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Meme: EPO 'Social Dialogue': Blah Blah Blah Blah (But Nothing Gets Changed for the Better)
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021: 4 Years of António Campinos Failing and EPO Granting Loads of Invalid Patents
COVID-19 Has Exacerbated Already Severe Psychological Harm Associated With Working for the EPO
Associates and Enablers of Benoît Battistelli Are Commenting in IP Kat Today
Response to Latest Call for EPO Strike Contains Lies From Campinos (and Another Warning That Quality of European Patents Has Collapsed)
EPO Staff Representation: “We Believe That the EPO Should… Invest in Staff and in Quality” (Not Cuts and Worse)
EUIPO-EPO Nepotism and Cross-Pollination/Staff Influx Depicted
The EPO is Selling Europe and Selling Out Its Own Workers (After Using Them)
EPO: Getting Rid of Examiners, Hiring PR People Instead
The EPO Conflict Affects Everyone in Europe and We Should Support Patent Examiners, Who Are Also Victims of a Corrupt System (Besieged by Dictators Installed in a Systemic Coup d'État)
German Media on Half a Decade of EPO Appeals and 'Legal' Hearings Held Unlawfully in Haar
The EPO ‘Mafia’
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXX: The Idiosyncratic Italians
Update Regarding Slovenia and Vojko Toman
Meme: Will You Trust These Clowns With Your Confidential Data?
EPO's Privacy Violations Being 'Normalised'
The EPO's 'IT' Systems Have Become a ClusterZuck, Based on EPO Insiders
Meme: EPO Data Protection
EPO's Illegal Surveillance Covered Up by Buzzwords Bingo and Acronyms: Data Protection Board (DPB), Data Protection Rules (DPR), and Data Protection Officer (DPO)
From One Form of Fake 'Independence' ('Exile') to Another Phony and Shallow 'Autonomy' (Webchats)
Slovenia Needs More Courageous Leadership (Like Vesna Stanković Juričić), Not 'Puppets' of the Patent and Copyright Cartels
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXIX: On the Slippery Slope to Capture
Slovenia’s Lobbyists Problem
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXVIII: Ensnared in the Tentacles of the SAZAS Octopus
Listen: Vesna Stanković Juričić Confronts Corrupt Team Battistelli (Leaked Audio)
The Story of Slovenia's Fall or a Surrender to the So-called 'IP' Cartel
Meme: The 'Cartel' Ran Home With All the Money...
Slovenian Patent Office as a Hostage
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXVII: Stubbornly Independent Slovenia
The EPO is in 'Damage Control' Mode (and It Shows)
Serbia and Europe's Largest (Also Most Corrupt) Patent Office, the EPO
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXVI: Serbian Sour Grapes
Meme: UPC Meme From FFII
The Precarious Situation of Slovakia as One of Battistelli’s EPO ‘Pawns’ in the East
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXV: Slovakian Scruples
Tomorrow is the First Anniversary of Strike Against President Campinos at the European Patent Office
If EPOnia Was a Country, It Would Rank About 6th in the World for Union Density
Meme/Teaser: Buying Power or Securing Control (the Leadership Positions) of Europe's Largest Patent Office
Norway’s Handling of EPO Dictatorship
EPO Staff Representatives Cautioned Delegates About Illegal Strike Regulations (But Were Ignored by Delegates)
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXIV: An “Extremely Dubious” Proposal
A Year After the Last EPO Strike Another One May be Brewing
Patent Quality at the EPO Has Collapsed Since Battistelli Came, According to EPO Staff
Meme: The Birth of EPOnia
Only Norway Followed the Advice of EPO Workers and Consulted Relevant Ministries About Unlawful EPO Policies
The EPO’s Staff Does Need to Go on Strike in Order to Highlight Abuse/Misuse of Granting Authority and Mishandling of Patent Examiners
Meme: Strikes Should Not be Regulated by the People Those Strikes Are Against
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXIII: Swedish Scepticism
EPO Management Now Exploits Autistic People as “White-washing Communication Exercise for an Organization Which Has Breached Fundamental Rights”
Meme/Teaser: On Tolerating ‘Kings’ in Charge of the EPO
Jérôme’s UPC ‘Sausage Factory’ in Brussels
Meme: Team UPC Undermining Home/Host Nations
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXII: “Plucky Little Belgium”?
Meme: A 'Neutral' (Facial Expression) Jérôme Debrulle
Need for an EPO That Works for Europe and for Science
Meme/Teaser: Can't Say “No” to Munich's Battistelli
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXI: The Abstentionists
Meme: EU Assurances
Clare Daly (GUE/NGL) Does What Every Public Official in Europe Should Have Done About EPO Shenanigans
Meme: Rowing to the Bottom of the Ocean
EPO Gradually Reduced to ‘Fee Collection Agency’ Which Eliminates Its Very Own Staff
The Committee on Patent Law (PLC) Informed About Overlooked Issues “Which Might Have a Bearing on the Validity of EPO Patents.”
Meme: Meanwhile in Austria...
The EPO’s Web Site is a Parade of Endless Lies and Celebration of Gross Violations of the Law
The Letter EPO Management Does Not Want Applicants to See (or Respond to)
EPO-Bribed IAM ‘Media’ Has Praised Quality, Which Even EPO Staff (Examiners) Does Not Praise
Meme: António Campinos and Socialist Posturing
António Campinos as EPO President is Considered Worse Than Benoît Battistelli (in Some Regards) After 3.5 Years in Europe’s Second-Largest Institution
The EPO’s “Gender Awareness Report”
EPO Staff Committee Compares the Tactics of António Campinos to Benoît Battistelli’s
Prof. Thomas Jaeger in GRUR: Unified Patent Court (UPC) “Incompatible With EU Law“
EPO Cannot and Will Not Self-Regulate
Meme: Germany's Licence to Break the Law
EPO Dislikes Science and Scientists
Meme: EPO Administrative Council Believing EPO-Bribed ‘Media’ (IAM Still Shilling and Lying for Cash)
The EPO’s Mythical “Gap” Has Been Found and It’s Bonuses for People Who Use Pure Fiction to Steal From Patent Examiners
By 2022 0% of 'News' Coverage About Patents Will Be Actual Journalism (Patent Litigation Sector Has Hijacked the World Wide Web to Disseminate Self-Promotional Misinformation)
EPO Staff Engagement Survey Predates the Pandemic and Provides False Assumptions for EPO Policies or Policy-Setting
EPO: We Support Women and Gay People, But We Also Support People Who Behead Them (in the Interest of Patent Profits)
New Ways of Working for António Campinos, Even From One’s Own Home During a Crisis
Meme: Patent Searches and Examinations Without Colleagues to Help (and Line Managers You Cannot See)
This Aged Very Poorly: Unified Patent Court (UPC) “Should Enter Into Force in 2014.”
Studying EPO and Patent Affairs Through RSS Feeds and Organising the Collected Information
Meme: Team UPC Could Use a Lesson in Geography
Unified Patent Court Committee Refuses Access to Secret Draft Declaration to Bypass National Parliaments, Brexit, and the Vienna Convention
EPO Dictatorship Coming Home to Roost
Meme: Need New Hardware to Work for EPO
The Central Staff Committee of the EPO Has Just Alleged That EPO Management Discarded All Input From Staff Representatives While Monetising the Pandemic
Working From Home When the Rich and Powerful Corporations (or Governments) Make All the Important Decisions and Rules
Meme: Workplace of the Future
EPO Management Will Exploit the Pandemic to Crush Patent Examiners Like It Crushed the Rule of Law (and Judges)
San Marino: From “Libertas” to a Battistelli and Kongstad Chinchilla
Meme: Bilateral Battistelli
Meme: Sun King Against the Law
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXX: San Marino and the Perfidious Betrayal of Liberty
Power Without Countervailing Power in Patent Law
Meme/Teaser San Marino Grape Stomp
IP Kat Was Declawed by Battistelli’s Threats and Sanctions and Now It’s Collapsing
Recycling Enablers of the EPO Regime and Bribing Them (or Rewarding Them) Years Later
Meme: In 2022 We're Back to 2014
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part IXXX: The EPOnian Micro-States - Monaco and Malta
The EPO Never Left 'King' Battistelli Behind It
When Corporate Media Cannot Tell the Difference Between EPO and EU
FFII: Unified Patent Court is 100 Times More Expensive and an SME Killer, Europe is Committing an Economic Suicide
Meme: The EPO's 'Habibi'
The European Patent Office is in Disarray Because of the National Delegates, Not in Spite of Them
Meme/Teaser: EPO Governance Crisis: One Country, One Vote
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXVIII: Benoît and António's Loyal “Habibi”
Meme: Not in Our Name...
