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Tidying Up 13 Years of EPO Archives

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Summary: Getting around to a well-overdue repartitioning or reclustering of our Wiki to catalogue work/research/publication about EPO blunders

WITH more than 3,500 articles, most of them from 2015 onwards, the European Patent Office wiki page became as bloated as 700+ kilobytes of HTML, so today we took advantage of some spare time to split it, perhaps belatedly, into half a dozen installments. Older years can be accessed [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], searched, and we've retained the colour-coding for topics/themes. Aside for that we have particular pages for particular topics. Last updated a year ago iwa this page about Benoît Battistelli and we're manually maintaining a page for António Campinos, who blocks Techrights still (preventing all employees from accessing the site from work). Truth and accuracy (well-founded information) is a "scary" and "dangerous" thing, isn't it? When one lives a lie...



"Techrights respects old EPO leaders, generally favours the EU, wants better innovation and also greater justice for all (patents, workers, the public)."Techrights is not anti-EPO; it is pro-EPO but the older EPO, the one that led the charts for working conditions, quality of work and so on. Techrights respects old EPO leaders, generally favours the EU, wants better innovation and also greater justice for all (patents, workers, the public). UPC is the exact opposite of it; it represents a coup of the litigation 'industry' last mentioned this morning. They measure "progress" by number and cost of lawsuits (the more, the merrier to their bank accounts), neither justice nor science. Last year we created wiki pages for "UPC" (here) and for "Unitary Patent" (here) using a program we wrote for analysing all our past pages. These are two separate pages because we occasionally referred to the hypothetical system by different names (it has had many names over the years and may have more in the future).

Recent Techrights' Posts

Brittany Day Can Rest and Let Microsoft/Chatbots Write Fake 'Articles' About "Linux" This Christmas
Who said people don't work on Christmas? Chatbots or plagiarism-as-a-service work 24/7, every day of the year except during Microsoft downtimes
 
Links 25/12/2024: Fentanylware (TikTok) Scams and "Zelle Scams Lead to $870M Loss"
Links for the day
Links 25/12/2024: Windows TCO Brought to SSH, Terence Eden 'Retires'
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Gemini Links 25/12/2024: Reality Bites and Gopher Thanks
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Links 25/12/2024: Latest Report Front Microsoft Splinter Group, War Updates
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Links 25/12/2024: Hong Kong Attacks Activists During Holidays, Xerox to Buy Lexmark
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 24, 2024
IRC logs for Tuesday, December 24, 2024
Gemini Links 25/12/2024: Open Source Social and No Search
Links for the day
Brittany Day Connects Windows Ransomware to "Linux" Using Microsoft LLMs (FUD Galore, Zero Effort, No Accountability)
FUD and misinformation made by Microsoft LLMs again?
Links 24/12/2024: Labour Strikes and TikTok Scrambling to Prop Up Radical Politicians That Would Protect TikTok
Links for the day
Where the Population is Controlled by Skinnerboxes Inside People's Pockets (or Purses)
A very small fraction of mobile users practise or exercise freedom/control over the skinnerbox
[Meme] Coin-Operated Publishers (Gaming the Message, Buying the Narrative)
Advertise (sponsor) to 'play'
Advertisers and Their Covert Impact on Publications' Output (or Writers' Topics of Choice, as Assigned or Approved by Editors)
It cannot be trivially denied that sponsorship in the form of "advertising" impacts where publishers go (or don't go, won't go)
Terrible Year for Microsoft Windows in Cyprus
down from 86% to 72% since January
[Meme] How to Kill Unions (Staff on Shoestring Budget Cannot Afford Lawyers)
What next for the EPO? "Gig economy"?
The EPO's Staff Union (SUEPO) Takes Legal Action to Rectify the Decrease in Wages (Lessening of Purchasing Power)
here is what the union published
Gemini Links 24/12/2024: Deedum Gemini Client Gets Colour Support, Advent of Code 2024
Links for the day
Microsoft Windows Slides to New Lows in Colombia
Now Windows is at an all-time low
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 23, 2024
IRC logs for Monday, December 23, 2024
A Strong and Positive Closing for the Year's Last Week
In a lot of ways this year was a good one for Free software
Feels Too Warm for Christmas
Christmas is here, no snow in sight
Links 23/12/2024: 'Negative Time' and US Arms Taiwan Again
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Links 23/12/2024: The Book of Uncommon Beings, Squirrels, and Slop Ruining Workplaces
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Links 23/12/2024: North Korean Death Toll in Russia at ~1,100, Oligarch Who Illegally Migrated/Stayed (Musk) Shuts Down US Government
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The World's 'Richest Country' Chooses GNU/Linux
This has gone on for quite some time
Richard Stallman on Love
Richard Stallman's personal website includes a section that lists three essays on the subject of love
Apple's LLM Slop Told Us Luigi Mangione Had Shot Himself, BetaNews Used LLMs to Talk About a Dead Linus Torvalds
They can blame it on some bot
Microsoft, Give Me LLM Slop About "Linux" and "Santa", I Need Some Fake Article...
BetaNews is basically an LLM slop site
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, December 22, 2024
IRC logs for Sunday, December 22, 2024