Unitary Patent
The Unified Patent Court (UPC) or Unitary Patent is an often-covered topic for nearly a decade.
08.23.11 Europe Under Threat From Software Patents Through the Back Door, Warns FSF Founder
08.24.11 Links – Deepwater Horizon Spews, Big Boats, RMS on Unitary Patents
08.28.11 Cablegate Reveals US Pressure for EU Patent (Unitary Patent) Alongside ACTA, More Pro-Patents Lobbyists Observed
12.28.11 Unitary Patent is Not a Done Deal
01.23.12 Opposition to the Unitary Patent in the British Parliament
02.27.12 Europe’s Unitary Patent Siege
07.01.12 European Council Slows Down Software Patents
07.12.12 Contacting Politicians to Stop Software Patents in Europe
10.11.12 Betrayals in Europe Over Software Patents
11.19.12 Europe to Push for Unitary Patent (Software Patents Loophole) at 7 PM CET Tonight
11.21.12 Software Patents Through ‘Union’ in Europe
11.30.12 Attempts to Make Unitary Patent Mess Before Xmas
12.02.12 December 11th an Opportunity for Politicians to Legitimise Software Patents in Europe
12.04.12 French National Assembly Views Unitary Patent as Illegal
12.16.12 The Aftermath of ‘Unitary’ Patent
03.31.13 With Unitary Patent Scheme, EPO Pushes Hard for Software Patenting (More Leech Income)
11.06.14 EPO and UPC in Europe Now the Hope of Patent Maximalists, China Too is Assimilating
04.12.15 European Unitary Patent Decision Due 5th of May
04.24.15 EPO Management is Trying Hard to Appease Its Critics While Pushing Forth Unitary Patent Agenda
05.18.15 The EPO’s Fight to Bring Software Patents Into Europe is One Step Closer to a ‘Victory’ (for Multinationals)
05.29.15 Propaganda Mode for UPC Agreement Whilst EPO Increasingly Grants Patents on Software
06.26.15 The EPO’s Circus of Nepotism, Corporatism and Gross Abuse is Promoting the Unitary Patent
07.20.15 Patents Expansion in Europe May be Looming
07.26.15 The ‘Unitary’ Patent Trojan Horse Rammed Down the Throat of Europe
08.27.15 Patent Practitioners: “The Unitary Patent Might be Able to Open the Floodgates for Software Patents in Europe”
08.30.15 Increase in Lobbying for Software Patents in Europe and Its Trojan Horse, the Unitary Patent (UPC)
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
11.19.15 Patent Lawyers Want to Bring Software Patents (Hence Patent Trolls Too) to Europe, Piggyback Battistelli’s Habitual UPC Promotion
11.26.15 Guest Post: The EPO, EPC, Unitary Patent and the Money Issue
12.12.15 The European Patent Office is a Lobby Organisation, Was and Still is Lobbying for Expansion of Patent Scope (Also to Software) Through UPC
12.15.15 Battistelli’s Vision of UPC is Closer Contract With Major Applicants (Abroad), Contrary to European Interests
12.16.15 UPC and Patent Trolls: The Connection Revisited
12.22.15 Europe Under Siege by Patent Lawyers, UPC Ambitions, and the Administrative Council’s Continued Passive Support of Battistelli
12.24.15 Concerns About the Unitary Patent Court (UPC) Among EPO Staff an Outcome of Battistelli’s Attacks on Staff
12.31.15 EPO Coverage to Increase in 2016, Including UPC Reality Checks
01.17.16 Unitary Patent (UPC) Highlights Reality Behind the EPO’s Management and Its Multinational/Overseas Bosses
01.20.16 EPO/FTI Consulting-funded Event for UPC Will Be Stuffed With Mega-corporations from the United States
01.20.16 In Unison, Nations Hop Aboard the Unitary Patent Train Wreck, For (Foreign) Corporate Gain at Europe’s Expense
01.29.16 FOSDEM Talk Against Software Patents and Against UPC This Weekend
01.31.16 Richard Stallman: European Software Patents Are Back With the Unitary Patent Court (UPC)
02.01.16 Slides of New Talk Which Explains the Connection Between the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Software Patents
02.06.16 Diápositivas de Nueva Charla Explican la Connección Entre la Corte De Patentes Unitarias (UPC) y Patentes de Software
02.07.16 UPC: To Understand Who Would Benefit From It Just Look at Who’s Promoting It (Like TPP)
