Bonum Certa Men Certa

Not Even One Single Article About the EPO's Attacks on the EPO’s Boards of Appeal

The Office maintains its illegal control over judges who are supposed to be independent

Aftermath of the tortoise and the hare: They ask them to assess compliance with the European Patent Convention whilst in the process violating the European Patent Convention



Summary: In clear, direct and overt violation of the European Patent Convention the European Patent Office (EPO) continues to 'wag the Board' and you wouldn't know about it based on media in the pockets of patent litigation fanatics

THE decision that was announced on Friday was rather weak. It doesn't quite apply retroactively and it does not deal with loopholes, having had its question (referral) watered down by the Office. This is in violation of the EPC and it serves to reaffirm the Boards' lack of independence. People have pointed this out in comments, but nobody actually investigated this. As usual, the media was a lapdog, not a watchdog. The same can be said about blogs that cover patents; they were sold to or infiltrated by patent litigation fanatics.



We already published 3 posts earlier on [1, 2, 3] and there are 3 more articles we've seen since. Mostly from sites controlled by patent maximalists. Here they go:



Why not? Does the European Patent Convention become applicable only in particular periods of time? Also, where's the discussion about what happened prior to this decision? Maybe they prefer their readers not to know...

Putting aside posts from AstraZeneca (patents on Big Pharma monopolies), there are some better comments attached to them, actually highlighting EPO abuses. The latest comment (Saturday) says: "I see the merits of all the above comments, but would just like to add that the Enlarged Board should not be seen as simply subservient to a 'conference of ministers'. Its power and usefulness comes about by being able to generate new law based on its expertise. The more we allow it to operate 'independently' the more it can attune itself to the need of the time. No one has spelled out in the comments the advantages of dynamic interpretation which justified the change in position. Surely this is a good thing when done by those that know most about patents, i.e. the Enlarged Board? Putting aside the complexities of the present case, surely a dynamic interpretation is best suited to our rapidly changing times?"

"It says as much about the media as it says about the EPO."It's kind of sad in a way that nowadays IP Kat deletes comments that speak of EPO corruption or mention António Campinos and Benoît Battistelli. They're in effect helping the EPO's management cover up the abuses instead of covering abuses. Sophie Corke at the Litigation Kat even reassures us that the Kats in 2020 are little but a mouthpiece of highly corrupt EPO management (see bottom section).

In a similar vein, the other site founded by the founder of IP Kat (then sold) is still publishing sponsored spam as 'articles' and still chatting with patent trolls and judges like Rodney Gilstrap who welcome their abuse (example from a few days ago). This site is a think tank of bad actors. It's also a lobby for UPC, which died despite their lobbying. It says as much about the media as it says about the EPO.

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