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  • Colour codes:

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    Scope
    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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    2015



    December

  • EPO Coverage to Increase in 2016, Including UPC Reality Checks
  • EPO a “European Institution Which Does Not Fall Under EU Law”
  • Buying Panels and Paying the Media to Cement Personal Agenda: The Bill Gates Common Core Case Mirrors the Battistelli Unitary Patent Case
  • Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part IV: Criticism Regarding Patent Scope is Verboten
  • Revolving Doors of High-Level EPO Management: Jacques Michel and the Questel Deal With the EPO
  • Battistelli’s Proposed Changes to Pensions “Difficult to Understand”, “Liable to Cause Instability”, Without Consultation or Justification
  • EPO Whistleblowing: How (Not) to Use Machines at the Office
  • Summary of the EPO-Europatis Series
  • Loose Data 'Protection' and Likely Privacy Infringements at the EPO: Here's Who Gets Employees' Internal Data
  • Europatis: “Turnover of €211,800 and Zero Employees”
  • Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part III: Death in the Family
  • Benoît Battistelli Fails to Get Majority of 38 Member States to Crush the Boards, Which Are Already Being Crushed Anyway (23 Vacant Judge Positions)
  • Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part II: Patent Office as a Cancer
  • Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part I: An Introduction
  • Concerns About the Unitary Patent Court (UPC) Among EPO Staff an Outcome of Battistelli’s Attacks on Staff
  • I-AM EPO: How the Record of the EPO's Management Dispute With Staff and the EPC is Being Rewritten by EPO-Funded Media
  • Managing IP Interview With Battistelli Shows That He's Either Deluded or Dishonest About EPO Realities
  • EPO Administrative Council: the Situation is “Detrimental to the Proper Functioning of the Office and the Public Image of the Whole Organisation”
  • Europe Under Siege by Patent Lawyers, UPC Ambitions, and the Administrative Council’s Continued Passive Support of Battistelli
  • Translation of the Latest Communiqué About the Administrative Council, No Longer Published by ‘President’
  • EPO Level of Trust Reaches All-Time Low: Workers Distrust the Available Phones in Their Offices, Use Mobiles Instead
  • The Forgotten History of IAM 'Magazine' as EPO Management's Megaphone and EPO Union Basher
  • Upcoming Series: The EPO as ‘Public’ Service for Private Profits
  • Battistelli’s Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part V
  • An Atmosphere of Revolt Inside the European Patent Office
  • More Sunday Humour: Fictional Diary From the European Patent Office
  • Battistelli's Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part IV
  • EPO Management Discovers Media is Against It
  • Watch Out for ‘Divide and Rule’ Tactics From the Control Risks- and FTI Consulting-Steered EPO
  • Jacques Michel (Former EPO VP1), Benoît Battistelli’s EPO, and the Leak of Internal Staff Data to Michel’s Private Venture
  • Rumour: Administrative Council Advises Benoît Battistelli Not to Fire Staff Representatives
  • EPO Pays FTI Consulting (Nearly a Million Bucks), Which Pays IAM for Pro-UPC Propaganda Event
  • EPI Silently Removes Criticism of the European Patent Office/Organisation, Techrights Preserves It
  • EPO Irrelevancy, Two Decades to be Granted an EPO Patent, Outrage Over Patents on Plants in EPO
  • Benoît Battistelli: “An Earthquake Would be Needed for the Administrative Council... Not to Support My Major Proposals.”
  • Battistelli's Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part III
  • EPO Union Responds to Željko Topić and Raimund Lutz's Attempt to Intimidate Staff That Joins Unions
  • Ahead of Administrative Council Meeting, General Consultative Committee Warned of “Witch Hunt in Pursuit of SUEPO Officials” (Union Busting)
  • Administrative Council Does Not Crush the Boards But Does Crush the Unions (Suspension Duration Sextupled)