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
02.11.16 New EPO Protests Amid Nervous Breakdowns of Spanish EPO Employee (After Institutional Bullying by Battistelli’s Goons), Spain Rejects the Unitary Patent (UPC)
02.12.16 In Lawyerland, Simulated UPC ‘Trials’ and More Extraordinary EPO Propaganda for Change That Would Harm Europe to Help Patent Lawyers and Their Big Clients
02.13.16 The European Patent Office, Aloof/Apathetic to Inventors and Human Rights, Simply Cannot be Trusted With the Unitary Patent (UPC)
02.15.16 La Oficina Europea de Patentes, Por Encima/Apatética a los Inventores y los Derechos Humanos, Simplemente NO Puede Ser Confíada con la Patente Unitaria (UPC)
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
02.19.16 A Preview of Injunctions/Raids Heaven in Europe With the Unitary Patent (Continent-Wide Bans and Embargoes by Patent Lawyers)
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
02.24.16 EPO-Funded Unitary Patent (UPC) Propaganda Events and the Latest on the Undemocratic (Even Antidemocratic) UPC Push
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
03.02.16 UPC Anything But a Certainty With Battistelli on His Way Out, But Patent Lawyers Are Still in Denial
03.04.16 La UPC No Pasa Nada Con Battistelli de Salida, Pero los Abogados de Patentes Todavía lo Niegan
03.04.16 Unitary Patent (UPC) Propagandists Are Louder Than Ever as Its Architect in Chief (Battistelli) is Probably About to Get Sacked
03.10.16 A Patent Office or a Lobbying Firm? ‘European’ Patent Office (EPO) Sticking its Nose in UPC Matters Again.
03.12.16 Battistelli Acting Like a Politician, Lobbying for UPC All Across Europe and Coming to London Soon
03.13.16 Benjamin Henrion’s (FFII) FOSDEM Talk About UPC and Software Patents in Europe
03.17.16 On Bristows LLP and Other Self-Serving Non-Practising Voices for Software Patents and UPC Injustice
03.18.16 En Bristows LLP y Otras Egoístas Entidades no Prácticantes Voces por las Patentes de Software y la Injusticia de la UPC
03.26.16 Ingve Björn Stjerna’s New Book About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Why It’s Important
03.29.16 The Media is Still Awash With Unitary Patent (UPC) Misinformation
03.30.16 UPC Would Bring Software Patents to Europe and Open the Floodgates to Litigation
04.01.16 La UPC Traería Patentes de Software a Europa y Abriría las Compuertas a Litigación
04.02.16 UPC Lobbying and Propaganda at the Fordham IP Think Tank (‘Conference’) 2016 in New York, With a Clear EPO Role
04.03.16 Cabildeo por la UPC y Propaganda en el Grupo de Interés Fordham IP (‘Conferencia’) 2016 en Nueav York, Con un Claro Rol de 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
04.08.16 EPSU Explains Why SUEPO Fights for More Than Just EPO Employees and for Rights of Workers at International Institutions
04.09.16 EPSU Explica Porqué la SUEPO Lucha Por Más que los Empleados de la EPO Y Los Derechos de los Trabajadores de Instituciones Internacionales
04.14.16 Totally Inappropriate: The European Patent Office is Still Intervening in European Law and Politics
04.28.16 Amid Referendum “the New European Unitary Patent System is Likely to Collapse Before It Started”
05.03.16 New Paper About the UPC Explains Why It is Bad for Small- and Medium-sized European Businesses
05.05.16 Enemies of Europe: A Month After Promoting UPC in London, Benoît Battistelli and the EPO Do This in Helsinki
05.07.16 ES: Nuevo Reporte Acerca de la UPC Explica Por Que est Tán Mala Para Los Pequeños- y Medianos Negocios Europeos
05.07.16 ES: Los Enemigos de Europ: Un Mes Después de Promover la UPC en Londres, Benoît Battistelli y la EPO Hacen lo Mismo en Helsinki
05.09.16 European Digital SME Alliance: Unified Patent Court (UPC) “Unconstitutional”, Harms SMEs, Brings Software Patents to Europe, “Should be Based on EU Law and Not on an International Agreement.”
