Bonum Certa Men Certa

IAM and EPO Are Almost Inseparable

Battistelli is also a writer at IAM, who will soon be their keynote speaker

Battistelli liar Source (original): Rospatent



Summary: The latest lies from the EPO are supported by IAM, which just 'happens' to be receiving money from the EPO's PR firm, FTI Consulting

THE MEDIA turns a blind eye to abuses at its own peril. Workers across Europe can see who covers important issues and who simply issues puff pieces and marketing. Case of point, from a few days ago, was this 'article' by Ozge Atilgan Karakulak and Selin Sinem Erciyas (Gun + Partners), who occasionally put puff pieces at IAM (part of IAM's business model). Search for news about the EPO and find stuff like this:



Ever since Turkey became a member to European Patent Convention (EPC), the enforcement or invalidity of the Turkish validation of a European Patent (EP), while proceedings before European Patent Office (EPO) are pending, has been a hot topic.

The owner of a EP is normally concerned with if and how the pending opposition/appeal proceedings before the EPO impacts the enforceability or validity of the national patent validated in Turkey.

The strength of a patent may seem questionable in an enforcement attempt at national level because of pending EPO proceedings, whereas the matter is much more complicated and risky if the patent owner is faced with an invalidation action at national level as well.


Well, invalidations are about to become a lot more common, albeit the EPO already wages a war against the appeal boards, which means that invalidations will be carried out in expensive court battles (i.e. not many, for costs are prohibitive). This mirrors, more or less, the situation in the USPTO with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).

"...invalidations are about to become a lot more common, albeit the EPO already wages a war against the appeal boards, which mean that invalidations will be carried out in expensive court battles (i.e. not many, for costs are prohibitive)."EPO workers openly state that patent quality has declined, but EPO management is notorious for repeating lies over and over again, hoping that repetition will help such lies stick. IAM is the main supplier of such lies. As we noted a number of years ago, IAM was being paid by the PR agency of the EPO for its Unitary Patent propaganda -- something which continues to date and irks Spaniards like Francisco Moreno on Twitter. In relation to the Spanish political changes he bemoans IAM's latest spin, which we responded to about a day ago. Team UPC's promotion of SPCs (there's an agenda overlap) was noted here over the weekend and here comes IAM again, admitting that "uncertainty continues over unitary regime" but still promoting the SPC agenda.

But IAM's EPO lobbying goes further than this and was made rather apparent several hours ago, just as predicted half a day beforehand. It's about a so-called 'survey' of IAM -- an annual ritual of theirs. The survey does not even talk about patent quality but other things such as pendency. They are trying to make it 'come across' as "reader's choice" or "independent" -- a classic trick or a classic form of deception, constructed with particular outcomes in mind. Joff Wild has just claimed that "Europe soars" in his headline. Here's the relevant part:

Despite the controversy that has surrounded it in recent years, the EPO continues to garner by far the best approval ratings among the IP5 from IAM’s readers. As in the last two years, it ranked highest in perceptions of patent quality - significantly higher proportions of respondents regard its offering as excellent or very good than for any other office listed, with only a tiny minority regarding the quality as poor – 1% of those in operating companies.


Almost at the exact same time the EPO repeated this and published this puff piece (warning: epo.org link) with the following summary: "The EPO has for the seventh consecutive time been ranked number one among the world's five largest patent offices by users for the quality of its patents and services in Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) Magazine's latest annual benchmarking survey."

"They already corrupt media and academia, so this is loose change which helps obscure the message of actual EPO examiners."IAM is the propaganda department of the corrupt EPO, with equivalents in North Korea such as the “Working Party for Quality” (yes, they actually call it that). "EPO ranked No. 1 for quality and service in largest-ever @IAM_magazine survey," they said in Twitter, basing that only on one site that the EPO is paying (even if indirectly). The best lies money can buy? They already corrupt media and academia, so this is loose change which helps obscure the message of actual EPO examiners.

