Summary: Team Campinos is sinking in a sea of scandals; it won't be long before the public finds out, even if much of the media is deeply compromised (on the receiving end of EPO threats and/or bribes)

THIS coming Friday G€ 1/21 will resume,unless further delays (or cancellations) are to be announced on the day or before that date.

Don't expect media to cover this. If any so-called 'IP' site covers G 1/21 next week, expect mostly fluff/puff pieces such as this.

"Benoît Battistelli 'kidnapped' and defamed judges whom he didn't like (before collective punishment), whereas Campinos uses more subtle tactics to accomplish the same thing."It is generally expected that law firms will respond to the EPO and operatives of António Campinos will carry on pretending that this case still has legitimacy. Benoît Battistelli 'kidnapped' and defamed judges whom he didn't like (before collective punishment), whereas Campinos uses more subtle tactics to accomplish the same thing.

Before we reach Friday and before we publish any further commentary on the matter, let's look back at some of the series we've been dealing with since March.

Privacy Violations (How EPO Has Been Outsourced to the United States):

• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part I (Intro): A Fresh Data Protection Scandal Brewing at the EPO?
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part I (Start of Series): Enter the “Cloud of Unknowing…”
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part II: Steve Rowan Announces Microsoft “Outlook Migration”
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part III: The PATRIOT Act and Mass Surveillance
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part IV: The US CLOUD Act Passes Without Public Debate
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part V: The EU GDPR
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part VI: A Not-so-safe Harbour
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part VII: Lipstick on a Pig…
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part VIII: The Aftermath of Schrems II in Europe
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part VIII Addendum
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part IX: Know Your Vendor…
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part X: The Spectre of GDPR…
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part XI: Close Encounters With the Trust-busters…
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part XII: Foreign Corrupt Practices, Bid Rigging and “Slush Funds”
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part XII: Corruption Addendum
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part XIII: A Global 'IP' Player
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part XIV: When is a Conflict of Interest Not a Conflict of Interest?
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part XV: Has the EPO Sold Out Its “Digital Sovereignty”?
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- The 'Smoking Gun': Hard Evidence That the EPO Has Been Lying About GDPR Compliance
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Summing Up: EPO Administrative Council Still Asleep at the Wheel

Government Complicity Series (How Germany Helps EPO Management):

• The EPO Bundestagate -- Part 1: How the Bundestag Was (and Continues to be) Misled About EPO Affairs
• The EPO Bundestagate -- Part 2: Lack of Parliamentary Oversight, Many Questions and Few Answers…
• The EPO Bundestagate -- Part 3: A “Minor Interpellation” in the German Bundestag
• The EPO Bundestagate -- Part 4: Parroting the GDPR-Compliance Myth
• The EPO Bundestagate -- Part 5: The Federal Eagle's Disconcerting Metamorphosis
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag -- Part 6: Dr Petri Starts the Ball Rolling…
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag -- Part 7: Ms Voßhoff Alerts the Bundestag…
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag -- Part 8: The EPO's Tweedledum, Raimund Lutz
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag -- Part 9: A Veritable Virtuoso of Legal Sophistry
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag -- Part 10: A Faithful Lapdog Despised and Reviled by EPO Staff
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Appendix (Benoît Battistelli's Vichy Syndrome): Georges Henri Léon Battistelli and Charles Robert Battistelli
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag -- Part 11: The BMJV's Tweedledee: Dr Christoph Ernst
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag -- Part 12: A Worthy Successor to His Mentor?
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag -- Part 13: The Failed Promise of a “Good Governance” Guru…
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag -- Part 14: The Notorious Revolving Door
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag -- Part 15: Different Strokes for Different Folks
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag -- Part 16: An Inimitable Duo
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag -- Part 17: Jawohl, Herr Minister!
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag -- Part 18: Zero Tolerance for “Lawless Zones”?
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag -- Part 19: The Deafening Silence of the Media
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag -- Part 20: Taking Stock

Oversight by Kangaroo Courts (Longstanding Loss of Independence):

• The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 1: Rumours of a Kangaroo Court at EPOnia
• The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 2: Just Another Pro Forma Rubber-Stamping Exercise?
• The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 3: The Current Line-up
• The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 4: The President of the Boards of Appeal
• The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 5: Battistelli's “Swedish Chef”
• The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 6: The Habermasian Who Warned About “Legal Anarchy”
• The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 7: Calle's Strange Metamorphosis
• The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 8: The Radical Student “Brotherhood”
• The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 9: Squeezing Out the Lifeblood of Democracy?
• The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 10: A Faustian Pact?
• The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 11: The Rapporteur Who Once Was Vice-President
• The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 12: Internal Members: Ingo Beckedorf
• The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 13: Internal Members: Gunnar Eliasson and Andrea Ritzka
• The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 14: Nemo Iudex in Causa Sua?
• The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 15: The EBA Letter of 8 December 2014
• The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 16: The Mystery of the “Missing Signatures”
• The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 17: The External Members: Evangelos Chatzikos and Richard Arnold
• The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 18: Promoting the Illusion of Peace and Haar-mony
• The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 19: Ladies and Gentlemen, Place Your Bets…
• The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 20: Summing up

Hearing on G€ 1/21 (Resulting in Postponement):

1. Virtual Injustice -- Part 1: António's Increasingly Wonky Legal Fudge Factory
2. Virtual Injustice -- Part 2: The ViCo Oral Proceedings of 28 May 2021
3. Virtual Injustice -- Part 3: All the President's Men…
4. Virtual Injustice -- Part 4: Mihály Ficsor, the EPO's Hungarian “Fixer”
5. Virtual Injustice -- Part 5: Benoît's “Friends” in Budapest
6. Virtual Injustice -- Part 6: Best Buddies With António
7. Virtual Injustice -- Part 7: Musical Chairs and Revolving Doors
8. Virtual Injustice -- Part 8: A Well-Connected 'IP' Maximalist
9. Virtual Injustice -- Part 9: Heli, the EPO's Nordic Ice-Queen
10. Virtual Injustice -- Part 10: Vapid and Superficial Coverage in the 'IP' Blogosphere
11. Virtual Injustice -- Part 11: Perceptive Comments and Caustic Criticism
12. Virtual Injustice -- Part 12: Carl Josefsson – Down But Not Out!
13. Virtual Injustice -- Part 13: Let the Games Continue…
14. Virtual Injustice -- Part 14: How Mandatory ViCo Became the “New Normal”
15. Virtual Injustice -- Part 15: A Pandora's Box... But for Whom?

There's more to come. The outcome is unknown, but judging by DDOS attacks we've suffered for the past couple of days it seems likely someone is very eager to make the site unavailable. If such attacks becomes successful, use IPFS and Gemini. Everything is there too. ⬆