05.09.16 Corporate Imperialism in Europe Through the UPC, the Horrible Patent Deal Almost Nobody Heard of
05.10.16 A Soup of UPC Lies Courtesy of the EPO, Patent Lawyers, and Large Clients (Like Multinational Corporations)
05.11.16 ES: La UPC: Una Sopa de Mentiras Cortesía de la EPO, Abogados de Patentes, y Grandes Clientes (Como Corporaciónes Multinaciónales)
05.12.16 Raising Barriers to UPC Cancellation and Withdrawal
05.15.16 UPC is Class War (the Rich Fighting Everyone Else), Hence the Increasing Militarisation of the European Patent Office
05.16.16 UPC an Attack Not Only on the European Public But Also on Staff of the EPO
05.17.16 If Battistelli Stayed and UPC Became a Reality, Patent Quality at the EPO Would Get a Lot Worse
05.17.16 ES: La UPC es Guerra de Classes (los Ricos contra Todo el Mundo), He Aqu el Porque de la Militarización de la Oficina Europea de Patentes
05.18.16 ES: La UPC un Ataque No Sólo Contra el Público Europeo Pero También Contra los Empleados de la EPO
05.24.16 The Media Starts Informing the European Public About the Downsides of UPC While EPO Accelerates Its Lobbying for Ratification
05.28.16 ES: Los Medios de Comunicación Comienzan a Informar al Público Europeo Acercas de las Desventájas de la UPC Mientras que la EPO Acelera su Cabildeo por Ratificación
05.30.16 Unitary Microsoft: EPO Excludes People Who Are Not Microsoft Customers From UPC Participation
06.01.16 ES: Microsoft Unitario: La EPO Excluye a la Gente Que No Son Clientes de Microsoft Para Participar en La UPC
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 Leaks Required: EPO’s Plan to Crush the Appeal Boards and Media Contracts for Puff Pieces
06.18.16 When the EPO’s PR Team Says About UPC (Unitary Patent) That It Can be Delayed It Means Derailed or Called Off
06.20.16 New Paper Demonstrates That Unitary Patent (UPC) is Little More Than a Conspiracy of Patent ‘Professionals’ and Their Self Interest
06.21.16 The Conspiracy of Patent Lawyers for UPC and Battistelli’s Role in Preparing by Firing People
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
06.28.16 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
06.29.16 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 As Expected, ‘Team UPC’ Continues Fighting for Its Project’s Survival in Spite of ‘Brexit’
07.02.16 ES: Como Era de Esperarse, El ´Equipo UPC´ Continúa Luchando para que Su Proyecto Sobreviva a Pesar de Brexit
07.03.16 IAM’s Latest Take on the UPC: Dead End For Another 2.5 Years (At Least) With No Effective Workarounds
07.04.16 UPC a Dead Project, as Per Analysis From Foley and Lardner LLP; What Next for Team Battistelli and Team UPC?
07.09.16 Battistelli and Team UPC Working Behind Closed Doors to Overcome Brexit and Impose Patent Injustice
07.09.16 ES: La Última Opinión de IAM en la UPC: En un Callejón sin Salida por Otros 2.5 Años (Por lo Menos) Con no Salidas Efectivas
07.11.16 ES: Battistelli y el Equipo UPC Trabajando a Puertas Cerradas para Sobreponerse a Brexit e Imponer la Injusticia de Patentes
07.14.16 Deathwatch of the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPC)
07.15.16 What If EPO Under Battistelli Gets Broken Beyond Repair Just Like the UPC?
07.17.16 ES: ¿Que si la EPO Bajo Battistelli Se Arruina Sin Posibilidad de Reparación Como la UPC?
07.18.16 Battistelli Has Implemented De Facto EPO Coup to Remove Oversight, Give Himself Total Power, and Allegedly Give UPC Gifts (Loot) to French Officials
07.26.16 Kluwer Thinks People Are Clueless About the Unitary Patent System and Pretends It’s Business as Usual
08.01.16 Software Patents Still a Problem in Europe (in Spite of the European Patent Convention), the UPC Would Make Things Worse
08.02.16 The Protocol on Privileges and Immunities of the UPC is a Dead End, But Team UPC Tries to Ram it Down Europeans’ Throats
08.03.16 Lucy in the Sky With Battistelli’s Diamonds (EU Budget) But No UPC in Sight
08.14.16 Patent Microcosm Shuts Out the Poor: Unified Patent Court (UPC) Promotion by Practising Law Institute (PLI) Only for the Wealthy
09.02.16 UPC Threatens to Send the European Patent Office Circling Down the Drain
09.04.16 There is No Future for the UPC in Spite of What the EPO and the Patent Microcosm Keep Telling Us
09.12.16 EU Law and UPC: Brought to You by Microsoft and the European Patent Office
09.13.16 Web Site ‘Managing IP’ is Managing to Come Across as an EPO Mouthpiece
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.”
