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Christoph Ernst

Christoph Ernst is a Vice-President at the EPO. He used to represent Germany at the Administrative Council before becoming the Chairman of the Administrative Council, whereupon he protected Benoît Battistelli and then António Campinos. As successor of Raimund Lutz he is the 'dictator's facilitator'.

  • 11.12.20 Inside the EPO During Corona: Sweep-up Man Christoph Ernst Abuses Notion of Leave (Break From Work)
  • 03.10.16 Video Sheds Light on Policy/Stance of the Man Rumoured to be Battistelli’s Successor at the EPO
  • 03.11.16 The Article Which Reinforces Rumours About Christoph Ernst Replacing President Battistelli at the EPO
  • 06.27.16 Battistelli May Still be on the Way Out as Pressure Grows in Germany, UPC in Shambles
  • 06.28.17 Christoph Ernst, Long Speculated to be Battistelli’s Successor, Becomes Battistelli’s ‘Boss’
  • 11.25.17 In New EPO Interview With Juve, Chairman of the Administrative Council Criticises Battistelli
  • 11.26.17 Early Certainty Battistelli Will be Gone Soon: “JUVE Interview Creates the Impression That Benoit Battistelli’s Term in Office is Already Over.”
  • 12.07.17 ILO Said Give the Judge His Job Back, But Christoph Ernst’s Administrative Council Will Likely Let Him Go (Unemployed)
  • 12.13.17 EPO Administrative Council Disallows Discussion About Violations of the Law by Benoît Battistelli
  • 12.20.17 Christoph Ernst’s Inability to Rein in the European Patent Organisation Will Doom Everything
  • 12.15.18 The European Patent Organisation (EPO) Loses Legitimacy If (or When) Christoph Ernst Becomes Subservient to António Campinos


  • 03.08.16 Rumoured Successor of Battistelli, Christoph Ernst, Previously Seen as Antagonist of Battistelli But What About UPC?
  • 06.29.16 Rumours That EPO President Battistelli Got Sacked to be Replaced by Christoph Ernst Appear to be Baseless
  • 06.30.17 The EPO Has Officially Confirmed That Christoph Ernst Will ‘Boss’ (and Soon Replace) Battistelli
  • 10.12.17 Under Christoph Ernst, the Council is Just a Megaphone of Battistelli’s EPO, Including on Patent Quality
  • 11.28.17 Pressure is Growing for Christoph Ernst to Stop Destruction of Career System Ahead of Arrival of Campinos as EPO President
  • 12.31.17 Christoph Ernst Does Not Boss Benoît Battistelli Like He’s Supposed to, But Battistelli’s Bosses/Colleagues in France Can be Contacted
  • 01.03.18 Translation Shows That Carl Josefsson and Christoph Ernst Refuse to Comment on EPO Injustice as It Might Embarrass Battistelli
  • 06.22.18 “Dr Ernst Should be Forced by National Politicians to Step Down With Immediate Effect” After Battistelli’s Latest EPO Scandals


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  • 06.14.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO, GroupWise, Videos, and Utah
  • 09.16.11 Cablegate: Lord Mandelson Meets the Qaddafi Family and Dates the Copyright Lobby
  • 02.03.12 A Glimpse at Executives Who Left the Sinking Novell Ship
  • 11.21.12 Freiburg Should Use ODF Only, Just Like Portugal
  • 09.22.14 European Patent Office/Organisation – Suspicion of Improper Collusion Between EPO President and Chairman of the Administrative Council: Part III
  • 11.13.14 Windows ‘Update’ and NSA Back Doors, Including a 19-Year Bug Door in Microsoft Windows
  • 12.11.14 Rolling of Heads Likely Imminent at EPO
  • 01.19.15 Translations of Member of the European Parliament Complaining About European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 02.03.15 More Press Coverage From the Danish Media About EPO Abuses and Protest at Danish Consulate
  • 02.15.15 English Translation of Article About Protest at Danish Consulate Over EPO Abuses
  • 06.03.15 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
  • 11.04.15 A State Within a State: Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About the EPO’s Bizarre Existence Above the Law
  • 12.17.15 Administrative Council Does Not Crush the Boards But Does Crush the Unions (Suspension Duration Sextupled)
  • 12.17.15 Ahead of Administrative Council Meeting, General Consultative Committee Warned of “Witch Hunt in Pursuit of SUEPO Officials” (Union Busting)
  • 03.04.16 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
  • 03.05.16 Forget Staff Union-busting ‘Strike Ballots’, How About Ballots on Presidential Matters?
