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IP Kat

IP Kat (or its Google/Blogspot blog, IPKitten) did some spectacular work exposing abuses at the EPO under the pseudonym "Merpel". After heavy-handed intervention by the EPO, however, IP Kat put an end to this and there were notable changes at the top with significant departures (around 2017).

  • 06.07.16 Streisand Effect Award Won by EPO: It Has Just Blocked IP Kat Blog (Updatedx7)
  • 06.21.16 EPO Self-Censorship by IP Kat or Just Censorship of Opinions That IP Kat Does Not Share/Accept (Updated)
  • 07.03.16 Post-Jeremy IP Kat Deems It OK to Publish Anonymous Comment Comparing Techrights to “Daesh” While Censoring Polite Response to That
  • 09.29.16 IP Kat is Lobbying Heavily for the UPC, Courtesy of Team UPC
  • 10.09.16 Has IP Kat’s Unofficial (Self-)Censorship Policy Expanded From Protecting the EPO’s Image to Protecting the UPC?
  • 03.10.17 ‘Lobbyists’ Annsley Merelle Ward and Alan Johnson (Bristows) Return to Using IP Kat to Spread Fake News About Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 03.21.17 “Then They Came For Me—And There Was No One Left To Speak For Me.”
  • 04.02.17 Team UPC ‘Took Over’ IP Kat, Readers Don’t Believe What It Says
  • 04.05.17 IP Kat is Helping Battistelli by Lobbying for the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Spreading Falsehoods
  • 04.20.17 Bristows-Run IP Kat Continues to Spread Lies to Promote the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Advance the EPO Management’s Agenda
  • 06.13.17 In Spite of Censorship by IP Kat, Issues Associated With UPC Had Become Apparent, Even Before Germany Halted Ratification
  • 06.13.17 A Massive Proponent of UPC, CIPA, Enters IP Kat, as Readers Call Out Stacked UPC ‘Panels’
  • 07.26.17 The ‘New’ IP Kat on Patents: A Front Group for Team UPC (Bristows) and CIPA (British Patent Microcosm)
  • 08.30.17 IP Kat Missing in Action as Unitary Patent (UPC) Rots
  • 09.07.17 Personal Attacks, Censorship of Comments and More Nefarious Tricks Expected in the Wake of UPC Panic
  • 10.24.17 The Last Comment in IP Kat (Before Censorship) Was About Patent Quality at the EPO
  • 10.25.17 IP Kat Admits It Was Its Own Choice to Censor (Delete) Many Comments About the European Patent Office
  • 11.04.17 IP Kat Peddles Patent Trolls and Software Patents Agenda
  • 04.29.18 Team UPC and Team Battistelli in IP Kat and IAM
  • 05.31.18 IP Kat is Still Acting as a Propaganda Front for UPC (and EU Software Patents) Lobbying by US-Based Front Groups
  • 06.05.18 IP Kat as an Extension of Team UPC After Departure of the Blog’s Founder
  • 10.18.18 IAM and IP Kat Are Still Megaphones of Battistelli and His Agenda
  • 01.12.19 IP Kat Has Turned From EPO Critic (to the Point of Being Blocked by the EPO) to EPO Whitewasher That Gags EPO Whistleblowers


  • 12.21.08 The OOXML Patent Kat is Out of the Bag
  • 11.06.15 IP Kat Bemoans Crushing of the EPO’s Boards by an Increasingly Paranoid EPO Management
  • 10.11.16 “Very Mysterious Things Going on at the IPKat Recently”
  • 11.19.16 European Media, Dutch Parliament and Spectacularly Enough Even IP Kat (Yes, It’s Back!) Subject the EPO to Serious Scrutiny
  • 12.06.16 Heiko Maas, the SPD “Cash for Access” Affair, and Suspicions of Unwarranted Censorship at IP Kat (Again)
  • 03.10.17 After EPO Sanctions Against IP Kat (Censorship of More Than 10,000 Articles) Even Merpel Throws in the Towel
  • 03.26.17 With IP Kat Coverage of EPO Scandals Coming to an End (Officially), Techrights and The Register Remain to Cover New Developments
  • 03.26.17 Thanks to Merpel, the World Knows EPO Scandals a Lot Better, But It’s a Shame That IP Kat Helped UPC
  • 04.07.17 IP Kat or IP Troll? IP2Innovate Warns That UPC Would Help Patent Trolls While IP Kat Promotes UPC
  • 04.22.17 The European Patent Office Has Just Killed a Cat (or Skinned a ‘Kat’)
  • 04.25.17 Astoundingly, IP Kat Has Become a Leading Source of UPC and Battistelli Propaganda
  • 06.11.17 Bristows/IP Kat Still Promoting UPC and Patent Trolls, Also Accused of Deleting Comments and “Brown-nosing” Judges to Help Patent Trolls
  • 06.30.17 Former ‘Kats’ Debunk IP Kat (Bristows) on Unitary Patent, Insisting It May Even be Dead
  • 10.16.17 Monika Ermert’s Reports About the Crisis at the EPO and IP Kat’s Uncharacteristically Shallow Coverage
  • 10.23.17 IP Kat Participates in Deletion of Information About EPO Scandals
  • 11.30.17 Ignore Today’s Fake News From IP Kat/Bristows, the UK is Not Ratifying the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 12.16.17 Bristows LLP/IP Kat Carrying on With Dead UPC Jingoism
  • 01.26.18 The ‘Collusion’: IP Kat’s (Until Recently) Stephen Jones Meets Battistelli to Lobby for the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 04.28.18 In Protest of IP Kat No Longer Covering EPO Abuses, Märpel Rises in “R.I.P. Kat”
  • 05.03.18 Bristows LLP Already Uses Kluwer Patent Blog and IP Kat as Its UPC Megaphone, Now IAM as Well
  • 10.24.18 Pretty Revealing That EPO Management Promotes Software Patents and IP Kat Promotes Patent Trolls


  • 01.07.08 Patents Roundup: Illustrating the Serious Issue Using Examples
  • 02.05.08 Microsoft and a Puppet Regime Act Upon Copyrights, Deception Involved; Update on Software Patents and Europe
  • 03.10.08 Would You Trust a Microsoft Lobbying Arm When It Comes to Eliminating Software Patents?
  • 03.19.08 Microsoft’s Possible Role in Legalising Software Patents in England
  • 10.30.08 Failing SCO, Microsoft Eyes EU and Software Patents
  • 11.03.08 What the Bilski Ruling Might Mean to Software Patents, Microsoft
  • 11.09.08 European Patent Office: From Riot to Order?
  • 12.13.08 Patents Roundup: Pools, Apple, Google and Obama Appointment
  • 02.04.09 Patents Roundup: Linux, Microsoft, Apple, Patent Trolls and Reform
  • 05.02.09 General Electric Joins Microsoft’s Fight Against Free Software
  • 05.25.09 Is the United Kingdom Immune to Software Patents? Continental Europe is… for Now… Sort of…
  • 06.27.09 Patents Roundup: Novell Still Applying for Software Patents (and Other Patent News)
  • 06.29.09 Patents Roundup: OIN Addresses Patent Trolls Issue, Public Patent Foundation Video, and More
  • 09.24.09 Patents Roundup: Microsoft Patents Customer-hostile DRM, Refuses to Obey Patent Law; Apple and eBay Sued; Patent Troll Tracker Set Free
  • 11.23.09 Patents Roundup: Bilski, USPTO and Justice for the Rich Only; ‘Community’ Patent and ‘Harmonisation’ in Europe
  • 03.11.10 Patents Roundup: Microsoft, Apple, Nokia, Monsanto, Pfizer, and ACTA
  • 04.07.10 Patents Roundup: USPTO Changes, New Zealand’s Law Ambiguity, Facebook and Apple Sued
  • 04.12.10 Patents Roundup: New Conferences, Oink of the Patent Lawyers in New Zealand, and TurboHercules’ Secret Home in 701 Fifth Avenue, Suite 4200 Seattle, WA 98104
  • 04.14.10 Patents Roundup: IBM, TurboHercules, Microsoft, New Zealand, Palm, and CompTIA
  • 11.16.10 Microsoft is Speaking ‘for’ Small EU-based Businesses to Promote Software Patents
  • 11.17.10 Microsoft Está Hablando “Por”las Pequeñas y Medianas Empresas (PYMES) En la UE para Promover las Patentes de Software
  • 01.19.11 Patents Roundup: Software Patent Opinions in the UK
  • 05.24.11 Software Patents Spread Like a Plague Owing to US-based Multinationals
  • 06.23.11 The Linux Foundation Needs a Rethink About Software Patents Stance (Currently Represents Multinationals, Not GNU/Linux Users/Developers)
  • 06.24.11 ES: La Fundación Linux Necesita Replantear su Postura Sobre las Patentes de software(actualmente representa a las multinacionales no a GNU/Linux y los usuarios/desarrolladores)
  • 09.24.11 With Failure to Reform USPTO, Grim Future for Patent Systems Worldwide
  • 10.06.11 Patents Roundup: Europe Under Pressure, Microsoft Moles in the Press, and More Patent Trolls
  • 10.27.11 Patents Roundup: Microsoft Patents PR, Red Hat/Groklaw’s Response, and Apple’s Slide to Unlock Thermonuclear War
  • 11.03.11 Patents Roundup: Software Patents, Patent Trolls, Reexaminations, and Apple
  • 11.11.11 Patent Lawyers Compare Patent Monopolies to Children
  • 11.28.11 Lehne and the Polish Presidency Continue to March for Software Patents in Europe
  • 03.31.13 With Unitary Patent Scheme, EPO Pushes Hard for Software Patenting (More Leech Income)
  • 04.18.13 Pressuring for US Style European Patent System and Anti-Android Policies, Courtesy of Bill Gates and His Goons
  • 10.14.14 The EPO’s Protection Triangle of Battistelli, Kongstad, and Topić: Part VI
  • 11.06.14 EPO and UPC in Europe Now the Hope of Patent Maximalists, China Too is Assimilating
  • 12.06.14 EPO Imploding: Battistelli Throws a Fit at EPO’s Investigation Unit
  • 12.09.14 Protests Against EPO Corruption Approach 1,000 in Attendance
  • 12.09.14 Exclusive: The Enlarged Board of Appeal Complains About Battistelli’s Corrupt Management to the Administrative Council (Updated)
  • 12.11.14 Rolling of Heads Likely Imminent at EPO
  • 12.12.14 Dreaming of a Just Christmas: When a Third of EPO Walks Out to Revolt and European Judges Attack the EPO Over Abuses
  • 12.13.14 News From France and Germany: Battistelli Under Fire, But Not Fired Yet, Just Firing His Opposition
  • 12.28.14 EPO Corruption: Battistelli Augments His ‘Loyals’ Circle With Frederic Angermann and Charm Offensive in Patent Lawyers’ Sites
  • 01.07.15 Intellectual Property Judges’ Association (IPJA) Speaks Out Against EPO Tyrant Battistelli
  • 01.11.15 The EPO Connection Now a Liability as Administrative Council Has Become a Laughing Stock, Jesper Kongstad to be Targeted by EPO Staff Protests
  • 02.01.15 The EPO’s Paid Propaganda Campaign in the Media
  • 02.07.15 The European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW) is Again Protesting Against EPO as More Crackdowns by EPO Management Reveal Depth of Abuse
  • 02.08.15 The EPO’s Vice-President Željko Topić and the Case of Ivan Kabalin: Part XIII
  • 02.11.15 Cyberattacks on SUEPO Server Raise More Questions
  • 02.17.15 Benoît Battistelli Has Made Oversight of European Patent Office Absolutely Impossible
  • 02.19.15 EPO Staff Protests Against Benoît Battistelli’s Lowering of Patents Quality (Scope Expansion and Software Patents for Profit)
  • 02.19.15 Techrights Under Attack Again, Shortly After Important EPO Articles
  • 03.16.15 EPO Management Still in a Freefall, Tries to Warp/Divert the Debate Away From Its Abuses
  • 03.23.15 Politics of Blackmail at the EPO
  • 03.23.15 The Royal Norwegian Department of Labour on the Right of European Patent Office (EPO) Workers to Strike
  • 03.23.15 Benoît Battistelli’s EPO Comes Under Attack From the British
  • 03.25.15 The EPO’s Administrative Council is Under Increased Pressure to Rein in and to Finally Stop Benoît Battistelli
  • 03.26.15 The EPO’s Dutch Scandal Leaves Battistelli and His Cronies on the Run
  • 04.01.15 When Battistelli’s Defender, Dutch Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten, Attacked Europeans’ Right to Demonstrate
  • 04.08.15 The EPO is Becoming More Like the USPTO Under Benoît Battistelli’s Greed-Driven Reign
  • 04.18.15 More Translations of French Article About the EPO
  • 04.21.15 9 Millionth US Patent Tells a Story of Failure and USPTO Misconduct
  • 05.03.15 PATENT Act a ‘Reform’ for Big Corporations, Hence Does Not Address the Core Issues, Including Patent Scope and Massive Patent Aggressors
  • 05.18.15 The EPO’s Fight to Bring Software Patents Into Europe is One Step Closer to a ‘Victory’ (for Multinationals)
  • 05.25.15 Süddeutsche Zeitung Says Talking Helps While EPO Management Back-stabs Other Side of the Table
  • 05.26.15 Patent Scope at the EPO is Totally Out of Control, UPC Will Make Things Worse
  • 05.30.15 The EPO Still Wastes Public Money on Publicity Stunts and ‘Reputation Management’ Campaigns
  • 05.31.15 Supreme Failure: With SCOTUS Approval of Patent Trolls and a Push by Justice Department to Reinforce Copyright on APIs (at SCOTUS Level) the Future Looks Gloomy
  • 06.01.15 EPO Reluctantly (and Privately) Confirms Giving Public Money for Military-connected ‘Control Risks’ to Spy on Journalists and Their Sources While Techrights is Under Fresh DDOS Attacks
  • 06.03.15 EPO Corruption Compared to FIFA Corruption While ‘Control Risks’ Helps EPO Hide/Suppress Evidence of Corruption; Calls on German Authorities to Crack Down on Both
  • 06.04.15 The EPO Sinks Deeper in a Scandal After Paying Public Money for Military-Connected Control Risks to Stalk Journalists and Staff
  • 06.06.15 EPO and Administrative Council Stall Criticism by Pretending to Negotiate With Staff Whilst Actually Attacking It
  • 06.07.15 The High Cost of Low Patent Bar at the EPO
  • 06.08.15 The European Patent Office Has Become Militarised
  • 06.09.15 EPO May be Creating Its Own Lawless NSA (or GCHQ) With Control Risks Group Deal
  • 06.09.15 Full Translation of Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About Blackhat Tactics (Keyloggers) in EPO (Updated)
  • 06.09.15 When the European Patent Office Lost in Court and Refused to Obey the Law: An Analysis
  • 06.10.15 EPO Comes Under Fire From the Bavarian Data Protection Supervisor After the Spying Scandal
  • 06.17.15 More Political Interventions in EPO Abuse Cases
  • 06.18.15 French Newspaper Les Echos Censors Criticism of Benoît Battistelli and the EPO (Updated)
  • 06.24.15 EPO Protest in Munich and Growing Unpopularity of EPO Management, Media Manipulation by the Management
