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When Corporate Media Cannot Tell the Difference Between EPO and EU

Bayer wins EU patent extension for best-selling Xarelto drug
Seeding misinformation/falsehoods. EPO is not EU, so Reuters isn't getting the very basic facts right; what can we expect from its Monsanto/Bayer reporting?






Bayer wins EU patent extension for best-selling Xarelto drug
Syndicating misinformation/falsehoods.






Bayer wins EU patent extension for best-selling Xarelto drug
Going overseas too (other continents). EPO becoming better known for endless monopolies instead of helping patients, choosing corporate patents instead.






Bayer Says Xarelto Gets Partial Extension of European Patent
This isn't too bad, but it's behind paywall and demands proprietary JavaScript/cookies. Moreover, the authors of that site (Bloomberg Law) were clearly hired for their patent maximalism (they recently added more of them). Reformist views are impermissible.






Surprise success for Bayer blockbuster Xarelto at EPO
Instead of writing reports, nowadays JUVE does ads for patent litigation firms, disguised as news articles (this is their new business model). Most of this past week's JUVE stories were just ads for law firms, thinly veiled as reporting/journalism (we intentionally omit links to those, but we're keeping internal records).






EPO publishes final reasoning in G 1/21 video conferencing case
A longtime mouthpiece of EPO dictators and Team UPC, Amy Sandys, does that usual hogwash about EPO corruption in G 1/21. No investigation of underlying facts required, just revisionism. That's where the money is.






Summary: A look at the state of 'journalism' about patents and about the EPO specifically

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