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Andrei Iancu

Andrei Iancu is the Director of the USPTO. He was mentioned in the following articles.

  • 08.26.17 Donald Trump Wants a Patent Maximalist in Charge of the USPTO
  • 08.28.17 Further Scrutiny of Andrei Iancu Shows That He’s on Both Sides of Troll Battles and PTAB Battles
  • 08.31.17 Trump’s USPTO Nominee is a Supporter of Software Patents
  • 11.28.17 Wilbur Ross, Connected to Putin’s Direct Family, Puts Iancu (Patent Microcosm) in Charge of the USPTO
  • 11.30.17 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby is Already Pushing for the USPTO to Help Make Patent Trolls “Great Again”
  • 12.10.17 Next Director of the USPTO Parrots Talking Points of Patent Extremists and Their Lobbyists
  • 12.17.17 Andrei Iancu in Charge of the United States Patent Office (USPTO) Would be a Patent Microcosm Coup
  • 12.25.17 US Senate Still Has Time to Reject the Patent Microcosm’s Andrei Iancu
  • 01.21.18 IAM Together With Its Partner, IIPCC, is Lobbying the USPTO to Crush PTAB and Restore Patent Chaos
  • 01.28.18 With the Heritage Foundation Getting Involved and Andrei Iancu Potentially Appointed on Monday, the Road Ahead Looks Troubling for Patents
  • 02.01.18 Patent Sharks Hope to Regain Control of the US Patent System With Iancu Appointment Likely Just 4 Days Away
  • 02.04.18 USPTO May Get a New Director Tomorrow, But It’s Not Good News
  • 02.06.18 Andrei Iancu’s Firm Has a History Working With Trump, But Senate Says OK to Him Becoming USPTO Director
  • 02.11.18 As Andrei Iancu Takes Office (USPTO) Calls to Preserve PTAB Are Issued by Trade Groups of Technology Firms
  • 02.13.18 Microsoft-Connected Patent Trolls, Xerox, and Andrei Iancu
  • 02.13.18 The Campaign to Subvert the US Patent Office by Misrepresenting Its Successes
  • 03.13.18 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby (IAM) Already Pressures Andrei Iancu, Inciting a USPTO Director Against PTAB
  • 03.24.18 The Patent Maximalists Already Pressure USPTO Director Andrei Iancu to Say the ‘Right’ Things
  • 04.05.18 Oil States is a Lost Cause for Enemies of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB); Now They Push Droplets v Iancu Instead
  • 04.19.18 The Patent Microcosm, Patent Trolls and Their Pressure Groups Incite a USPTO Director Against the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and Section 101/Alice
  • 04.21.18 As USPTO Director, Andrei Iancu Gives Three Months for Public Comments on 35 U.S.C. § 101 (Software Patenting Impacted)
  • 04.24.18 Patent Maximalists Step Things Up With Director Andrei Iancu and It’s Time for Scientists to Fight Back
  • 05.13.18 The Patent Microcosm is ‘Snookering’ Andrei Iancu on PTAB Deforms and Broadest Reasonable Interpretation (BRI), Amongst Other Things
  • 08.06.18 Attributing Negligible Differences to Whatever Suits the Loudest Opponents of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)
  • 09.05.18 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
  • 10.20.18 Unified Patents Demolishes Some More Notorious Patent Trolls and Offers Bounties to Take Down More of Them
  • 10.26.18 On PTAB, Andrei Iancu is to the Patent Litigation Giants What Ajit Pai is to Big Telecom (Former Employers)
  • 11.05.18 HTIA and CCIA — Two Front Groups of Technology Companies — Are Very Unhappy About Andrei Iancu’s Support for Patent Trolls
  • 11.11.18 Andrei Iancu and Laura Peter Are Two Proponents of Patent Trolls at the Top of the USPTO
  • 12.02.18 Patent Trolls, USPTO Director Andrei Iancu and Section 101