  • 06.25.15 An Estimated 1,000 EPO Staff in Munich Demonstrated Against EPO Management Yesterday Afternoon
  • 06.26.15 The Council of Europe Slams the EPO as Political Pressure Grows for EPO Management to Obey the Law
  • 06.28.15 After Intervention by the Council of Europe Comes a Detailed Summary of the Situation in the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 07.02.15 Patent Lawyers and Corporate Media Nervous About New Patents Barrier/Reality (Less Patents on Software and Business Methods)
  • 07.11.15 European Censorship: Tyrants of the EPO Blacklist Techrights, Web Site Not Accessible Office-Wide
  • 08.05.15 EPO Measures Productivity Using the Wrong Yardstick in Order to Sell Its Racket to the Public
  • 08.06.15 The Rise of Patents as Just a Marketing Tool
  • 08.11.15 Patents Roundup: EPO, Alicestorm, Facebook, ‘Trade’ Agreements, and Google Publicity Stunts
  • 08.13.15 Geographical Scope of Broadening Scope of Patents is Expanding With 1%-Centric ‘Globalisation’ and ‘Trade’ Deals
  • 08.17.15 Patents Roundup: Patent Reform, Google’s ‘Startups’ Ploy, JDate, Fitbit, Cisco, and UPC in the UK
  • 08.21.15 EPO Corruption of Patent Boundaries: Business Methods and Algorithms Patented
  • 09.01.15 Patents Roundup: IAM’s Claims About India, Lawyers’ Patent Bias, ITC for Microsoft, and PTAB Against Kyle Bass
  • 09.02.15 Software Patent From Troll Called ‘Rothschild Connected Devices Innovations’ a Symptom of a Rotten Patent System
  • 09.04.15 Patents Roundup: Apple Versus Android/Linux, Leigh Rothschild Versus Everyone, Patent Lawyers Versus Patent Reform and Progressivism
  • 09.12.15 EPO Staff Suicides Estimated to Have Grown Tenfold Under Current Regime — Claim
  • 09.23.15 EPO President Benoît Battistelli Compared to Famous Criminals on European Television
  • 09.24.15 EPO Managers, Patent Lawyers, Commissioners and Other Non-Technical Personnel Tackle Democracy, Alter Laws in Bulk and in Secret
  • 10.02.15 Microsoft’s Secret Special Relationship With EPO Illustrates Serious Corruption at Microsoft and the EPO
  • 10.05.15 New Information on Limbo in the Enlarged Board, Courtesy of Illegal Actions by the EPO’s Benoît Battistelli
  • 10.05.15 Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna Explains Why the UPC (“Unitary Patent“ System) is an Undemocratic Sham Whilst UPC Silently Advanced by Patent Lawyers and Politicians
  • 10.06.15 Commenters Provide Possible Explanations for Mr Van der Eijk Being on Unlimited Sick Leave
  • 10.06.15 Željko Topić Attacks EPO Staff for ‘Daring’ to Legally Challenge the EPO’s Management Over Its Gross Abuses in Europe
  • 10.08.15 The Coup D’état of Benoît Battistelli Follows an Imperialist Model, Threatens Opposition and Dissent
  • 10.09.15 Benoît Battistelli’s Office Accused of Institutional Harassment Against EPO Staff in New Letter to the Administrative Council, Calling for External Investigation
  • 10.12.15 Benoît Battistelli’s Group of ‘Loyals’ Crushes Not Only the Independent Boards But Also ‘Unwanted’ Directorates-General
  • 10.13.15 Confirmed: Benoît Battistelli is Crushing the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA)
  • 10.13.15 Patent Trolls Roundup: MPHJ, Kyle Bass, Acacia, Intellectual Ventures, Unwired Planet, Core Wireless, Vringo, and Unified Patents
  • 10.13.15 Staff of the EPO Under Siege Ahead of Tomorrow’s Demonstration in Munich
  • 10.14.15 EPO Says Crushing Patent Neutrality is a Good Thing® Because Authenticity of Self-Incriminating EPO Document Cannot be Denied
  • 10.16.15 The ‘Sherlocks’ of EPO/Spin-Doctoring Pretend That All of the EPO’s Problems Boil Down to One Disgruntled Person (Updated)
  • 10.25.15 EPO Slammed for Granting Patents on Life
  • 10.27.15 European Patent Organisation: Hallmark of a Corrupted (by Corporations) Entity
  • 11.03.15 The Benoît Battistelli Way or the Highway: EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal is Being Discredited, SUEPO Web Site is Down Again
  • 11.03.15 More European Politicians Take on the EPO for Ignoring the Rule of Law
  • 11.06.15 The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part IV
  • 11.10.15 New Reports Highlight Need to Crack Down on the European Patent Office and Microsoft
  • 11.16.15 The EPO is Criticised Again for Serving the Monsanto (and Syngenta) Agenda
  • 11.18.15 EPO: It’s Like a Family Business – Part II
  • 11.18.15 Meltdown at the EPO, Massive Staff Protests This Afternoon
  • 11.20.15 Gross Aggression by EPO Management Shows the Urgent Need to Remove Immunity From EPO
  • 11.20.15 In an Effort to Counter EPO Staff Narrative (After ~2,000 of Staff Protest) EPO Management Portrays Staff as Violent But Provides No Evidence
  • 11.21.15 German Media Reveals That Out-of-Control EPO Management is Even Threatening and Abusing Lawyers Now
  • 11.21.15 Translation of Thomas Magenheim-Hörmann’s Article in the German Media, Urging European Politicians to Intervene in EPO Chaos and Lawlessness
  • 11.21.15 It Pays (Off) to ‘Bribe’ the Media: Watch How Les Échos Covers EPO Matters and Self-Censors
  • 11.22.15 Rumour About Efforts to Dismiss a Board Judge by Intimidating Boards of Appeal
  • 11.23.15 The Bogus Narrative Floated by EPO Management: Our Judges and Examiners Are Armed and Violent
  • 11.23.15 EPO President Battistelli Now Intimidates Even National Delegations
  • 11.24.15 New Heise Article Makes It Clear That ‘Nazi’-Themed Accusations Against the Suspended Board Judge Were Insufficiently Substantiated
  • 11.24.15 United They Stand: FFPE-EPO Supports Suspended Staff Representatives From SUEPO
  • 11.25.15 Even the EPO Central Staff Committee is Unhappy With EPO Management
  • 11.27.15 The European Private Office: What Was Once a Public Service is Now Crony Capitalism With Private Contractors
  • 11.27.15 Blogger Who Wrote About the EPO’s Abuses Retires
  • 11.30.15 Željko Topić Tries to Do to EPO Staff What He Did in Croatia, Now Crushes Staff Assembly in The Hague
  • 12.01.15 The Spanish EPO Scandal – Part II
  • 12.01.15 EPO Staff Representatives Highlight to Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’ How Battistelli Deceived Him
  • 12.04.15 Amid EPO Exodus/Brain Drain, Two Options: ‘Gestapo’ Staff and Assistant to Battistelli Have Quit or Battistelli’s Praetorian Guard is Expanding
  • 12.04.15 EurActiv’s Puff Piece for EPO (Amid High-Budget Media Blitz) Reveals Just How Clueless and Tactless the EPO’s President Really is
  • 12.05.15 EPO All-Time Low: Memorandum From the Praesidium (of the Boards of Appeal) Complains to the Administrative Council About Latest Questionable Moves
  • 12.05.15 European Private Office (EPO) Increasingly the Subject of Media Scrutiny Despite Huge Spendings on Reputation Laundering
  • 12.06.15 More Than 2,000 People, Including Directors, Said to Have Protested in Munich (About HALF of All EPO Staff Including The Hague Protest)
  • 12.06.15 Suppression of Voices Critical of the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 12.07.15 New WIPR Survey Shows 96% of Respondents Are Concerned About the Situation at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 12.08.15 Hypocrite in Chief: Benoît Battistelli Compares Staff Union to ‘Mafia’
  • 12.08.15 Chairman of the Administrative Council Failed to Stop Suspension (and Potential Firing) of EPO Staff Representatives
  • 12.10.15 Tightening Media Control: European Patent Office (EPO) Silences Blogs of Critics by Intimidation, Lawsuits
  • 12.12.15 EPO Censored Itself After Publishing a Document Which Had Been Leaked Anyway
  • 12.12.15 The EPO’s Failed (Dismissed) Attempt to Dismiss a Judge Alleged to Have Communicated About EPO Abuses
  • 12.12.15 EPO ‘Sweetener’ for Administrative Council National Delegates
  • 12.14.15 Watch Out For the EPO-SUEPO Parity Spin
  • 12.15.15 When Europe’s Leading International Patent Litigators Get Fed Up With Benoît Battistelli and Want Him Sent to ‘Exile’
  • 12.15.15 Ahead of Tomorrow’s Administrative Council Meeting EPO Staff Representatives Warn Heads of Delegations About Union Busting and Other Abuses
  • 12.16.15 New WIPO Figures Reinforce Reality Where More Patents Needn’t Imply More Innovation, Just Lower Standards
  • 12.17.15 Administrative Council Does Not Crush the Boards But Does Crush the Unions (Suspension Duration Sextupled)
  • 12.17.15 Benoît Battistelli’s EPO Continues Its Self-Congratulatory PR Charade, Neglecting to Even Acknowledge the Catastrophes Therein
  • 12.18.15 Benoît Battistelli: “An Earthquake Would be Needed for the Administrative Council… Not to Support My Major Proposals.”
  • 12.19.15 Watch Out for ‘Divide and Rule’ Tactics From the Control Risks- and FTI Consulting-Steered EPO
  • 12.21.15 Battistelli’s Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part V
  • 12.22.15 Translation of the Latest Communiqué About the Administrative Council, No Longer Published by ‘President’
  • 12.23.15 EPO Administrative Council: the Situation is “Detrimental to the Proper Functioning of the Office and the Public Image of the Whole Organisation”
  • 12.24.15 Concerns About the Unitary Patent Court (UPC) Among EPO Staff an Outcome of Battistelli’s Attacks on Staff
  • 12.26.15 Witnessing the Patent Mess That the USPTO Created
  • 12.28.15 Today’s Chaos Computer Club (CCC) Talk: EU Software and Business Method Patents: Call for Action
  • 01.10.16 Patent Lawyers and Judges Don’t Understand Software Development and It Harms Programmers, Practicing Software Companies
  • 01.12.16 The European Patent Office (EPO) Still Quietly Abusive
  • 01.14.16 La Ofícina Europea de Patentes (OEP) Sigue Completamente Abusiva
  • 01.15.16 Massive EPO Protests After Team Battistelli Fires Legitimate Critics and Staff Representatives (Even Those With Young Children)
  • 01.15.16 Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’ Lashes Out at EPO for Firing Staff Representatives
  • 01.15.16 Hundreds of EPO Staff at The Hague (Including Managers) Spontaneously Protested Today, Making Almost Half of All Staff Present
  • 01.16.16 Summarising the Latest Attacks by the European Patent Office (EPO) on European Society, With Complicity of Corporate Media
  • 01.16.16 Masivas Protestas en la OEP Después que el Equipo Battistelli Despide a Críticos y Representates de su Unión (Incluso aquellos con Niños)
  • 01.17.16 Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’ Responde Críticamente a la OEP por Despedir a Sus Representates
  • 01.18.16 European Patent Office (EPO) is Not “the Real World” But a Parallel Universe Without Any Regard for the Rule of Law
  • 01.18.16 Techrights Needs Translations as Another EPO Staff Protest Looms
  • 01.18.16 French Politician Philip Cordery Calls the EPO Authoritarian, Says the Union-busting Decisions Are Purely Scandalous
  • 01.19.16 Battistelli “Exacerbated the Penalties Which Were Recommended by the Disciplinary Committees for All Three EPO Unionists” (Under Mock Trial)
  • 01.20.16 Politico Frances Philip Cordery llama a la OEP por lo que es: Autoritarian, Dice las Decisiones Destructivas Contra la Unión Son Puramente Escándalosas
  • 01.20.16 Benoît Battistelli Blasted by Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’, Who Initiates More Political Actions Against Him
  • 01.20.16 In Unison, Nations Hop Aboard the Unitary Patent Train Wreck, For (Foreign) Corporate Gain at Europe’s Expense
  • 01.22.16 Benoît Battistelli es Repréndido por Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’, Quien Ha Iniciado Acciones Políticas en Su Contra
  • 01.23.16 Additional Information About EPO Management and Its Abuses, as Told by Anonymous Comments
  • 01.26.16 The United States’ Patent System Lets Software Patents Rot, as Patent Trolls Take Over the System and Unrest Grows
  • 01.26.16 Philip Cordery Says the EPO Situation is Well Known to All, as Attested by the Numerous Press Articles, Political Actions, or Administrative Recommendations
  • 01.26.16 Newly-Released Badinter Report Shows That by Treating Staff Like Garbage the European Patent Office is Violating Fundamental Rights
  • 01.28.16 Many Software Firms No Longer Bother With Software Patents, Especially After Alice
  • 01.28.16 Independent Dutch Investigation to Commence Into the Working Conditions at the European Patent Office in Rijswijk
  • 01.28.16 Philip Cordery Dice que la Situación de la OEP es Bien Conocida por Todos, Lo Atestigua Numerosos Artículos de Prensa, Acciones Políticas, o Recomendaciones Administrativas
  • 02.01.16 Under Battistelli’s Regime the European Patent Office is Rapidly Rotting
  • 02.02.16 SUEPO (EPO Staff Union) Appears to Have Launched a New and Improved Web Site After Attempts to Crush (‘Decapitate’) SUEPO
  • 02.03.16 Patent Invalidation Statistics and Cost of Patent Litigation (Even If Bogus) Show That Patent Scope and Examination Standards a Problem in Europe, Not Just the US
  • 02.03.16 The Most Detailed Explanation (Yet) of What’s Wrong With the EPO
  • 02.04.16 European Patent Office Pretends It’s Business as Usual and Prepares New Vanity Pieces
  • 02.07.16 EPO Staff Responds to Team Battistelli’s Expansion to Include French Economic Propagandist on the Payroll
  • 02.07.16 Estadísticas de Invalidación de Patentes y Costos de Litigación de Patentes (incluso si son falsas) Muestran que la Esfera de Patentes y los Estándares de Examinación son un Probleman, No Sólo en Los Estados Unidos
  • 02.09.16 La Más Detallada Explicación (hasta ahora) de ¿Qué esta mal con la OEP?