  • 03.07.16 Software Patents Are a Dying Breed in the United States and the EPO Should Take Notice
  • 03.08.16 Claim and Perception: Under Battistelli, EPO More Permissive on Software Patents Than USPTO, In Spite of the EPC
  • 03.14.16 EPO Rumours About Antonio Campinos as Replacement for Benoît Battistelli
  • 06.14.16 Endgame of Manipulating Media With Payments and PR: The ‘Blame Everything and Everyone But EPO Management’ Tactics
  • 10.09.16 Danish Stories – Part IV: Jesper Kongstad and FJORDBLINK MEDICAL ApS
  • 10.13.16 EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point – Part III: How Benoît Battistelli Planned to Expand His Attacks on EPO Staff (But Failed)
  • 12.16.16 Small Nations With Almost Not a Single European Patent Sign the Death Knell of EPO Patent Quality
  • 04.11.17 Institutional Corruption in the US Patent System Leaves the Door Open to Meddling and Foul Play by the Patent Microcosm
  • 06.20.17 Contact Details for the EPO’s Administrative Council Delegations
  • 06.29.17 European Patent Office is on Strike Until Tuesday and Insiders Study the New Head of the Organisation
  • 07.01.17 The Future of the EPO Does Not Look Encouraging as Injustice and Abuse Carry On While the Press Looks the Other Way
  • 07.06.17 Weeks Later, British Media Writes About British EPO Worker That Committed Suicide and the Administrative Council’s ‘Coverup’
  • 07.06.17 No UPC Progress, Only Further Delays and Lots of Puff Pieces From the EPO and Bristows (Team UPC) Today
  • 07.08.17 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
  • 07.13.17 Looking Forward to a Battistelli-less and Kongstad-less European Patent Office
  • 08.02.17 EPO: Germans “Discover That Behind the Mad Figures, the Granted Patents Are of Crap Quality and That This Does Not Serve Their Interests”
  • 08.07.17 German Media Names António Campinos as Likely Successor of Battistelli
  • 08.10.17 German Media Paints a Picture of Benoît Battistelli as a Drunken ‘Putin’ Looking to Push UPC at All Costs
  • 08.12.17 Under Battistelli, EPO Ceased to Reward Inventors, Rewards Only Battistelli and Fellow Thugs Instead
  • 09.05.17 One Week Left for Battistelli’s Coronation of Another Frenchman, António Campinos, to Lobby for UPC?
  • 10.05.17 The European Patent Office’s New Relationship With Former Portuguese Colonies and the Connection to Battistelli’s Choice of Next President
  • 10.10.17 Battistelli’s Choice (Campinos) Confirmed as New EPO President
  • 10.11.17 Musical Chairs as Battistelli’s ‘Chinchilla’ García-Escudero Márquez Could Reportedly Take António Campinos’ Place
  • 10.12.17 Patent Quality at the EPO (European Patents) is Slipping While Battistelli’s Office Boasts “Expansion of Early Certainty” (Even Worse)
  • 10.14.17 Lying and Faking Now a Standard Procedure at the European Patent Office
  • 10.15.17 Articles in English and German Speak About the Decline in Quality of European Patents (Granted by the EPO)
  • 10.16.17 Monika Ermert’s Reports About the Crisis at the EPO and IP Kat’s Uncharacteristically Shallow Coverage
  • 10.16.17 The Systematic Erosion of Workers’ Rights and Holidays at the EPO Goes Years Back
  • 10.17.17 Rumours That António Campinos Initially Had No Competition at All (for Battistelli’s Succession) Are Confirmed
  • 10.17.17 SUEPO Representatives Like Elizabeth Hardon Vindicated as Battistelli’s Detrimental Effect on Patent Quality is Widely Confirmed
  • 10.17.17 EPO Stakeholders Complain That the New Chairman Does Not Grasp the Issues at the EPO (or Denies These)
  • 10.18.17 Patent Firms From the United States Try Hard to Push the Unitary Patent (UPC), Which Would Foment Litigation Wars in Europe
  • 10.19.17 SUEPO to the Media, Regarding Campinos: “No Comment, It’s Too Dangerous”
  • 10.19.17 Europe is Being Robbed by Team Battistelli and the UPC/PPH Would Make Things Worse
  • 10.20.17 Battistelli’s Destruction of the EPO is Bad for Everyone, Even Patent Attorneys
  • 10.21.17 Anonymous Professionals Speak of Benoît Battistelli’s Destruction of the EPO, But Why Does the Media Turn a Blind Eye?
