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2007-06-12 “Open Source“ to USPTO's Rescue?
2007-07-06 The Xenix Patent Front and Software Patents in Europe
2007-12-08 New Chinese Patents Called ”Garbage”, European Patent Office Takes Out the Garbage
2008-01-12 (Software) Patents Degradation in the American and European Systems
2008-01-18 Quick Mention: ODF Adoption Leads to More Microsoft Abuses in Croatia
2008-01-27 Software Patents Hinged on Money and Political Influence
2008-01-27 America Invades Britain (with Software Patents)
2008-01-28 Trolltech + Nokia = Bad News
2008-01-30 Lobbyists Among the Causes for Software Patents in Europe
2008-02-05 Microsoft and a Puppet Regime Act Upon Copyrights, Deception Involved; Update on Software Patents and Europe
2008-02-06 Software Patents Roundup: EPO, USPTO and Acacia
2008-02-09 What Legalised Bribery Means to Software Patents
2008-02-14 Kind Advice to Palamida, GPLv3 Tracker
2008-02-18 More Patents = More Innovation? (Video)
2008-03-14 Europe to Increase Use of Free Software, Lobbyists Try to Force Software Patents Onto Europe
2008-03-19 Microsoft's Possible Role in Legalising Software Patents in England
2008-04-06 Microsoft Bullies Over Software Patents, Takes a Hit Also
2008-04-11 Patents Roundup: EPO Patent Numbers Decrease; Bilski Revisited
2008-04-20 Worse Than a Licence to Kill: Licence to Practise Mathematics
2008-05-13 The Ugly Politics of Patent Laws
2008-05-16 Patents Roundup: From the Fight Against EU Sanity to Novell, Microsoft, and Moonblight [sic]
2008-05-23 IAM Denies Software Patents Knock on Europe's Back Door
2008-05-27 Free Software versus Today's Intellectual Monopolies -- Overview
2008-06-01 Summary of Latest Intellectual Waste
2008-06-25 Patents Roundup: Good News, Bad News
2008-07-05 Intellectual Monopolies Insanely Out of Control
2008-07-14 Another Small Defeat for Software Patents (and Win for Free Software) in the US
2008-07-28 The European Patent Office Explains Why Software Patents Are Patently Wrong
2008-07-30 Snapshot of the Software Patents Situation in the US, India, EU
2008-08-11 Regrets Over USPTO's Decision to Permit Software Patents
2008-08-26 FSF India's Response to the Patent Manual Draft
2008-09-15 Patent Revolt in European Patent Office
2008-09-17 Patents Roundup: Renewed Backlash, GPLv3 Beyond 3,000
2008-09-19 The EPO Crisis and Microsoft's Patent Trolls
2008-09-20 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: September 19th, 2008
2008-09-20 More Microsoft Patent Trolls, Extortions, and SCO
2008-09-21 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: September 20th, 2008
2008-09-21 ZDNet: “Microsoft Has Turned Into the Biggest Patent Troll in the World”
2008-09-24 They Lose... So They Try to Change the Laws
2008-09-24 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: September 23rd, 2008 - Part 1
2008-09-25 World Day Against Software Patents: Summary and More
2008-09-30 Patents, Financial Collapse and Microsoft (News Roundup)
2008-10-02 Richard Stallman on European Patent Office “Corruption”
2008-10-03 A Question About Patents: IBM, OIN, Linux Foundation, and Novell
2008-10-04 Microsoft Storms India with Patents, by Proxy
2008-10-04 Patent Systems Under Fire, IAM Magazine Concerned
2008-10-06 Patent Literature's Topic of the Day: the Failure of the System
2008-10-08 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: October 7th, 2008
2008-10-09 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: October 8th, 2008
2008-10-09 Patents Roundup: Symbian Derails UKIPO, Monopolists Try to Ruin Indian Law
2008-10-13 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: October 12th, 2008
2008-10-13 Pressure in Sweden to Move to Free Software
2008-10-14 Nokia, Apple, Microsoft, and Other Software Patent Brats
2008-10-20 Patents Roundup: Microsoft's Own Patent Trolls Subjugate Indians; New Evidence of Ill Systems
2008-10-22 Novell's Michael Meeks Gets Software Patent from the UK
2008-10-24 Important Step for Software Patents in the European Union
2008-10-25 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: October 24th, 2008
2008-10-26 Patent System Status in the United States, European Union
2008-10-26 Novell Does Not Care About Ogg Anymore, Embraces Microsoft WMV Instead
2008-10-28 European, Indian and American Patent Systems: Time for a Reform
2008-10-30 Failing SCO, Microsoft Eyes EU and Software Patents
2008-10-30 Business Methods Patents Die, Are Software Patents Next? (Bilski Full Text as HTML)
2008-11-01 Patent Problems: Google Unresolved, Bilski Resolved, EPO to be Resolved?
2008-11-03 Does the USPTO Like Its System Broken?
2008-11-03 What the Bilski Ruling Might Mean to Software Patents, Microsoft
2008-11-03 Does OpenSUSE Board Member Shelter Microsoft's Patents?
2008-11-04 Experts Indicate That re Bilski Does Impact Software Patents
2008-11-07 Request for Mono Licence from Microsoft: Ascending to Nicos Tsilas
2008-11-09 European Patent Office: From Riot to Order?
2008-11-12 Patents Roundup: Microsoft, Free Software Innovations and Impending Changes to Patent Law
2008-11-13 Patents Roundup: Microsoft, re Bilski and Reform
2008-11-14 Alison Brimelow (EPO) Criticised for Referral to Enlarged Board of Appeal
2008-11-17 Patents Roundup: Better Days Ahead, Lawyer Ignorance/Greed Prevails
2008-11-19 Patents Roundup: Microsoft Sues, Patents Critic Become Nobel Laureate, and More
2008-11-22 Latest Update on Microsoft's Plans with Software Patents
2008-11-28 Frequently-Asked Questions
2008-12-02 Patents Roundup: From Microsoft's Trolls to Obama Policies
2008-12-08 Memo to IBM: Enough with Software Patents, Please
2008-12-18 Patents Roundup: Microsoft's Intellectual 'Welfare', Litigation Rising, Abuse Beyond USPTO
2008-12-19 Wine Project Responds to Microsoft FUD Award
2008-12-21 Patents Roundup (Europe): Confusion and Lobbying
2008-12-25 2008: Year in Review
2008-12-29 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: December 28th, 2008
2009-01-07 Intellectual Monopolies @ Microsoft, Counter-Productive Monopolies
2009-01-09 Patents Roundup: Food for Thought
2009-01-15 Patents Roundup: Software Patents vs. Microsoft, Novell (And Others)
2009-01-19 Acacia Bites Dell with Software Patents, Reform Sought at Tilburg
2009-01-28 Patents Roundup: Disintegration, EU in a Limbo, Applecrosoft Patents and Scientists' Rebellion
2009-01-30 Linus' Old Employer Swept by Microsoft's Patent Übertroll
2009-02-04 Patents Roundup: Linux, Microsoft, Apple, Patent Trolls and Reform
2009-02-07 MAFIAA Enters the United States Government, Pro-Patents Lobbyists Also
2009-02-14 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: February 13th, 2009 - Part 2
2009-02-14 Novell News Summary - Part I: Idle Week for Novell
2009-02-24 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: February 23rd, 2009 - Part 2
2009-02-26 Microsoft Uses Pressure Groups to Push Software Patents Into Europe
2009-02-28 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: February 27th, 2009 - Part 3
2009-03-05 European Action Organised Against “Economic Parasite” (Microsoft) After TomTom Lawsuit
2009-03-07 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: March 6th, 2009 - Part 1
2009-03-07 What is Going on in the Czech Republic?
2009-03-10 Patents Roundup: Splashtop Encumbered by Patents, Google Linux Phone Sued by Patent Troll, TomTom Update and More
2009-03-12 Patent Trolls -- Including Acacia -- Attack Linux Users/Devices
2009-03-17 Is the EPO Selling Out to Microsoft?
2009-03-17 Red Hat Fights Fire with Fire
2009-03-18 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: March 17th, 2009 - Part 1
2009-03-18 Patents Roundup: Backlash, Pseudo Reform, Patent Trolls and Microsoft
2009-03-18 The Other Side of Red Hat: Pieter Hintjens on AMQP and Patents
2009-03-20 European Patent Office Continues March for Software Patents
2009-03-21 Novell, Red Hat, and Software Patents: Strike II
2009-03-22 Patents Roundup: Red Hat Again; EPO and USPTO Debated
2009-03-25 How Red Hat Dodged a Novell-Like Microsoft Deal Despite Lobbying for Software Patents
2009-03-29 Red Hat, Microsoft, EU Lobbyists, and Software Patents
2009-04-02 Patents Roundup: OIN, ESP, Microsoft and Apple
2009-04-06 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: April 5th, 2009 - Part 2
2009-04-06 Patents Roundup: Microsoft Likes Patent Deform, OIN to Strike Back, EU Still Besieged for Software Patents
2009-04-06 The Question of Software Patents without Democracy
2009-04-06 My Response to the Enlarged Board of Appeal
2009-04-07 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: April 6th, 2009
2009-04-07 Novell Joins Microsoft Seminar While Microsoft Hits Red Hat with “IP” Slurs
2009-04-16 Revolt Against Software Patents in Europe
2009-04-17 The Latest Patent Comedy from Europe
2009-04-17 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: April 16th, 2009 - Part 1
2009-04-17 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: April 16th, 2009 - Part 3
2009-04-19 Software Patents Roundup: Protests in the EU, OLPC Suffers, Microsoft Seeds More Patent FUD
2009-04-20 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: April 19th, 2009 - Part 2
2009-04-20 Patents Roundup: Microsoft, CSIRO, Patent Hawk, and “Corrupt, Malicious” EPO
2009-04-21 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: April 20th, 2009 - Part 1
2009-04-22 Patents Roundup: Oracle, Backlash Against Software Patents, and In Re Bilski (Again)
2009-04-24 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: April 23rd, 2009 - Part 1
2009-04-24 Patents Roundup: Attack on Science, Lobby for Software Patents in EU and India, More Rebellion
2009-04-25 Novell News Summary - Part II: SCO, GroupWise Migrations, Lots of Sentinel, and McAfee Partnership
2009-04-28 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: April 27th, 2009 - Part 3
2009-04-28 Charles McCreevy is Still Advancing Software Patents in Europe
2009-05-01 Microsoft: Red Hat Should be Happy to Take Microsoft Patents
2009-05-02 General Electric Joins Microsoft's Fight Against Free Software
2009-05-05 OIN Explains TomTom's Settlement with Microsoft (and Other Patent News)
2009-05-06 IRC: #bocottnovell @ FreeNode: May 5th, 2009 - Part 1
2009-05-06 IRC: #bocottnovell @ FreeNode: May 5th, 2009 - Part 2
2009-05-06 Red Hat States Its Case Against Software Patents
2009-05-07 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: May 6th, 2009 - Part 3
2009-05-08 UK-IPO Approves Software Patent as Microsoft and its Lobbies Pressure for Software Patents in EU
2009-05-08 Goodbye, Alison Brimelow (EPO President)
2009-05-09 EPO and the Swiss Department of Justice Want to Make Some Free Software a Crime
2009-05-10 EPO in State of Turmoil, Patents Kill
2009-05-12 Software Patents Want to Enter Europe from the Back Door
2009-05-20 Knuth Tells Europe to Let Him “Innovate in Peace” (Without Software Patents)
2009-05-22 Microsoft is Again Paying the Huge Price for Wanting Anti-Free Software Laws
2009-05-23 USPTO Leaves People Dead. Is the Intellectual Monopoly Doctrine Practically Dead Too?
2009-05-25 Is the United Kingdom Immune to Software Patents? Continental Europe is... for Now... Sort of...
2009-05-25 ZDNet/eWeek Ruins Peter Judge's Good Article by Attacking Red Hat When Microsoft Does the Crime
2009-05-29 Patents Roundup: Updates from Europe, Many More Patent Trolls, and Backlash
2009-05-30 Patents Roundup: IBM/Dojo, Patent Punishments, and Europe's Race to Community(-Hostile) Patent
2009-06-03 General Electric Healthcare Calls Patent Trolling “Extortion” (Plus Other Patent News)
2009-06-05 The EPO Does Not Work for European Citizens
2009-06-05 Patents Roundup: What Bilski Means to IBM, Microsoft; Patent Trolls Still Win
2009-06-09 What on Earth is the EPO Doing?
2009-06-11 Microsoft IP Ventures and Intellectual Ventures
2009-06-23 Patents Roundup: Microsoft, Danger in New Zealand, and Rise of Opposition
2009-06-29 Patents Roundup: OIN Addresses Patent Trolls Issue, Public Patent Foundation Video, and More
2009-07-10 Microsoft Lobbying in Europe Goes Up a Notch
2009-07-11 It's Official: Bilski Kills Software Patent
2009-07-11 Why the United Patent Litigation System Could Bring Software Patents to Europe
2009-07-13 Microsoft Still Lobbies for Software Patents in Europe, via ACT/Jonathan Zuck
2009-07-16 Patents Roundup: Peer-to-Patent Annual Report; FFII, FSFE and IBM Weigh in
2009-07-18 Novell News Summary - Part II: SCO, McAfee, and PlateSpin Migration
2009-08-18 Confirmed: Gartner and Burton Groups Wrong, Boycott Novell Correct on ODF and Patents
2009-08-20 WIPO: By the Elites, for the Elites
2009-08-26 Patent Offender Microsoft Wants Advertisements to be Enforced
2009-08-28 Patents Roundup: Microsoft and Linux
2009-08-31 Patents Roundup: Bilski Revisited, FFII Seems Confused, EU Seemingly Hijacked by Large Corporations
2009-09-03 Patents Roundup: Patent Propaganda from the BBC, IBM in the Shadows, and Early Mistakes from David Kappos
2009-09-04 Rob Tiller Explains Why Software Patents Are a Tax on Innovation (Video)
2009-09-18 Patents Under Fire While Microsoft Escapes Patent Law (Again)
2009-10-12 Patents Roundup: Microsoft's Software Patents Trick in the EU Revisited and Google Patents Spellchecker
2009-10-16 Patents Roundup: Microsoft Patents at Risk Due to Free Software's Prior Art; Opposition to Patents Grows
2009-10-22 Seeds of Doubt in Bill Gates Investments
2009-11-10 European Enlarged Board of Appeal Dismisses Claim that Pro-Software Patents Judges Are Biased
2009-11-13 Microsoft, the EPO, and the European Patent Mafia (Sisvel) Join Hands
2009-11-17 Eben Moglen (SFLC) Explains Genesis of Intellectual Monopoly
2009-11-18 Patents Roundup: Apple's Latest Evil Software Patent, Microsoft Breaks the Law Again
2009-11-19 An Inventors' System Hijacked by Lawyers
2009-11-23 Patents Roundup: Bilski, USPTO and Justice for the Rich Only; 'Community' Patent and 'Harmonisation' in Europe
2009-11-25 Patents Roundup: More Ridiculous Patents, Qualcomm Permitted to Abuse, Human Rights Step in as Overhaul Debated
2009-11-27 Study: Intellectual Monopolies (Patents) Vastly Dominated by... the Monopolies
2009-12-11 Patents Roundup: Microsoft's FAT Ambush, RPX “Protection Racket”, and Life-threatening Patents
2009-12-17 UK Intellectual Monopoly Office (UK-IPO) May be Breaking the Law
2009-12-26 Nokia Criticised for Patent Attack, Interim In Re Bilski Rule Does Not Go Far Enough
2010-01-05 Patents Roundup: Patent Curses, Patent Fallacies, Tax Loopholes
2010-01-27 Patents Roundup: A Week's Worth, Links and Snippets Only
2010-01-28 Patents Roundup: Novell Gets More Software Patents, Patent Watchtroll Gene Quinn is Sued, Microsoft Writer Slams Firefox for Protesting Against Patents
2010-01-31 Patents Roundup: Patent Overload, ACTA, and More
2010-02-02 Patents Roundup: Software Patents in the United States, Europe, and Rise of the Patent Trolls
2010-02-03 Relationships Map
2010-02-04 Judge Uwe Scharen is Validating Software Patents in Germany
2010-02-14 Patents Roundup: Escalations in Europe, SAP Pretense, CCIA Goes Wrong, and IETF Opens Up
2010-02-16 Foire aux Questions (French)
2010-03-05 Patents Roundup: USPTO Grants Patents on Hotdogs and Harbours Pyramid Schemes, EPO in Transition, and Apple Turns Nasty
2010-03-10 Patents Roundup: Lawyer Takeover, Failed Reform, and Policy Laundering With ACTA
2010-03-16 BSA Blames Lack of Patents for Europe Being 'Behind', EPO Loses €2 Million in Kaupthing Bankruptcy
2010-03-17 Patents (on Life) Roundup: Human Tissue and Crops Monopolised
2010-03-19 Patents Roundup: Europe, ACTA, Aldi Attacked by the MPEG Cartel, and More
2010-03-20 Microsoft and Its Front Group, Association for Competitive Technology (ACT), Organise Software Patents Lobby Events in Europe
2010-03-24 Amazon Pushes Ridiculous Software Patents Into Europe
2010-04-09 New Zealand's Software Industry Under Attack by the 'Patent Leeches'
2010-04-10 Patents Roundup: Fordham Conference for Software Patents in Europe, NZOSS Responds to Pro-Software Patents Lobbyists, and TurboHercules' Ties With Microsoft Explained
2010-04-11 Florian Müller Seemingly Connected to CCIA (Microsoft Proxy)
2010-04-14 Patents Roundup: IBM, TurboHercules, Microsoft, New Zealand, Palm, and CompTIA
2010-04-23 USPTO Starts Rejecting Software Patents While Germany Mistakenly Overrides the Law and Approves Microsoft's
2010-04-30 Steve Jobs: “A Patent Pool is Being Assembled to Go After Theora and Other “Open Source” Codecs Now.”
2010-05-03 Dear Google: Please Abolish Software Patents, Don't 'Donate' Patent 'Protection'
2010-05-06 Free Software Foundation Europe Likens Apple/Microsoft Behaviour to Blackmail
2010-05-07 Symptoms of the Sickness of the Patent System and Apple's Infinite Greed
2010-05-10 “Patent Law for Computer Scientists” Should be Named “Computer Science for Patent Lawyers”
2010-05-12 Patents Shred Europe's Democracy to Pieces
2010-05-12 Patents Roundup: Cracks in the USPTO, Patent Trolls, and More About Theora
2010-05-13 Open Standards Out of EU Digital Agenda; EBoA Does Not Stop Software Patents in Europe
2010-05-14 Patents Roundup: EmDebian Considers OIN Membership, EBoA Makes the Legal 'Industry' Happy, Phones Industry Harmed by Patents
2010-05-14 Patents Roundup: HTC Daemonised for Defending Itself From Apple Bullies; US and EU Patent Systems Still Misguided
2010-05-17 FFII and End Software Patents (ESP) Respond to Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA) Regarding Software Patentability
2010-05-17 Backlash Against The European Patent Office (EPO), The Extended Board of Appeal (EBoA), and Trolls-Friendly Patent Systems
2010-05-19 Patents Roundup: Google and Apple Still Conspire With Software Patents, Firefox Forked Due to Software Patents, EPO Slammed and DPL Potentially Reformed
2010-05-21 Who to Blame for Germany's Dangerous Decision Regarding Software Patents
2010-06-01 A Glimpse Back at Red Hat's and Novell's Stance on Software Patents in 2005
2010-06-02 What a Difference Patentability of Software Makes: Microsoft #3 in USPTO, #33 in EPO
2010-06-04 Patent Promiscuity is Failure, Patent Selectively is Success
2010-06-15 Patents Roundup: No Bilski Yet, Gene Patents Revisited, Microsoft Partners With Patent Aggressor (Against Free Software) NetApp, Microsoft at LinuxTag 2010
2010-06-18 Lessons to the UK-IPO and EPO, Courtesy of USPTO Failure
2010-06-24 New Zealand's Legislation Regarding Software Patents Shows That the US is the Boss
2010-07-09 Landmark Digital Services is an Aggressive Patent Troll, Attacks Amateur Programmer in Europe
2010-07-09 Patents Roundup: Bosch Security Systems Patents Signals, NetApp Bullies ZFS Providers, New Zealand Infiltrated by Foreign Lobby 'NZ'ICT
2010-07-10 Keeping the Software Patents Monster Caged in Japan and in the United States
2010-07-23 Patents Roundup: Identifying Real Patent Foes and Conflicts of Interests
2010-07-26 Why New Zealand Should Also Abolish Patents on 'Embedded Software'
2010-07-28 USPTO Wants Feedback About Post-Bilski Guidelines, EPO Might Let Monsanto Patent Life
2010-07-30 “No One Understands Computer Programs or How They Should be Patented,” Argues Lawyers' Site
2010-08-11 Klinkert Zindel Partner is Promoting Software Patents in Europe
2010-08-13 “EPO Still Operating in a Vacuum”
2010-08-23 EU: Advocate General on Community Patent and Software Patents Still at Stake
2010-08-28 Mozilla Avoids MPEG-LA's Latest Poison Pill and Rejects Patents Just Like Samba Does
2010-08-31 USPTO is Imperialistic
2010-09-08 Red Hat Should Eliminate All of Its Patents, or At Least Attach Self-Destructive Clauses to Them
2010-09-10 The Only Remaining Competition to Mobile Linux is Software Patents
2010-09-11 “The USPTO Has Blown Smoke and Lived in a World of Denial and Obfuscation”
2010-09-13 WIPO and WTO Are Not International
2010-09-18 If Patent Offices Ran the World
2010-09-23 The Free Software Foundation Fights Software Patents in the Southern Hemisphere
2010-09-24 FSF and EFF Challenge Software Patents at the USPTO, Nature (Journal) Wants EPO to be Like USPTO, and Patent Trolls Roam Free in Land of the Free
2010-10-05 Opera Rejects Software Patents and Vincent Van Quickenborne (Minister of Economy) Quick to Push Them Into Europe
2010-10-06 EU: CLA Open Meeting Deluded on Patent/Monopoly Issues, FFII Responds to Belgian EU Presidency
2010-10-12 Belgian EU Presidency and BSA Threaten Europe's Digital Future With Software Patents
2010-10-14 BSA, ACT, and Other Microsoft Front Groups Still Try to Shoot Down EIF in Europe While Promoting Software Patents
2010-10-21 US Patent Colonisation: EPO Promotes Machine Translation, New Zealand Still Resistant
2010-10-26 Microsoft's Pressure for Software Patents in Europe Carries On
2010-11-18 RAND Mobbyists, Lobbyists, and Microsoft AstroTurfers in IP 2010 (Brussels)
2010-11-28 New Push for Software Patents in Europe (Innovation Union) While UK's Tim Berners-Lee Opposes (F)RAND
2010-12-05 Los Grupos de Presión de Microsoft Continuan Engañando a Los Políticos de la Unión Europea para la Legalización de Patentes de Software
2010-12-08 Using Financial Blackmail to Convince Spain to Allow Software Patents to Enter Europe
2010-12-13 McCreevy's Successors Are Getting Their Way With Software Patents in Europe
2010-12-13 Eye on Patents: Life-Threatening Patents, EPO Retreats From Patent Monopolies on Biology
2010-12-15 International Business Times Thinks Microsoft is Becoming a Patent Troll as GNU/Linux is Taking Its Lunch
2011-01-19 Patents Roundup: A Quick Look at Europe
2011-01-20 ES: Patentes Resumen: Una Mirada Rápida a Europa
2011-01-21 European Commission Disappoints Regarding Free Software and Patents
2011-01-28 Patents Roundup: Coverage From the United States, China, Vietnam, South Pacific, and Europe
2011-01-30 ES: Abril y el Final de las Patentes de Software/FFII Piden al Parlamento Europeo Aplazar la Cooperación Reforzada en Materia de Patentes Unitaria Después de Opinión de la CJEU
2011-01-31 April/End Software Patents/FFII Ask European Parliament to Postpone Enhanced Cooperation on Unitary Patent After CJEU Opinion
2011-02-04 Europe Enters the Patents Cold War
2011-02-07 Belittling the ‘Open Source Community’ for Stance on Patents, Worshipping Microsoft Patents
2011-02-09 New Zealand and Europe Should Both Actively Fight Against Software Patents
2011-02-11 ES: Nueva Zelanda y Europa Deben Luchar Juntos Activamente Contra las Patentes de Software
2011-03-18 ES: Triunfo Contra las Patentes de Software en Europa Como fue Creado el Tratado de la Unión Europea
2011-03-18 ES: Microsoft Todavía Cabildea Por las Patentes de Software en Europa, incluso Fingiendo ser Pequeñas y Medianas Empresas PYMES
2011-03-19 Microsoft Still Lobbies for Software Patents in Europe, Even by Pretending to be Small European Company/ies
2011-03-21 Patent Extortion Still Microsoft's Primary Anti-Linux Strategy, Show New Lawsuits
2011-03-25 ES: La Extorsión De Patentes Todavía es La Estrategia Primaria Anti-Linux de Microsoft, lo Demuestran Nuevos Pleitos Judiciales
2011-03-30 ”In Europe Microsoft Have Been Putting Significant Resources in Backing The Setting Up Of the European Patent Office“
2011-03-30 The FFII Reports Bad Faith at the European Patent Office
2011-04-02 The FFII Undresses the European Union
2011-04-04 Advice to Google: Stop Organising Patent Offices
2011-04-06 FFII President Denounces Google's Bid for Patents
2011-04-08 ES: Un Futuro Para Microsoft Como Firma Cabildera y Como Buitre de Fondos
2011-04-15 Senior Figure at Nokia:
2011-04-15 Taking Techrights to the Next Level by Adding Video and Covering SCO
2011-04-16 The EPO Goes Down the Same Abyss as the USPTO
2011-04-18 Losing the Battle Against Software Patents?
2011-04-19 Microsoft is Directly -- Not Just Indirectly -- Lobbying for Software Patents in New Zealand
2011-04-20 Apple's Anti-Linux Patent Lawsuits Give Another Reason for Concern Over CPTN
2011-04-28 Fake Patent Reforms and Abolition of Software Patents
2011-05-20 Europe's Peanut Gallery Wants Software Patents
2011-05-23 Video: Justin Frankel on Software Patents; New EPO Propaganda Videos
2011-05-24 Patent Lawyers Boast New Tricks for Patenting Software
2011-05-26 ES: El Gallinero de Europa Quiere Patentes de Software
2011-05-31 Why Europe Must Prepare to Abolish and Block All Software Patents
2011-06-01 ES: €¿Por qué Europa debe Prepararse Para Aboler y Bloquear Todas las Patentes de Software?
2011-06-07 EPO Thinks More Patent Business (Filings) is a Good Thing, US Commerce Secretary Realises it is Not
2011-06-07 ES: La EPO Piensa que Más Solicitudes de Patentes (Presentadas) Son una Buena Cosa, el Secretario de Comercio EE.UU. Es Consciente de que NO lo Son.
2011-06-15 ES: Francia y el Reino Unido Quieren Ahogarse en el Mar de Riesgo de las Patentes de Software
2011-06-16 SME Innovation Alliance is Against SME Interests
2011-06-17 ES: La Supuesta Alianza Para la Innovación de las PYMEs Están Contra los Intereses de las PYMES
2011-06-17 G8 Leaders and Microsoft Chiefs Not Interested in Real Patent Reform
2011-06-19 FFII Warns About Latest Patent Threats in Europe
2011-06-19 ES: Los Líderes del G8 y los Jefes de Microsoft No Están Interesados en una Real Reforma de Patentes
2011-06-20 ES: La FFII Advierte Sobre las Ultimas Amenazas de Patentes en Europa
2011-06-29 Microsoft Lobbyists Still Push for Software Patents in Europe
2011-07-07 Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier and Polish Presidency Named and Shamed for Patent Policy
2011-07-15 Europe Patent Law Under Pressure, APRIL Gets Increasingly Involved
2011-07-17 ES: La Ley de Patentes de Europa, Bajo presión, APRIL Participa Cada Vez Más
2011-08-08 US Moves Towards Limiting Software Patenting, Germany Remains Confused About EU Patent Laws
2011-08-12 EPO More Popular/Responsive Than the USPTO
2011-08-12 Germany Does Badly Regarding Software Patents
2011-08-23 Europe Under Threat From Software Patents Through the Back Door, Warns FSF Founder
2011-08-24 Links - Deepwater Horizon Spews, Big Boats, RMS on Unitary Patents
2011-08-30 More Mainstream Backlash Against Software Patents and Patents in General
2011-09-04 Microsoft's Embrace of Linux is Deceitful, Malicious, a Likely Antitrust Violation
2011-09-09 Cablegate: Importing the USPTO Into Europe, Using the 'EU Patent'
2011-09-11 Cablegate: Chancellor Merkel Organises Initiative Striving for “Increased Support for Cooperation Between U.S. and EU Patent Agencies”
2011-09-13 Global Patent System
2011-09-14 Mobile Patent Wars Merely a Symptom of a Broken Patent System
2011-09-15 Cablegate: Microsoft's “Relationship With the Government” and Pressure for Countries to Adopt Intellectual Monopolies Using Shame Lists
2011-09-17 Cablegate: USPTO, JPO, and EPO Prepare a Global Patent System
2011-09-25 The Parallel Universe of Patent Lawyers
2011-10-07 EU Patent Failing to Materialise, But EPO and Politicians Begin to Overstep Their Line of Authority to Intervene
2011-11-29 'Pulling an ACTA' to Legalise Software Patents in Europe
2011-12-01 Software Patents Come to Europe Through the Back Door
2011-12-14 Software Patents in the EU Become a Central Concern Again
2011-12-28 Software Patents: How Europe Lost Its Sovereignty
2011-12-28 EPO and Other Lawyers-dominated Circles Push for Software Patenting
2012-01-07 In the Age of Defective Patent Systems, Google Receives Patents to Defend Android From Lawsuits
2012-01-21 EPO Advisory Board Likes Patents
2012-01-24 New Disinformation From Patent Lawyers and Microsoft Lobbyists
2012-02-22 Patents Let Giants Attack the Rest, Apple Attack FOSS
2012-03-02 Google Helps EPO Manage Monopolies, Unitary Patent Aided
2012-04-17 Microsoft's Love/Hate Relationship With Germany
2012-04-20 After the Demise of Microsoft's FAT Patent
2012-04-21 The Software Patents Lobby Goes Global, Faces Antagonism
2012-04-24 Google Does Not Help Put an End to Software Patents, Just Android Cases
2012-05-19 Defeat for Software Patents in the United Kingdom
2012-06-27 New Evidence Arrives to Support Patent System Overhaul While EFF Pressures Congress
2012-07-01 European Council Slows Down Software Patents
2012-07-20 The Patent Wars Deepen
2012-07-28 Apple is Already Beaten by Android, Resorting to Litigation and Disinformation
2012-07-30 Microsoft Already Uses Software Patents to Actually Remove Linux Devices from the European Market
2012-08-17 New Actions Against Software Patents
2012-08-21 Google Embraces USPTO and Patent Litigation Rather Than Fight the Broken System
2012-09-30 EPO Decides to Listen to Anti-Patents Stance, USPTO Censors It
2012-10-11 The Press Turned Against Patents
2012-10-11 Betrayals in Europe Over Software Patents
2012-10-21 European Debate on Patents Should Borrow Lessons From Apple vs. Samsung
2012-11-22 Culture of Litigation Versus Business, Innovation, and Production
2012-11-27 Patents-free Standards in the UK
2012-11-30 Attempts to Make Unitary Patent Mess Before Xmas
2012-12-04 French National Assembly Views Unitary Patent as Illegal
2012-12-11 The Nightmare Before Christmas: Unitary Patent Reportedly Approved
2012-12-12 'Unitary Patent' Helps Microsoft Extend Linux/Android Patent Extortion to Europe
2012-12-31 EU Commission Gets It Wrong on Apple, ITC Continues to Serve Apple
2013-01-10 FRAND Quite Likely the First Casualty at USPTO, Not Patents (Directly)
2013-01-16 FFII Challenges Software Patents in Europe, DOJ Does the Same in the United States But With a Twist
2013-02-05 USPTO Shows That It Wants to Go Global
2013-02-26 Europe, Australia and New Zealand: Patent Updates
2013-03-14 Software Patents Proponent Martin Goetz Groomed by a Microsoft Booster, Unrest Over Software Patents Evident in Europe
2013-03-14 Android/Google Under Patent Attacks, Calls for Other Companies to Stop the Patent Litigation Frenzy
2013-03-24 Software Patents and Thickets in Asia, Europe
2013-03-31 With Unitary Patent Scheme, EPO Pushes Hard for Software Patenting (More Leech Income)
2013-04-11 Fighting the Patents Industry Which Focuses on Software
2013-05-04 The European Patent Office is Breaking the Law Regarding Software Patents, German Parliament Finally Complains
2013-05-13 Unitary Patent Impediments Covertly Addressed by EU Member Governments
2013-05-20 Patent Policy Laundering in the European Union and New Zealand
2013-05-30 The EPO Has Gone Rogue, Disregards the Law
2013-06-09 Software Patenting Under Attack in Germany
2013-06-14 As the Battle to Legitimise Software Patents in New Zealand and Europe Carries on, New Systemic Corruption Found
2013-06-15 Germany Should Follow the 'Munich Model' and Move to Free Software After PRISM Revelations
2013-06-28 Corporate Debates About Patent Trolls Versus Debates About Patents (or Software Patents in Isolation)
2013-07-10 The Patent Lawyers in the EU and NZ Must Not Decide on Patent Policy Including Software Patents
2013-08-05 European Commission Takes Next Step Towards Legalising Software Patents in Europe
2013-11-20 Richard Stallman on Software Patents in Europe
2013-12-10 Microsoft's Anti-Linux/Android Patent (FAT) Collapses in Europe, But Microsoft-backed Xamarin Tries to Interject Other Microsoft Patents Into Google Gear
2013-12-26 Google Should Boycott ECMA, Not Pay ECMA
2014-04-02 Occupied by Lawyers It Hired, Google Now Reportedly Promotes Software Patents
2014-08-11 Another Depressing Look at the Patent Systems in the US and in Europe
2014-08-13 Investigation Reveals That USPTO is Corrupt, Time to Abolish It or Annul Nearly a Million Patents
2014-09-03 Pro-Software Patents Voices Finally Acknowledge the Demise of Software Patents in the United States
2014-09-08 Suspicion of High-Level Corruption at the European Patent Office (EPO): Part I
2014-09-15 Željko Topić, Benoît Battistelli, and the European Patent Office (EPO): Part II
2014-09-22 European Patent Office/Organisation - Suspicion of Improper Collusion Between EPO President and Chairman of the Administrative Council: Part III
2014-09-29 More Good News About Demise of Software Patents and Along With Them, Consequently, Patent Trolls
2014-09-29 European Patent Office Disorganisation: Problems With the Audit Mechanisms - Part IV
2014-10-04 Software Patents' Demise Includes Exceptional Defeat for Microsoft-Connected Trolls, But Bar Still Lowered for Patents
2014-10-07 Benoît Battistelli's Balkan Standards in EPO: Part V
2014-10-14 Corporate Media Confirms the Demise of Software Patents in the United States; Will India and Europe Follow?
2014-10-14 The EPO's Protection Triangle of Battistelli, Kongstad, and Topić: Part VI
2014-10-20 The EPO's Public Relations Disaster Amid Distrust From Within (and EPO Communications Chief Leaves): Part VII
2014-10-31 The EPO Is More Corrupt Under Battistelli Than Under Alison Brimelow: Part VIII
2014-11-01 How to Complain About the EPO to National Delegations in Europe: Part IX
2014-11-06 EPO and UPC in Europe Now the Hope of Patent Maximalists, China Too is Assimilating
2014-11-16 How the EPO's Executive Branch (Battistelli and Topić) Banned Scrutiny and Created Authoritarian Model of Control: Part X
2014-11-17 Special Report: Many Criminal Charges Against EPO Vice-President Željko Topić
2014-11-23 Vesna Stilin's Remarks on Željko Topić: Part XI
2014-12-06 EPO Imploding: Battistelli Throws a Fit at EPO's Investigation Unit
2014-12-07 EPO Scandal: Benoît Battistelli's Arrogance Recognised by European Delegations
2014-12-08 EPO Staff Protests Today and Protested Last Week, Targeting Corruption in the Institution
2014-12-09 Protests Against EPO Corruption Approach 1,000 in Attendance
2014-12-09 Exclusive: The Enlarged Board of Appeal Complains About Battistelli's Corrupt Management to the Administrative Council (Updated)
2014-12-11 Rolling of Heads Likely Imminent at EPO
2014-12-11 France Gets Involved in Battistelli's Abuses in the EPO - Part XII (Updated)
2014-12-12 Dreaming of a Just Christmas: When a Third of EPO Walks Out to Revolt and European Judges Attack the EPO Over Abuses
2014-12-12 The USPTO is Broken: New Evidence Presented
2014-12-13 News From France and Germany: Battistelli Under Fire, But Not Fired Yet, Just Firing His Opposition
2014-12-16 Keeping Software Patents Out of Europe Following the Demise of Software Patents in the US
2014-12-28 EPO Breaking News: The European Parliament Dismisses Complaint About EPO Abuses
2014-12-29 EPO Corruption: Battistelli Augments His 'Loyals' Circle With Frederic Angermann and Charm Offensive in Patent Lawyers' Sites
2014-12-31 EPO Staff Protests to Continue in the New Year, Techrights to Release New Material
2015-01-01 EPO Under Fire From European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW)
2015-01-04 Just in: Fresh Call From Croatia to Arrest EPO Vice-President Željko Topić
2015-01-07 Investigation Unit a Complete Farce Inside the EPO
2015-01-08 Intellectual Property Judges’ Association (IPJA) Speaks Out Against EPO Tyrant Battistelli
2015-01-10 Software Patents in an Age of Political Corruption and Corporate Domination
2015-01-11 The EPO Connection Now a Liability as Administrative Council Has Become a Laughing Stock, Jesper Kongstad to be Targeted by EPO Staff Protests
2015-01-13 EPO Misdirections Debunked: Refuting Battistelli's Nonsense and Bogeyman Theory
2015-01-13 Dutch MEP Dennis De Jong, Criticising Battistelli and Topić, Calls for Action Against EPO Management
2015-01-18 Battistelli's Latest Propaganda War Tries to Convince EPO Staff That Željko Topić's Many Criminal Charges Don't Exist
2015-01-19 Translations of Member of the European Parliament Complaining About European Patent Office (EPO)
2015-01-20 Failure of the EPO Can Derail the Trojan Horse of Software Patents and Patent Trolls
2015-01-20 Vesna Stilin Renews Her Fight for Justice in Željko Topić Case (EPO VP)
2015-01-22 The Collapse of European Patent Office Management Culminates With Resignations
2015-01-24 As Battistelli Breaks the Rules and Topić Silences Staff, New European Parliament Petition for Tackling the EPO's Abuses is Needed
2015-01-28 Breaking: EPO Vice-President Željko Topić Loses Defamation Case in Croatia
2015-01-29 An Estimated 1,000 EPO Employees-Strong Legion Engulfs Danish Consulate to Protest Jesper Kongstad's (of Administrative Council) Protection of Benoît Battistelli
2015-01-30 Media Coverage of Demonstration Against Jesper Kongstad of the Administrative Council (EPO)
2015-01-30 Text of Ruling/Decision Against Željko Topić (Regarding Audi as a Bribe)
2015-01-30 European Unitary Patent and Court System in Trouble
2015-02-01 The EPO's Paid Propaganda Campaign in the Media
2015-02-01 Catarina Holtz From the EPO Boards of Appeal Explains Bad Behaviour of the Management With Regards to EPC 2000
2015-02-01 Crushing Software Patents and Patent Maximalism in the US Still Not the Goal of Political Actors
2015-02-02 Benoît Battistelli and Jesper Kongstad Continue to Blame Everything on SUEPO
2015-02-03 More Press Coverage From the Danish Media About EPO Abuses and Protest at Danish Consulate
2015-02-05 English Translation of Ruling Against Željko Topić (EPO VP) in Croatian Court
2015-02-05 German Translation of Ruling Against Željko Topić, the EPO's Vice-President
2015-02-07 The European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW) is Again Protesting Against EPO as More Crackdowns by EPO Management Reveal Depth of Abuse
2015-02-08 The EPO's Vice-President Željko Topić and the Case of Ivan Kabalin: Part XIII
2015-02-08 The EPO Shaken by Croatian Revelations: Part XIV
2015-02-11 Cyberattacks on SUEPO Server Raise More Questions
2015-02-11 Corruption at the Croatian State Intellectual Property Office Which Željko Topić Came From: Part XV
2015-02-12 The EPO's Digital War (Censorship) Against Staff Web Site
2015-02-12 EPO Staff to March to British Consulate to Protest Against the Administrative Council (AC)
2015-02-15 English Translation of Article About Protest at Danish Consulate Over EPO Abuses
2015-02-15 FFII and the American IP Law Association Comment on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Envisioned by EPO
2015-02-15 The Case of Rikard Frgacic Versus the Croatian SIPO: Allegation of Corruption in Relation to Trademark Reassignment Under Željko Topić's Watch: Part XVI
2015-02-15 English Translation of Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About Benoît Battistelli, Željko Topić, and EPO Tyranny
2015-02-16 Amid EPO Scandals, Call to Dissolve the EPO and Start All Over Again (With New Management and New Direction)
2015-02-17 Benoît Battistelli Has Made Oversight of European Patent Office Absolutely Impossible
2015-02-17 Željko Peratović Slammed for Whitewashing Željko Topić After Publishing Important Piece on Behalf of Key Sources
2015-02-18 EPO Scandals: The Story So Far
2015-02-19 Željko Topić's History in SIPO Leaves a Legacy of Alleged DZIV Vehicles (Bribes), Authorship Abuses, and Intimidation Against Reporters
2015-02-19 Breaking: European Patent Office Sued by Its Own Staff in The Hague, Must Unblock Staff's Voices
2015-02-19 EPO Staff Protests Against Benoît Battistelli’s Lowering of Patents Quality (Scope Expansion and Software Patents for Profit)
2015-02-19 Techrights Under Attack Again, Shortly After Important EPO Articles
2015-02-20 The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys Slams the European Patent Office for Structural Failings
2015-02-21 Benoît Battistelli Once Again Threatens EPO Staff That 'Dares' to Protest, Battistelli Exploits Terror Attacks to Pretend to Respect Free Speech
2015-02-22 The EPO's Sham 'Internal Investigation' of EPO Vice-President Željko Topić's Affairs
2015-02-24 Benoît Battistelli Thinks 'President' is Above the Law, Decides to Ignore the Court's Ruling
2015-03-16 EPO Management Still in a Freefall, Tries to Warp/Divert the Debate Away From Its Abuses
2015-03-16 Video: How the Željko Topić-Led SIPO Betrayed Croatians
2015-03-17 Rikard Frgačić Explains Željko Topić's Behaviour and the Lufthansa Case
2015-03-18 Benoît Battistelli Allegedly Turns to Moscow and Putin-Inspired Tactics to Oppress and Suppress EPO Staff (Updated)
2015-03-18 Translation of Full Judgment Against Željko Topić in Croatian Defamation Case Over Bribery (Mercedes/Audi) and More
2015-03-19 How the European Patent Office (Management) is Spying on Its Very Own Staff
2015-03-23 The Royal Norwegian Department of Labour on the Right of European Patent Office (EPO) Workers to Strike
2015-03-23 Benoît Battistelli's EPO Comes Under Attack From the British
2015-03-23 Politics of Blackmail at the EPO
2015-03-24 Benoît Battistelli's EPO is Under Attack From French Politicians Yet Again
2015-03-24 Benoît Battistelli's EPO Comes Under Fire From Prominent Figures Who Are Key EPO Stakeholders, Expect Battistelli to Resign 'in the Longer Term'
2015-03-24 Concerns Over Željko Topić's Alleged Powerful Links in Croatian Diplomacy
2015-03-25 The EPO's Administrative Council is Under Increased Pressure to Rein in and to Finally Stop Benoît Battistelli
2015-03-26 The EPO's Dutch Scandal Leaves Battistelli and His Cronies on the Run
2015-03-27 Željko Topić and Ivan Å imonović, Two Residues of Ivo Sanader's Corrupt Regime, Seen as Indirectly Connected
2015-03-29 When the EPO Came Under Fire From the Netherlands and Before Systemic Corruption Was Revealed
2015-03-29 Techrights Cited by European Politicians in Support of EPO Staff's Causes
2015-04-01 When Battistelli's Defender, Dutch Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten, Attacked Europeans' Right to Demonstrate
2015-04-02 Željko Topić: “SUEPO [Staff Union] Has No Standing in This Office. SUEPO Has No Role to Play in This Office.”
2015-04-02 English, French and German Translations of Dutch Article About EPO Abuses
2015-04-02 When Battistelli's Defender Ivo Opstelten Turned Out to be Also Defending (Paying) Narcotics Traffickers
2015-04-03 English, French and German Translations of De Telegraaf Article About Ivo Opstelten's Defence of Benoît Battistelli
2015-04-03 The EPO's Dutch Appeal Court Judgment Controversy: List of Political Interventions
2015-04-08 More Suicides Reported at the Staff-Hostile European Patent Office
2015-04-09 The EPO is Becoming More Like the USPTO Under Benoît Battistelli's Greed-Driven Reign
2015-04-10 New Article Chronicles Suicides and Nervous Breakdowns at the EPO Due to the Management's Abuses
2015-04-12 European Unitary Patent Decision Due 5th of May
2015-04-13 EFF Uses Alice v. CLS Bank Case to Pressure USPTO to Halt Software Patenting
2015-04-18 More Translations of French Article About the EPO
2015-04-21 9 Millionth US Patent Tells a Story of Failure and USPTO Misconduct
2015-04-24 EPO Management is Trying Hard to Appease Its Critics While Pushing Forth Unitary Patent Agenda
2015-04-29 As Core Issues Still Not Addressed, Another Protest Against EPO Management Scheduled for Tomorrow in Munich, Germany
2015-04-30 The EPO's Tyrant, Benoît Battistelli, is Probably on His Way Out, Threatens to Resign
2015-05-18 The EPO's Fight to Bring Software Patents Into Europe is One Step Closer to a 'Victory' (for Multinationals)
2015-05-18 Even Converting an Image to Greyscale is Now a Patent
2015-05-21 More Utter Shame Unveiled at Battistelli's EPO: Intimidation Tactics With Help From 'Control Risks'
2015-05-25 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Benoît Battistelli and Four EPO Suicides
2015-05-26 Süddeutsche Zeitung Says Talking Helps While EPO Management Back-stabs Other Side of the Table
2015-05-26 Patent Scope at the EPO is Totally Out of Control, UPC Will Make Things Worse
2015-05-29 Propaganda Mode for UPC Agreement Whilst EPO Increasingly Grants Patents on Software
2015-05-30 The EPO Still Wastes Public Money on Publicity Stunts and 'Reputation Management' Campaigns
2015-06-01 EPO Reluctantly (and Privately) Confirms Giving Public Money for Military-connected 'Control Risks' to Spy on Journalists and Their Sources While Techrights is Under Fresh DDOS Attacks
2015-06-03 EPO Corruption Compared to FIFA Corruption While 'Control Risks' Helps EPO Hide/Suppress Evidence of Corruption; Calls on German Authorities to Crack Down on Both
2015-06-05 The EPO Sinks Deeper in a Scandal After Paying Public Money for Military-Connected Control Risks to Stalk Journalists and Staff
2015-06-06 EPO Officially Confirms That It Specifically Hired Control Risks Group (CRG) to Spy on Journalists and Their Sources
2015-06-06 EPO and Administrative Council Stall Criticism by Pretending to Negotiate With Staff Whilst Actually Attacking It
2015-06-07 Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About the EPO's Investigation Unit and Control Risks Group
2015-06-07 The High Cost of Low Patent Bar at the EPO
2015-06-08 Spanish Media on Reign of Terror at EPO: Managerial Misconduct, Blocked E-mails (Censorship), and Abuse of Legal Immunity
2015-06-08 The European Patent Office Has Become Militarised
2015-06-09 EPO May be Creating Its Own Lawless NSA (or GCHQ) With Control Risks Group Deal
2015-06-09 When the European Patent Office Lost in Court and Refused to Obey the Law: An Analysis
2015-06-09 European Patent Office (EPO) Now Uses Keyloggers to Spy on Staff
2015-06-09 EPO Surveillance, Threats, and Patronisation of Dutch Legal System Covered in Dutch Article From De Volkskrant
2015-06-09 Full Translation of Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About Blackhat Tactics (Keyloggers) in EPO (Updated)
2015-06-10 EPO Comes Under Fire From the Bavarian Data Protection Supervisor After the Spying Scandal
2015-06-10 More European Politicians Pressure and Sometimes Slam the European Patent Office (EPO) Amid New Scandals
2015-06-13 Badische Zeitung Labels European Patent Office (EPO) a Police State for Use of Very Intrusive Mass Surveillance Software (Updated)
2015-06-14 EPO Data Protection Officer 'Just a Dictator's Minion', Approved Keyloggers and Hidden Cameras
2015-06-15 Translation of Süddeutsche Zeitung Article Calling for External Oversight of Data Protection at the EPO
2015-06-17 More Political Interventions in EPO Abuse Cases
2015-06-17 SUEPO to SUE Government of the Netherlands for Protecting the EPO's Thugs
2015-06-18 French Newspaper Les Echos Censors Criticism of Benoît Battistelli and the EPO (Updated)
2015-06-20 Better Watch Out or the United States Will Export Software Patents to Europe, Along With Patent Trolls
2015-06-22 Demonstration Against European Patent Office Management in Munich This Wednesday
2015-06-24 EPO Protest in Munich and Growing Unpopularity of EPO Management, Media Manipulation by the Management
2015-06-25 An Estimated 1,000 EPO Staff in Munich Demonstrated Against EPO Management Yesterday Afternoon
2015-06-26 The EPO's Circus of Nepotism, Corporatism and Gross Abuse is Promoting the Unitary Patent
2015-06-27 The Council of Europe Slams the EPO as Political Pressure Grows for EPO Management to Obey the Law
2015-06-29 After Intervention by the Council of Europe Comes a Detailed Summary of the Situation in the European Patent Office (EPO)
2015-06-29 DDOS Attacks Against Techrights
2015-06-30 Techrights Confirmed as a Target of EPO Surveillance, With Help From Control Risks Group (CRG)
2015-07-01 Speculations About the EPO's Possible Role in DDOS Attacks
2015-07-01 Munich Press, Münchner Merkur, Slams the Munich-based EPO
2015-07-02 Translation of Pierre-Yves Le Borgn' Speech Against EPO Management and New Parliamentarian Interventions
2015-07-03 Amid Controversy, Political Scrutiny and Increased Media Pressure Željko Topić and Benoît Battistelli Allegedly Cancel Today's Trip to Zagreb (Croatia) Where Topić Faces Many Criminal Charges
2015-07-08 Europe Goes Down a Dark Route When It Comes to Patent Scope and Centralisation
2015-07-10 EPO Appointments: Standards of a Third World Country
2015-07-11 European Censorship: Tyrants of the EPO Blacklist Techrights, Web Site Not Accessible Office-Wide
2015-07-16 SUEPO Post Vanishes: Belated Self-Censorship or Threats From EPO Management?
2015-07-20 Patents Expansion in Europe May be Looming
2015-07-21 Patents Regime in Europe: Mixture of Greed, Competition Abuses, and Propaganda
2015-07-26 The 'Unitary' Patent Trojan Horse Rammed Down the Throat of Europe
2015-08-03 The World is Changing and Patent Law Can Change Either for Better or for Worse
2015-08-04 'Sanader’s Protégé' Željko Topić Slammed by Press in His Home Country
2015-08-05 EPO Measures Productivity Using the Wrong Yardstick in Order to Sell Its Racket to the Public
2015-08-10 Finjan, Cisco, JDate and Other Companies Acting Like Patent Trolls; New Threats to Linux
2015-08-11 Patents Roundup: EPO, Alicestorm, Facebook, 'Trade' Agreements, and Google Publicity Stunts
2015-08-13 Geographical Scope of Broadening Scope of Patents is Expanding With 1%-Centric 'Globalisation' and 'Trade' Deals
2015-08-17 Patents Roundup: Patent Reform, Google's 'Startups' Ploy, JDate, Fitbit, Cisco, and UPC in the UK
2015-08-21 EPO Corruption of Patent Boundaries: Business Methods and Algorithms Patented
2015-08-27 Another Suicide at the EPO, Fifth by Our Count
2015-08-27 Patent Practitioners:
2015-08-27 Censorship, Self-Censorship and Intimidation Now the Modus Operandi at EPO
2015-08-30 Increase in Lobbying for Software Patents in Europe and Its Trojan Horse, the Unitary Patent (UPC)
2015-09-02 When Even Patent Lawyers' Blogs Acknowledge the Rapid Demise of Software Patents
2015-09-07 India Shoots Itself in the Foot With Software Patents, Time to Act and Prevent This Worldwide
2015-09-08 Free Software Establishments in India Fight Back as Efforts to Spread Software Patents Are Reported
2015-09-09 Benoît Battistelli in Denial Over Suicides in EPO, Accuses and Threatens the Messengers
2015-09-09 EPO Management May Not Have Resigned (Yet), But the Rest of the Staff is Leaving in Droves
2015-09-09 Benoît Battistelli and His Goons From Control Risks (CRG) Try to Crush Unions, Not Just Journalism
2015-09-10 The EPO's Vicious Attacks on Its Very Own Staff Have Peaked (War on Dissent) While Oppressive Patent Regime (UPC) Phased in
2015-09-11 EPO Has Become Political and Benoît Battistelli is Lobbying for UPC (Large Corporations' Wishlist)
2015-09-12 EPO Staff Suicides Estimated to Have Grown Tenfold Under Current Regime -- Claim
2015-09-14 Patents Roundup: Europe's and India's Software Patents Affair, US Continues to Demote Software Patents With Alice Case
2015-09-17 European Patent Office Expands Censorship and Intimidation Against Staff as Pressure Mounts
2015-09-21 Dutch Report: EPO Suicides Possibly Caused by Working Conditions Imposed by EPO's Management
2015-09-22 The European Patent Office's Autocracy Has Proven the Streisand Effect, Amplifying Its Opposition's Messages
2015-09-22 Dutch Politician John Kerstens Says EPO Investigative Unit is Called ‘the Gestapo’
2015-09-23 EPO President Benoît Battistelli Compared to Famous Criminals on European Television
2015-09-23 Changes at Techrights
2015-09-23 EPO Management Justifies Censorship (Even of Journalists) Using Its Vice-President Željko Topić
2015-09-23 Translation Needed of Article About EPO Threats Against SUEPO's Elizabeth Hardon
2015-09-24 German Press Explains EPO Investigation Unit (I.U.), Struggles to Openly Speak to the Secretive EPO
2015-09-24 Europe's Acceptance of and Resistance to Software Patents, Courtesy of Corporate Front Groups and Courtrooms Respectively
2015-09-24 EPO Managers, Patent Lawyers, Commissioners and Other Non-Technical Personnel Tackle Democracy, Alter Laws in Bulk and in Secret
2015-09-25 Süddeutsche Zeitung Explains Imminent Federal Scrutiny Against Battistelli's EPO in Germany
2015-10-01 The 'Microsoft Loves Linux' Baloney is Still Being Floated in the Media While Microsoft Attacks Linux With Patents, New Lawsuits Reported
2015-10-02 Microsoft's Secret Special Relationship With EPO Illustrates Serious Corruption at Microsoft and the EPO
2015-10-02 Chairman of the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA) and EPO Vice-President of DG3 Suspiciously on Unlimited Sick Leave After Benoît Battistelli's Unprecedented Attacks on Other EBoA Staff
2015-10-04 Article Explains Why SUEPO Went Silent Well Over a Week Ago: Nobody is Allowed to Talk to Journalists Without Permission From Battistelli
2015-10-05 Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna Explains Why the UPC (“Unitary Patent“ System) is an Undemocratic Sham Whilst UPC Silently Advanced by Patent Lawyers and Politicians
2015-10-05 New Information on Limbo in the Enlarged Board, Courtesy of Illegal Actions by the EPO's Benoît Battistelli
2015-10-05 With Software Patents in Europe (and Pushes for the Same Thing in Australia and India) Patent Trolls Now Come to Europe, Attack Android/Linux
2015-10-06 Commenters Provide Possible Explanations for Mr Van der Eijk Being on Unlimited Sick Leave
2015-10-06 Željko Topić Attacks EPO Staff for 'Daring' to Legally Challenge the EPO's Management Over Its Gross Abuses in Europe
2015-10-07 EPO Staff to Disrupt Administrative Council Meeting With Public Demonstration That Raises Awareness of Abuses
2015-10-08 The Coup D'état of Benoît Battistelli Follows an Imperialist Model, Threatens Opposition and Dissent
2015-10-09 Bad News for the EPO's Judicial Independence and Due Process in Next Week's Administrative Council (AC) Meeting
2015-10-10 Benoît Battistelli's Office Accused of Institutional Harassment Against EPO Staff in New Letter to the Administrative Council, Calling for External Investigation
2015-10-11 European Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda Says TPP Will Bring Software Patents to Europe and Other Continents/Countries
2015-10-12 Leaked: EPO Prioritises Work for Large Foreign Corporations, Discrimination Not Accidental But Centrally Planned
2015-10-12 Many New Losses for Software Patents in the US, Courtesy of Alice Case/€§101
2015-10-12 Benoît Battistelli's Group of 'Loyals' Crushes Not Only the Independent Boards But Also 'Unwanted' Directorates-General
2015-10-13 EPO Management is Running Out of Time as More Media Remarks on Its Abuses
2015-10-13 EPO Staff is Happy, Says EPO Propaganda Still in the Making
2015-10-13 Patent Trolls Roundup: MPHJ, Kyle Bass, Acacia, Intellectual Ventures, Unwired Planet, Core Wireless, Vringo, and Unified Patents
2015-10-13 Confirmed: Benoît Battistelli is Crushing the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA)
2015-10-13 EPO Management Lobbies for the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Uses This to Advance Software Patents in Europe
2015-10-13 Staff of the EPO Under Siege Ahead of Tomorrow's Demonstration in Munich
2015-10-14 EPO Completely Loses It and Starts Banning Even More Sites Ahead of Today's Demonstration, UPC Proceeding Behind Closed Doors
2015-10-14 EPO Says Crushing Patent Neutrality is a Good Thing€® Because Authenticity of Self-Incriminating EPO Document Cannot be Denied
2015-10-15 Exclusive: Leaked E-mail From Grant Philpott (EPO Principal Telecommunications Director) Shows Collusion Between EPO and Microsoft to Prioritise Most Notorious Patent Bully, Microsoft
2015-10-16 Translation Needed: High Employee Sabotaged European Patent Office (EPO)
2015-10-16 EPO's Jeremy Philpott Confirms That Discriminatory (Software) Patent Processing Practices Started With Microsoft, Because of Microsoft
2015-10-16 The 'Sherlocks' of EPO/Spin-Doctoring Pretend That All of the EPO's Problems Boil Down to One Disgruntled Person (Updated)
2015-10-17 EPO is Trademark-Bullying Its Critics, Trying Repeatedly to Remove Bad Publicity With Help From Menacing Legal Threats (SLAPP)
2015-10-17 EPO Cleverly Frames Total War Against Its Own Staff as a War Against Nazism
2015-10-19 German Media Shows Discriminatory EPO Practices More Than Just a 'Pilot' (Reaching Second Half of 2016), Started When Microsoft Pressured EPO (Lodged Complaints)
2015-10-20 Benoît Battistelli et al in an Allegedly New Campaign of Defamation Against Staff Member
2015-10-20 Brute Force Cracking Attempts Against Techrights
2015-10-20 The University of Wisconsin's Lawsuit Against Apple Should Alarm Everyone, Not Just Apple Proponents
2015-10-20 Patents Roundup: Software Patents Continue to Die in the US, TPP Threatens Developers With Their Expansion, Europe Still in a Limbo
2015-10-20 German Broadcaster on European Patent Office (EPO) Preferential Treatment for Microsoft and Others
2015-10-21 EPO Increases Repressions: Allegedly Bans Staff From Helping Refugees (Updated)
2015-10-21 Vista 10 Still a Massive Failure So Microsoft Pressures People to Adopt Microsoft Spyware, Sometimes Forces Them
2015-10-21 Slate Magazine Explains Why Excessive Patenting is a Bad Thing, Gives a Cautionary Tale for EPO and Others
2015-10-22 Techrights to Increase Coverage of EPO Scandals and the Unitary Patent
2015-10-23 US Patent 'Industry' (Parasites) Defends Patently Broken System That It Profits From, Pushes for UPC in Europe
2015-10-24 SUEPO Reiterates Call for Independent Mediation and “Doubts That There Can Ever be Social Peace With Mr Battistelli as President”
2015-10-25 How the Chief Information Officer of the EPO is Connected to the President of the EPO
2015-10-25 EPO Slammed for Granting Patents on Life
2015-10-25 Techrights Realigns to Focus on Corruption
2015-10-26 The Deteriorating Working Conditions at the EPO Show Reluctance to Make Talented Staff (or Ill Staff) Happy
2015-10-27 European Patent Organisation: Hallmark of a Corrupted (by Corporations) Entity
2015-10-27 Board of Appeal Thwarts a Software Patent Application in the EPO, From Company Indirectly Connected to the EPO
2015-10-28 In the United States, USPTO Helps Create Trolls, Whereas in Europe, the EPO Itself is the Troll
2015-10-28 Control Risks Group (CRG), Transparency International, the European Patent Office (EPO) Investigative Unit and the Obvious Conflicts of Interest
2015-10-28 Secret Deals at the EPO Discredit Europe and Need to Stop Immediately
2015-10-28 Battistelli's EPO Loses 'Customers' Because It Plays 'Favourites' With Large Corporations
2015-10-30 EPO Press Spokesperson and Obvious Conflicts of Interest With Supposed Anti-Corruption Group Transparency International
2015-10-30 IBM Bemoans the Collapse of Software Patents in the US and Wants US Congress to Intervene for 'Certainty'
2015-10-30 The International Labour Organisation Highlights Problems of Broader Dimensions at EPO
2015-10-30 Benoît Battistelli Became an Embarrassment to the European Patent Organisation, Allege EPO Workers
2015-10-31 Former German Constitutional Court Judge Denounces the EPO's Possible Campaign of Defamation Against Judge Accused of Truth-Telling
2015-10-31 Private Eye Covers the EPO Scandals, Says EPO Hired 'British Snooping Firm Global Risk Consultants'
2015-10-31 Patents Roundup: Software Patents in India, the US, Microsoft's Dubious Software Patents, and Mark Cuban
2015-11-03 EPO “Careering Towards the Precipice of Disaster”
2015-11-03 The Benoît Battistelli Way or the Highway: EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal is Being Discredited, SUEPO Web Site is Down Again
2015-11-03 EFF Asks CAFC to Tackle the Trolls' Docket, the Eastern District of Texas
2015-11-04 More European Politicians Take on the EPO for Ignoring the Rule of Law
2015-11-04 The EPO's Investigative Unit Exposed: Part I
2015-11-04 A State Within a State: Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About the EPO's Bizarre Existence Above the Law
2015-11-04 Red Hat Sells Out With a Microsoft Patent Deal
2015-11-04 The Latest Propaganda From Benoît Battistelli is Promotion of the Unitary Patent (UPC) at Political Levels
2015-11-04 The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part II
2015-11-05 Dutch Political Action Against the EPO's Management Greater Than Previously Estimated
2015-11-05 The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part III
2015-11-05 CopyCamp '15 in Warsaw Discussed the Problem of Patents on Software, Which Still Exist in Europe
2015-11-06 Media Coverage of the Red Hat-Microsoft Deal Includes Microsoft Talking Points and Moles, No Discussion About Patent Aspects
2015-11-06 So-Called 'Trade' Treaties Like TPP and TTIP Threaten to Legalise Software Patents in Europe and Even Effectively Ban Software Freedom/Copyleft
2015-11-06 IP Dealmakers Forum Brags About Having the World's Largest Patent Troll as Keynote Speaker
2015-11-06 IP Kat Bemoans Crushing of the EPO's Boards by an Increasingly Paranoid EPO Management
2015-11-06 The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part IV
2015-11-07 The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part V
2015-11-08 The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part VI
2015-11-09 Wanted: USPTO Whistleblowers
2015-11-09 The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part VII
2015-11-10 European Federation of Public Service Unions Pressures Dutch Prime Minister to Take Action Against the EPO's Violations
2015-11-10 USPTO Watch: Patent Bubbles, Patents on Life, and No Prior Art Search
2015-11-10 New Reports Highlight Need to Crack Down on the European Patent Office and Microsoft
2015-11-11 The Bureaucratic Nonsense That Came Out of Benoît Battistelli and Jesper Kongstad at EPOPIC
2015-11-12 Links 12/11/2015: Ubuntu Community Council Election, Fedora Goes for Wayland
2015-11-12 Techrights Turns 9
2015-11-12 After Patent Deal With Microsoft Canon Gets Sued (Using Software Patents) by a Microsoft-Connected Patent Troll
2015-11-13 New Academic Paper Explains Why Europe Has Virtually No Patent Trolls, Italian Patent Troll Sisvel Makes a Comeback, Patent Lawyers Belittle the Problem
2015-11-14 Firms of Patent Lawyers Continue Their Battle to Restore Software Patentability in the United States
2015-11-16 The EPO is Criticised Again for Serving the Monsanto (and Syngenta) Agenda
2015-11-16 EPO: It's Like a Family Business - Part I
2015-11-17 Patent Boundaries in the US and the Risk of Europe Repeating the Mistakes of the US
2015-11-18 EPO: It's Like a Family Business - Part II
2015-11-18 The EPO's Management Has Just Reaffirmed Its Possible Role in Contributing to Staff Suicides
2015-11-18 Meltdown at the EPO, Massive Staff Protests This Afternoon
2015-11-19 Another George Bush Moment: Benoît Battistelli Says EPO Believes in “Fundamental Principles of Freedom, Equality and Justice”
2015-11-19 Patent Lawyers Want to Bring Software Patents (Hence Patent Trolls Too) to Europe, Piggyback Battistelli's Habitual UPC Promotion
2015-11-20 Patents Roundup: Alice Decision Still Upsets Patent Lawyers, Microsoft AstroTurf Group Lobbies on FRAND, Google and Red Hat Recalled
2015-11-20 Gross Aggression by EPO Management Shows the Urgent Need to Remove Immunity From EPO
2015-11-20 In an Effort to Counter EPO Staff Narrative (After ~2,000 of Staff Protest) EPO Management Portrays Staff as Violent But Provides No Evidence
2015-11-20 EPO: It's Like a Family Business - Part III
2015-11-21 'Leaked' PDF Shows How EPO Management Tried to Crush Judge Who 'Dared' to Criticise EPO Management
2015-11-21 It Pays (Off) to 'Bribe' the Media: Watch How Les Échos Covers EPO Matters and Self-Censors
2015-11-21 Washington Post Only Entertains Debate About Patent Trolls (But Not Patent Scope) Whilst US Lawyers Trick the System to Patent Software
2015-11-22 German Media Reveals That Out-of-Control EPO Management is Even Threatening and Abusing Lawyers Now
2015-11-22 German Press Says Broken EPO Lets President Severely Punish Staff Not Even Guilty of Any Wrongdoing
2015-11-22 Translation of Thomas Magenheim-Hörmann's Article in the German Media, Urging European Politicians to Intervene in EPO Chaos and Lawlessness
2015-11-22 EPO: It's Like a Family Business - Part IV
2015-11-22 President Battistelli Now Pressures/Threatens Politicians Who 'Dare' to Complain About Abuses and Unacceptable Conditions at the EPO
2015-11-22 Rumour About Efforts to Dismiss a Board Judge by Intimidating Boards of Appeal
2015-11-23 A Look at the Latest Gross Deletionism at the EPO's 'Media Partner', French Newspaper Les Échos
2015-11-23 EPO President Battistelli Now Intimidates Even National Delegations
2015-11-23 NRC Handelsblad (Dutch Evening Newspaper) Speaks About EPO's Refusal to Accept Court Orders From The Hague
2015-11-23 Support SUEPO or End Up Like They and Some of the Boards Did
2015-11-23 The Bogus Narrative Floated by EPO Management: Our Judges and Examiners Are Armed and Violent
2015-11-23 Gross Violation of Workers' Rights in EPO: Denial of Christmas Vacation/Leave for Slower Workers
2015-11-23 European Central Bank Staff Committee Adds to Growing Pressure on Abusive EPO Management
2015-11-24 New Heise Article Makes It Clear That 'Nazi'-Themed Accusations Against the Suspended Board Judge Were Insufficiently Substantiated
2015-11-24 Response to Bogus Accusations That EPO Staff Protests Are Really an Attempt to Derail UPC
2015-11-24 Censorship at the EPO Escalates: Now We Have Threats to Sue Publishers
2015-11-24 Censoring WIPR Article About Censorship by EPO
2015-11-24 United They Stand: FFPE-EPO Supports Suspended Staff Representatives From SUEPO
2015-11-25 The Sun King Delusion: The Views of Techrights Are Just a Mirror of EPO Staff Unions
2015-11-25 Debunking the EPO's Latest Marketing Nonsense From Les Échos and More on Benoît Battistelli's Nastygram to French Politician
2015-11-25 The Broken Window Economics of Patent Trolls Are Already Coming to Europe
2015-11-25 Even the EPO Central Staff Committee is Unhappy With EPO Management
2015-11-26 EPO Management Needs to Finally Recognise That It Itself is the Issue, Not the Staff or the Unions
2015-11-26 European Patent Office (EPO) a “Kingdom Above the EU Countries, a Tyranny With ZERO Accountability”
2015-11-26 A Call for Bloggers and Journalists: Did EPO Intimidate and Threaten You Too? Please Speak Out.
2015-11-26 Saving the Integrity of the European Patent Office (EPO)
2015-11-26 Guest Post: The EPO, EPC, Unitary Patent and the Money Issue
2015-11-26 Documents Needed: Contract or Information About EPO PR/Media Campaign to Mislead the World
2015-11-27 Leaked: EPO Award of €880,000 “in Order to Address the Media Presence of the EPO” (Reputation Laundering)
2015-11-27 Blogger Who Wrote About the EPO's Abuses Retires
2015-11-27 When the EPO Liaised With Capone (Literally) to Silence Bloggers, Delete Articles
2015-11-28 The European Private Office: What Was Once a Public Service is Now Crony Capitalism With Private Contractors
2015-11-28 EPO Did Not Want to Take Down One Techrights Article, It Wanted to Take Down Many Articles Using Intimidation, SLAPPing, and Psychological Manipulation Late on a Friday Night
2015-11-28 What Everyone Needs to Know About the EPO's New War on Journalism
2015-11-28 EPO: We Have Always Been at War With Europe (or Europeans)
2015-11-28 The Serious Implication of Controversial FTI Consulting Contract: Every Press Article About EPO Could Have Been Paid for by EPO
2015-11-28 The Latest EPO Spin: Staff Protesters Compared to 'Anti-Patent Campaigners' or 'Against UPC'
2015-11-29 East Texas and Its Cautionary Tale: Software Patents Lead to Patent Trolls
2015-11-29 How the EPO Twisted Defamation Law in a Failed Bid to Silence Techrights
2015-11-29 Why the European Patent Office Cannot Really Sue and Why It's All -- More Likely Than Not -- Just SLAPP
2015-11-29 Public Protests by European Patent Office (EPO) Staff Weaken the EPO's Attacks on the Media
2015-11-30 Media Alert: IAM 'Magazine' Does Not Protect Sources
2015-11-30 The Spanish EPO Scandal - Part I
2015-12-01 Željko Topić Tries to Do to EPO Staff What He Did in Croatia, Now Crushes Staff Assembly in The Hague
2015-12-01 EPO Staff Representatives Highlight to Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’ How Battistelli Deceived Him
2015-12-02 The Spanish EPO Scandal – Part II
2015-12-02 The European Patent Office (EPO) Crushes Not Only Unions But Also the Press and Even Bloggers
2015-12-03 Punto Informatico (Italian Media) About EPO's Legal Bullying Against Techrights
2015-12-03 New EPO Job Advertisement Reveals Gestapo-Like 'Deep State', Operating Outside the Rule of Law and Managed Secretly by a Tyrannical President
2015-12-03 The Spanish EPO Scandal – Part III
2015-12-03 EPO “Intranet Fails to Present Any Negative Press Cuttings, Reports and Reactions From the Media”
2015-12-03 EPO Staff Protest Statistics: Over 2,600 Signatures (So Far) in Petition, About 800 Staff in The Hague Protest, Much More to Come in Munich
2015-12-03 French Member of Parliament Reacts to EPO Management Amidst Ongoing Attacks on Staff Representatives and Facts-free Information War
2015-12-03 Impact of Software Patents and Excessive/Unregulated Profit Motives at USPTO: Now Even Common Encryption (i.e. Computer Security) Under Patent Attacks
2015-12-04 Amid EPO Exodus/Brain Drain, Two Options: 'Gestapo' Staff and Assistant to Battistelli Have Quit or Battistelli's Praetorian Guard is Expanding
2015-12-04 EurActiv's Puff Piece for EPO (Amid High-Budget Media Blitz) Reveals Just How Clueless and Tactless the EPO's President Really is
2015-12-04 The Media is Already Flooded With EPO Propaganda, Some Likely Paid for With €73,000-Per-Month 'Special' New Budget
2015-12-04 EPO Does Not Seem to Have Investigators, Only Accusers and Prosecutors (Loyal to the President)
2015-12-05 How Patent Lawyers Cover Alice v. CLS Bank (Alice Case/€§101)
2015-12-05 EPO All-Time Low: Memorandum From the Praesidium (of the Boards of Appeal) Complains to the Administrative Council About Latest Questionable Moves
2015-12-05 European Private Office (EPO) Increasingly the Subject of Media Scrutiny Despite Huge Spendings on Reputation Laundering
2015-12-06 Like JPMorgan, EPO Management Has Started a Defamatory Smear Campaign Against Critics
2015-12-06 More Than 2,000 People, Including Directors, Said to Have Protested in Munich (About HALF of All EPO Staff Including The Hague Protest)
2015-12-06 The USPTO, With All Its Serious Issues, Increasingly Looks Like the EPO's Role Model
2015-12-06 The Tail That Wags the Dog: How an EPO President Virtually Controls the Administrative Council (AC)
2015-12-06 Suppression of Voices Critical of the European Patent Office (EPO)
2015-12-06 No Wonder Staff of the EPO Gets Sick of the Management, Which Games Sickness Statistics in Order to Delude the World
2015-12-06 The EPO's PR Agency is Connected to Fracking AstroTurf in the United States
2015-12-06 EPO “Synonymous With Psychological Depressions, Nervous Breakdowns, and Even Suicides”
2015-12-07 Article Highlights EPO's Capitalist Venture Tendencies, Seeking to Just Maximize Profit, Irrespective of Public Interests and Human Factors
2015-12-07 Staff Union of the EPO Responds to Benoît Battistelli's Alleged Defamation of Staff Representatives
2015-12-07 Microsoft is Once Again Getting Away With Browser Competition Crimes (This Time in Europe)
2015-12-07 New WIPR Survey Shows 96% of Respondents Are Concerned About the Situation at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2015-12-07 Outside Interventions Sought in EPO Amid Scandals, New Intervention Comes From OHIM
2015-12-07 Did the EPO Spike a BBC Story Regarding Discriminatory Practices, Legal Bullying of Bloggers, and/or Microsoft Bias?
2015-12-08 The EPO is Trying to Make It a Serious Offense to Merely Inform Colleagues About Oneself (or Others) Being Subjected to Institutional Harassment/Witch-hunt by Team Battistelli
2015-12-08 FRAND Tax, Patent Trolls as Satellites of Large Patent Aggressors, EPO Puff Pieces, and Another Imminent EPO Protest
2015-12-08 Team Battistelli Plans to Send to Exile (or Effectively Fire) Law-abiding Staff Because the Staff is Independent and Unwilling to Sack a Whistleblower
2015-12-08 EPO Management: Associating a Whistleblowing Judge With Nazism and Weapons, Associating Staff Representatives With Snipers!
2015-12-08 Lawyers' Response to Incredible Accusations From EPO Management and Its Praetorian Guard
2015-12-08 Hypocrite in Chief: Benoît Battistelli Compares Staff Union to 'Mafia'
2015-12-09 Legal Analysis Reveals That EPO Principal Director for Human Resources (Bergot) Resorts to “Gross Violation of Due Process”
2015-12-09 EPO's Team Battistelli is Promoting Only the Oppressors
2015-12-09 Chairman of the Administrative Council Failed to Stop Suspension (and Potential Firing) of EPO Staff Representatives
2015-12-09 EPO 'Investigators' Are Almost Technically Illiterate, Definitely Biased by Design
2015-12-09 Watch Out for the Latest EPO Charm Offensive in the Media, Greenwashing Being the Theme Du Jour
2015-12-10 GNU/Linux Hosted by Microsoft Means Lock-in, Ransom, and Back Doors
2015-12-10 Software Patents and EPO Coverage
2015-12-10 An Introduction and an Overview of European Patent Office (EPO) Scandals
2015-12-10 Union Busting at the European Patent Office, Dressed Up as 'Investigation'
2015-12-10 Tightening Media Control: European Patent Office (EPO) Silences Blogs of Critics by Intimidation, Lawsuits
2015-12-10 Surveillance Audits at the EPO
2015-12-11 EPO Vice-President Željko Topić Formally Weakens the Right to Strike, Threatens Financial Retaliation
2015-12-11 Contacting National Delegations to Complain About the European Patent Office (EPO)
2015-12-11 The EPO's Double Standard on Confidentiality
2015-12-11 A Little Taste of European Patent Office 'Justice'
2015-12-11 Photos From EPO Protest in Munich
2015-12-11 EPO Scandals in Private Eye Again
2015-12-11 Series Teaser: EPO President Battistelli's Relationship With Power
2015-12-12 New Private Eye Article Says EPO “Doesn't Actually Deny That There's a Fast-Track Project Allowing Big Firms to Queue-Jump”
2015-12-12 EPO 'Sweetener' for Administrative Council National Delegates
2015-12-12 A Day After Massive EPO Protest Benoît Battistelli Tries Using Money to Appease Staff
2015-12-12 EPO Central Staff Committee Warns That EPO President Illegally Changes the Rules to Remove the Rights of the Accused, Crush Dissent/Unions
2015-12-12 EPO Censored Itself After Publishing a Document Which Had Been Leaked Anyway
2015-12-12 IAM 'Magazine' Protects Patent Trolls, Blocks People Who Disapprove
2015-12-12 The European Patent Office is a Lobby Organisation, Was and Still is Lobbying for Expansion of Patent Scope (Also to Software) Through UPC
2015-12-13 The EPO's Failed (Dismissed) Attempt to Dismiss a Judge Alleged to Have Communicated About EPO Abuses
2015-12-13 Patents Roundup: Software Patents Debate in the US, Microsoft and Apple Fight in Favour
2015-12-13 When SUEPO Called the EPO a “Public Service Organisation Out of Control”
2015-12-13 Keeping the European Patent Office (EPO) Out of Politics Amid the EPO's Campaign to Deceive the Media, Politicians
2015-12-14 EPO No Longer in the 'Business' of Just Granting Patents But Politics and Lobbying Also
2015-12-14 The Open Invention Network and Software Patents
2015-12-14 Battistelli's Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part I
2015-12-14 Heise Article Tackles EPO 'Feud' (Union Busting in Disguise), Techrights' Remarks Follow
2015-12-14 Watch Out For the EPO-SUEPO Parity Spin
2015-12-14 IRS Reveals That Microsoft Effectively Stole Tens of Billions of Dollars of Public Money Using a Network of Tax Havens
2015-12-15 In a Case Involving Microsoft, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Originator of Software Patents) Squashes Software Patents
2015-12-15 Samsung Turns to SCOTUS (Killer of Many Software Patents) to Annul Mega-fine Induced by Apple's Patent Aggression
2015-12-15 When Europe's Leading International Patent Litigators Get Fed Up With Benoît Battistelli and Want Him Sent to 'Exile'
2015-12-15 Battistelli's Vision of UPC is Closer Contract With Major Applicants (Abroad), Contrary to European Interests
2015-12-15 More Than Half of US Patent Lawsuits Filed in the Patent Trolls' Docket, the Eastern District of Texas
2015-12-15 Ahead of Tomorrow's Administrative Council Meeting EPO Staff Representatives Warn Heads of Delegations About Union Busting and Other Abuses
2015-12-15 Very High Proportion of EPO Staff in Berlin Goes to the Streets to Protest and to Defend SUEPO From the Union Busters
2015-12-16 UPC and Patent Trolls: The Connection Revisited
2015-12-16 Battistelli's Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part II
2015-12-16 Unanimous Negative Opinion on the Proposal of Benoît Battistelli to Eliminate Basic Rights at EPO
2015-12-16 Great News: Software Patents Stopped in India, For Now...
2015-12-16 New WIPO Figures Reinforce Reality Where More Patents Needn't Imply More Innovation, Just Lower Standards
2015-12-16 AIPPI Sends Angry Letter to the Administrative Council Regarding the EPO's Attacks on the Boards and Staff Unions, Saying it Damages the EPO's Function and Reputation
2015-12-17 European Patent Institute (EPI) Not Happy With the EPO's Terrible Treatment of the Boards of Appeal
2015-12-17 Battistelli Wants to Make “Lobbying in the Field of European and Unitary Patent” a “Prohibited Activity” for All Except Himself
2015-12-17 Benoît Battistelli's EPO Continues Its Self-Congratulatory PR Charade, Neglecting to Even Acknowledge the Catastrophes Therein
2015-12-17 Members of the European Parliament Slam the EPO for Patent Maximalism That Led to Granting of Patents on Plants
2015-12-17 EPO Attacks Staff Representatives' Right to Work Just One Week Before Christmas
2015-12-17 Administrative Council Does Not Crush the Boards But Does Crush the Unions (Suspension Duration Sextupled)
2015-12-17 Ahead of Administrative Council Meeting, General Consultative Committee Warned of “Witch Hunt in Pursuit of SUEPO Officials” (Union Busting)
2015-12-17 EPO Union Responds to Željko Topić and Raimund Lutz's Attempt to Intimidate Staff That Joins Unions
2015-12-18 Battistelli's Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part III
2015-12-18 Benoît Battistelli: “An Earthquake Would be Needed for the Administrative Council... Not to Support My Major Proposals.”
2015-12-18 EPO Irrelevancy, Two Decades to be Granted an EPO Patent, Outrage Over Patents on Plants in EPO
2015-12-19 EPI Silently Removes Criticism of the European Patent Office/Organisation, Techrights Preserves It
2015-12-19 EPO Pays FTI Consulting (Nearly a Million Bucks), Which Pays IAM for Pro-UPC Propaganda Event
2015-12-19 Rumour: Administrative Council Advises Benoît Battistelli Not to Fire Staff Representatives
2015-12-19 Jacques Michel (Former EPO VP1), Benoît Battistelli's EPO, and the Leak of Internal Staff Data to Michel's Private Venture
2015-12-19 Patent Maximalism and the Patent Trolls Epidemic Which It Leads to Not a Problem for Patent Lawyers
2015-12-19 Watch Out for 'Divide and Rule' Tactics From the Control Risks- and FTI Consulting-Steered EPO
2015-12-19 Microsoft is Entrapping Android With Infamous (ex)FAT Patents and Turning Android Phones Into Microsoft Listening Devices (Bugs)
2015-12-20 EPO Management Discovers Media is Against It
2015-12-20 Battistelli's Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part IV
2015-12-21 Software Patents Are Being Defeated to the Detriment of Large Multinationals, Their Patent Lawyers, and Patent Trolls Who Piggyback Them
2015-12-21 More Sunday Humour: Fictional Diary From the European Patent Office
2015-12-21 An Atmosphere of Revolt Inside the European Patent Office
2015-12-21 Battistelli's Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part V
2015-12-21 Upcoming Series: The EPO as 'Public' Service for Private Profits
2015-12-21 The Forgotten History of IAM 'Magazine' as EPO Management's Megaphone and EPO Union Basher
2015-12-22 EPO Level of Trust Reaches All-Time Low: Workers Distrust the Available Phones in Their Offices, Use Mobiles Instead
2015-12-22 Translation of the Latest Communiqué About the Administrative Council, No Longer Published by 'President'
2015-12-22 The Collapse of Patent Maximalism: Latest Major Setbacks for Software Patents and Patent Trolls
2015-12-22 Europe Under Siege by Patent Lawyers, UPC Ambitions, and the Administrative Council's Continued Passive Support of Battistelli
2015-12-23 EPO Administrative Council: the Situation is “Detrimental to the Proper Functioning of the Office and the Public Image of the Whole Organisation”
2015-12-23 Managing IP Interview With Battistelli Shows That He's Either Deluded or Dishonest About EPO Realities
2015-12-24 I-AM EPO: How the Record of the EPO's Management Dispute With Staff and the EPC is Being Rewritten by EPO-Funded Media
2015-12-24 Concerns About the Unitary Patent Court (UPC) Among EPO Staff an Outcome of Battistelli's Attacks on Staff
2015-12-24 Insensitivity at the EPO's Management - Part I: An Introduction
2015-12-26 Insensitivity at the EPO's Management - Part II: Patent Office as a Cancer
2015-12-26 Benoît Battistelli Fails to Get Majority of 38 Member States to Crush the Boards, Which Are Already Being Crushed Anyway (23 Vacant Judge Positions)
2015-12-26 Monday Talk at Chaos Computer Club (Germany) Makes the Case Against Software Patents
2015-12-26 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part III: Death in the Family
2015-12-26 Witnessing the Patent Mess That the USPTO Created
2015-12-26 Europatis: “Turnover of €211,800 and Zero Employees”
2015-12-26 Loose Data 'Protection' and Likely Privacy Infringements at the EPO: Here's Who Gets Employees' Internal Data
2015-12-26 Summary of the EPO-Europatis Series
2015-12-27 EPO Whistleblowing: How (Not) to Use Machines at the Office
2015-12-27 Battistelli's Proposed Changes to Pensions “Difficult to Understand”, “Liable to Cause Instability”, Without Consultation or Justification
2015-12-27 Revolving Doors of High-Level EPO Management: Jacques Michel and the Questel Deal With the EPO
2015-12-27 Insensitivity at the EPO's Management - Part IV: Criticism Regarding Patent Scope is Verboten
2015-12-28 Buying Panels and Paying the Media to Cement Personal Agenda: The Bill Gates Common Core Case Mirrors the Battistelli Unitary Patent Case
2015-12-28 Today's Chaos Computer Club (CCC) Talk: EU Software and Business Method Patents: Call for Action
2015-12-28 EPO a “European Institution Which Does Not Fall Under EU Law”
2015-12-31 EPO Coverage to Increase in 2016, Including UPC Reality Checks
2015-12-31 Microsoft's Latest Patent Aggression Comes Under Fire From the EFF, Former GNU/Linux Company the Patent's Target
2015-12-31 Software Patents Used by Patent Trolls in the United States Are Squashed in Courts
2016-01-01 European Patent Office (EPO) Starts New Year With Hogwash
2016-01-01 Meeting the EPO's PR Team and Learning Its Dirty Tricks
2016-01-02 German and European Patent Attorney Warns That UPC Would Bring More Patent Trolls to Europe, With Help From the EPO
2016-01-03 Abogados de Patentes de Alemania y Europa advierten que la UPC traerá más Trolls de Patentes a Europa con ayuda de la EPO
2016-01-03 British MEP May Soon Complain to Benoît Battistelli About EPO Process, No Closer Contacts With Ordinary Applicants
2016-01-03 What the European Patent Office (EPO) Looks Like to European SMEs
2016-01-03 The Long EPO Queue for European SMEs That Cannot Hop Like Multinational Corporations
2016-01-05 La Larga Cola Para Las PYMEs Europeas que No Pueden Evitar Como Si lo Hace las Corporaciones Multinacionales
2016-01-05 Shedding Light on the Secretive Mock Trial of Elizabeth Hardon and Others (EPO Union Busting)
2016-01-05 The European Patent Office (EPO) Has Become a Propaganda Mill After the FTI Consulting Deal
2016-01-05 So Much for 'Vocal Minority'... Half of EPO Staff Signed Petition in Support of SUEPO
2016-01-05 Patent Lawyers and People in 'IP' Jobs Warp the Debate About the Patent System: EPO-Funded Writers, Glorification of Patent Trolls, and Software Patents
2016-01-07 Now It's Just Patent Lawyers (and Their Rich Clients) Against Everybody Else, Seeking to Maximise Protectionism
2016-01-07 Patent Lawyers Say It “Remains to be Seen How the EPO Will Limit the Number of PACE Requests an Applicant Can Make”
2016-01-08 The European Patent Office (EPO) Doesn't Like Spanish, So Why Should the Spanish Tolerate the EPO?
2016-01-08 Patent Lawyers Continue to Spin Grim News About Patents (UPC, Lawsuits Peak, Patent Raids) as Good News
2016-01-10 A La Oficina Europea de Patentes (OEP) no le gusta el Español, Así que PorQué los EspaÅ„oles la Toleran?
2016-01-10 Patent Lawyers and Judges Don't Understand Software Development and It Harms Programmers, Practicing Software Companies
2016-01-10 A Busy Week Ahead for the EPO's Management as Union-busting Efforts Culminate
2016-01-10 Technology Companies at CES Lash Out at the USPTO for Enabling 'Extortion Rackets'
2016-01-11 Not Just Three (or Even Six) EPO Staff Representatives Under Attack
2016-01-11 How the EPO Imposes Secrecy Around Mock 'Trials' and What the EPO Calls 'Violence'
2016-01-12 The European Patent Office (EPO) Still Quietly Abusive
2016-01-12 Why the Corporations-Leaning US Political System Does Not and Will Not Help Resolve the Patent Chaos
2016-01-12 Transparency is Sunlight in the Kingdom of the EPO Vampires
2016-01-13 Germany Needs to Respect the European Patent Convention and Stop Issuing Software Patents, Also Reject UPC
2016-01-14 The EPO is Manufacturing Propaganda Again, Releasing Misleading Figures to the Media
2016-01-14 USPTO Doubled the Number of Granted Patents in Just a Few Years, Demonstrating Very Sharp Decline in Patent Quality
2016-01-15 Massive EPO Protests After Team Battistelli Fires Legitimate Critics and Staff Representatives (Even Those With Young Children)
2016-01-15 Pierre-Yves Le Borgn' Lashes Out at EPO for Firing Staff Representatives
2016-01-16 Hundreds of EPO Staff at The Hague (Including Managers) Spontaneously Protested Today, Making Almost Half of All Staff Present
2016-01-16 How the EPO Prevented Scapegoats ('Defendants') in Its Mock 'Trials' From Actually Presenting a Defense
2016-01-16 EPO Staff Protests in Berlin and Vienna
2016-01-16 The Witch-hunt Against Elizabeth Hardon Leads Back to Battistelli
2016-01-16 The EPO “Hearing Was a Mockery.”
2016-01-16 Summarising the Latest Attacks by the European Patent Office (EPO) on European Society, With Complicity of Corporate Media
2016-01-16 Transparencia es Luz del Sol en el Reino de los Vampiros de la OEP
2016-01-16 La OEP Está Manufacturando Propaganda de Nuevo Publicando Engañosas Figuras a los Medios de Comunicación
2016-01-17 Battistelli Hopes That People Forget (or Don't Know About) Criminal Charges Against Željko Topić, But Croatian Media Does Not Forget as Election Imminent
2016-01-17 Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’ Responde Críticamente a la OEP por Despedir a Sus Representates
2016-01-17 Unitary Patent (UPC) Highlights Reality Behind the EPO's Management and Its Multinational/Overseas Bosses
2016-01-17 Team Battistelli Has Brought Dirty Politics to the EPO, Pension Cuts May be “Blatantly Illegal”
2016-01-17 €¿Cómo la OEP Evitó Que Sus Chivos Expiatorios (€´Acusados€´) Presentes sus Defensas en los €¨Juicios€¨ Contra Ellos
2016-01-18 Battistelli's Legitimacy Under Political Fire After He Fired Staff Representatives, Claims He's Neither Suitable Nor Eligible to be EPO President
2016-01-18 European Patent Office (EPO) is Not “the Real World” But a Parallel Universe Without Any Regard for the Rule of Law
2016-01-18 French Politician Philip Cordery Calls the EPO Authoritarian, Says the Union-busting Decisions Are Purely Scandalous
2016-01-19 Techrights Needs Translations as Another EPO Staff Protest Looms
2016-01-19 Tomorrow's EPO Protest to Target Union-busting Actions Disguised as 'Social Dialogue' or 'Union Recognition'
2016-01-19 Battistelli “Exacerbated the Penalties Which Were Recommended by the Disciplinary Committees for All Three EPO Unionists” (Under Mock Trial)
2016-01-19 EPO Management and Its PR Team a Den of Liars, Even Lying to Their Own Staff
2016-01-19 Poor Journalism From Süddeutsche Zeitung Perpetuates the EPO Management's Lies
2016-01-19 SLAPP-Happy EPO Vice-President Željko Topić Loses Croatian Defamation Lawsuit -- AGAIN!
2016-01-20 Microsoft's Campaign to Force Everyone to Use Vista 10 Should Drive/Motivate Immediate Escape to GNU/Linux
2016-01-20 EPO/FTI Consulting-funded Event for UPC Will Be Stuffed With Mega-corporations from the United States
2016-01-20 The Next Phase of Union Busting: Battistelli Now Cutting Salaries of Yet More EPO Staff Representatives
2016-01-20 La Legitimidad de Battistelli bajo Fuego Político Después que Despidió Representates de la Unión, Reclamos que El NO es el Indicado or Ineligible para Presidente de la OEP
2016-01-21 Benoît Battistelli Blasted by Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’, Who Initiates More Political Actions Against Him
2016-01-21 The EPO's PR Team May be Trying a New 'Damage Control' Strategy Amid Historic Protests by Staff
2016-01-21 In Unison, Nations Hop Aboard the Unitary Patent Train Wreck, For (Foreign) Corporate Gain at Europe's Expense
2016-01-21 The Linux Foundation Has Become Like a Corporate Think Tank, Microsoft Influence Included
2016-01-22 Two More EPO Protests on Their Way, Thousands of Employees Projected to Attend Overall
2016-01-23 Benoît Battistelli es Repréndido por Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’, Quien Ha Iniciado Acciones Políticas en Su Contra
2016-01-23 EPO President Battistelli and Vice-President Topić Are Having Political Problems
2016-01-23 EPO Implicitly Acknowledges Declining Patent Quality by Agreeing to Finally Dump Some Monsanto GMO Patents
2016-01-23 Additional Information About EPO Management and Its Abuses, as Told by Anonymous Comments
2016-01-23 Union-Busting Strategies Backfire: After Additional EPO Protests/Actions (Over 2,000 in Attendance With More to Come) a STRIKE is Being Planned
2016-01-24 Dismissal of EPO Staff Representatives Does Not Eliminate Them as EPO Staff Sticks Together, Shares the Burden, the Pain
2016-01-24 Süddeutsche Zeitung After FTI Consulting Deal: EPO Ghostwriter or Journalism?
2016-01-24 Patent Lawyers and Their Sites/Media Still a Barrier to End of Software Patents and Patent Wars
2016-01-26 Philip Cordery Says the EPO Situation is Well Known to All, as Attested by the Numerous Press Articles, Political Actions, or Administrative Recommendations
2016-01-26 Newly-Released Badinter Report Shows That by Treating Staff Like Garbage the European Patent Office is Violating Fundamental Rights
2016-01-26 The EPO Goes Lobbying Even More Heavily in Brussels, Reveals New Job Advertisement
2016-01-26 EPO Protest in The Hague This Week Targets Next Wave of Silent (by Gag Orders) Union Busting
2016-01-26 The United States' Patent System Lets Software Patents Rot, as Patent Trolls Take Over the System and Unrest Grows
2016-01-27 The EFF-Recommended Advice on Patents From Juelsgaard/Stanford Law School Potentially Worse Than Useless
2016-01-27 No More Defeatism: Battistelli's Days at the European Patent Office May be Numbered
2016-01-27 Los Abogados de Patentes y sus Sitios/Medios de Comunicación Todavía Son una Barrera para Terminar las Guerras de Patentes
2016-01-28 EPO Staff at The Hague to Protest Shortly; Here is Why We Should All Support Them
2016-01-28 Patents Roundup: Apple, Patent Trolls, Software Patents, East Texas, and Rick Frenkel (Best Known as Patent Troll Tracker)
2016-01-28 Over a Thousand People Protest at The Hague; The EPO's PR Team is Lying Again About the Busting of Staff Unions, Pretends There is “Union Recognition”
2016-01-28 Many Software Firms No Longer Bother With Software Patents, Especially After Alice
2016-01-28 EPO Protests Earn Coverage on Dutch Television, Programme Starts Now (10PM CET)
2016-01-29 Independent Dutch Investigation to Commence Into the Working Conditions at the European Patent Office in Rijswijk
2016-01-29 Dutch Television Talks About EPO Conflict and Today's Protest at The Hague, Previous Protests Too
2016-01-29 EFF: “Software Patents Ruin Everything”
2016-01-29 FOSDEM Talk Against Software Patents and Against UPC This Weekend
2016-01-29 Dutch Media's Coverage of Protest at The Hague Leaves VP1 Minnoye a New Laughing Stock of the EPO's Staff
2016-01-29 Battistelli and His Bodyguards: Paranoia, Megalomania, or Both? Are China-Style 'Suicide Nets' Next on the EPO's Agenda?
2016-01-30 Electronic Frontier Foundation Talks About Xerox Software Patents, Evoking Memories of Microsoft's Patent Trolls and Proxies
2016-01-30 The Greedy USPTO Leaves Loopholes, “Per Se”, for Patenting of Software in the United States Despite the Alice Case
2016-01-30 The Connection Between the EPO's Investigative Unit/Battistelli Policies and EPO Suicides
2016-01-30 Translation: What If the European Patent Office Were to Torture?
2016-01-30 When European SMEs Make the Mistake of Relying on the EPO's Integrity, Now Want to Even SUE the EPO
2016-01-31 When European Parliament/Commission Gets Embroiled in the EPO Scandals
2016-01-31 Richard Stallman: European Software Patents Are Back With the Unitary Patent Court (UPC)
2016-01-31 Political Complaints About European Patent Office Abuses Keep Flooding in After Firing of Staff Representatives (Busting of Unions)
2016-01-31 MEP Konstantina Kouneva (Former Trade Unionist) Again Takes Action Against the European Patent Office for Union-Busting Actions
2016-02-01 Under Battistelli's Regime the European Patent Office is Rapidly Rotting
2016-02-01 Slides of New Talk Which Explains the Connection Between the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Software Patents
2016-02-02 Münchner Merkur Explains That EPO Staff is Defecting to SUEPO, Even The Council Distrusts Battistelli Now
2016-02-03 SUEPO (EPO Staff Union) Appears to Have Launched a New and Improved Web Site After Attempts to Crush ('Decapitate') SUEPO
2016-02-03 Patent Invalidation Statistics and Cost of Patent Litigation (Even If Bogus) Show That Patent Scope and Examination Standards a Problem in Europe, Not Just the US
2016-02-03 Angry Trolls: Rovi (of Angry Birds Fame) Helps Microsoft's Largest Anti-Linux Patent Troll, Intellectual Ventures (Corrected)
2016-02-03 The Most Detailed Explanation (Yet) of What's Wrong With the EPO
2016-02-04 Company Known as European Patent Office Provides Tips on How to Patent Software in Europe
2016-02-04 Caricature of the Day: EPO President
2016-02-04 Benoît Battistelli's EPO: From Show Trials and Mock Trials to a Self-Aggrandising Propaganda Event Later Today in Rijswijk
2016-02-04 Readers' Article: A Strange Conspiracy of Silence in the German Media (Part I)
2016-02-04 The 'International' Trade Commission Imposes/Reinforces Software Patents to Establish Another Embargo
2016-02-04 European Patent Office Pretends It's Business as Usual and Prepares New Vanity Pieces
2016-02-04 The Siege Continues: Patent Lawyers Want More Patents, Including Software Patents, In Spite of Alice
2016-02-05 Readers' Article: A Strange Conspiracy of Silence in the German Media (Part II)
2016-02-06 VirnetX Case Against Apple Shows Not the Problem With Patent Trolls But With Software Patents
2016-02-06 Rumours About Dismissal of Benoît Battistelli and New Letter From Union Syndicale Federale Blasting Battistelli's Behaviour
2016-02-06 The 'Offenses' of EPO Staff Representatives Boil Down to Truth-Telling
2016-02-07 UPC: To Understand Who Would Benefit From It Just Look at Who's Promoting It (Like TPP)
2016-02-07 EPO Staff Responds to Team Battistelli's Expansion to Include French Economic Propagandist on the Payroll
2016-02-07 The Alice Case Continues to Smash Software Patents (This Time OpenTV's); Will the EPO Ever Pay Attention?
2016-02-07 SIPO (China's Patent Office) Taken Over by Patent Maximalists
2016-02-08 'Aversion to Change' Propaganda From the EPO Echoes or Parrots Lenin and Stalin
2016-02-08 Latest Propaganda From the EPO's Management an Effort to Make the EPO the Tool of Megacorporations
2016-02-08 Microsoft-Connected FRAND Lobbying (Software Patents Against Free/Open Source Software) in Brussels
2016-02-08 The European Patent Office “is Acting as Though the Law Does Not Apply to It.”
2016-02-09 The EPO's Benoît Battistelli is the Dictator Who Can No Longer Dictate Like He Used to
2016-02-09 EPO Union (SUEPO) Getting Busted: “More and More People are Joining the Union, but Fewer and Fewer People Dare to Take on Leading Positions There.”
2016-02-09 Even the Legal Community is Upset at Benoît Battistelli for the Damage He Did to the EPO
2016-02-09 Several Political Parties Directly Challenge the European Patent Office for Ignoring the Law, Not Obeying Court Orders
2016-02-09 Besieged Benoît Battistelli Mimics 'Damage Control' Tactics of FIFA or Blatter as More Judges Start Getting Involved in EPO Scandals
2016-02-10 Member of European Parliament Brings Up “Ongoing Violations of the Fundamental and Employment Rights of the Staff of EPO”
2016-02-10 UPC Nepotism, Political Abuses, and UPC Involvement From the Legal Firm That EPO Hired to Bully Techrights
2016-02-10 More Than 20 Years in the Line: European Patent Office and Claims of European Convention on Human Rights Infringement Against Applicants/Stakeholders
2016-02-10 EPO Brain Drain (Even Directors Fed Up With Team Battistelli) and Rumours About Battistelli Becoming President of the UPC
2016-02-11 Microsoft Continues to Use Software Patents to Extort/Blackmail Even More Companies That Use Linux, Forcing/Coercing Them Into Preinstalling Microsoft
2016-02-11 Nepotismo de la UPC, Abusos Políticos, y el Envolvimiento en la UPC de la Firma €¨Legal€¨ que la OEP Contrato para Matonear a Techrights
2016-02-11 Only Half a Dozen Cuban Patents Filed at EPO, But Hugely Unpopular Battistelli Goes to Cuba to Garner Cheap Support
2016-02-11 New EPO Protests Amid Nervous Breakdowns of Spanish EPO Employee (After Institutional Bullying by Battistelli's Goons), Spain Rejects the Unitary Patent (UPC)
2016-02-12 In Lawyerland, Simulated UPC 'Trials' and More Extraordinary EPO Propaganda for Change That Would Harm Europe to Help Patent Lawyers and Their Big Clients
2016-02-13 Sólo Media Docena de Patentes Cubana Registradas en la OEP, Pero el Trístemente Célebre Battistelli Va a Cuba a Acumular Apoyo Baráto
2016-02-13 Microsoft Continua Usando Patentes de Software para Extorsionar/Chantajear Incluso Más Compañías que Usan Linux, Forzandolas/Coerciendoles a PreInstallar Basura de Microsoft
2016-02-13 Feedback About Battistelli's 'Meet the President' Event in Rijswijk (4th of February, 2016)
2016-02-13 The European Patent Office, Aloof/Apathetic to Inventors and Human Rights, Simply Cannot be Trusted With the Unitary Patent (UPC)
2016-02-14 Patents Roundup: Software Patents, Patenting Loopholes, PTAB, Patent Trolls, and Software Patents Propagandists
2016-02-15 Última Propaganda de la Gerencia de la OEP un Esfuerzo para hacer de ella la Herramienta de las Grandes Corporaciones
2016-02-15 La Oficina Europea de Patentes, Por Encima/Apatética a los Inventores y los Derechos Humanos, Simplemente NO Puede Ser Confíada con la Patente Unitaria (UPC)
2016-02-15 With Software Patents, “the [Low] Level of the USPTO Has Now Be[en] Reached by the EPO”
2016-02-16 Con Patentes de Software,
2016-02-16 Microsoft Certified Partner Immersion Sues Apple Using Software Patents While Microsoft Hoards Similar Patents
2016-02-16 The Abuses of the EPO's Management Against Staff Extend to Their Families
2016-02-16 EPO VP1 Willy Minnoye and His Bizarre Claims About Systematic Crackdown on the EPO Unions (More Than Half a Dozen People Targeted is Clearly Not a Coincidence)
2016-02-16 A New MUST-READ Article From Croatia About EPO Vice-President Željko Topić, Condemning His Behaviour Even Inside the EPO
2016-02-16 Caricature of the Day: Willy Minnoye (EPO) Above the Law
2016-02-16 Transcript of EPO Official Admitting on Television (Nieuwsuur Interview) That Courts Are of No Interest to Him
2016-02-16 The European Patent Office (EPO) Openly Advocates Software Patents Despite the Rules
2016-02-16 How the European Patent Office (EPO) is Crushing Staff Unions and Why EPO Staff Has a Moral Duty to Protest
2016-02-17 Patent Lawyers and EPO Officials Are Parading the Unitary Patent (UPC) in, Despite Lack of Democratic Process
2016-02-17 A Short Visit to Pro-Patents (or Patent Maximalism) Sites of Patent Lawyers and Patent Predators
2016-02-18 Danish Left's Alternate for European Parliament Slams the European Patent Office While Staff Protests Are Again Ignored by the German Media
2016-02-18 The EPO's Patent Coup in Europe Moves on With Conflict of Interests-Plagued German Authorities for UPC
2016-02-18 Team Battistelli Tries to Bend the Rules to Prevent the European Patent Office From Going on Strike
2016-02-18 Open Letter Explains Why Disciplinary Committees at the EPO Have Become a Sham Under Battistelli's Regime
2016-02-18 EPO Management Reportedly in a State of Collapse, Rumours Suggest Battistelli Possibly Out Soon, Events Canceled
2016-02-19 Rumours Suggest That Battistelli, Already Enjoying Life With a Huge (But Still Secret) Salary, Wants More Than a Decade's Worth of Salary to Leave
2016-02-19 Source: EPO's Administrative Council Not Pursuing Battistelli's Witch-hunt Against a Judge Anymore
2016-02-19 A Preview of Injunctions/Raids Heaven in Europe With the Unitary Patent (Continent-Wide Bans and Embargoes by Patent Lawyers)
2016-02-19 Patent Trolls and the Rise of Non-Practicing Parasites Not Just in the US But Also in Europe
2016-02-20 Alice Continues to Eliminate Software Patents in the United States and Even Microsoft Beats Some
2016-02-20 Business Model of Patent Trolls Terribly Shaken as Their Weapon of Choice (Software Patents) Tackled, New Developments Emerge
2016-02-22 La Oficina Europea de Patentes (OEP) Abiertamente Aboga por las Patentes de Software a Pesar de las Reglas
2016-02-22 Call for Information: Separating EPO Rumours From Confirmed Facts
2016-02-22 Germany, Which Allows People in Europe and Abroad to Patent Software (EPC Shunned), Simply Cannot be Trusted With the EPO and UPC
2016-02-22 New EPO Rumours About Benoît Battistelli's Potential Role in the Bygmalion Affair
2016-02-22 More Political Action in France, Still Firmly Against the Largely French EPO Management
2016-02-22 “Bavarian Government is Unable to Become Involved in the Business Operations of Supra-national Organizations” Like EPO
2016-02-22 The European Patent Office's Head of Recruitment and Talent Management Quits, More People Reportedly Exit Quietly
2016-02-23 Gags and Raids: Watch What the US Patent System Has Come to
2016-02-23 Leaked: Board 28 Message to Heads of Delegation of the Administrative Council (EPO)
2016-02-24 New Leak: Battistelli's Circle, Now Fighting for Survival, Circulates a Letter (and Why Some at the EPO Believe It's a Form of Blackmail)
2016-02-24 Request of Transcription and Translation: FICSA Letter Against EPO, French Media on EPO Abuses
2016-02-24 More Information About Battistelli's Utterly Miserable Last EPO Moves (Leaked Photo Included)
2016-02-24 Techrights Reaches 20,000 Posts
2016-02-24 Federation of International Civil Servants’ Associations Bemoans EPO Climate of “Fear, Threats, Intimidation or Retaliation”
2016-02-24 IBM and Other Giant Multinationals Upset That Software Patents Are Increasingly Rejected in the US, Now India
2016-02-24 Large Corporations and Their Patent Lawyers Up in Arms After US Government Effectively Abolished a Lot of Software Patents
2016-02-24 EPO-Funded Unitary Patent (UPC) Propaganda Events and the Latest on the Undemocratic (Even Antidemocratic) UPC Push
2016-02-24 Possible Connections Found Between WIPO Misconduct and “a Dozen Serious Criminal Charges” Against EPO's Željko Topić
2016-02-25 The EPO's Investigative Unit (I.U.) Called 'Gestapo' on Dutch Television
2016-02-25 The Joint Subcommittee Hearing on the World Intellectual Property Organisation's Vicious Attacks on Whistleblowers
2016-02-25 Further Militarisation of the EPO
2016-02-25 The Mass Media Recognises This May be the End of the Battistelli Regime
2016-02-25 Patents Roundup: Proxy Lawsuits, SCOTUS on Software Patents, Reform Agenda, and Lawyers Bypassing Alice
2016-02-25 European Patent Office: Battistelli Gets Official Warning
2016-02-26 More Fire Power for Team Battistelli With New Promotion of French Lady
2016-02-26 Nearly a Thousand EPO Employees Prepared to Go on Strike in Just a Fortnight, Team Battistelli Getting Desperate to Stop That
2016-02-26 The English Version of the Central Staff Committee's Open Letter to the Praesidium of the Administrative Council Regarding Battistelli's 'Social Study' EPO Propaganda
2016-02-26 Dutch Media Reinforces Rumours That Battistelli is on His Way Out, Only a Matter of Money Now
2016-02-26 Repurposed Misinformation Campaign: The EPO's PR Team is Lying to The Register in Order to Help Battistelli Save Face
2016-02-26 Dutch Report: “External Investigation” Likely to be Launched Into “the Punitive Measures That Battistelli Imposed on Union Members.”
2016-02-26 In Apple/Samsung Patent Lawsuits Over Android/Linux, Only Patent Lawyers Are Winning (Again)
2016-02-26 New Evidence Emerges, Showing That Unitary Patent (UPC) is Indeed an SME Killer That Negatively Affects Europe for Patent Lawyers' Sake
2016-02-27 Even Battistelli-Funded Media Admits That Battistelli is in Deep Trouble Right Now
2016-02-27 Censorship in Land of So-called 'Social Dialogue': EPO is Still Blocking Techrights Web Site, But There Are Exceptions/Loopholes
2016-02-27 Article Translation (de Volkskrant): EPO Employees Are Tired of Tyranny and Take to the Streets
2016-02-27 Next Week Looks Likely to Bring Another Battistelli Crisis at the EPO
2016-02-27 Member States Are Turning Against “Tyrannical” Chief of European Patent Office (Benoît Battistelli)
2016-02-27 Battistelli-Led EPO “Led to Tensions and Even to Suicides Among Employees, Say the Unions”
2016-02-27 EPO “Management by Fear... Within a System Which is Not Subject to Any Outside Control.”
2016-02-27 Confirmed by Dutch Media (Telegraaf): Benoît Battistelli Makes Unreasonable Compensation Demands
2016-02-27 Media Alert: Spokespeople of the EPO Are Lying to Journalists
2016-02-28 Incluso los Medios Financiados por Battistelli Admiten que Actualmente El Se Encuentra en Problemas
2016-02-28 Problems of Governance in International Organizations: the EPO
2016-02-29 Update on Civil Complaints and Criminal Complaints Against EPO Vice-President Željko Topić in Lufthansa/Airplus Case
2016-02-29 After Alice, Patent Trial and Appeal Board is Invalidating Software Patents and Other Abstract Patents
2016-02-29 Why the US Political Debate About Patent 'Reform' is Still Deficient and the Legal System Probably Broken Beyond Repair
2016-03-01 EPO Attracts Complaints Over (Mental) Torture Against Staff
2016-03-01 Ongoing Investigation: Why Mainstream Media -- and German Media in Particular -- Has Mostly Ignored Latest Developments at the EPO
2016-03-01 Team Battistelli's New Media Strategy at Times of EPO Emergency
2016-03-02 Battistelli and Godwin's Law (Comparing One's Opposition to Nazis)
2016-03-02 Brace Yourselves for Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Tomorrow the European Patent Office Will Spread Propaganda Based on Half Truths and Misdirection
2016-03-02 UPC Anything But a Certainty With Battistelli on His Way Out, But Patent Lawyers Are Still in Denial
2016-03-02 EPO at Boiling Point: Why Battistelli is Believed to be Paid About $2,000,000 Per Year and Who Created and Circulated a Letter in His Support
2016-03-02 German Television to Cover the EPO Scandals at 9 PM (CET) Tonight -- Half an Hour From Now (Updated)
2016-03-02 Team Battistelli Uses FFPE to Give an Illusion of EPO Peace With 'Unions' and Justify/Support a Now-Famous Lie
2016-03-03 EPO Media Strategy: Call the Whistleblowers Nazis and Criminals
2016-03-03 3/3 is EPO Propaganda Day: Techrights to Respond and Alert the Media About Misinformation
2016-03-03 In the EPO's Official Photo Op, “Only One of the Faces is Actually FFPE-EPO”
2016-03-03 Overview of Today's Growing Press Coverage About the European Patent Office
2016-03-03 EPO Propaganda is Already Sticking in Some Media
2016-03-04 Further Evidence Suggests and Shows Stronger Evidence That Team Battistelli Uses FFPE-EPO as 'Yellow Union' Against SUEPO
2016-03-04 EPO Strike Still Planned, More Details to be Published Soon
2016-03-04 EPO Cartoon: The Presence of Justice
2016-03-04 3/3 es Día Para Propaganda de la OEP: Techrights Responderá y Alertará Contra las Mentiras delos Medios
2016-03-04 Unitary Patent (UPC) Propagandists Are Louder Than Ever as Its Architect in Chief (Battistelli) is Probably About to Get Sacked
2016-03-04 “FFPE-EPO Was Set up About 9 Years Ago With Management Encouragement”
2016-03-04 Why the Letter in Support of Battistelli is Worse Than a Lie and Should be Thrown to the Wastebasket by the Organisation's Administrative Council
2016-03-05 Despite Its Propaganda Campaign ('Union Recognition' and 'Results') the EPO's Management is Totally Flipping Out
2016-03-05 Remember What Benoît Battistelli Said About His Salary and His Bonus
2016-03-05 Forget Staff Union-busting 'Strike Ballots', How About Ballots on Presidential Matters?
2016-03-05 JUVE Translation: EPO Quick to Announce Success Story of Dialogue with Small Unions
2016-03-05 EPO and IAM: a Marriage of Convenience
2016-03-06 Fallout of the FFPE EPO MoU With Battistelli's Circle
2016-03-06 EPO y IAM: un Matrimonio de Conveniencia
2016-03-06 Traducción JUVE: EPO Lista Para Anunciar la Exitósa Historia de Diálogo Con Sindicatos Pequeños
2016-03-06 Busted Battistelli: EPO President Publicly Lies About the State of the EPO, So What About His Secret Contract, Salary and Other Undisclosed Benefits?
2016-03-06 Vote for EPO Strike This Tuesday in Order to Replace EPO Management
2016-03-07 Kontrovers: German Program (With Subtitles) About the European Patent Office
2016-03-07 The EPO's Media Strategy at Work: Union Feuds and Group Fracturing
2016-03-07 Atrapado: Battistelli Presidente de la EPO Publicamente miente Acerca del Estado de su Organización, Así que Acerca de su Contrato Secreto, Salario y otros Ocultos Beneficios?