  • 02.10.16 La Oficina Europea de Patentes Pretende que No Pasa Nada y Prepara una Feria de Vanidad
  • 02.10.16 UPC Nepotism, Political Abuses, and UPC Involvement From the Legal Firm That EPO Hired to Bully Techrights
  • 02.11.16 Nepotismo de la UPC, Abusos Políticos, y el Envolvimiento en la UPC de la Firma ¨Legal¨ que la OEP Contrato para Matonear a Techrights
  • 02.14.16 Patents Roundup: Software Patents, Patenting Loopholes, PTAB, Patent Trolls, and Software Patents Propagandists
  • 02.15.16 With Software Patents, “the Low Level of the USPTO Has Now Be[en Reached by the EPO”
  • 02.16.16 Con Patentes de Software, “el Bajo Nivel de la UPSTO Ahora Ha Sido Alcanzado por la OEP”
  • 02.17.16 A Short Visit to Pro-Patents (or Patent Maximalism) Sites of Patent Lawyers and Patent Predators
  • 02.17.16 Patent Lawyers and EPO Officials Are Parading the Unitary Patent (UPC) in, Despite Lack of Democratic Process
  • 02.18.16 The EPO’s Patent Coup in Europe Moves on With Conflict of Interests-Plagued German Authorities for UPC
  • 02.22.16 Los Abogados de Patentes y los Oficiales de la OEP están Desfilando Como si Fuese Carnaval a Favor de La Corte Unitaria de Patentes, A Pesar de la Falta de Proceso Democrático
  • 02.23.16 New Leak: Battistelli’s Circle, Now Fighting for Survival, Circulates a Letter (and Why Some at the EPO Believe It’s a Form of Blackmail)
  • 02.24.16 EPO-Funded Unitary Patent (UPC) Propaganda Events and the Latest on the Undemocratic (Even Antidemocratic) UPC Push
  • 02.25.16 The Mass Media Recognises This May be the End of the Battistelli Regime
  • 02.26.16 New Evidence Emerges, Showing That Unitary Patent (UPC) is Indeed an SME Killer That Negatively Affects Europe for Patent Lawyers’ Sake
  • 02.28.16 Nueva Evidencia Emerge, Mostrando que La Corte Unitaria de Patentes es en Realidad un Asesino de PYMEs Que Afecta a Europa para Beneficio de los Abogados de Patentes
  • 03.01.16 Battistelli and Godwin’s Law (Comparing One’s Opposition to Nazis)
  • 03.01.16 Team Battistelli’s New Media Strategy at Times of EPO Emergency
  • 03.02.16 UPC Anything But a Certainty With Battistelli on His Way Out, But Patent Lawyers Are Still in Denial
  • 03.03.16 Overview of Today’s Growing Press Coverage About the European Patent Office
  • 03.03.16 Further Evidence Suggests and Shows Stronger Evidence That Team Battistelli Uses FFPE-EPO as ‘Yellow Union’ Against SUEPO
  • 03.03.16 3/3 is EPO Propaganda Day: Techrights to Respond and Alert the Media About Misinformation
  • 03.04.16 La UPC No Pasa Nada Con Battistelli de Salida, Pero los Abogados de Patentes Todavía lo Niegan
  • 03.04.16 3/3 es Día Para Propaganda de la OEP: Techrights Responderá y Alertará Contra las Mentiras delos Medios
  • 03.04.16 “FFPE-EPO Was Set up About 9 Years Ago With Management Encouragement”
  • 03.05.16 Forget Staff Union-busting ‘Strike Ballots’, How About Ballots on Presidential Matters?
  • 03.05.16 Fallout of the FFPE EPO MoU With Battistelli’s Circle
  • 03.06.16 The EPO’s Media Strategy at Work: Union Feuds and Group Fracturing
  • 03.08.16 Claim and Perception: Under Battistelli, EPO More Permissive on Software Patents Than USPTO, In Spite of the EPC
  • 03.09.16 Team Battistelli’s Bergot Reacts to Strike Action
  • 03.09.16 Caricature of the Day: Recognising FFPE EPO
  • 03.10.16 The European Patent Office is in a State of Transition, But Not Battistelli’s Transition or ‘Reform’
  • 03.12.16 The EPO ‘Results’ Are Bunk
  • 03.13.16 Microsoft Accused of “Patent Trolling” While the United States Moves Closer to Restricting Patent Trolls
  • 03.15.16 Microsoft Acusado de “Trolling con Patentes” Mientras Que Los Estados Unidos se Mueve Cerca a Restringir a los Trolles de Patentes
  • 03.17.16 Insider’s Account (Not Face-Saving EPO Statement) Reveals That Even Battistelli’s Allies Turn Against Him, EPO ‘Results’ Not Believed by Some, and Munich Protests Break Records
  • 03.20.16 The ‘Results’ That Battistelli and His EPO Bunch Brag About Not Believed by Patent Lawyers and Patent Examiners
  • 03.22.16 Los ‘Resultados’ Que Battistellli y Sus Compadres de la EPO se Enorgullece NO son Creídos por los Abogados de Patentes y Exáminadores de Patentes
  • 03.22.16 More Vomit-Inducing Publicity Stunts From Benoît Battistelli and the EPO Management
  • 03.26.16 Ingve Björn Stjerna’s New Book About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Why It’s Important
  • 04.02.16 EUIPO and the Shady Relation to the EPO
  • 04.03.16 EUIPO y sus Sospechosa Relación con la EPO
  • 04.07.16 EPO is on Strike, Battistelli Escapes to London With His Bodyguards for More UPC Lobbying, FTI Consulting Goes for Brussels
  • 04.08.16 La EPO esta en Huelga, Battistelli Escapa a Londres con su Guardia Pretoriana para más Cabildeo por la UPC, FTI Consulting Va a Bruselas
  • 04.14.16 Totally Inappropriate: The European Patent Office is Still Intervening in European Law and Politics
  • 04.18.16 Say the Truth About the US Patent System, Get Attacked by the Patent Propaganda Machine (Disguised as Press)
  • 04.19.16 The ‘Great Conspiracy’ of Patent Lawyers, Lobbyists and Large Corporations for UPC and for Software Patents
  • 04.21.16 Growing Threats of Software Patents in Europe and the FRAND Trap Which Microsoft Promotes/Lobbies For
  • 04.22.16 Fighting Back Against Limitations on Software Development in Europe
  • 04.23.16 [ES: Luchando Contra las Limitaciones Para el Desarrollo de Software en Europa
  • 04.24.16 [ES: Di la Verdad Acerca del Sistema de Patentes de los EE.UU., Conseguiras Ser Atacado por la Máquina Propagandistica de Patentes (Disfrazada de Prensa)
  • 04.24.16 Patents Roundup: Marijuana Patents, Patent Satellites, Patent Trolls, Wars, and Merchants (Notably Lawyers)
  • 04.26.16 A Farce of a System: How SIPO, USPTO, and Increasingly the EPO Too Turn Into Filing Systems (No Proper Examination/Filtering Required)
  • 04.27.16 [ES: Una Fársa de Sistema: ¿Cómo la SIPO, USPTO, y cada vez más la EPO se Convierten en Llenado de Patentes (No Se Requiere Propia Examinación)
  • 04.28.16 If EPO “Form of Thinking Were to be Followed, Guantanamo on German Soil Would be Possible.”
  • 04.29.16 [ES: ”Si la Forma de Pensar de la EPO fuese Seguida, Guantánamo Sería Posible en Suelo Alemán.”
  • 05.08.16 Microsoft’s Patent Troll and Taxman Intellectual Ventures Gets Indirectly Closer to Google (Android/ChromeOS Steward) and to Linux
  • 05.08.16 The Economist Says What Patent Lawyers and Other Maximalists Prefer Not to Hear About the Patent System
  • 05.09.16 Corporate Imperialism in Europe Through the UPC, the Horrible Patent Deal Almost Nobody Heard of
  • 05.10.16 Golden Parachute or Not, Battistelli is Wasting Huge Amounts of Money on His Longtime Bodyguards Fetish
  • 05.11.16 [ES: Paracaídas de Oro o No, Battistelli Está Desperdiciándo Dinero Con Su Fetiche de Guardia Pretoriana
  • 05.11.16 [ES: El Troll de Patentes y Taxman de Microsoft Intellectual Ventures Se Acerca Indirectamente a Google (Android/ChromeOS Supervisor) y a Linux
  • 05.12.16 Raising Barriers to UPC Cancellation and Withdrawal
  • 05.15.16 Relying on EPO, CAFC — Originator of Software Patents in the US — Tries to Bring Them Back Into Play in Microsoft Case
  • 05.16.16 UPC an Attack Not Only on the European Public But Also on Staff of the EPO
  • 05.17.16 Two Months Down the Line, Battistelli Has Done None of What the Administrative Council Told Him to Do; He Should be Sacked Next Month
  • 05.18.16 [ES: La UPC un Ataque No Sólo Contra el Público Europeo Pero También Contra los Empleados de la EPO
  • 05.19.16 Anonymous Commenters Debate Whether Battistelli’s EPO Can Revoke Pensions of Dismissed Employees Who Dare — GASP — Find Alternative Employment
  • 05.19.16 CAFC Rules Against Software Patents But Witness With Horror the Silence From Patent Lawyers (Bias by Omission)
  • 05.21.16 [ES: Comentadores Anónimos Debaten Si la EPO de Battistelli Puede Revocar las Pensiones de Empleados Que Se Atreveen — GASP — a Buscar Empleo Alternativo
  • 05.22.16 Corrupting Democracy? Growing Frequency of Rumours That the EPO’s President Battistelli is ‘Buying’ Votes of Small Member States
  • 05.24.16 Some Details About How the EPO’s President is Rumoured to be ‘Buying’ Votes and Why It’s Grounds/Basis for “Immediate Dismissal”
  • 05.25.16 The Latest EPO Victim Card (Played by Željko Topić) Should be Treated as Seriously as Those Bogus Claims of Violence by a Judge (Updatedx3)
  • 05.28.16 [ES: Algunos Detalles Acerca de ¿Cómo el Presidente de la EPO Es Rumoreado Estar Comprando Votos, y el Porqué es Suficientemente Base Para un Despido Inmediato?
  • 05.28.16 Battistelli’s Assault on EPO Staff’s Right to Strike in Relation to French Politics and That ‘Bicycle’ Pretext for Crackdowns
  • 06.01.16 [ES: El Asalto de Battistelli a los Derechos a la Huelga de sus Empleados en Relación a Políticas Francesas y el Pretexto de la Bicicleta para sus Ataques
  • 06.01.16 Save the Boards of Appeal to Save the EPO From Battistelli’s Neoliberal Vision and Recipe for Disaster
  • 06.04.16 Battistelli is Destroying the European Patent Office and Wasting a Lot of Money Hiding This Fact
  • 06.06.16 Public Proceedings Next Week Could Expose Battistelli’s Incredible and Unprecedented Attack on EPO Judge
  • 06.07.16 EPO Protest Tomorrow: Help the Media (Not ‘Media Partners’ in EPO Management’s Pocket) See What EPO Staff Really Thinks (Updated)
  • 06.07.16 Perpetual Attack on EPO Staff, Even After the Staff Leaves the EPO
  • 06.07.16 Time to Call Out Joff Wild (IAM’s Editor in Chief) for His EPO-Connected UPC Propaganda, Other Agenda-Pushing Initiatives
  • 06.08.16 Goodbye to Patent Quality at the EPO, Thanks to Team Battistelli With Its Extreme Policies
  • 06.08.16 Leaks Required: EPO’s Plan to Crush the Appeal Boards and Media Contracts for Puff Pieces
  • 06.09.16 Battistelli is Said to be Engineering Further Attacks on People Whom He Already Fired From the EPO
  • 06.09.16 Dutch Media Reveals That Battistelli Continues His Vicious War on Staff Unions, Laurent Prunier the Latest Casualty (The Hague)
  • 06.10.16 The EPO is in a Mess So Sordid That It Pays for Positive Publicity, Further Abolishes Labour Rights (to Punish Whistleblowers) and More
  • 06.11.16 [ES: Se Dice Que Battistelli Esta Fabricando Más Ataques en Contra de la Gente a la Que Ya Despidió de la EPO
  • 06.11.16 EPO Press Spokesperson and Director External Communications Busy Creating Distractions From EPO Controversies
  • 06.11.16 [ES: Medios Holandeses Revelan que Battistelli Continua su Feroz Guerra Contra el Sindicato de Empleados, Laurent Prunier la Última Victima (La Hague)
  • 06.12.16 Why Anonymous Dissent Against EPO on Google Platforms May be Risky
  • 06.13.16 Another EPO Staff Demonstration Planned for a Fortnight From Now When Battistelli Wishes to Make the EPO Even Crazier
  • 06.14.16 Detailed Account of Today’s ‘Trial’ of a Judge Who Said the Truth About the EPO
  • 06.14.16 EPO and Its ‘Buddies’ in the Media Lobby for the UPC in Spite of and in the Face of Resistance
  • 06.14.16 Endgame of Manipulating Media With Payments and PR: The ‘Blame Everything and Everyone But EPO Management’ Tactics
  • 06.15.16 EPO Crisis: What If There Was an Administrative Council Meeting and Nobody Came?