  • EPO Attacks Staff Representatives’ Right to Work Just One Week Before Christmas
  • Members of the European Parliament Slam the EPO for Patent Maximalism That Led to Granting of Patents on Plants
  • Benoît Battistelli's EPO Continues Its Self-Congratulatory PR Charade, Neglecting to Even Acknowledge the Catastrophes Therein
  • Battistelli Wants to Make “Lobbying in the Field of European and Unitary Patent” a “Prohibited Activity” for All Except Himself
  • European Patent Institute (EPI) Not Happy With the EPO’s Terrible Treatment of the Boards of Appeal
  • AIPPI Sends Angry Letter to the Administrative Council Regarding the EPO's Attacks on the Boards and Staff Unions, Saying it Damages the EPO's Function and Reputation)
  • New WIPO Figures Reinforce Reality Where More Patents Needn't Imply More Innovation, Just Lower Standards (a discussion about the EPO and UPC included)
  • Unanimous Negative Opinion on the Proposal of Benoît Battistelli to Eliminate Basic Rights at EPO
  • Battistelli's Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part II
  • UPC and Patent Trolls: The Connection Revisited
  • Very High Proportion of EPO Staff in Berlin Goes to the Streets to Protest and to Defend SUEPO From the Union Busters
  • Ahead of Tomorrow's Administrative Council Meeting EPO Staff Representatives Warn Heads of Delegations About Union Busting and Other Abuses
  • Battistelli's Vision of UPC is Closer Contract With Major Applicants (Abroad), Contrary to European Interests
  • When Europe's Leading International Patent Litigators Get Fed Up With Benoît Battistelli and Want Him Sent to 'Exile'
  • Watch Out For the EPO-SUEPO Parity Spin
  • Heise Article Tackles EPO ‘Feud’ (Union Busting in Disguise), Techrights’ Remarks Follow
  • Battistelli’s Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part I
  • EPO No Longer in the ‘Business’ of Just Granting Patents But Politics and Lobbying Also
  • Keeping the European Patent Office (EPO) Out of Politics Amid the EPO's Campaign to Deceive the Media, Politicians
  • When SUEPO Called the EPO a “Public Service Organisation Out of Control”
  • The EPO’s Failed (Dismissed) Attempt to Dismiss a Judge Alleged to Have Communicated About EPO Abuses
  • The European Patent Office is a Lobby Organisation, Was and Still is Lobbying for Expansion of Patent Scope (Also to Software) Through UPC
  • EPO Censored Itself After Publishing a Document Which Had Been Leaked Anyway
  • EPO Central Staff Committee Warns That EPO President Illegally Changes the Rules to Remove the Rights of the Accused, Crush Dissent/Unions
  • A Day After Massive EPO Protest Benoît Battistelli Tries Using Money to Appease Staff
  • EPO 'Sweetener' for Administrative Council National Delegates
  • New Private Eye Article Says EPO “Doesn't Actually Deny That There's a Fast-Track Project Allowing Big Firms to Queue-Jump”
  • Series Teaser: EPO President Battistelli's Relationship With Power
  • EPO Scandals in Private Eye Again
  • Photos From EPO Protest in Munich
  • A Little Taste of European Patent Office 'Justice'
  • The EPO’s Double Standard on Confidentiality
  • Contacting National Delegations to Complain About the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • EPO Vice-President Željko Topić Formally Weakens the Right to Strike, Threatens Financial Retaliation
  • Surveillance Audits at the EPO
  • Tightening Media Control: European Patent Office (EPO) Silences Blogs of Critics by Intimidation, Lawsuits
  • Union Busting at the European Patent Office, Dressed Up as 'Investigation'
  • An Introduction and an Overview of European Patent Office (EPO) Scandals
  • Software Patents and EPO Coverage
  • Watch Out for the Latest EPO Charm Offensive in the Media, Greenwashing Being the Theme Du Jour
  • EPO 'Investigators' Are Almost Technically Illiterate, Definitely Biased by Design
  • Chairman of the Administrative Council Failed to Stop Suspension (and Potential Firing) of EPO Staff Representatives
  • EPO's Team Battistelli is Promoting Only the Oppressors
  • Legal Analysis Reveals That EPO Principal Director for Human Resources (Bergot) Resorts to “Gross Violation of Due Process”