  • 10.23.17 SUEPO Has Just Warned That Patent Quality at the EPO is About to Get Even Worse
  • 10.24.17 The Last Comment in IP Kat (Before Censorship) Was About Patent Quality at the EPO
  • 10.24.17 Freedom of Expression is Dying Not Only at the EPO But Also Outside the EPO (Media Coverage of the EPO)
  • 10.26.17 Benoît Battistelli Still Involved in Politics, Probably in Defiance of Clear Rules for International Civil Servants
  • 11.09.17 Patent Office of the Netherlands Expresses Uncertainty About UPC, Voices Concern About Benoît Battistelli’s Attack on Staff
  • 11.22.17 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Foes Manipulate the Facts to Belittle the Impact of PTAB
  • 11.28.17 EPO Budget (Users’ Money) Has Been Corrupting Media and Academia
  • 11.28.17 Benoît Battistelli and Željko Topić (EPO President and Vice-President) Try to Keep ‘Independent’ Judge in a Limbo
  • 11.29.17 EPO Spreads Two Lies Today, One About Patent ‘Production’ and Another About ‘Quality’
  • 11.30.17 EPO’s Minnoye “Pushed for Quick Searches and Quick Grants, With the Result That Every Recent File Was De Facto Dealt With Under PACE.”
  • 11.30.17 EPO Fiasco Deepens While the Media Writes Puff Pieces About the EPO
  • 12.03.17 How CEIPI in Strasbourg is Allegedly Facilitating Another Battistelli ‘Scam’ Surrounding the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 12.03.17 Guest Post: Free Dental Care in BRD (Banana Republik Deutschland)
  • 12.06.17 CEIPI and EPO: The Story So Far
  • 12.07.17 Battistelli’s EPO is Once Again Caught in Very Gross Violation of the European Patent Convention (EPC)
  • 12.07.17 Less Than 24 Hours Later the EPO Already Refuses to Obey Court Orders From ILO (Updated)
  • 12.08.17 European Media Covers the Latest EPO Scandal and the EPO’s Refusal to Obey Orders of a Court
  • 12.08.17 EPO Scandal Spills Over to Irish Media, So It’s Time for the Backstory
  • 12.11.17 Judge Corcoran Turns to His Government for Help and EPO ‘House Ban’ is Finally Lifted
  • 12.14.17 Patrick Corcoran is Innocent, Yet Battistelli Will/May Have the Power to Sack Him Next Month (in DG1)
  • 12.16.17 EPO Busy Distracting From Miscarriage/Abuse of Justice at the EPO (Both Office and Organisation)
  • 12.17.17 Raw: Benoît Battistelli Has Long Been Obsessed With ‘Alternative Facts’ (Lying) Regarding Everything
  • 12.19.17 Today’s Report From the Administrative Council (AC) of the European Patent Organisation ‘Tackles’ the Most Important Issue: Judge Corcoran
  • 12.19.17 Bavarian Regional Parliament Talks About the EPO’s Outrageous Decisions to Simply Disregard International Courts
  • 12.19.17 Secrecy Surrounds the Fate of Patrick Corcoran, Even AMBA is Being Kept in the Dark by Carl Josefsson
  • 12.28.17 EPO Remains in Defiance or Violation of ILO Rulings as Corcoran Contract Ends in 3 Days
  • 02.01.18 Too Much to Cover Up at the EPO, the UN, and UN Agencies
  • 02.25.18 One Month Later the Patent ‘Industry’ is Still Promoting the Lie That GUIs Are Software and Thus CAFC Elevated Software Patents
  • 03.10.18 US Senate is Cracking Down on Patent Scammers
  • 03.12.18 Patent Academics and CAFC Make a Living Out of Patents, But Both Must Begrudgingly Learn to Accept That Patents Went Too Far
  • 03.15.18 PTAB Continues to Increase Capacity Ahead of Oil States; Patent Maximalists Utterly Upset
  • 04.01.18 EPO is Untrustworthy
  • 04.01.18 Watchtroll and Patent Docs Do Anything They Can to Undermine PTAB, Even Adopting and Defending a Patent “Scam”
  • 04.04.18 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Breaks More Records, This Time Number of Post-Grant Review Petitions
  • 05.05.18 The European Patent Organisation (EPO) Stopped Working and It’s Also the Fault of Jesper Kongstad, Not Just Benoît Battistelli
  • 05.10.18 EPO Scandals Are Far Worse Than FIFA’s (or Even Emissionsgate/Dieselgate), But Will European Media Belatedly Realise This?