  • 06.15.16 Benoît Battistelli’s Façade Continues: Exploiting Terror Attacks Again, Throwing Expensive Parties at the EPO’s Expense, Crushing More Workers’ Rights
  • 06.18.16 The Rule of Money and Power, Not the Rule of Law, at the European Patent Office
  • 06.18.16 [ES: La EPO y sus ‘Compadres’ en los Medios Cabildean por la UPC a Pesar de y Enfrentar Resistencia
  • 06.23.16 Looks Increasingly Plausible That Battistelli is Covering up Bogus and/or Illegally-Obtained ‘Evidence’ From the EPO’s Investigative Unit
  • 06.23.16 Another Demonstration by European Patent Office (EPO) Staff on Same Day as Administrative Council’s Meeting
  • 06.23.16 Benoît Battistelli Should Resign in Light of New Leak of Decision in His Vendetta Against Truth-Telling Judge (Updated)
  • 06.23.16 Patent Lawyers Love (and Amplify) Halo and Enfish, Omit or Dismiss Cuozzo and Alice
  • 06.25.16 With UPC Dead for Battistelli’s Entire Remaining Term, No Reason for the EPO or the Administrative Council to Keep Battistelli Around
  • 06.26.16 Patents Roundup: Bad Quality (USPTO), Bad Analysis (India), Bad Microsoft, Bad Actors (Trolls), Bad Scope (Software Patents), and the Ugly
  • 06.27.16 Battistelli May Still be on the Way Out as Pressure Grows in Germany, UPC in Shambles
  • 06.28.16 New Efforts to Work Around Barriers to UPC in Light of ‘Brexit’; Behind These Efforts Are Self-Serving Patent Profiteers
  • 06.28.16 [ES: Con la UPC Muerta por el Resto del Termino de Battistelli, No Hay Razón para que la EPO o el Consejo Administrativo Sigan Manteniéndolo Más
  • 06.28.16 [ES: El Caradura Benoît Battistelli Debería Renunciar a Luz de la Filtrada Nueva Decisión en Su Vendeta en Contra de un Juez que se Atrevió a Decir la Verdad (Actualizado)
  • 06.28.16 Injunction Against Battistelli’s Investigative Unit (Known Internally as ‘Gestapo’) Amid Serious Injustices and Bogus ‘Trials’
  • 06.28.16 [ES: Cada Vez Más Parece Que Battistelli está Escondiéndo ‘Evidencia’ Falsa y/o Ilegalmente Obtenda de la Unidad Investigativa de la EPO
  • 06.29.16 The EPO Has Become Battistelli’s Circus and the Administrative Council Has Been Reduced to (Illegal) Circus Animals Controlled With ‘Treats’
  • 06.29.16 Rumours That EPO President Battistelli Got Sacked to be Replaced by Christoph Ernst Appear to be Baseless
  • 06.29.16 Growing Consensus Even Among Patent Professionals That UPC is Dying Everywhere If Not Just in the UK
  • 06.29.16 The Latest Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) Would Have Us Believe That It’s Alive and Well
  • 06.30.16 You Know That UPC is Quite Likely Dead (at Least in the UK) When Even Baroness Neville-Rolfe Dodges the Question (Updated)
  • 07.01.16 EPO Leak: Administrative Council’s Latest Meeting Report (Updated)
  • 07.01.16 The European Patent Organisation’s Administrative Council Helps Benoît Battistelli Destroy Patent Quality for the Sake of ‘Production’
  • 07.02.16 Patents Roundup: Patent Maximalism, Apple’s Patent Deception, and Failure of Patent-Centric Media to Name and Shame Patent Trolls
  • 07.02.16 Cuozzo Case Summarised, Immersion Corp. v HTC Corp. to Remain Negligible Unless it Too Reaches SCOTUS
  • 07.05.16 SUEPO “Speechless” About Administrative Council Delegates for “Cavalier Attitude Towards Law-Making” and “Contempt for Consultative Processes”
  • 07.11.16 Will Battistelli’s Friend/Ally Lucy Neville-Rolfe Shamelessly Attack British Democracy and Push for UPC in Spite of Brexit?
  • 07.11.16 Benoît Battistelli’s Attacks on EPO Unions, Judges, Boards, and Even Justice Itself the Subject of Media Fascination
  • 07.15.16 What If EPO Under Battistelli Gets Broken Beyond Repair Just Like the UPC?
  • 07.16.16 This is Why Benoît Battistelli Has 0% Approval Rating Among ‘His’ Staff at the EPO
  • 07.17.16 [ES: ¿Que si la EPO Bajo Battistelli Se Arruina Sin Posibilidad de Reparación Como la UPC?
  • 07.17.16 Microsoft and Its Patent Minions at Nokia Still Have Patent Stacking Ambitions Against Android/Linux OEMs
  • 07.20.16 EPO USA: Under Battistelli, the ‘European’ Patent Office Emulates All the Mistakes of the USPTO
  • 07.22.16 Haar Mentioned as Likely Site of Appeal Boards as Their Eradication or Marginalisation Envisioned by UPC Proponent Benoît Battistelli
  • 07.22.16 Glimpse at Patent Systems Across the World: Better Quality Control at the USPTO Post-America Invents Act (2011), Unlike the EPO Post-Battistelli (2010)
  • 07.28.16 EPO Loses More Than 80% of Cases at the International Labour Organisation (ILO)
  • 07.30.16 EPO Crushed the Boards of Appeal (i.e. Quality Control) and Insiders Explain Why
  • 08.03.16 Lucy in the Sky With Battistelli’s Diamonds (EU Budget) But No UPC in Sight
  • 08.06.16 Managing IP (MIP) Organises a UPC Event (European Patent ‘Reform’ Forum), the Largest Patent Microcosm/Corporate Players Dominate Through Fee Discrimination
  • 08.09.16 Deviation From (and Violation of) the EPC Under Battistelli at the EPO for the Sake of ‘Production’
  • 08.11.16 ‘Constitutional Crisis’ at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 08.12.16 German Media Becomes Aware of Battistelli’s Defiance of the Very Basis of the EPO
  • 08.15.16 Clawing Back the Staff Benefits at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 08.16.16 That Time When the Administrative Council Helped Battistelli Crush Oversight (Audit Committee) and What ILO Said About It a Month Ago
  • 08.18.16 Turkey Subjected to the European Patent Convention (EPC) But Benoît Battistelli is Not?
  • 08.18.16 Battistelli’s European Patent Office Goes to the United States to Speak About the UPC and Software Patents
  • 08.22.16 The Collapse of Software Patents and Patent Law Firms Trying to “Overcome” Alice
  • 08.25.16 Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice Calls the European Patent Office “Rotten”, Other Sources Scrutinise Recent Moves
  • 09.02.16 UPC Threatens to Send the European Patent Office Circling Down the Drain
  • 09.03.16 Specialists in Public International Law Bemoan Privacy Violations at the European Patent Office
  • 09.04.16 Death of Software Patents Almost Everywhere Except the Eastern District of Texas
  • 09.06.16 The US Supreme Court Cemented the End of Software Patents by Rejecting Them and Refusing to Revisit the Subject After Alice
  • 09.08.16 A New Wave of the EPO’s Much-Expected Propaganda Push, Aided by ‘Managing IP’ and IAM ‘Magazine’
  • 09.11.16 USPTO Fraud Accusations and the ‘Coverup’ Attempt by USPTO Circles Inside the Corporate Media
  • 09.13.16 Team UPC Has Not Grown Tired of Kicking a Dead (Trojan) Horse
  • 09.13.16 Team UPC Has Not Grown Tired of Kicking a Dead (Trojan) Horse
  • 09.18.16 EPO President Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are Still Lying, Don’t Believe a Word They Say
  • 09.24.16 Bristows LLP’s Hatred/Disdain of UK/EU Democracy Demonstrated; Says “Not Only Will the Pressure for UK Ratification of the UPC Agreement Continue, But a Decision is Wanted Within Weeks.”
  • 09.25.16 Software Patents Propped Up by Patent Law Firms That Are Lying, Further Assisted by Rogue Elements Like David Kappos and Randall Rader (Revolving Doors)
  • 09.27.16 After the EPO Paid the Financial Times to Produce Propaganda the Newspaper Continues to Produce UPC Puff Pieces, Just Ahead of EU Council Meeting
  • 09.28.16 EPO’s Board 28 Notes Battistelli’s “Three Current Investigations/Disciplinary Proceedings Involving SUEPO Members in The Hague.”
  • 09.29.16 Team UPC is Interjecting Itself Into the Media Ahead of Tomorrow’s Lobbying Push Against the European Council and Against European Interests
  • 10.01.16 Immunity of the European Patent Office and Lack of Oversight Within the Organisation Mean That It’s a Rogue Entity Above the Law
  • 10.04.16 Staff of the EPO is Going Out in Protest (Munich and The Hague) While EPO Management Buys European Media to Control This Media, Promote UPC
  • 10.05.16 No Justice Even for a Judge at the EPO, as the Whole Institution is Beyond Rotten and Quite Corrupt
  • 10.05.16 Echo Chamber’s Lobbying: Team UPC Citing Team UPC as ‘Proof’ Regarding the UPC
  • 10.09.16 The Administrative Council Seems to Have No Issues With Battistelli Wasting Millions of Euros Buying the Media and Fake ‘Studies’
  • 10.09.16 The UPC is Dead, Says Opinion Partly Funded by Team UPC, But Patent Scope in Europe Remains an Issue
  • 10.16.16 As Expected, Benoît Battistelli Puts Longtime Ally Roland Grossenbacher on Top of Boards of Appeal
  • 10.20.16 EPO Spokesman Lies to IP Watch in Order to Save Face and Save the King (Battistelli)
  • 10.24.16 Updates Regarding EPO and BoAC: Unrest and Injustice Carry on
  • 10.29.16 How to Tell You’re Deliberately Not Covering Important EPO Scandals
  • 11.05.16 Dismissal of Laurent Prunier Worse Than It Seems as Battistelli Almost ‘Pulls a Hardon’ by Taking Away Pension Rights Too
  • 11.05.16 UPC a Threat to the Boards of Appeal at the EPO (Soon Haar) and to Patent Quality in Europe
  • 11.07.16 Threats to Dismissed EPO Staff Representative Allegedly Hold Pension (Blackmail Point) to Silence Him Even After Unjust Dismissal, Munich Goes Protesting for Him
  • 11.07.16 Don’t Believe Team UPC; the UPC is Going Nowhere Fast
  • 11.08.16 EPO Social Workshops on Monday and Tuesday? No, EPO Staff up in Arms!
  • 11.08.16 At EPOPIC Today, As Expected, Software Patents Courtesy of EPO
  • 11.10.16 Battistelli Must Go, Says Yet Another French Politician, Arguing He is “Extremely Damaging to the Image of France”
  • 11.10.16 “Not My President“: The Sentiment of European Patent Office Staff Towards Their Fascistic Boss
  • 11.12.16 Decline in Patent Quality at the EPO Increasingly Reaffirmed by More Branches, Insiders, and Even the European Commission
  • 11.14.16 Leaked: Proof That Benoît Battistelli Disregarded Orders From the Administrative Council (Again)
  • 11.15.16 Violations of Human Rights at the EPO in the Name of Fraud Prevention
  • 11.17.16 Battistelli Should be Made Redundant (Fired) Before All EPO Staff Becomes Redundant in a Defunct Office That Flagrantly Mocks the Law
  • 11.20.16 Cases Against the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Demise of Transparency International (Which EPO Partly ‘Absorbed’)
  • 11.24.16 Giants of Asia: India More Restrictive on Patent Scope, China More Lenient
  • 11.25.16 EPO and the Art of Distraction, Disinformation
  • 11.26.16 Duplicate Events for Lobbying by Team UPC Meddle in Politics in an Effort to Enrich Itself at Europe’s Expense
  • 11.29.16 The UPC Scam Part I: EPO-Bribed Media Outlets Lie to Brits (and to Europeans) About the UPC
  • 11.29.16 The UPC Scam Part II: The Patent Echo Chamber at Work, Prematurely Congratulating Itself in Its ‘News’ Sites
  • 12.02.16 Relocating the Boards of Appeal to Haar is a Poisonous Priority at Battistelli’s EPO
  • 12.03.16 More French Politicians Are Complaining That Benoît Battistelli is a Disgrace to France and Urge for Action
  • 12.03.16 Dutch Media Covers Latest EPO Scandals, German Media Totally Absent (a Media Blackout of Convenience)
  • 12.05.16 Leaked: Battistelli Acknowledges Bunk ‘Justice’ in About 100 Cases at the Internal Appeals Committee of the EPO
  • 12.05.16 Quality of Patents at the EPO Dependent on the Appeal Boards When Battistelli Assesses Performance Using the Wrong ‘Production’ Yardstick
  • 12.06.16 Good Riddance. Ray Niro is Dead.
  • 12.06.16 The UPC Scam Part VI: The Real Story Which People Missed Due to Puff Pieces Seeded by Battistelli-Bribed Media is That UPC Technically Cannot Come to the UK
  • 12.08.16 British Media Slams Battistelli for Attempting to Cover Up 2 Years of Juridical Abuses With Help From the Administrative Council of the EPO
  • 12.08.16 Memo “Deliberately Leaked to Cover up the UPC” With Its Many Associated Issues Amid Brexit
  • 12.09.16 Ignore the Bristows UPC Echo Chamber, the UPC is Not Happening
  • 12.11.16 Supreme Cases and Some Supreme Outcomes That Tighten Patent Scope in the United States
  • 12.13.16 Another New Book, This Time From Dr Luke McDonagh, Chronicles the Demise of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement
  • 12.15.16 Team UPC Salivating Over Unitary Patent Fantasy Even Though It is Stuck in a Limbo
  • 12.16.16 Will the Patent Microcosm of London Please Stop Misleading the Public About UPC?