  • Hypocrite in Chief: Benoît Battistelli Compares Staff Union to ‘Mafia’
  • Lawyers’ Response to Incredible Accusations From EPO Management and Its Praetorian Guard
  • EPO Management: Associating a Whistleblowing Judge With Nazism and Weapons, Associating Staff Representatives With Snipers!
  • Team Battistelli Plans to Send to Exile (or Effectively Fire) Law-abiding Staff Because the Staff is Independent and Unwilling to Sack a Whistleblower
  • FRAND Tax, Patent Trolls as Satellites of Large Patent Aggressors, EPO Puff Pieces, and Another Imminent EPO Protest
  • The EPO is Trying to Make It a Serious Offense to Merely Inform Colleagues About Oneself (or Others) Being Subjected to Institutional Harassment/Witch-hunt by Team Battistelli
  • Did the EPO Spike a BBC Story Regarding Discriminatory Practices, Legal Bullying of Bloggers, and/or Microsoft Bias?
  • Outside Interventions Sought in EPO Amid Scandals, New Intervention Comes From OHIM
  • New WIPR Survey Shows 96% of Respondents Are Concerned About the Situation at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • Staff Union of the EPO Responds to Benoît Battistelli’s Alleged Defamation of Staff Representatives
  • Article Highlights EPO’s Capitalist Venture Tendencies, Seeking to Just Maximize Profit, Irrespective of Public Interests and Human Factors
  • EPO “Synonymous With Psychological Depressions, Nervous Breakdowns, and Even Suicides”
  • The EPO's PR Agency is Connected to Fracking AstroTurf in the United States
  • No Wonder Staff of the EPO Gets Sick of the Management, Which Games Sickness Statistics in Order to Delude the World
  • The Tail That Wags the Dog: How an EPO President Virtually Controls the Administrative Council (AC)
  • Suppression of Voices Critical of the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • The USPTO, With All Its Serious Issues, Increasingly Looks Like the EPO’s Role Model
  • More Than 2,000 People, Including Directors, Said to Have Protested in Munich (About HALF of All EPO Staff Including The Hague Protest)
  • Like JPMorgan, EPO Management Has Started a Defamatory Smear Campaign Against Critics
  • European Private Office (EPO) Increasingly the Subject of Media Scrutiny Despite Huge Spendings on Reputation Laundering
  • EPO All-Time Low: Memorandum From the Praesidium (of the Boards of Appeal) Complains to the Administrative Council About Latest Questionable Moves
  • EPO Does Not Seem to Have Investigators, Only Accusers and Prosecutors (Loyal to the President)
  • The Media is Already Flooded With EPO Propaganda, Some Likely Paid for With €73,000-Per-Month 'Special' New Budget
  • EurActiv's Puff Piece for EPO (Amid High-Budget Media Blitz) Reveals Just How Clueless and Tactless the EPO's President Really is
  • Amid EPO Exodus/Brain Drain, Two Options: 'Gestapo' Staff and Assistant to Battistelli Have Quit or Battistelli's Praetorian Guard is Expanding
  • Impact of Software Patents and Excessive/Unregulated Profit Motives at USPTO: Now Even Common Encryption (i.e. Computer Security) Under Patent Attacks (a large portion speaks about patent scope at the EPO and privatisation, nepotism etc.)
  • French Member of Parliament Reacts to EPO Management Amidst Ongoing Attacks on Staff Representatives and Facts-free Information War
  • EPO Staff Protest Statistics: Over 2,600 Signatures (So Far) in Petition, About 800 Staff in The Hague Protest, Much More to Come in Munich
  • EPO “Intranet Fails to Present Any Negative Press Cuttings, Reports and Reactions From the Media”
  • The Spanish EPO Scandal – Part III
  • New EPO Job Advertisement Reveals Gestapo-Like ‘Deep State’, Operating Outside the Rule of Law and Managed Secretly by a Tyrannical President
  • Punto Informatico (Italian Media) About EPO's Legal Bullying Against Techrights
  • The European Patent Office (EPO) Crushes Not Only Unions But Also the Press and Even Bloggers
  • The Spanish EPO Scandal – Part II
  • EPO Staff Representatives Highlight to Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’ How Battistelli Deceived Him


