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António Campinos



In 2017, after heavy involvement and lobbying by Benoît Battistelli, António Campinos (longtime acquaintance of Battistelli) became President-elect of the EPO. We had been writing about Campinos for a number of years before that. EPO staff representatives have alleged, as recently as spring of 2020, that with Campinos they're all back to the Battistelli era.

2023

  • Translating the Lies of António Campinos (EPO)
  • The Photo Ops Festival of the Funky President António Campinos and Revolt From the Patent Examiners Whom He Perpetually Oppresses
  • António Campinos is Unable to Recruit Patent Examiners, Europe's Largest Patent Office in State of Crisis
  • EPO Central Staff Committee Says António Campinos Became Like Benoît Battistelli After 4 Years at the Office ('Lost From Sight')
  • Meme: António Campinos Wants to Be F***ing President Until 2028


  • 2022

  • EPO President António Campinos 'Too Busy' to Talk to Staff Representatives as Scandals Continue to Pile Up
  • Meme: António Campinos-Controlled (EPO-Commissioned) Surveys Are Just for Show (to Help 'Validate' Lies)
  • António Campinos Could Not Possibly Choose a Worse Time to Show Solidarity With Communist China
  • From About 2-3 Blog Posts Per Day to Not Even One Per Day (After Covering Up for 'Good' EPO Under António Campinos)
  • Meme: The ‘F***ing President’ at the EPO
  • 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
  • They Can't Even Spell UPC Right (in António's Prepared Lobbying Speech to Politicians, Delivered Last Month)
  • António Campinos on Unified Patent Court (UPC) Delays and Trying to Leapfrog the Actual Legal Process (Because It's Illegal)
  • Meme: Criminals Have Feelings Too...
  • António Campinos Once Again Failing to Obey Court Orders, Making Up Ludicrous Excuses for Non-Compliance
  • António Campinos: Portuguese in Absentia (Exile)
  • The António Campinos Photo Ops Tour: Pretending to Support Ukraine While Sending the EPO's Jobs and Applicants' Money to Belarus
  • 4 Years of Monopoly Tony (Mr. Campinos) Violating the Rights of Free Association/Expression/Speech as EPO President
  • There's No F***ing Debate With “the F***ing President” (What António Campinos Calls Himself!)
  • EPO Steering Off the Road, Just Like the Drunken Son of António Campinos, Who Crashed the Car and Begged for Impunity
  • Meme: President Crybaby
  • People Are Very Angry That Campinos Was Left in Positions of Power Without Any Competition and in Spite of Failing to Fulfill Essential Goals
  • Cautionary Tales About an António Campinos-Run EPO
  • Corrupt António Campinos Bought Himself Another Term by Bribing Voters, Whom None of the Staff Trusts
  • Meme: Benoît Battistelli and António Campino Buying Elections Since 2010
  • 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
  • Meme: Speaking Professionally at the EPO
  • 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
  • Meme: The Wild West of the Cattle-Riding Campino, Tony the Great
  • Like Batka, Like Son
  • National Representatives (Delegations) Need to Listen to EPO Staff When Deciding on the Future of António Campinos
  • António Campinos Needs to be Fired by Month's End (Notice of Permanent End of Term)
  • Meme: A Need for Father's Discipline?
  • 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
  • Meme: The Reverse Barroso
  • Diversity and Inclusion at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • EPO President António Campinos Addresses South America
  • Meme: Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation Can Oust António Campinos Next Month (But Will It?)
  • Meme: It Was Just an Accident
  • Video: Antonio 'F' Campinos in His Very Own Words
  • Meme: Divine Protection
  • António Campinos and the Alicante Clique (EPO Management, Appointed Based on Nepotism Despite Lack of Qualifications) Nowadays Exploiting Kids for PR Charades
  • Meme: Snake on a Plane
  • António Campinos Promotes Software Patents Using Buzzwords and Sketchy Loopholes With Dubious Legal Basis
  • Meme: Jorgotta Be Kidding Us, Campinos!
  • Meme: It’s My Working Party… And I’ll Cry If I Want to!
  • Meme: Monopoly Tony
  • 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
  • The Lies and Delusions of António Campinos
  • António Campinos Racing Towards Zero Percent (Popularity/Approval Rates), a Lot Lower Than Lukashenko
  • 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.”
  • António: The Antichrist of Jorge Campinos
  • António Campinos Has Dubbed Himself the “F***ing President”
  • Russian Gaspinos
  • What the F Did António Campinos Just Say???
  • When the EPO's Manager or Fake 'Daddy' Gets the 'Hammer' Out
  • Meme: No More Mr. Nice Guy?
  • Meme: Lukampinos
  • Meme: In Just a Few Years António Campinos is Undoing Decades of His Father's Legacy
  • 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
  • António's EPO is Dead, Long Live the EPC?
  • António Campinos Wants to Undo His Father’s Legacy for Several More Years, Spreading Corruption Across Europe and the World
  • Meme: Megaphone of António Campinos
  • BREAKING NEWS/EXCLUSIVE: António Campinos Confirms That He is Seeking Reappointment
  • Meme: Drunk Driving, Like Son of António Campinos
  • 20-22 Vision: António Campinos Still Pillaging and Plundering EPO Staff
  • Meme: Just Another Battistelli


