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EPO 2020 Archive

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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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    2020

    December

  • Reminder: Absolutely Do Not Install Contact-Tracing 'Apps' (They Solve Nothing) (partly about EPO)
  • Meme: Software Patents in the Patents-as-Buzzwords Office
  • Meme: EPO Oversight
  • Video: The Usual Unified Patent Court (UPC) Hilarity Ensues as Same Old Lies Are Recycled by 'IP' Federation, Then Amplified by Team UPC on Boxing Day
  • Meme: EPO Quality Going Downhill
  • Meme: Rabid Tony
  • Meme: How the Grinch Stole EPO Money
  • Memes: EPO 'Production' During Lockdown and Even Holidays (No Separation Between Home and Work)
  • The EPO Carol
  • Meme: Europol for Christmas
  • Video: If Only Judges and Scientists Governed Today's EPO...
  • EPO Scandals Are Closely Connected to the UPC Folly
  • Meme: EPO Personal Targets
  • The Case of UPC Misinformation and Propaganda Campaigns: The Web (and Google News) as a Noise and Disinformation Machine of Lobbyists and Oligarchy
  • Holiday Greetings to Readers and Their Loved Ones (partly about EPO)
  • More Pseudo-Journalism About the Unified Patent Court (UPC), Composed by Those With Stake in the Coup
  • Christmas for Team UPC
  • The UPC is Dead, Long Live the German Constitutional Court
  • Meme: Always Blame the Judges, the Law, and the Lazy Scientists... Not Corrupt Eurocrats
  • Strategy for Fixing the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • Focus for Next Year Will Include European Patent Office (EPO) Conflict With the Law Itself
  • Team UPC Throws Vienna Convention Out the Window and Vienna’s EPO Branch (in EPC) Discarded by EPO Management
  • Where to Get Accurate News About What's Really Going on at the European Patent Office
  • Meme: Social Sciences as a Science
  • Almost Half of Vienna-based EPO Staff Went on Strike This Past Week
  • The European Buzzwords Office
  • Video: What the European Patent Office Means by AI and 4IR (a Plot to Advance Illegal Software Patents)
  • The EPO is Promoting Software Patents This Week, Seeking to Impress the Administrative Council With Illegal Patents
  • Meme: A Message of Solidarity With EPO Staff
  • Video: Quick Remarks About the Lack of Oversight at the European Patent Office
  • This Week We Shall See If the EPO's Administrative Council, Led by Josef Kratochvil, is Complicit in a Financial Scam
  • Meme: Making Patents Sane Again
  • Video: The EPO's Media Strategy
  • EPO Googlebombing, Manipulating the Media, and the Latest Fluff
  • Coming Soon: Techrights/TechBytes Videos (With Some EPO Focus Too)
  • Video: EPO Strike Disrupts 'Business as Usual'
  • Further Dissection of the EPO's Response to EPO Strike (to Commence in Just Over a Day From Now)
  • How EPO Management Manufactures Non-News to Distract the General Public From EPO Lawbreaking and Strikes (With Help From Paid-for Publishers)
  • 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)
  • You Can Really Tell That EPO Management is Growingly Stressed or Increasingly Worried by Next Week's Strike in All EPO Sites
  • 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 Bribes of Media/Publishers Pay Off as the Office Uses Lots of Buzzwords to Promote Illegal Agenda and Apparently to Distract From Next Week's Strike
  • 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)
  • It Looks Like the EPO is Spreading a Bunch of Spammy 'News' (More of the Usual) to Distract From Major Strike Being Organised
  • Memes: The Other Mercer
  • EPO's Staff Explains How António Campinos and the Mercers Lie About the Office in Order to Crush and Rob the Staff
  • EPO Workers Go on Strike Next Week
  • António Campinos Mastered the 'Art of Ruling' His Father Was Strongly Against
  • “Clouds Hanging Above the EPO”
  • Why We Are Publishing Many Internal EPO Documents This Month (and Also Last Month)
  • 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.”
  • Lies and Fake News With Quotation Marks: The Latest Strategy From Team UPC?
  • The Non-dialogue: “Staff Representatives Were Intimidated, Persecuted, or Both.” How the EPO Under António Campinos Succumbed to Battistelli Monarchy, Leading to Unrest, Strikes
  • 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)
  • Meme: When a European Patent Office President Was There for Only 2 Years (and Some Staff for Over 40 Years)
  • EPO Call for Strike in 2019
  • EPO Management is Lying About the Position of EPO Stakeholders While Compelling Those Stakeholders to Become Accomplices
  • Meme: The Master Negotiator
  • What Really Happened Last Year When Workers of the European Patent Office, Europe's Second-Largest Institution, Were About to Go on Strike
  • Censored EPO Publication: Conflict Resolution Unit (CRU) Unspeakable Because Office Management Buries the Facts
  • Censored EPO Publication: Staff Cannot Comment on the Administrative Council's Meetings?
  • Mail: Reader’s Comment on ‘Fraudlinger’
  • Meme: European Patent Office Violates European Laws
  • EPO Management Consciously Breaking European Union Laws: Staff and Stakeholders Subjected to Illegal Tactics and Practices, Now Exam Takers As Well
  • 'Social Dialogue' at the EPO Broke Down, Team Campinos is Totally Delusional
  • The EPO's 2020 Impaired Vision/ViCo: Imposing Illegal Practices on EPO Stakeholders, Not Only on EPO Staff
  • Censored EPO Publication: Evidence That the Censorship of EPO Staff Representation (Central Staff Committee) Started Months After António Campinos Started His Term
  • Censored EPO Publication: Staff Representatives Cannot Comment on the Survey Conducted by the Office's Management
  • Censorship at the EPO is Counterproductive, Rendering the Censored Publications More Seductive and Censored People More Disgruntled
  • EPO Management Has No Plans Other Than Granting Loads of Invalid Patents (e.g. Software Patents) to Pocket Fees and Then Grift/Gamble With the Money
  • Meme: Public Servants Who Only Serve Themselves and Their Predecessors (Who Gave Them the Job)
  • Censored EPO Publication: Battistelli Can Have His Multi-Billion Euro EPO Scam, So Why Can't Campinos Too?
  • Staff Representation of the EPO Explains to EPO Management That It's Breaking the Law, Robbing the Staff, and Lying to Staff
  • European Commission's Thierry Breton Covers Up EPO Corruption For His Friend Benoît Battistelli


