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UPC is Not Legal in 2023 (UK Left the EU), But the EPO Pretends It Will Start in June (Wishful Thinking, Illegal System)
Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna Has New Paper on Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement (UPCA) After Brexit
Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna on German 'Justice': “Not a Single One of the EPO Complaints Has Been Decided to Date.”
Meme: Seven Years After Battistelli Said It Would Start
EPO Writing About Unitary Patent From One Year in the Future!
Meme: Moldova: What's Worse? Putin's Army or 'the F***ing President' António's Trojan Horse?
Will 2023 See EPO Willing to Invite Belarus and Russia for Public Relations?
European Patent Office (EPO) Refuses to Change and Refuses to Acknowledge the Simple Facts About Its Demise
Meme: The EPO is Run by Corrupt Dictators; The Union (SUEPO) Suffers for Merely Talking About It
EPO President António Campinos 'Too Busy' to Talk to Staff Representatives as Scandals Continue to Pile Up
Meme: EPO Jobs Are Very Cool!
The European Patent Office Explained by Insiders
Keeping Abreast of Patent Affairs and Legislation in Europe
Virtually (i.e. Online) and for Only One Hour the EPO's Staff Representation Was Allowed to Discuss Many Lingering Concerns
Meme: António Campinos-Controlled (EPO-Commissioned) Surveys Are Just for Show (to Help 'Validate' Lies)
European Patent Office (EPO) on the Decline, According to the Fifth Edition of the Technologia Staff Survey
Benoît Battistelli in 2015: EPO is Ready to Start Unified Patent Court (UPC), Expect UPC in 2016
Unified Patent Court (UPC) is “Real Soon Now!” Since 2014
Unified Patent Court (UPC) 'Delayed' Again, As Usual, as Unitary Patent Boosters Caught Up in Lies and Scandals
António Campinos Could Not Possibly Choose a Worse Time to Show Solidarity With Communist China
Unitary Patent Lobbying: Stacked UPC Panel With 250 People in Attendance Spun as “3000 Viewers Followed the Conference” (a Lie)
Meme: Monopolies Presumed Valid
“Bringing Teams Together” at the EPO Means Exactly the Opposite
Meme: Kiss the Ring (of the Patent Litigation Mafia)
This Won't End Well for the UPC Lobby (Unitary Patent Profoundly Discredits the Rule of Law)
Meme: Judges That Break the Rules to Get Richer
Klaus 'Kangaroo' Grabinski Does Not Understand Software Development 'As Such', He is a Symptom of the Patent System's Loss of Legitimacy (Acting to Curtail, Not Advance, Science)
Kangaroo Tribunal For Xmas? Santa Klaus Grabinski Breaking the Law, Crushing Constitutions, Violating International Conventions For Personal (Financial) Gain... Again
From About 2-3 Blog Posts Per Day to Not Even One Per Day (After Covering Up for 'Good' EPO Under António Campinos)
Nokia and Airbus Elected as Judges at the Unified Patent Court, an Unheard of Corruption of Justice
Klaus Grabinski Expressing Support for Software Patents in Violation of the European Patent Convention (and Common Sense)
Meme: Full Support for an Illegal 'Legal' System From the Patent Litigation Industry
Software Patents in the EPO Are Still Illegal, But Criminals in Charge of the EPO Still Try to Stage a Coup Against the Law
Meme: António Campinos Loves Kangaroo Court for Software Patents
The European Patent Office (EPO) Will Fail at Retention and Recruitment This Way
Meme: The ‘F***ing President’ at the EPO
Meme: Herr Professor Doktor Benoît Battistelli
António 'I'm the F***ing President' Campinos Arranges Meeting With EPO Staff to Lie About Staff's Position and Then Crush the Most Basic Rights of Staff
European Patent Office (EPO) Uses Women and Greenwashing to Distract From EPO Crimes and Unified Patent Court (UPC) Travesty
The European Patent Office (EPO) Cannot Understand Women
Meme: European Patent Office (EPO) Wants You to Know Only Bigots Oppose Illegal EPO Agenda
Meme: The EPO is GREEN!
EPO Isn't Green and Isn't Women-Friendly, That's Just Another Distraction From Corruption
Trusting the UPC (Unified Patent Court) in the Hands of Tyrants Who Ridicule Courts?
Meme: EPO Privacy Please, But Only for EPO Management
Privacy Law Isn't Meant to Protect EPO Management From Prosecution/Accountability
Meme: Unified Patent Court Corruption
This Tentative List of UPC Judges (Industry as 'Judges') Will Make the Unitary Patent Explode Before Launch
Meme: I am Always Right Because...