FFII on Manipulation and Recycling of the Unified Patent Court (UPC)’s Impact Assessment
Meme/Teaser: Germany (EPO) Assimilated to Turkish Culture/Dictatorship
Cyprus as Satellite Nation of ‘Special Interests’ in the European Patent Office and Organisation
Meme: Inventing ‘Authentic Interpretation’ (Maybe They Should Also Patent It)
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXVII: Cypriot Complicity
Meme: Asleep at the Wheel
Meme/Teaser: June 2013: Too Hot to Vote
Meme/Satire: A Toast to the UPC
Big Holes in EPO Budget, Overseen by a Greek Official
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXVI: A Trojan Horse on the Budget and Finance Committee
Meme: Italy is in London
Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII): EU Declares Unitary Patent’s PPI Agreement ‘Into Force’ While UK is Still a Condition, Ignoring Brexit and the Rule of Law
Meme: The EPO’s “New Normal”
This New Edward Snowden Video is Relevant to Media Cover-up in Service of EPO Management
EPO Home-Working (or ‘Remote’ Working or ‘Teleworking’) Isn’t an Act of Generosity But of Exploitation
Meme: False Choices and False Dichotomy Designed for Self-Harm
Meme: EPO Presidential Surveys
‘Shaping the New Normal’ Survey at the EPO Got 5,554 EPO Staff to Participate, But It Was Controlled by Liars With an Agenda
Many of the National Delegations (or Delegates) in the EPO's Administrative Council Have No Understanding of What They Vote on
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXV: The Balkan League - Fresh Blood or Same Old, Same Old?
Meme: Sounds Legit
Meme: Mayoral Patent Office Chief
Romania's Patent Office (OSIM): Nine Different Chiefs in Just Eight Years
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXIV: The Balkan League - Romania
Meme: “Social Democracy” at the EPO
Meme: António Campinos Visits the OSIM
Meme/Teaser: Meet the President
Bulgarian Like Bavarian Serfdom
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXIII: The Balkan League - Bulgaria
Meme/Teaser: Oligarchs-Controlled Patent Offices With Media Connections That Cover Up Corruption
The Demolition of the EPO Was Made Possible With Assistance From Countries That Barely Have European Patents
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXII: The Balkan League - North Macedonia and Albania
Some Memes About What Croatia Means to the European Patent Office
Gangster Culture in the EPO
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXI: The Balkan League – The Doyen and His “Protégée”
Meme/Teaser: Crime Express
Unlawful Regimes Even Hungary and Poland Would Envy
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XX: The Visegrád Group
Meme: ILO Designed to Fail: EPO Presidents Cannot be Held Accountable If ILOAT Takes Almost a Decade to Issue a Simple Ruling
Meme: Speaking the Same Language
António Campinos Thinks Salary Reductions Months Before He Leaves is “Exceptional Social Gesture”
'Satellite States' of EPO Autocrats
Meme: Don't Mention 'Brexit' to Team UPC
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part IXX: The Baltic States
Meme: Strike Triangulations, Reception Issues
Meme: Is Saying “No!” to Unlawful Proposals Considered “Impolite”?
Meme: EPO Legal Sophistry and Double Dipping
Meme/Teaser: “Judge a Person Both by His Friends and Enemies”
'Cluster-Voting' in the European Patent Office/Organisation (When a Country With 1.9 Million Citizens Has the Same Voting Power as a Country With 83.1 Million Citizens)
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XVIII: Helsinki's Accord
Meme: Living as a Human Resource, Working for Despots
Meme: Giving the Knee
Josef Kratochvìl Rewarded Again for Covering Up EPO Corruption and the EPO Bribes the Press for Lies Whilst Also Lying About Its Colossal Privacy Violations
Meme: Sorry, Wrong Country (Or: Slovenia isn't Great Britain)
How Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden Voted on Patently Unlawful Regulations at the EPO
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XVII: The Non-Monolithic Nordic Bloc
Norway Should Have Voted Against Benoît Battistelli’s Illegal (Anti-)’Strike Regulations’ at the European Patent Office
Meme/Teaser: Benoît Battistelli, King of Iceland
Meme/Teaser: Thrown Under the Bus
The World Needs to Know What Many Austrians Already Know About Rude Liar, the Notorious ‘Double-Dipper’
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XVI: The Demise of the Austrian Double-Dipper
Meme/Teaser More to Life Than Patents
Meme: The Austrian School of Friedrich Rude Liar
Austria’s Right-Wing Politicians Displaying Their Arrogance to EPO Examiners
Meme: Friedrich Rödler’s Increasingly Incomprehensible Debt Quagmire, Years Before EPO Money Was Trafficked Into the Stock Market
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XV: Et Tu Felix Austria…
Meme: First Illegally Banning Strikes, Then Illegally Taking Over Courts
Portuguese Network of Enablers
Meme/Teaser: Double-Dipping Friedrich Rödler
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XIV: Battistelli's Iberian Facilitators - Portugal
The Reign in Spain
Meme: Spanish Inquisition
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XIII: Battistelli’s Iberian Facilitators – Spain
From Competitive (Top-Level, High-Calibre, Well-Paid) Jobs to 2,000 Euros a Month -- How the EPO is Becoming a Sweatshop by Patent Examiners' Standards
Meme: Protecting European Patent Courts From EPO ‘Mafia’
With EPO 'Strike Regulations' Belatedly Ruled Unlawful, EPO Management May be Lowering the Salary Even Further by Introducing Outside 'Temps' or Casual Workers
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XII: The French Connection
Meme: Another Maladministration Meeting Comes to an End
Splitting the Time to Cover More Leaks and Exposés
Meme: Destroying the Workplace
EPO Management Tricks EPO Staff Into Taking More Paycuts
Süddeutsche Zeitung Became a Propaganda Arm of EPO Management (and by Extension Software Patents/Patent Lobbyists)
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XI: “General Bock” - Battistelli's Swiss Apprentice?
Meme/Teaser: Swiss Alexandre Benallas
Meme/Teaser: Swiss Rumbustious Alpha-Rambos
Unqualified Managers and Demoralising Leadership in Switzerland (Like in EPO)
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part X: Introducing the Controversial Christian Bock
Betrayal Not Only of Swiss Workers But All European Workers, Courtesy of Roland Grossenbacher and Christian Bock
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part IX: More Holes Than Swiss Cheese
The 168th Meeting of the EPO Administrative Council as a Test of the EPO's Oversight Mechanisms
Meme/Teaser: Alpha Males
John Alty, Sean Dennehey, and Gerard Barrett as Enablers of Thatcherite “Strike Regulations” at the EPO (and Bonus: Team Battistelli’s Cheerleader ‘Managing IP’ Ceases Print Publication)
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part VIII: Perfidious Albion and Pusillanimous Hibernia
UPC (Unethical Paid Coverage): Fake News and Paid-For 'Planted' Articles Everywhere
Etienne Schneider, Lex Kaufhold and Other Officials Empowered EPO’s Tyranny of Lawlessness, But Will Iris Depoulain Put an End to That?