  • November

  • Željko Topić Tries to Do to EPO Staff What He Did in Croatia, Now Crushes Staff Assembly in The Hague
  • The Spanish EPO Scandal – Part I
  • Media Alert: IAM ‘Magazine’ Does Not Protect Sources
  • Public Protests by European Patent Office (EPO) Staff Weaken the EPO's Attacks on the Media
  • Why the European Patent Office Cannot Really Sue and Why It's All -- More Likely Than Not -- Just SLAPP
  • How the EPO Twisted Defamation Law in a Failed Bid to Silence Techrights
  • The Latest EPO Spin: Staff Protesters Compared to ‘Anti-Patent Campaigners’ or ‘Against UPC’
  • The Serious Implication of Controversial FTI Consulting Contract: Every Press Article About EPO Could Have Been Paid for by EPO
  • EPO: We Have Always Been at War With Europe (or Europeans)
  • What Everyone Needs to Know About the EPO's New War on Journalism
  • EPO Did Not Want to Take Down One Techrights Article, It Wanted to Take Down Many Articles Using Intimidation, SLAPPing, and Psychological Manipulation Late on a Friday Night
  • The European Private Office: What Was Once a Public Service is Now Crony Capitalism With Private Contractors
  • When the EPO Liaised With Capone (Literally) to Silence Bloggers, Delete Articles
  • Blogger Who Wrote About the EPO's Abuses Retires
  • Leaked: EPO Award of €880,000 “in Order to Address the Media Presence of the EPO” (Reputation Laundering)
  • Documents Needed: Contract or Information About EPO PR/Media Campaign to Mislead the World
  • "/o/2015/11/26/guest-post-regarding-unitary-patent/ Guest Post: The EPO, EPC, Unitary Patent and the Money Issue]]
  • Saving the Integrity of the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • A Call for Bloggers and Journalists: Did EPO Intimidate and Threaten You Too? Please Speak Out.
  • European Patent Office (EPO) a “Kingdom Above the EU Countries, a Tyranny With ZERO Accountability”
  • EPO Management Needs to Finally Recognise That It Itself is the Issue, Not the Staff or the Unions
  • Even the EPO Central Staff Committee is Unhappy With EPO Management
  • Debunking the EPO’s Latest Marketing Nonsense From Les Échos and More on Benoît Battistelli’s Nastygram to French Politician
  • The Sun King Delusion: The Views of Techrights Are Just a Mirror of EPO Staff Unions
  • United They Stand: FFPE-EPO Supports Suspended Staff Representatives From SUEPO
  • Censoring WIPR Article About Censorship by EPO
  • Censorship at the EPO Escalates: Now We Have Threats to Sue Publishers
  • Response to Bogus Accusations That EPO Staff Protests Are Really an Attempt to Derail UPC
  • New Heise Article Makes It Clear That 'Nazi'-Themed Accusations Against the Suspended Board Judge Were Insufficiently Substantiated
  • European Central Bank Staff Committee Adds to Growing Pressure on Abusive EPO Management
  • Gross Violation of Workers’ Rights in EPO: Denial of Christmas Vacation/Leave for Slower Workers
  • The Bogus Narrative Floated by EPO Management: Our Judges and Examiners Are Armed and Violent
  • Support SUEPO or End Up Like They and Some of the Boards Did
  • NRC Handelsblad (Dutch Evening Newspaper) Speaks About EPO's Refusal to Accept Court Orders From The Hague
  • EPO President Battistelli Now Intimidates Even National Delegations
  • A Look at the Latest Gross Deletionism at the EPO’s ‘Media Partner’, French Newspaper Les Échos
  • Rumour About Efforts to Dismiss a Board Judge by Intimidating Boards of Appeal
  • President Battistelli Now Pressures/Threatens Politicians Who ‘Dare’ to Complain About Abuses and Unacceptable Conditions at the EPO
  • EPO: It’s Like a Family Business – Part IV
  • Translation of Thomas Magenheim-Hörmann's Article in the German Media, Urging European Politicians to Intervene in EPO Chaos and Lawlessness
  • German Press Says Broken EPO Lets President Severely Punish Staff Not Even Guilty of Any Wrongdoing
  • German Media Reveals That Out-of-Control EPO Management is Even Threatening and Abusing Lawyers Now
  • It Pays (Off) to ‘Bribe’ the Media: Watch How Les Échos Covers EPO Matters and Self-Censors
  • ‘Leaked’ PDF Shows How EPO Management Tried to Crush Judge Who ‘Dared’ to Criticise EPO Management
  • EPO: It’s Like a Family Business – Part III
  • In an Effort to Counter EPO Staff Narrative (After ~2,000 of Staff Protest) EPO Management Portrays Staff as Violent But Provides No Evidence
  • Gross Aggression by EPO Management Shows the Urgent Need to Remove Immunity From EPO
  • Patent Lawyers Want to Bring Software Patents (Hence Patent Trolls Too) to Europe, Piggyback Battistelli's Habitual UPC Promotion
  • Another George Bush Moment: Benoît Battistelli Says EPO Believes in “Fundamental Principles of Freedom, Equality and Justice”
  • Meltdown at the EPO, Massive Staff Protests This Afternoon
  • The EPO's Management Has Just Reaffirmed Its Possible Role in Contributing to Staff Suicides
  • EPO: It's Like a Family Business - Part II
  • EPO: It’s Like a Family Business – Part I
  • The EPO is Criticised Again for Serving the Monsanto (and Syngenta) Agenda
  • The Bureaucratic Nonsense That Came Out of Benoît Battistelli and Jesper Kongstad at EPOPIC
  • New Reports Highlight Need to Crack Down on the European Patent Office and Microsoft
  • European Federation of Public Service Unions Pressures Dutch Prime Minister to Take Action Against the EPO's Violations
  • The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part VII
  • The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part VI
  • The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part V
  • The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part IV
  • IP Kat Bemoans Crushing of the EPO’s Boards by an Increasingly Paranoid EPO Management
  • The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part III
  • Dutch Political Action Against the EPO’s Management Greater Than Previously Estimated
  • The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part II
  • The Latest Propaganda From Benoît Battistelli is Promotion of the Unitary Patent (UPC) at Political Levels
  • A State Within a State: Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About the EPO's Bizarre Existence Above the Law
  • The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part I
  • More European Politicians Take on the EPO for Ignoring the Rule of Law
  • The Benoît Battistelli Way or the Highway: EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal is Being Discredited, SUEPO Web Site is Down Again
  • EPO “Careering Towards the Precipice of Disaster”


