example:
- EPO Workers Caution That the Officials Are Still Illegally Trying to Replace Staff With Slop (to Lower Quality and Validity of European Patents)
- EPO Likely Breaking the Law Yet Again, This Time by Using Slop for Patents (to Lower Costs While Producing Monopolies That Cause Ruinous Lawsuits)
- EPO Poll: 68% Dissatisfied With Quality of Slop (Wrongly Framed as "AI") for Patent Classification
- The EPO, Europe's Largest Patent Office, Admits Outsourcing to Microsoft Slop
It's also related to the Microsoft SLAPPs because the serial strangler from Microsoft worked on slop tools. This week's ruling on copyrights and so-called "AI" (it's all over the news right now) shows that works acquired without payment or expressed consent for the "plagiarism blender" are impermissible for use. The word "piracy" is used a lot. Will Microsoft be forced to shell out 9 billion dollars in the class-action lawsuit? Will it try to settle in order to save face? More SLAPPs from more firms? █