2016-03-07 Software Patents Are a Dying Breed in the United States and the EPO Should Take Notice
2016-03-08 More Microsoft Layoffs as the Company Tries to Turn GNU/Linux Into Its Own Proprietary Platform
2016-03-08 Super Tuesday: EPO Workers Are Voting for a Strike Today
2016-03-08 The Federal Circuit, a So-called 'Court', Increasingly Refuted by US Courts and the Appeal Board (PTAB)
2016-03-08 Apple's Software Patents Tax on Android (Linux) Devices Put in Perspective
2016-03-08 Rumoured Successor of Battistelli, Christoph Ernst, Previously Seen as Antagonist of Battistelli But What About UPC?
2016-03-08 Claim and Perception: Under Battistelli, EPO More Permissive on Software Patents Than USPTO, In Spite of the EPC
2016-03-08 4,062 of Staff Vote on EPO Strike, Over 91% in Favour
2016-03-09 Caricature of the Day: Recognising FFPE EPO
2016-03-09 Team Battistelli's Bergot Reacts to Strike Action
2016-03-09 Exclusive: Leaked Document Refutes Battistelli's Words and Shows He is Still Deplored by the Board
2016-03-10 Another EPO Protest Next Week, Strategically Planned to Coincide With the Administrative Council's Meeting
2016-03-10 Rumours and Unverified Claims Suggest That EPO President is “Bribing” for Perceived Support
2016-03-10 Patent Attorney Joeri Beetz Explains Why EPO Results Are a Lie
2016-03-10 Links 10/3/2016: Qubes OS 3.1, Linux Kernel 4.4.5
2016-03-10 Video Sheds Light on Policy/Stance of the Man Rumoured to be Battistelli's Successor at the EPO
2016-03-10 The European Patent Office is in a State of Transition, But Not Battistelli's Transition or 'Reform'
2016-03-10 A Patent Office or a Lobbying Firm? 'European' Patent Office (EPO) Sticking its Nose in UPC Matters Again.
2016-03-10 Patents Roundup: Patent Trolls, Patent Reform, IAM's Willful Ignorance, PTAB Paranoia, and Long Briefs
2016-03-10 Central Staff Committee of the European Patent Office Asks the Chairman of the Administrative Council to Take Action Next Week or Risk General (Office-Wide) Strike
2016-03-10 Exclusivo: Documento Filtrado Rechaza las Palabras de Battistelli y Muestra Que Todavía es Deplorado por la Junta
2016-03-11 Abogado de Patentes Joeri Beetz Explica €¿Porqué los Resultados de la EPO son una MENTIRA?
2016-03-11 For Its Survival, Microsoft is Trying to Turn Into an Aggressive Patent Tax and Advertising Company, Forces Windows Users to Play Along
2016-03-11 The Article Which Reinforces Rumours About Christoph Ernst Replacing President Battistelli at the EPO
2016-03-11 EPO Tells La Tribune That Benoît Battistelli's Salary is “We Don’t Comment on Rumours”
2016-03-12 The European Patent Organisation's Administrative Council Can Stop the Strike by Agreeing/Working to Reintegrate Staff Representatives and End Benoît Battistelli’s Witch-hunts
2016-03-12 Business Profit Over Science: Patent Scope at the EPO Has Gone So Badly Out of Control That Even the European Parliament is Complaining
2016-03-12 Battistelli Acting Like a Politician, Lobbying for UPC All Across Europe and Coming to London Soon
2016-03-13 The EPO 'Results' Are Bunk
2016-03-13 Benjamin Henrion's (FFII) FOSDEM Talk About UPC and Software Patents in Europe
2016-03-13 Kontrovers Coverage of Abuses at the European Patent Office (With Subtitles Added)
2016-03-13 European Patent Office Kontrovers TV Coverage (English Version)
2016-03-13 L’Office Européen des Brevets (OEB/European Patent Office) Kontrovers Coverage
2016-03-13 EPO Under Benoît Battistelli: Nepotism, Misinformation, Poor Patent Quality, Terrible Working Conditions, and Increase in Prices
2016-03-14 Rodeo de Patentes: Trolls de Patentes, Reforma de Patentes, Ignorancia Voluntaria de IAM, Paranoia de PTB y Bragas Largas
2016-03-14 Por Su Sobrevivencia, Microsoft Se Está Convirtiéndo en Una Agresiva Compañíá de Impuestos Sobre Patentes Así Como de Advertising, Obliga a Usuarios de Windows a Moverse a Su Ritmo
2016-03-14 EPO Rumours About Antonio Campinos as Replacement for Benoît Battistelli
2016-03-14 EPO Protest in Munich in a Couple of Days
2016-03-15 EPO Hypocritically Responds to TV Program by Defamation/Mocking of the Dead and Threats to the Media (Truth as Defamation?)
2016-03-15 French Transcript of Bayerischer Rundfunk Coverage About EPO
2016-03-15 English Transcript of Bayerischer Rundfunk Coverage About EPO
2016-03-15 German Transcript of Bayerischer Rundfunk Coverage About EPO
2016-03-15 Old Article About Battistelli's Right-hand Man, Željko Topić, Highlights Severity of the Whole Situation
2016-03-15 EPO's Central Staff Committee Asks Benoît Battistelli to Undo Union-Busting Activities and Obey the Dutch Court's Judgment
2016-03-15 French High-Quality Video About the European Patent Office
2016-03-15 English High-Quality Video About the European Patent Office
2016-03-15 German High-Quality Video About the European Patent Office
2016-03-15 Consequences of Straining Staff: Patent Quality at the European Patent Office Has Gotten Rather Terrible
2016-03-15 Overthrowing Battistelli Only Part of a Bigger Job (Restoration of Quality and Human Decency at the European Patent Office)
2016-03-15 Battistelli Unsurprisingly Rejects Opportunity to Salvage His Status, EPO Strike Likely to Proceed Soon
2016-03-15 Patents Roundup: SCOTUS, CAFC, and Software Patents
2016-03-16 Reader's Article: “Guantanamo Possible in Germany”
2016-03-16 EPO's Leadership All-time Low: Benoît Battistelli's Meeting With Secretary Martijn van Dam Explodes
2016-03-16 Dutch Media (NRC) Cites Documents Leaked to Techrights and EPO Refuses to Comment on Them
2016-03-16 EPO’s Comite Central De Empleados Pide A Benoît Battistelli Retractarse en sus Actividades Destructivas Contra el Sindicato y a Obedecer a la Corte Holandesa
2016-03-16 Battistelli No Sorprendio a Nadie al Rechazar la Oportunidad para Salvar su Status, Huelga de la EPO Probablemente Procederá Pronto
2016-03-17 Exclusive: New Leaked Document Shows Board 28 Surprised Battistelli and Had a Long Unilateral Argument With Him Over Union-Busting ('Disciplinary Cases'), Called It a “Crisis”
2016-03-17 Survey Confirms What Board 28 Already Admits: the European Patent Office is Deep in a State of Crisis Since Benoît Battistelli Took Over
2016-03-17 In the Mainstream Media, the European Patent Office is Already Becoming Another FIFA, Lies Aplenty as Last Remaining 'Damage Control' Strategy
2016-03-17 Investigation Into Working Conditions at the European Patent Office Will Commence
2016-03-17 Institutional Failure and Dirty Tricks: Benoît Battistelli Seemingly Gets Support Like Microsoft Gets Support
2016-03-17 On Bristows LLP and Other Self-Serving Non-Practising Voices for Software Patents and UPC Injustice
2016-03-17 Patents Roundup: EMC, Pure Storage, OpenTV, Apple, Segway, and Alice (Software Patents)
2016-03-18 Insider's Account (Not Face-Saving EPO Statement) Reveals That Even Battistelli's Allies Turn Against Him, EPO 'Results' Not Believed by Some, and Munich Protests Break Records
2016-03-18 Better Late Than Never: Bavarian Parliament Intervenes in EPO Affairs Amidst Abuses
2016-03-18 Translation of Article Highlights Bavarian Political Motion, Protest Scale and Severity in Munich
2016-03-18 Redondeo de Patentes: SCOTUS, CAFC, y Patentes de Software
2016-03-18 En Bristows LLP y Otras Egoístas Entidades no Prácticantes Voces por las Patentes de Software y la Injusticia de la UPC
2016-03-18 Redondeo de Patentes: EMC, Pure Storage, OpenTV, Apple, Segway, y Alice (Patentes de Software)
2016-03-19 Benoît Battistelli Made SUEPO Stronger by Trying to Decapitate It, May in Fact Have Self-Decapitated EPO (President in the Chopping Line)
2016-03-19 Article Highlights Madness When It Comes to Overstressing EPO Staff and Pushing Towards Overpatenting (Even Life!) in Pursuit of Profits
2016-03-19 Reversal Spin: SUEPO Needs to Make Peace Rather Than Benoît Battistelli Needing to Make Peace After Dismissing SUEPO's Leaders
2016-03-19 International Labour Organisation Should Ask EPO Staff About the Surge in Cases, Not Just EPO Management, Which Chronically Lies
2016-03-19 Conflict at the European Patent Office: Battistelli gets away with a slap on the wrist
2016-03-20 Propaganda Reversa: La SUEPO Necesita hacer la Paz En Vez que Benoît Battistelli Lo Haga Después de Despedir a los Líderes de SUEPO
2016-03-20 Conflicto en la Oficina Europea de Patentes: Battistelli se sale con un tirón de orejas
2016-03-20 European Patent Office: Administrative Council gives the President a bollocking
2016-03-20 Latest Vista 10 Scandal Makes Microsoft Indistinguishable From Criminal Malware Makers
2016-03-20 Microsoft Hijacks the AIX Trademark (an Old Tradition) and Openwashes Proprietary Minecraft
2016-03-20 The 'Results' That Battistelli and His EPO Bunch Brag About Not Believed by Patent Lawyers and Patent Examiners
2016-03-21 Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and the United Kingdom Urge Benoît Battistelli to Allow Independent Investigation of His EPO Union-Busting Moves
2016-03-21 EPO Scandals in British Media: Third Time in Private Eye
2016-03-22 Los 'Resultados' Que Battistellli y Sus Compadres de la EPO se Enorgullece NO son Creídos por los Abogados de Patentes y Exáminadores de Patentes
2016-03-22 More Vomit-Inducing Publicity Stunts From Benoît Battistelli and the EPO Management
2016-03-22 Union Syndicale Federale Slams FFPE-EPO for Helping Abusive EPO Management by Signing a Malicious, Divisive Document
2016-03-22 Why Bayerischer Rundfunk Videos About the European Patent Office Have Been Removed
2016-03-23 Software Patents: Dying, Spreading, or Hardly Surviving?
2016-03-23 FFPE-EPO Says MoU With Battistelli Will “Defend Employment Conditions” (Updated)
2016-03-23 Ongoing Investigations: EPO's Attacks on the Media
2016-03-23 Microsoft is Pretending to be a FOSS Company in Order to Secure Government Contracts With Proprietary Software in 'Open' Clothing
2016-03-24 Their Masters' Voice (Who Block Techrights): FFPE-EPO Openly Discourages Members From Reading Techrights
2016-03-24 Software Patents in the US -- When Properly Challenged in an Age of Extreme USPTO Leniency -- Simply Die
2016-03-25 Patents Roundup: Patent Trolls Groomed by IAM, Reform Strives to Tackle Trolls, NewEgg and LOTNet Explore Alternate Solutions
2016-03-25 Letter Says EPO MoU “Raises Questions About FFPE's Credibility as a Federation of Genuine Staff Unions”
2016-03-25 La Voz de Sus Amos (€¿Quiénes Bloquean Techrights?): La FFPE-EPO Abiertamente Desalienta a Sus Miembros a Leer Techrights
2016-03-25 Microsoft Esta Pretendiéndo Ser una Compañíá FOSS Para Asegurárse Contratos con el Gobierno Con Software Proprietarior en Ropaje ‘Abierto’
2016-03-25 “The Decision of the President [Battistelli] to Overstep the Recommendation of the Disciplinary Committee is Arbitrary and Shows Bad Faith.”
2016-03-26 Battistelli is Trying to Save His EPO Job After Getting Called Out, But Doesn't Give Back Busted Union Leaders Their Jobs; Strike Imminent
2016-03-26 Ingve Björn Stjerna's New Book About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Why It's Important
2016-03-27 Patents Roundup: SCOTUS, U.S. Code €§ 101, CAFC, PTAB, and Software Patents in the Far East (Australia, Korea, Taiwan, China)
2016-03-27 Battistelli esta Tratando de Salvar Su Trabajo en la EPO Despues que le llamaron la Atención, Pero no Regresa su Trabajo A los Lideres Sindicales Despedidos; Huelga Inminente
2016-03-28 Preserving Material About the European Patent Office (EPO) and Abuses by EPO Management
2016-03-28 Patentes de Software en los US - Cuando son Propiamente Desafíadase en una Era de Extrema Leniencia de la USPTO - Simplemente Mueren
2016-03-28 Redondeo de Patentes: Los Trolles de Patentes Acícalados por IAM, la Reforma se Esfuerza para Enfrentárse a los Trolles, NewEgg y LOTNet Exploran Soluciones Alternativas
2016-03-28 Kroatische Lobistin für UN im Zentrum des intarnationalen Skandals in EPA
2016-03-29 Scandalous: European Patent Office Serves Only Microsoft Customers With Filing Software
2016-03-29 Crisis Deepens at the European Patent Office, General Strike Planned for Next Thursday
2016-03-29 The Media is Still Awash With Unitary Patent (UPC) Misinformation
2016-03-30 UPC Would Bring Software Patents to Europe and Open the Floodgates to Litigation
2016-03-30 EPO Losing Time: Two Weeks Later, Benoît Battistelli Has Made Virtually No Progress to Save Himself From Sacking
2016-03-30 SUEPO Publishes Translations of German Media Reports About the EPO
2016-03-30 Further Militarisation of the European Patent Office Amid Crisis and After Request of Fair and Just Treatment of Staff
2016-03-30 Microsoft at EPO: A Look Into the Relationship
2016-03-30 Hope at the End of the Tunnel as More Software Patents Are Squashed in the US
2016-03-31 Escándalo: La Oficina Europea de Patentes Sirve Únicamente a los Clientes de Microsoft con Software para Llenar Aplicaciones
2016-03-31 SUEPO Publica Traducciones de los Medios Alemanes Acerca de la EPO
2016-03-31 New EPO Marketing Campaign: Drive Your Audi Home
2016-04-01 La UPC Traería Patentes de Software a Europa y Abriría las Compuertas a Litigación
2016-04-01 Microsoft en la EPO: Una Mirada a la Relación
2016-04-01 David Kappos Whines About the Supreme Court Shutting the Door on Many Software Patents
2016-04-02 Esperanza al Final del Tunel Mientras que Más Patentes de Software Son Aplastadas en los Estados Unidos
2016-04-02 Nueva Campaña de Marketing de la EPO: Conduce to Audi a Casa
2016-04-02 David Kappos Lloriquea Porque La Corte Suprema Esta Cerrándo la Puerta a Varias Patentes de Software
2016-04-02 EUIPO and the Shady Relation to the EPO
2016-04-02 UPC Lobbying and Propaganda at the Fordham IP Think Tank ('Conference') 2016 in New York, With a Clear EPO Role
2016-04-02 Biased IAM's Editor in Chief Goes on the Offensive Against (Software) Patent Sceptics, Still a Trolls Denialist
2016-04-03 EUIPO y sus Sospechosa Relación con la EPO
2016-04-03 Cabildeo por la UPC y Propaganda en el Grupo de Interés Fordham IP (‘Conferencia’) 2016 en Nueav York, Con un Claro Rol de la EPO
2016-04-03 EPO Strike in 3.5 Days Effective in All Sites, Lots for EPO Staff to be Angry About
2016-04-03 Microsoft's Charm Offensive Against GNU/Linux Uses the Same Media Strategy Donald Trump Uses
2016-04-05 El Parcializado Editor en Jefe de IAM Va a la Ofensiva Contra Escépticos de las Patentes (Software), Todavía un Denialista de Trolles
2016-04-05 EPO Management Says Not a Word About Strike This Week, Not Informing Customers/Stakeholders Either
2016-04-05 Battistelli's Inner Circle is Expanding With More Miraculous EPO Promotions and Allegedly More Bodyguards
2016-04-05 EPO's Board 28 Scheduled to Have What Looks Like an Emergency Meeting, EPO Management Pretends Staff Strikes and Crisis (Board 28's Word) Don't Mean a Thing
2016-04-05 European Patent Office Insists That Obeying the Law is Not Realistic, UPC Another Example of That
2016-04-05 Massive Cases Launched by Patent Trolls in the US Almost Always About Software Patents
2016-04-05 Abolish the Supreme Court and Congressional Take on Patents, Says David Kappos, Just Listen to Mr. Kappos and Reinforce Software Patents
2016-04-06 El Circulo Intimo de Battistelli se Expande Con Más Milagrosas Promociones y Su Guardia Pretoriana También Se Incrementa
2016-04-06 EPO Management Mocks Justice and Bans Judges, Takes Away Their Independence
2016-04-06 Christian Archambeau on the Verge of EUIPO and EPO, Making the Two Less Distinguishable
2016-04-06 Show Solidarity to Fellow EPO Workers. Go on Strike Tomorrow.
2016-04-07 Muestra Solidaridad a tus Compañeros Trabajadores. Ponte en Huelga Mañana
2016-04-07 Abolir la Corte Suprema y la Toma del Congreso en Patentes, Dice David Kappos, Sólo Escuchen a Mr. Kappos y Refuerzen Las Patentes de Software
2016-04-07 7 Reasons to Join the Strike at the European Patent Office
2016-04-07 Staff Union of the European Patent Office Sends Out a Striking Message With a T-Shirts Campaign
2016-04-07 From US Military to International Banking and External 'Review' of EPO 'Investigations' (Union-Busting and War on Dissent)
2016-04-07 EPO is on Strike, Battistelli Escapes to London With His Bodyguards for More UPC Lobbying, FTI Consulting Goes for Brussels
2016-04-07 On Day of Strike FFPE-EPO Reaffirms Status as Yellow (Fake/Management-Leaning) Union, Receives 'Gifts'
2016-04-07 Samsung to Potentially Challenge Design Patents in the US Supreme Court While Filing Patent Applications for Designs
2016-04-07 European Patent Office Half Empty Today
2016-04-08 Desde los Militares de los Estados Unidos a la Banca Internacional y la €´Revisión€´ Externa de las Investigaciones de la EPO (Golpes a la Unión y Guerra contra los Disidentes)
2016-04-08 La EPO esta en Huelga, Battistelli Escapa a Londres con su Guardia Pretoriana para más Cabildeo por la UPC, FTI Consulting Va a Bruselas
2016-04-08 Oficina Europea De Patentes Vacía Hasta la Mitad Hoy
2016-04-08 EPSU Explains Why SUEPO Fights for More Than Just EPO Employees and for Rights of Workers at International Institutions
2016-04-08 Why 2,657 EPO Workers Going on Strike is Actually a Lot Less Than Would Strike If It Wasn't for Obstructions From Team Battistelli
2016-04-08 Lobbyists for Software Patents in 'Journalism' and 'Reform' Clothing (With Microsoft Connections)
2016-04-08 Busted Battistelli: EPO President Violating the EPO's Code of Conduct
2016-04-09 EPSU Explica Porqué la SUEPO Lucha Por Más que los Empleados de la EPO Y Los Derechos de los Trabajadores de Instituciones Internacionales
2016-04-09 El €¿Porqué 2,657 de los trabajadore de la EPO Fueron Actualmente Menos de los Que Hubieran ido a la Huelga Si No Fuese Por las Obstrucciones de los Chacales de Battistelli
2016-04-09 Aja! Battistelli: El Presidente de la EPO President Violando el Código de Conducta de la EPO
2016-04-09 Cabilderos por las Patentes de Software en Ropas de ‘Periodismo’ y ‘Reforma’ (con Conecciones a Microsoft)
2016-04-10 Patents Roundup: US Patent System/Landscape Disqualified, Corrupted, Saturated With Patent Trolls, and Funded by Microsoft
2016-04-10 With Software Patents in Autonomous Cars Few Giants Want a Monopoly on Driving, Not Just Physical Car Components
2016-04-10 Church of EPO: How Team Battistelli Engineered the Dismissal of People Not Sufficiently Loyal to Them - Part I
2016-04-10 What is Known (and Not Known) About Attacks on Croatian Portal That Exposed Željko Topić, the Notorious EPO Vice-President
2016-04-11 Resumen de Patentes: Systema/Paisaje de Patentes de los EE.UU. Descalificado, Corrupto, Saturado Con Trolles de Patentes, y Financiado Por y Para Microsoft
2016-04-11 La Iglesia de EPO: €¿Como el Equipo de Battistelli Arregló El Despido de la Gente No lo Suficiéntemente Leales a Ellos? – Parte I
2016-04-11 FOSS at Risk From Software Patents, Which Are Still Being Promoted by Bristows, IAM, IBM, and Steve Lundberg (Frequent Villains)
2016-04-11 Church of EPO: How Team Battistelli Engineered the Dismissal of People Not Sufficiently Loyal to Them - Part II
2016-04-12 FOSS en Riesgo a Causa de las Patentes de Software, Las que Todavía Siguen Siendo Promovidas por Bristows, IAM, IBM, y Steve Lundberg (Los Villanos Usuales)
2016-04-12 La Iglesia de EPO: €¿Como el Equipo de Battistelli Arregló El Despido de la Gente No lo Suficiéntemente Leales a Ellos?– Parte II
2016-04-12 European Patent Lawyers Who Conveniently Promote Software Patents in Spite of the Rules and the EPC
2016-04-13 Church of EPO: How Team Battistelli Engineered the Dismissal of People Not Sufficiently Loyal to Them - Part III
2016-04-13 Patent Fights Over Reform Focus (Marginalising Small Actors), Courts (Judges) Versus Patent Offices (Large Businesses)
2016-04-14 La Iglesia de EPO: €¿Como el Equipo de Battistelli Arregló El Despido de la Gente No lo Suficiéntemente Leales a Ellos?– Parte III
2016-04-14 Croatian News Site Explains Where Criminal Cases Against EPO Vice-President Željko Topić Stand
2016-04-14 Needed Urgently: Information About the Secret Meeting of Board 28 and Battistelli's Yellow Union, FFPE-EPO
2016-04-14 US Lobbyist for Software Patents, David Kappos, Uses EPO's Snubbing of the EPC to Spread Misinformation and Patent Monopolies on Software/Algorithms
2016-04-15 Totally Inappropriate: The European Patent Office is Still Intervening in European Law and Politics
2016-04-15 European Patent Office a Microsoft Stronghold: GNU/Linux and Mac Support Seemingly Just Dumped
2016-04-16 European Patent Office and Human Rights Violations: Article Translation Into English Reveals Upcoming Lawsuit Against the EPO Over Institutional Harassment
2016-04-16 Criticisms of the Patent System of the United States, Which is Imposed on the Rest of the World Using Corporate Lobbyists and Attracts or Creates Patent Trolls
2016-04-16 Administrative Council “Openly Showed Disapproval of Battistelli’s Behaviour” at the EPO
2016-04-16 Benoît Battistelli “Left in Anger During an Initial Meeting With the State Secretary [Who] Started Talking About Working Conditions for the Staff”
2016-04-17 European Patent Office and Violaciónes a los Derechos Humanos: Traducción de Artículo Revela Juicio Pendiente Contra la EPO por Acoso Instituciónal
2016-04-18 Church of EPO: How Team Battistelli Engineered the Dismissal of People Not Sufficiently Loyal to Them - Part IV
2016-04-18 EPO Integrity on the Line: The Story of Željko Topić's Controversial Diploma - Part I
2016-04-18 Bavarian Parliament to Discuss the EPO's Abuses in 24 Hours
2016-04-19 EPO Integrity on the Line: The Story of Željko Topić's Controversial Diploma - Part II
2016-04-19 Munich State Attorney is Pursuing Criminal Charges Against the European Patent Office
2016-04-19 European Patent Office Deemphasising Quality and Looking to Replace the Key Workers
2016-04-19 The 'Great Conspiracy' of Patent Lawyers, Lobbyists and Large Corporations for UPC and for Software Patents
2016-04-20 EPO Integrity on the Line: The Story of Željko Topić's Controversial Diploma - Part III
2016-04-20 EPO's European Inventor Award Still a Subject of Embarrassment, Media Manipulation, Waste of Public Money, and Shameless Self-Promotion
2016-04-21 EPO Integrity on the Line: The Story of Željko Topić's Controversial Diploma - Part IV
2016-04-21 Bavarian Parliament Discusses EPO Abuses
2016-04-21 Battistelli's MoU and Photo Op With the Institute of Professional Representatives Helps Disguise Its Harsh Criticism of the EPO
2016-04-21 Growing Threats of Software Patents in Europe and the FRAND Trap Which Microsoft Promotes/Lobbies For
2016-04-22 [ES] Creciéntes Amenazas de las Patentes de Software en Europa y la Trampa FRAND Que Microsoft Promueve/Cabildea
2016-04-22 [ES] El Parlamento Bávaro Discute los Abusos de la EPO
2016-04-22 [ES] El MOU de Battistelli el Arreglo Fotográfico Con el Instituto Profesional de Representantes Ayuda a Disfrazar el Duro Criticismo de la EPO
2016-04-22 EPO Integrity on the Line: The Story of Željko Topić's Controversial Diploma - Part V
2016-04-22 The Chaos in the EPO Impacts Stakeholders
2016-04-22 In Battistelli's Mini Union (Minion) It Takes Less Than 10 Votes to 'Win' an Election
2016-04-22 More Patents Don't Mean More Innovation, Just More Money for Patent Lawyers and Patent Offices
2016-04-22 Fighting Back Against Limitations on Software Development in Europe
2016-04-23 [ES] Luchando Contra las Limitaciones Para el Desarrollo de Software en Europa
2016-04-23 [ES] Más Patentes No Significa Más Innovación, Simplemente Más Dinero Para los Abogados de Patentes y las Oficinas de Patentes
2016-04-23 The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Threatens to Bring Software Patents to India
2016-04-24 [ES] Toma Menos de 10 Votos para 'Ganar' una Elección en la Mini Unión (Minion) de Battistelli
2016-04-24 The EPO's Departure From Truth and Entrance Into the Realms of Chinese Industrial-Grade Propaganda
2016-04-24 Patents Roundup: Marijuana Patents, Patent Satellites, Patent Trolls, Wars, and Merchants (Notably Lawyers)
2016-04-24 New Microsoft-Funded Push to Make Software Patents Stronger in the US, Backed by the Usual Suspects as Microsoft Increasingly Struggles as a Producing Company
2016-04-26 [ES] El Nuevo Impulso Finánciado por Microsoft Para Reforzar las Patentes de Software en los EE.UU., Apoyado por los Sospechosos Usuales (La Sagrada Familia) Mientras que Microsoft Cada Vez Más Lucha Como Compañíá Productiva
2016-04-26 A Farce of a System: How SIPO, USPTO, and Increasingly the EPO Too Turn Into Filing Systems (No Proper Examination/Filtering Required)
2016-04-28 [ES] Una Fársa de Sistema: €¿Cómo la SIPO, USPTO, y cada vez más la EPO se Convierten en Llenado de Patentes (No Se Requiere Propia Examinación)
2016-04-28 [ES] La Departura de la Readidad de la EPO Y Su Entrada en la Esféra Industrial China de Propaganda
2016-04-28 If EPO “Form of Thinking Were to be Followed, Guantanamo on German Soil Would be Possible.”
2016-04-28 Amid Referendum “the New European Unitary Patent System is Likely to Collapse Before It Started”
2016-04-29 The European Copy-Paste Office (EPO)
2016-04-29 [ES] ''Si la Forma de Pensar de la EPO fuese Seguida, Guantánamo Sería Posible en Suelo Alemán.”
2016-04-30 How to Salvage the EPO's Reputation: Create More Boards of Appeal in Europe and Abolish the Misguided UPC Fantasy
2016-04-30 Alice Continues to Smash Software Patents So Patent Lawyers, Monopolists' Lobbyists Etc. Now Attack the Supreme Court for Doing This
2016-05-01 [ES] €¿Cómo Salvar la Reputación de la EPO?: Crear Más Jurados de Apelaciónes en Europa y Abolir la Malgíada/Malintencionada Fantasía de la UPC
2016-05-01 [ES] Alice Continúa Quebrando Patentes de Software Asi Que los Abogados de Patentes, Cabilderos de los Monopolistas, Etc. Ahora Atacan a la Corte Suprema por Hacer Esto
2016-05-01 The European Patent Office Still Silently Abusive, Will Pay $15,000 in Compensation to Female Worker After Belated ILO Judgment
2016-05-01 The US Patent System: Where One Wastes Years in Court and Spends $8,000,000 in Lawyers' Fees Fighting a Bogus Patent
2016-05-02 [ES] La Oficina Europea de Patentes Todavía Sigilósamente Abusiva, Pagará $15,000 en Compensasió a Trabajadora Tras un Tardío Fallo de la ILO
2016-05-02 [ES] El Sistema de Patentes de los EE.UU: Donde Uno Desperdicia Años en Corte y Gasta $8,000,000 en Honorarios de Abogados Peleándo una Patente Falsa
2016-05-02 Nefarious Forces for Patent Abuse and Software Patents in the United States, Australia, India, Korea, and Europe
2016-05-02 Not Just Benoît Battistelli and Willy Minnoye (EPO): Željko Topić Too Thinks He is Above the Law, Avoids the Judges and Courts
2016-05-02 The European Spam Office (EPO)
2016-05-02 Governments in Europe Still Active Against EPO Management
2016-05-03 [ES] Gobiernos en Europa Todavía Activos en Contra de la Gerencia de la EPO
2016-05-03 New Paper About the UPC Explains Why It is Bad for Small- and Medium-sized European Businesses
2016-05-05 Amid French Political Actions Against EPO Management French Consulate the Target of Next Week's EPO Staff Protest
2016-05-05 US Congress Should Investigate EPO and Battistelli, Not Just WIPO and Francis Gurry
2016-05-05 You Need to Become Proprietary Software Customer (Microsoft Recommended) to Interact with the European Patent Office
2016-05-05 Enemies of Europe: A Month After Promoting UPC in London, Benoît Battistelli and the EPO Do This in Helsinki
2016-05-08 [ES] Fuerzas Viles Para el Abuso de Patentes y Patentes de Software en los EE.UU,. Australia, India, Korea, y Europe
2016-05-08 [ES] Nuevo Reporte Acerca de la UPC Explica Por Que est Tán Mala Para Los Pequeños- y Medianos Negocios Europeos
2016-05-08 [ES] Los Enemigos de Europ: Un Mes Después de Promover la UPC en Londres, Benoît Battistelli y la EPO Hacen lo Mismo en Helsinki
2016-05-08 The Economist Says What Patent Lawyers and Other Maximalists Prefer Not to Hear About the Patent System
2016-05-08 The USPTO Continues to Snub the US Supreme Court and Issues Software Patents That Are Totally Bogus
2016-05-09 Corporate Imperialism in Europe Through the UPC, the Horrible Patent Deal Almost Nobody Heard of
2016-05-09 European Digital SME Alliance: Unified Patent Court (UPC) “Unconstitutional”, Harms SMEs, Brings Software Patents to Europe, “Should be Based on EU Law and Not on an International Agreement.”
2016-05-10 Patent Policy is a Mess and It's Not Hard to See Why
2016-05-10 A Soup of UPC Lies Courtesy of the EPO, Patent Lawyers, and Large Clients (Like Multinational Corporations)
2016-05-10 Golden Parachute or Not, Battistelli is Wasting Huge Amounts of Money on His Longtime Bodyguards Fetish
2016-05-10 EPO an Ill Organisation, Lots to Protest Against Tomorrow
2016-05-11 [ES] El Congreso de los EE.UU. Debería Investigar a Battistelli, No Sólo a la WIPO y Francis Gurry
2016-05-11 [ES] Paracaídas de Oro o No, Battistelli Está Desperdiciándo Dinero Con Su Fetiche de Guardia Pretoriana
2016-05-11 [ES] La UPC: Una Sopa de Mentiras Cortesía de la EPO, Abogados de Patentes, y Grandes Clientes (Como Corporaciónes Multinaciónales)
2016-05-12 Italian Television to Cover EPO Abuses, Bringing the Outrage to the Mainstream in Another Country
2016-05-12 Raising Barriers to UPC Cancellation and Withdrawal
2016-05-12 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Statistics and New Chief Judge Who is Really a Scientist
2016-05-14 [ES] Estadísticas del Tribunal de Juicio de Patentes y Jurado de Patentes (PTAB) y El Nuevo Juez Supremo Quién Realmente es un Científico
2016-05-14 [ES] La USPTO Sigue Jodiéndo a la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos Al Continuar Emitiéndo Patentes de Software que Son Totalmente Fálsas
2016-05-14 IAM 'Magazine': Not Just Paid by the Patent Trolls and Legal Giants But Also Speaking With (and For) Them
2016-05-15 Relying on EPO, CAFC -- Originator of Software Patents in the US -- Tries to Bring Them Back Into Play in Microsoft Case
2016-05-15 UPC is Class War (the Rich Fighting Everyone Else), Hence the Increasing Militarisation of the European Patent Office
2016-05-16 UPC an Attack Not Only on the European Public But Also on Staff of the EPO
2016-05-17 [ES] La UPC es Guerra de Classes (los Ricos contra Todo el Mundo), He Aqu el Porque de la Militarización de la Oficina Europea de Patentes
2016-05-17 Two Months Down the Line, Battistelli Has Done None of What the Administrative Council Told Him to Do; He Should be Sacked Next Month
2016-05-17 If Battistelli Stayed and UPC Became a Reality, Patent Quality at the EPO Would Get a Lot Worse
2016-05-18 [ES] La UPC un Ataque No Sólo Contra el Público Europeo Pero También Contra los Empleados de la EPO
2016-05-18 Another Almost Empty EPO Presentation at The Hague
2016-05-19 Australian Productivity Commission's Research Calls for Ban on Software Patents, Davies Collison Cave Calls for Complaints Against This Finding
2016-05-19 Anonymous Commenters Debate Whether Battistelli's EPO Can Revoke Pensions of Dismissed Employees Who Dare -- GASP -- Find Alternative Employment
2016-05-19 It's All Just Artificial Distractions From EPO Management, 'Yellow' Union Comes Under Scrutiny Again
2016-05-20 Notorious EPO Tyrant, Benoît Battistelli, Meets Other Tyrants, Reportedly 'Cleanses' the Administrative Council
2016-05-20 USPTO Ignores a Lot of Cases Against Software Patents to Justify Resumption of More Software Patenting
2016-05-21 [ES] Otra Casi Vacía Presentación de la EPO en La Hague
2016-05-21 [ES] Comentadores Anónimos Debaten Si la EPO de Battistelli Puede Revocar las Pensiones de Empleados Que Se Atreveen — GASP — a Buscar Empleo Alternativo
2016-05-21 [ES] El Notorio Tirano de la EPO, Benoît Battistelli, Se Reune Con Otros Tiranos, Reportes de Que ‘Limpia’ el Consejo Administrativo
2016-05-21 EPO Patent 'Quality' and 'Patent Creation' Myth: Capsule-Based Coffee Sales and Trauma
2016-05-22 [ES] Los Mitos de la EPO ‘Calidad’ de Patentes y de ‘Creación’ de Patentes: Basados en Ventas de Cafe y Trauma
2016-05-22 Corrupting Democracy? Growing Frequency of Rumours That the EPO's President Battistelli is 'Buying' Votes of Small Member States
2016-05-22 Disrupting Battistelli's Distracting Propaganda: EPO Staff to Protest Again in About a Fortnight
2016-05-22 IP3 Demonstrates That Today's Patent Systems Devolve Into a Conglomerates' Game, Won't Protect the Mythical Small Inventor
2016-05-24 [ES] Interrumpiendo la Propagánda Distractante de Battistelli: los Empleados de la EPO Protestará de Nuevo en una Quincena
2016-05-24 Documents Show Zagreb Police Department in Investigation of Vice-President of the European Patent Office
2016-05-24 How the Patent Lawyers' Microcosm Continues to Boost Software Patents Filth by Misdirecting Readers, Relying on Highly Selective Coverage
2016-05-24 Some Details About How the EPO's President is Rumoured to be 'Buying' Votes and Why It's Grounds/Basis for “Immediate Dismissal”
2016-05-24 The Media Starts Informing the European Public About the Downsides of UPC While EPO Accelerates Its Lobbying for Ratification
2016-05-25 The Latest EPO Victim Card (Played by Željko Topić) Should be Treated as Seriously as Those Bogus Claims of Violence by a Judge (Updatedx3)
2016-05-26 EPO Management Under Growing Stress From Croatian Law Enforcement Authorities, German Politicians, Italian Media
2016-05-26 Microsoft Has Killed Nokia (and Its Own Mobile Ambitions), But Watch What it Does With Patents
2016-05-26 The EPO is Doing Great, Says EPO-Connected 'News' Site
2016-05-27 Italian Report About EPO Now Available in English
2016-05-27 Victim Card Ends up in Another Blunder for Battistelli and His Six Bodyguards
2016-05-27 Warning: EPO Surveillance May Have Just Gotten Even More Intrusive
2016-05-28 EPO Management Warns People About Scams When the EPO's Management is Itself Falling for Scams
2016-05-28 Vice-President of the EPO Under Investigation: Treason, Abuse, Violations, Giving and Receiving Bribes
2016-05-28 Battistelli's Assault on EPO Staff's Right to Strike in Relation to French Politics and That 'Bicycle' Pretext for Crackdowns
2016-05-29 [ES] Algunos Detalles Acerca de €¿Cómo el Presidente de la EPO Es Rumoreado Estar Comprando Votos, y el Porqué es Suficientemente Base Para un Despido Inmediato?
2016-05-29 [ES] Los Medios de Comunicación Comienzan a Informar al Público Europeo Acercas de las Desventájas de la UPC Mientras que la EPO Acelera su Cabildeo por Ratificación
2016-05-29 [ES] La Gerencia de la EPO Bajo Creciénte Estres por las Autoridades Legales Croatas, Políticas Alemanas, y los Medios Italianos
2016-05-29 Rumour: Battistelli Wants to Extend the Term of Topić's EPO Appointment in Spite of Criminal Charges Against Him
2016-05-29 A Mix of Patent Aggression and Sanctions/Raids (Using Controversial Patents) Against East Asian Companies
2016-05-29 Battistelli's 'Special Relationship' With Portugal and the 'Inventor of the Year' Charade
2016-05-30 New EPO Caricature: Nouveaux Garde-Vélo (New Bicycle Guards)
2016-05-30 [ES] La EPO esta Excelente, Dice Sitio de ‘Noticias’ Conectado a Ella
2016-05-30 [ES] Tarjeta de Victima Termina en Otra Torpeza para Battistelli Seis de su Guardia Pretoriana
2016-05-30 [ES] Advertencia: La Vigilancia de la EPO Surveillance Puede Haberse Convertido en Más Intrusiva
2016-05-30 Unitary Microsoft: EPO Excludes People Who Are Not Microsoft Customers From UPC Participation
2016-05-30 The EPO's Media Partners Like Les Echos Already Produce EPO Puff Pieces (Marketing/Stenography)
2016-05-31 Extremely Dodgy Dealings at the European Patent Office
2016-05-31 Patents Roundup: When the Patent Systems Turn Against People and Adjust According to Patent Lawyers and Their Largest Clients
2016-05-31 Data Mining Company: EPO is Like Suicide
2016-06-01 [ES] El Asalto de Battistelli a los Derechos a la Huelga de sus Empleados en Relación a Políticas Francesas y el Pretexto de la Bicicleta para sus Ataques
2016-06-01 [ES] La Gerencia de la EPO Adviérte a la Gente Cuando Ellos Mismos Estan Cayendo Presa de Scams
2016-06-01 [ES] Rumor: Battistelli Quiere Extender el Periódo de Topic en la EPO a Pesar de los Cargos Criminales en Su Contra
2016-06-01 [ES] Microsoft Unitario: La EPO Excluye a la Gente Que No Son Clientes de Microsoft Para Participar en La UPC
2016-06-01 [ES] Los Socios de la EPO en los Medios Como Les Echos Ya Están Produciendo Piezas de Hojaldre para la EPO (Stenografíá/Marketing)
2016-06-01 [ES] Tratos Extremádamente Astutos en La Oficina Europea de Patentes
2016-06-01 Crazed Battistelli is Trying Plan B to Demolish the Boards of Appeal (Quality Control), Praesidium/Association of Members Strikes Back
2016-06-01 Battistelli's Self-Serving 'European Inventor of the Year' Charade a Classic Example of Waste and Abuse
2016-06-01 Vice-President of the European Patent Office Under Many Police Investigations
2016-06-01 FFPE-EPO Going Ad Hominem Against FICSA, Brings Nationality Into It
2016-06-01 As Bavarian Parliament Expresses Disdain Over EPO Leadership's Abuses German Media Listens and Staff Union Releases New Survey
2016-06-01 Save the Boards of Appeal to Save the EPO From Battistelli's Neoliberal Vision and Recipe for Disaster
2016-06-02 Closer Look at Players in Battistelli's Information War: Part I
2016-06-02 Closer Look at Players in Battistelli's Information War: Part II (BlueCoat)
2016-06-02 Closer Look at Players in Battistelli's Information War: Part III (Buying the Media, Manufacturing 'Studies' With Secret Contracts)
2016-06-03 Closer Look at Players in Battistelli's Information War: Part IV (Wellkom)
2016-06-03 How the EPO Helped Prop Up -- With 'European Inventor Award 2015' -- a Fraud That Killed a Lot of People
2016-06-04 Software Patents in Europe and the UPC Already a Problem
2016-06-04 Battistelli is Destroying the European Patent Office and Wasting a Lot of Money Hiding This Fact
2016-06-05 EPO Tyranny Comes Under Fire From Politicians in Luxembourg
2016-06-05 [ES] El Loco Battistelli Esta Tratando Plan B Para Destruír las Salas de Apelaciónes (Control de Calidad), Praesidium/Asociación de Miembros Contraataca
2016-06-05 [ES] El Egoísta Desfile de ‘El Inventor Europeo del Año’ Un Clásico Ejemplo de Desperdicio y Abuso
2016-06-05 Links 5/6/2016: SouthEast LinuxFest, Debian 8.5 Released
2016-06-06 Shelston IP and AJ Park Help Foreign Corporations Occupy Australia and New Zealand With Software Patents
2016-06-06 The Enemy Within: How Patent Lawyers, Their Media and the Whole Patent Establishment Became an Enemy to Their Nations
2016-06-06 Media Sites Still Filled to the Rim With Pro-Software Patents Propaganda (Lies by Omission)
2016-06-07 Public Proceedings Next Week Could Expose Battistelli's Incredible and Unprecedented Attack on EPO Judge
2016-06-07 Today's Caricature: European Patent Office (EPO) 'Social Study'
2016-06-07 Streisand Effect Award Won by EPO: It Has Just Blocked IP Kat Blog (Updatedx7)
2016-06-07 Politicians Susann Biedefeld (MdL) and Agnes Jongerius (S and D) the Latest to Express Anger at EPO's Management Over Its Abuses
2016-06-07 EPO's Old Spokesman (10 Years in Munich) Resigns Again After Only 5 Weeks, EPO is Just Buying the Media Now
2016-06-08 EPO Protest Tomorrow: Help the Media (Not 'Media Partners' in EPO Management's Pocket) See What EPO Staff Really Thinks (Updated)
2016-06-08 Perpetual Attack on EPO Staff, Even After the Staff Leaves the EPO
2016-06-08 Enlarged Board of Appeals Can Decide Whether Battistelli's Attack on the Boards Will Become Public
2016-06-08 Time to Call Out Joff Wild (IAM's Editor in Chief) for His EPO-Connected UPC Propaganda, Other Agenda-Pushing Initiatives
2016-06-08 EPO Powers Up Its Spam Machines, 'Media Partners' Start Their Prepared 'Articles' (Puff Pieces)
2016-06-08 Goodbye to Patent Quality at the EPO, Thanks to Team Battistelli With Its Extreme Policies
2016-06-08 [ES] Mirada Cercana a los Protagonistas en la Guerra Informativa de Battistelli: Parte 1
2016-06-08 [ES] Mirada Cercana a los Protagonistas en la Guerra Informativa de Battistelli: Parte II (BlueCoat)
2016-06-08 [ES] Mirada Cercana a los Protagonistas en la Guerra Informativa de Battistelli: Parte III (Comprando a los Medios, Fabricando €´estudios€´con Contratos Secrétos)
2016-06-08 [ES] Mirada Cercana a los Protagonistas de la Guerra Informativa de Battistellir: Parte IV (Wellkom)
2016-06-09 Leaks Required: EPO's Plan to Crush the Appeal Boards and Media Contracts for Puff Pieces
2016-06-09 EPO’s European Inventor Award 2016 (EIA16) is Not an Award Event, It Is a Propaganda and Lobbying Event of Battistelli, EPO Just Foots the Bill
2016-06-09 Dutch Media Reveals That Battistelli Continues His Vicious War on Staff Unions, Laurent Prunier the Latest Casualty (The Hague)
2016-06-09 Battistelli is Said to be Engineering Further Attacks on People Whom He Already Fired From the EPO
2016-06-10 Photos From Yesterday's EPO Protest at The Hague, Reports From Munich and The Hague Staff Protests (About 1,200 in Attendance in Spite of Heavy Rain)
2016-06-10 Tuesday Hearing at Room 131 Regarding Illegally Suspended (and Then Defamed) Judge Who Said the Truth About Serious Abuse at the Top of EPO
2016-06-10 The Commission is Complicit in EPO Abuses, According to Marc Tarabella
2016-06-10 Battistelli's EPO is Buying Media Coverage for Lobbying Purposes, But Not at Battistelli's Expense
2016-06-10 EPO 'Bought' the Financial Times, Which Now Operates in 'Mouthpiece Mode' for Mr. Battistelli
2016-06-10 The EPO is in a Mess So Sordid That It Pays for Positive Publicity, Further Abolishes Labour Rights (to Punish Whistleblowers) and More
2016-06-11 [ES] El Premio al Inventor Europeo 2016 (EIA16) del la EPO No es un Evento de Premiación, es Sólo un Evento de Propaganda y Cabildeo de Battistelli, la EPO Simplemente Paga por Ello
2016-06-11 [ES] Medios Holandeses Revelan que Battistelli Continua su Feroz Guerra Contra el Sindicato de Empleados, Laurent Prunier la Última Victima (La Hague)
2016-06-11 [ES] Se Dice Que Battistelli Esta Fabricando Más Ataques en Contra de la Gente a la Que Ya Despidió de la EPO
2016-06-11 EPO Press Spokesperson and Director External Communications Busy Creating Distractions From EPO Controversies
2016-06-11 Patent Lawyers Want a 'Death Squad' to Kill PTAB, Which Eliminates Software Patents at a Growing Pace
2016-06-12 [ES] Audiencia el Martes en la Sala 131 Acerca del Ilegalmente Suspendido (y luego Difamado) Juez Que Dijo la Verdad Acerca de los Serios Abusos en la Cúpula de la EPO
2016-06-12 [ES] La Comisión es Complice en los Abusos de la EPO, De Acuerdo a Marc Tarabella
2016-06-12 [ES] La EPO de Battistelli Está Comprando Cubrimiénto de los Medios Para Sus Objetivos Cabilderso, Pero No de Los Bolsillos de Battistelli
2016-06-12 [ES] La EPO ‘Compró’ al Financial Times, El Cual Opera a ‘Modo de Vocero’ Para el sr. Battistelli
2016-06-12 Why Anonymous Dissent Against EPO on Google Platforms May be Risky
2016-06-12 Samsung's Patent Cases Matter to Design Patents (Scope), to Android, and by Extension to GNU/Linux
2016-06-13 The Corruption of the Media: EPO Budget as a Gift to Broadcasters Under the EIA2016 Umbrella, FTI Consulting Contracts
2016-06-13 Association of the Members of the Boards of Appeal Urges EPO Administrative Council to End Battistelli's Coup
2016-06-13 Out-of-Control Battistelli Repeatedly Breaks Office Rules and EPC Rules, Then Tries to Change the Rules (Retroactive Legalisation)
2016-06-13 Spontaneous Protest at EPO Today as Battistelli Still Acts Defiantly, Three Days of 'Trial' Starting Tomorrow
2016-06-13 Report From Thursday Protest in EPO Munich Branch/Headquarters
2016-06-13 New Essay: EPO “president and Council are morally corrupt”
2016-06-13 Bought Media Coverage at the European Patent Office
2016-06-13 Another EPO Staff Demonstration Planned for a Fortnight From Now When Battistelli Wishes to Make the EPO Even Crazier
2016-06-14 Battistelli is Sending Threatening Messages/Letters Again, in Another Desperate Effort to Cover Up His Campaign of Defamation Against EPO Whistleblowers (Updated)
2016-06-14 EPO and Its 'Buddies' in the Media Lobby for the UPC in Spite of and in the Face of Resistance
2016-06-14 Rights Groups, Media, Developers and Others Are Rising Up Against Patent Trolls, But the Problem is Always Software Patents
2016-06-14 Timely 'Gifts' From Battistelli to Member States (Shortly Before They Can -- and Should -- Sack Him)
2016-06-14 Detailed Account of Today's 'Trial' of a Judge Who Said the Truth About the EPO
2016-06-14 Endgame of Manipulating Media With Payments and PR: The 'Blame Everything and Everyone But EPO Management' Tactics
2016-06-15 Battistelli's European Patent Office Broadens FTI Consulting Contract to Undermine the Media, Wastes Millions of Euros
2016-06-15 British Media Tackling Other British Media That the EPO's Benoît Battistelli Paid for His Propaganda Campaign
2016-06-15 EPO Investigative Unit Causes “Trauma, Will Ruin the Health or Even the Family”
2016-06-16 EPO Brain Drain Goes All the Way to the Top as Head of Patent Administration Abruptly Resigns
2016-06-16 EPO Crisis: What If There Was an Administrative Council Meeting and Nobody Came?
2016-06-16 Benoît Battistelli's Façade Continues: Exploiting Terror Attacks Again, Throwing Expensive Parties at the EPO's Expense, Crushing More Workers' Rights
2016-06-16 Benoît Battistelli Apparently Breaks the Rules Again and Says That Transparent Trial is Unlawful, Threatens Those Involved
2016-06-17 Canonical's and Red Hat's Shameful War Against One Another... and Against the Already-Marginalised Linux Media
2016-06-17 Benoît Battistelli Admits That UPC is Not a Done Deal, in Spite of His Expensive PR and Misleading Media Coverage That He Had the EPO Pay Untold Millions For
2016-06-18 No Exaggeration Necessary: the EPO Under Benoît Battistelli Has North Korean Standards of 'Justice'
2016-06-18 When the EPO's PR Team Says About UPC (Unitary Patent) That It Can be Delayed It Means Derailed or Called Off
2016-06-18 Brain Drain at the EPO: Qualified Patent Examiners Leave in Droves, Young Ones Blindly Loyal to Management Reduce Patent Quality
2016-06-18 The Rule of Money and Power, Not the Rule of Law, at the European Patent Office
2016-06-19 [ES] Battistelli esta Mandando Mensajes/Cartas Amenazadoras de Nuevo, en Otro Desesperado Esfuerzo de Cubrir su Campaña de Difamación en Contra de Personal de la EPO Que Sacan a Luz la Verdard (Actualizado)
2016-06-19 [ES] La EPO y sus ‘Compadres’ en los Medios Cabildean por la UPC a Pesar de y Enfrentar Resistencia
2016-06-19 [ES] Oportunos ‘Regalos’ de Battistelli a los Estados Miembros (Poco antes de que Ellos Puedan — y Deberían — Despedirlo)
2016-06-19 [ES] La Oficina Europea de Patentes de Battistelli Amplia su Contrato con el Nefasto FTI Consulting Para Neutralizar a los Medios, Desperdicia Millones de Euros
2016-06-19 How the Halo Electronics Case Helps Patent Trolls and How Publications Funded by Patent Trolls (IAM for Instance) Covered This
2016-06-19 Jericho Systems Threatens Alice, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Threatens the Patent Trial and Appeal (PTAB)
2016-06-19 Patent Examiners and Insiders Acknowledge Profound Demise in Patent Quality Under Battistelli
2016-06-20 Money Flying to Private Companies Without Tenders at Battistelli's EPO (by the Tens of Millions!)
2016-06-20 New Paper Demonstrates That Unitary Patent (UPC) is Little More Than a Conspiracy of Patent 'Professionals' and Their Self Interest
2016-06-20 Under Battistelli's Regime the EPO is a Lawless, Dark Place
2016-06-21 Caricature: Bygmalion Patent Office
2016-06-21 EPO Self-Censorship by IP Kat or Just Censorship of Opinions That IP Kat Does Not Share/Accept (Updated)
2016-06-21 Supreme Court on Cuozzo v Lee Another Major Loss for Software Patents in the United States
2016-06-21 Patent Lawyers, Having Lost Much of the Battle for Software Patents in the US, Resort to Harmful Measures and Spin
2016-06-21 The Conspiracy of Patent Lawyers for UPC and Battistelli's Role in Preparing by Firing People
2016-06-22 EPO “Recruitment of Brits is Down by 80%”
2016-06-22 IP Europe's UPC Lobbying and the EPO Connection
2016-06-23 Another Demonstration by European Patent Office (EPO) Staff on Same Day as Administrative Council's Meeting
2016-06-23 As Decision on the UK's EU Status Looms, EPO Deep in a Crisis of Patent Quality
2016-06-23 Looks Increasingly Plausible That Battistelli is Covering up Bogus and/or Illegally-Obtained 'Evidence' From the EPO's Investigative Unit
2016-06-23 Patent Lawyers Love (and Amplify) Halo and Enfish, Omit or Dismiss Cuozzo and Alice
2016-06-23 Fake Patents on Software From Fake Australian 'Inventor' of Bitcoin and the Globally-Contagious Nature of EPO Patent Scope
2016-06-23 Benoît Battistelli Should Resign in Light of New Leak of Decision in His Vendetta Against Truth-Telling Judge (Updated)
2016-06-24 Links 24/6/2016: Xen Project 4.7, Cinnamon 3.0.6
2016-06-25 With UPC Dead for Battistelli's Entire Remaining Term, No Reason for the EPO or the Administrative Council to Keep Battistelli Around
2016-06-26 Patents Roundup: Bad Quality (USPTO), Bad Analysis (India), Bad Microsoft, Bad Actors (Trolls), Bad Scope (Software Patents), and the Ugly
2016-06-27 Techrights (Almost) at 10: From Software Patents to Novell and to Present Focus on EPO
2016-06-27 Caricature: European Patent Office (EPO) Under Battistelli
2016-06-27 Battistelli May Still be on the Way Out as Pressure Grows in Germany, UPC in Shambles
2016-06-27 From Alleged Organised Crime to Vice-President of the European Patent Office (EPO)
2016-06-28 [ES] Cada Vez Más Parece Que Battistelli está Escondiéndo ‘Evidencia’ Falsa y/o Ilegalmente Obtenda de la Unidad Investigativa de la EPO
2016-06-28 [ES] El Caradura Benoît Battistelli Debería Renunciar a Luz de la Filtrada Nueva Decisión en Su Vendeta en Contra de un Juez que se Atrevió a Decir la Verdad (Actualizado)
2016-06-28 [ES] Con la UPC Muerta por el Resto del Termino de Battistelli, No Hay Razón para que la EPO o el Consejo Administrativo Sigan Manteniéndolo Más
2016-06-28 Injunction Against Battistelli's Investigative Unit (Known Internally as 'Gestapo') Amid Serious Injustices and Bogus 'Trials'
2016-06-28 New Efforts to Work Around Barriers to UPC in Light of 'Brexit'; Behind These Efforts Are Self-Serving Patent Profiteers
2016-06-29 EPO Caricature: Firing Benoît Battistelli
2016-06-29 EPO Caricature: Administrative Council Control of Benoît Battistelli
2016-06-29 Benoît Battistelli Further Weaponises His EPO 'Stasi' With CA/52/16
2016-06-29 Keeping the Guard and Securing Society From Software Patents
2016-06-29 EPO Management Bunker: “The Bailiff Who Came to Deliver the Subpoena was Escorted off the Property by Five Security Guards.”
2016-06-29 The Latest Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) Would Have Us Believe That It's Alive and Well
2016-06-29 The EPO Has Become Battistelli's Circus and the Administrative Council Has Been Reduced to (Illegal) Circus Animals Controlled With 'Treats'
2016-06-29 Rumours That EPO President Battistelli Got Sacked to be Replaced by Christoph Ernst Appear to be Baseless
2016-06-29 Battistelli is Creating an Atmosphere of Terror at the EPO While Exploiting Terror Attacks to Garner Sympathy
2016-06-29 Battistelli Attacks Not Only His Staff But Also Patents Themselves (Their Quality) and the Legal Legitimacy Surrounding the EPO
2016-06-29 Growing Consensus Even Among Patent Professionals That UPC is Dying Everywhere If Not Just in the UK
2016-06-29 Short Report From Today's EPO Protest in Munich
2016-06-30 You Know That UPC is Quite Likely Dead (at Least in the UK) When Even Baroness Neville-Rolfe Dodges the Question (Updated)
2016-06-30 Shadows of Alleged Criminality Over the European Patent Office (EPO)
2016-06-30 EPO Staff Representative Jesus Areso Explains the Crisis to the Administrative Council
2016-06-30 Battistelli's Last Moves Are Desperate Attempts to Crush the Messenger (SUEPO), Which Will Almost Certainly Backfire on (if Not Fire) Battistelli
2016-06-30 Publicly-Available Information About the Meeting of the EPO's Administrative Council
2016-07-01 EPO Leak: Administrative Council's Latest Meeting Report (Updated)
2016-07-01 At the European Patent Organisation the Administrative Council Does Not Care About Staff
2016-07-01 The European Patent Organisation's Administrative Council Helps Benoît Battistelli Destroy Patent Quality for the Sake of 'Production'
2016-07-01 No Expectation of the US Patent System Getting Fixed Any Time Soon
2016-07-01 Great News: The US Supreme Court Shoots Down Software Patents Again
2016-07-01 Realistic English Translation of EPO Announcement About Crushing of Patent Quality
2016-07-01 As Expected, 'Team UPC' Continues Fighting for Its Project's Survival in Spite of 'Brexit'
2016-07-01 Battistelli's Destructive Actions Will Drive EPO Applicants Away to National Patent Offices, Putting at Risk the Whole EU-Wide (and Beyond) Project
2016-07-02 Cuozzo Case Summarised, Immersion Corp. v HTC Corp. to Remain Negligible Unless it Too Reaches SCOTUS
2016-07-02 Patents Roundup: Patent Maximalism, Apple's Patent Deception, and Failure of Patent-Centric Media to Name and Shame Patent Trolls
2016-07-02 [ES] Traduccción Realista al Español del Anuncio de la EPO Acerca de Aplastar la Calidad de Patentes
2016-07-02 [ES] Como Era de Esperarse, El €´Equipo UPC€´ Continúa Luchando para que Su Proyecto Sobreviva a Pesar de Brexit
2016-07-03 [ES] Las Acciiónes Destructivas de Battistelli Llevaran a los Aplicantes de la EPO Hacia las Oficinas Nacionales de Patentes, Poniéndo en Riesgo el Proyecto Total de la UE y Más Allá
2016-07-03 What Team Battistelli Claims to be Independence of the Boards of Appeal Actually a Likely Dismissal Plan for 'Unwanted' Judge (and Maybe His Protectors), Potentially Permanent Unemployment Plan
2016-07-03 Post-Jeremy IP Kat Deems It OK to Publish Anonymous Comment Comparing Techrights to “Daesh” While Censoring Polite Response to That
2016-07-03 IAM's Latest Take on the UPC: Dead End For Another 2.5 Years (At Least) With No Effective Workarounds
2016-07-03 Grim Situation at the European Patent Office Following Battistelli's Latest Lawlessness Tendencies, as Explained by Concerned Insiders
2016-07-04 The European Patent Organisation Jokes About Independence on the 4th of July (US Independence Day)
2016-07-04 UPC a Dead Project, as Per Analysis From Foley and Lardner LLP; What Next for Team Battistelli and Team UPC?
2016-07-04 Image of Battistelli's EPO Tarnished in the UK and Elsewhere as Battistelli Warms up to Cuba, Colombia, and Panama
2016-07-04 Team Battistelli Parties Like It's Still 2010 (Pre-Battistelli Governance), Fails to Acknowledge Demise of EPO as Popular Employer and Instead Lies to Staff
2016-07-05 Potential Alignment of Special Interests at Mishcon de Reya: EPO, Microsoft, and Brexit (or UPC)
2016-07-05 Signs of Progress: Overly Litigious US Patent System Calms Down a Bit, Reform Upsets Megacorporations
2016-07-05 SUEPO “Speechless” About Administrative Council Delegates for “Cavalier Attitude Towards Law-Making” and “Contempt for Consultative Processes”
2016-07-05 Decline of Patent Quality at the EPO to Further Exacerbate With Latest Crackdown on Appeal Boards
2016-07-06 The 'Administrative' Council is to Benoît Battistelli What FISA is to the NSA
2016-07-06 Microsoft and Its Lobbyist David Kappos (Former USPTO Director) Are Still Lobbying for Software Patents
2016-07-07 Weapons of Mass Distraction at the EPO Cost the EPO Millions of Euros
2016-07-07 Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Originator of Software Patents) Still the Number One Barrier to Progress and Justice
2016-07-08 Conflicts of Interest and Payments From Large Corporations Bias Coverage of Patents in the News
2016-07-09 When the Patent Litigation Business is Trying to Create Demand for Software Patents and for Disputes/Lawsuits
2016-07-09 Battistelli and Team UPC Working Behind Closed Doors to Overcome Brexit and Impose Patent Injustice
2016-07-10 [ES] La Última Opinión de IAM en la UPC: En un Callejón sin Salida por Otros 2.5 Años (Por lo Menos) Con no Salidas Efectivas
2016-07-10 [ES] La Imagen de la EPO de Battistelli Manchada en el Reino Unido y en Todo Lugar Mientras Battistelli Encanta a Cuba, Colombia, y Panama
2016-07-10 [ES] El Consejo ‘Administrativo’ es para Benoît Battistelli lo que la FISA es para la NSA
2016-07-10 [ES] El Alineamiénto Potential de Intereses Especiales con Mishcon de Reya: EPO, Microsoft, y Brexit (o la UPC)
2016-07-11 [ES] Battistelli y el Equipo UPC Trabajando a Puertas Cerradas para Sobreponerse a Brexit e Imponer la Injusticia de Patentes
2016-07-11 Benoît Battistelli's Attacks on EPO Unions, Judges, Boards, and Even Justice Itself the Subject of Media Fascination
2016-07-11 Yet More Reality Distortion Fields From Microsoft's Ex-Chief Patent Counsel in Collaboration With IAM
2016-07-11 China Mimics Patent Protectionism and Patent Aggression Strategies of Other Countries
2016-07-11 Coup D'état in Relation to the European Patent Office
2016-07-11 Will Battistelli's Friend/Ally Lucy Neville-Rolfe Shamelessly Attack British Democracy and Push for UPC in Spite of Brexit?
2016-07-11 “We Need to Inform [Politicians, Journalists ... Ministers or Representatives] that the Whole European Patent System is at Risk.”
2016-07-12 Hot Summer: EPO Management on Trial This Week
2016-07-12 Software Patents in the US and the European Loopholes Revisited
2016-07-13 EPO's Battistelli Continues to Court Small Countries' Officials and Spin That as “Small Businesses From These Countries”
2016-07-13 Fourth-Busiest Quarter for Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), Which Invalidates Software Patents That USPTO Foolishly or Selfishly Granted
2016-07-14 EPO Management on Trial Tomorrow, But It Stated Upfront It Would Not Obey the Legal Ruling While It Rigs Its Own Rulings
2016-07-14 Deathwatch of the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPC)
2016-07-15 EPO's Battistelli, Who Breaks the Law, Subverts the Course of Justice and Refuses to Obey Court Orders, Says the Unthinkable Amid Terror Attacks
2016-07-16 What If EPO Under Battistelli Gets Broken Beyond Repair Just Like the UPC?
2016-07-16 The Importance of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and High-Quality Patents (Not Software Patents)
2016-07-16 This is Why Benoît Battistelli Has 0% Approval Rating Among 'His' Staff at the EPO
2016-07-17 [ES] La EPO de Battistelli Continúa Cortejando a Officiales de Países Pequeños y su Propaganda de Beneficiar a las “PYMEs de Aquellos Países”
2016-07-17 [ES] La EPO de Battistelli, Quién Quiebra la Ley, Subvierte el Curso de la Justicia y Rechaza Obedecer las Ordenes de la Corte Dice lo Impensable en Medio de los Actos de Terror
2016-07-17 [ES] €¿Que si la EPO Bajo Battistelli Se Arruina Sin Posibilidad de Reparación Como la UPC?
2016-07-17 Microsoft and Its Patent Minions at Nokia Still Have Patent Stacking Ambitions Against Android/Linux OEMs
2016-07-17 Whistleblower Protection Desperately Needed at the European Patent Office
2016-07-17 After the FTI Consulting-EPO Reputation Laundering Deal's Expansion in Germany Süddeutsche Zeitung 'Forgets' That the EPO Even Exists
2016-07-17 The Impotence of Gene Quinn
2016-07-17 Exploiting Perceived Emergencies/Disasters, Suspending the Rule of Law, and Suspending Judges: How ErdoÄŸan is Like Battistelli, Except the Coup
2016-07-18 EPO Social [sic] Report is a Big Pile of Lies That Responsible Journalists Must Ignore
2016-07-19 Battistelli Has Implemented De Facto EPO Coup to Remove Oversight, Give Himself Total Power, and Allegedly Give UPC Gifts (Loot) to French Officials
2016-07-20 EPO USA: Under Battistelli, the 'European' Patent Office Emulates All the Mistakes of the USPTO
2016-07-22 Glimpse at Patent Systems Across the World: Better Quality Control at the USPTO Post-America Invents Act (2011), Unlike the EPO Post-Battistelli (2010)
2016-07-22 Patents Roundup: BlackBerry, Huawei, PTAB, GAO, Aggressive Universities With Patents, and Software Patents in Europe
2016-07-22 EPO Insiders Explain Why the EPO's Examination Quality Rapidly Declines and Will Get Even Worse Because of Willy Minnoye
2016-07-22 EPO Attaché Albert Keyack Viewed as Somewhat of a Mole, Reporting From the US Embassy in Brazil Until Shortly Before the Temer Coup
2016-07-22 Haar Mentioned as Likely Site of Appeal Boards as Their Eradication or Marginalisation Envisioned by UPC Proponent Benoît Battistelli
2016-07-24 In the US, Patent Trolls Engage in Patent Wars and Shakedowns, Whereas in China/Korea Large Android OEMs Sue One Another
2016-07-24 The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) Comes Across as Against Software Patents, Relates to the EPO as Well
2016-07-24 Leaked: Boards of Appeal Face 'Exile' or 'Extradition' in Haar After Standing up to Battistelli
2016-07-26 Almost Everything That the Government Accountability Office Says is Applicable to the EPO
2016-07-26 Kluwer Thinks People Are Clueless About the Unitary Patent System and Pretends It's Business as Usual
2016-07-26 Munich Attack Mentioned by EPO But Not Ansbach
2016-07-27 Early Certainty That Benoît Battistelli is Dangerously Clueless and a Major Risk to the EPO
2016-07-27 Software Patents a Dying Breed, But Patent Lawyers in Denial Over it and Notorious Judge Rodney Gilstrap Ignores Alice (Supreme Court)
2016-07-28 Patent Lawyers Move Closer to Battistelli's Rubber-stamping Office While the Appeal Boards Pushed Away as Collective Punishment Which Masks Decline in Patent Quality
2016-07-28 To Understand What Battistelli Has Turned the EPO Into Look at Turkey and China
2016-07-28 EPO Loses More Than 80% of Cases at the International Labour Organisation (ILO)
2016-07-30 EPO Crushed the Boards of Appeal (i.e. Quality Control) and Insiders Explain Why
2016-07-31 The Illusion of Patents as Necessary for Maintaining Western Dominance Increasingly Debunked
2016-07-31 Actions by Team Battistelli Against the European Patent Convention (EPC) and the Role Played by Željko Topić in Crushing Opposition
2016-07-31 Calling Software Patents 'Devices' or 'Computer-Implemented' to Get Past the Explicit Exclusions
2016-08-01 The USPTO's Dark Legacy of Software Patents Still the Cause of Spurious/Frivolous Litigation, Residue Which is Software Patent Trolls and Lawyers Will Try to Change the Law
2016-08-01 Software Patents Still a Problem in Europe (in Spite of the European Patent Convention), the UPC Would Make Things Worse
2016-08-02 The Protocol on Privileges and Immunities of the UPC is a Dead End, But Team UPC Tries to Ram it Down Europeans' Throats
2016-08-02 Patent Lawyers Continue to Shoot the Messenger (Attack PTAB) in a Desperate Effort to Salvage Software Patents and Other Rubbish
2016-08-02 List of Academics Who Are Protecting Patent Trolls
2016-08-03 Lucy in the Sky With Battistelli's Diamonds (EU Budget) But No UPC in Sight
2016-08-04 Patent Quality in Europe (EPO) Declining Under Battistelli in Spite of the USPTO's Cautionary Tale
2016-08-05 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is Putting an End to Lots of Software Patents; Patent Microcosm Spins and Distracts From This
2016-08-06 How Low-Quality USPTO Patents Made the US Fertile Ground for Patent Trolling
2016-08-06 Francis Gurry -- Like Benoît Battistelli -- Compared to Sepp Blatter of FIFA
2016-08-06 Managing IP (MIP) Organises a UPC Event (European Patent 'Reform' Forum), the Largest Patent Microcosm/Corporate Players Dominate Through Fee Discrimination
2016-08-08 Software Patents Not Potent in the United States Anymore, But Threat of Resurgence Persists Inside CAFC
2016-08-08 Rumours About Secret EPO Salary of Benoît Battistelli
2016-08-08 EPO's Vice-President Willy Minnoye Was Rumoured to be Leaving
2016-08-09 “EPO is Quickly Turning Into a Registration System”
2016-08-09 “EPO Shows an Operating Loss of €145,000,000”
2016-08-09 The Problem With Overpatenting: The Google Example
2016-08-10 Deviation From (and Violation of) the EPC Under Battistelli at the EPO for the Sake of 'Production'
2016-08-10 Rumours About Likely Salary of (or Compensation to) Jesper Kongstad of the EPO Administrative Council
2016-08-11 The EPO's Twitter Account is Drunk (on Battistelli's Kool-Aid)
2016-08-11 'Constitutional Crisis' at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2016-08-12 Links 12/8/2016: Ardour 5.0, Simplenote Liberated
2016-08-12 German Media Becomes Aware of Battistelli's Defiance of the Very Basis of the EPO
2016-08-12 In Its War Against Android/Linux, Apple Supported by Non-Producing/Non-Practicing Parasites, Whereas Technology Companies Support the Android OEM
2016-08-14 Pushers of Software Patents Outside the United States (Which is Belatedly Squashing These Patents)
2016-08-14 The United States Has a Growing Patent Trolls Epidemic as Very High Proportion of Lawsuits Filed by Them
2016-08-14 Patent Microcosm Shuts Out the Poor: Unified Patent Court (UPC) Promotion by Practising Law Institute (PLI) Only for the Wealthy
2016-08-15 Clawing Back the Staff Benefits at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2016-08-16 A Surge of Staff Complaints About the European Patent Office Drowns the System, Disservice to Justice Noted
2016-08-16 The EPO's Administrative Council Keeps Postponing Debate About Grounds for Firing the President
2016-08-16 That Time When the Administrative Council Helped Battistelli Crush Oversight (Audit Committee) and What ILO Said About It a Month Ago
2016-08-16 Personal Audio LLC and Patent Troll Jim Logan Demonstrate the Harms of Software Patents and Why They Must Never Spread to Europe
2016-08-18 Turkey Subjected to the European Patent Convention (EPC) But Benoît Battistelli is Not?
2016-08-18 Battistelli's European Patent Office Goes to the United States to Speak About the UPC and Software Patents
2016-08-18 The End of an Era at the USPTO as Battistelli-Like (EPO) Granting Policies Are Over
2016-08-20 The Cost/Toll of the 'New' EPO and Where All That Money Goes or Comes From
2016-08-22 The Collapse of Software Patents and Patent Law Firms Trying to “Overcome” Alice
2016-08-22 Battistelli the Liar Causes a Climate of Confrontation in French Politics, Lies About Patent Quality (Among Many Other Things)
2016-08-22 Not Just President Battistelli: EPO Vice-Presidents Are Still Intentionally Misrepresenting EPO Staff
2016-08-25 PTAB Emerges as Hero of USPTO Because Quality of Patents Improves, Software Patents Are Effectively Dead (or Dying Once Reassessed)
2016-08-25 Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice Calls the European Patent Office “Rotten”, Other Sources Scrutinise Recent Moves
2016-08-26 The EPO, USPTO, and Patent Microcosm Peddle Myths About Patents in Public Universities and Research
2016-08-26 The EPO's Francesco Zaccà Presenting in Turin Alongside Patent Trolls (Like the Patent Mafia Sisvel) and Lobbyists/Front Groups for Software Patents, UPC
2016-08-26 Erosion of Patent Quality Enables Patent Extortion With Large Portfolios of Low Validity Rate
2016-08-26 Good Job, David Kappos, Says the 'Boss' (IBM)
2016-08-28 More Lies From President Benoît Battistelli and the EPO Crisis Which Continues to Deepen
2016-08-28 The United States Has Gotten Over Software Patents
2016-08-29 Nothing Whatsoever Has Improved at the European Patent Office, It's Just Summer's Recess (and Silence)
2016-08-29 Let Them Eat Patents
2016-08-29 Links 29/8/2016: Linux 4.8 RC4, Maru OS Source Code
2016-09-01 The Long Reach of Battistelli's Policy of Retribution
2016-09-02 The Corrupting Influence of Money in the Linux Foundation (Bias for Sale)
2016-09-02 UPC Threatens to Send the European Patent Office Circling Down the Drain
2016-09-03 The European Patent Office is Utterly Desperate for Attention as Its Status Worldwide Sinks and It Resorts to 'Spamming' All Major Universities in Europe
2016-09-03 Specialists in Public International Law Bemoan Privacy Violations at the European Patent Office
2016-09-03 Battistelli is Even Attacking the French, and Not Just in Germany But Also on Dutch Territory
2016-09-03 The EPO is Wasting a Fortune and Flying to Other Continents in an Apparent Effort to Recruit (Because Brain Drain Continues Very Rapidly)
2016-09-04 There is No Future for the UPC in Spite of What the EPO and the Patent Microcosm Keep Telling Us
2016-09-04 Death of Software Patents Almost Everywhere Except the Eastern District of Texas
2016-09-05 The EPO's Assistant/Secretary for Bergot (Nepotism Supreme) Demonstrates a Race to the Bottom With Temporary Appointments, Operation 'Clean House'
2016-09-05 Patent System in the US Must Revert Back to Original Goals or Lose Credibility
2016-09-06 High on EPO: Battistelli's 'Social Conference' Nonsense is Intended to Help Suppress Debate About His Abuses Against Staff and Union-Busting Activities
2016-09-06 Convergence Between the EPO and the Media: 'Managing IP' as Battistelli and UPC Platform
2016-09-08 Another New Low for the EPO and Battistelli (Updated)
2016-09-08 The European Privacy Offender (EPO) Sells Data But Only to the Rich and Powerful
2016-09-08 Software Patents Deathwatch: Panic in the Patent Microcosm as “Since Alice, the Reject Rate for Patents for Payment Technologies is Above 90 Percent.”
2016-09-08 A New Wave of the EPO's Much-Expected Propaganda Push, Aided by 'Managing IP' and IAM 'Magazine'
2016-09-09 Links 9/9/2016: IBM's New Servers, SUSE Eaten by HPE
2016-09-10 Links 10/9/2016: Elementary OS Loki, Linux Mint 18 “Sarah” KDE Edition
2016-09-11 The Collapse of the European Patent Office Under Battistelli Has Already Begun
2016-09-11 USPTO Fraud Accusations and the 'Coverup' Attempt by USPTO Circles Inside the Corporate Media
2016-09-12 New Paper Outlines Concerns That the EPO as a Patent Examination Office is Dying, Gradually Turning Into a Registration Office
2016-09-12 Benoît Battistelli is Putting More EPO Staff Representatives in Front of His Firing Line
2016-09-12 EU Law and UPC: Brought to You by Microsoft and the European Patent Office
2016-09-12 Brain Drain at the EPO Under Battistelli is Becoming a Critical Problem
2016-09-13 The Duke Law Patent Quality Conference and the Planned Erosion of Patent Quality at the EPO, for the Sake of So-called 'Production'
2016-09-13 Web Site 'Managing IP' is Managing to Come Across as an EPO Mouthpiece
2016-09-13 Battistelli is Killing the EPO, in His Own Words...
2016-09-13 Team UPC Has Not Grown Tired of Kicking a Dead (Trojan) Horse
2016-09-13 The Pack of Hyenas Promotes Software Patents in the US by Shaming and Mocking Those Doing Their Job Post-Alice
2016-09-14 As Expected, Misleading Coverage Regarding Software Patents in the Wake of McRO v Bandai Namco
2016-09-14 As Part of So-called 'Reforms', the EPO's President is Gradually Eliminating the Boards of Appeal, Not Just Their Independence
2016-09-15 Battistelli and His Circle -- Not Just Team UPC -- Still Delusional About the Prospects of a Unified Patent Court (UPC)
2016-09-15 Battistelli is Lying About Patent Quality While It Continues to Nosedive at the EPO as Part of His Neo-liberal 'Production' Strategy
2016-09-18 EPO President Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are Still Lying, Don't Believe a Word They Say
2016-09-18 Poor Quality Control at the US Patent Office Gives Birth to 'Unpatent' and Gives a Voice to Critics
2016-09-18 After McRO v Namco Case (at CAFC) the Patent Microcosm Works Overtime to Produce Pro-Software Patents Propaganda, Smear the Supreme Court
2016-09-19 When EPO Liar-in-Chief Benoît Battistelli Defamed His Staff in Parliament, Comparing Them to Nazis and Criminals
2016-09-19 With or Without the UPC (Which Will Probably Never Happen) Battistelli is Crushing the EPO and Ejects Experienced Staff, a Future Without Examination Possible
2016-09-19 Patents Roundup: Disclosure Requirements, Mobile Patents, Patent Lawyers' Plagiarism, USPTO Getting Sued, and Corporate Domination of the Patent System
2016-09-20 For Abuse Like Plagiarism and Malpractice, the US Patent System is Still World Champion
2016-09-20 Microsoft and Patent Law Firms in the United States Can't Stop Writing About McRo in a Coordinated Push to Resurrect Software Patents
2016-09-20 The EPO's 'Investigative' Function is Totally Out of Control and Continues to Get Bigger, Whitewashed by So-called 'Review'
2016-09-20 Like Big Tobacco Lobbyists, Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are Just Chronically Lying and Manipulating Politicians With Their Lies
2016-09-23 Journalism 101: Do Not Believe Anything That Benoît Battistelli and the EPO's Management Say (Also Don't Fall for the UPC Hype)
2016-09-23 Journalism 102: Do Not Become Like 'Managing IP' or IAM 'Magazine' (the Megaphones of the EPO’s Management)
2016-09-23 White Male-Dominated EPO Management Sinks to New Lows, Again
2016-09-24 Released Late on a Friday, EPO Social 'Study' (Battistelli-Commissioned Propaganda) Attempts to Blame Staff for Everything
2016-09-24 Bristows LLP's Hatred/Disdain of UK/EU Democracy Demonstrated; Says “Not Only Will the Pressure for UK Ratification of the UPC Agreement Continue, But a Decision is Wanted Within Weeks.”
2016-09-24 Patent Quality and Patent Scope the Unspeakable Taboo at the EPO, as Both Are Guillotined by Benoît Battistelli for the Sake of Money
2016-09-25 The EPO Does Not Want Skilled (and 'Expensive') Staff, Layoffs a Growing Concern
2016-09-25 What Insiders Are Saying About the Sad State of the European Patent Office (EPO)
2016-09-26 The Moral Depravity of the European Patent Office Under Battistelli
2016-09-27 The Battistelli Effect: “We Will be Gradually Forced to File Our Patent Applications Outside the EPO in the Interests of Our Clients”
2016-09-27 The EPO's Continued Push for Software Patents, Marginalisation of Appeals (Reassessment), and Deviation From the EPC
2016-09-27 Patent Trolling a Growing Problem in East Asia (Software Patents Also), Whereas in the US the Problem Goes Away Along With Software Patents
2016-09-27 Beware the Patent Law Firms Insinuating That Software Patents Are Back Because of McRO
2016-09-27 After the EPO Paid the Financial Times to Produce Propaganda the Newspaper Continues to Produce UPC Puff Pieces, Just Ahead of EU Council Meeting
2016-09-27 Team Battistelli Intensifies the Attack on the Boards of Appeal Again
2016-09-28 Cementing Autocracy: The European Patent Office Against Democracy, Against Media, and Against the Rule of Law
2016-09-29 EPO's Board 28 Notes Battistelli's “Three Current Investigations/Disciplinary Proceedings Involving SUEPO Members in The Hague.
2016-09-29 Letter From the Dutch Institute of Patent Attorneys (Nederlandse Orde van Octrooigemachtigden) to the Administrative Council of the EPO
2016-09-29 Leaked: Conclusions of the Secretive EPO Board 28 Meeting (8th of September 2016)
2016-09-29 IP Kat is Lobbying Heavily for the UPC, Courtesy of Team UPC
2016-09-29 Team UPC is Interjecting Itself Into the Media Ahead of Tomorrow's Lobbying Push Against the European Council and Against European Interests
2016-09-30 Unprecedented Levels of UPC Lobbying by Big Business Europe (Multinationals) and Their Patent Law Firms
2016-09-30 Battistelli Locks EPO Staff Union Out of Social Conference So That He Can Lie About the Union and the Social Climate
2016-09-30 New Paper Provides Evidence of Sinking Patent Quality at the EPO, Refuting the Liar in Chief Battistelli
2016-09-30 Dutch Court Rules Against SUEPO (in a Reversal), But EPO Management Would Have Ignored the Ruling Even If SUEPO Won (Updated)
2016-10-01 Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are at War With European Democracy, Which They View as an Obstacle to Money and Power
2016-10-01 Immunity of the European Patent Office and Lack of Oversight Within the Organisation Mean That It's a Rogue Entity Above the Law
2016-10-02 Not Just the European Patent Office But the Organisation Too a Culprit in Immunity and Impunity
2016-10-02 With Patent Law Firms Like These, No Wonder There's Distrust and Animosity
2016-10-03 Alice/Section 101 Still Spelling Doom for Proponents of Software Patents, Including Some Patent Law Firms
2016-10-03 Translation and Response to Battistelli's Face-Saving 'Interview' With Juve
2016-10-04 Danish Fairy Tales and Legends: The Secret Life of Jesper Kongstad
2016-10-04 Introduction to Jesper Kongstad, EPO Chairman of the Administrative Council
2016-10-04 Addendum: Controversial Chinchilla Farming by the Kongstad Family
2016-10-04 Staff of the EPO is Going Out in Protest (Munich and The Hague) While EPO Management Buys European Media to Control This Media, Promote UPC
2016-10-05 Pieter Hintjens's Legacy of Fighting Against Software Patents Lives On
2016-10-05 No Justice Even for a Judge at the EPO, as the Whole Institution is Beyond Rotten and Quite Corrupt
2016-10-05 Loose Patent Scope Becoming a Publicity Nightmare for the EPO and Battistelli Does a China Outreach (Worst/Most Notorious on Patent Quality)
2016-10-05 Echo Chamber's Lobbying: Team UPC Citing Team UPC as 'Proof' Regarding the UPC
2016-10-06 Danish Stories - Part II: Kongstad's Political Masters in Denmark and Rumoured Connections to the Venstre Party
2016-10-06 Addendum I: Photos of Troel Lund Poulsen and Michael Dithmer
2016-10-06 Addendum II: Photos of Troel Lund Poulsen With Fur
2016-10-06 Battistelli's Preparation for a Propaganda Session That Excludes EPO Staff Representation
2016-10-06 Team Battistelli Keeps Lying About Judges and Staff Representatives in Order to Decapitate EPO Staff and Even the 'Independent' Boards of Appeal
2016-10-07 Danish Stories - Part III: Jesper Kongstad a Danish Civil Servant With a Distinctly Entrepreneurial Streak
2016-10-07 Rumour: The European Patent Office Intends to Sack Staff Representatives at The Hague Like It Did in Munich
2016-10-09 Danish Stories - Part IV: Jesper Kongstad and FJORDBLINK MEDICAL ApS
2016-10-09 Addendum I: FJORDBLINK MEDICAL ApS Technically Housed in Jesper Kongstad's New Mansion?
2016-10-09 Addendum II: FJORDBLINK MEDICAL ApS - Further Information and a Mystery
2016-10-09 The Administrative Council Seems to Have No Issues With Battistelli Wasting Millions of Euros Buying the Media and Fake 'Studies'
2016-10-09 The UPC is Dead, Says Opinion Partly Funded by Team UPC, But Patent Scope in Europe Remains an Issue
2016-10-09 Has IP Kat's Unofficial (Self-)Censorship Policy Expanded From Protecting the EPO's Image to Protecting the UPC?
2016-10-09 From World's Best to World's Worst: China's SIPO (Worst of Asia) and France (Worst of Europe) the Vision for EPO
2016-10-09 Towards the End of Patent Trolls-Friendly Courts in the United States
2016-10-10 Towards the End of Software Patents in the United States
2016-10-11 New Caricature: President Blatter Speaks to the Administrative Council of the EPO
2016-10-11 New Letter to the Delegates of the Administrative Council
2016-10-11 The Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) Protested Today in Munich (Against the EPO's Management) While President Benoît Battistelli Lied
2016-10-12 Danish Puff Pieces: Latest 'Puff Pieces' From Denmark About the Opening of a New DKPTO Branch Office
2016-10-12 “Very Mysterious Things Going on at the IPKat Recently”
2016-10-12 Danish Stories - Part V: Jesper Kongstad's Chinchilla Fur Farming
2016-10-12 Addendum I: Danish Fur Industry - Further Information Regarding Political Lobbying
2016-10-12 Addendum II: Article About the Kongstads' Villa Becoming a Breeding Farm for the Fur Industry
2016-10-12 Index: Our Jesper Kongstad Series of Danish Stories
2016-10-14 The EPO is Out of Control on (Patent) Scope and Team UPC Floods the Media in a Desperate Last Attempt
2016-10-14 EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point - Part I: Protest at The Hague and the Huge Things at Stake
2016-10-14 EPO Caricature: EPO-Funded PwC on EPO Happiness
2016-10-14 EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point - Part II: More Photos From Today's Protest at The Hague
2016-10-14 EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point - Part III: How Benoît Battistelli Planned to Expand His Attacks on EPO Staff (But Failed)
2016-10-14 EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point - Part IV: When ~1,200 EPO Workers March in Protest and European Politicians Say “Battistelli Must Go”
2016-10-14 EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point - Part V: “Siegfried Bross as President of the Boards of Appeal!”
2016-10-16 Outline of Latest Press Coverage Regarding the European Patent Office (EPO)
2016-10-16 UPC Preparatory Committee Projects Optimism in an Effort to Salvage Its Dying Project, the Unitary/Unified Patent
2016-10-16 As Expected, Benoît Battistelli Puts Longtime Ally Roland Grossenbacher on Top of Boards of Appeal
2016-10-16 EPO Social Conference Another Example of Astronomical Waste of Money by Benoît Battistelli
2016-10-17 EPO Updates: Battistelli in Trouble, Grossenbacher and Battistelli Having a Fight, EPO Doubles Down on Željko Topić
2016-10-18 Danish Press Coverage of the European Patent Office and the Problems Explored by Techrights
2016-10-18 Leaked: Outcomes of 149th Administrative Council's Meeting at the European Patent Organisation
2016-10-18 Leaked Documents Shed More Light on What Happened to Alison Brimelow and How Battistelli Rose to Power
2016-10-18 Battistelli Wants Us to Believe a Patent Office in a Freefall (EPO) is “Stronger and More Sustainable”
2016-10-18 French Article About the EPO
2016-10-18 Subject of the European Patent Office's Abuses Raised in European Parliament by Ulrike Müller (ALDE)
2016-10-18 The Long History or Seeds of Control by Fear and Punishment at the EPO
2016-10-19 EPO Caricature: EQE Questions
2016-10-19 Team Battistelli's Conspiracy Theory: SUEPO is Behind Everything, EPO Management is Trying to Tell the Media
2016-10-20 Site's Infrastructure Under Attack and Upgrades Ahead of Major New Publications
2016-10-20 Worrisome Connections Between EPO VP2 Alberto Casado Cerviño and Patricia García-Escudero Márquez
2016-10-20 Addendum: EPO's Alberto Casado Cerviño, WIPO's Francis Gurry, and EUIPO's Archambeau
2016-10-20 Battistelli-Commissioned PwC 'Study': The Raw Outcome Shows Distortion of the Facts at the EPO's Notorious 'Social Conference'
2016-10-20 Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead, But 'Managing IP' and Selfish Patent Law Firms Still Try to Resurrect It
2016-10-20 EPO Spokesman Lies to IP Watch in Order to Save Face and Save the King (Battistelli)
2016-10-20 Battistelli Ruins Not Only the EPO But Also the Whole of Europe By Ushering in Software Patents That Patent Trolls Love So Much
2016-10-21 EPO Caricature: Battistelli's High Five
2016-10-21 Disruption to Site's Service
2016-10-22 EPO Teaser - The
2016-10-22 Battistelli-Commissioned PwC ‘Study’: Survey Comparison Shows Serious Deterioration and Efforts by PwC to Disguise the Truth
2016-10-23 Battistelli-Commissioned PwC ‘Study’: Leaked Document Shows PwC's Dishonesty and Misrepresentation of EPO Staff
2016-10-23 Translation of Latest Rant From French MP Philip Cordery About Benoît Battistelli's Abuses at the EPO
2016-10-23 Open Letter Exposing the Farce Which Was Battistelli's 'Social Conference' Coinciding With Further (New) Attacks on EPO Staff Representatives
2016-10-24 EPO and the “Iberian Connection”: Patricia García-Escudero Márquez - Battistelli's Pet Chinchilla on the Boards of Appeal Committee?
2016-10-24 Updates Regarding EPO and BoAC: Unrest and Injustice Carry on
2016-10-24 UPC Preparatory Committee Puts the Brakes on UPC Amid Brexit and Growing Uncertainty
2016-10-24 EPO and EUIPO Join Hands to Release Propaganda (for European Media to Parrot) Some Time Tomorrow
2016-10-24 Battistelli Plans to Expand the Social [sic] 'Study' (Then 'Conference') Propaganda Until Next Month, Under the 'Workshop' Umbrella
2016-10-25 Leaked Minutes From the EPO Reveal That Battistelli is Detached From Reality and Blames Everything on “Union Officials”
2016-10-25 No Promising Future For the EPO Under Battistelli (If Any Future At All)
2016-10-25 Leaked: Minutes From the Administrative Council of the EPO Regarding the 'Reform' (Exile) of the Boards of Appeal
2016-10-25 Puff Pieces of the EPO-IPO (EPO+EUIPO) Have Begun to Appear Amid New Evidence of Brain Drain, Lowered Standards
2016-10-26 Leaked: EPO's Vice-President Willie Minnoye Saying the Unsayable, Then Threatening Anyone Who Keeps Record (Evidence) of It
2016-10-26 Budget and Finance Committee of the Administrative Council (EPO) Confirms Exile of the Boards of Appeal
2016-10-26 The United States Pressures India to Broaden Patent Scope and Other Monopolies
2016-10-27 'Balkan Express' Teaser: EPO's Željko Topić, Kuterovac, Campinos, Gurry, Battistelli and the DKPTO (Kongstad)
2016-10-27 Leaked: Budget and Finance Committee Outcomes That Jeopardise What's Left of the EPO's Future
2016-10-28 Leaked: Ljiljana Kuterovac Covering Željko Topić's (EPO) Back
2016-10-28 Advice to Journalists: Stop Repeating Propaganda of the EPO, a Serial Liar With a Track Record
2016-10-28 The EPO's Balkan Express Keeps Chugging Along Despite Predictions of Derailment
2016-10-29 How to Tell You're Deliberately Not Covering Important EPO Scandals
2016-10-29 The Former Chief Economist of the EPO Warns That Battistelli's Implicit Policy of Lowering Patent Quality (for Quantity) Will Bring Patent Trolls to Europe
2016-10-30 The Importance of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board Proven by the Fact That It's Under Endless Attacks From the Patent Microcosm
2016-10-30 Courts Are Being Showered With Motions to Invalidate Software Patents, Former USPTO Officials Like Kappos and Stoll in a Panic
2016-10-30 The Patent Trolls Are Moving East as Patents on Software Lose Their Lustre in the United States
2016-10-30 FTC Slams Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), Effectively Patent Trolls, Which Are a Growing Problem in Europe
2016-10-31 The World Comes Tumbling Down for Software Patents and Patent Trolls
2016-10-31 The Insane World of Patent Maximalism and Professor Joshua Pearce's Case for Weakening Patent Rights
2016-11-02 Patent Maximalism is Destroying the European Patent Office (Just a Paperwork Assembly Line), Exile of Boards Ensures No Turnaround
2016-11-02 Breaking the European Patent System With the UPC Hammer, Courtesy of the EPO and Lawyers-Centric 'News' Sites
2016-11-03 Caricature: European Patent Office as Mordor
2016-11-04 Leaked: An Out-of-Control EPO Union-Busting Parade of Battistelli Marches on in The Hague
2016-11-04 In the Case of Frenchman Laurent Prunier, Battistelli Reasserts Himself as Psychopathic Bully
2016-11-05 Has the Advisor of Željko Topić Just Quit, Got Sacked, or is EPO Vice-President Topić Gaining Even Greater Powers?
2016-11-05 EPO President Benoît Hernandez About the Social Atmosphere and Life's Great Joys
2016-11-06 Dismissal of Laurent Prunier Worse Than It Seems as Battistelli Almost 'Pulls a Hardon' by Taking Away Pension Rights Too
2016-11-06 UPC a Threat to the Boards of Appeal at the EPO (Soon Haar) and to Patent Quality in Europe
2016-11-06 The Death of Patent Quality at the EPO and the European Commission's Latest Smackdown of the EPO's Patent Maximalism
2016-11-06 EPO Ally IAM Magazine Calls Battistelli's Dismissal of EPO Staff Representative Laurent Prunier “a Needless Own Goal.”
2016-11-07 Threats to Dismissed EPO Staff Representative Allegedly Hold Pension (Blackmail Point) to Silence Him Even After Unjust Dismissal, Munich Goes Protesting for Him
2016-11-07 Don't Believe Team UPC; the UPC is Going Nowhere Fast
2016-11-07 Patent Law Firms and Their Publishers Latch Onto Rare CAFC Cases Where Software Patents Somehow Survive
2016-11-07 Where the Sun Rises (Far East) and Software Patents Emanate (US) Come the Patent Trolls
2016-11-08 EPO I.U. Cartoon Highlights the Way EPO Staff Feels About the Management Under Battistelli
2016-11-08 Celebrating Our 10th Birthday
2016-11-09 At EPOPIC Today, As Expected, Software Patents Courtesy of EPO
2016-11-09 EPO Social Workshops on Monday and Tuesday? No, EPO Staff up in Arms!
2016-11-10 Benoît Battistelli's Marching Orders in Spain Through His 'Pet Chinchilla' Patricia García-Escudero, Whom He Got Overseeing the Boards of Appeal
2016-11-10 “Not My President“: The Sentiment of European Patent Office Staff Towards Their Fascistic Boss
2016-11-11 SUEPO (EPO Staff Union) “Fears Now That the Intention Behind This Blow is “to Destroy” the Union.”
2016-11-11 Battistelli Must Go, Says Yet Another French Politician, Arguing He is “Extremely Damaging to the Image of France”
2016-11-12 Decline in Patent Quality at the EPO Increasingly Reaffirmed by More Branches, Insiders, and Even the European Commission
2016-11-13 Benoît Battistelli Reinforces the Perception That García-Escudero is His Pet Chinchilla at the Board of Appeals Committee (BoAC)
2016-11-13 IAM's Interest in Patent Trolls Going Global, Capitalising on Declining Patent Quality
2016-11-14 EPO Caricature: Fabricating Evidence
2016-11-14 Call for Disciplinary Procedures and Dismissal of Mr Battistelli, Mr Topić and Ms Bergot at the EPO
2016-11-14 Elodie Bergot's Double Standards: Can Flagrantly Defame EPO Staff Representatives on the Intranet (Union-Shaming), But Cannot Publish Facts
2016-11-14 In the European Patent Office, Battistelli Implements Changes That Clearly Defy the Rule of Law
2016-11-14 Leaked: Proof That Benoît Battistelli Disregarded Orders From the Administrative Council (Again)
2016-11-15 Guest Post: Behind the GCC Meeting and How Battistelli Finds Excuses for His Union-Busting Campaign at the EPO
2016-11-15 Trolls-Friendly IAM Magazine: Climate in Patent Trolling Has Worsened (for the Trolls)
2016-11-15 Correcting Bias in Patent Law Firms' Articles About Software Patents, Advice to Small Businesses, and Letting Machines Generate Patents
2016-11-15 Leaked Letter Reveals How Battistelli Still Exploits FFPE-EPO (Yellow Union) to Attack the Real EPO Union, SUEPO
2016-11-15 Breaking: Dutch Parliament Debate About Immunity of the EPO and the Tyranny of Benoît Battistelli (Updated)
2016-11-15 Violations of Human Rights at the EPO in the Name of Fraud Prevention
2016-11-16 The EPO Lowering Patent Quality, Accused of Issuing Invalid Patents, and Promoting Software Patents (Hence Trolls)
2016-11-16 Don't Believe the Lies; Microsoft Hates Linux and Merely Pulls E.E.E. Tactics Against It, Including .NET Promotion
2016-11-17 Amid Scapegoating, Union-Shaming and Gagging by Battistelli, SUEPO's Prunier Provides More Details on Union Busting at the EPO
2016-11-17 Battistelli Should be Made Redundant (Fired) Before All EPO Staff Becomes Redundant in a Defunct Office That Flagrantly Mocks the Law
2016-11-17 Cheapening of Patents at the EPO, Cheapening of Staff of the EPO, and Emergence of Large Corporations' Tax Evasion Using Piles of Patents
2016-11-18 Like Team UPC, the Internet Association (Megacorporations' Front Group) Hijacks the Voice of Small Businesses in an Effort to Steer Patent Policy Against Them
2016-11-18 Drunk on 'Production', the European Patent Office (EPO) Grants Patents on Recipes
2016-11-18 Concerns Over 'Terror' Patent Office: New Article From Dutch Media (Telegraaf)
2016-11-19 European Media, Dutch Parliament and Spectacularly Enough Even IP Kat (Yes, It's Back!) Subject the EPO to Serious Scrutiny
2016-11-20 Patent Maximalists Would Have Us Believe That Patent Trolls Are Beneficial and Admirable
2016-11-20 Cases Against the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Demise of Transparency International (Which EPO Partly 'Absorbed')
2016-11-22 Crisis at the EPO Deepens as Dutch Parliament Dives in, European Parliament Snubbed by EPO Management, and Battistelli Relies on 'High Corruption' States
2016-11-22 China's Shot in Its Own Foot Repeats the United States' Error on Software Patents
2016-11-23 Caricature: EPO 'Voting' When All Votes Are Equal Irrespective of Country's Size
2016-11-23 Caricature: Team Battistelli's UPC Strategy
2016-11-23 EPO Protest Tomorrow at The Hague
2016-11-23 Anonymous EPO Staff: EPO Management's Moral Compass is Broken
2016-11-23 Employees of European Patent Office Take Action Against Culture of Fear
2016-11-24 European Patent Office Workers Take Action Against 'Tyrannical' Director
2016-11-24 Union Syndicale Fédérale Writes Letters to the Chinchilla Man of the Administrative Council About Battistelli's EPO Abuses, No Sign of Reply/Reaction
2016-11-24 Video and Audio: Press Coverage From Today's EPO Protest at The Hague
2016-11-24 Giants of Asia: India More Restrictive on Patent Scope, China More Lenient
2016-11-24 Patent Quality at the EPO Depends on the Future of the Boards of Appeal (Which Battistelli is Killing Not So Softly)
2016-11-24 Asking Team UPC or the EPO About the UPC is Like Asking Clinton About Winning Presidential Elections
2016-11-25 Report From Yesterday's EPO Protest at The Hague, Which Several Politicians Attended
2016-11-25 EPO and the Art of Distraction, Disinformation
2016-11-26 SLAPP-Happy EPO Vice-President Slapped Out of the Municipal Criminal Court in Zagreb for the Third Time!
2016-11-26 Duplicate Events for Lobbying by Team UPC Meddle in Politics in an Effort to Enrich Itself at Europe's Expense
2016-11-26 China Creates a Patent Bubble That Contributes to Patent Inflation
2016-11-26 The Sad State of German Anti-Corruption Authorities and Investigative Journalism, as Demonstrated by the EPO
2016-11-26 Benoît Battistelli's Affinity for Tiny Countries Exploits the Ease of 'Buying' Their Votes
2016-11-26 Caught in a Lie Again: EPO Management Just Cannot Stop Lying, Even About People Whom It Gags Using Threats (to Cover Up Battistelli's Abuses)
2016-11-27 Danger of Letting a Bunch of Patent Law Firms Attempt to Hijack the European Patent System With UPC
2016-11-28 EPO Caricature: Slowing Down Justice and Giving Luxury Cars as Gifts
2016-11-28 Patent Attorney Mark Summerfield: EPO Administrative Council “Members Should be Ashamed.”
2016-11-28 Patents Roundup: Patent Trolls, Patent Quality, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”)
2016-11-29 CERN Slams the European Patent Office for Abuse of Employees
2016-11-29 The International Labour Organisation Once Again Proves Useless for Labour of the EPO
2016-11-29 Learning From the Mistakes of the US Patent System (and More Latterly China) When Assessing Patent Maximalism
2016-11-29 EPO DG1 Principal Director “Out of the Muppet Show”
2016-11-29 Mixing Politics and EPO: How Battistelli Defies the Very Basic Rules of the Office
2016-11-29 ILOAT Decisions: Upcoming Publication of Two EPO Cases (Abuse Against Staff)
2016-11-29 European Public Service Union Asks EPO Administrative Council “to Re-establish the Rule of Law at the European Patent Office”
2016-11-29 The UPC Scam Part I: EPO-Bribed Media Outlets Lie to Brits (and to Europeans) About the UPC
2016-11-30 The UPC Scam Part II: The Patent Echo Chamber at Work, Prematurely Congratulating Itself in Its 'News' Sites
2016-11-30 The UPC Scam Part III: The “Patent Mafia”
2016-11-30 The UPC Scam Part IV: Bumps Along the Road for UPC, With or Without the UK and Brexit
2016-12-01 Dutch and French Politicians Complain About the European Patent Office, British Media Coverage Regular Now
2016-12-01 Two ILO Decisions on EPO Cases Are Released, at Least One Judgment is Considered Good for Staff
2016-12-02 A Day in the Life of... Battistelli's Banana Republic
2016-12-02 The Rule of Law and Justice Don't Exist Inside the EPO, Confirms the International Labour Organisation (ILO)
2016-12-03 Relocating the Boards of Appeal to Haar is a Poisonous Priority at Battistelli's EPO
2016-12-03 Dutch Media Covers Latest EPO Scandals, German Media Totally Absent (a Media Blackout of Convenience)
2016-12-03 Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) Sees Decline in Patent Applications and It May Actually be a Good Thing
2016-12-03 More French Politicians Are Complaining That Benoît Battistelli is a Disgrace to France and Urge for Action
2016-12-05 Quality of Patents at the EPO Dependent on the Appeal Boards When Battistelli Assesses Performance Using the Wrong 'Production' Yardstick
2016-12-05 EPO at a Tipping Point: Battistelli Quarrelling With French Politicians, Administrative Council Urged to Act, Staff Unrest Peaking
2016-12-05 The UPC Scam Part V: Unitary Patent Regime a Fantasy of Patent Trolls
2016-12-05 Leaked: Battistelli Acknowledges Bunk 'Justice' in About 100 Cases at the Internal Appeals Committee of the EPO
2016-12-05 Rumour: EPO in Berlin the Next Casualty of Battistelli's 'Reform' (Organisational Suicide Plan)
2016-12-06 Les Échos Chamber: Having Corrupted the Media (With EPO Money), Battistelli Now Uses It for More UPC Propaganda
2016-12-06 Endgame for Battistelli at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2016-12-06 Heiko Maas, the SPD “Cash for Access” Affair, and Suspicions of Unwarranted Censorship at IP Kat (Again)
2016-12-06 EPO Suicides Greater in Number Than is Widely Reported, Unjust System a Contributor to These
2016-12-06 EPO Spiraling Down the Drain as Experienced Examiners and Judges Are Seemingly Being Replaced by Interns
2016-12-06 The UPC Scam Part VI: The Real Story Which People Missed Due to Puff Pieces Seeded by Battistelli-Bribed Media is That UPC Technically Cannot Come to the UK
2016-12-07 The UPC Scam Part VII: A Fine Mess in the Making, as Nothing Can be Made of It Amid/After Brexit
2016-12-08 Memo “Deliberately Leaked to Cover up the UPC” With Its Many Associated Issues Amid Brexit
2016-12-08 Boards of Appeal Still Under Attack From Team Battistelli While the EPO Proceeds to Granting Patents on Carlsberg BEER!
2016-12-08 British Media Slams Battistelli for Attempting to Cover Up 2 Years of Juridical Abuses With Help From the Administrative Council of the EPO
2016-12-09 Ignore the Bristows UPC Echo Chamber, the UPC is Not Happening
2016-12-09 The EPO is Collapsing. Attacks on Journalists, Interns as Staff, Patents on Plants, and Bureaucratic Red Tape...
2016-12-10 EPO Protest This Coming Wednesday Strives to Restore the Rule of Law and Freedom of Speech at the Office
2016-12-10 The US Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Maintains High Pace of Patent Invalidation, in Spite of Appeals to CAFC
2016-12-10 “Corrupt Benoît Battistelli and Željko Topić Today in Zagreb at 25th Anniversary of SIPO Croatia”
2016-12-11 EPO 'Reform' Seems to Strive for Echo Chamber Mentality, Elimination of Unions, Crackdown on Experienced (Well-Paid) Employees, and Departure From Patent Quality
2016-12-11 The EPO Sent Its Second 'Monster' to Croatia to Lobby for the Unitary Patent (UPC), Did Not Mention Anything About It
2016-12-11 Supreme Cases and Some Supreme Outcomes That Tighten Patent Scope in the United States
2016-12-11 CSIRO/CRISPR Monopolies on Life (Through Patent Law) May Soon be Dead
2016-12-12 Software Patents Battles: Lobby to Restore US Software Patents, IBM's and Google's Positions on the Subject, and Microsoft/Intellectual Ventures With Their Ongoing Attacks on Linux
2016-12-12 Caricature: The European Patent Office Finds Quick Fix for ILO
2016-12-12 Benoît Battistelli Besieged
2016-12-13 The European Patent Office Suffers Quality Crisis, Finally (Belatedly) Agrees to Publicly Comment on It
2016-12-13 Another New Book, This Time From Dr Luke McDonagh, Chronicles the Demise of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement
2016-12-13 Staff Union of the European Central Bank Blasts Benoît Battistelli
2016-12-13 The EPO Keeps Bullying Examiners and Even Judges, EPO's Mouthpiece PwC Now Bullies Researchers
2016-12-13 Media Blackout in Croatian Mainstream Media About Criminal Charges Against EPO's Croatian Vice-President and EPO President's Notoriety
2016-12-13 EPO Staff: Mr. Battistelli is Causing Immeasurable Damage to the Office; He is Now Untenable
2016-12-14 EPO Protest Begins and ILO Staff Union Expresses Support for EPO Staff
2016-12-14 EPO is “Googlebombing” Croatia With Puff Pieces Rather Than Discussion/Coverage of Vice-President's Dark Side
2016-12-14 Outside Pressure is Growing: CERN Staff Association Reaffirms Commitment to SUEPO, The Staff Union of the EPO
2016-12-14 Large Protest Against EPO Management, in Pictures
2016-12-14 Administrative Council of the EPO Must Recognise Critical Brain Drain, Loss of Talent, Loss of Patent Quality
2016-12-14 Tough Time for Patent Trolls, Only About 1 in 5 Patent Cases Won in the United States
2016-12-14 Rumour: Carl Josefsson to Head EPO Boards of Appeal, Battistelli Unhappy
2016-12-15 Confirmed: Judge Carl Josefsson Chosen by the Administrative Council for the Secretive Patent Organisation
2016-12-15 Shame on the German Media for the Media Blackout Surrounding EPO Protests in Munich (and Sometimes Berlin)
2016-12-15 Team UPC Salivating Over Unitary Patent Fantasy Even Though It is Stuck in a Limbo
2016-12-15 Big Crack in Team Battistelli: EPO's Vice-President Willy Minnoye is Leaving!
2016-12-15 Vote for Exile of the Boards of Appeal Shows That the Administrative Council of the EPO is Still Compromised and Complicit
2016-12-16 Why EPO Staff is Up in Arms
2016-12-16 Small Nations With Almost Not a Single European Patent Sign the Death Knell of EPO Patent Quality
2016-12-16 Will the Patent Microcosm of London Please Stop Misleading the Public About UPC?
2016-12-17 Fury Over the Administrative Council of the EPO Controlling Nothing and Being Controlled by Battistelli
2016-12-18 Not Just in Europe: EPO 'Mafioso' Benoît Battistelli Brings Software Patents (“Computer-Implemented Inventions”) to Another Place That Explicitly Banned Them
2016-12-18 More and More Lobbying for Software Patents, Not Just in Battistelli's EPO But Also in India and the US
2016-12-19 With $2.5 Billion in Claimed (and Won) 'Damages' in One Single Patent Case of a Pharmaceutical Giant, Does the Patents for 'Small Guy' Myth Still Pass Muster?
2016-12-19 Boris Teksler Jumps From Ericsson's Patent Troll to Microsoft's
2016-12-19 Software Patents in the US: The Patent Office Gives Blank Checks (Let the Courts Worry About Examination!) and the Patent Microcosm Tries to Undermine Alice, Still
2016-12-19 EPO Appeal Boards, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and Other Newsworthy Tidbits
2016-12-20 EPO President Benoît Battistelli “Should Be in Prison”
2016-12-20 From Bad to Worse: When a Horrible Regime (EPO) Publicly Makes Itself Look Like One
2016-12-20 Benoît Battistelli's Reign of Terror at the EPO Milks a Terror Attack Again, Shows Extreme Hypocrisy
2016-12-20 'SIPO Europe': The EPO's Race to the Bottom of Patent Skills and Patent Quality
2016-12-20 Leaked: After Vicious Attacks on SUEPO -- in Defiance of the Administrative Council's Demands! -- Team Battistelli Pretends to Want Union Recognition
2016-12-21 “China” is to Watchtroll (and the Bucket of Patent Maximalists) What “Russia” is to Clinton and DNC
2016-12-21 No Justice at the EPO, Whose Underlying Purpose Was (Originally) to Do Patents Justice
2016-12-22 With Lucy Neville-Rolfe Out (Confirmed Today!) and Chaos in the EPO's Management, the UPC's Prospects Look Worse Than Ever in the UK and Europe as a Whole
2016-12-22 Accusations of Administrative Council (of the EPO) Complicity in Illicit Retaliation Against Appeal Boards at the Behest of Battistelli
2016-12-22 Good Luck to Apple in Exposing the Network of Patent Trolls That is Connected to Microsoft, Nokia, Ericsson, BlackBerry and Other Failed Mobile Players
2016-12-22 IAM is Still the EPO's Favourite Propaganda Mill
2016-12-23 Sean Dennehey, UK Delegate (EPO) and Head of UK IPO, Already Resists Battistelli; Should Also Understand British Businesses Don't Want or Need the UPC
2016-12-23 “Whoever at the EPO Took This Action Clearly Never Heard About the Concept of Separation of Powers”
2016-12-26 Crisis Inside the EPO as Elodie Bergot, Unqualified for Her Job, Fails to Maintain Staffing
2016-12-27 2017 Will be the Year Team Battistelli Collapsed and EPO 'Reform' Became All About Detoxifying the Organisation
2016-12-27 Negative Publicity (Personal or by Association With the EPO) is Devouring the Institution
2016-12-27 Leaked: Letter to Quality Support (DQS) at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2016-12-27 Bad Service at the European Patent Office (EPO) Escalated in the Form of Complaints to European Authorities/Politicians
2016-12-29 The EPO Under Benoît Battistelli Makes the Mafia Look Like Rookies
2016-12-30 German Justice Minister Heiko Maas, Who Flagrantly Ignores Serious EPO Abuses, Helps Battistelli's Agenda ('Reform') With the UPC
2016-12-30 Korea's Challenge of Abusive Patents, China's Race to the Bottom, and the United States' Gradual Improvement
2016-12-31 2016 in Review and Plans for 2017
2016-12-31 Translation of French Texts About Battistelli and His Awful Perception of Omnipotence
2016-12-31 EPO's Central Staff Committee Complains About Battistelli's Bodyguards Fetish and Corruption of the Media
2016-12-31 Open EPO Letter Bemoans Battistelli's Antisocial Autocracy Disguised/Camouflaged Under the Misleading Term “Social Democracy”
2016-12-31 2016: The Year EPO Staff Went on Strike, Possibly “Biggest Ever Strike in the History of the EPO.”