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part VII: Luxembourgish Laxity
Meme: It's No Rosa Luxemburg
The Unlawful Legacy of Guus Broesterhuizen, Paul van Beukering, and Derk-Jan de Groot
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part VI: A Distinct Lack of Dutch Courage
Meme/Teaser: Double Dutch of Double Standards
Christoph Ernst and Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger as Battistelli’s ‘Enablers’ in Germany
Meme: Nicht Unser Bier
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part V: Germany Says “Ja”
Top EPO Applicants (Six Nations/States of Seven Founding States) Approved Unlawful Strike Regulations, Illegally Crushing EPO Examiners
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part IV: The Founding States
Meme/Teaser: The Seven Nations and the Six Nations
Meme: Isabel Frommelt and Esther Schindler Too Busy to Vote or Even Attend
Cannot Cast a Ballot for Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Liechtenstein (Even Whilst Attending for the Vote)?
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part III: Three Missing Votes
Reposted: Right of Strike Breached at the EPO -- Statement by Union Syndicale Fédérale (USF)
Meme/Teaser When All Else Fails, Blame “Soros”
Treating the Law Like It's Merely a Recommendation That Rich and Powerful People Can Ignore Whenever It Suits Them
Meme: Took Longer Than Battistelli's Presidency (and as Long as False UPC Promises)
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part II: A “Unanimous” Endorsement?
Meme: Totally and Perfectly Legal
EPO Collusion
Meme: Attacking the Workers, the Press, and the Law
Meme: Voting in the EPO
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part I: Let the Sunshine In!
Teaser: New EPO Series About Battistelli's Illegal “Strike Regulations”
Meme: Margot Forgot UPC Facts
Angela Merkel’s Coalition Has Not Helped EPO Staff and Not Even Bloggers Blackmailed by EPO Management
Meme: “This is Intentional Fraud” (European Commission on Impact Assessment of the UPC)
Nobody to Talk to About EPO Abuses, Including Abuses Against the Media and Against the EPO's Own Staff
Meme: Paid-for UPC Echo Chamber: How Disinformation Campaigns or Political Meddling Work Online
Meme: Planting UPC Fiction in the Media
Slovenia and Germany (or Austria) Are Not Called “United Kingdom”
The “You Pee, See?” (UPC) Tactics: Fake it Till You Make it
Meme: Meeting Later Today in Slovenia
“What the Heli, Battistelli?”
When It Comes to UPC, EPO is Still Stuck in Pre-Brexit Mindset (More Than Half a Decade in the Past)
Meme: Route de France
How Basic Laws and Fundamental Rights Got Crushed in the European Patent Office
Meme: When the EPO Watches Everything (‘Dissidents’, Media, Etc.) and Isn’t Being Watched by Anybody
Virtual Oversight
Meme: Some People Are Just Above the Law
The EPO Must Forsake Its Diplomatic Immunity and Quit Pretending It's About Patent Law (or Any Law)
Meme: President Campinos Addresses the Legacy of Battistelli’s “Strike Regulations”
Meme: The EPO's Carte Blanche and 'Diplomatic Immunity' Card
As Expected, Minimal Pseudo Compliance From EPO Management, Adding Insult to Injury
The EPO is on the Run (Escaping Negative Press Coverage)
Meme: Lowering the Standards...
Meme: The EPO-EUIPO “Good Brother” Network
Meme: The Best Quality Propaganda
Preparations for the Next Series and Further Improvements in IPFS and Gemini
Microsoft and the EPO: A History of Threats and Suppression Against the Free Press
Meme: The B4 Summit: Baltic Benoît Battistelli in Belarus
Meme: Looting Europe and Taking Away From the Office
Formally Challenging the EPO and Microsoft for Apparent Efforts to Suppress Reporting With Evidence of Crimes, Including Violations of EPO Data Protection Guidelines
Meme: Warning – Tree Felling in Progress
EPO Management is Hiding Under the ‘Cloud’ While Violating Privacy Laws
Meme: Microsoft Says Its Paying Clients (Like EPO) Don't Violate Privacy Law
Coming Soon: EPO Series on Lawlessness
Meme: 70 Days of Non-Compliance
EPO “Board 28” Meeting: Imaginary Dialogue Between EPO President Campinos and the Chair of the Administrative Council, Josef Kratochvíl
Meme: EPO Management, Always Right
Recent Focus on Git, Gemini, and Upcoming Series About EPO Abuses
EPO Bribes at the Expense of EPO Users and the European Union (EU)
EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XX – Top Jobs at EUIPO for “Compliant” Baltic Officials?
Meme: Thanking and Rewarding My Rigga’ in Riga
Meme: EPO and EUIPO Aren’t Democratic Institutions
Meme: 'Open Source' Study/Report From the European Commission Promotes Software Patents in Europe
What Patent Colonialism Looks Like
Meme: The Coloniser Campinos, Preying on the Poor
EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part IXX – The EUIPO Connection
Meme: Put the Ballot in This Box…
All the President’s Men and Women in Latvia
EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XVIII – A Baltic Circus in Riga
Meme: Be My Rigga'
Corruption in Latvia's Patent Office
Meme: Forward Pharma Meets EPO Patent ‘Quality’
EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XVII – Secret Bank Accounts in Switzerland and Germany
EPO Oversight
EPO Timeliness (or How the European Patent Organisation/Office Uses Time to Deny Justice)
Nearly 3,000 Days of EPO Violating Fundamental Rights of EPO Staff, and Not Without Help From an Overwhelmingly Complicit Administrative Council
Two Months of ILO-AT Non-Compliance at the EPO and a Decade of a Docile Administrative Council That Approves Illegal Proposals
Meme: Very International Patent Office...
EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XVI – A Promising Start Followed by an Unfortunate Cock-Up
The EPO's Lithuanian Representation, Leadership, or Delegation
Meme: When the National Average Salary is 400-500 Euros a Month
EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XV – Worse Than “a Backward Kolkhoz”…
5 Years Ago: Benjamin Henrion (FFII) Explains the Connection Between Software Patents and UPC
Meme: Teaser About Lithuanian Patent Office Affairs…
The Government of Germany Needs to Quit Supporting Fraud
The Younger Face of the Estonian Patent Office
Meme: Consistent Standards
EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XIV – Business as Usual in Tallinn
Lies and Deceit, Striving to Expand the Coup From Patent Offices to Patent Courts
Meme: That Didn't Go Too Well for Alexander Ramsay, Master Liar of Team UPC...
EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XIII – Out With the Old, in With the New?
Six Years Ago Belgian TV Compared Benoît Battistelli to a Mass Murderer, El Chapo Guzmán
Benoît Battistelli’s Napoleonic Baltic Crusade: Phase II, Fortification and Cover-Up
How Much Corruption Can One Survive in EPO?
A Vast Sea of Corruption Flowing Out of EPOnia (Munich/Bavaria/Germany)
Meme: The Rigga' From Riga
EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XII – Battistelli and His Baltic Fiefdoms
OHIM/EUIPO Giving Top Roles to Repeatedly-Convicted Fraudsters is Bad for the Reputation of the European Union
Meme: António Campinos Poured Bleach on a Convicted Criminal
EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XI – With a Little Help From My Friends…
Just Like in China, Even an EPO 'Emeritus' Cannot Criticise the Regime of EPOnia...
Meme: Daniel X. Thomas Still Works for Benoît Battistelli
Response to Daniel X. Thomas, Former Director at the European Patent Office (EPO)
Meme: When Everything is Basically Rigged...