  • 2021

  • Meme: EPO 'Social Dialogue': Blah Blah Blah Blah (But Nothing Gets Changed for the Better)
  • 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021: 4 Years of António Campinos Failing and EPO Granting Loads of Invalid Patents
  • Tomorrow is the First Anniversary of Strike Against President Campinos at the European Patent Office
  • Meme: António Campinos and Socialist Posturing
  • António Campinos as EPO President is Considered Worse Than Benoît Battistelli (in Some Regards) After 3.5 Years in Europe’s Second-Largest Institution
  • EPO Staff Committee Compares the Tactics of António Campinos to Benoît Battistelli’s
  • Meme: Speaking the Same Language
  • António Campinos Thinks Salary Reductions Months Before He Leaves is “Exceptional Social Gesture”
  • EPO “Board 28” Meeting: Imaginary Dialogue Between EPO President Campinos and the Chair of the Administrative Council, Josef Kratochvíl
  • Meme: António Campinos Poured Bleach on a Convicted Criminal
  • António ‘Gap’ Campinos Explains His Plan to Indoctrinate/Brainwash the Public About So-called ‘IP’ (Misleading, Vague Term, Also a Deliberate Misnomer)
  • Two Institutions, Two Dictators
  • EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part IX – António’s Faithful Acolyte in Alicante
  • António Campinos is Not a Patents Person and He Doesn't Belong at the EPO
  • EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part VIII – Pulling for the Portuguese Pretender?
  • For 17 Days (and Counting) António Campinos Has Failed to Respond to Call for Compliance With the Law
  • Meme: António Lost His Power Over Patent Examiners
  • António Campinos Needs to be Removed From the EPO as Soon as Possible Along With Friends He Brought Over
  • Meme: The EPO's Kakistocracy
  • Video: Mind the Mental Gap
  • Meme: EPO Telenovela: Sua Vida me Pertence by Tony Campinos
  • EPO Dictator Campinos Continues Crushing EPO Staff, Outpacing Battistelli in Terms of His Abuses
  • Video: ILO-AT Caseload Shows That António Campinos Failed and Should be Sacked by the Administrative Council of the EPO
  • Delay After Delay, Blunder After Blunder, the ‘New Normal’ of António Campinos Faces Obstacles
  • The Already-Weak Impression of EPO Lawfulness (Under António Campinos) is Over
  • Meme: Trying to Become More Evil Than Battistelli After 3 Years in Office
  • Virtual Injustice — Part 1: António’s Increasingly Wonky Legal Fudge Factory
  • Meme: EPO Bad for Your Health (Even as President)
  • President of the Boards of Appeal and His ‘Handler’ António Campinos Need to Step Down to Save the EPO
  • President Campinos is Finished (EPO Crisis Afoot)
  • When the Lips of António Campinos Move...
  • EPO Propaganda, Looking to Legitimise a Rigged Panel of Judges, Starts With Author Who Did Puff Pieces With António Campinos
  • António Campinos is Already Worse Than Benoît Battistelli and Maybe More Aggressive as Well
  • EPO President António Campinos Promoting Microsoft Proprietary Software (Monopoly) and Software Patents
  • The ‘Hey Hi’ of António Campinos Will Survive This
  • Five Years of António Campinos Coverage in Techrights (We Correctly Predicted His Presidency in March 2016)
  • EPO President Pushes Illegal Software Patents in South America (Over the Telephone With a Misleading New Puff Piece)
  • Series Index: How António Campinos Resorted to Union-Busting
  • For the Record: SUEPO’s Correspondence With ‘King’ António Campinos
  • EPO Crisis Under António Campinos – Part 5: Quo Usque Tandem?
  • The Bergot Patent Office (Tantrum First, Innovation Later… or Never)
  • EPO Crisis Under António Campinos – Part 4: Timeline of the Le Guern Controversy
  • Reckless, Feckless and Factless Campinos ‘Doing a Donald Trump’ on the Staff Union of His Office
  • EPO Crisis Under António Campinos – Part 3: Campinos Rallies Behind Bergot
  • Spineless Campinos Protects Team Battistelli From EPO Staff (and From Accountability) Instead of Protecting Staff From Corruption and From Team Battistelli
  • Leaky Patent Office
  • EPO Crisis Under António Campinos - Part 2: Madame Bergot Reportedly Goes Ballistic
  • The EPO's “Mafia” is Back to Blackmailing Staff Representatives
  • EPO Crisis Under António Campinos - Part 1: Le Guern's “Disappearance” Triggers Internal Crisis at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • Meme: Candidate Campinos is Not President Campinos
  • EPO President António Campinos is Still Not Listening, According to Internal EPO Documents
  • EPO Management (Team Campinos) to EPO Pensioners: Drop Dead or Stop Asking Questions That Expose Our Lies