2017-01-01 EPO Select Committee is Wrong About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
2017-01-01 FFPE-EPO is a Zombie (if Not Dead) Yellow Union Whose Only de Facto Purpose Has Been Attacking the EPO's Staff Union
2017-01-01 No Separation of Powers or Justice at the EPO: Reign of Terror by Battistelli Explained in Letter to the Administrative Council
2017-01-01 When EPO Vice-President, Who Will Resign Soon, Made a Mockery of the EPO
2017-01-01 Video: French State Secretary for Digital Economy Speaks Out Against Benoît Battistelli at Battistelli's PR Event
2017-01-02 Europe Should Listen to SMEs Regarding the UPC, as Battistelli, Team UPC and the Select Committee Lie About It
2017-01-02 Battistelli's Idea of 'Independent' 'External' 'Social' 'Study' is Something to BUY From Notorious Firm PwC
2017-01-02 365 Days Later, German Justice Minister Heiko Maas Remains Silent and Thus Complicit in EPO Abuses on German Soil
2017-01-02 Teaser: Corruption Indictments Brought Against Vice-President of the European Patent Office (EPO)
2017-01-03 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part V: Suspension of Salary and Unfair Trials
2017-01-03 New Article From Heise Explains Erosion of Patent Quality at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2017-01-05 Technical Failure of the European Patent Office (EPO) a Growing Cause for Concern
2017-01-05 The Productivity Commission Warns Against Patent Maximalism, Which is Where China (SIPO) is Heading Along With EPO
2017-01-06 India Keeps Rejecting Software Patents in Spite of Pressure From Large Foreign Multinationals
2017-01-07 2017: Latest Year That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Still Stuck in a Limbo
2017-01-07 Eight Wireless Patents Have Just Been Invalidated Under Section 101 (Alice), But Don't Expect the Patent Microcosm to Cover This News
2017-01-10 FFPE-EPO, the EPO Management's Pet/Yellow Union, Helps Union-Busting (Against SUEPO) in Letter to Notorious Vice-President
2017-01-11 No End to Battistelli's Witch-hunts Against the Media, Against Staff, and Against Politicians
2017-01-11 The Patent Microcosm is Already Sucking up to Donald Trump in an Effort to Enrich Itself at Everyone's Expense
2017-01-12 Brexit/Trump Effect: Patent Systems With Institutional Corruption and Nepotism
2017-01-13 Brexit Means No UPC (Unified Patent Court)
2017-01-15 Constitutionality as a Barrier and Brexit Barriers to UPC Keep the Whole Pipe Dream Deadlocked
2017-01-15 EPO Abuses Come Under Fire From Politicians in Luxembourg
2017-01-15 America Invents Act Improved Patent Quality, But Right Wingers Threaten to Make It Worse Again
2017-01-16 The 20% Rule: Patent Trolling Suffers Double-Digit Declines and Patent Troll Technicolor is Collapsing
2017-01-16 Independent and Untainted Web Sites About Patents Are Still Few and Rare
2017-01-16 'Financial Director' Publishes Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
2017-01-17 EPO Totally Silent for a Month, But Deep Inside There Are Serious Cracks
2017-01-17 More Fake News About the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Based on Lobbying Tactics From Bristows UPC and the Preparatory Committee
2017-01-17 Caricature: Battistelli's New Year's Resolution (More EPO Lies)
2017-01-18 Resumption of EPO Propaganda ('Meet the President') Officially Starts Tomorrow
2017-01-18 Rumours Suggest That EPO Management is Aware of Decline in Patent Quality and is Thus Actively Lying About it to the Media/Public
2017-01-18 A Lot More Fake News About the UPC, Trying to Convince People That the UK is Ratifying (It's Not, It Cannot)
2017-01-18 Union-Busting Action by Team Battistelli Takes Heavy Toll, Techrights Will Continue to Expose EPO Injustices to the World
2017-01-19 Farce of an 'Independence' for the Boards of Appeal as Another Ally of Benoît Battistelli Enters as Parasite Inside the 'Overseer'/Host
2017-01-19 Corporate (Wall Street) Media Agrees That Brexit Dooms the Unitary Patent (UPC)
2017-01-20 Beware Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
2017-01-20 Battistelli is an Autocrat Above the Law and It's OK, Holland's High Council Says
2017-01-20 In an Age of Necessary Patent Reform and Permanent Uncertainty for Software Patents the Patent Microcosm Looks for Workarounds and Spin
2017-01-21 EPO Abuses Now Make the Netherlands Look Like a Facilitator of Human/Labour Rights Abuses
2017-01-21 'Reform' at the EPO Means Destroying the Staff Union, Crushing Patent Examiners, and Imposing on Europe a System It Does Not Want (UPC)
2017-01-23 Patent Trolls Like Finjan Holdings and Thomas Edison; the Latest Loss for Software Patents in the US and Their Move to China
2017-01-23 Hilarious: Battistelli Goes to Former French Colony With No Patents to 'Buy' the EPO a Perception of Legitimacy
2017-01-23 Media Blasts EPO Over Immunity Amid Suicides, Battistelli's Behaviour Compared to Dominique Strauss-Kahn's
2017-01-24 Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna: UPC's “Entry Into Force is Not at all Secured,” Contrary to What Team UPC Says
2017-01-24 Leaked: Team Battistelli, Exploiting a Controversial Decision From the Netherlands, is Trying to Squash SUEPO
2017-01-24 The EPO's Freedom to Disregard the Law and Abuse Employees is “Being Taken up by the Council of Europe”
2017-01-25 The European Patent Office is Googlebombing and Bamboozling the Public About Quality of European Patents
2017-01-25 The Ugly Face of Watchtroll: Attacking the Director of the US Patent Office, Calling on Trump to Sack Her
2017-01-25 China Drowns in Worthless Patents, the United States (FTC) Bemoans Patent Trolls, and Australia is Urged by Its Commission to Decommission Software Patents
2017-01-25 New Caricature: Benoît Battistelli 'Takes Care' of Roland Grossenbacher's Dissent
2017-01-26 Journalists Have Learned to Ignore Claims From the EPO's Management, Which Habitually Lies to Journalists
2017-01-26 Conflict Between Benoît Battistelli and Roland Grossenbacher, Former Chairman of the Administrative Council of the EPO
2017-01-26 The United States Has Just Made It Even Harder to Appeal PTAB Decisions (Usually to Invalidate Software Patents)
2017-01-26 French Media Says Benoît Battistelli Turned the Patent Office Into a Sort of North Korea
2017-01-27 Gurry and Battistelli: When Alternative Facts and Oppression Are Becoming Business as Usual
2017-01-28 The European Spam Office: 37% of Twitter 'Followers' Are Fake, Maybe Even Paid For (Waste of EPO Budget)
2017-01-28 Juve Survey: Stakeholders Want Benoît Battistelli Out
2017-01-29 Battistelli Keeps Filling His Swamp at the European Patent Office for Social Control and Immunity Purposes
2017-01-29 Revealed: Lack of Justice at the European Patent Office (EPO), No Valid Courts
2017-01-30 Everything Benoît Battistelli Does Without Staff Consultation is Without Merit, More So Amid Union-Busting Catastrophe
2017-01-31 EPO Members of Team Battistelli Promoted to Shield the Liar in Chief
2017-01-31 Battistelli “Got Full Dictatorial Unaccountable Control of a Diplomatically Immune Organisation”
2017-01-31 Battistelli Brags About Being Unaccountable, But He is Wrong and is Probably in Defiance of the Law
2017-02-01 The Netherlands With Its Bizarre Decision to Let the EPO Violate Dutch Law, Now in English
2017-02-01 Someone Needs to Explain/Remind EPO Management That Software Patents Are Not (Supposed to Be) Valid in Europe
2017-02-01 EPO Stakeholders Want Battistelli and His Goons Ousted, They Can Accomplish This by Working Together (Like a Union)
2017-02-02 International Labour Organisation to Issue More Judgments on 'Above the Law' European Patent Office Next Week
2017-02-02 The Quality of European Patents is Nosediving and Those Who Can Put an End to It (Appeal Boards) Are Controlled by Fear of Battistelli
2017-02-02 New WIPR Survey and Other Data Points Suggest That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead, at Least in the UK
2017-02-02 Growing Rift Between EPO Stakeholders and the Office, Due to Battistelli's Appalling Leadership
2017-02-03 “Team Battistelli Continues With Intimidation Tactics”
2017-02-03 Weekend Talk in Brussels to Speak of “Open Patents”, Relevant to the EPO at Times of Growing Lenience on Software Patents
2017-02-03 Team UPC Continues to be a Premier Source of Fake News About Unitary Patent in the United Kingdom
2017-02-05 No, IAM, UPC Did Not “Spring Back to Life”
2017-02-05 Culture of Terror at The European Patent Office Escalates Thanks to Dutch Government's Complicity
2017-02-05 Software Patents Are Dying, But 'Cloudwashing' of Patents Lets Some Slip in and Marks & Clerk Offers Bad Advice
2017-02-05 Rapid Collapse of Patent Aggressors' Patent Strategy: Creative, Microsoft, RPX, LinkedIn, and Fitbit
2017-02-06 The EPO's President, Benoît Battistelli, May Have Become One of Europe's Most Hated People
2017-02-06 Questions Arise About Patent Policy and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board Amid Deregulation by Trump
2017-02-07 Patent Trolls Update: IPVALUE, Cypress, OIN, Open Patents, Blackbird, CATO and So-called 'Efficient Infringement'
2017-02-07 The European Patent Office Officially Dishonours Justice, So It's Time for SUEPO to Become Clandestine
2017-02-07 Battistelli Judges Himself to be Excellent, in the Same Way Other Autocrats Judge Themselves to be Benevolent
2017-02-07 Translation: Battistelli’s Patent Office Remains a Legal Island
2017-02-07 Translation: Juve Survey That Shows 0% Approval of Battistelli and Growing Concerns About the EPO
2017-02-07 Reception of the New German Ambassador (Dirk Brengelmann) at the EPO, in Presence of the Stasi-Like Investigative Unit
2017-02-07 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part VI: Fear Climate and Antipathy Now the 'Norm'
2017-02-08 Battistelli's EPO is Under Fire From Major Applicants for So-called 'Early Certainty' (Low Quality and Rushed Patent Examination)
2017-02-08 Immunity of the Intellectual Property Office of the European Union Causes Outrage in Spanish Media
2017-02-09 Laughable and Misleading: What the EPO Has Become Amid an Avalanche of Bad News
2017-02-09 The News the EPO is Distracting From: No Justice for EPO Workers at ILO (Necessitating Immediate Removal of Immunity)
2017-02-09 Video: 123rd Session of ILO Tribunal Judgments Session Talks About EPO
2017-02-09 OpenSUSE's (or SUSE's) Refusal to Publicly Acknowledge It Got Cracked Shows Face-Saving Arrogance Just Like Novell's
2017-02-09 This is Why Many People at the EPO Commit Suicide
2017-02-12 Microsoft's Latest Attack Plan on GNU/Linux Has Become Clearer and It's Still About Software Patents
2017-02-12 Not Only EPO Staff Are Committing Suicide; the EPO as a Whole is Committing Institutional Suicide
2017-02-12 Nazi Analogies at the EPO Are the Work of Battistelli, Who Libels Staff Representatives and Judges by Calling Them Nazis and Criminals
2017-02-12 IAM 'Magazine' as Megaphone for Chamber of Corporates (CoC), Which Tries Shaming India Into Software Patenting
2017-02-13 Claims That EPO Commits a Crime and Should be Prosecuted in the Netherlands
2017-02-13 The Federal Circuit Grapples With Extreme Measures Like Embargoes Over Patents
2017-02-13 Leaked E-mails From the EPO's Roberto Vacca Reveal That Patent Quality at the European Patent Office Has Become Farcical
2017-02-13 UPC Petition Launched to Halt Ratification Plans in the United Kingdom Amid Nefarious Back Room Deals
2017-02-14 Growingly Desperate for Applicants Amid Brain Drain, EPO Pays Breitbart 'News'
2017-02-14 India Cites Public Interest in Patent Case Where Embargo Attempted Against Local Drugmaker
2017-02-14 For Valentine's Day, Battistelli Learns to Stop Worrying and Love to Lie
2017-02-14 Leaked: European Patent Office a Fire Hazard Waiting to Cause Tragedy (Possible Deaths)
2017-02-14 IBM Has Become an Enemy of GNU/Linux and a Loud Proponent of Software Patents
2017-02-14 EPO-Connected Writers Are Using Alternative Facts or Fake News to Promote the Unitary Patent in British Media
2017-02-15 The European Patent Office Looks More and More Like the Sicilian Mafia Every Day
2017-02-15 Center for Intellectual Property Understanding (CIPU) is a Lobby Group for Software Patents and Patent Maximalism
2017-02-15 Claude Rouiller (ILOAT) and ILO Rulings Effectively Disregarded by the European Patent Office
2017-02-16 Guest Post: EPO, an Idyllic Place to Work
2017-02-16 New Scholarly Paper Says “UK’s Withdrawal From the EU Could Mean That the Entire (Unitary Patent) System Will Not Go Into Effect”
2017-02-16 Open Patent Office is Not the Solution; Ending Software Patents is the Solution
2017-02-16 New Survey Reveals That High Patent Quality, or Elimination of Bad Patents, is Desirable to Patent Holders
2017-02-16 EPO Staff Representatives to Escalate Complaint About Severe Injustices to the EPO's Secretive Board 28
2017-02-16 Yet More Complaints About the European Patent Office in the Bavarian Regional Government
2017-02-17 Our Assessment: EPO Wants a Lot of Low-Quality Patents and Low-Paid Staff With UPC (Prosecution Galore)
2017-02-17 Technicolor, Having Turned Into a Patent Troll, Attacks Android/Tizen/Linux With Patents in Europe
2017-02-19 The EPO is Becoming an Embarrassment to Europe and a Growing Threat to the European Union
2017-02-20 Lack of Justice in and Around the EPO Drawing Scrutiny
2017-02-20 Paid-for UPC Proponent, IAM 'Magazine', Debunked on UPC Again
2017-02-20 No, Doing Mathematical Operations on a Processor Does Not Make Algorithms Patent-Eligible
2017-02-20 EPO Caricature: Battistelli's Wall
2017-02-21 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part VII: EPO Hypocrisy on Cancer and Lack of Feedback to and From ECPC
2017-02-21 The Sickness of the EPO – Part I: Motivation for New Series of Articles
2017-02-21 Inverting Narratives: IAM 'Magazine' Paints Massive Patent Bully Microsoft (Preying on the Weak) as a Defender of the Powerless
2017-02-22 EPO Cartoon/Caricature by KrewinkelKrijst
2017-02-22 The Sickness of the EPO – Part II: Background Information and Insights
2017-02-22 French Politician Richard Yung Tells the Government About Abuses at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2017-02-22 Report From Yesterday's Debate About the European Patent Office (EPO) at the Bavarian Landtag
2017-02-23 The Sickness of the EPO – Part III: Invalidity and Suicides
2017-02-23 UPC Roundup: War on the Appeal Boards, British Motion Against the UPC, Fröhlinger Recalled, and Fake News About Spain
2017-02-24 The Sickness of the EPO – Part IV: Cruel Management That Deliberately Attacks the Sick and the Weak
2017-02-24 Yes, There is Definitely Brain Drain (Experience Deficit) at the European Patent Office and Stakeholders Feel It
2017-02-24 Patent Scope Gone Awry: European Vegetable Patents Office?
2017-02-24 IAM, Greased up by the EPO, Continues Lobbying by Shaming Tactics for the UPC, Under the Guise of 'News'
2017-02-26 The EPO's Race to the Bottom in Recruitment and Early Retirements Explained by an Insider
2017-02-27 The Sickness of the EPO – Part V: Shedding Light on Institutional Abuse Against Ill and/or Disabled Individuals
2017-02-27 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part VIII: When Governed by Criminals, Truth-Tellers Are Cast as Criminals and Criminals as Justice Deliverers
2017-02-27 A US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) Which is Hostile Towards Patent Maximalists May Closely Examine More Patents That Apple Uses Against Android
2017-02-27 Top Officials in French Government Are Growing Tired of Battistelli's Abuses at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2017-02-28 IAM 'Magazine' Rented Out to Microsoft Again, in Order to Attack Amazon (as Host of Free/Libre Software) Using Software Patents FUD
2017-02-28 Does the EPO Want Patent Quality to Decline Against the USPTO and Become Akin to SIPO?
2017-02-28 Web Site of French Senator Richard Yung Cracked Just Days After Criticising the EPO
2017-02-28 The Boards of Appeal Openly Complain (in the EPO's Web Site) About Battistelli, But Don't Tell Battistelli About It...
2017-03-01 Justice is Dead Not Only at the European Patent Office But Also the Whole European Patent Organisation
2017-03-01 Now is the Time to Sign the Petition Against the Unitary Patent (UPC)
2017-03-02 Battistelli and His Swamp Resurface Very Old News, Possibly to Distract From Boards of Appeal Complaining About Battistelli
2017-03-02 MIP (Managing IP) International Patent Forum 2017 to Have EPO and UPC Propaganda, as Before
2017-03-02 Supplying Techrights With Leaked Material
2017-03-02 EPO Budget Obscures and Distorts Facts About the Unitary Patent (UPC) in a Classic Antidemocratic Exercise by an Unaccountable Institution
2017-03-02 China Adopts Software Patents and IAM 'Magazine' (Lobbyists) Continues to Shame India Into It
2017-03-02 The Latest Three Stories Which Show Why the US Supreme Court Must Stop Patent Trolls
2017-03-03 What Battistelli Means by Social Democracy at the EPO is What North Korea Means by Democratic People's Republic
2017-03-03 The Sickness of the EPO – Part VI: Firing Handicapped People and Hiring Unskilled, Inexperienced, 'Cheap' Staff
2017-03-04 Dutch Foreign Minister Reads the Riot Act to EPO Vice-President Willy/Guillaume Minnoye
2017-03-04 Jo Johnson: UPC Agreement is “Currently Only Open to EU Member States” (i.e. Britain Cannot Join or Ratify)
2017-03-04 Canada Does Not Permit Software Patents, So Its Notorious Patent Trolls Go Abroad for Legal Action
2017-03-04 EPO Mimics Interpol, But Interpol Should Raid the EPO and End the Management's Abuses Once and for All
2017-03-04 Using “China!” and Distortion of Data From Lex Machina, the Litigation Lobby Promotes Software Patents
2017-03-05 Poisonous Patents at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2017-03-05 EPO President Benoît Battistelli, Like Far-Right Politicians, is a Great Danger to Europe
2017-03-05 Team Battistelli, Already Grossly Overpaid (With Salary Gone Hidden), Wants Even More Money
2017-03-05 The Very Thought of UPC in the UK “is a Perfect Example of What Lobbying Can Achieve!”
2017-03-05 The US Patent System Has Become a Dog-Wagging Tail That Serves Patent Law Firms and Parasites But Not Inventors
2017-03-06 ILO: “EPO Threaten(s) the Ability of the Administrative Tribunal of the ILO to Serve All Other Organizations”
2017-03-06 The EPO's Connections to or Facilitation of Bayer and Monsanto Explored in New Article
2017-03-07 With a Week Left Before the Administrative Council's Meeting, Pressure on Battistelli to Leave the EPO Continues to Grow
2017-03-07 Another Delegation Antagonistic on EPO Matters is 'Decapitated' (Sean Dennehey)
2017-03-07 EPO Record Low on Quality of European Patents (EPs) in 2016
2017-03-07 Raise Your Glass to the Monopoly -- New Article About the European Patent Office Losing It on Patent Scope
2017-03-08 Caricature: 'Posterrorism' at the EPO
2017-03-08 EPO “Too Industry-Friendly, Say the Critics”
2017-03-08 Battistelli's Shock Doctrine is Coming to the EPO's Boards of Appeal, Having Already Rattled the Office
2017-03-08 The European Patent Office is Wasting Its Already Limited Budget on Misleading Press Releases/Paid-for Coverage That Overlook Sharp Decline in Patent Quality
2017-03-09 Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Bert Koenders: Rapid Improvements in European Patent Office or Else 'High Level' Action
2017-03-09 Latest EPO 'Results' Should be Grounds for Immediate Dismissal of Battistelli Rather Than Celebrations
2017-03-09 UK software companies oppose Unitary Patent ratification
2017-03-09 Ousting of Benoît Battistelli Next Week Seems Feasible, But Jesper Kongstad Protects Rather Than Supervises Battistelli
2017-03-09 'Evil Tongues' Inside and Outside the EPO Explain Why Battistelli's 2016 'Results' Are Bad While the Media Mindlessly Repeats EPO Management's Talking Points
2017-03-10 Battistelli's Coup at the EPO Continues: The EPO is Becoming the Cash Cow of Battistelli and His Friends, Until This Cow Will Die
2017-03-10 'Lobbyists' Annsley Merelle Ward and Alan Johnson (Bristows) Return to Using IP Kat to Spread Fake News About Unitary Patent (UPC)
2017-03-10 With Latest Promotions, Microsoft Puts Its Tokens in the Patent Shakedown Basket, Its Patent Trolls Fight for Software Patents
2017-03-10 After EPO Sanctions Against IP Kat (Censorship of More Than 10,000 Articles) Even Merpel Throws in the Towel
2017-03-11 Why Techrights is Nowadays Focused on the EPO and UPC (Unitary Patent)
2017-03-11 The EPO is Lying About Patent Quality in Its Official Web Site
2017-03-11 The Battistelli Mafia and Corsica
2017-03-11 Information From SUEPO on the Functional Allowance Reveals How Top-Level Management Intends to 'Rob' the Cash Cow (EPO Budget)
2017-03-11 Higher Patent Quality Guarded Even Under the Trump Administration While the EPO Goes the Other Way
2017-03-12 IAM Continues Promoting Patent Trolls and Large Corporations' Interests, New Harvard Study Explains Why Small Business Employment is Harmed the Most
2017-03-12 Patents That Have Life and Death at Stake
2017-03-12 Fake News From the EPO and Team UPC About Unitary Patent in the UK in Spite of Brexit
2017-03-12 No, Spain is Not Joining the UPC, That's Just What UPC Lobbyists Want Everyone to Believe
2017-03-12 British Site 'Managing IP' Continues to Organise UPC Lobbying Events to Promote the Unitary Patent in the UK, Isle of Man, Maybe Even Ireland and Beyond
2017-03-13 Germany Cannot Ratify the UPC Because Britain is Leaving the EU and Unitary Patent Strongly/Strictly Depends on the UK
2017-03-13 Ten Years Later, Microsoft Admission on Dirty Tricks and Borderline Corruption Which It Uses to This Day in Order to Suppress GNU/Linux Adoption in Desktops
2017-03-13 How Big a Lie is Team UPC Spreading About Germany and Unitary Patent? A Must Read.
2017-03-13 What Appears Like News Sites or Blogs About Patents and 'IP' Got Polluted by Lobbying That Peddles Corporate Agenda
2017-03-14 EPO Protest Tomorrow, Heads of Delegations Informed Regarding the Reasons
2017-03-14 Long New Letter From Battistelli's 'Nemesis', Dutch Secretary of State Martijn van Dam
2017-03-14 Battistelli Receives Another Letter From FICSA, is Urged to Meet EPO Staff Representatives Whom He Fired to Bust the Unions
2017-03-14 Unscientific and Offensive: EPO Deletes From the Map Countries Where Number of Applications at the EPO Has Declined!
2017-03-14 The European Patent Office is in a State of Collapse and It Coughs Up Rubbish Patents Until Its Death
2017-03-14 Unitary Patent (UPC) Misinformation in Spanish Media and EPO-Connected (Paid) Media That Lobbies Spain
2017-03-14 WIPO is in the Business of Publishing Ads for Notorious Patent Aggressors (Facing Antitrust Charges) and Promoting Software Patents
2017-03-14 Patent Trolling Allegedly Runs in the Blood (or Interests) of the Trump Family, in Spite of the USPTO's and Courts' Growing Hostility Towards Patent Trolls
2017-03-15 New Examples of Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC), Courtesy of Patent Law Firms Looking to Prey on Gullible SMEs
2017-03-16 CERN Staff Association “Profoundly Shocked by the Situation That Has Persisted in the European Patent Office (EPO)”
2017-03-16 Battistelli Wants to be 'King' for a Decade or Longer, Jesper Kongstad Protects Him
2017-03-16 Incredibly Unscientific: EPO is Making up Excuses for Decline in Patent Applications
2017-03-16 Unitary Patent (UPC) and “Breach of EU Law”
2017-03-16 Benoît Battistelli “Should Not Have Been in Charge of Anything More Involved Than a Hamster Cage Without the Hamster...”
2017-03-16 German Media is Not Covering EPO Scandals and Instead Repeating Patently False Claims From EPO Management
2017-03-16 A Fight Over Patent Quality in the United States
2017-03-17 Whenever Battistelli's EPO Says Something These Days, Safest to Just Assume It's a Lie (Because It Typically Is)
2017-03-17 UPC Fake News Rising Sharply as Door Closes for Unitary Patent Ratification and Jo Johnson 'Needs' to Believe the UPC Will Actually Happen
2017-03-17 The EPO's Abuses and Claims of Immunity From Prosecution Increasingly Fracture the Dutch Establishment
2017-03-17 Hidden Away in a Barely-Viewed Video is the Map of Europe Which the EPO Hides, as It Demonstrates Decline in Applications That EPO Cannot Deny
2017-03-17 IAM Remains Battistelli's Propaganda Mill, Helping to Manufacture and Reinforce Lies About Quality
2017-03-18 Letter From European Public Services Organisation (IPSO) to Angela Merkel and Heiko Maas Regarding EPO Union-Busting Catastrophe
2017-03-18 European Directives and Boards of Appeal Desperately Needed to Keep EPO Patent Scope in Check
2017-03-18 EPO Management Deeply Concerned That the Public Has Found Out Quality of European Patents (EPs) Nosedived Under Battistelli's Regime
2017-03-18 Governance Crisis at EPO Deepens After Latest Meeting of the Administrative Council, Necessitating Urgent Outside Intervention
2017-03-20 “EPO Continues to Grant Software Patents”
2017-03-20 Apple and Microsoft, Two Patent Aggressors That Habitually Attack GNU/Linux Distributors, Get Sued by a Patent Troll, Soverain IP
2017-03-20 What IAM Says About AST, RPX, Ericsson, and IBM
2017-03-20 Battistelli's EPO Copies China -- Not the US -- When it Comes to Patenting Software and Expanding Patent Scope
2017-03-20 Insulting Reversal of Narratives at the EPO: Team Battistelli as the Victim
2017-03-20 Supposedly 'Pampered' Prisoners Are Still Prisoners of the EPO
2017-03-21 Are Lithuania and Latvia the Latest Additions to the List of Benoît Battistelli's Vassal States?
2017-03-21 EPO Caricature: Low Patent Quality Not an Achievement
2017-03-21 Letter to Angela Merkel Expresses Concerns About Impact of EPO Scandals on Germany and Its Image
2017-03-21 EPO Reduces the World to Just Seven Nations to Bolster an Illusion of Growing 'Demand' for European Patents
2017-03-21 At EPO “I Have the Feeling That Lowering Quality is Part of a Concerted Plan.”
2017-03-21 In IAM, Asian Courts That Deliver Justice Are “Unfriendly” and Asian Patent Trolls Are Desirable
2017-03-21 Tough Day for the EPO's Media/Press/PR Team, Trying 'Damage Control' After Important Techrights Publications
2017-03-21 What the Patent Microcosm is Saying About the EPO and the UPC
2017-03-21 “Then They Came For Me—And There Was No One Left To Speak For Me.”
2017-03-22 In the US Patent System, Evolved Tricks for Bypassing Invalidations of Software Patents and Getting Them Granted by the USPTO
2017-03-22 The Photos the EPO Absolutely Doesn't Want the Public to See: Battistelli is Building a Palace Using Stakeholders' Money
2017-03-22 The Battistelli Regime, With Its Endless Scandals, Threatens to Crash the Unitary Patent (UPC), Stakeholders Concerned
2017-03-23 EPO’s Georg Weber Continues Horrifying Trend of EPO Promoting Software Patents in Defiance of Directive, EPC, and Common Sense
2017-03-23 The EPO is Lying to Its Own Staff About ILO and Endless (Over 2 Years) EPO Mistrials
2017-03-23 22,000 Blog Posts
2017-03-23 “Terror” Patent Office Bemoans Terror, Spreads Lies
2017-03-23 Nepotism at the European Patent Office and Suspicious Absence of Tenders for Big Projects
2017-03-23 The Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation Has Just Buried an Innocent Judge That Battistelli Does Not Like
2017-03-24 Bernhard Rapkay, Former MEP and Rapporteur on Unitary Patent, Shoots Down UPC Hopes While UPC Hopefuls Recognise That Spain Isn't Interested Either
2017-03-25 Depressing EPO News: Attacks on Staff, Attacks on Life, Brain Drain, Patents on Life, Patent Trolls Come to Germany, and Spain Being Misled
2017-03-25 Looking for EPO Nepotism? Forget About Jouve and Look Closely at Europatis Instead.
2017-03-25 Judge and Justice Bashing in the United States, EPC Bashing at the EPO
2017-03-26 EPO Critics Threatened by Self-Censorship, Comment Censorship, and a Growing Threat to Anonymity
2017-03-26 Thanks to Merpel, the World Knows EPO Scandals a Lot Better, But It's a Shame That IP Kat Helped UPC
2017-03-26 Even the EPO's Administrative Council No Longer Trusts Its Chairman, Battistelli's 'Chinchilla' Jesper Kongstad
2017-03-26 Yes, Battistelli's Ban on EPO Strikes (or Severe Limitation Thereof) is a Violation of Human Rights
2017-03-26 Everyone, Including Patent Law Firms, Will Suffer From the Demise of the EPO
2017-03-26 With IP Kat Coverage of EPO Scandals Coming to an End (Officially), Techrights and The Register Remain to Cover New Developments
2017-03-26 Heiko Maas and the State of Germany Viewed as Increasingly Complicit in EPO Scandals and Toxic UPC Agenda
2017-03-26 His Master's Voice, Jesper Kongstad, Blocks Discussion of Investigative and Disciplinary Procedures at the EPO
2017-03-27 The EPO's HR Roadmap Retrospective
2017-03-27 The Crook Goes to Brussels to Lie About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
2017-03-28 Patents on Life and Patents on Software Serve to Show That EPO Patent Quality Fell Well Behind the US (PTO)
2017-03-28 Techrights Was Right About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
2017-03-28 A “Perfect Recipe for Fraud” at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2017-03-28 IAM Magazine is Very Blatantly Promoting Patent Trolls and Their Agenda
2017-03-28 With Important Supreme Court Decisions Looming, Mainstream Media Tackles Patent Trolls
2017-03-28 Benoît Battistelli 'Pulls an ErdoÄŸan' Faster Than ErdoÄŸan
2017-03-28 Another Likely Casualty of the Battistelli Regime at the EPO: Validity of Decisions of Terrified Boards of Appeal Judges
2017-03-28 In Attempt to Promote the Horrific UPC (Poor Quality of Patents Everywhere), Minnoye and Casado Cerviño Attack Their Own Staff for Saying the Truth
2017-03-29 Europe as the World's Laughing Stock When it Comes to Patent Quality/Scope and the Coming Appeals
2017-03-29 Kongstad and Battistelli Have Staged a Coup at the European Patent Organisation (EPO)
2017-03-30 Director Michelle Lee Across the Table From EPO 'Mafioso' Benoît Battistelli
2017-03-30 EPO is a Laughing Stock in International Media This Week (Quality of Patents) After Decades-Long Reputation Building
2017-03-30 Devaluation of European Patents is a Recipe for Institutional Suicide and Immeasurable Harm to Europe's Economy
2017-03-30 Oral Arguments in the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) Suggest That the TC Heartland Case Will Likely Crush the Eastern District of Texas, Presently Infested With Patent Trolls
2017-03-30 As Expected, Photo Op and Battistelli Lies Have Just Come Out, Hilariously Claiming “Higher Quality Patent Procedures”
2017-03-30 Deconstructing the Latest 'Damage Control' From Team UPC Amid Demise of Unitary Patent Pipe Dreams
2017-03-30 Leaked: Meeting in Secret, Jesper Kongstad-Led Council Decides EPO Judge is Guilty Until Proven Innocent
2017-03-31 Culpability for EPO Injustice in the Administrative Council Chaired by Battistelli's Protector, Jesper Kongstad
2017-03-31 EPO Likes to Pretend to be Tolerated in Spite of Patenting Life, Seeds, Plants and More
2017-03-31 In Spite of Confirmation, Uncertainty and Doubt Still Being Cast on Michelle Lee's USPTO Leadership (by Her Opponents)
2017-03-31 Microsoft's Patent Blackmail Against Samsung Part of a Strategy of Divide and Conquer Against Android
2017-03-31 EPO Central Staff Committee Points Out to Benoît Battistelli That He is in Gross Violation and Contempt of the Founding Document/Treaty of the EPO
2017-03-31 Benoît Battistelli Makes His New Penthouse Financially Self-Sustaining
2017-04-01 Bad Patent Quality (and Software Patents) Good for Patent Law Firms and Trolls, But Not for Anybody Else
2017-04-01 'Managing IP' (MIP) is Seeding UPC Optimism Based on Nothing Concrete
2017-04-01 Bristows UPC Delusions Are Back, Attempting to Distract From Bad News (UPC Isn't Happening)
2017-04-01 The 'New' (Nouvel) Building of the EPO Has Dark (and Potentially Fiery) Secrets
2017-04-01 The Sickness of the EPO – Part VII: 40% of EPO Workers Have Upper Limb Disorder (ULD), Battistelli Covers That Up
2017-04-02 The UK’s Involvement in a Hypothetical UPC Post-Brexit Far From Certain, Admits Law Firm, Contrary to Those Who Stand to Profit
2017-04-02 Team UPC 'Took Over' IP Kat, Readers Don't Believe What It Says
2017-04-02 Growing Suspicions of Planned Obsolescence at the European Patent Office
2017-04-02 The Litigation Lobby is Causing Chaos in Patent Offices, Still in a Coordinated Effort to Convert Patents Into Nothing But Legal Chaos That Harms Science
2017-04-03 Politicians Hubert Aiwanger, Florian Streibl, Gabi Schmidt and Others Fight for EPO Workers in Bavarian Parliament
2017-04-03 As a Bargaining Chip, UPC (Unitary Patent/Unified Patent Court) is a Curse, Not a Gift
2017-04-04 Reign of Fear (Even Terror) at EPO Prevents People From Speaking About Injustices
2017-04-04 Latest EPO Crisis: Junk Patents Granted in Preparation for Vision of Europe as Litigation Central (UPC)
2017-04-05 EPO Scandals the Focus of Bavarian Parliament Tomorrow
2017-04-05 IP Kat is Helping Battistelli by Lobbying for the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Spreading Falsehoods
2017-04-05 Patent Attacks on GNU/Linux Devices, Courtesy of Philips, Ericsson, Microsoft and Its Patent Trolls
2017-04-05 Is Bristows UPC Falsifying UK-IPO Quotes or Just Using Informal Words to Lobby for the Unitary Patent (UPC)?
2017-04-06 Thorsten Bausch (Hoffmann Eitle) Bemoans Declining Quality (Service and Patents) at the European Patent Office
2017-04-06 The EPO's Management is Silencing Its Critics by Sheer Intimidation
2017-04-06 At the Courts, Another Reminder of PTAB's Importance and Ericsson's War (via Patent Trolls) Against Linux and Android
2017-04-06 Like EPO 'Grants' (up 40% in a Year), Patent Trolls in Europe Are Growing at Double-Digit Rates (Now 20% of All German Lawsuits)
2017-04-07 The European Patent Convention (EPC) is Habitually Being Violated by the President of the EPO
2017-04-07 IP Kat or IP Troll? IP2Innovate Warns That UPC Would Help Patent Trolls While IP Kat Promotes UPC
2017-04-09 Caricature: EPO President and the EPC
2017-04-09 The Latest on the Collapse of the European Patent Office (EPO)
2017-04-09 Lying Has Become the Norm When It Comes to the Unitary Patent (UPC)
2017-04-09 Asian Companies Already Suffer From Patent Maximalism/Radicalism and UPC Would Make Things Even Worse
2017-04-10 “There is Still No Sufficient Control Over the Despotism of the EPO President, Benoît Battistelli”
2017-04-10 Latest EPO Puff Piece From Benoît Battistelli Shows Desperate Need for (and Inability to Attract) Talent
2017-04-10 IAM 'Magazine' in a Campaign to Destroy India's IT Industry and Help Patent Trolls There
2017-04-11 These Terrifying Comments From Patent Practitioners Suggest They Too Believe UPC is Intended to Make EPO Virtually Obsolete
2017-04-11 EPO's Benoît Battistelli is Again Exploiting Truck Attacks to Spread Lies and Garner Sympathy (for the Abuser)
2017-04-11 Latest French Hire of Battistelli Rumoured to be After EPO Workers' Pensions
2017-04-11 Institutional Corruption in the US Patent System Leaves the Door Open to Meddling and Foul Play by the Patent Microcosm
2017-04-11 Voices of Patent Trolls Are Alive and Well (and Partly Paid by Battistelli's EPO)
2017-04-11 The European Patent Office Has Entered a Dark Era of Anti-Science and Fake 'Research'
2017-04-11 Unitary Patent (UPC) is Stuck as the “British Are Hesitant in UPC Ratification,” According to New Report
2017-04-12 It's Not Natural for the European Patent Office to Make Nature Patentable
2017-04-12 Abundance of Patents is Not the Goal, Quality of Patents is the Goal
2017-04-13 Politician Links UPC to EPO Abuses and Slams the European Commission for Overlooking EPO Tragedies Like “Violations of Fundamental Rights” and Deaths
2017-04-13 Awful Quality of EPO-Granted European Patents (EPs) Becomes a Mainstream Topic
2017-04-13 USPTO Director Michelle Lee is Already Reducing Litigation and Saving Lives
2017-04-14 No, Bristows, UPC Won't Happen Just Because You Mislead About It
2017-04-14 Adding Insult to Suicide: European Commission's Site Publishes Benoît Battistelli's EPO Puff Pieces
2017-04-14 The Gradual Fall If Not Sudden Collapse of Patent Trolls Associated With Microsoft
2017-04-16 IAM is a Think Tank for Patent Trolls, Software Patents, the EPO, Microsoft, and Whoever Else is Willing to Pay
2017-04-16 EPO Patent Quality and Quality of Service Have Become a Disaster, Say EPO Stakeholders
2017-04-17 Patents Roundup: Microsoft, Embargo, Tax Evasion, Surveillance, and Censorship
2017-04-19 Another Final Nail in the UPC Coffin: UK General Election
2017-04-19 The Patent Microcosm Keeps Attacking Every Patent Office/System That is Doing the Right Thing
2017-04-19 IAM, the Patent Trolls' Voice, is Trying to Deny There is a Growing Trolling Problem in Europe
2017-04-20 Bristows-Run IP Kat Continues to Spread Lies to Promote the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Advance the EPO Management's Agenda
2017-04-21 EPO in 2017: Erroneously Grant a Lot of Patents in Bulk or Get Sacked
2017-04-21 Expect Team UPC to Remain in Deep Denial About the Unitary Patent/Unified Court (UPC) Having No Prospects
2017-04-21 Affordable and Sophisticated Mobile Devices Are Kept Away by Patent Trolls and Aggressors That Tax Everything
2017-04-21 At the EPO, Seeding of Puff Piece in the Press/Academia Sometimes Transparent Enough to View
2017-04-22 Yann Ménière Resorts to Buzzwords to Recklessly Promote Floods of Patents, Dooming the EPO Amid Decline in Patent Applications
2017-04-22 The European Patent Office Has Just Killed a Cat (or Skinned a 'Kat')
2017-04-23 EPO Staff Representatives Fired Using “Disciplinary Committee That Was Improperly Composed” as Per ILO's Decision
2017-04-23 For the Fordham Echo Chamber (Patent Maximalism), Judges From the EPO Boards of Appeal Are Not Worth Entertaining
2017-04-23 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part IX: Testament to the Fear of an Autocratic Regime
2017-04-23 Why Authorities in the Netherlands Need to Strip the EPO of Immunity and Investigate Fire Safety Violations
2017-04-25 In South Asia, Old Myths to Promote Patent Maximalism, Courtesy of the Patent Microcosm
2017-04-25 EPO Fiasco to be Discussed in German Local Authority (Bavarian Parliament) Some Time Today as the Institution Continues Its Avoidable Collapse
2017-04-25 Astoundingly, IP Kat Has Become a Leading Source of UPC and Battistelli Propaganda
2017-04-26 Blog 'Takeovers' by Bristows and Then Censorship: Now This Firm Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Then Deletes Comments That Point Out the Errors
2017-04-26 Patent Quality Crisis and Unprecedented Trouble at the European Patent Office (EPO) Negatively Affect Legitimate Companies in the US As Well
2017-04-26 PatentShield is Not the Solution and It Won't Protect Google/Android From Patent Trolls Like Microsoft's
2017-04-27 The Latest Expensive PR Blitz of the EPO, Led by Jana Mittermaier and Rainer Osterwalder Under the 'European Inventor Award' Banner
2017-04-27 China's Suffering From Patent Maximalism Has Europe Forewarned
2017-04-27 Team UPC and CIPA Are Lobbying, Publishing Puff Pieces, and Rewriting the Law for Unitary Patent (UPC) Behind Closed Doors
2017-04-28 United for Patent Reform Defends USPTO Director Michelle Lee From Attacks by the Patent Microcosm
2017-04-28 Kather Augenstein and Bristows Shift Attention to Germany in an Effort to Ram the Dying UPC Down Everyone's Throats
2017-04-29 Patent Snake Oil From Brunel University London and PatentDive
2017-04-29 Battistelli is Busy Securing the Vote of Countries Whose Support and Tickets Are Easy to 'Buy'
2017-04-30 Twitter Shadowbans Critics of the EPO Now?
2017-04-30 Unified Patent Propaganda Courtesy of a Cabal of Firms That Constructed the UPC
2017-04-30 “Spectator” and “The Patent Scam” (New Site/Movie) Tackle the Patent Trolls Epidemic
2017-04-30 Hailo and Qualcomm Both Want to Profit From Software Patents Rather Than Actual Products
2017-04-30 High Courts in the United States Still Neither Grappling/Interfering With PTAB Nor Overturning Alice
2017-05-01 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part X: When EPO Calls the Truth “Defamation”
2017-05-01 The Sickness of the EPO – Part VIII: Allegations That the EPO Has No Honest Doctors, Only 'Fake' Ones Subservient to Team Battistelli
2017-05-02 At IAM Event in Korea, Patent Trolls in the Panels and Advocacy of Software Patents From the EPO
2017-05-03 Battistelli's EPO Has Made Life Itself Patentable
2017-05-03 Bristows and IAM: Brits Who Lobby for Patent Trolls in Britain
2017-05-04 Latest WIPO Scandal, Echoing EPO Scandals, Demonstrates Freedom of the Press Coming Under Attack From International Patent Institutions
2017-05-04 The EPO's Administrative Council (AC) is “Amazingly Complicit” or “Awfully Compliant” (Like Much of the Media and Much of the System)
2017-05-05 Battistelli's Protector, Jesper Kongstad, Resigns!
2017-05-06 European Marketing Office: Battistelli-Commissioned 'Studies', Puff Pieces, and Revisionism about PACE
2017-05-06 Translations and Speculations About Jesper Kongstad's Planned Departure From the EPO
2017-05-07 ILO Gives the European Patent Office Unfair Advantage in Disputes With Staff
2017-05-07 USPTO Shoots Itself in the Foot by Granting a Patent on Paper Bag
2017-05-07 The Patent Microcosm's Failed Push for Software Patents Resurgence in the US and Similar Attempts in India and China
2017-05-08 All Members of the European Parliament Get Warned About the Deterioration at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2017-05-08 Death of 'IP' Media: Front Groups of Microsoft Described as “Representing SME Developers” by Bristows
2017-05-09 The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) Against the European Patent Office (EPO), Lower House to Debate the Issue Today
2017-05-09 SUEPO Releases Statement About Its Complaint Regarding the EPO's Immunity, Filed Yesterday at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg
2017-05-09 (Almost) Live Blog From Today's Debate About the EPO in Dutch Parliament (Updated)
2017-05-09 'European Media Intervention Award' (EIA), EPO Censorship, Self-Censorship, and Paid 'Media Partners'
2017-05-10 Another Victim of Battistelli's Monarchy: Dutch Contractors
2017-05-10 English-Speaking Media Catches Up With Latest Twists in EPO Fiasco, Including Appeal to the European Court of Human Rights
2017-05-10 Team UPC Still Twists and Fabricates Statements to Make It Seem Like Unitary Patent is Happening Soon
2017-05-11 By Promoting the UPC, in Defiance of Public Will, the EPO Has Become Patent Trolls' Best Friend
2017-05-11 The EPO is in Disarray and Additional Complaints to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) May Be Imminent
2017-05-11 The Sickness of the EPO – Part IX: Using Confidential Medical Records as a Weapon Against Staff
2017-05-12 The European Patent Office Has a Long History/Track Record of 'Screwing' Contractors
2017-05-12 Our Assessment: Unitary Patent (UPC) Will Crumble Along With Battistelli's Regime at the EPO
2017-05-13 Countries With a Dozen European Patents Are an Easy Photo-Op 'Sell' for Battistelli While the EPO's Demise is Largely Ignored by the Patent Microcosm
2017-05-14 The Attacks of Patent Trolls as Outlined in the Media This Past Week
2017-05-14 The US Supreme Court Consults USPTO Director Michelle Lee Regarding the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Which is Invalidating Software Patents With CAFC's Approval
2017-05-18 Patent Laws -- and Especially Eligibility of Software Patents -- Are Being Hijacked by Large Corporations and Their Front Groups
2017-05-19 Cloudflare's Enemy is Software Patents, Not Just One Software Patent or One Patent Troll
2017-05-21 EPO: Can the Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) Still Save It?
2017-05-21 Leaked: 2017 European Inventor Award Finalists, or Stooges Whom the Tyrant Battistelli Exploits for PR Purposes and Media Manipulation
2017-05-21 New Documents Help Demonstrate That ILO Delivers Institutional Injustice to EPO Employees and Cushions Team Battistelli
2017-05-21 Media and Staff Association Elections at EPO and WIPO Are Compromised
2017-05-22 Martijn van Dam is Wrong to Believe That Battistelli's Abuses Are Somehow Acceptable or Tolerable Because His Term is Possibly Ending
2017-05-22 Speculations About Battistelli's End of Term, Campinos at EUIPO, and Failed UPC Ambitions
2017-05-27 Colossal Institutional Failure Surrounding the European Patent Office (EPO) and EPO Chickens Out of Debate About It
2017-05-30 The Silencing of Critics of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in Media and in Blogs
2017-06-01 Shame on the Administrative Tribunal of ILO for Helping Team Battistelli Abuse EPO Staff
2017-06-01 Patent Trolls in Europe and the Looming Collapse of the UPC
2017-06-05 Battistelli's 'Boss', Jesper Kongstad, Rumoured to Have Been Paid by Battistelli
2017-06-05 EPO Workers May be About to Go on Strike Again
2017-06-10 IAM 'Magazine', an Adjunct or Megaphone to the Battistelli Regime, Called 'Independent' by the EPO and Used for 'Quality' Propaganda
2017-06-10 Tim Moss, Chief Executive of the UK Intellectual Property Office, Will Need to Challenge the Battistelli Regime
2017-06-10 Benoît Battistelli is Scheming to Further Erode the Rule of Law and Promote More of His Cronies at the EPO
2017-06-11 German Media Would Rather Write Articles About Beer Than About Serious and Unprecedented EPO Scandals
2017-06-11 European Patent Office May Become Just a Mirage of Examination Office, Much Like INPI (France)
2017-06-11 No More Battistelli Photo Ops With Michelle Lee as EPO Allies Run Out, Countries Without European Patents Pursued Instead
2017-06-11 The British Election May Have Just 'Killed' the Unitary Patent (UPC)
2017-06-11 Bristows/IP Kat Still Promoting UPC and Patent Trolls, Also Accused of Deleting Comments and “Brown-nosing” Judges to Help Patent Trolls
2017-06-12 Technical Incompetence at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2017-06-12 German Barrier to the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Bound to Bring the Insidious Plans to a Halt
2017-06-12 Is the EPO Pushing Prepared 'Articles' (Ghostwriting) Through Shepard Fox Communications?
2017-06-12 The EPO is Committing Suicide by Granting Invalid Patents That No Recipient Should Ever Desire
2017-06-13 Battistelli to Leave the European Patent Office Without the Unitary Patent He Repeatedly Promised in Vain Over the Years
2017-06-13 The UPC Gravy Train is Claimed to Have Been “Halted” in Germany and More Oppositions or Constitutional Complaints Are on Their Way
2017-06-13 In Spite of Censorship by IP Kat, Issues Associated With UPC Had Become Apparent, Even Before Germany Halted Ratification
2017-06-13 A Massive Proponent of UPC, CIPA, Enters IP Kat, as Readers Call Out Stacked UPC 'Panels'
2017-06-14 Even UPC Proponents, Paid by the EPO's PR Firm, Admit That UPC May Never Happen
2017-06-15 Software Patents in Europe Are Still Promoted by the EPO, Even in Defiance of the Ban
2017-06-15 EPO Management Wastes Millions of Euros on a Silly, Gratuitous, Self-Serving Festival While EPO Staff is Planning Another Strike
2017-06-15 Unitary Patent (UPC) Will Start “Real Soon” Now... Said Team UPC For So Many Years
2017-06-16 Leaked: European Patent Office Still Uses Microsoft Windows XP... in 2017
2017-06-17 General Consultative Committee of the EPO Warns About Battistelli's Plans
2017-06-17 European Patent Office (EPO) Whistleblowing Guidelines
2017-06-17 The Writings on the Wall at the European Patent Office: Number of Directors May Soon Decline From 150 to Just 65-70
2017-06-17 Appalling Press Coverage Regarding the Unitary Patent (UPC)
2017-06-20 European Patent Office (EPO) Whistleblowing Guidelines: Motivation and Impact of Leaks
2017-06-20 Don't Forget to Vote for EPO Strike This Week (Thursday)
2017-06-20 Contact Details for the EPO's Administrative Council Delegations
2017-06-20 At the European Inventor Award Ceremony Benoît Battistelli Lied to a Lot of Scientists and “Media Partners” About the UPC
2017-06-21 Another Suicide Reported at the EPO While the Paid-for Media Focuses on 'European Inventor Award' Charade
2017-06-22 The Administrative Tribunal of ILO Will Deliver EPO Judgments in Six Days
2017-06-22 EPO's Elodie Bergot Calls Staff Suicide Just 'Passing Away', Pretends to Care
2017-06-22 More Than Six Human Casualties Under Battistelli at the EPO, But the Human Toll Can Become a Lot Worse
2017-06-22 You Know That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is in Huge Peril When Its Biggest Fans Admit It's Unlikely to Happen Even Next Year
2017-06-22 Emerging Threat to Patent Reforms at the USPTO
2017-06-23 Benoît Battistelli Has Lost the Election at the EPO
2017-06-23 Workers of the European Patent Office (EPO) Are Going on Strike Again, Almost 90% Voted in Favour
2017-06-23 Primer to the Crisis and Scandals at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2017-06-24 Potential Targets of European Patent Office (EPO) Whistleblowing
2017-06-24 The Tide Has Turned Against the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and It Finally Looks as 'Alive' as TPP
2017-06-24 SUEPO and the EPO's Central Staff Committee Condemn Battistelli's Latest Attempt to Change the Rules in Defiance of Laws
2017-06-24 The STRONGER Patents Act is One Among Several New Pushes for Patent Chaos in the United States
2017-06-25 Systemic Injustice at the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Causes Serious Harm to Complainants' Health, Including EPO Complainants
2017-06-25 Wouter Pors Under Fire for Lying or Manipulating in the Name of the Unitary Patent (UPC)
2017-06-25 After Latest Supreme Court Rulings on Patents, Including Impression v Lexmark, the Federal Circuit is Left Disgraced
2017-06-25 The US Patent Office (USPTO) Should Now be Headed by Drew Hirshfeld, a Patent Examiner Who Rose to the Top, Not a Lawyer Like Joseph Matal
2017-06-26 Leaked: Job Opening Advertised as Battistelli’s 'Mole' at the Administrative Council, Jesper Kongstad, Leaves in Shame
2017-06-26 Voter Suppression Tactics by Team Battistelli Serve to Reaffirm View That the EPO is an Authoritarian Regime Which Loathes Voting
2017-06-26 Latest EPO Caricature: Staff Committee Maintains Integrity
2017-06-26 EPO Strikes in All Four EPO Sites for Two Days This Month and Next Month, Under the “Respect Staff” Banner
2017-06-28 Ignore the Press Releases and Puff Pieces, the EPO is Going on Strikes
2017-06-28 EPO Staff Bemoans “Another Reform à la Battistelli That Only Benefits Battistelli”
2017-06-28 Letter Warns of “Reform Marathon” a Few Days Before Benoît Battistelli's Job is Offered to Someone Else
2017-06-28 Bristows LLP is Still Trying to Attach Wings to the UPC and Distract From Serious (Likely Fatal) Barriers to It
2017-06-28 Christoph Ernst, Long Speculated to be Battistelli's Successor, Becomes Battistelli's 'Boss'
2017-06-29 European Patent Office is on Strike Until Tuesday and Insiders Study the New Head of the Organisation
2017-06-29 The UPC's Figurehead, Alexander Ramsay, Admits UPC is Stuck, Bristows LLP Comes Up With 'Alternative Facts'
2017-06-30 Feedback From the Administrative Council Meeting at The Hague: Worse Than Anyone Expected
2017-06-30 Lack of Patent Quality at the EPO Already Leads to the Axing of Many European Patents (EPs) in Bulk
2017-06-30 The EPO Has Officially Confirmed That Christoph Ernst Will 'Boss' (and Soon Replace) Battistelli
2017-06-30 Former 'Kats' Debunk IP Kat (Bristows) on Unitary Patent, Insisting It May Even be Dead
2017-06-30 Caricature: Charlie EPO
2017-07-01 The Future of the EPO Does Not Look Encouraging as Injustice and Abuse Carry On While the Press Looks the Other Way
2017-07-02 The Decline in Patent Quality at the European Patent Office (EPO) Already Causes Mass Abandonment of Patents
2017-07-03 India Has No Software Patents “Per Se” Just Like Europe Has No Software Patents “As Such”
2017-07-03 4 Days of Strike in a Row (Including Weekend), But Tomorrow is No Independence Day at the EPO
2017-07-03 It's Official: Battistelli Will Leave the EPO in Less Than a Year
2017-07-04 EPO Silent About EPO Strikes and Battistelli Leaving
2017-07-05 Suspicion That Antonio Campinos Will Apply for Benoît Battistelli's Job to Succeed Him
2017-07-05 Death Trap: The ‘New’ (Nouvel) Building of the EPO
2017-07-05 Expect No Progress Whatsoever on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) During the Summer and Likely Too Little Even in Fall
2017-07-05 The EPO's Liar in Chief, Benoît Battistelli, is Googlebombing Again
2017-07-06 No UPC Progress, Only Further Delays and Lots of Puff Pieces From the EPO and Bristows (Team UPC) Today
2017-07-06 Weeks Later, British Media Writes About British EPO Worker That Committed Suicide and the Administrative Council's 'Coverup'
2017-07-06 EPO Plans to Replace Examiners With Software, Yielding Poor Results
2017-07-06 Elżbieta BieÅ„kowska Cares More About the Unitary Patent Coup D'état (Which She Encourages) Than She Cares About the Rule of Law and People's Lives
2017-07-08 On the EPO's Premises, Investigation After a Small Fall But Not After Suicide of Staff
2017-07-08 If Antonio Campinos (EUIPO) Takes Over the EPO With Alberto Casado Cerviño (Former OHIM/EUIPO) in Charge of Patent Granting, Subversive Loyalty to Battistelli Will Remain
2017-07-08 The EPO Goes on a Greenwashing PR Campaign After Granting Patents on Life, Seeds, Plants and Genome
2017-07-08 In India, the Elephant in the Room is the Term “Per Se” -- a New Loophole for Software Patenting
2017-07-08 Patent Trolls Are Still a Problem, But Microsoft Remains One of the Biggest Patent Trolls (Non-Practicing in Mobile)
2017-07-09 French Giants Resort to Patent Trolling While Battistelli Attracts Patent Trolls to Europe
2017-07-10 Patent Trolls Roundup: GPNE, Blackbird Technologies, Uniloc and More
2017-07-11 Subtle Shaming of EPO Staff by EPO Management Earlier Today
2017-07-12 In an Age of Mass Deception by Team UPC Benjamin Henrion (FFII) to Deliver a Talk About UPC and Software Patents
2017-07-12 The EPO Should Throw Away All Software Patents in the Same Way It Threw Away Patents on Plants and Animals
2017-07-12 The European Patent Office (EPO) Under Benoît Battistelli is Compared to “Soviet Times”
2017-07-13 Looking Forward to a Battistelli-less and Kongstad-less European Patent Office
2017-07-13 As Expected, Benoît Battistelli Shaved off Billions of Euros Worth of 'Value' From European Patents and Thus Alienated Stakeholders
2017-07-13 Status and Potency of European Patents Compromised
2017-07-14 Michel Barnier, Once a Leading Proponent of UPC, No Longer Certain the UK Can Fit in or That UPC Will Happen
2017-07-14 “EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal Has Brought an Unprecedented Level of Certainty to the Law,” But Benoît Battistelli Crushes It
2017-07-15 Science|Business Quotes Michel Barnier, Then Speculates Battistelli's Way to Promote Erroneous Perception of UPC Inevitability
2017-07-15 European Commission Betrays the Public by Promoting Software Patents
2017-07-16 Guest Post: Is Germany's UPC Ratification Postponement Related to Problems at the€  EPO?
2017-07-16 Serious Factual Errors in UPC Coverage at Science|Business and Lack of Coverage in the General Media
2017-07-16 Debate About Software Patentability in India Still Dominated by Patent Lawyers Rather Than Software Developers
2017-07-16 After the 'Fall' of Texas, Patent Trolls Struggle and Some Are on the Retreat
2017-07-16 From East to West and Even Down South at the Eastern District of Texas Patent Trolls Are Losing Everything
2017-07-17 UPC Puff Piece in the Scottish Media is Just an Advertisement by Marks & Clerk
2017-07-17 Software Patents Lobbying at IAM Strives to Reinforce the Positions of Patent Maximalists
2017-07-17 Anti-Patent Trolls Reform in the US Evolves Nicely and Rogue Judges Get Named, Shamed
2017-07-18 New Paper Explains Why UPC Ratification Efforts Have Been Just About as Corrupt as EPO Under Battistelli
2017-07-19 The British Government May be Pulling Out of the UPC Fantasy, Team UPC in Panic or Denial About It
2017-07-20 Unified Patent Court (UPC): A Conspiracy of Lies and Silence
2017-07-20 Battistelli's EPO Abuses May Soon Lead to the Death of the UPC and Return of the Old Order ('EPO Glory')
2017-07-20 The Bizarre World of US Patents and Ongoing Pursuit/Granting of Software Patents in Spite of Section 101
2017-07-22 [DE] STRASBOURG: Vertreter der Lufthansa wegen Korruption angeklagt
2017-07-22 Lack of Independence of the Boards of Appeal at the European Patent Organisation (EPO) a Fatal Blow for the UPC
2017-07-22 Patent Troll MPEG-LA Expands From Software Patents to Patents on Life While USPTO is Virtually Headless
2017-07-23 Alice/U.S.C. €§ 101 is a Done Deal, Meaning Software Patents Are Effectively Dead in the US
2017-07-23 STRASBOURG: Representative of Lufthansa Accused of Corruption
2017-07-24 Section 101/Alice: Latest News and Views
2017-07-25 Patent Troll Uniloc Lost a Software Patent Case Owing to PTAB, Microsoft-Connected Troll Finjan Holdings Keeps on Suing
2017-07-25 Patent Maximalists Continue to Warp the Debate/Media Coverage About Patents in Britain
2017-07-25 How the EPO's Terrible Decisions May Implicate the Government of Germany and Lufthansa
2017-07-26 Lufthansa Leaks? Nokia Leaks? Prepare for Further Digging Into EPO Scandals
2017-07-26 The Latest Lies From the EPO (Regarding Quality) and the Reason the UPC Won't Happen (Any Time Soon at Least)
2017-07-26 The 'New' IP Kat on Patents: A Front Group for Team UPC (Bristows) and CIPA (British Patent Microcosm)
2017-07-27 Value of European Patents (EPs) is Diminishing, EPs Get Invalidated, and EPO Insiders Bemoan the Management's Lies About Patent Quality
2017-07-27 The USPTO Report on Section 101 is Somewhat Farcical as Input Comes From the Patent Microcosm, Not Producing Companies
2017-07-29 Anonymous Comments Discuss Erosion of Lawful Activity at the EPO, Lowered Patent Quality, Software Patents, and Trump Comparisons
2017-07-29 Loud Proponents of Software Patents Continue to Bemoan Alice and Seek Workarounds
2017-07-30 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government - Part I: Further Information About Andrej Matijević
2017-07-30 Dutch Government Publication Confirms Battistelli's Influence Over Smaller EPC States
2017-07-30 PACE of Prosecution Prioritised Over Quality of Patents and Examination
2017-07-31 German Media Finally Waking up to EPO Scandals?
2017-08-01 Heiko Maas May Need to Belatedly Answer Complaint About Illegal Spying on Staff at the EPO
2017-08-01 90% of WIPR Readers Give Up Hope on Unitary Patent (UPC) in the UK, But Team UPC Keeps Lying About It
2017-08-02 EPO: Germans “Discover That Behind the Mad Figures, the Granted Patents Are of Crap Quality and That This Does Not Serve Their Interests”
2017-08-02 Vultures of the Financial World Are Ruining the Patent System
2017-08-02 To Save Face, USPTO Ought to Stop Granting Software Patents Altogether
2017-08-03 Antonio Campinos in Charge of the EPO Would Mean Greater EUIPO/EPO Overlap
2017-08-03 Benoît Battistelli Distracts From Declining Patent Quality at the EPO by Diverting Attention Away to “Timeliness”
2017-08-03 High Cost of Erroneous Patent Grants
2017-08-03 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government - Part II: Andrej Matijević and Željko Topić
2017-08-03 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government - Part III: DZIV and EPO Nepotism
2017-08-04 The Next President of the EPO May Also be French and Without Background in Science
2017-08-04 The United States Supreme Court Should Further Restrict Patent Scope and Not Question PTAB's Work (Which Merely Enforces That Scope)
2017-08-05 Professor Siegfried Broß Has a Long New Article About the EPO
2017-08-05 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government - Part IV: Tena Mišetić, Ivan Mišetić, Croatia Airlines, Lufthansa, and Deutsche Telekom
2017-08-05 EPO Directors Who Care About Patent Quality Are Being Kicked Out as Quality Continues to Plunge
2017-08-06 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government - Part V: Lufthansa and Croatia Airlines Overlap
2017-08-06 Patents in the US Are Becoming Stronger (Better Quality), But the Patent 'Industry' is Trying to Change That
2017-08-07 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government - Part VI: The Complaint to Merkel
2017-08-07 German Media Names António Campinos as Likely Successor of Battistelli
2017-08-07 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government - Part VII: Immunity for Topić (EPO VP4) Just When He Really Needed It
2017-08-07 The Very Political Background of António Campinos, Allegedly a Forefront Candidate to Lead the European Patent Office Next Year
2017-08-08 EPO Already Thinks It's the UPC (Which Will Likely Never Happen)
2017-08-08 Adobe Speaks Out Against Patent Maximalism and Software Patents Are on the Retreat
2017-08-09 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government - Part VIII: Outcome at DZIV (Zagreb) Miraculously Known Six Months in Advance
2017-08-09 Sinking Patent Quality at the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO)
2017-08-09 When It Comes to Software Patents, the EPO Has Become Among the Worst in the World
2017-08-10 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government - Part IX: Potentially Fatal Injury to Air Plus Trademark Holder
2017-08-10 German Media Paints a Picture of Benoît Battistelli as a Drunken 'Putin' Looking to Push UPC at All Costs
2017-08-11 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government - Part X: In Closing
2017-08-12 Under Battistelli, EPO Ceased to Reward Inventors, Rewards Only Battistelli and Fellow Thugs Instead
2017-08-12 The Corruption of the European Patent Office and CIPO's (Canada) Participation in This
2017-08-12 The Corrupt European Patent Office (EPO) Appears to be SLAPPing Judges Now
2017-08-12 The Latest Evidence of the Demise of Software Patents in the United States
2017-08-13 Software Patents Help Neither Software Developers Nor Society in General. It's Time to Bury Them All.
2017-08-13 The Farce Which is Nokia's Patent Portfolio, a Ripoff of Other People's Ideas (and Patents)
2017-08-15 The EPO is Paying Journalists For Trips Abroad and May be Buying Fake Twitter Followers (Still)
2017-08-15 The Collapse of Patent Quality at the EPO is Inviting to Europe Some of the World's Worst Patent Trolls
2017-08-17 Ericsson Hired From the World's Largest Patent Troll and Became a Massive Troll in Europe
2017-08-17 Corruption at the European Patent Office and Systematic Bullying That Leads People to Suicide/Bankruptcy
2017-08-18 The EPO's Management Needs a Perception of Security Crisis
2017-08-18 The Staff Union of the EPO Has Long Warned About Declining Patent Quality
2017-08-18 Lack of Independent Judiciary Under the Unitary Patent (Like Boards of Appeal Under Battistelli, in Defiance of the EPC) Will Possibly Kill the Unified Patent Court
2017-08-20 Quality of European Patents Has Sunk, Value Diminished
2017-08-20 Patent Scope Recognised as Essential For Patent Quality, But Software Patents Continue to be Granted
2017-08-22 Bristows LLP Tries Hard to Maintain the Illusion That UPC is Alive, Using Media Placements and Paid Plugs
2017-08-22 Amazon's 1-Click Patent Continues to Tarnish the Image of the USPTO and of Patents in General
2017-08-23 Benoît Battistelli's Misbehaviour Condemned the UPC to Death
2017-08-24 UPC Hopefuls (Litigation Firms) Come to Life Amid Unitary Patent EPO Text, But Nothing New to See Here
2017-08-25 At EPO, “Producing Stronger Patents (or Being Able to Produce Them) is Also a Matter of Professional Pride for the Examiners”
2017-08-26 Patent Exhaustion and Implosion Will Follow Patent Maximalism in the Far East, But Low-Quality Patents May be Strategic
2017-08-27 EPO Silencers of the Media - Part I: Introduction
2017-08-27 How Much Longer Can Guy Ryder and Claude Rouiller Ignore Abuses and Cement Injustice at the EPO?
2017-08-29 Hiring of German Judges for UPC Has Been Halted as the Future of UPC as a Whole Now in Doubt
2017-08-29 Rumours That Another Frenchman is the Only Candidate to Succeed Benoît Battistelli at the EPO
2017-08-30 IP Kat Missing in Action as Unitary Patent (UPC) Rots
2017-08-31 The Dark Side of WIPO and Attempts to Suppress Information Mirror the EPO's Tactics
2017-08-31 EPO Silencers of the Media - Part II: EPO-Funded Vice-President Topić Has Ongoing SLAPP Cases
2017-08-31 Bristows Turns British Government Report Which Says Nothing About the UPC Into a Self-Serving Plug and a Lie
2017-09-01 EPO Silencers of the Media - Part III: EPO Vice-President Topić Takes Association of Writers and Journalists to Court
2017-09-02 It's a Family Business: French Succession Plan at EPO After Battistelli's Departure
2017-09-02 ‘Building the Evidence Base on the Performance of the UK Patent System’ Put in Perspective and Threats From Patent Maximalists
2017-09-02 Japan (Kyoto) Based Nintendo Suffers From Texas, the World's Capital of Patent Litigation
2017-09-03 What Germany and the EPO Could (and Should) Learn From Australia About Patent Scope
2017-09-04 EPO Silencers of the Media - Part IV: Response to SLAPP Tactics From EPO Vice-President Željko Topić
2017-09-04 Media Hostility Towards Patent Reform in the US, Software Patents on the Chopping Block
2017-09-05 EPO Silencers of the Media - Part V: Jadranka Oklobdžija Versus EPO Vice-President Topić
2017-09-05 Deepening EPO Crisis and a New Report Titled “EPO Patent Filing a Rigged Game in Europe”
2017-09-05 Today, Koen Lievens From EPO is Promoting Pursuits of Software Patents in Defiance of the European Rules
2017-09-05 One Week Left for Battistelli's Coronation of Another Frenchman, António Campinos, to Lobby for UPC?
2017-09-06 Juve Reveals That Ingve Stjerna is the 'UPC Slayer' While the EPO Continues to Lobby, Mislead
2017-09-06 “Software Patents Are Evil,” But the Patent Microcosm Keeps Attacking the US Legal System for Disallowing These
2017-09-07 SUEPO Protests Against the Apparent Complicity of ILO in EPO Abuses
2017-09-07 Personal Attacks, Censorship of Comments and More Nefarious Tricks Expected in the Wake of UPC Panic
2017-09-07 EPO Management is Lobbying for Software Patents and the UPC in ICT Seminar 2017
2017-09-10 European Patent Office in Shambles and the EU's Brexit Position Paper Suggests UPC is Off the Agenda
2017-09-10 European Patent Office (EPO) Implements ErdoÄŸan-Style or Ottoman-Like Purge for King Battistelli
2017-09-10 The EPO Has Become a Stasi and Newly-Recruited Staff Are Its Informants
2017-09-10 Latest Updates on UPC Constitutional Complaint in Germany and Brexit Barrier to UPC in Britain
2017-09-10 Microsoft-Connected Patent Troll Finjan is Now Threatening and Also Suing Firms From Europe
2017-09-10 Worse Than Trolls: Amazon's Software Patents (and Other Large Companies' Ridiculous Monopolies)
2017-09-10 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is Still Being Smeared by Circles That Benefit From Low-Quality Patents
2017-09-11 EPO Guest Article: “Pope” Benoît Refuses to Recognise Reformation Day 2017!
2017-09-11 “The Constitutional Problems Linked to the UPC are Far From Being Minor”
2017-09-12 Upcoming EPO Series: Benoît Battistelli's 'Club Med'
2017-09-12 Ingve Stjerna's Complaint Casts a Shadow Over the Unconstitutional Unified Patent Court (UPC)
2017-09-12 “Reprehensible” Judge Rodney Gilstrap Ignores the Supreme Court of the United States
2017-09-13 Latest Attempts to Blow Air Into the Sails of the Sinking Unitary Patent (UPC)
2017-09-13 Patent Boxes Are for Tax Avoidance, But in the Land of Tax Avoidance (Switzerland) No Avoidance for Software Patents
2017-09-13 EPO Gets Together With Patent Radicals to Promote Software Patents
2017-09-15 Watchtroll Helps the EPO Peddle Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
2017-09-15 At Event of EPO SLAPP Firm, a Suggestion That the UPC Should be Scrapped Because It's Stuck
2017-09-15 The UPC Fantasy is Going Nowhere as Complaints and Paperwork Pile Up
2017-09-16 Tax Evasion by Patent Boxes and Lies About Small Businesses (SMEs) in the Corporate Media
2017-09-16 European Patent Office Continues to Paint a Rosy UPC Picture Even Though the UPC May Already be Dead
2017-09-17 Citing the European Patent Convention, Spanish Court Tosses Lawsuit With EPO-Granted European Patent
2017-09-17 Unless Physical, Inventions Are No Longer Patent-Eligible in US Courts, But USPTO Ignores Precedence
2017-09-17 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Under Attack by IBM and Other Patent Parasites Who Undermine Patent Quality
2017-09-17 Patent Trolls Update: Eolas, Conversant (MOSAID), Leigh Rothschild, and Electronic Communication Technologies
2017-09-21 The Latest Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and CIPO's Participation in Those
2017-09-21 UPC Threatens to Weaponise Software Patents in Countries That Forbade These
2017-09-21 In an Effort to Push the Unitary Patent (UPC), EPO and the Liar in Chief Spread the Famous Lie About SMEs
2017-09-22 The EPO's Latest Lies About the UPC and SMEs Unraveled, Long-Term Plan Described as Daunting
2017-09-22 Intellectual Ventures, GNU/Linux/Android/FOSS Patents, and the Ascent of European Patent Trolls
2017-09-23 Latest EPO Rumours Allege That Benoît Battistelli Rigged the Process of EPO President's Selection
2017-09-24 Fake News About Software Patents in the United States
2017-09-24 PTAB Supreme Court Case (Oil States) is a Case of Patent Parasites Versus the Producing Industry
2017-09-24 Battistelli's Club Med at the EPO – Part I: EPO Validation Agreement With Angola
2017-09-26 EPO Lies About the UPC, Violations of Human Rights, and 'Green' European Patents
2017-09-27 Battistelli Follows German Law Only When It Suits Him, Three Holidays Just Canceled
2017-09-27 EPO Now a Megaphone of IP Europe, a Front Group of Patent Maximalists
2017-09-28 European Patent Expired, But $70,000,000 in 'Damages'
2017-09-28 The EPO Continues to Lie About the UPC and About SMEs, Even Several Times Per Day Now
2017-09-28 The Effects of ILO and the EPO on Disability
2017-09-28 Microsoft is Doing to 'Open Source' (OSI) What it Did to W3C
2017-09-28 Battistelli's Club Med at the EPO – Part II: António Campinos, Benoît Battistelli and the Angolan Connection
2017-09-29 EPO Staff Representatives Help Prevent Seventh Suicide Under Benoît Battistelli
2017-09-29 Battistelli's Club Med at the EPO – Part III: Angola and the Portuguese “Laundromat”
2017-09-30 Jesper Kongstad's Last Day is Today, But the EPO Remains a Sordid Mess Like the UPC
2017-09-30 Battistelli's Club Med at the EPO – Part IV: The Angolan Patent Office (IAPI) Seems Almost Defunct
2017-09-30 Trolling Conglomerates MPEG-LA and Fortress Are Plotting to Start Another Round of Patent Shakedowns
2017-10-01 Battistelli's Club Med at the EPO – Part V: Portugal's “Golden Visa” Scheme for Angolan Nationals
2017-10-01 China Advertises Itself as a Friend of Patent Trolls, Google's Patent Leadership Headless
2017-10-02 Death of European Patent Quality: The EPO Officially Sends the Appeal Boards to Exile Despite the UPC Going Nowhere
2017-10-02 The Software Patents/Litigation Industry is Dying in the United States and China Takes This Heavy Burden
2017-10-03 US Supreme Court Defends Position on Alice, Maintaining/Cementing a Ban on Software Patents Like the Rest of the World
2017-10-04 EPO Management Gambled on Europe Being a Patent Litigation Hub/Capital, But It's All Coming Down in Flames Now
2017-10-04 Our Position on Patent Scope and Patent Breadth
2017-10-04 Nepotism at the EPO Has Reached Truly Toxic Levels
2017-10-05 EPO Makes European SMEs More Vulnerable to Litigation From the Former Soviet Union
2017-10-05 PTAB Will Reach New Highs/All-Time Record This Year, Cleaning Up the Patent System by Throwing Away Invalid Patents
2017-10-05 “Cloud”, “AI”, and “IoT” Among the Buzzwords Used to Bypass Limitations/Bans on Software Patents
2017-10-05 The European Patent Office's New Relationship With Former Portuguese Colonies and the Connection to Battistelli's Choice of Next President
2017-10-06 Battistelli's Club Med at the EPO – Part VI: “When Corruption Rules” in Portugal - Operation Marquês
2017-10-06 Design Patents Should Not Exist, Trademarks and Copyrights Already Cover Designs
2017-10-07 Additional Complaints About the Unitary Patent (UPC) Pile Up in Germany, Here's How to Submit More
2017-10-08 Battistelli's Club Med at the EPO – Part VII: Quo Vadis EPO?
2017-10-08 Patent Microcosm, Patent Media and Patent Office: “It's a Big Club and You Ain't in It”
2017-10-08 Thugs United: Francis Gurry Lecture, Courtesy of Benoît Battistelli
2017-10-08 Depressing State of Affairs at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2017-10-08 Microsoft Lobbying, the EPO, and Software Patents Disguised as 'Internet of Things'
2017-10-09 EPO Protest at 12:30 in Munich and Why EPO Staff Should Attend
2017-10-10 Battistelli's Club Med at the EPO – Part VIII: Summary and Photos of Battistelli's Club Med
2017-10-10 Jesper Kongstad Was Not Honest About Early Retirement, He is Joining the Private Sector
2017-10-10 Early Reports Suggest That Battistelli's Policies Will Remain at the EPO (in the Form of Campinos)
2017-10-10 Judge Cuno Tarfusser Wants to Become the Next EPO President
2017-10-10 Battistelli's Choice (Campinos) Confirmed as New EPO President
2017-10-11 With Surveillance Recruits at the EPO, Are (or Were) DNA Tests Ever on the Agenda?
2017-10-11 Musical Chairs as Battistelli's 'Chinchilla' García-Escudero Márquez Could Reportedly Take António Campinos' Place
2017-10-11 The FRAND Lobby is Trying to Sneak Software Patents Into Countries That Banned Them
2017-10-11 China is Getting Full of -- and Fed Up With -- Patent Trolls
2017-10-12 Patent Quality at the EPO (European Patents) is Slipping While Battistelli's Office Boasts “Expansion of Early Certainty” (Even Worse)
2017-10-12 The Hogwash Begins: Patent Microcosm's Media Pretends Campinos is Anything But Battistelli's French Succession Plan
2017-10-13 Under Christoph Ernst, the Council is Just a Megaphone of Battistelli's EPO, Including on Patent Quality
2017-10-13 Truly Terrible 'Journalism' About António Campinos Boils Down to Lobbying and Agenda-Pushing
2017-10-14 Lying and Faking Now a Standard Procedure at the European Patent Office
2017-10-14 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Rotting Like the European Patent Office
2017-10-15 Qualcomm's Nightmares Are Getting Worse as Antitrust Questions Are Raised and Assessed
2017-10-15 US Patent Trolls Are Leaving and the Eastern District of Texas Sees Patent Cases Falling by More Than Half
2017-10-16 Articles in English and German Speak About the Decline in Quality of European Patents (Granted by the EPO)
2017-10-16 The Systematic Erosion of Workers' Rights and Holidays at the EPO Goes Years Back
2017-10-16 Monika Ermert's Reports About the Crisis at the EPO and IP Kat's Uncharacteristically Shallow Coverage
2017-10-16 Another Misleading Article Regarding Patents From Rana Foroohar at the Financial Times
2017-10-17 EPO Stakeholders Complain That the New Chairman Does Not Grasp the Issues at the EPO (or Denies These)
2017-10-17 Rumours That António Campinos Initially Had No Competition at All (for Battistelli's Succession) Are Confirmed
2017-10-17 SUEPO Representatives Like Elizabeth Hardon Vindicated as Battistelli's Detrimental Effect on Patent Quality is Widely Confirmed
2017-10-18 The Federal Circuit Continues Squashing Software Patents
2017-10-18 IAM is Wrong, the Narrative Isn't Changing, Except in the Battistelli-Funded (at EPO's Expense) Financial Times
2017-10-18 In the Age of Alice and PTAB There is No Reason to Pursue Software Patents in the United States (Not Anymore)
2017-10-18 Patent Firms From the United States Try Hard to Push the Unitary Patent (UPC), Which Would Foment Litigation Wars in Europe
2017-10-18 Confessions of EPO Insiders Reveal That European Patents (EPs) Have Lost Their Legitimacy/Value Due to Battistelli's Policies
2017-10-18 The Darker Past of the Next President of the EPO - Part I: Introduction
2017-10-18 Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) Willing to Work With Campinos But Foresees Difficulties
2017-10-19 SUEPO to the Media, Regarding Campinos: “No Comment, It’s Too Dangerous”
2017-10-19 The Darker Past of the Next President of the EPO - Part II: António Campinos at Banco Caixa Geral de Depósitos
2017-10-19 Juve Has Confirmed That António Campinos is French
2017-10-19 António Campinos: A True EPO Reformer or More of the Same?
2017-10-19 Team UPC Continues to Promote Illusion of UPC Progress Where There's None
2017-10-19 Europe is Being Robbed by Team Battistelli and the UPC/PPH Would Make Things Worse
2017-10-19 The Spanish Supreme Court Rejects the EPO's “Problem and Solution Approach” While Quality of European Patents Nosedives
2017-10-19 Some of the USPTO's Most Ridiculous Patents Are Scrutinised by “Above the Law” While Dennis Crouch Attempts to Tarnish Alice
2017-10-20 Battistelli's Destruction of the EPO is Bad for Everyone, Even Patent Attorneys
2017-10-20 UPC Looks Like More of a Distant Dream (or Nightmare) as Germany Adds Another Two Months' Delay
2017-10-20 The Darker Past of the Next President of the EPO - Part III: More Details About Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Former Employer of Campinos
2017-10-21 Anonymous Professionals Speak of Benoît Battistelli's Destruction of the EPO, But Why Does the Media Turn a Blind Eye?
2017-10-21 In the United States, the Patent 'Industry' is a Dying Breed and China Adopts This Destructive Force
2017-10-21 US Patents Appeal Board Attacked by the Patent 'Industry', Defended by Federal Courts, and Dodged by Patent Trolls
2017-10-22 The Darker Past of the Next President of the EPO - Part IV: Links Between CGD (Former Employer of António Campinos) and the INPI
2017-10-22 The Difference Between Alain Pompidou and Benoît Battistelli as EPO President
2017-10-22 Management by Intimidation Has Caused Deaths at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2017-10-22 Speaking of “Social Democracy” While Suffering Extreme Democratic Deficiency
2017-10-22 The EPO No Longer Measures Quality of Patents; Instead It Publishes Fake Statistics
2017-10-23 SUEPO Has Just Warned That Patent Quality at the EPO is About to Get Even Worse
2017-10-24 IP Kat Participates in Deletion of Information About EPO Scandals
2017-10-24 In the European Patent Office, One Gets Rewarded for Mentally Torturing ('Interrogating') Staff
2017-10-24 The Last Comment in IP Kat (Before Censorship) Was About Patent Quality at the EPO
2017-10-24 What If Lionel Baranes Was EPO President?
2017-10-24 Freedom of Expression is Dying Not Only at the EPO But Also Outside the EPO (Media Coverage of the EPO)
2017-10-25 IP Kat Admits It Was Its Own Choice to Censor (Delete) Many Comments About the European Patent Office
2017-10-26 Big Blow for the Unitary Patent (UPC) as Even Patent Professionals Say “It's Dead”
2017-10-26 The EPO is Breaking the Law and Its Employees Cannot Speak About It (Updated)
2017-10-26 The European Commission Has Essentially Invalided Many European Patents (EPs) for Being Out of Scope; Are Software Patents (CII) Next?
2017-10-26 Professor Siegfried Broß Again Complains About the Situation at the EPO and Issues With the UPC
2017-10-27 New EPC Cartoon
2017-10-27 Benoît Battistelli Still Involved in Politics, Probably in Defiance of Clear Rules for International Civil Servants
2017-10-27 Keltie LLP Advertises Dodging Patent Rules (Software Patents) and Dodging Tax
2017-10-28 French Politician Claudine Lepage Confronts the EPO Again, Mentions the Hague Court
2017-10-28 Patent Scope in Europe Should Not be Decided by the Self-Serving Patent Law Firms, But They Totally Dominate the Media
2017-10-28 Amgen is Willing to Kill Many Anemia Patients for Some Patent Revenue
2017-10-28 The Financial Handling of the EPO is Incredibly Scandalous
2017-10-28 Fresh Allegations That the Belgian EPO Delegation is Compromised or in Cahoots With Benoît Battistelli
2017-10-29 AIPLA, Watchtroll (the Trolls' Lobby) and Other Pressure Groups Are Still Trying to Eliminate/Weaken PTAB and Section 101
2017-10-30 Large US Companies Continue to Stockpile Patents, But US Courts Have Learned to Repel Patent Maximalism
2017-10-30 Belgium's Jérôme Debrulle, the EPO and the UPC Connection
2017-10-30 Irregularities at the EPO and UPC (Unitary Patent) Dodgy Dealings Should Draw Ire
2017-10-30 The Diminishing Value of European Patents (EPs)
2017-10-31 “EPI Makes No Protest When the AC Connives With Battistelli to Trash the Rule of Law”
2017-11-01 Large Technology Groups Explain to the Supreme Court Why the Patent Trials and Appeal Board is Important
2017-11-02 UPC is Collapsing, But Bristows LLP is Pushing Propaganda Into the Media, Which Gives Misleading News
2017-11-02 The Screws Tighten on Benoît Battistelli as His Departure is Just Two Seasons Away, Media Still Largely Complicit
2017-11-02 More High-Profile Briefs Explain to the US Supreme Court Why PTAB is Desirable and Must be Defended
2017-11-02 University College London (UCL) Becomes Part of the Patent Fanatics Lobby, Supported by the EPO's PR Firm FTI Consulting
2017-11-04 Software Patents Officially Banned in Mexico (IMPI), But Like in EPO They Get Granted Anyway
2017-11-04 Even One of the UPC's Biggest Boosters, Wolters Kluwer, Admits UPC is in Trouble
2017-11-04 In October, Silence in the Media Regarding EPO Scandals Turned From Self-Censorship Into Censorship
2017-11-04 Patent Trolls Are Moving to Asia and That's a Good Thing for Science and Technology in the West
2017-11-05 IP Kat Peddles Patent Trolls and Software Patents Agenda
2017-11-05 The Patent Trolls' Lobby Advocates More and More Patent Lawsuits (Litigation 'Industry' Profits)
2017-11-06 European Patent Office No Longer “Strives to Stand out as a Model International Public-Service Organisation”
2017-11-06 The “Big Holdup” at the EPO: Battistelli Wants Access to the Pension Reserve Fund (PRF)
2017-11-06 At the EPO Under Battistelli Truth is Being Called “Defamation”
2017-11-06 Raw: Staff Representative Whom Battistelli Drove to Collapse for Wanting to Conduct an EPO Staff Survey (Which Battistelli Had Abolished)
2017-11-06 Battistelli's Serious Conflict of Interest in Saint-Germain-en-Laye Disqualifies Him as EPO President
2017-11-08 Kluwer Patent Blog is Down/Sabotaged, But UPC and EPO Spin Carries on in Other Sites
2017-11-08 Jacques Michel's EUROPATIS and Questel at EPOPIC Event, Which EPO Uses for Lobbying Purposes
2017-11-08 Expect an Avalanche of Bad Patents (Including Software Patents) From the EPO to Become Invalid, Shaving Off a Lot of Imaginary Value
2017-11-08 Kluwer Patent Blog Down for Over a Day, Key Article Archived, UPC Deception Carries On
2017-11-08 Benoît Battistelli Brews New Scandals in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and in Haar
2017-11-09 Patent Office of the Netherlands Expresses Uncertainty About UPC, Voices Concern About Benoît Battistelli's Attack on Staff
2017-11-09 Administrative Council of the EPO is Concerned That the Office is Largely German and Male, Recruitment Bar Has Fallen
2017-11-10 Team Battistelli Snubbed by the EPO's Representatives of Nations
2017-11-10 The EPO in the Hands of Politicians Who Serve Their Towns Rather Than Users of the EPO
2017-11-10 Consensus Around the High Likelihood That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead and Backlash Against Deniers of It
2017-11-10 More Microsoft AstroTurfing by Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) and Mingorance
2017-11-11 Next EPO President Will Continue a Cooperation Which Does Not Exist
2017-11-11 Benoît Battistelli Gives Power to Željko Topić, Not Just to António Campinos
2017-11-12 The USPTO's Joe Matal (Interim Director) Sounds Serious About Improving the Patent Quality and Services
2017-11-12 Alice (De Facto Ban on Software Patents) Remains Untouched in 2017 and Likely in 2018 As Well
2017-11-13 Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead to the EPO and ANSERA is Not the Answer as Patent Quality Declines and Talented Staff Leaves
2017-11-13 The Patent Trolls' Lobby is Losing the Battle for Europe
2017-11-14 Decline of Skills Level of Staff Like Examiners and Impartiality (Independence) of Judges at the EPO Should Cause Concern, Alarm
2017-11-15 The EPO is Now Corrupting Academia, Wasting Stakeholders' Money Lying to Stakeholders About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
2017-11-15 Declines in Patent Quality at the EPO and 'Independent' Judges Can No Longer Say a Thing
2017-11-15 Benoît Battistelli and Elodie Bergot Have Just Ensured That EPO Will Get Even More Corrupt
2017-11-16 EPO Continues to Disobey the Law on Software Patents in Europe
2017-11-16 The Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) is Rightly Upset If Not Shocked at What Battistelli and Bergot Are Doing to the Office
2017-11-17 Today's EPO and Team UPC Do Not Work for Europe But Actively Work Against Europe
2017-11-18 EPO 'Business' From the United States Has Nosedived and UPC is on Its Death Throes
2017-11-19 The Lobbyists Are Trying to Subvert US Law in Favour of Patent Predators
2017-11-19 Update on the EPO's Crackdown on the Boards of Appeal
2017-11-19 PTAB is Safe, the Patent Extremists Just Try to Scandalise It Out of Sheer Desperation
2017-11-20 Team Battistelli's Attacks on the EPO Boards of Appeal Predate the Illegal Sanctions Against a Judge
2017-11-23 EPO is Imploding as Benoît Battistelli Drains Out Work, Talent, and Justice
2017-11-23 The European Patent Office Has Become the 'Foxconn' of Patent Offices
2017-11-23 Amid Constitutional Court Barrier, Unitary Patent (UPC) Looks Dead Even to UPC Proponents, the EPO's UPC 'Study' Comes Under Fire
2017-11-24 Raw: EPO 'Social Democracy' is Like a 1AM Vote on UPC by Only 5% of Politicians
2017-11-24 Raw: Why EPO Host Nations (Netherlands and Germany) Turn a Blind Eye to Horrific Scenarios
2017-11-25 Raw: The EPO's Elodie Bergot Suppressed Staff Representation While Cracking Down on Staff's Rights
2017-11-25 Battistelli's Home Country, France (Where He is a Politician in Defiance of the Rules), is a Patent Troll
2017-11-25 EPO Uses Bunk 'Study' and Team UPC Uses Italy to Prop Up Delusions About the Unitary Patent
2017-11-25 Even UPC Proponents Admit UPC is Dead: “This is the End, My Friend”
2017-11-25 In New EPO Interview With Juve, Chairman of the Administrative Council Criticises Battistelli
2017-11-25 EPO Becoming Like China is Something to Worry About, Not Something to Celebrate
2017-11-25 Raw: Stacking the Deck to Interfere With a Fair Election at the EPO
2017-11-25 Raw: Battistelli Forbade EPO Strike Ballots at Least Four Times
2017-11-25 Raw: Central Staff Committee Requested EPO Audit by Transparency International One Year Before EPO Simply Hired Transparency International's Director to Become EPO Spokesperson
2017-11-26 Early Certainty Battistelli Will be Gone Soon: “JUVE Interview Creates the Impression That Benoit Battistelli’s Term in Office is Already Over.”
2017-11-26 Raw: National Delegates at the EPO Stood by and Mostly Supported Battistelli While Six Staff Committed Suicide
2017-11-27 “Legal and Administrative Rules at the EPO Are Similar to Those at SIPO” (China)
2017-11-27 Raw: Administrative Council of the EPO Blocked an Audit of the EPO for Corruption
2017-11-27 Raw: Open Letter Regarding Likely Violations of the EPC and Damage to the EPO's Reputation
2017-11-27 Battistelli's Big Fat Greek Wedding at the EPO's Budget and Finance Committee
2017-11-28 Benoît Battistelli and Željko Topić (EPO President and Vice-President) Try to Keep 'Independent' Judge in a Limbo
2017-11-28 French Stress Levels at the EPO and Replacement of Patent Quality With 'Autopilot' (Like INPI, France)
2017-11-28 EPO is Already Going 'Dark' Like in China
2017-11-28 Pressure is Growing for Christoph Ernst to Stop Destruction of Career System Ahead of Arrival of Campinos as EPO President
2017-11-28 With Oil States Case Heard in the US Supreme Court, a New Justice's (Neil Gorsuch) Positions on Patents Expressed
2017-11-28 Buzzwords/Terms Like “Industry 4.0” or ICT as Cover for CII (Software Patents) at the EPO
2017-11-29 EPO Budget (Users' Money) Has Been Corrupting Media and Academia
2017-11-29 EPO Spreads Two Lies Today, One About Patent 'Production' and Another About 'Quality'
2017-11-30 IAM Celebrates (With the Patent Cartel) a System of Unjust Monopolisation of Industry Standards Through Unethical Patent Thickets
2017-11-30 ILO is About to Publish “Exceptional” Decisions, Most of Them Regarding the EPO
2017-11-30 EPO's Minnoye “Pushed for Quick Searches and Quick Grants, With the Result That Every Recent File Was De Facto Dealt With Under PACE.”
2017-11-30 The Patent Trolls' Lobby is Already Pushing for the USPTO to Help Make Patent Trolls “Great Again”
2017-11-30 The SEP/Patent Trolls' Lobby Insults the Victims, Calling Them “Free Riders”
2017-12-01 EPO Fiasco Deepens While the Media Writes Puff Pieces About the EPO
2017-12-01 Ignore Today's Fake News From IP Kat/Bristows, the UK is Not Ratifying the Unitary Patent (UPC)
2017-12-01 EPO Caricature: Son of Campinos
2017-12-01 Irish Media Coverage of the EPO
2017-12-02 Ignore IAM's Jaw-Dropping Spin, Tencent Flourished in Spite of Patents, Not Thanks to Them
2017-12-02 The European Patent Office No Longer Acts Like a Patent Office But a Prosecutor
2017-12-03 Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos Playing Musical Chairs at CEIPI
2017-12-03 Guest Post: Free Dental Care in BRD (Banana Republik Deutschland)
2017-12-03 How CEIPI in Strasbourg is Allegedly Facilitating Another Battistelli 'Scam' Surrounding the Unitary Patent (UPC)
2017-12-04 SUEPO on “the Belief of the President That He is Above the Law.”
2017-12-04 Raw: The EPO's Pattern of Using “Security” as Pretext for Ban on Protests
2017-12-05 Unified Patent Court (UPC) is “Fata Morgana”
2017-12-05 French Disgrace: Teachers at CEIPI Not Happy About Benoît Battistelli as Upcoming President of the CEIPI Administrative Board
2017-12-05 The European Patent Office Enrages the Powerless to Empower the Super-Powerful (Outside Europe)
2017-12-05 The EPO Relies on Media Cowardice and Complicity (to Not Report Obvious Issues With Battistelli at CEIPI)
2017-12-05 The Latest Noise About UPC in the UK
2017-12-06 Another Day of EPO Injustices in Europe and Campinos/Battistelli Connections at CEIPI
2017-12-07 CEIPI and EPO: The Story So Far
2017-12-07 International Labour Organisation/ILOAT for UPC Yet Another Problem for Unitary Patent-Style Regime
2017-12-07 ILO is 'Forcing' Team Battistelli to Compensate the Banned Judge and Give Him Back His Job
2017-12-07 Battistelli's 'Mole' Lucy Neville-Rolfe is Still Trying to Push Unitary Patent (UPC) Through in the United Kingdom
2017-12-07 Meanwhile in Eponia, Tyrant Battistelli Must be Seeking Advice on How to Refuse to Obey Court's Orders (Again)
2017-12-07 Watchtroll, AIPPI, Bristows and Others Keep Pushing Software Patents Agenda (in Spite of the Ban)
2017-12-07 ILO Said Give the Judge His Job Back, But Christoph Ernst's Administrative Council Will Likely Let Him Go (Unemployed)
2017-12-07 Less Than 24 Hours Later the EPO Already Refuses to Obey Court Orders From ILO (Updated)
2017-12-07 Battistelli's EPO is Once Again Caught in Very Gross Violation of the European Patent Convention (EPC)
2017-12-08 EPO Scandal Spills Over to Irish Media, So It's Time for the Backstory
2017-12-08 SUEPO Announces Protest, EPO Distracts From the Scandal, and Readers Spill the Beans
2017-12-08 Antonius Tangena From the European Patent Institute (EPI) 'Aids' Željko Topić's Appointment at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2017-12-08 European Media Covers the Latest EPO Scandal and the EPO's Refusal to Obey Orders of a Court
2017-12-08 The European Union Now Repeats Paid Propaganda From the EPO (Regarding the Unitary Patent)
2017-12-09 Bristows Continues to Lie About Unitary Patent (UPC) in Britain Only to Get Rebutted in Comments, As Usual (Criticism Not Deleted Yet)
2017-12-09 Like the EPO, Taiwan/China (SIPO) Harm SMEs With a Policy of Patent Maximalism Which Fosters Litigation, Not Innovation
2017-12-09 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board Will Endure Supreme Court Test and Overcome the Tribal Immunity “Scam”
2017-12-09 Raw: Scuttling of the General Advisory Committee and Battistelli Stacking the Deck to Have 'Yes Men' as Representatives
2017-12-09 Raw: Three Years for 'Justice' (to be Disregarded by Benoît Battistelli) at ILO and Over a Decade at the EPO
2017-12-10 The Federal Circuit Rules (Again) in Favour of Section 101/Alice, Koch-Funded CPIP Tries to Overturn Alice at the Supreme Court
2017-12-11 Raw: Conflicts of Interest of EPO Vice-President
2017-12-11 Raw: Battistelli's Control/Domination Over the Boards of Appeal
2017-12-11 Judge Corcoran Turns to His Government for Help and EPO 'House Ban' is Finally Lifted
2017-12-11 Bristows is Being Hammered With Negative Comments For Its Unitary Patent (UPC) Lies
2017-12-12 Carl Josefsson Lets Judge Patrick Corcoran Come Back to Work at the EPO
2017-12-12 The European Patent Organisation Refrains (For Nearly a Week) From Speaking About Battistelli's Abuses as Judged by ILO Tribunal
2017-12-12 Claim: Judge Corcoran to Be Put Under Benoît Battistelli's Control in DG1
2017-12-12 The EPO Protest Tomorrow Isn't Just About Judge Corcoran But About the EPO as a Whole
2017-12-12 Team UPC's Tilmann Defends Rogue Vote at 1 AM in the Morning With Just 5% of Politicians (Those With Vested Interests) Attending
2017-12-12 German Media Helps Cover Up -- Not Cover -- the Latest EPO Scandal
2017-12-12 Battistelli-Campinos Transition Will Be a Smooth One as the Administrative Council Remains the Same and the Boards Still Besieged
2017-12-13 No, China Isn't Most Innovative, It's Just Granting a Lot of Low-Quality Patents
2017-12-13 Judge Corcoran Got His User ID/Desk Back (as ILO Asked), But Cannot Perform Actual Work
2017-12-13 EPO Administrative Council Disallows Discussion About Violations of the Law by Benoît Battistelli
2017-12-14 Patrick Corcoran is Innocent, Yet Battistelli Will/May Have the Power to Sack Him Next Month (in DG1)
2017-12-16 Bristows LLP/IP Kat Carrying on With Dead UPC Jingoism
2017-12-16 EPO Busy Distracting From Miscarriage/Abuse of Justice at the EPO (Both Office and Organisation)
2017-12-17 The EPO Has Found 'Creative' New Ways to Bribe the Media and Promote Software Patents
2017-12-17 The Latest IAM Puff Pieces That Launder the 'Reputation' of Patent Trolls
2017-12-17 Raw: “Experienced Examiners Can Examine Anything.” (Even Not in Their Field!)
2017-12-17 Battistelli's 'UPC Buddy' Michel Barnier Helped Squash EU Intervention in Dysfunctional (Subverted by Battistelli) Administrative Council
2017-12-17 Raw: At the EPO “Social Democracy” is Actually a Euphemism for Authoritarian Regime
2017-12-17 Raw: Benoît Battistelli Has Long Been Obsessed With 'Alternative Facts' (Lying) Regarding Everything
2017-12-18 PTAB Helps Defend and Encourage Work by Actual Technology Companies in the US, the Patent Trolls' Lobby is Upset
2017-12-18 Battistelli Feels as Though He's Above the Law, So No Wonder He Pursues Software Patents in Europe (Against the Rules)
2017-12-18 “As an EPO Employee, I Am Actually Embarrassed by the Behaviour of the President and the Administrative Council”
2017-12-19 Dr. Siegfried Broß Says UPC is in Constitutional and Democratic Grey Area, Abuses at the European Patent Office Contribute to That
2017-12-19 French and Korean Patent Trolls
2017-12-19 Secrecy Surrounds the Fate of Patrick Corcoran, Even AMBA is Being Kept in the Dark by Carl Josefsson
2017-12-19 CERN Staff Association Condemns the European Patent Office (EPO) for Disobeying ILO/ILOAT Judgments
2017-12-19 Bavarian Regional Parliament Talks About the EPO's Outrageous Decisions to Simply Disregard International Courts
2017-12-19 Today's Report From the Administrative Council (AC) of the European Patent Organisation 'Tackles' the Most Important Issue: Judge Corcoran
2017-12-20 PTAB Bashing in the US and the Attack on the Boards of Appeal in Europe All About Lowering Patent Quality
2017-12-20 Companies Like Apple and ​Microsoft Benefit the Most From Patents as It's a System of Protectionism
2017-12-20 Christoph Ernst's Inability to Rein in the European Patent Organisation Will Doom Everything
2017-12-21 EPO Judicial Crisis Has Not Ended, But the Administrative Council Certainly Tries to Sell That Impression
2017-12-22 Media Blackout in Most European Media Regarding the Latest Major EPO Scandal
2017-12-22 Caricature: The European Patent Office (EPO) Career System
2017-12-23 “Change of Attitude and Behaviour Needed,” Say Anonymous EPO Workers About the Management and Administrative Council
2017-12-23 Alexander Ramsay is Wrong, Unitary Patent (UPC) Won't Start Any Time Soon and Probably Never
2017-12-23 Patent Quality Nosedives at EPO, Say Insiders Whose Permanent Contract is About to be Terminated in 8 Days to Increase Pressure to Grant Patents Sparingly
2017-12-23 Raw: How SUEPO Explained the EPO Situation Three Years Ago
2017-12-23 Raw: How to Tell Benoît Battistelli is Lying
2017-12-23 Raw: Sylvie Jacobs, President of USF, Warns the Administrative Council of the EPO About Battistelli Nepotism and Other Abuses
2017-12-24 2017: The Year Software Patents Died Even in the Court Which Started Them
2017-12-24 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Reaffirms USPTO Rejections of Abstract Patents/Applications ~83% of the Time
2017-12-24 Post-Alice, the Patent Microcosm is Up in Arms and Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel for Anti-Alice Material
2017-12-25 Raw: SUEPO Connected the Unitary Patent (UPC) to Abuses at the European Patent Office
2017-12-25 Raw: European Patent Organisation Knew About Benoît Battistelli's Gross Nepotism for at Least Four Years, Did Nothing to Stop It
2017-12-25 Raw: EPO's “Battistelli is Heading Directly Back to the Middle Ages.”
2017-12-25 Patent Justice Deficit Disorder
2017-12-25 Raw: PEACES Initiative of the Staff Union of the EPO
2017-12-25 Raw: Before Battistelli Sacked Nearly a Handful of Staff Representatives He Warned a Dozen and Had Already Punished Some
2017-12-25 Raw: French-Led EPO Gives Air France Non-Exclusive Contract for All Staff Flights (Even Though EPO Lacks Branches in France)
2017-12-25 Raw: “Social Democracy” at the EPO Means Staff Gets to Comment on Changes That Have Already Been Implemented Anyway
2017-12-25 Raw: Battistelli's Circle (Topić and Bergot) Undermines Justice at the European Patent Office
2017-12-25 Raw: Philip Cordery Urged France to Withdraw/End Battistelli's Presidency at the EPO
2017-12-26 Raw: Before the EPO Blocked Techrights and Threatened to Sue It Also Blocked Its Staff Union's Web-Based Platform and Threatened to Sue
2017-12-26 Raw: EPO Paving the Way to Overstressed Patent Examiners and Decreased Patent Quality
2017-12-26 Raw: EPO Had Sent to Staff Representatives Threatening Letters Similar to the Ones Sent to Techrights
2017-12-26 Raw: The EPO Trusted and Used BigPulse Until the Question/Outcome No Longer Suited Benoît Battistelli
2017-12-26 Raw: Contents of Benoît Battistelli's SLAPP Letters to Staff Representatives (Sent on Friday to Limit Access to Legal Advice)
2017-12-26 Raw: EPO Classifies Staff Based on Perceived 'Loyalty' and Intimidates/Punishes Those Exercising Their Rights
2017-12-26 Raw: “The EPO is Redefining the Words “Social” and “Democracy”.”
2017-12-26 Raw: Administrative Council of the EPO Was Warned 4 Years Ago About “Governance and Overall Reputation of the Organisation.”
2017-12-26 Raw: Consultation Process at the EPO, Rooted in Basic Rules, Has Been Compromised and Stacked by Battistelli
2017-12-26 Raw: EPO Staff Union Illustrates Structural Deficiency of the EPO
2017-12-26 Raw: How President Benoît Battistelli Exercises Almost Complete Control Over the Legal Process
2017-12-26 Raw: Lack of Independence of the Boards of Appeal at the EPO Poses a Serious Issue for Unitary Patent-Type Regime (UPC)
2017-12-26 Raw: Benoît Battistelli Names Things the Opposite of What They Really Are
2017-12-27 The Unitary Patent is Dying or Dead, But Team UPC Might Rebrand Again and Reattempt
2017-12-27 Raw: Battistelli's “Behaviour is Not Only Dangerous for the EPO Staff But is Also Putting the Reputation of the Organisation at Risks.”
2017-12-27 Raw: Battistelli Stacking the Deck of the Internal EPO 'Court'
2017-12-28 EPO Remains in Defiance or Violation of ILO Rulings as Corcoran Contract Ends in 3 Days
2017-12-28 Raw: EPO 'Democracy' With No Separation of Powers and No Access to Justice
2017-12-28 Raw: Collective Accountability for Staff Committees Over Anonymous Letters?
2017-12-28 Raw: European Patent Office's Willy Minnoye Interferes With Discussion of EPO Policies
2017-12-28 Raw: Another Example of Battistelli Trying to Hold the EPO's Central Staff Committee Accountable for Other People's Words
2017-12-28 Raw: Half of EPO Staff Went on Strike, Topić Gave False Figures
2017-12-28 Raw: LIFER Strike at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2017-12-28 Raw: Bergot and Topić Sent Threats to Hundreds of EPO Staff as Far Back as Half a Decade Ago
2017-12-28 Raw: “A Vote on Strike Action Has Turned Into a Vote of Non-Confidence.”
2017-12-28 Raw: Battistelli Threatened EPO Staff Representatives as They Walked Out
2017-12-28 Raw: EPO Stonewalled Staff Committee, Failing to Reply to About 30 Letters in Succession
2017-12-28 Raw: Lies Inside the EPO Gazette
2017-12-29 Another Option for EPO Whistleblowers
2017-12-29 Raw: Staff Union of the EPO Explains the Battistelli Operandi
2017-12-29 EPO Surveillance in Scanners and Printers
2017-12-29 European Patent Office Works With Blue Coat Systems, Enabler of Authoritarian Regimes
2017-12-29 Raw: When the EPO Suppressed Human Rights, Including Strikes, Chairman Jesper Kongstad Supported the Suppression
2017-12-29 Raw: EPO Compared to Thatcherism Amid Suppression of Bargaining/Strikes
2017-12-29 Battistelli Becomes Judge Corcoran's (Almost) Direct Boss and People Doubt He Will Last Long
2017-12-29 Raw: When the EPO Violated German Law and ECHR Got Invoked Along With the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht)
2017-12-29 Raw: Central Staff Committee of the EPO Warns the Organisation That It Votes in Favour of Breaching Fundamental Rights
2017-12-29 Raw: Rights Which the Dutch Court Ruled That the EPO Had Violation
2017-12-29 Raw: École nationale d'administration (ENA) and the EPO, Where Being French Means Climbing to the Top and Dominating Recruitment/Entryism
2017-12-30 “Low-Quality Patents Fall Into the Hands of Patent Trolls”
2017-12-30 Raw: Battistelli Uses External Lawyers to Bully Staff That Complains (Like He Repeatedly Did Against Techrights)
2017-12-30 Raw: How and Why the EPO Code of Conduct (CoC) Came About
2017-12-30 Raw: International Labour Organisation on Incredible (and Unsuitable/Inadequate) Promotions at the European Patent Office
2017-12-30 Raw: Željko Topić's “Poorly Veiled Attempt to Intimidate Staff” of the EPO
2017-12-31 Christoph Ernst Does Not Boss Benoît Battistelli Like He's Supposed to, But Battistelli's Bosses/Colleagues in France Can be Contacted
2017-12-31 Michael Frakes and Melissa Wasserman Complain About Low Patent Quality While Watchtroll Lobbies to Lower It Further
2017-12-31 Just 3 Days Before Christmas Judge Corcoran is Told That His Boss Becomes Battistelli, Who Wants to Remain in Control for Years to Come
2017-12-31 Raw: EPO Staff Went on Strike, Referencing -- Among Other Things -- Battistelli's French Nepotism
2017-12-31 Raw: Battistelli Nervous About Perception of EPO Nepotism (French Cronyism) and Attacks Those Who Take Note of It
2017-12-31 Raw: Battistelli, Topić and Bergot Are Stonewalling Until Staff Representatives Speak to EPO Staff
2017-12-31 Raw: Fake Consultations at the EPO Give the False Impression Legal Procedures Are Followed
2017-12-31 Raw: The European Patent Office (EPO) is a Cash Cow of Germany
2017-12-31 Raw: Circular Decision-Making as Consultation at the EPO Done by Same Party That Suggests and Approves Changes
2017-12-31 Raw: EPO Was Forewarned About the Investigative Unit (IU) Turning Against Law-Abiding Dissent Using Illegal Surveillance
2017-12-31 Raw: Battistelli Had Already Spoiled the Independence of the EPO's Boards of Appeal More Than Half a Decade Ago
2018-01-01 Not Everyone Would Run the European Patent Office Like Benoît Battistelli Does
2018-01-01 How Institut International des Brevets (IIB), INPADOC and Other Historic Endeavours Relate to EPO and DG1/DG2
2018-01-01 Raw: The EPO's Disregard for Christmas and New Year's Days Off
2018-01-01 Raw: Central Staff Committee Explains the Upper Limb Disorder (ULD) Crisis at the EPO
2018-01-01 Raw: Battistelli Comes Up With a
2018-01-01 FRAND is Unfair, Unreasonable and Discriminatory; Ericsson is Still a FRAND Troll
2018-01-01 EPO Insiders: EPO Has Become a Hoarder Rather Than a Patent Office
2018-01-01 Raw: Justice at the EPO Sometimes Comes Before Death
2018-01-01 Raw: EPO Violates ILO Rulings by Denying the Consultation Process Access to Vital Information
2018-01-01 Raw: Battistelli's Stacking of the General Advisory Committee Not Legal, Asserted Staff Representatives
2018-01-01 Raw: Separation of Powers Obliterated by EPO President and Vice-Presidents
2018-01-02 EPO Has Become an 'Investment Bank'
2018-01-02 2018 Starts at the EPO and Both EPC and UPC Are in State of Crisis
2018-01-03 EPO Management Claims “Higher Quality Patents” and Everyone at the EPO Knows That It's a Face-Saving Lie
2018-01-03 Job Applicants at the EPO Disappointed, Reference Made in Interview to Slavery
2018-01-03 Battistelli's Attacks on Judge Corcoran Threaten Not Only the EPC But Also UPC
2018-01-03 Translation Shows That Carl Josefsson and Christoph Ernst Refuse to Comment on EPO Injustice as It Might Embarrass Battistelli
2018-01-05 The EPO's Attack on the Boards of Appeal Dooms the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Team UPC Alters Its Tactics
2018-01-06 Sane Responses to the Latest Pressure From Team UPC Amid Brexit Negotiations
2018-01-06 The European Patent Office Suffers an Unprecedented Patent Quality Crisis Reminiscent of the World's Worst Offices
2018-01-06 Élodie Bergot's HR Roadmap Explained by EPO Staff Representatives
2018-01-06 President Battistelli Has Acted Like a King Since His Early Days at the EPO
2018-01-06 Staff of the EPO Has Had No Concrete Participatory Role at the EPO for at Least 7 Years
2018-01-07 Patent Maximalists' Utopia: INPI-Like Patent Systems Where Every Application is Blessed and WIPO-Inspired Assumption That the More, the Merrier
2018-01-07 Shortly After His EPO Appointment Benoît Battistelli Already Ignored the Judicial System of the EPO
2018-01-07 The Mystery and Secrecy of the Decision to Disband the EPO's Auditory Function After Battistelli Became President
2018-01-07 Anonymous “Kluwer Patent Blogger” is Probably Just Bristows LLP Hiding Its Identity While It Publicly Lies or Distorts Facts About UPC
2018-01-07 In US District Courts Patent Litigation Fell by a Whopping 17% Last Year
2018-01-07 Patent 'Industry' Settles on Use of Buzzwords for Bypassing €§ 101/Alice Rules in the United States
2018-01-08 Allergan Collapses After Its Patent “Scam” Goes Awry and the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe Receives Negative Publicity for Abetting
2018-01-08 How the Creation of a Role for 'Chief Information Officer' at the EPO Came About
2018-01-08 President Battistelli Silently Curtailed Part Time Home Working Introduced by His British Predecessor, Alison Brimelow
2018-01-09 For European Patents to Maintain Value the EPO Must Fix Patent Quality and Attract 'Expensive' (High-Calibre) Staff
2018-01-09 Possible Explanation for German Media Barely Covering Very Major EPO Scandals
2018-01-09 Battistelli's Year 1 at EPO: Using 'Staff Dignity' as a Pretext to Attack the Dignity of EPO Staff and Staff Representatives
2018-01-09 Battistelli's Year 1 at EPO: General Advisory Committee Not Being Provided Crucial Information
2018-01-09 Watchtroll is Where Information and Facts Come to Die in the Name of PTAB Bashing (Trolls' Lobbying)
2018-01-10 Jo Johnson's Departure is Another Major Blow for Team UPC (Unified Patent Court)
2018-01-11 Benoît Battistelli Lies About Patent Quality; the Numbers Speak for Themselves However
2018-01-11 The European Parliament JURI Mission to Munich Looks Like Complicity With EPO Abuses
2018-01-11 126th Session of the ILO Administrative Tribunal is Around the Corner and EPO Staff Representatives Will Have Their Cases Heard Soon
2018-01-11 EPO Lobby and Team UPC's 'Resistance' to the UPC Opposition in Germany
2018-01-13 Late on a Friday is a Good Time to Spread Misinformation About Unified Patent Court (UPC) Without Being Challenged
2018-01-13 Dr. Derk Visser's Book About the European Patent Convention (EPC) Explains What Battistelli Has Done
2018-01-13 Patent Troll Finjan Manages to Defend a Patent (on Appeal) and the Trolls' Lobby is Loving It
2018-01-13 Only Half a Year in the Job, Battistelli Breaks EPO Nomination Rules
2018-01-13 Less Than Half a Year in the Job, Battistelli Already Disobeys/Disregards Rulings From ILO's Tribunal
2018-01-14 Budget at the EPO Decided Before Consultation
2018-01-14 2010: Deterioration of Working Conditions (e.g. Office Space) for EPO Staff
2018-01-14 2010: Blaming the Messenger (SUEPO) for Staff Unhappiness at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2018-01-14 EPC Foresaw the Administrative Council Overseeing the Patent Office, Jesper Kongstad Made It “Working Together”
2018-01-14 Automotives, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 Among the Buzz Terms Used to Bypass Alice and the EPC Nowadays
2018-01-14 “Under the Intergovernmental EPC System It is Difficult to Speak of a Functional Separation of Powers”
2018-01-14 Battistelli Was Always (Right From the Start and Since Candidacy) All About Money
2018-01-14 European Patent Office Causes Physical Harm to Employees, Then Fires Them
2018-01-14 PTAB is Being Demeaned, But Only by the Very Entities One Ought to Expect (Because They Hate Patent Justice/Quality)
2018-01-15 Roundup of Patent News From Canada, South America and Australia
2018-01-15 EPO Scandals Played a Considerable Role in Sinking the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
2018-01-16 EPO Management and Team UPC Carry on Lying About Unified Patent Court, Sinking to New Lows in the Process
2018-01-17 EPO Board of Appeal Has an Opportunity to Stop Controversial Patents on Life
2018-01-17 Only Two Weeks on the Job, Judge Patrick Corcoran is Already Being Threatened by EPO Management
2018-01-17 No Patents on Life (CRISPR), Said EPO Boards of Appeal Just a Few Hours Ago
2018-01-18 Press Coverage About the EPO Board Revoking Broad's CRISPR Patent
2018-01-18 Patent Prosecution Highway: Low-Quality Patents for High-Frequency Patent Aggressors
2018-01-19 The EPO Ignores This Week's Decision Which Demonstrates Patent Scope Gone Awry; Software Patents Brought Up Again
2018-01-20 Patent Quality (Not Numbers) as an Asset: Oppositions, Appeals and Rejections at the EPO
2018-01-22 How the Opposition to CRISPR Patents at the EPO Sent Shockwaves Through the Industry
2018-01-22 Team UPC Calls Critics of the UPC Idiots, Deletes Their Comments, and Blocks Them
2018-01-23 The Response to Accusations of Censorship by Team UPC? Yet More Censorship to Shield UPC From Criticism
2018-01-23 Even More Uncertain a Future for the Independence of the EPO Boards of Appeal as Judge Corcoran Too Gets Sent to 'Exile'
2018-01-23 Confidence in European Patents (EPs) is Eroding and Stakeholders Are Already Suffering
2018-01-24 CRISPR Patent Debacle Demonstrated That Opposition Divisions Do Their Job, But Also Highlighted Serious Deficiency in Patent-Granting Process
2018-01-24 Team UPC Has Been Reduced to Rubble and Misinformation
2018-01-24 PTAB Engages in Patent Justice, But Lobbyists of Patent Trolls Try to Blame PTAB for All the Problems of the US and Then Promote Iancu
2018-01-25 Justice Still Elusive at the EPO and ILOAT, But a Glimmer of Hope Remains
2018-01-25 A European Unitary Patent-Like System (e.g. UPC) is Not Compatible With Law; Expect it to Rot Away at the German Federal Constitutional Court
2018-01-25 The EPO is Already in Violation of ILO Rulings on Judge Corcoran
2018-01-25 Sam Gyimah Replaced Jo Johnson More Than a Fortnight Ago, But Team UPC Has Ignored It Until Now
2018-01-26 The 'Collusion': IP Kat's (Until Recently) Stephen Jones Meets Battistelli to Lobby for the Unitary Patent (UPC)
2018-01-26 The Corcoran Incident Demonstrates That the EPO's Boards of Appeal Are Threatened and Battistelli Violates Laws
2018-01-27 Quality of Service and Quality of Patents at the EPO Are Both at Peril
2018-01-27 Patents on Life at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2018-01-27 Another Blow for the Unitary Patent (UPC) as More Delays Are Confirmed, Court Won't Rule on Constitutional Issues Any Time Soon
2018-01-30 The EPO's Central Staff Committee Explains How Battistelli's Attacks on Judge Corcoran Annul Any Perception of Independence
2018-01-30 ILO Has Once Again Let Down Labour at the EPO by Siding With Union Busters
2018-01-30 A Danish Company Has Just Collapsed Due to Patent Quality Issues at the EPO
2018-01-30 The Failure of ILO's Administrative Tribunal Highlights Poor State of Justice in Europe and Worldwide
2018-01-31 Even Kluwer Patent Blog Decides to Comment on the EPO's Bizarre Financial Behaviour
2018-02-01 Patent Justice at the EPO is as Bad as Justice for Workers
2018-02-01 The UPC/SEP/FRAND Lobby Has Resorted to Just Insulting the Opposition
2018-02-01 EFF Has Just Warned That Depending on Outcomes of US Supreme Court Cases, US Could Have Most Notorious Patents in the World
2018-02-01 Patent Sharks Hope to Regain Control of the US Patent System With Iancu Appointment Likely Just 4 Days Away
2018-02-01 Too Much to Cover Up at the EPO, the UN, and UN Agencies
2018-02-03 The European Council Confirms That the Unitary/Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA) is “Outside the Legal Framework of the European Union”
2018-02-03 Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on
2018-02-03 India and Europe Do Not Permit Software Patents, But Patent Law Firms Try to Work Around the Law
2018-02-04 IAM Magazine, Authored by Benoît Battistelli, is Rubbish Compared to Patent Scholars
2018-02-04 USPTO May Get a New Director Tomorrow, But It's Not Good News
2018-02-06 Battistelli Works With IAM and Pays European Media to Promote Software Patents in Europe
2018-02-07 Vietnamese and Brazilian Patent Policies Too West-Centric
2018-02-07 Patent Filings in India Are Declining, Just Like at the European Patent Office
2018-02-07 Team UPC Resorts to Paid 'Articles' and Lobbying With Battistelli in an Effort to Cause the UK and Germany to Ignore Their Own Laws
2018-02-08 Mark Rutte Under Pressure to Stop Battistelli's EPO From Violating Laws With Impunity
2018-02-08 The UPC Lobby Wants to Crush the Boards of Appeal (BoA) While EPO Changes Rules of Procedure of the BoA
2018-02-08 When INPI Met INPI and IAM Met the EPO
2018-02-09 The EPO's Working Party on Quality is Battistelli's Own Ministry of Truth
2018-02-09 Team UPC is Working Overtime to Impose UPC on Europe, Based on a Pile of Lies
2018-02-09 'Women in IP': When the Gender Card is Used to Distract From Patent Policy
2018-02-09 To Understand the Protection Racket Look Not at Microsoft But at Patent Trolls Which It Sponsors
2018-02-09 In China, GUIs Are Not Patent-Enforceable and GUI Patents Are Not Algorithms, Contrary to New Spin
2018-02-10 Lawyer Fraud and the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
2018-02-10 The Relationship Between IAM and the EPO's President Battistelli Tightens Further After Payments for UPC Promotion
2018-02-11 In Spite of Suppression Attempts, Resistance to UPC and EPO Tyranny Still Enters Kluwer Patent Blog
2018-02-11 Improving the US Patent Office Requires Focus on the Quality (or Novelty) of Patents, Not Just Pendency
2018-02-11 Statistics About Patents in the US Are Encouraging as These Suggest Ongoing Improvements
2018-02-11 Pharma Patents Have Become Harder to Enforce, So IAM Together With the Patent Microcosm Sets Up Lobbying Events
2018-02-11 As Andrei Iancu Takes Office (USPTO) Calls to Preserve PTAB Are Issued by Trade Groups of Technology Firms
2018-02-11 Watchtroll's PTAB Bashing Agenda Now Exploits 'the Children'
2018-02-11 The Patent Litigation 'Industry' Celebrates Outcome of Berkheimer v HP, But It's Not About €§ 101
2018-02-12 Patent Maximalists Won't Get Their Way and UPC Will Likely Never Happen (Even After Battistelli)
2018-02-13 EPO Opposition to CRISPR Patents Has Wide-Ranging and Far-Reaching Impact, But Mind Not the Lobbyists
2018-02-13 Watch Out for Buzzwords That Are Used to Mask Patents on Software, Even in Europe
2018-02-14 The EPO Now Censors the Central Staff Committee Like It Used to Censor SUEPO
2018-02-14 Andrei Iancu Begins His USPTO Career While Former USPTO Director (and Now Paid Lobbyist) Keeps Meddling in Office Affairs
2018-02-14 The EPO's Paid Promotion of Software Patents Gets Patent Maximalists All Excited and Emboldened
2018-02-14 No, Britain is Not Ratifying 'Unitary' Anything, But Team UPC Insinuates It Will (Desperate Effort to Affect Tomorrow's Outcome)
2018-02-15 Speech Deficit and No Freedom of Association at the EPO
2018-02-15 The Latest Lies About Unitary Patent (UPC) and the EPO
2018-02-15 The EPO is Being Destroyed and There's Nothing Left to Replace It Except National Patent Offices
2018-02-15 Bavarian State Parliament Has Upcoming Debate About Issues Which Can Thwart UPC for Good
2018-02-16 Microsoft's Patent Moves: Dominion Harbor, Intellectual Ventures, Intellectual Discovery, NEC and Uber
2018-02-17 UPC Has Done Nothing for Europe Except Destruction of the EPO and Imminent Layoffs Due to Lack of Applications and Lowered Value of European Patents
2018-02-17 Apple Discovers That Its Patent Disputes Are a Losing Battle Which Only Lawyers Win (Profit From)
2018-02-18 UPC Optimism Languishes Even Among Paid UPC Propagandists Such as IAM
2018-02-18 Academic Patent Immunity is Laughable and Academics Are Influenced by Corporate Money (for Steering Patent Agenda)
2018-02-18 An Indoctrinated Minority is Maintaining the Illusion That Patent Policy is to Blame for All or Most Problems of the United States
2018-02-18 Software Patents Trickle in After €§ 101/Alice, But Courts Would Not Honour Them Anyway
2018-02-20 Another Loud Warning From EPO Workers About the Decline of Patent Quality
2018-02-20 Today, at 12:30 CET, Bavarian State Parliament Will Speak About EPO Abuses (Updated)
2018-02-20 The Patent Microcosm's Embrace of Buzzwords and False Marketing Strives to Make Patent Examiners Redundant and Patent Quality Extremely Low
2018-02-20 Replacing Patent Sharks/Trolls and the Patent Mafia With 'Icons' Like Thomas Edison
2018-02-20 The Patent Trolls' Lobby, Bristows and IAM Among Others, Downplays Darts-IP/IP2Innovate Report About Rising If Not Soaring Troll Activity in Europe
2018-02-21 Rumour: European Patent Office to Lay Off a Significant Proportion of Its Workforce
2018-02-21 EPO's Board 28 Spikes Article 53 in CA/3/18, Apparently After Battistelli Withdrew It
2018-02-22 End of the UPC Lobby and Withdrawal of UPCA May Seem Imminent
2018-02-22 Further Attacks on EPO Staff and the Appeal Boards; Former EPO Boards of Appeal Member Speaks About EPO Scandals
2018-02-22 As Expected, Bristows and Others Already Lying About UPC Status in Germany, But Doing This Anonymously (to Dodge Accountability for Lies)
2018-02-24 EPO Roundup: Low Profile, Employment Changes, Patent Trolls, Refusal to Obey Courts, and Animal Breeding Patents
2018-02-24 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Dead, But Spin From Team UPC is Now Abundant
2018-02-24 Not Just EPO: USPTO Too Will See Patent Filings Declining
2018-02-24 Chinese Firms Dominate the Chinese Mobile Market Where Patents Are Used for Nationalist Protectionism
2018-02-24 Unified Patents, With Help From PTAB, Succeeds at Disarming Patent Trolls; InterDigital and RPX See a Massive Decline in Income
2018-02-25 Changes Introduced by the EPO's Administrative Council Made It Abundantly Clear That Separation of Powers Does Not Exist for Independence of Judges
2018-02-25 As Japan Moves Towards Reducing Patent Lawsuits and Curbing SEP Abuse Will the United States Follow Suit?