António ‘Gap’ Campinos Explains His Plan to Indoctrinate/Brainwash the Public About So-called ‘IP’ (Misleading, Vague Term, Also a Deliberate Misnomer)
It's a Big Club
Meme: A Cat (or Kat) That Sold All Its Souls…
Meme: A Network of Brothers
EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part X – A Pan-European “Good Brother” Network Celebration?
Meme: Facts and Laws Don't Matter to Team UPC
Team UPC Has Spread a Dozen or So Fake News Headlines With Patently False Claims, Which It’s Unable and Unwilling to Justify
Two Institutions, Two Dictators
EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part IX – António’s Faithful Acolyte in Alicante
António Campinos is Not a Patents Person and He Doesn't Belong at the EPO
EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part VIII – Pulling for the Portuguese Pretender?
EPO Occupational Health
Meme: A Pretender Bartender From France
A Deeply Disturbing Culture of Corruption and Nepotism
Meme: Compensating for Daddy
Elected Like a Mafia Don, Governing the EPO Like a Mafioso…
Fixing Elections, Scoring Points Behind Closed Doors
EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part VII – A Self-Appointed “Select Committee”
Meme: Monkey See, Monkey Do (Secret Meetings in Eastern Forests)
Buying Elections at the Expense of the Finnish Taxpayers
Meme: Appointing Dictators for Life
Convicted Fraudster 'in Charge' of Patent Delegations From Four Nations?
EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part VI – “A Good Friend of Estonia and a Steady Cooperation Partner”
About Half of the Supposed ‘Growth’ in Patents is Abstract Stuff or ‘Software-Related’ (Patents That Courts Would Quite Likely Reject) (partly about EPO)
Meme: Smoking Päts
Meme: Mr. Casino Martti Enäjärvi
Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH) Governed by a Criminal for Two Decades
EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part V – A Man With a Conviction…
Finnish Media Has Already Explained What Sorts of People We’re Dealing With…
Part 5 Teaser: Enäjärvi Caught
So-called ‘IP’ Statistics for the Baltic States Reveal Very Few Patents
Meme: Finnishing Off the European Patent Convention (EPC)
EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part IV – Martti Enäjärvi and His “Good Brother” Networks
Meme: Only the 'Very Best People' for the Finnish Public Sector
Finland Corruption Levels Aren’t What They Seem (or Perceived to Be)
EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part III – Introducing the Finnish “Facilitator”
Meme: Martti ‘Vichy’ Enäjärvi
A Closer Look at Baltic States’ Membership in the EPO and the Significance
EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part II – Old Wine in New Bottles…
Meme: Finnish Your Coffee
Meme: Doyen in the Baltic Region
How Finland, With About 20 Times More European Patents Than Baltic States Combined, Has Controlled Those States for the Battistelli Era Regime (and Campinos Era Too)
EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part I – More Captured Delegates?
Meme: Internal Stacked Committees, Sponsored by Special Interests
Expecting the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation to Actually Follow the Law…
Joff Wild’s Latest Wild Lies
Patenting Software and Patenting Music (partly about EPO)
Meme: In the EPO, Criminals Get Promoted, Not Arrested
Richard Stallman Explains Why He Protests and Condemns the EPO (for Promoting Software Patents in Other Continents, Too)
Naming and Shaming 'Captured' Publications That Knowingly and Intentionally Published Fake News About the EU's Unified Patent Court So Far This Week
Flashback: Team UPC in 2014 Saying UPC Would Start Next Year (2015)
Team UPC Should be Taken to Court by Clients (for Misleading Them, Only for Personal Gain)
Warning: Campaign of Disinformation by Team UPC
Meme: Who Needs Laws Anyway?
Corruption is Everywhere, But EPO Officials Very Well Know the Law and They Know That They Break the Law
An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part XIV: No Great Loss…
Meme: Every Publisher in Europe Was Supposed to Cover EPO Corruption
Meme: Capturing the Situation…
Corruption at the EPO’s Governance (or the Administrative Council) is Not Limited to Balkan States
An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part XIII: In Good Company…
With Its Handling of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement (UPCA), Germany Shows It’s No Better Than Poland or Hungary
Meme: Skinny Dipping Double-Dippers
Media Participates in Cover-Up — and Thus Enablement — of Rogue Representatives and Mischievous National Delegates Inside the EPO
Meme: EPO’s Captured Nations as Bought and Paid-for Votes
An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part XII: Captured Delegates on the Administrative Council?
When Nations Are Dens of Nepotism and Corruption, Just Like the EPO
An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part XI: Captured States in the EU’s Waiting Room
Meme: Macedonian State Capture (Control From Afar)
Meme: The MaceDoyen
When Corrupt Officials Are Put in Charge of Law, Justice, and Patent-Granting Institutions
Meme: Drumming Up Support for Illegal Proposals
An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part X: A “Fall Guy” For the Deputy Minister?
Meme: Patents on ‘Magic’
The EPO's Extraordinary Gerrymandering Landscape and Belated Introduction to Goran Gerasinmovski
EPO, Europe’s Second-Largest Organisation, as a Hub of Corrupt Politics
Meme: North Macedonia is the Same as Germany
An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part IX: “There Are Indications of a Violation of the Law…”
The Grave Dangers of Politicised Patent Offices and a Politicians-Run EPO
Meme: EPO Needs D & I in Opinions and Representation, Too
Meme: Too Many Hats
An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part VIII: An Inspector Calls
Meme: A Statement That Wouldn’t Age Well…
An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part VII: An Academic Institution With a Political Mission
Meme: There is a Special Place in Hell for the EPO’s Social Dialogue
EPO Pinkwashing Helps Nothing Except the Ego of Oppressive and Despotic EPO Management
Meme: Honorary Doctorates and Doctored Doctorates
EPO is Driving Under the Influence (DUI), Just Like the President's Son
Meme: Diplomatic Mill
An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part VI: A Learned Legal Luminary
Meme: Restoring Peace by Spending 6 Million Euros to Fight Staff in Court (Approved by the EPO’s Administrative Council)
Freenode is Now Dead. But is the EPO Too ‘Dead Man Walking’? When Rogues Are Left in Charge…
Presumption of Patent Invalidity in Europe
An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part V: Sharing Out the Spoils of Public Office
An Ode to Josef
EPO as a Combat Zone, Governed by Separatists Who Take Bribes
Meme: EPO: Over a Month of Non-Compliance With Court Rulings!
Meme: More Than Meets the Eye...
An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part IV: A Party Political Animal
Meme: The Administrative Council’s Strategy for Saving the EPO: Paying Up (Bribing) the Media and Lawyering Up EPO Staff
The Corruption Virus at the EPO, Europe’s Largest and Most Important Patent Office
Meme: Competition for the ‘Doyen’ (in the Boardroom or the Bedroom?)
An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part III: A Longtime Associate of the Doyen
Meme: Doyen for North Macedonia
An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part II: A Mysterious Fist-Bumping Masquerade in Skopje
Meme: Inventors as 'Robots' in the Western World and Global South (partly about EPO)
The European Patent Organisation Discredits the European Patent System
An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part I: A New EPO Balkan Affair?
The Patent Quality Song (partly about EPO)
Meme: Patents for Bots (the Other Kind of ‘Hey Hi’ Patents) (partly about EPO)
EPO Bribing Scholars to Justify Software Patents, Then Using Narrow Surveys to Justify Unlawful Guidelines for Examiners (e.g. Software Patents as ‘Hey Hi’)
The EPO is Europe’s Largest Scale Scam (by Far the Largest)
Four Weeks of Non-Compliance: EPO Only Accepts Courts That It Rigs and Controls
It Almost Feels Like Battistelli Still Runs the EPO (by Extension/Proxy)
Meme: Vichyite Battistelli Committed Crimes and His Buddy António Snubs Courts That Confirm These Are Crimes
Meme: Nobody and Nothing Harms Europe’s Reputation Like the EPO Does
For 17 Days (and Counting) António Campinos Has Failed to Respond to Call for Compliance With the Law
Raw: Elodie Bergot Breaking the Law by Threatening Against the Exercise of Fundamental Rights
European Media Does Not Care About Europe's Second-Largest Institution Crushing Basic Laws and Fundamental Rights
Meme: Enforcing ILO-AT Rulings...