  • November

  • Management of the EPO Dragged to the International Labour Organisation Over Its Assault on the Right to Strike
  • Meme: Management of the EPO Cannot Let the Staff Breathe or Smell Freedom
  • “ViCo” is Nothing New (Not Even the Acronym), Done on 9/11 Last Year, Been Possible as Long as the EPO Has Existed
  • Release: Early Letters and Documents About Financial Hoax Disguised as EPO 'Study'
  • Managing IP: Puff Pieces Galore for the EPO's Dictatorship (Complete With Buzzwords and PR Stunts)
  • Release: 4 More Documents and Letters About the Financial Siege at Europe's Second-Largest Institution
  • One Year Ago: The Last EPO Demonstration Before COVID-19
  • Meme: Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA) is an Attack on Europe and the European Businesses That Don't Do Litigation
  • Reasons EPO Staff Decided to Go on Strike This Year (Before or Until Coronavirus Prevented It)
  • EPO Can Save Money by “Dropping Events Like the Inventor of the Year, Reducing the Number of Managers, Throwing Less Money at Consultants or Bringing the Boards of Appeal Back into Office Buildings.”
  • The Real Fate of the UPC 'Stunt' in Germany Will be Known Next Month (or Next Year) and There Are Substantial Constitutional Barriers in the Way
  • Nine Documents About the Financial Siege Against EPO Staff (Past, Present, and Future)
  • EPO Senior Management (Cabal) “Essentially Deaf to the Proposals From Staff Representatives.”
  • EPO Management, Led by António Campinos, Attempted to Stifle or Prevent Staff From Being Surveyed
  • The European Patent Office's Central Staff Committee: Office Cannot Recruit Fit-for-Purpose Patent Examiners Anymore
  • The Time Coronavirus Helped EPO Management Prevent Staff From Protesting and Going on Strike (March 26th)
  • Cartoon: After Gambling With Workers' Savings the EPO Can Do Real Estate
  • Meme: UPC's Pyrrhic Victory
  • Many Thanks to Free Software, the Demise of Software Patents (in Europe and the US), and So Much More
  • The UPC and Unitary Patent Song
  • Open Letter to the German Greens on UPC and Software Patents: Don’t Betray Your Voters and Your Promises, or You Will Regret it
  • Meme: One Step Away From Replacing Patent Examiners With 'Hey Hi' (AI)
  • European Patent Office (EPO) Reduced to 'Justice Over the Telephone' and Decree by E-mail
  • The European Patent Office Should be Run by Patent Examiners (Scientists), Not Politicians
  • Member of the EPO's Boards of Appeal Explains Why VICOs (or ViCo/Video Conferences/Virtual 'Hearings') Are Not Suitable for Justice
  • Meme: Things Will Get Amusing When/If EPO Proceedings Are Cancelled Due to Patent Trolls Suing the Platforms Using Software Patents (Granted by the EPO)
  • Dr. Bausch Questions the Merits and Claims of EPO Management Regarding ViCo ('Skynet' Virtual 'Courts')
  • Massive Collective Action Begins at the European Patent Office Today, Demanding Change and Forewarning the Management (Litigation)
  • EPO Management is Still Distracting From the 'Elephant in the Room' by Corrupting Media and Academia
  • EPO's Central Staff Committee on Latest Meeting With Office Dictator: “No Meaningful Discussion Could Take Place.”
  • Growing Concerns That EPO Staff Has Been Placed Under de Facto House Arrest by an Entirely Unaccountable Office
  • Internal Error: Unified Patent Court and Unitary Patent Incompatible With the Constitution and Basic Laws
  • The EPO is Using Hype Wave and Buzzword to Promote Illegal Software Patents in a So-Called “Digital Conference”
  • Dutch Delegation and German Delegation at the Administrative Council of the EPO Upset at the Office for Secrecy, Working Behind the Scenes to Crush Productive Staff
  • Legal Action at the European Patent Office (EPO) Leveraged Against Management... for Robbing EPO Staff and Robbing Europe, by Extension
  • New Position Paper on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Says It’s “Not the Best Solution for Europe” — Clearly an Understatement
  • Mortality Rates Increase at the EPO and Christmases (or Holidays) During Corona Mean Fewer Days Off
  • Newly Abnormal: A Crackdown on EPO Staff and Labour Rights in 'Survey' Clothing (Willis Towers Watson)
  • IAM Celebrating and Glorifying Illegal Patents With Fake 'Awards' and Bogus 'Endorsements'
  • Been There, Done That: Team UPC's 'October' Becomes 'Early November' and Now Late November
  • The Only Real Dialogue the 'European' Patent Office is Having... is With Litigation Parasites, Even Foreign Ones
  • Inside the EPO During Corona: SUEPO (EPO Staff Union) and the Central Staff Committee Blast the Office for Illegal Practices and Threaten Legal Action
  • Inside the EPO During Corona: The EPO is Violating Workers'/Stakeholders' Privacy and Breaking Data Protection Law (Again)
  • Conduct of EPO Management Lacks “Basis in Legality” According to EPO Staff Representatives
  • Inside the EPO During Corona: Managers Don't Think of the Children, Cut Their Budget for First Time in Half a Century
  • Inside the EPO During Corona: Sending Staff Home to Justify Cutting Their Benefits and Maybe Even Key Allowances
  • Inside the EPO During Corona: Acting Chairperson of the Central Staff Committee of the EPO Suggests Involving Staff Representatives in Corona Task Force
  • Inside the EPO During Corona: There's No Rule of Law Anymore and That Takes Its Toll on 'Low-Level' Staff
  • Two Years Without Progress on Impartiality of Internal Tribunals at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • Inside the EPO During Corona: EPO Staff Representatives Grew Increasingly Frustrated in June as EPO Had Acted Like a Law-Infringing Monarchy, Not a Public Institution
  • Inside the EPO During Corona: The Office Management Never Cared About the Well-being of Staff (and Still Doesn't)
  • The Stench Follows and Spreads: Another UPC Lie Now Followed by Lies From the Government of Germany
  • Inside the EPO During Corona: The Hoax 'Study' From Campinos and Donald Trump Associate (Mercer) Debunked, EPO Management Uninterested Because Facts Are Inconvenient
  • SUEPO's EPO Staff Survey: Confidence in Staff Representatives at All-Time High and Confidence in EPO President at Only 3%
  • Inside the EPO During Corona: Half a Year Ago EPO Management Was a 'Superspreader' of COVID-19 and It Broke the Law Regarding Masks
  • European Patent Office Union (SUEPO) Reiterates Its Allegation, Backed by Professionals, That the Management is Crushing the Office and Its Staff Based on a Manufactured “Hoax”
  • Judges at the EPO (Boards of Appeal) Can Still be Punished for Ruling 'Unfavourably' on Patent Maximalism
  • 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'
  • EPO Staff Representatives Explain Why the Appeals Committee is Flawed and Transparency is Lacking
  • 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: Letter to Stephen Rowan About EPO Management Exploiting the Pandemic to Demand Harder Work (Instead of Loosening and Lowering Expectations/Workload)
  • Nobody Was Ever Punished for Bullying Laurent Prunier (Bergot and Others Kept Their EPO Jobs and They Continue to Oppress and Silence Staff Representatives)
  • Inside the EPO During Corona: The European Patent Office (EPO), in Clear Violation of the Law and the EPC, Forces Parties to Join Surveillance Sessions (American Spying Companies) to Squash False European Patents
  • Inside the EPO During Corona: The EPO's Fat Cash Cow is Decreasing Salaries of Staff During a Public Crisis
  • 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: The EPO Recklessly Breaking the Law With Videoconference (ViCo) for European Patents
  • Something About to Hit the Fan at the EPO
  • Monday Will Not be “Early November”
  • Inside the EPO During Corona: Sweep-up Man Christoph Ernst Abuses Notion of Leave (Break From Work)
  • Inside the EPO During Corona: Repressive Tyrant António Campinos Still Blocking Techrights and Still Preventing Staff Representatives From Speaking Openly to Staff
  • Not Even a Pandemic That Kills Millions of People Will Stop the EPO Regime From Granting Loads of Fake Patents (Monopolies That Save Nobody)
  • Inside the EPO During Corona: The Eye in the Sky(pe)
  • 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: Cameras and Microphones in EPO People's Private Homes “Have Been Broadly Welcomed by the Patent Profession” (the Law and EPO Staff Don't Count)
  • Inside the EPO During Corona: “We All Should be Creative and Open” Was the Excuse to Break the Rules and Violate Laws/Constitutions at the EPO (European Patent Office)
  • 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
  • Inside the EPO During Corona: The Management of the European Patent Office Was (Fore)Warned About Exploiting a Public Health Crisis
  • Inside the EPO During Corona: A New Series About the European Patent Office During European Lock-downs
  • The Vote on the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA) Will Happen... Last Month?!
  • EPO Insider Explains “Team Leaders” and the Downfall of the EPO
  • Meme: António Campinos is the EPO's 'Fanta' (Making EPO Fascism Seem Acceptable, Gentle, Caring and Kind)
  • Meme: EPO as a Looted Institution Where Crime is the 'Norm' Nowadays
  • The EPO is Pushing Illegal Software Patents Together With WIPO
  • The EPO's Love Affair With Authoritarian Regimes Accompanies Europe's Embrace of Lawless, Unconstitutional Patent Regimes
  • Team UPC and Team Campinos Are Causing Constitutional Crises in Germany (Even Amid Pandemic)