2018-02-26 PTAB Continues to Enforce Section 101 and New Paper From Christopher Walker and Melissa Wasserman Has Suggestions for Agency Head Review
2018-02-26 Hype and Buzzwords Help Disguise Software Patents in the United States, But PTAB Discards Them Regardless
2018-02-26 Marketing and Lobbying Disguised as 'Articles' and Microsoft-Connected Firms That Promote Software Patents and a Microsoft Racket
2018-02-26 Artificial Intelligence is Just Software, So EFF Misses the Point/Reason Why USPTO Should Reject Such Patents
2018-02-27 EPO Refuses to Admit that Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Dead, But It's Boosting Others Who Are Lying About It for a Living
2018-02-27 The EPO's Appeal Boards Remain Utterly Dependent and Far From Impartial After Battistelli's Assault on Their Independence
2018-02-27 East Asia -- Mainland China in Particular -- Already Becoming a Victim of Its Patent Policy as Software Patent Trolls Prey on Producing Companies
2018-03-01 Similar Scandal at the USPTO (to Battistelli's Nepotism) and Upcoming Lies About 'Results' (in Annual Report, Out Next Week)
2018-03-01 The European Patent Office (EPO) Should Lead the Way in Combating Patents on Nature and on Life
2018-03-01 USF Warns Campinos (EPO President in 4 Months) of “Extreme” Situation at the EPO
2018-03-01 The UPC is Dead, But Team UPC is Lying to British Politicians in an Effort to Trick Them
2018-03-01 Links 1/3/2018: X.Org Server 1.20 RC1, Qt 5.11 Beta
2018-03-01 Élodie Bergot Threatens Staff Representatives Who Spread Information About the EPO
2018-03-01 The Latest Bristows Spin Distracts From the Fact that Britain Has No Intention of Ratifying UPC and Brexit Agreement Altogether Omits It
2018-03-01 European Patent Office (EPO) in Chaos and Attempting to Silence the Staff Would Only Exacerbate Matters
2018-03-02 Élodie Bergot Meets Barbra Streisand: Here is the Letter the EPO's Bergot is Trying Really Hard to Hide/Censor
2018-03-02 Battistelli's Last Four Months: Peak Censorship at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2018-03-03 Next Week's Annual Report From the EPO Will Say Nothing About Decline in Patent Quality
2018-03-03 EPO Annual Report Will Dominate the News Next Week, Whereas Unitary Patent (UPC) is a Goner
2018-03-03 Just Months After Japan's Giant Canon Joined a Patent Nonaggression Pact (OIN) It's Filing Dozens of Patent Lawsuits
2018-03-03 China's Patent System is a Trade Barrier and a Legal Wall Preventing Fair Competition With the Communist Party of China (CPC)
2018-03-04 When Patent Maximalists Openly and Shamelessly Defend a Patent 'Scam'
2018-03-04 Blockchain Patent Hype Has Been So Extraordinary That There's Now a Blockchain Defensive Patent License (BDPL)
2018-03-04 Patents on Life Are a Cancer
2018-03-04 Even Without Patent Trials, Patent Trolls Are “Reportedly Shaking Down Indie Devs”
2018-03-06 In Spite of Attempts to Water Down 35 U.S.C. €§ 101 and Stop PTAB, Software Patents Keep Sinking in the United States
2018-03-06 UPC and Beyond: Constitutional Issues Cannot be Brushed Under the Carpet
2018-03-06 Dr. Thorsten Bausch: Quality of European Patents Going Down, “Likely Caused by the Current EPO Policy Focusing too Much on 'Production'.”
2018-03-06 The European Patent Office is Buying 'Alternative Facts' and Its Annual Report Will be More of the Same
2018-03-06 There's No Patent Trolls Problem in Europe, Say Law Firms That Represent and Front for Patent Trolls
2018-03-06 Calling Genetics and Other Things “Life Sciences” Does Not Turn Nature Into Patentable Science
2018-03-07 EPO Annual Results/Report: Revenue From Patent Applications is Apparently Down Yet Again and Work is Running Out
2018-03-08 Guest Post: EPO Defrauds Small Patent Applicant Company, Asha Nutrition Sciences, in Collusion with Applicant's Own Lawyer...
2018-03-08 The Right-Wing Alternative für Deutschland Opposes Unitary Patent (UPC), Just Like UKIP in Britain
2018-03-08 Benoît Battistelli and Confidants Like Bergot Want to Make a Lot of EPO Staff Redundant Without the Staff Ever Noticing
2018-03-08 EPO Hires External PR Agencies to Control Coverage of Its Annual Report, Deny Investigative Journalism
2018-03-08 The European Patent Office (EPO) Ought to Lead in Patent Scope, Not Slide to the Bottom of the Pile
2018-03-09 The EPO's PR Department Receives Return on Investment (Puff Pieces) for Paying the Media
2018-03-10 Glimmer of Hope for the EPO's Boards of Appeal as Bavarian Parliament 'Regroups' on Tuesday
2018-03-10 IAM Only Ever Seems Happy When There's Patent Aggression and Patent Trolls
2018-03-10 Watchtroll is Back to Attacking Judges of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Because It Can't Tolerate Justice
2018-03-10 Alice/€§ 101 is Improving the Quality of Patents in the United States and Patent Law Firms Are Panicking
2018-03-12 Doubt Over Independence of Judges at the EPO Clouds Reason in Deciding Regarding Patents on Life
2018-03-12 EPO Patent 'Growth' Not Achieved But Demanded/Mandated by Battistelli, by Lowering Quality of Patents/Services
2018-03-13 Session in Bavaria to Discuss the Abuses of the European Patent Office Later Today
2018-03-13 Battistelli Likes to Describe His Critics as 'Nazis', Team UPC Will Attempt the Same Thing Against UPC Critics
2018-03-13 EPO Staff Union Organises Protest to Complain About Inability “of the Office to Recruit the Highly Qualified Staff it Needs.”
2018-03-13 The Patent Trolls' Lobby (IAM) Already Pressures Andrei Iancu, Inciting a USPTO Director Against PTAB
2018-03-13 Willy Minnoye (EPO) Threatened Staff With Disabilities Said to Have Been Caused by the EPO Work Pressures
2018-03-15 The EPO Under Battistelli Has Become Like China Under Xi and CPC
2018-03-15 The EPO is a Mess Under Battistelli and Stakeholders Including Law Firms Will Suffer, Not Just EP Holders
2018-03-15 EPO Staff Has Just Warned the National Delegates That EPO's Decline (in Terms of Patent Quality and Staff Welfare) Would Be Beneficial to Patent Trolls
2018-03-15 Patent Maximalists Are Still Trying to Create a Patent Bubble in India
2018-03-15 Careful Not to Conflate UPC Critics With AfD or Anti-EU Elements
2018-03-15 Monumental Effort to Highlight Decline in Quality of European Patents (a Quarter of Examiners Sign Petition in Spite of Fear), Yet Barely Any Press Coverage
2018-03-16 Guest Post: Suspected “Whitewashing” Operations by Željko Topić in Croatia
2018-03-16 Deleted EPO Tweets and Promotion of Software Patents Amid Complaints About Abuse and Demise of Patent Quality
2018-03-17 The Patent 'Printing Machine' of the EPO Will Spawn Many Lawsuits and Extortions (Threats of Lawsuits), in Effect Taxing Europe
2018-03-17 Luxembourg Can Become a Hub of Patent Trolls If the EPO Carries on With Its 'Reforms', Even Without the UPC
2018-03-19 European Commission Again Urged to Tackle Abuses at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2018-03-19 UPC/Battistelli Booster IAM Blames Brexit Rather Than EPO Abuses
2018-03-19 China Has Become Very Aggressive With Patents
2018-03-19 Blocks and Paywalls Won't Protect the Patent Trolls' Lobby From Scrutiny/Fact-Checking
2018-03-19 News About Patents is Often Just Advertisements Composed Directly or Indirectly by Companies That Sell Patents and Patent Services
2018-03-19 Patent Maximalists Keep Coming Up With New Terms and Buzzwords to Bypass the Practical Ban on Software Patents
2018-03-19 From PTAB Bashing to Federal Circuit (CAFC) Bashing: How the Patent 'Industry' Sells Software Patents
2018-03-20 Battistelli's EPO Became Extremely Reliant on China for Distraction and on Endless Supply of Applications (Supply Which Doesn't Exist)
2018-03-21 SUEPO: “Today May Be Your Last Chance to Demonstrate Against the Seriously Flawed Reforms That Mr Battistelli Has Imposed” on EPO Staff
2018-03-22 Battistelli's Ongoing Attacks on the Boards Are Helping Unitary Patent (UPC), Which in Turn Helps French Patent Trolls
2018-03-22 Japan is Becoming Firmer on Patents, Whereas China Goes in the Opposite Direction
2018-03-22 The Federation of International Civil Servants' Association: Frenchman “Campinos is Known for Having Close Ties to Mr. Battistelli Who Strongly Supported His Candidacy.”
2018-03-23 The European Patent Office’s (EPO) Declining Patent Quality 'Tackled' by Making Appeals/Oppositions Harder and More Expensive
2018-03-23 Guest Post: Battistelli's Former “Padrone” Facing Corruption Charges in France
2018-03-24 Team Battistelli and Team UPC Are Both Very Deep in Denial
2018-03-24 China's Equivalent of PTAB and BoA, the Patent Reexamination Board (PRB), Can Confirm Some Chinese Patents Are of Low Quality
2018-03-25 Benoît Battistelli the Latest Example of Massive Bonuses Given to People Who Destroyed Their Own Organisation
2018-03-25 Where Opposition to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB, AIA) Has Come From Over the Past Week If Not Year
2018-03-26 On Media Hype, Software Patents, and 35 U.S.C. €§ 101 Which Annuls Both
2018-03-27 Professionals' Survey: Almost Everybody (90%) Accepts That EPO Patent Quality Has Fallen Under Battistelli
2018-03-27 The Administrative Council of the EPO Continues to Reaffirm Complicity in Battistelli's Abuses
2018-03-29 Patent Quality, Not Quantity, is What Really Matters
2018-03-29 Senator Jean-Yves Leconte Accuses EPO and/or ILO of Injustice, But Don't Expect Media to Notice or Cover It
2018-03-31 Massive Discovery Misconduct and New Litigation Misconduct Show That the Patent World is Not Always About Justice
2018-04-01 EPO is Untrustworthy
2018-04-01 António Campinos Withdraws From Plan to Directly Run the EPO, Patent Office to be Run by Google 'AI' Instead
2018-04-01 Anonymous USPTO Whistleblower Explained Internal Management Affairs Last Month
2018-04-02 The Latest SLAPP From the Patent Microcosm Shows Just How Abusive Patent Extremists Can be Towards Their Critics
2018-04-03 'Patent Imperialism' in the United States and China
2018-04-03 Benoît Battistelli's Era Yields Not Only Invalid and Harmful Monopolies But Also Breeds Distrust and Layoffs
2018-04-03 Scam and Threat in the Mailbox Today, Courtesy of the Anti-PTAB Brigade
2018-04-03 The Mass Litigation Lobby Craves for Patent Armageddon
2018-04-04 The European Patent Office (EPO) Will Need to Acknowledge It Has a Patent Quality Issue, Then Tackle It or Perish
2018-04-04 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Breaks More Records, This Time Number of Post-Grant Review Petitions
2018-04-05 'SIPO Europe': More Low-Quality Patents at Lower Costs
2018-04-07 The Anti-PTAB Brigade is Willing to Embrace Radical Elements Just to Get Its Way
2018-04-07 Team UPC’s and Team Battistelli's Lobbying Not Over Yet, Even Though the UPC is Likely Dead for Good
2018-04-07 Patent Maximalists Against Patent Quality and Against the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Organisation (EPO)
2018-04-08 IAM Encourages Patent Aggression, CCIA Highlights Cost of Being Accused of Infringement, Professor Tun-Jen Chiang Explores Free Speech Aspects of Patents
2018-04-09 The 'Sisvelisation' of Europe, With or Without the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
2018-04-09 In Just a Few Years China Became the Eastern District of Texas
2018-04-10 EPO in 'Low Profile' Mode, Only to be Mentioned in Relation to India's Oil Drilling/Miners
2018-04-11 One Last Battistelli Heist: Millions of Euros for Saint-Germain-en-Laye
2018-04-11 USPTO Will Have a Crisis of Legitimacy If Its Officials Work as Lobbyists and Cooperate With Villainous Think Tanks
2018-04-12 The USPTO Has a Nepotism and Lobbying Problem That Jeopardises the Rationality of US Patent Law
2018-04-13 Samsung is the 'New IBM', Sans the Trolling With Patents
2018-04-13 East Asia Should Have Adopted the Patent Strategy of South Asia, Notably India
2018-04-14 The 'Blockchaining' of Software Patents (to Dodge the Rules/Guidelines) Now Coming to Europe
2018-04-14 Crisis of Quality at the EPO Extends to Staff (Notably Examiners) and Management as Institutional Integrity is Severely Compromised
2018-04-14 Killing Patent Quality and Encouraging 'Covert' Software Patents Using the Buzzwords Du Jour
2018-04-16 With Liars Like These...
2018-04-16 The European Patent Office Will Never Hold Its Destroyers Accountable
2018-04-17 The European Patent Office (EPO) Grants Patents in Error, Insiders Are Complaining That It's the Management's Fault
2018-04-17 The EPO Continues to Lie About Patent Quality Whilst Openly Promoting Software Patents, Even Outside Europe
2018-04-18 The EPO in 2018: Partnering With Saudi Arabia and Cambodia (With Zero European Patents)
2018-04-18 Guest Post: Responding to Your Recent Posting “The European Patent Office Will Never Hold Its Destroyers Accountable”
2018-04-19 The Boards of Appeal at the European Patent Organisation (EPO) Complain That They Are Understaffed, Not Just Lacking the Independence They Depend on
2018-04-19 When News About the EPO is Dominated by Sponsored 'Reports' and Press Releases Because Publishers Are Afraid of (or Bribed by) the EPO
2018-04-19 To Understand Why People Say That Lawyers are Liars Look No Further Than Misleading Promotion of Software Patents
2018-04-19 Links 19/4/2018: Mesa 17.3.9 and 18.0.1, Trisquel 8.0 LTS Flidas, Elections for openSUSE Board
2018-04-22 Short: EPO Explains to Examiners Why They Should and Apparently Can Grant Software Patents (in Spite of EPC)
2018-04-22 Short: Highly Misleading and Unscientific Graphics From the EPO for an Illusion of Growth
2018-04-22 Short: This Spring's Message From the EPO's President (Corrected)
2018-04-22 Short: EPO's “Working Party for Quality” is to Quality What the “Democratic People's Republic of Korea” is to Democracy
2018-04-22 Short: EPO Bribes the Media and Then Brags About the Paid-for Outcome to Staff
2018-04-22 Short: Calling Battistelli's Town (Where He Works) “Force for Innovation” to Justify the Funneling of EPO Funds to It
2018-04-22 EPO Hoards Billions of Euros (Taken From the Public), Decreases Quality to Get More Money, Reduces Payments to Staff
2018-04-22 Shelston IP Keeps Pressuring IP Australia to Allow Software Patents and Harm Software Development
2018-04-22 Short: Just Keep Repeating the Lie (“Quality”) Until People Might Believe It
2018-04-22 The EPO is Dying and Those Who Have Killed It Are Becoming Very Rich in the Process
2018-04-22 Today's European Patent Office Works for Patent Extremists and for Team UPC Rather Than for Europe or for Innovation
2018-04-24 Holding Benoît Battistelli Accountable After the EPO
2018-04-24 Mythology About Patents in the East
2018-04-24 Patent Maximalists Step Things Up With Director Andrei Iancu and It's Time for Scientists to Fight Back
2018-04-24 Links 24/4/2018: Preview of Crostini, Introducing Heptio Gimbal, OPNsense 18.1.6
2018-04-24 Today's EPO is Not Compatible With the Law and It's Grossly Incompatible With Truth and Justice
2018-04-24 The European Patent Office (EPO) Wastes a Lot of Money on External PR Agencies for Battistelli's 'Heist'
2018-04-25 Battistelli's EPO Continues to Promote Software Patents and Even Pays the Media to Play Along, Impacting Other Continents
2018-04-25 Battistelli Misuses EPO Budget to Saturate the European Media With Puff Pieces About His Event
2018-04-26 Reporting Benoît Battistelli Before He Too 'Pulls a Željko Topić'
2018-04-26 With Unified Patent Court (UPC) on Its Death Throes, Team UPC Now Resorts to Promoting Pertinent Parts of the Agreement (UPCA)
2018-04-26 Britain Has Not Fully Completed Unified Patent Court (UPC) Ratification and It Remains Incompatible With Brexit
2018-04-26 World IP Day, a Propaganda Opportunity for Patent Maximalists, is Becoming More About Feminism
2018-04-27 Like a Cancer, EPO-Bribed Media Continues to Produce Puff Pieces for Benoît Battistelli
2018-04-27 Sam Gyimah Did What Was Expected Since 2016, But Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Still Completely Stuck in Most Important Country and Is Not Compatible With Brexit
2018-04-28 Short: EPO Says That Most (Over 50%) of Patent Applications at the EPO Are Software Patents
2018-04-28 In Protest of IP Kat No Longer Covering EPO Abuses, Märpel Rises in “R.I.P. Kat”
2018-04-28 Short: EPO Brags About EPO-Bribed Media Covering EPO-Funded 'Study'
2018-04-28 The EPO Grants Software Patents Under the 'CII' Umbrella, Mass Litigation in Europe Already a Problem
2018-04-28 British Technology News Sites Point Out the Absurdity of Ratifying UPC in the UK Amid Brexit
2018-04-28 Short: Quality, Quality, Quality, Quality. Just Keep Repeating This Lie and Hope It'll Stick.
2018-04-28 New Zealand and India, Two Nations That Reject Software Patents, Are Still Besieged by Patent Law Firms
2018-04-28 Patent Trolls Roundup: The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), Microsoft Trolls, and the Eastern District of Texas
2018-04-29 Short: Adding a Sense of Fear/Perceived Threat to the EPO With Number Plate Recognition (Surveillance)
2018-04-29 Short: The EPO is Limiting Itself to Microsoft Office and PowerPoint (the 'Special Relationship')
2018-04-29 Short: EPO Paid for 'Study' (Corrupting Academia) to Push Unitary Patent Agenda, Then Advertised the Outcome
2018-04-29 EPO Gazette: The Obligatory EPO Propaganda That Paints an Oppressive Office as 'Fun and Games'
2018-04-29 35 U.S.C. €§ 101 is Still in Tact and Enforceable En Masse (Thousands of Times) by PTAB
2018-04-29 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Lives on and People Whom Patents Were Conceived for (Not Lawyers) Are Happy
2018-04-29 Patent Maximalists Are Using SAS Institute v Iancu to Distract From Their Epic Defeat in the Vastly More Important Oil States
2018-04-30 Guest Article: Is the EPO Deliberately Disseminating “False Facts” About Benoît Battistelli's Political Activities in Saint-Germain-en-Laye?
2018-04-30 Team UPC and Team Battistelli in IP Kat and IAM
2018-04-30 Like a Pack of Spoiled Brats, Patent Maximalists and Media That They Control Bash the Oil States Decision and Distract From It
2018-04-30 The European Patent System is Nowadays Based on a 'Banana Republic' Model
2018-05-01 A Test for European Media: Will It Cover the Battistelli-TAD Scandal Like It Covered FIFA Scandals?
2018-05-01 People Are Belatedly Asking All Those 'Awkward' Questions About UPC and the Lies Told by Team UPC
2018-05-01 Battistelli's Alleged 'Success' is Like That of the United States Mint
2018-05-02 Not Enough Opposition/s to Wrongly-Granted European Patents
2018-05-03 The European Patent Office Has Become a Kakistocracy
2018-05-03 Marks & Clerk is Still Pushing Patent Maximalism Agenda in Europe and Britain, Including UPC/UPCA/Unitary Patent (UP)
2018-05-03 Bristows LLP Already Uses Kluwer Patent Blog and IP Kat as Its UPC Megaphone, Now IAM as Well
2018-05-04 Guest Article: Benoît Battistelli's Election as Deputy Mayor Was Pre-announced in the Local Press
2018-05-04 Elizabeth Holmes Charged With “Massive Fraud” and Team Battistelli Rushes to Distance Itself From Her
2018-05-04 From Saint-Germain-en-Laye to Strasbourg, Even the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Might Side With Nicolas Sárközy's Thug at the EPO
2018-05-05 In the Latest EPO Official Journal (April's Publication) Battistelli's Next Employer is Mentioned Literally Hundreds of Times and Promoted in 20 Pages out of 75 Pages
2018-05-05 Tesla's 'Truckload' of 'Open' Patents Cannot Save It From a Nuisance Lawsuit in Arizona
2018-05-05 The European Patent Organisation (EPO) Stopped Working and It's Also the Fault of Jesper Kongstad, Not Just Benoît Battistelli
2018-05-05 If Anyone Has Defamed the European Patent Organisation/Office (EPO) It's Benoît Battistelli
2018-05-05 The European Patent Office's Decline in Patent Quality a 'Blessing' in Disguise But Mostly a Curse to Apple
2018-05-06 Patents Are Neither Ownership Nor Inventorship But a Temporarily-Granted Monopoly
2018-05-06 Software Patents Are Not Allowed in Canada, But the Patent Microcosm is Trying to Change That
2018-05-06 Covering Software Patents For 12 Years
2018-05-07 News From the Frontline: EPO Continues Unabated on Its Destructive Path
2018-05-07 Rumour: The European Patent Office Has Just 'Done a Patrick Corcoran' Again (Forced Removal)
2018-05-08 Guest Article: More Battistelli Revelations From the Archives of the Municipal Council of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
2018-05-08 Forward Pharma an Example of the Devastating Effect of Granting Patents in Error -- A Problem Appeal Boards Must Correct
2018-05-09 EPO Policy (Squashing Examination) is Already Crashing Stocks, Destroying Companies
2018-05-09 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Not Happening, But Kluwer Patent Blog Pretends It's Already in Force
2018-05-10 Rumours Confirmed: Latest EPO Official Journal Misused to Promote Battistelli's (and Campinos') Employer, Another EPO Employee Has Just Been 'Corcoranised'
2018-05-10 Barker Brettell is Wrong About Unified Patent Court (UPC) and the United Kingdom
2018-05-10 EPO Scandals Are Far Worse Than FIFA's (or Even Emissionsgate/Dieselgate), But Will European Media Belatedly Realise This?
2018-05-10 The EPO's 'Inventor Award' Scam: Part I
2018-05-11 Report on the (Mal)Functioning of the ILOAT From the 332nd Session of the ILO Governing Body
2018-05-12 The EPO's 'Inventor Award' Scam: Part II
2018-05-12 EPO Staff Deprived and Denied Basic Rights, Even Justice, But Almost Nobody in the 'Mainstream' Wants to Talk About It
2018-05-12 Patents on Life (or Supposed 'Gene-Editing'/CRISPR) Are a Gross Distortion of the Raison D'être of Patents
2018-05-13 Alice/Section 101 is Fine Because Copyrights Already Cover Software and Patents Are Inadequate for Code
2018-05-13 Guest Article: Battistelli's Salary in Saint-Germain-en-Laye Nearly Quadrupled Last Year
2018-05-13 EPO-Funded Propaganda for Software Patents Reaches as Far as East Asia and the EPO Then Brags About That
2018-05-14 Reader's Post: The Last Delusion of Benoît Battistelli Before His Departure on June 30th
2018-05-15 The EPO Has Become Extremely Corrupt and Dishonest
2018-05-15 A Google-Centric and Google-Led Patent Pool Won't Protect GNU/Linux But Merely 'Normalise' Software Patents
2018-05-15 EPO Has Become Overzealous About Software Patents, Probably More So Than Almost Anywhere Else
2018-05-16 The EPO's 'Inventor Award' Scam: Part III
2018-05-17 EPO's Battistelli Taking Days Off Work for Political 'Duties' (Parties) in His French Theatre Where He'll Bring Buckets of EPO Budget (EPO Stakeholders' Money)
2018-05-17 Rise in Patent Trolls' Activity in Germany Noted Amid Declining Patent Quality at the EPO
2018-05-17 So-Called 'System Battistelli' is Destroying the EPO, Warn Insiders
2018-05-17 Today's EPO Financially Rewards Abuses and Violations of the Law
2018-05-17 Fishy Things Noticed Ahead of the Passage of a Lot of EPO Budget (Applicants' Money) to Battistelli's Other (and Simultaneous) Employer
2018-05-17 In Australia the Productivity Commission Decides/Guides Patent Law
2018-05-18 Système Battistelli (ENArque) at the EPO is Inspired by Système Lamy in Saint-Germain-en Laye
2018-05-20 LOT Network is a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
2018-05-20 Aurélien Pétiaud's ILO Case (EPO Appeal) an Early Sign That ILO Protects Abusers and Power, Not Workers
2018-05-21 António Campinos Will Push Toward a France-Based Unified Patent Court (UPC)
2018-05-21 Software Patenting and Successful Litigation a Very Difficult Task Under 35 U.S.C. €§ 101
2018-05-21 The Attacks on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Have Lost Momentum and the Patent Microcosm Begrudgingly Gives Up
2018-05-22 Chamber of Commerce Lies About the United States Like It Lies About Other Countries for the Sole Purpose of Patent Maximalism
2018-05-23 Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of
2018-05-23 Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of
2018-05-23 France is Irrelevant to Whether or Not UPC Ever Becomes a Reality, Moving/Outsourcing de Facto Patent Examination to European Courts Managed in/Presided by France
2018-05-24 Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of
2018-05-24 EPO Validation in Former French Colonies That Have Zero European Patents
2018-05-24 Perpetuating the Big Lie That Unitary Patent (UPC) is About to Kick Off
2018-05-24 Stupid Blogs, Stupid Lawsuits, and Stupid Patents
2018-05-24 Walmart, Bank of America, Allied Security Trust (AST) and the Rush for 'Blockchain' Patents
2018-05-25 New EPO Caricature: The Rubber Stamp
2018-05-25 Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of
2018-05-25 The Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court (UPC): This Week's Latest Spin and Lies
2018-05-25 EPO, a Longtime Privacy Offender, Uses General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Day to Lie to the Public
2018-05-26 Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of
2018-05-26 Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of
2018-05-26 Index for EPO and Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of
2018-05-27 Techrights at 24,000
2018-05-27 On Ethics of Patent Lawyers
2018-05-27 IAM Warns That China is Outpacing the United States at Granting Rubbish, Unproductive Patents on Abstract Things
2018-05-27 Software Patents Advocacy and UPC Lies Go Hand in Hand
2018-05-27 Letting the USPTO Decide on Fees Would Lead to a 'Battistelli Scenario'
2018-05-27 The Patent Extremists Resort to Trump-Styled China-Baiting in an Effort to Destroy US Patent Policy
2018-05-28 Guest Series: Système Lamy and Système Battistelli at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2018-05-29 St. Germain’s “Système Lamy” and Its EPO Clone - Part 1: Rubber-stamp Committees and Secret Meetings
2018-05-29 High US Court Rules Against Patents on GUIs
2018-05-30 St. Germain’s “Système Lamy” and Its EPO Clone - Part 2: Misinformation and Silencing of Dissent
2018-05-30 The European Patent Office: From Patent Maximalism to Corruption and Gerrymandering
2018-05-30 EUROCHAMBRES is an Echo Chamber of the Patent Litigation 'Industry' Hoping to Mislead the EU's Competitiveness Council on UPC
2018-05-30 USPTO Has a 'Revolving Doors' Problem
2018-05-30 The Chinese Patent System Does a Fine Job Devouring China, But Sites of the Litigation 'Industry' Are Absolutely Loving It!
2018-05-30 St. Germain’s “Système Lamy” and Its EPO Clone - Part 3: Shooting the Messengers and Defaming Opponents
2018-05-31 Märpel Looks at Benoît Battistelli's Toxic Financial Affairs at the EPO
2018-05-31 IP Kat is Still Acting as a Propaganda Front for UPC (and EU Software Patents) Lobbying by US-Based Front Groups
2018-05-31 The EPO is Demolishing European Law With Terms Like ICT, CII, AI, and 4IR
2018-06-01 Software Patents Are a Dying Breed of Patents Except in China (and Maybe EPO)
2018-06-01 The EPO's Lobbying Chief Apparently Came From Saint-Germain-en-Laye 2 Years After Benoît Battistelli
2018-06-01 In Gross Violation of German Law, as Per EPO Tradition, Fronleichnam 'Stolen' by Benoît Battistelli
2018-06-01 Links 1/6/2018: CERN, World and Atari With GNU/Linux, Mesa 18.0.5 RC, Weblate 3.0, Linux Mint 19 Beta Soon, Sailfish 2.2
2018-06-02 US Antitrust Official Makan Delrahim Encourages Parasitic Patent Behaviour -- Not Just Embargoes -- in the Phones Domain and Beyond
2018-06-02 Team UPC Turns to a Spanish 'Flavour' of Unitary Patent Propaganda (Just Like Last Year)
2018-06-02 The European Patent Office Dominates Media Coverage in the Form of Paid-For Puff Pieces, Suppresses Coverage About Corruption
2018-06-03 TC Heartland at One: Still an Impediment to Patent Trolls and Other Patent Parasites in the United States
2018-06-03 Finnegan, IAM and Other Proponents of Patent Trolls Try to Dominate the Debate About Patent Scope and Oversight
2018-06-03 The Patent Microcosm Keeps Attacking the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and Has the Audacity to Say PTAB is an 'Attacker'
2018-06-03 IBM and Its Terrible Software Patents, Which Are Disguised as 'AI', 'Cloud', and More Recently 'Blockchain'
2018-06-03 Watchtroll Continues to Attack Officials Who Favour Technology Over Law Firms and This Time Zoe Lofgren is the Target
2018-06-04 Change of Government in Spain Does Not Change the Fact That Unitary Patent (UPC) Would be Terrible for Spanish Companies
2018-06-04 The Quality of Patents Really Matters Because Without It the Patents Will All Lose Value/Purpose
2018-06-04 As European Patent Office Goes Down in Many Aspects/Respects (Quality, Employee Profiles and More) IAM -- the EPO's Mouthpiece -- Claims “Patent Renaissance”, Repeats EPO Lies
2018-06-04 The Only Way to Improve Patent Certainty in the US is to Improve Patent Quality, Not to Lower It
2018-06-04 IAM and EPO Are Almost Inseparable
2018-06-05 The Demise of the EPO and Collapse of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) May Mean That António Campinos Will Soon Fire ~15% of the Workforce
2018-06-05 IP Kat as an Extension of Team UPC After Departure of the Blog's Founder
2018-06-05 Nationality and Sovereignty in AIA Era: Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Under Siege From Patent 'Activists'
2018-06-07 What Team UPC Wants: Patent Trolls, Unified Patent Court (UPC), Software Patents, and Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs)
2018-06-07 Today, at the Expense of Millions (€) of EPO Budget, Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos Engage in Shameless Self Promotion
2018-06-07 Marks & Clerk Blames Battistelli's Victims, the Boards of Appeal, Whose Job Guarded Patent Quality
2018-06-09 Patents on Nature, Life and the Environment: Lessons From EPO and Australian Courts
2018-06-09 Battistelli is Still Patently Delusional About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
2018-06-09 Benoît Battistelli Should Have Received an Award for Corruption, But He Completely Controlled the Show in His Own Theatre
2018-06-09 A Post-TC Heartland (and Post-Alice) Patent System is Bad if Not Fatal News to Patent Trolls Like Microsoft's Intellectual Ventures
2018-06-09 Data From the USPTO Almost Confirms Suspicions That People Named in Patents Are Likely Unrelated (Nothing to Do With These Patents)
2018-06-10 Everyone Talks About Apple's Notorious Design Patents But Not About 'Abstract' European Patents Used Against Apple and Linux
2018-06-11 Another Victim of Corrupt Benoît Battistelli
2018-06-11 Post-AIA, Post-Alice/€§ 101 USPTO Still Granting Software Patents in Defiance of the (Case)Law
2018-06-11 Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe Blind to Its Participation in a Scam Around Patents on Nature
2018-06-11 Latest Docket Reports Show That the American Courts/Legal System Still Anything But Patents-Hostile
2018-06-12 IPBC, a Patent Trolls-Funded Event of IAM, is Advancing the Attacks on Section 101/Alice
2018-06-12 Battistelli's EPO is Outdoing North Korea When It Comes to Propaganda and Abuses Against Staff
2018-06-12 The EPO's 'Expert' Georg Weber is Still Advocating Software Patents in Europe (But He Disguises Them Using Buzzwords)
2018-06-12 Corrupt Benoît Battistelli Promotes Software Patents in IAM's Patent Trolls-Funded Event in the United States
2018-06-13 The United States is Far Better Off With the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), So Why Do Lawyers Attack It?
2018-06-13 Buzzwords and Three-Letter Acronyms Still Abused by the EPO to Grant a Lot of Patents on Algorithms
2018-06-13 When the USPTO Grants Patents in Defiance of 35 U.S.C. €§ 101 the Courts Will Eventually Squash These Anyway
2018-06-14 Google Gets Told Off -- Even by the Typically Supportive EFF and TechDirt -- Over Patenting of Software
2018-06-14 IAM Concludes Its Latest Anti-€§ 101 Think Tank, Featuring Crooked Benoît Battistelli
2018-06-14 Grünecker, Hoffmann Eitle, Maiwald and Vossius & Partner Find the Courage to Express Concerns About Battistelli's Ugly Legacy and Low Patent Quality
2018-06-14 The '4iP Council' is a Megaphone of Team UPC and Team Battistelli at the EPO
2018-06-15 The 'Artificial Intelligence' (AI) Hype, Propped Up by Events of the European Patent Office (EPO), is Infectious and It Threatens Patent Quality Worldwide
2018-06-15 In the United States the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, Which Assures Patent Quality, is Still Being Smeared by Law Firms That Profit From Patent Maximalism, Lawsuits
2018-06-15 The EPO's Response to the Open Letter About Decline in Patent Quality as the Latest Example of Arrogance and Resistance to Facts, Truth
2018-06-16 Links 16/6/2018: LiMux Story, Okta Openwashing and More
2018-06-17 Patent Marketing Disguised as Patent 'Advice'
2018-06-17 The Affairs of the USPTO Have Turned Into Somewhat of a Battle Against the Courts, Which Are Simply Applying the Law to Invalidate US Patents
2018-06-18 Diversity at the EPO
2018-06-18 Beware Team UPC's Biggest Two Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
2018-06-18 More Media Reports About Decline in Quality of European Patents (Granted by the EPO)
2018-06-20 What Battistelli's Workers Think of His Latest EPO Propaganda
2018-06-20 The Decline in Patent Quality at the EPO Causes Frivolous Lawsuits That Only Lawyers Profit From
2018-06-20 Articles About a Unitary Patent System Are Lies and Marketing From Law Firms With 'Lawsuits Lust'
2018-06-20 EPO Insiders Correct the Record of Benoît Battistelli’s Tyranny and Abuse of Law: “Legal Harassment and Retaliation”
2018-06-20 The Eastern District of Texas is Where Asian Companies/Patents/Trolls Still Go After TC Heartland
2018-06-20 What Use Are 10 Million Patents That Are of Low Quality in a Patent Office Controlled by the Patent 'Industry'?
2018-06-21 Even Media of the Patent Microcosm Mentions the Decline in Quality of Patents at the EPO, Based on Its Very Own Stakeholders, While IAM Ignores the News
2018-06-21 Battistelli and Topić Lose Their Bogus 'Case' Against Judge Corcoran After They Defamed Him and Ruined His Career/Life
2018-06-22 “Dr Ernst Should be Forced by National Politicians to Step Down With Immediate Effect” After Battistelli's Latest EPO Scandals
2018-06-22 Links 22/6/2018: PulseAudio 12.0, Krita 4.1 Beta, LabPlot 2.5, Git 2.18.0
2018-06-23 Mainstream Media in Germany Covers Battistelli's Corruption at the EPO Just as He Leaves
2018-06-23 Somewhat Underwhelming Reception for US Patent Number 10,000,000 (Which Actually Isn't)
2018-06-24 Patent Factory Europe (PFE) is a Patent Troll's Publicity Stunt, Attempting to Frame a Predator as the Small Businesses' Friend and Ally
2018-06-24 Nearly Half of Patent Applications at the EPO Are (at Least Partly) Software Patents, According to the EPO, and Not Many Patents Are European (Foreign, Not Domestic)
2018-06-24 Watchtroll's Reaffirmed Hatred Towards Science and Technology, Shattering the Myth About Patent Law Firms Trying to 'Help' Innovation
2018-06-24 Stronger Patents or None at All: How the Greed of Patent Law Firms and the Patent Office Contributes to Bogus Software Patents Being Amassed
2018-06-24 The Dangerous Adoption of Patents on Life and Nature
2018-06-24 The ILO Tribunal:€ Is It Still Worthy of Our Trust?
2018-06-25 Even After SAS Institute, Inc. v Iancu (Decision on PTAB) There's No Stopping the Crackdown on Bogus US Patents
2018-06-25 Patent Extremism -- Like All Extremes -- Leads to Bad Outcomes
2018-06-25 Benoît Battistelli's 'Dowry' From the Administrative Council of the EPO
2018-06-25 The EPO Seems to Have Corrupted ILO/ILO-AT Like It Corrupted the Media and Academia (Using 'Toxic' EPO Budget)
2018-06-26 This Afternoon ILO Has an Opportunity to Salvage Its Reputation (or Reaffirm Growing Suspicions That It Has Been Compromised by the EPO)
2018-06-26 Battistelli is 'Pulling a Lamy' With a Lot More Money at Stake (and Examiners' Future)
2018-06-26 Perfect Metaphor for Benoît Battistelli: Unfinished Work That Nobody Likes and Which Causes Truly Massive Losses
2018-06-26 Something is Clearly Wrong and Patently Defunct at ILO/ILO-AT (Updated)
2018-06-27 Corruption at the EPO Should be a Subject Anybody Can Speak About, Even Insiders
2018-06-27 J A Kemp Pushing the Boundaries of Patent Scope in Europe With Antibodies and SPCs
2018-06-27 SUEPO and EPO Staff Respond to Yesterday's ILO-AT Rulings on Malika Weaver, Ion Brumme, and Elizabeth Hardon
2018-06-28 'Party Poopers': Protests Greet Battistelli's Premature Inauguration of an Unfinished Building That Caused Massive Losses
2018-06-28 US Patent Number 10,000,000 May be a Bogus One, as Per Alice/Section 101
2018-06-28 President Benoît Battistelli is Finished, But the Huge Mess He Has Created is Not
2018-06-29 Eight Years of Battistelli
2018-06-29 Three Days Later Still Not a Single Word From the EPO About Union Busting Gone Awry and Court Orders to Reinstate/Promote Staff Representatives
2018-06-29 Insults, Lies and Propaganda on Battistelli's Last Day at the European Patent Office
2018-06-29 WirtschaftsWoche Authors Articles About Corruption of the European Patent Office
2018-06-29 Union Syndicale Fédérale: Apparently ILO Considered Kicking Out the EPO for Repeatedly Refusing and Failing to Obey the Law
2018-06-30 Links 30/6/2018: Linux 4.16 EoL, Gentoo Crack, Linux Mint Release
2018-06-30 Team UPC's Radicals, Firms Like Bristows LLP, Have Decided That It's Time to Change Constitutions to Accommodate Clearly Unconstitutional Unitary Patent (UPC)
2018-07-01 'Printed Electronics World' is an Example of Bogus News Sites Which Are Actually Marketing Fronts for Patents
2018-07-01 PTAB Agrees With Patent Examiners on Rejections of Applications Based on Alice/Section 101, But Watch Out for the Spin
2018-07-02 Welcoming António Campinos, New President of the European Patent Office
2018-07-02 The EPO's Attacks on Bloggers Other Than Me (and ILO-AT Being Utterly Unpredictable)
2018-07-02 Stop Patenting Life, Nature is Not an Invention
2018-07-02 Patent Law Firms Have Become Debased and Intolerant of Courts/Judges, Just Like EPO Management
2018-07-02 Asked by the Media Why European Inventor Award Was Held in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the EPO Refuses to Explain
2018-07-02 First Day for António Campinos is Done, But Some Media is Still Publishing 90th-Minute Battistelli Puff Pieces
2018-07-02 IAM is Still Working for Benoît Battistelli and His Toxic Agenda
2018-07-03 First Act of António Campinos: Pushing the Unconstitutional Unitary Patent (UPC)
2018-07-04 Yesterday's UPC Event Was a Reminder That Team Battistelli is Still in Charge of the European Patent Organisation, Fronting for Team UPC
2018-07-04 Staff Union of the EPO: “ILO-AT Remains Very Much an Employer’s Court” (Not Employees')
2018-07-04 Cartoon on Brexistelli:
2018-07-04 EPO Protest/s Suppressed Even at the Opening of a Construction Site for Battistelli's Guests
2018-07-05 António Campinos Tries to Come Across as a Goodwill Manager, But He Will be Judged by His Actions, Not by His Words
2018-07-05 No, Europe Does Not Gear up for the Unitary Patent, But Team UPC Wants Everyone to Think So and EPO Amplifies These Lies
2018-07-05 The Latest Twists in US Patent Courts
2018-07-05 Abstract Ideas and Mental (Thoughts) Type of Claims Still Deemed Patent-Ineligible, Buzzwords Are Used Instead
2018-07-06 German Media Compares Team Battistelli at the EPO to the Mafia
2018-07-06 Team UPC Suggested Changing Constitutions to Facilitate the Unconstitutional UPC. It Didn't Go Well...
2018-07-07 One Week of António Campinos at the EPO: Early Uncertainty
2018-07-07 IAM Keeps Promoting Brian Yates and His New Patent Troll, iPEL, Which is About to Become Very Aggressive
2018-07-08 The Term 'Life Science' Has Outlived Its Usefulness
2018-07-08 In Spite of Resistance From the Patent Microcosm the USPTO Strives to Improve Patent Quality
2018-07-08 Battistelli's 'Legacy' Up in Flames as Britain is “Ending the Jurisdiction of the CJEU in the UK, With No More Preliminary References from UK Courts…”
2018-07-08 Project Battistelli: Documenting the Ugly and Illegal Things Battistelli Did at the EPO
2018-07-08 Apple Has Far More to Lose Than to Gain From Patent Maximalism; Apple Needs to Fight for Patent Sanity
2018-07-09 Actions -- Not Mere Words -- Are Needed to Improve Patent Quality and Climate at the European Patent Office
2018-07-10 Signs of Upcoming Changes at EPO: Raimund Lutz, Željko Topić and Other 'Team Battistelli' Folks Are Being Replaced
2018-07-10 The Demise of East Texan Courts and the Ascent of PTAB, Alice and a SCOTUS-Compliant CAFC May Mean That US Software Patents Are Officially 'Dead'
2018-07-11 The Lack of Genuine, Honest Discussion About Patent Quality Means That Under António Campinos Software Patents Will Continue to be Granted, Campinos Strives to Make Them 'Unitary'
2018-07-12 Links 12/7/2018: Mesa 18.1.4 RC, Curl 7.61.0
2018-07-12 Thomas Massie and Marcy Kaptur Are Promoting the Interests of Patent Trolls and Patent Lawyers While Calling That “Innovation”
2018-07-12 Links 12/7/2018: GTK+ 4.0 Plans, OpenBSD Gains Wi-Fi “Auto-Join”
2018-07-13 It's Not About EPO 'Backlog' But About Faking 'Production' by Lowering Standards
2018-07-13 Constitutionality and CJEU as Barriers, the UPC Agreement (UPCA) is Already Moot in the United Kingdom
2018-07-13 Weeks Later António Campinos Still in Noncompliance With the Courts (ILO's Tribunal)
2018-07-14 EPO Abuses Against People With Disabilities Followed by Legal Bullying?
2018-07-14 'Transaction' Complete: Former EPO Executive From Belgium Takes the Seat of António Campinos at EU-IPO
2018-07-14 Number of Oppositions to Grants/Awards of European Patents at the EPO Has Skyrocketed, Based on Internal Data
2018-07-15 From East Asia to the Eastern District of Texas: XYZ Printing, Maxell, and X2Y Attenuators
2018-07-15 BT and Sonos Are Still Patent Bullies, Seeing Patents as a Backup Plan
2018-07-15 Asking the USPTO to Comply With 35 U.S.C. €§ 101 is Like Asking Pentagon Officials to Pursue Real, Persistent Peace
2018-07-15 Cautionary Tale: ILO Administrative Tribunal Cases (Appeals) 'Intercepted' Under António Campinos
2018-07-16 IAM/Joff Wild May Have Become a de Facto Media Partner of the Patent Troll iPEL
2018-07-16 'Blockchain', 'Cloud' and Whatever Else Gets Exploited to Work Around 35 U.S.C. €§ 101 (or the EPC) and Patent Algorithms/Software
2018-07-17 Time for the European Commission to Investigate EPO Corruption Because It May be Partly or Indirectly Connected to EU-IPO, an EU Agency
2018-07-17 Yesterday's Misleading News From Team UPC and Its Aspiring Management of the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
2018-07-17 Patents on Computer Software and Plants in the United States Indicative of Systemic Error
2018-07-17 The European Council Needs to Check Battistelli's Back Room Deals/Back Door/Backchannel With Respect to Christian Archambeau
2018-07-17 Software Patents Royalty (Tax) Campaign by IBM, a Serial Patent Bully, and the EPO's Participation in All This
2018-07-17 What Patent Lawyers Aren't Saying: Most Patent Litigation Has Become Too Risky to be Worth It
2018-07-18 The EPO -- Like the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and Unitary Patent System -- is an Untenable Mess
2018-07-19 Australia Says No to Software Patents
2018-07-19 Mafia Tactics in Team UPC and Battistelli's Circle
2018-07-19 When Amplifying the Message of 'Global Innovation Index 2018' IP Watch Sounds Like WIPO and IP Watchdog (Watchtroll)
2018-07-19 Some US Patents' Quality is So Low That There's a Garden Clearance/Fire Sale
2018-07-21 Cisco v Arista Networks is a Stain on the Reputation of the US International Trade Commission (ITC) and It's Beginning to Recognise This
2018-07-21 The EPO (European Patent Office) Under António Campinos is Just Another Battistelli EPO; Still UPC and Software Patents Lobbying
2018-07-22 Can Trade Secrets Litigation Replace (in Part) Patent Litigation?
2018-07-22 'Efficiency' in Action: António Campinos is Sending Jobs Abroad, Then Gagging Critics
2018-07-23 The World Has Moved on and Beyond Software Patents, But Buzzwords and Hype Provide Workarounds
2018-07-23 Half a Year Later the Patent Microcosm is Still 'Pulling a Berkheimer' in Vain
2018-07-24 China Belatedly Tackles Patent Trolls, Albeit After Giving Them the Green Light With Broad and Low-Quality Patents Such as Software Patents
2018-07-24 Under António Campinos the EPO's Appeal Boards, Including the Enlarged Board of Appeal, Still Lack Independence
2018-07-24 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is More Legitimate Than Ever Before, More So After the 'Sovereign Immunity Scam' Reaches Its Likely Final Stop
2018-07-24 Alexandre Benalla, Macron's Violent Bodyguard, Was Also Battistelli's Bodyguard
2018-07-25 As the Quality of European Patents Sinks António Campinos Must Heed China's Warning, Not Copy SIPO/TIPO
2018-07-26 Dysfunctional State of the EPO and Benoît Battistelli's Shadow
2018-07-26 Patent Microcosm and New USPTO Director Against Patent Quality Assurance
2018-07-27 António Campinos, Four Weeks on the Job, Still in Defiance/Violation of ILO Rulings, Still Engaging in PR and Face-Saving Distraction Instead
2018-07-27 Correspondence With Dražen Petrović Reveals That ILO-AT is Indeed an Employer's Court, Favouring EPO Management Over EPO Staff
2018-07-27 The Patent Trolls' Lobby, IAM, is Concerned That China is Now Treating Patent Trolls as the Criminals They Really Are (Extortion)
2018-07-27 Reader's Post: How the EPO Silently Halves Salaries of Senior EPO Staff (or Gets Rid of Them)
2018-07-28 The EPO Abandoned Patent Quality and António Campinos Has No Intention of Changing That
2018-07-29 Section 101/Alice Patent Ineligibility Would Include Artificial Intelligence and Blockchains
2018-07-29 The Golden Cage of the EPO is No Longer Golden and It Increasingly Looks Like It's Shutting Down, However Gradually
2018-07-30 What EPO Staff is 'Hopeful' After a Month of António Campinos Doing Absolutely Nothing to Reverse Battistelli's Ruinous Policies?
2018-07-31 SUEPO Seems to be Disappointed by António Campinos as His First Month in Office Comes to an End
2018-08-01 Government Decision to Start Corruption Investigation Into Croatia Airlines and Its Director Jasmin Bajic Could Implicate EPO Vice-President
2018-08-01 The EPO's Administrative Council is Not Interested in Saving the EPO, Only 'Producing' as Many (Low-Quality) Patents as Possible
2018-08-01 10 Years of IRC
2018-08-02 The EPO's Systematic Attacks on Justice and on Judges Have Likely Played the Biggest Role in the Death of Unitary Patent (UPC)
2018-08-02 Design Patents: When Appearances Rather Than Inventions and Functions Are Oddly Enough Covered by Patents, Not Copyrights or Trademarks
2018-08-02 The Number of Granted US Patents is Declining and Transparency in Patent Courts is Improving
2018-08-02 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and Federal Circuit (CAFC) Both Smeared (Judge-Bashing Tactics) for Correctly Applying Patent Law as They See Fit
2018-08-05 António Campinos is Not Improving Patent Quality or Even the Social Climate at the EPO (False Promises)
2018-08-05 Law Firms Are Offering Very Misleading and Self-Serving Advice Regarding 'Unitary' Effect for European Patents
2018-08-05 The Patent Trolls' Lobby, IAM, Continues to Promote Patent Troll iPEL, Which is Unethical
2018-08-06 Agenda and Lies From Watchtroll Make It Into the Bill of Rohrabacher, the “Inventor Protection Act”
2018-08-06 Jury Trials and Apple's Latest Bitter Affair With Patents
2018-08-06 Playing With Words and Buzzwords in a Landscape of Software Patents Rejections
2018-08-07 Arista Shows How ITC Injustice (Embargo Before Facts Are Even Known) Harms Smaller Businesses, Helps Monopolists
2018-08-07 Racing to the Bottom, the António Campinos-Led EPO Continues to Promote Software Patents, Just Like China
2018-08-07 Supreme Court and Federal Circuit Precedents Might Make District Courts (Outside Texas) More Sceptical of Patents
2018-08-08 WeMove.EU Tackles Low Patent Quality at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2018-08-08 Patent Maximalists -- Not Reformers -- Are the Biggest Threat to the Viability of the Patent System and Innovation
2018-08-09 Patents as Profiteering Opportunities for Law Firms Rather Than Drivers of Innovation for Productive Companies
2018-08-09 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement is Paralysed, So Team UPC is Twisting Old News
2018-08-09 Months After Oil States the Patent Maximalists Still Try to Undermine Inter Partes Reviews (“IPRs”), Refusing to Accept Patent Quality
2018-08-09 Propaganda Sites of Patent Trolls and Litigators Have Quit Trying to Appear Impartial or Having Integrity
2018-08-11 EPO-Style Problem-Solution: Tackling Backlog by Granting Lots of Low-Quality (Bogus) European Patents, Causing a Surge in Troll/Frivolous Litigation
2018-08-11 Thomas Massie's “Restoring America’s Leadership in Innovation Act of 2018” (RALIA) Would Put the US Patent System in the Lions' (or Trolls') Mouth Again
2018-08-12 Keep Boston (and Massachusetts in General) From Becoming an Infestation Zone for Patent Litigation
2018-08-13 PTAB is Loathed by Patent Maximalists Because It Can Potentially Invalidate Thousands of Software Patents (More Than Courts Can Handle)
2018-08-14 Patent Lawyers Writing Patent Law for Their Own Enrichment Rather Than for Innovation
2018-08-15 President Battistelli 'Killed' the EPO; António Campinos Will 'Finish the Job'
2018-08-15 Antiquated Patenting Trick: Adding Words Like 'Apparatus' to Make Abstract Ideas Look/Sound Like They Pertain to or Contain a 'Device'
2018-08-16 Almost Two Months After the ILO Ruling Staff Representative Brumme is Finally Back on the Job at EPO
2018-08-18 If David Chiles Turned the USPTO Into a 'Microsoft Shop' That Might Explain Three Days (or More) of Outages
2018-08-19 From the Eastern District of Texas (US) to Australia Patent Quality Remains a Problem
2018-08-21 The USPTO Still Down (for Nearly a Week): Multiple Systems Not Accessible
2018-08-21 Admissibility of the Unitary Patent Constitutional Complaint Was Likely the Final Nail in the Coffin of the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
2018-08-21 Software Patent Trolls Are Dropping Like Flies in the United States
2018-08-23 Links 23/8/2018: Mesa 18.2 RC4 Released, Bodhi Linux 5.0.0 Released
2018-08-25 In Koch v EPO, a Rare Glimpse at Tricks the EPO Employs at the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organisation (ILO)
2018-08-25 The Unitary Patent (UPC) is Not Delayed; It's Dead and Without Any Major Rework It Will Go Nowhere
2018-08-26 The USPTO's New Strategic Plan Should be to Keep Services Available and Actually Explain a Week's Downtime
2018-08-26 'Cult of Patents' Has Cheapened Patents and Nowadays Patent Law Firms Are Collapsing
2018-08-26 The Patent 'Industry' Continues to Mislead the Public on Software Patents
2018-08-27 Software Patents Are Not Coming Back, Those Are Mere Buzzwords That Mislead and Overcome Rejections But Cannot Fool Courts
2018-08-27 Stupid European Patent: Hairdressing Salon and Mobile Building for the Same
2018-08-28 Patents on Steroids: ITC is Rushing Embargoes Before the Facts Are Even Known
2018-08-28 Pen One Acquisition Group is a Patent Troll Indirectly Connected to Microsoft and There's No Simple Solution to Such Problems
2018-08-28 Instead of Stopping Software Patent Grants the USPTO Actively 'Advertises' Such Patents, e.g. Patents on Cryptocurrencies
2018-08-30 António Campinos Already Implements a 'Shadow' Layoffs Method at the EPO
2018-08-30 Feeling Shut Out of the European Patent System, Team UPC Persists With Misleading Claims and Falsehoods
2018-09-02 Coming to Grips With the Fact That EPO Layoffs Are Already in Effect
2018-09-02 The Patent Public Advisory Committee (PPAC) Needs to Instruct the Patent Office to Stop Treating Applicants as Customers/Clients
2018-09-03 Eligibility Analysis Based on Section 101 Ought to Invalidate All Software Patents and Repel Further Applications
2018-09-04 ResMed Cannot Compete, So It is Pursuing an Embargo of the Competition Using Patents on Masks
2018-09-04 A Retreat From Patent Quality Means a Retreat of Patent Applicants
2018-09-04 The António Campinos-Led EPO is Over-Relying on Bogus and Abstract Software Patents to Fill the Gaps
2018-09-05 EPO Has “Far Too High Production [sic] Targets” Which “Deteriorates the Quality of Products [sic] Delivered”
2018-09-05 CCIA Speaks Out and EFF Lashes Out at Andrei Iancu's USPTO for Trying to Work Around the Law and Ignore Courts Because of Patent Maximalists' Agenda
2018-09-06 António Campinos: New Caricature by EPO Insiders
2018-09-06 Even Overzealous Patent Maximalists Nowadays Admit That Time is Running Out for the Unitary Patent (UPC)
2018-09-06 The Eastern District of Texas and Patent Courts Elsewhere Are Eating Huawei, But Huawei Also Uses These US Patent Courts to Prey on Its Competitors Outside China
2018-09-06 'Reformist' Campinos Seems to be Accelerating EPO Layoffs by Removing Without Warning Staff That's Perceived as Not Loyal Enough
2018-09-07 Election of New Vice-Presidents at EPO Seems Rigged, Say Insiders and Former Insiders
2018-09-07 IAM Media Engages in Trademark Violations While Trying to Misrepresent Free/Open Source Software in Relation to Software Patents
2018-09-07 CIPA and EPO, Two UPC Boosters, Get Together to Promote Software Patents in Spite of the EPC
2018-09-08 35 U.S.C. €§ 101 Squashes Already-Granted US Patents, Europe Needs Post-Grant Appeals to Accomplish the Same Because EPO Grants Software Patents
2018-09-09 The Battle Over PTAB Determines the Fate of Patent Quality in the United States
2018-09-09 Watchtroll Calls Company That Defends Itself From Patent-Trolling-Like Behaviour a 'Patent Troll'
2018-09-09 Renaming Patents on Algorithms to Make Them Look and Sound Less Abstract Than They Really Are
2018-09-11 Fresh Rumours of Further Accelerated Layoffs at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2018-09-11 Patentability of Software Constantly Pushed by the EPO Under António Campinos With Help From IAM, CIPA, IPO and Other Litigation Front Groups
2018-09-12 The Belated Demise of Propaganda Sites of the Litigation 'Industry'
2018-09-12 Patents on Life at the EPO Are a Symptom of Declining Patent Quality
2018-09-13 EPO Granted a Controversial European Patent (Under Battistelli) Which May Literally Kill a Lot of People
2018-09-13 Now We Have Patents on Rooms. Yes, Rooms!
2018-09-14 EPO Seals Many Death Sentences With Acceptance of EP 2604620
2018-09-14 Max Planck Institute Pours More Water on the Dying Unitary Patent (UPC)
2018-09-15 The Max Planck Institute's Determination on UPC's (Unitary Patent) Demise is Only “Controversial” in the Eyes of Rabid Members of Team UPC
2018-09-15 António Campinos Needs to Listen to Doctors Without Borders (MSF) et al to Salvage What's Left of Public Consent for the EPO
2018-09-16 Battistelli “Has Deeply Hurt the Whole Patent Profession, Examiners as Well as Agents” and Also the Image of France
2018-09-16 Advancements in Automobile Technology Won't be Possible With Patent Maximalism
2018-09-16 Slamming Courts and Judges Won't Help the Patent Maximalists; It Can Only Make Things Worse
2018-09-16 Watchtroll and Other Proponents of Patent Trolls Are Trying to Change the Law Outside the Courts in Order to Bypass Patent Justice
2018-09-17 IAM, Watchtroll and the EPO Still Spread the Mentality of Patent Maximalism
2018-09-17 Qualcomm's Patent Aggression Threatens Rationality of Patent Scope in Europe and Elsewhere
2018-09-17 “Blockchain” Hype and “FinTech”-Like Buzzwords Usher in Software Patents Everywhere, Even Where Such Patents Are Obviously Bunk
2018-09-18 Qualcomm's Escalating Patent Wars Have Already Caused Massive Buybacks (Loss of Reserves) and Loss of Massive Clients
2018-09-18 The EPO Has Quit Pretending That It Cares About Patent Quality, All It Cares About is Quantity of Lawsuits
2018-09-18 Today's European Patent Office (EPO) Works for Large, Foreign Pharmaceutical Companies in Pursuit of Patents on Nature, Life, and Essential/Basic Drugs
2018-09-20 It Wasn't Judges With Weapons in Their Office, It Was Benoît Battistelli Who Brought Firearms to the European Patent Office (EPO)
2018-09-20 Criticism of Unitary Patent (UPC) Agreement Doomed the UPC and Patent Trolls' Plan -- Along With the Litigation Lobby -- for Unified 'Extortion Vector'
2018-09-22 Philippe Cadre From the French National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) Wants to Join António Campinos
2018-09-22 EPO is Like a Patent Litigation (Without Actual Trial) Office, Not a Patent Examination Office
2018-09-22 Bogus Patents Which Oughtn't Have Been Granted Make Products Deliberately Worse, Reducing Innovation and Worsening Customers' Experience
2018-09-23 Advocacy of the Unitary Patent System Has Become Almost Identical to the 'Leave' (Brexit) Campaign
2018-09-23 Interlude: The Need to Counter Misinformation From the Patent and Litigation 'Industry'
2018-09-23 Patent Law Firms Have Become More Like Marketing Departments With an Aptitude for Buzzwords
2018-09-23 Benoît Battistelli Refuses to Talk to the Media About Bringing Firearms to the EPO
2018-09-23 Patents Stranger Than Fiction and 'Protection' From Fictional Things
2018-09-24 'Owning' Nature, Thanks to Patent Insanity and People Who Profit From That
2018-09-24 Guest Post on Ronan Le Gleut and Benalla at the French Senate (in Light of Battistelli's Epic Abuses)
2018-09-24 Reader's Article: Affaire Benalla Strongly Connected to EPO/OEB/EPA and Former President Benoît Battistelli
2018-09-25 The Man Whose Actions Could Potentially Land Team Battistelli in Jail
2018-09-25 António Campinos Goes to UPC-Hostile Country, UPC Continues to Languish and Team UPC Carries on Pushing for Software Patents in Europe (Courts Also)
2018-09-25 Technology Groups and Innovators Bemoan Attempts to Override the Courts to Promote Patent Maximalists' Agenda by USPTO Director Andrei Iancu
2018-09-26 Director Iancu and President Campinos Both Serve the Litigation 'Industry' Instead of Science and Technology
2018-09-26 Lots of UPC Noise/News This Week Over a Document Which Merely Weakens Commitment to the UPC
2018-09-26 French Media Confirms Alexandre Benalla Just One of Six Battistelli Bodyguards, Employed at the Cost of €8,000-€10,000 Per Month (for Benalla Alone!)
2018-09-26 EPO Central Staff Committee: 30 Percent of Staff Are in Principle Targetable as ‘Challenging People’
2018-09-28 In the EPO Under António Campinos and His Predecessor Battistelli Patents Can Almost be Presumed “Invalid” (in Courts)
2018-09-28 How Team UPC is Reacting to the Demise of EPO- and EU-Connected Court That Would Have Put Patent Maximalists in Charge
2018-09-29 Superficially Artificial or Artificially Superficial Patents on 'AI' Are Fake Patents
2018-09-29 Team UPC Wants More (Patent) Taxes on Society While Defending/Shielding the Super-rich From Taxes That Might Otherwise Benefit Society
2018-09-30 Watching Judges Who Get Too Close to the Litigation 'Industry' That Promotes Propaganda Terms Like 'Intellectual Property', 'FRAND' or 'Life Sciences'
2018-09-30 AIPPI is Led by Team UPC's People and 'AIPPI Congress Report' Published by Team UPC
2018-09-30 Learning How to Patent Software by Saying 'Machine Learning', Even Though Courts Dismiss These Patents
2018-09-30 Corporate Media Exploits Blockchain Hype to Promote Software Patents Painted as 'Blockchains'
2018-10-01 The USPTO is Hopeless, Unlike Patent Courts That Have Become the Target of Ridicule by the Patent 'Industry'
2018-10-01 EPO Under António Campinos an Unprecedented Booster of Software Patents
2018-10-01 The European Council Fulfills Corrupt Battistelli's Alleged Promise, Making Christian Archambeau Head of EUIPO
2018-10-02 Nellie Simon Expected to Join the 'Club Med' of Battistelli and Campinos
2018-10-03 More Patents Would Mean More Tax Evasion for Large Corporations and More Taxes/Duties on Society
2018-10-04 Microsoft's Patent Trolls Are Alive and Well, Seeding Destruction Among Microsoft's Competition
2018-10-04 Submissive, Bribed and EPO-Connected Media Organisations Help Perpetuate Corruption by Failing or Refusing to Cover It
2018-10-04 Europe is Getting Flooded With Software Patents, Repeating the Mistakes Made by the United States
2018-10-05 Patents on Life and on Algorithms in Europe Will Doom the EPO
2018-10-06 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Obsolete for More Reasons Than the German Constitutional Court, But Team UPC in the UK Refuses to Give Up
2018-10-06 The European Patent Office Has Assaulted Patent Quality While Trying to Distract From That
2018-10-07 Google 'Prior Art Archive' (for Patents) the Wrong Solution to the Wrong Problem
2018-10-07 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) is Not Getting Money From Apple and VirnetX Might Not Get Any, Either
2018-10-08 The Era of Fake Patents (or Software Patents) is Upon Us
2018-10-08 When It Comes to Patent Quality António Campinos Might be Even Worse Than Benoît Battistelli
2018-10-09 Antibody Patents Should Not be Allowed (Nor Should CRISPR Patents)
2018-10-09 António Campinos Makes Excuses for Granting European Patents on Software in Spite of the EPC
2018-10-09 Greg Reilly Inadvertently Makes a Case for Replacing/Improving the Patent System With a Wiki, Editable by All as Society Moves Forward
2018-10-10 Open Invention Network is a Proponent of Software Patents -- Just Like Microsoft -- and Microsoft Keeps Patents It Uses to Blackmail Linux Vendors
2018-10-11 New EPO Guidelines: Granting European Patents on Business Methods, Algorithms, Mental Acts and Other Abstract Stuff
2018-10-11 UPC Cowardice: Team UPC Uses Cloaks of Anonymity to Discredit Authors of Scholarly UPC Paper They Don't Like
2018-10-11 Friend Brings a Friend, Boss Becomes Subordinate: the EPO Under António Campinos is Starting to Look a Lot Like Team Battistelli 2.0
2018-10-13 100 Days Into the Term of Campinos There is Already an EPO Suicide
2018-10-13 Quality of Patents Granted by the EPO is Still Low and Nobody Will Benefit Except Lawyers, Jubilant Over Growing Lenience on Software Patents
2018-10-13 EPO Insider/Märpel Says President Campinos Already Acts Like Battistelli
2018-10-14 USPTO FEES Act/SUCCESS Act Gives More Powers to Director Iancu, Supplying Patents for Litigation 'Business' and Embargo (ITC)
2018-10-15 Corporate Media's Failure to Cover Patents Properly and Our New Hosting Woes
2018-10-16 'Cloud', 'AI' and Other Buzzwords as Excuses for Granting Fake Patents on Software
2018-10-16 Judge-Bashing Tactics, Undermining PTAB, and Iancu's Warpath for the Litigation and Insurance 'Industries'
2018-10-18 The EPO Under António Campinos Relaxes the Rules on Software Patenting and the Litigation 'Industry' Loves That
2018-10-18 IAM and IP Kat Are Still Megaphones of Battistelli and His Agenda
2018-10-18 It's Almost 2019 and Team UPC is Still Pretending Unitary Patent (UPC) Exists, Merely Waiting for Britain to Join
2018-10-19 Ingve Björn Stjerna Has Just Warned That If Team UPC and the European Patent Office Rigged the Proceedings of the German Constitutional Court, Consequences Would be Significant
2018-10-20 The Identity Crisis of the European Patent Office, Wrongly Believing It Exists to Serve Lawyers and Patent Trolls Outside Europe
2018-10-21 MIT and the Prior Art Archive Perpetuate Existing Problems
2018-10-21 More 'Blockchain' Nonsense in Pursuit of Bogus, Nonsensical Software Patents
2018-10-21 Lockpath Patents Demonstrate That the US Patent Office -- Unlike US Courts -- Keeps Ignoring 35 U.S.C. €§ 101/Alice
2018-10-21 Lack of Patent Quality Means Lack of Patent Validity and Lack of Legal Certainty
2018-10-23 German Court on UPC Constitutional Complaint: “No Oral Hearing is Currently Scheduled. A Decision Date is Not Foreseeable at Present.”
2018-10-23 The EPO Under António Campinos Has Opened More Doors to Software Patents and Only Litigators Are Happy
2018-10-24 Pretty Revealing That EPO Management Promotes Software Patents and IP Kat Promotes Patent Trolls
2018-10-24 Colleen Chien's New Paper Analyses the Basis for Invalidating Software Patents
2018-10-25 EPO: Software Patents Are Allowed, Just Say 'AI' in the Patent Applications and We'll Compel Examiners to Grant
2018-10-25 Battistelli and Team UPC Still Waiting for a Campinos Miracle
2018-10-25 António Campinos Just a Quieter Version of Battistelli
2018-10-26 The EPO is Trying to Make Software Patents Look and Feel 'Healthy'
2018-10-26 On PTAB, Andrei Iancu is to the Patent Litigation Giants What Ajit Pai is to Big Telecom (Former Employers)
2018-10-28 Lobbying and Blackmail Rewarded? JUVE Awards Team UPC Firm Bardehle Pagenberg, Which Represents Microsoft's Worst Patent Troll, Intellectual Ventures.
2018-10-28 EPO President António Campinos Speaks of “Greater Transparency,” But He's Even More Secretive Than Battistelli and He Lets Patent Quality Slip Further
2018-10-28 The EPO Lost Any Sense of Shame About Granting Patents on Software, Which It Openly Welcomes and Even Encourages
2018-10-28 The Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia Wants Litigation, Hence It Wants Software Patents
2018-10-28 The ITC Makes Embargo Using Almost-Expired Patents a Business Strategy of Intimidation and Harassment
2018-10-29 PTAB- And Court-Bashing USPTO Director Consistent With 'Presidential' Behaviour in Age of Donald Trump
2018-10-30 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Judges Oughtn't Attend Patent Lawyers' Echo Chamber Events Like the AIPLA Annual Meeting
2018-10-30 Donald Trump's Choice of Leadership for the USPTO Means That Invalid Patents Continue to be Granted Only for Law Firms to Profit
2018-10-30 Nobody Should be Immune From Patent Law or the Rule of Law in General
2018-10-30 EPO Insider: Under António Campinos “the Union Busting Done by the Administration Continues Even Worse Than Before”
2018-10-30 Team UPC Hijacks the Debate in the Media and in British Parliament
2018-11-01 Today the EPO Has Officially Lowered Patent Quality by Allowing Software Patents by Means of Dog Whistles
2018-11-01 António Campinos Continues to Conflate Speed With Quality
2018-11-04 Arrivalstar (Now Shipping & Transit LLC) is Effectively Dead
2018-11-04 Team UPC's Last Resort: Stacked Panels, Anonymously Belittling the Opposition (e.g. Ingve Björn Stjerna) and Taking Control of the Media
2018-11-04 EPO Granting European Patents on Nature and on Thoughts
2018-11-04 Law Firms Won't Improve Patent Quality Because Quality in Patenting Limits Their Ability to Sue (Profit Irrespective of the Outcome)
2018-11-05 Blockchain Hype Exploited by the EPO and by Patent Law Firms to Wrongly Assert Free/Libre Software Can Coexist With Software Patents
2018-11-05 The USPTO Under Director Andrei Iancu Actively Disses the Courts and Attacks Fundamental Patent Law
2018-11-06 Managing IP and Law Gazette Speak for Patent Trolls and Team UPC (Which Supports and Profits From Trolls)
2018-11-06 The European Patent Office Lost Its Way, Found Buzzwords Instead
2018-11-06 Low Patent Quality and Patent Maximalism in General Are Bankrupting Real Businesses for the Sake/Gain of Litigation Firms and Trolls (Their Clients)
2018-11-07 Guy Ryder (ILO) Should Meet Staff Representatives, Not Corrupt Team Battistelli
2018-11-07 European Software Patents: From AI to Blockchains and Now... Self-Driving Vehicles
2018-11-07 US Litigation Office: Former Judge From the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Leaves the Office as Another Litigator Enters as New Deputy Director
2018-11-08 The António Campinos Private/Secret Meeting With ILO Officials a Slap Across the Face to Employees of the European Patent Office
2018-11-08 The Death of the UPC is Only a “Tragedy” for Patent Trolls and Their Facilitators
2018-11-08 EPO Needs to Publicly Apologise for Granting Bogus/Fake Patents to Aggressive Companies Like Monsanto (Now Bayer)
2018-11-08 EPO Stacking up Buzzwords (4IR, AI, Now SDV) to Compel Examiners to Grant Patents on Algorithms
2018-11-08 Microsoft is Supporting Patent Trolls, Still. New Leadership at USPTO Gives Room for Concern.
2018-11-10 The Huge Cost of Wrongly-Granted European Patents, Recklessly Granted by the European Patent Office (EPO)
2018-11-10 Latest Loophole: To Get Software Patents From the EPO One Can Just Claim That They're 'on a Car'
2018-11-11 Pro-Litigation Front Groups Like CIPA and Team UPC Control the EPO, Which Shamelessly Grants Software Patents
2018-11-11 EPO 'Outsourcing' Rumours
2018-11-11 Andrei Iancu and Laura Peter Are Two Proponents of Patent Trolls at the Top of the USPTO
2018-11-11 Guest Post: EPO Spins Censorship of Staff Representation
2018-11-11 The Federal Circuit and PTAB Are Not Slowing Down; Patent Maximalists Claim It's 'Harassment' to Question a Patent's Validity
2018-11-11 Automation of Searches Will Not Solve the Legitimacy Problem Caused by Patents Lust
2018-11-12 The Federal Circuit Bar Association (FCBA) Will Spread the Berkheimer Lie While Legal Certainty Associated With Patents Remains Low and Few Lawsuits Filed
2018-11-13 Team UPC, Fronting for Patent Trolls From the US, is Calling Facts “Resistance”
2018-11-13 The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is Working for Patent Trolls and Patent Maximalists
2018-11-13 Yannis Skulikaris Promotes Software Patents at EPOPIC, Defending the Questionable Practice Under António Campinos
2018-11-13 The USPTO and EPO Pretend to Care About Patent Quality by Mingling With the Terms “Patent” and “Quality”
2018-11-14 WIPO Corruption and Coverup Mirror EPO Tactics
2018-11-14 Allegations That António Campinos 'Bought' His Presidency and is Still Paying for it
2018-11-14 Second Day of EPOPIC: Yet More Promotion of Software Patents in Europe in Defiance of Courts, EPC, Parliament and Common Sense
2018-11-14 USF Revisits EPO Abuses, Highlighting an Urgent Need for Action
2018-11-14 Science Minister Sam Gyimah and the EPO Are Eager to Attack Science by Bringing Patent Trolls to Europe/European Union and the United Kingdom
2018-11-15 A Question of Debt: António Campinos, Lexology, Law Gazette, and Sam Gyimah
2018-11-15 Ignoring and Bashing Courts: Is This the Future of Patent Offices in the West?
2018-11-17 Team UPC Has Been Reduced to Lies, Lies, and More Lies about the Unified Patent Court Agreement
2018-11-17 Patent Maximalists in Europe Keep Mentioning China Even Though It Barely Matters to European Patents
2018-11-17 The European Patent Office Comes up With a Plethora of New Buzzwords by Which to Refer to Software Patents
2018-11-18 Patent Maximalists Are Still Upset at the US Supreme Court (Over Alice) and the US Patent Office Carries on As Usual
2018-11-18 The European Patent Office is Attracting Patent Trolls
2018-11-19 The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Must Be Based on Justice, Not Profits
2018-11-19 All the Usual Suspects Are Still Working Hard to Harm the Legitimacy if Not Existence of Patent Quality Control
2018-11-20 Germany Likes EPO in Munich, Litigation Factory in Düsseldorf and Mannheim (Like Eastern District of Texas)
2018-11-20 Appalling Patent Quality at the European Patent Office, More Lies About the Unified Patent Court (UPC), and Assault on Those Who Warned About It All Along
2018-11-21 Patent Trolls in EPO Events That Promote Software Patents
2018-11-21 Links 21/11/2018: Red Hat 'Down Under' and Microsoft Downtime
2018-11-22 To Mask the Decline in Patent Quality, e.g. Granting of Software Patents a.k.a. Computer-Implemented Inventions (CII), EPO Makes Oppositions Harder
2018-11-23 Thanksgiving EPO Roundup: UPC Lies, Software Patents Considered Harmful and SUEPO Condemns Union-Busting Activities (Which Carry on Under António Campinos)
2018-11-24 Team UPC Refuses to Stop Lying, Pays Money to Spread Its Unified Patent Court (UPC) Lies in the Media
2018-11-24 António Campinos Has Run Out of Time, EPO Staff Representation Now Views Him as Just Another Battistelli and Wants Immediate Change
2018-11-24 EPO's Head of Human Resources Elodie Bergot “Condemned for Harassment in France When She Worked for the Caisse Assurance Retraites”
2018-11-24 EPO Nowadays Closely Associates With Site That Attacks, Insults and Calls for Resignations of Judges (Those Who Scrutinise Patents)
2018-11-25 Links 25/11/2018: DXVK 0.93 and Frogr 1.5 Released
2018-11-25 Patents Are Not Property
2018-11-25 The Demise of Software Patents in Patent Courts Worldwide Would Mean Much-Needed Staff Cuts in Litigation Giants
2018-11-26 No, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Has Not Changed Its Position on Software Patents, Which Are Bunk
2018-11-27 127th Session of ILO Tribunal Rulings Will Deal With European Patent Organisation Complaints (Appeals) Tomorrow Afternoon, Staff Grows Tired of Office President António Campinos
2018-11-28 Clouding Abstract Software Patents Using Acronyms and Buzzwords
2018-11-29 Union Syndicale Fédérale Tells António Campinos to End 'Political' Cases Against EPO Staff Representatives
2018-11-29 Even Sites That Served UPC Propaganda for Years (for These Sites' Owners) Have Come to Admit That the UPC Might Already be Dead
2018-11-29 António Campinos is Working for Patent Trolls at the Expense of Science and Technology
2018-11-30 Links 30/11/2018: Mesa 18.3 RC5, Blender 2.8 Beta, Wine 3.0.4 Released
2018-12-01 Patent Offices Reward Microsoft for Corruption
2018-12-01 Science Minister Sam Gyimah, Who Tactlessly Ratified UPC in the UK, Has Just Resigned
2018-12-01 “ILO Gave the EPO Medical Committee a Good Slapping”
2018-12-01 EPO Management High-Fiving Patent Propaganda Sites Like 'Managing IP' While Granting Illegitimate Patents on Algorithms
2018-12-02 Be Wary of the Latest Lies About the Unified Patent Court (UPC), Courtesy of CIPA and Marks & Clerk (Team UPC)
2018-12-02 Patent Trolls, USPTO Director Andrei Iancu and Section 101
2018-12-04 The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) and IBM Are Part of the Software Patents Problem in the United States
2018-12-04 EPO Management Keeps Embarrassing Itself, UPC More Dead Than Before, and Nokia Turns Aggressive
2018-12-05 The Patent Litigation Bubble is Imploding in the US While the UPC Dies in Europe
2018-12-05 EPO, in Its Patent Trolls-Infested Forum, Admits It is Granting Bogus Software Patents Under the Guise of 'Blockchain'
2018-12-06 Many of the Same People Are Still in Charge of the European Patent Office Even Though They Broke the Law
2018-12-06 The European Patent Office Remains a Lawless Place Where Judges Are Afraid of the Banker in Chief
2018-12-07 The European Patent Organisation is Like a Private Club and Roland Grossenbacher is Back in It
2018-12-09 EPO 'Untapped Potential'
2018-12-09 Patents on Life and Patents That Kill the Poor Would Only Delegitimise the European Patent Office
2018-12-09 Team UPC is Still Spreading False Rumours in an Effort to Trick Politicians and Pressure Judges
2018-12-09 The Quality of European Patents Continues to Deteriorate Under António Campinos and Software Patents Are Advocated Every Day
2018-12-10 EPO Vice-President Željko Topić in New Article About Corruption in Croatia
2018-12-10 Florian Müller's Article About SEPs and the EPO
2018-12-10 Today's USPTO Grants a Lot of Fake Patents, Software Patents That Courts Would Invalidate
2018-12-10 US Courts Make the United States' Patent System Sane Again
2018-12-11 Patents on Abstract Things and on Life (or Patents Which Threaten Lives) Merely Threaten the Very Legitimacy of Patent Offices, Including EPO
2018-12-11 The EPO Not Only Abandoned the EPC But Also the Biotech Directive
2018-12-11 With 'Brexit' in a Lot of Headlines Team UPC Takes the Unitary Patent Lies up a Notch
2018-12-12 EPO Trust, Leadership and Commitment
2018-12-13 António Campinos Turns His 'Boss' Into His Lapdog, Just Like Battistelli and Kongstad
2018-12-13 The European Patent Troll Wants as Much Litigation as Possible
2018-12-15 The European Patent Organisation (EPO) Loses Legitimacy If (or When) Christoph Ernst Becomes Subservient to António Campinos
2018-12-15 EPO Chief Economist Yann Ménière Keynote Speaker at Patent Trolls-Funded Event Set Up by the Patent Trolls' Lobby
2018-12-16 Patent Law Firms' War on Facts and Constant Lying About Unitary Patent
2018-12-16 Immunity of the European Patent Office Has Helped Shield Dangerous Thugs From Justice
2018-12-20 UPC Would Mean Patent Scope Gone Out of Control and Beyond/Above the Law
2018-12-20 EPO: Adherence to the Law at the Office Postponed Indefinitely, 'Reform' Going Ahead (Divergence From the Law)
2018-12-21 Team UPC Belatedly Admits Lying About the German UPC Complaint (Fabricated 'Rumours')
2018-12-21 Today's EPO Envisions a Europe of Patent Trolls, Not of Science and Technology
2018-12-22 UPC Died in 2016 or 2017; But the EPO Continues to Issue Fake Software Patents That European Courts Reject
2018-12-24 The Quality of European Patents Likely Declined Even Further in 2018
2018-12-28 The Demise of the UPC 'Legislative Coup' Continued in 2018
2018-12-30 Even Joff Wild and the Patent Trolls' Lobby Finally Admit Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead
2018-12-30 2019 in Techrights: New Datacentre, New Focus
2019-01-02 The Real Harm of Really Bad European Patent Grants
2019-01-04 The EPO is So Backwards That the Boss Has Just Become Subservient to the Subject of Oversight
2019-01-04 Unified Patents Targets Patents of Patent Trolls, Including Some That Are Connected to Microsoft
2019-01-06 The German Constitutional Court's Decision on Unitary Patent (UPC) is Very, Very Far
2019-01-06 Microsoft Lost the Server Wars to GNU/Linux, But That Doesn't Mean Microsoft is Now Benign/Ignorable
2019-01-06 EPO Leaks
2019-01-07 One Week After Site Migration
2019-01-07 Words to Avoid: Cloud, Serverless, Microservices and More
2019-01-08 EPO Corruption is Helping Patent Maximalists in the United States
2019-01-09 European Patent Office Saga in 2019: “95% of the People Responsible for the Misery Are Still in Place and Have Not Even Been Rebuked”
2019-01-10 EPO President “Campinos is Wasting His Credibility With “Sweet” Communiqués Full of Hot Air and Storytelling”
2019-01-11 The Fiction That Spain (or Italy) Can Salvage the UPC
2019-01-11 The EPO's Low Patent Quality Can Kill the European Software Industry and Kill People Too
2019-01-12 Linspire 'Reborn' is Still Working for Microsoft and Facilitating Surveillance on GNU/Linux Users
2019-01-12 IP Kat Has Turned From EPO Critic (to the Point of Being Blocked by the EPO) to EPO Whitewasher That Gags EPO Whistleblowers
2019-01-12 No, Software Patents Are Not Poised to Make a Comeback Under New US Patent Office Rules
2019-01-13 European Patent Office a Textbook Example of Lawless, Rogue Institutions
2019-01-14 Only the Higher Courts -- Not Trump's 'Poster Child' -- Can Bring Back Software Patents
2019-01-15 Council of Europe (CoE) Recognises There's No Justice at the EPO
2019-01-15 Team UPC on Dead UPC: Choosing Gowns for Corpses
2019-01-15 IBM, Which Will Soon be Buying Red Hat, is Promoting Software Patents in Europe
2019-01-16 Brexit Has Failed, But So Has the Unitary Patent (UPC)
2019-01-17 US Patent Lawyers Will Need to Change Profession or End up Becoming Abundantly Redundant, Unemployed
2019-01-19 The UPC is Dead. But Bristows is Now Fully Engaged in Necrophilia.
2019-01-20 EPO Defying Patent Restrictions/Limits From the European Parliament, the European Commission and the European Countries It Claims to Represent
2019-01-20 The Indian Ministry of Commerce Tries to Bend Patent Law in Favour of Foreign Monopolies
2019-01-20 JUVE Creates English Site, Promotes Unified Patent Court (UPC)
2019-01-21 A Fortnight After His Diplomatic Immunity Ends Outgoing EPO Vice-President Željko Topić is in Court in Zagreb, Croatia
2019-01-22 Software Patents Are a Dying Breed, So Marks & Clerk and Other Legal Monoliths Promote the EPO's Buzzwords (Loopholes)
2019-01-22 The Whitewashing of the EPO Under António Campinos
2019-01-25 Team UPC Has Been Reduced to a Self-Satirising Drama Show
2019-01-25 Declining Patent Quality and Lies About Software Patents at the EPO
2019-01-26 Links 26/1/2019: Wine-Staging 4.0, MythTV 30.0 Released; Debian GNU/Linux 9.7 “Stretch”
2019-01-26 European Patent Quality as Awful Under António Campinos as (If Not Worse Than) Benoît Battistelli and Battistelli Makes a Public Comeback
2019-01-27 British Courts Once Again Reject Bogus European Patents Granted on Software
2019-01-27 Always Remember That Red Hat Also Considered Microsoft as a Buyer
2019-01-27 January Closes as Another Month (Among Many Months) of No Turnarounds on Software Patents
2019-01-28 The USPTO Used to Pose a Threat to European Software Developers. Now It's the EPO Posing a Threat to Software Developers Worldwide.
2019-01-28 Another Call for EPO Leaks
2019-01-29 Compensation for Damages and Discrimination: The Case (One Among Several) Against EPO Vice-President Topić
2019-01-29 The Management of the EPO Will Not Manage to Recruit Any Talent If It's Killing Its Own Staff
2019-01-29 The EPO Continues to Grant Software Patents Even Though Many European Patents Are Being Invalidated Already
2019-01-30 People Are Dying Because of Low Quality of (Wrongly-Granted) European Patents
2019-01-31 President Campinos Maintains Battistelli's Abusive Sanctions, EPO Staff Increasingly Losing Faith and Hope in Him
2019-01-31 Fake Software Patents, Patent Trolls and Assault on Generic Medicine in Europe
2019-02-01 Links 1/2/2019: Mesa 18.3.3, KTechLab 0.40.1, OPNsense 19.1, Glibc 2.29 Released; GNOME Shell Speed Boost
2019-02-01 Stupid Acquisition of the Month (or Year): Red Hat Selling Itself to the World's Biggest Lobbying Power for Software Patents
2019-02-01 The Reputation of the EPO is Ruined But Now It Ruins the Lives of Staff and Europeans
2019-02-02 The European Patent Office's Promotion of Software Patents Overlooks Ongoing 'Spillage' of the Patent Crisis to Patent Courts (Rejecting Such Patents)
2019-02-02 Concerns About Stephan Harbarth's Unitary Patent (UPC) Vested Interests and His Entrance Into the Constitutional Court That Decides on UPC
2019-02-02 The Berkheimer Case Will Turn One Very Soon and Nothing Has Changed, Just as We've Argued and Forecast All Along
2019-02-06 Bogus European Patents Kill Cancer Patients, But EPO Still Has the Audacity to Ride the Wave of World Cancer Day
2019-02-06 EPO Boards of Appeal Still Need Independence
2019-02-06 The Attack on the Independence of the European Judges Has Apparently Expanded to the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht)
2019-02-07 Donald Trump's 'Swamp' Inside the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is Not Obeying Courts, It's Even Disregarding the Law
2019-02-07 UPC Part of the Litigation 'Industry' Lobby and the Efforts to Change (Significantly Lower) Patent Quality Bar/Scope
2019-02-07 Links 7/2/2019: Cockpit 187, Hatari 2.2.0, GNOME 3.31.90, LibreOffice 6.2
2019-02-08 Teff is Not an Invention. Teff is Nature.
2019-02-09 EPO President Campinos Works With Patent Trolls and With Team UPC to Promote Software Patents
2019-02-09 Number of Patent Applications, Not Just Number of Patent Grants, Continues to Slide in the United States
2019-02-10 25,000 Blog Posts and Record Traffic
2019-02-10 António Campinos Will Never Hold Battistelli Accountable for His Crimes Because He Too Profits From These
2019-02-10 Corrupt Battistelli Paid a Fortune (EPO Budget) for Outlaw/Rogue 'Bodyguards' From Firm Linked to Russian Oligarch Iskander Makhmudov
2019-02-11 The American Software Patents Lobby Has Died
2019-02-12 European Patent Office's Exploitation of the 'AI' Catchphrase/Buzzword to Grant Patents on Algorithms in Defiance of the Rules, the Law, and Common Sense
2019-02-12 Gross Violations of the EPC at the European Patent Office as Principal Priority Turns Against Science and Technology
2019-02-12 USPTO Director Iancu Works for Anti-SCOTUS (Against Section 101) Lobbyists
2019-02-12 Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part I: Destruction of Evidence by Alexandre Benalla
2019-02-12 Innovating the Idea That Software Patents (Monopolies on Algorithms) Are Covering 'Artificial' 'Intelligence' (AI and ML as Loopholes)
2019-02-13 Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part II: Fishing Expedition for Sources in the Alexandre Benalla 'Underworld' Scandal
2019-02-13 Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part III: Mars, France Close Protection (Benalla's Family), and Russian Oligarchy
2019-02-14 Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part IV: Suspected Offenses of Forgery and Possible Falsification
2019-02-14 Links 13/2/2019: Tails 3.12.1, MongoDB Being Dumped
2019-02-14 Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part V: Mediapart Explains the 'Raid' Attempt, Reporters Without Borders Involved
2019-02-14 Unitary Patent (UPC) is All About Imposing Patent Maximalists' Ideology of Greed and Self Interest on Courts in the Name of 'Unification' or 'Consistency' or 'Community'
2019-02-14 “EPO Lawlessness Again”
2019-02-14 Outline/Index of the Alexandre Benalla/Battistelli Scandal
2019-02-16 Nobody But Patent Trolls and Litigators Will Benefit From the Corruption of the European Patent Office
2019-02-16 EPO Grants Fake European Patents -- Including Software Patents -- and European Courts Keep Rejecting These
2019-02-17 Courts in Disagreement: Warning on Wrongly-Granted European Patents and the Looming Collapse of All Software Patents in Europe
2019-02-17 Techrights' Priorities Over the Years
2019-02-17 How Many/Most EPO Examiners View 'President' António Campinos
2019-02-17 Amazon's Patent Policy Should be Enough of a Reason to Boycott Amazon and AWS
2019-02-18 António Campinos Still Needs to Hold Team Battistelli Accountable for Illegally Bringing Weapons to the EPO
2019-02-19 António Campinos Still Needs to Undo Battistelli's Union-Busting Activities at the EPO
2019-02-19 Search Matters Not at the European Patent Office
2019-02-19 Stephen Rowan's and Nellie Simon's Letter to EPO Staff: eDossier Has “Not Reached the Required Quality Levels.”
2019-02-19 What Happened in the United States Now Happens in Europe: Lots of Patents Turn Out to Be Bunk, Fake, Bogus, Invalid and Thus Worthless
2019-02-20 Battistelli Trashed 223 Millions (of Stakeholders' Euros) on a System That Destroyed the European Patent Office and Made Few Private Corporations a Lot Richer
2019-02-20 How Long Can the EPO Bend the Rules Before the Avalanche of Invalid Software Patents?
2019-02-22 Battistelli's Bodyguard Has Been Arrested, But Battistelli Should Join Him
2019-02-22 Team UPC Excited Over Nothing, President Campinos Rarely Even Mentions UPC Anymore
2019-02-22 Software Patents Are in a Freefall in Courts Worldwide, But the EPO Keeps Granting and Promoting These
2019-02-22 The European Patent Office Goes Down a Very Slippery Slope by Promoting and Defending Patents on Life/Nature in Defiance of Parliament and the EPC
2019-02-23 EPO Insider Video: Nouvel an Architectural Hazard, Not Just a Fire Hazard
2019-02-23 Hallmark of Corruption: Benalla and Fellow Thugs Paid Roughly the Same Salary as Battistelli (Each!) and There's a New Chinese Contract Worth €7.2 Million
2019-02-23 Video: Alexandre Benalla Speaks About His Relationship With Battistelli
2019-02-23 Bristows is Still Hoping to 'Overthrow' the Courts and Throw Out Ingve Stjerna's Complaint (About the Likes of Bristows)
2019-02-24 Video: Alexandre Benalla on Carrying Weapons in Munich's EPO Premises (Strictly Illegal in Germany)
2019-02-24 Bruno Retailleau on Alexandre Benalla's Perjury
2019-02-25 Video: Alexandre Benalla Explains His Activities Within the European Patent Office
2019-02-25 Alexandre Benalla's Time at the EPO, in His Own Words
2019-02-25 Ben and Ben: Benalla and His Enabler, Beny Battistelli
2019-02-25 There is Still a Patent Quality Crisis at the EPO
2019-02-25 Croatian Media on Fake Diplomas and the EPO Connection
2019-02-25 English Translation: I Have Huge Respect for Battistelli, Said Alexandre Benalla Under Pressure
2019-02-25 English Translation: Alexandre Benalla Cannot Tell the Difference Between EPO and the French Republic (or Battistelli and Macron)
2019-02-25 English Translation: Alexandre Benalla on His Work Experience (or Lack Thereof)
2019-02-25 English Translation: Alexandre Benalla Thinks He Can Carry a Weapon in Germany
2019-02-27 Teff Just One Among Countless Examples of Sheer Disregard for Patent Quality
2019-02-28 The Latest Brexit Developments Add Another Nail (Among Many) to the Unified Patent Court's (UPC) Coffin
2019-02-28 The US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) Will Waste No Time on Section 101. It Will, However, Waste Its Time on Obvious Patent Trolls.
2019-03-01 T 0489/14: Will the European Patent Organisation Put an End to Software Patents at Long Last?
2019-03-01 Lesson From the United States: Overly Permissive Patent Policy (Maximalism) Can Drive Technology Companies Away
2019-03-01 Why Justin Simpson is Wrong About Software Patents
2019-03-02 Decades of 'Stupid' Software Patents, Tactlessly Granted by the USPTO, Have Caused a Flood of Invalidations and Now a 'Section 101 Day'
2019-03-02 The Collapse of Poor-Quality European Patents Continues in European Courts
2019-03-02 Techrights is Still Growing, Not Just in Scale (Number of Articles) But Also in Reach
2019-03-04 EPO Staff Union: 'New' Team Campinos Practice “Reminds Us Strongly of the Battistelli Times.”
2019-03-04 With IBM's Absorption of Red Hat Now Confirmed, at Least by Stockholders, IBM Has Shown No Intent/Plan to Stop Lobbying for Software Patents and Blackmailing With These
2019-03-04 European Patent Office Careers Bad for One's Health, Properly Assessing Patents is 'Professional Incompetence' Now
2019-03-05 The Technical Board of Appeal Will Need True Independence to Squash Software Patents at the EPO (T 0489/14)
2019-03-05 Battistelli's Presidency Was a Write-off Presidency (of Potentially Billions of Euros in Losses)
2019-03-05 Links 5/3/2019: GNU Linux-Libre 5.0, Alpine 3.9.2
2019-03-05 The EPO Technical/Enlarged Board of Appeal Would, Potentially (If It Enjoyed Actual Independence), Serve a 'European Alice' and Eliminate All/Most Software Patents in Europe
2019-03-06 Truly and Completely Out of Control, the Unhinged European Patent Office Calls Applicants “Customers” While Offering Patents on Nature, Life, Maths
2019-03-06 Links 6/3/2019: Sparky 5.7, GNU Unifont 12.0.01, PureOS is Convergent
2019-03-06 Quality Issues at the European Patent Office Can Lead It Down the Same Downward Path as the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
2019-03-06 Power and Corruption: How European Patent Office Nepotism and Despotism Open Doors
2019-03-06 Fraud at the European Patent Office, But All Those Arrested Are Perpetrators Without Misused Immunity
2019-03-08 3,000 Posts About the European Patent Office and Why We'll Maintain Our Focus on It
2019-03-08 Patent Law Firms Are Truly (and Visibly) Panicking Over the Demise of Software Patents
2019-03-08 The Tide Has Turned Against Patents on Life in Europe
2019-03-08 Immunity Stripped by the Supreme Court of the United States, Opening the Possibility of Ending Immunity of the EPO As Well
2019-03-08 António Campinos Will Not Tackle Any of the Lingering Issues at the European Patent Office
2019-03-09 European Patent Office Press Releases (Two in Two Days) Are Disguised as 'News' and Tell the Opposite of the Truth
2019-03-09 From Patents on Chewing Gum to Toothpaste Patents: How the EPO Came to Focus on Speed and Volume, Not Quality
2019-03-11 Europe Will Pay a High Price for Software Patents Advocacy by António Campinos in Europe's Patent-Granting Authority
2019-03-11 EPO Examiner: “I Have Been Against Software Patents and Eventually 3/4 of My Job is Examining Software Patent Applications.”
2019-03-11 US Patent Law Currently Not Changing Much and Software Patents Are Still in Limbo
2019-03-11 Links 11/3/2019: Linux 5.0.1, Audacity 2.3.1, GNU Coreutils 8.31
2019-03-12 EPO's Latest 'Results' Show That António Campinos Has Already Given Up on Patent Quality and is Just Another Battistelli
2019-03-12 Links 12/3/2019: Sway 1.0 Released, Debian Feuds Carry On
2019-03-13 In the Age of Trumpism EFF Needs to Repeatedly Remind Director Iancu That He is Not a Judge and He Cannot Ignore the Courts
2019-03-14 Good News Everyone! UPC Ready to Go... in 2015!
2019-03-14 EPO 'Results' Are, As Usual, Not Measured Correctly
2019-03-14 CommunityBridge is a Cynical Microsoft-Funded Effort to Show Zemlin Works for 'Community', Not Microsoft
2019-03-14 The EPO and the USPTO Are Granting Fake Patents on Software, Knowing That Courts Would Reject These
2019-03-15 Stopping António Campinos and His Software Patents Agenda (Not Legal in Europe) Would Require Independent Courts
2019-03-17 To Team UPC the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Has Become a Joke and the European Patent Office (EPO) Never Mentions It Anymore
2019-03-18 Director Iancu Generally Viewed as a Lapdog of Patent Trolls
2019-03-19 The EPO Has Sadly Taken a Side and It's the Patent Trolls' Side
2019-03-20 Decisions Made Inside the European Patent Organisation (EPO) Lack Credibility Because Examiners and Judges Lack Independence
2019-03-20 CEN and CENELEC Agreement With the EPO Shows That It's Definitely the European Commission's 'Department'
2019-03-21 António Campinos Makes Up Claims About Patent Quality, Only to be Rebutted by Examiners, Union (Anyone But the 'Puff Pieces' Industry)
2019-03-21 Team UPC (Unitary Patent) is a Headless Chicken
2019-03-22 “Criminal Organisation”
2019-03-22 The European Patent Office Needs to Put Lives Before Profits
2019-03-22 Why the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO) Cannot Ignore Judges, Whereas the EPO Can (and Does)
2019-03-23 Patent Law Firms Still Desperate to Find New Ways to Resurrect Dead Software Patents in the United States
2019-03-23 The Unified Patent Court is Dead, But Doubts Remain Over the EPO's Appeal Boards' Ability to Rule Independently Against Patents on Nature and Code
2019-03-24 Just Published: Irrational Ignorance at the Patent Office
2019-03-26 The Campinos-Battistelli Strategy is Working: Patent Trolls Are Coming to Europe!
2019-03-26 Dimitris Xenos on Unconstitutional Supranational Arrangements for Patent Law: Leaving Out the Elected Legislators and the People’s Participatory Rights
2019-03-26 The Linux Foundation is Not About Linux
2019-03-27 The EPO is Still a Software Patents Propaganda Machine and Thus an Enemy of Software Developers in Europe
2019-03-28 The European Patent Scope is a Lost Cause, Does Not Exist Anymore
2019-03-28 European Patents Found to be Invalid and Deemed Impotent in the Highest British Court (Again)
2019-03-29 Tall Tales From the Land of EPOnia: Indications of High-Level Club Med/EUIPO “Entryism”
2019-03-30 What Happened to the Linux Foundation?
2019-03-30 There's No Administrative Council at the EPO Anymore. It's Like a Stamping 'Department' of the Office and the Same Goes for the Boards of Appeal.
2019-03-30 A March in Brussels Next Month, Disgruntled EPO Staff Invited
2019-03-30 The UK Supreme Court's Latest Decision is Ammunition for the FCC to Scuttle the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA)
2019-04-01 Microsoft Loves Linux
2019-04-01 Patent Trolls Are Not a Solved Problem
2019-04-01 The Parasites With Their Abstract Patents Have Come to the Point of Attacking or Avoiding Actual Courts
2019-04-01 Patent Trolls Destroy the European Economy Because EPO Gives Them Questionable Patents
2019-04-02 Microsoft Linux Entryism: A Roundup
2019-04-02 Artificially-Intelligent Blockchained Internet of Things Industrial Revolutionary CII or Software Patents by Any Other Name
2019-04-02 EPO Judges Lack Independence and the Internal Courts Are Seen to be Lacking Legitimacy (Decisions' Validity) Under António Campinos
2019-04-03 The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) 'Disses' Iancu's Guidance on 35 U.S.C. €§ 101, Sides With the Supreme Court (Alice) and Caselaw
2019-04-03 The EPO Continues Granting Bogus Patents on Mathematics and Nature, But There's Hope Over the Horizon
2019-04-04 The Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) Warns About the Granting of Tens of Thousands of Invalid European Patents Every Year
2019-04-04 EPO Management is Knowingly and Consciously Granting Invalid European Patents, Including Patents on Life and Nature
2019-04-05 The European Patent Office Will Come to Regret the Fake Patents It Has Granted for Short-Term Financial Gains
2019-04-06 Links 6/4/2019: Mesa 18.3.6, Cockpit 191, KDE Applications 19.04 RC, LXD 3.12
2019-04-06 3 Months Later (and Counting) Software Patents Remain Demolished in the United States
2019-04-06 Even Patent Maximalists Are Not Happy With António Campinos Referring Question of Patents on Life to the Enlarged Board of Appeal
2019-04-08 Europe's EPO Has Become France’s INPI
2019-04-08 Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) -- Like MedTech at the EPO -- Just Another Dodge for Illegitimate Software Patents
2019-04-08 Only One in Six EPO Workers Trusts the Management, According to New Survey Skewed by Management
2019-04-09 The EPO's Incredulous Survey: Management's Voice, Management's Future -- EPO Staff 'Engagement' Spin (Denial of Issues)
2019-04-09 The Media is (Still) Failing to Cover EPO Corruption
2019-04-09 Who Does the Legal System Really Serve or Favour in European Patent Disputes?
2019-04-10 António Campinos is Already Paying a Lot of Money to Craft an Alternate Reality at the European Patent Office
2019-04-10 The Myth of Quality of European Patents
2019-04-10 EPO Benefits European Patent Trolls With Dodgy European Patents
2019-04-11 EPO Still Wasting Budget, Paying Media and Academics for Spin
2019-04-12 New Building as Perfect Metaphor for the EPO Under the Frenchmen Battistelli and Campinos
2019-04-12 Global Finance Magazine Spreads Lies About the Unitary Patent and German Constitutional Court
2019-04-12 The EPO is Slipping Out of Control Again and It's Another Battistelli-Like Mess With Disregard for the Rule of Law and Patent Scope
2019-04-12 Caricature: EPO Standing Tall
2019-04-13 Patent Maximalists Are Enabling Injustices and Frauds
2019-04-14 'Poor' (Multi-Millionaire) Novell CEO, Who Colluded With Steve Ballmer Against GNU/Linux, is Trying to Censor Techrights
2019-04-16 A Linux Foundation Run by People Who Reject Linux is Like a Children's Charity Whose Management Dislikes Children
2019-04-16 Corporate Media Will Never Cover the EPO's Violations of the Law With Respect to Patent Scope
2019-04-18 The US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) Once Again Pours Cold Water on Patent Maximalists
2019-04-18 The European Patent Office Does Not Care About the Law, Today's Management Constantly Attempts to Bypass the Law
2019-04-18 “Mention the War” (of Microsoft Against GNU/Linux)
2019-04-20 Largest Patent Offices Try to Leave Courts in a State of Disarray to Enable the Granting of Fake Patents in the US and Europe
2019-04-20 The Linux Foundation Needs to Change Course Before GNU/Linux (as a Free Operating System) is Dead
2019-04-20 The Likes of Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA), Team Campinos and Team UPC Don't Represent Europe But Hurt Europe
2019-04-21 A Reader's Suggestion: Directions for Techrights
2019-04-21 The EPO's Use of Phrases Like “High-Quality Patent Services” Means They Know High-Quality European Patents Are 'Bygones'
2019-04-22 USPTO and EPO Both Slammed for Abandoning Patent Quality and Violating the Law/Caselaw in Order to Grant Illegitimate Patents on Life/Nature and Mathematics
2019-04-23 António Campinos Would Not Refer to the EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeal If He Did Not Control the Outcomes
2019-04-24 German Federal Patent Court Curbs the Patent Maximalism of the EPO, Which Promotes Patents on Nature and/or Maths Every Single Day
2019-04-24 Supreme Court of the UK, Which Habitually Throws Out European Patents, May Overturn Troublesome Unwired Planet v Huawei Decision
2019-04-25 American Patent Courts Keep Narrowing Patent Scope, No Matter What Few Politicians Are Doing on Behalf of Litigation Firms and Patent Trolls
2019-04-25 The Quality of Patents is Connected to the Quality of Life of Patent Examiners
2019-04-27 The 'Technical Effect' of Attacking the Independence of Judges at the Boards of Appeal and Ignoring/Breaking the Law
2019-04-29 Haar is Where EPO Justice Came to Meet Euthanasia
2019-05-01 Union Syndicale Federale (USF) Writes to António Campinos Again Regarding the Appalling Atmosphere at the EPO
2019-05-01 Lack of Justice at the EPO Continues to Usher in Fake Patents on Abstract Things
2019-05-02 EPO in 2019: Pushing (and Bribing) for Buzzwords to Bypass/Cheat the Law Whilst Abolishing the Court System
2019-05-02 Even EPO Patent 'Justice' is Now Measured in Industrial Terms Like 'Production' Rather Than Accuracy
2019-05-03 In the Courts, Where Patents Are Assessed Independently, Geeks Are Winning the Battle Against Parasitic Litigation Firms
2019-05-05 2019: The Year Patent Zealots' Blogs Have Mostly Collapsed
2019-05-05 It's 2019 and Team UPC is Still Composing 'Fake News' (Lobbying Disguised as Reporting)
2019-05-07 Even IAM Admits That When It Comes to Patents It's Quality That Counts, Not Quantity
2019-05-07 The EPO is a Threat to Software Developers Everywhere, Not Just in Europe
2019-05-07 Why Does the EPO Keep Praising People Who Promote Software Patents, Rewarding Them for Patent Thickets That Harm Software Developers?
2019-05-08 Corruption at the EPO is a Threat Not Only to Europe But to Every Continent in the World
2019-05-09 EPO Waste and Mismanagement: Renting Space While Keeping Buildings Empty and Making More of Them
2019-05-09 Corrupt Battistelli is Back for European Inventor Award 2019 -- an Extravagant Ceremony He Has Used to Steal Millions of Euros From the EPO
2019-05-09 Illegal Software Patents and Patent Trolls Well Served by European and American Patent Offices But Not Courts
2019-05-09 Lusting for a Unified Patent Court (UPC) That Respects Invalid European Patents, Including Software Patents
2019-05-09 Stephen Rowan: From UK-IPO to Operation Coverup of Team António Campinos
2019-05-11 Making the Patent System About Productive Actors (Again), Not a Bunch of Law Firms and Trolls
2019-05-11 Team UPC Has Run Out of Arguments, So Now It's Just Writing Anti-Brexit Rants With Testicles in the Headlines
2019-05-11 The Biased EPO Does Not Want to Hear From Anyone Except Those Who Pay the EPO
2019-05-11 Did Battistelli 'Steal' ~100,000,000 Euros From the EPO?
2019-05-12 Professionally Incompetent EPO Management
2019-05-14 Patents That Were Gleefully Granted by the EPO Continue to Perish in Courts
2019-05-14 Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 1: Urgent Shitstorm Alert
2019-05-15 Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 2: Meet the Kötters
2019-05-15 The Race to the Bottom of Patent Quality at the EPO
2019-05-15 False Hope for Patent Maximalists and Litigation Zealots
2019-05-16 EPO Had a Leakage Problem and Privacy of Stakeholders Was Compromised, Affecting at Least 100 Cases
2019-05-16 Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 3: “Ein kritikwürdiges Unternehmen”
2019-05-16 The EPO's Key Function -- Like the UPC's Vision -- Has Virtually Collapsed
2019-05-17 Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 4: Happy Birthday to the Kötter Group?