  • 12.19.16 From Bad to Worse: When a Horrible Regime (EPO) Publicly Makes Itself Look Like One
  • 12.20.16 ‘SIPO Europe’: The EPO’s Race to the Bottom of Patent Skills and Patent Quality
  • 12.21.16 No Justice at the EPO, Whose Underlying Purpose Was (Originally) to Do Patents Justice
  • 01.03.17 New Article From Heise Explains Erosion of Patent Quality at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 01.05.17 Technical Failure of the European Patent Office (EPO) a Growing Cause for Concern
  • 01.11.17 Patent Quality in the United States Can Only be Assessed at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and the Courts
  • 01.16.17 Independent and Untainted Web Sites About Patents Are Still Few and Rare
  • 01.18.17 A Lot More Fake News About the UPC, Trying to Convince People That the UK is Ratifying (It’s Not, It Cannot)
  • 01.19.17 Farce of an ‘Independence’ for the Boards of Appeal as Another Ally of Benoît Battistelli Enters as Parasite Inside the ‘Overseer’/Host
  • 01.23.17 Media Blasts EPO Over Immunity Amid Suicides, Battistelli’s Behaviour Compared to Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s
  • 01.24.17 The EPO’s Freedom to Disregard the Law and Abuse Employees is “Being Taken up by the Council of Europe”
  • 01.31.17 Battistelli “Got Full Dictatorial Unaccountable Control of a Diplomatically Immune Organisation”
  • 01.31.17 EPO Members of Team Battistelli Promoted to Shield the Liar in Chief
  • 02.02.17 Growing Rift Between EPO Stakeholders and the Office, Due to Battistelli’s Appalling Leadership
  • 02.02.17 The Quality of European Patents is Nosediving and Those Who Can Put an End to It (Appeal Boards) Are Controlled by Fear of Battistelli
  • 02.02.17 New WIPR Survey and Other Data Points Suggest That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead, at Least in the UK
  • 02.03.17 “Team Battistelli Continues With Intimidation Tactics”
  • 02.03.17 Team UPC Continues to be a Premier Source of Fake News About Unitary Patent in the United Kingdom
  • 02.05.17 Culture of Terror at The European Patent Office Escalates Thanks to Dutch Government’s Complicity
  • 02.06.17 The EPO’s President, Benoît Battistelli, May Have Become One of Europe’s Most Hated People
  • 02.06.17 China is Quickly Becoming a Patent Litigation Mess and Web Sites of Lawyers (or Their Fronts) Like It
  • 02.09.17 This is Why Many People at the EPO Commit Suicide
  • 02.12.17 Nazi Analogies at the EPO Are the Work of Battistelli, Who Libels Staff Representatives and Judges by Calling Them Nazis and Criminals
  • 02.13.17 Claims That EPO Commits a Crime and Should be Prosecuted in the Netherlands
  • 02.14.17 EPO-Connected Writers Are Using Alternative Facts or Fake News to Promote the Unitary Patent in British Media
  • 02.17.17 Our Assessment: EPO Wants a Lot of Low-Quality Patents and Low-Paid Staff With UPC (Prosecution Galore)
  • 02.20.17 Lack of Justice in and Around the EPO Drawing Scrutiny
  • 02.24.17 Yes, There is Definitely Brain Drain (Experience Deficit) at the European Patent Office and Stakeholders Feel It
  • 02.26.17 Wouter Pors and Other UPC Boosters Believe That Repeating the Lies Will Potentially Make Them Truths
  • 02.28.17 The Boards of Appeal Openly Complain (in the EPO’s Web Site) About Battistelli, But Don’t Tell Battistelli About It…
  • 03.01.17 Justice is Dead Not Only at the European Patent Office But Also the Whole European Patent Organisation
  • 03.01.17 MIP (Managing IP) International Patent Forum 2017 to Have EPO and UPC Propaganda, as Before
  • 03.02.17 EPO Budget Obscures and Distorts Facts About the Unitary Patent (UPC) in a Classic Antidemocratic Exercise by an Unaccountable Institution
  • 03.04.17 Jo Johnson: UPC Agreement is “Currently Only Open to EU Member States” (i.e. Britain Cannot Join or Ratify)
  • 03.05.17 Poisonous Patents at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 03.05.17 The Very Thought of UPC in the UK “is a Perfect Example of What Lobbying Can Achieve!”
  • 03.07.17 With a Week Left Before the Administrative Council’s Meeting, Pressure on Battistelli to Leave the EPO Continues to Grow
  • 03.08.17 Latest EPO ‘Results’ Should be Grounds for Immediate Dismissal of Battistelli Rather Than Celebrations
  • 03.09.17 Battistelli’s Coup at the EPO Continues: The EPO is Becoming the Cash Cow of Battistelli and His Friends, Until This Cow Will Die
  • 03.11.17 The Battistelli Mafia and Corsica
  • 03.11.17 Higher Patent Quality Guarded Even Under the Trump Administration While the EPO Goes the Other Way
  • 03.12.17 Germany Cannot Ratify the UPC Because Britain is Leaving the EU and Unitary Patent Strongly/Strictly Depends on the UK
  • 03.12.17 Patents That Have Life and Death at Stake
  • 03.13.17 How Big a Lie is Team UPC Spreading About Germany and Unitary Patent? A Must Read.
  • 03.13.17 What Appears Like News Sites or Blogs About Patents and ‘IP’ Got Polluted by Lobbying That Peddles Corporate Agenda
  • 03.14.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) Misinformation in Spanish Media and EPO-Connected (Paid) Media That Lobbies Spain
  • 03.14.17 WIPO is in the Business of Publishing Ads for Notorious Patent Aggressors (Facing Antitrust Charges) and Promoting Software Patents
  • 03.15.17 New Examples of Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC), Courtesy of Patent Law Firms Looking to Prey on Gullible SMEs
  • 03.16.17 Battistelli Wants to be ‘King’ for a Decade or Longer, Jesper Kongstad Protects Him
  • 03.17.17 UPC Fake News Rising Sharply as Door Closes for Unitary Patent Ratification and Jo Johnson ‘Needs’ to Believe the UPC Will Actually Happen
  • 03.18.17 Governance Crisis at EPO Deepens After Latest Meeting of the Administrative Council, Necessitating Urgent Outside Intervention
  • 03.20.17 Supposedly ‘Pampered’ Prisoners Are Still Prisoners of the EPO
  • 03.21.17 Letter to Angela Merkel Expresses Concerns About Impact of EPO Scandals on Germany and Its Image
  • 03.23.17 The Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation Has Just Buried an Innocent Judge That Battistelli Does Not Like
  • 03.26.17 Everyone, Including Patent Law Firms, Will Suffer From the Demise of the EPO
  • 03.26.17 Even the EPO’s Administrative Council No Longer Trusts Its Chairman, Battistelli’s ‘Chinchilla’ Jesper Kongstad
  • 03.26.17 EPO Critics Threatened by Self-Censorship, Comment Censorship, and a Growing Threat to Anonymity
  • 03.27.17 The Crook Goes to Brussels to Lie About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 03.29.17 Kongstad and Battistelli Have Staged a Coup at the European Patent Organisation (EPO)
  • 03.30.17 Devaluation of European Patents is a Recipe for Institutional Suicide and Immeasurable Harm to Europe’s Economy
  • 04.01.17 Bristows UPC Delusions Are Back, Attempting to Distract From Bad News (UPC Isn’t Happening)
  • 04.04.17 Latest EPO Crisis: Junk Patents Granted in Preparation for Vision of Europe as Litigation Central (UPC)
  • 04.04.17 Reign of Fear (Even Terror) at EPO Prevents People From Speaking About Injustices
  • 04.05.17 Is Bristows UPC Falsifying UK-IPO Quotes or Just Using Informal Words to Lobby for the Unitary Patent (UPC)?
  • 04.06.17 The EPO’s Management is Silencing Its Critics by Sheer Intimidation
  • 04.09.17 The Latest on the Collapse of the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 04.09.17 Lying Has Become the Norm When It Comes to the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 04.10.17 EPO’s Benoît Battistelli is Again Exploiting Truck Attacks to Spread Lies and Garner Sympathy (for the Abuser)
  • 04.10.17 These Terrifying Comments From Patent Practitioners Suggest They Too Believe UPC is Intended to Make EPO Virtually Obsolete
  • 04.13.17 Awful Quality of EPO-Granted European Patents (EPs) Becomes a Mainstream Topic
  • 04.13.17 The World is Burning for Qualcomm, Whose Dependence on Software Patent Bullying is Being Tackled in Several Continents
  • 04.16.17 EPO Patent Quality and Quality of Service Have Become a Disaster, Say EPO Stakeholders
  • 04.19.17 Another Final Nail in the UPC Coffin: UK General Election
  • 04.21.17 Expect Team UPC to Remain in Deep Denial About the Unitary Patent/Unified Court (UPC) Having No Prospects
  • 04.23.17 For the Fordham Echo Chamber (Patent Maximalism), Judges From the EPO Boards of Appeal Are Not Worth Entertaining
  • 04.26.17 Blog ‘Takeovers’ by Bristows and Then Censorship: Now This Firm Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Then Deletes Comments That Point Out the Errors
  • 04.27.17 Team UPC and CIPA Are Lobbying, Publishing Puff Pieces, and Rewriting the Law for Unitary Patent (UPC) Behind Closed Doors
  • 04.30.17 Twitter Shadowbans Critics of the EPO Now?
  • 05.01.17 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part X: When EPO Calls the Truth “Defamation”
  • 05.03.17 Bristows and IAM: Brits Who Lobby for Patent Trolls in Britain
  • 05.04.17 The EPO’s Administrative Council (AC) is “Amazingly Complicit” or “Awfully Compliant” (Like Much of the Media and Much of the System)
  • 05.04.17 Latest WIPO Scandal, Echoing EPO Scandals, Demonstrates Freedom of the Press Coming Under Attack From International Patent Institutions
  • 05.07.17 The Patent Microcosm’s Failed Push for Software Patents Resurgence in the US and Similar Attempts in India and China
  • 05.08.17 Death of ‘IP’ Media: Front Groups of Microsoft Described as “Representing SME Developers” by Bristows
  • 05.08.17 The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) Against the European Patent Office (EPO), Lower House to Debate the Issue Today
  • 05.09.17 ‘European Media Intervention Award’ (EIA), EPO Censorship, Self-Censorship, and Paid ‘Media Partners’
  • 05.10.17 English-Speaking Media Catches Up With Latest Twists in EPO Fiasco, Including Appeal to the European Court of Human Rights
  • 05.10.17 English-Speaking Media Catches Up With Latest Twists in EPO Fiasco, Including Appeal to the European Court of Human Rights
  • 05.10.17 Team UPC Still Twists and Fabricates Statements to Make It Seem Like Unitary Patent is Happening Soon
  • 05.11.17 The EPO is in Disarray and Additional Complaints to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) May Be Imminent
  • 05.13.17 Countries With a Dozen European Patents Are an Easy Photo-Op ‘Sell’ for Battistelli While the EPO’s Demise is Largely Ignored by the Patent Microcosm
  • 05.27.17 The United States Has Already Tackled Both Software Patents and Patent Trolls
  • 05.30.17 The Silencing of Critics of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in Media and in Blogs
  • 06.12.17 German Barrier to the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Bound to Bring the Insidious Plans to a Halt
  • 06.14.17 Even UPC Proponents, Paid by the EPO’s PR Firm, Admit That UPC May Never Happen
  • 06.15.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) Will Start “Real Soon” Now… Said Team UPC For So Many Years
  • 06.17.17 Appalling Press Coverage Regarding the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 06.21.17 EPO’s Elodie Bergot Calls Staff Suicide Just ‘Passing Away’, Pretends to Care
  • 06.22.17 You Know That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is in Huge Peril When Its Biggest Fans Admit It’s Unlikely to Happen Even Next Year
  • 06.24.17 The Tide Has Turned Against the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and It Finally Looks as ‘Alive’ as TPP
  • 06.25.17 Wouter Pors Under Fire for Lying or Manipulating in the Name of the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 06.28.17 Bristows LLP is Still Trying to Attach Wings to the UPC and Distract From Serious (Likely Fatal) Barriers to It
  • 06.29.17 European Patent Office is on Strike Until Tuesday and Insiders Study the New Head of the Organisation
  • 06.29.17 The UPC’s Figurehead, Alexander Ramsay, Admits UPC is Stuck, Bristows LLP Comes Up With ‘Alternative Facts’
  • 07.01.17 The Future of the EPO Does Not Look Encouraging as Injustice and Abuse Carry On While the Press Looks the Other Way
  • 07.02.17 The Decline in Patent Quality at the European Patent Office (EPO) Already Causes Mass Abandonment of Patents
  • 07.06.17 No UPC Progress, Only Further Delays and Lots of Puff Pieces From the EPO and Bristows (Team UPC) Today
  • 07.09.17 Supreme Court Saves the Day as Latest Statistics Reveal Slump in Patent Litigation (Mostly Trolls) in the Eastern District of Texas
  • 07.10.17 Lobbying Against the US Supreme Court’s Landmark Decision (Alice) by Bristows, IBM, David Kappos, IPO, ABA, AIPLA, Adam Mossoff and Kevin Madigan
  • 07.11.17 In an Age of Mass Deception by Team UPC Benjamin Henrion (FFII) to Deliver a Talk About UPC and Software Patents
  • 07.13.17 Status and Potency of European Patents Compromised
  • 07.14.17 “EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal Has Brought an Unprecedented Level of Certainty to the Law,” But Benoît Battistelli Crushes It
  • 07.16.17 Serious Factual Errors in UPC Coverage at Science|Business and Lack of Coverage in the General Media
  • 07.17.17 Software Patents Lobbying at IAM Strives to Reinforce the Positions of Patent Maximalists
  • 07.20.17 Unified Patent Court (UPC): A Conspiracy of Lies and Silence
  • 07.22.17 Lack of Independence of the Boards of Appeal at the European Patent Organisation (EPO) a Fatal Blow for the UPC
  • 07.25.17 Patent Maximalists Continue to Warp the Debate/Media Coverage About Patents in Britain
  • 07.29.17 Anonymous Comments Discuss Erosion of Lawful Activity at the EPO, Lowered Patent Quality, Software Patents, and Trump Comparisons
  • 07.31.17 German Media Finally Waking up to EPO Scandals?