The European Union's Unspoken-About Blunder: EPO (Patent-Granting Office) Coup and Ongoing Coup Against Patent Courts
What's to Come Regarding EPO Scandals and Latest UPC (Unitary Patent) Scandals
Let's Put an End to Software Patents by Contacting Our Representatives (Politicians)
Meme: The Always-Coming-Soon Unified Patent Court (UPC) Turns Into Additional Forms of Misconduct and Corruption, Demonstrating It's a Lobbyists' Fake Court
Team UPC Has Foolishly Given Additional Legal Grounds for Tossing Out the Unitary Patent (Overt Corruption in Appointment of Judges)
Meme: EFF Stopped Worrying About Corruption and Monopolies
When It Comes to Patent Policy, EFF Has Become Utterly Useless This Year (and It Refuses to Mention EPO Scandals)
They Can't Even Spell UPC Right (in António's Prepared Lobbying Speech to Politicians, Delivered Last Month)
António Campinos on Unified Patent Court (UPC) Delays and Trying to Leapfrog the Actual Legal Process (Because It's Illegal)
The ILO's Tribunal Decided That the Appeals Committee (ApC) at the European Patent Office (EPO) is Flawed and Staff Can Take Action
Meme: The F***ing Precedent
Even Patent Maximalists Across Europe Are Dissatisfied With the European Patent Office's Shameless Race to the Bottom (Illegal European Patents)
Meme: Well, It's Dead
People Who Relocated (With Family) to Work at the European Patent Office (EPO) Complain About European School The Hague (ESH)
Meme: EPO's Administrative Council Will Congratulate a President Who Bribes the Administrative Council, Breaks the Law, and Curses at Staff Whilst Illegally Censoring It
Inclusion and Diversity at the EPO in One Slide (Leaked by Insiders)
Members of the Administrative Council of the EPO Are Asked to Summon a Conference of Ministers of the Contracting States Due to Violations of the Law
European School The Hague (ESH) Faces a Crisis and Families of EPO Workers Are Harmed Profoundly
Meme: Lowering the Bar With Nations That Barely Have Any European Patents (Close to Zero)
EPO Management Plans to Further Accelerate Grants of Illegal, Invalid, Fake European Patents Next Year
Meme: EPO Would Probably Argue It's Just a Coincidence That “Women Have Received, on Average, Only 0.88 Steps to Every 1 Step Awarded to Men”
Facts About the European Patent Office and Why Recruiting/Retaining Capable Examiners Isn't Possible Anymore
Media Censorship is Spreading and Infesting the World Wide Web
Meme: Getting Promoted (or Hired/Recruited/Absorbed Directly Into Top Management) by Knowing “The F***ing President”
According to EPO Data, Women Have No Place at the EPO (Unless They Fancy Being Underpaid)
The EPO's Local Staff Committee The Hague (LSCTH) is “Requesting Immediate Action”
Meme: EPO Abuse Continues, Managers Acting Deaf
Meme: Time to Take Away the EPO's Diplomatic Immunity
Never Let Courts Be Controlled by Those Who Ignore Court Rulings (European Patent Office, European Patent Organisation, or EPO)
Meme: We're Back to Medieval Times: The Case of EPO
Gone With the Boris: British Enabler of Corrupt EPO Regime
Human Resources at the European Patent Office (EPO): Another Crisis in the Making
Meme: The Limits of Lobbying and Lying
The Propaganda Mill of EPO.org Pushes Illegal, Unconstitutional UPC ('Fake It Till You Make It') Ahead of Further Perils
EPO Management Trying to Make EPO Staff Miserable and Isolated
Meme: Bringing Cheeks Together
Copyright Troll Targets Articles About EPO Corruption
Meme: EPO Has Failed to Comply With Straightforward ILOAT Ruling for Almost Two Months Already
Czech/German Copyright Attack on Techrights Articles About EPO Corruption
Meme: No Compliance, No Quality, No Accountability at the EPO
Meme: Making European Patents Moot and Worthless
How to Leak Material to Techrights
Request for More Information on EPO/EUIPO Corruption
Meme: Qualified and Diplomatic Immunity Begets Crime
Mind-Blowing and Likely Verifiable Rumours About More High-Level Corruption at the European Patent Office (EPO)
Meme: Criminals Have Feelings Too...
Meme: Dignity of Criminals
António Campinos Once Again Failing to Obey Court Orders, Making Up Ludicrous Excuses for Non-Compliance
Recruitment Potential at the EPO Has Never Been Worse
EPO Corruption: Internet Censorship or Why the World Wide Web and DNS Aren't Enough When You Speak Truth to Power
Meme: Breaking Out the Champagne for a “Landmark Occasion”
António Campinos: Portuguese in Absentia (Exile)
Video: Zola's Algorithm
Meme: Working for Sociopaths Who Break the Law and Gloat About It
EPO VP4 Nellie Simon: 24/7 Day and Night, Only One Hour to Speak to EPO Staff
Meme: “Truly a Landmark Occasion”
Meme: Voting Fodder and Faking Concern for the European Patent Convention (EPC)
Banana EPO: Montenegro, With Population 134 Times Smaller Than Germany's, Will Get a Vote as Powerful as Germany's
EPO Monday: A Carnival of Law-Breaking Fluff, Even Celebration of Crime
Meme: Sneak Preview: EPO Chain Gang Movie
Meme: The EPO's Unprecedented Surge
Meme: The EPO's Great Leap Forward
When Europe's Largest Patent Office is Governed by Lawyers, Bankers, and Career-Climbing Opportunists Who Violate the European Patent Convention (EPC) for Them
The EPO Bubble — Part XII — The Shape of Things to Come?
Meme/Video: Covering Up the (EPO) President's Coup and Illegal Actions
Meme: The Portuguese Pretender
The EPO's Misguided and Misleading Approach to Software Patenting, Disguised Using Disingenuous Newspeak and Buzzwords
Meme: Sustainable European Patent Office (EPO)
Meme: Getting Promoted to Head of National Delegation at the European Patent Organisation (EPO)
Monetising the EPO's Granting Authority by Abusing This Authority and Violating the European Patent Convention (EPC)
The EPO Bubble — Part XI — The Viennese ICT Patent Orchestrator
Meme: Award-winning Fake Patents
Meme/Video: Another Temper Tantrump From António Campinos
Meme: The Sinking Ship?
Meme: The EPO's Pot o' Gold
Teaser: The Food Expert Who Got an 'Appetite' for Software Patents
Meme: The Intrepid Razik, Herr Weber, and the Faustian EPO Pact
The António Campinos Photo Ops Tour: Pretending to Support Ukraine While Sending the EPO's Jobs and Applicants' Money to Belarus
EPO's Georg Weber Increasing Grant Rates Close to 100% in Software Patents (for Supposed 'Success')
What the Latest EPO Leaks Teach Us About the Management's Plans for Software Patents in Europe
Meme: “So I Wrote an Algorithm”
The EPO Bubble — Part X — A Leaked E-mail Provides Some Clues...
Teaser: EPO President 'F' Delivers Instructions to Georg Weber
Meme: Faustian Pact to Violate the European Patent Convention (EPC)
The EPO Bubble — Part IX — A Well-Remunerated Faustian Pact?
Finishing Off What's Left to 'Monetise' at the EPO
Meme: Self Esteem Issues (of Insensitive and Underqualified Leadership)
Meme: The EPO Circus
The EPO's Local Staff Committee The Hague Cautions About Shortage of Examiners and Growing Pressure on Workers
Meme: Mein Kampfinos?