2019-05-18 Unified Patent Court Won't Happen Just Because the Litigation Microcosm Wants It
2019-05-18 The War on Patent Quality
2019-05-22 EUIPO and EPO Abuses Growingly Inseparable
2019-05-22 Quality of Patents is Going Down the Drain and Courts Have Certainly Noticed
2019-05-24 António Campinos Has Run Out of Time and EPO Staff is Going on Strike (Skipping Mere Protests)
2019-05-24 EPO President Still Not Obeying Courts' Rulings
2019-05-24 EPO Allegedly Becoming Insolvent (Pretext for Cuts), So Staff Gets Punished While Management Takes the Jackpot
2019-05-24 EPO Strikes Further Diminish Chances of UPC Ever Materialising (in Any Shape or Form)
2019-05-26 Team Campinos Will Try to Make It Difficult to Go on Strike (But Won't Manage to Prevent It)
2019-05-26 European Patents Are Eventually Being Revoked. But at Great Expense to Everyone Except Law Firms.
2019-05-28 Social 'Studies' and Sponsored 'Articles' Cannot Hide the Fact That EPO is a Terrible Employer Which Currently Harms Europe
2019-05-28 Linux Foundation and the Big Surveillance Industry, Media Industry, Microsoft Azure
2019-05-30 Proposed Legislation From Senators Tom Tillis and Chris Coons Will Perish as Usual, Just Like UPC in Europe
2019-05-31 António Campinos Didn't Even Last a Year
2019-05-31 British Patent Courts Continue to Expose the Collapse in Quality of European Patents
2019-05-31 Index Pages for Over 25,000 Blog Posts/Articles
2019-05-31 Links 31/5/2019: Large Migrations to GNU/Linux and DistroWatch Turns 18
2019-06-01 António Campinos as German Sheriff Rather Than Office President
2019-06-01 Senate Hearings on 35 U.S.C. €§ 101 Will Almost Certainly Fail to Bring Back Software Patents
2019-06-01 Whistleblowing Requires Publishers Who Protect Sources
2019-06-02 More Tall Tales From EPOnia - A Little Apéritif to Whet the Appetite…
2019-06-03 An Office of Patent Extremists
2019-06-04 António Campinos “Will Have the First Strike on His Hands and Learn That If He Goes Down on This Path He May be Even More Despised Than Battistelli.”
2019-06-04 European Patent Quality Totally and Utterly Collapses While Team UPC Hopes It Can Make the Courts 'Kangaroo' Ones
2019-06-04 Links 4/6/2019: MapSCII, 4MLinux 29.0 and New Zenwalk
2019-06-04 ACLU Enters the Patent Debate to Highlight Ethical Dangers Associated With Proposed Changes to 35 U.S.C. €§ 101 and More
2019-06-04 EUIPO/EPO Redundancies While Spending a Billion Euros on Unnecessary Buildings
2019-06-04 EPO Meltdown and Collapse in Patent Quality Don't Bother Bristows Kat
2019-06-05 Links 5/6/2019: Malware-Like Ads in Vista 10, Microsoft Layoffs, LibreOffice 6.3 Beta and OpenShift 4
2019-06-05 EPO Advertises Jobs for Lawyers That Combat EPO Staff, 'Emergency' Call Surfacing
2019-06-05 Patent Hearing Yesterday in US Senate: Koch-Funded 'Scholars' and Think Tanks Versus People Who Know What They Talk About
2019-06-05 Drunk on Power
2019-06-06 The European Patent Office is a Global Threat, Not Just a Threat to Europe
2019-06-06 The Paid-For UPC Lies
2019-06-06 Lawlessness at the EPO Means That Software Patents Are Still Being Granted and EPO Judges Have Their Hands Tied
2019-06-06 António Campinos Given an Extension to Prove He Respects the Rule of Law
2019-06-07 This Week's US Senate Hearings on Patents Are a Farce, Just as Expected
2019-06-09 Patent Quality Continues to Slip in Europe and We Know Who Will Profit From That (and Distract From It)
2019-06-11 Granting More Fundamentally Wrong Patents Will Mean Reduced Certainty, Not Increased Certainty
2019-06-11 Measuring Patent Quality and Employer Quality in Europe
2019-06-12 Leaked Financial 'Study' Document Shows EPO Management and Mercer Engaging in an Elaborate “Hoax”
2019-06-13 EPO Spreading Patent Extremists' Ideology to the Whole World, Now to South Korea
2019-06-13 The EPO is a Patent Troll's Wet Dream
2019-06-15 António Campinos Takes EPO Waste and Corruption to Unprecedented Levels and Scale
2019-06-16 António Campinos -- Unlike His Father -- Engages in Imperialism (Using Invalid Patents)
2019-06-16 As European Patent Office Management Covers up Collapse in Patent Quality Don't Expect UPC to Ever Kick Off
2019-06-16 2019 H1: American Software Patents Are as Worthless as They Were Last Year and Still Susceptible to Invalidation
2019-06-16 Stuffed/Stacked Panels Sent Back Packing After One-Sided Patent Hearings That Will Convince Nobody, Just Preach to the Choir
2019-06-17 When the EPO is Run by Politicians It's Expected to Be Aggressive and Corrupt Like Purely Political Establishments
2019-06-17 Weaponising Russophobia Against One's Critics
2019-06-18 'AI Taskforce' is Actually a Taskforce for Software Patents
2019-06-18 Indifference or Even Hostility Towards Patent Quality Results in Grave Injustice
2019-06-20 Ignore the EPO's Dumb Festival and Focus on the Abuses Against the Workforce and Its Quality of Work
2019-06-20 Patent Professionals in Europe Have Devolved Into a Marketing Industry
2019-06-21 Leaked: Harassment of EPO Directors by Team Campinos
2019-06-22 Say 'Hey Hi' to Software Patents
2019-06-22 American Front Group Open Invention Network (Riding the Linux Brand) is a Proponent of Software Patents in Europe
2019-06-22 EPO Directors Would be Wise to Rebel Against Team Campinos While They Still Have the Job
2019-06-22 Microsoft Apparently Did a Patrick Durusau on Wim Coekaerts to Broaden Its Control Over GNU/Linux
2019-06-23 Required Reading: Mental State of Team Battistelli/Campinos
2019-06-23 What Patents the EPO Has Just Awarded (With a Special Reward), Not Just Granted
2019-06-23 With Water (Treatment) Already Patented It Won't Take Long for Patents (and Patent Royalties) on Air
2019-06-23 The EPO Needs a President Who Obeys the Law, Not One Who Obeys Battistelli
2019-06-24 Patent Extremism: Stacking the Panels, the Surveys, the Hearings, the Debates
2019-06-25 IBM Happy That Patent Quality at EPO Collapsed and It's Easy to Get Software Patents
2019-06-25 USPTO and EPO Faking Growth by Granting Patents on Everything in Nature, But Campaigners Strike Back
2019-06-25 The European Patent Office Remains a Crooked Patent Office That Harms Staff and Abolishes the Rule of Law
2019-06-27 The EPO Has Successfully Muzzled the Media
2019-06-27 EPO CQI: Raw Leak of the Latest EPO 'Ingenuity'
2019-06-27 The EPO's “Collaborative Quality Improvements” (CQI), Formerly Known as “Team Collaboration Project,” Shows the EPO Grossly Violating the Law, Granting Patents in Clear Violation of the EPC
2019-06-28 UPC Was the EPO's (and Patent Maximalists') Attempt to Abolish Patent Justice
2019-06-29 Links 29/6/2019: EU Approves IBM-Red Hat, RC3 of FreeBSD 11.3
2019-06-29 EPO Staff, Lawyers and Courts Are Growing Tired of the Debased Patent Office and Administrative Council
2019-06-29 Director Iancu and President Benoît Battistelli Disappeared
2019-06-29 The New (Staged and Scripted) Video of António Campinos Feels Like a Drunken Satire
2019-06-30 Tribalism Still a Major Problem at the European Patent Office
2019-07-02 The EPO is More Interested in Silencing Its Critics Than in Actually Correcting Injustices
2019-07-02 EPO Management Exacerbates Its Patent Invalidity Crisis by Rushing Examination Even Further in New Pilots
2019-07-03 António Campinos is Almost 100% the Same as Benoît Battistelli
2019-07-03 The European Patent Office is Disconnected From the Rule of Law and European Media Could Not Care Less
2019-07-03 The EPO's Administrative Council is Drunk on Cooperation Money (Bribes)
2019-07-04 Ethiopian Media Gamed by EPO Management, Just Like European Media
2019-07-05 Only After Millions Were Spent on Lawyers Microsoft's Patent Troll in Europe Loses European Patent Used to Shake Down Android (Linux) Vendors
2019-07-06 Only a Matter of Time Before the European Patent Bubble Implodes
2019-07-07 Techrights is Thriving
2019-07-07 Higher Patent Quality and More Patent Justice Rather Than Buzzwords and Litigation
2019-07-08 Another Day of Misleading Media Coverage About the EPO and More Squashed European Patents
2019-07-09 EPO-Bribed Media Speaks to Team UPC, Produces UPC Puff Pieces With Plenty of Falsehoods and (Forbidden) Software Patents Advocacy
2019-07-09 Anonymous Comments Are the Only Thing of Value Left at IP Kat
2019-07-09 EPO 'Tackles' Patent Quality Concerns by Issuing New Report With “Quality” in the Title
2019-07-10 EPO Further Harms Justice and Quality by Weakening Processes Associated With the EPO’s Boards of Appeal
2019-07-11 The EFF Responds to IBM's Liars and Lobbyists for Software Patents Just a Day After Red Hat is Officially Absorbed
2019-07-11 Campinos is Already Widely Seen as Battistelli the Second, Even Among EPO Stakeholders
2019-07-13 European Media Continues to Ignore the EPO Crisis While Law Firms and EPO Management Cover Things Up
2019-07-13 Consultation About Direction and Future Focus for Techrights
2019-07-13 Links 13/7/2019: Librem 5 July Update, Project Trident 19.07, KDE Frameworks 5.60.0
2019-07-14 Patent Certainty Waning, But That's Still OK for Patent Trolls
2019-07-16 EPO Looney Tunes - Part 1: Is D-Day Approaching for Battistelli’s “Difficult Legacy”?
2019-07-16 IBM is a Threat to the Internet, Not Just to Software Development (Due to Software Patents Aggression)
2019-07-16 EPO Noise Machine Turned On as Haar Hearing Kicks Off, Patrick Corcoran Defamed Again
2019-07-16 EPO Looney Tunes - Part 2: The “Difficult Legacy” and Its Dark Historical Shadow
2019-07-17 EPO Looney Tunes – Part 3: The Legal Line-up for G 2/19
2019-07-17 Red Hat's Freedom Reduced to Just Online Partner Enablement Network (OPEN) and Microsoft as a Close Partner; Canonical's Ubuntu Just an 'App' for Windows?
2019-07-18 Media Not Interested in G 2/19, Which Demonstrates Patent Justice is Nowadays Impossible at the EPO
2019-07-18 EPO Looney Tunes – Part 4: G 2/19 - Faites Vos Jeux…
2019-07-18 Index: G 2/19 (Enlarged Board of Appeal, EPO)
2019-07-19 2 Days Later (Case in Progress) and Still Media Silence About G 2/19
2019-07-19 35 U.S.C. €§ 101 Still in Tact in the United States and Software Patents Rot Away
2019-07-19 Demand for European Patents Will Continue to Decrease If a Lot of European Patents Turn Out to be Invalid, Worthless
2019-07-20 Companies That Collapse Because the European Patent Office (EPO) Gave Them Fake Patents in a Hurry
2019-07-21 EPO Gradually Becoming the World's Most Permissive (Low Patent Quality) Patent Office by Consciously Violating the EPC
2019-07-23 Greenwashing to Distract From the EPO Breaking the Law, Rigging Justice and Its Own Courts
2019-07-23 EPO Continues to Grant Hundreds of Thousands of Illegal Software Patents and the Media Doesn't Care
2019-07-24 EPO is Fast Becoming the Office of Invalid Patents (IPs)
2019-07-25 Microsoft Caught Committing Yet More Bribery Crimes, But Nobody Gets Arrested
2019-07-25 Anything to Distract From the EPO's Plunging Patent Quality
2019-07-26 Microsoft's Legal Attacks on Eric Lundgren Demonstrate There's No 'New' Microsoft Except a Super-Vicious, Law-Twisting Thug
2019-07-26 The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Belatedly Comes Out in Defence of 35 U.S.C. €§ 101/Alice
2019-07-27 Links 27/7/2019: Linux 5.2.3, Tizen Studio 3.3
2019-07-27 IP Kat Used to Blast the EPO for Profound Lack of Justice. Now It's Just Meowing With the EPO's Management.
2019-07-27 Europe's Lowered Patent Standards
2019-07-28 Patent Trolls Are Not a Solved Problem and They Are Definitely a Growing Problem in Europe
2019-07-28 Prime Minister Boris Johnson Has Turned Into a Complete Joke the Cabinet Entrusted to Deal With UPC Limbo
2019-07-29 The American Patent Microcosm Models Its Lobbying for Software Patents Based on the EPO's Ongoing Violations of the EPC
2019-07-30 Today's European Patent Office (EPO) Stifles Access to Medicine With Its More Dubious European Patents
2019-07-30 Microsoft as Chief Censor of Torvalds' Git and Torvalds' Linux (Foundation): How Did We Get Here?
2019-08-01 The Boards' (of Appeal) Fear of Enforcing the Law (EPC) Will Doom the European Patent Office
2019-08-03 EPO Not Only an Eyesore But Also an Environmental Liability
2019-08-03 The EPO and the European Media Continue to Ignore or Cover Up the Haar Case
2019-08-03 Patent Trolls' Paradise: The EPO is a Rubber-Stamping Machine, So Why Not Automatically Generate Patent Applications?
2019-08-04 Links 4/8/2019: GNU Guile 2.9.3 and Wine Staging 4.13
2019-08-04 António Campinos Puts European Patent Quality on a Suicide Diet/Plan and All EPO Staff on Notice
2019-08-04 Rumour: Patent Troll Erich Spangenberg Said to Have Died
2019-08-05 Damage Control Mode: Satya Nadella Fleeing Lundgren After Realising What Microsoft Had Done
2019-08-06 Slander and Libel From Microsoft (Demonising the Victim)
2019-08-06 Links 6/8/2019: RPCS3 Update and KDevelop 5.4 Release
2019-08-08 European Media on the Death of the Unitary Patent (UP/UPC/UPCA)
2019-08-08 Germany's Infamous Patent Troll IPCom Shows That the EPO's Failure Hurts Not Only Germany But the Whole of Europe and Customers in General
2019-08-08 Lies, Lies and More Lies From the EPO (While Corporate Media in Europe Plays Along)
2019-08-09 Honest Media Regarding Patent Matters is Dead
2019-08-09 Techrights Blog Archive and Word Analysis
2019-08-10 Techrights Coding Projects: Making the Web Light Again
2019-08-10 IP Kat as Amplifier of Team UPC at a Time When UPC is Dead
2019-08-10 The Tight Embrace of the 'Hey Hi' (AI) Hype is Strangling the Patent System
2019-08-10 The EPO is Still Violating the EPC Every Day
2019-08-11 Europe is Gradually Becoming a Hotspot for Patent Litigation and Trolls as Patent Quality Decreases
2019-08-12 Spreading False Rumours or What's Most Likely Lies (Falsehoods) Won't Help Restore Justice at the EPO
2019-08-14 The Silence of the Media Lamb
2019-08-14 Links 14/8/2019: Best Chromebooks, EPEL 8.0, LibreOffice 6.2.6
2019-08-16 The EPO's War on the Convention on the Grant of European Patents 2000 (EPC 2000), Not Just Brexit, Kills the Unitary Patent (UP/UPC) and Dooms Justice
2019-08-17 IP Kat Pays the Price for Being a Megaphone of Team UPC
2019-08-17 Software Patents Won't Come Back Just Because They're (Re)Framed/Branded as
2019-08-17 Patent Prosecution Highways and Examination Highways Are Dooming the EPO
2019-08-17 Caturdays and Sundays at Techrights Will Get Busier
2019-08-17 Electronic Frontier Foundation Makes a Mistake by Giving Award to Microsoft Surveillance Person
2019-08-19 Links 19/8/2019: Another Linux 5.3 RC, OpenSUSE's Richard Brown Steps Down, Slackware Creates Patreon Page, Qt 6 Initiated
2019-08-20 Breaking the Law Has Become the Norm at the European Patent Office
2019-08-20 The European Patent Office Increases Surveillance: Can't Get Food Without Being Spied on
2019-08-20 EPO Cannot Handle Patent Justice With a Backlog of About 10,000 Cases at the Boards of Appeal
2019-08-21 Guest Post: António Campinos' European Patent Office Redefines Modern Slavery in the Heart of Europe in 2019
2019-08-21 Edward as a Nodder to Team UPC Kool-Aid
2019-08-21 Some Patent Attorneys Dislike Techrights Not Because It's Wrong But Because Software Patents Are Wrong (and Sometimes Illegal)
2019-08-22 No More Rights for EPO Staff?
2019-08-22 Managing IP as Team UPC's Megaphone and Lobbying Front
2019-08-24 Patent Maximalists Refuse to Accept That Their War on Patent Quality Also Dooms a Pan-European Patent Court System
2019-08-25 Thirteen Years of Techrights This Year
2019-08-26 Covering What Other Sites Fail to Cover or Do Not Want to Cover
2019-08-29 USPTO and EPO: Call Software Patents 'Hey Hi' ('AI') and Use Microsoft Software (or Else!)
2019-08-29 Updates on Koch v EPO, Anette Koch's Case Which the EPO Would Rather Nobody Heard About
2019-08-29 Links 29/8/2019: GTK 4.0 Plan, Mozilla Corporation’s CEO Chris Beard is Out, GNU Emacs 26.3
2019-08-30 The Collapse of the UPC Would Further Decrease the Perceived Value of European Patents, Which European Courts Rightly Reject
2019-08-31 Links 31/8/2019: etcd 3.4, ACRN 1.2, Wine 4.15
2019-08-31 The Admission Phase/Stage: Even Team UPC is Coming to Grips With the UPC's Demise
2019-08-31 The Judges of the Boards of Appeal Are Still Controlled by the European Patent Office and European Patent Quality is Therefore in a Freefall
2019-09-01 A Reader Explains Why the Free Software Foundation's (FSF) Silence on Particular Issues Harms Causes of the FSF
2019-09-03 EPO Cannot With a Straight Face Lecture People About the Law (Which It Routinely and Knowingly Violates)
2019-09-04 The Electronic Frontier Foundation Opposes Software Patents (in the US), So Why Does It Keep 100% Silent About Europe and the EPO?
2019-09-05 Bristows UPC Propaganda (in Pseudonymous Form) Shames the Government's Officials in Order to Install Corrupt Officials
2019-09-05 Patent Trolls Are Destroying Free/Open Source Software and They're Coming to Europe, Thanks to the European Patent Office
2019-09-05 Fake Software Patents in Europe (Invalid Patents) Would Only Discourage or Drive Away the European Software Industry, But Lawyers Don't Care
2019-09-05 Jo Johnson Quitting Twice in Two Years is a Terrible Sign for the Unitary Patent (UPC)
2019-09-06 The Corrupt EPO Apparently Hides Its Serco Outsourcing Deal
2019-09-06 EPO Rating Cartoon
2019-09-06 National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI France) Not Immune Like the EPO and the Courts Find it Guilty of Mismanagement
2019-09-07 Microsoft's Takedown Plot - Part I: When Linux Actually Means Microsoft
2019-09-07 Serco's Censorship of Media or EPO's Censorship of Media? Either Way, There's a Profound Media Crisis in Europe.
2019-09-08 When ILO 'Justice' for EPO Staff Gets 'Lost in the Post'
2019-09-09 Koch Explains the Dirty Games the European Patent Office Plays at ILO
2019-09-10 European Patent Office's Cooperation and Collaboration With Patent Trolls Instead of Science and Technology
2019-09-10 The European Patent Convention (“EPC”) Does Not Allow Patenting of Life Itself
2019-09-10 Patent Charlatans and Frauds Are Doing a Disservice to Europe and to Europe's Patent System
2019-09-11 Web Site Called Linux.com Still Exists Only or Mostly to Promote Anti-Linux Firms and Openwashing
2019-09-12 EPO: Give Us Low-Quality Patent Applications, Patent Trolls Have Use for Those
2019-09-14 Unitary Patent (UPC) Promotion by Team Battistelli 'Metastasising' in Private Law Firms
2019-09-14 Patent Maximalists, Orbiting the European Patent Office, Work to 'Globalise' a System of Monopolies on Everything
2019-09-14 Illegal/Invalid Patents (IPs) Have Become the 'Norm' in Europe
2019-09-15 EPO President Along With Bristows, Managing IP and Other Team UPC Boosters Are Lobbying for Software Patents in Clear and Direct Violation of the EPC
2019-09-17 Storm Brewing in the European Patent Office After a Hot Summer
2019-09-17 The EPO's Central Staff Committee and SUEPO (Staff Union) Respond to “Fascist Bills” Supported by EPO President António Campinos
2019-09-17 EPO is Not European
2019-09-19 Update on Koch v EPO: Internal Appeals Committee (IAC) Composition Still Likely Illegal
2019-09-19 When the EPO Sees Itself as Above European Law, Grants Patents in Defiance of the EPC (Its Founding Document) and Violates Staff's Labour Rights/Protections (International Law)
2019-09-21 The European Parliament Needs to Become More Outspoken About EPO Abuses
2019-09-21 When Patent 'Professionals' Sound Like Children Who Learned to Parrot Some Intentionally-Misleading Buzzwords, Myths and Lies
2019-09-22 Patent Extremism is Not Normal and Not an Innocent Mindset
2019-09-24 EPO Under Fire From EU Parliament, But Patent Trolls Already Storm Europe, Emboldened by Low Quality of European Patents
2019-09-26 Patent Maximalists Have Ruined the European Patent Office, Which Became a Lying Organisation That Bullies Everyone
2019-09-26 The EPO and the USPTO Keep Granting Illegal Patents and Mainstream Media Doesn't Talk About That
2019-09-26 Corporate Media Covering (Amplifying) EPO Lies But Not EPO Abuses
2019-09-26 EPO Logic: Businesses That Have Trademarks and/or Patents Have Only Succeeded Because of Trademarks and/or Patents
2019-09-27 The European Patent Office's Relationship With Licensing Executives Society International (LESI) Shows Whose Interests Today's Management Really Serves
2019-09-27 Media as Propaganda Apparatus of Patent Offices Which Are Run for and by Lawyers and Law Firms
2019-09-27 EU Parliament Needs to Clarify Once Again That Software Patents Granted by the EPO Are Illegal and Void
2019-09-27 Somehow Microsoft is Always Everywhere Linux Gets Attacked by Lawsuits and Antitrust Actions
2019-09-28 Only Weeks After Czech Government Rejects UPC (Unitary Patent) António Campinos Flies There, Apparently in Order to Lobby Government Officials
2019-09-28 EPO: Same Old Abuses, More Fake Patents, But Slightly Different Faces
2019-09-29 Links 29/9/2019: Happy Birthday to LibreOffice and FreeBSD 12.1 Beta 2
2019-09-30 Even IP Kat Explains Why the EPO and the EUIPO Are Lying Through Their Teeth With a Paid-for So-called 'Study'
2019-10-01 The Greenwashing and Chronic Lying From the EPO Spreads to EU Through EUIPO
2019-10-01 EPO Makes Guidelines for Examination That Formally Allow Software Patents in Defiance of European Law
2019-10-02 Increasing Transparency (Operational and Technical) at Techrights
2019-10-02 The EPO Keeps Breaking the Law While Trying to Legalise What's Illegal
2019-10-02 EPO Releases Decision Regarding G 2/19 (the 'Haar Question') in a Language Only About 10% of Member States Speak
2019-10-03 Today's EPO is Pursuing 'Troll Justice' (Bullying and Blackmail), Not Real Justice
2019-10-05 The Slow Death of Technical Media
2019-10-05 Corruption on Every Level Persists at the European Patent Office
2019-10-05 AI and Other Nonsensical Technobabble Exploited by EPO Management to Do Illegal Things
2019-10-06 The EPO's 'Solution' to Being Caught Granting Illegal Patents is to Punish Those Who Show That
2019-10-06 EPO Leak: António Campinos Announces Impending Cuts While Outsourcing to Private Firms Like Serco
2019-10-06 The EPO's Endgame: Robbing EPO Staff to Enrich Private Companies
2019-10-07 EFF Ought to Focus on Software Patents -- Maybe EPO Scandals Too -- Instead of Awarding (Publicity Stunts) and Rewarding Privacy Abusers
2019-10-07 EFF Should Protect or Represent Geeks, Not 'Hipsters'
2019-10-07 Links 7/10/2019: SparkyLinux 5.9 and GNU Statements
2019-10-08 The Injustice at the EPO Deepens, From Examination to Oppositions/Appeals and From BoA to Courts (UPC Prospects)
2019-10-08 Links 8/10/2019: GNOME 3.34.1, Problems for Atari VCS
2019-10-08 EPO Management Flies Halfway Across the Globe for Photo Ops in Country With 0.02% of European Patents
2019-10-09 EPO a Hostage of Law (Litigation) Firms
2019-10-09 Links 9/10/2019: EasyOS 2.1.6, OpenSSH 8.1, Qt 5.14.0 Beta
2019-10-10 The EPO's President Campinos is a Liar
2019-10-10 EPO President Campinos is Just a Great Pretender With 'Soft Power' Skills
2019-10-10 The EPO is Gradually Being Outsourced to Private, For-Profit, Unaccountable and Notorious Companies
2019-10-10 Links 10/10/2019: KDE Applications 19.08.2 and NixOS 19.09
2019-10-11 If the EPO Plans to Go 'Virtually' Private (Outside Contracting), Then Failing It Would be Deliberate
2019-10-11 EPO is Trying to 'Force-Feed' Europe Some Fake Patents by Hijacking Courts
2019-10-11 António Campinos, With Diplomatic Immunity, Continues Breaking the Law by Granting Patents the EU and EPC Forbade
2019-10-12 The EPO's Universal Patent Injustice Concealed With Polyglottic Tricks
2019-10-12 Software Patents (or Monopolies on Algorithms) Are Not 'Property' and They're Not Even Legally Valid
2019-10-12 The Campinos Car Crash
2019-10-12 Today's EPO is Working for Patent Trolls and the 'Aye Pee' (IP) 'Industry' Instead of Science
2019-10-14 Meme: Software Patents at the EPO
2019-10-14 “The Stupidest [Patent/Tax] Policy Ever”
2019-10-15 Professor Dr. Maximilian Haedicke on Lack of Separation of Powers at the EPO (Which Dooms UPC)
2019-10-15 EPO Boards of Appeal Need Courage and Structural Disruption to Halt Software Patents in Europe
2019-10-15 When They Run Out of Things to Patent They'll Patent Nature Itself...
2019-10-16 Raw: EPO Comes Under Fire for Lowering Patent Quality Under the Orwellian Guise of “Collaborative Quality Improvements” (CQI)
2019-10-16 EPO Staff Resolution Against Neoliberal Policies of António Campinos
2019-10-17 Bribes, Lies, Fundamental Violations of the Law and Cover-Up: This is Today's European Patent Office
2019-10-17 EPO Staff Union and Staff Representatives Ought to Demand EPO Stops Bullying Publishers and Censoring Their Sites
2019-10-17 There Won't be Patent Justice Until Patent Trolling Becomes Completely and Totally Extinct
2019-10-18 New EPO Meme: Who Wants to Make Billions From a 'Public' Monopoly?
2019-10-20 The EPO Cannot Guard Fake European Patents From Scrutiny (in the Long Run)
2019-10-20 “The True Hypocrite is the One Who Ceases to Perceive His Deception, the One Who Lies With Sincerity,” Said André Paul Guillaume Gide (Nobel Prize in Literature)
2019-10-20 European Patent Office and US Patent and Trademark Office Cranks Discovered Buzzwords, Stopped Worrying, Started Granting Patents They Know to be Fake
2019-10-21 It Has Begun: EPO Staff Protests Against António Campinos (Starting Wednesday)
2019-10-21 EPO: It's Only Getting Worse
2019-10-22 EPO Will Need a Lot More Than Photo Ops and Hoax 'Studies' to Restore the Perception of Lawfulness
2019-10-22 SUEPO Protest Tomorrow. All EPO Staff in Munich Ought to Attend and Prepare to Strike Too.
2019-10-22 Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna Reveals How the German Government Actively Ignored SMEs to Push the Notorious 'Unitary Patent' Sham
2019-10-22 EPO Diplomatic Immunity
2019-10-23 EPO Staff Protested Today and SUEPO Explains Why
2019-10-24 Humour: EPO Has the Solution
2019-10-25 We Need to Talk About IBM's and OIN's Stance on Software Patents at Times When Microsoft-Armed Patent Trolls Attack GNU/Linux
2019-10-26 Reforming (Fixing) the EPO is the Goal
2019-10-26 EPO Management Plays With -- and for -- the Wrong People
2019-10-26 G1/19: Enlarged Board of Appeal Bombarded by Monopolies, Law Firms and EPO President in Favour of Software Patenting
2019-10-26 The Media is Not Observing But Actively Participating in Patent Lies of the EPO and Self-Serving Law Firms
2019-10-27 All Patents on 'Artificial Intelligence' (or Machine Learning) Are Basically Fake Patents Waiting for Rejection by Courts
2019-10-27 Somebody Needs to Explain to the Linux Foundation That GNU/Linux (or Software Freedom) is Not a Religion
2019-10-29 EPO Advertises Questel and Rather Extremist Views on Patents
2019-10-29 An Illegal Practice: The EPO Continues to Grant Unlawful Patents and Then Brag About These
2019-10-30 Patent Evergreening Kills
2019-10-30 EPO May be Financially Defrauding the Public and Its Employees
2019-10-30 Yesterday in EPOPIC Andrei Iancu and António Campinos Shared a Salad of Ridiculous Buzzwords
2019-10-31 Today's EPO is an Illegal Institution Promoting and Granting Illegal Patents
2019-10-31 Immunity Breeds Lawlessness
2019-11-01 Today's EPO is Working Against Europe
2019-11-01 The EPO's Staff Lacks the Autonomy Crucially Needed to Decide Whether European Patents Granted by the EPO Are Indeed Legitimate
2019-11-02 Meme: EPO Tyranny Irrespective of One's Name/Brand
2019-11-03 The European Union is Harmed by EPO Abuses
2019-11-03 Openwashing Reports Made Obsolete When Openwashing and 'Open Source' Become Almost the Same (De Facto Indistinguishable)
2019-11-03 Links 3/11/2019: BMW on GNU/Linux Usage, Sparky 2019.11 and Con Kolivas Releases Linux-5.3-ck
2019-11-04 The European Courts Won't be Receptive When European Patent (EP) Just Means Invalid Patent (IP)
2019-11-05 António Campinos and Comrade Iancu (US) Both Push Software Patents Into Europe to the Detriment of Small Businesses and Developers
2019-11-05 The European Patent Office (EPO) Carelessly Shows the Only 'Small' 'Businesses' It Serves Are Law Firms and Patent Trolls
2019-11-05 The EPO Instructs European Examiners to Grant Junk Patents on Algorithms (Maths and Stats)
2019-11-06 SUEPO Organises Hague Protest -- Second EPO Protest in a Fortnight, Targeting the Portuguese Embassy in The Hague
2019-11-06 The Only Person Punished for the Gates-Epstein Connection/Affairs Seems to be Richard Stallman and Now the Libel Resumes
2019-11-07 Happy Anniversary to Us
2019-11-07 It Feels Like EPO Management is Trying to Distract the Media and the Staff From Today's Big Protest
2019-11-07 PR 'Innovation': Bombarding the Media With Puff Pieces to Distract From EPO Staff Actions Against Corrupt Management
2019-11-07 The EPO 'Patent Factory' Likes the IAM Copy-Paste Factory
2019-11-07 Quick Mention: Some Dutch Media Covers Dutch EPO Protest
2019-11-09 Former Mayor of Munich Explains How Microsoft Hates Linux
2019-11-09 Startpage Shows Sheer Hypocrisy After Selling Out and Betraying Privacy (Corrected)
2019-11-09 'Artificial Intelligence' (AI) Will Only Doom Patent Offices If It's Used to Stamp Millions of Invalid Patents (IPs)
2019-11-09 The EPO's Management is Trying Really Hard to Distract the Media From EPO Unrest (and It Has Been Partly Successful)
2019-11-09 Think Tanks, Bristows, 'Simmons' and 'Birds' Can Only Ever Lie to Us About the Dead Unified Patent Court (UPC)
2019-11-09 Links 9/11/2019: Linux Journal Goes Dark (Offline), KStars 3.3.7, OpenSUSE Name Change Aborted
2019-11-10 Politics in the Workplace Are Not Paradoxical and Outside the Workplace They Are Free Speech
2019-11-10 Video: Dutch Media on EPO Protest
2019-11-11 SUEPO Protests Against Management of the European Patent Office Brought Back Discussions About Corruption
2019-11-12 SUEPO Showed That the Media Won't Cover EPO Corruption Until Half the Workers March in the Streets
2019-11-12 EPO Corruption Compared to Cocaine Scandals in Antwerp
2019-11-12 EPO and EU: People Behind the Faces
2019-11-12 Teaser: Thierry Breton and His Disquieting Past
2019-11-12 You've Gotta Go When You've Gotta Go
2019-11-13 Understanding Thierry Breton: In the Beginning...
2019-11-14 A Lot of EPO Staff on Dutch Land Protested (Despite Abusive Threats From Management) and a Strike is Reportedly Next
2019-11-14 The Breton-Battistelli Relationship and Breton Hiding His Employment Record at Rothschild & Cie Banque
2019-11-14 Understanding Thierry Breton: “Mister Cash” Arrives at France Télécom
2019-11-14 Techrights' Interpretation of Koch v EPO: The EPO's Management Still Attacks Staff Representatives
2019-11-14 The EPO's Low Patent Quality is Not Just Suicidal; It is Illegal
2019-11-14 Thierry Breton's Video/Live Grilling is Over, But the Grilling Continues Online
2019-11-15 Understanding Thierry Breton: Toxic Management Goes on Trial in France
2019-11-15 Europe is Under Attack
2019-11-15 Understanding Thierry Breton: Moral Responsibility for “a Capitalism That Kills”?
2019-11-16 ILO is Not Functioning and ILO-AT Helps the Abusive Management of the European Patent Office
2019-11-16 EPO Running ILO's Tribunal (ILO-AT) 'in a Loop' to Perpetually Delay and Drain the EPO's Complainants (Aggrieved Staff) Out of Money
2019-11-16 Koch's Reply to EPO Through ILO and Techrights' Interpretation of Koch v EPO Documents Help Show That ILO-AT is Played by EPO Management
2019-11-16 Understanding Thierry Breton: Chirac's Entrepreneurial “Joker”
2019-11-17 Unitary Patent is Dead Partly Because the EPO Demonstrated That EPC is Being Routinely Violated, Illegal Patents Granted
2019-11-17 The Open Invention Network Has Become a Guard Dog of (Some) Patent Trolls and It Misrepresents Us Under the Guise of 'Open Source'
2019-11-17 Understanding Thierry Breton: The “Cost-Killer” Tries to Tame the National Debt
2019-11-18 Openwashing Institutionalised NPEs (OIN) and Software Patents With Notorious Managers From the EPO
2019-11-18 Understanding Thierry Breton: “Rhodiagate” and the Vivendi Universal Affair
2019-11-19 Understanding Thierry Breton: Insider-Trading Scandal at EADS
2019-11-19 We've Already Entered the Era When Patents Should be Presumed Invalid
2019-11-20 Understanding Thierry Breton: Noël Forgeard and His “Golden Parachute”
2019-11-20 EPO Geared Towards Financial Exploitation of Europe Instead of Serving Europe
2019-11-20 Understanding Thierry Breton: What Thierry Did Next...
2019-11-21 Justice Peter Huber of the German Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) Calls 'Bullshit' a Rumour Nobody Really Spreads
2019-11-21 Understanding Thierry Breton: Atos Healthcare - “The Ugly Face of Business”
2019-11-21 Understanding Thierry Breton: Thierry and the $100 Billion Man
2019-11-21 Injustice at Every Level Would Simply Doom the Entire Patent System
2019-11-21 Justice Peter Huber Speaking to a Front Group of Team UPC May Compromise the Integrity of the FCC and Its Outcomes
2019-11-22 Understanding Thierry Breton: Socialising With the Elite
2019-11-22 Teaser: “Enriching Exchanges”
2019-11-22 Global Patent Warming
2019-11-22 Techrights is Still a Team Effort
2019-11-22 Understanding Thierry Breton: More Influential Friends in High Places
2019-11-23 Britain 'Taking Back Control' From the Wrong Institution; the EPO is the Greater Culprit
2019-11-23 EPO Misuses Patent-Granting Powers to Help Litigation, Not Science
2019-11-23 German Constitutional Court Attempts to Distance Itself From Prof. Huber’s 'Interview' With Team UPC
2019-11-25 Links 25/11/2019: Linux 5.4, Lots of Openwashing This Past Week
2019-11-26 Understanding Thierry Breton: Thierry & Nicolas - a Bromance That Turned Sour?
2019-11-27 Understanding Thierry Breton: “Mister Cash” and “Madame Bailout”
2019-11-27 Just About Everything the EPO Tells Stakeholders, Media and Even Its Own Workers is the Opposite of What's True
2019-11-28 Even the US is Surprised or Baffled by Post-Brexit Unified Patent Court (UPC) Fantasies, Reveal Secret Documents
2019-11-28 The Collapse of European Patents Continues
2019-11-28 Links 28/11/2019: Number of Free Software Jobs Reportedly 'Quadrupled' in 2 Years
2019-11-28 JUVE Has Become Little But a Team UPC Propaganda Site
2019-11-29 Understanding Thierry Breton: Thierry and the EPO's “Sun-King”
2019-11-29 Team UPC is So Drunk on Kool-Aid That It Has Become Truly Comical!
2019-11-29 5 Out of 6 EPO Workers Vote for a Strike as Quality (and Validity) of Patents Continues to Fall
2019-11-29 Many European Patents Lack Validity and Blogs/Press Won't Talk About That
2019-11-30 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Dead and Alexander Ramsay is Only Making a Total Fool of Himself
2019-11-30 Management of the EPO is Afraid of Scientists and Judges
2019-12-01 Maximalists Cherry-Picking the So-Called 'Corbyn' 'Leak' for Their Patent Agenda While the US Lobbies Britain for Software Patents and Worse
2019-12-02 The EPO's President Admits He's Illegally Granting Software Patents (CII, 4IR, IoT, AI and Blockchain Mean Software Patents at the EPO)
2019-12-02 Is Water Wet?
2019-12-02 13 Years of UPC Promises
2019-12-03 New EPO Leak Shows That the Rumours and Jokes Are Partly True and We Know Who 'Runs the Show'
2019-12-03 'Priceless' Tickets to the EPO's Back End and Team UPC
2019-12-03 Links 3/12/2019: elementary OS 5.1 Hera, Plasma 5.17.4, Firefox 71
2019-12-04 Europeans Still Need to Save the European Patent Office From Those Who Attack Its Patent Quality
2019-12-05 Microsoft Staff Repeatedly Refuses to Tell How Many People Use WSL, Defends Patent Extortion and Blackmail of Linux Instead
2019-12-06 The EPO Rejects Innovation
2019-12-07 Unitary Patent (UPC) Died Along With the Credibility of Managing IP and the Rest of the UPC Lobby
2019-12-08 Fake European Patents (on Algorithms) Leading to Fake Embargoes
2019-12-09 Mandatory Education for Those Who Use and Misuse Buzzwords Would Go a Long Way
2019-12-10 Actions Against EPO Corruption and Unitary Patent (UPC) Injustice/Lobbying
2019-12-12 EPO Promoting Software Patents in Countries Where These Are Illegal
2019-12-12 The EPO's Strategic Failure 2023
2019-12-12 At the EPO Money -- Not Quality -- is King
2019-12-14 EU Needs to Show That It Cares About SMEs and Not 'European Champions' That Are Actually Foreign Monopolies
2019-12-14 Only the EPO Goes as Far as Bribing Publishers (the Media) to Promote Software Patents and Publish Fictional Stories
2019-12-15 European Patents Losing Their Appeal, Lustre and Glamour
2019-12-15 2019 in Review: Worst Year Ever for Software Freedom
2019-12-16 Recharging for 2020
2019-12-18 Unitary Patent (UPC) Should Become Synonymous With Lies, Coups, Entryism, Lobbying and Bullying
2019-12-18 Understanding Thierry Breton: Emmanuel Macron and His “Joker” in Brussels
2019-12-19 Understanding Thierry Breton: Concordia, Integritas, Industria
2019-12-19 Issues Cannot be Treated in Complete Isolation When Everything is Connected
2019-12-19 Understanding Thierry Breton: The “Killer Shark” Resurfaces…
2019-12-20 More 'Fake News' About Unified Patent Court (UPC) and Battistelli's CEIPI Emerges as a Booster
2019-12-20 Journalism in the Area of Patents and the Domain of Patent Litigation is Dead
2019-12-20 Links 20/12/2019: Proton 4.11-11 and GNUnet 0.12.0
2019-12-21 Understanding Thierry Breton: Little Miss Ladson Goes to Brussels
2019-12-21 The EPO Likes “Hey Hi” (AI) Only When It Lets Actual Humans Fake 'Production'
2019-12-22 Understanding Thierry Breton: A “Club Med” Coup in Brussels?
2019-12-22 Understanding Thierry Breton: “Oh, Dem Golden Slippers…”
2019-12-22 EPO Management is Always Right
2019-12-22 Links 22/12/2019: Linux Random Number Generation, KTimeTracker 5.0.1
2019-12-23 Understanding Thierry Breton: A Happy Ending - for Some at Least.
2019-12-24 EPO Throws DABUS Under the Bus... But for the Wrong Reasons
2019-12-24 Links 24/12/2019: Cantor 19.12, antiX 19.1, HyperbolaBSD Roadmap
2019-12-25 EPO G 1/19 (Software Patents Case) Already Compromised by Overt Violations of the European Patent Convention (EPC)
2019-12-25 D Young & Co LLP Spreading Team UPC Talking Points
2019-12-25 Not Everything Needs to Be Patented
2019-12-25 Links 25/12/2019: Business Card With Linux, Alpha of Simplicity Linux
2019-12-25 Thierry Breton: Why He Matters to EPO Affairs (and a Lot More in Europe If Not the World, Not Just in France)
2019-12-25 Links 25/12/2019: GNUnet 0.12.1 and Lots of Openwashing
2019-12-26 Links 26/12/2019: digiKam 7.0.0 Beta and New ISOs for Slackware Live
2019-12-28 Who Will Merpel be in 2020? (Now Defending Battistelli's Attacks on EPO Judges and Serious Violations of the EPC)
2019-12-28 Protecting Free Software Means Studying and Covering Political Affairs Too
2019-12-29 Bristows and AstraZeneca (IP Kat) Won't Offer Balanced Coverage of EPO Patent Cases
2019-12-29 2019 Was a Largely Neutral Year for Opponents of Software Patents
2019-12-29 2019 Was a Strong Year for Techrights
2019-12-29 How Techrights is Run
2019-12-31 Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement (UPCA) Will be Ratified in the Year 202020
2019-12-31 In 2018 and in 2019 António Campinos Has in Effect Been a Guardian of Battistelli's Corruption
2019-12-31 Explanation of Internal Debian Affairs at Debian Community News
2020-01-01 New Techrights Banner, Still Optimised for Screens as Little as 800 x 600 (in an Age of 1920 x 1080)
2020-01-02 Google is Not Your Friend and It Was Never Your Friend
2020-01-02 Invalid Patents 'Great Again'?
2020-01-03 The Software Freedom Deniers
2020-01-04 We Will Never Have a Meaningful Debate About Patents When the Media Calls Algorithms “AI” and the EPO is Called “EU Patent Office”
2020-01-04 Stop Treating Free/Open Source Software (and Everything Else) Strictly Like a Business
2020-01-05 How IP Kat Had Become a Patent Litigation Pressure Group Until the Site's Founder Left
2020-01-05 Microsoft's Entryism and Infiltration-Type Attacks on GNU/Linux Are Nothing New
2020-01-05 Links 5/1/2020: SuperTuxKart 1.1 and New Stuff in KDE
2020-01-05 European Patent Office (EPO) Granting Patents on Surveillance Software
2020-01-06 Links 6/1/2020: Linux 5.5 RC5 is Out, But Media is More Interested in ‘Pure Garbage’
2020-01-07 The EPO's Mrs. UPC is Rumoured to Have Retired Just Like the UPC
2020-01-07 Links 7/1/2020: KDevelop 5.4.6, New Firefox and Endless OS Coming to Raspberry Pi
2020-01-08 An EPO Without EPC or With a Faked EPC
2020-01-09 The Concept of Confidentiality May be Self-Defeating in the Context of Patents
2020-01-09 Links 9/1/2020: Cockpit 210, UEK Release 6
2020-01-09 Unitary Patent (UPC) Has Just Been Shot Again, But Team UPC is Unlikely to Talk About It
2020-01-10 Links 10/1/2020: New GNOME and Mesa 19.3.2 Release, Rust Foundation Foreseen, Firefox 72.0.1 (Bugfix)
2020-01-10 Missing in Action: Investigative Reporting About the European Patent Office
2020-01-11 The Moment That EPO 'Club Med' (Nepotism Galore) Pretends It's Actually Elected Officials and Lawmakers
2020-01-11 'Artificial' 'Growth' (in Number of Fake Patents)
2020-01-12 EPO Management Already Meddles in (Illegally and in Clear Violation of the EPC) BoA Cases. Now It Does the Same to Bundesverfassungsgericht (FCC, Germany's Constitutional Court).
2020-01-14 The Media's Obligation is Not to Repeat the Lies of EPO Management, But Money Changes Things
2020-01-14 They Always Say They Love Linux (and 'the Children')
2020-01-14 Systematic Abandonment of the Independence of Judiciary at the EPO (or Collective Amnesia)
2020-01-14 Links 14/1/2020: IBM Joins LOT Network; X.Org Server 1.20.7, Tails 4.2.2 and Zanshin 0.5.71 Released
2020-01-14 Stranger Than Fiction: Team UPC's Mental Condition
2020-01-14 It's Only Factual and Truthful to Point Out That About Half of the EPO's Management Committee Are From the President's Nation (and Many Are Underqualified Friends of His)
2020-01-15 Why You -- Yes, You Too -- Should Consider Migrating to GNU/Linux
2020-01-15 Links 15/1/2020: CentOS Linux 8.1, Oracle VirtualBox 6.1.2 and GNU Sed 4.8
2020-01-16 Zealots of Team UPC (Patent Litigation) Now Attacking the Courts and the Judges, Removing Their Mask on the Face of Things...
2020-01-16 The European Patent Organisation Continues to 'Piss All Over' Separation of Powers
2020-01-16 Links 16/1/2020: Mozilla Layoffs, PinePhone Braveheart Shipping, KDE Plasma 5.18 LTS Reaches Beta
2020-01-19 Judges Reject EPO Patents on Life as Constitutional Complaints Against the EPO Pile Up in Germany
2020-01-19 Links 19/1/2020: Wine 5.0 RC6, Alpine 3.11.3
2020-01-20 CRISPR Patents Disallowed, But Where Are the Journalists?
2020-01-20 European Commission Pushes for Even Greater Patent Maximalism Instead of Rationality, Patent Zealots' Site Cherry-Picks China as Whipping Boy
2020-01-21 Media Reactions to the EPO Coming to Grips With Fake Patents That It Granted (Spoiler: the Media is Controlled by Lawyers of Monopolists and EPO Partners)
2020-01-21 The Internet is an Appalling Medium for News and It Has Only Gotten Worse
2020-01-22 Poor Excuses for Granting Poor (and Often Illegal/Invalid) Patents
2020-01-22 Links 22/1/2020: Wayland 1.18 Alpha, ODF 1.3 Approved
2020-01-23 Distractions From Microsoft's Gigantic Tax Evasion and Contribution to Denial of Climate Science
2020-01-23 The Patent Microcosm is Really Panicking as European Patents on Life and Other Spurious Junk (Invalid Patents) Are Successfully Rejected
2020-01-24 When EPO Press Coverage Boils Down to Lobbying, Press Releases, EPO Lies, and Bribery
2020-01-24 Links 24/1/2020: GNU/Linux in Russia and More New Openings
2020-01-25 When the Monopolists and the Patent Litigation Industry Hijack the News They Control the Narrative
2020-01-27 EPO: Goodbye to the Rule of Law and Hey Hi, AI!
2020-01-27 Links 27/1/2020: Linux 5.5 is Out, Work on Linux 5.6 Commences, New Solus and Award for Andrew Tridgell
2020-01-28 Don't Let the Collapse of News Companies Be the Collapse of Information (or Ascent of Misinformation)
2020-01-29 EPO and UPC Can Become the Next 'Dieselgate'
2020-01-29 Patent Scavenging or Racing to the Bottom of Patent Quality
2020-01-30 Today's EPO Stands for Nothing at All (Except Faking 'Production' to Amass Money for Gambling)
2020-01-30 Enablers of Constitutional Violations and Unified Patent Court (Unitary Patent) Dreams
2020-01-30 EPO as a Kakistocracy of Lies and Bribes
2020-01-30 The Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organization (ILO-AT) is Moot, EPO Plays It Like a Fiddle
2020-01-31 The EPO's Epic Waste of Money (300 Million Euros) Ended up Not Only a Fire Hazard But Also a Suffocation Risk
2020-01-31 Collapse of the UPC is “Business as Usual” According to Bristows LLP
2020-01-31 Links 31/1/2020: Lars Kurth RIP, Mesa 20.0 RC1, CERN Moving to Free Software
2020-02-01 The Office of Philpott and Pol Pot
2020-02-01 Wasting (Misusing) Money on 'Researchers' and So-called 'Studies' Only Reinforces the Perception That the EPO Attacks Science With Its Money, Just Like Climate Deniers and Big Tobacco Lobby
2020-02-01 Links 1/2/2020: Scott Rifenbark RIP, FOSDEM 2020, HPVM 0.5 Release
2020-02-02 The Latest Talking Point of Team UPC: Ignore Brexit, UPC Will Miraculously Come Very Soon! (Somehow!)
2020-02-02 Links 2/2/2020: OpenMandriva Lx 4.1 “Mercury”, LLVM 10.0 RC1 and Linux 5.5.1 Released
2020-02-04 The EPO Would Declare It a Success Story If It Granted a Million European Patents a Year
2020-02-04 “Nothing Has Changed,” Team UPC Says About UPC and Brexit
2020-02-06 6 Years in Limbo After EPO Abuses Because ILO is Far Too Slow for Timely Justice (If Any at All)
2020-02-06 Links 6/2/2020: South Korea's Shift to GNU/Linux, Vista 10 Bricks Itself Again, RawTherapee 5.8 Released
2020-02-10 Links 10/2/2020: New Stable Debian and RC of Linux 5.6
2020-02-10 Unified Patent Corruption
2020-02-10 You're Almost Guaranteed to Lose the Argument When You Call People Who Plant Seeds 'Pirates'
2020-02-10 EPO Staff Representatives to Challenge Ridiculous and Unnecessary Austerity Measures
2020-02-11 The European Patent Office Continues to Violate the European Patent Convention (EPC) With Impunity While the European Commission Lets That Happen
2020-02-11 Sometimes ILO-AT is Good for Nothing But Law Firms in or Around Switzerland
2020-02-11 Links 11/2/2020: New Firefox and KDE Plasma
2020-02-12 Links 12/2/2020: KDE Neon 5.18, Tails 4.3 and WordPress 5.4 Beta
2020-02-13 Free Software is Being Abandoned by Opponents of Software Patents and It's Being Attacked by Patent Trolls
2020-02-13 Links 13/2/2020: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS, Septor 2020, Endless OS 3.7.7, Wayland 1.18.0, KDE Plasma 5.18 and GTK 3.98 Released
2020-02-14 Another New 'Clown' for the UPC 'Circus'
2020-02-15 Today's EPO is a Fraud Managed by Frauds
2020-02-15 Anatomy of a Crime and Protection From Prosecution
2020-02-15 Links 15/2/2020: Blender 2.82, Qt 5.15 Alpha and NetBSD 9.0 Released
2020-02-16 Links 16/2/2020: MX Linux 19.1 and MyPaint 2.0
2020-02-18 Links 18/2/2020: Linux 5.6 RC2, Wine 5.2, GNU Social Contract and Sparky 2020.02 Special Editions
2020-02-18 Battistelli Blocked Techrights at EPO (Banned for More Than 5 Years), So CEIPI Won't Respect Access to Information Either
2020-02-18 Are Songs Property? And Maths Also Property? Artificial Monopolies Are Not Property...
2020-02-19 Links 19/2/2020: KDE Plasma 5.18.1, GNOME 3.36 Beta 2 and WordPress 5.4 Beta 2
2020-02-19 When It Comes to a Unitary Patent System, Bad (or Intentionally Dishonest) Legal Advice Has Become the Norm
2020-02-19 EPO and Other Patent Updates Over RSS
2020-02-19 China Bashing is Grounded in Fear (That They Can Simply Do Better Than the West)
2020-02-20 Team UPC Insults Judges Because the UPC is Dead and UPC Lobbyists Have Nothing Left to Lose
2020-02-20 Techrights Warns Against Impending Extradition Efforts (Passage of Julian Assange to His Death in the United States)
2020-02-20 Links 20/2/2020: Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU18, Mesa 20, VirtualBox 6.1.4
2020-02-21 Links 21/2/2020: EasyOS 2.2.11 Released, Microsoft's Control of the Linux Foundation Increases and More Binary Blobs Arrive
2020-02-23 Links 23/2/2020: PipeWire 0.3 and Osu!
2020-02-24 New Series: Inside the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
2020-02-24 Links 24/2/2020: Linux 5.6 RC3, Netrunner 20.01, Google Summer of Code 2020 Mentoring Organisations Announced
2020-02-25 Growing Acceptance That There's No Future to the UPC System and the Unitary Patent
2020-02-25 The EU's EUIPO Will Later Today Help the EPO (Run by EUIPO's Former Chief) Promote Illegal Software Patents
2020-02-26 Links 26/2/2020: Cosmo Communicator 2-in-1, FSF Outlines Plans for Code Hosting
2020-02-28 Death of the UPC (Unitary Patent) Confirmed by the British Government
2020-02-28 EUIPO and EPO Celebrate Corruption in Croatia
2020-02-29 Inside the Free Software Foundation (FSF) - Part III: Imagining an FSF Award Going to Anti-Stallman People
2020-02-29 Links 29/2/2020: KaOS 2020.02, New Wine Release
2020-03-01 The Next Task is Defeating European Software Patents Because the Media Certainly Isn't Doing Its Job
2020-03-01 Team UPC Has Already Moved Ahead to the Next Propaganda Phase (UPC Without the UK, Which It Very Strictly Requires)
2020-03-01 Links 1/3/2020: Wayland-Protocols 1.19, LXSession 0.5.5, GhostBSD 20.02 Released
2020-03-02 Links 2/3/2020: Linux 5.6 RC4 and Linux From Scratch 9.1
2020-03-03 EPO Outsourcing Policy and Patent Scope to Litigation Giants
2020-03-03 Inverted Narratives: UPC Thugs Are Being Framed as Poor Victims and Patent Trolls Claim to be the Target of Violence
2020-03-04 Large German Publisher Helps EPO Cover Up Abuses While Relaying Lies (Which Are in Turn Relayed to EPO Staff)
2020-03-05 Linux Foundation Adds Another Microsoft Executive to Its Leadership (Fourth by Count)
2020-03-05 EPO Lobbyists and Team UPC Lobbying Arms Disguised as News Sites
2020-03-06 EPO Presflash 002: Diversity and Inclusion (Humour)
2020-03-06 EPO Corruption Has Killed in Germany and the Netherlands Far More Than Coronavirus (Covid-19) Did
2020-03-06 After the Death of the UPC the Next Casualty is the Credibility of Media That Promotes It
2020-03-07 Financial and Legal Corruption Scandal in France (INPI) Implicating the Person Benoît Battistelli Put in Charge of the EPO's Finances
2020-03-07 Links 7/3/2020: GNOME 3.36 RC2, FreeNAS and TrueNAS Unifying
2020-03-08 The Collapse of European Patent Quality is Rather Obvious and EPO Management Cannot Hide it Forever
2020-03-08 IAM Works (Lies) for Corrupt EPO Management and for Team UPC, Now Behind Paywalls (Possibly to Limit Critics' Access, Lowering Scrutiny and Fact-Checking)
2020-03-08 António Campinos is Just as Corrupt as Benoît Battistelli, Top Jobs Offered as 'Endowments'
2020-03-08 The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is Apparently, as Per Latest IRS Disclosure, About 95% Companies-Funded
2020-03-08 Links 8/3/2020: GNOME Shell and Mutter 3.36, NomadBSD 1.3.1, APT 2.0 and GNU Guile Releases
2020-03-09 JURI Committee (the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs) Buries the Unitary Patent (UPC) for Good
2020-03-09 António Campinos Sponging Off the EPO
2020-03-10 European Granting Convention
2020-03-10 Today's UPC 'Debate' is a Farce, Stuffed by the Litigation 'Industry' Instead of British Industry
2020-03-10 Ask Former EPO President Alison Brimelow What EPO Means to International Women's Day
2020-03-11 Links 11/3/2020: dav1d 0.6, LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.1, Sculpt OS 20.02, Firefox 74.0, WordPress 5.4 RC2, Git 2.26 RC1
2020-03-11 Understanding Thierry Breton: Looking Back
2020-03-11 EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Teaser
2020-03-12 EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Part 1 - António and the Balkan Express Connection
2020-03-12 The Battle Against Software Patents Rages on
2020-03-12 Same as the Old Boss
2020-03-13 Links 13/3/2020: NuTyX 11.4, Tails 4.4, GCC 9.3 and Rust 1.42.0
2020-03-13 EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Part 2 - Behind the Scenes at Topić IP d.o.o.
2020-03-14 EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Part 3 - How to Become a European Patent Attorney Without Passing the EQE
2020-03-14 Links 14/3/2020: AryaLinux 2.4, Fedora 32 Beta Soon, Firefox OS Successor Emerges With KaiOS
2020-03-15 EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Part 4 - The Role of the EPO Vice-President of DG5 (Christoph Ernst)
2020-03-15 Infringing the Fundamental Laws in the Name of Combating Infringements
2020-03-15 Links 15/3/2020: ikona 1.0, Shortwave's First Stable Release; Let’s Encrypt, Jim Meyering, and Clarissa Lima Borges Receive FSF Awards
2020-03-15 Lost in Corona: Dutch Court Rules That Seat Agreement Signed Between the EPO and the Dutch Government Violates Article 45 TFEU
2020-03-15 The Result of a Patent Office That Destroyed Patent Quality and Departed From the Underlying Law (Which Was Supposed to Govern and Be Enforced)
2020-03-15 Everybody Knows UPC is Over, Even Those Who Still Attempt to Lie to the Public (and to Their Clients)
2020-03-16 EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Epilogue
2020-03-16 Series Index: “Doyen” for a Yen
2020-03-17 New Article by Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna on UPC Lies Regarding SMEs
2020-03-17 Biggest Threats to Software Freedom (Which Almost Nobody Talks About)
2020-03-17 Links 17/3/2020: Microsoft Swallows Npm, Debian Installer Bullseye Reaches Alpha 2
2020-03-18 Links 18/3/2020: Update on UOS (GNU/Linux) in China, Fedora 32 Beta, Media Blasts Bill Gates
2020-03-19 Links 19/3/2020: New LibreOffice, Librem Mini and System76 Keyboard
2020-03-19 Germany's FCC and Its Decision on UPC May Not Matter Much Anymore (and the Government in Berlin Knows That) (Updated)
2020-03-19 What Diplomatic Immunity Means to Bundesverfassungsgericht
2020-03-20 Links 20/3/2020: LMDE 4 “Debbie” Released, Debian GNU/Linux Social Network
2020-03-21 Links 21/3/2020: DXVK 1.6 Released, Arduino for Open Source Ventilators
2020-03-22 Links 22/3/2020: RetroArch Emulator 1.8.5 Released and AMD Laptops With GNU/Linux
2020-03-22 USPTO's and EPO's Leaderships Have Similar Technical and Ethical Problems
2020-03-22 The Fall of the UPC - Part I: Geeks (Engineers) Celebrate and the EPO Has Lost Its Tongue
2020-03-23 The Fall of the UPC - Part III: Pure Comedy From Watchtroll and Its UPC Lobbyists From Managing IP
2020-03-23 The Fall of the UPC - Part IV: IP Kat Became Just a Team UPC Megaphone
2020-03-23 The Fall of the UPC - Part V: Pretending That Opponents of the Unitary Patent Simply Don't Exist
2020-03-23 Links 23/3/2020: Linux 5.6 RC7, Audacious 4.0, and Git 2.26 Released
2020-03-24 Links 24/3/2020: Alpine 3.11.5, MythTV 31.0 and Tails 4.4.1
2020-03-24 FFII: EU Software Patent Court Stopped by Constitutional Court, Patent Industry Will Try Again
2020-03-24 The Fall of the UPC - Part VI: Drowning in Material
2020-03-25 The Fall of the UPC - Part VII: Lies and Revisionism About the Reasons for the UPC's Ultimate Demise (to Leave the Door Open for More Failed Attempts)
2020-03-25 Links 25/3/2020: LLVM 10.0.0 and UCS 4.4-4 Released, WordPress 5.4 RC4
2020-03-27 With the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Out of the Way Focus Will Return to EPO Corruption
2020-03-27 Faking Production With Fake Patents on Software
2020-03-27 Links 27/3/2020: GNU/Linux Versus COVID-19 and Release of GNU Guile 3.0.2
2020-03-29 Pretending EPO Corruption Stopped Under António Campinos When It is in Fact a Lot Worse in Several Respects/Aspects (Than It Was Under Benoît Battistelli)
2020-03-29 The Fall of the UPC - Part IX: Campinos Opens His Mouth One Week Later (and It's That Hilarious Delusion Again)
2020-03-30 Links 30/3/2020: Linux 5.6, Nitrux 1.2.7, Sparky 2020.03.1
2020-03-30 Links 30/3/2020: GNU Linux-libre 5.6, WireGuard 1.0.0
2020-03-31 Techrights to Delete Articles From All Past Years to Save Disk Space
2020-04-01 Links 1/4/2020: Linux 5.7 Merges, Qt 5.14.2, GhostBSD 20.03, Linux Mint 20 Ulyana Plans, WordPress 5.4 “Adderley”
2020-04-02 Links 2/4/2020: ProtonMail Bridge for Linux, GTK 3.98.2 and Red Hat DNF 4.2.21
2020-04-02 OIN in 2020 Resembles Linux Foundation in 2020 (Corporate Front Group Piggybacking the Linux Brand)
2020-04-03 Emotional Blackmail for Illegal Software Patents
2020-04-03 Digital Communication, Digitalisation and Videogaming Among the EPO's Latest Smokescreens for Illegal and Abstract Patents on Algorithms
2020-04-03 Links 3/4/2020: Ubuntu Beta, GNOME 3.36.1, ExTiX LXQt Mini, NetBSD 8.2 Released
2020-04-04 Links 4/4/2020: Sparky 5.11, Firefox 74.0.1, POCL 1.5
2020-04-05 Digitalisation and Digital Technologies as a Ploy to Justify Illegal Software Patents
2020-04-05 EPO is Just Like Some Cruel Political Party and Not a Patent Office
2020-04-05 Links 5/4/2020: MindSpore, Covid-19 Projects and More
2020-04-06 The Fall of the UPC - Part XI: Lies Told by Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie (BDI) in Süddeutsche Zeitung
2020-04-06 The Fall of the UPC - Part XII: Doing the Unthinkable by Blaming the Judge's (Justice's) Wife?
2020-04-07 The Fall of the UPC - Part XIII: A Death Worth Celebrating and Many Lies Worth Debunking
2020-04-07 Software Patents Remain Junk Patents in the United States (Not Enforceable), Whereas the EPO Keeps Granting Them and Promoting Them
2020-04-07 The Media Paints Bill Gates as the Man Who Will Save the World While Seattle's Police Department Obstructs Access to Documents About Pedophilia Arrest at His Home
2020-04-07 The Fall of the UPC - Part XIV: Media Owned and Controlled by Law Firms Did Not Properly Cover the Decision of the German Constitutional Court (FCC)
2020-04-07 Links 7/4/2020: Firefox 75, Python 2.7.1 RC1
2020-04-09 Coronavirus Has Not Slowed Down the EPO's Promotion of Illegal Software Patents
2020-04-09 The Fall of the UPC - Part XV: A Three-Week Parade of Lies From Team UPC and Its Media Collaborators
2020-04-09 The Fall of the UPC - Part XVI: What's Reality Got to Do With It? Ask Hogan Lovells.
2020-04-09 The Fall of the UPC - Part XVII: Bardehle Pagenberg in 'Corona Zombie' Mode
2020-04-10 EPO Staff Union (SUEPO): “We Are Back to Battistelli's Times”
2020-04-10 Campinos Uses Donald Trump Associates to Attack the EPO's Staff Amid Coronavirus Pandemic (Whilst Also Threatening Staff Representatives)
2020-04-10 More Threats From Elodie Bergot: The EPO is Back in a State of Disarray and That Authoritarian Atmosphere of Fear
2020-04-10 Links 10/4/2020: AV Linux 2020.4.10, Simply Linux 9, Tor Browser 9.0.9
2020-04-11 The Fall of the UPC - Part XVIII: Media 'Scratching' the Bottom of the Barrel
2020-04-11 The Fall of the UPC - Part XIX: How Law Firms Responded to the Collapse of the UPC (Lying Was All Too Common)
2020-04-11 The Fall of the UPC - Part XX: Summary and Conclusions
2020-04-11 The European Patent Office Admits That It's Faking Its 'Results' by Granting Loads of Illegal Software Patents
2020-04-11 EPO 'Mafia': Break the Law and Send Mafia-Like Entities to Bully People Who Point Out the Lawbreaking
2020-04-11 The Fall of the UPC: Series Index
2020-04-11 Migration to New Environment Completed
2020-04-12 Links 12/4/2020: Linux 5.7 RC1, EndeavourOS April Release
2020-04-13 Almost a Month Later Lies Persist About the “Fate of the Unified Patent Court” and Software Patents It Was Supposed to Introduce/Cement
2020-04-13 Techrights and Modularity
2020-04-13 Links 13/4/2020: 4MLinux 32.1, Status of LibreOffice for Mobile
2020-04-14 Technical Computer-Implemented Digital Videogame AI on the Blockchain
2020-04-14 Tidying Things Up and Modernising the Site
2020-04-15 British Government Again Confirms Death of the UPC, But Team UPC is Not Listening
2020-04-16 For Reporting Accuracy Labels Should Not Matter as Much as Style and Track Record
2020-04-16 Links 16/4/2020: KWinFT, LibreOffice 6.4.3, White House/Trump Influence Suspected in JEDI Award to Microsoft
2020-04-17 When Compromise Means Surrender
2020-04-17 EPO Management is Trying to Violate the EPC and Justify Its Illegal Software Patent Grants During a Pandemic's Peak
2020-04-17 “Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.” --Hunter S. Thompson
2020-04-17 Links 17/4/2020: Mir 1.8.0 Release, Mutter Fullscreen/Wayland, Plasma Browser Integration 1.7.5
2020-04-18 Links 18/4/2020: Linux 5.8 Plans and Darktable 3.0.2 Released
2020-04-19 JUVE Has a Prank 'Survey' That's Just UPC Lobbying (As Usual)
2020-04-19 European Law Firms Are Marketing Illegal Software Patents Using Meaningless Buzzwords
2020-04-19 The Covert Corruption of Publishers That Cover Patent 'News'
2020-04-19 Links 19/4/2020: Jonathan Carter Elected DPL, Many Free Designs for COVID-19 Battle
2020-04-20 Links 20/4/2020: Linux 5.7 RC2, BleachBit 4.0.0 and DXVK’ 1.6.1
2020-04-21 Reporting About Reporting and the Disease of Exploiting Pandemic to Sell Advertisements and/or Panic
2020-04-21 The Role Played by Media Controlled by Litigation Companies in Promoting the Unitary Patent (UPC) Ploy
2020-04-21 France Keeps Winning European Inventor Award (Millions of Euros of EPO Budget)
2020-04-23 EPO and So-called 'Watchdog' Compatible in the Judge-Bashing Sense
2020-04-23 3,500 Articles Later the EPO Remains a Cruel and Unjust Place Governed by Despots
2020-04-24 Links 24/4/2020: Ubuntu LTS, Alpine 3.9.6 and 3.10.5, Rust 1.43.0
2020-04-25 USPTO and EPO Openly Brag About Breaking the (Case)Law to Grant Software Patents That Courts Would Reject, Even the Very Highest Courts
2020-04-25 Greenwashing and Peace-washing Patents We Can Never Coexist With (and the Law Forbids Anyway)
2020-04-25 Links 25/4/2020: Wine 5.7, LXQt 0.15 Released, Ubuntu 20.10 Will Identity as “Groovy Gorilla”
2020-04-26 The Rise of Bribed Media and Bribed Academia as Cynical 'Journalism' and 'Research' About Patents
2020-04-26 Links 26/4/2020: Replacing Vista 7, digiKam 7.0 RC3, Nitrux 1.2.8
2020-04-28 EPO: A Lawless Institution That Makes Its Staff Look Bad
2020-04-29 The Litigation 'Industry' is Not a Real Industry and Team UPC Sought to Harm Real, Productive Industries
2020-04-29 Tidying Up 13 Years of EPO Archives
2020-04-29 Links 29/4/2020: TDE 10th Anniversary, Sailfish OS 3.3
2020-04-30 COVID-19 Crisis: When EPO Outsources Everything to a Surveillance System of Microsoft and the NSA
2020-04-30 Links 30/4/2020: Cockpit 218, Parrot 4.9, WordPress 5.4.1
2020-04-30 Evidence of Profound European Patent Office Corruption in Official Journal 4/2020
2020-05-02 Links 2/5/2020: Xfce Switches to GitLab, GNOME 3.37.1, Simplicity Linux 20.4, GhostBSD 20.04
2020-05-02 New Cartoon: EPO Dialogue
2020-05-02 EPO is Killing Free Software and Personal Privacy During Quarantine or Lock-Down
2020-05-02 Links 2/5/2020: Release of Elementary 5.1, Endless OS 3.8.0, Redis 6.0
2020-05-03 How Many More Lives Will the European Patent Office Destroy?
2020-05-03 Media That Contains Lies Because It is Designed to Contain Lies (Including UPC Lies)
2020-05-03 The EPO is Not Changing
2020-05-03 Links 3/5/2020: Enlightenment DR 0.24.0 Alpha, GhostBSD 20.04.1
2020-05-04 Turning 13.5 and Why We're Needed in the Age of Misinformation and PR as 'News'
2020-05-04 Links 4/5/2020: Linux 5.7 RC4, GNU/Linux Desktop Share Up Sharply
2020-05-05 A Europe That Works for Patent Trolls and Their Legal Representatives
2020-05-05 Links 5/5/2020: GNU/Linux in Kerala and Mozilla Firefox 76
2020-05-07 Links 7/5/2020: DragonFly 5.8.1 and RetroArch 1.8.6
2020-05-07 Geeks in the Age of Lock-down (and After Quarantine)
2020-05-09 EFF Should Also Speak About the EPO Granting Software Patents Against the Law
2020-05-09 Microsoft Trolls as a Reflection of Microsoft's Demise (and Resort to Entryism, Hoping to Conquer the Competition That's Already Taking Over)
2020-05-09 Microsoft Still Stands for Poverty, Racism, and Militarism
2020-05-09 Links 9/5/2020: Debian Stable Release (10.4), Bison 3.6 and Wine 5.8
2020-05-10 Fake Technological 'Advancement' (or 'Efficiencies'): EPO Still Breaking the Law and the Ever-So-Shy Media Refuses to Talk About That
2020-05-10 Hair (and Heir) Management at the EPO
2020-05-11 EPO 'Courts' Outsourced to Microsoft
2020-05-13 Reinforcing the EPO's Illegal Actions for Power and Profit
2020-05-14 During Public Health Crisis the European Patent Office Operates Further Outside the Rule of Law (Exploiting This Crisis)
2020-05-15 The GMO Loophole Prevails at EPO Though Allowing People to Patent Life and Nature (or Even Mathematics) Harms Europe For the Sake of Litigation Euros
2020-05-15 EPO Still Needs to Close the GM/GMO Loophole (You Don't Get to 'Own' Life by Arbitrarily Tinkering With Life's Code)
2020-05-16 Groups Like 'No Patents on Seeds!' and 'Friends of the Earth Germany' Respond to Bayer's GMO Patents (Previously Monsanto) in Light of EPO's Watered-Down Decision
2020-05-16 Taylor Wessing's Latest UPC Spin: No More/Additional Complaints Against UPC Lodged
2020-05-16 Links 16/5/2020: FreeBSD 11.4 Beta 2
2020-05-17 Not Even One Single Article About the EPO's Attacks on the EPO’s Boards of Appeal
2020-05-17 It is Not Possible to Prevent Software Patent Grants in Europe as Long as the EPO is Profoundly Corrupt and the EU Looks the Other Way
2020-05-17 How the EPO Muzzled Critical Media: The Case of IP Kat
2020-05-17 Links 17/5/2020: Audacity 2.4.0, SuperTux 0.6.2, Kdenlive 20.04.1, Tor 0.4.3.5
2020-05-19 Constitutional Court’s Justice Huber Reaffirms Substantial Concerns About Viability of the Unitary Patent/UPC
2020-05-19 The Radicals Are the Patent Boosters, Not the Sceptics and Rationalists
2020-05-19 Free Software Will Become a Critical Discussion Point When 'Commercial Spaces' Perish Temporarily (or Are Permanently Phased Out)
2020-05-19 Why is the EPO Advertising Microsoft?
2020-05-20 EPO-FLIER: Do Your Best
2020-05-20 EPO Comes Home
2020-05-20 Amid Lock-Down the EPO is Still Laughing at the Law
2020-05-20 Further Complications Ahead for Team UPC as Unitary Patent-Type Plans Become Untenable and Complaints Pile Up
2020-05-21 Same Casting, Same Management, Exactly the Same Agenda at the European Patent Office
2020-05-22 The Industrial Revolution 5.0 (or 6.0) -- Symptom of Totally Incompetent Management at the European Patent Office
2020-05-22 Links 22/5/2020: App Icon Preview 2.0.0, dav1d 0.7.0, LibreOffice's New Icons
2020-05-23 GNOME Settlement With Patent Troll Fails to Address/Tackle the Software Patent and Software Patents in General
2020-05-23 The EPO Continues to Publicly Brag About Granting Illegal Patents to Fake 'Production' (It's Not Really Production But Abuse of the Granting Authority)
2020-05-23 Spillover: Team UPC Trying to Fill Up the Cup 'Half Empty'
2020-05-23 Links 23/5/2020: Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU21, Wine-Staging 5.9
2020-05-24 The Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court Book
2020-05-24 Home Working at the EPO: Your Corporate, Global Monopolies Will Be Rubber-stamped From Private Homes
2020-05-24 Ode to the 'Orange One'
2020-05-24 Links 24/5/2020: TUXEDO Computers on AMD, Ardour 6.0 is Out
2020-05-25 Links 25/5/2020: Linux 5.7 RC7 and TeleIRC 2.0.0
2020-05-25 The Attitude of António Campinos Toward Courts and Toward Justice Same as Benoît Battistelli's
2020-05-25 Working From Home on Patent Monopolies Would Lower Their Quality and Perceived Legitimacy
2020-05-26 Under Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Lately, But We're Too Robust For Those
2020-05-26 Breton (EU) 'Joins' Team UPC to Help His Buddy Battistelli... Again
2020-05-26 EPO Propaganda on Steroids (or on EPO)
2020-05-26 Links 26/5/2020: SHIFT13mi GNU/Linux Tablet, Linux Kodachi 7.0 and Some Qt Releases
2020-05-26 Careers in Free Software Aren't Careers in the Traditional Sense
2020-05-27 Links 27/5/2020: CoreOS Container Linux Reaches Its End-Of-Life, 2020 GNOME Foundation Elections Coming
2020-05-28 UPC Lies That Make One Laugh...
2020-05-28 The EPO Became a Very Radical Institution
2020-05-28 Links 28/5/2020: OpenSSH 8.3, New Mesa Release, Raspberry Pi 4 News, Fedora 32 Elections
2020-05-29 Weaponised Media Promoting an Illegal Patent System (UPC), Exploiting Major Pandemic in the Process
2020-05-30 Sick Alexander Ramsey is Using a Public Health Crisis to Lie About the Unitary Patent, Whose Fall Made Him Redundant and/or Obsolete
2020-05-30 EPO's Illegal Patents and Massive Corruption Go Unnoticed by Corporate Media and Sites That Cover Patent News
2020-05-30 Links 30/5/2020: Godot Editor Under Web Browsers, Alpine Linux 3.12.0 and EasyOS 2.3
2020-05-31 It's a Common Mistake and Common Misconception/Error to Treat Microsoft as Just Another 'Large Company' (or 'Big Tech')
2020-06-01 The Past Does Not Go Away, Except From Short-Term Memories
2020-06-02 Techrights Can Figure Out Source Protection/Anonymisation Whilst Operating Very Transparently
2020-06-02 Links 2/6/2020: New Firefox Release (77), Debian-based MX Linux 19.2, KDevelop 5.5.2, GNU/Linux Growth on Desktops/Laptops
2020-06-03 All They Want is Litigation, Not Innovation
2020-06-03 Links 4/6/2020: Septor 2020.3, Nextcloud and Blender 2.83
2020-06-04 Sword Group Violates Its Own Commitment by Working for the EPO
2020-06-04 Links 4/6/2020: Proton 5.0-8 Release Candidate, GNU Linux-libre 5.7
2020-06-05 The Huge Damage (Except for Patent Lawyers' Bottom Line) Caused by Fake European Patents
2020-06-05 Raw: How Microsoft and/or the EPO Killed an Important EPO Story About Their SLAPP Against Techrights and Others
2020-06-05 Links 5/6/2020: LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.3, Rust 1.44.0, and Hamburg's Pivot to Free/Libre Software
2020-06-06 Links 6/6/2020: Bifrost Meets GNOME, Wine 5.10 is Out
2020-06-07 Links 7/6/2020: Sparky 2020.06, Wine Staging 5.10, Vulkan SDK 1.2.141
2020-06-07 The Need for Purely Independent Media
2020-06-07 Status Update: DDoS, Traffic, Interns
2020-06-07 Links 7/6/2020: Linux Kernel 5.7 First Point Release and Features in KDE Plasma 5.20
2020-06-09 How Ad Hominem Attacks Work
2020-06-09 Anti-Trolls Aren't Trolls and Were Never Trolls (It's Entirely Reactionary)
2020-06-09 Appeasing Critics of Critics of Criminal Behaviour Isn't Possible and Should Not be a Goal (Objective Impossible)
2020-06-10 Rare Admission That Some Vaccine Patents Are Simply Bogus
2020-06-11 Team UPC is Betraying Italy Like It Did Spain, As It Envisions France (Paris) as Replacement for Italy (Milan) Amid Brexit
2020-06-11 Internal Publication About the EPO's Financial Fraud
2020-06-11 IAM's EPO Propaganda Helps Perpetuate Crimes and Corruption
2020-06-11 Daily Links Could Use Readers' Help
2020-06-11 Links 11/6/2020: New From System76 and GIMP 2.10.20 Released
2020-06-12 Defunct EPO in the Age of Defunct UPC (Even If EPO Fakes 'Quality' and Team UPC Keeps Faking 'Progress')
2020-06-12 [Humour] European Pandemic Office
2020-06-12 Links 12/6/2020: Fedora 32 Elections Results, KDE June 2020 Update and Kali Linux in Review
2020-06-13 SUEPO (Staff Union of EPO): “The Imbalance Between the Importance of (Patent) Quality and Quantity Remains a Cause for Concern” and Only 3% of EPO Staff Has Confidence in President Campinos
2020-06-13 EPO Uses Microsoft to Illegally Spy on EPO Staff Inside Their Homes, Uses Microsoft's Tactics of Hijacking Trademarks and Mottos
2020-06-13 Team UPC Keeps Perpetuating the Fiction UPCA Will be Ratified Soon (It Cannot, It's Illegal)
2020-06-13 EPO Has “the Worst Pension System, the Worst Career System, and the Worst Salary Adjustment Procedure in the World of International Organisations” (Whilst Amassing Money It's Not Allowed to Have)
2020-06-13 [Humour] António Skypinos
2020-06-14 Contrary to What 'Managing IP' Tells Readers, Australia Still Rejects Software Patents
2020-06-14 Self-Harming Acts: Germany's Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection Cares Neither About Justice Nor Consumers (or German SMEs)
2020-06-14 The Internet or the Web as a Platform for News is Dying (If Not Already Dead)
2020-06-14 Links 14/6/2020: Radeon Software for Linux 20.20, KMyMoney 5.1.0, Godot Engine 3.2.2 RC 1, Linux Mint 20 Beta
2020-06-14 EPO Never Gave Staff Any Time to Rest and Now It Wants Everyone Back at the Office With COVID-19 (for Which There's No Solution Yet)
2020-06-14 Battistelli's and Bergot's Unforgettable Attack on the Right to Strike Still Defended by the 'Nice' President Campinos
2020-06-15 Using 'Hey Hi' (AI) and Mindless Buzzwords to Spread Confusion and Blur the Gap Between Computer-Generated Patents and Patents on Algorithms
2020-06-15 Links 15/6/2020: Linux 5.8 RC1, 4MLinux 33.0 and digiKam 7.0.0 RC Released
2020-06-16 EPO 'Killing the Young' for So-called 'Production' (of Patent Monopolies for the Rich)
2020-06-16 The 'Stronger' Patents Act (STRONGER Patents Act of 2019) Killed by Coronavirus
2020-06-16 Tilmann & Tilmann: Has Juve Been Reduced to a Team UPC Propaganda Apparatus?
2020-06-16 UPC is Coming, It's Coming!!!
2020-06-17 One Week After Twitter Being 'Abandoned' the Sole Regret is Not Doing That a Lot Sooner
2020-06-17 EPO 2020 Vision: Billions for Gambling, No Money for Masks (for Staff's Safety)
2020-06-17 EPO Staff Union: “Buzzwords Are Indicators of Empty Statements Which Make the Communication Artificial and Simply Show a Lack of Authenticity.”
2020-06-18 Despite the Silence, EPO Staff May be More Repressed Than Ever, Hope is Being Lost
2020-06-18 Germany Has a Major Constitutional and Reputational Crisis Due to Team UPC
2020-06-18 Using Humour to Counter Deception and Googlebombing Campaigns
2020-06-19 Confidential: Dispute Over Establishment of EPO in Munich (January 1974)
2020-06-19 Corporate Media is (or as) a Barrier to Truth
2020-06-19 [Humour] Diverse EPO Panel
2020-06-20 How to Tell the German Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (“BMJV”) That Violating the Constitution is Not Acceptable
2020-06-20 Addiction as Big Pharma/Drug Mentality in the Realm of Software
2020-06-21 Personal Engineer of Bill Gates Illegally Possessed Firearms. Police Apparently Never Charged Him for That.
2020-06-21 Links 21/6/2020: Oracle Linux 8.2 Release and Wine-Staging 5.11
2020-06-22 Reminder to German Readers: Please Lodge Polite Complaints Against the Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (“BMJV”) Trying to Undermine the Constitution
2020-06-25 The EPO's 'Early Certainty From Google' Approach (“Closest Prior Art”) Means Loads of Fake European Patents and Frivolous Litigation/Shakedowns
2020-06-25 [Humour] EPO Still Above the Law in 2020
2020-06-25 António Campinos is Just an Empty Suit: 2 Years in the Office and Only 3% Approval Rate (Worse Than Battistelli)
2020-06-25 Links 25/6/2020: Grml 2020.06, MariaDB 10.5.4, Mesa 20.1.2 Release
2020-06-26 Latest EPO Cartoon: Lufthansa
2020-06-26 [Humour] European Inventor Award (EIA) Still a Hallmark of EPO Corruption
2020-06-27 Links 27/6/2020: rpminspect 1.0 and Godot Engine 3.2.2
2020-06-28 European Patents on Life (GMO) That Only Enrich Lawyers, Facilitating the War on Genetics and Generics (Access to Medicines)
2020-06-28 Links 28/6/2020: Mint's 20 Release, Audacity 2.4.2
2020-06-28 Greenwashing and Exploitation of COVID-19 by EPO Management, Aided by Deeply Compromised (Corrupt) Media
2020-06-28 Why Web Sites That Focus on Fewer Topics (a Narrower Scope) Are More Likely to Be Accurate, Harder to Mislead
2020-06-29 [Humour] “Technological Progress is Like an Axe in the Hands of a Pathological Criminal,” Albert Einstein, Famous European Patent Clerk
2020-06-30 Feeling Vindicated About the Harms of Social Control Media Being Widely Recognised
2020-06-30 Crocodiles Can Only Ever Fake Empathy
2020-06-30 [Humour] There's Always a Way... (to Grant Patents on Almost Anything)
2020-06-30 Links 30/6/2020: OpenSUSE Leap 15.2, 4MLinux 34.0 Beta and IPFire 2.25 - Core Update 146
2020-06-30 EPO Management Celebrates the Lowering of Patent Quality While Granting Invalid Patents (IPs) Instead of European Patents (EPs)
2020-07-01 Links 1/7/2020: Tails 4.8, Serpent OS
2020-07-01 Microsoft Has Infiltrated Authorities and/or Their Consultation Processes
2020-07-01 What Freedom of Software Actually Means to Us
2020-07-02 After 2 Years and 2 Days António Campinos is a Perfect Leader, Fostering EPO Abuses While Smiling
2020-07-03 The Lock-downs Are Over and Still Zero Media Coverage About EPO Scandals and Corruption
2020-07-03 [Humour] European Patents Only Useful Outside the Legal Framework?
2020-07-03 Links 3/7/2020: TrueNAS 12 Beta 1, Librem 13 Product Line
2020-07-03 Offence and Racism
2020-07-04 'Managing Intellectual Property' Managing to Become Uncritical Parrot of EPO Management
2020-07-04 [Humour] Bigger is Always Better When You're a Deluded Maximalist
2020-07-04 FFPE EPO Has Rendered Itself Obsolete by Liaising With Benoît Battistelli
2020-07-05 Christine Lambrecht (German Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection) Ignores the Fact That Even Patent Experts Reject the Unitary Patent (UPC)
2020-07-05 António Campinos Should Speak to Peasants, Not Litigation Lawyers
2020-07-06 Links 6/7/2020: LibreOffice 7.0 RC1, MX-19.2 KDE Beta 1, Linux 5.8 RC4
2020-07-07 When They're Done With Patents on Foods and Recipes They'll Have Patents on Fashion, Taste and Smell
2020-07-07 [Humour] IAM Ranked Top for Quality of EPO Propaganda
2020-07-08 (Software) Freedom is Elusive Without the Ability to Concentrate
2020-07-08 Links 8/7/2020: Huawei’s GNU/Linux PC, Sparky 5.12, and Endless OS 3.8.4 Released
2020-07-08 Fraunhofer is Again Evergreening Software Patents to Maintain Its Codecs Cartel, Forcing Everyone to Pay to View/Stream Multimedia Files
2020-07-09 Microsoft's Fingers in Every Pie: The Cult Mentality That Society Needs to Become Wary of
2020-07-09 The News is Never 'Slow', It's Just Journalism That's Slowing Down (and Investigative Journalism Coming Under Attack)
2020-07-09 [Humour] COVID-19 is Very, Very Afraid of Human Beings Making More Monopolies Instead of Fighting Together
2020-07-10 Not Even a Single Corporate Journalist Has Written Anything About These Very Important Bits of News (Updated)
2020-07-10 European FRAND (Related to SEP) Proponent and Famed Programmer Comes to Realise That It's Actually a “Scam”
2020-07-11 A Call for Patent Sanity
2020-07-11 António Campinos: President or Quasi-Autocratic Corporate Puppet?
2020-07-11 [Humour] The 'Orange One' Does Not Respect Judges Either
2020-07-11 Links 12/7/2020: KDE Plasma 5.20 Preview and Elive 3.8.14 Beta
2020-07-12 Missing From EPO Management: Actual Scientists
2020-07-12 [Humour/Meme] High on Production, Stoned on Pseudoscience
2020-07-12 Red Hat Betrayed the Free Software Community With Its Software Patents' Stockpiling Drive and Then a Sale to the Biggest Software Patents Lobbyist
2020-07-12 Links 12/7/2020: KF6 Progress Report, GNUnet 0.13.1, Nano Becomes Default Terminal Text Editor in Fedora
2020-07-12 [Humour/Meme] Half a Decade Has Passed and EPO Management Was Never Held Accountable for Illegal Surveillance
2020-07-14 The EPO's Misleading 'Studies' Are Just More of the Same Perception Management Routines
2020-07-15 Twitter in 2020 is Where Information Comes to Die or to be Corrupted
2020-07-16 [Meme] Reminder: EPO Management Failed to Provide Staff With Facial Masks (as Advised/Required by Law)
2020-07-16 EPO Management Has Hunted Down Journalists and Killed Journalism
2020-07-16 The Web is Drying Up, Journalism is Coming to an End
2020-07-16 Commissioner Thierry Breton, Acting Like a Patent Maximalists' 'Mole' (as Expected All Along), is Now Formally Lying for Team UPC (Updated)
2020-07-16 There's a Lot More to Race and Racism Than Colours (and Names of Colours)
2020-07-17 Leaked: EPO's Revised Operational Plan Exploits COVID-19 to Attack EPO Staff
2020-07-17 SUEPO (the EPO's Staff Union): “EPO Will Let Highly Experienced Examiners and Formalities Officers Leave Without Any Possibility of Knowledge Transfer to New Recruits”
2020-07-17 [Humour/Meme] EPO is Recruiting
2020-07-17 Chinese EPO
2020-07-17 [Humour/Meme] Today's EPO is Run by Con Men and Fraudsters
2020-07-17 The EPO's Corruption is Like a Cancer That Has Spread to and Infected the EU as Well
2020-07-18 Marks & Clerk Reveals That António Campinos, With Zero Experience in Software, is Lobbying Judges (Who Are Supposed to be Independent But Are Actually Controlled by Him) to Open the Floodgates to Illegal Software Patents
2020-07-18 Thierry Breton and the European Commission Must Answer Perfectly Legitimate Questions About European Patent Office Corruption
2020-07-18 [Humour/Meme] EPO Accountability 2020?
2020-07-18 'IP5' Patent Offices May Have Become the Biggest Threat to the Patent System
2020-07-18 [Humour/Meme] EPO Needs Management That Understands and Pursues Science, Not Litigation
2020-07-19 Team UPC and Other UPC Boosters Twist the Facts, Deliberately Lie and Rely on De Facto 'Moles' in Powerful Roles/Seats
2020-07-19 [Meme/Humour] EPO Wants Only Obedient and Mindless Workers
2020-07-19 The Enlarged Board of Appeal Cannot Independently Rule on the Matter of Software Patentability
2020-07-19 When You Break the Law and Have Nothing Positive to Say Why Not Exploit COVID-19 for Cheap, Fact-Free Marketing/Self-Promotion Along With a Superficial 'Study'?
2020-07-19 Marketing Illegal Things at the European Patent Office and Amplifying Old Lies About UPC
2020-07-19 Microsoft Lays Off Azure Staff and Much More, Spins These Layoffs as “Optimization Strategy”
2020-07-19 Links 19/7/2020: Laptop Mode Tools 1.74, Cloudflare Failures Again, and Why People Are Crazy About Arch Linux
2020-07-20 Final Death for UPC: UK Officially Withdraws, Leaving Only France (Updated)
2020-07-21 In Microsoft Windows the Police May Get Access to All the Files (and That's Almost Impossible to Stop, It's Very Difficult to Prevent This)
2020-07-21 Unified Patents Comes to Europe, Challenging Bogus Software Patents That EPO Should Never Have Granted
2020-07-21 The General Consensus is That UPC is Dead, Which Means Many European Patents Are Also Dead (or Zombies)
2020-07-21 [Meme/Humour] July 20, 2020: Independence From UPC
2020-07-21 Wearing Masks Isn't a Political Statement
2020-07-21 As Techrights Predicted All Along, UPC Support Would Become a Self-Inflicted Wound for Germany and the EU (or European Commission)
2020-07-21 Rotting Away in an Age of Several Crises
2020-07-21 They Tell Us About 'Flying' Cars and 'Smart' Cars When Car Ownership Decreases and Many Automobile Companies Go Bust
2020-07-21 Links 21/7/2020: GeckoLinux Release, Atari VCS Develops
2020-07-22 Very Strong Consensus That the UPC is Dead for Good (The UPC Hopefuls Might Try Another Thing, But It Can Take Almost a Decade)
2020-07-22 Links 22/7/2020: More GNU/Linux Laptops Surface
2020-07-23 A Very Corrupt EPO Uses COVID-19 to Pretend to be Benevolent (Politicians Running Technical Institutions as Recipe for Failure)
2020-07-23 EPO Insider on Unitary Patent (UPC): “There is No Longer a Legal Context and No One Left to Implement It and Nothing to Be Rescued.”
2020-07-23 [Meme] This Did Not Age Well, Did It?
2020-07-23 EQE to Become Another Example of EPO Outsourcing (Updated)
2020-07-23 Judging by What the EPO Did to European Media, in Effect Dooming It, Workers of the EPO Are Right to Call Their Managers “Mafia”
2020-07-23 Links 23/7/2020: Antitrust Complaint Against Microsoft, More Software Patents Invalidated in the US
2020-07-23 Power Shift or Power Transition
2020-07-24 Ten Years Since 'EPO 9/11'
2020-07-24 [Meme] Inhumane EPO
2020-07-24 Art 7(2) UPCA Doomed Unitary Patent (UPC) for Good
2020-07-25 Links 25/7/2020: Mir 2.0 Released and FSF Talks DRM
2020-07-26 The EPO is Still a Sordid Mess and the Media Doesn't Talk About That, So Where Do We Go From Here?
2020-07-26 [Meme] European Patent Optics
2020-07-26 Rise of Autocracy Everywhere
2020-07-26 Techrights Supports the EU. That Does Not Mean Support for Today's EPO. The EPO Lost Its Way (and Head).
2020-07-26 No Real Holiday in EPOnia ('Island' of the European Patent Office)
2020-07-27 Calling 'Bullshit' on the 'Hey Hi' (AI) Marketing Hype
2020-07-27 Golden Cages Are Still Cages and Working From Home Can Become a Legal Mess
2020-07-27 Contrary to Common Myths, Free Software and GNU/Linux Are Typically Way Ahead of Proprietary Software (Which Copies and Then Patents)
2020-07-28 EPO Management Wants to Introduce 'Code of Conduct' With Which to Impose Censorship of Staff Representatives' Communications With Staff
2020-07-28 [Meme] EPO Administrative Council Replaced One Dude With a Dud
2020-07-28 Weeks of DDOS Attacks Simply Mean We're Effective and This Illegal DDOS Campaign Won't Discourage Techrights
2020-07-28 The Internet in 2020 is Really Bad for Free Speech
2020-07-28 When the Mainstream German Media Stops Reporting or Even Talking About EPO Scandals for No Valid Reason/s
2020-07-29 [Meme] Demolishing Facts, As Always, With Help From IAM 'Magazine'
2020-07-29 It's Good to be King (of EPOnia)
2020-07-29 Links 29/7/2020: LLVM 11.0 Release Candidate, Tails 4.9 and WordPress 5.5 Release Candidate
2020-07-29 Links 29/7/2020: LabPlot 2.8 Beta and GNU Nano 5
2020-07-30 Links 30/7/2020: Kodi Media Center 18.8, GNOME Gingerblue 0.2.0, 'BootHole' Hype Everywhere (UEFI 'Security' Was Always Overhyped Anyway)
2020-07-31 Managing IP Still Champions Fake 'News' for Team UPC
2020-08-01 EPO Workers Are Losing Their Homes and Losing Their Time Off; It's All About So-called 'Production'
2020-08-01 The Criminals Who Run the EPO Are Exploiting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People to Distract From Their Corruption and Crimes
2020-08-01 [Meme] Testosterone Patent Office
2020-08-02 Links 2/8/2020: Nitrux 1.3.1, Debian GNU/Linux 10.5 “Buster” and Wine 5.14 Released
2020-08-02 Links 2/8/2020: Wine-Staging 5.14, VokoscreenNG 3.0.5
2020-08-07 Site Upgrades Likely Coming Soon
2020-08-07 Links 7/8/2020: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS and GNU C Library 2.32 Released
2020-08-09 Links 9/8/2020: Popcorn Computers Pocket PC and New Interview With Richard Stallman
2020-08-10 The Incredible Demise of News Sites About Patents
2020-08-10 Links 10/8/2020: KPhotoAlbum 5.7.0 and MX Linux RC
2020-08-11 European Patent Office Management Swims With Sharks and Liars
2020-08-11 Europe Deserves Better Than Today's EPO
2020-08-12 Links 12/8/2020: New GNU Emacs, GXml-0.20, WordPress 5.5, and Mozilla is Laying off 250 Staff
2020-08-13 Links 13/8/2020: New LibreOffice 6.4.x, Linspire 9.0, Endless OS 3.8.5
2020-08-14 Links 14/8/2020: GNUnet 0.13.2, Mesa 20.2 RC2
2020-08-15 Techrights and figosdev
2020-08-15 Techrights is Still Growing, Not Only Publishing in Higher Volume/Frequencies
2020-08-16 Links 16/8/2020: Debian Turns 27, MX Linux 19.2 KDE Edition and GNOME 3.38 Beta Released
2020-08-18 Team UPC Has Almost Vanished
2020-08-18 EPO Should Quit Blaming COVID-19 for Its Demise
2020-08-18 Free Software is on the Wrong Track, But It's Not Too Late to Correct That
2020-08-18 Links 18/8/2020: Sparky 2020.08, KDevelop 5.6 Beta and Linuxfx 10.5
2020-08-18 EPO Censorship Rebuked by Former UK Human Rights Judge
2020-08-18 The Central Staff Committee of the EPO Remarks on Unlawful Censorship by the Office
2020-08-18 Bergot-Streisand Effect: The EPO Tried to Spike These Publications (and Succeeded for 4 Years Until This Was Ruled Unlawful)
2020-08-19 Meme: Always Masking the EPO
2020-08-20 Links 20/8/2020: New Oracle Solaris, Linux 5.8.2, GraalVM 20.2
2020-08-20 Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) on the European Commission 'Public' Consultation Regarding a Misnomer
2020-08-20 Unpublished EPO Material
2020-08-20 Six Years of EPO Scandals
2020-08-22 Managing 'Intellectual Property' (Managing 'IP') is Promoting Software Patents for a Fee
2020-08-22 Techrights is International
2020-08-23 Links 23/8/2020: Chromebooks With External Drive GNU/Linux, First Impression of Archcraft OS
2020-08-25 Vaccination is Good, Monopolies Are Not Good
2020-08-26 Criteria for Stories Techrights Focuses On
2020-08-26 Many Politicians Are Liars Because It's Becoming Part of the Job's Requirements (and Expectations)
2020-08-27 Links 28/8/2020: Linux Kernel 5.7 Reaches End of Life, Rust 1.46.0
2020-08-28 Links 28/8/2020: EasyOS 2.4, Qt Creator 4.13, SupertuxKart 1.2
2020-08-30 Timeline of Free/Livre/Libre Software
2020-08-30 Debian 'Coup' Followed by Harassment and Threats to Whistleblowers (at the Expense of Very Limited -- Albeit Secret -- Debian Funds)
2020-08-30 People Who Truly Love GNU/Linux Don't Brush Setbacks and Problems Under the Carpet
2020-08-30 Publication 101: Reporting, Stenography, Leaks, Whistleblowing and Investigative Journalism
2020-09-01 Links 31/8/2020: Linux 5.9 RC3, PinePhone Manjaro, 4MLinux 33.2, Q4OS 3.12, Blender 2.90 and LXD 4.5
2020-09-01 Studying the History of Free (Libre) Software and the Early Attempts to Co-opt it in the Mid/Late 1990s
2020-09-03 Law360 Says the EPO's Popularity is Decreasing
2020-09-03 Links 3/9/2020: More GNU/Linux Laptops and Mesa 20.1.7
2020-09-04 Links 4/9/2020: GNU/Linux Laptops Galore and Release of GTK 3.99.1
2020-09-05 Links 5/9/2020: Wayland’s Weston 9.0, FreeIPMI 1.6.6 and Nitrux 1.3.2
2020-09-06 The Tragic Stories of Microsoft Mishandling People With Special Needs (to the Point Where Some Needlessly Die)
2020-09-06 Bribing Free Software Institutions: A Primer
2020-09-06 More People Should Get Involved in the Fight for Software Freedom (in a World Where Software Increasingly Manages or Mismanages Everything)
2020-09-06 Links 6/9/2020: GNUnet 0.13.3, Akademy 2020 Day 2, Python 3.5.10
2020-09-07 Reality and Expectation: GNU/Linux Isn't Hiding Anything and That Makes It a Lot Stronger (No Embarrassing 'Leaks')
2020-09-07 Links 7/9/2020: Linux 5.9 RC4, Julian Assange Hearing Resumes
2020-09-08 Information Deficit at the European Patent Office
2020-09-09 Links 9/9/2020: MidnightBSD 1.2.8, Zorin OS 15.3, Hikari 2.2
2020-09-10 Links 10/9/2020: YARH.IO MKI, digiKam 7.1.0, Qt 5.15.1
2020-09-11 Links 11/9/2020: PCs Refurbished With GNU/Linux, Releases of Deepin 20 and Diffoscope 160
2020-09-13 Fake Patents Granted by the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA) and the EPO's Misleading Propaganda Video Series (Conflating Patents With Other Things) Exploits Dead People
2020-09-14 Links 13/9/2020: GNOME 3.38 RC2 and Develop.kde.org
2020-09-14 Team UPC Wants Germany to Break International Law
2020-09-14 Links 14/9/2020: Linux 5.9 RC5, Nvidia Buys Arm From SoftBank
2020-09-15 EPO Oral Proceedings Have Been Outsourced to the United States (Proprietary Software With Surveillance Back Doors)
2020-09-15 [Meme] EPO Cannot Recover by Brushing Aside Issues and by Bribing the Media
2020-09-15 Solidarity at the EPO Means Resisting the EPO's Management and Supporting Colleagues
2020-09-15 Links 15/9/2020: IBM Z and LinuxONE, PinePhone Multi-Distro Image
2020-09-16 António Campinos is Believed to be “Dismantling” the EPO
2020-09-17 Links 17/9/2020: GNOME 3.38 and LabPlot 2.8
2020-09-17 EPO Gradually Becomes a Set of Private Corporations (Some Aren't Even European and Work Against Europeans)
2020-09-17 [Meme] António Campinos Fools Nobody at the EPO Anymore
2020-09-17 Germany Would Violate 3 International Agreements With the Unitary Patent, Says FFII
2020-09-18 When Attempting to Run for Debian Project Leader (DPL), Only to Realise the Process is Rigged (and Censored) to Protect Past Leaders
2020-09-18 More EPO Disclosures: An Explanation of How an EPO Survey Plots to Dismantle the EPO's Staff
2020-09-20 Links 20/9/2020: 4MLinux 34.0 Released, September Release and EndeavourOS for ARM
2020-09-20 Epitaph for (Death of) Patent-Centric Media: Litigation Giant Bird & Bird Nowadays Doing Ads as 'Podcasts' in Think Tank Site 'Managing IP'
2020-09-20 High-Profile and Invalid (Invalidated) European Patents Harm the Presumption of Validity of European Patents
2020-09-20 DDOS Attacks Against Us Lately
2020-09-20 Links 20/9/2020: Flameshot Screenshot Tool 0.8, Okular Improvements and More
2020-09-21 Links 21/9/2020: KTechLab 0.50.0, Linux 5.9 RC6
2020-09-21 Links 21/9/2020: PlasmaShell With Vulkan, Plasma Beta Review Day, OpenMediaVault 5.5.11
2020-09-22 Links 23/9/2020: Librem 14 Shipping in December, Linux Journal Returns, Istio 1.6.10 Released, Release Candidate 3 of LLVM 11.0
2020-09-23 The Latest Greenwashing Campaign by the EPO is Just 'Chinese Propaganda'
2020-09-24 Links 24/9/2020: KaOS 2020.09, Arch Conf 2020 Coming, IBM Z Day 2020 Ends
2020-09-26 Links 26/9/2020: Wine 5.18, FreeBSD 12.2-BETA3 and Debian 10.6 Released
2020-09-27 Links 27/9/2020: Puppy Linux 9.5, Nitrux 1.3.3
2020-09-28 Links 28/9/2020: Linux 5.9 RC7, Review of Linuxfx 10.6, OpenSSH 8.4
2020-09-28 EPO Management Looks for New and 'Innovative' Ways to Exploit Scientists and Distract From EPO Corruption
2020-09-29 EFF: Sitting on a Massive Pile of Money and Members Are Less Than a Third of the Revenue
2020-10-02 Greenwashing the Corruption of the European Patent Office
2020-10-02 Links 2/10/2020: More GNU/Linux Laptops and Steam On GNU/Linux Grows ~8% in 2 Months
2020-10-02 Watchtroll Demonises People Wrongly Accused of Patent Infringement (or Sued Using Fake Patents), Suggests or Insinuates EPO is More Lenient Than Today's USPTO
2020-10-03 Twitter Undoubtedly Works for Fascists; We're Glad Techrights Never Participated in Twitter
2020-10-03 The EPO is Far Too Rogue to Reform Itself
2020-10-04 Corporate Bullies Disguised as Well-Meaning Activists, Equipped With Libel and Social Control Media Accounts
2020-10-05 EPO Management Threatens People Who Come Back to Work (Updated)
2020-10-05 Links 5/10/2020: FSF at 35 and Linux 5.9 Reaches RC8 (Last RC)
2020-10-06 Links 6/10/2020: Python 3.9.0, Git 2.29.0 RC0
2020-10-08 Links 8/10/2020: GIMP 2.10.22 and DXVK 1.7.2
2020-10-09 Links 9/10/2020: DMEMFS Proposed for Linux, LibreOffice 7.0.2 and GNOME 3.38.1 Released
2020-10-09 EPO Management is Violating COVID-19 Rules That Managers Gladly Flout While Threatening Staff (Because They're Above the Law, Which They Routinely Break)
2020-10-09 EPO Management is Making Patent Examiners Poorer and Shuts Out the Union
2020-10-10 Milestone: Almost a Terabyte in a Single Week
2020-10-10 Links 10/10/2020: Istio 1.6.12, Wine 5.19 and Wine-Staging 5.19, FreeBSD 12.2 RC2
2020-10-11 Links 11/10/2020: Arch Conf 2020, Plasma 5.20 'is Nigh'
2020-10-12 Links 12/10/2020: New Linux Release, Pitivi 2020.09
2020-10-13 [Cartoon] Internal EPO Caricature About the Direction the Office Has Taken
2020-10-14 Links 14/10/2020: Rescuezilla 2.0, Tor Browser 10.0.1, Ubuntu Touch Progress
2020-10-16 Links 16/10/2020: KD Reports 1.8.2 and Proton 5.13-1
2020-10-17 Links 17/10/2020: GCC 11 Status Report, FreeBSD 12.2 RC3, Chrome 87 Beta
2020-10-19 Links 19/10/2020: Linux 5.9-ck1/MuQSS, Linux Kodachi 7.3
2020-10-20 Ongoing (Albeit Secret) Campaign of Patent Extortion Against GNU/Linux Distributions Using Software Patents, Even Expired Ones in Europe
2020-10-22 The European Commission is Still M.I.A. Regarding EPO Corruption (and the EPO's Management Plays Dirty, as Always)
2020-10-23 Links 23/10/2020: Turing Pi 2, GNU Parallel 20201022
2020-10-23 The EPO Has Relegated or Lowered Itself to Extremely Poor Standards
2020-10-23 [Meme] When EPO Staff Claims to be 'Ill' or 'Sick'... During a Pandemic's European Peak
2020-10-24 Juve Patent's Love of Patent Trolls and Their Misinformation
2020-10-24 Links 24/10/2020: GDB 10.1, Kodachi 7.4, Wine 5.20
2020-10-26 Links 26/10/2020: Debian
2020-10-29 Links 29/10/2020: Istio 1.6.13, Krita 4.4.1 and PyPI Key-Signing Ceremony
2020-10-30 Links 30/10/2020: WordPress 5.5.2 and NSA Mum on Its Back Doors Policy
2020-10-31 Links 31/10/2020: KDE on Hugo, NetBSD Moves From TWM to CTWM
2020-10-31 2020: The Year the Patent System Converged With Naked Fascism
2020-10-31 [Meme] Two Dictators: How the EPO Shuffled the Dictatorship's Cards
2020-11-01 Overall Accuracy and Honesty Ought to Count More Than Number and Quality (or Source Diversity) of Links
2020-11-01 Links 1/11/2020: Chromium in Linux Mint, PinePhone at 3GB/32GB
2020-11-01 Links 1/11/2020: OpenIndiana Hipster 2020.10, RC2 of Next Linux Release and Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) Release
2020-11-02 Links 2/11/2020: Dan Kohn Passes Away
2020-11-03 Team UPC and Team Campinos Are Causing Constitutional Crises in Germany (Even Amid Pandemic)
2020-11-04 The EPO's Love Affair With Authoritarian Regimes Accompanies Europe's Embrace of Lawless, Unconstitutional Patent Regimes
2020-11-04 Links 4/11/2020: Emmabuntüs DE3 1.03, LXQt 0.16, GNU/Linux Migration in Turkey and Signed Git Pushes in Linux
2020-11-05 The EPO is Pushing Illegal Software Patents Together With WIPO
2020-11-05 [Meme] EPO as a Looted Institution Where Crime is the 'Norm' Nowadays
2020-11-05 [Meme] António Campinos is the EPO's 'Fanta' (Making EPO Fascism Seem Acceptable, Gentle, Caring and Kind)
2020-11-06 Patent Maximalists: We Love 'Criminals and Rapists' as Presidents
2020-11-07 Looking Back at 14 Years of Activism and Journalism
2020-11-07 EPO Insider Explains “Team Leaders” and the Downfall of the EPO
2020-11-08 Links 8/11/2020: Wine-Staging 5.21 Released and EndeavourOS Lays Out Its Vision
2020-11-09 Links 9/11/2020: Linux 5.10 RC3, Mesa 20.2.2, and Mutt 2.0
2020-11-09 Inside the EPO During Corona: A New Series About the European Patent Office During European Lock-downs
2020-11-09 Inside the EPO During Corona: The Management of the European Patent Office Was (Fore)Warned About Exploiting a Public Health Crisis
2020-11-09 Inside the EPO During Corona: Like Benoît Battistelli, António Campinos Leaves Out Staff Representation Out of Consultation Regarding Unprecedented Health Crisis Which Impacts Staff
2020-11-10 Inside the EPO During Corona: 'Sick' António Campinos Uses a Global Sickness to Illegally Rob EPO Staff, Already Besieged by the Pandemic
2020-11-10 Inside the EPO During Corona: “We All Should be Creative and Open” Was the Excuse to Break the Rules and Violate Laws/Constitutions at the EPO (European Patent Office)
2020-11-11 Inside the EPO During Corona: Cameras and Microphones in EPO People's Private Homes “Have Been Broadly Welcomed by the Patent Profession” (the Law and EPO Staff Don't Count)
2020-11-11 Inside the EPO During Corona: Death Toll of Benoît Battistelli's 'Suicide Wave' Will be Exceeded by the 'Corona Wave' of António Campinos
2020-11-11 Inside the EPO During Corona: The Eye in the Sky(pe)
2020-11-11 Links 11/11/2020: Clonezilla Live 2.7.0, Feren OS 2020.11, MX Linux 19.3 Released
2020-11-12 Not Even a Pandemic That Kills Millions of People Will Stop the EPO Regime From Granting Loads of Fake Patents (Monopolies That Save Nobody)
2020-11-12 Inside the EPO During Corona: Repressive Tyrant António Campinos Still Blocking Techrights and Still Preventing Staff Representatives From Speaking Openly to Staff
2020-11-12 Inside the EPO During Corona: Sweep-up Man Christoph Ernst Abuses Notion of Leave (Break From Work)
2020-11-12 Links 12/11/2020: Next Debian Theme, Proxmox Backup Server 1.0
2020-11-14 Monday Will Not be “Early November”
2020-11-14 Something About to Hit the Fan at the EPO
2020-11-14 Inside the EPO During Corona: The EPO Recklessly Breaking the Law With Videoconference (ViCo) for European Patents
2020-11-14 Inside the EPO During Corona: More Microsoft and More Corruption/Nepotism From António Campinos (Loyal Friends Get Top Jobs to Cover Up/Perpetuate Scandals)
2020-11-14 Inside the EPO During Corona: The António Campinos Monologue, Talking Inwards While Pretending to Represent the EPO's Interests
2020-11-14 Inside the EPO During Corona: The EPO's Fat Cash Cow is Decreasing Salaries of Staff During a Public Crisis
2020-11-15 Inside the EPO During Corona: The European Patent Office (EPO), in Clear Violation of the Law and the EPC, Forces Parties to Join Surveillance Sessions (American Spying Companies) to Squash False European Patents
2020-11-15 Links 15/11/2020: The LibreOffice Calc Guide 7.0 and PinePhone KDE Community Edition
2020-11-15 Nobody Was Ever Punished for Bullying Laurent Prunier (Bergot and Others Kept Their EPO Jobs and They Continue to Oppress and Silence Staff Representatives)
2020-11-15 Inside the EPO During Corona: Letter to Stephen Rowan About EPO Management Exploiting the Pandemic to Demand Harder Work (Instead of Loosening and Lowering Expectations/Workload)
2020-11-15 Inside the EPO During Corona: COVID-in-the-Head António Campinos Acts Like a Maniac and Starts Shouting at Meetings (Refusing to Listen to Anybody or Accept Reality)
2020-11-15 EPO Staff Representatives Explain Why the Appeals Committee is Flawed and Transparency is Lacking
2020-11-15 Inside the EPO During Corona: António Campinos Running Europe's Monopolies-Granting Monopoly Like a Shop With Essentials While Crushing Those Who 'Stock the Shelves'
2020-11-16 Inside the EPO During Corona: The EPO is Silently Shrinking in Vienna and Dictator António Campinos Defends His Bully and Union Buster, Elodie Bergot
2020-11-16 Judges at the EPO (Boards of Appeal) Can Still be Punished for Ruling 'Unfavourably' on Patent Maximalism
2020-11-16 Links 16/11/2020: OpenSUSE Board Election, MidnightBSD 2.0, LabPlot 2.8.1
2020-11-16 European Patent Office Union (SUEPO) Reiterates Its Allegation, Backed by Professionals, That the Management is Crushing the Office and Its Staff Based on a Manufactured “Hoax”
2020-11-17 Inside the EPO During Corona: Half a Year Ago EPO Management Was a 'Superspreader' of COVID-19 and It Broke the Law Regarding Masks
2020-11-17 SUEPO's EPO Staff Survey: Confidence in Staff Representatives at All-Time High and Confidence in EPO President at Only 3%
2020-11-17 Inside the EPO During Corona: The Hoax 'Study' From Campinos and Donald Trump Associate (Mercer) Debunked, EPO Management Uninterested Because Facts Are Inconvenient
2020-11-17 Links 17/11/2020: PrimTux6 and Firefox 83
2020-11-17 The Stench Follows and Spreads: Another UPC Lie Now Followed by Lies From the Government of Germany
2020-11-18 OIN is Lying Because It's Not Helping GNU/Linux and Not Defending the Community, It's Only Defending Software Patents From Activists and Actual Developers
2020-11-18 Inside the EPO During Corona: The Office Management Never Cared About the Well-being of Staff (and Still Doesn't)
2020-11-18 Inside the EPO During Corona: EPO Staff Representatives Grew Increasingly Frustrated in June as EPO Had Acted Like a Law-Infringing Monarchy, Not a Public Institution
2020-11-18 Two Years Without Progress on Impartiality of Internal Tribunals at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2020-11-19 Inside the EPO During Corona: There's No Rule of Law Anymore and That Takes Its Toll on 'Low-Level' Staff
2020-11-19 Inside the EPO During Corona: Acting Chairperson of the Central Staff Committee of the EPO Suggests Involving Staff Representatives in Corona Task Force
2020-11-19 Inside the EPO During Corona: Sending Staff Home to Justify Cutting Their Benefits and Maybe Even Key Allowances
2020-11-20 Inside the EPO During Corona: Managers Don't Think of the Children, Cut Their Budget for First Time in Half a Century
2020-11-20 Conduct of EPO Management Lacks “Basis in Legality” According to EPO Staff Representatives
2020-11-20 Inside the EPO During Corona: The EPO is Violating Workers'/Stakeholders' Privacy and Breaking Data Protection Law (Again)
2020-11-20 Better Privacy Than Pretty Good Privacy
2020-11-21 Links 21/11/2020: Coreboot 4.13, EasyOS 2.5, Wine 5.22, Gmusicbrowser 1.1.16
2020-11-21 Inside the EPO During Corona: SUEPO (EPO Staff Union) and the Central Staff Committee Blast the Office for Illegal Practices and Threaten Legal Action
2020-11-21 The Only Real Dialogue the 'European' Patent Office is Having... is With Litigation Parasites, Even Foreign Ones
2020-11-21 IAM Celebrating and Glorifying Illegal Patents With Fake 'Awards' and Bogus 'Endorsements'
2020-11-22 Newly Abnormal: A Crackdown on EPO Staff and Labour Rights in 'Survey' Clothing (Willis Towers Watson)
2020-11-22 Mortality Rates Increase at the EPO and Christmases (or Holidays) During Corona Mean Fewer Days Off
2020-11-23 Legal Action at the European Patent Office (EPO) Leveraged Against Management... for Robbing EPO Staff and Robbing Europe, by Extension
2020-11-23 Links 23/11/2020: Linux 5.10-rc5, GIMP Turns 25, 4MLinux 34.2, Escuelas Linux 6.11, MPV Player 0.33
2020-11-23 Dutch Delegation and German Delegation at the Administrative Council of the EPO Upset at the Office for Secrecy, Working Behind the Scenes to Crush Productive Staff
2020-11-23 The EPO is Using Hype Wave and Buzzword to Promote Illegal Software Patents in a So-Called “Digital Conference”
2020-11-23 Internal Error: Unified Patent Court and Unitary Patent Incompatible With the Constitution and Basic Laws
2020-11-24 Growing Concerns That EPO Staff Has Been Placed Under de Facto House Arrest by an Entirely Unaccountable Office
2020-11-24 EPO's Central Staff Committee on Latest Meeting With Office Dictator: “No Meaningful Discussion Could Take Place.”