  • October

  • Private Eye Covers the EPO Scandals, Says EPO Hired 'British Snooping Firm Global Risk Consultants'
  • Former German Constitutional Court Judge Denounces the EPO’s Possible Campaign of Defamation Against Judge Accused of Truth-Telling
  • Benoît Battistelli Became an Embarrassment to the European Patent Organisation, Allege EPO Workers
  • The International Labour Organisation Highlights Problems of Broader Dimensions at EPO
  • EPO Press Spokesperson and Obvious Conflicts of Interest With Supposed Anti-Corruption Group Transparency International
  • Battistelli's EPO Loses 'Customers' Because It Plays 'Favourites' With Large Corporations
  • Secret Deals at the EPO Discredit Europe and Need to Stop Immediately
  • Control Risks Group (CRG), Transparency International, the European Patent Office (EPO) Investigative Unit and the Obvious Conflicts of Interest
  • In the United States, USPTO Helps Create Trolls, Whereas in Europe, the EPO Itself is the Troll
  • Board of Appeal Thwarts a Software Patent Application in the EPO, From Company Indirectly Connected to the EPO
  • European Patent Organisation: Hallmark of a Corrupted (by Corporations) Entity
  • The Deteriorating Working Conditions at the EPO Show Reluctance to Make Talented Staff (or Ill Staff) Happy
  • EPO Slammed for Granting Patents on Life
  • How the Chief Information Officer of the EPO is Connected to the President of the EPO
  • SUEPO Reiterates Call for Independent Mediation and “Doubts That There Can Ever be Social Peace With Mr Battistelli as President”
  • US Patent 'Industry' (Parasites) Defends Patently Broken System That It Profits From, Pushes for UPC in Europe
  • Techrights to Increase Coverage of EPO Scandals and the Unitary Patent
  • Slate Magazine Explains Why Excessive Patenting is a Bad Thing, Gives a Cautionary Tale for EPO and Others
  • EPO Increases Repressions: Allegedly Bans Staff From Helping Refugees
  • German Broadcaster on European Patent Office (EPO) Preferential Treatment for Microsoft and Others
  • Benoît Battistelli et al in an Allegedly New Campaign of Defamation Against Staff Member
  • German Media Shows Discriminatory EPO Practices More Than Just a ‘Pilot’ (Reaching Second Half of 2016), Started When Microsoft Pressured EPO (Lodged Complaints)
  • EPO Cleverly Frames Total War Against Its Own Staff as a War Against Nazism
  • EPO is Trademark-Bullying Its Critics, Trying Repeatedly to Remove Bad Publicity With Help From Menacing Legal Threats (SLAPP)
  • The 'Sherlocks' of EPO/Spin-Doctoring Pretend That All of the EPO's Problems Boil Down to One Disgruntled Person
  • EPO’s Jeremy Philpott Confirms That Discriminatory (Software) Patent Processing Practices Started With Microsoft, Because of Microsoft
  • Translation Needed: High Employee Sabotaged European Patent Office (EPO)
  • EPO Says Crushing Patent Neutrality is a Good Thing® Because Authenticity of Self-Incriminating EPO Document Cannot be Denied
  • EPO Completely Loses It and Starts Banning Even More Sites Ahead of Today's Demonstration, UPC Proceeding Behind Closed Doors
  • Staff of the EPO Under Siege Ahead of Tomorrow's Demonstration in Munich
  • EPO Management Lobbies for the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Uses This to Advance Software Patents in Europe
  • Confirmed: Benoît Battistelli is Crushing the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA)
  • EPO Staff is Happy, Says EPO Propaganda Still in the Making
  • EPO Management is Running Out of Time as More Media Remarks on Its Abuses
  • Benoît Battistelli's Group of 'Loyals' Crushes Not Only the Independent Boards But Also 'Unwanted' Directorates-General
  • Leaked: EPO Prioritises Work for Large Foreign Corporations, Discrimination Not Accidental But Centrally Planned
  • Benoît Battistelli's Office Accused of Institutional Harassment Against EPO Staff in New Letter to the Administrative Council, Calling for External Investigation
  • Bad News for the EPO's Judicial Independence and Due Process in Next Week's Administrative Council (AC) Meeting
  • The Coup D'état of Benoît Battistelli Follows an Imperialist Model, Threatens Opposition and Dissent
  • EPO Staff to Disrupt Administrative Council Meeting With Public Demonstration That Raises Awareness of Abuses
  • Željko Topić Attacks EPO Staff for ‘Daring’ to Legally Challenge the EPO’s Management Over Its Gross Abuses in Europe
  • Commenters Provide Possible Explanations for Mr Van der Eijk Being on Unlimited Sick Leave
  • With Software Patents in Europe (and Pushes for the Same Thing in Australia and India) Patent Trolls Now Come to Europe, Attack Android/Linux
  • New Information on Limbo in the Enlarged Board, Courtesy of Illegal Actions by the EPO’s Benoît Battistelli
  • Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna Explains Why the UPC (“Unitary Patent“ System) is an Undemocratic Sham Whilst UPC Silently Advanced by Patent Lawyers and Politicians
  • Article Explains Why SUEPO Went Silent Well Over a Week Ago: Nobody is Allowed to Talk to Journalists Without Permission From Battistelli
  • Chairman of the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA) and EPO Vice-President of DG3 Suspiciously on Unlimited Sick Leave After Benoît Battistelli's Unprecedented Attacks on Other EBoA Staff
  • Microsoft's Secret Special Relationship With EPO Illustrates Serious Corruption at Microsoft and the EPO