  • 05.17.18 Today’s EPO Financially Rewards Abuses and Violations of the Law
  • 06.14.18 Grünecker, Hoffmann Eitle, Maiwald and Vossius & Partner Find the Courage to Express Concerns About Battistelli’s Ugly Legacy and Low Patent Quality
  • 06.15.18 The EPO’s Response to the Open Letter About Decline in Patent Quality as the Latest Example of Arrogance and Resistance to Facts, Truth
  • 06.21.18 Battistelli and Topić Lose Their Bogus ‘Case’ Against Judge Corcoran After They Defamed Him and Ruined His Career/Life
  • 06.21.18 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
  • 06.23.18 Mainstream Media in Germany Covers Battistelli’s Corruption at the EPO Just as He Leaves
  • 06.25.18 Benoît Battistelli’s ‘Dowry’ From the Administrative Council of the EPO
  • 06.27.18 ‘Party Poopers’: Protests Greet Battistelli’s Premature Inauguration of an Unfinished Building That Caused Massive Losses
  • 07.01.18 Welcoming António Campinos, New President of the European Patent Office
  • 07.10.18 Signs of Upcoming Changes at EPO: Raimund Lutz, Željko Topić and Other ‘Team Battistelli’ Folks Are Being Replaced
  • 07.14.18 Number of Oppositions to Grants/Awards of European Patents at the EPO Has Skyrocketed, Based on Internal Data
  • 07.22.18 The World Has Moved on and Beyond Software Patents, But Buzzwords and Hype Provide Workarounds
  • 07.29.18 Section 101/Alice Patent Ineligibility Would Include Artificial Intelligence and Blockchains
  • 08.01.18 The EPO’s Administrative Council is Not Interested in Saving the EPO, Only ‘Producing’ as Many (Low-Quality) Patents as Possible
  • 09.07.18 Election of New Vice-Presidents at EPO Seems Rigged, Say Insiders and Former Insiders
  • 10.02.18 Nellie Simon Expected to Join the ‘Club Med’ of Battistelli and Campinos
  • 10.11.18 Friend Brings a Friend, Boss Becomes Subordinate: the EPO Under António Campinos is Starting to Look a Lot Like Team Battistelli 2.0
  • 10.13.18 100 Days Into the Term of Campinos There is Already an EPO Suicide
  • 10.18.18 IAM and IP Kat Are Still Megaphones of Battistelli and His Agenda
  • 10.25.18 António Campinos Just a Quieter Version of Battistelli
  • 10.25.18 Battistelli and Team UPC Still Waiting for a Campinos Miracle
  • 10.28.18 EPO President António Campinos Speaks of “Greater Transparency,” But He’s Even More Secretive Than Battistelli and He Lets Patent Quality Slip Further
  • 11.04.18 EPO Granting European Patents on Nature and on Thoughts
  • 11.13.18 The USPTO and EPO Pretend to Care About Patent Quality by Mingling With the Terms “Patent” and “Quality”
  • 12.13.18 António Campinos Turns His ‘Boss’ Into His Lapdog, Just Like Battistelli and Kongstad
  • 01.03.19 The EPO is So Backwards That the Boss Has Just Become Subservient to the Subject of Oversight
  • 01.29.19 “HE DID NOTHING Since He Arrived, Full Stop.” What EPO People Make of President Campinos…
  • 02.02.19 Concerns About Stephan Harbarth’s Unitary Patent (UPC) Vested Interests and His Entrance Into the Constitutional Court That Decides on UPC
  • 05.09.19 Stephen Rowan: From UK-IPO to Operation Coverup of Team António Campinos
  • 05.16.19 The EPO’s Key Function — Like the UPC’s Vision — Has Virtually Collapsed


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