Meme: Rowan and António Sittin' on a Tree...
Meme: António Lost His Power Over Patent Examiners
European Patent Office is Going on Strike (or Strikes)
Meme: No Crime Goes Unrewarded at the EPO
Meme: When Sociopaths or Psychopaths Run Europe's Second-Largest Institution
Meme: EPO Asked to Comply With the Law and Correct Behaviour
The EPO’s ‘News’ Page Annotated
Meme: EPO 2025 (When Most of the Decent Patent Examiners Have Been Chased Away)
Where There’s Smoke…
Meme: European Patent Mill
EPO is in Trouble, It’s Just Covering That Up
EPO Examiners Should Be in Charge of EPO Policies, Not Self-Serving Politicians Who Exploit and Flaunt Diplomatic Immunity
Meme: If We Don't Agree There's a Gap...
EPO Collapsing Under Managerial Corruption and Neglect of Staff
The EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal Acknowledges That It’s Rigged Even After a Shuffle
Meme: It’s Always an Emergency When You Need to Protect Criminals From Prosecution/Accountability
Staff Elements in Working Group on *[Teleworking Explain Lies From EPO Management, Which Isn’t Working (Only Robbing and Stealing From the EPO)
EPO Staff Seeking Reparations After Unlawful Practices and a Decade of Abuse by EPO 'Mafia'
Increasing Capacity in Techrights (partly about EPO)
Meme: Couldn't Even Qualify for Management at GAP
Philippe Aigrain, Who Fought Against Software Patents, Died This Past Weekend
The EPO's Administrative Council Just Chose Another Battistelli (for the Same Toxic Agenda)
António Campinos Needs to be Removed From the EPO as Soon as Possible Along With Friends He Brought Over
Meme: The EPO's Kakistocracy
Video: Mind the Mental Gap
Would Never Have Posted This
Meme: EPO Telenovela: Sua Vida me Pertence by Tony Campinos
EPO Dictator Campinos Continues Crushing EPO Staff, Outpacing Battistelli in Terms of His Abuses
UPC @ FCC
Techrights News to Muse (partly about EPO)
Meme: Sparkling Wine for Team UPC
Chronicles of the Defunct Patent Office/Legal System in Europe
Meme: When Timing is Impossible to Ignore
Journalists Who Don’t Even Know What the UPC is (or What It’s Called) Carry Water for the Patent Litigation Lobby
Arguing With Diplomatic Immunity
EPO's Staff Union Fights for the EPO's Survival and Viability
ILOAT Finally Overturns Battistelli's Vichyite Strike Regulations
Meme: Will EPO Comply?
Video: ILO-AT Caseload Shows That António Campinos Failed and Should be Sacked by the Administrative Council of the EPO
Among 43 New Judgments From ILO-AT, Which ‘Oversees’ Dozens of Institutions, 25 (More Than 58%) Concern the EPO’s Staff
Living the EPO Lie
EPO Management: A Mafia That Discourages Journalism and Reduces Truth to Anonymous Whispers (Ducking Detection by the Mafia)
European Patent Office (EPO) and the EPO's Administrative Council Both Complicit in Illegal Outsourcing to Microsoft (and Industrial Espionage)
The EPO's Administrative Council Has Just Shown Evidence of Its Complicity (Again)
Holiday for António, Glass and Metal Cages for the Rest of Us
Making EPO Crimes a ‘New Normal’
EPO’s “Towards a New Normal” Hogwash Just Another Attempt to Make Unlawful and Unconstitutional Policies Seem OK and ‘Normalised’
Meme: EPO Airlines
Delay After Delay, Blunder After Blunder, the ‘New Normal’ of António Campinos Faces Obstacles
Techrights Statement on Today's EPO Hearing (Enlarged Board of Appeal)
'ViCo' Technical Issues Already Curtail the Case About EPO 'ViCo', Decision Cannot be Issued Today!
Meme: Making EBoA Great Again
Court on Call (or Calle)
EPO Circus Versus European Constitutions
EPO Run by Completely and Totally Incompetent and Irresponsible People
EPO Referral Case G 1/21: It's Popcorn Time!
The Already-Weak Impression of EPO Lawfulness (Under António Campinos) is Over
More G1/21 Scandals as the Stacked Panel Scrambles to Cover Up the Misconduct
Communications of the Boards of Appeal of the EPO Still Controlled by the Office, Which Also Censors Public Input Submissions (Observations)
Meme: Trying to Become More Evil Than Battistelli After 3 Years in Office
EPO Treats Staff as Disposable, Hence More Reluctant to Defy Unlawful Guidelines and Policies
What to Do If the Techrights Web Site is Offline
EPO ViCo on Trial
Meme: The EPO’s Hand on the Scales (With Fixers Inside the Most Important Hearings)
The European Patent Office (EPO) Articles, Almost 3,500 of Them in Total, Now Listed in Gemini
G 1/21 is a Catastrophe for the EPO’s Legitimacy
Meme: Timely Timing?
Virtual Injustice — Part 15: A Pandora’s Box… But for Whom?
Virtual Injustice — Part 14: How Mandatory ViCo Became the “New Normal”
Virtual Injustice — Part 13: Let the Games Continue…
EPO: Fake Patents, Fake (Paid-for) Patent Coverage, and Fake Awards for Public Relations Purposes
We Need and Deserve a Saner Patent System in Europe
The EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal Has Already Lost the Case in the Court of Public Opinion
Virtual Injustice — Part 12: Carl Josefsson – Down But Not Out!
Virtual Injustice — Part 11: Perceptive Comments and Caustic Criticism
Meme: When the 'Court' Drops
The EPO's Virtual Injustice and Virtual ('News') Media
Meme: Swedish Justice
Virtual Injustice -- Part 10: Vapid and Superficial Coverage in the 'IP' Blogosphere
Heli Pihlajamaa Promoting Software Patents to Patent Maximalists
The Lying by Team UPC, Led Again by Kevin Mooney
Meme: The Enlarged Bored People With Presidential Decrees
Response to Misinformation From EPO Officials
Meme: Tilting the Scales for Software Patents
Virtual Injustice — Part 9: Heli, the EPO’s Nordic Ice-Queen
Virtual Injustice — Part 8: A Well-Connected ‘IP’ Maximalist
Virtual Injustice — Part 7: Musical Chairs and Revolving Doors
Hardly Shocking and Not At All Surprising That Thugs Who Run the EPO Hired External Thugs to Help Them Oppress Aggrieved Staff
Meme: There Are No Elections in Mafia-Type Regimes; It's About Family and Friends...