Further Suppression of Speech at the EPO Shows That the Current (Recently-Reappointed) Administration Continues to Break the Law
Meme: Patents for Granted
Razik Menidjel the Wrong COO, But Part of Patent Maximalists' Coup
Meme: Master of None
The EPO Bubble — Part VIII — The “Algerian Skirmisher” Replaces the “British Grenadier”
Meme: EPO Ignorance is Bliss
When Criminals Make It a Crime to Speak About Their Crimes
Meme: Bubble Schwabble
The EPO Bubble — Part VII — A Multifaceted Man of Letters
Meme: EPO Management Coming Out of the Closet
4 Years of Monopoly Tony (Mr. Campinos) Violating the Rights of Free Association/Expression/Speech as EPO President
Razik Alex Menidjel: Software Patents Guru or Career-Climbing Poser Who Never Wrote Code?
Freedom of Speech Cannot Coexist With Crime at the EPO
Meme: EPO's Presidential Lapdogs
The EPO Bubble — Part VI — From Humble Examiner to CO³
Meme: Software Patents by Any Other Name (or Buzzword)
The EPO Bubble — Part V — Propping Up the Bubble?
Meme: The EPO's Kangaroo Tribunals Explained
Illegally Monetising an Attack on the European Patent Convention (or How National Delegates Participate in a Coordinated Patent Collusion, a Form of Organised Crime)
Meme: Grinning at Immunity
The EPO Bubble — Part IV — A Cashflow Problem Looming on the Horizon?
Meme: Give Us More Money by Selling Monopolies to Foreign Corporations in Violation of the European Patent Convention
This is How to Kill a Reputable Patent Office in Only a Few Years
Meme: Plot Twist
The EPO Bubble — Part III — Dividing Up the Spoils...
Meme: EPO Kool-Aid Dispenser
Meme: Preserving the EPO's “Slush Fund”
The EPO as a Diploma Mill, Rubber-Stamper, and Training Camp for Scabs Cannot Produce Valuable Work (Low-Quality Junk in High Quantities)
Meme: The More, the Merrier?
Meme: A Message to You, Toni...
Meme: So Presidential...
The EPO Bubble — Part II — Signs of a Deflating Bubble?
There's No F***ing Debate With “the F***ing President” (What António Campinos Calls Himself!)
Why the EPO Bubble Matters
Obscene Lack of Justice at the European Patent Office (EPO)
The EPO Bubble — Part I — An “Unprecedented Surge”
When EPO Does Not Control and Coerce the Judges — Part IV — No End in Sight for a System of “Institutionalised Injustice”?
Meme The Year is 2032: ILOAT Tells Campinos That He Broke the Law, Repeatedly
Meme: “There is No Crueler Tyranny Than That Which is Perpetuated Under the Shield of Law and in the Name of Justice.”
When EPO Does Not Control and Coerce the Judges — Part III — ILOAT Judgment No. 4551
ILOAT Judgment No. 4550 Shows Why ILO Can Never Truly Restore Justice at the EPO and Reminds Us Why ILO Wanted to Kick the EPO Out, Recognising the Highly Exceptional Level of Abuse
Can't Censor EPO Staff Anymore
When EPO Does Not Control and Coerce the Judges — Part II — ILOAT Judgment No. 4550
Three Series Running in Parallel
Meme: EPO King
When EPO Does Not Control and Coerce the Judges — Part I — ILOAT 134th Session: Two More Bittersweet Victories for EPO Staff
Teaser: The EPO's Deflating Patent Bubble and Pursuit of Illegal Software Patents (With Kangaroo Courts, UPC, and Bullied Examiners)
Meme: António Campinos Reacts to Latest Rulings From the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organisation (ILOAT)
European Patent Office (EPO) Condemned Again by Judges at the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organisation (ILOAT)
Meme: He Was Reappointed, So Why Bother Obeying the Law? To Impress the Council?
Web Site of the European Patent Office (EPO) as Propaganda Tool That Covers Up Corruption
With EPO Staff Already in the Trenches ('Cannon Fodder' for Corrupt Management) Their Children Come Under Fire, Too
Article Ideas for EPO Parrots
Meme: EPO Cartoon: I AM Here to Help Cover Up Crimes
Meme: The EPO's European Diversity
EPO's Distraction Du Jour
Meme: Bribing Our Representatives at Our Expense
EPO Bought 'Elections' and What That Means to Staff (When Bribery is the 'New Normal')
EPO Exploits the Deaths of Millions to Leverage COVID-19 Monopolies and Then Pushes Illegal, Unconstitutional Agenda Again (UPC)
Meme: EPO.org as a Portal of Lies (and Lobbyists)
EPO Steering Off the Road, Just Like the Drunken Son of António Campinos, Who Crashed the Car and Begged for Impunity
Koch Operatives Working to Shape Patent Law in Favour of Monopolies and Oligarchs
At the EPO, “Online” Means Microsoft Windows Only (“Unitary Patent” Also Limited to Microsoft Customers!)
Meme: President Crybaby
People Are Very Angry That Campinos Was Left in Positions of Power Without Any Competition and in Spite of Failing to Fulfill Essential Goals
Meme: EPO Election (Auction)
European Patent Office is a Kakistocracy Illustrated
Meme: EPO Rewarding Corruption Instead of Upholding the Law and Protecting the European Patent Convention (EPC)
Cautionary Tales About an António Campinos-Run EPO
Sustainability of Crime at the European Patent Office (EPO), Europe's Second-Largest Institution
EPO is “Building a Team of C and D Players”
Corrupt António Campinos Bought Himself Another Term by Bribing Voters, Whom None of the Staff Trusts
Meme: The Delegates' Munich Rally (June 29th 2022), Re-electing a Corrupt Dictator?
Most “Job Applicants to an Examiner Position at EPO Who Were Offered a Job Did Not Take it”
Meme: EPO Bosses Sneer at Staff Unrest
Meme: EPO Policies Decided Behind Closed Doors
Lots of Legal Action Against the EPO Impending
“Mobility Package” as Bribes in European Patent Office
Bastian Best is Still Wrong and Dishonest About Software Patents
EPO Protest Tomorrow in Munich
Meme: Benoît Battistelli and António Campino Buying Elections Since 2010
EPO Management Glorifies Illegal Agenda and Violations of the European Patent Convention (EPC) to Impress the Administrative Council
The Importance of Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press When It Comes to EPO Corruption
Meme: It's Harder to Talk About Crimes When...
Meme: Fireside Chat With EPO Management
The Past Week at EPO, Europe's Most Corrupt Patent Office
Meme: EPO All Backwards: Are National Delegates and the Administrative Council Just Puppets of the Office They're Meant to Govern?
2,120 EPO Workers Sign Petition to the National Delegates, Who Can Put an End to EPO Abuses (But Repeatedly Fail to Do So)
Meme: You Cannot Protest Because...
EPO Staff at The Hague Complains of New Pressure Tactics and Survey Shows Less than 10% Think Office Policies Serve the EPO's Interests
Meme: Council Says...
Selected Slides From Technologia's EPO Staff Survey (2022 Compared to Prior Years)
EPO Staff Survey's Preliminary Results Published (Almost 2,000 Staff Surveyed), António Campinos Less Trustworthy Than Benoît Battistelli at Similar Points in Their Terms
Meme: Granting Patents Like Mad is Not Productivity (It's Also Illegal)
EPO Management Behaves As If the Goal is to Shut Down and Outsource the Patent Office, Making a ‘Monopolies Bank’ Instead… or Having Rubber-Stamping With Kangaroo Courts Override the European Patent Convention (EPC)
The EPO is Ceasing to Be a Patent Office
EPO Abolishing Workers' Rights and Creating Second-Class Workers in Direct Violation of the European Patent Convention (EPC)
Meme: Trying to Circumvent the European Patent Convention is Like Playing With Fire
EPO Management Severely Harms the Health of Staff by Bullying Them
Meme: Executing the EPC (as in Killing It, Not Following It)
At the EPO, “Bringing Teams Together” or “New Management of Office Space” is Another Step Towards EPO Outsourcing
Meme: Battistelli the Second (Battistelli II)
The Future of the EPO's Work-to-Rule Industrial Action (Examiners Following the Law Rather Than Unlawful Instructions From Management)
Meme: Rewarding Crooks With Public Relations and Marketing at the EPO's Expense ('European Inventor Award')
Hallmark of Bribery and Graft: The French EPO President Gives European Inventor Award to France Again (3rd Time in 6 Years)
Meme: EPO Funding Microsoft and the War Against Ukraine
Why EPO Scandals (and Next Week's Protest) Are a Very Big Deal
Meme: The Re-election Package of the “F***ing President” (in His Own Words)
Physical Demonstration at the EPO’s Headquarters and the Staff Explains Why
Meme: Speaking Professionally at the EPO
Physical Demonstrations Against EPO Considered This Month, Work-to-Rule Industrial Action May Continue, and 96% Think António Campinos Violating the Code of Conduct Means the Office Should Release Recordings
For the Second Time in a Week the EPO Fakes Compliance With the European Patent Convention While Constantly Violating It
Meme: Breaking the Law While Laughing at the Law
We Need to Focus on This Month's Meeting of the EPO's Administrative Council
The EPO's Staff Union Cautions the Administrative Council That the Office Once Again Violates the EPC (Typically With the Council's Complicity)
Meme: Team UPC: Entering Legal Chaos and an Inevitable Disaster
EPO Management Now Simulating the Acceptance of Its Criminal Behaviour, But Will EPO Member States Play Along?
Meme: The Wild West of the Cattle-Riding Campino, Tony the Great
The EPO Has Become Copycat of Lukashenko's Regime of Terror, and It Moreover Violates Laws, Constitutions, Even the European Patent Convention (EPC)
The Emergence of the European Patent Convention (EPC) in Full; Before White-Collar Criminals Hijacked the EPO and Pretended EPC Doesn't Exist
Meme: Arresting and Prosecuting EPO Management
EPO Management Has Danced on the Grave of the European Patent Convention Today
Meme: European Patent Office: The Law is Whatever We Say It Is...
Meme: European Patent Convention ‘Too Old’ for EPO Despots
Meme: Experts in Crime
Like Batka, Like Son
Meme: EPO 'Democracy': Friend Brings Friends
EPO: Privatising Everything and Passing Capital to Corrupt Executives' Pockets (or Monetising the Abolition of the EPC)
National Representatives (Delegations) Need to Listen to EPO Staff When Deciding on the Future of António Campinos
António Campinos Needs to be Fired by Month's End (Notice of Permanent End of Term)
Meme: Vote for Sustained Industrial Action at the EPO
Another Reason Unified Patent Court (UPC) is a Hostile Coup That Will Fail
Meme: Stasi Office
How Long Can the Media Ignore the EPO Crisis (and at What Cost)?
EPO Breaking the Rules, Flouting Laws and Regulations While Leaving Staff Representatives in the Dark
Meme: European Psycho
Corporate Monopolies Granted From People's Private Homes
Meme: Working for Monopolisers
Monopolies Are Neither Green Nor Sustainable
Meme: No Diplomatic Immunity for Alex Kipman
Microsoft, EPO Awards, and Sexual Abuse (Theranos All Over Again)
EPO is Like a Pressure Cooker, Multiple Staff Actions Coincide and Add Up
Meme: Working to Death for Nellie Simon
Bruised EPO Buys Media, Buildings, Reputation Laundering
European Software Patents Cannot Withstand Scrutiny, EPO Management Wants Kangaroo Courts (UPC) to Change That
Meme: Unified Patent Court (UPC) Always Started “Next Year”
Unified Patent Court (UPC) Noise: Loaded Headlines, Straw Man Arguments, and False Predictions as a Lobbying/Sales Strategy
Meme: Unified in Patent Maximalism
The Plunder of EPO Examiners Continues
Meme: A Need for Father's Discipline?
EPO Staff Demands Release of the F***ing Recordings of António Campinos Breaching the Code of Conduct of the Office With Repeated Slurs/Swear Words
EPO Guidelines Are Illegal, Composed and Shaped by Special Interest Groups That Revel in Disregarding the European Patent Convention (EPC)
Meme: Hole in
Meme: EPO Enabled Massive Fraud in Theranos
Meme: Illegal EPO Guidelines
Meme: Peeping Rowan
Meme: The Reverse Barroso
Diversity and Inclusion at the European Patent Office (EPO)
EPO President António Campinos Addresses South America
The EPO's Euro-PCT Proves That This System Exists for Massive Corporations and Law Firms, Not Individual People Including Real Inventors
Meme: Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation Can Oust António Campinos Next Month (But Will It?)
Inside the EPO: It's Not a Pretty Picture and the Administrative Council Lacks the Incentive to 'Clean House'
Meme: The Mass Litigation Clique
Meme: It Was Just an Accident
Meme: Abolishing Rule of Law
Scenes From Vilnius: EPO and Friends Converge for Lobbying and Self-Congratulatory Talks
Video: Antonio 'F' Campinos in His Very Own Words
Meme: Illegally Forcing 'Unification' in Europe
The Travesty of the Web as a Disinformation Machine of Patent Litigation Maximalists
Meme: Unitary and Harmonised Injustice
Gallery of Patent Law Firms That Still Lie, Still Promote Illegal Agenda, and Casually Game the Media to Mischievously Shape Perceptions
Meme: Fluffy Staff
Kluwer Patent Blog Belatedly Gives EPO Staff a Voice
Meme: Fluffy President
Blaming Patent Examiners Who Respect the Law
EPO Celebrates Software Patents Again, Dubbing Them 'Hey Hi' (AI) and '4IR'
Meme: EPO's Monkey Business: Lowering the Patent Examination Bar
Heads of Patent Offices Are Immune to Coronavirus
The General Consultative Committee of the EPO Exposes a Disaster and a Lack of Genuine Dialogue
The Latest Letter to Josef Kratochvìl and the Heads of Delegation of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation
Meme: The Recordings Must Have Accidentally Been Lost While Breaking the Rules
Meme: Divine Protection
António Campinos and the Alicante Clique (EPO Management, Appointed Based on Nepotism Despite Lack of Qualifications) Nowadays Exploiting Kids for PR Charades
Meme: Snake on a Plane
António Campinos Promotes Software Patents Using Buzzwords and Sketchy Loopholes With Dubious Legal Basis
Meme: Jorgotta Be Kidding Us, Campinos!
Unified Patent Court (UPC) Relies Too Much on Lies and Mischief Without Any Basis in Law
Meme: It’s My Working Party… And I’ll Cry If I Want to!
Meme: UPC is Always Next Year (and Next Year It'll Surely be the Year After That)
UPC: Turning Patent Lawyers Into Liars and the Media Into Their Money-Grabbing Megaphone (Platform for Fake News)
Meme: Monopoly Tony
It Took Campinos Three or More Years to Undo Illegal Battistelli Actions on Boards of Appeal and Strike Regulations (Only After Losing at ILO-AT!), But He Does Not Mention That
EPO.org Now Openly Brags About Making Illegal Patents a Welcomed Part of the Examination Guidelines
The Lies and Delusions of António Campinos
EPO Eating Its Own (and Robbing Its Own)
Meme: EPO Budget Tanking?
EPO.org (Official EPO Site) Continues to Promote Illegal Agenda and Exploit Ukraine for PR Stunts That Help Unaccountable Crooks
Meme: EPO Applicants Unwittingly Fund the War on Ukraine
EPO Virtue-Signalling on the Ukrainian Front
EPO Has No F-ing Oversight
Patent Examiners Rising Up Against EPO Abuse
Internal Poll: 93% of European Patent Office (EPO) Workers Are Unhappy With the EPO
Meme: Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court (UPC) Cannot Be Reconciled With the Law
Even Team Battistelli is Sometimes Admitting — Out in Public! — That Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Neither Legal Nor Desirable
Meme: Common Sense at EPO
Patent Granting at the EPO Has Collapsed by 24% Owing to Much-Needed Industrial Action
Meme: Milan is a Suburb in London
The Latest Propaganda Tactics of Team UPC: Pretending Unified Patent Court Already Exists and Unitary Patents Are Default When If Fact None Even Exists
Meme: Yes, Minister, Yes!
Central Staff Committee of the EPO Reminds the EPO's Management, Yet Again, That It is Breaking Laws
Formalities Officers Team Managers at the European Patent Office Consider Stepping Down
UPC: “A Neo-colonialist Plot”
Meme: He is the EPO's President
The Charade of Fake News and Lobbying (Based on Lies) by Team UPC
Dictatorships Prefer Other Dictatorships
Meme: Whose Digital Sovereignty?
From Belarus With Love — Part XIV: It Probably Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time...
António Campinos Racing Towards Zero Percent (Popularity/Approval Rates), a Lot Lower Than Lukashenko
F for Fake: “You will never have such a nice person being the fake President for the next fifty fake years. So you wake up and make agreements with me, or you never will for your fake life.”
Meme: The Deev Lists
Management That Harms the Institution It is Governing (SaM and EPO)
From Belarus With Love — Part XIII: Marat Ebzeev Tries to Defuse the Situation
Deevgate in a Nutshell (an EPO 'Toxic Asset' in Minsk)
From Belarus With Love — Part XII: Alexander Deev's “Provocative” Comments
Financialization of the EPO Will Doom Europe's Largest Patent Office
Teaser: Burdens of Evidence
SaM Solutions Controlled -- and Still 'Regulated' -- by Lukashenko's Regime
From Belarus With Love — Part XI: SaM's Management Remains Suspiciously Silent
Meme: High-Calibre Patent Office
Cracking Down on Scientists
Meme: Belarussian Roulette
Meme: Cool Strongmen of a “High-Tech Hub” in Minsk
From Belarus With Love — Part X: From “High-Tech Hub” to “No-Go Zone”
Teaser: Fortunately Stable
UPC Fake News Watch (and Tough Reality): Same Familiar Talking Points and Talking Heads
António: The Antichrist of Jorge Campinos
IAM: Paid by the EPO’s Nepotism Club (Management) to Glorify Illegal Agenda (and in Turn ‘Legitimise’ It, Imposing That on EPO Examiners)
If the EPO is a Corporation, Why Can’t I Buy EPO Shares in Wall Street or Take It to Court?
Aggression, 'White' Lies and Mass Deception Won't Help the EPO Survive
António Campinos Has Dubbed Himself the “F***ing President”
From Belarus With Love — Part IX: The End of “Peaceful Coexistence”?
EPO: Pyongyang in the Centre of Seoul or EPOnia's Dictatorship (With Crimes and Impunity) Right in the Middle of Bavaria
Lies Are Catching Up With UPC/Unitary Patent Boosters (And Mr. 'F Word' Campinos Misuses the EPO.Org Site to Spread Lies, Shamelessly Promote Illegal Agenda)
Meme: Clash of Heads
From Belarus With Love — Part VIII: “Seoul in the Centre of Pyongyang”
Meme: Peace in Europe
Russian Gaspinos
What the F Did António Campinos Just Say???
When the EPO's Manager or Fake 'Daddy' Gets the 'Hammer' Out
Meme: No More Mr. Nice Guy?
From Belarus With Love — Part VII: The Post-Election Crackdown
Shadow of the EPO or EPOnia Nationalised?
From Belarus With Love — Part VI: “Big Daddy” Hammers the Opposition...
Belarus Versus EPO
History of Software From Minsk (SaM), Belarus by Proxy
From Belarus With Love — Part V: From Start-Up to Success Story...
Meme: EPO Data for Uncle SaM
EPO ’IT’ Systems: “Software from Minsk” or “Spyware from Microsoft”?
Meme: Lukashenko’s Clown Computing Plan
From Belarus With Love — Part IV: “Software from Minsk” via Gilching and Rijswijk
EPO: All Together in “One Office” or All Together in “One Prison”?
It’s Not a War, It’s “Special Military Operation”
An Ode to Lukampinos
Meme: Putin and Lukashenko Discuss the Situation at the EPO
Teaser: Microsofters by Proxy
Makers of Dictatorware
Meme: Munich Is in Minsk
From Belarus With Love — Part III: Apps From the Dictatorship
Meme: UPC's 'Sunrise' Period
EPO Funds Lukashenko's Techwashing PR Stunts
From Belarus With Love — Part II: “Techwashing” an Autocratic Regime?
Meme: Lukampinos
Meme: “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”
Debunking the Latest Lies From Team UPC About the Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement (UPCA)
Unified Patent Court/UPC/Unitary Patent: Our Latest Fake News Watch (and Some Occasional Reminders That This is in Fact Faked, But Team UPC Does Not Care What's Legal and What's True)
Regardless of What JUVE Used to be (or Do to Uncover EPO Abuses), It Has Become a Propaganda Arm for EPO Management and Team UPC
EPO and Belarus: Why It Matters
From Belarus With Love — Part I: Schizophrenic EPO Policy
Meme: The Eastern Front (of Industrial Espionage)
New EPO Series: From Belarus With Love - Teaser
Meme: EPO's Ombuds Service is Like a 'Yellow Union' (Following Disbandment of the Audit Committee)
A Month After the Massive Strike Across Europe the Union of EPO Workers Proceeds Against Salary Adjustment Procedure (Reduction), Based on Managers' “Hoax”
Meme: António de Cutter
EPO in 2021: Less About Europe, Less About Science, Less About Quality (or Compliance), and More About Weapons or Monopolies on Vaccines
How We Cover Patents and How Techrights Reduces Technical Debt (Gemini and Single-File Web Pages)
Meme: Godly Oversight at the EPO
The Collapse of the Media Has Left a Vacuum for Fake News From Team UPC (Scheming to Bury Laws and Constitutions)
Meme: The Boy (or Bristows) Who Cried Wolf
Meme: Nobody Hates the EPO's Patent Examination More Than Team UPC (Shoehorning Fake Patents, Then Fake Courts)
Team UPC and Corrupt EPO Management Have Fast Become a Severe Crisis of Legitimacy for the European Union
The EPO Bunnies, Stationed at EPO Corp. (NYSE:EPO)
Techrights Plans for Easter and Beyond (Plus Updates About the FSF and the EPO)
Tackling EPO Propaganda and Lawlessness: Part 2
Meme: Kangaroos in Ukraine
Tackling EPO Propaganda and Lawlessness: Part 1
Effectively Responding to Fake News in the Age of Corrupt EPO Management, Controlled by Team UPC/Litigation Lobby
Deja Vu: Published 4 Days Ago, Battistelli Celebrating UPCA Signed Almost 10 Years Ago!
How Media Helped the EPO Cover Up the EPO Crisis (Including Severe Escalations and Plunge in Patent Grants)
State of the EPO and State of 'Journalism' About Patents
Conflict of Interest: Battistelli/CEIPI/EPO and AstraZeneca
New Approach to Tackling Misinformation and Disinformation
Meme: EPO Moving Backwards
For EPO Staff on Dutch Territories Purachasing Power Fell 12% in Just One Year While EPO Increased Its Fees
Meme: The Hard-Working Madame Simon
The EPO’s Staff Union Calls for Continued Industrial Actions as Some Media Belatedly Catches Up With EPO Strikes
When Most Granted Patents (and Fake ‘Growth’) Are Just Software Patents and EPO ‘Joins the Club’
EPO.org is a Fake News Site Which Promotes and Glorifies Illegal Behaviour and Unlawful Policies
Meme: Meanwhile at IP Kat
The EPO is Granting Loads of Software Patents in Order to Fake 'Growth'
EPO Continues to Violate Laws and Fundamental Rights of EPO Staff (Which an International Court Recently Told It Was Violating)
Meme: Operation CampinoZ
The Patent Distortion: The Media Has Failed Us, Patent Extremism Has Replaced It
One Month Passes, Only Comments in a Blog Post Actually Contain Accurate Information About EPO and UPC
The Union or Elected Leadership of the EPO's Staff Calls the Shots Now
Meme: IAM
Meme: Best in the World. At Cheating and Bribing Media.
Meme: In Just a Few Years António Campinos is Undoing Decades of His Father's Legacy
EPO in Africa: Microsoft, Corruption, and Colonialism
The Patent Distortion: Judging by the Media, the EPO Strike Never Happened (and Lots More Lies, Even Promotion of Illegal Agenda)
Biggest EPO Strike in More Than Half a Decade
Meme: Diplomatic Immunity
Meme: EPO Management Treats EPO Staff Like Pests
Meme: Not Registering for the Oppressor
With EPO Strike Participation in the Thousands, European Patents Plunge in Number
Meme: Survey Versus Surveillance
EPO is Banning and Spying, So the Union (SUEPO) Conducts a Staff Survey Externally
EPO Staff Explains Why It's Going on Strike
Meme: EPO to Patent Blogs
Glorious Day for Rights of European Workers
Join the EPO Strike
EPO Industrial Actions Are Already Working
EPO Management Seems to be Resorting to Illegal Union-Busting Tactics, Suppression/Deterrence by List-Making
Meme: EPO Even Attacks Its Pensioners
EPO is 'Hiding' €4.9 Billion and President “Campinos Has Decided to Freeze the Salaries of All Staff and to Deprive at least 40% of Them of Any Career Progression”
Meme: Join the EPO Strike
The Patent Distortion: 7 Days of News and Blogs, Not a Single Mention of EPO Affairs
European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) in Support of the Strike at the European Patent Office (EPO)
McCoy Smith on What Software Patents Mean to Free Software (2020)
2 More Days Until EPO Strike, Examiners Unwilling to Become Another Brick in the Wall
EPO Staff Representatives Warn Delegates of the Council That Campinos is Now Outsourcing the EPO, Just Like He Did EUIPO, in Very Clear Violation of Fundamental Rules
EPO Union: “It is Now Time to Make a Political Statement” and “Go on Strike!”
Meme: The Red EPO (Reminder: EPO Management Hired a Lot of Military Personnel to Run the Office)
European Readers, Please Contact Your National Delegation to Bemoan EPO Corruption
EPO Strike Participation Will Help Correct a Corrupt Office Which Harms Science, Weakens Europe's Economy, and Abolishes Human Rights
Meme: Russia Joins EPO (in Officially Discarding the Rule of Law)
The EPO's Strike That Not a Single Publisher Wants to Tell You About!
When Europe's Largest Patent Office is Run by Opportunistic Politicians Who Break the Law and Look for Distractions
Lowered Quality and Standards at the EPO, Not Only Departure from the European Patent Convention (EPC)
Meme: The Scabs Patent Office?
The Patent Distortion: EPO Crimes Completely Overlooked and Totally Unrecognised/Not Covered This Past Week (in News Sites, Blogs, and More)
Meme: European Commission Part of the EPO's Abuses
EPO Advertises European Patents and Jobs Based on Deliberate Falsehoods (Lies)
Meme: EPO Behaving Like a Bank, Not Like a Patent Office
Meme: When Corrupt Politicians Run Europe’s Largest Patent Office
The EPO in Violation of the EPC and Nobody Holds Anyone Accountable for Such Violations
Mr. Breton and EPO Corruption (Propelling an Assault on the Rule of Law and on the Courts Themselves) Endanger the Legitimacy of the EU
Meme: Standing Together for Peace in Europe
The Latest EPO Greenwashing Spin is Truly a Hoot
The Patent Distortion: How So-called ‘News’ Sites About Patents Perished, and Refusal to Honestly Cover the News Played a Role in Their Demise
Meme: Go Back Home, Team UPC, You Are Drunk
Meme: When They Want Examiners to Follow Orders, Violate the EPC
Meme: EPO Examiners, Keep on Fighting (They Can't Fire Y'all)
How the EPO is Like Putin’s Russia
A Real President
Meme: Throwing Stones in a House of Glass
EPO Breaks Laws Just Like Vladimir Putin, But Then It Has the Audacity to Exploit Ukraine to Pretend the Opposite is True
Meme: Team UPC: We Break the Law, We Don’t Care How You Feel About It
Meme: Team UPC: Nothing Can Stop Us!!!
Meme: Munich Agreement
The EPO is Run by Dictators, Elected Staff Representatives Are Left Out of Key Consultations
The Patent Distortion: Promotion of Illegal Agenda (and Nobody Could Mention Industrial Action/Strikes at EPO, Protesting Illegal Agenda)
Meme: Patent Invasion
European Council Complicit in European Patent Office (EPO) Abuses
Meme: Josef the Spectator
Better Late Than Never: ILO Subjects the EPO's Management to Some Belated Justice (Sans the Removal of Immunity, so Nobody is Being Held Accountable)
What EPO Staff Really Thinks
Meme: We've Been Here Before...
Meme: Artificial ‘Productivity’
Meme: IAM’s Patent Benchmark
António's EPO is Dead, Long Live the EPC?
Meme: Oversight at the EPO
EPO — Both the Patent Office and the Patent Organisation — Celebrating Constitutional Violations, Covering Up Human Rights Abuses, and Promoting the Facilitators
Meme: Military-grade Propaganda in EPO.org This Past Week
Meme: When Managers Do Not Understand the Staff (or Refuse to Understand It)
Dear Mr. Rowan
'European' Patent Office (EPO) Accelerates Outsourcing of Its Operations to the United States of America, Quite Likely in Defiance of GDPR and Basic Common Sense
Today Begins a Battle for Rights of Patent Examiners at the EPO
Meme: EPO “Upskilling”
EPO Management Still Treats EPO Workers Poorly, Even During Pandemic
The Patent Distortion: Weekly Series About Failure of the Media to Properly Explain Patents and Generally Cover the News
Meme: António Campinos Does to Europe What His Country Did to Africa
There's a Pie in the Face (on Its Way to EPOnia)
Meme: A 'Social Democracy' Where Every Vote is for Sale
FFII: In PL Holdings, European Court of Justice Confirms EU Law Cannot be Outsourced to International Courts Like Unified Patent Court (UPC)
António Campinos Wants to Undo His Father’s Legacy for Several More Years, Spreading Corruption Across Europe and the World
Meme: Megaphone of António Campinos
BREAKING NEWS/EXCLUSIVE: António Campinos Confirms That He is Seeking Reappointment
Meme: Asking the Newsman for Information
When It Comes to Patents, Lies Have Become the 'Norm'
A Criminal Legacy (and Present) of the European Patent Office, Europe’s Second-Largest Institution
Meme: The Man Who Owned Everything
Meme: Importing Corruption, Voting Fodder, and More
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part L (50, Final): 2010 - 2022: Business as Usual?
Meme: EPO Governance
The EPO Crisis
Meme: Only Yellow Unions Allowed in Red EPOnia?