  • 12.13.18 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions Still Uncontroversial Unless One Asks the Patent Maximalists
  • 02.12.19 USPTO Director Iancu Works for Anti-SCOTUS (Against Section 101) Lobbyists
  • 03.13.19 In the Age of Trumpism EFF Needs to Repeatedly Remind Director Iancu That He is Not a Judge and He Cannot Ignore the Courts
  • 03.31.19 Technology Groups Implore the Deplorable Patent Office of Iancu and Trump
  • 04.03.19 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


  • 01.24.18 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
  • 02.14.18 Andrei Iancu Begins His USPTO Career While Former USPTO Director (and Now Paid Lobbyist) Keeps Meddling in Office Affairs
  • 04.29.18 Patent Maximalists Are Using SAS Institute v Iancu to Distract From Their Epic Defeat in the Vastly More Important Oil States
  • 05.13.18 The Supreme Court’s SAS Decision and the Race/Campaign to Undermine PTAB With Iancu’s Help
  • 05.28.18 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and Patent Reform (AIA) Generally Too Popular to Stop, But Patent Law Firms Helped by Andrei Iancu Keep Trying
  • 06.24.18 Even After SAS Institute, Inc. v Iancu (Decision on PTAB) There’s No Stopping the Crackdown on Bogus US Patents
  • 09.25.18 Technology Groups and Innovators Bemoan Attempts to Override the Courts to Promote Patent Maximalists’ Agenda by USPTO Director Andrei Iancu
  • 09.26.18 Director Iancu and President Campinos Both Serve the Litigation ‘Industry’ Instead of Science and Technology
  • 10.08.18 The Federal Circuit Continues to ‘Lecture’ the Patent Office on Patent Scope and Limits, But Iancu Isn’t Listening
  • 10.08.18 U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Under Andrei Iancu Subjected to an Assault on Patent Quality
  • 10.14.18 USPTO FEES Act/SUCCESS Act Gives More Powers to Director Iancu, Supplying Patents for Litigation ‘Business’ and Embargo (ITC)
  • 10.16.18 Judge-Bashing Tactics, Undermining PTAB, and Iancu’s Warpath for the Litigation and Insurance ‘Industries’
  • 10.24.18 The Patent Microcosm is Trying to Derail Patent Reform and Make Iancu the ‘American Battistelli’
  • 10.29.18 USPTO Under Iancu: Making Patents Low Quality (Again)
  • 11.05.18 The USPTO Under Director Andrei Iancu Actively Disses the Courts and Attacks Fundamental Patent Law
  • 01.06.19 As Expected, Director Iancu Tries to Water Down the Examiners’ Guidance in Revised Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Document
  • 03.18.19 Director Iancu Generally Viewed as a Lapdog of Patent Trolls


  • 08.29.17 Virtually the Whole Technology Sector Supports PTAB, But Dennis Crouch Supports Patent Trolls and Bullies Instead
  • 09.03.17 Media Hostility Towards Patent Reform in the US, Software Patents on the Chopping Block
  • 09.12.17 Patent Maximalism Duo: Watchtroll and Patently-O Now Conjoined and Mutually Referencing One Another
  • 09.17.17 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Under Attack by IBM and Other Patent Parasites Who Undermine Patent Quality
  • 09.23.17 The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Gradually Champions Patent Quality, in a Spectacular Reversal on Its Past Ways
  • 09.24.17 Fake News About Software Patents in the United States
  • 11.04.17 Put Matal in Charge of the USPTO Permanently
  • 11.07.17 Putting Radicals and Foes of Technology in Charge of Patents
  • 11.12.17 The USPTO’s Joe Matal (Interim Director) Sounds Serious About Improving the Patent Quality and Services
  • 12.03.17 IAM in Think Tank Mode Promotes Patent Maximalism, Characteristically Sponsored by the Patent Microcosm