  • October

  • Meme: Two Dictators: How the EPO Shuffled the Dictatorship's Cards
  • 2020: The Year the Patent System Converged With Naked Fascism
  • Meme: When EPO Staff Claims to be 'Ill' or 'Sick'... During a Pandemic's European Peak
  • The EPO Has Relegated or Lowered Itself to Extremely Poor Standards
  • The European Commission is Still M.I.A. Regarding EPO Corruption (and the EPO's Management Plays Dirty, as Always)
  • We’ve Relegated UPC ‘Fake News’ to Our Daily Links (Because It Has Gotten Increasingly Ridiculous)
  • Cartoon: Internal EPO Caricature About the Direction the Office Has Taken
  • EPO Management is Making Patent Examiners Poorer and Shuts Out the Union
  • EPO Management is Violating COVID-19 Rules That Managers Gladly Flout While Threatening Staff (Because They're Above the Law, Which They Routinely Break)
  • This Did Not Age Well: UPC to Start... 5 Years Ago
  • EPO Management Threatens People Who Come Back to Work
  • The EPO is Far Too Rogue to Reform Itself
  • Watchtroll Demonises People Wrongly Accused of Patent Infringement (or Sued Using Fake Patents), Suggests or Insinuates EPO is More Lenient Than Today's USPTO
  • Credibility Crisis of UPC Boosters
  • Propaganda Regarding UPC Legislation Progresses Through Bristows (as Usual)
  • Greenwashing the Corruption of the European Patent Office


  • September

  • EPO Management Looks for New and 'Innovative' Ways to Exploit Scientists and Distract From EPO Corruption
  • The Latest Greenwashing Campaign by the EPO is Just 'Chinese Propaganda'
  • High-Profile and Invalid (Invalidated) European Patents Harm the Presumption of Validity of European Patents
  • Epitaph for (Death of) Patent-Centric Media: Litigation Giant Bird & Bird Nowadays Doing Ads as 'Podcasts' in Think Tank Site 'Managing IP'
  • More EPO Disclosures: An Explanation of How an EPO Survey Plots to Dismantle the EPO's Staff
  • Germany Would Violate 3 International Agreements With the Unitary Patent, Says FFII
  • Meme: António Campinos Fools Nobody at the EPO Anymore
  • EPO Gradually Becomes a Set of Private Corporations (Some Aren't Even European and Work Against Europeans)
  • António Campinos is Believed to be “Dismantling” the EPO
  • Solidarity at the EPO Means Resisting the EPO's Management and Supporting Colleagues
  • Meme: EPO Cannot Recover by Brushing Aside Issues and by Bribing the Media
  • Team UPC Has Run Out of Allies as Even Patent Lawyers Increasingly Distance Themselves and Only Junior Staff is Still Willing to Lie for the Team
  • EPO Oral Proceedings Have Been Outsourced to the United States (Proprietary Software With Surveillance Back Doors)
  • Team UPC Wants Germany to Break International Law
  • Fake Patents Granted by the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA) and the EPO's Misleading Propaganda Video Series (Conflating Patents With Other Things) Exploits Dead People
  • UPC 'Progress' or Hoax?
  • Meme: António the Computer Genius
  • Information Deficit at the European Patent Office
  • Law360 Says the EPO's Popularity is Decreasing