Recent Techrights' Posts

Representing and Speaking for Animals
If I ever choose to take this matter to tribunal with animals-centric NGOs on my side, it'll get some press coverage for sure
Slopwatch: Fake Articles About "Linux", Slop Images in VentureBeat, Linux Foundation Spam Made With LLM Slop and Slop Images
The only relief or upside - if any exists - is that the pace of slop was down a bit this week
 
Gemini Links 29/08/2025: Retiring at 62 and URL Filtering HTTP(S) Proxy on Qubes OS
Links for the day
Links 29/08/2025: Lisa Cook Sues Convicted Felon and Backdoor Mandate in UK Resisted
Links for the day
Links 29/08/2025: Arti 1.5.0, War on Public Health (CDC), and Slop 'Bros' Made to Pay for Their Mass Plagiarism
Links for the day
No, 4Chan is Not Fighting for You by Lawyering Up Against Ofcom (UK)
Don't mistake proto-fascists for people who "fight for you". They don't.
Downlplaying the Impact of "UEFI 9/11" is a Losing Strategy
we won't publish much whilst on holiday
In Many Places in the World Vista 11 "Market Share" is Going Down, Not Up
In some countries Windows is already down to third place or lower
More Microsoft-Connected Layoffs, at Least Third Time This Month! (Also Another Death on Campus)
Microsoft as a "gaming" company is where studios, projects, games, and even developers come to die
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 28, 2025
IRC logs for Thursday, August 28, 2025
Gemini Links 29/08/2025: Poems, Games, and Java 25 Performance
Links for the day
Links 28/08/2025: Greenland 'Interferences' by US and Skinnerboxes to Get Banned in Korean Schools
Links for the day
Richard Stallman (RMS) Talk in Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress Will be Remote
This past week RMS received lots of accolades online
The Register MS (Run by Microsoft Operatives): Free Software is Putin, Hence Evil and Dangerous
The current editor in chief is an American Microsofter, the previous one went to work for Google (US)
Links 28/08/2025: Chatbots Distorting/Fabricating History and Also Driving Suicide
Links for the day
Gemini Links 28/08/2025: Back in Japan and Why "Hacker News" Sucks
Links for the day
A Much-Needed Wake-up Call to Users of Wordpress.com, Blogspot, Substack and All Those Other Outsourced (and Centralised) Platforms
There are several lessons in there
The UEFI 9/11 - Part II - Campaign of Censorship and Defamation Against Critics
In dictatorships, humour serves an important role. It's tragic.
Open Source Initiative (OSI) Resists Software Freedom, Even by Attacking Its Own
The OSI is compromised
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 27, 2025
IRC logs for Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Slopwatch: linuxsecurity.com, Slopfarms in Google News, and More
Some readers of ours end up sending us links that are from slopfarms, not realising those are slopfarms
Gemini Links 27/08/2025: Katrina Memories and Google Versus Software Freedom
Links for the day
Links 27/08/2025: Police Against Media Freedom in the UK, Energy-Hungry Countries Targeted by China
Links for the day
Microsoft Windows Fell to All-Time Lows in Egypt This Summer, Vista 11 Adoption Decreases While GNU/Linux Increases
Vista 11 is going down rather than up
Links 27/08/2025: Microsoft Demoralises Staff With Slop Demands, Leaving Mastodon Explained
Links for the day
12 Hours Ago The Register MS Published a Fake (Paid-for) Article, But This One for a Change Did Not Promote a Ponzi Scheme
There are also Free software alternatives, but they don't pay The Register MS for "synthetic" so-called 'journalism'
More People Need to Call Out and Put a Stop to Serial Sloppers
Unless slopfarms are stopped, people will read and share Microsoft propaganda made by chatbots
Gemini Links 27/08/2025: Headphones and Tartarus
Links for the day
Morale at Microsoft is Terrible (Proprietary Plagiarism Machines Have No Future, LLM Slop is a Bubble)
The slop sceptics/critics are going to have lots of "told you so" moments
GNOME "governance issues, staff reduction, etc." amidst Albanian whistleblowing and women trafficking
Notice the connection to Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) and GNOME
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 26, 2025
IRC logs for Tuesday, August 26, 2025