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EPO Imploding: Battistelli Throws a Fit at EPO’s Investigation Unit
EPO and UPC in Europe Now the Hope of Patent Maximalists, China Too is Assimilating
EPO Scandal: Benoît Battistelli's Arrogance Recognised by European Delegations
EPO Staff Protests Today and Protested Last Week, Targeting Corruption in the Institution
Exclusive: The Enlarged Board of Appeal Complains About Battistelli’s Corrupt Management to the Administrative Council
Protests Against EPO Corruption Approach 1,000 in Attendance
Rolling of Heads Likely Imminent at EPO
Dreaming of a Just Christmas: When a Third of EPO Walks Out to Revolt and European Judges Attack the EPO Over Abuses
EPO Corruption: Battistelli Augments His ‘Loyals’ Circle With Frederic Angermann and Charm Offensive in Patent Lawyers’ Sites
EPO Breaking News: The European Parliament Dismisses Complaint About EPO Abuses
EPO Staff Protests to Continue in the New Year, Techrights to Release New Material
The Case of Rikard Frgacic Versus the Croatian SIPO: Allegation of Corruption in Relation to Trademark Reassignment Under Željko Topić’s Watch: Part XVI
Corruption at the Croatian State Intellectual Property Office Which Željko Topić Came From: Part XV
The EPO Shaken by Croatian Revelations: Part XIV
The EPO’s Vice-President Željko Topić and the Case of Ivan Kabalin: Part XIII
France Gets Involved in Battistelli's Abuses in the EPO - Part XII
Vesna Stilin’s Remarks on Željko Topić: Part XI
Special Report: Many Criminal Charges Against EPO Vice-President Željko Topić
How the EPO’s Executive Branch (Battistelli and Topić) Banned Scrutiny and Created Authoritarian Model of Control: Part X
How to Complain About the EPO to National Delegations in Europe: Part IX
The EPO Is More Corrupt Under Battistelli Than Under Alison Brimelow: Part VIII
The EPO’s Public Relations Disaster Amid Distrust From Within (and EPO Communications Chief Leaves): Part VII
The EPO’s Protection Triangle of Battistelli, Kongstad, and Topić: Part VI
Benoît Battistelli’s Balkan Standards in EPO: Part V
European Patent Office Disorganisation: Problems With the Audit Mechanisms – Part IV
European Patent Office/Organisation – Suspicion of Improper Collusion Between EPO President and Chairman of the Administrative Council: Part III
Željko Topić, Benoît Battistelli, and the European Patent Office (EPO): Part II
Suspicion of High-Level Corruption at the European Patent Office (EPO): Part I
The EPO Has Gone Rogue, Disregards the Law
With Unitary Patent Scheme, EPO Pushes Hard for Software Patenting (More Leech Income)
EPO Decides to Listen to Anti-Patents Stance, USPTO Censors It
Google Helps EPO Manage Monopolies, Unitary Patent Aided
EPO Advisory Board Likes Patents
EPO and Other Lawyers-dominated Circles Push for Software Patenting
Cablegate: USPTO, JPO, and EPO Prepare a Global Patent System
EPO More Popular/Responsive Than the USPTO
EU Patent Failing to Materialise, But EPO and Politicians Begin to Overstep Their Line of Authority to Intervene
EPO Thinks More Patent Business (Filings) is a Good Thing, US Commerce Secretary Realises it is Not
US Patent Colonisation: EPO Promotes Machine Translation, New Zealand Still Resistant
“EPO Still Operating in a Vacuum”
USPTO Wants Feedback About Post-Bilski Guidelines, EPO Might Let Monsanto Patent Life
Lessons to the UK-IPO and EPO, Courtesy of USPTO Failure
Backlash Against The European Patent Office (EPO), The Extended Board of Appeal (EBoA), and Trolls-Friendly Patent Systems
BSA Blames Lack of Patents for Europe Being ‘Behind’, EPO Loses €2 Million in Kaupthing Bankruptcy
Patents Roundup: USPTO Grants Patents on Hotdogs and Harbours Pyramid Schemes, EPO in Transition, and Apple Turns Nasty
What on Earth is the EPO Doing?
The EPO Does Not Work for European Citizens
EPO in State of Turmoil, Patents Kill
EPO and the Swiss Department of Justice Want to Make Some Free Software a Crime
Goodbye, Alison Brimelow (EPO President)
Is the EPO Selling Out to Microsoft?
Patents Roundup: Microsoft, CSIRO, Patent Hawk, and “Corrupt, Malicious” EPO
European Patent Office Continues March for Software Patents
Alison Brimelow (EPO) Criticised for Referral to Enlarged Board of Appeal
Patent Problems: Google Unresolved, Bilski Resolved, EPO to be Resolved?
The EPO Crisis and Microsoft’s Patent Trolls
Patents Roundup: EPO Patent Numbers Decrease; Bilski Revisited
Software Patents Roundup: EPO, USPTO and Acacia
Colour codes:
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| Scope |
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| Repression |
| Labour |
| Above the law |
| Credibility |
| Software (abstract) patents |
| Institutional abuse |
| Staff deaths/suicides |
| Ignoring court orders or due process |
| Budgetary issues |
| Patents on life |
| Censorship/Gagging |
| Crushing protests |
| Crushing oversight or other branches |
| Reputation issues (EU) |
| Patent maximalism/UPC |
| DDOS |
| Union-busting |
| Character assassination/Defamation |
| Favouritism/Nepotism |
| Patent trolls |
| Legal bullying |
| Abolishing workers' rights |
| Propaganda/Misinformation/Paying the media |
| Conflict of interest/Dubious connections |
| Systemic synthesis |
| Illegal surveillance |
| State within a state |
| Alleged bribery |
| Organisational crisis |
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2014
Special report on EPO