  • August

  • Managing 'Intellectual Property' (Managing 'IP') is Promoting Software Patents for a Fee
  • Six Years of EPO Scandals
  • Unpublished EPO Material
  • Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) on the European Commission 'Public' Consultation Regarding a Misnomer
  • Meme: Always Masking the EPO
  • Bergot-Streisand Effect: The EPO Tried to Spike These Publications (and Succeeded for 4 Years Until This Was Ruled Unlawful)
  • The Central Staff Committee of the EPO Remarks on Unlawful Censorship by the Office
  • EPO Censorship Rebuked by Former UK Human Rights Judge
  • EPO Should Quit Blaming COVID-19 for Its Demise
  • Team UPC Has Almost Vanished
  • Europe Deserves Better Than Today's EPO
  • European Patent Office Management Swims With Sharks and Liars
  • Meme: Testosterone Patent Office
  • The Criminals Who Run the EPO Are Exploiting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People to Distract From Their Corruption and Crimes
  • EPO Workers Are Losing Their Homes and Losing Their Time Off; It's All About So-called 'Production'
  • Managing IP Still Champions Fake 'News' for Team UPC


  • July

  • It's Good to be King (of EPOnia)
  • Meme: Demolishing Facts, As Always, With Help From IAM 'Magazine'
  • When the Mainstream German Media Stops Reporting or Even Talking About EPO Scandals for No Valid Reason/s
  • Meme: Party Time in EPOnia
  • Weeks of DDOS Attacks Simply Mean We're Effective and This Illegal DDOS Campaign Won't Discourage Techrights (partly about EPO)
  • Meme: EPO Administrative Council Replaced One Dude With a Dud
  • EPO Management Wants to Introduce 'Code of Conduct' With Which to Impose Censorship of Staff Representatives' Communications With Staff
  • Contrary to Common Myths, Free Software and GNU/Linux Are Typically Way Ahead of Proprietary Software (Which Copies and Then Patents) (partly about EPO)
  • Golden Cages Are Still Cages and Working From Home Can Become a Legal Mess (partly about EPO)
  • No Real Holiday in EPOnia ('Island' of the European Patent Office)
  • Techrights Supports the EU. That Does Not Mean Support for Today's EPO. The EPO Lost Its Way (and Head).
  • Meme: European Patent Optics
  • The EPO is Still a Sordid Mess and the Media Doesn't Talk About That, So Where Do We Go From Here?
  • Art 7(2) UPCA Doomed Unitary Patent (UPC) for Good
  • Meme: Inhumane EPO
  • Ten Years Since 'EPO 9/11'
  • Judging by What the EPO Did to European Media, in Effect Dooming It, Workers of the EPO Are Right to Call Their Managers “Mafia”
  • EQE to Become Another Example of EPO Outsourcing
  • Meme: This Did Not Age Well, Did It?
  • EPO Insider on Unitary Patent (UPC): “There is No Longer a Legal Context and No One Left to Implement It and Nothing to Be Rescued.”
  • A Very Corrupt EPO Uses COVID-19 to Pretend to be Benevolent (Politicians Running Technical Institutions as Recipe for Failure)
  • Meme: Team UPC Layoffs Are Next
  • Very Strong Consensus That the UPC is Dead for Good (The UPC Hopefuls Might Try Another Thing, But It Can Take Almost a Decade)
  • As Techrights Predicted All Along, UPC Support Would Become a Self-Inflicted Wound for Germany and the EU (or European Commission)
  • Meme/Humour: July 20, 2020: Independence From UPC
  • The General Consensus is That UPC is Dead, Which Means Many European Patents Are Also Dead (or Zombies)
  • Unified Patents Comes to Europe, Challenging Bogus Software Patents That EPO Should Never Have Granted
  • Meme/Humour: This is Just How Crazy Team UPC Has Become
  • Final Death for UPC: UK Officially Withdraws, Leaving Only France
  • Marketing Illegal Things at the European Patent Office and Amplifying Old Lies About UPC
  • When You Break the Law and Have Nothing Positive to Say Why Not Exploit COVID-19 for Cheap, Fact-Free Marketing/Self-Promotion Along With a Superficial 'Study'?
  • The Enlarged Board of Appeal Cannot Independently Rule on the Matter of Software Patentability
  • Meme/Humour: EPO Wants Only Obedient and Mindless Workers
  • Team UPC and Other UPC Boosters Twist the Facts, Deliberately Lie and Rely on De Facto 'Moles' in Powerful Roles/Seats
  • Humour/Meme: EPO Needs Management That Understands and Pursues Science, Not Litigation
  • 'IP5' Patent Offices May Have Become the Biggest Threat to the Patent System (partly about EPO)
  • Meme: EPO Accountability 2020?
  • Thierry Breton and the European Commission Must Answer Perfectly Legitimate Questions About European Patent Office Corruption
  • Marks & Clerk Reveals That António Campinos, With Zero Experience in Software, is Lobbying Judges (Who Are Supposed to be Independent But Are Actually Controlled by Him) to Open the Floodgates to Illegal Software Patents
  • The EPO's Corruption is Like a Cancer That Has Spread to and Infected the EU as Well
  • Humour/Meme: Today's EPO is Run by Con Men and Fraudsters
  • Chinese EPO
  • Humour/Meme: EPO is Recruiting
  • SUEPO (the EPO's Staff Union): “EPO Will Let Highly Experienced Examiners and Formalities Officers Leave Without Any Possibility of Knowledge Transfer to New Recruits”
  • Leaked: EPO's Revised Operational Plan Exploits COVID-19 to Attack EPO Staff
  • Commissioner Thierry Breton, Acting Like a Patent Maximalists' 'Mole' (as Expected All Along), is Now Formally Lying for Team UPC
  • EPO Management Has Hunted Down Journalists and Killed Journalism
  • Reminder: EPO Management Failed to Provide Staff With Facial Masks (as Advised/Required by Law)
  • The EPO's Misleading 'Studies' Are Just More of the Same Perception Management Routines
  • Humour/Meme: Half a Decade Has Passed and EPO Management Was Never Held Accountable for Illegal Surveillance
  • Humour/Meme: High on Production, Stoned on Pseudoscience
  • Missing From EPO Management: Actual Scientists
  • 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
  • A Call for Patent Sanity
  • European FRAND (Related to SEP) Proponent and Famed Programmer Comes to Realise That It's Actually a “Scam”
  • Not Even a Single Corporate Journalist Has Written Anything About These Very Important Bits of News
  • Humour: COVID-19 is Very, Very Afraid of Human Beings Making More Monopolies Instead of Fighting Together
  • The News is Never 'Slow', It's Just Journalism That's Slowing Down (and Investigative Journalism Coming Under Attack)
  • Humour: IAM Ranked Top for Quality of EPO Propaganda
  • 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
  • Christine Lambrecht (German Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection) Ignores the Fact That Even Patent Experts Reject the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • Humour: A Union in Whose Interests?
  • FFPE EPO Has Rendered Itself Obsolete by Liaising With Benoît Battistelli
  • Humour: Bigger is Always Better When You're a Deluded Maximalist
  • 'Managing Intellectual Property' Managing to Become Uncritical Parrot of EPO Management
  • Humour: European Patents Only Useful Outside the Legal Framework?
  • The Lock-downs Are Over and Still Zero Media Coverage About EPO Scandals and Corruption
  • After 2 Years and 2 Days António Campinos is a Perfect Leader, Fostering EPO Abuses While Smiling
  • Humour: As If Monopolies for Life Will Save People's Lives...