  • 02.10.18 The Chamber of Corporations, Together With the Trolls’ Lobby, Resorts to Alarmist Propaganda in an Effort to Alter Patent Policy
  • 02.10.18 China’s Patent Policy Helps Chinese Oligarchs and Creates a Large Litigation ‘Industry’ Which Protects the Oligarchy
  • 02.10.18 The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) Speaks Out in Support of Patent Quality and AIA/PTAB in the United States
  • 02.15.18 IBM is Getting Desperate and Now Suing Microsoft Over Lost Staff, Not Just Suing Everyone Using Patents
  • 02.20.18 Japan Demonstrates Sanity on SEP Policy While US Patent Policy is Influenced by Lobbyists
  • 03.06.18 The European Patent Office is Buying ‘Alternative Facts’ and Its Annual Report Will be More of the Same
  • 03.10.18 IAM Only Ever Seems Happy When There’s Patent Aggression and Patent Trolls
  • 03.11.18 We Shall Soon Find Out Where Trump Appointees Such as Neil Gorsuch Stand on Patent Policies
  • 03.11.18 Trump’s USPTO Changes Patent Designs, Changes Director/Deputy Director, and Anticipat ‘Ranks’ Patent Examiners Based on How They Deal With Section 101
  • 03.18.18 PTAB Hatred is So Intense Among the Patent ‘Industry’ That Even Scammers Are Hailed as Champions If They Target PTAB
  • 03.19.18 Patent Maximalists Keep Coming Up With New Terms and Buzzwords to Bypass the Practical Ban on Software Patents
  • 04.01.18 Anonymous USPTO Whistleblower Explained Internal Management Affairs Last Month
  • 04.07.18 The Anti-PTAB Brigade is Willing to Embrace Radical Elements Just to Get Its Way
  • 04.11.18 USPTO Will Have a Crisis of Legitimacy If Its Officials Work as Lobbyists and Cooperate With Villainous Think Tanks
  • 04.12.18 The USPTO Has a Nepotism and Lobbying Problem That Jeopardises the Rationality of US Patent Law
  • 04.15.18 IAM, Patently-O and Watchtroll (the Patent Trolls’ Lobby) Try to Stop Patent Oppositions/Petitions (PTAB)
  • 04.19.18 The Boards of Appeal at the European Patent Organisation (EPO) Complain That They Are Understaffed, Not Just Lacking the Independence They Depend on
  • 04.19.18 To Understand Why People Say That Lawyers are Liars Look No Further Than Misleading Promotion of Software Patents
  • 04.22.18 In Maxon v Funai the High ‘Patent Court’ (CAFC) Reaffirms Disdain for Software Patents, Which Are Nowadays Harder to Get and Then Defend
  • 04.24.18 Quick Mention: As Expected, the US Supreme Court Cements PTAB’s Role With Trump-Appointed Gorsuch Dissenting
  • 04.26.18 Reporting Benoît Battistelli Before He Too ‘Pulls a Željko Topić’
  • 04.29.18 When You Cannot Win the Case Attack the Judge and Say the Decision is Wrong
  • 04.29.18 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Lives on and People Whom Patents Were Conceived for (Not Lawyers) Are Happy
  • 04.30.18 Like a Pack of Spoiled Brats, Patent Maximalists and Media That They Control Bash the Oil States Decision and Distract From It
  • 04.30.18 The Federal Circuit Bar Association (FCBA) Sets Up Stuffed/Stacked Panels About Oil States and SAS Institute
  • 05.01.18 One Week Later, as Expected, the Patent Trolls’ Lobby Continues to Moan About Oil States and Tries to Bring Another Challenge to PTAB (at the Supreme Court Level)
  • 05.01.18 The Software Patenting Hopefuls Still Hope to Convince Patent Examiners (or the USPTO’s Leadership) to Keep Granting Software Patents Which US Courts Repeatedly Reject
  • 05.06.18 The Board Continues to Leverage 35 USC § 101/Alice to Invalidate More and More Software Patents in the United States
  • 05.06.18 Alice/Section 101 and PTAB Continue to Eliminate Software Patents While Patent Lawyers Attempt to Distract From Oil States (US Supreme Court’s Decision)
  • 05.08.18 Forward Pharma an Example of the Devastating Effect of Granting Patents in Error — A Problem Appeal Boards Must Correct
  • 05.13.18 The Evil, Truly ‘Evil’ Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and the Courts Have the Audacity to Verify/Disprove Patent Validity
  • 05.13.18 Three Weeks After Oil States the Patent Microcosm Has Already ‘Buried’ the Subject and 35 U.S.C. § 101 is Under Threat
  • 05.15.18 The Anti-PTAB (Patent Quality), Anti-§ 101 Lobby is Losing Its Mind and It Has Become Amusing to Observe
  • 05.19.18 LOT Network is a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
  • 05.20.18 The Attacks on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Have Lost Momentum and the Patent Microcosm Begrudgingly Gives Up
  • 05.22.18 Chamber of Commerce Lies About the United States Like It Lies About Other Countries for the Sole Purpose of Patent Maximalism
  • 05.24.18 Stupid Blogs, Stupid Lawsuits, and Stupid Patents
  • 05.27.18 The Patent Extremists Resort to Trump-Styled China-Baiting in an Effort to Destroy US Patent Policy
  • 05.27.18 Letting the USPTO Decide on Fees Would Lead to a ‘Battistelli Scenario’
  • 05.28.18 Microsoft and Its Patent Trolls Face an Uphill Battle in a Patent System Which is Increasingly Hostile Towards Software Patents
  • 05.28.18 Supreme Court Justices and 35 U.S.C. § 101 Are Fixing the USPTO, Voiding ‘Fake Patents’
  • 05.28.18 Companies Now Have the Incentive to Remove/Move All Operations Out of the Eastern District of Texas (If Not Texas in General)
  • 06.02.18 US Antitrust Official Makan Delrahim Encourages Parasitic Patent Behaviour — Not Just Embargoes — in the Phones Domain and Beyond
  • 06.03.18 Finnegan, IAM and Other Proponents of Patent Trolls Try to Dominate the Debate About Patent Scope and Oversight
  • 06.03.18 The Patent Microcosm is Spinning Berkheimer Again, Hoping to Compel Politicians to Undermine Section 101 and Promote Software Patents
  • 06.03.18 Watchtroll Continues to Attack Officials Who Favour Technology Over Law Firms and This Time Zoe Lofgren is the Target
  • 06.04.18 The Only Way to Improve Patent Certainty in the US is to Improve Patent Quality, Not to Lower It
  • 06.07.18 Today, at the Expense of Millions (€) of EPO Budget, Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos Engage in Shameless Self Promotion
  • 06.09.18 Shawn Ambwani (Unified Patents) Refutes the US Chamber of Commerce on Patents, But the Patent Trolls’ Lobby (IAM) Uses Him to Trot Out Yet More Misleading Propaganda
  • 06.10.18 Still ‘Pulling a Berkheimer’ Almost 4 Months Down the Line
  • 06.10.18 Deception on § 101/Alice Continues, Courtesy of Firms That Are Making Money From Worthless (Bunk) Software Patents
  • 06.10.18 Growth in Petitions Against Questionable Patents (PTAB IPRs) and Patent Trolls’ Migration to China
  • 06.12.18 PTAB Carries on Undeterred and Unabated, Courts Are Becoming Less Tolerant of Low-Quality Patents
  • 06.12.18 IPBC, a Patent Trolls-Funded Event of IAM, is Advancing the Attacks on Section 101/Alice
  • 06.14.18 IAM Concludes Its Latest Anti-§ 101 Think Tank, Featuring Crooked Benoît Battistelli
  • 06.15.18 The ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI) Hype, Propped Up by Events of the European Patent Office (EPO), is Infectious and It Threatens Patent Quality Worldwide
  • 06.15.18 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
  • 06.17.18 Patent Marketing Disguised as Patent ‘Advice’
  • 06.17.18 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
  • 06.23.18 Somewhat Underwhelming Reception for US Patent Number 10,000,000 (Which Actually Isn’t)
  • 06.24.18 Stronger Patents or None at All: How the Greed of Patent Law Firms and the Patent Office Contributes to Bogus Software Patents Being Amassed
  • 06.24.18 The Dangerous Adoption of Patents on Life and Nature
  • 06.24.18 Patent Extremism — Like All Extremes — Leads to Bad Outcomes
  • 07.01.18 PTAB Agrees With Patent Examiners on Rejections of Applications Based on Alice/Section 101, But Watch Out for the Spin
  • 07.02.18 Patent Law Firms Have Become Debased and Intolerant of Courts/Judges, Just Like EPO Management
  • 07.12.18 The Anti-35 U.S.C. § 101 Lobby Pushes Old News Into the Headlines in an Effort to Resurrect/Protect Software Patents
  • 07.17.18 What Patent Lawyers Aren’t Saying: Most Patent Litigation Has Become Too Risky to be Worth It
  • 07.17.18 PTAB and § 101 (Section 101) Have Locked the Patent Parasites Out of the Patent System
  • 07.19.18 Some US Patents’ Quality is So Low That There’s a Garden Clearance/Fire Sale
  • 07.21.18 Federal Circuit Judges Moore, Dyk and Reyna Tell Allergan That It is Not Above the Law
  • 07.25.18 Patent Microcosm and New USPTO Director Against Patent Quality Assurance
  • 08.02.18 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and Federal Circuit (CAFC) Both Smeared (Judge-Bashing Tactics) for Correctly Applying Patent Law as They See Fit
  • 08.02.18 The Number of Granted US Patents is Declining and Transparency in Patent Courts is Improving
  • 08.05.18 The Anti-PTAB Lobby Still Predicting Doom and Gloom, as Usual, Despite PTAB’s Year-Over-Year Growth
  • 08.05.18 Ericsson’s Wi-Fi Patent Thicket and Patent Trolls Like Sisvel Harm the Smallest Players in the Market
  • 08.07.18 PTAB Needs to Expand and Become More Accessible to More Challengers of Wrongly-Granted Patents
  • 08.11.18 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
  • 08.14.18 Berkheimer Changed Nothing and Invalidation Rates of Abstract Software Patents Remain Very High
  • 08.14.18 Patent Lawyers Writing Patent Law for Their Own Enrichment Rather Than for Innovation
  • 08.16.18 USPTO Craziness: Changing Rules to Punish PTAB Petitioners and Reward Microsoft for Corruption at ISO
  • 08.18.18 David Ruschke, the PTAB’s Chief, is Moving So the Patent Maximalists Push Their Anti-PTAB Agenda
  • 08.19.18 Alice/35 U.S.C. § 101 and PTAB Are Here to Stay and Even Their Critics (Patent Maximalists) Have Come to Accept That
  • 08.25.18 The USPTO’s New Strategic Plan Should be to Keep Services Available and Actually Explain a Week’s Downtime
  • 08.26.18 Software Patents Are Not Coming Back, Those Are Mere Buzzwords That Mislead and Overcome Rejections But Cannot Fool Courts
  • 09.02.18 In the Post-Alice Era, in Spite of the Berkheimer Hype, the Patent Microcosm Finally Admits There’s No Turnaround
  • 09.02.18 The Patent Public Advisory Committee (PPAC) Needs to Instruct the Patent Office to Stop Treating Applicants as Customers/Clients
  • 09.03.18 RALIA, Inventor Protection Act, STRONGER Patents Act and Other Attacks on PTAB (Because It Raises the Patent Bar)
  • 09.03.18 Apple Suffers From Patent Trolls in the Eastern District of Texas Where Microsoft Uses Its Trolls (Connected to Intellectual Ventures) to Bully Apple, Linux/Android and Other Microsoft Rivals
  • 09.08.18 35 U.S.C. § 101 Squashes Already-Granted US Patents, Europe Needs Post-Grant Appeals to Accomplish the Same Because EPO Grants Software Patents
  • 09.08.18 Watchtroll is Attacking the Federal Circuit for the ‘Thoughtcrime’ of Pursuing Patent Quality
  • 09.09.18 The Battle Over PTAB Determines the Fate of Patent Quality in the United States
  • 09.12.18 Defending the World’s Most Notorious Patent Trolls in an Effort to Smear the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is an Utterly Poor Strategy
  • 09.16.18 Months After Oil States the Patent Maximalists Are Still Desperate to Crush PTAB in the Courts, Not Just in Congress and the Office
  • 09.17.18 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Helps Prevent Frivolous Software Patent Lawsuits
  • 09.28.18 In the EPO Under António Campinos and His Predecessor Battistelli Patents Can Almost be Presumed “Invalid” (in Courts)
  • 10.01.18 The USPTO is Hopeless, Unlike Patent Courts That Have Become the Target of Ridicule by the Patent ‘Industry’
  • 10.04.18 Microsoft’s Patent Trolls Are Alive and Well, Seeding Destruction Among Microsoft’s Competition
  • 10.08.18 In Spite of Campaigns Against It, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Squashes Software Patents by the Hundreds Per Month, Patent Maximalists Still Try to Stop It
  • 10.13.18 Quality of Patents Granted by the EPO is Still Low and Nobody Will Benefit Except Lawyers, Jubilant Over Growing Lenience on Software Patents
  • 10.14.18 Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Decides That USPTO Wrongly Granted Patents to Roche
  • 10.17.18 Improving US Patent Quality Through Reassessments of Patents and Courts’ Transparency
  • 10.25.18 The Litigation ‘Industry’ Pays the Media for ‘Sponsored’ (Paid-for) Articles That Sway Public Opinion on Patent Policy
  • 10.29.18 PTAB- And Court-Bashing USPTO Director Consistent With ‘Presidential’ Behaviour in Age of Donald Trump
  • 10.30.18 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Judges Oughtn’t Attend Patent Lawyers’ Echo Chamber Events Like the AIPLA Annual Meeting
  • 10.30.18 IBM- and Microsoft-Backed Patent Troll Strikes Again and IBM’s Lobbyist for Software Patents Has Just Defended Patent Trolls (Again)
  • 10.30.18 Donald Trump’s Choice of Leadership for the USPTO Means That Invalid Patents Continue to be Granted Only for Law Firms to Profit
  • 11.04.18 Arrivalstar (Now Shipping & Transit LLC) is Effectively Dead
  • 11.05.18 The US Patent and Trademark Office Continues Granting Abstract Software Patents Because of Buzzwords
  • 11.05.18 Blockchain Hype Exploited by the EPO and by Patent Law Firms to Wrongly Assert Free/Libre Software Can Coexist With Software Patents
  • 11.07.18 US Litigation Office: Former Judge From the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Leaves the Office as Another Litigator Enters as New Deputy Director
  • 11.08.18 Microsoft is Supporting Patent Trolls, Still. New Leadership at USPTO Gives Room for Concern.
  • 11.10.18 Pro-Litigation Front Groups Like CIPA and Team UPC Control the EPO, Which Shamelessly Grants Software Patents
  • 11.11.18 Automation of Searches Will Not Solve the Legitimacy Problem Caused by Patents Lust
  • 11.11.18 The Federal Circuit and PTAB Are Not Slowing Down; Patent Maximalists Claim It’s ‘Harassment’ to Question a Patent’s Validity
  • 11.12.18 The Federal Circuit Bar Association (FCBA) Will Spread the Berkheimer Lie While Legal Certainty Associated With Patents Remains Low and Few Lawsuits Filed
  • 11.15.18 Patent Maximalists Are Still Trying to Figure Out How to Stop PTAB or Prevent US Patent Quality From Ever Improving
  • 11.15.18 Ignoring and Bashing Courts: Is This the Future of Patent Offices in the West?
  • 11.19.18 The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Must Be Based on Justice, Not Profits
  • 11.20.18 Germany Likes EPO in Munich, Litigation Factory in Düsseldorf and Mannheim (Like Eastern District of Texas)
  • 11.25.18 Patents Are Not Property
  • 11.25.18 Opponents of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), People Who Profit From Litigation, Accuse PTAB of Horrible Things to Stir up Imaginary ‘Controversies’
  • 12.09.18 Good News: US Supreme Court Rejects Efforts to Revisit Alice, Most Software Patents to Remain Worthless
  • 12.10.18 Today’s USPTO Grants a Lot of Fake Patents, Software Patents That Courts Would Invalidate
  • 12.11.18 The EPO Not Only Abandoned the EPC But Also the Biotech Directive
  • 12.11.18 Number of Filings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Highest in Almost Two Years
  • 12.28.18 The Demise of Patent Trolls and Software Patents in the US Continued in 2018
  • 01.12.19 No, Software Patents Are Not Poised to Make a Comeback Under New US Patent Office Rules
  • 01.13.19 Only the Higher Courts — Not Trump’s ‘Poster Child’ — Can Bring Back Software Patents
  • 01.25.19 Declining Patent Quality and Lies About Software Patents at the EPO
  • 01.27.19 January Closes as Another Month (Among Many Months) of No Turnarounds on Software Patents
  • 02.06.19 EPO Boards of Appeal Still Need Independence
  • 02.07.19 Donald Trump’s ‘Swamp’ Inside the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is Not Obeying Courts, It’s Even Disregarding the Law
  • 02.09.19 EPO President Campinos Works With Patent Trolls and With Team UPC to Promote Software Patents
  • 02.12.19 Gross Violations of the EPC at the European Patent Office as Principal Priority Turns Against Science and Technology
  • 02.16.19 Nobody But Patent Trolls and Litigators Will Benefit From the Corruption of the European Patent Office
  • 02.17.19 Techrights’ Priorities Over the Years
  • 02.17.19 Courts in Disagreement: Warning on Wrongly-Granted European Patents and the Looming Collapse of All Software Patents in Europe
  • 02.19.19 What Happened in the United States Now Happens in Europe: Lots of Patents Turn Out to Be Bunk, Fake, Bogus, Invalid and Thus Worthless
  • 02.22.19 Software Patents Are in a Freefall in Courts Worldwide, But the EPO Keeps Granting and Promoting These
  • 02.22.19 Team UPC Excited Over Nothing, President Campinos Rarely Even Mentions UPC Anymore
  • 02.28.19 The US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) Will Waste No Time on Section 101. It Will, However, Waste Its Time on Obvious Patent Trolls.
  • 03.08.19 Immunity Stripped by the Supreme Court of the United States, Opening the Possibility of Ending Immunity of the EPO As Well
  • 03.08.19 Patent Law Firms Are Truly (and Visibly) Panicking Over the Demise of Software Patents
  • 03.10.19 Europe Will Pay a High Price for Software Patents Advocacy by António Campinos in Europe’s Patent-Granting Authority
  • 03.11.19 US Patent Law Currently Not Changing Much and Software Patents Are Still in Limbo
  • 03.12.19 Watchtroll Has Redefined “Trolls” to Mean Those Who Oppose Software Patents (and Oppose Trolls), Not Those Who Leverage These for Blackmail Alone
  • 03.14.19 EPO ‘Results’ Are, As Usual, Not Measured Correctly
  • 03.14.19 The EPO and the USPTO Are Granting Fake Patents on Software, Knowing That Courts Would Reject These
  • 03.15.19 Stopping António Campinos and His Software Patents Agenda (Not Legal in Europe) Would Require Independent Courts
  • 03.20.19 CEN and CENELEC Agreement With the EPO Shows That It’s Definitely the European Commission’s ‘Department’
  • 03.22.19 Why the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO) Cannot Ignore Judges, Whereas the EPO Can (and Does)
  • 03.24.19 Just Published: Irrational Ignorance at the Patent Office
  • 03.30.19 A March in Brussels Next Month, Disgruntled EPO Staff Invited
  • 04.03.19 The EPO Continues Granting Bogus Patents on Mathematics and Nature, But There’s Hope Over the Horizon
  • 04.04.19 EPO Management is Knowingly and Consciously Granting Invalid European Patents, Including Patents on Life and Nature
  • 04.06.19 3 Months Later (and Counting) Software Patents Remain Demolished in the United States
  • 04.08.19 Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) — Like MedTech at the EPO — Just Another Dodge for Illegitimate Software Patents
  • 04.11.19 EPO Still Wasting Budget, Paying Media and Academics for Spin
  • 04.12.19 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
  • 04.13.19 Further Decreasing Focus on Software Patents in the United States as They Barely Exist in Valid Form Anymore
  • 04.18.19 The US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) Once Again Pours Cold Water on Patent Maximalists
  • 04.20.19 Largest Patent Offices Try to Leave Courts in a State of Disarray to Enable the Granting of Fake Patents in the US and Europe
  • 04.22.19 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
  • 04.25.19 American Patent Courts Keep Narrowing Patent Scope, No Matter What Few Politicians Are Doing on Behalf of Litigation Firms and Patent Trolls
  • 04.27.19 The ‘Technical Effect’ of Attacking the Independence of Judges at the Boards of Appeal and Ignoring/Breaking the Law
  • 05.03.19 In the Courts, Where Patents Are Assessed Independently, Geeks Are Winning the Battle Against Parasitic Litigation Firms
  • 05.07.19 The EPO is a Threat to Software Developers Everywhere, Not Just in Europe
  • 05.09.19 Illegal Software Patents and Patent Trolls Well Served by European and American Patent Offices But Not Courts
  • 05.11.19 Making the Patent System About Productive Actors (Again), Not a Bunch of Law Firms and Trolls
  • 05.12.19 Professionally Incompetent EPO Management


  • 08.26.17 Links 26/8/2017: Audacious 3.9, Krita 3.2.1, Eolie 0.9.1, FreeBSD 10.4 Beta 2
  • 08.29.17 Links 29/8/2017: Bodhi Linux 4.3.0, FSFE’s Digital-O-Mat for Germany
  • 12.05.18 Links 5/12/2018: Epic Games Store, CrossOver 18.1.0, Important Kubernetes Patch
  • 12.25.18 Links 25/12/2018: Linux Kernel 4.20, Darktable 2.6 Released
  • 01.28.19 Links 28/1/2019: Linux 5.0 RC4, Microsoft Offends Mozilla
  • 02.05.19 Links 5/2/2019: Wine 4.1, Nanonote 1.1.0, openSUSE Board Elections
  • 02.16.19 Links 16/2/2019: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS, PyCharm 2019.1 EAP 4
  • 03.05.19 Links 5/3/2019: EasyOS Reviewed, Debian ‘Cloud’ Team
  • 03.14.19 Links 15/3/2019: Linux 5.0.2, Sublime Text 3.2
  • 04.02.19 Links 2/4/2019: Fedora 30 Beta, Django 2.2 Released
  • 04.04.19 Links 4/4/2019: Sparky 5.7.1 and AV Linux 2019.4.10 Released
  • 04.12.19 Links 12/4/2019: Mesa 19.0.2, Rust 1.34.0 and Flatpak 1.3.2 Released
  • 04.17.19 Links 17/4/2019: Qt 5.12.3 Released, Ola Bini Arrested (Political Stunts)
  • 04.19.19 Links 19/4/2019: PyPy 7.1.1, LabPlot 2.6, Kipi Plugins 5.9.1 Released
  • 05.03.19 Links 3/5/2019: Sparky 4.10, FuguIta 6.5, GCC 9.1
  • 05.09.19 Links 9/5/2019: Libinput 1.13.2 and man-pages-5.01
  • 05.15.19 Links 15/5/2019: More Linux Patches and More Known Intel Bugs
  • 05.16.19 Links 16/5/2019: Cockpit 194, VMware Acquires Bitnami, Another Wine Announcement and Krita 4.2.0 Beta
  • 05.19.19 Links 19/5/2019: KDE Applications 19.04.1 in FlatHub and GNU/Linux Adoption