Meme: EPO 'Lawfulness' as Crude Budget Wars
A Parade of 'Yes Men': EPO's Budget and Finance Committee as Rubber-stamper of the Dictatorship That Pays the Salary
Meme: Illegal Location, Illegal Methods (Haar ViCo)
The ‘Fixer’ of António Campinos Taints G1/21 (ViCo Hearing)
Virtual Injustice — Part 6: Best Buddies With António
Classic: Old EPO Strike
Virtual Injustice -- Part 5: Benoît's “Friends” in Budapest
EU Already Captured by — and Lying for — Corrupt EPO Officials, Team UPC, and Lobbyists of Multinational Corporations
Meme: Virtual Code of Conduct (ViCoC)
Virtual Injustice — Part 4: Mihály Ficsor, the EPO’s Hungarian “Fixer”
Virtual Injustice — Part 3: All the President’s Men…
EPO ‘ViCo’ Prior Art (or ViCo Going Back to the 1980s)
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Needs to Get Its Act Together on the EPO's GDPR Violations
EPO ‘ViCo’ Prior Art (~30 Years Ago): Barely Innovative at All
Meme: Lord Justice Sir
The EPO’s Lack of Objective Legal System is No Laughing Matter
Virtual Injustice — Part 2: The ViCo Oral Proceedings of 28 May 2021
Purpose of Patents
Why We Fight for Real Justice at the European Patent Office
Virtual Injustice — Part 1: António’s Increasingly Wonky Legal Fudge Factory
EPO Management Pours Money Down the River, Wasting Budget on Failed and Failing Projects
Time for the Boards of Appeal to Host Their Own Files, Knowing That the Patent Office is Censoring Submissions From the Public
Meme: Judges Aren’t the Enemy
The Correlation Between Software Freedom and Universal Justice
EPO Management: We Listen to Users, Especially Monopolists and Overzealous Litigation Firms
The Kanté of Alicante
The EPO’s Censorship of Stakeholders is a Misguided Case of Digging One’s Own Grave
The Giftküche of Haar (Allegedly a Part of Munich, as the EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal Refuses to Even Check)
Video: 'Shoot the Messenger' Tactics
EPO G 1/21 Update: Fresh Allegations of Cronyism Against Campinos
Never Ever Let Those Who Expose Corruption Be Framed as 'Public Enemies'
Meme: EPOnian ‘Justice’ (Just Us, the Superpowers)
Almost a ‘Media Blackout’ About What Happened Last Friday at the EPO
One Week Since the EPO's Boards of Appeal Came to a Standstill Due to Lack of Independence and Impartiality
Meme: Approving the Actions of the Boss
Some Potentially Good News About the EPO
Meme: EPO Bad for Your Health (Even as President)
President of the Boards of Appeal and His ‘Handler’ António Campinos Need to Step Down to Save the EPO
President Campinos is Finished (EPO Crisis Afoot)
Meme: Outsourced Panel to Decide on Legality of Outsourced Panels
Breaking: G1/21 (ViCo Hearing) Going Down the Drain
Postscriptum: Carl Josefsson Sidelined From G 1/21!
Latest News on G 1/21: Another Spanner in the Works
Managing Perceptions for the EPO’s Regime
When the Lips of António Campinos Move...
The Haarian Praetorian Guard
Outline of Recent EPO Series: Kangaroo Courts, German Government Complicity, and Gross Privacy Violations by Unaccountable Officials
Media Colluding With EPO Autocrats Who Break the Law, Aiming to Mislead the Public
They Don't Want Us to Hear...
The Golden Decision
The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 20: Summing up
EPO Propaganda, Looking to Legitimise a Rigged Panel of Judges, Starts With Author Who Did Puff Pieces With António Campinos
An Ode to Jeannine Hoppe and Nikolaus Obrovski
Deciphering the EPO's Media Strategy for Handling Its Illegal Practices, Which It Already Extends Until Next Year (Without Even Waiting for the Kangaroo Court's Ruling)
The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 19: Ladies and Gentlemen, Place Your Bets…
Get Ready for a Torrent of EPO Propaganda
Meme: Judges in Haar Must Behave Themselves
The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 18: Promoting the Illusion of Peace and Haar-mony
Meme: ViCo: Videoconference as ‘Courtroom’
EPO Deciding on the Legality of ViCo… Over ViCo
Article 116(1) EPC and the Stacked Courts Initially Entrusted to Judge Their Own Actions
The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 17: The External Members: Evangelos Chatzikos and Richard Arnold
Nobody Loves the EPO (or EPC) Like the Staff Representatives and the Union, SUEPO
We Need to Save Europe From the Lawlessness of EPO ‘Mafia’ (Corrupt Management That Doesn’t Understand Patents or Law)
Meme: Appeal for Independence
The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 16: The Mystery of the “Missing Signatures”
Leaky and Freaky Patent Office
Rational Patent Office Gone Irrational
The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 15: The EBA Letter of 8 December 2014
Meme: The EPO's Very Special Dept. of Justice
Breaking EPO News Regarding G 1/21: Judge Calle Josefsson Deposed as Chairman
EPO Corruption Impacts Everybody, Even Those Uncaring About Patents and Those Outside Europe
The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 14: Nemo Iudex in Causa Sua?
Say Hey Hi to Inventions and Patents
The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 13: Internal Members: Gunnar Eliasson and Andrea Ritzka
The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 12: Internal Members: Ingo Beckedorf
The EPO Has Slipped Out of Control and Now It's a Mass Litigation “Mafia” With Immunity
António Campinos is Already Worse Than Benoît Battistelli and Maybe More Aggressive as Well
The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 11: The Rapporteur Who Once Was Vice-President
Meme: Captured EPO
An Urgent Need to Fix the EPO, Which is Becoming Rogue at Every Level (Even the 'Legal' Level)
Calle Josefsson as Living Proof That Attacking the Causes You Once Proclaimed to Stand for is Very Profitable
The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 10: A Faustian Pact?
EPO Staff Representatives Not Amused to See an Office That Steals From Staff and Even From Pensioners
Meme: Virtual Prisons for Virtual Hearings (Haarings)
President of the Boards of Appeal, the Star of the Haar Show
Virtual ‘Courts’ Aren’t Courts and Aren’t Suitable Substitutes, Either
Haar Song
The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 9: Squeezing Out the Lifeblood of Democracy?
EPO.org is a Really Awful Source of Information
Meme: When All That Matters is ‘Production’ and ‘Timeliness’
The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 8: The Radical Student “Brotherhood”
Christoph Ernst Lecturing Us on “Transparency” and EPO Corruption (as Well as Assault on the EPC) Becoming a “New Normal”
Jacques Michel and Willy (Guillaume) Minnoye: Stakeholders in EPO Lawlessness
The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 7: Calle’s Strange Metamorphosis
Making up Law at the EPO
Meme: Calle Calling…
The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 6: The Habermasian Who Warned About “Legal Anarchy”
EPO Justice
Meme: Judges the Office Cannot Control Are Just Nazis With Weapons in Their Office...
The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 5: Battistelli’s “Swedish Chef”
The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 4: The President of the Boards of Appeal
Judging the Judges
When EU Authorities Tell You to Complain to the EPO Itself About EPO Privacy Violations...
The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 3: The Current Line-up
Meme: Longing for the Original IP Kat…
The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 2: Just Another Pro Forma Rubber-Stamping Exercise?
The European Campinos Award
Personal Thoughts About the EPO 'Kangaroo Court' Scandal
Doing Justice by Reporting Injustice
The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 1: Rumours of a Kangaroo Court at EPOnia
Europe's Second-Largest Institution, the EPO, is Partly Based in the United States
Mass Litigation Over the Salary Adjustment Procedure (SAP), Basically an Attack on All EPO Staff, Even EPO Pensioners
EPO ‘Dialogue’ With Staff Representatives is as Dead as ‘Dialogue’ With the Union
Then We Take Berlin…
Meme: Who Needs Examination Anyway When There's 'Hey Hi' (AI)?
Europe’s Second-Largest Institution Corrupting the Media and Buying Expensive Puff Pieces
Free Software Proponents Don’t Fall for Bullshit (Same is True for EPO Examiners)
EPO Already Wasting Money on Media Manipulation Campaigns for European Inventor Award
EPO Disregards Animal Welfare
Meme: You Cannot Measure Innovation by the Quantity of Paperwork
The EPO Can Never and Will Never Recover If It Fails to Communicate With People Who Actually Understand the Job of a Patent Office
When A Source of Pollution and Corruption Paints Itself Green
Lying and Breaking the Law: Is This the Best Europe's Second-Largest Institution (EPO) Can Do?