  • 2020

  • Meme: Rabid Tony
  • Meme: Nobody to Talk to at the European Patent Office
  • António Campinos Has Been a 'Lame Duck' for Nearly Two Years Now, But the Administrative Council Failed to Act
  • Two Years of Absolutely Nothing From António Campinos (Except Photo Ops and Self-Praising Fluff)
  • 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.”
  • Two Years Ago SUEPO Discussed Rules of Strike With António Campinos and 3 Days From Now EPO Staff in All Sites Goes on Strike
  • Early Request for António Campinos to Cooperate With EPO Staff Survey (Which Later Showed Less Than 1 in 33 EPO Workers Trust Him)
  • Old Documents Show That the 'António Campinos Delusion' Lasted Only Months
  • EPO Staff Already Knew Months After António Campinos Had Been Parachuted Into the Office That He Was a 'Budget Butcher'
  • Paper on “Improving Governance, Transparency and Accountability at the EPO” Shows That António Campinos Has Accomplished Nothing in Half His Term (2.5 Years)
  • EPO's Staff Explains How António Campinos and the Mercers Lie About the Office in Order to Crush and Rob the Staff
  • António Campinos Mastered the 'Art of Ruling' His Father Was Strongly Against
  • Meme: When Settling Means Admitting EPO Culpability
  • The Words of António Campinos Himself Reveal Him to be a Terrible Negotiator With No Compromising/Diplomatic Language Skills
  • The Non-dialogue: EPO “Staff Representatives Retire or Resign Before Expiration of Their Term of Office Because of Their Fatigue and Disillusionment.”
  • Meme: When Tyranny Has No Race or a Political Wing Diversity Alone Cannot Tackle the Deeper Issues
  • The Non-dialogue: António Campinos is No Jorge Campinos
  • Meme: 'Nice' and 'Cool' António Campinos, Now With Extra Sneakers
  • A Mister António Campinos 'Joins' IAM 'Media' and IAM 'Magazine' (Symptom of Dying Media)
  • Censored EPO Publication: Evidence That the Censorship of EPO Staff Representation (Central Staff Committee) Started Months After António Campinos Started His Term
  • EPO Management, Led by António Campinos, Attempted to Stifle or Prevent Staff From Being Surveyed
  • Inside the EPO During Corona: The Hoax 'Study' From Campinos and Donald Trump Associate (Mercer) Debunked, EPO Management Uninterested Because Facts Are Inconvenient
  • Inside the EPO During Corona: The EPO is Silently Shrinking in Vienna and Dictator António Campinos Defends His Bully and Union Buster, Elodie Bergot
  • 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'
  • 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)
  • Inside the EPO During Corona: The António Campinos Monologue, Talking Inwards While Pretending to Represent the EPO's Interests
  • Inside the EPO During Corona: More Microsoft and More Corruption/Nepotism From António Campinos (Loyal Friends Get Top Jobs to Cover Up/Perpetuate Scandals)
  • Inside the EPO During Corona: Repressive Tyrant António Campinos Still Blocking Techrights and Still Preventing Staff Representatives From Speaking Openly to Staff
  • Inside the EPO During Corona: Death Toll of Benoît Battistelli's 'Suicide Wave' Will be Exceeded by the 'Corona Wave' of António Campinos
  • Inside the EPO During Corona: 'Sick' António Campinos Uses a Global Sickness to Illegally Rob EPO Staff, Already Besieged by the Pandemic
  • Inside the EPO During Corona: Like Benoît Battistelli, António Campinos Leaves Out Staff Representation Out of Consultation Regarding Unprecedented Health Crisis Which Impacts Staff
  • Meme: António Campinos is the EPO's 'Fanta' (Making EPO Fascism Seem Acceptable, Gentle, Caring and Kind)
  • Meme: António Campinos Fools Nobody at the EPO Anymore
  • António Campinos is Believed to be “Dismantling” the EPO
  • Meme: António the Computer Genius
  • Humour: The 'Orange One' Does Not Respect Judges Either
  • António Campinos: President or Quasi-Autocratic Corporate Puppet?
  • The Media Continues to Ignore Corruption of António Campinos
  • When They're Done With Patents on Foods and Recipes They'll Have Patents on Fashion, Taste and Smell
  • António Campinos Should Speak to Peasants, Not Litigation Lawyers
  • After 2 Years and 2 Days António Campinos is a Perfect Leader, Fostering EPO Abuses While Smiling
  • António Campinos is Just an Empty Suit: 2 Years in the Office and Only 3% Approval Rate (Worse Than Battistelli)
  • 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
  • The Attitude of António Campinos Toward Courts and Toward Justice Same as Benoît Battistelli's
  • More Threats From Elodie Bergot: The EPO is Back in a State of Disarray and That Authoritarian Atmosphere of Fear
  • Campinos Uses Donald Trump Associates to Attack the EPO's Staff Amid Coronavirus Pandemic (Whilst Also Threatening Staff Representatives)
  • EPO Staff Union (SUEPO): “We Are Back to Battistelli's Times”
  • 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)
  • Series Index: “Doyen” for a Yen
  • EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Epilogue
  • EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Part 4 - The Role of the EPO Vice-President of DG5 (Christoph Ernst)
  • EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Part 3 - How to Become a European Patent Attorney Without Passing the EQE
  • EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Part 2 - Behind the Scenes at Topić IP d.o.o.
  • EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Part 1 - António and the Balkan Express Connection
  • EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Teaser
  • António Campinos Sponging Off the EPO
  • António Campinos is Just as Corrupt as Benoît Battistelli, Top Jobs Offered as 'Endowments'