2020-11-24 EPO Management is Still Distracting From the 'Elephant in the Room' by Corrupting Media and Academia
2020-11-24 Massive Collective Action Begins at the European Patent Office Today, Demanding Change and Forewarning the Management (Litigation)
2020-11-24 Lots of Good News Today
2020-11-24 Dr. Bausch Questions the Merits and Claims of EPO Management Regarding ViCo ('Skynet' Virtual 'Courts')
2020-11-24 [Meme] Things Will Get Amusing When/If EPO Proceedings Are Cancelled Due to Patent Trolls Suing the Platforms Using Software Patents (Granted by the EPO)
2020-11-25 Member of the EPO's Boards of Appeal Explains Why VICOs (or ViCo/Video Conferences/Virtual 'Hearings') Are Not Suitable for Justice
2020-11-25 The European Patent Office Should be Run by Patent Examiners (Scientists), Not Politicians
2020-11-25 Links 25/11/2020: GamerOS and Biden Transition in Motion
2020-11-26 Links 26/11/2020: AV Linux 2020.11.23 and Blender 2.91 Release
2020-11-26 European Patent Office (EPO) Reduced to 'Justice Over the Telephone' and Decree by E-mail
2020-11-26 [Meme] Trump is Out. Now It's Time to Pressure the Biden Administration/Transition Team on Software Freedom Issues.
2020-11-26 Links 26/11/2020: PHP 8.0, Proxmox VE 6.3, UNIGINE 2.13
2020-11-26 Many Thanks to Free Software, the Demise of Software Patents (in Europe and the US), and So Much More
2020-11-26 Free as in Freedom Should Not be Associated With Cost
2020-11-27 Cartoon: After Gambling With Workers' Savings the EPO Can Do Real Estate
2020-11-27 Links 27/11/2020: Systemd 247 and Cockpit 233
2020-11-27 The Time Coronavirus Helped EPO Management Prevent Staff From Protesting and Going on Strike (March 26th)
2020-11-27 Links 27/11/2020: Jolla is 7, Diffoscope 162, MNT Reform Production
2020-11-28 The European Patent Office's Central Staff Committee: Office Cannot Recruit Fit-for-Purpose Patent Examiners Anymore
2020-11-28 EPO Management, Led by António Campinos, Attempted to Stifle or Prevent Staff From Being Surveyed
2020-11-28 EPO Senior Management (Cabal) “Essentially Deaf to the Proposals From Staff Representatives.”
2020-11-28 Nine Documents About the Financial Siege Against EPO Staff (Past, Present, and Future)
2020-11-29 Help Make Techrights (and Other Technology-Centric Sites) More Robust to Censorship by Setting Up More IPFS Nodes
2020-11-29 The Real Fate of the UPC 'Stunt' in Germany Will be Known Next Month (or Next Year) and There Are Substantial Constitutional Barriers in the Way
2020-11-29 EPO Can Save Money by “Dropping Events Like the Inventor of the Year, Reducing the Number of Managers, Throwing Less Money at Consultants or Bringing the Boards of Appeal Back into Office Buildings.”
2020-11-29 Reasons EPO Staff Decided to Go on Strike This Year (Before or Until Coronavirus Prevented It)
2020-11-29 One Year Ago: The Last EPO Demonstration Before COVID-19
2020-11-29 Release: 4 More Documents and Letters About the Financial Siege at Europe's Second-Largest Institution
2020-11-29 Links 29/11/2020: Genode OS Framework 20.11, Linux 5.11 Kernel Changes, and Latest in KDE Itinerary
2020-11-30 Managing IP: Puff Pieces Galore for the EPO's Dictatorship (Complete With Buzzwords and PR Stunts)
2020-11-30 Release: Early Letters and Documents About Financial Hoax Disguised as EPO 'Study'
2020-11-30 “ViCo” is Nothing New (Not Even the Acronym), Done on 9/11 Last Year, Been Possible as Long as the EPO Has Existed
2020-11-30 [Meme] Management of the EPO Cannot Let the Staff Breathe or Smell Freedom
2020-11-30 Management of the EPO Dragged to the International Labour Organisation Over Its Assault on the Right to Strike
2020-11-30 Alternatives to the World Wide Web, to HTML, to HTTP/S, and to the Internet
2020-11-30 Links 30/11/2020: GhostBSD 20.11.28, Nitrux 1.3.5, Linux 5.10 RC6, GNOME Circle, Microsoft Collapses Again in Web Server Share
2020-12-01 European Commission's Thierry Breton Covers Up EPO Corruption For His Friend Benoît Battistelli
2020-12-01 Staff Representation of the EPO Explains to EPO Management That It's Breaking the Law, Robbing the Staff, and Lying to Staff
2020-12-01 Censored EPO Publication: Battistelli Can Have His Multi-Billion Euro EPO Scam, So Why Can't Campinos Too?
2020-12-01 [Meme] Public Servants Who Only Serve Themselves and Their Predecessors (Who Gave Them the Job)
2020-12-01 Links 1/12/2020: KDE Plasma 5.20.4, GNU Octave 6.1, OpenZFS 2.0, and PinePhone KDE Community Edition
2020-12-01 EPO Management Has No Plans Other Than Granting Loads of Invalid Patents (e.g. Software Patents) to Pocket Fees and Then Grift/Gamble With the Money
2020-12-01 Censorship at the EPO is Counterproductive, Rendering the Censored Publications More Seductive and Censored People More Disgruntled
2020-12-02 Censored EPO Publication: Staff Representatives Cannot Comment on the Survey Conducted by the Office's Management
2020-12-02 The World is Ill
2020-12-03 Censored EPO Publication: Evidence That the Censorship of EPO Staff Representation (Central Staff Committee) Started Months After António Campinos Started His Term
2020-12-03 The EPO's 2020 Impaired Vision/ViCo: Imposing Illegal Practices on EPO Stakeholders, Not Only on EPO Staff
2020-12-03 'Social Dialogue' at the EPO Broke Down, Team Campinos is Totally Delusional
2020-12-03 EPO Management Consciously Breaking European Union Laws: Staff and Stakeholders Subjected to Illegal Tactics and Practices, Now Exam Takers As Well
2020-12-03 [Meme] European Patent Office Violates European Laws
2020-12-03 [Mail] Reader's Comment on 'Fraudlinger'
2020-12-03 Censored EPO Publication: Staff Cannot Comment on the Administrative Council's Meetings?
2020-12-04 Links 4/12/2020: Mesa 20.3.0, Manjaro 20.2 Nibia and Budgie 10.5.2
2020-12-04 Censored EPO Publication: Conflict Resolution Unit (CRU) Unspeakable Because Office Management Buries the Facts
2020-12-04 What Really Happened Last Year When Workers of the European Patent Office, Europe's Second-Largest Institution, Were About to Go on Strike
2020-12-04 [Meme] The Master Negotiator
2020-12-05 EPO Management is Lying About the Position of EPO Stakeholders While Compelling Those Stakeholders to Become Accomplices
2020-12-05 EPO Call for Strike in 2019
2020-12-05 [Meme] When a European Patent Office President Was There for Only 2 Years (and Some Staff for Over 40 Years)
2020-12-05 A Mister António Campinos 'Joins' IAM 'Media' and IAM 'Magazine' (Symptom of Dying Media)
2020-12-05 [Meme] 'Nice' and 'Cool' António Campinos, Now With Extra Sneakers
2020-12-06 Free Software is Not About Price, It is About Freedom (Personal Autonomy, Control, Sovereignty, Privacy, Dignity...)
2020-12-06 The Non-dialogue: António Campinos is No Jorge Campinos
2020-12-06 [Meme] When Tyranny Has No Race or a Political Wing Diversity Alone Cannot Tackle the Deeper Issues
2020-12-06 Links 6/12/2020: Debian Installer Bullseye Alpha 3, Skrooge 2.24.6
2020-12-07 The Non-dialogue: “Staff Representatives Were Intimidated, Persecuted, or Both.” How the EPO Under António Campinos Succumbed to Battistelli Monarchy, Leading to Unrest, Strikes
2020-12-07 Lies and Fake News With Quotation Marks: The Latest Strategy From Team UPC?
2020-12-07 The Non-dialogue: EPO “Staff Representatives Retire or Resign Before Expiration of Their Term of Office Because of Their Fatigue and Disillusionment.”
2020-12-08 The Words of António Campinos Himself Reveal Him to be a Terrible Negotiator With No Compromising/Diplomatic Language Skills
2020-12-08 [Meme] When Settling Means Admitting EPO Culpability
2020-12-08 The 'Going Back to Normal' Mirage
2020-12-08 Why We Are Publishing Many Internal EPO Documents This Month (and Also Last Month)
2020-12-08 “Clouds Hanging Above the EPO”
2020-12-08 António Campinos Mastered the 'Art of Ruling' His Father Was Strongly Against
2020-12-09 EPO Workers Go on Strike Next Week
2020-12-09 EPO's Staff Explains How António Campinos and the Mercers Lie About the Office in Order to Crush and Rob the Staff
2020-12-09 [Memes] The Other Mercer
2020-12-09 IBM Keeps Weakening Its Commitment to Developers and Software Communities
2020-12-09 It Looks Like the EPO is Spreading a Bunch of Spammy 'News' (More of the Usual) to Distract From Major Strike Being Organised (Updated)
2020-12-09 Links 9/12/2020: WordPress 5.6, New Release of GNU Autoconf, CRUX 3.6, New Alternatives to CentOS Emerge
2020-12-10 Paper on “Improving Governance, Transparency and Accountability at the EPO” Shows That António Campinos Has Accomplished Nothing in Half His Term (2.5 Years)
2020-12-10 EPO Staff Already Knew Months After António Campinos Had Been Parachuted Into the Office That He Was a 'Budget Butcher'
2020-12-10 EPO Bribes of Media/Publishers Pay Off as the Office Uses Lots of Buzzwords to Promote Illegal Agenda and Apparently to Distract From Next Week's Strike
2020-12-10 Links 10/12/2020: Tor Browser 10.0.6 and Facebook Antitrust Action
2020-12-11 Old Documents Show That the 'António Campinos Delusion' Lasted Only Months
2020-12-11 Early Request for António Campinos to Cooperate With EPO Staff Survey (Which Later Showed Less Than 1 in 33 EPO Workers Trust Him)
2020-12-12 Two Years Ago SUEPO Discussed Rules of Strike With António Campinos and 3 Days From Now EPO Staff in All Sites Goes on Strike
2020-12-12 SUEPO, the Staff Union of the European Patent Office (EPO): António Campinos Gives a “Strong Impression” That “Mr Battistelli is Still Running the Office Through the Trustees He Placed in the House.”
2020-12-12 You Can Really Tell That EPO Management is Growingly Stressed or Increasingly Worried by Next Week's Strike in All EPO Sites
2020-12-12 Two Years of Absolutely Nothing From António Campinos (Except Photo Ops and Self-Praising Fluff)
2020-12-12 António Campinos Has Been a 'Lame Duck' for Nearly Two Years Now, But the Administrative Council Failed to Act
2020-12-13 Links 13/12/2020: KDE Frameworks 5.77.0, Armbian 20.11.3, Rescuezilla 2.1
2020-12-13 How EPO Management Manufactures Non-News to Distract the General Public From EPO Lawbreaking and Strikes (With Help From Paid-for Publishers)
2020-12-13 Further Dissection of the EPO's Response to EPO Strike (to Commence in Just Over a Day From Now)
2020-12-13 Links 13/12/2020: Mageia 8 in Beta 2, CRUX 3.6.1 and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Review
2020-12-14 Video: EPO Strike Disrupts 'Business as Usual'
2020-12-14 Coming Soon: Techrights/TechBytes Videos (With Some EPO Focus Too)
2020-12-14 Links 14/12/2020: Linux 5.10, TTOS Linux 1.1.2 in Review
2020-12-14 EPO Googlebombing, Manipulating the Media, and the Latest Fluff
2020-12-14 Video: The EPO's Media Strategy
2020-12-15 [Meme] Making Patents Sane Again
2020-12-15 This Week We Shall See If the EPO's Administrative Council, Led by Josef Kratochvil, is Complicit in a Financial Scam
2020-12-15 Video: Quick Remarks About the Lack of Oversight at the European Patent Office
2020-12-15 On Our Publication Strategy and Platform
2020-12-15 Support Julian Paul Assange
2020-12-15 [Meme] A Message of Solidarity With EPO Staff
2020-12-16 Video: Twitter is Just Social Control Media
2020-12-17 The EPO is Promoting Software Patents This Week, Seeking to Impress the Administrative Council With Illegal Patents
2020-12-17 Video: What the European Patent Office Means by AI and 4IR (a Plot to Advance Illegal Software Patents)
2020-12-18 The European Buzzwords Office
2020-12-19 Almost Half of Vienna-based EPO Staff Went on Strike This Past Week
2020-12-19 [Meme] Social Sciences as a Science
2020-12-19 Where to Get Accurate News About What's Really Going on at the European Patent Office
2020-12-20 Team UPC Throws Vienna Convention Out the Window/Under a Bus and Vienna's EPO Branch (in EPC) Discarded by EPO Management
2020-12-20 Links 20/12/2020: GNOME 40 Workspace Updates, New Excuses From Red Hat About CentOS
2020-12-21 Links 21/12/2020: Manjaro ARM 20.12, Wayland 1.19 Alpha, Durden 0.6 Released
2020-12-22 Focus for Next Year Will Include European Patent Office (EPO) Conflict With the Law Itself
2020-12-22 Strategy for Fixing the European Patent Office (EPO)
2020-12-22 [Meme] Always Blame the Judges, the Law, and the Lazy Scientists... Not Corrupt Eurocrats
2020-12-22 The UPC is Dead, Long Live the German Constitutional Court
2020-12-23 More Pseudo-Journalism About the Unified Patent Court (UPC), Composed by Those With Stake in the Coup
2020-12-23 Holiday Greetings to Readers and Their Loved Ones
2020-12-23 Links 23/12/2020: NeoChat 1.0 and LibTraceFS 1.0
2020-12-24 The Case of UPC Misinformation and Propaganda Campaigns: The Web (and Google News) as a Noise and Disinformation Machine of Lobbyists and Oligarchy
2020-12-24 [Meme] EPO Personal Targets
2020-12-24 EPO Scandals Are Closely Connected to the UPC Folly
2020-12-24 Video: If Only Judges and Scientists Governed Today's EPO...
2020-12-24 Links 24/12/2020: Krita 4.4.2 Beta 2 and LibreOffice 7.1 RC1 Released
2020-12-25 [Meme] Europol for Christmas
2020-12-25 The EPO Carol
2020-12-25 [Memes] EPO 'Production' During Lockdown and Even Holidays (No Separation Between Home and Work)
2020-12-25 [Meme] How the Grinch Stole EPO Money
2020-12-25 [Meme] Rabid Tony
2020-12-26 [Meme] EPO Quality Going Downhill
2020-12-26 The World Wide Web (or Worldwide Empire): Optimised for Social Control Media
2020-12-26 Links 26/12/2020: Redox OS 0.6, GIMP 2.99.4, and GnuCOBOL 3.1.2 Released
2020-12-28 Starting 2021 on a Strong and Positive Note
2020-12-28 [Meme] EPO Oversight
2020-12-28 [Meme] Software Patents in the Patents-as-Buzzwords Office
2020-12-28 Links 28/12/2020: Linux 5.11 RC1, Linus Torvalds Turns 51, Parole Media Player 4.15.0
2020-12-30 Coming Soon: New Leaks for the New Year
2020-12-30 Reminder: Absolutely Do Not Install Contact-Tracing 'Apps' (They Solve Nothing)
2020-12-30 Links 30/12/2020: Withdrawing GitHub-Backup From Debian, Dragonbox Pyra Shipping
2020-12-30 How We Record Videos With Very Low-Budget Gear and Only Free (Libre) Software
2020-12-31 Links 31/12/2020: Deepin 20.1 Released and Happy New Year!
2021-01-01 Happy New Year and Welcome to the New Server
2021-01-01 Can EPO Leaks Published in 2021 Inspire More Media Coverage About EPO Abuses?
2021-01-02 New Leak: Today's EPO Breaks Its Contract With Former Staff of the EPO, Not Just Existing Staff
2021-01-02 EPO Management (Team Campinos) to EPO Pensioners: Drop Dead or Stop Asking Questions That Expose Our Lies
2021-01-03 2020 as Another Terrible Year for News Sites and Plenty of Other Bad News
2021-01-03 EPO: We Are a Community, But We Crush and Rob Our Own Staff (Even Pensioners)
2021-01-03 Speaking Out for the Many (Against the Few Who Control Most of the Mass Media)
2021-01-04 Microsoft Hosts a European Software Patents Propaganda Event (in 'Hey Hi' Clothing) Featuring Thierry Breton and Litigation Firms
2021-01-07 Why We Do 'InteLeaks' (and a Call For Further Input/Contributions)
2021-01-08 Trial by Media and Revisionism
2021-01-08 Links 8/1/2021: GNU Guile 3.0.5, Linux Mint 20.1 “Ulyssa”, OpenSUSE Survey Results, GNOME 40 Shell Preview
2021-01-09 InteLeaks – Part IX: Vapourware at Intel and Assessments With Conflict of Interest
2021-01-09 Links 9/1/2021: KDE Frameworks 5.78.0, GNU Wget 1.21.1, Red Hat Buying StackRox
2021-01-10 Links 10/1/2021: GNU findutils 4.8.0 and AntiX ‘Bullseye’ Alpha 1
2021-01-11 Links 11/1/2021: Kdenlive 20.12.1, fwupd 1.5.5, Microsoft Offline Again
2021-01-12 Tiger Computing Ltd Afraid of Being Seen as Close to the British Military, Resorts to SLAPP Against Blogger and GNU/Linux Developer
2021-01-13 Unitary Patent is Dead and Lies About the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Aren't Ending
2021-01-13 Links 13/1/2021: $150 RISC-V Computer With GNU/Linux, Intel Replaces CEO Again, and New Fedora 34 Plans
2021-01-14 Patent Propaganda and UPC Jingoism Instead of Actual News
2021-01-15 Links 14/1/2021: Wine 6.0, Debian 11 Freeze, and Alpine Linux 3.13
2021-01-17 Links 17/1/2021: EasyOS on Raspberry Pi and GNU libsigsegv 2.13
2021-01-18 Sites in Bed With the EPO and UPC 'Covering' the 'News' Without Mentioning Any of the Overt Abuses
2021-01-19 Team UPC Keeps Pretending That UPCA Can Still be Resurrected (Even Without the UK, Which is Strictly a Requirement)
2021-01-20 Links 20/1/2021: LibreOffice 7.1 RC2 and the RHEL Contingency
2021-01-21 The Central Staff Representatives (CSC) of the EPO Are Petitioning to End the Assault on EPO Staff
2021-01-21 Hey Hi (AI) is Just a Trojan Horse for Illegal Software Patents, According to EPO Management and Litigation Firms It's in Bed With
2021-01-21 Links 21/1/2021: Raspberry Pi Pico, Ubuntu 21.04 Picks GNOME 3.38, KDE Plasma 5.21 Beta
2021-01-24 Links 24/1/2021: Nouveau X.Org Driver Release and GhostBSD 21.01.20
2021-01-25 Links 25/1/2021: Huawei on GNU/Linux, NuTyX 20.12.1, Whisker Menu 2.5.3, Lutris 0.5.8.3, Linux 5.11 RC5
2021-01-25 Fake News is Not a 'Wing' Thing
2021-01-25 EPO Staff Representation Complains That EPO Management Exploits Pandemic and 'House Arrests' to Overwork Staff, Lower Quality
2021-01-26 Kluwer Patent Spin and Distortion of Facts (Regarding UPC and More)
2021-01-26 EPO President António Campinos is Still Not Listening, According to Internal EPO Documents
2021-01-26 Why GNU/Linux Users (and the Public at Large) Should Support Leaking/Whistleblowing Sites (Including Wikileaks)
2021-01-26 We Need More Documents Leaked to Know Intel (From the) Inside
2021-01-28 Links 28/1/2021: Stable Kernels and Sudo Bugfixes
2021-01-28 EPO Staff Likely Going on Strike For a Second Year in a Row
2021-01-28 Fourth Edition of EPO Staff Survey Shows That Work Affairs Continue to Deteriorate Even Further and Almost Nobody Trusts the Management
2021-01-29 Links 29/1/2021: Wayland 1.19, OPNsense 21.1, Kongress 1.0, GNU Parted 3.4 and Nitrux 1.3.7 Released, Ubuntu 21.04 to Use Wayland
2021-01-29 Fighting for Free Speech and Censorship Resistance
2021-01-29 Links 29/1/2021: Alpine 3.13.1, Week-Old Libgcrypt Code Has Flaw (Not Yet in GNU/Linux Distros)
2021-01-30 [Meme] Candidate Campinos is Not President Campinos
2021-01-30 SUEPO Will Challenge Retribution Against Staff That Went on Strike to Protest Illegalities at the EPO
2021-01-30 Microsoft is Like a Cult, According to Former Microsoft Insider
2021-01-31 The Decentralised Web/Internet is Constantly Under Attack and We Must Talk About That
2021-01-31 OpenForum Europe (IBM et al) and Linux Foundation Are Boosting and Cooperating With Enemies of Software Freedom
2021-01-31 When So-called 'Public Servants' Simply Serve Themselves and Their Rich Sponsors/Friends
2021-01-31 Big Telecom, Big Tech and Big Business (Harmful and Collusive Not Unlike Big Tobacco and Big Oil)
2021-02-02 Links 2/2/2021: New Desktop Installer With Ubuntu 21.10 and SparkyLinux Report
2021-02-03 Links 3/2/2021: Google’s Clown Computing is an Epic Failure and Bezos Steps Down (as Amazon's CEO)
2021-02-03 Straw Man Arguments That Distract From EPO Scandals
2021-02-03 Links 3/2/2021: LibreOffice 7.1 'Community' Edition, Solus 4.2, and KeePassXC 2.6.4
2021-02-04 Faked Diversity in 'Men-Only Clubs' (and Corporations)
2021-02-04 Links 4/2/2021: LXHotkey 0.1.1, WordPress 5.6.1
2021-02-04 Le Guern Leaves the EPO After Attacks on Staff's (and Pensioners') Finances Amid Pandemic
2021-02-05 Links 5/2/2021: Cockpit 237, Arctic Fox 27.11.0
2021-02-05 A Lot of 'Linux' News is Nowadays Just Spam
2021-02-06 Links 6/2/2021: FOSDEM 2021 Starts
2021-02-06 Bypassing Censorship to Publish Exclusive and Suppressed (But Fact-Checked) Stories
2021-02-07 Hey Hi (AI) is Pure Hype and It Deserves Scorn, Even Outright Ridicule, When Media and Patent Offices Misuse the Buzzwords
2021-02-07 Techrights Archives: How to Retrieve Very Old Articles, Including References That Are Now Missing (Dead Sites)
2021-02-08 The Annual EPO/EUIPO Ritual of Lying to the European Public
2021-02-08 Links 8/2/2021: digiKam 7.2.0 RC and Kdenlive 20.12.2
2021-02-10 Links 9/2/2021: helloSystem, Linspire 10, Finnix 122
2021-02-10 A Techrights Gemini Capsule
2021-02-10 Links 10/2/2021: More Google Betrayals and Zink Enhancements
2021-02-10 End of Patent Justice in Europe
2021-02-11 When You Know the EPO Distracts the Media (and Thus the Public) From Something
2021-02-11 Links 11/2/2021: System76 Keyboards, GRUB 2.06 Plans and More
2021-02-12 EPO Propaganda on Overdrive... to the Point of Breaking the EPO's Web Site
2021-02-13 Links 13/2/2021: New Release of OpenMandriva, FreeBSD 13.0 Beta 2, Gentoo's Fredric Dies
2021-02-13 The Good, the Bad, and the Truly Awful in Patent Law
2021-02-14 Links 14/2/2021: Debian 11
2021-02-14 Selling Ourselves Out to Proprietary Software Monopolies
2021-02-15 Software Freedom and Patent Systems Are a Political Endeavour (at Least in Part)
2021-02-15 EPO Management and 'The Children' Who Run the Office
2021-02-15 Links 15/2/2021: Linux Kernel 5.11 and End of 'I Love Free Software Day'
2021-02-15 Patents Over Parents at the EPO
2021-02-15 Links 15/2/2021: Siduction is Back, GNU Linux-Libre 5.11 is Out, Canonical Spies With Microsoft
2021-02-16 Links 16/2/2021: Slackware 15.0 Alpha, Monado 21.0.0, VLC at 20
2021-02-16 More Broken Promises as EPO Management Pretends That the Office is Poor (While Looting Its Treasury for Personal Gain)
2021-02-16 When a Patent Office Becomes a Granting Authority Also for University/Academic Grants (With Strings Attached)
2021-02-16 EPO Behaves Like a Private Corporation, Pretends to be Poor Only When That Suits Its Agenda
2021-02-16 Links 16/2/2021: Sailfish OS Koli, KDE Plasma 5.21, and Plasma Pass 1.2.0
2021-02-17 Links 17/2/2021: Q4OS 3.14, F(x)tec Pro1-X Updates, and WordPress 5.7 Beta 3
2021-02-17 Links 17/2/2021: Tiny Core Linux 12.0, Alpine 3.13.2, Go 1.16, pfSense Community Edition 2.5.0, and XWayland 21.1 Release Candidate
2021-02-18 Gemini Does Not Replace the World Wide Web (WWW/Web) But Works Alongside the Web as Most Sites Don't Strictly Need Web-Like Features
2021-02-19 EPO Crisis Under António Campinos - Part 1: Le Guern's “Disappearance” Triggers Internal Crisis at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2021-02-19 The EPO's “Mafia” is Back to Blackmailing Staff Representatives
2021-02-19 Links 19/2/2021: DXVK 1.8 Release, KDDockWidgets 1.3.0 is Out, SolarWinds Crack Leaves Microsoft in State of Disarray
2021-02-19 EPO Crisis Under António Campinos - Part 2: Madame Bergot Reportedly Goes Ballistic
2021-02-19 Leaky Patent Office
2021-02-20 Spineless Campinos Protects Team Battistelli From EPO Staff (and From Accountability) Instead of Protecting Staff From Corruption and From Team Battistelli
2021-02-20 EPO Crisis Under António Campinos - Part 3: Campinos Rallies Behind Bergot
2021-02-20 Reckless, Feckless and Factless Campinos 'Doing a Donald Trump' on the Staff Union of His Office
2021-02-20 EPO Crisis Under António Campinos - Part 4: Timeline of the Le Guern Controversy
2021-02-20 The Bergot Patent Office (Tantrum First, Innovation Later... or Never)
2021-02-20 What Gemini and IPFS Are to the Internet (or Tackling Misconceptions About the Web and Web Browsers)
2021-02-20 Full Site Conversion to Gemini Nearly Done
2021-02-21 EPO Crisis Under António Campinos - Part 5: Quo Usque Tandem?
2021-02-21 For the Record: SUEPO's Correspondence With 'King' António Campinos
2021-02-21 Series Index: How António Campinos Resorted to Union-Busting
2021-02-22 The Focus on Delivery Style Rather Than the Substance is an Extension of Cancel/Censorship Culture
2021-02-22 Controlling the Conduct of Large Corporations (and Monopolies) Would Help Tackle Disproportionate and Asymmetric Power Structures
2021-02-23 DDOS Attacks and Decentralisation
2021-02-23 'The One Percent': Salary Adjustment Procedure (SAP) Supported Only by 1% of EPO Staff
2021-02-23 'These Questions Remain Unanswered': Campinos Became Battistelli Just Halfway Through His Term
2021-02-23 The Administrative Council Needs to Fix the EPO While It's Still Possible
2021-02-23 On Misapplication, Misuse, Overuse and Abuse of Words (to Suit False Narratives)
2021-02-24 How the Big Banks and OIN Can Whitewash Software Patents and Do Nothing Concrete About Patent Trolls
2021-02-24 Links 24/2/2021: MariaDB 10.5.9, Krita 4.4.3 Beta, and Debuginfod Server for Debian
2021-02-26 EPO President Pushes Illegal Software Patents in South America (Over the Telephone With a Misleading New Puff Piece)
2021-02-26 Links 26/2/2021: GNU Poke 1.0 is Out and Rocky Linux Leaves Microsoft GitHub
2021-02-27 SCO's Darl McBride is Finished (Bankruptcy)
2021-02-27 Links 27/2/2021: IPFS 0.8, OnionShare 2.3.1, and New Stuff in KDE
2021-02-28 The Fall of The Register
2021-02-28 You Know Gemini Space is Getting a Lot Bigger When You Need to Implement DDOS Protection
2021-02-28 Links 28/2/2021: Nitrux 1.3.8 and Kraft 0.96
2021-03-01 In 2021 the EPO Works for Parasites Instead of Scientists (and It Cannot Even Hide That Anymore)
2021-03-01 Five Years of António Campinos Coverage in Techrights (We Correctly Predicted His Presidency in March 2016)
2021-03-01 Links 1/3/2021: KStars 3.5.2, ET: Legacy 2.77, Flameshot 0.9
2021-03-02 'GatoKeeper'/IP Kat (AstraZeneca) Still Suppressing and Censoring the Public Views or Internal EPO Talks About EPO Corruption
2021-03-02 Links 2/3/2021: KDE Plasma 5.21.2, Qt 6.1 Beta, Refund of Pre-installed Windows
2021-03-03 Links 3/3/2021: OpenSSH 8.5 and Absolute64 20210302 Released
2021-03-04 The EPO's Software Blunders Are Inevitable Outcome of Technically Clueless Management Which Grants Illegal Patents on Software
2021-03-04 Meme: EPO Management Totally Gets 'Tehc'
2021-03-04 Free Software Calling
2021-03-05 Links 5/3/2021: Linux 5.12-rc2 Imminent, Linux Lite 5.4 RC1 in Review
2021-03-05 Techrights in Australia (IPFS and Gemini)
2021-03-05 German Decision on Unitary Patent/UPC Will Take Years (and It Doesn't Matter Because the Whole Thing is Dead Already)
2021-03-06 Links 5/3/2021: Qubes OS 4.0.4 Release and Wine's Project Leader is Open to Wayland
2021-03-08 The Banality of Bribery
2021-03-08 Real Feminism is Grassroots, Not a Corporate Ploy (to Improve Image and Sales)
2021-03-08 Links 8/3/2021: Waffle 1.7.0 and a Look at the New Pardus (19.5)
2021-03-08 Examining Today's EPO Propaganda About the Disastrous EQE, a Subject of Much Scorn and EPO Corruption (Updated)
2021-03-09 Links 9/3/2021: RISC-V Growing in Europe, More Fake Security From Linux Foundation
2021-03-10 Trolling Community Developers of GNU/Linux Via Patent Trolls -- Part I: The Big Corporations Are Largely Culpable
2021-03-10 Team UPC and Patent-Centric 'Media' in Europe Still Committing Suicide (Credibility Sliding Down the Cliff)
2021-03-10 Links 10/3/2021: WordPress 5.7 “Esperanza”, Flatpak 1.10.2, OpenZFS 2.0.4
2021-03-10 EPO Does the Unlawful While Leveraging Women's Rights as an Opportunistic Form of Disguise
2021-03-11 EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Primer
2021-03-11 Meme: EPO Sells Out Its 'Digital Sovereignty' to Microsoft
2021-03-11 Trolling Community Developers of GNU/Linux Via Patent Trolls -- Part II: Monopolies, Patents, and Their GPL Violations
2021-03-11 EPO Management Could Really Use a Distraction From the Microsoft Blunder and Data Protection Crimes
2021-03-11 EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part I (Intro): A Fresh Data Protection Scandal Brewing at the EPO?
2021-03-11 Links 11/3/2021: MediaGoblin 0.11.0, OVHcloud Evaporated in Strasbourg
2021-03-12 EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part I (Start of Series): Enter the “Cloud of Unknowing…”
2021-03-12 Why the Latest EPO Series is Very Important and Also Difficult to Publish
2021-03-12 Links 12/3/2021: Mesa 21.0, SUSE IPO
2021-03-12 EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part II: Steve Rowan Announces Microsoft “Outlook Migration”
2021-03-12 EPO Breaking the Law With Microsoft and Promoting Fake 'Encryption' That Violates Confidentiality on Many Levels
2021-03-13 EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part III: The PATRIOT Act and Mass Surveillance
2021-03-13 The US Government, Fronting Through Microsoft, is Spying on Europe Owing to an Illegal Contract (or Contracts) Signed by Corrupt EPO Officials
2021-03-13 EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part IV: The US CLOUD Act Passes Without Public Debate
2021-03-13 What the EPO's Illegal Outsourcing of Private Data to Microsoft Actually Means (an Issue for Everyone in Europe)
2021-03-14 The Battle for Software/Digital Freedom Rages on
2021-03-14 EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part V: The EU GDPR
2021-03-14 What It Means to be a Free Software Operator, Not a User or Consumer
2021-03-14 Reporting the European Patent Office and Microsoft for Gross GDPR Violations
2021-03-14 Links 14/3/2021: KDE Gear 21.04 Branches, Anger Over EPO Statement on EQE
2021-03-14 EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part VI: A Not-so-safe Harbour
2021-03-14 The (e-)EQE Statement From the EPO Makes Things Even Worse as Victims of the Catastrophic Exam Feel Offended and Angry
2021-03-14 Note to Readers: It's Only When We Cover Microsoft-EPO Scandals That We Receive Legal Threats and Other Pressure from the EPO
2021-03-14 Contacting Your (European) Member of Parliament/Representative to Report EPO-Microsoft GDPR Abuses
2021-03-14 The German Constitutional Court Needs to Recognise That the EPO's Tribunals Are Not Independent and EPC Has Not or Isn't Being Honoured for Quite Some Time Now
2021-03-14 Meme: EPO Encryption, Brought to You by (and for) Microsoft to Subvert
2021-03-15 Links 15/3/2021: Linux 5.12 RC3, Solus 4.2 Reviewed, XMRig 6.10 Released
2021-03-15 EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part VII: Lipstick on a Pig…
2021-03-15 European Patent Office as Apparatus of American/Corporate Imperialism (by Surveillance and More)
2021-03-15 Europe's Second-Largest Institution (EPO) is Not Only Violating the Law But Also Acting in Defiance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
2021-03-15 EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part VIII: The Aftermath of Schrems II in Europe
2021-03-16 EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part VIII Addendum
2021-03-16 Response to the EPO's Response to Techrights About Microsoft 'Cloud' (Still Failing to Justify the GDPR Violations)
2021-03-16 EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part IX: Know Your Vendor…
2021-03-16 Microsoft Breaking European Privacy Laws While Distracting the Public: The Evidence (a Formal 91-Page Report)
2021-03-16 Meme/Teaser: Lipstick on EPO in the 'Cloud'
2021-03-16 EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part X: The Spectre of GDPR…
2021-03-16 EPO Promoting Illegal Software Patents Under the Guise of NET/Hey Hi
2021-03-16 Why We Don't Expect the Media or Patent 'News' Sites to Cover or Even Just Mention EPO Data Scandals
2021-03-16 Links 16/3/2021: KDE Plasma 5.21.3 and LibreELEC 10 Beta
2021-03-16 The 'Hey Hi' of António Campinos Will Survive This
2021-03-17 EDPS Documents About Microsoft's Privacy Violations and Much More to Come Regarding the EPO's Privacy Scandals
2021-03-17 EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part XI: Close Encounters With the Trust-busters…
2021-03-17 Links 17/3/2021: OpenJDK 16, RHEL Inside Cars, Ubuntu Touch OTA-16, System76's Pangolin, and Pangolin Mobile
2021-03-17 The EPO is Drunk and Should Go Home
2021-03-17 EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part XII: Foreign Corrupt Practices, Bid Rigging and “Slush Funds”
2021-03-17 EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part XII: Corruption Addendum
2021-03-17 Links 17/3/2021: Tor 0.3.5.14/0.4.4.8/0.4.5.7 and Sway 1.6 RC1
2021-03-18 Links 18/3/2021: Apache OpenMeetings 6.0, Mageia Has New Board, Audacity 3.0, XWayland 21.1
2021-03-18 Meme: Drunk on Power, Drunk on Diplomatic Immunity (and Impunity)
2021-03-18 EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part XIII: A Global 'IP' Player
2021-03-18 Links 18/3/2021: WireGuard in FreeBSD and Flow Browser
2021-03-18 Trolling Community Developers of GNU/Linux Via Patent Trolls -- Part III: The Technical and Legal Burden as Weapon Against the Community
2021-03-19 The Patent Professionals Have Come to Realise That the EPO Boards of Appeal, Controlled by Office Management, Are Kangaroo Courts
2021-03-19 [Meme] Masking Their Agenda...
2021-03-19 [Meme/Teaser] The European Blackmail Office
2021-03-19 The Microsoft Deal With the EPO is Illegal For a Lot of Reasons
2021-03-19 EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part XIV: When is a Conflict of Interest Not a Conflict of Interest?
2021-03-19 At the EPO 'New Normal' is Synonymous With 'Breaking the Law'... (EPC, Human Rights and More)
2021-03-19 Perception Management and Reality Distortion in EPO Coverage, Sometimes Subsidised by the EPO and Typically Funded by Litigation Giants
2021-03-19 Links 19/3/2021: Manjaro Linux 21 Ornara RC1, GNOME 40 Release Candidate
2021-03-20 Ghost of Elizabeth Holmes Still Haunts EPO as Her Patents Are Used to Suppress COVID-19 Research in Europe
2021-03-20 EPO Secrecy and Technical Incompetence
2021-03-20 EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part XV: Has the EPO Sold Out Its “Digital Sovereignty”?
2021-03-21 Almost 100 Pages of Self-Congratulatory Marketing Isn't a Case of Informing the Administrative Council of the EPO But Misleading It Using Fluff and Buzzwords
2021-03-21 Hey, Hi, Welcome to the EPO
2021-03-21 Trolling Community Developers of GNU/Linux Via Patent Trolls -- Part IV: GPL Violators Apparently Use Patents to Bully People Aware of These Violations
2021-03-21 The Anatomy of Means and Methods for Discrediting a Site (and How to Avoid Them)
2021-03-21 Links 21/3/2021: 'It’s Time for The Linux Foundation to Stop Ignoring Desktop Linux' and PeaZip 7.8 Released
2021-03-22 EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- The 'Smoking Gun': Hard Evidence That the EPO Has Been Lying About GDPR Compliance
2021-03-22 EPO Board of Auditors is Incompetent and Patently Unfit for Purpose
2021-03-22 The Sky is the Limit for EPO Management as Patent Quality is Lowered to Gutter Level
2021-03-22 [Meme] Banking on the EPO's Future
2021-03-22 EPO Has Abandoned Patent Law and Sooner or Later Stakeholders Will Abandon the EPO Just Like Many Examiners Did
2021-03-22 As Work/EPO Invalidity Appeals Rejected, More Reasons Emerge to Worry About the Campinos Regime
2021-03-22 Links 22/3/2021: The 5.12 Kernel Gets RC4, LibrePlanet Talks Aplenty
2021-03-22 EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Summing Up: EPO Administrative Council Still Asleep at the Wheel
2021-03-23 EPO Robbery Under the Shadow of Pandemic Sweeping Across Europe
2021-03-23 [Meme] EPO Robbed
2021-03-24 Links 24/3/2021: Krita 4.4.3, GNOME 40, and Stable Kernels
2021-03-24 EPO Management Bombards the 'News' Section to Distract From Unlawful Attacks on the EPO's Highest Tribunal (This Time in G 1/21)
2021-03-25 Links 25/3/2021: KaOS 2021.03 and qBittorrent 4.3.4
2021-03-25 EPO Has Become an Institution of Unbridled Crime, Where Judges Exist Only to Approve the Crimes
2021-03-25 EPO Staff Representation Again Warns About Collapse in Patent Quality (Due to Bad Management), Suggests Potential Improvements
2021-03-26 Links 26/3/2021: Alpine 3.13.3, Istio 1.9.2, and OpenSSL 1.1.1k
2021-03-26 Links 26/3/2021: OBS on Wayland and Diffoscope 171
2021-03-27 A Factual Timeline of Attempts to Pressure the FSF Into Submission (Not to Promote Real Community and Freedom)
2021-03-28 Links 28/3/2021: IPFire 2.25 Core Update 155 and GNU Emacs 27.2
2021-03-28 Conflict of Interest: Microsoft and IBM Controlling the USPTO and Leaving GNU/Linux Users Shut Out (in the Cold)
2021-03-29 Links 29/3/2021: Performance in GNOME 40 and NetBSD Donation Milestone
2021-03-29 Links 29/3/2021: Parrot 4.11, Kate 21.04 Feature Preview, Crystal Language Version 1.0
2021-03-30 After Crushing Dialogue With the Union (SUEPO) the EPO's President Does the Same to Staff Representatives
2021-03-30 Coming Up in April: Exposing More EPO Crimes and Advocating Software Freedom
2021-03-31 Hateful Mob: From Blackmailing the FSF to Blackmailing People Who Express Support for the FSF (and RMS)
2021-03-31 The EPO Bundestagate -- Part 1: How the Bundestag Was (and Continues to be) Misled About EPO Affairs
2021-03-31 [Meme] It Came From the Cloud... in Haar
2021-03-31 It's That Epic 30,000
2021-03-31 Noise and Misinformation Benefit Crooks
2021-03-31 Links 31/3/2021: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Beta, GIMP 2.10.24
2021-04-01 The EPO Bundestagate -- Part 2: Lack of Parliamentary Oversight, Many Questions and Few Answers…
2021-04-01 EPO: It is All About Germany, Baby!
2021-04-01 Links 1/4/2021: LibreOffice 7.1.2 and GIMP 2.10.24 Released
2021-04-01 EPO President António Campinos Promoting Microsoft Proprietary Software (Monopoly) and Software Patents
2021-04-02 The EPO Bundestagate -- Part 3: A “Minor Interpellation” in the German Bundestag
2021-04-02 EPO is a Zombie Institution Where Managers Have “Repeatedly Used Buzzwords and Catchphrases Like “Digital Transformation”, “Artificial Intelligence” and “Upskilling”, to Name a Few.”
2021-04-02 Government of Germany Relays Talking Points Directly From the Mouths of EPO Management
2021-04-02 A BIT Worrying Where the EPO is Going...
2021-04-03 The EPO Bundestagate -- Part 4: Parroting the GDPR-Compliance Myth
2021-04-03 Milking the EPO and Lying for the EPO
2021-04-03 The EPO Bundestagate -- Part 5: The Federal Eagle's Disconcerting Metamorphosis
2021-04-04 The EPO Scandals Are Partly German Government Scandals, Too
2021-04-04 Links 4/4/2021: Data of 533 Million Facebook Users Leaked, Ubuntu 21.04 Testing Week
2021-04-05 EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag -- Part 6: Dr Petri Starts the Ball Rolling…
2021-04-05 'Not My Department': How Privacy Abuses Have Been Treated in Germany
2021-04-05 EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag -- Part 7: Ms Voßhoff Alerts the Bundestag…
2021-04-06 Germany's Inaction on EPO Privacy Abuses and Corruption in General
2021-04-06 EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag -- Part 8: The EPO's Tweedledum, Raimund Lutz
2021-04-07 Links 7/4/2021: “Getting Things GNOME” Reaches 0.5, IBM Boasts Its Role in Masters
2021-04-07 Links 7/4/2021: Godot 3.3 RC 8, Canonical Targets Robotics
2021-04-07 A Patent System for Giant Corporations Like Boeing and Airbus, Not for Ordinary European Citizens
2021-04-07 He Said, Xi Said: Hard to Censor Techrights and It's More Than a Web Site
2021-04-07 EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag -- Part 9: A Veritable Virtuoso of Legal Sophistry
2021-04-08 Links 8/4/2021: Mesa 21.0.2, GNU Releases, and Stable Kernels
2021-04-08 Links 8/4/2021: GnuPG 2.3.0, Xen 4.15, Xfdashboard 0.9.2
2021-04-08 EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag -- Part 10: A Faithful Lapdog Despised and Reviled by EPO Staff
2021-04-08 [Meme] Self-styled Judges
2021-04-09 Links 9/4/2021: Kubernetes 1.21 and FFmpeg 4.4 Released
2021-04-09 News Sites That Talk About Patents Have Become Shameless Self-Promotion 'Plugs' by Law Firms (and Sometimes Outright 'Spam' for Litigation)
2021-04-09 Links 9/4/2021: Tanglet 1.6.0 and HPVM 1.0
2021-04-09 EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag -- Part 11: The BMJV's Tweedledee: Dr Christoph Ernst
2021-04-09 EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Appendix (Benoît Battistelli's Vichy Syndrome): Georges Henri Léon Battistelli and Charles Robert Battistelli
2021-04-10 Links 10/4/2021: Linux on M1, Wine 6.6, ClamAV 0.103.2
2021-04-10 Accessibility and Availability First
2021-04-10 EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag -- Part 12: A Worthy Successor to His Mentor?
2021-04-10 Links 10/4/2021: osbuild 28, KDE Frameworks 5.81.0
2021-04-10 Breaking News: Campinos to Appear Before the Legals Affairs Committee of the European Parliament on Monday 12 April
2021-04-10 [Meme] Bundestagate Series Spoiler
2021-04-11 Challenging Times for EPO Management
2021-04-11 EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag -- Part 13: The Failed Promise of a “Good Governance” Guru…
2021-04-11 Judge and JURI
2021-04-11 All EPO Articles Are Available Over Gemini Protocol
2021-04-11 Links 11/4/2021: GnuPG 2.3.0, Linux 5.13 Additions
2021-04-11 EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag -- Part 14: The Notorious Revolving Door
2021-04-12 Links 12/4/2021: Lagrange 1.3.2, Linux 5.12 RC7
2021-04-12 EPO President Campinos Lying to JURI
2021-04-12 EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag -- Part 15: Different Strokes for Different Folks
2021-04-12 Links 12/4/2021: RSS Guard 3.9.2 and IBM-Funded Hacks Keep Attacking RMS
2021-04-13 During Pandemic, With Rising Inflation, Corrupt EPO Management With Its 'Shadow Budget' Cracks Down on Education and Childcare Allowance
2021-04-13 An Ode to Dr. Ernst
2021-04-13 EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag -- Part 16: An Inimitable Duo
2021-04-13 An Examination of Correspondence Between the Tweedledum-Tweedledee Duo, Lutz and Ernst
2021-04-14 Links 13/4/2021: FreeBSD 13.0 Final, Slackware 15.0 GNU/Linux Beta Release and OpenMandriva Lx 4.3 Plans
2021-04-14 Over 1,000 EPO Workers Initiate Legal Challenge Against the EPO's Attack on Salaries (in Defiance of Assurances Made to Workers Who Relocate to Another Country With Whole Families)
2021-04-14 EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag -- Part 17: Jawohl, Herr Minister!
2021-04-14 Links 14/4/2021: Alpine Releases and X.Org Server 1.20.11 Release (Security)
2021-04-15 EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag -- Part 18: Zero Tolerance for “Lawless Zones”?
2021-04-15 The Patent Battles in Europe Are Connected to the War on GNU/Linux (as a Community-Led Effort)
2021-04-15 Links 15/4/2021: LXQt 0.17, Proxmox Backup Server 1.1
2021-04-15 EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag -- Part 19: The Deafening Silence of the Media
2021-04-15 [Meme] Germany's Red Cash Cow
2021-04-15 Links 15/4/2021: Zorin OS 16 Beta and Pushing Linux to GitHub- and Microsoft-Connected Rust
2021-04-16 EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag -- Part 20: Taking Stock
2021-04-16 [Meme] Laundering Bribes as 'Cooperation Money'
2021-04-16 Exposing Hard Truths is the First Step or the Path Towards Justice
2021-04-16 Links 16/4/2021: Mozilla Dumping FTP, Corporations Still Concern-Trolling FSF
2021-04-16 EPO Staff Union Takes the EPO 'to Court' (the ILO's Tribunal, as the EPO Cannot be Taken to a Proper Court)
2021-04-17 What the EPO Has 'Normalised' in Europe...
2021-04-17 Breaking News: EDPS Admits That It is Powerless to Investigate Claims of GDPR Non-compliance at the EPO
2021-04-18 Proprietary Software (BT Hub) Has Ruined My Whole Day
2021-04-19 Links 19/4/2021: Linux 5.12 RC8, GNU Poke 1.2, EndeavourOS 2021.04
2021-04-19 Links 19/4/2021: LibreSSL 3.3.2, OpenSSH 8.6, Firefox 88
2021-04-20 Richard Stallman on How UPC is a Trojan Horse for Software Patents in Europe
2021-04-20 Links 20/4/2021: EasyOS Dunfell 2.7.1, Phoronix Takes Microsoft 'Freebies', Microsoft Trying to Steal Credit for Linux on Mars
2021-04-20 Links 20/4/2021: Tails 4.18 and Mark Surman in Mozilla's Board of Directors
2021-04-20 At the EPO, Lawlessness Has Become “a New Normal”
2021-04-21 Links 21/4/2021: VirtualBox 6.1.20, GCC 11.1 Release Candidate, Nginx 1.20.0
2021-04-21 Links 21/4/2021: University of Minnesota Blacklisted Over Defects, Red Hat Satellite 6.9 is Out
2021-04-21 Behind the Curtains of Cheap and Cheesy PR the EPO is a Machine of Oppression (Against Its Very Own Staff), Tribunal to Rule on Strike Busting
2021-04-22 Links 22/4/2021: Grafana Goes for AGPLv3, Godot 3.3 Released, Mesa 21.0.3 Available
2021-04-22 Links 22/4/2021: Ubuntu Release, KDE Gear 21.04, GNU/Linux on MacBooks
2021-04-22 Links 22/4/2021: virt-viewer 10.0, PipeWire 0.3.26, LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0 Beta 2
2021-04-23 Links 23/4/2021: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 1, T2 21.4 “Fully Automated”
2021-04-23 “Dia da Liberdade” 2021: Some Thoughts For the Day
2021-04-24 Why RSS Feeds Are Far Better Than Social Control Media and So-called 'News' Portals
2021-04-24 [Meme] EPO Comp-LIE-A**
2021-04-25 Links 25/4/2021: QOwnNotes 21.4.4 and GCC 11 Days Away
2021-04-26 Links 26/4/2021: Linux Kernel 5.12 and Geary 40 Released
2021-04-26 The European Patent Office Isn't About Patents Anymore and It's Run by Clueless People
2021-04-26 Links 26/4/2021: GNU Linux-Libre 5.12 and FWUPD 1.6
2021-04-27 At the EPO, the Word “Reform” Means Abolition (Abandonment of Staff)
2021-04-28 Links 28/4/2021: Kdenlive 21.04, KaOS 2021.04, Tails 4.19 Beta, Yocto Project 3.3
2021-04-28 The EPO Abuses Climate Change, Hijacking or Misusing Grassroots Activism for Corporate Public Relations Stunts
2021-04-28 [Meme] Greenponia
2021-04-28 Links 28/4/2021: Ubuntu 21.10 is “Impish Indri”, OpenSUSE Leap 15.3 RC
2021-04-29 Links 29/4/2021: Proxmox Virtual Environment 6.4 and Calculate Linux 21
2021-04-29 Lying and Breaking the Law: Is This the Best Europe's Second-Largest Institution (EPO) Can Do?
2021-04-29 When A Source of Pollution and Corruption Paints Itself Green
2021-04-29 Defending Concepts, Defending Free Speech, Defending Society From Oppression
2021-04-30 Links 30/4/2021: GhostBSD 21.04.2, Five U.S. Agencies Compromised by Microsoft
2021-05-01 The EPO Can Never and Will Never Recover If It Fails to Communicate With People Who Actually Understand the Job of a Patent Office
2021-05-01 [Meme] You Cannot Measure Innovation by the Quantity of Paperwork
2021-05-02 Links 2/5/2021: OpenIndiana Hipster 2021.04 and New GhostBSD ISO
2021-05-02 Why TechBytes Was on a Break and What Will be Covered Now That It's Back
2021-05-02 Links 2/5/2021: “Landlock” in Linux 5.13, Comics, Patents Catch-up
2021-05-03 Links 3/5/2021: Ubuntu EoL Dates and Nitrux 1.4.0
2021-05-03 Links 3/5/2021: New in OpenBSD 6.9 and Audacity Acquired By Muse Group
2021-05-04 EPO Disregards Animal Welfare
2021-05-04 EPO Already Wasting Money on Media Manipulation Campaigns for European Inventor Award
2021-05-05 Links 4/5/2021: Taiwins 0.3, KDE Plasma 5.21.5 Released
2021-05-06 Free Software Proponents Don't Fall for Bullshit (Same is True for EPO Examiners)
2021-05-06 Europe's Second-Largest Institution Corrupting the Media and Buying Expensive Puff Pieces
2021-05-06 [Meme] Who Needs Examination Anyway When There's 'Hey Hi' (AI)?
2021-05-06 Disregard Web Sites That Call Themselves 'News' and Instead Promote Proprietary Software for Companies Like Microsoft
2021-05-08 Links 8/5/2021: GIMP 2.99.6, Wine 6.8 Released
2021-05-09 The Right to Assemble, Fundamental Rights of Ownership, and Many Other Rights Are Under Attack
2021-05-09 Then We Take Berlin...
2021-05-09 Web Sites or News Sites Perish When Their Arguments Are Weak and/or Invalid
2021-05-09 Links 9/5/2021: KDE Frameworks 5.82.0 Release and Patents Related to COVID Subjected to Waivers
2021-05-09 Gemini and Techrights: Still Growing in Gemini Space and Always Supporting/Loving the Protocol
2021-05-10 Links 10/5/2021: SystemRescueCD 8.03, KeePass 2.48 Released
2021-05-10 Links 10/5/2021: Huawei's GNU/Linux Laptops and Kotlin 1.5.0
2021-05-11 Links 11/5/2021: Bodhi Linux 6.0, Coreboot 4.14, and DragonFly BSD 6.0
2021-05-11 EPO 'Dialogue' With Staff Representatives is as Dead as 'Dialogue' With the Union
2021-05-11 Mass Litigation Over the Salary Adjustment Procedure (SAP), Basically an Attack on All EPO Staff, Even EPO Pensioners
2021-05-11 Links 11/5/2021: Maui 1.2.2 and Tor Releases
2021-05-11 Europe's Second-Largest Institution, the EPO, is Partly Based in the United States
2021-05-12 The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 1: Rumours of a Kangaroo Court at EPOnia
2021-05-12 Links 12/5/2021: New Audacity and Musescore Owner Named, Microsoft May Lose
2021-05-12 Doing Justice by Reporting Injustice
2021-05-12 Personal Thoughts About the EPO 'Kangaroo Court' Scandal
2021-05-12 The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 2: Just Another Pro Forma Rubber-Stamping Exercise?
2021-05-12 [Meme] Longing for the Original IP Kat...
2021-05-13 The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 3: The Current Line-up
2021-05-13 When EU Authorities Tell You to Complain to the EPO Itself About EPO Privacy Violations...
2021-05-13 Judging the Judges
2021-05-13 The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 4: The President of the Boards of Appeal
2021-05-14 The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 5: Battistelli's “Swedish Chef”
2021-05-14 [Meme] Judges the Office Cannot Control Are Just Nazis With Weapons in Their Office...
2021-05-14 EPO Justice
2021-05-15 The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 6: The Habermasian Who Warned About “Legal Anarchy”
2021-05-15 [Meme] Calle Calling...
2021-05-15 Over a Thousand Videos (or Audio Files) and More Protocols Supported
2021-05-15 Making up Law at the EPO
2021-05-15 The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 7: Calle's Strange Metamorphosis
2021-05-15 Jacques Michel and Willy (Guillaume) Minnoye: Stakeholders in EPO Lawlessness
2021-05-16 Christoph Ernst Lecturing Us on “Transparency” and EPO Corruption (as Well as Assault on the EPC) Becoming a “New Normal”
2021-05-16 The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 8: The Radical Student “Brotherhood”
2021-05-16 [Meme] When All That Matters is 'Production' and 'Timeliness'
2021-05-16 IBM Has Changed a Lot Since 2018, and Not for the Better
2021-05-16 EPO.org is a Really Awful Source of Information
2021-05-16 Links 16/5/2021: ExTiX 21.5, Drumstick Multiplatform MIDI File Player Refresh
2021-05-16 The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 9: Squeezing Out the Lifeblood of Democracy?
2021-05-17 (All-Time) Archive of Techrights Videos Contains About 1,000 Videos, All Listed in One Place Now
2021-05-17 Links 17/5/2021: Linux 5.13 RC2 and a Lot About Patents
2021-05-17 Virtual 'Courts' Aren't Courts and Aren't Suitable Substitutes, Either
2021-05-17 [Meme] Virtual Prisons for Virtual Hearings (Haarings)
2021-05-17 EPO Staff Representatives Not Amused to See an Office That Steals From Staff and Even From Pensioners
2021-05-17 The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 10: A Faustian Pact?
2021-05-17 Calle Josefsson as Living Proof That Attacking the Causes You Once Proclaimed to Stand for is Very Profitable
2021-05-17 Links 17/5/2021: New GeckoLinux and Kdenlive 21.04.1
2021-05-18 An Urgent Need to Fix the EPO, Which is Becoming Rogue at Every Level (Even the 'Legal' Level)
2021-05-18 [Meme] Captured EPO
2021-05-18 The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 11: The Rapporteur Who Once Was Vice-President
2021-05-18 Links 18/5/2021: Steam Console and OpenPrinting Developing Upstream CUPS
2021-05-18 António Campinos is Already Worse Than Benoît Battistelli and Maybe More Aggressive as Well
2021-05-18 The EPO Has Slipped Out of Control and Now It's a Mass Litigation “Mafia” With Immunity
2021-05-18 The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 12: Internal Members: Ingo Beckedorf
2021-05-19 Links 19/5/2021: Gentoo/Google, SUSECON Digital
2021-05-19 The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 13: Internal Members: Gunnar Eliasson and Andrea Ritzka
2021-05-19 Say Hey Hi to Inventions and Patents
2021-05-20 The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 14: Nemo Iudex in Causa Sua?
2021-05-20 EPO Corruption Impacts Everybody, Even Those Uncaring About Patents and Those Outside Europe
2021-05-20 Breaking EPO News Regarding G 1/21: Judge Calle Josefsson Deposed as Chairman
2021-05-20 [Meme] The EPO's Very Special Dept. of Justice
2021-05-21 Links 21/5/2021: LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0 Beta 3 and PostgreSQL 14 Beta 1
2021-05-21 The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 15: The EBA Letter of 8 December 2014
2021-05-21 Rational Patent Office Gone Irrational
2021-05-21 Leaky and Freaky Patent Office
2021-05-22 The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 16: The Mystery of the “Missing Signatures”
2021-05-22 [Meme] Appeal for Independence
2021-05-22 We Need to Save Europe From the Lawlessness of EPO 'Mafia' (Corrupt Management That Doesn't Understand Patents or Law)
2021-05-22 Nobody Loves the EPO (or EPC) Like the Staff Representatives and the Union, SUEPO
2021-05-23 The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 17: The External Members: Evangelos Chatzikos and Richard Arnold
2021-05-23 Article 116(1) EPC and the Stacked Courts Initially Entrusted to Judge Their Own Actions
2021-05-23 Links 23/5/2021: Ardour 6.7 and GNU Parallel 20210522
2021-05-23 EPO Deciding on the Legality of ViCo... Over ViCo
2021-05-23 Links 23/5/2021: New Libreboot Release and KDE Goals Update
2021-05-23 The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 18: Promoting the Illusion of Peace and Haar-mony
2021-05-23 [Meme] Judges in Haar Must Behave Themselves
2021-05-24 Get Ready for a Torrent of EPO Propaganda
2021-05-24 Links 24/5/2021: OpenMandriva Lx 4.3 RC, GZDoom 4.6.0
2021-05-25 The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 19: Ladies and Gentlemen, Place Your Bets…
2021-05-25 Deciphering the EPO's Media Strategy for Handling Its Illegal Practices, Which It Already Extends Until Next Year (Without Even Waiting for the Kangaroo Court's Ruling)
2021-05-25 An Ode to Jeannine Hoppe and Nikolaus Obrovski
2021-05-25 Links 25/5/2021: Inkscape 1.1 and LibreOffice 7.2 Alpha 1
2021-05-25 EPO Propaganda, Looking to Legitimise a Rigged Panel of Judges, Starts With Author Who Did Puff Pieces With António Campinos
2021-05-25 USPTO Promotes Microsoft Monopoly and Proprietary Software (Updatedx2)
2021-05-26 Links 26/5/2021: Magit 3.0 and Chrome 91 Released
2021-05-26 The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law -- Part 20: Summing up
2021-05-26 They Don't Want Us to Hear...
2021-05-26 Media Colluding With EPO Autocrats Who Break the Law, Aiming to Mislead the Public
2021-05-26 Links 26/5/2021: IBM Clown Computing Issues, DMCA Versus Ubuntu ISO
2021-05-27 Outline of Recent EPO Series: Kangaroo Courts, German Government Complicity, and Gross Privacy Violations by Unaccountable Officials
2021-05-27 The Haarian Praetorian Guard
2021-05-27 Links 27/5/2021: WordPress at 18 and GNU/Linux in Schools
2021-05-27 How to Sign the Letter in Support of Richard Stallman Without Microsoft's GitHub
2021-05-27 Managing Perceptions for the EPO's Regime
2021-05-27 Latest News on G 1/21: Another Spanner in the Works
2021-05-27 Postscriptum: Carl Josefsson Sidelined From G 1/21!
2021-05-28 Links 28/5/2021: TDF Annual Report, VzLinux 8.3, FSF’s Search for Executive Director
2021-05-28 Breaking: G1/21 (ViCo Hearing) Going Down the Drain
2021-05-28 [Meme] Outsourced Panel to Decide on Legality of Outsourced Panels
2021-05-28 Links 28/5/2021: Nitrux 1.4, Diffoscope 176
2021-05-29 President Campinos is Finished (EPO Crisis Afoot)
2021-05-29 Links 29/5/2021: OpenZFS 2.1 RC6 and AlmaLinux 8.4
2021-05-29 President of the Boards of Appeal and His 'Handler' António Campinos Need to Step Down to Save the EPO
2021-05-29 [Meme] EPO Bad for Your Health (Even as President)
2021-05-29 Updates on Techrights Videos, Techrights IPFS, Techrights Gemini, Techrights Bulletins, and Techrights IRC
2021-05-30 Links 30/5/2021: Kaidan 0.8 and Linux 5.14 Work
2021-05-30 The Internet Was Made to be Decentralised and We Need to Re-decentralise It
2021-05-31 Freedom First: Towards Self-Hosting and Federating/Communicating Across IRC Networks
2021-06-01 Links 1/6/2021: Linux Mint 20.2 Named ‘Uma’ and Updates for JingOS
2021-06-01 Some Potentially Good News About the EPO
2021-06-01 [Meme] Approving the Actions of the Boss
2021-06-01 Links 1/6/2021: RP2040 $1 Chips, Anonymous OS Tails 4.19, Clonezilla Live 2.7.2, and NeoChat 1.2
2021-06-01 Links 1/6/2021: Cinnamon 5.0 Desktop Environment, OBS Studio 27.0, and GCC 9.4 Released
2021-06-03 Links 3/6/2021: Septor 2021.3, OpenSUSE Leap 15.3, NixOS 21.05, Blender 2.93 LTS
2021-06-03 Links 3/6/2021: Pop!_OS 21.04 Beta, NVIDIA 460.84 Linux Driver Released
2021-06-04 One Week Since the EPO's Boards of Appeal Came to a Standstill Due to Lack of Independence and Impartiality
2021-06-04 Almost a 'Media Blackout' About What Happened Last Friday at the EPO
2021-06-04 Logging IRC From Self-Hosted and From Third Party (But Very Large) IRC Networks
2021-06-04 Links 4/6/2021: Rescuezilla 2.2 and Funds for Open Access
2021-06-06 Never Ever Let Those Who Expose Corruption Be Framed as 'Public Enemies'
2021-06-06 EPO G 1/21 Update: Fresh Allegations of Cronyism Against Campinos
2021-06-06 Video: 'Shoot the Messenger' Tactics
2021-06-06 Links 6/6/2021: Visually Stunning Week in Tok and OpenPOWER SpiderMonkey JIT
2021-06-06 The Giftküche of Haar (Allegedly a Part of Munich, as the EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeal Refuses to Even Check)
2021-06-07 Links 7/6/2021: Git 2.32 and Linux 5.13 RC5
2021-06-07 The Ridiculous Façade of 'Ethical' Monopolists and the Ludicrous Media Coverage That Parrots Their Lies
2021-06-07 The EPO's Censorship of Stakeholders is a Misguided Case of Digging One's Own Grave
2021-06-07 The Kanté of Alicante
2021-06-08 EPO Management: We Listen to Users, Especially Monopolists and Overzealous Litigation Firms
2021-06-08 The Correlation Between Software Freedom and Universal Justice
2021-06-08 [Meme] Judges Aren't the Enemy
2021-06-08 Time for the Boards of Appeal to Host Their Own Files, Knowing That the Patent Office is Censoring Submissions From the Public
2021-06-08 Links 8/6/2021: KDE Plasma 5.22 Released, GNU Health in Bangladesh
2021-06-08 Announcement: Updating Our Keys (Don't Be Alarmed by Warnings)
2021-06-08 EPO Management Pours Money Down the River, Wasting Budget on Failed and Failing Projects
2021-06-08 Links 9/6/2021: GRUB 2.06, New GeckoLinux
2021-06-09 The 'Old School' Web is Alive and Well, Contrary to What Hype About 'Smart', 'Clown Computing', 'Web 2.0', and 'Mobile-Friendly' Wants Us to Believe
2021-06-09 Virtual Injustice -- Part 1: António's Increasingly Wonky Legal Fudge Factory
2021-06-09 Why We Fight for Real Justice at the European Patent Office
2021-06-09 Links 9/6/2021: Krita 4.4.5 and Mabox Linux 21.06 Geralt
2021-06-09 Links 10/6/2021: KDE Gear 21.08 Schedule, Librem 5 USA Supply Chain Security
2021-06-10 Virtual Injustice -- Part 2: The ViCo Oral Proceedings of 28 May 2021
2021-06-10 The EPO's Lack of Objective Legal System is No Laughing Matter
2021-06-10 [Meme] Lord Justice Sir
2021-06-10 EPO 'ViCo' Prior Art (~30 Years Ago): Barely Innovative at All
2021-06-10 Links 10/6/2021: Raspberry Digital Signage 15.0, NVIDIA Driver 470
2021-06-10 The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Needs to Get Its Act Together on the EPO's GDPR Violations
2021-06-11 EPO ‘ViCo’ Prior Art (or ViCo Going Back to the 1980s)
2021-06-11 Virtual Injustice -- Part 3: All the President's Men…
2021-06-11 Links 11/6/2021: A Torvalds COVID Rant and RISC-V Risk of Takeover
2021-06-12 Virtual Injustice -- Part 4: Mihály Ficsor, the EPO's Hungarian “Fixer”
2021-06-12 EU Already Captured by -- and Lying for -- Corrupt EPO Officials, Team UPC, and Lobbyists of Multinational Corporations
2021-06-12 The Story of Techrights, in Banners...
2021-06-12 Links 13/6/2021: KDE Frameworks 5.83.0 and helloSystem 0.5
2021-06-13 Virtual Injustice -- Part 5: Benoît's “Friends” in Budapest
2021-06-13 Links 13/6/2021: Linux 5.14 Work, Lots of Patent News
2021-06-13 Classic: Old EPO Strike
2021-06-14 Virtual Injustice -- Part 6: Best Buddies With António
2021-06-14 The 'Fixer' of António Campinos Taints G1/21 (ViCo Hearing)
2021-06-14 [Meme] Illegal Location, Illegal Methods (Haar ViCo)
2021-06-14 A Parade of 'Yes Men': EPO's Budget and Finance Committee as Rubber-stamper of the Dictatorship That Pays the Salary
2021-06-14 [Meme] EPO 'Lawfulness' as Crude Budget Wars
2021-06-14 [Meme] There Are No Elections in Mafia-Type Regimes; It's About Family and Friends...
2021-06-14 Hardly Shocking and Not At All Surprising That Thugs Who Run the EPO Hired External Thugs to Help Them Oppress Aggrieved Staff
2021-06-15 Virtual Injustice -- Part 7: Musical Chairs and Revolving Doors
2021-06-15 Links 15/6/2021: Debian Installer Bullseye RC 2 and Zink Updates
2021-06-16 Virtual Injustice -- Part 8: A Well-Connected 'IP' Maximalist
2021-06-17 Virtual Injustice -- Part 9: Heli, the EPO's Nordic Ice-Queen
2021-06-17 [Meme] Tilting the Scales for Software Patents
2021-06-17 Response to Misinformation From EPO Officials
2021-06-17 [Meme] The Enlarged Bored People With Presidential Decrees
2021-06-18 The Lying by Team UPC, Led Again by Kevin Mooney
2021-06-18 Heli Pihlajamaa Promoting Software Patents to Patent Maximalists
2021-06-18 Links 18/6/2021: RasPad 3 and Pushing Rust Into the Linux Kernel
2021-06-18 Virtual Injustice -- Part 10: Vapid and Superficial Coverage in the 'IP' Blogosphere
2021-06-18 [Meme] Swedish Justice
2021-06-18 Links 18/6/2021: LibreOffice 7.2 Beta, Elementary OS 6.0 Beta 2, and Linux Mint 20.2 “Uma” Beta
2021-06-18 The EPO's Virtual Injustice and Virtual ('News') Media
2021-06-18 [Meme] When the 'Court' Drops
2021-06-19 Virtual Injustice -- Part 11: Perceptive Comments and Caustic Criticism
2021-06-19 Virtual Injustice -- Part 12: Carl Josefsson – Down But Not Out!
2021-06-19 The EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeal Has Already Lost the Case in the Court of Public Opinion
2021-06-20 Links 20/6/2021: Debian GNU/Linux 10.10 “Buster” Released and LF Revisionism Resumes
2021-06-20 We Need and Deserve a Saner Patent System in Europe
2021-06-20 EPO: Fake Patents, Fake (Paid-for) Patent Coverage, and Fake Awards for Public Relations Purposes
2021-06-20 Links 20/6/2021: Akademy 2021 Underway and Linux Foundation Blasted
2021-06-20 Virtual Injustice -- Part 13: Let the Games Continue…
2021-06-21 Links 21/6/2021: Linux 5.13 RC7, IRC.com by Freenode
2021-06-21 Links 21/6/2021: Rocky Linux 8.4, IPFire 2.25 - Core Update 157, and SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP3
2021-06-21 Virtual Injustice -- Part 14: How Mandatory ViCo Became the “New Normal”
2021-06-22 Links 21/6/2021: NVIDIA’s DLSS and Most Beautiful GNU/Linux Distributions
2021-06-22 Links 22/6/2021: KDE Plasma 5.22.2, FreeBSD 13.0 Compared to DragonFlyBSD 6.0
2021-06-24 Links 24/6/2021: End of Akademy 2021 and Good News From SCOTUS (About PTAB)
2021-06-24 Virtual Injustice -- Part 15: A Pandora's Box... But for Whom?
2021-06-24 [Meme] Timely Timing?
2021-06-24 Links 25/6/2021: China's Space Programme Runs on GNU/Linux (Kylin), Ubuntu 21.10 Wallpaper Competition
2021-06-25 Links 25/6/2021: Sway 1.6.1 Wayland Compositor and InvoicePrinter 2.2
2021-06-26 G 1/21 is a Catastrophe for the EPO's Legitimacy
2021-06-26 The European Patent Office (EPO) Articles, Almost 3,500 of Them in Total, Now Listed in Gemini
2021-06-26 [Meme] The EPO's Hand on the Scales (With Fixers Inside the Most Important Hearings)
2021-06-27 Links 27/6/2021: BigBlueButton Case Studies and Fedora 35 Encryption
2021-06-27 Links 27/6/2021: Latte Dock 0.10, 5th Beta of LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0
2021-06-28 Links 28/6/2021: Linux 5.13, IBM Layoffs, and Software Patents
2021-06-28 EPO ViCo on Trial
2021-06-28 What to Do If the Techrights Web Site is Offline
2021-06-28 Links 28/6/2021: Torvalds FUD and EasyOS 2.8.3
2021-06-28 Links 28/6/2021: Mircea Popescu Dies, Tuxedo Stellaris 15 is Available
2021-06-29 EPO Treats Staff as Disposable, Hence More Reluctant to Defy Unlawful Guidelines and Policies
2021-06-29 Links 29/6/2021: GNU/Linux in North Korea, Google’s Lyra 0.0.2
2021-06-29 Links 29/6/2021: Nitrux 1.5, Microsoft Still Playing 'Copyright Police' Against Free Software
2021-06-29 Communications of the Boards of Appeal of the EPO Still Controlled by the Office, Which Also Censors Public Input Submissions (Observations)
2021-06-30 More G1/21 Scandals as the Stacked Panel Scrambles to Cover Up the Misconduct
2021-06-30 The Already-Weak Impression of EPO Lawfulness (Under António Campinos) is Over
2021-07-01 EPO Referral Case G 1/21: It's Popcorn Time!
2021-07-01 EPO Run by Completely and Totally Incompetent and Irresponsible People
2021-07-01 Links 1/7/2021: Kodachi 8.6, FSF for GNU GPL, and Tor 0.4.6.6
2021-07-01 EPO Circus Versus European Constitutions
2021-07-02 Links 2/7/2021: More Games on GNU/Linux, IBM Mail System on Fire
2021-07-02 Court on Call (or Calle)
2021-07-02 'ViCo' Technical Issues Already Curtail the Case About EPO 'ViCo', Decision Cannot be Issued Today!
2021-07-02 Techrights Statement on Today's EPO Hearing (Enlarged Board of Appeal)
2021-07-02 Links 2/7/2021: Jim Whitehurst Leaves IBM, KDSoap 2.0.0, and EasyOS 2.8.4
2021-07-03 Delay After Delay, Blunder After Blunder, the 'New Normal' of António Campinos Faces Obstacles
2021-07-03 Links 3/7/2021: Wine 6.12, Darktable 3.6.0, and Texinfo 6.8
2021-07-04 Links 4/7/2021: EndeavourOS Reviewed, Another Windows Security Catastrophe Unveiled in Holiday Weekend (Kaseya VSA)
2021-07-04 Techrights Wiki and Gemini Protocol (Work in Progress)
2021-07-04 [Meme] EPO Airlines
2021-07-04 Links 4/7/2021: Raspberry Digital Signage 16.0 and Lots About Patents
2021-07-05 Links 5/7/2021: NuTyX 21.07.2 is Out, Audacity 3.0 Has Spyware Scandal
2021-07-05 Corporations Are Not People and They Care About No People Other Than Their Own Executives
2021-07-05 Links 5/7/2021: Audacity Fork, Jupiter Nano With Linux and XiangShan With Free Design
2021-07-05 EPO's “Towards a New Normal” Hogwash Just Another Attempt to Make Unlawful and Unconstitutional Policies Seem OK and 'Normalised'
2021-07-05 Making EPO Crimes a 'New Normal'
2021-07-05 Holiday for António, Glass and Metal Cages for the Rest of Us
2021-07-05 Liberation Sentry, Not 'Open Source' (Openwashing)
2021-07-05 The EPO's Administrative Council Has Just Shown Evidence of Its Complicity (Again)
2021-07-06 Links 6/7/2021: X.Org Server 21.1 Development Snapshot, Audacity Backlash Grows
2021-07-06 European Patent Office (EPO) and the EPO's Administrative Council Both Complicit in Illegal Outsourcing to Microsoft (and Industrial Espionage)
2021-07-06 GNU/Linux Advocacy Over the Years (or Why You Should Advocate GNU More Than Linux)
2021-07-07 EPO Management: A Mafia That Discourages Journalism and Reduces Truth to Anonymous Whispers (Ducking Detection by the Mafia)
2021-07-07 Living the EPO Lie
2021-07-07 Links 7/7/2021: MAAS 3.0 and Nitrux Living Packagecloud
2021-07-07 Among 43 New Judgments From ILO-AT, Which 'Oversees' Dozens of Institutions, 25 (More Than 58%) Concern the EPO's Staff
2021-07-08 Video: ILO-AT Caseload Shows That António Campinos Failed and Should be Sacked by the Administrative Council of the EPO
2021-07-08 [Meme] Will EPO Comply?
2021-07-08 ILOAT Finally Overturns Battistelli's Vichyite Strike Regulations
2021-07-09 Links 9/7/2021: Linux Mint 20.2, Kdenlive 21.04.3, and KDE Gear 21.04.3
2021-07-09 EPO's Staff Union Fights for the EPO's Survival and Viability
2021-07-09 Arguing With Diplomatic Immunity
2021-07-09 Journalists Who Don't Even Know What the UPC is (or What It's Called) Carry Water for the Patent Litigation Lobby
2021-07-09 [Meme] When Timing is Impossible to Ignore
2021-07-10 Links 10/7/2021: IBM Buying Another Company, More European Patents Perish
2021-07-11 Chronicles of the Defunct Patent Office/Legal System in Europe
2021-07-11 Links 11/7/2021: EasyNAS 1.0, Lots of Patent Catch-up
2021-07-11 Techrights News to Muse
2021-07-11 UPC @ FCC
2021-07-12 Proprietary Software on the Road to Nowhere
2021-07-12 Links 12/7/2021: Linux 5.14 RC1 and More Microsoft E.E.E.
2021-07-12 EPO Dictator Campinos Continues Crushing EPO Staff, Outpacing Battistelli in Terms of His Abuses
2021-07-12 [Meme] EPO Telenovela: Sua Vida me Pertence by Tony Campinos
2021-07-12 Links 12/7/2021: digiKam 7.3, EuroLinux, and GNU/Linux on IdeaPad
2021-07-12 EPO Would Never Have Posted This
2021-07-13 Video: Mind the Mental Gap
2021-07-13 [Meme] The EPO's Kakistocracy
2021-07-13 António Campinos Needs to be Removed From the EPO as Soon as Possible Along With Friends He Brought Over
2021-07-13 Links 13/7/2021: Firefox 90, Tails 4.20, LibreOffice 7.2 RC1, MongoDB 5.0 Released
2021-07-13 The EPO's Administrative Council Just Chose Another Battistelli (for the Same Toxic Agenda)
2021-07-14 Links 14/7/2021: OpenSearch 1.0, Oracle Clown Sucks, AlmaLinux 8.4 Reviewed
2021-07-14 Wiki Expansion to Gemini:// Almost Done
2021-07-15 [Meme] Couldn't Even Qualify for Management at GAP
2021-07-15 Links 15/7/2021: Netflix in Gaming (DRM)
2021-07-15 EPO Staff Seeking Reparations After Unlawful Practices and a Decade of Abuse by EPO 'Mafia'
2021-07-15 Staff Elements in Working Group on Teleworking Explain Lies From EPO Management, Which Isn't Working (Only Robbing and Stealing From the EPO)
2021-07-17 Links 17/7/2021: EPO Exposes Its Courts Being Rigged (Later on a Friday), ZDNet Continues With Microsoft's Latest PR/Propaganda
2021-07-17 Techrights Wiki @ Gemini: At Long Last, An 'Alpha' Release
2021-07-17 [Meme] It's Always an Emergency When You Need to Protect Criminals From Prosecution/Accountability
2021-07-17 The EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeal Acknowledges That It's Rigged Even After a Shuffle
2021-07-18 EPO Collapsing Under Managerial Corruption and Neglect of Staff
2021-07-18 [Meme] If We Don't Agree There's a Gap...
2021-07-18 EPO Examiners Should Be in Charge of EPO Policies, Not Self-Serving Politicians Who Exploit and Flaunt Diplomatic Immunity
2021-07-18 EPO is in Trouble, It's Just Covering That Up
2021-07-18 [Meme] European Patent Mill
2021-07-18 Links 18/7/2021: Release of pgAdmin 4 Version 5.5, Debian 11.0 “Bullseye” Soon
2021-07-19 Links 19/7/2021: Linux 5.14 RC2 and GNU Binutils 2.37
2021-07-19 Monopolies Cannot 'Decapitate' a Movement
2021-07-20 Links 20/7/2021: Kodachi 8.7, GNOME 40.3, GNOME 41 Alpha
2021-07-20 Links 20/7/2021: PiStorm News and Microsoft Shamelessly Trying to Shift Blame to 'China' (Again)
2021-07-20 Links 20/7/2021: Plasma Mobile 21.07, Jim Whitehurst Sells His Home
2021-07-22 Links 22/7/2021: Mesa 21.2 RC2 and Audacity Reverses Action
2021-07-23 Links 23/7/2021: Firewalld 1.0, Librem 5 File Transfer, Stockfish GPL Enforcement
2021-07-23 Where There's Smoke...
2021-07-23 The Next One Thousand Blog Posts and the 15th Anniversary of Techrights
2021-07-24 Support the Founders of GNU and Linux, Besieged by People and Corporations That Hate Development Communities and Seek Oppressive Monopoly Over Everything
2021-07-24 Links 24/7/2021: Skrooge 2.26.1 and K-9 Mail Release
2021-07-25 Links 25/7/2021: LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0 RC1 and Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) End of Life
2021-07-25 Links 25/7/2021: MyGNUHealth 1.0.3 and Lots About Patents
2021-07-26 Links 26/7/2021: Third RC of Linux 5.14 and Beta 3 of Haiku Project
2021-07-26 Increasing Focus on Advocacy for the Free Software Community (Putting Control Over Computing in the Hands of People, Not Large Corporations)
2021-07-26 [Meme] EPO 2025 (When Most of the Decent Patent Examiners Have Been Chased Away)
2021-07-27 Getting News and Updates Over Gemini (in General and for Techrights)
2021-07-27 Recording Videos With Webcamoid on GNU/Linux
2021-07-27 Links 27/7/2021: KDE Plasma 5.22.4, Libinput 1.19 to Include Hold Gestures
2021-07-27 The EPO's 'News' Page Annotated
2021-07-28 [Meme] EPO Asked to Comply With the Law and Correct Behaviour
2021-07-28 Links 28/7/2021: GCC 11.2 Released
2021-07-28 [Meme] When Sociopaths or Psychopaths Run Europe's Second-Largest Institution
2021-07-29 [Meme] No Crime Goes Unrewarded at the EPO
2021-07-29 Crying “Wolf!” About Systemd is Only Beneficial to IBM and Systemd Developers/Pushers
2021-07-29 European Patent Office is Going on Strike (or Strikes)
2021-07-29 [Meme] António Lost His Power Over Patent Examiners
2021-07-30 The OSI's Defunct Elections (Privacy Breach), Conflict of Interest (Nicholson), and Other Lingering Problems
2021-07-30 [Meme] Rowan and António Sittin' on a Tree...
2021-07-30 [Meme] Enforcing ILO-AT Rulings...
2021-07-30 European Media Does Not Care About Europe's Second-Largest Institution Crushing Basic Laws and Fundamental Rights
2021-07-31 Raw: Elodie Bergot Breaking the Law by Threatening Against the Exercise of Fundamental Rights
2021-07-31 For 17 Days (and Counting) António Campinos Has Failed to Respond to Call for Compliance With the Law
2021-08-01 [Meme] Nobody and Nothing Harms Europe's Reputation Like the EPO Does
2021-08-01 Links 1/8/2021: LibreOffice 7.2 RC2 and Lakka 3.3
2021-08-02 Links 2/8/2021: Linux 5.14 RC4 and 20% Growth in Steam
2021-08-02 [Meme] Vichyite Battistelli Committed Crimes and His Buddy António Snubs Courts That Confirm These Are Crimes
2021-08-02 It Almost Feels Like Battistelli Still Runs the EPO (by Extension/Proxy)
2021-08-02 Links 2/8/2021: XEyes 1.2 and Fwupd 1.6.2 Released
2021-08-03 Four Weeks of Non-Compliance: EPO Only Accepts Courts That It Rigs and Controls
2021-08-03 The EPO is Europe's Largest Scale Scam (by Far the Largest)
2021-08-03 How the News About 'Linux' Gets Manipulated to Spread FUD and Promote the Competition of GNU/Linux
2021-08-03 Links 3/8/2021: LibreOffice Autoupdater and Vulkan in X-Plane
2021-08-03 Links 3/8/2021: DeaDBeeF 1.8.8, CrossOver 21, AMD and Valve Hook Up for GNU/Linux Work
2021-08-04 The Free Software Community Needs Solidarity and Stronger Resistance Against Corporate Oligopolies With Their Overlapping Interests
2021-08-04 Destroying Freenode Was Not the Objective, But That's Just What Happened
2021-08-04 Links 4/8/2021: Audacity as Spyware and PCLinuxOS Updates
2021-08-05 EPO Bribing Scholars to Justify Software Patents, Then Using Narrow Surveys to Justify Unlawful Guidelines for Examiners (e.g. Software Patents as 'Hey Hi')
2021-08-05 Links 5/8/2021: Kubernetes 1.22, Alpine 3.14.1, Cutelee 6
2021-08-06 'Hacker' 'News' 'Flags' Accurate and Factual Article About Mozilla, So Let's Say More About Mozilla...
2021-08-06 Links 6/8/2021: GNOME’s New Human Interface Guidelines and KDE's GSoC Progress
2021-08-07 When Tech Rights Go 'Mainstream'
2021-08-08 An EPO Administrative Council Exposé -- Part I: A New EPO Balkan Affair?
2021-08-08 The European Patent Organisation Discredits the European Patent System
2021-08-08 [Meme] Inventors as 'Robots' in the Western World and Global South
2021-08-08 Links 8/8/2021: Thunderbird 91 Coming Soon, OSMC Gets Kodi 19
2021-08-08 An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part II: A Mysterious Fist-Bumping Masquerade in Skopje
2021-08-08 [Meme] Doyen for North Macedonia
2021-08-08 Links 8/8/2021: GNUnet 0.15.0 and Stable Linux Releases
2021-08-09 An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part III: A Longtime Associate of the Doyen
2021-08-09 [Meme] Competition for the 'Doyen' (in the Boardroom or the Bedroom?)
2021-08-09 Links 9/8/2021: Linux 5.14 RC5, SME Server 10.0 Reviewed
2021-08-09 The Corruption Virus at the EPO, Europe's Largest and Most Important Patent Office
2021-08-09 [Meme] The Administrative Council's Strategy for Saving the EPO: Paying Up (Bribing) the Media and Lawyering Up EPO Staff
2021-08-09 Links 9/8/2021: Rav1e 0.5 Beta and a Look at Widgets in WordPress 5.8
2021-08-10 An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part IV: A Party Political Animal
2021-08-10 [Meme] More Than Meets the Eye...
2021-08-10 [Meme] EPO: Over a Month of Non-Compliance With Court Rulings!
2021-08-10 EPO as a Combat Zone, Governed by Separatists Who Take Bribes
2021-08-10 An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part V: Sharing Out the Spoils of Public Office
2021-08-11 Presumption of Patent Invalidity in Europe
2021-08-11 Links 11/8/2021: elementary OS 6 and Zorin OS 16 Pro Plans
2021-08-11 Freenode is Now Dead. But is the EPO Too 'Dead Man Walking'? When Rogues Are Left in Charge...
2021-08-11 [Meme] Restoring Peace by Spending 6 Million Euros to Fight Staff in Court (Approved by the EPO's Administrative Council)
2021-08-11 An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part VI: A Learned Legal Luminary
2021-08-11 [Meme] Diplomatic Mill
2021-08-12 EPO is Driving Under the Influence (DUI), Just Like the President's Son
2021-08-12 EPO Pinkwashing Helps Nothing Except the Ego of Oppressive and Despotic EPO Management
2021-08-12 [Meme] There is a Special Place in Hell for the EPO's Social Dialogue
2021-08-12 An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part VII: An Academic Institution With a Political Mission
2021-08-12 [Meme] A Statement That Wouldn't Age Well...
2021-08-13 An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part VIII: An Inspector Calls
2021-08-13 [Meme] EPO Needs D & I in Opinions and Representation, Too
2021-08-13 When Did Diversity Become a Product Sold to Corporations and to Privileged Autocrats?
2021-08-13 The Grave Dangers of Politicised Patent Offices and a Politicians-Run EPO
2021-08-14 An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part IX: “There Are Indications of a Violation of the Law…”
2021-08-14 [Meme] North Macedonia is the Same as Germany
2021-08-14 EPO, Europe's Second-Largest Organisation, as a Hub of Corrupt Politics
2021-08-14 The EPO's Extraordinary Gerrymandering Landscape and Belated Introduction to Goran Gerasinmovski
2021-08-14 [Meme] Patents on 'Magic'
2021-08-15 An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part X: A “Fall Guy” For the Deputy Minister?
2021-08-15 When Corrupt Officials Are Put in Charge of Law, Justice, and Patent-Granting Institutions
2021-08-15 [Meme] The MaceDoyen
2021-08-15 [Meme] Macedonian State Capture (Control From Afar)
2021-08-15 Links 15/8/2021: Joomla Sued, GNU Health Helps in Haiti
2021-08-15 An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part XI: Captured States in the EU's Waiting Room
2021-08-15 When Nations Are Dens of Nepotism and Corruption, Just Like the EPO
2021-08-16 Links 16/8/2021: Linux 5.14 RC6 and PineNote Debut
2021-08-16 An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part XII: Captured Delegates on the Administrative Council?
2021-08-16 [Meme] EPO's Captured Nations as Bought and Paid-for Votes
2021-08-16 Media Participates in Cover-Up -- and Thus Enablement -- of Rogue Representatives and Mischievous National Delegates Inside the EPO
2021-08-17 Links 17/8/2021: Go 1.17, Git 2.33, Tesseract 5.0
2021-08-17 With Its Handling of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement (UPCA), Germany Shows It's No Better Than Poland or Hungary
2021-08-17 An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part XIII: In Good Company...
2021-08-17 Corruption at the EPO's Governance (or the Administrative Council) is Not Limited to Balkan States
2021-08-17 [Meme] Capturing the Situation...
2021-08-18 Links 18/8/2021: SMPlayer 21.8.0, HandBrake 1.4.1, nailing-cargo 1.0.0
2021-08-18 [Meme] Every Publisher in Europe Was Supposed to Cover EPO Corruption
2021-08-18 An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part XIV: No Great Loss...
2021-08-18 Corruption is Everywhere, But EPO Officials Very Well Know the Law and They Know That They Break the Law
2021-08-18 [Meme] Who Needs Laws Anyway?
2021-08-18 U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Has a Deep Revolving Doors Crisis (Former Officials Cashing in as Lobbyists and Private Sector Actors)
2021-08-18 Links 18/8/2021: Krita 5.0 Beta, IPFire 2.27 Core Update 159
2021-08-19 Warning: Campaign of Disinformation by Team UPC
2021-08-19 Team UPC Should be Taken to Court by Clients (for Misleading Them, Only for Personal Gain)
2021-08-19 Links 19/8/2021: LibreOffice 7.2 Community and Best in Kali Linux
2021-08-19 Naming and Shaming 'Captured' Publications That Knowingly and Intentionally Published Fake News About the EU's Unified Patent Court So Far This Week
2021-08-22 Richard Stallman Explains Why He Protests and Condemns the EPO (for Promoting Software Patents in Other Continents, Too)
2021-08-22 [Meme] In the EPO, Criminals Get Promoted, Not Arrested
2021-08-22 Links 22/8/2021: IWD 1.17 and Pardus 21.0
2021-08-23 Links 23/8/2021: GNU's MyGNUHealth and GNU Parallel Have New Releases
2021-08-23 Links 23/8/2021: GitUI 0.17 and Many GSoC Reports
2021-08-23 Making Techrights Thinner and Faster
2021-08-23 Links 23/8/2021: GTK 4.4, Sailfish OS-Like UI, and New Linux FUD
2021-08-24 For Resistance to Censorship (e.g. Evidence of Corruption and War Crimes) Get Off 'the Cloud'
2021-08-24 Joff Wild's Latest Wild Lies
2021-08-24 Expecting the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation to Actually Follow the Law...
2021-08-24 [Meme] Internal Stacked Committees, Sponsored by Special Interests
2021-08-24 Links 24/8/2021: Escuelas Linux 7.1 and Clonezilla Live 2.7.3
2021-08-24 EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part I – More Captured Delegates?
2021-08-25 How Finland, With About 20 Times More European Patents Than Baltic States Combined, Has Controlled Those States for the Battistelli Era Regime (and Campinos Era Too)
2021-08-25 [Meme] Finnish Your Coffee
2021-08-25 EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part II – Old Wine in New Bottles...
2021-08-25 A Closer Look at Baltic States' Membership in the EPO and the Significance
2021-08-25 [Meme] Martti 'Vichy' Enäjärvi
2021-08-25 EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part III – Introducing the Finnish “Facilitator”
2021-08-26 Finland Corruption Levels Aren't What They Seem (or Perceived to Be)
2021-08-26 Links 26/8/2021: Qt Creator 5.0 and Another Windows Catastrophe
2021-08-26 EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part IV – Martti Enäjärvi and His “Good Brother” Networks
2021-08-26 [Meme] Finnishing Off the European Patent Convention (EPC)
2021-08-26 So-called 'IP' Statistics for the Baltic States Reveal Very Few Patents
2021-08-26 Part 5 Teaser: Enäjärvi Caught
2021-08-27 Finnish Media Has Already Explained What Sorts of People We're Dealing With...
2021-08-27 Links 27/8/2021: LibreELEC 10 and PipeWire 0.3.34 Released
2021-08-27 EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part V – A Man With a Conviction...
2021-08-28 Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH) Governed by a Criminal for Two Decades
2021-08-28 [Meme] Mr. Casino Martti Enäjärvi
2021-08-28 About Half of the Supposed 'Growth' in Patents is Abstract Stuff or 'Software-Related' (Patents That Courts Would Quite Likely Reject)
2021-08-28 EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part VI –
2021-08-28 Convicted Fraudster 'in Charge' of Patent Delegations From Four Nations?
2021-08-29 [Meme] Appointing Dictators for Life
2021-08-29 Buying Elections at the Expense of the Finnish Taxpayers
2021-08-29 [Meme] Monkey See, Monkey Do (Secret Meetings in Eastern Forests)
2021-08-29 EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part VII – A Self-Appointed “Select Committee”
2021-08-29 Fixing Elections, Scoring Points Behind Closed Doors
2021-08-29 Elected Like a Mafia Don, Governing the EPO Like a Mafioso...
2021-08-29 Links 29/8/2021: Linux 5.15 Plans and KDE PIM Updates
2021-08-30 [Meme] Compensating for Daddy
2021-08-30 A Deeply Disturbing Culture of Corruption and Nepotism
2021-08-30 EPO Occupational Health
2021-08-30 EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part VIII – Pulling for the Portuguese Pretender?
2021-08-30 António Campinos is Not a Patents Person and He Doesn't Belong at the EPO
2021-08-31 EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part IX – António's Faithful Acolyte in Alicante
2021-08-31 Two Institutions, Two Dictators
2021-09-01 Links 1/9/2021: Chrome 93, Rspamd 3.0, Red Hat Satellite 6.9.5
2021-09-01 Links 1/9/2021: More Linux-Powered Handheld Consoles
2021-09-01 EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part X – A Pan-European “Good Brother” Network Celebration?
2021-09-01 [Meme] A Network of Brothers
2021-09-01 [Meme] A Cat (or Kat) That Sold All Its Souls...
2021-09-01 It's a Big Club
2021-09-01 [Meme] When Everything is Basically Rigged...
2021-09-01 Links 1/9/2021: Wayland Protocols 1.22, Microsoft Customers Flee
2021-09-02 Response to Daniel X. Thomas, Former Director at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2021-09-02 Just Like in China, Even an EPO 'Emeritus' Cannot Criticise the Regime of EPOnia...
2021-09-02 EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XI – With a Little Help From My Friends…
2021-09-02 [Meme] António Campinos Poured Bleach on a Convicted Criminal
2021-09-02 OHIM/EUIPO Giving Top Roles to Repeatedly-Convicted Fraudsters is Bad for the Reputation of the European Union
2021-09-03 EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XII – Battistelli and His Baltic Fiefdoms
2021-09-03 [Meme] The Rigga' From Riga
2021-09-03 A Vast Sea of Corruption Flowing Out of EPOnia (Munich/Bavaria/Germany)
2021-09-03 How Much Corruption Can One Survive in EPO?
2021-09-03 Benoît Battistelli's Napoleonic Baltic Crusade: Phase II, Fortification and Cover-Up
2021-09-04 EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XIII – Out With the Old, in With the New?
2021-09-04 Lies and Deceit, Striving to Expand the Coup From Patent Offices to Patent Courts
2021-09-04 Links 5/9/2021: Kdenlive 21.08.1 and Many Kernel Merges
2021-09-05 EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XIV – Business as Usual in Tallinn
2021-09-05 [Meme] Consistent Standards
2021-09-05 The Younger Face of the Estonian Patent Office
2021-09-05 The Government of Germany Needs to Quit Supporting Fraud
2021-09-05 Links 5/9/2021: OpenWrt 21.02 and Dav1d 0.9.2
2021-09-05 5 Years Ago: Benjamin Henrion (FFII) Explains the Connection Between Software Patents and UPC
2021-09-05 Links 6/9/2021: NuTyX 21.09.0 and RSS Guard 4.0.1
2021-09-06 EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XV – Worse Than “a Backward Kolkhoz”…
2021-09-06 [Meme] When the National Average Salary is 400-500 Euros a Month
2021-09-06 The EPO's Lithuanian Representation, Leadership, or Delegation
2021-09-06 Links 6/9/2021: RetroArch 1.9.9 and Mozilla Firefox 92
2021-09-06 Links 6/9/2021: Finnix 123, antiX-21 Beta 2
2021-09-07 EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XVI – A Promising Start Followed by an Unfortunate Cock-Up
2021-09-07 Two Months of ILO-AT Non-Compliance at the EPO and a Decade of a Docile Administrative Council That Approves Illegal Proposals
2021-09-07 Nearly 3,000 Days of EPO Violating Fundamental Rights of EPO Staff, and Not Without Help From an Overwhelmingly Complicit Administrative Council
2021-09-07 EPO Timeliness (or How the European Patent Organisation/Office Uses Time to Deny Justice)
2021-09-07 David Kappos (IBM/Microsoft Lobbyist) Reported for Misuse of Authority and Conflict of Interest
2021-09-07 EPO Oversight
2021-09-08 EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XVII – Secret Bank Accounts in Switzerland and Germany
2021-09-08 [Meme] Forward Pharma Meets EPO Patent 'Quality'
2021-09-08 Corruption in Latvia's Patent Office
2021-09-08 Links 8/9/2021: QCoro 0.2.0 and Accessible-Coconut
2021-09-09 EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XVIII – A Baltic Circus in Riga
2021-09-09 All the President's Men and Women in Latvia
2021-09-09 Links 9/9/2021: LibreOffice 7.1.6 Community, Tor Browser 10.5.6, and WordPress 5.8.1
2021-09-09 [Meme] [Teaser] Put the Ballot in This Box...
2021-09-10 EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part IXX – The EUIPO Connection
2021-09-10 [Meme] The Coloniser Campinos, Preying on the Poor
2021-09-10 What Patent Colonialism Looks Like
2021-09-10 Links 10/9/2021: Firefox Ads and Sci-Hub Turns 10
2021-09-10 Challenging David Kappos, Seeking Accountability Over His Corporate Legacy as IBM/Microsoft 'Mole' Inside the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
2021-09-10 [Meme] 12 Years of Corporate Deplorables Running the USPTO
2021-09-10 [Meme] EPO and EUIPO Aren't Democratic Institutions
2021-09-10 [Meme] [Teaser] Thanking and Rewarding My Rigga' in Riga
2021-09-11 EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XX – Top Jobs at EUIPO for “Compliant” Baltic Officials?
2021-09-11 Links 11/9/2021: Wine 6.17, OpenShot 2.6.1, RSS Guard 4.0.2
2021-09-11 EPO Bribes at the Expense of EPO Users and the European Union (EU)
2021-09-12 Links 12/9/2021: Atari VCS, KDE Slimbook, and Elecrow CrowPi 2 Reviewed
2021-09-13 Links 13/9/2021: First Linux 5.15 Release Candidate and Fedora 35 Beta Tomorrow
2021-09-14 Recent Focus on Git, Gemini, and Upcoming Series About EPO Abuses
2021-09-14 [Meme] [Teaser] EPO Management, Always Right
2021-09-14 How to Track the Development or Construction of the Techrights Web Site and Gemini Capsule
2021-09-14 Links 15/9/2021: Java 17 / JDK 17 Released and ExpressVPN Sold
2021-09-16 EPO “Board 28” Meeting: Imaginary Dialogue Between EPO President Campinos and the Chair of the Administrative Council, Josef Kratochvíl
2021-09-16 [Meme] 70 Days of Non-Compliance
2021-09-18 Links 18/9/2021: GIMP 2.10.28 Released and Azure Remains Back Doored
2021-09-18 Links 18/9/2021: LibreOffice 8.0 Plans and Microsoftcosm Uses WSL to Badmouth 'Linux'
2021-09-19 Links 19/9/2021: Jolla's Sailfish OS 4.2 and FreeBSD Technology Roadmap
2021-09-19 Coming Soon: EPO Series on Lawlessness
2021-09-19 [Meme] Microsoft Says Its Paying Clients (Like EPO) Don't Violate Privacy Law
2021-09-19 Maintenance and Development Updates
2021-09-19 EPO Management is Hiding Under the 'Cloud' While Violating Privacy Laws
2021-09-19 Links 19/9/2021: Sparky 2021.09, Whisker Menu 2.6.0, HarfBuzz 3.0, and gThumb 3.12
2021-09-20 [Meme] Warning - Tree Felling in Progress
2021-09-20 Links 20/9/2021: Linux 5.15 RC2 and pgAdmin 4 5.7 Released
2021-09-20 Formally Challenging the EPO and Microsoft for Apparent Efforts to Suppress Reporting With Evidence of Crimes, Including Violations of EPO Data Protection Guidelines
2021-09-20 [Meme] Looting Europe and Taking Away From the Office
2021-09-20 [Meme] The B4 Summit: Baltic Benoît Battistelli in Belarus
2021-09-20 Microsoft and the EPO: A History of Threats and Suppression Against the Free Press
2021-09-20 Links 20/9/2021: Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 4 1.00, DXVK 1.9.2, and NVIDIA 470.74 Graphics Driver
2021-09-21 Preparations for the Next Series and Further Improvements in IPFS and Gemini
2021-09-21 [Meme] The Best Quality Propaganda
2021-09-21 Links 21/9/2021: Samba 4.15 and Ubuntu 14.04/16.04 Support for 10 Years
2021-09-21 [Meme] The EPO-EUIPO “Good Brother” Network
2021-09-21 Links 21/9/2021: Windowsfx 11, New Chrome, and LF PR Noise
2021-09-22 Agents of Monopoly: WIPO is Lobbying for or Reinforcing Microsoft Monopoly by Pushing Its Proprietary Software and Formats
2021-09-23 Links 23/9/2021: GNU Parallel 20210922, Moroccan Propaganda From EPO
2021-09-23 [Meme] Lowering the Standards...
2021-09-23 The EPO is on the Run (Escaping Negative Press Coverage)
2021-09-23 Links 23/9/2021: More UPC PR Stunts and IBM (Poettering) TPM for Linux
2021-09-23 Links 23/9/2021: PostgreSQL 14 RC 1 and MidnightBSD 2.1
2021-09-23 As Expected, Minimal Pseudo Compliance From EPO Management, Adding Insult to Injury
2021-09-23 [Meme] The EPO's Carte Blanche and 'Diplomatic Immunity' Card
2021-09-23 [Meme] President Campinos Addresses the Legacy of Battistelli's “Strike Regulations”
2021-09-24 The EPO Must Forsake Its Diplomatic Immunity and Quit Pretending It's About Patent Law (or Any Law)
2021-09-24 [Meme] Some People Are Just Above the Law
2021-09-24 Links 24/9/2021: GNU Coreutils 9.0, BattlEye GNU/Linux Support
2021-09-25 Virtual Oversight
2021-09-25 [Meme] When the EPO Watches Everything ('Dissidents', Media, Etc.) and Isn't Being Watched by Anybody
2021-09-26 Links 26/9/2021: Mozilla Spends on PR, OpenMandriva Outsourcing to Microsoft
2021-09-26 How Basic Laws and Fundamental Rights Got Crushed in the European Patent Office
2021-09-26 Links 26/9/2021: GNU Wget2 2.0.0 and MenuLibre 2.2.3 Released
2021-09-26 Links 27/9/2021: Librem 14 Reviewed, Linux 5.15 RC3 is Out
2021-09-27 [Meme] Route de France
2021-09-27 When It Comes to UPC, EPO is Still Stuck in Pre-Brexit Mindset (More Than Half a Decade in the Past)
2021-09-27 Links 28/9/2021: Inkscape 1.1.1 and 4MLinux 37.1 Release
2021-09-28 Links 28/9/2021: New Fedora Beta and LibreOffice's 11th Anniversary
2021-09-30 [Meme] Planting UPC Fiction in the Media
2021-09-30 [Meme] Paid-for UPC Echo Chamber: How Disinformation Campaigns or Political Meddling Work Online
2021-09-30 Nobody to Talk to About EPO Abuses, Including Abuses Against the Media and Against the EPO's Own Staff
2021-10-02 Angela Merkel's Coalition Has Not Helped EPO Staff and Not Even Bloggers Blackmailed by EPO Management
2021-10-02 [Meme] Margot Forgot UPC Facts
2021-10-03 Links 3/10/2021: helloSystem 0.6, 2021 Chaos Communication Congress Cancelled
2021-10-03 Links 3/10/2021: Xubuntu Development Update and Patent News Catch-up
2021-10-03 [Teaser] New EPO Series About Battistelli's Illegal “Strike Regulations”
2021-10-03 The EPO's Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part I: Let the Sunshine In!
2021-10-03 [Meme] Voting in the EPO
2021-10-04 Links 4/10/2021: HandBrake 1.4.2 and More Patent Catch-up
2021-10-04 Links 4/10/2021: Linux 5.15 RC4, GNU automake 1.16.5
2021-10-04 [Meme] Attacking the Workers, the Press, and the Law
2021-10-04 EPO Collusion
2021-10-04 [Meme] Totally and Perfectly Legal
2021-10-04 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part II: A “Unanimous” Endorsement?
2021-10-04 [Meme] Took Longer Than Battistelli's Presidency (and as Long as False UPC Promises)
2021-10-05 Links 4/10/2021: Lakka 3.5 is Out, Lumina Desktop 1.6.1 Available, GNOME 42 Plans Published
2021-10-05 Links 5/10/2021: AOSP/Android 12, Another Look at MidnightBSD
2021-10-05 Treating the Law Like It's Merely a Recommendation That Rich and Powerful People Can Ignore Whenever It Suits Them
2021-10-05 [Meme] [Teaser] When All Else Fails, Blame “Soros”
2021-10-05 [Reposted] Right of Strike Breached at the EPO -- Statement by Union Syndicale Fédérale (USF)
2021-10-05 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part III: Three Missing Votes
2021-10-06 Cannot Cast a Ballot for Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Liechtenstein (Even Whilst Attending for the Vote)?
2021-10-06 [Meme] Isabel Frommelt and Esther Schindler Too Busy to Vote or Even Attend
2021-10-06 [Meme] [Teaser] The Seven Nations and the Six Nations
2021-10-06 Links 6/10/2021: Ubuntu Frame and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 Beta
2021-10-06 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part IV: The Founding States
2021-10-06 Top EPO Applicants (Six Nations/States of Seven Founding States) Approved Unlawful Strike Regulations, Illegally Crushing EPO Examiners
2021-10-07 Links 7/10/2021: Slimbook Battery 4, FWUPD 1.7 Released
2021-10-07 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part V: Germany Says “Ja”
2021-10-07 [Meme] Nicht Unser Bier
2021-10-07 Christoph Ernst and Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger as Battistelli's 'Enablers' in Germany
2021-10-07 Links 8/10/2021: GNU nano 5.9, Squid 5.2, IceWM 2.8, Apache OpenOffice 4.1.11, LibrePlanet 2022 Plans
2021-10-08 [Meme] [Teaser] Double Dutch of Double Standards
2021-10-08 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part VI: A Distinct Lack of Dutch Courage
2021-10-08 The Unlawful Legacy of Guus Broesterhuizen, Paul van Beukering, and Derk-Jan de Groot
2021-10-09 [Meme] It's No Rosa Luxemburg
2021-10-09 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part VII: Luxembourgish Laxity
2021-10-09 Etienne Schneider, Lex Kaufhold and Other Officials Empowered EPO's Tyranny of Lawlessness, But Will Iris Depoulain Put an End to That?
2021-10-10 Links 10/10/2021: Urgent Linux 5.15 Charges and Wireshark 3.4.9
2021-10-10 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part VIII: Perfidious Albion and Pusillanimous Hibernia
2021-10-10 John Alty, Sean Dennehey, and Gerard Barrett as Enablers of Thatcherite “Strike Regulations” at the EPO (and Bonus: Team Battistelli's Cheerleader 'Managing IP' Ceases Print Publication)
2021-10-11 Links 11/10/2021: Linux 5.15 RC5 and Early Look (Screencast) at Feren OS 2021.10
2021-10-11 [Meme] [Teaser] Alpha Males
2021-10-11 Links 11/10/2021: Pyabr OS Reviewed and Tor Browser 10.5.9
2021-10-11 The 168th Meeting of the EPO Administrative Council as a Test of the EPO's Oversight Mechanisms
2021-10-11 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part IX: More Holes Than Swiss Cheese
2021-10-11 Betrayal Not Only of Swiss Workers But All European Workers, Courtesy of Roland Grossenbacher and Christian Bock
2021-10-12 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part X: Introducing the Controversial Christian Bock
2021-10-13 Unqualified Managers and Demoralising Leadership in Switzerland (Like in EPO)
2021-10-13 [Meme] [Teaser] Swiss Rumbustious Alpha-Rambos
2021-10-13 [Meme] [Teaser] Swiss Alexandre Benallas
2021-10-13 Links 13/10/2021: Firefox Keylogger on (By Default), GNOME Platform Design Discussed
2021-10-13 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XI: “General Bock” - Battistelli's Swiss Apprentice?
2021-10-14 Süddeutsche Zeitung Became a Propaganda Arm of EPO Management (and by Extension Software Patents/Patent Lobbyists)
2021-10-14 EPO Management Tricks EPO Staff Into Taking More Paycuts
2021-10-14 [Meme] Destroying the Workplace
2021-10-14 Splitting the Time to Cover More Leaks and Exposés
2021-10-14 [Meme] Another Maladministration Meeting Comes to an End
2021-10-14 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XII: The French Connection
2021-10-15 With EPO 'Strike Regulations' Belatedly Ruled Unlawful, EPO Management May be Lowering the Salary Even Further by Introducing Outside 'Temps' or Casual Workers
2021-10-15 [Meme] Protecting European Patent Courts From EPO 'Mafia'
2021-10-15 From Competitive (Top-Level, High-Calibre, Well-Paid) Jobs to 2,000 Euros a Month -- How the EPO is Becoming a Sweatshop by Patent Examiners' Standards
2021-10-15 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XIII: Battistelli's Iberian Facilitators - Spain
2021-10-16 [Meme] Spanish Inquisition
2021-10-16 The Reign in Spain
2021-10-16 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XIV: Battistelli's Iberian Facilitators - Portugal
2021-10-16 [Meme] [Teaser] Double-Dipping Friedrich Rödler
2021-10-17 Portuguese Network of Enablers
2021-10-17 [Meme] First Illegally Banning Strikes, Then Illegally Taking Over Courts
2021-10-17 Links 17/10/2021: Blender 2.93.5, Microsoft Bailouts
2021-10-17 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XV: Et Tu Felix Austria…
2021-10-17 [Meme] Friedrich Rödler's Increasingly Incomprehensible Debt Quagmire, Years Before EPO Money Was Trafficked Into the Stock Market
2021-10-17 Austria's Right-Wing Politicians Displaying Their Arrogance to EPO Examiners
2021-10-18 [Meme] The Austrian School of Friedrich Rude Liar
2021-10-18 Links 18/10/2021: Linux 5.15 RC6 and 7 New Stable Kernels
2021-10-18 Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part II — The Campaign Against GPL Compliance and War on Copyleft Enforcement
2021-10-18 [Meme] [Teaser] More to Life Than Patents
2021-10-18 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XVI: The Demise of the Austrian Double-Dipper
2021-10-18 The World Needs to Know What Many Austrians Already Know About Rude Liar, the Notorious 'Double-Dipper'
2021-10-18 [Meme] [Teaser] Thrown Under the Bus
2021-10-18 Links 19/10/2021: MyGNUHealth 1.0.5 and Ubuntu 22.04 Now Developed
2021-10-19 [Meme] [Teaser] Benoît Battistelli, King of Iceland
2021-10-19 Norway Should Have Voted Against Benoît Battistelli's Illegal (Anti-)'Strike Regulations' at the European Patent Office
2021-10-19 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XVII: The Non-Monolithic Nordic Bloc
2021-10-19 How Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden Voted on Patently Unlawful Regulations at the EPO
2021-10-19 Josef Kratochvìl Rewarded Again for Covering Up EPO Corruption and the EPO Bribes the Press for Lies Whilst Also Lying About Its Colossal Privacy Violations
2021-10-20 [Meme] Giving the Knee
2021-10-20 Links 19/10/2021: Karanbir Singh Leaves CentOS Board, GPL Violations at Vizio
2021-10-20 [Meme] Living as a Human Resource, Working for Despots
2021-10-20 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XVIII: Helsinki's Accord
2021-10-20 'Cluster-Voting' in the European Patent Office/Organisation (When a Country With 1.9 Million Citizens Has the Same Voting Power as a Country With 83.1 Million Citizens)
2021-10-20 [Meme] [Teaser] “Judge a Person Both by His Friends and Enemies”
2021-10-21 [Meme] EPO Legal Sophistry and Double Dipping
2021-10-21 [Meme] Is Saying “No!” to Unlawful Proposals Considered “Impolite”?