  • June

  • EPO Management Celebrates the Lowering of Patent Quality While Granting Invalid Patents (IPs) Instead of European Patents (EPs)
  • Humour: There's Always a Way... (to Grant Patents on Almost Anything)
  • Crocodiles Can Only Ever Fake Empathy (just partly about EPO; the latter parts)
  • “Technological Progress is Like an Axe in the Hands of a Pathological Criminal,” Albert Einstein, Famous European Patent Clerk
  • Greenwashing and Exploitation of COVID-19 by EPO Management, Aided by Deeply Compromised (Corrupt) Media
  • European Patents on Life (GMO) That Only Enrich Lawyers, Facilitating the War on Genetics and Generics (Access to Medicines)
  • Humour: European Inventor Award (EIA) Still a Hallmark of EPO Corruption
  • Latest EPO Cartoon: Lufthansa
  • António Campinos is Just an Empty Suit: 2 Years in the Office and Only 3% Approval Rate (Worse Than Battistelli)
  • Humour: EPO Still Above the Law in 2020
  • The EPO's 'Early Certainty From Google' Approach (“Closest Prior Art”) Means Loads of Fake European Patents and Frivolous Litigation/Shakedowns
  • Christine Lambrecht and Ajit Pai: Twins Separated at Birth and Their Political Horse Trading
  • Lawyers That Lie Chronically
  • Humour: Litigation Industry-Run Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (“BMJV”)
  • Reminder to German Readers: Please Lodge Polite Complaints Against the Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (“BMJV”) Trying to Undermine the Constitution
  • How to Tell the German Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (“BMJV”) That Violating the Constitution is Not Acceptable
  • Humour: Diverse EPO Panel
  • Corporate Media is (or as) a Barrier to Truth (partly about issues of EPO censorship)
  • Confidential: Dispute Over Establishment of EPO in Munich (January 1974)
  • Germany Has a Major Constitutional and Reputational Crisis Due to Team UPC
  • Despite the Silence, EPO Staff May be More Repressed Than Ever, Hope is Being Lost
  • EPO Staff Union: “Buzzwords Are Indicators of Empty Statements Which Make the Communication Artificial and Simply Show a Lack of Authenticity.”
  • EPO 2020 Vision: Billions for Gambling, No Money for Masks (for Staff's Safety)
  • UPC is Coming, It's Coming!!!
  • Tilmann and Tilmann: Has Juve Been Reduced to a Team UPC Propaganda Apparatus?
  • EPO 'Killing the Young' for So-called 'Production' (of Patent Monopolies for the Rich)
  • Humour: Rendering the FCC, Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, Obsolete
  • FFII Takes Stance Against the German Federal Ministry of Justice for Breaking the Law to Appease Team UPC
  • Humour: A Buzzword for Every European Patent
  • Using 'Hey Hi' (AI) and Mindless Buzzwords to Spread Confusion and Blur the Gap Between Computer-Generated Patents and Patents on Algorithms
  • Battistelli's and Bergot's Unforgettable Attack on the Right to Strike Still Defended by the 'Nice' President Campinos
  • EPO Never Gave Staff Any Time to Rest and Now It Wants Everyone Back at the Office With COVID-19 (for Which There's No Solution Yet)
  • Self-Harming Acts: Germany's Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection Cares Neither About Justice Nor Consumers (or German SMEs)
  • Contrary to What 'Managing IP' Tells Readers, Australia Still Rejects Software Patents (partly about EPO)
  • Humour: António Skypinos
  • EPO Has “the Worst Pension System, the Worst Career System, and the Worst Salary Adjustment Procedure in the World of International Organisations” (Whilst Amassing Money It's Not Allowed to Have)
  • Team UPC Keeps Perpetuating the Fiction UPCA Will be Ratified Soon (It Cannot, It's Illegal)
  • EPO Uses Microsoft to Illegally Spy on EPO Staff Inside Their Homes, Uses Microsoft's Tactics of Hijacking Trademarks and Mottos
  • 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
  • Humour: European Pandemic Office
  • Defunct EPO in the Age of Defunct UPC (Even If EPO Fakes 'Quality' and Team UPC Keeps Faking 'Progress')
  • IAM's EPO Propaganda Helps Perpetuate Crimes and Corruption
  • Internal Publication About the EPO's Financial Fraud
  • Team UPC is Betraying Italy Like It Did Spain, As It Envisions France (Paris) as Replacement for Italy (Milan) Amid Brexit
  • Raw: How Microsoft and/or the EPO Killed an Important EPO Story About Their SLAPP Against Techrights and Others
  • The Huge Damage (Except for Patent Lawyers' Bottom Line) Caused by Fake European Patents
  • Sword Group Violates Its Own Commitment by Working for the EPO
  • All They Want is Litigation, Not Innovation
  • The Past Does Not Go Away, Except From Short-Term Memories