  • 2019

  • In 2018 and in 2019 António Campinos Has in Effect Been a Guardian of Battistelli's Corruption
  • The EPO's President Admits He's Illegally Granting Software Patents (CII, 4IR, IoT, AI and Blockchain Mean Software Patents at the EPO)
  • Yesterday in EPOPIC Andrei Iancu and António Campinos Shared a Salad of Ridiculous Buzzwords
  • It Has Begun: EPO Staff Protests Against António Campinos (Starting Wednesday)
  • EPO Staff Resolution Against Neoliberal Policies of António Campinos
  • António Campinos, With Diplomatic Immunity, Continues Breaking the Law by Granting Patents the EU and EPC Forbade
  • EPO President Campinos is Just a Great Pretender With 'Soft Power' Skills
  • The EPO's President Campinos is a Liar
  • EPO Leak: António Campinos Announces Impending Cuts While Outsourcing to Private Firms Like Serco
  • Only Weeks After Czech Government Rejects UPC (Unitary Patent) António Campinos Flies There, Apparently in Order to Lobby Government Officials
  • The EPO's Central Staff Committee and SUEPO (Staff Union) Respond to “Fascist Bills” Supported by EPO President António Campinos
  • António Campinos Puts European Patent Quality on a Suicide Diet/Plan and All EPO Staff on Notice
  • Campinos is Already Widely Seen as Battistelli the Second, Even Among EPO Stakeholders
  • António Campinos is Almost 100% the Same as Benoît Battistelli
  • Tribalism Still a Major Problem at the European Patent Office
  • The New (Staged and Scripted) Video of António Campinos Feels Like a Drunken Satire
  • The EPO Needs a President Who Obeys the Law, Not One Who Obeys Battistelli
  • Required Reading: Mental State of Team Battistelli/Campinos
  • EPO Directors Would be Wise to Rebel Against Team Campinos While They Still Have the Job
  • Leaked: Harassment of EPO Directors by Team Campinos
  • When the EPO is Run by Politicians It’s Expected to Be Aggressive and Corrupt Like Purely Political Establishments
  • António Campinos — Unlike His Father — Engages in Imperialism (Using Invalid Patents)
  • António Campinos Takes EPO Waste and Corruption to Unprecedented Levels and Scale
  • António Campinos Given an Extension to Prove He Respects the Rule of Law
  • Drunk on Power
  • 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.”
  • More Tall Tales From EPOnia - A Little Apéritif to Whet the Appetite…
  • António Campinos as German Sheriff Rather Than Office President
  • António Campinos Didn't Even Last a Year
  • Team Campinos Will Try to Make It Difficult to Go on Strike (But Won't Manage to Prevent It)
  • EPO President Still Not Obeying Courts' Rulings
  • António Campinos Has Run Out of Time and EPO Staff is Going on Strike (Skipping Mere Protests)
  • EUIPO and EPO Abuses Growingly Inseparable
  • Stephen Rowan: From UK-IPO to Operation Coverup of Team António Campinos
  • Union Syndicale Federale (USF) Writes to António Campinos Again Regarding the Appalling Atmosphere at the EPO
  • "Dia da Liberdade" in Portugal -- Wilted Carnations in EPOnia