2021-10-21 [Meme] Strike Triangulations, Reception Issues
2021-10-21 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part IXX: The Baltic States
2021-10-21 [Meme] Don't Mention 'Brexit' to Team UPC
2021-10-21 'Satellite States' of EPO Autocrats
2021-10-21 Links 21/10/2021: MX Linux 21 and Git Contributors’ Summit in a Nutshell
2021-10-22 António Campinos Thinks Salary Reductions Months Before He Leaves is “Exceptional Social Gesture”
2021-10-22 [Meme] Speaking the Same Language
2021-10-22 [Meme] ILO Designed to Fail: EPO Presidents Cannot be Held Accountable If ILOAT Takes Almost a Decade to Issue a Simple Ruling
2021-10-22 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XX: The Visegrád Group
2021-10-22 Unlawful Regimes Even Hungary and Poland Would Envy
2021-10-23 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXI: The Balkan League – The Doyen and His “Protégée”
2021-10-23 Gangster Culture in the EPO
2021-10-23 Some Memes About What Croatia Means to the European Patent Office
2021-10-23 Links 24/10/2021: Ceph Boss Sage Weil Resigns and Many GPL Enforcement Stories
2021-10-24 Links 24/10/2021: XWayland 21.1.3 and Ubuntu Linux 22.04 LTS Daily Build
2021-10-24 Links 24/10/2021: GPS Daemon (GPSD) Bug and Lots of Openwashing
2021-10-24 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXII: The Balkan League - North Macedonia and Albania
2021-10-24 The Demolition of the EPO Was Made Possible With Assistance From Countries That Barely Have European Patents
2021-10-24 Links 25/10/2021: EasyOS 3.1 and Bareflank 3.0
2021-10-25 [Meme] [Teaser] Oligarchs-Controlled Patent Offices With Media Connections That Cover Up Corruption
2021-10-25 Links 25/10/2021: pg_statement_rollback 1.3 and Lots of Patent Catchup
2021-10-25 Links 25/10/2021: New Slackware64-current and a Look at Ubuntu Budgie
2021-10-25 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXIII: The Balkan League - Bulgaria
2021-10-25 Bulgarian Like Bavarian Serfdom
2021-10-26 Links 26/10/2021: Latte Dock 0.10.3 and Linux 5.15 RC7
2021-10-26 [Meme] [Teaser] Meet the President
2021-10-26 [Meme] “Social Democracy” at the EPO
2021-10-26 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXIV: The Balkan League - Romania
2021-10-26 Romania's Patent Office (OSIM): Nine Different Chiefs in Just Eight Years
2021-10-26 [Meme] Sounds Legit
2021-10-27 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXV: The Balkan League - Fresh Blood or Same Old, Same Old?
2021-10-27 Many of the National Delegations (or Delegates) in the EPO's Administrative Council Have No Understanding of What They Vote on
2021-10-27 'Shaping the New Normal' Survey at the EPO Got 5,554 EPO Staff to Participate, But It Was Controlled by Liars With an Agenda
2021-10-27 [Meme] EPO Presidential Surveys
2021-10-28 [Meme] False Choices and False Dichotomy Designed for Self-Harm
2021-10-28 EPO Home-Working (or 'Remote' Working or 'Teleworking') Isn't an Act of Generosity But of Exploitation
2021-10-28 This New Edward Snowden Video is Relevant to Media Cover-up in Service of EPO Management
2021-10-28 [Meme] The EPO's “New Normal”
2021-10-29 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXVI: A Trojan Horse on the Budget and Finance Committee
2021-10-29 Big Holes in EPO Budget, Overseen by a Greek Official
2021-10-29 [Meme] [Teaser] June 2013: Too Hot to Vote
2021-10-30 [Meme] Asleep at the Wheel
2021-10-30 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXVII: Cypriot Complicity
2021-10-30 [Meme] Inventing 'Authentic Interpretation' (Maybe They Should Also Patent It)
2021-10-30 Cyprus as Satellite Nation of 'Special Interests' in the European Patent Office and Organisation
2021-10-30 [Meme] [Teaser] Germany (EPO) Assimilated to Turkish Culture/Dictatorship
2021-10-30 FFII on Manipulation and Recycling of the Unified Patent Court (UPC)’s Impact Assessment
2021-10-30 [Meme] Not in Our Name...
2021-10-30 Links 30/10/2021: End of Project Trident and GNU/Linux Easily Beats Vista 11
2021-10-31 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXVIII: Benoît and António's Loyal “Habibi”
2021-10-31 [Meme] [Teaser] EPO Governance Crisis: One Country, One Vote
2021-10-31 The European Patent Office is in Disarray Because of the National Delegates, Not in Spite of Them
2021-10-31 [Meme] The EPO's 'Habibi'
2021-10-31 When Corporate Media Cannot Tell the Difference Between EPO and EU
2021-10-31 Links 31/10/2021: TDE R14.0.11, ExTiX 21.11, and antiX 21
2021-11-01 Links 1/11/2021: Linux 5.15 and Patent News Catchup
2021-11-01 The EPO Never Left 'King' Battistelli Behind It
2021-11-01 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part IXXX: The EPOnian Micro-States - Monaco and Malta
2021-11-01 Recycling Enablers of the EPO Regime and Bribing Them (or Rewarding Them) Years Later
2021-11-01 IP Kat Was Declawed by Battistelli's Threats and Sanctions and Now It's Collapsing
2021-11-01 Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part IV — Mr. MobileCoin: From Mono to Plagiarism... and to Unprecedented GPL Violations at GitHub (Microsoft)
2021-11-01 [Meme] [Teaser] San Marino Grape Stomp
2021-11-01 Power Without Countervailing Power in Patent Law
2021-11-02 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXX: San Marino and the Perfidious Betrayal of Liberty
2021-11-02 [Meme] Sun King Against the Law
2021-11-02 Links 2/11/2021: FuguIta 7.0 and MPV 0.34
2021-11-02 [Meme] Bilateral Battistelli
2021-11-02 San Marino: From “Libertas” to a Battistelli and Kongstad Chinchilla
2021-11-02 EPO Management Will Exploit the Pandemic to Crush Patent Examiners Like It Crushed the Rule of Law (and Judges)
2021-11-02 [Meme] Workplace of the Future
2021-11-03 Working From Home When the Rich and Powerful Corporations (or Governments) Make All the Important Decisions and Rules
2021-11-05 Links 5/11/2021: Alpha of Wayland 1.20 and Beta 3 of FreeBSD 12.3
2021-11-05 More Videos on Our 16th Year
2021-11-05 Gemini Protocol is Very Useful for Escaping Misinformation, Targeted (Spying) Ads, and Spam
2021-11-05 Celebrating 15 Years of a Perfect Record Protecting Our Sources
2021-11-07 Links 7/11/2021: More Desktop Environments and Big Patent Catch-up
2021-11-07 Year 16
2021-11-08 Links 8/11/2021: Guile-CV 0.3.0, Intel DRM Chaos
2021-11-09 Links 9/11/2021: Tor Browser 11.0 and Tales of Grace Hopper
2021-11-12 The Central Staff Committee of the EPO Has Just Alleged That EPO Management Discarded All Input From Staff Representatives While Monetising the Pandemic
2021-11-12 [Meme] Need New Hardware to Work for EPO
2021-11-12 EPO Dictatorship Coming Home to Roost
2021-11-13 Studying EPO and Patent Affairs Through RSS Feeds and Organising the Collected Information
2021-11-14 Links 14/11/2021: Lakka 3.6 and Kalendar 0.2
2021-11-14 Links 14/11/2021: On 'KDE World Domination' and DRM Backlash
2021-11-14 Links 14/11/2021: EasyOS 3.1.10 and Catch-up With Patent News
2021-11-15 Links 15/11/2021: Linux 5.16 RC1 Released
2021-11-18 Why We've Been Writing More About Software Freedom Lately
2021-11-19 [Meme] Patent Searches and Examinations Without Colleagues to Help (and Line Managers You Cannot See)
2021-11-19 New Ways of Working for António Campinos, Even From One's Own Home During a Crisis
2021-11-19 Techrights is for Whistleblowers and Suppressed Information Which Other Sites Refuse (or Are Afraid/Shy) to Publish
2021-11-19 EPO: We Support Women and Gay People, But We Also Support People Who Behead Them (in the Interest of Patent Profits)
2021-11-20 Microsoft-Captured USPTO Doubles the Fines for Patent Applicants That Don't Use Microsoft
2021-11-21 Links 21/11/2021: Gluster 10, Lots About Patents
2021-11-21 Links 21/11/2021: Q4OS 4.7 Gemini and Second Linux RC
2021-11-22 Links 22/11/2021: Claws Mail 4 Enters Debian and Catch-up With Legal Matters
2021-11-22 EPO Staff Engagement Survey Predates the Pandemic and Provides False Assumptions for EPO Policies or Policy-Setting
2021-11-23 Links 23/11/2021: Libreboot 20211122, Deepin Linux 20.3, Amazon Linux 2022, and Mabox Linux 21.11 Released
2021-11-27 Amid Reports of Microsoft's Competition Crimes in Europe...
2021-11-28 Links 28/11/2021: Laravel 8.73 Released, GitHub Offline for Hours
2021-11-28 Trying to Appease Those Who Never Liked Free Software or Those Who Blindly Loved All Patent Monopolies to Begin With
2021-11-28 By 2022 0% of 'News' Coverage About Patents Will Be Actual Journalism (Patent Litigation Sector Has Hijacked the World Wide Web to Disseminate Self-Promotional Misinformation)
2021-11-29 Links 29/11/2021: Linux 5.16 RC3 and Lots of Patent Catch-up
2021-11-29 President Biden Wants to Put Microsofter in Charge of the Patent Office, Soon to Penalise Patent Applicants Who Don't Use Microsoft's Proprietary Formats
2021-11-30 Links 30/11/2021: KDE Plasma 5.23.4, 4MLinux 38.0, Long GitHub Downtime, and Microsoft's CEO Selling Away Shares
2021-11-30 Video: Making the Internet a Better Place for People, Not Megacorporations
2021-11-30 The EPO's Mythical “Gap” Has Been Found and It's Bonuses for People Who Use Pure Fiction to Steal From Patent Examiners
2021-11-30 [Meme] EPO Administrative Council Believing EPO-Bribed 'Media' (IAM Still Shilling and Lying for Cash)
2021-12-01 EPO Dislikes Science and Scientists
2021-12-01 [Meme] Germany's Licence to Break the Law
2021-12-01 EPO Cannot and Will Not Self-Regulate
2021-12-02 EPO Staff Committee Compares the Tactics of António Campinos to Benoît Battistelli's
2021-12-02 The EPO's “Gender Awareness Report”
2021-12-03 António Campinos as EPO President is Considered Worse Than Benoît Battistelli (in Some Regards) After 3.5 Years in Europe's Second-Largest Institution
2021-12-03 [Meme] António Campinos and Socialist Posturing
2021-12-04 Links 4/12/2021: IPFire 2.27 Core Update 162 and Genode OS Framework 21.11
2021-12-05 EPO-Bribed IAM 'Media' Has Praised Quality, Which Even EPO Staff (Examiners) Does Not Praise
2021-12-05 The Letter EPO Management Does Not Want Applicants to See (or Respond to)
2021-12-05 The EPO's Web Site is a Parade of Endless Lies and Celebration of Gross Violations of the Law
2021-12-05 [Meme] Meanwhile in Austria...
2021-12-05 Society Needs to Take Back Computing, Data, and Networks
2021-12-05 Links 5/12/2021: Touchpad Gestures in XWayland
2021-12-06 Links 6/12/2021: Gnuastro 0.16 and Linux 5.16 RC4
2021-12-06 Links 6/12/2021: HowTos and Patents
2021-12-06 The Committee on Patent Law (PLC) Informed About Overlooked Issues “Which Might Have a Bearing on the Validity of EPO Patents.”
2021-12-06 Links 6/12/2021: LibreOffice Maintenance Releases, Firefox 95 Finalised
2021-12-07 EPO Gradually Reduced to 'Fee Collection Agency' Which Eliminates Its Very Own Staff
2021-12-07 [Meme] Rowing to the Bottom of the Ocean
2021-12-07 Clare Daly (GUE/NGL) Does What Every Public Official in Europe Should Have Done About EPO Shenanigans
2021-12-07 [Meme] EU Assurances
2021-12-08 Links 8/12/2021: FreeBSD 12.3, EasyOS 3.1.13, and WordPress 5.9 Beta 2
2021-12-08 Links 8/12/2021: Zorin OS 16 Milestone and Calculate Linux 22 Released; Kubernetes 1.23
2021-12-10 Our Growing Embrace of Gemini Protocol
2021-12-10 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXI: The Abstentionists
2021-12-11 [Meme] [Teaser] Can't Say “No” to Munich's Battistelli
2021-12-11 Need for an EPO That Works for Europe and for Science
2021-12-11 [Meme] A 'Neutral' (Facial Expression) Jérôme Debrulle
2021-12-11 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXII: “Plucky Little Belgium”?
2021-12-12 [Meme] Team UPC Undermining Home/Host Nations
2021-12-12 Jérôme's UPC 'Sausage Factory' in Brussels
2021-12-12 [Meme] [Teaser] On Tolerating 'Kings' in Charge of the EPO
2021-12-12 Links 12/12/2021: KDE Frameworks 5.89 and OpenRazer 3.2 Released
2021-12-12 EPO Management Now Exploits Autistic People as “White-washing Communication Exercise for an Organization Which Has Breached Fundamental Rights”
2021-12-12 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXIII: Swedish Scepticism
2021-12-12 [Meme] Strikes Should Not be Regulated by the People Those Strikes Are Against
2021-12-12 The EPO's Staff Does Need to Go on Strike in Order to Highlight Abuse/Misuse of Granting Authority and Mishandling of Patent Examiners
2021-12-13 Only Norway Followed the Advice of EPO Workers and Consulted Relevant Ministries About Unlawful EPO Policies
2021-12-13 [Meme] The Birth of EPOnia
2021-12-13 Patent Quality at the EPO Has Collapsed Since Battistelli Came, According to EPO Staff
2021-12-13 A Year After the Last EPO Strike Another One May be Brewing
2021-12-13 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXIV: An “Extremely Dubious” Proposal
2021-12-13 EPO Staff Representatives Cautioned Delegates About Illegal Strike Regulations (But Were Ignored by Delegates)
2021-12-13 Norway's Handling of EPO Dictatorship
2021-12-14 Links 13/12/2021: Kdenlive 21.12, digiKam 7.4
2021-12-14 [Meme] [Teaser] Buying Power or Securing Control (the Leadership Positions) of Europe's Largest Patent Office
2021-12-14 If EPOnia Was a Country, It Would Rank About 6th in the World for Union Density
2021-12-14 Tomorrow is the First Anniversary of Strike Against President Campinos at the European Patent Office
2021-12-14 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXV: Slovakian Scruples
2021-12-14 The Precarious Situation of Slovakia as One of Battistelli's EPO 'Pawns' in the East
2021-12-16 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXVI: Serbian Sour Grapes
2021-12-16 Serbia and Europe's Largest (Also Most Corrupt) Patent Office, the EPO
2021-12-17 The EPO is in 'Damage Control' Mode (and It Shows)
2021-12-17 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXVII: Stubbornly Independent Slovenia
2021-12-17 Slovenian Patent Office as a Hostage
2021-12-18 The Story of Slovenia's Fall or a Surrender to the So-called 'IP' Cartel
2021-12-18 Listen: Vesna Stanković Juričić Confronts Corrupt Team Battistelli (Leaked Audio)
2021-12-18 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXVIII: Ensnared in the Tentacles of the SAZAS Octopus
2021-12-19 Links 19/12/2021: Linux 5.16 RC6 and Lots About Patents
2021-12-19 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXIX: On the Slippery Slope to Capture
2021-12-19 Slovenia Needs More Courageous Leadership (Like Vesna Stanković Juričić), Not 'Puppets' of the Patent and Copyright Cartels
2021-12-20 From One Form of Fake 'Independence' ('Exile') to Another Phony and Shallow 'Autonomy' (Webchats)
2021-12-20 EPO's Illegal Surveillance Covered Up by Buzzwords Bingo and Acronyms: Data Protection Board (DPB), Data Protection Rules (DPR), and Data Protection Officer (DPO)
2021-12-20 [Meme] EPO Data Protection
2021-12-20 The EPO's 'IT' Systems Have Become a ClusterZuck, Based on EPO Insiders
2021-12-21 EPO's Privacy Violations Being 'Normalised'
2021-12-21 [Meme] Will You Trust These Clowns With Your Confidential Data?
2021-12-21 Links 21/12/2021: GIMP 2.10.30 and Qubes OS 4.1 RC3
2021-12-24 Update Regarding Slovenia and Vojko Toman
2021-12-24 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXX: The Idiosyncratic Italians
2021-12-25 The EPO 'Mafia'
2021-12-25 Stupid and Legally-Invalid Threats (Physical Letters)
2021-12-26 Links 26/12/2021: Nitrux 1.8.0 and Many Pgpool-II Releases
2021-12-27 Links 27/12/2021: Linux 5.16 RC7, Wine 7.0 RC3, NuTyX 21.10.1, and 4MLinux 39.0 Beta
2021-12-27 German Media on Half a Decade of EPO Appeals and 'Legal' Hearings Held Unlawfully in Haar
2021-12-27 The EPO Conflict Affects Everyone in Europe and We Should Support Patent Examiners, Who Are Also Victims of a Corrupt System (Besieged by Dictators Installed in a Systemic Coup d'État)
2021-12-27 Links 27/12/2021: PostgreSQL-Related Project Releases, Microsoft's Patent Trolls Still Suing the Whole World
2021-12-27 Links 27/12/2021: RapidDisk 8.0.1 and LibreOffice 7.3 RC1
2021-12-28 Links 28/12/2021: New antiX Kernels, Self-Hosted 'Home Assistant'
2021-12-28 EPO: Getting Rid of Examiners, Hiring PR People Instead
2021-12-28 Links 28/12/2021: Avidemux 2.8 Released, GNUnet's GNS Technical Specification at IETF
2021-12-28 The EPO is Selling Europe and Selling Out Its Own Workers (After Using Them)
2021-12-28 Links 28/12/2021: OBS-StreamLabs “Partnership” and IDAD 2021 Concluded
2021-12-28 EUIPO-EPO Nepotism and Cross-Pollination/Staff Influx Depicted
2021-12-28 EPO Staff Representation: “We Believe That the EPO Should... Invest in Staff and in Quality” (Not Cuts and Worse)
2021-12-29 End of 2021: Looking Back and Looking Ahead
2021-12-29 Response to Latest Call for EPO Strike Contains Lies From Campinos (and Another Warning That Quality of European Patents Has Collapsed)
2021-12-29 Links 29/12/2021: GNU Serveez 0.3.1 and postmarketOS 21.12
2021-12-30 Associates and Enablers of Benoît Battistelli Are Commenting in IP Kat Today
2021-12-30 Links 30/12/2021: GNOME ‘Quick Settings’ and Linux BIOS Updates Without Reboot
2021-12-30 COVID-19 Has Exacerbated Already Severe Psychological Harm Associated With Working for the EPO
2021-12-31 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021: 4 Years of António Campinos Failing and EPO Granting Loads of Invalid Patents
2021-12-31 [Meme] EPO 'Social Dialogue': Blah Blah Blah Blah (But Nothing Gets Changed for the Better)
2022-01-01 Links 1/1/2022: Slackel 7.5 and Septor 2022
2022-01-02 Links 2/1/2022: GNU Alive 2.0.4 and FSF Membership Drive Runs Until January 20th
2022-01-02 When You Replace 10,000 Euros Per Month Patent Examiners With 2,000 Euros Per Month Patent Examiners...
2022-01-02 [Meme] Hiring and Retaining Patent Examiners on the Cheap
2022-01-02 Links 2/1/2022: Garuda Linux Release for 2022 and EasyOS 3.1.19
2022-01-03 Links 3/1/2022: A Last Linux RC and ScummVM 2.5.1
2022-01-03 My Year as a Digital Vegan — Part X — Happy New Year: Thoughts for 2022 and Beyond
2022-01-04 The EPO's Race to the Bottom — Part I — From Bad to Worse
2022-01-05 The EPO's Race to the Bottom — Part II — “Playing People Off Against Each Other is Not the Way We Want to Go Forward!”
2022-01-05 [Meme] High on Quantities
2022-01-05 The EPO's Race to the Bottom — Part III — “The King is Naked” (a Fake Financial Shortage and 'Missing' -- or Plundered -- Billions)
2022-01-05 [Meme] SUEPO is Just Being Defensive (the Attacks Come Only From EPO Management)
2022-01-06 The Patent Examiners Will be Last (to Turn the Lights Off)
2022-01-06 The EPO's Race to the Bottom — Part IV — New Career System (NCS) and New Pension System (NPS)
2022-01-06 [Meme] Waiting for an EPO Pension
2022-01-07 The EPO's Race to the Bottom — Part V — An Assault on Pensioners
2022-01-07 [Meme] Diferençampinos
2022-01-07 Fictional Gaps and an Attack on Workers
2022-01-07 [Meme] Just Another Battistelli
2022-01-09 New EPO Page Provides Cover-Up for Clear and Severe Privacy Violations With Microsoft
2022-01-09 EPO Breaking the Law in Collusion With -- and to the Benefit of -- Microsoft
2022-01-09 Pluton Proponents Working for Plutocracy (and Pentagon Agenda)
2022-01-09 Links 9/1/2022: GitHub Abandonment and antiX 17.5
2022-01-09 Privacy Crimes at Europe's Second-Largest Institution, in Partnership With Microsoft
2022-01-09 Links 9/1/2022: 5.16 Linux Kernel Released
2022-01-10 Links 10/1/2022: DragonFly BSD 6.2 and Mint/Firefox Collaboration
2022-01-10 EPO Has Patent Management System (PMS), But You Must be a Microsoft Customer and Run Malicious, Back-Doored Operating System
2022-01-12 Links 12/1/2022: GNOME 42 Alpha Near, Linux App Summit 2022 Set for Italy
2022-01-14 Links 14/1/2022: openSUSE Leap 15.2 EoL, VFX Designers Are Using GNU/Linux
2022-01-15 2022 Starts With Censorship of Christmas and Other Greetings at the EPO
2022-01-15 Links 15/1/2022: Flameshot 11.0 and Libvirt 8.0
2022-01-15 Patrick Breyer, Unlike Most German Politicians, Highlights the Fact That Unified Patent Court (UPC) and Unitary Patent Are Incompatible With EU Law
2022-01-16 Links 16/1/2022: Year of the GNU/Linux Desktop and Catch-up With Patent Misinformation
2022-01-16 Links 16/1/2022: Tsunami and Patents
2022-01-16 EPO's Web Site Constantly Spammed by Lies About Privacy While EPO Breaks the Law and Outsources Data to the United States
2022-01-16 Links 16/1/2022: Latte Dock 0.11 and librest 0.9.0
2022-01-16 [Meme] European Patent Office Space
2022-01-17 Links 17/1/2022: postmarketOS 21.12 Service Pack 1 and Mumble 1.4 Released
2022-01-17 Links 17/1/2022: digiKam 7.5.0 and GhostBSD 22.01.12 Released
2022-01-20 [Meme] UPC for CJEU
2022-01-21 The Future of Techrights
2022-01-21 Links 21/1/2022: RISC-V Development Board and Rust 1.58.1
2022-01-22 Welcome to 2022: Intentional Lies Are 'Benefits' and 'Alternative Facts'
2022-01-22 A Parade of Fake News About the UPC Does Not Change the General Consensus or the Simple Facts
2022-01-23 Links 23/1/2022: First RC of Linux 5.17 and Sway 1.7 Released
2022-01-24 Links 24/1/2022: pgBadger 11.7 Released, Catch-up With Patents
2022-01-24 [Meme] Team UPC Congratulating Itself
2022-01-24 Has the Administrative Council Belatedly Realised What Its Job in the European Patent Organisation Really Is?
2022-01-24 [Meme] Alexander Ramsay and Team UPC Inciting Politicians to Break the Law and Violate Constitutions, Based on Misinformation, Fake News, and Deliberate Lies Wrapped up as 'Studies'
2022-01-25 The EPO Needs High-Calibre Examiners, Not Politicians Who Pretend to Understand Patents and Science
2022-01-25 [Meme] Get Ready for Unified Patent Court (UPC) to be Taken to Court
2022-01-27 EPO as the 'Ministry of Truth' of Team UPC and Special Interests
2022-01-27 [Meme] UPC: Many Lies as Headlines, Almost Exclusively in Publishers Sponsored by EPO and Team UPC to Produce Fake News (Lobbying Through Misinformation)
2022-01-27 [Meme] EPO: Pursuing an Eastern and Western District of Europe (for Patent Trolls and Software Patents)
2022-01-28 Gemini Gone Mainstream: German Media Now in Geminispace
2022-01-30 Links 30/1/2022: Nitrux 2.0 and IPFire 2.27 - Core Update 163
2022-01-30 Shuffling the EPO Deck to Cover Up Crimes, EPC Violations, Attacks on Judges Etc. While Promoting Illegal and Unconstitutional UPC
2022-01-30 Classic 'Team UPC': This Year Becomes “Next Year” Yet Again
2022-01-30 Toothless Tiger Threatens Bloggers, Says It's Defamatory to Say That It Threatens Bloggers
2022-01-30 Links 30/1/2022: Linux 5.17 RC2 and Lots on Patents
2022-01-31 [Meme] The Next Stage of Unified Patent Court (UPC) and Unitary Patent
2022-01-31 Links 31/1/2022: 4MLinux 38.1 is Out and Windows TCO Shown in Hospitals Again
2022-01-31 [Meme] EPO Management on the Run
2022-01-31 EPO Workers' Poll: 9 Out of 10 Employees in Munich Want to Participate or Consider Participating in Strike (or Protest)
2022-01-31 20-22 Vision: António Campinos Still Pillaging and Plundering EPO Staff
2022-02-01 Why the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Cannot Enter Into Force, Based on the UPC Agreement Itself
2022-02-01 Unified Patent Court (UPC) Leak Shows That 'Team UPC' and the EPO's Management Are Knowingly Breaking the Law
2022-02-01 Links 1/2/2022: Trisquel 10.0
2022-02-04 ILO Tribunal Once Again Rules That the European Patent Office (EPO) Violates Fundamental Rights
2022-02-04 [Meme] Geneva Convention or Geneva's Suggestion?
2022-02-05 [Meme] EPC 50th Anniversary Whitewash in Preparation...
2022-02-05 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXXI: Public Service or Self-Service?
2022-02-05 [Meme] EPC Calling
2022-02-05 Abandoning the EPC in Order to Promote Corporations-Led EPO With Kangaroo Courts (UPC) is Simply Illegal
2022-02-05 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXXII: A Parcel of Rogues?
2022-02-06 [Meme] Wrong People Given Too Much Power
2022-02-06 Europe Has a Severe Corruption Crisis
2022-02-06 Links 6/2/2022: Absolute GNU/Linux 15.0 and Linux on IBM PalmTop
2022-02-06 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXXIII: A Legal No-Man's Land
2022-02-06 [Meme] Almost a Decade for EPO Justice (Delayed, Hence Denied)
2022-02-06 Links 6/2/2022: LibreDWG 0.12.5 and FOSDEM 2022
2022-02-07 Links 7/2/2022: OpenMandriva Lx 4.3 Released and Lots About Patents
2022-02-07 Nobody Should be Above the Law
2022-02-07 [Meme] Drunk on Power and Diplomatic Immunity
2022-02-07 EPO Pays Out Millions of Euros in Compensation -- to Thousands of Workers Who Deserve a Lot More for Moral Damage -- for Battistelli's Illegal Acts (But Battistelli Himself Has Not Been Punished at All, Nor Have His Enablers)
2022-02-07 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXXIV: Immunity = Impunity?
2022-02-08 Links 8/2/2022: Fragments 2.0 and Comparing Various GNU/Linux Distros Online
2022-02-08 The EPO is Bleeding in Courts
2022-02-08 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXXV: In the Shadow of “Waite and Kennedy”
2022-02-08 [Meme] EPO Immune System: Nothing Can Touch Us!
2022-02-08 EPO Staff Goes on Strike, Plans Partial Work Stoppage/Slowdown to Condemn Unlawful Meddling Designed to Lower Patent Quality and Patent Legitimacy (No EPC Compliance)
2022-02-09 Not Even Scabs Can Save EPO Management
2022-02-09 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXXVI: An Erosion of Fundamental Rights Protection?
2022-02-09 [Meme] Team UPC and Team Battistelli Above the Law, Ignore the Law, Break the Law
2022-02-09 Staff Holding Management at the EPO Accountable
2022-02-09 [Meme] Drunk Driving, Like Son of António Campinos
2022-02-10 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XLVII: Institutionalised Injustice at the EPO?
2022-02-10 [Meme] EPO Courts
2022-02-10 EPO Unjustified
2022-02-10 [Meme] EUIPO-Styled Labelling for EPO
2022-02-11 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XLVIII: The Unkindest Cut of All
2022-02-11 [Meme] Reminder That Battistelli Openly Boasted (in the Media) About the EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion
2022-02-11 Where Sir Paul Mahoney Has Failed to Protect EPO Staff From Injustice and Sheer Abuse
2022-02-11 [Meme] “Unfounded” Claims of Fundamental Rights at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2022-02-12 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XLIX: The Rise and Fall of Battistelli's “Social Democracy”...
2022-02-12 [Meme] Only Yellow Unions Allowed in Red EPOnia?
2022-02-12 The EPO Crisis
2022-02-12 [Meme] EPO Governance
2022-02-13 The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part L (50, Final): 2010 - 2022: Business as Usual?
2022-02-13 [Meme] Importing Corruption, Voting Fodder, and More
2022-02-13 [Meme] The Man Who Owned Everything
2022-02-13 A Criminal Legacy (and Present) of the European Patent Office, Europe's Second-Largest Institution
2022-02-14 When It Comes to Patents, Lies Have Become the 'Norm'
2022-02-15 Links 15/2/2022: pgAdmin 4 6.5, Kali Linux 2022.1, and KaOS Linux 2022.02
2022-02-16 Links 16/2/2022: IBM in Very Hot Water Over Ageism
2022-02-18 BREAKING NEWS/EXCLUSIVE: António Campinos Confirms That He is Seeking Reappointment
2022-02-18 [Meme] Megaphone of António Campinos
2022-02-18 António Campinos Wants to Undo His Father's Legacy for Several More Years, Spreading Corruption Across Europe and the World
2022-02-19 List of Currently Active Gemini Capsules on the Internet
2022-02-19 [Meme] A 'Social Democracy' Where Every Vote is for Sale
2022-02-19 There's a Pie in the Face (on Its Way to EPOnia)
2022-02-19 [Meme] António Campinos Does to Europe What His Country Did to Africa
2022-02-21 The Patent Distortion: Weekly Series About Failure of the Media to Properly Explain Patents and Generally Cover the News
2022-02-21 EPO Management Still Treats EPO Workers Poorly, Even During Pandemic
2022-02-21 [Meme] EPO “Upskilling”
2022-02-21 Today Begins a Battle for Rights of Patent Examiners at the EPO
2022-02-21 'European' Patent Office (EPO) Accelerates Outsourcing of Its Operations to the United States of America, Quite Likely in Defiance of GDPR and Basic Common Sense
2022-02-21 Dear Mr. Rowan
2022-02-22 [Meme] When Managers Do Not Understand the Staff (or Refuse to Understand It)
2022-02-22 [Meme] Military-grade Propaganda in EPO.org This Past Week
2022-02-22 EPO -- Both the Patent Office and the Patent Organisation -- Celebrating Constitutional Violations, Covering Up Human Rights Abuses, and Promoting the Facilitators
2022-02-22 [Meme] Oversight at the EPO
2022-02-22 António's EPO is Dead, Long Live the EPC?
2022-02-23 [Meme] IAM's Patent Benchmark
2022-02-23 [Meme] Artificial 'Productivity'
2022-02-23 What EPO Staff Really Thinks
2022-02-24 Better Late Than Never: ILO Subjects the EPO's Management to Some Belated Justice (Sans the Removal of Immunity, so Nobody is Being Held Accountable)
2022-02-24 [Meme] Josef the Spectator
2022-02-25 European Council Complicit in European Patent Office (EPO) Abuses
2022-02-25 [Meme] Patent Invasion
2022-02-27 Why We Don't Issue (Purely) Political Messages
2022-02-27 Links 27/2/2022: Astro Slide From Planet Computers and TeXworks 0.6.7
2022-02-28 The Patent Distortion: Promotion of Illegal Agenda (and Nobody Could Mention Industrial Action/Strikes at EPO, Protesting Illegal Agenda)
2022-02-28 The EPO is Run by Dictators, Elected Staff Representatives Are Left Out of Key Consultations
2022-02-28 [Meme] Munich Agreement
2022-03-01 [Meme] Team UPC: Nothing Can Stop Us!!!
2022-03-01 [Meme] Team UPC: We Break the Law, We Don't Care How You Feel About It
2022-03-02 EPO Breaks Laws Just Like Vladimir Putin, But Then It Has the Audacity to Exploit Ukraine to Pretend the Opposite is True
2022-03-02 [Meme] Throwing Stones in a House of Glass
2022-03-04 A Real President
2022-03-04 How the EPO is Like Putin's Russia
2022-03-05 Links 5/3/2022: GNUnet 0.16.1 and Free Software in Ukraine
2022-03-05 [Meme] EPO Examiners, Keep on Fighting (They Can't Fire Y'all)
2022-03-05 [Meme] When They Want Examiners to Follow Orders, Violate the EPC
2022-03-06 [Meme] Go Back Home, Team UPC, You Are Drunk
2022-03-07 The Patent Distortion: How So-called 'News' Sites About Patents Perished, and Refusal to Honestly Cover the News Played a Role in Their Demise
2022-03-09 Links 9/3/2022: Nitrux 2.0 Reviewed, Tor Browser 11.0.7 is Out
2022-03-09 The Latest EPO Greenwashing Spin is Truly a Hoot
2022-03-10 Links 10/3/2022: Blender 3.1 and Mesa 22.0.0
2022-03-10 [Meme] Standing Together for Peace in Europe
2022-03-11 Mr. Breton and EPO Corruption (Propelling an Assault on the Rule of Law and on the Courts Themselves) Endanger the Legitimacy of the EU
2022-03-11 The EPO in Violation of the EPC and Nobody Holds Anyone Accountable for Such Violations
2022-03-11 [Meme] When Corrupt Politicians Run Europe's Largest Patent Office
2022-03-12 [Meme] EPO Behaving Like a Bank, Not Like a Patent Office
2022-03-12 EPO Advertises European Patents and Jobs Based on Deliberate Falsehoods (Lies)
2022-03-13 [Meme] European Commission Part of the EPO's Abuses
2022-03-14 The Patent Distortion: EPO Crimes Completely Overlooked and Totally Unrecognised/Not Covered This Past Week (in News Sites, Blogs, and More)
2022-03-14 [Meme] The Scabs Patent Office?
2022-03-14 Lowered Quality and Standards at the EPO, Not Only Departure from the European Patent Convention (EPC)
2022-03-15 When Europe's Largest Patent Office is Run by Opportunistic Politicians Who Break the Law and Look for Distractions
2022-03-15 The EPO's Strike That Not a Single Publisher Wants to Tell You About! (Updated)
2022-03-15 [Meme] Russia Joins EPO (in Officially Discarding the Rule of Law)
2022-03-17 EPO Strike Participation Will Help Correct a Corrupt Office Which Harms Science, Weakens Europe's Economy, and Abolishes Human Rights
2022-03-17 European Readers, Please Contact Your National Delegation to Bemoan EPO Corruption
2022-03-17 [Meme] The Red EPO (Reminder: EPO Management Hired a Lot of Military Personnel to Run the Office)
2022-03-18 EPO Union: “It is Now Time to Make a Political Statement” and “Go on Strike!”
2022-03-18 EPO Staff Representatives Warn Delegates of the Council That Campinos is Now Outsourcing the EPO, Just Like He Did EUIPO, in Very Clear Violation of Fundamental Rules
2022-03-19 Links 19/3/2022: EasyOS 3.4.3 and Linux Mint Debian Edition 5
2022-03-20 Life After Social Control Media: A Fortnight Later
2022-03-20 2 More Days Until EPO Strike, Examiners Unwilling to Become Another Brick in the Wall
2022-03-20 European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) in Support of the Strike at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2022-03-21 The Patent Distortion: 7 Days of News and Blogs, Not a Single Mention of EPO Affairs
2022-03-21 [Meme] Join the EPO Strike
2022-03-21 EPO is 'Hiding' €4.9 Billion and President “Campinos Has Decided to Freeze the Salaries of All Staff and to Deprive at Least 40% of Them of Any Career Progression”
2022-03-21 [Meme] EPO Even Attacks Its Pensioners
2022-03-21 EPO Management Seems to be Resorting to Illegal Union-Busting Tactics, Suppression/Deterrence by List-Making
2022-03-21 EPO Industrial Actions Are Already Working
2022-03-22 Join the EPO Strike
2022-03-22 Glorious Day for Rights of European Workers
2022-03-22 Links 22/3/2022: Samba 4.16.0 and EPO Strike Day
2022-03-22 [Meme] EPO to Patent Blogs
2022-03-22 EPO Staff Explains Why It's Going on Strike
2022-03-23 EPO is Banning and Spying, So the Union (SUEPO) Conducts a Staff Survey Externally
2022-03-23 [Meme] Survey Versus Surveillance
2022-03-24 Links 24/3/2022: Toy Version of TLS 1.3
2022-03-24 With EPO Strike Participation in the Thousands, European Patents Plunge in Number
2022-03-24 [Meme] Not Registering for the Oppressor
2022-03-25 [Meme] EPO Management Treats EPO Staff Like Pests
2022-03-25 [Meme] Diplomatic Immunity
2022-03-25 Biggest EPO Strike in More Than Half a Decade
2022-03-26 Microsoft Still Run by Criminals, as It Fundamentally Relies on Crimes
2022-03-28 The Patent Distortion: Judging by the Media, the EPO Strike Never Happened (and Lots More Lies, Even Promotion of Illegal Agenda)
2022-03-29 Techrights Has Some Solid Plans, But Preparations Are Underway
2022-03-31 EPO in Africa: Microsoft, Corruption, and Colonialism
2022-03-31 [Meme] In Just a Few Years António Campinos is Undoing Decades of His Father's Legacy
2022-03-31 [Meme] Best in the World. At Cheating and Bribing Media.
2022-03-31 [Meme] IAM
2022-03-31 The Union or Elected Leadership of the EPO's Staff Calls the Shots Now
2022-04-03 One Month Passes, Only Comments in a Blog Post Actually Contain Accurate Information About EPO and UPC
2022-04-03 The Patent Distortion: The Media Has Failed Us, Patent Extremism Has Replaced It
2022-04-04 Lies, Infiltration, and the National Security Agency
2022-04-04 [Meme] Operation CampinoZ
2022-04-04 EPO Continues to Violate Laws and Fundamental Rights of EPO Staff (Which an International Court Recently Told It Was Violating)
2022-04-05 The EPO is Granting Loads of Software Patents in Order to Fake 'Growth'
2022-04-05 [Meme] Meanwhile at IP Kat
2022-04-06 EPO.org is a Fake News Site Which Promotes and Glorifies Illegal Behaviour and Unlawful Policies
2022-04-07 When Most Granted Patents (and Fake 'Growth') Are Just Software Patents and EPO 'Joins the Club'
2022-04-07 The EPO's Staff Union Calls for Continued Industrial Actions as Some Media Belatedly Catches Up With EPO Strikes
2022-04-07 [Meme] The Hard-Working Madame Simon
2022-04-09 For EPO Staff on Dutch Territories Purachasing Power Fell 12% in Just One Year While EPO Increased Its Fees
2022-04-09 [Meme] EPO Moving Backwards
2022-04-10 New Approach to Tackling Misinformation and Disinformation
2022-04-10 Conflict of Interest: Battistelli/CEIPI/EPO and AstraZeneca
2022-04-10 State of the EPO and State of 'Journalism' About Patents
2022-04-10 Microsoft is 'Taking Over' USPTO Like It Did at EPO
2022-04-10 How Media Helped the EPO Cover Up the EPO Crisis (Including Severe Escalations and Plunge in Patent Grants)
2022-04-11 Deja Vu: Published 4 Days Ago, Battistelli Celebrating UPCA Signed Almost 10 Years Ago!
2022-04-11 Links 10/04/2022: MX Linux 21.1 “Wildflower” and Linux 5.18 RC2 Released
2022-04-11 Effectively Responding to Fake News in the Age of Corrupt EPO Management, Controlled by Team UPC/Litigation Lobby
2022-04-14 Tackling EPO Propaganda and Lawlessness: Part 1
2022-04-14 [Meme] Kangaroos in Ukraine
2022-04-14 Tackling EPO Propaganda and Lawlessness: Part 2
2022-04-15 Techrights Plans for Easter and Beyond (Plus Updates About the FSF and the EPO)
2022-04-15 The EPO Bunnies, Stationed at EPO Corp. (NYSE:EPO)
2022-04-17 Team UPC and Corrupt EPO Management Have Fast Become a Severe Crisis of Legitimacy for the European Union
2022-04-17 [Meme] Nobody Hates the EPO's Patent Examination More Than Team UPC (Shoehorning Fake Patents, Then Fake Courts)
2022-04-17 The Collapse of the Media Has Left a Vacuum for Fake News From Team UPC (Scheming to Bury Laws and Constitutions)
2022-04-17 [Meme] Godly Oversight at the EPO
2022-04-18 EPO in 2021: Less About Europe, Less About Science, Less About Quality (or Compliance), and More About Weapons or Monopolies on Vaccines
2022-04-18 [Meme] António de Cutter
2022-04-18 Links 17/04/2022: Linux 5.18 RC3 and postmarketOS 21.12 Service Pack 4
2022-04-21 A Month After the Massive Strike Across Europe the Union of EPO Workers Proceeds Against Salary Adjustment Procedure (Reduction), Based on Managers' “Hoax”
2022-04-21 [Meme] EPO's Ombuds Service is Like a 'Yellow Union' (Following Disbandment of the Audit Committee)
2022-04-23 New EPO Series: From Belarus With Love - Teaser
2022-04-23 [Meme] The Eastern Front (of Industrial Espionage)
2022-04-23 From Belarus With Love — Part I: Schizophrenic EPO Policy
2022-04-24 EPO and Belarus: Why It Matters
2022-04-24 Links 24/04/2022: Octopus 1.3.0 and Ukraine Harmed Some More by Windows
2022-04-24 Regardless of What JUVE Used to be (or Do to Uncover EPO Abuses), It Has Become a Propaganda Arm for EPO Management and Team UPC
2022-04-24 Unified Patent Court/UPC/Unitary Patent: Our Latest Fake News Watch (and Some Occasional Reminders That This is in Fact Faked, But Team UPC Does Not Care What's Legal and What's True)
2022-04-24 Debunking the Latest Lies From Team UPC About the Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement (UPCA)
2022-04-24 [Meme] “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
2022-04-24 [Meme] Lukampinos
2022-04-24 From Belarus With Love — Part II: “Techwashing” an Autocratic Regime?
2022-04-25 EPO Funds Lukashenko's Techwashing PR Stunts
2022-04-25 Links 25/04/2022: Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS and Hare Programming Language Announced
2022-04-25 From Belarus With Love — Part III: Apps From the Dictatorship
2022-04-25 [Meme] Munich Is in Minsk
2022-04-25 Makers of Dictatorware
2022-04-25 [Teaser] Microsofters by Proxy
2022-04-25 [Meme] Putin and Lukashenko Discuss the Situation at the EPO
2022-04-25 An Ode to Lukampinos
2022-04-25 It's Not a War, It's “Special Military Operation”
2022-04-26 EPO: All Together in “One Office” or All Together in “One Prison”?
2022-04-26 From Belarus With Love — Part IV: “Software from Minsk” via Gilching and Rijswijk
2022-04-26 [Meme] Lukashenko's Clown Computing Plan
2022-04-26 EPO 'IT' Systems: “Software from Minsk” or “Spyware from Microsoft”?
2022-04-26 [Meme] EPO Data for Uncle SaM
2022-04-27 From Belarus With Love — Part V: From Start-Up to Success Story...
2022-04-27 History of Software From Minsk (SaM), Belarus by Proxy
2022-04-27 Belarus Versus EPO
2022-04-28 From Belarus With Love — Part VI: “Big Daddy” Hammers the Opposition...
2022-04-28 Shadow of the EPO or EPOnia Nationalised?
2022-04-30 From Belarus With Love — Part VII: The Post-Election Crackdown
2022-04-30 [Meme] No More Mr. Nice Guy?
2022-04-30 When the EPO's Manager or Fake 'Daddy' Gets the 'Hammer' Out
2022-04-30 What the F Did António Campinos Just Say???
2022-04-30 Russian Gaspinos
2022-04-30 [Meme] Peace in Europe
2022-04-30 From Belarus With Love — Part VIII: “Seoul in the Centre of Pyongyang”
2022-04-30 [Meme] Clash of Heads
2022-04-30 Lies Are Catching Up With UPC/Unitary Patent Boosters (And Mr. 'F Word' Campinos Misuses the EPO.Org Site to Spread Lies, Shamelessly Promote Illegal Agenda)
2022-04-30 EPO: Pyongyang in the Centre of Seoul or EPOnia's Dictatorship (With Crimes and Impunity) Right in the Middle of Bavaria
2022-05-01 From Belarus With Love — Part IX: The End of “Peaceful Coexistence”?
2022-05-01 António Campinos Has Dubbed Himself the “F***ing President”
2022-05-01 Aggression, 'White' Lies and Mass Deception Won't Help the EPO Survive
2022-05-01 If the EPO is a Corporation, Why Can't I Buy EPO Shares in Wall Street or Take It to Court?
2022-05-01 Links 01/05/2022: Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) R14.0.12, ExTiX 22.5, and Plamo 7.4
2022-05-01 IAM: Paid by the EPO's Nepotism Club (Management) to Glorify Illegal Agenda (and in Turn 'Legitimise' It, Imposing That on EPO Examiners)
2022-05-01 António: The Antichrist of Jorge Campinos
2022-05-02 UPC Fake News Watch (and Tough Reality): Same Familiar Talking Points and Talking Heads
2022-05-02 Teaser: Fortunately Stable
2022-05-02 From Belarus With Love — Part X: From “High-Tech Hub” to “No-Go Zone”
2022-05-02 [Meme] Cool Strongmen of a “High-Tech Hub” in Minsk
2022-05-02 [Meme] Belarussian Roulette
2022-05-02 Cracking Down on Scientists
2022-05-02 [Meme] High-Calibre Patent Office
2022-05-03 From Belarus With Love — Part XI: SaM's Management Remains Suspiciously Silent
2022-05-03 SaM Solutions Controlled -- and Still 'Regulated' -- by Lukashenko's Regime
2022-05-03 Teaser: Burdens of Evidence
2022-05-03 Financialization of the EPO Will Doom Europe's Largest Patent Office
2022-05-03 From Belarus With Love — Part XII: Alexander Deev's “Provocative” Comments
2022-05-04 Deevgate in a Nutshell (an EPO 'Toxic Asset' in Minsk)
2022-05-04 From Belarus With Love — Part XIII: Marat Ebzeev Tries to Defuse the Situation
2022-05-05 Management That Harms the Institution It is Governing (SaM and EPO)
2022-05-05 [Meme] The Deev Lists
2022-05-05 F for Fake: “You will never have such a nice person being the fake President for the next fifty fake years. So you wake up and make agreements with me, or you never will for your fake life.”
2022-05-05 António Campinos Racing Towards Zero Percent (Popularity/Approval Rates), a Lot Lower Than Lukashenko
2022-05-05 From Belarus With Love — Part XIV: It Probably Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time...
2022-05-05 [Meme] Whose Digital Sovereignty?
2022-05-05 Dictatorships Prefer Other Dictatorships
2022-05-08 The Charade of Fake News and Lobbying (Based on Lies) by Team UPC
2022-05-08 [Meme] He is the EPO's President
2022-05-08 UPC: “A Neo-colonialist Plot”
2022-05-08 Links 08/05/2022: A Look at CrowPI2 and Release of Linux 5.18 RC6
2022-05-09 When It Comes to Software Patents, IBM is Still a Big Bully (and Red Hat's Patents Can Become Part of the Big Blue Bullying)
2022-05-12 Formalities Officers Team Managers at the European Patent Office Consider Stepping Down
2022-05-12 Central Staff Committee of the EPO Reminds the EPO's Management, Yet Again, That It is Breaking Laws
2022-05-15 The Latest Propaganda Tactics of Team UPC: Pretending Unified Patent Court Already Exists and Unitary Patents Are Default When If Fact None Even Exists
2022-05-15 [Meme] Milan is a Suburb in London
2022-05-15 Patent Granting at the EPO Has Collapsed by 24% Owing to Much-Needed Industrial Action
2022-05-15 [Meme] Common Sense at EPO
2022-05-15 Even Team Battistelli is Sometimes Admitting -- Out in Public! -- That Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Neither Legal Nor Desirable
2022-05-16 Microsoft Vidal Does Not Want to Listen (USPTO is Just for Megacorporations)
2022-05-17 Internal Poll: 93% of European Patent Office (EPO) Workers Are Unhappy With the EPO
2022-05-17 Patent Examiners Rising Up Against EPO Abuse
2022-05-17 EPO Has No F-ing Oversight
2022-05-19 EPO Virtue-Signalling on the Ukrainian Front
2022-05-19 [Meme] EPO Applicants Unwittingly Fund the War on Ukraine
2022-05-19 EPO.org (Official EPO Site) Continues to Promote Illegal Agenda and Exploit Ukraine for PR Stunts That Help Unaccountable Crooks
2022-05-19 [Meme] EPO Budget Tanking?
2022-05-19 EPO Eating Its Own (and Robbing Its Own)
2022-05-20 The Lies and Delusions of António Campinos
2022-05-21 Links 21/05/2022: Security Blunders and Microsoft Posturing
2022-05-21 EPO.org Now Openly Brags About Making Illegal Patents a Welcomed Part of the Examination Guidelines
2022-05-22 It Took Campinos Three or More Years to Undo Illegal Battistelli Actions on Boards of Appeal and Strike Regulations (Only After Losing at ILO-AT!), But He Does Not Mention That
2022-05-22 [Meme] Monopoly Tony
2022-05-22 UPC: Turning Patent Lawyers Into Liars and the Media Into Their Money-Grabbing Megaphone (Platform for Fake News)
2022-05-22 [Meme] UPC is Always Next Year (and Next Year It'll Surely be the Year After That)
2022-05-23 [Meme] It's My Working Party... And I'll Cry If I Want to!
2022-05-23 Unified Patent Court (UPC) Relies Too Much on Lies and Mischief Without Any Basis in Law
2022-05-23 [Meme] Jorgotta Be Kidding Us, Campinos!
2022-05-23 António Campinos Promotes Software Patents Using Buzzwords and Sketchy Loopholes With Dubious Legal Basis
2022-05-24 Links 24/05/2022: Fedora 37 Test Days and Tor Browser 11.0.13
2022-05-24 [Meme] Snake on a Plane
2022-05-24 António Campinos and the Alicante Clique (EPO Management, Appointed Based on Nepotism Despite Lack of Qualifications) Nowadays Exploiting Kids for PR Charades
2022-05-24 [Meme] Divine Protection
2022-05-26 [Meme] The Recordings Must Have Accidentally Been Lost While Breaking the Rules
2022-05-26 The Latest Letter to Josef Kratochvìl and the Heads of Delegation of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation
2022-05-26 The General Consultative Committee of the EPO Exposes a Disaster and a Lack of Genuine Dialogue
2022-05-26 Heads of Patent Offices Are Immune to Coronavirus
2022-05-26 [Meme] EPO's Monkey Business: Lowering the Patent Examination Bar
2022-05-26 EPO Celebrates Software Patents Again, Dubbing Them 'Hey Hi' (AI) and '4IR'
2022-05-27 Links 27/05/2022: Trisquel 10.0.1 LTS and Perl Appreciation
2022-05-28 Our Priorities and Our Future: More Gemini and More Daily Links (a Lot More Frequently)
2022-05-28 Blaming Patent Examiners Who Respect the Law
2022-05-28 [Meme] Fluffy President
2022-05-28 Kluwer Patent Blog Belatedly Gives EPO Staff a Voice
2022-05-28 [Meme] Fluffy Staff
2022-05-29 Gallery of Patent Law Firms That Still Lie, Still Promote Illegal Agenda, and Casually Game the Media to Mischievously Shape Perceptions
2022-05-29 [Meme] Unitary and Harmonised Injustice
2022-05-29 The Travesty of the Web as a Disinformation Machine of Patent Litigation Maximalists
2022-05-29 [Meme] Illegally Forcing 'Unification' in Europe
2022-05-29 Video: Antonio 'F' Campinos in His Very Own Words
2022-05-29 Links 29/05/2022: 4MLinux 39.1, Invalidity of Some US Software Patents
2022-05-30 Scenes From Vilnius: EPO and Friends Converge for Lobbying and Self-Congratulatory Talks
2022-05-30 [Meme] Abolishing Rule of Law
2022-05-30 [Meme] It Was Just an Accident
2022-05-30 [Meme] The Mass Litigation Clique
2022-05-30 Inside the EPO: It's Not a Pretty Picture and the Administrative Council Lacks the Incentive to 'Clean House'
2022-05-30 [Meme] Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation Can Oust António Campinos Next Month (But Will It?)
2022-05-31 The EPO's Euro-PCT Proves That This System Exists for Massive Corporations and Law Firms, Not Individual People Including Real Inventors
2022-05-31 EPO President António Campinos Addresses South America
2022-05-31 Diversity and Inclusion at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2022-05-31 [Meme] The Reverse Barroso
2022-06-01 [Meme] Peeping Rowan
2022-06-01 [Meme] Illegal EPO Guidelines
2022-06-01 [Meme] EPO Enabled Massive Fraud in Theranos
2022-06-02 EPO Guidelines Are Illegal, Composed and Shaped by Special Interest Groups That Revel in Disregarding the European Patent Convention (EPC)
2022-06-03 EPO Staff Demands Release of the F***ing Recordings of António Campinos Breaching the Code of Conduct of the Office With Repeated Slurs/Swear Words
2022-06-03 Working Document: Strategy for Tackling Tech Abuse and Our Long-term Plans
2022-06-03 A Sincere, Non-Revisionist History of Techrights
2022-06-04 The Plunder of EPO Examiners Continues
2022-06-04 [Meme] Unified in Patent Maximalism
2022-06-05 Unified Patent Court (UPC) Noise: Loaded Headlines, Straw Man Arguments, and False Predictions as a Lobbying/Sales Strategy
2022-06-05 European Software Patents Cannot Withstand Scrutiny, EPO Management Wants Kangaroo Courts (UPC) to Change That
2022-06-06 Bruised EPO Buys Media, Buildings, Reputation Laundering
2022-06-06 Links 06/06/2022: Red Hat/Quarkus 2.7 and fmedia 1.27.4
2022-06-07 Links 07/06/2022: GNU/Linux Shows and Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter
2022-06-08 [Meme] Working to Death for Nellie Simon
2022-06-08 EPO is Like a Pressure Cooker, Multiple Staff Actions Coincide and Add Up
2022-06-09 Microsoft, EPO Awards, and Sexual Abuse (Theranos All Over Again)
2022-06-09 [Meme] No Diplomatic Immunity for Alex Kipman
2022-06-10 Monopolies Are Neither Green Nor Sustainable
2022-06-10 [Meme] Working for Monopolisers
2022-06-11 Corporate Monopolies Granted From People's Private Homes
2022-06-11 EPO Breaking the Rules, Flouting Laws and Regulations While Leaving Staff Representatives in the Dark
2022-06-11 How Long Can the Media Ignore the EPO Crisis (and at What Cost)?
2022-06-11 [Meme] Stasi Office
2022-06-11 GeekWire and Todd Bishop: Doxing for Microsoft
2022-06-12 Another Reason Unified Patent Court (UPC) is a Hostile Coup That Will Fail
2022-06-12 [Meme] Vote for Sustained Industrial Action at the EPO
2022-06-14 António Campinos Needs to be Fired by Month's End (Notice of Permanent End of Term)
2022-06-14 National Representatives (Delegations) Need to Listen to EPO Staff When Deciding on the Future of António Campinos
2022-06-14 EPO: Privatising Everything and Passing Capital to Corrupt Executives' Pockets (or Monetising the Abolition of the EPC)
2022-06-14 [Meme] EPO 'Democracy': Friend Brings Friends
2022-06-14 Like Batka, Like Son
2022-06-15 [Meme] Experts in Crime
2022-06-15 [Meme] European Patent Convention 'Too Old' for EPO Despots
2022-06-15 [Meme] European Patent Office: The Law is Whatever We Say It Is...
2022-06-15 EPO Management Has Danced on the Grave of the European Patent Convention Today
2022-06-16 [Meme] Arresting and Prosecuting EPO Management
2022-06-16 The Emergence of the European Patent Convention (EPC) in Full; Before White-Collar Criminals Hijacked the EPO and Pretended EPC Doesn't Exist
2022-06-16 The EPO Has Become Copycat of Lukashenko's Regime of Terror, and It Moreover Violates Laws, Constitutions, Even the European Patent Convention (EPC)
2022-06-16 [Meme] The Wild West of the Cattle-Riding Campino, Tony the Great
2022-06-16 EPO Management Now Simulating the Acceptance of Its Criminal Behaviour, But Will EPO Member States Play Along?
2022-06-16 [Meme] Team UPC: Entering Legal Chaos and an Inevitable Disaster
2022-06-16 Today in Techrights (But Over Gemini Protocol)
2022-06-16 The EPO's Staff Union Cautions the Administrative Council That the Office Once Again Violates the EPC (Typically With the Council's Complicity)
2022-06-16 We Need to Focus on This Month's Meeting of the EPO's Administrative Council
2022-06-17 [Meme] Breaking the Law While Laughing at the Law
2022-06-17 For the Second Time in a Week the EPO Fakes Compliance With the European Patent Convention While Constantly Violating It
2022-06-18 Wikipedia is No Longer Trustworthy on Matters of Commerce and Politics (Because of Financial Motives and Power Incentives)
2022-06-20 Physical Demonstrations Against EPO Considered This Month, Work-to-Rule Industrial Action May Continue, and 96% Think António Campinos Violating the Code of Conduct Means the Office Should Release Recordings
2022-06-20 [Meme] Speaking Professionally at the EPO
2022-06-21 Physical Demonstration at the EPO's Headquarters and the Staff Explains Why
2022-06-21 [Meme] The Re-election Package of the “F***ing President” (in His Own Words)
2022-06-21 Why EPO Scandals (and Next Week's Protest) Are a Very Big Deal
2022-06-21 [Meme] EPO Funding Microsoft and the War Against Ukraine
2022-06-22 Hallmark of Bribery and Graft: The French EPO President Gives European Inventor Award to France Again (3rd Time in 6 Years)
2022-06-22 [Meme] Rewarding Crooks With Public Relations and Marketing at the EPO's Expense ('European Inventor Award')
2022-06-22 Links 22/06/2022: Turkey's GNU/Linux Stories and Giving up on GNOME To Do
2022-06-22 The Future of the EPO's Work-to-Rule Industrial Action (Examiners Following the Law Rather Than Unlawful Instructions From Management)
2022-06-22 [Meme] Battistelli the Second (Battistelli II)
2022-06-22 At the EPO, “Bringing Teams Together” or “New Management of Office Space” is Another Step Towards EPO Outsourcing
2022-06-22 [Meme] Executing the EPC (as in Killing It, Not Following It)
2022-06-22 EPO Management Severely Harms the Health of Staff by Bullying Them
2022-06-22 [Meme] Trying to Circumvent the European Patent Convention is Like Playing With Fire
2022-06-22 EPO Abolishing Workers' Rights and Creating Second-Class Workers in Direct Violation of the European Patent Convention (EPC)
2022-06-23 The EPO is Ceasing to Be a Patent Office
2022-06-23 EPO Management Behaves As If the Goal is to Shut Down and Outsource the Patent Office, Making a 'Monopolies Bank' Instead... or Having Rubber-Stamping With Kangaroo Courts Override the European Patent Convention (EPC)
2022-06-23 [Meme] Granting Patents Like Mad is Not Productivity (It's Also Illegal)
2022-06-23 Links 23/06/2022: EasyOS Improves Update Process
2022-06-24 EPO Staff Survey's Preliminary Results Published (Almost 2,000 Staff Surveyed), António Campinos Less Trustworthy Than Benoît Battistelli at Similar Points in Their Terms
2022-06-24 Selected Slides From Technologia's EPO Staff Survey (2022 Compared to Prior Years)
2022-06-24 [Meme] Council Says...
2022-06-24 EPO Staff at The Hague Complains of New Pressure Tactics and Survey Shows Less than 10% Think Office Policies Serve the EPO's Interests
2022-06-24 [Meme] You Cannot Protest Because...
2022-06-24 2,120 EPO Workers Sign Petition to the National Delegates, Who Can Put an End to EPO Abuses (But Repeatedly Fail to Do So)
2022-06-24 [Meme] EPO All Backwards: Are National Delegates and the Administrative Council Just Puppets of the Office They're Meant to Govern?
2022-06-25 The Past Week at EPO, Europe's Most Corrupt Patent Office
2022-06-25 [Meme] Fireside Chat With EPO Management
2022-06-27 Gemini Graduating to First-Class Citizen
2022-06-27 The Importance of Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press When It Comes to EPO Corruption
2022-06-27 Links 27/06/2022: GnuCash 4.11, digiKam 7.7.0, and Easy 4.2.1
2022-06-27 EPO Management Glorifies Illegal Agenda and Violations of the European Patent Convention (EPC) to Impress the Administrative Council
2022-06-27 [Meme] Benoît Battistelli and António Campino Buying Elections Since 2010
2022-06-28 EPO Protest Tomorrow in Munich
2022-06-28 Bastian Best is Still Wrong and Dishonest About Software Patents
2022-06-28 “Mobility Package” as Bribes in European Patent Office
2022-06-28 Lots of Legal Action Against the EPO Impending
2022-06-28 [Meme] EPO Policies Decided Behind Closed Doors
2022-06-28 [Meme] EPO Bosses Sneer at Staff Unrest
2022-06-29 Most “Job Applicants to an Examiner Position at EPO Who Were Offered a Job Did Not Take it”
2022-06-29 [Meme] The Delegates' Munich Rally (June 29th 2022), Re-electing a Corrupt Dictator?
2022-06-29 Corrupt António Campinos Bought Himself Another Term by Bribing Voters, Whom None of the Staff Trusts
2022-06-29 EPO is “Building a Team of C and D Players”
2022-06-29 Sustainability of Crime at the European Patent Office (EPO), Europe's Second-Largest Institution
2022-06-29 Cautionary Tales About an António Campinos-Run EPO
2022-06-30 [Meme] EPO Rewarding Corruption Instead of Upholding the Law and Protecting the European Patent Convention (EPC)
2022-06-30 European Patent Office is a Kakistocracy Illustrated
2022-07-01 [Meme] EPO Election (Auction)
2022-07-01 People Are Very Angry That Campinos Was Left in Positions of Power Without Any Competition and in Spite of Failing to Fulfill Essential Goals
2022-07-01 [Meme] President Crybaby
2022-07-02 At the EPO, “Online” Means Microsoft Windows Only (“Unitary Patent” Also Limited to Microsoft Customers!)
2022-07-02 Koch Operatives Working to Shape Patent Law in Favour of Monopolies and Oligarchs
2022-07-02 EPO Steering Off the Road, Just Like the Drunken Son of António Campinos, Who Crashed the Car and Begged for Impunity
2022-07-02 Walking Like the Talking, Acting Like One's Preaching
2022-07-04 [Meme] EPO.org as a Portal of Lies (and Lobbyists)
2022-07-04 EPO Exploits the Deaths of Millions to Leverage COVID-19 Monopolies and Then Pushes Illegal, Unconstitutional Agenda Again (UPC)
2022-07-05 EPO Bought 'Elections' and What That Means to Staff (When Bribery is the 'New Normal')
2022-07-05 [Meme] Bribing Our Representatives at Our Expense
2022-07-06 Links 06/07/2022: Fedora Targets Raspberry Pi 4, OpenSSL 3.0.4 Released
2022-07-06 EPO's Distraction Du Jour
2022-07-06 [Meme] The EPO's European Diversity
2022-07-08 Links 08/07/2022: Elive 3.8.30 Beta, China RISC-V Alliance
2022-07-08 [Meme] EPO Cartoon: I AM Here to Help Cover Up Crimes
2022-07-08 Article Ideas for EPO Parrots
2022-07-08 Links 08/07/2022: Godot 3.5 RC 6 and DebConf22
2022-07-09 With EPO Staff Already in the Trenches ('Cannon Fodder' for Corrupt Management) Their Children Come Under Fire, Too
2022-07-09 Web Site of the European Patent Office (EPO) as Propaganda Tool That Covers Up Corruption
2022-07-09 [Meme] He Was Reappointed, So Why Bother Obeying the Law? To Impress the Council?
2022-07-10 European Patent Office (EPO) Condemned Again by Judges at the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organisation (ILOAT)
2022-07-10 [Meme] António Campinos Reacts to Latest Rulings From the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organisation (ILOAT)
2022-07-11 Status Update: Gemini, IRC, and the New CMS
2022-07-11 [Teaser] The EPO's Deflating Patent Bubble and Pursuit of Illegal Software Patents (With Kangaroo Courts, UPC, and Bullied Examiners)
2022-07-11 When EPO Does Not Control and Coerce the Judges — Part I — ILOAT 134th Session: Two More Bittersweet Victories for EPO Staff
2022-07-11 [Meme] EPO King
2022-07-11 Three Series Running in Parallel
2022-07-12 When EPO Does Not Control and Coerce the Judges — Part II — ILOAT Judgment No. 4550
2022-07-12 Can't Censor EPO Staff Anymore
2022-07-12 ILOAT Judgment No. 4550 Shows Why ILO Can Never Truly Restore Justice at the EPO and Reminds Us Why ILO Wanted to Kick the EPO Out, Recognising the Highly Exceptional Level of Abuse
2022-07-13 When EPO Does Not Control and Coerce the Judges — Part III — ILOAT Judgment No. 4551
2022-07-13 [Meme] “There is No Crueler Tyranny Than That Which is Perpetuated Under the Shield of Law and in the Name of Justice.”
2022-07-13 [Meme] The Year is 2032: ILOAT Tells Campinos That He Broke the Law, Repeatedly
2022-07-13 When EPO Does Not Control and Coerce the Judges — Part IV — No End in Sight for a System of “Institutionalised Injustice”?
2022-07-13 The EPO Bubble — Part I — An “Unprecedented Surge”
2022-07-13 Obscene Lack of Justice at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2022-07-13 Why the EPO Bubble Matters
2022-07-14 There's No F***ing Debate With “the F***ing President” (What António Campinos Calls Himself!)
2022-07-14 The EPO Bubble — Part II — Signs of a Deflating Bubble?
2022-07-14 [Meme] So Presidential...
2022-07-14 [Meme] A Message to You, Toni...
2022-07-14 [Meme] The More, the Merrier?
2022-07-14 The EPO as a Diploma Mill, Rubber-Stamper, and Training Camp for Scabs Cannot Produce Valuable Work (Low-Quality Junk in High Quantities)
2022-07-14 [Meme] Preserving the EPO's “Slush Fund”
2022-07-14 [Meme] EPO Kool-Aid Dispenser
2022-07-15 The EPO Bubble — Part III — Dividing Up the Spoils...
2022-07-15 [Meme] Plot Twist
2022-07-15 This is How to Kill a Reputable Patent Office in Only a Few Years
2022-07-15 [Meme] Give Us More Money by Selling Monopolies to Foreign Corporations in Violation of the European Patent Convention
2022-07-16 The EPO Bubble — Part IV — A Cashflow Problem Looming on the Horizon?
2022-07-16 [Meme] Grinning at Immunity
2022-07-16 Illegally Monetising an Attack on the European Patent Convention (or How National Delegates Participate in a Coordinated Patent Collusion, a Form of Organised Crime)
2022-07-16 [Meme] The EPO's Kangaroo Tribunals Explained
2022-07-17 The EPO Bubble — Part V — Propping Up the Bubble?
2022-07-17 [Meme] Software Patents by Any Other Name (or Buzzword)
2022-07-17 Inside the Minds of Microsoft's Media Operatives — Part I — Bishops in Rooks
2022-07-17 The EPO Bubble — Part VI — From Humble Examiner to CO€³
2022-07-17 [Meme] EPO's Presidential Lapdogs
2022-07-18 4 Years of Monopoly Tony (Mr. Campinos) Violating the Rights of Free Association/Expression/Speech as EPO President
2022-07-18 Freedom of Speech Cannot Coexist With Crime at the EPO
2022-07-18 Razik Alex Menidjel: Software Patents Guru or Career-Climbing Poser Who Never Wrote Code?
2022-07-18 [Meme] EPO Management Coming Out of the Closet
2022-07-19 The EPO Bubble — Part VII — A Multifaceted Man of Letters
2022-07-19 [Meme] Bubble Schwabble
2022-07-19 Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part XXIV — Using Microsoft Money as 'Get Out of Jail' Card After Suffocating Women
2022-07-19 When Criminals Make It a Crime to Speak About Their Crimes
2022-07-19 [Meme] EPO Ignorance is Bliss
2022-07-20 The EPO Bubble — Part VIII — The “Algerian Skirmisher” Replaces the “British Grenadier”
2022-07-20 [Meme] Master of None
2022-07-20 Razik Menidjel the Wrong COO, But Part of Patent Maximalists' Coup
2022-07-20 [Meme] Patents for Granted
2022-07-20 Further Suppression of Speech at the EPO Shows That the Current (Recently-Reappointed) Administration Continues to Break the Law
2022-07-20 [Meme] Mein Kampfinos?
2022-07-20 The EPO's Local Staff Committee The Hague Cautions About Shortage of Examiners and Growing Pressure on Workers
2022-07-20 [Meme] The EPO Circus
2022-07-20 [Meme] Self Esteem Issues (of Insensitive and Underqualified Leadership)
2022-07-20 Finishing Off What's Left to 'Monetise' at the EPO
2022-07-21 The EPO Bubble — Part IX — A Well-Remunerated Faustian Pact?
2022-07-21 [Meme] Faustian Pact to Violate the European Patent Convention (EPC)
2022-07-21 [Teaser] EPO President 'F' Delivers Instructions to Georg Weber
2022-07-21 The EPO Bubble — Part X — A Leaked E-mail Provides Some Clues...
2022-07-21 [Meme] “So I Wrote an Algorithm”
2022-07-22 What the Latest EPO Leaks Teach Us About the Management's Plans for Software Patents in Europe
2022-07-22 EPO's Georg Weber Increasing Grant Rates Close to 100% in Software Patents (for Supposed 'Success')
2022-07-22 The António Campinos Photo Ops Tour: Pretending to Support Ukraine While Sending the EPO's Jobs and Applicants' Money to Belarus
2022-07-22 [Meme] The Intrepid Razik, Herr Weber, and the Faustian EPO Pact
2022-07-22 [Teaser] The Food Expert Who Got an 'Appetite' for Software Patents
2022-07-22 [Meme] The EPO's Pot o' Gold
2022-07-22 [Meme] The Sinking Ship?
2022-07-22 [Meme/Video] Another Temper Tantrump From António Campinos
2022-07-22 [Meme] Award-winning Fake Patents
2022-07-22 The EPO Bubble — Part XI — The Viennese ICT Patent Orchestrator
2022-07-22 Monetising the EPO's Granting Authority by Abusing This Authority and Violating the European Patent Convention (EPC)
2022-07-22 [Meme] Getting Promoted to Head of National Delegation at the European Patent Organisation (EPO)
2022-07-22 [Meme] Sustainable European Patent Office (EPO)
2022-07-23 The EPO's Misguided and Misleading Approach to Software Patenting, Disguised Using Disingenuous Newspeak and Buzzwords
2022-07-23 [Meme] The Portuguese Pretender
2022-07-23 [Meme/Video] Covering Up the (EPO) President's Coup and Illegal Actions
2022-07-24 The EPO Bubble — Part XII — The Shape of Things to Come?
2022-07-24 When Europe's Largest Patent Office is Governed by Lawyers, Bankers, and Career-Climbing Opportunists Who Violate the European Patent Convention (EPC) for Them
2022-07-25 [Meme] The EPO's Great Leap Forward
2022-07-25 [Meme] The EPO's Unprecedented Surge
2022-07-25 [Meme] Sneak Preview: EPO Chain Gang Movie
2022-07-25 EPO Monday: A Carnival of Law-Breaking Fluff, Even Celebration of Crime
2022-07-27 Banana EPO: Montenegro, With Population 134 Times Smaller Than Germany's, Will Get a Vote as Powerful as Germany's
2022-07-27 [Meme] Voting Fodder and Faking Concern for the European Patent Convention (EPC)
2022-07-29 [Meme] “Truly a Landmark Occasion”
2022-07-29 EPO VP4 Nellie Simon: 24/7 Day and Night, Only One Hour to Speak to EPO Staff
2022-07-31 Goodbye to Unnecessary Bloat (We're Getting There!)
2022-07-31 [Meme] Working for Sociopaths Who Break the Law and Gloat About It
2022-07-31 [Video] Zola's Algorithm
2022-07-31 António Campinos: Portuguese in Absentia (Exile)
2022-08-01 [Meme] Breaking Out the Champagne for a “Landmark Occasion”
2022-08-02 EPO Corruption: Internet Censorship or Why the World Wide Web and DNS Aren't Enough When You Speak Truth to Power
2022-08-05 Recruitment Potential at the EPO Has Never Been Worse
2022-08-05 António Campinos Once Again Failing to Obey Court Orders, Making Up Ludicrous Excuses for Non-Compliance
2022-08-05 [Meme] Dignity of Criminals
2022-08-05 [Meme] Criminals Have Feelings Too...
2022-08-08 Mind-Blowing and Likely Verifiable Rumours About More High-Level Corruption at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2022-08-08 [Meme] Qualified and Diplomatic Immunity Begets Crime
2022-08-09 Request for More Information on EPO/EUIPO Corruption
2022-08-09 [Meme] Each According to His Abilities...
2022-08-09 How to Leak Material to Techrights
2022-08-09 [Meme] Making European Patents Moot and Worthless
2022-08-10 [Meme] No Compliance, No Quality, No Accountability at the EPO
2022-08-20 Czech/German Copyright Attack on Techrights Articles About EPO Corruption
2022-08-21 Debian Cannot Keep Burying the Inconvenient Facts
2022-08-22 [Meme] EPO Has Failed to Comply With Straightforward ILOAT Ruling for Almost Two Months Already
2022-08-23 Censorship Online Does Not Work Against Everybody
2022-08-27 Copyright Troll Targets Articles About EPO Corruption
2022-08-28 Linux Foundation Revenue Plunges ($18,000,000 Decrease in One Year) and Jim Zemlin's Wife Has Her Company Sued for Securities Fraud (Class Action)
2022-08-29 [Meme] Bringing Cheeks Together
2022-08-29 EPO Management Trying to Make EPO Staff Miserable and Isolated
2022-09-01 The Linux Foundation Has Formally Changed Its Mission! (Based on IRS Files)
2022-09-01 The Propaganda Mill of EPO.org Pushes Illegal, Unconstitutional UPC ('Fake It Till You Make It') Ahead of Further Perils
2022-09-01 [Meme] The Limits of Lobbying and Lying
2022-09-04 NSA Whistleblower J. Kirk Wiebe on Neglect and Rejection of Facts
2022-09-04 Journalism is Beyond Redemption When Politicians Serve Media Tycoons and Business Oligarchs Who Resist Journalists (Those Capable of Exposing Them)
2022-09-07 Links 07/09/2022: Blender 3.3 LTS and More Political News
2022-09-09 Human Resources at the European Patent Office (EPO): Another Crisis in the Making
2022-09-09 Gone With the Boris: British Enabler of Corrupt EPO Regime
2022-09-09 The World Wide Web is Not (or No Longer) a Censorship Circumvention Mechanism for Controversial Literature and Authors
2022-09-10 [Meme] We're Back to Medieval Times: The Case of EPO
2022-09-10 Never Let Courts Be Controlled by Those Who Ignore Court Rulings (European Patent Office, European Patent Organisation, or EPO)
2022-09-10 [Meme] Time to Take Away the EPO's Diplomatic Immunity
2022-09-19 Software Freedom is Not a Disaster and Those Who Oppose B.Y.O.D. Are a Monarch's Dream
2022-09-21 [Meme] EPO Abuse Continues, Managers Acting Deaf
2022-09-21 The EPO's Local Staff Committee The Hague (LSCTH) is “Requesting Immediate Action”
2022-09-24 According to EPO Data, Women Have No Place at the EPO (Unless They Fancy Being Underpaid)
2022-09-24 [Meme] Getting Promoted (or Hired/Recruited/Absorbed Directly Into Top Management) by Knowing “The F***ing President”
2022-09-26 Media Censorship is Spreading and Infesting the World Wide Web
2022-09-28 Free Speech is Becoming as Scarce as Independent Journalism (Even at the FSF)
2022-09-29 Facts About the European Patent Office and Why Recruiting/Retaining Capable Examiners Isn't Possible Anymore
2022-09-29 [Meme] EPO Would Probably Argue It's Just a Coincidence That “Women Have Received, on Average, Only 0.88 Steps to Every 1 Step Awarded to Men”
2022-09-29 EPO Management Plans to Further Accelerate Grants of Illegal, Invalid, Fake European Patents Next Year
2022-10-03 [Meme] Lowering the Bar With Nations That Barely Have Any European Patents (Close to Zero)
2022-10-03 European School The Hague (ESH) Faces a Crisis and Families of EPO Workers Are Harmed Profoundly
2022-10-03 Members of the Administrative Council of the EPO Are Asked to Summon a Conference of Ministers of the Contracting States Due to Violations of the Law
2022-10-11 Inclusion and Diversity at the EPO in One Slide (Leaked by Insiders)
2022-10-11 [Meme] EPO's Administrative Council Will Congratulate a President Who Bribes the Administrative Council, Breaks the Law, and Curses at Staff Whilst Illegally Censoring It
2022-10-14 People Who Relocated (With Family) to Work at the European Patent Office (EPO) Complain About European School The Hague (ESH)
2022-10-14 [Meme] Well, It's Dead
2022-10-17 Even Patent Maximalists Across Europe Are Dissatisfied With the European Patent Office's Shameless Race to the Bottom (Illegal European Patents)
2022-10-17 [Meme] The F***ing Precedent
2022-10-17 The ILO's Tribunal Decided That the Appeals Committee (ApC) at the European Patent Office (EPO) is Flawed and Staff Can Take Action
2022-10-18 António Campinos on Unified Patent Court (UPC) Delays and Trying to Leapfrog the Actual Legal Process (Because It's Illegal)
2022-10-18 They Can't Even Spell UPC Right (in António's Prepared Lobbying Speech to Politicians, Delivered Last Month)
2022-10-20 When It Comes to Patent Policy, EFF Has Become Utterly Useless This Year (and It Refuses to Mention EPO Scandals)
2022-10-20 [Meme] EFF Stopped Worrying About Corruption and Monopolies
2022-10-24 Team UPC Has Foolishly Given Additional Legal Grounds for Tossing Out the Unitary Patent (Overt Corruption in Appointment of Judges)
2022-10-27 Pushing Back Against Software Patents and More
2022-10-27 Let's Put an End to Software Patents by Contacting Our Representatives (Politicians)
2022-10-31 The European Commission's Policy-Making on Software Patents Inside Standards
2022-11-05 What's to Come Regarding EPO Scandals and Latest UPC (Unitary Patent) Scandals
2022-11-06 The European Union's Unspoken-About Blunder: EPO (Patent-Granting Office) Coup and Ongoing Coup Against Patent Courts
2022-11-06 [Meme] I am Always Right Because...
2022-11-06 This Tentative List of UPC Judges (Industry as 'Judges') Will Make the Unitary Patent Explode Before Launch
2022-11-07 Privacy Law Isn't Meant to Protect EPO Management From Prosecution/Accountability
2022-11-07 [Meme] EPO Privacy Please, But Only for EPO Management
2022-11-08 Trusting the UPC (Unified Patent Court) in the Hands of Tyrants Who Ridicule Courts?
2022-11-08 EPO Isn't Green and Isn't Women-Friendly, That's Just Another Distraction From Corruption
2022-11-08 [Meme] The EPO is GREEN!
2022-11-14 [Meme] European Patent Office (EPO) Wants You to Know Only Bigots Oppose Illegal EPO Agenda
2022-11-14 The European Patent Office (EPO) Cannot Understand Women
2022-11-14 European Patent Office (EPO) Uses Women and Greenwashing to Distract From EPO Crimes and Unified Patent Court (UPC) Travesty
2022-11-17 António 'I'm the F***ing President' Campinos Arranges Meeting With EPO Staff to Lie About Staff's Position and Then Crush the Most Basic Rights of Staff
2022-11-17 [Meme] Herr Professor Doktor Benoît Battistelli
2022-11-17 [Meme] The 'F***ing President' at the EPO
2022-11-21 The European Patent Office (EPO) Will Fail at Retention and Recruitment This Way
2022-11-21 Software Patents in the EPO Are Still Illegal, But Criminals in Charge of the EPO Still Try to Stage a Coup Against the Law
2022-11-22 [Meme] Full Support for an Illegal 'Legal' System From the Patent Litigation Industry
2022-11-22 From About 2-3 Blog Posts Per Day to Not Even One Per Day (After Covering Up for 'Good' EPO Under António Campinos)
2022-11-22 Kangaroo Tribunal For Xmas? Santa Klaus Grabinski Breaking the Law, Crushing Constitutions, Violating International Conventions For Personal (Financial) Gain... Again
2022-11-25 Klaus 'Kangaroo' Grabinski Does Not Understand Software Development 'As Such', He is a Symptom of the Patent System's Loss of Legitimacy (Acting to Curtail, Not Advance, Science)
2022-11-25 [Meme] Judges That Break the Rules to Get Richer
2022-11-25 This Won't End Well for the UPC Lobby (Unitary Patent Profoundly Discredits the Rule of Law)
2022-11-26 “Bringing Teams Together” at the EPO Means Exactly the Opposite
2022-11-26 [Meme] Monopolies Presumed Valid
2022-11-26 Unitary Patent Lobbying: Stacked UPC Panel With 250 People in Attendance Spun as “3000 Viewers Followed the Conference” (a Lie)
2022-11-28 António Campinos Could Not Possibly Choose a Worse Time to Show Solidarity With Communist China
2022-12-03 10 Good Things That Happened in 2022
2022-12-05 Unified Patent Court (UPC) 'Delayed' Again, As Usual, as Unitary Patent Boosters Caught Up in Lies and Scandals
2022-12-06 Benoît Battistelli in 2015: EPO is Ready to Start Unified Patent Court (UPC), Expect UPC in 2016
2022-12-08 European Patent Office (EPO) on the Decline, According to the Fifth Edition of the Technologia Staff Survey
2022-12-08 [Meme] António Campinos-Controlled (EPO-Commissioned) Surveys Are Just for Show (to Help 'Validate' Lies)
2022-12-08 Virtually (i.e. Online) and for Only One Hour the EPO's Staff Representation Was Allowed to Discuss Many Lingering Concerns
2022-12-08 Code of Conduct-Like Culture at Sirius ‘Open Source’ (Managers Never Held Accountable for Anything, Other Staff Blamed for Management's Failures)
2022-12-09 Keeping Abreast of Patent Affairs and Legislation in Europe
2022-12-09 The European Patent Office Explained by Insiders
2022-12-09 [Meme] EPO Jobs Are Very Cool!
2022-12-10 At Sirius ‘Open Source’, Decisions Are Made Exclusively and Secretly by the 'Inner Circle' (No Wider Participation Possible)
2022-12-10 EPO President António Campinos 'Too Busy' to Talk to Staff Representatives as Scandals Continue to Pile Up
2022-12-10 [Meme] The EPO is Run by Corrupt Dictators; The Union (SUEPO) Suffers for Merely Talking About It
2022-12-14 Sirius Open Source: Buy Your Own Desk, Bring/Buy Your Own Device (BYOD), Repair and Maintain Your Computer at Your Own Expense and Time
2022-12-15 European Patent Office (EPO) Refuses to Change and Refuses to Acknowledge the Simple Facts About Its Demise
2022-12-17 Will 2023 See EPO Willing to Invite Belarus and Russia for Public Relations?
2022-12-17 [Meme] Moldova: What's Worse? Putin's Army or 'the F***ing President' António's Trojan Horse?
2022-12-19 Sirius ‘Open Source’: Where Babysitters and Secretaries/Personal Assistants Can Miraculously Become Managers (and Fail at It Really Badly)
2022-12-20 EPO Writing About Unitary Patent From One Year in the Future!
2022-12-20 [Meme] Seven Years After Battistelli Said It Would Start
2022-12-22 Human Resources (HR) as Pretext and Weapon Against Staff
2022-12-23 Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna on German 'Justice': “Not a Single One of the EPO Complaints Has Been Decided to Date.”
2022-12-23 Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna Has New Paper on Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement (UPCA) After Brexit
2022-12-29 Kangaroo Courts Against Voices of Morality (and of Compliance With Laws) at Sirius ‘Open Source’
2022-12-31 UPC is Not Legal in 2023 (UK Left the EU), But the EPO Pretends It Will Start in June (Wishful Thinking, Illegal System)
2023-01-01 Sirius ‘Open Source’ Abuses Grey Areas
2023-01-01 Edvard Munch: Klaus Grabinski Met António Trump in 2022
2023-01-02 Sirius ‘Open Source’ Has Turned Workers Into Serfs/Slaves and Technical Work Into 'Bullshit Jobs'
2023-01-03 The EPO is Lying or Just Strategically Faking It. There's No 'Unitary Effect' at the EPO. There's No Unitary Patent or Unified Patent Court (UPC) Either.
2023-01-05 The EPO is Cruel to Patent Examiners Because Corporations, Not Even European Ones, Always Come First
2023-01-05 [Meme] The Only Language EPO Management Can Understand
2023-01-07 Insufficient Time for Staff of the European Patent Office to Comment on Managers' Proposals
2023-01-07 [Meme] Only Pretending Proposals Were in Fact Discussed With Staff!
2023-01-09 Team UPC is Trying to Misuse Copyright Law in Order to Censor Critics of the UPC Collusion (a Scheme to Violate Constitutions and Craft an Illegal Kangaroo Court in Defiance of International Conventions)
2023-01-09 Links 09/01/2023: Kdenlive 22.12.1 and Alpine 3.17.1
2023-01-10 More Than Half a Dozen Copyright Litigation Threats Sent to Techrights in Less Than Six Months Over EPO and UPC Articles (Misusing Copyrights for Censorship/Intimidation)
2023-01-10 [Meme] Censorship of Self-Incriminating Evidence
2023-01-14 Edda Franz, EPO's Principal Director General Administration, Leaves EPO Amid Growing Chaos and Orchestrated Efforts to Divide the EPO's Staff
2023-01-14 [Meme] How EPO Presents the Male-Dominated EPO
2023-01-15 Links 15/01/2023: MX Linux 21.3, Kodi 20, and LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0.4 Released
2023-01-16 Management of the European Patent Office (EPO) is Gloating That the German Authorities Protect the EPO Even When Laws and Constitutions Are Broken
2023-01-16 [Meme] Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht): Can't See, Won't Hear, Don't Speak
2023-01-16 Links 16/01/2023: Mozilla Firefox 109 and Lejeune foundation Adopts GNU Health
2023-01-17 Links 16/01/2023: Microsoft RNDIS Ejected From Linux
2023-01-17 [Meme] A Kinder, Gentler EPO Leadership
2023-01-17 Patent Practitioners Complain That the EPO is Secretive and Incompetent
2023-01-17 [Meme] Thanks to the German Government, the EPO is Immune/Protected From Prosecution (Persistent Law-breaking in the Name of 'Upholding' Patent Law)
2023-01-18 Sirius and the Straw Man
2023-01-24 Sirius Lying About ISO to Justify Giving the Technical Staff Some Classic 'Bullshit Jobs' While Censoring/Covering Up Incompetence
2023-01-27 The ISO Delusion: Sirius Corporation Demonstrates a Lack of Understanding of Security and Privacy
2023-01-27 European Patent Office Staff Losing Hope
2023-01-27 [Meme] António Campinos Wants to Be F***ing President Until 2028
2023-01-30 EPO Management Isn't Listening to Staff, It's Just Trying to Divide and Demoralise the Staff Instead
2023-01-31 Links 31/01/2023: elementary OS 7
2023-02-01 Links 01/02/2023: Stables Kernels and Upcoming COSMIC From System76
2023-02-02 Links 02/02/2023: Glibc 2.37 and Go 1.20
2023-02-02 European Patent Office Staff Votes in Favour of Freedom of Association (97% of Voters in Support)
2023-02-02 Back to Focusing on Unified Patent Court (UPC) Crimes and Illegal Patent Agenda, Including the EPO's
2023-02-03 Links 02/02/2023: KDE Gear 22.12.2 and LibreOffice 7.5
2023-02-03 Links 03/02/2023: OpenSSH 9.2 and OBS Studio 29.0.1
2023-02-06 Reality Versus Fiction: EPO Insiders Versus EPO Web Site and UPC 'Churnalists'
2023-02-06 Taking Back Control or Seizing Autonomy Over the News Cycle (Informing People, Culling the Marketing)
2023-02-07 Links 06/02/2023: Escuelas Linux 8.0 and Many Political Issues
2023-02-08 Links 08/02/2023: Transmission 4.0.0 Released and Mass Layoffs at Zoom
2023-02-09 Links 09/02/2023: Sailfish OS 4.5, LibreSSL 3.5.4/3.6.2, and Ruby 3.2.1
2023-02-10 Links 09/02/2023: PostgreSQL Releases, Stables Kernels, and Kdenlive 22.12.2
2023-02-10 Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part XXVII — The Future of OpenAI May Depend on the Fate of GitHub's Copilot in Court ($9 Billion in Damages)
2023-02-11 Links 11/02/2023: Zstandard 1.5.4 Released and Red Hat Promotes Microsoft
2023-02-12 Links 11/02/2023: GNU Health Hospital Management 4.2 and Diffoscope 235 Released
2023-02-13 How Much Longer Can the EPO Deny That It Has a Patent Quality and Patent Legitimacy Crisis?
2023-02-13 Management of the European Patent Office is Lying About Office Space
2023-02-13 Management of the European Patent Office Has Laid Off All the Staff That Fed the Employees (Despite Drowning in Money Generated by Granting Fake European Patents)
2023-02-14 Links 13/02/2023: Skrooge 2.29.0 and PostgreSQL JDBC 42.5.3
2023-02-15 Links 14/02/2023: KaOS Linux 2023.02 and Free Software Love (❤️)
2023-02-15 Links 15/02/2023: FreeBSD 13.2 Beta, Istio 1.17, and ChromeOS on Zephyr
2023-02-16 Who Will Assess the Performance of the Corrupt EPO? Nobody. It's Above Scrutiny.
2023-02-17 Workers Under Attack (and How Fear is Leveraged to Suppress Unionising, Whistleblowing, Dissent)
2023-02-18 Links 17/02/2023: More Linux Phones and GNU Lightning 2.2.1
2023-02-20 The Shape of the World Wide Web Is Really Bad and It Won't Improve in 2023
2023-02-20 German UPCA Ratification Was Expected, But It Does Nothing to Resolve Brexit (UK Cannot Ratify), So Unified Patent Court (UPC) Remains Illegal and Unconstitutional, Violating Several Conventions and Harming Europe's Image, Economy, Access to Justice
2023-02-20 The EPO's War of Attrition Against Its Own Staff
2023-02-21 Links 21/02/2023: OpenSUSE Leap 15.5 Beta and Tor Browser 12.5a3
2023-02-22 Links 22/02/2023: GDB 13.1, Istio 1.15.6 and 1.16.3
2023-02-22 EPO Central Staff Committee Says António Campinos Became Like Benoît Battistelli After 4 Years at the Office ('Lost From Sight')
2023-02-22 Private Letter From Some of the EPO's Biggest Applicants, Complaining That Quality of European Patents is Plunging
2023-02-22 The EPO's Human Resources (HR) Crisis Visualised
2023-02-22 António Campinos is Unable to Recruit Patent Examiners, Europe's Largest Patent Office in State of Crisis
2023-02-23 Links 22/02/2023: KDE Plasma 5.27.1 and New Fears Over Nukes
2023-02-24 Links 24/02/2023: EasyOS Progress and China Claims It Wants Ukraine Ceasefire
2023-02-27 The EPO Crisis, as Explained by EPO Insiders
2023-02-27 Things That the Free Software Community Needs to Replace/Counteract
2023-02-28 EPO Has 'Guidelines on Rewards', But Promotions Are Down Sharply and Potential to Recruit is Very Low (Except Scabs)
2023-02-28 Links 28/02/2023: Apache OpenOffice 4.1.13 and GIMP 2.10.34 Released
2023-03-01 The European Patent Office Cannot Survive This Way
2023-03-02 Links 02/03/2023: KDE Gear 22.12.3 and Phipps Versus Standard-Essential (Software) Patents
2023-03-03 Techrights is Improving
2023-03-03 The EPO's Attack on ALL EPO Staff Explained Using a Parable/Analogy
2023-03-03 The EPO Grants Illegal Patents. EPO Managers Hope That a Kangaroo Court Can Endorse Illegal Patents.
2023-03-04 Links 03/03/2023: NuTyX 23.02.1 and Linux 6.2.2
2023-03-05 Links 05/03/2023: ScummVM for Android and GNU/Linux 'App Store'
2023-03-05 The Only 'Green' EPO Management Understands is Money
2023-03-07 Links 06/03/2023: rpminspect 1.11 and Mozilla Enlarges the Boards
2023-03-08 Links 08/03/2023: FEX 2303 Tagged and Investing in RSS
2023-03-09 Links 09/03/2023: Social Contrrol Media Rotting Further
2023-03-09 Links 09/03/2023: LibreOffice 7.4.6 and Sparky 2023.03
2023-03-10 Links 09/03/2023: Mesa 22.3.7, Samba 4.18.0, Peek Discontinued
2023-03-10 Links 10/03/2023: Release of MAAS 3.3 and Chaos at EUIPO/EPO (Connected to Abuses)
2023-03-10 EPO Weaponises International Women’s Day to Cover Up Its Attacks on Women
2023-03-14 The EPO Treats Its Own Staff Like Trash and Quality/Legitimacy of the EPO's Work is, Expectedly, Reduced to Trash
2023-03-14 Remuneration and Pensions at the EPO Reduced (Relative to Inflation), Guaranteeing a Decline in Quality of Work
2023-03-17 Skyfall for Sirius 'Open Source': A Second Pension Provider Starts to Investigate Serious (Sirius) Abuses
2023-03-17 Links 17/03/2023: Update on John Deere’s Ongoing GPL Violations and PyTorch 2.0
2023-03-17 The European Patent Office's Central Staff Committee Explains the Situation at the EPO to the 'Yes Men' of António Campinos (Who is Stacking All the Panels)
2023-03-20 Great Things Brewing
2023-03-20 Links 19/03/2023: Release of Libreboot 20230319 and NATO Expanding
2023-03-20 Links 20/03/2023: Amazon Linux 2023 and Linux Kernel 6.3 RC3
2023-03-21 Links 20/03/2023: Curl 8.0.0/1 and CloudStack 4.18.0.0 LTS
2023-03-21 The Photo Ops Festival of the Funky President António Campinos and Revolt From the Patent Examiners Whom He Perpetually Oppresses
2023-03-21 [Meme] EPO's Management Brainstorm
2023-03-21 [Meme] The Meme That Team UPC (the Collusion to Break the European Laws, for Profit) Threats to Sue Us For
2023-03-21 Germany's Lobbyists-Infested Government Sponsors the War on Ukraine via the European Patent Office (EPO)
2023-03-22 Links 22/03/2023: Official Thunderbird Podcast Starts
2023-03-23 Links 23/03/2023: Linux 6.2.8 and XWayland 23.1.0
2023-03-23 Links 23/03/2023: Sparky 2023.03 Special Editions and SUSE Changes CEO (Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen)
2023-03-24 Union Syndicale Fédérale Cautions the EPO's Administrative Council About Initiating an Illegal Kangaroo Court System for Patents (UPC) While EPO Breaks Laws and Sponsors the Ukraine Invasion
2023-03-24 [Meme] Grabinski the Opportunity
2023-03-24 Links 23/03/2023: RSS Guard 4.3.3 and OpenBSD Webzine
2023-03-24 Links 24/03/2023: GNU Grep 3.10 and Microsoft Accenture in a Freefall
2023-03-26 Links 26/03/2023: More TikTok Bans
2023-03-29 Links 28/03/2023: KPhotoAlbum 5.10.0 and QSoas 3.2
2023-03-29 Links 29/03/2023: Parted 3.5.28 and Blender 3.5
2023-03-30 Links 29/03/2023: InfluxDB FDW 2.0.0 and Erosion of Human Rights
2023-03-30 Links 30/03/2023: LibreOffice 7.5.2 and Linux 6.2.9
2023-03-31 Thomas Magenheim-Hörmann in RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland About Declining Quality and Declining Validity of European Patents (for EPO and Illegal Kangaroo Courts)
2023-03-31 [Meme] Too Many Fake European Patents? So Start Fake European Courts for Patents.
2023-03-31 Translating the Lies of António Campinos (EPO)
2023-04-02 Links 01/04/2023: Bloomberg Places Stake in Free Software, Microsoft Banned and Slammed for Antitrust Abuses
2023-04-04 Environmental Sustainability at EPO Must Become More Than a Buzzword
2023-04-04 Links 04/04/2023: Apple Layoffs and Clown Computing Crunch
2023-04-05 Union Syndicale Fédérale (USF) Takes a Closer Look at the EPO and Worsening Staff Conditions in a Series of New Articles
2023-04-05 [Meme] Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court (UPC): 'Doing a Putin' on European Patent Courts
2023-04-05 Links 05/04/2023: EasyOS 5.2.1 and Shotcut 23.04; Donald Trump in Police Custody
2023-04-05 Techrights Plans for Impending Easter Weekend
2023-04-05 Links 05/04/2023: GTK 4.11.1, Wayland 1.22, and Gajim 1.7.3
2023-04-06 EPO Staff Union: The Most Experienced Patent Examiners Are Leaving in Droves, Office Severely Understaffed
2023-04-06 [Meme] UPC/ICC: London is in Manhattan, Let's Get the Unitary Patent System Rollin'!
2023-04-08 Copyright Trolls: Anatomy of a Troll Attack on Techrights
2023-04-12 What the Hard Data Says About Gender Inequality in Europe's Second-Largest Institution, the EPO
2023-04-12 [Meme] Unified Patent Court Versus Judges (That Aren't Fully Controlled by the EPO's Junta, the Controversial Granting Authority)
2023-04-13 Links 13/04/2023: Nanonote 1.4.0 and LWN Looks at Mobian
2023-04-15 Links 15/04/2023: EasyOS 5.2.1 and Arkansas Versus Fentanylware (TikTok)
2023-04-20 Links 19/04/2023: More Facebook Layoffs and Another Tails Release
2023-04-20 Links 20/04/2023: Ubuntu 23.04 “Lunar Lobster” Released
2023-04-22 Links 22/04/2023: Manjaro 22.1 Talos and OpenShot 3.1.1
2023-04-25 Corrupt Administration at the European Patent Office is Causing a Mental Health Crisis
2023-04-26 The Sirius 'Open Source' Fantasy — Part IV — Crushing the Workforce Means Crushing the Company
2023-04-26 The European Commission is Playing With Fire When It Comes to Patent Policy and Why the European Union Will Suffer
2023-04-26 [Meme] Europe-US-International Patent Office (EUIPO)
2023-04-27 Links 27/04/2023: Microsoft Down Sharply on the Web and Weston 12.0.0 Alpha
2023-04-29 Links 29/04/2023: Many Companies Collapsing (or Resort to Enron-Style Accounting) and Yet Another Big Bank Bailout
2023-04-30 The Same Mismanagement and Micromanagement (Stalking/Bullying) That Caused the 'Suicide Wave' Under Benoît Battistelli
2023-04-30 [Meme] Mental Abuse as a Motivator
2023-05-03 Links 03/05/2023: KDE ISO Image Writer 1.0.0 and Flatseal 2.0 Released
2023-05-04 Links 04/05/2023: Amazon Lays Off 27,000, Musk Pulls an Andrew Lee (Hijacking Handles)
2023-05-04 Links 04/05/2023: OpenWrt 22.03.5 and OSMC's May Update
2023-05-05 Links 05/05/2023: Years After Dieselgate (Proprietary Software Abuse) Audi CEO Rupert Stadler Pleads Guilty
2023-05-06 Links 05/05/2023: New EasyOS Released, OSI and Linux Foundation Fronting for Microsoft
2023-05-07 Links 06/05/2023: Proton 8.0-2 and Much More
2023-05-07 Reporting That Embarrasses Powerful People Online is at Risk (Politicians Are at It Again)
2023-05-09 Links 08/05/2023: Many More Intel and Microsoft Layoffs
2023-05-10 Links 09/05/2023: Alpine Linux 3.18 and Freespire 9.5
2023-05-10 Links 10/05/2023: WordPress Turns 20 and GCC 12.3 Released
2023-05-12 EPO Abuses 'Data Protection' to Hide Its Own Abuses
2023-05-12 [Meme] Smokescreens and Secrecy for Corporate Obfuscation While Your Colleagues Disappear
2023-05-13 Links 12/05/2023: More Microsoft Layoffs, Apple Antitrust Risk
2023-05-13 Links 13/05/2023: Ruby 3.3.0 Preview1, Wine 8.8, and Kdenlive 23.04
2023-05-14 Links 14/05/2023: IBM Has Cut Into Fedora, Not Just OpenSource.com; Turkish Election Today
2023-05-15 The European Commission and European Patent Office
2023-05-15 The EPO, Europe's Largest Patent Office, Becomes Even More Secretive
2023-05-15 Europe’s Second-Largest Institution (the EPO) is Sabotaging Itself by Repelling Staff
2023-05-16 Almost Nobody Reporting What IBM is Doing to the Free Software Community
2023-05-16 No Patent Quality and No Independence for EPO Judges (Cautionary Tale About Patent Maximalists in UPC Rota)
2023-05-16 [Meme] Only the Very Best Judges
2023-05-16 Links 16/05/2023: Arch's Git Migration
2023-05-17 Links 17/05/2023: Vice Media is Dead
2023-05-18 Links 17/05/2023: Team UPC Tries Another Illegal Manoeuvre
2023-05-18 Holding Criminals Accountable — Part VI — 26 Days Later and Still Inaction/No Action by the Police That Had Endless Resources for Coronation Ceremony
2023-05-19 Links 18/05/2023: Weston 12.0.0 and IRPF-Livre 2023
2023-05-21 [Meme] Illegally and Unconstitutionally Starting 'Unified Patent Court' in Violation of Numerous Conventions
2023-05-22 Links 22/05/2023: GNU Diffutils 3.10 and TCMS 12.3
2023-05-22 Comments on the European Patent Office's Strategic Plan to Survive Another 5 Years
2023-05-22 [Meme] Captain António's Strategic Plan SP2028
2023-05-23 FFII: German President of the Unified Patent Court Rewrites the Treaty Like a Dictator
2023-05-23 Links 23/05/2023: Systemd Free Changes
2023-05-24 Links 23/05/2023: Python 3.12.0 Beta and EasyOS Kirkstone 5.3.1
2023-05-24 The Illegally 'Revised' Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA) is Disgracing the Perception of Law and Order in the European Union
2023-05-24 [Meme] When the Patent Office Controls Kangaroo Patent Courts and Judges
2023-05-26 Links 25/05/2023: Mesa 23.1.1 and Debian Reunion
2023-05-26 Links 26/05/2023: Qt 6.5.1 and Subsystems in GNUnet
2023-05-27 Links 26/05/2023: Weston 12.0 Highlights and US Debt Limit Panic
2023-05-27 Links 27/05/2023: Goodbyes to Tina Turner
2023-05-27 German Media About Industry Patent Quality Charter (IPQC) and the European Patent Office (EPO)
2023-05-27 EPO Applicants Complain That Patent Quality Sank and EPO Management Isn't Listening (Nor Caring)
2023-05-27 European Patent Office (EPO) Management Not Supported by the EPO's Applicants, So Why Is It Still There?
2023-05-27 With EUIPO in Focus, and Even an EU Kangaroo Tribunal, EPO Corruption (and Cross-Pollination With This EU Agency) Becomes a Major Liability/Risk to the EU
2023-05-28 Links 28/05/2023: New Wine and More
2023-05-29 Links 28/05/2023: Linux 6.4 RC4 and MX Linux 23 Beta
2023-05-30 Links 29/05/2023: Snap and PipeWire Plans as Vendor Lock-in
2023-05-30 Site Updates and Plans Ahead
2023-05-31 Working Conditions at EPO Deteriorate and Staff Inquires About Pension Rights
2023-05-31 [Meme] Makes No Sense for EPO (Now Connected to the EU) and Staff Pensions to be Tied to the UK After Brexit
2023-05-31 Links 31/05/2023: Armbian 23.05 Release and Illegal UPC
2023-06-01 Links 01/06/2023: KStars 3.6.5 and VEGA ET1031 RISC-V Microprocessor in Use
2023-06-03 Links 03/06/2023: Apache NetBeans 18 and ArcaOS 5.0.8
2023-06-03 Links 03/06/2023: IBM Betraying LibreOffice Some More (After Laying off LibreOffice Developers)
2023-06-04 Do Not Assume Pensions Are Safe, Especially When Managed by Mr. EPOTIF Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos
2023-06-06 Links 06/06/2023: IceWM 3.4.0 and Liveslak 1.7.0
2023-06-07 Links 06/06/2023: Angie 1.2.0, New EasyOS and EndeavourOS Released
2023-06-07 Links 07/06/2023: Reddit Layoffs and OpenGL 3.1 in Asahi Linux
2023-06-08 Links 08/06/2023: Cinnamon 5.8 and Leap 15.5 Release Mature
2023-06-08 EPO Management is Still Bullying the Staff (While Breaking the Law and Violating the European Patent Convention)
2023-06-09 HMRC is Just Taking Taxpayers' Money and Not Enforcing the Law (or Selectively Enforcing It for the Political Masters)
2023-06-09 Links 09/06/2023: Tor Browser 12.0.7 and Many Linux Devices
2023-06-10 Links 09/06/2023: JDBC FDW 0.3.1 and Godot 4.1 Beta
2023-06-12 Supporting the Work We Do at Techrights
2023-06-12 Juggling Topics This Month
2023-06-13 EPO (European Patent Office) Central Staff Committee on NO-Career System, Education, Boards of Appeal, and Update to Staff Changes List (More Secrecy)
2023-06-13 Links 13/06/2023: Curl FUD and Tails Release
2023-06-14 Links 14/06/2023: Reddit Latest Social Control Network to Wane, Microsoft Targeted by FTC
2023-06-15 Links 15/06/2023: FSF Against Clown Computing
2023-06-16 Police Out of Control (or Oversight) – Part 9: Waiting for Godot
2023-06-17 When We Don't Have Independent Media COVID-19, Nord Stream Etc. Become the 'Next JFK' (a Mishmash of Theories, No Definitive Answers)
2023-06-17 Many Fake Patents Are Still Being Squashed and Patent-Centric 'Media' in Europe is Mostly Sockpuppets of the EPO
2023-06-17 Judges of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Are Resigning Before It Even Starts and Team UPC Sprinkles Candy on This Illegal and Unconstitutional 'Court' (Rigged Kangaroo Court Designed to Authorise the EPO's Abuses Against the EPC)
2023-06-18 Daniel Ellsberg Taught Us That Making Powerful People Angry and Anxious is Good For Society at Large
2023-06-19 Links 18/06/2023: Slow News Weekend
2023-06-20 The EPO's NO-Career System Will be Scrutinised by a Tribunal, the ILOAT, 3 Weeks From Now
2023-06-20 [Meme] 'Independent' EPO/EU Courts for Patents
2023-06-20 Links 20/06/2023: DeVault Promising a 'Reform', Libreboot Promising No-microcode ROMs
2023-06-20 Links 20/06/2023: Windows TCO on Steroids (Microsoft Incidents/Breaches and Resort to Political Scapegoating)
2023-06-21 Links 21/06/2023: KDE Plasma 5.27.6 and Linux Mint 21.2 Beta
2023-06-21 EPO Staff Points Out That as the European Patent Convention Turns 50 It is Grossly Being Violated by Corrupt EPO Management
2023-06-21 [Meme] European Union (EU) and Commission (EC) Talking a Lot About Poland, Not About the EPO, Which Obliterated the Rule of Law
2023-06-22 Links 22/06/2023: Red Hat Obstructing RHEL Code Access
2023-06-22 EPO and EPC Violations: With Unified Patent Court (UPC), Even the European Union and Commission Are Fully Culpable
2023-06-22 [Meme] EPO Mansplaining to the European Union and Commission
2023-06-22 [Image/Meme] If the Glove Fits. European Commission (Battistelli's Friend, Mr. Breton), the EPO's ****ing President, and Mr. UPC (Who Issues Threats to Techrights).
2023-06-23 Links 23/06/2023: 25 Years of KDE Free Qt Foundation and Go 1.21 Release Candidate
2023-06-24 Links 24/06/2023: EasyOS 5.4.3 and antix 23 Beta 2
2023-06-25 Police Out of Control (or Oversight) - Part 11: The Anatomy of Police Ignoring Fraud and Then Ignoring Politicians Who Inquire About That
2023-06-26 Links 26/06/2023: Linux (Kernel) 6.4 and Antitrust Catchup
2023-06-27 On Top of Setting Up Kangaroo Courts for Patents, EPO is Working to Drive Out the Best Patent Examiners to Lower Quality and Grant More Fake (Invalid) European Patents Which Kangaroos Can Then Endorse
2023-06-27 [Meme] Vladimir Putin's Cousin From Germany
2023-06-28 Links 27/06/2023: Gentoo Improvements, Jeff Geerling is Done With Red Bait (IBM)
2023-06-30 Techrights Strives to Publish Over a Dozen Posts Per Day Again, Here's What's to Come
2023-07-01 Escalating Crimes of Sirius 'Open Source' All the Way Up to the Government (After Police Refused or Failed to Deal With the Matter)
2023-07-02 Leftover Links 02/07/2023: Security and Politics
2023-07-03 What Will be Left After Neil Left IP Kat? More Lobbying for Illegal Agenda Such as Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court (UPC)?
2023-07-04 False quote (but widely spread and misattributed): “I freed a thousand slaves; I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves”
2023-07-04 Leftover Links 04/07/2023: Trouble at Microsoft, Openwashing From Canonical
2023-07-04 This Coming Friday ILOAT Will Rule on the New Career System (NO-Career System) of the EPO
2023-07-04 [Meme] The New European Patent Office: Patent Examiners Without Desks
2023-07-05 EPO Isolates Workers, EPO Workers Speak Out About Their Experiences
2023-07-05 The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry — Part IV: Hit Pieces and Public Shaming as Bargaining Cards
2023-07-05 Links 05/07/2023: Tellico 3.5.1 and Firefox 115
2023-07-05 Judging by What Happened to the European Patent Office (EPO) Workplace This Year, As Before, EPO Management Might be Intentionally Vandalising the Workplace
2023-07-05 [Meme] EPO Reforming Itself to Death (of the European Patent Convention)
2023-07-06 European Patent Office is Struggling With Recruitment (Maddening Corruption Turns Out to Lead to That)
2023-07-06 [Meme] Racing Towards Minimum Wage
2023-07-06 BTT (Bringing Teams Together) Loathed by Staff of the EPO
2023-07-06 [Meme] It's Dead, Jim (or Dying Very Fast, Even Being Murdered)
2023-07-06 The European Patent Office (EPO) is Being Crushed to Pieces and EPO Staff Isn't Gullible Enough or Sufficiently Blind to That
2023-07-06 Links 06/07/2023: Linux 6.4.2 and Canonical's Power Grab
2023-07-07 The European Patent Office, EPO, Has a Deep Crisis That Bribes Cannot Fully Hide
2023-07-07 Links 07/07/2023: KDE Gear 23.04.3 and EasyOS 5.4.6
2023-07-08 Links 07/07/2023: GCC 10.5 Released
2023-07-09 Links 08/07/2023: KDE Frameworks 5.108.0, Executives Deserting Microsoft
2023-07-10 The European Patent Office's War of Disinformation Against Patent Examiners (and Mindless Promotion of Microsoft Vapourware)
2023-07-10 [Meme] EPO Manager's War Against the Law
2023-07-12 Leftover Links 11/07/2023: More on Microsoft Layoffs Today (Ireland Also)
2023-07-12 Leftover Links 12/07/2023: Windows TCO Tales and Many Attacks on Freedom of the Press
2023-07-15 Hollywood’s Writers Are Under Attack and Techies Should Pay Attention
2023-07-15 Links 14/07/2023: Gentoo Rewrites, NATO Updates
2023-07-15 Leftover Links 15/07/2023: Diffoscope 244 and Istio Patched
2023-07-17 EPO's Patent Invalidity and Low Patent Quality Issues Get the Attention of Christian Wichard (Deputy Director General at Germany's Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection)
2023-07-18 [Meme] When Obeying Laws Means Making Less Money
2023-07-18 [Meme] German Efficiency
2023-07-18 It Might Be Too Late for the German Government to Fix the EPO (It Had a Lot to Do With This Current Mess)
2023-07-19 Links 18/07/2023: Meson 1.2 and More Microsoft Layoffs, Amazon Layoffs
2023-07-19 Bringing Teams Together (BTT) at the European Patent Office Loathed by the Staff, Based on Internal Survey
2023-07-19 [Meme] Which Team? A Team of Crooks?
2023-07-22 Links 21/07/2023: GStreamer 1.22.5 and ArcticFox 42.1 Released
2023-07-22 Links 22/07/2023: Mesa 23.1.4 and More Red Hat Rumours About Layoffs
2023-07-23 Links 23/07/2023: Debian 12.1 Coming
2023-07-24 Links 24/07/2023: Debian 12.1 and Neptune 8.0
2023-07-25 European Patent Office: Staff Motivation (and Hope) Dies Last
2023-07-25 Links 24/07/2023: Sparky 2023.07 Special Editions
2023-07-25 [Meme] Toothless Geneva
2023-07-26 Links 26/07/2023: Biogen Lays Off 1,000, MSFT Shares Collapse After Report
2023-07-27 Dražen Petrović (ILOAT): Please Withdraw Your Complaint So I Can Fake 'Productivity' (Oh My! The Irony!)
2023-07-27 [Meme] ILOAT Cops or ILOAT Judges?