  • September

  • Süddeutsche Zeitung Explains Imminent Federal Scrutiny Against Battistelli’s EPO in Germany
  • EPO Managers, Patent Lawyers, Commissioners and Other Non-Technical Personnel Tackle Democracy, Alter Laws in Bulk and in Secret
  • Europe’s Acceptance of and Resistance to Software Patents, Courtesy of Corporate Front Groups and Courtrooms Respectively
  • German Press Explains EPO Investigation Unit (I.U.), Struggles to Openly Speak to the Secretive EPO
  • Translation Needed of Article About EPO Threats Against SUEPO’s Elizabeth Hardon
  • EPO Management Justifies Censorship (Even of Journalists) Using Its Vice-President Željko Topić
  • EPO President Benoît Battistelli Compared to Famous Criminals on European Television
  • Dutch Politician John Kerstens Says EPO Investigative Unit is Called ‘the Gestapo’
  • The European Patent Office's Autocracy Has Proven the Streisand Effect, Amplifying Its Opposition's Messages
  • Dutch Report: EPO Suicides Possibly Caused by Working Conditions Imposed by EPO’s Management
  • European Patent Office Expands Censorship and Intimidation Against Staff as Pressure Mounts
  • EPO Staff Suicides Estimated to Have Grown Tenfold Under Current Regime -- Claim
  • EPO Has Become Political and Benoît Battistelli is Lobbying for UPC (Large Corporations' Wishlist)
  • The EPO’s Vicious Attacks on Its Very Own Staff Have Peaked (War on Dissent) While Oppressive Patent Regime (UPC) Phased in
  • Benoît Battistelli and His Goons From Control Risks (CRG) Try to Crush Unions, Not Just Journalism
  • EPO Management May Not Have Resigned (Yet), But the Rest of the Staff is Leaving in Droves
  • Benoît Battistelli in Denial Over Suicides in EPO, Accuses and Threatens the Messengers


  • August

  • Censorship, Self-Censorship and Intimidation Now the Modus Operandi at EPO
  • Patent Practitioners: "The Unitary Patent Might be Able to Open the Floodgates for Software Patents in Europe"
  • Another Suicide at the EPO, Fifth by Our Count
  • EPO Corruption of Patent Boundaries: Business Methods and Algorithms Patented
  • EPO Measures Productivity Using the Wrong Yardstick in Order to Sell Its Racket to the Public
  • ‘Sanader’s Protégé’ Željko Topić Slammed by Press in His Home Country


  • July

  • Patents Expansion in Europe May be Looming
  • SUEPO Post Vanishes: Belated Self-Censorship or Threats From EPO Management?
  • European Censorship: Tyrants of the EPO Blacklist Techrights, Web Site Not Accessible Office-Wide
  • EPO Appointments: Standards of a Third World Country
  • Europe Goes Down a Dark Route When It Comes to Patent Scope and Centralisation
  • Amid Controversy, Political Scrutiny and Increased Media Pressure Željko Topić and Benoît Battistelli Allegedly Cancel Today’s Trip to Zagreb (Croatia) Where Topić Faces Many Criminal Charges
  • Translation of Pierre-Yves Le Borgn' Speech Against EPO Management and New Parliamentarian Interventions
  • Munich Press, Münchner Merkur, Slams the Munich-based EPO
  • Speculations About the EPO's Possible Role in DDOS Attacks