  • May

  • EPO's Illegal Patents and Massive Corruption Go Unnoticed by Corporate Media and Sites That Cover Patent News
  • Sick Alexander Ramsey is Using a Public Health Crisis to Lie About the Unitary Patent, Whose Fall Made Him Redundant and/or Obsolete
  • Weaponised Media Promoting an Illegal Patent System (UPC), Exploiting Major Pandemic in the Process
  • The EPO Became a Very Radical Institution
  • UPC Lies That Make One Laugh...
  • EPO Propaganda on Steroids (or on EPO)
  • Breton (EU) 'Joins' Team UPC to Help His Buddy Battistelli... Again
  • Working From Home on Patent Monopolies Would Lower Their Quality and Perceived Legitimacy
  • The Attitude of António Campinos Toward Courts and Toward Justice Same as Benoît Battistelli's
  • Ode to the 'Orange One'
  • Home Working at the EPO: Your Corporate, Global Monopolies Will Be Rubber-stamped From Private Homes
  • The Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court Book
  • Spillover: Team UPC Trying to Fill Up the Cup 'Half Empty'
  • The EPO Continues to Publicly Brag About Granting Illegal Patents to Fake 'Production' (It's Not Really Production But Abuse of the Granting Authority)
  • The Industrial Revolution 5.0 (or 6.0) - Symptom of Totally Incompetent Management at the European Patent Office
  • Same Casting, Same Management, Exactly the Same Agenda at the European Patent Office
  • Further Complications Ahead for Team UPC as Unitary Patent-Type Plans Become Untenable and Complaints Pile Up
  • Amid Lock-Down the EPO is Still Laughing at the Law
  • EPO Comes Home
  • EPO-FLIER: Do Your Best
  • Why is the EPO Advertising Microsoft?
  • The Radicals Are the Patent Boosters, Not the Sceptics and Rationalists
  • Constitutional Court’s Justice Huber Reaffirms Substantial Concerns About Viability of the Unitary Patent/UPC
  • How the EPO Muzzled Critical Media: The Case of IP Kat
  • It is Not Possible to Prevent Software Patent Grants in Europe as Long as the EPO is Profoundly Corrupt and the EU Looks the Other Way
  • Not Even One Single Article About the EPO's Attacks on the EPO’s Boards of Appeal
  • Taylor Wessing's Latest UPC Spin: No More/Additional Complaints Against UPC Lodged
  • Groups Like 'No Patents on Seeds!' and 'Friends of the Earth Germany' Respond to Bayer's GMO Patents (Previously Monsanto) in Light of EPO's Watered-Down Decision
  • EPO Still Needs to Close the GM/GMO Loophole (You Don't Get to 'Own' Life by Arbitrarily Tinkering With Life's Code)
  • The GMO Loophole Prevails at EPO Though Allowing People to Patent Life and Nature (or Even Mathematics) Harms Europe For the Sake of Litigation Euros
  • During Public Health Crisis the European Patent Office Operates Further Outside the Rule of Law (Exploiting This Crisis)
  • Reinforcing the EPO's Illegal Actions for Power and Profit
  • EPO 'Courts' Outsourced to Microsoft
  • Hair (and Heir) Management at the EPO
  • Fake Technological 'Advancement' (or 'Efficiencies'): EPO Still Breaking the Law and the Ever-So-Shy Media Refuses to Talk About That
  • EFF Should Also Speak About the EPO Granting Software Patents Against the Law
  • A Europe That Works for Patent Trolls and Their Legal Representatives
  • The EPO is Not Changing
  • Media That Contains Lies Because It is Designed to Contain Lies (Including UPC Lies)
  • How Many More Lives Will the European Patent Office Destroy?
  • EPO is Killing Free Software and Personal Privacy During Quarantine or Lock-Down
  • New Cartoon: EPO Dialogue