Meme: Greenponia
The EPO Abuses Climate Change, Hijacking or Misusing Grassroots Activism for Corporate Public Relations Stunts
At the EPO, the Word “Reform” Means Abolition (Abandonment of Staff)
The European Patent Office Isn’t About Patents Anymore and It’s Run by Clueless People
Meme: EPO Comp-LIE-A**
“Dia da Liberdade” 2021: Some Thoughts For the Day
Behind the Curtains of Cheap and Cheesy PR the EPO is a Machine of Oppression (Against Its Very Own Staff), Tribunal to Rule on Strike Busting
At the EPO, Lawlessness Has Become “a New Normal”
Richard Stallman on How UPC is a Trojan Horse for Software Patents in Europe
Breaking News: EDPS Admits That It is Powerless to Investigate Claims of GDPR Non-compliance at the EPO
What the EPO Has 'Normalised' in Europe...
EPO Staff Union Takes the EPO 'to Court' (the ILO's Tribunal, as the EPO Cannot be Taken to a Proper Court)
Exposing Hard Truths is the First Step or the Path Towards Justice
Meme: Laundering Bribes as ‘Cooperation Money’
EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 20: Taking Stock
Meme: Germany’s Red Cash Cow
EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 19: The Deafening Silence of the Media
EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 18: Zero Tolerance for “Lawless Zones”?
EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 17: Jawohl, Herr Minister!
Over 1,000 EPO Workers Initiate Legal Challenge Against the EPO’s Attack on Salaries (in Defiance of Assurances Made to Workers Who Relocate to Another Country With Whole Families)
An Examination of Correspondence Between the Tweedledum-Tweedledee Duo, Lutz and Ernst
EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 16: An Inimitable Duo
An Ode to Dr. Ernst
During Pandemic, With Rising Inflation, Corrupt EPO Management With Its ‘Shadow Budget’ Cracks Down on Education and Childcare Allowance
EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 15: Different Strokes for Different Folk
EPO President Campinos Lying to JURI
EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 14: The Notorious Revolving Door
All EPO Articles Are Available Over Gemini Protocol
Judge and JURI
EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 13: The Failed Promise of a “Good Governance” Guru…
Challenging Times for EPO Management
Meme: Bundestagate Series Spoiler
Breaking News: Campinos to Appear Before the Legals Affairs Committee of the European Parliament on Monday 12 April
EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 12: A Worthy Successor to His Mentor?
Accessibility and Availability First
EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Appendix (Benoît Battistelli’s Vichy Syndrome): Georges Henri Léon Battistelli and Charles Robert Battistelli
EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 11: The BMJV’s Tweedledee: Dr Christoph Ernst
News Sites That Talk About Patents Have Become Shameless Self-Promotion 'Plugs' by Law Firms (and Sometimes Outright 'Spam' for Litigation)
Meme: Self-styled Judges
EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 10: A Faithful Lapdog Despised and Reviled by EPO Staff
EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 9: A Veritable Virtuoso of Legal Sophistry
A Patent System for Giant Corporations Like Boeing and Airbus, Not for Ordinary European Citizens
EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 8: The EPO’s Tweedledum, Raimund Lutz
Germany’s Inaction on EPO Privacy Abuses and Corruption in General
EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 7: Ms Voßhoff Alerts the Bundestag…
‘Not My Department’: How Privacy Abuses Have Been Treated in Germany
EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 6: Dr Petri Starts the Ball Rolling…
The EPO Scandals Are Partly German Government Scandals, Too
The EPO Bundestagate -- Part 5: The Federal Eagle's Disconcerting Metamorphosis
Milking the EPO and Lying for the EPO
The EPO Bundestagate — Part 4: Parroting the GDPR-Compliance Myth
A BIT Worrying Where the EPO is Going...
Government of Germany Relays Talking Points Directly From the Mouths of EPO Management
EPO is a Zombie Institution Where Managers Have “Repeatedly Used Buzzwords and Catchphrases Like “Digital Transformation”, “Artificial Intelligence” and “Upskilling”, to Name a Few.”
The EPO Bundestagate — Part 3: A “Minor Interpellation” in the German Bundestag
EPO President António Campinos Promoting Microsoft Proprietary Software (Monopoly) and Software Patents
EPO: It is All About Germany, Baby!
The EPO Bundestagate — Part 2: Lack of Parliamentary Oversight, Many Questions and Few Answers…
Meme: It Came From the Cloud... in Haar
The EPO Bundestagate — Part 1: How the Bundestag Was (and Continues to be) Misled About EPO Affairs
Coming Up in April: Exposing More EPO Crimes and Advocating Software Freedom
After Crushing Dialogue With the Union (SUEPO) the EPO’s President Does the Same to Staff Representatives
EPO Staff Representation Again Warns About Collapse in Patent Quality (Due to Bad Management), Suggests Potential Improvements
EPO Has Become an Institution of Unbridled Crime, Where Judges Exist Only to Approve the Crimes
EPO Management Bombards the ‘News’ Section to Distract From Unlawful Attacks on the EPO’s Highest Tribunal (This Time in G 1/21)
Meme: EPO Robbed
EPO Robbery Under the Shadow of Pandemic Sweeping Across Europe
EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Summing Up: EPO Administrative Council Still Asleep at the Wheel
As Work/EPO Invalidity Appeals Rejected, More Reasons Emerge to Worry About the Campinos Regime
EPO Has Abandoned Patent Law and Sooner or Later Stakeholders Will Abandon the EPO Just Like Many Examiners Did
Meme: Banking on the EPO's Future
The Sky is the Limit for EPO Management as Patent Quality is Lowered to Gutter Level
EPO Board of Auditors is Incompetent and Patently Unfit for Purpose
EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — The ‘Smoking Gun’: Hard Evidence That the EPO Has Been Lying About GDPR Compliance
Hey, Hi, Welcome to the EPO
Almost 100 Pages of Self-Congratulatory Marketing Isn't a Case of Informing the Administrative Council of the EPO But Misleading It Using Fluff and Buzzwords
EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part XV: Has the EPO Sold Out Its “Digital Sovereignty”?
Ghost of Elizabeth Holmes Still Haunts EPO as Her Patents Are Used to Suppress COVID-19 Research in Europe
EPO Secrecy and Technical Incompetence
Perception Management and Reality Distortion in EPO Coverage, Sometimes Subsidised by the EPO and Typically Funded by Litigation Giants
At the EPO ‘New Normal’ is Synonymous With ‘Breaking the Law’… (EPC, Human Rights and More)
EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part XIV: When is a Conflict of Interest Not a Conflict of Interest?
The Microsoft Deal With the EPO is Illegal For a Lot of Reasons
Meme/Teaser: The European Blackmail Office
Meme: Masking Their Agenda...