  • June

  • Techrights Confirmed as a Target of EPO Surveillance, With Help From Control Risks Group (CRG)
  • DDOS Attacks Against Techrights
  • After Intervention by the Council of Europe Comes a Detailed Summary of the Situation in the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • The Council of Europe Slams the EPO as Political Pressure Grows for EPO Management to Obey the Law
  • The EPO’s Circus of Nepotism, Corporatism and Gross Abuse is Promoting the Unitary Patent
  • An Estimated 1,000 EPO Staff in Munich Demonstrated Against EPO Management Yesterday Afternoon
  • EPO Protest in Munich and Growing Unpopularity of EPO Management, Media Manipulation by the Management
  • Demonstration Against European Patent Office Management in Munich This Wednesday
  • French Newspaper Les Echos Censors Criticism of Benoît Battistelli and the EPO
  • SUEPO to SUE Government of the Netherlands for Protecting the EPO’s Thugs
  • More Political Interventions in EPO Abuse Cases
  • Translation of Süddeutsche Zeitung Article Calling for External Oversight of Data Protection at the EPO
  • EPO Data Protection Officer 'Just a Dictator's Minion', Approved Keyloggers and Hidden Cameras
  • Badische Zeitung Labels European Patent Office (EPO) a Police State for Use of Very Intrusive Mass Surveillance Software
  • More European Politicians Pressure and Sometimes Slam the European Patent Office (EPO) Amid New Scandals
  • EPO Comes Under Fire From the Bavarian Data Protection Supervisor After the Spying Scandal
  • Full Translation of Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About Blackhat Tactics (Keyloggers) in EPO
  • EPO Surveillance, Threats, and Patronisation of Dutch Legal System Covered in Dutch Article From De Volkskrant
  • European Patent Office (EPO) Now Uses Keyloggers to Spy on Staff
  • When the European Patent Office Lost in Court and Refused to Obey the Law: An Analysis
  • EPO May be Creating Its Own Lawless NSA (or GCHQ) With Control Risks Group Deal
  • The European Patent Office Has Become Militarised
  • Spanish Media on Reign of Terror at EPO: Managerial Misconduct, Blocked E-mails (Censorship), and Abuse of Legal Immunity
  • The High Cost of Low Patent Bar at the EPO
  • Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About the EPO's Investigation Unit and Control Risks Group
  • EPO and Administrative Council Stall Criticism by Pretending to Negotiate With Staff Whilst Actually Attacking It
  • EPO Officially Confirms That It Specifically Hired Control Risks Group (CRG) to Spy on Journalists and Their Sources
  • The EPO Sinks Deeper in a Scandal After Paying Public Money for Military-Connected Control Risks to Stalk Journalists and Staff
  • 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
  • EPO Reluctantly (and Privately) Confirms Giving Public Money for Military-connected ‘Control Risks’ to Spy on Journalists and Their Sources While Techrights is Under Fresh DDOS Attacks


  • May

  • The EPO Still Wastes Public Money on Publicity Stunts and 'Reputation Management' Campaigns
  • Propaganda Mode for UPC Agreement Whilst EPO Increasingly Grants Patents on Software
  • Patent Scope at the EPO is Totally Out of Control, UPC Will Make Things Worse
  • Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Benoît Battistelli and Four EPO Suicides
  • Süddeutsche Zeitung Says Talking Helps While EPO Management Back-stabs Other Side of the Table
  • More Utter Shame Unveiled at Battistelli’s EPO: Intimidation Tactics With Help From ‘Control Risks’


  • April

  • The EPO’s Tyrant, Benoît Battistelli, is Probably on His Way Out, Threatens to Resign
  • As Core Issues Still Not Addressed, Another Protest Against EPO Management Scheduled for Tomorrow in Munich, Germany
  • EPO Management is Trying Hard to Appease Its Critics While Pushing Forth Unitary Patent Agenda
  • More Translations of French Article About the EPO
  • New Article Chronicles Suicides and Nervous Breakdowns at the EPO Due to the Management’s Abuses
  • The EPO is Becoming More Like the USPTO Under Benoît Battistelli's Greed-Driven Reign
  • More Suicides Reported at the Staff-Hostile European Patent Office
  • English, French and German Translations of De Telegraaf Article About Ivo Opstelten’s Defence of Benoît Battistelli
  • The EPO’s Dutch Appeal Court Judgment Controversy: List of Political Interventions
  • Željko Topić: ‘SUEPO {Staff Union} Has No Standing in This Office. SUEPO Has No Role to Play in This Office.’
  • English, French and German Translations of Dutch Article About EPO Abuses
  • When Battistelli’s Defender Ivo Opstelten Turned Out to be Also Defending (Paying) Narcotics Traffickers
  • When Battistelli’s Defender, Dutch Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten, Attacked Europeans’ Right to Demonstrate


  • March

  • When the EPO Came Under Fire From the Netherlands and Before Systemic Corruption Was Revealed
  • Techrights Cited by European Politicians in Support of EPO Staff’s Causes
  • Željko Topić and Ivan Šimonović, Two Residues of Ivo Sanader’s Corrupt Regime, Seen as Indirectly Connected
  • The EPO’s Dutch Scandal Leaves Battistelli and His Cronies on the Run
  • The EPO's Administrative Council is Under Increased Pressure to Rein in and to Finally Stop Benoît Battistelli
  • Concerns Over Željko Topić’s Alleged Powerful Links in Croatian Diplomacy
  • Benoît Battistelli’s EPO Comes Under Fire From Prominent Figures Who Are Key EPO Stakeholders, Expect Battistelli to Resign ‘in the Longer Term’
  • Benoît Battistelli’s EPO is Under Attack From French Politicians Yet Again
  • Politics of Blackmail at the EPO
  • Benoît Battistelli's EPO Comes Under Attack From the British
  • The Royal Norwegian Department of Labour on the Right of European Patent Office (EPO) Workers to Strike
  • How the European Patent Office (Management) is Spying on Its Very Own Staff
  • Translation of Full Judgment Against Željko Topić in Croatian Defamation Case Over Bribery (Mercedes/Audi) and More
  • Benoît Battistelli Allegedly Turns to Moscow and Putin-Inspired Tactics to Oppress and Suppress EPO Staff
  • Rikard Frgačić Explains Željko Topić's Behaviour and the Lufthansa Case
  • Video: How the Željko Topić-Led SIPO Betrayed Croatians
  • EPO Management Still in a Freefall, Tries to Warp/Divert the Debate Away From Its Abuses