  • António Campinos Would Not Refer to the EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeal If He Did Not Control the Outcomes
  • 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
  • New Building as Perfect Metaphor for the EPO Under the Frenchmen Battistelli and Campinos
  • EPO Still Wasting Budget, Paying Media and Academics for Spin*António Campinos is Already Paying a Lot of Money to Craft an Alternate Reality at the European Patent Office
  • The EPO’s Incredulous Survey: Management’s Voice, Management’s Future — EPO Staff ‘Engagement’ Spin (Denial of Issues)
  • Even Patent Maximalists Are Not Happy With António Campinos Referring Question of Patents on Life to the Enlarged Board of Appeal
  • EPO Judges Lack Independence and the Internal Courts Are Seen to be Lacking Legitimacy (Decisions' Validity) Under António Campinos
  • Tall Tales From the Land of EPOnia: Indications of High-Level Club Med/EUIPO “Entryism”
  • The Campinos-Battistelli Strategy is Working: Patent Trolls Are Coming to Europe!
  • António Campinos Makes Up Claims About Patent Quality, Only to be Rebutted by Examiners, Union (Anyone But the 'Puff Pieces' Industry)
  • Stopping António Campinos and His Software Patents Agenda (Not Legal in Europe) Would Require Independent Courts
  • EPO's Latest 'Results' Show That António Campinos Has Already Given Up on Patent Quality and is Just Another Battistelli
  • Europe Will Pay a High Price for Software Patents Advocacy by António Campinos in Europe's Patent-Granting Authority
  • António Campinos — Like His Father — Lacks Support From Colleagues, Endorsed Only From the Top
  • António Campinos Will Not Tackle Any of the Lingering Issues at the European Patent Office
  • EPO Staff Union: 'New' Team Campinos Practice “Reminds Us Strongly of the Battistelli Times.”
  • Team UPC Excited Over Nothing, President Campinos Rarely Even Mentions UPC Anymore
  • António Campinos Still Needs to Undo Battistelli's Union-Busting Activities at the EPO
  • António Campinos Still Needs to Hold Team Battistelli Accountable for Illegally Bringing Weapons to the EPO
  • How Many/Most EPO Examiners View 'President' António Campinos
  • António Campinos Will Never Hold Battistelli Accountable for His Crimes Because He Too Profits From These
  • EPO President Campinos Works With Patent Trolls and With Team UPC to Promote Software Patents
  • President Campinos Maintains Battistelli's Abusive Sanctions, EPO Staff Increasingly Losing Faith and Hope in Him
  • "HE DID NOTHING Since He Arrived, Full Stop." What EPO People Make of President Campinos...
  • The Management of the EPO Will Not Manage to Recruit Any Talent If It's Killing Its Own Staff
  • European Patent Quality as Awful Under António Campinos as (If Not Worse Than) Benoît Battistelli and Battistelli Makes a Public Comeback
  • The Whitewashing of the EPO Under António Campinos
  • EPO President “Campinos is Wasting His Credibility With “Sweet” Communiqués Full of Hot Air and Storytelling”


  • 2018

  • The European Patent Organisation (EPO) Loses Legitimacy If (or When) Christoph Ernst Becomes Subservient to António Campinos
  • António Campinos Turns His 'Boss' Into His Lapdog, Just Like Battistelli and Kongstad
  • The Quality of European Patents Continues to Deteriorate Under António Campinos and Software Patents Are Advocated Every Day
  • António Campinos is Working for Patent Trolls at the Expense of Science and Technology
  • Union Syndicale Fédérale Tells António Campinos to End 'Political' Cases Against EPO Staff Representatives
  • 127th Session of ILO Tribunal Rulings Will Deal With European Patent Organisation Complaints (Appeals) Tomorrow Afternoon, Staff Grows Tired of Office President António Campinos
  • António Campinos Has Run Out of Time, EPO Staff Representation Now Views Him as Just Another Battistelli and Wants Immediate Change
  • Thanksgiving EPO Roundup: UPC Lies, Software Patents Considered Harmful and SUEPO Condemns Union-Busting Activities (Which Carry on Under António Campinos)
  • A Question of Debt: António Campinos, Lexology, Law Gazette, and Sam Gyimah
  • Allegations That António Campinos 'Bought' His Presidency and is Still Paying for it
  • Yannis Skulikaris Promotes Software Patents at EPOPIC, Defending the Questionable Practice Under António Campinos
  • The António Campinos Private/Secret Meeting With ILO Officials a Slap Across the Face to Employees of the European Patent Office
  • António Campinos Continues to Conflate Speed With Quality
  • EPO Insider: Under António Campinos “the Union Busting Done by the Administration Continues Even Worse Than Before”
  • EPO President António Campinos Speaks of “Greater Transparency,” But He's Even More Secretive Than Battistelli and He Lets Patent Quality Slip Further
  • António Campinos Just a Quieter Version of Battistelli
  • Battistelli and Team UPC Still Waiting for a Campinos Miracle
  • The EPO Under António Campinos Has Opened More Doors to Software Patents and Only Litigators Are Happy
  • EPO Under António Campinos Relaxes the Rules on Software Patenting and the Litigation 'Industry' Loves That
  • EPO Insider/Märpel Says President Campinos Already Acts Like Battistelli
  • 100 Days Into the Term of Campinos There is Already an EPO Suicide
  • Friend Brings a Friend, Boss Becomes Subordinate: the EPO Under António Campinos is Starting to Look a Lot Like Team Battistelli 2.0
  • New EPO Guidelines: Granting European Patents on Business Methods, Algorithms, Mental Acts and Other Abstract Stuff
  • António Campinos Makes Excuses for Granting European Patents on Software in Spite of the EPC
  • When It Comes to Patent Quality António Campinos Might be Even Worse Than Benoît Battistelli
  • Nellie Simon Expected to Join the ‘Club Med’ of Battistelli and Campinos
  • EPO Under António Campinos an Unprecedented Booster of Software Patents
  • In the EPO Under António Campinos and His Predecessor Battistelli Patents Can Almost be Presumed “Invalid” (in Courts)
  • António Campinos Goes to UPC-Hostile Country, UPC Continues to Languish and Team UPC Carries on Pushing for Software Patents in Europe (Courts Also)
  • Philippe Cadre From the French National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) Wants to Join António Campinos
  • António Campinos Needs to Listen to Doctors Without Borders (MSF) et al to Salvage What's Left of Public Consent for the EPO
  • Patentability of Software Constantly Pushed by the EPO Under António Campinos With Help From IAM, CIPA, IPO and Other Litigation Front Groups
  • Election of New Vice-Presidents at EPO Seems Rigged, Say Insiders and Former Insiders
  • 'Reformist' Campinos Seems to be Accelerating EPO Layoffs by Removing Without Warning Staff That's Perceived as Not Loyal Enough
  • António Campinos: New Caricature by EPO Insiders
  • The António Campinos-Led EPO is Over-Relying on Bogus and Abstract Software Patents to Fill the Gaps
  • António Campinos Already Implements a 'Shadow' Layoffs Method at the EPO
  • President Battistelli 'Killed' the EPO; António Campinos Will 'Finish the Job'
  • Racing to the Bottom, the António Campinos-Led EPO Continues to Promote Software Patents, Just Like China
  • António Campinos is Not Improving Patent Quality or Even the Social Climate at the EPO (False Promises)
  • The EPO's Administrative Council is Not Interested in Saving the EPO, Only 'Producing' as Many (Low-Quality) Patents as Possible
  • SUEPO Seems to be Disappointed by António Campinos as His First Month in Office Comes to an End
  • What EPO Staff is 'Hopeful' After a Month of António Campinos Doing Absolutely Nothing to Reverse Battistelli's Ruinous Policies?
  • The EPO Abandoned Patent Quality and António Campinos Has No Intention of Changing That
  • António Campinos, Four Weeks on the Job, Still in Defiance/Violation of ILO Rulings, Still Engaging in PR and Face-Saving Distraction Instead
  • As the Quality of European Patents Sinks António Campinos Must Heed China's Warning, Not Copy SIPO/TIPO
  • Under António Campinos the EPO's Appeal Boards, Including the Enlarged Board of Appeal, Still Lack Independence
  • 'Efficiency' in Action: António Campinos is Sending Jobs Abroad, Then Gagging Critics
  • The EPO (European Patent Office) Under António Campinos is Just Another Battistelli EPO; Still UPC and Software Patents Lobbying
  • 'Transaction' Complete: Former EPO Executive From Belgium Takes the Seat of António Campinos at EU-IPO
  • Weeks Later António Campinos Still in Noncompliance With the Courts (ILO’s Tribunal)
  • 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'
  • Actions — Not Mere Words — Are Needed to Improve Patent Quality and Climate at the European Patent Office
  • One Week of António Campinos at the EPO: Early Uncertainty
  • António Campinos Tries to Come Across as a Goodwill Manager, But He Will be Judged by His Actions, Not by His Words
  • First Act of António Campinos: Pushing the Unconstitutional Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • First Day for António Campinos is Done, But Some Media is Still Publishing 90th-Minute Battistelli Puff Pieces
  • Welcoming António Campinos, New President of the European Patent Office
  • Today, at the Expense of Millions (€) of EPO Budget, Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos Engage in Shameless Self Promotion
  • 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
  • António Campinos Will Push Toward a France-Based Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • (Joke) António Campinos Withdraws From Plan to Directly Run the EPO, Patent Office to be Run by Google ‘AI’ Instead
  • The Federation of International Civil Servants' Association: Frenchman “Campinos is Known for Having Close Ties to Mr. Battistelli Who Strongly Supported His Candidacy.”
  • USF Warns Campinos (EPO President in 4 Months) of “Extreme” Situation at the EPO


  • 2017

  • Battistelli-Campinos Transition Will Be a Smooth One as the Administrative Council Remains the Same and the Boards Still Besieged
  • Another Day of EPO Injustices in Europe and Campinos/Battistelli Connections at CEIPI
  • Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos Playing Musical Chairs at CEIPI
  • EPO Caricature: Son of Campinos


  • Pressure is Growing for Christoph Ernst to Stop Destruction of Career System Ahead of Arrival of Campinos as EPO President
  • Benoît Battistelli Gives Power to Željko Topić, Not Just to António Campinos
  • Next EPO President Will Continue a Cooperation Which Does Not Exist
  • Truly Terrible 'Journalism' About António Campinos Boils Down to Lobbying and Agenda-Pushing
  • The Hogwash Begins: Patent Microcosm's Media Pretends Campinos is Anything But Battistelli's French Succession Plan
  • Musical Chairs as Battistelli's 'Chinchilla' García-Escudero Márquez Could Reportedly Take António Campinos' Place
  • Battistelli’s Choice (Campinos) Confirmed as New EPO President
  • Judge Cuno Tarfusser Wants to Become the Next EPO President
  • Early Reports Suggest That Battistelli's Policies Will Remain at the EPO (in the Form of Campinos)
  • Battistelli's Club Med at the EPO – Part VIII: Summary and Photos of Battistelli's Club Med
  • Battistelli's Club Med at the EPO – Part VII: Quo Vadis EPO?
  • Battistelli's Club Med at the EPO – Part VI: “When Corruption Rules” in Portugal - Operation Marquês
  • Battistelli's Club Med at the EPO – Part V: Portugal's “Golden Visa” Scheme for Angolan Nationals
  • Battistelli's Club Med at the EPO – Part IV: The Angolan Patent Office (IAPI) Seems Almost Defunct
  • Battistelli's Club Med at the EPO – Part III: Angola and the Portuguese “Laundromat”
  • Battistelli's Club Med at the EPO – Part II: António Campinos, Benoît Battistelli and the Angolan Connection
  • Battistelli's Club Med at the EPO – Part I: EPO Validation Agreement With Angola
  • Latest EPO Rumours Allege That Benoît Battistelli Rigged the Process of EPO President's Selection
  • One Week Left for Battistelli's Coronation of Another Frenchman, António Campinos, to Lobby for UPC?
  • Today, Koen Lievens From EPO is Promoting Pursuits of Software Patents in Defiance of the European Rules
  • Deepening EPO Crisis and a New Report Titled “EPO Patent Filing a Rigged Game in Europe”
  • EPO Silencers of the Media - Part V: Jadranka Oklobdžija Versus EPO Vice-President Topić
  • EPO Silencers of the Media - Part IV: Response to SLAPP Tactics From EPO Vice-President Željko Topić
  • What Germany and the EPO Could (and Should) Learn From Australia About Patent Scope
  • ‘Building the Evidence Base on the Performance of the UK Patent System’ Put in Perspective and Threats From Patent Maximalists
  • It's a Family Business: French Succession Plan at EPO After Battistelli's Departure
  • EPO Silencers of the Media - Part III: EPO Vice-President Topić Takes Association of Writers and Journalists to Court
  • The Very Political Background of António Campinos, Allegedly a Forefront Candidate to Lead the European Patent Office Next Year
  • The Next President of the EPO May Also be French and Without Background in Science
  • Antonio Campinos in Charge of the EPO Would Mean Greater EUIPO/EPO Overlap
  • 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
  • Suspicion That Antonio Campinos Will Apply for Benoît Battistelli's Job to Succeed Him
  • Speculations About Battistelli's End of Term, Campinos at EUIPO, and Failed UPC Ambitions
  • Immunity of the Intellectual Property Office of the European Union Causes Outrage in Spanish Media


  • 2016

  • 'Balkan Express' Teaser: EPO's Željko Topić, Kuterovac, Campinos, Gurry, Battistelli and the DKPTO (Kongstad)
  • Battistelli's 'Special Relationship' With Portugal and the 'Inventor of the Year' Charade
  • EPO Rumours About Antonio Campinos as Replacement for Benoît Battistelli