  • 08.01.17 90% of WIPR Readers Give Up Hope on Unitary Patent (UPC) in the UK, But Team UPC Keeps Lying About It
  • 08.03.17 Antonio Campinos in Charge of the EPO Would Mean Greater EUIPO/EPO Overlap
  • 08.05.17 EPO Directors Who Care About Patent Quality Are Being Kicked Out as Quality Continues to Plunge
  • 08.18.17 The Staff Union of the EPO Has Long Warned About Declining Patent Quality
  • 08.20.17 Quality of European Patents Has Sunk, Value Diminished
  • 08.22.17 Bristows LLP Tries Hard to Maintain the Illusion That UPC is Alive, Using Media Placements and Paid Plugs
  • 08.25.17 At EPO, “Producing Stronger Patents (or Being Able to Produce Them) is Also a Matter of Professional Pride for the Examiners”
  • 08.29.17 Hiring of German Judges for UPC Has Been Halted as the Future of UPC as a Whole Now in Doubt
  • 09.02.17 ‘Building the Evidence Base on the Performance of the UK Patent System’ Put in Perspective and Threats From Patent Maximalists
  • 09.10.17 Latest Updates on UPC Constitutional Complaint in Germany and Brexit Barrier to UPC in Britain
  • 09.10.17 European Patent Office in Shambles and the EU’s Brexit Position Paper Suggests UPC is Off the Agenda
  • 09.11.17 “The Constitutional Problems Linked to the UPC are Far From Being Minor”
  • 09.13.17 Latest Attempts to Blow Air Into the Sails of the Sinking Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 09.15.17 The UPC Fantasy is Going Nowhere as Complaints and Paperwork Pile Up
  • 09.16.17 European Patent Office Continues to Paint a Rosy UPC Picture Even Though the UPC May Already be Dead
  • 09.21.17 The Latest Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and CIPO’s Participation in Those
  • 09.21.17 Ambrose Chan Enters Document Security Systems (DSS), a Partly Patent Troll Entity
  • 09.21.17 In an Effort to Push the Unitary Patent (UPC), EPO and the Liar in Chief Spread the Famous Lie About SMEs
  • 09.21.17 UPC Threatens to Weaponise Software Patents in Countries That Forbade These
  • 09.22.17 The EPO’s Latest Lies About the UPC and SMEs Unraveled, Long-Term Plan Described as Daunting
  • 09.27.17 European Patent Expired, But $70,000,000 in ‘Damages’
  • 10.02.17 Death of European Patent Quality: The EPO Officially Sends the Appeal Boards to Exile Despite the UPC Going Nowhere
  • 10.04.17 EPO Management Gambled on Europe Being a Patent Litigation Hub/Capital, But It’s All Coming Down in Flames Now
  • 10.12.17 The Hogwash Begins: Patent Microcosm’s Media Pretends Campinos is Anything But Battistelli’s French Succession Plan
  • 10.16.17 The Systematic Erosion of Workers’ Rights and Holidays at the EPO Goes Years Back
  • 10.17.17 SUEPO Representatives Like Elizabeth Hardon Vindicated as Battistelli’s Detrimental Effect on Patent Quality is Widely Confirmed
  • 10.18.17 In the Age of Alice and PTAB There is No Reason to Pursue Software Patents in the United States (Not Anymore)
  • 10.18.17 Confessions of EPO Insiders Reveal That European Patents (EPs) Have Lost Their Legitimacy/Value Due to Battistelli’s Policies
  • 10.19.17 The Spanish Supreme Court Rejects the EPO’s “Problem and Solution Approach” While Quality of European Patents Nosedives
  • 10.21.17 Anonymous Professionals Speak of Benoît Battistelli’s Destruction of the EPO, But Why Does the Media Turn a Blind Eye?
  • 10.22.17 Management by Intimidation Has Caused Deaths at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 10.24.17 What If Lionel Baranes Was EPO President?
  • 10.24.17 Freedom of Expression is Dying Not Only at the EPO But Also Outside the EPO (Media Coverage of the EPO)
  • 10.26.17 The EPO is Breaking the Law and Its Employees Cannot Speak About It (Updated)
  • 10.26.17 Big Blow for the Unitary Patent (UPC) as Even Patent Professionals Say “It’s Dead”
  • 10.26.17 Professor Siegfried Broß Again Complains About the Situation at the EPO and Issues With the UPC
  • 10.28.17 French Politician Claudine Lepage Confronts the EPO Again, Mentions the Hague Court
  • 10.30.17 Irregularities at the EPO and UPC (Unitary Patent) Dodgy Dealings Should Draw Ire
  • 10.30.17 Belgium’s Jérôme Debrulle, the EPO and the UPC Connection
  • 11.02.17 The Screws Tighten on Benoît Battistelli as His Departure is Just Two Seasons Away, Media Still Largely Complicit
  • 11.04.17 In October, Silence in the Media Regarding EPO Scandals Turned From Self-Censorship Into Censorship
  • 11.08.17 Kluwer Patent Blog is Down/Sabotaged, But UPC and EPO Spin Carries on in Other Sites
  • 11.10.17 More Microsoft AstroTurfing by Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) and Mingorance
  • 11.13.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead to the EPO and ANSERA is Not the Answer as Patent Quality Declines and Talented Staff Leaves
  • 11.14.17 Decline of Skills Level of Staff Like Examiners and Impartiality (Independence) of Judges at the EPO Should Cause Concern, Alarm
  • 11.15.17 Benoît Battistelli and Elodie Bergot Have Just Ensured That EPO Will Get Even More Corrupt
  • 11.16.17 The Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) is Rightly Upset If Not Shocked at What Battistelli and Bergot Are Doing to the Office
  • 11.17.17 Today’s EPO and Team UPC Do Not Work for Europe But Actively Work Against Europe
  • 11.20.17 Team Battistelli’s Attacks on the EPO Boards of Appeal Predate the Illegal Sanctions Against a Judge
  • 11.23.17 EPO is Imploding as Benoît Battistelli Drains Out Work, Talent, and Justice
  • 11.23.17 Amid Constitutional Court Barrier, Unitary Patent (UPC) Looks Dead Even to UPC Proponents, the EPO’s UPC ‘Study’ Comes Under Fire
  • 11.25.17 EPO Uses Bunk ‘Study’ and Team UPC Uses Italy to Prop Up Delusions About the Unitary Patent
  • 11.26.17 “Legal and Administrative Rules at the EPO Are Similar to Those at SIPO” (China)
  • 11.28.17 French Stress Levels at the EPO and Replacement of Patent Quality With ‘Autopilot’ (Like INPI, France)
  • 11.29.17 EPO Spreads Two Lies Today, One About Patent ‘Production’ and Another About ‘Quality’
  • 11.30.17 The SEP/Patent Trolls’ Lobby Insults the Victims, Calling Them “Free Riders”
  • 12.03.17 Bristows Again Rebutted, Few Days After Telling Lies and Spreading Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 12.05.17 The Latest Noise About UPC in the UK
  • 12.05.17 Unified Patent Court (UPC) is “Fata Morgana”
  • 12.07.17 Less Than 24 Hours Later the EPO Already Refuses to Obey Court Orders From ILO (Updated)
  • 12.07.17 International Labour Organisation/ILOAT for UPC Yet Another Problem for Unitary Patent-Style Regime
  • 12.11.17 Bristows is Being Hammered With Negative Comments For Its Unitary Patent (UPC) Lies
  • 12.12.17 Battistelli-Campinos Transition Will Be a Smooth One as the Administrative Council Remains the Same and the Boards Still Besieged
  • 12.18.17 “As an EPO Employee, I Am Actually Embarrassed by the Behaviour of the President and the Administrative Council”
  • 12.19.17 Today’s Report From the Administrative Council (AC) of the European Patent Organisation ‘Tackles’ the Most Important Issue: Judge Corcoran
  • 12.19.17 Dr. Siegfried Broß Says UPC is in Constitutional and Democratic Grey Area, Abuses at the European Patent Office Contribute to That
  • 12.21.17 Media Blackout in Most European Media Regarding the Latest Major EPO Scandal
  • 12.24.17 2017: The Year Software Patents Died Even in the Court Which Started Them
  • 12.25.17 Patent Justice Deficit Disorder
  • 12.28.17 EPO Remains in Defiance or Violation of ILO Rulings as Corcoran Contract Ends in 3 Days
  • 01.05.18 The EPO’s Attack on the Boards of Appeal Dooms the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Team UPC Alters Its Tactics
  • 01.19.18 The EPO Ignores This Week’s Decision Which Demonstrates Patent Scope Gone Awry; Software Patents Brought Up Again
  • 01.22.18 Team UPC Calls Critics of the UPC Idiots, Deletes Their Comments, and Blocks Them
  • 01.23.18 Confidence in European Patents (EPs) is Eroding and Stakeholders Are Already Suffering
  • 01.24.18 CRISPR Patent Debacle Demonstrated That Opposition Divisions Do Their Job, But Also Highlighted Serious Deficiency in Patent-Granting Process
  • 01.25.18 Justice Still Elusive at the EPO and ILOAT, But a Glimmer of Hope Remains
  • 01.26.18 The Corcoran Incident Demonstrates That the EPO’s Boards of Appeal Are Threatened and Battistelli Violates Laws
  • 01.27.18 Another Blow for the Unitary Patent (UPC) as More Delays Are Confirmed, Court Won’t Rule on Constitutional Issues Any Time Soon
  • 01.28.18 The European Commission and the Failure to Stop the FRAND/SEP Lobby
  • 02.01.18 Too Much to Cover Up at the EPO, the UN, and UN Agencies
  • 02.03.18 The European Council Confirms That the Unitary/Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA) is “Outside the Legal Framework of the European Union”
  • 02.07.18 Team UPC Resorts to Paid ‘Articles’ and Lobbying With Battistelli in an Effort to Cause the UK and Germany to Ignore Their Own Laws
  • 02.09.18 ‘Women in IP’: When the Gender Card is Used to Distract From Patent Policy
  • 02.09.18 Team UPC is Working Overtime to Impose UPC on Europe, Based on a Pile of Lies
  • 02.11.18 In Spite of Suppression Attempts, Resistance to UPC and EPO Tyranny Still Enters Kluwer Patent Blog
  • 02.14.18 The EPO Now Censors the Central Staff Committee Like It Used to Censor SUEPO
  • 02.14.18 No, Britain is Not Ratifying ‘Unitary’ Anything, But Team UPC Insinuates It Will (Desperate Effort to Affect Tomorrow’s Outcome)
  • 02.15.18 The Latest Lies About Unitary Patent (UPC) and the EPO
  • 02.20.18 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby, Bristows and IAM Among Others, Downplays Darts-IP/IP2Innovate Report About Rising If Not Soaring Troll Activity in Europe
  • 02.23.18 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Dead, But Spin From Team UPC is Now Abundant
  • 02.25.18 Allergan/Mohawk ‘Sovereign Immunity’ Patent Scam (Dodging PTAB) Backfires Spectacularly
  • 02.25.18 Changes Introduced by the EPO’s Administrative Council Made It Abundantly Clear That Separation of Powers Does Not Exist for Independence of Judges
  • 02.27.18 The EPO’s Appeal Boards Remain Utterly Dependent and Far From Impartial After Battistelli’s Assault on Their Independence
  • 03.01.18 The Latest Bristows Spin Distracts From the Fact that Britain Has No Intention of Ratifying UPC and Brexit Agreement Altogether Omits It
  • 03.01.18 The UPC is Dead, But Team UPC is Lying to British Politicians in an Effort to Trick Them
  • 03.02.18 Battistelli’s Last Four Months: Peak Censorship at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 03.03.18 Next Week’s Annual Report From the EPO Will Say Nothing About Decline in Patent Quality
  • 03.06.18 There’s No Patent Trolls Problem in Europe, Say Law Firms That Represent and Front for Patent Trolls
  • 03.09.18 The EPO’s PR Department Receives Return on Investment (Puff Pieces) for Paying the Media
  • 03.10.18 Glimmer of Hope for the EPO’s Boards of Appeal as Bavarian Parliament ‘Regroups’ on Tuesday
  • 03.12.18 EPO Patent ‘Growth’ Not Achieved But Demanded/Mandated by Battistelli, by Lowering Quality of Patents/Services
  • 03.12.18 Doubt Over Independence of Judges at the EPO Clouds Reason in Deciding Regarding Patents on Life
  • 03.15.18 Monumental Effort to Highlight Decline in Quality of European Patents (a Quarter of Examiners Sign Petition in Spite of Fear), Yet Barely Any Press Coverage
  • 03.22.18 Battistelli’s Ongoing Attacks on the Boards Are Helping Unitary Patent (UPC), Which in Turn Helps French Patent Trolls
  • 03.29.18 Senator Jean-Yves Leconte Accuses EPO and/or ILO of Injustice, But Don’t Expect Media to Notice or Cover It
  • 04.01.18 EPO is Untrustworthy
  • 04.01.18 Anonymous USPTO Whistleblower Explained Internal Management Affairs Last Month
  • 04.02.18 The Latest SLAPP From the Patent Microcosm Shows Just How Abusive Patent Extremists Can be Towards Their Critics
  • 04.03.18 The Mass Litigation Lobby Craves for Patent Armageddon
  • 04.07.18 Team UPC’s and Team Battistelli’s Lobbying Not Over Yet, Even Though the UPC is Likely Dead for Good
  • 04.22.18 The EPO is Dying and Those Who Have Killed It Are Becoming Very Rich in the Process
  • 04.23.18 Mythology About Patents in the East
  • 04.26.18 Britain Has Not Fully Completed Unified Patent Court (UPC) Ratification and It Remains Incompatible With Brexit
  • 04.26.18 World IP Day, a Propaganda Opportunity for Patent Maximalists, is Becoming More About Feminism
  • 04.27.18 Sam Gyimah Did What Was Expected Since 2016, But Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Still Completely Stuck in Most Important Country and Is Not Compatible With Brexit
  • 05.01.18 People Are Belatedly Asking All Those ‘Awkward’ Questions About UPC and the Lies Told by Team UPC
  • 05.03.18 Marks & Clerk is Still Pushing Patent Maximalism Agenda in Europe and Britain, Including UPC/UPCA/Unitary Patent (UP)
  • 05.05.18 If Anyone Has Defamed the European Patent Organisation/Office (EPO) It’s Benoît Battistelli
  • 05.09.18 Barker Brettell is Wrong About Unified Patent Court (UPC) and the United Kingdom
  • 05.09.18 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Not Happening, But Kluwer Patent Blog Pretends It’s Already in Force
  • 05.12.18 EPO Staff Deprived and Denied Basic Rights, Even Justice, But Almost Nobody in the ‘Mainstream’ Wants to Talk About It
  • 05.14.18 A Sham and a Scam: How Patent Extremists Continue to Promote a Mohawks and Allergan Ploy Against PTAB, Even After Oil States
  • 05.20.18 In Apple v Samsung Patents That Should Never Have Been Granted May Result in a Billion Dollars in ‘Damages’
  • 05.24.18 Perpetuating the Big Lie That Unitary Patent (UPC) is About to Kick Off
  • 05.27.18 Software Patents Advocacy and UPC Lies Go Hand in Hand
  • 05.30.18 St. Germain’s “Système Lamy” and Its EPO Clone – Part 3: Shooting the Messengers and Defaming Opponents
  • 06.01.18 In Gross Violation of German Law, as Per EPO Tradition, Fronleichnam ‘Stolen’ by Benoît Battistelli
  • 06.02.18 The European Patent Office Dominates Media Coverage in the Form of Paid-For Puff Pieces, Suppresses Coverage About Corruption
  • 06.03.18 Watchtroll Continues to Attack Officials Who Favour Technology Over Law Firms and This Time Zoe Lofgren is the Target
  • 06.07.18 Today, at the Expense of Millions (€) of EPO Budget, Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos Engage in Shameless Self Promotion
  • 06.07.18 What Team UPC Wants: Patent Trolls, Unified Patent Court (UPC), Software Patents, and Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs)
  • 06.09.18 Battistelli is Still Patently Delusional About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 06.09.18 A Post-TC Heartland (and Post-Alice) Patent System is Bad if Not Fatal News to Patent Trolls Like Microsoft’s Intellectual Ventures
  • 06.12.18 Battistelli’s EPO is Outdoing North Korea When It Comes to Propaganda and Abuses Against Staff
  • 06.14.18 Grünecker, Hoffmann Eitle, Maiwald and Vossius & Partner Find the Courage to Express Concerns About Battistelli’s Ugly Legacy and Low Patent Quality
  • 06.15.18 The EPO’s Response to the Open Letter About Decline in Patent Quality as the Latest Example of Arrogance and Resistance to Facts, Truth
  • 06.20.18 EPO Insiders Correct the Record of Benoît Battistelli’s Tyranny and Abuse of Law: “Legal Harassment and Retaliation”
  • 06.23.18 Mainstream Media in Germany Covers Battistelli’s Corruption at the EPO Just as He Leaves
  • 06.24.18 The ILO Tribunal: Is It Still Worthy of Our Trust?