  • April

  • Evidence of Profound European Patent Office Corruption in Official Journal 4/2020
  • COVID-19 Crisis: When EPO Outsources Everything to a Surveillance System of Microsoft and the NSA
  • Tidying Up 13 Years of EPO Archives
  • The Litigation 'Industry' is Not a Real Industry and Team UPC Sought to Harm Real, Productive Industries
  • EPO: A Lawless Institution That Makes Its Staff Look Bad
  • Hope Alone Won't Bring the Dead Back to Life; Team UPC Has Entered Embalming Stage
  • The Rise of Bribed Media and Bribed Academia as Cynical 'Journalism' and 'Research' About Patents
  • Greenwashing and Peace-washing Patents We Can Never Coexist With (and the Law Forbids Anyway)
  • USPTO and EPO Openly Brag About Breaking the (Case)Law to Grant Software Patents That Courts Would Reject, Even the Very Highest Courts
  • 3,500 Articles Later the EPO Remains a Cruel and Unjust Place Governed by Despots
  • EPO and So-called 'Watchdog' Compatible in the Judge-Bashing Sense
  • UPC Totally Still Has Momentum
  • France Keeps Winning European Inventor Award (Millions of Euros of EPO Budget)
  • The Role Played by Media Controlled by Litigation Companies in Promoting the Unitary Patent (UPC) Ploy
  • The Covert Corruption of Publishers That Cover Patent 'News'
  • European Law Firms Are Marketing Illegal Software Patents Using Meaningless Buzzwords
  • JUVE Has a Prank 'Survey' That's Just UPC Lobbying (As Usual)
  • EPO Management is Trying to Violate the EPC and Justify Its Illegal Software Patent Grants During a Pandemic's Peak
  • British Government Again Confirms Death of the UPC, But Team UPC is Not Listening
  • Technical Computer-Implemented Digital Videogame AI on the Blockchain
  • Mask Against the European Patent Convention
  • Almost a Month Later Lies Persist About the “Fate of the Unified Patent Court” and Software Patents It Was Supposed to Introduce/Cement
  • The Fall of the UPC: Series Index
  • EPO 'Mafia': Break the Law and Send Mafia-Like Entities to Bully People Who Point Out the Lawbreaking
  • The European Patent Office Admits That It's Faking Its 'Results' by Granting Loads of Illegal Software Patents
  • What They Told Us About the UPC...
  • The Fall of the UPC - Part XX: Summary and Conclusions
  • The Fall of the UPC – Part XIX: How Law Firms Responded to the Collapse of the UPC (Lying Was All Too Common)
  • The Fall of the UPC - Part XVIII: Media 'Scratching' the Bottom of the Barrel
  • 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”
  • The Fall of the UPC - Part XVII: Bardehle Pagenberg in 'Corona Zombie' Mode
  • The Fall of the UPC - Part XVI: What's Reality Got to Do With It? Ask Hogan Lovells.
  • The Fall of the UPC - Part XV: A Three-Week Parade of Lies From Team UPC and Its Media Collaborators
  • Coronavirus Has Not Slowed Down the EPO's Promotion of Illegal Software Patents
  • The Fall of the UPC - Part XIV: Media Owned and Controlled by Law Firms Did Not Properly Cover the Decision of the German Constitutional Court (FCC)
  • Software Patents Remain Junk Patents in the United States (Not Enforceable), Whereas the EPO Keeps Granting Them and Promoting Them
  • The Fall of the UPC - Part XIII: A Death Worth Celebrating and Many Lies Worth Debunking
  • When the Decision is OK and the Judge's Motivations Are Also OK
  • The Fall of the UPC - Part XII: Doing the Unthinkable by Blaming the Judge's (Justice's) Wife?
  • The Fall of the UPC - Part XI: Lies Told by Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie (BDI) in Süddeutsche Zeitung
  • EPO is Just Like Some Cruel Political Party and Not a Patent Office
  • Digitalisation and Digital Technologies as a Ploy to Justify Illegal Software Patents
  • The Fall of the UPC - Part X: How We Shall Catalogue UPC Lies
  • Digital Communication, Digitalisation and Videogaming Among the EPO's Latest Smokescreens for Illegal and Abstract Patents on Algorithms
  • Emotional Blackmail for Illegal Software Patents


  • March

  • The Fall of the UPC - Part IX: Campinos Opens His Mouth One Week Later (and It's That Hilarious Delusion Again)
  • 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)
  • The Fall of the UPC - Part VIII: Team UPC Celebrates Death, Not Life
  • Faking Production With Fake Patents on Software
  • With the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Out of the Way Focus Will Return to EPO Corruption
  • 'Team UPC' Last Week
  • The Fall of the UPC - Part VII: Lies and Revisionism About the Reasons for the UPC's Ultimate Demise (to Leave the Door Open for More Failed Attempts)
  • The Fall of the UPC - Part VI: Drowning in Material
  • FFII: EU Software Patent Court Stopped by Constitutional Court, Patent Industry Will Try Again
  • The Fall of the UPC - Part V: Pretending That Opponents of the Unitary Patent Simply Don't Exist
  • The Fall of the UPC - Part IV: IP Kat Became Just a Team UPC Megaphone
  • The Fall of the UPC - Part III: Pure Comedy From Watchtroll and Its UPC Lobbyists From Managing IP
  • The Fall of the UPC – Part II: Team UPC Will Pay Dearly — for Years If Not a Decade to Come — for Having Repeatedly Lied About Unitary Patent/Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • The Fall of the UPC - Part I: Geeks (Engineers) Celebrate and the EPO Has Lost Its Tongue
  • USPTO's and EPO's Leaderships Have Similar Technical and Ethical Problems (partly about EPO)
  • Good Friday (FCC buries UPC)
  • What Diplomatic Immunity Means to Bundesverfassungsgericht
  • Germany's FCC and Its Decision on UPC May Not Matter Much Anymore (and the Government in Berlin Knows That)
  • Biggest Threats to Software Freedom (Which Almost Nobody Talks About) (partly about EPO)
  • New Article by Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna on UPC Lies Regarding SMEs
  • Series Index: “Doyen” for a Yen
  • EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Epilogue
  • Everybody Knows UPC is Over, Even Those Who Still Attempt to Lie to the Public (and to Their Clients)
  • The Result of a Patent Office That Destroyed Patent Quality and Departed From the Underlying Law (Which Was Supposed to Govern and Be Enforced)
  • Lost in Corona: Dutch Court Rules That Seat Agreement Signed Between the EPO and the Dutch Government Violates Article 45 TFEU
  • Infringing the Fundamental Laws in the Name of Combating Infringements
  • EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Part 4 - The Role of the EPO Vice-President of DG5 (Christoph Ernst)
  • EQE From the Back Door
  • 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.
  • Same as the Old Boss
  • The Battle Against Software Patents Rages on
  • EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Part 1 - António and the Balkan Express Connection
  • EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Teaser
  • Understanding Thierry Breton: Looking Back
  • Ask Former EPO President Alison Brimelow What EPO Means to International Women's Day
  • Today's UPC 'Debate' is a Farce, Stuffed by the Litigation 'Industry' Instead of British Industry
  • European Granting Convention
  • António Campinos Sponging Off the EPO
  • JURI Committee (the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs) Buries the Unitary Patent (UPC) for Good
  • António Campinos is Just as Corrupt as Benoît Battistelli, Top Jobs Offered as 'Endowments'
  • IAM Works (Lies) for Corrupt EPO Management and for Team UPC, Now Behind Paywalls (Possibly to Limit Critics' Access, Lowering Scrutiny and Fact-Checking)
  • The Collapse of European Patent Quality is Rather Obvious and EPO Management Cannot Hide it Forever
  • Financial and Legal Corruption Scandal in France (INPI) Implicating the Person Benoît Battistelli Put in Charge of the EPO's Finances
  • After the Death of the UPC the Next Casualty is the Credibility of Media That Promotes It
  • EPO Corruption Has Killed in Germany and the Netherlands Far More Than Coronavirus (Covid-19) Did
  • EPO Presflash 002: Diversity and Inclusion (Humour)
  • EPO Lobbyists and Team UPC Lobbying Arms Disguised as News Sites
  • Large German Publisher Helps EPO Cover Up Abuses While Relaying Lies (Which Are in Turn Relayed to EPO Staff)
  • Inverted Narratives: UPC Thugs Are Being Framed as Poor Victims and Patent Trolls Claim to be the Target of Violence
  • EPO Outsourcing Policy and Patent Scope to Litigation Giants
  • Team UPC Has Already Moved Ahead to the Next Propaganda Phase (UPC Without the UK, Which It Very Strictly Requires)
  • The Next Task is Defeating European Software Patents Because the Media Certainly Isn't Doing Its Job