2023-07-27 Martin Wilming (Hepp Wenger Ryffel AG) Exposes the Sham That is Patent 'Quality' at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2023-07-28 [Meme] The EPO SLAPP Machine, Blackmailing Critics While Donning Diplomatic Immunity
2023-07-28 Links 27/07/2023: GStreamer 1.20.7 and Much More
2023-07-30 Leftover Links 30/07/2023: Cilium 1.14 Released, Grande Communications Loses Copyright Liability Case
2023-07-31 Links 30/07/2023: PCLinuxOS 2023.07 and pgAdmin 4 v7.5 Released
2023-08-03 Leftover Links 03/08/2023: Tor Browser 12.5.2 and LF Misportrayed as 'Linux'
2023-08-04 Europe Needs More Patent Whistleblowers Like Martin Wilming
2023-08-05 Leftover Links 05/08/2023: Rust Holes and More Layoffs
2023-08-12 An Exciting Year For Us
2023-08-17 Links 16/08/2023: HashiCorp Goes Proprietary
2023-08-19 Links 18/08/2023: Russia Chooses Linux for Domestic Smartphones, WordPress at 20 Years
2023-08-24 Links 23/08/2023: Kali Linux 2023.3
2023-09-02 Links 02/09/2023: Release of Linux From Scratch and Nitrux 3.0 is Out
2023-09-05 Links 04/09/2023: Qubes OS 4.2.0 RC3 and Xubuntu Development Update
2023-09-06 Links 06/09/2023: Manjaro 23 Released and Changes in Zenwalk
2023-09-10 Links 10/09/2023: KDE Frameworks 5.110, WordPress.com Stats on DMCA Takedown Notices
2023-09-13 Links 12/09/2023: pgexporter 0.4 Released, Microsoft Covering Up Massive Breach
2023-09-16 Leftover Links 15/09/2023: Microsoft in Trouble Over Teams Video App (Antitrust)
2023-09-17 Another Record Month and an Outlook (Positive Future, Promising Topics to Explore)
2023-09-18 Leftover Links 18/09/2023: A Week's Catchup, Climate Focus
2023-09-23 Welcome to the New Techrights
2023-09-23 Techrights is Upgrading
2023-09-23 The Right to Strike Underutilised by Workers in the Technology Sector
2023-09-25 United Workforce Always Better for the Workers
2023-09-25 Links 25/09/2023: Patent News and Coding
2023-09-27 Links 27/09/2023: GNOME Raves and Firefox 118
2023-09-28 Links 28/09/2023: GNOME 45 Release Party, 'Smart' Homes Orphaned
2023-09-29 endsoftwarepatents.org Still Going, Some Good News From Canada
2023-10-01 Links 01/10/2023: Climate, Patents, Programming, and More
2023-10-02 New Union Syndicale Articles About the European Patent Office
2023-10-03 Links 03/10/2023: Cellphones (Mobile Phones) Banned in Classrooms in England
2023-10-05 Links 05/10/2023: Microsoft Entrapment and Android 14
2023-10-06 New Algemeen Dagblad Article About European Patent Office Abuses
2023-10-11 Union Syndicale Fédérale (USF) Blasts the European Patent Organisation (EPO) Again, Saying It Fails to Serve European Interests
2023-10-13 Links 13/10/2023: 20% of Flexport Laid Off (Again), Web Censorship on the Increase
2023-10-13 Clocking Things
2023-10-17 Links 17/10/2023: AMD Violating Supply Contract, Microsoft's Latest Sponsored Spin on the Mass Layoffs
2023-10-18 Links 18/10/2023: More (New) Sanctions Against China, Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda a Growing Problem
2023-10-21 Links 21/10/2023: Fakecoin Prosecutions and Growing Tensions Near China
2023-10-21 Old But as Relevant as Ever: Committee on the ECHELON Interception System Warned Against Adoption and Use of Proprietary Software
2023-10-26 Links 26/10/2023: Lots More Censorship Creeping in, Guppy Protocol Specification v0.3.1
2023-10-29 Links 28/10/2023: Microsoft Down Further in Web Servers
2023-11-04 It's Far Easier to Start a Site (or Blog) Than to Keep It Going
2023-11-04 eIDAS is a Pass Towards Oppression Disguised as Technological Advancement
2023-11-04 This Coming Tuesday We Turn 17
2023-11-06 Links 06/11/2023: Hardware, Politics, and More
2023-11-07 [Video] The Future of Work Looks Rather Negative (and Getting Worse)
2023-11-08 Demoralising Workers
2023-11-10 Links 10/11/2023: Google's Secret Payment Deal with Spotify, Another Call to Set Assange Free
2023-11-12 Links 12/11/2023: US Tries to Mend Relationship With China, Moody's Downgrade US Economy
2023-11-13 Links 13/11/2023: Several Mew Releases and Climate Issues
2023-11-13 Back After Short and Unplanned Hiatus
2023-11-16 Links 16/11/2023: Microsoft Unbans Radical Sites, Biden Meets Winnie the Pooh
2023-11-17 Links 17/11/2023: Health and Privacy Issues, IBM Pulling Out of Twitter/X
2023-11-18 Links 18/11/2023: Amazon Alexa Layoffs, Arguments Over Hong Kong and Taiwan
2023-11-23 Links 23/11/2023: Binance Trouble and More EPO Patents Thrown Out
2023-11-24 Links 24/11/2023: UPC Worries and Paid Propaganda, China Experiences Respiratory Illness Spike
2023-11-29 Links 29/11/2023: VMware Layoffs and Too Many Microsofters Going Inside Google
2023-11-29 Updated A Month Ago: Richard Stallman on Software Patents as Obstacles to Software Development
2023-11-30 Ending Software Patents in Recent Years (Software Freedom Fighters MIA)
2023-12-02 Links 02/12/2023: Pfizer Sued for Lies About Efficacy, Censorship of Scientific Dissent, More Pfizer Layoffs
2023-12-04 Links 04/12/2023: COVID-19 Data Misused Again, Anti-Consumerism Activism
2023-12-05 Links 05/12/2023: Debt Brake in Germany and Layoffs at Condé Nast (Reddit, Wired, Ars Technica and More)
2023-12-07 Links 07/12/2023: More EPO Patents Squashed, More Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine "Glitches" Found
2023-12-13 Study: Microsoft Replaced the Workers (Some Are Unionised) With H-1Bs
2023-12-15 Links 15/12/2023: Strikes Over Layoffs and Kangaroo Courts for Patent Monopolies in the EU
2023-12-19 2023 in Review (From a Software Freedom Perspective)
2023-12-19 Germany's Corruption Problem Curtails Adoption of GNU/Linux and Free Software
2023-12-21 Patent News to Celebrate on the Year's Shortest Day
2023-12-22 Links 22/12/2023: Stephen Thaler Defeated Again (Patent Case), Kangaroo Court (UPC) Reviewed by Rogue Party
2023-12-24 Links 24/12/2023: Kangaroo Court Update and a Merry Christmas
2023-12-24 Links 24/12/2023: Hopes Regarding Climate and China's 'Soft' Power
2023-12-29 Bypassing the Governments, Hijacking the Courts, Bribing the Largest Media Outlets/Publishers
2024-01-01 Michael Moore (President of the Tribunal) and Patrick Frydman of the ILOAT Meet “Stakeholders” of the Court
2024-01-01 [Meme] Our In-Depth EPO Coverage Turns 10
2024-01-01 [Video] Taking Stock of the First Few Topics Covered This Year
2024-01-01 Paged Out! A One-Page Summary of What Software Patents Are (and Why They Should Not Even Exist)
2024-01-02 EPO Staff Union on EPO's 50th Anniversary
2024-01-02 While the EPO Decreased Budget for Steps and Promotions by 36% the Staff Spoke Out (Patent Examiners Lacking Incentives to Improve Their Work)
2024-01-02 [Meme] No Official Should Ever Be Above the Law
2024-01-02 Widening the Horizons in an Age of Patent Injustice
2024-01-02 Radio Free Europe (RFE)
2024-01-03 The Pension Money That EPO Employees Might Never See
2024-01-03 [Meme] Intimidation and 'Discreditisation' Tactics
2024-01-03 The Year We Turn 18
2024-01-04 An Article Techrights Contributed to Exposes Corruption in Europe's Largest Institutions, Including the EPO and EUIPO
2024-01-04 What (Software) Patents Do in Practice, Plus Why They're Made Permissible in the First Place
2024-01-05 EPO, Europe's Second-Largest Institution, Playing With the Health of Staff, Based on Internal Letter
2024-01-05 [Meme] Too Cool to Get Work Done
2024-01-06 Links 06/01/2024: Political Drone Strikes the 'New Norm', VideoAmp Lays Off 20% of Workforce
2024-01-07 The European Patent Office a Threat to Free Speech and the European Patent Organisation Needs to Reassess The Mess the Office Has Become, Letter From Union Syndicale Fédérale (USF) Asserts
2024-01-07 [Meme] EPO Abuse Has Become Infectious in Europe and Beyond
2024-01-08 Links 08/01/2024: People Sharing Pessimism, Political News
2024-01-08 EPO Coverage Remains Connected to Other Topics We Routinely Cover (EPO Staff and Former Staff Should Withdraw or Pull Pensions Out of the United Kingdom)
2024-01-08 [Meme] My Pension, My Safety?
2024-01-08 EPO Staff Mocks the Management's 'Diversity and Inclusion' Platitudes Amid Serious Discrimination "That Must End Now"
2024-01-09 The European Patent Office (EPO) Looks Like It is Being Evacuated (Entire Floors and Offices Emptied), According to EPO Insiders
2024-01-09 [Meme] Double Dutch and Double Deutsch
2024-01-10 'New Pension Scheme': EPO Staff Faces Stubborn and Mean-Spirited Managers While Trying to Take Money Out of British Pension Schemes, Escalation to International Tribunal Next
2024-01-10 [Meme] Your Compensation, His Gamble
2024-01-11 The EPO's Central Staff Committee Talking About the Demise of Law Compliance or Patent Quality (Many Invalid Patents Are Being Granted), Now With an Illegal and Unconstitutional Kangaroo Court to Hide These Scandals (UPC)
2024-01-11 [Meme] Patent Quality at the EPO Has Become a Meme
2024-01-12 EPO Staff Representatives Sound Alarm, Cautioning About Unlivable Conditions and Salaries to New ("Young") Professionals Who Serve to Dismantle the EPO and the EPC, Which the EPO Must Obey (But Does Not)
2024-01-12 When the EPO Becomes Increasingly Overrun or Dominated by Underpaid 'Young Professionals' to Whom a Union (or Legal Defence) is a Luxury They Can't Afford
2024-01-13 EPO Management Combines Greenwashing and Russian Propaganda to Justify Torturing EPO Staff in Berlin
2024-01-13 [Meme] From Gorbachev With Love (to the Frenchmen Who Brought Patent Corruption to Germany)
2024-01-13 The EPO's Management Has Just Eliminated Almost All the Printers in Munich, Creating New Problems for Examiners
2024-01-13 [Meme] Do Merkel et al Know the EPO Funded Belarus?
2024-01-14 Links 14/01/2024: Weekly Catchup (Politics, Layoffs, and More)
2024-01-15 According to Carl Josefsson, the Objective of the EPO Boards of Appeal (BoA) is All About Speed, Not Justice (or Even Compliance With Laws, Constitutions, European Patent Convention)
2024-01-15 [Teaser] [Meme] EPO's Low-Quality Staff Representatives Attacking Staff Representatives (and the EPO's Union)
2024-01-16 [Video] "The Heart of Staff Rep" at the EPO Threatens to Snitch to Management
2024-01-16 EPO Quality of Life: Even The Medical Staff is Burning Out
2024-01-16 [Meme] Shortcuts and 'Savings' on Health (Maybe Campinos Wants to Replace Nurses With Chatbots?)
2024-01-16 EPO Workers Can Also Help Techrights
2024-01-16 Links 16/01/2024: Bloated Junk and Bottled Water Debunked
2024-01-17 "Bringing Teams Together" (BTT) Basically Sabotaged the Workplace at the European Patent Office
2024-01-17 [Meme] Bringing Monopolies Together for EPO Fees, When Speed Means "Quality"
2024-01-18 The European Patent Office (EPO) Local Staff Committees (LSCs) Remind Staff That They Are Unlawfully Being Censored by the Management Even Years After an International Tribunal, ILOAT, Ruled in Favour of Mass Mail From Representation Bodies to Staff
2024-01-18 [Meme] Welcome 2024, EPO Management Still Not Obeying Orders From an International Tribunal, Issued in 2022
2024-01-18 Links 18/01/2024: Microsoft's Xbox Sales Collapse, Big YouTube Layoffs
2024-01-19 Links 19/01/2024: Unified Patents Targets Software Patents of Intellectual Ventures
2024-01-19 The European Patent Office, EPO, Swimming in Billions (Acquired by Selling Monopolies to Mostly Non-European Companies), Cannot Afford Printers and Rewards for Staff
2024-01-19 [Meme] Rewards for EPO Patent Examiners
2024-01-20 Social Agenda 2024 at the European Patent Office is Depressing to Staff
2024-01-20 [Meme] Always Right (at the European Patent Office)
2024-01-21 In the European Patent Office, Hans van Houtte Helps Stack the Appeals Committee (Internal Tribunal) in Favour of the Dictators Who Break Laws
2024-01-21 [Meme] Thank You for a Decade in Power Over a Staff Tribunal (Not Even My Colleagues)
2024-01-21 European Patent Office Staff Representatives Express Concerns About the New Pension Scheme Regulations and Transfer of Pension Rights (Contracting States)
2024-01-22 [Teaser] [Meme] Doing Speed
2024-01-22 This New European Patent Office Report Shows That Liars, Cheaters and Corrupt Officials Rise Up to the Top (Those Are Key Prerequisites in the Age of Big Lies About Patent Quality)
2024-01-22 Dead-End Careers at the European Patent Office (EPO), Where Headcount Decreases and Rewards Continue to Decrease (Relative to Inflation) in 2024
2024-01-22 [Meme] IAM Says... (Joff on the Toilet, Never Saw a European Patent or EPO Money He Disliked)
2024-01-23 European Patent Office (EPO) Adopting the 'Gig Economy' Mindset, Telling Staff "Contract is Over" Instead of Implementing Layoffs and Paying Compensation
2024-01-24 Links 24/01/2024: Natural Disasters and COVID-19 Rebounds
2024-01-24 European Patent Office Outsourced to Microsoft (US), Dooming Confidentiality With Back-Doored Toys Such as SharePoint and OneDrive
2024-01-24 [Meme] Working for EPO, University of Leuven, or the United States?
2024-01-26 New Document From the European Patent Office (EPO) Highlights Deliberate Understaffing and Demoralisation of Staff, Whose Purpose Was to Obstruct Monopolies That Don't Merit Patent Grants
2024-01-26 [Meme] European Patent Office (EPO) Pyramid Scheme
2024-01-26 [Teaser] European Patent Office and Microsoft
2024-01-26 Links 26/01/2024: More Information on Microsoft Layoffs (Units Being Shut Down) and Now Salesforce Layoffs
2024-01-26 Links 26/01/2024: Right of Publicity Crises in "X", Intel Collapses
2024-01-26 European Patent Office Talks of New Tools Based on 'Open Source' While Outsourcing Almost Everything to Proprietary Spyware of Microsoft
2024-01-28 European Patent Office Wants Staff to Work More Hours, for No Increase in Pay, and Abandon Families (E.g. Children, Elderly People, Disabled Family Members)
2024-01-29 European Patent Office Staff Representatives Report "Understaffing Combined With Unhealthy Working Pressure in Many Units" to the Overseeing Body of the European Patent Organisation (EPO)
2024-01-29 [Meme] European Patent Office, Where Quality is High Because Non-Technical Managers Say So
2024-01-29 European Patent Office Leak: Latest Procedures Help Violate the European Patent Convention (EPC) Under the Guise of 'Active Search Division'
2024-01-30 Links 30/01/2024: 'Call of Duty' Latest Casualty of Microsoft's Mass Layoffs (All That's Left is Overhyped Vapourware)
2024-01-30 Microsoft's New President for Activision Blizzard Has No Background in Technology, Just Like Frank X. Shaw (Whom Microsoft Took From the Military for Propaganda)
2024-01-30 Former EPO Official Agrees With the Staff Representatives and Explains How We Know Patent Quality and Validity Have Collapsed
2024-01-30 [Meme] Even Former EPO Leadership Speaks Out Against the Current Leadership
2024-02-01 Kangaroo Courts Serving Patent Trolls: Team UPC Breaking the International Law Again, This Time in Milan (Fake 'Courts' for Patents) and Patent Trolls Take Advantage
2024-02-02 Links 02/02/2024: Okta and Zoom Layoffs, Software Patents From the EPO Thrown Out Again
2024-02-02 Open Source Initiative Needs to Tackle Software Patents and Kangaroo Courts (But It Does Not, It Works for Microsoft Now)
2024-02-03 This EPO Presentation Sheds Light on How EPO Staff Gets Treated for Not "Producing" Loads of Phony European Patents (Monopolies, Usually for Non-European Companies)
2024-02-03 [Meme] Leaving Money on the Table (Selling Monopolies)
2024-02-03 Links 03/02/2024: Unified Patents Killing More Software Patents, Google Cache Phased Out
2024-02-04 EPO Presentation About the Granting of Many Invalid Patents, Some With 'Unitary' Effect (to Be Judged by an Illegitimate Kangaroo Court)
2024-02-04 [Meme] Campinos Knows Best
2024-02-05 Leaked EPO Publication: A Recent Presentation From the Local Staff Committee Munich (LSCMN) Shows Justice System Has Effectively Died
2024-02-05 [Meme] Hired Guns From University of Leuven
2024-02-05 EPO Leak: Staff Representatives for Munich, Haar and Brussels Explain How the EPO Reduces Examiners' Salaries (While Breaking the Law to Profit From Illegitimate Patents)
2024-02-05 [Meme] EPO Job Interview
2024-02-05 [Meme] [Teaser] The EPO From the Perspective of an Examiner
2024-02-05 EPO Scandals 'For Dummies'
2024-02-07 Links 07/02/2024: Voice Synthesis Causing More Problems
2024-02-07 Decision From the Paris Court of Appeal Can Challenge the Diplomatic Immunity of the European Patent Office
2024-02-07 [Meme] Buying a Government
2024-02-08 Free Software Still Demands Patent Reform and Elimination of All Software Patents, Everywhere
2024-02-09 EPO Staff Explains That With Phony 'Quality Audits' the EPO is "in Breach of the EPC" (European Patent Convention) and Patent Examiners Are Compelled to Act in Breach of the EPC
2024-02-09 [Meme] Sadly He is Above the Law
2024-02-09 In 2024 Dialogue at the European Patent Office (EPO) is Broken, Laws Cease to Apply
2024-02-09 [Meme] EPO Management's 'Meetings' With Staff Representatives
2024-02-09 Links 09/02/2024: Buzzwords, Hype, and Layoffs Still Dominate
2024-02-09 Let's Get Rid of Software Patents in Europe and Elsewhere
2024-02-09 Thanking Readers and Volunteers for the Support
2024-02-11 This Month's Statement From Staff of the EPO in Den Haag (Rijswijk), Composed on Behalf of Thousands of Europeans Working in The Netherlands Under Unlawful Conditions and Work Demands (Patent 'Production')
2024-02-11 [Meme] Shaking His Willy at Rutte
2024-02-12 Cautionary Tale About Software Patents and Their Impact on GNU/Linux Distros in Europe
2024-02-12 When Misogynists Who Assault and Dox Innocent Women Resort to Committing Perjury in a Desperate Attempt to Silence Their Victims
2024-02-13 Internal EPO Presentation Shows How Patent Examiners Are Subjected to Pressure and Threats of Firing/Demotion If They Don't Grant 'Enough' Monopolies
2024-02-13 [Meme] Repeating American Mistakes by Treating Patent Applicants Like 'Clients' or 'Customers'
2024-02-13 Union Syndicale Fédérale on Salaries/Remuneration Erosion
2024-02-14 Mozilla Has Somehow Maintained High Firefox Share in France
2024-02-14 EPO Leak: Staff of the EPO Challenging Unattainable 'Targets' That Are "in Breach of the EPC" (European Patent Convention)
2024-02-14 [Meme] EPO Target
2024-02-14 Plans for Today, This Week, This Month, and This Winter
2024-02-14 Links 14/02/2024: Orwellian Spying and State Violence as the 'New Normal'
2024-02-15 Workers' Stress at the EPO Growing: "A Lot of Colleagues Are Exhausted Yet Do Not Go on Sick Leave"
2024-02-15 Patent Examiners' Anxiety is the Autocrats' Weapon (Because Fear Begets Complicity)
2024-02-15 [Meme] EPO Staff Will Win When Managers Are Afraid of the Staff More Than Staff is Afraid of the Management
2024-02-15 Hot Topics in the First 2 Weeks of This Month
2024-02-15 Links 15/02/2024: Rushing to Unionise Amid Mass Layoffs at Microsoft, High-Level Blizzard Departures
2024-02-16 Reports About the Latest Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the EPO Staff in Rijswijk
2024-02-16 [Meme] [Cartoon] EPO Meeting About Patent Quality
2024-02-16 Faster is Also Better
2024-02-16 Frankfurter Rundschau on the European Patent Office (EPO)
2024-02-17 Report on the General Assembly by the EPO's Staff Committee The Hague
2024-02-17 [Meme] EPO Racing Towards Elimination of Examination (and Complete Abandonment of EPC)
2024-02-17 Links 17/02/2024: Politics and Patents Catchup
2024-02-17 EPO Staff Cuts, as Shown by EPO Insiders (Patent Examination Slowly Being Phased Out; the Goal is to Grant Millions of Monopolies to Non-European Companies That Operate in Europe)
2024-02-18 [Meme] Germany Efficiency at the EPO
2024-02-18 EPO as Tower of Babel (No Formality Officers)
2024-02-18 [Meme] EPO is Holding It Wrong
2024-02-19 Freeloading Patent Monopolies in Europe (Typically Granted to Non-European Corporations) While the 'EPO Mafia' is "Frontloading"
2024-02-19 [Meme] All Quiet On The Munich Front
2024-02-19 [Video] Invalid European Patents and Invalid (Kangaroo) Courts: It All Comes Together, Enriching the Already-Rich Monopolists by Systemically Flawed Design, and Moreover in Defiance of Constitutions
2024-02-20 An EPC-Violating Patent Granting Process: Unlawful Orders, According to the Central Staff Committee of the European Patent Office (EPO)
2024-02-20 [Meme] But the Boss Said...
2024-02-21 EPO Talent Planning & Architecture is Another Attack on EPO Staff and the Central Staff Committee (CSC) Explains Why
2024-02-21 [Meme] The Quotas Came From Above
2024-02-21 Springtime is Next, Here's What We Plan for March and April
2024-02-22 This Week's Letter to António Campinos About Mean-Spirited Line Managers at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2024-02-22 [Meme] Demoralising and Putting Down Your Staff
2024-02-22 Mark Shuttleworth and the Question of Liability (Debian Volunteers He Pressured Before the Suicides)
2024-02-23 Links 23/02/2024: Feed Aggregator and 2 Years of Invasion, Alexei Navalny’s Mother Blackmailed
2024-02-23 Josef Kratochvíl and All the European Patent Organisation's Chiefs (at the Administrative Council Too) Notified That Over 1,000 Members of Staff Demand Action on Patent Quality and Compliance (Industry Too is Alarmed That Many Invalid Patents Get Granted)
2024-02-23 [Meme] Hide the Bodies
2024-02-24 Links 24/02/2024: More Sanctions Against BRICS, Software Patents Squashed
2024-02-24 EPO Staff Explains Why It Cannot Issue EPC-Compliant European Patents (in Other Words, Why Many Fake Patents Get Issued)
2024-02-24 [Meme] Objective Objection at the EPO
2024-02-26 The EPO Uses Appraisals to Force Staff to Illegally Grant European Patents or Lose the Job. The Matter is Being Escalated en Masse to ILO-AT, Requesting a Review of Appraisal Reports.
2024-02-26 [Meme] Follow the Law, Not Corrupt Bosses
2024-02-27 Salary Adjustment Procedure (SAP) at the EPO and Why Workers' Salary is Actually Decreasing Each Year (Currency Loses Its Purchasing Power)
2024-02-27 [Meme] Who's the Boss?
2024-02-27 "It's Obvious There's No Future For Any of Us from Blizzard at Microsoft"
2024-02-27 [Meme] Onboarding New EPO Staff
2024-02-27 Links 27/02/2024: PlayStation Layoffs and More Oppressive New Laws for Hong Kong
2024-02-28 New Pension Scheme (NPS) at the European Patent Office Explained at the General Assembly
2024-02-28 [Meme] The EPO's Relationship With Patent Examiners
2024-02-28 End of a Long February
2024-02-29 [Meme] The Oppression Will Continue Until EPO 'Quality' Improves
2024-02-29 Latest SUEPO (Staff Union of EPO) Report For The Hague Reveals EPO Does Not Obey Court Orders, Refuses to Allow Workers to Freely Talk to One Another
2024-02-29 Links 29/02/2024: Layoffs at Apple, Expedia, and Electronic Arts
2024-03-01 Taking a Break From Paid Promotion of the Illegal, Unconstitutional Kangaroo Court for Patents (UPC)
2024-03-01 Links 01/03/2024: Misuse of Surveillance Against UK-Based Journalism, EPO Conflict Now in the Media
2024-03-01 EPO Discriminates Against Families of Its Own Workers, the Union Explains Legal Basis Upon Which It's Likely Illegal and Must be Challenged
2024-03-01 [Meme] Those Greedy EPO Examiners
2024-03-02 Attacks on the EPC: Reality and Fiction
2024-03-02 [Meme] The Naked President
2024-03-02 March in Techrights (EPO Litigation and More)
2024-03-02 Links 02/03/2024: Actual Journalists Under Attack, More Software Patents Being Challenged
2024-03-03 Up Next: The Tricky Relationship Between the Administrative Tribunal of the ILO and the European Patent Organisation (EPO)
2024-03-03 [Meme] Russian Standards of Law: The Executive Branch Decides Everything
2024-03-04 The European Patent Office's (EPO) Illegal Ban on Mass Communication Gets in the Way of Democracy
2024-03-04 [Meme] The EPO, Europe's Second-Largest Institution, Which is Contracting With Belarus
2024-03-04 Transparency Sets Society Free
2024-03-04 From Sexual Harassment of Women to Yet More Cybercrimes
2024-03-04 Debian Developer at Sirius Was Under the Wrong Impression That Staff Must Check or Should See E-mail All the Time (24/7 Work Attention is an Occupational Health Hazard)
2024-03-05 Job Groups 5 and 6 at the European Patent Office (EPO) Another Case of EPO Discrimination
2024-03-05 [Meme] Record EPO 'Productivity'
2024-03-05 Links 05/03/2024: More Gaming Layoffs, Apple Trouble in EU
2024-03-06 New Series: Administrative Tribunal of the ILO and the European Patent Organisation (EPO) Working Outside the Law, in Effect Colluding Against Very Vulnerable People
2024-03-06 [Meme] In Any Functional Institution the President Would Resign (or Get Sacked) Over Such Statements, But Not at the EPO
2024-03-06 Links 06/03/2024: Fresh Concerns Over Censorship and Health Problems
2024-03-07 [Meme] ILOAT Already Admitted in Public It is Unable to Fulfil Its Mission for EPO Staff
2024-03-07 ILOAT Judgment No. 4394: Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organization (ILOAT) Shows Its True Colours
2024-03-07 Despite the Web's Demise We're Still Growing
2024-03-08 [Meme] Back From ILOAT
2024-03-08 ILOAT Judgment No. 4394: Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organization (ILOAT) Sends Vulnerable People Back to a Stacked (Kangaroo) Court of the President
2024-03-09 ILOAT Judgment No. 4394: In Conclusion
2024-03-09 Some Site Statistics. A Weekly Summary From Now On.
2024-03-10 This Past Friday (International Women’s Day) the EPO's Staff Representatives Reminded Everyone That "Discrimination of Women" is Rampant at the EPO (Whose Female President Had Been Pushed Out by What She Later Called Alphamales)
2024-03-10 [Meme] António is "Such a Nice Person," According to António
2024-03-10 Don't Let Germany Become (or Remain) a Safe Haven for White-Collar Crime
2024-03-11 Discussion About the State of Workers' Safeguards (and About the European Patent Office)
2024-03-12 Union for Staff of the EPO Has New Headquarters in Rijswijk (NL)
2024-03-12 [Meme] Failure to Dismantle the Staff Union at the EPO
2024-03-13 A Sincere Word of Solidarity to Patent Examiners at the EPO
2024-03-13 [Meme] Send Us Your EPO 'Scoops'
2024-03-14 [Teaser] Willy (Guillaume) Minnoye Planning His Comeback
2024-03-15 Willy Minnoye, Who Helped Benoît Battistelli Break the Law and Publicly Boasted About Immunity, Wants to be 'King' of EPO Pensions
2024-03-16 Links 16/03/2024: TikTok Issues and Censorship Stories
2024-03-17 Links 17/03/2024: Abuses Against Human Rights, Tesla Settlement (and Crash)
2024-03-18 [Meme] You Know You're Winning the Argument When...
2024-03-18 António Campinos is Still 'The Fucking President' (in His Own Words) After a Fake 'Election' in 2022 (He Bribed All the Voters to Keep His Seat)
2024-03-18 [Meme] 'Russian' Elections in Munich (Bavaria, Germany)
2024-03-19 People Don't Just Kill Themselves (Same for Other Animals)
2024-03-19 Links 20/03/2024: Internet Safety Discussed, Software Patents Invalidated Again
2024-03-20 GNU/Linux in Montenegro: From 1% to 6% Since the Pandemic Started
2024-03-20 More EPO Lies and SEO SPAM, Substance Protected Behind a Paywall of the EPO's Propaganda Arm, IAM
2024-03-20 [Meme] Here Lies
2024-03-20 [Meme] [Teaser] EPO Makes Staff Miserable to Death
2024-03-20 The European Patent Office Again Violating Workers' (Labour) Regulations and Likely the European Patent Convention (EPC) Too
2024-03-20 [Meme] EPO Recruitment in 2024
2024-03-22 Links 22/03/2024: Industrial Actions in World's Happiest Country, Google in Trouble Over Copyrights
2024-03-23 Links 23/03/2024: Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet From Hell and Microsoft Patent Troll Intellectual Ventures Uses EPO-Granted Patents for Blackmail in Europe
2024-03-24 The "EPO Sticks to North Korean Standards"
2024-03-24 European Patent Office (EPO) vs Debian Project (Community) vs FSF-EEE (Opportunistic, Identity-Thieving NGO)
2024-03-25 SUEPO The Hague Sends Open Letter to the EPO's 'F***ing' President (Campinos) About Impending Litigation
2024-03-25 [Meme] EPO Education and Childcare 'Reform'
2024-03-25 [Meme] EPO (European Patent Office): A Class Act
2024-03-26 Overworking Kills
2024-03-26 People Who Cover Suicide Aren't Suicidal
2024-03-26 Links 26/03/2024: Inflation Problems, Strikes in Finland
2024-03-29 [Meme] EPO's New Ways of Working (NWoW), a.k.a. You Don't Even Get a Desk at Work and Cannot be Near Known Colleagues
2024-04-04 [Meme] EPO going paperless: Discontinuation of printing service for paper files as from April 1st!
2024-04-04 Links 04/04/2024: Attacks on the Press and Patent System Adopting Illegal Kangaroo Courts Controlled by Corporations
2024-04-06 Assorted Comments on Rumours of Red Hat Mass Layoffs
2024-04-07 Links 07/04/2024: Apple Suing Its Own Staff, EPO (and UPC) Still Utilises Fake (Kangaroo) Courts for Patents
2024-04-09 The EPO's Central Staff Committee on Occupational Health Accidents, Right to Disconnect, and Other Issues Under 'New Ways of Working'
2024-04-09 [Meme] EPO New Ways of Working: Sofa Dwellers Whose Sole Job is Leaning on Patent Examiners and Denying Them Basic Rights
2024-04-14 Achieving Objectives
2024-04-15 Upcoming Themes and Articles in Techrights
2024-04-17 Management-Friendly Staff Representatives at the EPO Voted Out (or Simply Did Not Run Anymore)
2024-04-19 EPO “Technical” Meetings Are Not Technical Anymore, It's Just Corrupt Officials Destroying the Patent Office, Piecewise (While Breaking the Law to Increase Profits)
2024-04-19 [Meme] EPO “Technical” Meetings
2024-04-21 European Patent Office (EPO) Has Serious Safety Issues, This New Report Highlights Some of Them
2024-04-21 [Meme] Fake European Patents Helped Fund the War on Ukraine
2024-04-22 A History of Frivolous Filings and Heavy Drug Use
2024-04-22 [Teaser] EPO Leaks About EPO Leaks
2024-04-22 [Video] Inauthentic Sites and Our Upcoming Publications
2024-04-22 [Video] EPO's "Heart of Staff Rep" Has a Heartless New Rant
2024-04-22 [Meme] It Takes Three to Grant a Monopoly, Or... Injunction Against Staff Representatives
2024-04-22 EPO: We and Microsoft Will Spy on Everything (No Physical Copies)
2024-04-22 [Meme] Only Criminals Would Want to Use Printers?
2024-04-23 Links 23/04/2024: US Doubles Down on Patent Obviousness, North Korea Practices Nuclear Conflict
2024-04-24 The EPO's Central Staff Committee (CSC) on New Ways of Working (NWoW) and “Bringing Teams Together” (BTT)
2024-04-24 [Meme] EPO: Breaking the Law as a Business Model
2024-04-25 Links 25/04/2024: South Korean Military to Ban iPhone, Armenian Remembrance Day
2024-04-26 Links 26/04/2024: Surveillance Abundant, Restoring Net Neutrality Rules (US)
2024-04-26 Salary Adjustment Procedure at the EPO Challenged
2024-04-26 [Meme] Granting a Million Monopolies in Europe (to Non-European Companies) at Europe's Expense
2024-04-27 Links 27/04/2024: Spying Under Fire, Intel in Trouble Again
2024-04-29 Links 29/04/2024: "AI" Hype Deflated, Economies Slow Down Further
2024-04-29 Freedom of Speech... Let's Ban All Software Freedom Speeches?
2024-04-29 A Discussion About Suicides in Science and Technology (Including Debian and the European Patent Office)
2024-04-29 Outline of Themes to Cover in the Coming Weeks
2024-04-29 Workers' Right to Disconnect Won't Matter If Such a Right Isn't Properly Enforced
2024-05-04 Techrights This May
2024-05-05 Running This Site Mostly a Joyful Activity
2024-05-09 Links 09/05/2024: Diplomacy Efforts With China, AstraZeneca Stops Experimenting With COVID-19 Vaccines
2024-05-13 EPO: Language of Conflict
2024-05-13 [Meme] Unconstitutional Proceedings in Foreign Languages for the Benefit of Corporations Outside Europe
2024-05-15 Links 15/05/2024: Toll on Climate Change, Physical Assaults on Politicians
2024-05-15 Links 15/05/2024: Growing Tensions Between East and West, Anticlimax in Chatbot Space
2024-05-16 Thorny Issues, Violent Response
2024-05-18 EPO Representatives Outline Latest Attacks on Staff
2024-05-18 [Meme] The EPO Delusion
2024-05-19 Winning Streak
2024-05-21 Links 21/05/2024: Tesla Layoffs and Further Free Speech Perils Online
2024-05-21 Staff Representation at the EPO Has Just Explained to Heads of Delegations (National Delegates) Why the EPO's Financial Study is Another Hoax
2024-05-21 [Meme] Money In, No Money Out (Granting Loads of Invalid European Patents)
2024-05-22 Links 22/05/2024: China in Other Countries' Islands, Growing Threat of Piracy
2024-05-23 More Evidence in "iLearn AI Day" (a Buzzwords Festival) That EPO Intends to Eliminate Staff and Deviate Further Away from Fairness, Law, and Constitutions (Including Its Own!)
2024-05-23 [Meme] Pointing Out Corruption Isn't a "Hate Crime"
2024-05-25 Links 25/05/2024: Section 230 and Right of Publicity Violations by Microsoft (Which Attacks Performance Artists)
2024-05-26 Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) in The Hague Taking Action to Rectify Cuts to Families of Workers
2024-05-26 It Took EPO Management 3+ Weeks to Respond to a Letter About an Urgent Problem (Defunding of EPO Staff)
2024-05-26 The Sheer Absurdity of the EPO's Career System Explained by EPO Staff
2024-05-27 Links 27/05/2024: Self-Publishing, Patent Monopolies, and Armed Conflicts
2024-05-27 A Decade of In-Depth Coverage of Corruption at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2024-05-28 The European Patent Office is Sinking
2024-05-30 No News Drought in Techrights
2024-05-30 Angola: Microsoft Windows Down From 98% to 12%
2024-05-30 [Meme] 10 Years Down the New Career System (NCS) and What it Did to Our Collegiality
2024-06-01 Posts About Free Software, BSD, and GNU/Linux
2024-06-01 Links 01/06/2024: Microsoft Chaffbot Broken Out of Control
2024-06-05 The EPO is Boiling the Staff, According to the Central Staff Committee
2024-06-05 Links 05/06/2024: Illegal Kangaroo 'Court' (UPC) Turning One, OpenAI Insiders Blow the Whistle
2024-06-06 Links 06/06/2024: Sciences, Bailouts, and Internet Challenge
2024-06-08 Links 08/06/2024: e-cigarettes Ban, Windows to Hoard Screenshot of Use Despite Uproar
2024-06-09 Puff Pieces as a Service (Fake Articles for Sponsors to Link to)
2024-06-10 EPO Insiders' Report on Repeal of the Conditions of Employment (CoE) for Interpreters and Award of contract for Healthcare Insurance Administration Services
2024-06-11 Winning Defamation Cases is Incredibly Difficult (for Plaintiffs), Even in the United States and the United Kingdom
2024-06-12 Links 11/06/2024: Floods in Germany and Brazil, Political Violence
2024-06-12 EPO Has Gotten So Bad That Workers Need to Ask to be Allocated a Desk (at Work)
2024-06-12 [Meme] The Purpose of Life is to Find a Desk
2024-06-14 Management of the European Patent Office Misleads Staff on Views of the Office's Staff Committee
2024-06-16 Covering Abuses and Corruption
2024-06-18 24/7 Work Discipline
2024-06-18 EPO Union Action: Next Week SUEPO The Hague and SUEPO Munich Talk About New Pension Scheme (NPS) and Salary Savings Plan (SSP)
2024-06-18 [Meme] The Doyen and the Colonel
2024-06-20 Links 20/06/2024: Bruce Schneier Adds Moderation Policy, FUCKSHITUP Can't Be Trademarked in the US
2024-06-22 Workers of the European Patent Office Take the Office to Court Over Pension
2024-06-22 [Meme] EPO Pensions in the UK
2024-06-23 Links 23/06/2024: Hey Hi (AI) Scrapers Gone Very Rogue, Software Patents Squashed at EPO
2024-06-23 Digital Liberation of Society at Times of Armed Conflicts and Uncertainty
2024-06-24 Techrights in the Coming Decade: The Patent Angle
2024-06-24 Granting Loads of Monopolies in Europe (to Foreign Corporations of Epic Size and Far Too Much Power Inside Europe) is Vastly More Important Than Raising European Kids Properly?
2024-06-24 [Meme] 'Useless' Kids of EPO Examiners
2024-06-24 When the Employer Makes You Too Sick to Go to Work (New EPO Document)
2024-06-24 [Meme] Garbage in, Garbage Out (EPO Patent Quality)
2024-06-24 EPO Issues in The Hague
2024-06-27 Microsoft is Losing Its Grip on Bulgaria
2024-06-28 Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) is Taking the New Pension Scheme (NPS) to an International Tribunal (ILOAT)
2024-06-30 Links 30/06/2024: Tensions in Korea and Japan, Criminalisation of Sleeping Outdoors
2024-07-04 Links 04/07/2024: Update on Gershkovich and Verizon to Pay $847M For Infringing 5G and Hotspot Patents
2024-07-05 EPO Cannot Recruit Examiners in Compliance With the European Patent Convention (EPC) Because the Goal is to Lower Patent Compliance/Standards
2024-07-05 [Meme] EPO Needs More Patent Profits For...
2024-07-07 China's Oceans of Fake Patents on Buzzwords and Hype Reinforce the Widespread Belief That Some Patent Systems Go Astray
2024-07-08 [Meme] 3 Years Later Illegal EPO Surveillance (Powered by Microsoft) Carries on, Violating Not Only Employees' Rights But Also Applicants'
2024-07-08 Willy Tower Watson (WTW) Crafts Another Fake Staff 'Survey' Whose Objective is Reputation Laundering for the European Patent Office (EPO)
2024-07-08 Debian Needs a Significant Change of Direction and Recognition of Cumulative Errors Made
2024-07-09 Videos Still Important to Us
2024-07-09 [Video] Apple Still Unleashes Software Patent Menaces That Can Discourage Adoption of GNU/Linux
2024-07-11 Our Most Productive Summer Since We Started (2006)
2024-07-11 [Meme] Changing How We Think of Patents
2024-07-11 [Meme] A Special Patent Office, the EPO
2024-07-11 EPO: Special Permission Needed to be Ill or Care for the Ill When Issuing Monopolies to Foreign Corporations is a Paramount Priority
2024-07-12 Occupational Health, Safety and Ergonomics Committee (LOHSEC) at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2024-07-12 [Meme] That Time EPO Workers Were Panicking Because the Elevators Kept Getting Stuck
2024-07-12 EPO Staff Representatives Say It Has Gotten Very Hard to Get Promoted (Forget About Getting Rewarded for Hard Work)
2024-07-12 EPO Staff Reps: "Until now, Mr Campinos is still leaving the appellants in the dark about the exact content of the opinion of the Appeals Committee on the EPO salary adjustment procedure."
2024-07-21 Links 21/07/2024: Climate, Politics, and More Squashed Patents
2024-07-22 [Teaser] EPO Run by Children
2024-07-22 A Byzantine European Patent Office Where Staff Must Beg for Help With Contraception (Worse Than the Rest of Europe)
2024-07-22 This Month's General Consultative Committee (GCC) Webchat ('Meeting') Covered the European Patent Office's Attacks on Its Own Interpreters
2024-07-22 [Meme] Signs of a Dying Patent Office
2024-07-23 10 Years of In-Depth EPO Coverage at Techrights (Many Others Have Abandoned the Topic)
2024-07-23 Links 23/07/2024: NetherRealm Layoffs and Illegitimate Patent 'Courts' (Illegal)
2024-07-24 Removing the Lid Off of 'Cancel Culture' (in Tech) and Shutting It Down by Illuminating the Tactics and Key Perpetrators
2024-07-25 Links 25/07/2024: Tesla's 45% Profit Drop, Humble Games Employees All Laid Off
2024-07-25 Links 25/07/2024: Talks of Increased Pension Age and Biden Explains Dropping Out
2024-07-26 Links 26/07/2024: Tesco Cutbacks and Fake Patent Courts
2024-07-29 Central Staff Committee of the European Patent Office (EPO) Reports Growing Secrecy at the EPO
2024-07-29 [Meme] When It Gets Harder to Make Ends Meet in a Family (Without Promotions)
2024-07-30 EPO Workers Blow the Whistle on Extremely Worrying Discontinuation of the CFS, a Central File Store (Which Means Examination Will Be Hard to Do)
2024-07-31 Links 31/07/2024: Facebook Privacy Violations, Microsoft Ads Full-screen Adverts to Vista 11
2024-08-02 Links 02/08/2024: Bungie and Intel Mass Layoffs
2024-08-03 Links 03/08/2024: Blaugust Series, 'Game Informer' Shutting Down
2024-08-06 [Meme] 'Clown Computing' is Hosting by the Pentagon (by Proxy)
2024-08-07 Links 07/08/2024: Surveillance and Doxxing in Venezuelan, Plan to Invalidate UK Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023
2024-08-13 Links 13/08/2024: Abundant Misinformation and TikTok Layoffs
2024-08-15 Links 15/08/2024: Monkeypox Hysteria and Modern Homesteaders Living Off the Grid
2024-08-16 Links 16/08/2024: YouTube Bans and Surveillance Expanded
2024-08-21 Links 21/08/2024: Economic Problems in China, Patents From the EPO Smashed in Court
2024-08-24 Links 24/08/2024: Ukraine Updates, Wildfires, Protests
2024-08-29 Planning Ahead
2024-08-29 Links 29/08/2024: Books Banned in China, Topics Banned Online
2024-08-30 Moving in Positive Directions
2024-08-30 Microsoft Windows Plunged to Levels So Low in Montenegro That Even iOS Users Apparently Outnumber Windows Users Now. We Must Still Tackle Microsoft's Crimes in Europe, Holding the Corrupt and Their Collaborators Fully Accountable.
2024-09-02 Terms of Service (TOS) Under Scrutiny - Part X - Biometric Data Collection While You Shop for Groceries
2024-09-03 Links 03/09/2024: Software Patent Battles Re-enmerge and Europe's Fake Patent Courts Remain Untackled
2024-09-04 And We're Back to the EPO... Software Patents Flooding a Deeply Crooked System, Piggybacking Buzzwords Like "Hey Hi" (AI)
2024-09-05 Links 05/09/2024: Starlink to Block Twitter (X) in Brazil, Ukraine Government Shake-Up
2024-09-06 Asking Ourselves What Topics to Strategically Focus on
2024-09-07 The Free Software Movement Must Not Assume That Truth and Science Always Win
2024-09-08 New EPO Letter Expressing Concerns About EPO Violating Its Charter, Clearly Violating Rules (Possibly Bribing Siemens With Monopolies) and Granting Loads of Fake Patents to Make More Money
2024-09-08 [Meme] EPO 'Hush Money' to Companies That Point Out EPO Breaks the Rules
2024-09-08 [Meme] Patent Monopolies as Bribes at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2024-09-09 Very Large EPO Applicants Now Threaten a Boycott of the EPO (the EPO Management is Trying to Bribe Them to Change Their Plans/Minds While Hiding It From Staff)
2024-09-09 [Meme] EPO Keeps Masking Its Corruption With "Diversity and Inclusion" (Hiring the Wife of a Friend of Someone Who Bribed His Way Into EPO Presidency)
2024-09-10 Crimes of the EPO Are Costing Everybody in Europe
2024-09-10 A Decade Ago Things Became So Bad at the European Patent Office (EPO) That Staff Jumped Out the Window During Working Hours
2024-09-10 Europe's Second Largest Institution, the EPO, Exploits Lack of Oversight to Commit Crimes Every Day
2024-09-10 Are Lawsuits Over EPO Corruption Next?
2024-09-10 [Teaser] EPO Tightening Its Belt
2024-09-10 Slow But Ongoing Mass Layoffs at EPO, Estimates That Nearly Half of the FOs Will be Made Redundant Soon
2024-09-11 Links 11/09/2024: EPO Patents Tossed Out by Courts, Software Patent Reveals Ford "Tech That Listens to Driver Conversations to Serve Ads"
2024-09-13 Links 13/09/2024: Crackdowns on Bloggers, Deepfakes, Internet Archive‘s Wayback Machine Now in Google Search
2024-09-13 EPO Staff Representatives Explain the Latest Corruption at the EPO in a New Paper
2024-09-13 [Meme] From Checked by Three Examiners to Gone (Granted) in 3 Seconds!
2024-09-18 IBM Has Been Lobbying for Software Patents, It's Not the Free Software Community's Ally
2024-09-18 Links 18/09/2024: Web Server Survey Shows Microsoft Down Again, Omkhar Arasaratnam Leaves Microsoft-connected OpenSSF
2024-09-19 Links 19/09/2024: Scam ‘Funeral Streaming’ and More Microsoft TCO Tales
2024-09-19 Links 19/09/2024: UPC Illegal 'Court' and Microsoft LinkedIn Called Out for Data Misuse
2024-09-20 Central Staff Committee on EPO Bribing Its Critics, Using a "Sharp and Abrupt Reduction, Estimated at 80% to 90%, in the Number of Refusals and Summons for Oral Proceedings in Areas Related to Software Patents"
2024-09-20 [Meme] EPO Suckers
2024-09-21 Links 21/09/2024: Nokia Still Attacking Linux Devices Using Software Patents From the EPO
2024-09-24 A Year Since the Big Switch - Part III - Deliberate Deceit and Misunderstandings
2024-09-24 Even the EPO's Biggest or Loudest "Media Partner" Now Covers EPO Corruption and Grant of Illegal Software Patents
2024-09-24 Links 24/09/2024: Lowered Interest Rates and Financial Woes
2024-09-25 A Lot of Litigation at the European Patent Office Because the Administration Crushes the Rights of Staff
2024-09-25 [Meme] EPO Versus Technology (and Versus the Law)
2024-09-26 A Year Since the Big Switch - Part V - In Summary
2024-09-26 EPO Dictatorship, Facing Growing Pressure From Senior Staff for Breaking Laws and Illegally Running the System, Turns to "Young Professionals" (to Crush Voices, Rights, and Benefits)
2024-09-26 [Meme] How Crime Becomes the 'Normal' in Society
2024-09-26 Links 26/09/2024: Russia's Escalation in Its Nuclear Tone
2024-09-26 The EPO's Central Staff Committee Explains the EPO Became So Corrupt That It Strives to Almost Automatically Grant Every Patent (Monopoly) Request
2024-09-26 [Meme] Break the Law for the European Patent Office (EPO) or Die (Get Sacked in a Terrible Economy)
2024-09-27 Maintenance and Plans for Next Week
2024-09-27 Links 27/09/2024: China Tensions Growing, JUVE Patent Posting SPAM Again (the Real Business Model)
2024-09-28 Links 28/09/2024: Stagnation of Journalism and More Suppressions in HK (Now China)
2024-09-30 Planning Our 18th Anniversary
2024-09-30 [Meme] The EPO's Vision of 'Artificial Intelligence'
2024-10-01 Links 01/10/2024: Another Escalation in the Middle East, Software Patents Being Squashed
2024-10-02 Plans for the Site's 19th Year
2024-10-04 Journalism in Europe on Life Support
2024-10-05 Links 05/10/2024: Shift to ARM, Microsoft XBox Crisis
2024-10-05 EPO Examiners to Adopt Resolution Condemning EPO Management for Breaking the Law in Order to Grant Many Illegal Software Patents
2024-10-05 [Meme] How to Keep Granting Hundreds of Thousands of Fake Patents (Without Upsetting Anybody in Politics and Media)
2024-10-06 Presentations of the Staff Union of the European Patent Office in Its Headquarters Tomorrow After Work
2024-10-06 [Meme] Years Have Passed and EPO Management Still Isn't Obeying a Ruling From a Court Regarding Communications Between Staff
2024-10-06 EPO: We Give Recognition to Frauds
2024-10-08 Links 08/10/2024: Australian Fines for Twitter (X), Fake Patent Courts Still Not Scuttled
2024-10-08 We're Turning 18 in 30 Days
2024-10-09 IBM is a Boys' Club
2024-10-10 Almost a Thousand EPO Staff Protesting to EPO Member States That the Office Illegally Grants Software Patents and Other Invalid European Patents
2024-10-10 [Meme] European Patent Convention and Vienna Convention Became Only Fictions (Laws and Constitutions Are Now Works of Fiction in Europe)
2024-10-10 [Meme] Chin-dropping and Jaw-dropping (Considerable Drop in Patent Validity and Quality)
2024-10-12 Links 12/10/2024: TikTok Layoffs and Risk of More Wars
2024-10-14 Unrest at the European Patent Office as School Costs Eat Away the Income
2024-10-14 [Meme] Shoestring Budget With Record Profits (Because Hundreds of Thousands of Fake European Patents Get Granted)
2024-10-14 EPO Administration: Wait Several Months or Until Next Year for Clarifications
2024-10-14 How to Follow Our Updates About EPO (or Everything Else for That Matter)
2024-10-15 Incompetent Patent Office (EPO) Trying to Blame Examiners (Whom It Orders to Illegally Grant European Patents)
2024-10-15 [Meme] Nepotism Breeds Incompetence
2024-10-17 EPO Focus Today
2024-10-17 Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) Says Almost 40% of Staff in Rijswijk Has Membership and It Developed Close Relationship With the EPO Pensioners’ Association
2024-10-17 [Meme] The EPO, Europe's Second-Largest Organisation and Also Sponsor of Belarus, on Its Love of the Union (Not the EPO's Union)
2024-10-17 Links 17/10/2024: Mass Layoffs Again at Facebook and Intel
2024-10-17 2024 General Assembly of the EPO's Local Staff Committee Munich, Haar and Brussels (LSCMN) Presents Damning Evidence of the EPO Granting Illegal Patents, Then Conflating This Illegality With "Quality" (Speed)
2024-10-18 Links 18/10/2024: Kangaroo Courts Spread to Lisbon, Riot Games Layoffs
2024-10-19 The State of GAFAM and the I's (IBM and Intel)
2024-10-21 Automattic: We Need a CoC to Protect Automattic From Outside Scrutiny
2024-10-22 Allegations Online: The EPO's Courts Are Just Mock Tribunals That Seek to Authorise Illegal Practices of EPO Management
2024-10-22 [Meme] UPC Judges
2024-10-23 Links 23/10/2024: Hey Hi (AI) Hype/Bust and Internet Archive Perils
2024-10-23 One by One, EPO Attacks the Conditions of Employment of Workers (While Forcing Them to Illegally Grant Invalid European Patents, Playing With Monopoly Money)
2024-10-23 [Meme] Rights for EPO Workers
2024-10-24 EPO Strategy is Keyword Stuffing and Cuts in the Name of 'Sustainable' (While Continuing to Grant Fake, Illegal Patents)
2024-10-29 Techrights Will Only Cover More of What Microsofters Don't Want It to Talk About
2024-10-31 Update on Litigation Against the European Patent Office (EPO) at the ILO Administrative Tribunal (ILOAT)
2024-11-03 Microsoft is a Gift That Keeps Giving (Future Stories to Techrights)
2024-11-07 Today We Got an Early Birthday Gift
2024-11-07 [Meme] When the Patent Office Does Illegal Things and Staff Speaks Out
2024-11-07 Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) Election Ending Today
2024-11-07 [Meme] Election Day at the European Patent Office
2024-11-08 More Cuts/End to Benefits for EPO Workers (Europe's Working Conditions Incompatible With the European Patent Convention)
2024-11-08 [Meme] How Low Can You Go at the European Patent Office?
2024-11-08 [Teaster] [Meme] New Ways of Wrecking (NWoW)
2024-11-08 [Teaser] [Meme] New Ways to Impoverish Patent Examiners (Entrusted to Block Unjust Monopolies or Monopoly Applications)
2024-11-09 Real Estate and Workplace Problems at the European Patent Office, Which Grants Fake Patents Under the Guise of "Law"
2024-11-09 [Meme] Turning the EPO Into a Speculation Bank, Monetising It by Breaking the Law, Playing Real Estate (and Mortgage) Financial Games
2024-11-09 [Teaser] [Meme] Central Occupational Health, Safety and Ergonomics Committee (COHSEC) at European Patent Office (EPO)
2024-11-09 EPO is Blasting Its Own Foot (There Will be No EPO Left)
2024-11-10 "Paperless Office" (Incompatible With the Law) as a Threat to Workers' Health at the EPO, Europe's Second-Largest Institution and Largest Patent Office
2024-11-11 Freedom Must Always Be Fought For (All the Time)
2024-11-11 Our 18+ Years of Freedom-Fighting
2024-11-13 [Meme] Swiss Lawyers/Attorneys Who Fake Qualifications and Rob People
2024-11-14 Links 14/11/2024: Science and the Demise of Microsoft-Connected USPTO Director
2024-11-14 Links 14/11/2024: Politics, Climate, and Instability
2024-11-15 EFF Still Uses and Relies on Donald Trump's Friend (Elon Musk) for Campaigning and It Gets No Response (Except From FFII's President)
2024-11-15 Coming Soon: More Reports About the European Patent Office (EPO)
2024-11-16 IPKat's Annsley Merelle Ward Spreading the Same Old Lies and Shameless Propaganda to Promote Software Patents in Europe (i.e. the Usual... and She's Not Even a Coder)
2024-11-20 Growing Older and Signs of the Site's Maturity
2024-11-22 Topics We Lacked Time to Cover
2024-11-22 EPO Education: Workers Resort to Legal Actions (Many Cases) Against the Administration
2024-11-22 [Meme] EPO for the Kids' Future (or Lack of It)
2024-11-27 Imagine Patents on Musical Compositions and Cooking Recipes
2024-11-27 If the Reputation of the European Union for Rule of Law Has Diminished, Blame EPO and the German (Also the Dutch) Government for Facilitating It
2024-11-28 The EPO's General Consultative Committee (GCC) Meeting Last Month Sought to Remove Genders (But It's Nearly Impossible in French and German)
2024-11-28 [Meme] The Most Important Things When Committing Crimes
2024-11-29 Links 29/11/2024: China Tensions and Big Bounties for Invalidation of Software Patents
2024-11-30 Links 30/11/2024: More Strongarming and Threats to Taiwan, Ananda Krishnan is Dead
2024-11-30 Links 30/11/2024: Social Control Media Under Growing Scrutiny, Patent Propaganda Sites Still Promote a Fake Court (UPC)
2024-12-05 Links 05/12/2024: Formaldehyde and Cancer, US and China Boycotting One Another
2024-12-06 IBM Told the Media the Secret Mass Layoffs Would Carry on Till End of November, But They Still Happen This Month
2024-12-09 In Memory of Mike Magee (1949-2024) and Our Best Wishes to The Register, Which He Founded in the 1990s
2024-12-09 Links 09/12/2024: UnitedHealthcare C.E.O.'s Killer Still Unknown, Syrian Regime Change Completed
2024-12-09 This Week We Focus Again on European Patent Office (EPO) Scandals
2024-12-09 [Teaser] EPO Management Thinks Inflation in Europe is 0.2% Per Annum
2024-12-09 Reforming Versus Rebooting Versus Destroying Institutions
2024-12-09 [Meme] Sloppy Plagiarism Full of Errors, Lacking Actual Comprehension
2024-12-09 EPO Salaries Reduced: EPO's “Sustainability” Clause "Cuts the Average Overall Adjustment for Staff by –41,8%."
2024-12-10 [Teaser] Fate of Formalities Officers (FOs) at the EPO
2024-12-10 The EPO's Corrupt Dealings With Microsoft Never Addressed, Only Worsened
2024-12-11 Shedding Light on How the EPO Sheds Off Staff in Order to Grant Loads of Invalid (Fake) Patents in Europe
2024-12-11 EPO is Corrupt Like Always, What Changed is the Lack of Media Coverage (No Transparency Means No Democracy)
2024-12-12 [Teaser] EPO is Running Out of Brains
2024-12-12 Links 12/12/2024: Another 'Self-driving' Cars Dead End, Infowars Sale Blocked by Court
2024-12-12 General Consultative Committee (GCC) Meeting at the European Patent Office (EPO) Shows Existing Problems
2024-12-13 Oligarch-Owned Media Twists the Narrative and Demands More Surveillance
2024-12-13 [Teaser] The EPO is Still Calling Monopolies "Products"
2024-12-14 Links 14/12/2024: Adobe's Shares Collapse, Apple Publishes Fake News With LLMs
2024-12-14 Stop Glorifying Murderers, They Aren't Helping Anybody
2024-12-14 EPO Corruption is a Real Threat to the European Union (EU). The EPO Helps Russia. If It Does Not Reform or Reboot, It Can Contribute to the Collapse of the EU and UPC (Which Was Never Legal or Even Constitutional, It's a Captured Kangaroo Court Controlled by the Patent Litigation Industry).
2024-12-14 The Patent Litigation 'Industry' Controls the European Patent Office (Vendor Capture) and Everyone Suffers, Even the European Union
2024-12-15 Two Laptops Up and Running (No Reboots) Since 2023
2024-12-16 Underpaid and Inexperienced Workers Overwhelm the EPO, Granting Many Invalid Patents and Placing Pressure on Veteran Examiners
2024-12-16 Razik Menidjel Will No Longer be Chief Operating Officer Operations at the EPO
2024-12-16 From Scientists to Pigeons: The EPO Has Turned Patent Examination Into a Process Made by Computers and Improperly Trained Staff Which Doesn't Meet the Requirements of the European Patent Convention (EPC)
2024-12-16 A Birthday Wish
2024-12-18 Links 18/12/2024: Zakir Hussain Dies, TuneIn Layoffs
2024-12-19 'Dark Patterns' or a Trap at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2024-12-19 [Meme] Making Choices at the EPO
2024-12-22 Links 22/12/2024: North Pole Moving and Debian's Joey Hess Goes Solar
2024-12-24 The EPO's Staff Union (SUEPO) Takes Legal Action to Rectify the Decrease in Wages (Lessening of Purchasing Power)
2024-12-24 [Meme] How to Kill Unions (Staff on Shoestring Budget Cannot Afford Lawyers)
2024-12-25 Links 25/12/2024: Hong Kong Attacks Activists During Holidays, Xerox to Buy Lexmark
2024-12-29 This New Talk Helps Explain Why Crimes at the European Patent Office (EPO) and Patent Policy Deficits Remain Unaddressed by the European Commission
2025-01-06 British Police: Register a New Account With Unscrupulous American Companies (Microsoft and MElon X) to "Follow" Us
2025-01-07 Google (Blogger) is Already Disintegrating and It's a Reminder of the Great Dangers of Outsourcing Blogs to Companies (Including Automattic or WordPress.com)
2025-01-11 Links 11/01/2025: Social Control Media Facing Sanctions, Carter Respected at Funeral
2025-01-14 The European Patent Office’s (EPO) Communication on "Reform" is "Incomplete and Misleading," Says the Central Staff Committee at the EPO
2025-01-14 EPO Uses the Misnomer "AI" to Attack Software Developers in Europe
2025-01-16 FSF, Guardian of the GNU Project, to Reach $400,000 in Winter Fundraiser Ahead of 40th Anniversary
2025-01-18 Links 18/01/2025: Apple Getting Out of Hey Hi (AI) Slop (Too Much Misinformation), Chaffbots/Chatbots Try to Settle Copyright Infringement Lawsuits
2025-01-20 The EPO is Nowadays Trying to Trick Staff Into Settling Instead of Solving the Underlying Problems of Corruption and Injustice
2025-01-20 EPO Union Says Monopoly-Granting Targets at EPO "Difficult to Achieve Without Compromising [Staff] Health, Personal Time or the Quality of the Final Products" (Products as in Monopolies, Not Real Products)
2025-01-20 [Meme] EPO Targets
2025-01-22 Links 22/01/2025: "The AI Bubble Is Bursting" and Microsoft's Scam Altman is Already Looking for De Facto Bailout From the Insurrectionist
2025-01-22 Clueless and Nontechnical EPO Management Uses the 'Great Scam' (Hey Hi Hype) to Justify Automation Where It's Both Detrimental and Illegal
2025-01-22 [Meme] The 'Garbage in, Garbage Out' Patent Office
2025-01-23 [Meme] When the Government of the Netherlands Participates in Your Crimes It Lacks an Incentive to Hold You Accountable for Crimes
2025-01-24 Links 24/01/2025: Earthquake, Landslide, and Official Implicated in Airplane With Landing Gear Issues (Boeing Plane) "Found Dead"
2025-01-24 Robbery at the European Patent Office (EPO), Office Staff as 'Prisoners'
2025-01-24 [Meme] Levels of Outrage
2025-01-24 Gemini Links 24/01/2025: The "Hey Hi" Hype Continues Fading, Tesla/X/Twitter/SpaceX Associate With Nazism
2025-01-27 Links 27/01/2025: Social Control Media Explores Propaganda for Racism as a Business Model, China’s Tibet Dam Criticised
2025-01-28 "SuccessFactors" (SAP) Stunts at the EPO Used to Break Laws and Constitutions, Staff Tricked Into Harming Themselves
2025-01-29 More Illegal Patents at the EPO, Legality of Granted European Patents No Longer Matters to the Office
2025-01-29 The EPO's Corruption, If It Remains Untackled, Helps the Far Right and Enemies of European Unity/Solidarity
2025-01-29 Links 29/01/2025: Climate Crisis and "It’s time for the Xbox to fade away" (Microsoft Lose)
2025-01-29 How the EPO Pressures Staff Into Minting More Monopolies (Patents), Even Illegal Ones That Harm Europe and Ultimately Dismantle the Rule of Law
2025-01-29 Sir, Yes, Sir. The Life of EPO Patent Examiners.
2025-01-29 The Munich-Based EPO is Still Using a Platform That Promotes the Far Right and Rehabilitates Nazism
2025-02-01 Growing Evidence That the Patent Industry Has Become a Major Scam
2025-02-01 Links 1/2/2025: LLM Hype Revisited, Linuxwashing by Oumi
2025-02-01 Hiring for Tech Roles Based on Perceived Loyalty is No Better Than Hiring to Meet Diversity Quotas
2025-02-02 Germany's 'Share' of GNU/Linux Rises to All-Time High Based on This Surveyor
2025-02-03 Links 03/02/2025: Microsoft's Termination Controversy and EU Hey Hi (AI) Act Compliance Day
2025-02-03 All Efforts to Censor Techrights Have Always Failed
2025-02-04 Covering EPO Scandals in an Age of Mass Censorship (and Europe Being Afraid to Introspect, for It Might "Help Putin")
2025-02-05 European Internet Forum (EIF) is Dominated by American Corporations and Microsoft Lobbyists, Staff Take the Lead
2025-02-06 Corruption and Rule-Breaking Prevail at the European Patent Office (EPO), Europe's Second-Largest Institution
2025-02-08 New EPO Paper: Promoting (Rewarding) People Who Grant Many Illegal European Patents to Make More Money (at Europeans' Expense) While Patent Courts in the EU Are Themselves Illegal
2025-02-10 New Paper From the EPO Highlights Large-Scale Discrimination at the Office, Where People Are Rewarded for Granting More and More Illegal Patents
2025-02-10 EPO's Local Occupational Health, Safety and Ergonomics Committee (LOHSEC) in The Hague: Workers Are Getting Sicker, Conditions in Which to Assess Patent Applications Deteriorate
2025-02-12 Like GAFAM, the EPO is Passing the Financial Pains to Staff
2025-02-12 Former EPO Manager Warns That the Illegal 'Court' for "Unitary Patents" Enables “Law Shopping”
2025-02-12 EPO Staff Representatives Confront the President Who Says 'F--king' in Front of Female Workers Over Measurable Discrimination Against Female Colleagues
2025-02-12 Macho Patent Office
2025-02-13 Still Waiting for the EU to Abolish the Illegal and Unconstitutional Court Linked to EPO Corruption and Lobbyism by the Patent Litigation Industry
2025-02-19 Springtime Layoffs at IBM (2025) and Statement From IBM European Works Council
2025-02-19 Techrights Publication Topics
2025-02-20 People Who Came From Microsoft Demanding Removal of Articles About Them, About Microsoft, and About Microsoft GitHub is "Generous" (According to Them)
2025-02-21 Before Trying Censorship by Extortion the Serial Strangler From Microsoft Literally Begged Us to Delete Pages
2025-02-21 Links 21/02/2025: Linux Foundation Openwashing, Microsoft Copilot Goes Down
2025-02-22 Microsoft's Serial Strangler and Matthew J. Garrett Join Forces in Trying to Gag Techrights (for Exposing Microsoft Corruption and Crimes Against Women)
2025-02-22 Politicians Ought to Invite Dr. Richard Stallman and Prof. Eben Moglen to Speak About Policies, Licensing, Digital Sovereignty
2025-02-25 Confirmed: IBM Layoffs Will Strike Consulting Quite Hard
2025-02-28 Links 28/02/2025: Domestic Violence Fatalities, Escalations Again Near Taiwan
2025-03-01 Justice Will Find Its Way at the End
2025-03-01 Links 01/03/2025: GB News Loses Over 100 Million Pounds, Zelensky Wins World's Sympathy
2025-03-06 Reputation is Not a Human Right, It's Something One Earns
2025-03-07 Open Source Initiative (OSI) Reported to the California Privacy Protection Agency (Formal Complaint)
2025-03-08 For International Women's Rights Day (Today) Staff Representatives at the European Patent Office (EPO) Opened Up on Gender Discrimination at the Office
2025-03-09 The Harder They Try to Censor, the Bigger the Scandal (and the Impact) Will Be
2025-03-09 EPO Staff Appraisals Apparently Benefit Kakistocracy, Including Cheaters Who Grant Illegal Patents and Punish Good Patent Examiners (Who Find Valid Reasons for Denials)
2025-03-10 A Closer Look Inside the EPO, Courtesy of Benoît Battistelli's Submissive Lapdogs Roberta Romano-Götsch and Elodie Bergot
2025-03-11 EPO Central Staff Committee: "The Strategy of the Office Lacks Transparency and Cannot be Understood"
2025-03-14 The Fall of the Open Source Initiative (OSI): The OSI Does Not Speak For You, OSI Staff Speaks for GAFAM/Microsoft (the Paymasters)
2025-03-17 The EPO Might Face Critical 'Brain Drain' (Abandonment by the Most Experienced Patent Examiners) This Year
2025-03-18 EPO Concerns About the Education and Childcare Allowance Reform (ECAR) and School Liaison Officer (SLO)
2025-03-19 Links 19/03/2025: Attention's Cost and Media Still Besieged by Dictatorships
2025-03-20 Techrights Will Never Capitulate to Threats From Microsofters
2025-03-24 The European Patent Office (EPO) is Slowly Killing Its Own Staff; All It Cares About Is Money
2025-03-25 European Patent Office (EPO) Illegally Turning to Slop Behind Closed Doors, Staff Objects to This Hidden Catastrophe
2025-03-25 Roku Will 'Lead' Attempts to Abolish the Illegal and Unconstitutional Unified Patent Court (UPC), Which Represents EPO Corruption and Lobbyism Spreading Upwards Inside the EU
2025-03-26 Looking Forward to the Fall of UPC and Revocation of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement, Which Was Always Illegal and Unconstitutional
2025-03-27 EPO Management Fails to Deny That the Office is Discriminating Against Women
2025-03-28 Links 28/03/2025: Australia at Risk, EPO Grants Illegal Patents With Illegal Effect
2025-03-28 Links 28/03/2025: AirAsia Trouble Again, UMich Culls All DEI Programs
2025-03-28 A World Without Rules
2025-03-29 Links 29/03/2025: Attacks on Social Security and War Updates
2025-03-30 Links 30/03/2025: Judge Blocks Dismantling Of VOA, Turkey Arrested Many Journalists
2025-04-01 50 Years of Sabotage and a Gut Punch to Computer Science (and Science in General)
2025-04-01 Links 01/04/2025: Apple Fined $162M for Privacy Abuses, Disinformation Online a Growing Concern
2025-04-02 The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Hijacked Again by Patent Litigation Industry, as President Cheeto Prioritises Aggressors
2025-04-02 Links 02/04/2025: More Layoffs, Nokia Again Takes Advantage of Illegal and Unconstitutional Patent Court With Nokia Staff as 'Judges'
2025-04-03 IBM Gets Rid of Kelly Chambliss as Mass Layoffs Reported in IBM Consulting, IBM Loses Key Contracts/Graft
2025-04-05 The State of EPO Staff's Health in Rijswijk or The Hague
2025-04-05 Links 05/04/2025: Tariffs Backfiring, YouTuber Arrested, X/Twitter Set to be Fined
2025-04-06 Links 06/04/2025: Attacks on Education, Fake Patents, and Fake (Illegal) Patent Courts
2025-04-08 Courage is Contagious
2025-04-08 People Who Facilitate Truth Will Always Win at the End
2025-04-10 Links 10/04/2025: Fentanylware (TikTok) Perils and Internet Shutdown
2025-04-11 At the Root of the SLAPPs There Are Matters of GitHub Corruption and Microsoft Competition Crimes
2025-04-12 New EPO Leaks: Replacing Patent Examiners and Classifiers With Deficient Bots (Without Even Asking for Permission)
2025-04-12 Exposing Corruption and Crimes Against Women Isn't a Crime, It's an Imperative
2025-04-12 Links 12/04/2025: Tariffs Standoffs and Spam 'Articles' About Patents
2025-04-13 EPO Likely Breaking the Law Yet Again, This Time by Using Slop for Patents (to Lower Costs While Producing Monopolies That Cause Ruinous Lawsuits)
2025-04-14 Links 14/04/2025: Russian Attack on Sumy Shows No Intention of Peace, Virgin Australia Admits Overcharging People
2025-04-17 Links 17/04/2025: Russian Bot Farms Infect TikTok (Which US Government and SCOTUS Decided to Block January 19), US Hardware Stocks Crash Due to Tariffs
2025-04-18 To Understand Who's Truly Controlling You Follow the Trail of Censorship (or Self-Censorship)
2025-04-18 Links 18/04/2025: Layoffs at Microsoft Infosys and Qt Becoming Increasingly Proprietary (Plus Slop)
2025-04-19 Microsofters Say They Cannot Find a Job (That They Want) Because of Techrights, But Techrights Merely Reported on Their Behaviour
2025-04-19 Links 19/04/2025: Economic Races, Charm Offensives, and USB-C Rants
2025-04-20 Links 20/04/2025: Many Data Breaches and Growing Censorship Wave
2025-04-22 Microsoft Devises PR Stunts to Distract From Impending Mass Layoffs and Likely Bad Results Preceding Those Mass Layoffs
2025-04-25 Microsoft is Shedding Off Loads of Staff and That Can be Dangerous Too
2025-04-26 Receiving SLAPPs and Collecting Them Like Trophies (the SLAPPs Always Fail)
2025-04-26 What's Very Vexing to GAFAM, EPO and Others Is That It's Incredibly Hard to Censor Us (and Nobody Ever Successfully Did That Before)
2025-04-28 New Leaks Coming Soon, We Maintain 100% Record of Successful Resistance to Censorship
2025-04-28 Leak: The EPO's General Consultative Committee (GCC) Does Not Consult Staff on Crucial Matters and Bypasses the Administrative Council (AC) to Do Illegal Things
2025-04-30 Why Techrights Attracts SLAPPs From American Microsofters Who Literally Strangle Women and Rely on the Most Unscrupulous Law Firms
2025-05-01 Links 01/05/2025: Apple Lies to Courts, European Patents Thrown Out by British Courts Again
2025-05-03 Today is World Press Freedom Day, 3rd of May
2025-05-05 From EPO to "MAGA Regime": A Shift Away From Reality to Fake News and False Metrics
2025-05-06 Weaponisation of For-Profit Dockets - Part II: Hiding Behind Lawyers and Barristers Who Lack Standards so as to Engage in Classic Corporate Extortion
2025-05-07 The European Patent Office (EPO) Has a Very Profound Corruption Issue, Far More Urgent an Issue Than Pronouns
2025-05-07 Weaponisation of For-Profit Dockets - Part III: No More Media Lawsuits From Brett Wilson LLP This Year, One Can Only Guess Why
2025-05-07 Links 07/05/2025: Pegasus Guilty and a Path Towards EU Without Russian Energy
2025-05-08 Links 08/05/2025: Mass Layoffs at Google Again, India/Pakistan Tensions Continue to Grow, New Pope (US) Selected
2025-05-09 European Patent Office (EPO) Faked "Revenue Expansion" by Granting Loads of Invalid, Illegal Patents; Staff Still Wants to Know Where That Money Went
2025-05-10 Links 10/05/2025: WW2 Revisionism, Further Tit-for-tat in India-Pakistan Conflict
2025-05-12 Links 12/05/2025: Media Being Attacked (New Forms of Attack on the Press), Many Data Breaches
2025-05-15 Links 15/05/2025: Google Betrays Publishers Again, Openwashing by Sysdig
2025-05-17 Links 17/05/2025: Microsoft Kills "Surface Laptop Studio" (More Canceled Products/Units), Groups Caution About Harms of Social Control Media
2025-05-18 Links 18/05/2025: Science, Censorship and European Commission Taking on Monopoly Abuse by Microsoft
2025-05-21 "The Appeals Committee [at the EPO] Unanimously Stated a Formal Flaw in the Consultation of the General Consultative Committee (GCC) on the Reform"
2025-05-22 Central Staff Committee of the EPO Opposes Abuses Against EPO Staff, Challenging SuccessFactors Stunts
2025-05-22 Why We'll Continue Covering EPO Abuses (Other Patent Offices as Well, as the Need Arises) for Many Years to Come
2025-05-22 These Feet Are Made for Walking
2025-05-22 Links 22/05/2025: Openwashing, Dumping Microsoft's Entrapment (Microsoft GitHub), and New Climate Disasters
2025-05-22 The Microsofter Who Kept Sending Threatening Post and E-mail to My Wife Has Been Spooking Women for at Least Two Decades
2025-05-24 Links 24/05/2025: Google Helps Slop Videos, Microsoft Resorts to Desperate Measures to Fake Demand for Slop
2025-05-25 The Microsoft SLAPP Dossiers
2025-05-28 Links 28/05/2025: More Arrests for Bitcoin-Connected Torture and Prosecutions for Dieselgate-Linked Executives
2025-05-29 United States Courts With Sworn Testimonies Are on Our Side, We'll Present the Same Here
2025-05-29 EPO Workers Caution That the Officials Are Still Illegally Trying to Replace Staff With Slop (to Lower Quality and Validity of European Patents)
2025-05-30 EPO Poll: 68% Dissatisfied With Quality of Slop (Wrongly Framed as "AI") for Patent Classification
2025-05-30 Links 30/05/2025: Google's LLM Slop Pushers Are Killing Journalism and Shira Perlmutter Fails to Stop Bribed Regime From Legalising Plagiarism (in "AI" Clothing)
2025-05-30 Looking at Corruption in Europe, Going Beyond the EPO
2025-06-01 Links 01/06/2025: Windows TCO, Openwashing, "It's FOSS" Still Promoting Microsoft
2025-06-01 The Openwashing Shills Initiative (OSI) - Part II: Lying to the IRS is a Big Issue
2025-06-02 Covering Corruption in Poland, Including a War on Science (Due to Bad Politicians)
2025-06-03 Links 03/06/2025: Tiananmen Square Massacre Censorship and Growing Military Activities Around Taiwan
2025-06-04 Abuse Inside the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) - Part I: It's a Lot Like the EPO
2025-06-04 EPO: Taking Away From the Staff to Give More to the Rich
2025-06-04 In-Depth EPO Coverage at Techrights Turns Eleven
2025-06-04 How to Expose High-Level Corruption Without Getting in (Too Much) Trouble
2025-06-04 Links 04/06/2025: Workers' Strikes, Sudan Exodus
2025-06-05 Abuse Inside the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) - Part II: Turning a Once-Respected Patent Office Into a Circus and Laughing Stock
2025-06-06 Abuse Inside the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) - Part III: Data Protection Failures, Just Like at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2025-06-06 We're in 6/6 Now, Almost Halfway in 2025
2025-06-07 Abuse Inside the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) - Part IV: Political Scrutiny and Errors/Inconsistencies in Official Documents
2025-06-08 Abuse Inside the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) - Part V: Breaking the Law, Just Like EPO
2025-06-08 Exposing Crime is Not a Crime (It Never Was)
2025-06-09 Links 09/06/2025: Chaos in Los Angeles and Hurricane Season
2025-06-10 Abuse Inside the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) - Part VII: Washing Their Hands After Corruption and Abuse
2025-06-10 If 'Microsoft v Techrights' is Dealt With by a 'Microsoft Court' (or a Court Outsourced to Microsoft)
2025-06-11 Abuse Inside the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) - Part VIII: Illegal Working Conditions
2025-06-12 Abuse Inside the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) - Part IX: Minimum Wages For You (Experienced Scientist), Alicante/EU Paydays For Me (Unproductive, Corrupt Official)
2025-06-12 EPO: Neglecting Children to Promote American Monopolies by Shielding Them From European Competition
2025-06-12 Our Priority is Still Tackling Software Patents and Corruption in Patent Offices
2025-06-12 "The Liberating Power of Simply Telling People the Truth."
2025-06-12 EPO's Central Staff Committee (CSC) Scrutinises the Man Who Illegally Grants (and Forces Others to Illegally Participate in Granting) Software Patents in Europe
2025-06-12 EPO's Gareth Lord Asked About "Quality and Productivity" or, Put Another Way, Why the EPO Keeps Granting So Many Invalid/Illegal Patents
2025-06-12 Links 12/06/2025: Portland Homeless Deaths Quadruple, COVID Cases Surge in Asia
2025-06-13 The Price of Exposing Corruption in Poland (and Elsewhere)
2025-06-14 Throwing Money at Lawyers Can't Stop Us (It Never Did)
2025-06-16 The EPO, Europe's Largest Patent Office, Admits Outsourcing to Microsoft Slop
2025-06-16 Microsoft's "FUD-as-a-Service" (Against Linux) Not Functioning Well
2025-06-18 Links 18/06/2025: SCOTUS Decision on Fentanylware (TikTok) Still Ignored, 4.5-Day Work Weeks
2025-06-21 Formalities Officers (FOs) at the EPO Are in Trouble, Reveals Internal Report
2025-06-21 The Microsoft OOXML Modus Operandi: Throw 1,000 Pages of Other People's Work for a Judge to Read Ahead of a One-Hour Meeting
2025-06-22 Links 22/06/2025: More Slop Lawsuits (Copyrights) and "America’s Oligarch Problem"
2025-06-22 New Report From the EPO's Staff Representatives in The Hague (LSCTH) Reveals Many Unsolved Issues
2025-06-22 Law Firms Facing the Consequences for Patently Abusive Litigation on Behalf of Microsoft Employees Who Got Arrested for Strangulation and Had Done Even Worse Things
2025-06-22 Links 22/06/2025: Windows TCO Tales and YouTube Getting More Hostile to Users
2025-06-23 Censorship is a Sign of Weakness Which Invites More Censorship Attempts
2025-06-23 Law Firm Burgess Mee Does Not Fully Deny Participating in Abusive Litigation for Serial Strangler From Microsoft
2025-06-24 The Days Are Getting Shorter, the First Half of 2025 is Almost Over
2025-06-25 Links 25/06/2025: Thwarting More Software Patents, Overlap Grows Between EPO Corruption and Illegal Kangaroo Patent Courts in EU
2025-06-25 Why Techrights Cannot be Vilified (and Instead It Gets SLAPPed Repeatedly by Microsoft People)
2025-06-26 EPO Squeezing the Staff - Part I - Burnout and Family Health
2025-06-26 Next Month Marks 11 Years Since Our In-Depth EPO Coverage
2025-06-26 EPO Squeezing the Staff - Part II - Office Breaks Rules, Ignores Courts, Defies Justice
2025-06-26 EPO Examiners Point Out to the Heads of Delegations in the Administrative Council of the EPO That the "AI Policy" of the Office is Illegal
2025-06-28 Links 28/06/2025: "CC Signals" Virtue-Signals to Slop Ponzi Schemes, North Korea Aims for Tourism
2025-06-28 Links 28/06/2025: Hardware/GPU Wars, GAFAM Throws Money (Borrowed Cash) at Hopeless Slop Pipe Dream
2025-06-29 Explaining the Full Story of SLAPPs From Microsoft Staff
2025-06-30 EPO Presentation Bemoans Misuse of Slop in Decision-Making on Patents and in Classification (Which is Likely Illegal Too)
2025-07-06 A Short History of Attacks on Techrights (and Boycott Novell Before That)
2025-07-09 Links 09/07/2025: War Updates and Microsoft Moving to India to Cut Costs
2025-07-09 Vice President of the European Patent Office (EPO) Complains That Techrights Gives Visibility to Legal and Technical Issues at the EPO
2025-07-10 Elodie Bergot Still Doing Illegal Things at the EPO, Based on the Local Staff Committee Munich
2025-07-10 Dan Neidle Said That Tax Evasion Facilitator Mr Zahawi (Working to Silence Bloggers Through Brett Wilson LLP) Targeted Not Only Him (But The Others Kept Quiet)
2025-07-10 The History and the Policy of the EPO's Stance on Breastfeeding (Corporate Monopolies Versus Babies' Health)
2025-07-10 Fixing Patents in Europe, Little by Little (by Transparency and Reporting of Suppressed Facts)
2025-07-11 EPO Management Already Breaks Its Own Promise (Lie) on "Bringing Teams Together"
2025-07-11 New Letter From the European Patent Office Explains How the Office Plots to Grant Many Illegal Patents, a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of 'Growth'
2025-07-11 Your Publications Have No Major Impact Unless or Until You "Get Some Heat"
2025-07-11 Microsoft - Like IBM - Does the "Relocation" Tricks (Start Over Elsewhere, Then Get Sacked by Microsoft)
2025-07-12 EPO Takes More Money From Staff for Speculation (Pensions), Actuarial Study Explains the Impact
2025-07-12 Adding the Voice of Writers to UK SLAPP Reform
2025-07-12 EPO Staff Committee on Harassment in the Workplace
2025-07-12 Links 12/07/2025: Birdwatching and Fake/Misleading Wall Street 'Valuation' Figures
2025-07-12 Links 12/07/2025: Jail in China for Homoerotica, South Korea Discriminates Against Old Workers
2025-07-12 Plunder at the Second-Largest Institution in Europe
2025-07-13 EPO Staff Representatives Issue a Warning About Staff's Health and Inadequate Care
2025-07-13 Reproducing at the EPO Instead of Producing Monopolies for Foreign Monopolies With Their Price-Fixing Cartels
2025-07-13 Microsoft Repeats the Mistakes Made by the EPO After We Exposed a Major Microsoft/EPO Scandal 10 Years Ago
2025-07-14 More EPO Leaks on the Way
2025-07-15 Cory Doctorow Explains Why Software Freedom Matters, Whereas "Open Source" Misses the Point and Helps Monopolies
2025-07-17 EPO Jobs Are Very Toxic and Bad for One's Health
2025-07-17 Honest Journalism About the European Patent Office Ceased to Exist After SLAPPs and Bribes to the Media
2025-07-19 The European Patent Office Cannot Attract Proficient Patent Examiners Who Master Their Domain
2025-07-20 Are You Served?
2025-07-21 Our Articles About SLAPPs Receive Recognition and Interest
2025-07-21 Using Free Software to Prepare Legal Documents
2025-07-21 Europe's Second-Largest Institution (EPO) and Largest Patent Monopoly Office Needs More Transparency, Not Less Transparency
2025-07-21 New Publication Sheds Lights on Abuse of Workers at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2025-07-21 LLM Bots vs Techrights
2025-07-22 Diplomatic Immunity Should Not Exist for Anybody
2025-07-22 No Compliance With the European Patent Convention (EPC) at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2025-07-23 Links 23/07/2025: Book Bans, Storms, and Kangaroo Court for Patents Commits More Unlawful Acts of Overreach
2025-07-23 It's Time to Dump SharePoint and Here's What to Use Instead
2025-07-23 EPO Crimes Are Spreading to the British Court System
2025-07-27 We're Going to Focus Less on the Molotov Cocktail-Throwing Microsofters and More on Patents
2025-07-27 The Week to Come
2025-07-30 Local Staff Committee Munich (LSCMN) at the European Patent Office (EPO) Requests an Urgent Meeting to Avoid Abolishing the Office
2025-07-30 Corruption is the Standard Operating Procedure at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2025-07-30 Links 30/07/2025: Climate Calamities Highlighted, Kyrgyzstan Crackdown on Expression/Freedoms
2025-08-01 Meeting (Webchat) With Maria Arranz Gomez, Florian Grundies, Jürgen Janda and Konstantinos Kortsaris Confronts EPO Management About Breaking Promises and Crushing Workers
2025-08-07 The Register MS Does More Microsoft Sez or GitHub Sez (Says) Pieces
2025-08-08 It's a Lot Easier to Participate in the Unethical System Than to Oppose Injustices in It
2025-08-09 Links 09/08/2025: Apollo 13 Astronaut Jim Lovell Dies, Slop Future Bleak
2025-08-12 As Europe Gets Increasingly Serious About Software Freedom and Digital Sovereignty It Needs to Enforce a Ban on Software Patents ASAP
2025-08-13 If Free/Libre Software is Adding Trillions in Value to the European Economy, Then the European Commission Must Crush Software Patents
2025-08-14 European Patent Office (EPO) Reformation Project
2025-08-15 "Article 52. PATENTABLE INVENTIONS" in the European Patent Convention
2025-08-16 Original European Patent Convention (EPC, 1973), Routinely Violated by the European Patent Office, Now in Geminispace
2025-08-16 Links 16/08/2025: Science Besieged, Confidentiality Standards Breached
2025-08-20 Microsoft Windows in Croatia at New Lows
2025-08-21 Links 21/08/2025: Covid Cases on the Rise, "Social Media Trolls", Russia's Attacks Intensify
2025-08-21 The Culture of Overnight Coding
2025-09-03 Many Microsoft "Assets" Are Fabricated Baloney (to Game the Numbers)
2025-09-03 Links 03/09/2025: Salesforce's Latest Mass Layoffs, 93% in Large Poll at The Register MS Say UK Government Should Dump Microsoft
2025-09-04 Links 04/09/2025: Science, Hardware, and Eyes on China
2025-09-05 Links 05/09/2025: Sainsbury's Caught Spying on In-Store Shoppers and Microsoft "OpenAI is Using Legal Threats to Harass its Critics"
2025-09-07 Not Much Left in News Cycles
2025-09-08 EPO Workers Point Out that the EPO is Destroying the Planet Under the Guise of "Hey Hi" (It Also Grants Many Invalid Patents Illegally
2025-09-13 Leak: European Patent Office (EPO) is Now Attacking Amicale Clubs
2025-09-13 European Corruption in the European Patent Office (EPO) Targets Culture
2025-09-13 Links 13/09/2025: Escalations in East Europe and POTUS’ Health Cover-Up
2025-09-15 EPO Imitates Microsoft: "Three Days or More Per Week" Inside the Office to Get a Desk to Work on; "the Office Breaches Its Promise Towards Staff and Acts in Breach of Its Duty of Care"
2025-09-15 Focusing on Patents
2025-09-15 Breach of EPO's Duty of Care or Cigna Reimbursement Issues
2025-09-15 Microsoft Won't Cooperate in Trying to Tackle EPO Corruption (Microsoft Profits From This Corruption)
2025-09-16 Serious "Breach of Confidentiality of Personal Data" in Europe's Second-Largest Institution, the EPO
2025-09-19 Links 19/09/2025: Lobbyist of American GAFAM Becomes Data Protection Commissioner in Europe
2025-09-19 European Patent Office Illegally Gutting and Outsourcing Its Functions, Acting Like an Above-the-Law Commercial Business (It Won't Stop at Formalities Officers (FOs) and Classification Slop at the EPO)
2025-09-20 Tentative Summary of Things to Publish in Project 2030
2025-09-24 Links 24/09/2025: Autism Blame-Shifting and Typhoon Ragasa Enters China
2025-09-25 Russia's Attack on Europe (and NATO) Will Worsen Censorship and Corruption in Europe
2025-09-26 Brett Wilson LLP Unwilling to Disclose or Explain How 'Hulk Hogan of UEFI' Pays for His SLAPPs Against Us (He Cannot Afford These), So We Are Escalating
2025-09-26 Links 26/09/2025: More Provocations Against NATO by Russia (Near Alaska, USA), Microsoft Booster Accenture Has Mass Layoffs
2025-09-27 Matthew J. Garrett Behaved in a Similar Fashion to 4Chan and Kiwi Farms
2025-09-29 Why the EPO Never Managed to Silence Us (After Over a Decade of Trying)
2025-10-02 Microsoft is Losing Europe
2025-10-03 Links 03/10/2025: Conflicts, Death of TypePad, and TikTok/CheeTok Gives a Boost to Far Right Groups in Europe
2025-10-03 Links 03/10/2025: "NPR’s Economics Lessons Come With Neoliberal Spin" and Canada Post at Risk
2025-10-03 How Software Patents Were Viewed or Their General Status Changed Over Time
2025-10-05 Software Patents as a Bubble
2025-10-07 The Power of Writing Down Facts
2025-10-10 Staying Happy in Times of Crackdowns on Civil Society
2025-10-13 Leaks and Whistleblowers: Our Plan for Today
2025-10-13 Breakdown of the Rule of Law and Patent Law in the European Union (EU)
2025-10-13 Richard Stallman to Give Public Talk in 3 Hours, Then in the Technical University of Munich (Germany) Next Week
2025-10-13 Investigative Journalism Protects Society From Corruption, Crimes Against Women, Assaults on Civil Society
2025-10-13 We'll Encourage Richard Stallman to Talk About Software Patents at the EPO Next Week When He Visits Munich (EPO Headquarters)
2025-10-13 Is the Second-Largest Institution in Europe (EPO) Gradually Becoming More Like a Sweatshop?
2025-10-13 The EPO's War on Techrights Was a Massive Mistake
2025-10-14 Taking Software Freedom 'Mainstream'
2025-10-14 They Generally Don't Like Scholars, as They're Less Compelled or Pressured to Repeat What Corporations and Oligarchs Say
2025-10-14 Central Staff Committee of the European Patent Office (EPO) Warns That EPO Management is Robbing or Manipulating Pension Funds Again
2025-10-14 EPO Staff Can Go Listen to Richard Stallman Next Week in Munich (Technical University of Munich, Rudolf-Diesel Hörsaal (MW2001) on Campus Garching at 18:00)
2025-10-14 Many Developers Have Many Political Views, They'll Never Agree on Everything
2025-10-15 The European Patent Office (EPO), the Second-Largest Institution in Europe, is Cracking Down on Recreational Activities
2025-10-15 [Teaser] Angel Aledo Lopez the Manipulator (Nepotism, Poll Rigging, and Other EPO Corruption)
2025-10-15 The EPO's Staff Engagement Survey 2025 is Already Tainted by Intimidation by EPO Management (Trying to Influence Outcomes by Scaring Genuine, Honest Critics)
2025-10-15 Links 15/10/2025: Qantas Airways Loses Control of Sensitive Data and Software Patents Are Being Thrown Out
2025-10-16 The Local Staff Committee Munich (Representation of the EPO's Staff) Explains When Cluster of Pregnancies May Result in Reduced Pay
2025-10-16 EPO Staff Representation Lacks Social Dialogue With Relevant Management, Controversial and Sometimes Illegal Policies Implemented Without Necessary Input
2025-10-17 The EPO's Central Staff Committee Presents Evidence That Staff Compensation Lowered While the Office Increases Income by Illegally Granting Invalid Patents
2025-10-17 Taking Stock of a Week's Worth of EPO Leaks
2025-10-17 Richard Stallman (RMS) is a Target of Defamation Campaigns Because of His Views on Software (But Politics Are the Excuse for Defaming Him)
2025-10-17 Links 17/10/2025: Better Answers Sought After Air Crashes, "China Fans Patriotic Sentiment as Trade War With U.S. Heats Up"
2025-10-18 Richard Stallman Confirms Next Week's Talk at Technical University of Munich, We Urge EPO Staff to Attend
2025-10-18 Richard Stallman Near the European Patent Office (EPO) in 3 Days From Now
2025-10-18 Links 18/10/2025: Russell Vought in Charge, US Government Leans to Russia Again
2025-10-19 Richard Stallman Back at the "Rudolf-Diesel" Hörsal "MW 2001" in About 40 Hours
2025-10-19 Today (a Day Before Richard Stallman Talk at TUM) There's a Patent Propaganda Event at TUM
2025-10-20 Counting Unhatched Eggs Is Not Counting Chickens
2025-10-21 Richard Stallman is Having a Good Week Already (Stallman Was Right About 'Clown Computing')
2025-10-21 Techrights to Publish More EPO Leaks Next Week
2025-10-21 Amazon Web Shenanigans Perfectly Timed for Today's Talk by Richard Stallman
2025-10-21 Links 21/10/2025: Even "Inventor of Vibe Coding" Rejects Vibe Coding, USPTO Experiments With Slop in Examination
2025-10-21 Progress on Techrights Site Search
2025-10-24 21 Pages in Less Than 7 Hours is No Joking Matter
2025-10-24 Links 24/10/2025: Inequality Grows, Billion-Dollar Scam Center Industry
2025-10-25 Links 25/10/2025: Two New Smokescreens for Scam Altman and ‘TikTok USA’ Remains in Limbo
2025-10-25 Week of EPO Leaks: Workers of the EPO Are Getting a Pay Cut While Prices Rise Fast
2025-10-27 The Cocaine Patent Office - Part I: António Campinos Brought Corruption and Nepotism to the EPO, Then Came the Cocaine
2025-10-27 Following the Line of Cocaine All the Way to the Top
2025-10-27 We Are Not a Conventional Site, That's Why They Hate (or Love) Us
2025-10-27 19 Years, No Censorship
2025-10-27 Our Latest European Patent Office (EPO) Series Will Last Several Weeks, Will Ask the EPO Management and the European Union (EU) Very Difficult Questions
2025-10-28 The Cocaine Patent Office - Part II: The Person Who Planted Paid-for Fake News for the European Patent Office (EPO) is a Cocaine User, Friend of António Campinos, Now on Record as Having Been Arrested
2025-10-28 Join Us Now and Share the News - Part I: Defence of the Truth
2025-10-29 How Will António Campinos Respond to the EPO's 'Cocainegate'?
2025-10-29 [Teaser] The EPO's Spokesperson, a Cocaine User, Fancies Young Women
2025-10-29 Techrights Party Countdown
2025-10-29 EPO Cocainegate: Feedback and Clarifications
2025-11-01 November is Here, Anniversary Party This Coming Friday
2025-11-01 Most of This Month Will Deal With EPO Scandals
2025-11-01 Why Does German Media Protect the EPO From Accountability for Cocaine?
2025-11-01 Still Catching Up, Daily Links a Top Priority
2025-11-01 The Cocaine Patent Office - Part III: European Patent Office Officials Cannot Claim False Identification
2025-11-02 Almost Fully Caught Up
2025-11-04 EPO Staff Losing Holidays, as Usual, as the Office Increases Profits by Illegally Granting Invalid Patents While Reducing Salaries
2025-11-04 Techrights Will Contact German Media About the EPO's Substance Abuse
2025-11-04 Holding Institutions Such as the EPO Accountable Through Public Information
2025-11-04 The Fall of IBM: What Happened?
2025-11-04 EPO Cocaine Chronicles: Our Aim Will be to Ensure This Becomes a Mainstream Media Topic, Not a Suppressed Scandal (Which the German State Deems Embarrassing and Detrimental to Its Pan-European Patent Franchise)
2025-11-04 Corporate Media That Fails to Report Cocaine at EPO is Totally Failing to Report Mass Layoffs at IBM
2025-11-04 Richard Stallman's 2005 Article on Why Patents on Software Should be Denied
2025-11-05 2 Days Until Site Anniversary Party, Search Likely to Launch Same Day
2025-11-05 Cocaine at the European Patent Office Now a Subject in YouTube, Media Will Revisit the Topic
2025-11-05 Starting November on a Strong Note
2025-11-05 Coming Soon: Part 4 About the EPO's Substance Abuse (Breaking Laws to Fake 'Production' and Profiting From Unlawful Monopolies)
2025-11-05 Links 05/11/2025: Economic Trouble in France and US Bombing All Over the World Without Declaration of War or Congress Approving
2025-11-06 Site Anniversary is Tomorrow
2025-11-06 Claim That EPO Quotas Brought Corruption and Mischief to Europe's Second-Largest Institution
2025-11-07 Entering Our 20th Year
2025-11-07 Coming Soon: More Proof of Cocaine Use at Europe's Second-Largest Institution
2025-11-07 News of Substance About the EPO's Substance Abuse (Cocaine)
2025-11-07 All We Want to See is Any Form of Accountability in Europe's Largest Institutions
2025-11-07 We Don't Compete, We Analyse and Report
2025-11-07 A 19th Anniversary and High-Impact Exclusives
2025-11-08 Voicing Concerns About European Patent Office (EPO) in Rijswijk
2025-11-08 An Old Story of Fraud at the EPO in the Netherlands (and How the Dutch Government Facilitated It)
2025-11-08 Daniel Pocock Explains Social Engineering in Debian and Other Communities Increasingly Controlled by "Barons"
2025-11-08 Our Launch of Techrights Search Has Been Successful (So Far)
2025-11-08 How German Media Covered Cocainegate at The European Patent Office (EPO)
2025-11-08 Links 08/11/2025: Technical and Financial GAFAM Woes and Arrests of Journalists by Despots
2025-11-09 This Coming Thursday EPO Staff Meets Online to Discuss the Salaries Going Down While Stoned Managers Increase Their Own
2025-11-09 Austrian Media Coverage of Luis Berenguer's (Top EPO Official) Getting Busted for Cocaine
2025-11-09 Giving Red Hat a Second Life and Second Chance: Drop the LLM Slop, Stop Publishing Promotion of LLMs or Text Made by LLMs
2025-11-09 Governments That Financially Benefit (Profit) From the EPO Have a Long History of Covering Up Fraud and Corruption at the EPO
2025-11-10 More Media Coverage From Austria Regarding Cocaine Use by EPO Management
2025-11-10 63-Page Response to the EPO's Effort to Decrease the Salaries of Workers While EPO Management Snorts Cocaine for 20,000 Euros a Month
2025-11-11 The Cocaine Patent Office - Part IV: European Patent Office to Come Under Media and Political Scrutiny
2025-11-11 Local Occupational Health, Safety and Ergonomics Committee (LOHSEC) in The Hague: Staff Representation Surprised at "Recent Changes in the Staffing of OHS Occupational Health Services (OHS)"
2025-11-11 The European Patent Office (EPO) is Still Hiding From Scandals
2025-11-12 The EPO's Own 'Drug Bust': Berenguer is Gone, But Who Else?
2025-11-12 The Second-Largest Institution in Europe (EPO) is Playing With Fire and Now It Puts the Largest One (EU) at Risk
2025-11-12 The EPO's Central Staff Committee Complains About the EPO's Management Faking "Production" (Monopolies) to Make More Money
2025-11-13 LLMs Will Never Work, You Need to Type What You Know
2025-11-13 Mainstream Media Compliments Techrights on Its Work
2025-11-13 Prominent German Media Dares Not Mention Cocaine at the European Patent Office, Germany's "Cash Cow" (Seller of Monopolies for the Whole of Europe)
2025-11-13 The EPO Has Spent Years Attacking European Media, Led by a Cocaine Addict (the EPO's Spokesperson)
2025-11-14 Our First Week of Our Twentieth Year
2025-11-14 The Europe Conversation: The EPO Has Cocaine at the High-Level Management and Isn't Denying It
2025-11-15 Annus Horribilis at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2025-11-15 BILD is Apparently Covering Up Cocaine Use at Europe's Second-Largest Institution, the European Patent Office, as It's Based on Germany
2025-11-16 Informing the Public of Suppressed Facts
2025-11-16 German Media and German Politicians: Working for the Public or Manipulating the Public?
2025-11-17 Germany-Based Focus Online is Apparently Covering Up Cocaine Use at Europe's Second-Largest Institution, the European Patent Office
2025-11-17 Plan for European Patent Office (EPO) Coverage This Month, Next Month, and Next Year
2025-11-17 Coming Soon: EPO Trip in Spain
2025-11-17 EPO General Consultative Committee (GCC) Agenda: Reduction of Staff's Salaries (Compared to Inflation)
2025-11-17 Spanish Focus Coming Soon and Maturity of Site Search
2025-11-18 Formalities Officers at the EPO Face Uncertain Future, Administration Gets Asked About That
2025-11-18 Right Under the Nose of Mainstream Media
2025-11-18 Links 18/11/2025: CISA Advisories, Climate, "U.S. Layoffs Surge and Blaming AI is Part of the Smokescreen"
2025-11-18 EPO Change May be Afoot, Keep Pushing and Hold Those Feet to the Fire
2025-11-19 The Media Explains to Us Why It's Dangerous to Cover EPO's "Cocainegate"
2025-11-19 Censorship Doesn't Always Work
2025-11-19 Luis Berenguer Giménez Claims to Still be at the EPO (European Patent Office), Even After His Replacement Following Cocaine Bust
2025-11-21 The Real EPO Scandals Are Corruption and Fraud by Officials Who Do Illegal Drugs
2025-11-21 The European Patent Office's Central Staff Committee Explains How Current Policy Deprives the EPO of "the Valuable Pool of Talent Already Available In-house"
2025-11-21 EPO 'Cocainegate' Coverage and What a Careless, Apathetic Administrative Council Would Mean to Europe (and to the EU)
2025-11-22 The "Mafia"
2025-11-22 Links 22/11/2025: Roblox Rolls Out Face Scans for Age Verification, Social Control Media Misused as Political Weapon Against EU and Others
2025-11-22 Abuses Women at the EPO, Uses His Daughters to Comfort His Big Ego Whilst EPO Breaks Laws
2025-11-23 Videos and Slides From the EPO's Staff Representatives Explaining Salary Decreases
2025-11-23 EPO: Turning Our Attention to Spain and the "Alicante Mafia" of António Campinos
2025-11-24 The News Industry Isn't Dying, It's Being Assassinated
2025-11-24 Spanish Blogs Covering EPO Abuses and EPO Management is 'Pulling a Marcos' After Cocainegate
2025-11-24 "Digital Sovereignty" Impossible in Europe as Long as Officials Are in the Pockets of American Companies
2025-11-25 EPO "Cocainegate" Cannot be Memory-holed
2025-11-25 European Monopolies Office (EPO) is Ignoring the Rule of Law, Appeals Committee (ApC) Ignored for the Dictator's Benefit
2025-11-25 Court's Decision Misused in Attempt to Hide Transphobia (Censoring Perfectly Factual Articles About One's Own Words, Made in Public)
2025-11-25 Links 25/11/2025: Probably No Water on Mars, China Launches Shenzhou-22 Spacecraft Today
2025-11-26 At the European Patent Office (EPO) High-Level Managers on Cocaine Are Apparently Allowed to Take Fake 'Sick Leave' and Collect Payments While Doing Nothing
2025-11-26 If European Media Refuses to Even Mention European Patent Office (EPO) Cocainegate, It'll Say More About European Media Than About EU Institutions Like EUIPO (and EPO)
2025-11-26 IBM Insiders Say That IBM is Outsourcing to "AI" But in Reality It's Actually Offshoring to India
2025-11-26 Why We Focus on the EPO and IBM So Much
2025-11-27 Workers of the European Patent Office (EPO) Have an "Industrial Action Plan"
2025-11-27 Our Firm Commitment to the Courageous Whistleblowers of the European Patent Office (EPO)
2025-11-27 What Happened to the Media and the Press?
2025-11-27 Investing in Speech
2025-11-27 Workers of the European Patent Office (EPO) Explain Why They Might Soon Go on Strike (It's Not Just About Money)
2025-11-28 EPO Wasting Energy and Violating Data Protection Rules With American Slop Suppliers
2025-11-28 When It Comes to "Buy Nothing Day", TV Stations Have Shown Who Their True Masters Are
2025-11-28 Links 28/11/2025: Apple and Plagiarism, US Government 'Selling' Europe Down the River
2025-11-28 Two Months Since EPO Cocaine Bust and One Month Since We Began Covering It, Still a Cowardly Media Establishment Refusing to Cover What It Admits to be True
2025-11-28 We Really Didn't Want to 'Bash' the Media
2025-11-28 Selective Enforcement, Selective Media Coverage - Part I - This Helps Prove That German Media/Press is Intentionally Covering Up EPO Corruption and Even Substance Abuse
2025-11-29 Links 29/11/2025: Hey Hi (AI) Textbooks Disaster, Talk About Fraudulent Accounting in "AI" Companies, 'Open' 'AI' Needs "Miracle" to Avert Bankruptcy
2025-11-29 Selective Enforcement, Selective Media Coverage - Part II - A Nose for the 'Wrong' EPO Drug Story
2025-11-29 Tomorrow We'll Explain How the Media in Europe Failed EPO Stakeholders, Including EPO Workers Victimised by "the Mafia"
2025-11-30 Asking Spanish-Speaking Techrights Readers to Contact Spanish Journalists Regarding the "Alicante Mafia" (and EPO Cocainegate)
2025-11-30 Gossip or Rumours Say Another Large Wave of IBM Layoffs Starts in the New Year
2025-12-01 Preparing for Potential Pre-Christmas Staff Strike at the European Patent Office (EPO)
2025-12-01 Call for Media Awareness and Action Bears Fruit, European Patent Office (EPO) Has a History of Contempt for the Media (Also: the EPO's Communication Chief Does Cocaine)
2025-12-01 "Investigate Europe" Should Investigate Europe's Second-Largest Institution, the EPO
2025-12-01 German and Austrian Media Publishers Need to Cover European Patent Office (EPO) Scandals Because the EPO Has 3 'Branches' There (75% of Everything in Europe)
2025-12-01 Short Survey of Past Media Coverage About Campinos, EUIPO, and a Call for Action on EPO Press Coverage
2025-12-02 "The Mafia" at the EPO Now Attacks Staff That Points Out Misconduct at the EPO
2025-12-02 Attempts to Censor People Are a Sign That Arguments Were Lost, Gagging the Opposition Attempted Instead
2025-12-02 Keep the Pressure Up at Europe's Second-Largest Institution, the EPO
2025-12-03 New Year's Resolutions 4 Weeks Ahead of 2026
2025-12-03 The Next Stages of EPO Coverage (and Why That Matters)
2025-12-03 Links 03/12/2025: "Disastrous Hey Hi (AI)", Breaches of Confidentiality, and "Global Democratic Recession"
2025-12-04 Links 04/12/2025: "People Hooked on [Slop] Far Are More Likely to Experience Mental Distress", Monopolies in Europe, and "Blogging Makes Me Feel Like A Worse Writer"
2025-12-05 EPO: What Comes Next
2025-12-05 Techrights Publication Pace to Increase Next Year
2025-12-05 Does This Pass the NDA "Sniff Test" at IBM?
2025-12-05 The Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation Has More Reasons Than Cocainegate to Vote for Real Change in the European Patent Office
2025-12-06 Links 05/12/2025: More Restrictions on Social Control Media and Slop, "Hype Can Turn to Backlash"
2025-12-06 EPO Call for Action: Get Ready to Contact Your National Delegates, We Need to Remind Them That They Represent People
2025-12-06 Why (and When) I Become an 'Activist' Against Corruption and Abuse
2025-12-06 Why We'll Continue Our IBM/Red Hat Focus in 2026
2025-12-06 European Readers, Get Ready to Contact Your National Representatives (Delegates) in the EPO's Administrative Council
2025-12-06 European Patent Office Issues: Points to Raise or Factoids to Share With Delegates of the EPO's Administrative Council
2025-12-06 Contact Your National Representatives (Delegates) at the EPO, Here Are All the E-mail Addresses
2025-12-08 Over at Tux Machines...
2025-12-08 Open Letter to the Administrative Council of the EPO Calls For Action as Salaries Decrease (Just Like Patent Validity)
2025-12-08 Monsieur Claude Sahl, Part of the Administrative Council of the EPO (Which Fails to Administer the EPO), Has Been There For Over 30 Years
2025-12-09 Tomorrow the EPO Administrative Council is Meeting to Discuss the EPO, Contact Your National Representative Today
2025-12-09 Linux Foundation Has Found a New Business: Pyramid Schemes
2025-12-10 New EPO Series: Mafia Culture, Mobbing, Nepotism, and Illegal Drugs
2025-12-10 The Boundaries of Criticism
2025-12-10 Valuing One's Work by the Effort or Budget Taken to Undermine It
2025-12-10 Almost a Thousand EPO Workers Have Voted for Industrial Action
2025-12-10 It's Not Too Late to Send an E-mail to Your European Representative Regarding European Patent Office Abuses
2025-12-10 EPO People Power - Part I - Identifying Corruption
2025-12-10 EPO People Power - Part II - Talking About Corruption
2025-12-10 Keeping Up the Pressure on EPO Management
2025-12-11 The Flawed Notion of Criticising for Criticism's Sake
2025-12-11 EPO People Power - Part III - Challenging Corruption
2025-12-11 EPO People Power - Part IV - Sexism, Chauvinism, and Lines of Cocaine at Europe's Second-Largest Institution
2025-12-11 In Addition to National Delegates, Contact the French or Portuguese Governments (Politicians) Regarding António Campinos
2025-12-11 Keep on Pushing, EPO Management is in a State of Panic This Week
2025-12-11 We Need Your EPO Insider Stories
2025-12-12 Over at Tux Machines...
2025-12-12 EPO People Power - Part V - The European Media is Practically Dead When It Comes to Covering European Patent Office (EPO) Corruption
2025-12-12 New Paper Shows That EPO "Growth" is Dictated From Above, Not Earned (More Monopolies Granted by Breaking Rules, Laws, Conventions)
2025-12-12 EPO People Power - Part VI - Criticism Not Permitted, Media Subjected to Contempt by Cocaine Addicts Who Manage the Press for the EPO
2025-12-12 EPO People Power - Part VII - The Corporate Media and the Reference Sites (e.g. Wikipedia) Are Already Compromised and Complicit
2025-12-12 EPO People Power - Part VIII - The Chipmunk on Cocaine, Now Deleting Videos
2025-12-12 EPO People Power - Part IX - Insiders Say the EPO's Chief Propagandist Effectively Ousted (on Fake 'Sick Leave') Because of Reporting by Techrights
2025-12-12 IBM Layoffs in Europe as Well
2025-12-12 EPO People Power - Part X - Together, We Can Fix the EPO
2025-12-13 GAFAM is a Financial Problem and Sovereignty Risk, a Policy-Level (National Level) Boycott is Needed
2025-12-13 Dealing With "Tech Cults"
2025-12-13 EPO People Power - Part XI - The Media in Europe is Ill and Complicit in Ills
2025-12-13 Links 13/12/2025: Jimmy Lai and Media Freedom on Trial, "OpenAI Researcher Quits, Saying Company Hiding the Truth"
2025-12-15 EPO People Power - Part XII - The Mobbing Got So Bad People Were Unable to Work
2025-12-15 They Say Rules Are Made to be Broken, at Microsoft That Became an Imperative (e.g. Accounting Fraud, Bribery and So on)
2025-12-15 EPO People Power - Part XIII - If the EPO's Chief Propagandist (Berenguer) Told the Police He Was a Spanish Tourist (or Similar) or That He Does Not Reside in Munich, Then He May Have Lied to the Police (in Addition to Doing Cocaine in Public)
2025-12-15 Perpetuating the Lie of "No Red Hat Layoffs" Because of the Bluewashing (Red Hat Became Just "IBM")
2025-12-16 EPO People Power - Part XIV - EPO Management Living in Fantasy Land
2025-12-16 Publication Plans for the Coming Weeks
2025-12-17 Links 17/12/2025: User Data Compromised in SoundCloud and Efforts to Release Jimmy Lai for the 'Crime' of Journalism
2025-12-17 Getting Back on Top of Exclusive Articles, Leaks, Whistleblowing
2025-12-17 Links 17/12/2025: "Jimmy Lai’s Conviction Was Years in the Making" and "Pandemic Lockdowns Changed a Songbird’s Beak"
2025-12-18 EPO Coverage Will Resume When the Time is Right
2025-12-19 EPO Violates Laws to Profit More From Invalid Patents, Then Cuts the Budget Allocated to Staff
2025-12-19 The Cost of Being Influential
2025-12-19 Richard Stallman Explains Why Software Patents Are Really Bad and Very Much Unnecessary
2025-12-19 Nearly Three Months Have Passed Since EPO Cocainegate and the EPO's Management Still Refuses to Talk About It
2025-12-19 Why We Got Told by Insiders That Almost Everyone at EPO Reads Techrights and Many at IBM Track IBM RAs Via Techrights
2025-12-20 Impulsive Writing, Quotas, and Keeping Things as Concise as Feasible
2025-12-20 Links 20/12/2025: Microsoft Ruins Televisions, 'Epstein Files' Deeply Sanitised (to Protect Particular Culprits)
2025-12-21 25 Years of Activism for GNU/Linux
2025-12-22 Productive Year and Better Access to Techrights' Archives Going Back to 2006
2025-12-22 "Wrestling With Pigs"
2025-12-23 Techrights as 'Regulator' Against Runaway Trains
2025-12-23 A Good End for a Fine Year
2025-12-24 Maybe 2026 Will be the Last Year of António Campinos
2025-12-25 EPO People Power - Part XV - EPO Cocainegate to Resume This Weekend
2025-12-25 The EPO is a Very Vicious Organisation You Neither Wish to Join Nor Stay in for "Too Long"
2025-12-26 Why People Love Techrights (and Also Loved "Boycott Novell")
2025-12-26 A Dark Side of Europe
2025-12-27 Resuming EPO Coverage Today, Can António Campinos 'Survive' Cocainegate?
2025-12-27 Challenges for EPO Insiders to Try to Tackle in 2026
2025-12-27 EPO People Power - Part XVI - Berenguer Does Not Speak German, So What Did He Tell German Police That Busted Him?
2025-12-28 EPO People Power - Part XVII - Drugged, Stoned, and Drunk at the Office During Working Hours (Campinos Friend and Propaganda Chief Has Long Done This)
2025-12-28 2026 Will Have EPO Focus, People Will See What the EPO is Trying to Hide
2025-12-29 EPO People Power - Part XVIII - European Patent Office "Paints Itself as Progressive While Literally Being Represented by Cokeheads"
2025-12-29 "EU's reform agenda threatens to erase a decade of digital rights"
2025-12-30 EPO People Power - Part XIX - "Berenguer Has Known of Campinos' Substance Abuse First Hand For a Long Time"
2025-12-31 EPO People Power - Part XX - Why António Campinos Chose to Put His Cokehead Friend on 'Sick Leave'
2025-12-31 Dr. Andy Farnell Explains Why Chatbots Became Dishonesty on Top of Dishonesty (Hiding Usage of Dishonest Salads of Words)
2026-01-01 Another Very Productive Year Commences
2026-01-01 EPO People Power - Part XXI - Europe's Second-Largest Institution Became a Corrupt For-Profit Company Run by Drug Addicts
2026-01-01 A New Year's Resolution: Maximal Transparency
2026-01-02 EPO People Power - Part XXII - Contact Officials and Inform Your National Representatives (Delegates) of the EPO's Cocainegate
2026-01-02 Why IBM Workers Like Techrights (Same Reason EPO Workers Do)
2026-01-03 EPO People Power - Part XXIII - António Campinos Knows He's Extremely Vulnerable at This Time
2026-01-03 A Year of Relaxation, But Also of Hardcore Whistleblowing
2026-01-03 New Record High for GNU/Linux in Benelux in 2026
2026-01-04 EPO People Power - Part XXIV - Today or Tomorrow You Should Write to National Representatives (Delegates) at the EPO in Your Country
2026-01-05 "The European Patent Reform" That Represents a Gross Violation of Laws, Constitutions, and Conventions (in Order to Make the Rich Even Richer, Mostly Outside Europe)
2026-01-05 EPO People Power - Part XXV - While EPO Managers Snort Cocaine the Staff Compiles 'Insurance Files' to Expose EPO Corruption
2026-01-05 Whistleblowing is About Understanding Boundaries and Risks
2026-01-05 Battles Are Won in the Court of Public Opinion
2026-01-06 EPO People Power - Part XXVI - European Media Has Become Part of the Problem
2026-01-07 EPO People Power - Part XXVII - Science- and Principles-First Journalism About Issues That Matter
2026-01-08 EPO People Power - Part XXVIII - A Sensitive Issue for Germany and The Netherlands