  • 06.27.18 Corruption at the EPO Should be a Subject Anybody Can Speak About, Even Insiders
  • 06.29.18 Insults, Lies and Propaganda on Battistelli’s Last Day at the European Patent Office
  • 07.01.18 The EPO’s Attacks on Bloggers Other Than Me (and ILO-AT Being Utterly Unpredictable)
  • 07.04.18 Yesterday’s UPC Event Was a Reminder That Team Battistelli is Still in Charge of the European Patent Organisation, Fronting for Team UPC
  • 07.05.18 Abstract Ideas and Mental (Thoughts) Type of Claims Still Deemed Patent-Ineligible, Buzzwords Are Used Instead
  • 07.06.18 Team UPC Suggested Changing Constitutions to Facilitate the Unconstitutional UPC. It Didn’t Go Well…
  • 07.13.18 Constitutionality and CJEU as Barriers, the UPC Agreement (UPCA) is Already Moot in the United Kingdom
  • 07.17.18 The European Council Needs to Check Battistelli’s Back Room Deals/Back Door/Backchannel With Respect to Christian Archambeau
  • 07.17.18 Yesterday’s Misleading News From Team UPC and Its Aspiring Management of the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • 07.18.18 “Trade Secrets” Litigation Rising in the Wake of TC Heartland, Alice, Oil States and Other Patent-Minimising Decisions
  • 07.19.18 When Amplifying the Message of ‘Global Innovation Index 2018′ IP Watch Sounds Like WIPO and IP Watchdog (Watchtroll)
  • 08.25.18 ‘Cult of Patents’ Has Cheapened Patents and Nowadays Patent Law Firms Are Collapsing
  • 09.07.18 CIPA and EPO, Two UPC Boosters, Get Together to Promote Software Patents in Spite of the EPC
  • 09.07.18 Election of New Vice-Presidents at EPO Seems Rigged, Say Insiders and Former Insiders
  • 09.11.18 Patentability of Software Constantly Pushed by the EPO Under António Campinos With Help From IAM, CIPA, IPO and Other Litigation Front Groups
  • 09.20.18 It Wasn’t Judges With Weapons in Their Office, It Was Benoît Battistelli Who Brought Firearms to the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 09.20.18 Criticism of Unitary Patent (UPC) Agreement Doomed the UPC and Patent Trolls’ Plan — Along With the Litigation Lobby — for Unified ‘Extortion Vector’
  • 09.25.18 Technology Groups and Innovators Bemoan Attempts to Override the Courts to Promote Patent Maximalists’ Agenda by USPTO Director Andrei Iancu
  • 09.26.18 Lots of UPC Noise/News This Week Over a Document Which Merely Weakens Commitment to the UPC
  • 09.28.18 How Team UPC is Reacting to the Demise of EPO- and EU-Connected Court That Would Have Put Patent Maximalists in Charge
  • 09.30.18 AIPPI is Led by Team UPC’s People and ‘AIPPI Congress Report’ Published by Team UPC
  • 10.05.18 Patents on Life and on Algorithms in Europe Will Doom the EPO
  • 10.06.18 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Obsolete for More Reasons Than the German Constitutional Court, But Team UPC in the UK Refuses to Give Up
  • 10.19.18 Ingve Björn Stjerna Has Just Warned That If Team UPC and the European Patent Office Rigged the Proceedings of the German Constitutional Court, Consequences Would be Significant
  • 10.21.18 Lack of Patent Quality Means Lack of Patent Validity and Lack of Legal Certainty
  • 10.25.18 Battistelli and Team UPC Still Waiting for a Campinos Miracle
  • 10.27.18 Lobbying and Blackmail Rewarded? JUVE Awards Team UPC Firm Bardehle Pagenberg, Which Represents Microsoft’s Worst Patent Troll, Intellectual Ventures.
  • 10.30.18 Team UPC Hijacks the Debate in the Media and in British Parliament
  • 11.04.18 EPO Granting European Patents on Nature and on Thoughts
  • 11.05.18 The USPTO Under Director Andrei Iancu Actively Disses the Courts and Attacks Fundamental Patent Law
  • 11.06.18 The European Patent Office Lost Its Way, Found Buzzwords Instead
  • 11.08.18 The António Campinos Private/Secret Meeting With ILO Officials a Slap Across the Face to Employees of the European Patent Office
  • 11.20.18 Germany Likes EPO in Munich, Litigation Factory in Düsseldorf and Mannheim (Like Eastern District of Texas)
  • 11.21.18 To Mask the Decline in Patent Quality, e.g. Granting of Software Patents a.k.a. Computer-Implemented Inventions (CII), EPO Makes Oppositions Harder
  • 11.27.18 127th Session of ILO Tribunal Rulings Will Deal With European Patent Organisation Complaints (Appeals) Tomorrow Afternoon, Staff Grows Tired of Office President António Campinos
  • 12.01.18 Patent Offices Reward Microsoft for Corruption
  • 12.02.18 Be Wary of the Latest Lies About the Unified Patent Court (UPC), Courtesy of CIPA and Marks & Clerk (Team UPC)
  • 12.07.18 The European Patent Organisation is Like a Private Club and Roland Grossenbacher is Back in It
  • 12.09.18 Patents on Life and Patents That Kill the Poor Would Only Delegitimise the European Patent Office
  • 12.11.18 Patents on Abstract Things and on Life (or Patents Which Threaten Lives) Merely Threaten the Very Legitimacy of Patent Offices, Including EPO
  • 12.13.18 The European Patent Troll Wants as Much Litigation as Possible
  • 12.19.18 UPC Would Mean Patent Scope Gone Out of Control and Beyond/Above the Law
  • 12.21.18 Today’s EPO Envisions a Europe of Patent Trolls, Not of Science and Technology
  • 01.03.19 The EPO is So Backwards That the Boss Has Just Become Subservient to the Subject of Oversight
  • 01.08.19 EPO Corruption is Helping Patent Maximalists in the United States
  • 01.09.19 European Patent Office Saga in 2019: “95% of the People Responsible for the Misery Are Still in Place and Have Not Even Been Rebuked”
  • 01.13.19 European Patent Office a Textbook Example of Lawless, Rogue Institutions
  • 01.15.19 Team UPC on Dead UPC: Choosing Gowns for Corpses
  • 01.19.19 The UPC is Dead. But Bristows is Now Fully Engaged in Necrophilia.
  • 01.20.19 EPO Defying Patent Restrictions/Limits From the European Parliament, the European Commission and the European Countries It Claims to Represent
  • 01.22.19 The Whitewashing of the EPO Under António Campinos
  • 01.25.19 Declining Patent Quality and Lies About Software Patents at the EPO
  • 01.26.19 European Patent Quality as Awful Under António Campinos as (If Not Worse Than) Benoît Battistelli and Battistelli Makes a Public Comeback
  • 01.29.19 “HE DID NOTHING Since He Arrived, Full Stop.” What EPO People Make of President Campinos…
  • 01.30.19 People Are Dying Because of Low Quality of (Wrongly-Granted) European Patents
  • 01.31.19 President Campinos Maintains Battistelli’s Abusive Sanctions, EPO Staff Increasingly Losing Faith and Hope in Him
  • 02.01.19 The Reputation of the EPO is Ruined But Now It Ruins the Lives of Staff and Europeans
  • 02.06.19 Bogus European Patents Kill Cancer Patients, But EPO Still Has the Audacity to Ride the Wave of World Cancer Day
  • 02.11.19 The American Software Patents Lobby Has Died
  • 02.19.19 Search Matters Not at the European Patent Office
  • 02.19.19 What Happened in the United States Now Happens in Europe: Lots of Patents Turn Out to Be Bunk, Fake, Bogus, Invalid and Thus Worthless
  • 02.22.19 The European Patent Office Goes Down a Very Slippery Slope by Promoting and Defending Patents on Life/Nature in Defiance of Parliament and the EPC
  • 02.25.19 There is Still a Patent Quality Crisis at the EPO
  • 02.27.19 Teff Just One Among Countless Examples of Sheer Disregard for Patent Quality
  • 02.28.19 The Latest Brexit Developments Add Another Nail (Among Many) to the Unified Patent Court’s (UPC) Coffin
  • 03.04.19 Unitary Patent (UPC/A) Constitutional Complaint Can be Decided in a Matter of Years (If Ever)
  • 03.17.19 To Team UPC the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Has Become a Joke and the European Patent Office (EPO) Never Mentions It Anymore
  • 03.23.19 The Unified Patent Court is Dead, But Doubts Remain Over the EPO’s Appeal Boards’ Ability to Rule Independently Against Patents on Nature and Code
  • 03.27.19 The European Patent Scope is a Lost Cause, Does Not Exist Anymore
  • 03.28.19 European Patents Found to be Invalid and Deemed Impotent in the Highest British Court (Again)
  • 03.30.19 The UK Supreme Court’s Latest Decision is Ammunition for the FCC to Scuttle the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA)
  • 04.02.19 EPO Judges Lack Independence and the Internal Courts Are Seen to be Lacking Legitimacy (Decisions’ Validity) Under António Campinos
  • 04.08.19 Europe’s EPO Has Become France’s INPI
  • 04.09.19 The Media is (Still) Failing to Cover EPO Corruption
  • 04.12.19 The EPO is Slipping Out of Control Again and It’s Another Battistelli-Like Mess With Disregard for the Rule of Law and Patent Scope
  • 04.13.19 Patent Maximalists Are Enabling Injustices and Frauds
  • 04.20.19 The Likes of Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA), Team Campinos and Team UPC Don’t Represent Europe But Hurt Europe
  • 04.24.19 Supreme Court of the UK, Which Habitually Throws Out European Patents, May Overturn Troublesome Unwired Planet v Huawei Decision
  • 04.25.19 The Quality of Patents is Connected to the Quality of Life of Patent Examiners
  • 04.27.19 The ‘Technical Effect’ of Attacking the Independence of Judges at the Boards of Appeal and Ignoring/Breaking the Law
  • 04.29.19 Haar is Where EPO Justice Came to Meet Euthanasia
  • 05.01.19 Lack of Justice at the EPO Continues to Usher in Fake Patents on Abstract Things
  • 05.02.19 EPO in 2019: Pushing (and Bribing) for Buzzwords to Bypass/Cheat the Law Whilst Abolishing the Court System
  • 05.03.19 In the Courts, Where Patents Are Assessed Independently, Geeks Are Winning the Battle Against Parasitic Litigation Firms
  • 05.05.19 It’s 2019 and Team UPC is Still Composing ‘Fake News’ (Lobbying Disguised as Reporting)
  • 05.11.19 Team UPC Has Run Out of Arguments, So Now It’s Just Writing Anti-Brexit Rants With Testicles in the Headlines
  • 05.14.19 Patents That Were Gleefully Granted by the EPO Continue to Perish in Courts
  • 05.16.19 The EPO’s Key Function — Like the UPC’s Vision — Has Virtually Collapsed
  • 05.18.19 Unified Patent Court Won’t Happen Just Because the Litigation Microcosm Wants It
  • 05.18.19 The War on Patent Quality