  • February

  • EUIPO and EPO Celebrate Corruption in Croatia
  • Death of the UPC (Unitary Patent) Confirmed by the British Government
  • The EU's EUIPO Will Later Today Help the EPO (Run by EUIPO's Former Chief) Promote Illegal Software Patents
  • Growing Acceptance That There's No Future to the UPC System and the Unitary Patent
  • Team UPC: Many Mouths and No Ears
  • Team UPC Insults Judges Because the UPC is Dead and UPC Lobbyists Have Nothing Left to Lose
  • FFII Press Release: Germany Can No Longer Ratify the Unitary Patent Due to Brexit and the Established AETR Case-law, says FFII
  • EPO and Other Patent Updates Over RSS
  • When It Comes to a Unitary Patent System, Bad (or Intentionally Dishonest) Legal Advice Has Become the Norm
  • Battistelli Blocked Techrights at EPO (Banned for More Than 5 Years), So CEIPI Won't Respect Access to Information Either
  • Anatomy of a Crime and Protection From Prosecution
  • Today's EPO is a Fraud Managed by Frauds
  • Another New 'Clown' for the UPC 'Circus'
  • Sometimes ILO-AT is Good for Nothing But Law Firms in or Around Switzerland
  • The European Patent Office Continues to Violate the European Patent Convention (EPC) With Impunity While the European Commission Lets That Happen
  • EPO Staff Representatives to Challenge Ridiculous and Unnecessary Austerity Measures
  • You're Almost Guaranteed to Lose the Argument When You Call People Who Plant Seeds 'Pirates'
  • Unified Patent Corruption
  • 6 Years in Limbo After EPO Abuses Because ILO is Far Too Slow for Timely Justice (If Any at All)
  • “Nothing Has Changed,” Team UPC Says About UPC and Brexit
  • The EPO Would Declare It a Success Story If It Granted a Million European Patents a Year
  • The Latest Talking Point of Team UPC: Ignore Brexit, UPC Will Miraculously Come Very Soon! (Somehow!)
  • Wasting (Misusing) Money on 'Researchers' and So-called 'Studies' Only Reinforces the Perception That the EPO Attacks Science With Its Money, Just Like Climate Deniers and Big Tobacco Lobby
  • The Office of Philpott and Pol Pot


  • January

  • Collapse of the UPC is “Business as Usual” According to Bristows LLP
  • The EPO's Epic Waste of Money (300 Million Euros) Ended up Not Only a Fire Hazard But Also a Suffocation Risk
  • The Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organization (ILO-AT) is Moot, EPO Plays It Like a Fiddle
  • EPO as a Kakistocracy of Lies and Bribes
  • Enablers of Constitutional Violations and Unified Patent Court (Unitary Patent) Dreams
  • Today's EPO Stands for Nothing at All (Except Faking 'Production' to Amass Money for Gambling)
  • Patent Scavenging or Racing to the Bottom of Patent Quality
  • EPO and UPC Can Become the Next 'Dieselgate'
  • EPO: Goodbye to the Rule of Law and Hey Hi, AI!
  • When the Monopolists and the Patent Litigation Industry Hijack the News They Control the Narrative
  • When EPO Press Coverage Boils Down to Lobbying, Press Releases, EPO Lies, and Bribery
  • The Patent Microcosm is Really Panicking as European Patents on Life and Other Spurious Junk (Invalid Patents) Are Successfully Rejected
  • Poor Excuses for Granting Poor (and Often Illegal/Invalid) Patents
  • Media Reactions to the EPO Coming to Grips With Fake Patents That It Granted (Spoiler: the Media is Controlled by Lawyers of Monopolists and EPO Partners)
  • European Commission Pushes for Even Greater Patent Maximalism Instead of Rationality, Patent Zealots' Site Cherry-Picks China as Whipping Boy
  • CRISPR Patents Disallowed, But Where Are the Journalists?
  • Judges Reject EPO Patents on Life as Constitutional Complaints Against the EPO Pile Up in Germany
  • The European Patent Organisation Continues to 'Piss All Over' Separation of Powers
  • Zealots of Team UPC (Patent Litigation) Now Attacking the Courts and the Judges, Removing Their Mask on the Face of Things...
  • It's Only Factual and Truthful to Point Out That About Half of the EPO's Management Committee Are From the President's Nation (and Many Are Underqualified Friends of His)
  • Stranger Than Fiction: Team UPC's Mental Condition
  • Systematic Abandonment of the Independence of Judiciary at the EPO (or Collective Amnesia)
  • The Media's Obligation is Not to Repeat the Lies of EPO Management, But Money Changes Things
  • EPO Management Already Meddles in (Illegally and in Clear Violation of the EPC) BoA Cases. Now It Does the Same to Bundesverfassungsgericht (FCC, Germany's Constitutional Court).
  • 'Artificial' 'Growth' (in Number of Fake Patents)
  • The Moment That EPO 'Club Med' (Nepotism Galore) Pretends It's Actually Elected Officials and Lawmakers
  • Missing in Action: Investigative Reporting About the European Patent Office
  • Unitary Patent (UPC) Has Just Been Shot Again, But Team UPC is Unlikely to Talk About It
  • The Concept of Confidentiality May be Self-Defeating in the Context of Patents
  • An EPO Without EPC or With a Faked EPC
  • The EPO's Mrs. UPC is Rumoured to Have Retired Just Like the UPC
  • European Patent Office (EPO) Granting Patents on Surveillance Software
  • How IP Kat Had Become a Patent Litigation Pressure Group Until the Site's Founder Left
  • We Will Never Have a Meaningful Debate About Patents When the Media Calls Algorithms “AI” and the EPO is Called “EU Patent Office”
  • Invalid Patents 'Great Again'? (partly about EPO)