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XLIX: The Rise and Fall of Battistelli's “Social Democracy”...
Meme: “Unfounded” Claims of Fundamental Rights at the European Patent Office (EPO)
Where Sir Paul Mahoney Has Failed to Protect EPO Staff From Injustice and Sheer Abuse
Meme: Reminder That Battistelli Openly Boasted (in the Media) About the EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XLVIII: The Unkindest Cut of All
Meme: EUIPO-Styled Labelling for EPO
EPO Unjustified
Meme: EPO Courts
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XLVII: Institutionalised Injustice at the EPO?
Meme: Drunk Driving, Like Son of António Campinos
Staff Holding Management at the EPO Accountable
Meme: Team UPC and Team Battistelli Above the Law, Ignore the Law, Break the Law
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXXVI: An Erosion of Fundamental Rights Protection?
Not Even Scabs Can Save EPO Management
EPO Staff Goes on Strike, Plans Partial Work Stoppage/Slowdown to Condemn Unlawful Meddling Designed to Lower Patent Quality and Patent Legitimacy (No EPC Compliance)
Meme: EPO Immune System: Nothing Can Touch Us!
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXXV: In the Shadow of “Waite and Kennedy”
The EPO is Bleeding in Courts
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXXIV: Immunity = Impunity?
EPO Pays Out Millions of Euros in Compensation — to Thousands of Workers Who Deserve a Lot More for Moral Damage — for Battistelli’s Illegal Acts (But Battistelli Himself Has Not Been Punished at All, Nor Have His Enablers)
Meme: Drunk on Power and Diplomatic Immunity
Nobody Should be Above the Law
Meme: Almost a Decade for EPO Justice (Delayed, Hence Denied)
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXXIII: A Legal No-Man's Land
Europe Has a Severe Corruption Crisis
Meme: Wrong People Given Too Much Power
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXXII: A Parcel of Rogues?
Abandoning the EPC in Order to Promote Corporations-Led EPO With Kangaroo Courts (UPC) is Simply Illegal
Meme: EPC Calling
The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXXI: Public Service or Self-Service?
Meme: EPC 50th Anniversary Whitewash in Preparation...
Meme: Geneva Convention or Geneva's Suggestion?
ILO Tribunal Once Again Rules That the European Patent Office (EPO) Violates Fundamental Rights
Unified Patent Court (UPC) Leak Shows That 'Team UPC' and the EPO's Management Are Knowingly Breaking the Law
Why the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Cannot Enter Into Force, Based on the UPC Agreement Itself
20-22 Vision: António Campinos Still Pillaging and Plundering EPO Staff
Meme: To ‘Team UPC’, 2021 is Actually 2023
EPO Workers' Poll: 9 Out of 10 Employees in Munich Want to Participate or Consider Participating in Strike (or Protest)
Meme: EPO Management on the Run
Meme: The Next Stage of Unified Patent Court (UPC) and Unitary Patent
Classic 'Team UPC': This Year Becomes “Next Year” Yet Again
Shuffling the EPO Deck to Cover Up Crimes, EPC Violations, Attacks on Judges Etc. While Promoting Illegal and Unconstitutional UPC
Meme: EPO: Pursuing an Eastern and Western District of Europe (for Patent Trolls and Software Patents)
Meme: UPC: Many Lies as Headlines, Almost Exclusively in Publishers Sponsored by EPO and Team UPC to Produce Fake News (Lobbying Through Misinformation)
EPO as the 'Ministry of Truth' of Team UPC and Special Interests
Why the Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Still Just a Fantasy and the UPC’s Fake News Mill Merely Discredits the Whole Patent ‘Profession’
Meme: Get Ready for Unified Patent Court (UPC) to be Taken to Court
The EPO Needs High-Calibre Examiners, Not Politicians Who Pretend to Understand Patents and Science
Meme: Alexander Ramsay and Team UPC Inciting Politicians to Break the Law and Violate Constitutions, Based on Misinformation, Fake News, and Deliberate Lies Wrapped up as 'Studies'
Has the Administrative Council Belatedly Realised What Its Job in the European Patent Organisation Really Is?
Meme: Team UPC is Celebrating a Pyrrhic Victory
Meme: Team UPC Congratulating Itself
A Parade of Fake News About the UPC Does Not Change the General Consensus or the Simple Facts
Welcome to 2022: Intentional Lies Are ‘Benefits’ and ‘Alternative Facts’
Meme: UPC for CJEU
Meme: European Patent Office Space
EPO’s Web Site Constantly Spammed by Lies About Privacy While EPO Breaks the Law and Outsources Data to the United States
Patrick Breyer, Unlike Most German Politicians, Highlights the Fact That Unified Patent Court (UPC) and Unitary Patent Are Incompatible With EU Law
2022 Starts With Censorship of Christmas and Other Greetings at the EPO
EPO Has Patent Management System (PMS), But You Must be a Microsoft Customer and Run Malicious, Back-Doored Operating System
Privacy Crimes at Europe's Second-Largest Institution, in Partnership With Microsoft
EPO Breaking the Law in Collusion With — and to the Benefit of — Microsoft
New EPO Page Provides Cover-Up for Clear and Severe Privacy Violations With Microsoft
Meme: Just Another Battistelli
Fictional Gaps and an Attack on Workers
Meme: Diferençampinos
The EPO's Race to the Bottom — Part V — An Assault on Pensioners
Meme: Waiting for an EPO Pension
The EPO's Race to the Bottom — Part IV — New Career System (NCS) and New Pension System (NPS)
The Patent Examiners Will be Last (to Turn the Lights Off)
Meme: SUEPO is Just Being Defensive (the Attacks Come Only From EPO Management)
The EPO's Race to the Bottom — Part III — “The King is Naked” (a Fake Financial Shortage and 'Missing' -- or Plundered -- Billions)
Meme: High on Quantities
The EPO's Race to the Bottom — Part II — “Playing People Off Against Each Other is Not the Way We Want to Go Forward!”
The EPO’s Race to the Bottom — Part I — From Bad to Worse
Meme: Hiring and Retaining Patent Examiners on the Cheap
When You Replace 10,000 Euros Per Month Patent Examiners With 2,000 Euros Per Month Patent Examiners...
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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