The Patent Professionals Have Come to Realise That the EPO Boards of Appeal, Controlled by Office Management, Are Kangaroo Courts
EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part XIII: A Global 'IP' Player
Meme: Drunk on Power, Drunk on Diplomatic Immunity (and Impunity)
EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part XII: Corruption Addendum
EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part XII: Foreign Corrupt Practices, Bid Rigging and “Slush Funds”
The EPO is Drunk and Should Go Home
EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part XI: Close Encounters With the Trust-busters…
EDPS Documents About Microsoft’s Privacy Violations and Much More to Come Regarding the EPO’s Privacy Scandals
The ‘Hey Hi’ of António Campinos Will Survive This
Why We Don’t Expect the Media or Patent ‘News’ Sites to Cover or Even Just Mention EPO Data Scandals
EPO Promoting Illegal Software Patents Under the Guise of NET/Hey Hi
EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part X: The Spectre of GDPR…
Meme/Teaser: Lipstick on EPO in the 'Cloud'
Microsoft Breaking European Privacy Laws While Distracting the Public: The Evidence (a Formal 91-Page Report)
EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part IX: Know Your Vendor…
Response to the EPO's Response to Techrights About Microsoft 'Cloud' (Still Failing to Justify the GDPR Violations)
EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part VIII Addendum
EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part VIII: The Aftermath of Schrems II in Europe
Europe's Second-Largest Institution (EPO) is Not Only Violating the Law But Also Acting in Defiance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
European Patent Office as Apparatus of American/Corporate Imperialism (by Surveillance and More)
EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part VII: Lipstick on a Pig…
Meme: EPO Encryption, Brought to You by (and for) Microsoft to Subvert
The German Constitutional Court Needs to Recognise That the EPO’s Tribunals Are Not Independent and EPC Has Not or Isn’t Being Honoured for Quite Some Time Now
Contacting Your (European) Member of Parliament/Representative to Report EPO-Microsoft GDPR Abuses
Note to Readers: It's Only When We Cover Microsoft-EPO Scandals That We Receive Legal Threats and Other Pressure from the EPO
The (e-)EQE Statement From the EPO Makes Things Even Worse as Victims of the Catastrophic Exam Feel Offended and Angry
EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part VI: A Not-so-safe Harbour
Reporting the European Patent Office and Microsoft for Gross GDPR Violations
EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part V: The EU GDPR
What the EPO's Illegal Outsourcing of Private Data to Microsoft Actually Means (an Issue for Everyone in Europe)
EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part IV: The US CLOUD Act Passes Without Public Debate
The US Government, Fronting Through Microsoft, is Spying on Europe Owing to an Illegal Contract (or Contracts) Signed by Corrupt EPO Officials
EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part III: The PATRIOT Act and Mass Surveillance
EPO Breaking the Law With Microsoft and Promoting Fake 'Encryption' That Violates Confidentiality on Many Levels
EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part II: Steve Rowan Announces Microsoft “Outlook Migration”
Why the Latest EPO Series is Very Important and Also Difficult to Publish
EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part I (Start of Series): Enter the “Cloud of Unknowing…”
EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part I (Intro): A Fresh Data Protection Scandal Brewing at the EPO?
EPO Management Could Really Use a Distraction From the Microsoft Blunder and Data Protection Crimes
Meme: EPO Sells Out Its ‘Digital Sovereignty’ to Microsoft
EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Primer
EPO Does the Unlawful While Leveraging Women’s Rights as an Opportunistic Form of Disguise
Team UPC and Patent-Centric ‘Media’ in Europe Still Committing Suicide (Credibility Sliding Down the Cliff)
Examining Today’s EPO Propaganda About the Disastrous EQE, a Subject of Much Scorn and EPO Corruption
German Decision on Unitary Patent/UPC Will Take Years (and It Doesn’t Matter Because the Whole Thing is Dead Already)
Meme: EPO Management Totally Gets 'Tehc'
The EPO's Software Blunders Are Inevitable Outcome of Technically Clueless Management Which Grants Illegal Patents on Software
‘GatoKeeper’/IP Kat (AstraZeneca) Still Suppressing and Censoring the Public Views or Internal EPO Talks About EPO Corruption
Five Years of António Campinos Coverage in Techrights (We Correctly Predicted His Presidency in March 2016)
In 2021 the EPO Works for Parasites Instead of Scientists (and It Cannot Even Hide That Anymore)
EPO President Pushes Illegal Software Patents in South America (Over the Telephone With a Misleading New Puff Piece)
The Administrative Council Needs to Fix the EPO While It’s Still Possible
'These Questions Remain Unanswered': Campinos Became Battistelli Just Halfway Through His Term
‘The One Percent’: Salary Adjustment Procedure (SAP) Supported Only by 1% of EPO Staff
Series Index: How António Campinos Resorted to Union-Busting
For the Record: SUEPO’s Correspondence With ‘King’ António Campinos
EPO Crisis Under António Campinos – Part 5: Quo Usque Tandem?
The Bergot Patent Office (Tantrum First, Innovation Later… or Never)
EPO Crisis Under António Campinos – Part 4: Timeline of the Le Guern Controversy
Reckless, Feckless and Factless Campinos ‘Doing a Donald Trump’ on the Staff Union of His Office
EPO Crisis Under António Campinos – Part 3: Campinos Rallies Behind Bergot
Spineless Campinos Protects Team Battistelli From EPO Staff (and From Accountability) Instead of Protecting Staff From Corruption and From Team Battistelli
Leaky Patent Office
EPO Crisis Under António Campinos - Part 2: Madame Bergot Reportedly Goes Ballistic
The EPO's “Mafia” is Back to Blackmailing Staff Representatives
EPO Crisis Under António Campinos - Part 1: Le Guern's “Disappearance” Triggers Internal Crisis at the European Patent Office (EPO)
EPO Behaves Like a Private Corporation, Pretends to be Poor Only When That Suits Its Agenda
When a Patent Office Becomes a Granting Authority Also for University/Academic Grants (With Strings Attached)
More Broken Promises as EPO Management Pretends That the Office is Poor (While Looting Its Treasury for Personal Gain)
Patents Over Parents at the EPO
EPO Management and ‘The Children’ Who Run the Office
Software Freedom and Patent Systems Are a Political Endeavour (at Least in Part)
The Good, the Bad, and the Truly Awful in Patent Law
EPO Propaganda on Overdrive... to the Point of Breaking the EPO's Web Site
When You Know the EPO Distracts the Media (and Thus the Public) From Something
End of Patent Justice in Europe
The Annual EPO/EUIPO Ritual of Lying to the European Public
Le Guern Leaves the EPO After Attacks on Staff’s (and Pensioners’) Finances Amid Pandemic
Straw Man Arguments That Distract From EPO Scandals
When So-called 'Public Servants' Simply Serve Themselves and Their Rich Sponsors/Friends (partly about EPO)
OpenForum Europe (IBM et al) and Linux Foundation Are Boosting and Cooperating With Enemies of Software Freedom (partly about EPO)
SUEPO Will Challenge Retribution Against Staff That Went on Strike to Protest Illegalities at the EPO
Meme: Candidate Campinos is Not President Campinos
Fighting for Free Speech and Censorship Resistance
Fourth Edition of EPO Staff Survey Shows That Work Affairs Continue to Deteriorate Even Further and Almost Nobody Trusts the Management
EPO Staff Likely Going on Strike For a Second Year in a Row
EPO President António Campinos is Still Not Listening, According to Internal EPO Documents
Kluwer Patent Spin and Distortion of Facts (Regarding UPC and More)
EPO Staff Representation Complains That EPO Management Exploits Pandemic and 'House Arrests' to Overwork Staff, Lower Quality
Hey Hi (AI) is Just a Trojan Horse for Illegal Software Patents, According to EPO Management and Litigation Firms It’s in Bed With
The Central Staff Representatives (CSC) of the EPO Are Petitioning to End the Assault on EPO Staff
Team UPC Keeps Pretending That UPCA Can Still be Resurrected (Even Without the UK, Which is Strictly a Requirement)
Sites in Bed With the EPO and UPC 'Covering' the 'News' Without Mentioning Any of the Overt Abuses
Patent Propaganda and UPC Jingoism Instead of Actual News
Unitary Patent is Dead and Lies About the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Aren't Ending
Microsoft Hosts a European Software Patents Propaganda Event (in ‘Hey Hi’ Clothing) Featuring Thierry Breton and Litigation Firms
EPO: We Are a Community, But We Crush and Rob Our Own Staff (Even Pensioners)
EPO Management (Team Campinos) to EPO Pensioners: Drop Dead or Stop Asking Questions That Expose Our Lies
New Leak: Today's EPO Breaks Its Contract With Former Staff of the EPO, Not Just Existing Staff
Can EPO Leaks Published in 2021 Inspire More Media Coverage About EPO Abuses?
Colour codes:
| - |
| 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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