  • 03.03.09 Links 03/03/2009: Linux Gets Thumbs-up in Phones, New ARM/Linux Gadget
  • 06.03.09 Links 03/06/2009: A Lot of Sub-notebooks News
  • 11.04.09 Links 04/11/2009: Red Hat’s KVM Punch
  • 03.19.10 Links 19/3/2010: Google’s TV Project, OpenOffice.org Turning 10, OSBC
  • 03.22.10 Links 22/3/2010: Commodore 64 With Linux, Linux 2.6.34 @ RC2
  • 05.07.10 Links 7/5/2010: RHEL and CentOS 3 EoL, Fedora 13 Near
  • 05.21.10 Links 21/5/2010: Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring RC, Google Activates 100,000 Android/Linux Devices Per Day
  • 05.23.10 Links 23/5/2010: GNU/Linux on TV; deltaCloud
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  • 12.03.10 Links 3/12/2010: Gnome Shell And Zeitgeist, RabbitMQ 2.2.0 Released
  • 12.22.10 Links 22/12/2010: Kno is Out, Tiny Core Linux 3.4 is Released
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  • 04.24.15 Links 24/4/2015: Ubuntu and Variants in the News, Red Hat Developer Toolset 3.1
  • 05.06.15 Links 6/5/2015: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 Enters Beta, Ubuntu Summit News
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  • 07.20.15 Links 20/7/2015: Red Star Linux Serial Content Tracker, Linux 4.2 RC3
  • 07.23.15 Links 23/7/2015: New RHEL Release, Capital One Releases Code
  • 07.24.15 Links 24/7/2015: openSUSE Leap 42.1, Intel With Rackspace for OpenStack
  • 07.29.15 Links 29/7/2015: Akademy 2015 Ends, NetBSD 7.0 RC
  • 09.09.15 Links 9/9/2015: Steam for GNU/Linux Rising, Plasma 5.4.1 is Out
  • 09.13.15 Links 13/9/2015: Enlightenment 0.19.10, Linux 4.3-rc1
  • 09.30.15 Links 30/9/2015: New Kernels, Nexus Devices
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  • 11.05.15 Links 5/11/2015: Framing Linus Torvalds, NetBeans IDE 8.1
  • 11.10.15 Links 10/11/2015: International Space Station Uses GNU/Linux, TensorFlow Liberated
  • 11.15.15 Links 15/11/2015: Wine 1.7.55 and KDE Frameworks 5.16 Released
  • 11.20.15 Links 20/11/2015: DockerCon EU, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2
  • 12.14.15 Links 14/12/2015: KDE Frameworks 5.17.0, ‘Referendum’ on GPL Enforcement
  • 01.01.16 Links 1/1/2016: WebGL2 in Firefox Nightly, Gentoo on PS4
  • 01.05.16 Links 4/1/2016: DNF 1.1.5, *ubuntu 16.04 Alpha 1
  • 01.21.16 Links 21/1/2016: Linux Foundation, Gates Foundation Under Fire; OpenStack Foundation Event Coverage
  • 02.18.16 Links 18/2/2016: New Ubuntu Phone, Go 1.6
  • 03.06.16 Links 6/3/2016: KDE Sprint at CERN, Collabora Office 5.0
  • 03.09.16 Links 9/3/2016: Tails 2.2, Developer Preview Of “Android N”
  • 04.14.16 Links 14/4/2016: Muktware Returns, Google Chrome 50 Released
  • 04.28.16 Links 28/4/2016: Fedora 24, EE Goes Open Source
  • 05.01.16 Links 1/5/2016: Wine 1.9.9, Devuan Jessie 1.0 Beta
  • 05.03.16 Links 3/5/2016: Mozilla Firefox 46.0.1, More Jolla Funding
  • 05.06.16 Links 6/5/2016: Neptune 4.5.1, Parts of Basho DB Liberated
  • 05.12.16 Links 12/5/2016: Qt Creator 4.0.0, Mozilla Thunderbird 45.1.0
  • 05.15.16 Links 15/5/2016: Gaming on Linux, LinHES R8.4
  • 05.17.16 Links 17/5/2016: Wine 1.9.10, ChaletOS 16.04
  • 05.23.16 Links 23/5/2016: GNOME 3.22, Calculate Linux 15.17
  • 05.26.16 Links 26/5/2016: CentOS Linux 6.8, Ansible 2.1
  • 05.28.16 Links 28/5/2016: Wine 1.9.11, New Gentoo
  • 05.29.16 Links 29/5/2016: NetBSD 7.0.1, Genode OS 16.05
  • 06.07.16 Links 7/6/2016: Manjaro Linux 16.06, Firefox 47.0
  • 06.08.16 Links 8/6/2016: Linux Mint 18 Beta, Spark Summit
  • 07.19.16 Links 19/7/2016: ARM and Opera Buyout
  • 07.21.16 Links 21/7/2016: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS, Linux Mint 18 “Sarah” Xfce Beta
  • 07.22.16 Links 22/7/2016: Wine 1.9.15, KaOS 2016.07 ISO
  • 07.23.16 Links 23/7/2016: Leo Laporte on GNU/Linux, Dolphin Emulator’s Vulkan Completion
  • 07.26.16 Links 26/7/2016: Microsoft Growing Desperate, Linux 4.8 Visions
  • 07.29.16 Links 28/7/2016: CORD as Linux Foundation Project, Wine 1.9.15 Released
  • 07.30.16 Links 30/7/2016: Sysadmin Day, Stardew Valley on GNU/Linux
  • 08.05.16 Links 5/8/2016: ROSA Fresh R8, GNU C Library 2.24
  • 08.10.16 Links 10/8/2016: digiKam 5.1.0 Released, GigaSpaces Liberates Code
  • 08.11.16 Links 11/8/2016: Linux 4.6.6, KDE Kirigami UI Framework
  • 08.20.16 Links 20/8/2016: Android Domination, FSFE summit 2016
  • 09.06.16 Links 6/9/2016: QEMU 2.7.0, GNU Nano 2.7.0
  • 09.07.16 Links 7/9/2016: Sony Microsoft Bundling Case, Torvalds’ ‘sh*t-for-brains stupid patch’
  • 09.17.16 Links 17/9/2016: Debian 8.6 Released, More Microsoft Layoffs and Dead Products
  • 09.19.16 Links 19/9/2016: Linux 4.8 RC7, KDevelop 5.0.1
  • 09.22.16 Links 22/9/2016: Red Hat’s Latest Results, GNOME 3.22 Released
  • 10.14.16 Links 14/10/2016: 20th Birthday for KDE, Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3
  • 10.24.16 Links 24/10/2016: Linux 4.9 RC2
  • 11.12.16 Links 12/11/2016: Core Infrastructure Initiative Supports Reproducible Builds, Temer’s Assault on FOSS
  • 11.28.16 Links 28/11/2016: X-Plane 11 Beta, Early Work For C++20, Microsoft Hole in RHEL
  • 12.10.16 Links 10/12/2016: KDE neon User LTS Edition, AsteroidOS in Headlines Again
  • 12.15.16 Links 15/12/2016: Qt Creator 4.2, Kubernetes 1.5
  • 12.16.16 Links 16/12/2016: New Linux Mint Releases
  • 01.25.17 Links 25/1/2017: Managed Kubernetes Service, Wine 2.0
  • 02.27.17 Links 27/2/2017: GNU Linux-libre 4.10, Weston 2.0.0, Git 2.12.0, Linux From Scratch 8.0
  • 03.11.17 Links 11/3/2017: PiCluster 1.6, GXml 0.14, No More Fedora Alpha Releases
  • 04.06.17 Links 6/4/2017: CentOS Linux 6.9, Ubuntu is Back to GNOME
  • 07.04.17 Links 4/7/2017: Market Share Debate is Back, Libinput 1.8 Released
  • 08.22.17 Links 22/8/2017: Linux 4.13 RC6, Mesa 17.1.7, Wine 2.15, Android O
  • 08.23.17 Links 23/8/2017: Chrome OS For Work, GNOME 3.25.91
  • 08.26.17 Links 26/8/2017: Audacious 3.9, Krita 3.2.1, Eolie 0.9.1, FreeBSD 10.4 Beta 2
  • 09.14.17 Links 14/9/2017: Plasma 5.11 Beta, Q4OS 1.8.8, Orion
  • 01.30.18 Links 30/1/2018: Godot 3.0 and ncurses 6.1
  • 02.09.18 Links 9/2/2018: Cockpit 161, Freespire 3.0.6.5, PostgreSQL 10.2
  • 02.15.18 Links 15/2/2018: GNOME 3.28 Beta, Rust 1.24
  • 03.28.18 Links 28/3/2018: Mesa 18.0.0, Kubernetes 1.10, Heads 0.4, GIMP 2.10 RC1
  • 03.31.18 Links 31/3/2018: Wine 3.5, KDE Connect Updates, Raspberry Pi Targeted by SUSE, Mozilla Turns 20
  • 04.18.18 Links 18/4/2018: New Fedora 27 ISOs, Nextcloud Wins German Government Contract
  • 04.21.18 Links 21/4/2018: Linux 4.9.95, FFmpeg 4.0, OpenBSD Foundation 2018 Fundraising Campaign
  • 04.23.18 Links 23/4/2018: Second RC of Linux 4.17 and First RC of Mesa 18.1
  • 04.28.18 Links 28/4/2018: Wine 3.7 Released, FigOS 2.8, GIMP 2.10
  • 05.11.18 Links 11/5/2018: New CentOS, X.Org Server 1.20, Rust 1.26, Krita 4.0.2, Cutelyst 2.3.0 and Kdenlive 18.04.1
  • 06.16.18 Links 16/6/2018: LiMux Story, Okta Openwashing and More
  • 07.06.18 Links 6/7/2018: New GIMP and Elisa
  • 07.22.18 Links 22/7/2018: Neptune 5.4, NetBSD 8.0
  • 08.06.18 Links 6/8/2018: Linux 4.18 RC8, Pinguy OS 18.04.1, Netrunner Rolling 2018.08, Thunderbird 60
  • 08.07.18 Links 7/8/2018: TCP Vulnerability in Linux, Speck Crypto Code Candidate for Removal
  • 08.14.18 Links 14/8/2018: Virtlyst 1.2.0, Blender 2.8 Planning Update, Zorin OS 12.4, FreeBSD 12.0 Alpha
  • 08.15.18 Links 15/8/2018: Akademy 2018 Wrapups and More Intel Defects
  • 08.23.18 Links 23/8/2018: Mesa 18.2 RC4 Released, Bodhi Linux 5.0.0 Released
  • 08.25.18 Links 25/8/2018: Go 1.11, LLVM 7.0 RC2
  • 08.29.18 Links 29/8/2018: Solaris 11.4, More Intel Issues
  • 09.09.18 Links 9/9/2018: New Mesa and Nitrux 1.0.15
  • 10.02.18 Links 2/10/2018: Stratis 1.0 and Milestone for Alliance of Open Media
  • 10.03.18 Links 3/10/2018: IBM Containers and Red Hat Announces Satellite 6.4
  • 10.15.18 Links 15/10/2018: Testing Ubuntu 18.10 Release Candidates, KaOS 2018.10 Released
  • 10.18.18 Links 18/10/2018: New Ubuntu and Postgres
  • 11.14.18 Links 14/11/2018: KDevelop 5.3, Omarine 5.3, Canonical Not for Sale
  • 12.04.18 Links 4/12/2018: LibrePCB 0.1.0, SQLite 3.26.0, PhysX Code
  • 12.10.18 Links 10/12/2018: Linux 4.20 RC6 and Git 2.20
  • 12.12.18 Links 12/12/2018: Mesa 18.3.1 Released, CNCF Takes Control of etcd
  • 12.28.18 Links 28/12/2018: Mesa 18.2.8 Released, Ubuntu/GNOME on a Tablet
  • 01.04.19 Links 5/1/2019: Wine 4.0 RC5, Hyundai Joins the Linux Foundation
  • 01.11.19 Links 11/1/2019: IBM-Red Hat Obstacle Cleared, Toyota Chooses Linux
  • 01.14.19 Links 14/1/2019: Linux 5.0 RC2 and DXVK 0.95 Released
  • 01.17.19 Links 17/1/2019: ZFS Debate Returns, AWS Pains Free Software
  • 01.22.19 Links 22/1/2019: Kodachi 5.8, LibreOffice 6.2 Finished
  • 01.26.19 Links 26/1/2019: Wine-Staging 4.0, MythTV 30.0 Released; Debian GNU/Linux 9.7 “Stretch”
  • 02.05.19 Links 5/2/2019: Wine 4.1, Nanonote 1.1.0, openSUSE Board Elections
  • 02.22.19 Links 22/2/2019: GNOME 3.32 Beta 2 Released and Fedora 30 Flicker-Free Boot
  • 02.28.19 Links 28/2/2019: KStars 3.1.0, Fedora IoT Docs Go Live, Devuan Developer Gathering
  • 03.18.19 Links 18/3/2019: Solus 4, Linux 5.1 RC1, Mesa 18.3.5, OSI Individual Member Election Won by Microsoft
  • 03.19.19 Links 19/3/2019: Jetson/JetBot, Linux 5.0.3, Kodi Foundation Joins The Linux Foundation, and Firefox 66
  • 03.21.19 Links 21/3/2019: Wayland 1.17.0, Samba 4.10.0, OpenShot 2.4.4 and Zorin Beta
  • 03.29.19 Links 29/3/2019: Wayland’s Weston 6.0, Libinput 1.13, New Ubuntu Beta
  • 03.30.19 Links 31/3/2019: Wine 4.5 Released, Pinguy OS 18.04.2
  • 04.01.19 Links 1/4/2019: Linux 5.1 RC3, Linux Lite 4.4 Released
  • 04.10.19 Links 10/4/2019: Microsoft’s GDPR Trouble, New Fedora 29 Images
  • 04.23.19 Links 23/4/2019: Kodi ‘Leia’ 18.2 and DeX Everywhere
  • 04.29.19 Links 29/4/2019: Another Linux RC and Microsoft Uses GitHub to Devour the Apache Software Foundation
  • 05.03.19 Links 3/5/2019: Sparky 4.10, FuguIta 6.5, GCC 9.1
  • 05.11.19 Links 11/5/2019: Mesa 19.0.4, “2019 the Year of GNU/Linux on the Desktop”
  • 05.16.19 Links 16/5/2019: Cockpit 194, VMware Acquires Bitnami, Another Wine Announcement and Krita 4.2.0 Beta