  • February



  • The EPO’s Sham ‘Internal Investigation’ of EPO Vice-President Željko Topić’s Affairs
  • Benoît Battistelli Once Again Threatens EPO Staff That ‘Dares’ to Protest, Battistelli Exploits Terror Attacks to Pretend to Respect Free Speech
  • The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys Slams the European Patent Office for Structural Failings
  • Techrights Under Attack Again, Shortly After Important EPO Articles
  • EPO Staff Protests Against Benoît Battistelli’s Lowering of Patents Quality (Scope Expansion and Software Patents for Profit)
  • Breaking: European Patent Office Sued by Its Own Staff in The Hague, Must Unblock Staff’s Voices
  • Željko Topić's History in SIPO Leaves a Legacy of Alleged DZIV Vehicles (Bribes), Authorship Abuses, and Intimidation Against Reporters
  • Željko Peratović Slammed for Whitewashing Željko Topić After Publishing Important Piece on Behalf of Key Sources
  • Benoît Battistelli Has Made Oversight of European Patent Office Absolutely Impossible
  • English Translation of Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About Benoît Battistelli, Željko Topić, and EPO Tyranny
  • Amid EPO Scandals, Call to Dissolve the EPO and Start All Over Again (With New Management and New Direction)
  • FFII and the American IP Law Association Comment on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Envisioned by EPO
  • English Translation of Article About Protest at Danish Consulate Over EPO Abuses
  • EPO Staff to March to British Consulate to Protest Against the Administrative Council (AC)
  • The EPO's Digital War (Censorship) Against Staff Web Site
  • Cyberattacks on SUEPO Server Raise More Questions
  • The European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW) is Again Protesting Against EPO as More Crackdowns by EPO Management Reveal Depth of Abuse
  • English Translation of Ruling Against Željko Topić (EPO VP) in Croatian Court
  • German Translation of Ruling Against Željko Topić, the EPO's Vice-President
  • More Press Coverage From the Danish Media About EPO Abuses and Protest at Danish Consulate
  • Benoît Battistelli and Jesper Kongstad Continue to Blame Everything on SUEPO
  • Catarina Holtz From the EPO Boards of Appeal Explains Bad Behaviour of the Management With Regards to EPC 2000
  • The EPO's Paid Propaganda Campaign in the Media


  • January

  • Media Coverage of Demonstration Against Jesper Kongstad of the Administrative Council (EPO)
  • Text of Ruling/Decision Against Željko Topić (Regarding Audi as a Bribe)
  • An Estimated 1,000 EPO Employees-Strong Legion Engulfs Danish Consulate to Protest Jesper Kongstad's (of Administrative Council) Protection of Benoît Battistelli
  • Breaking: EPO Vice-President Željko Topić Loses Defamation Case in Croatia
  • As Battistelli Breaks the Rules and Topić Silences Staff, New European Parliament Petition for Tackling the EPO’s Abuses is Needed
  • The Collapse of European Patent Office Management Culminates With Resignations
  • Vesna Stilin Renews Her Fight for Justice in Željko Topić Case (EPO VP)
  • Failure of the EPO Can Derail the Trojan Horse of Software Patents and Patent Trolls
  • Translations of Member of the European Parliament Complaining About European Patent Office (EPO)
  • Battistelli's Latest Propaganda War Tries to Convince EPO Staff That Željko Topić's Many Criminal Charges Don't Exist
  • Dutch MEP Dennis De Jong, Criticising Battistelli and Topić, Calls for Action Against EPO Management
  • EPO Misdirections Debunked: Refuting Battistelli’s Nonsense and Bogeyman Theory
  • The EPO Connection Now a Liability as Administrative Council Has Become a Laughing Stock, Jesper Kongstad to be Targeted by EPO Staff Protests
  • Intellectual Property Judges’ Association (IPJA) Speaks Out Against EPO Tyrant Battistelli
  • Investigation Unit a Complete Farce Inside the EPO
  • Just in: Fresh Call From Croatia to Arrest EPO Vice-President Željko Topić
  • EPO Under Fire From European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW)