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
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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