09.27.16 After the EPO Paid the Financial Times to Produce Propaganda the Newspaper Continues to Produce UPC Puff Pieces, Just Ahead of EU Council Meeting
09.29.16 Team UPC is Interjecting Itself Into the Media Ahead of Tomorrow’s Lobbying Push Against the European Council and Against European Interests
09.30.16 Unprecedented Levels of UPC Lobbying by Big Business Europe (Multinationals) and Their Patent Law Firms
10.05.16 Echo Chamber’s Lobbying: Team UPC Citing Team UPC as ‘Proof’ Regarding the UPC
10.09.16 The UPC is Dead, Says Opinion Partly Funded by Team UPC, But Patent Scope in Europe Remains an Issue
10.11.16 “Very Mysterious Things Going on at the IPKat Recently”
10.13.16 The EPO is Out of Control on (Patent) Scope and Team UPC Floods the Media in a Desperate Last Attempt
10.16.16 UPC Preparatory Committee Projects Optimism in an Effort to Salvage Its Dying Project, the Unitary/Unified Patent
10.20.16 Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead, But ‘Managing IP’ and Selfish Patent Law Firms Still Try to Resurrect It
10.24.16 UPC Preparatory Committee Puts the Brakes on UPC Amid Brexit and Growing Uncertainty
11.02.16 Breaking the European Patent System With the UPC Hammer, Courtesy of the EPO and Lawyers-Centric ‘News’ Sites
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 Don’t Believe Team UPC; the UPC is Going Nowhere Fast
11.23.16 Caricature: Team Battistelli’s UPC Strategy
11.24.16 Asking Team UPC or the EPO About the UPC is Like Asking Clinton About Winning Presidential Elections
11.26.16 Duplicate Events for Lobbying by Team UPC Meddle in Politics in an Effort to Enrich Itself at Europe’s Expense
11.27.16 Danger of Letting a Bunch of Patent Law Firms Attempt to Hijack the European Patent System With UPC
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 III: The “Patent Mafia”
11.29.16 The UPC Scam Part II: The Patent Echo Chamber at Work, Prematurely Congratulating Itself in Its ‘News’ Sites
11.29.16 The UPC Scam Part IV: Bumps Along the Road for UPC, With or Without the UK and Brexit
12.05.16 The UPC Scam Part V: Unitary Patent Regime a Fantasy of Patent Trolls
12.06.16 The UPC Scam Part VII: A Fine Mess in the Making, as Nothing Can be Made of It Amid/After Brexit
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 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 The EPO Sent Its Second ‘Monster’ to Croatia to Lobby for the Unitary Patent (UPC), Did Not Mention Anything About It
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?
12.23.16 Sean Dennehey, UK Delegate (EPO) and Head of UK IPO, Already Resists Battistelli; Should Also Understand British Businesses Don’t Want or Need the UPC
12.30.16 German Justice Minister Heiko Maas, Who Flagrantly Ignores Serious EPO Abuses, Helps Battistelli’s Agenda (‘Reform’) With the UPC
01.01.17 EPO Select Committee is Wrong About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
01.02.17 Europe Should Listen to SMEs Regarding the UPC, as Battistelli, Team UPC and the Select Committee Lie About It
01.07.17 2017: Latest Year That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Still Stuck in a Limbo
01.15.17 Constitutionality as a Barrier and Brexit Barriers to UPC Keep the Whole Pipe Dream Deadlocked
01.16.17 ‘Financial Director’ Publishes Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
01.17.17 More Fake News About the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Based on Lobbying Tactics From Bristows UPC and the Preparatory Committee
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 Corporate (Wall Street) Media Agrees That Brexit Dooms the Unitary Patent (UPC)
01.20.17 Beware Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
01.24.17 Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna: UPC’s “Entry Into Force is Not at all Secured,” Contrary to What Team UPC Says
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 UPC Continues to be a Premier Source of Fake News About Unitary Patent in the United Kingdom
02.05.17 No, IAM, UPC Did Not “Spring Back to Life”
02.13.17 UPC Petition Launched to Halt Ratification Plans in the United Kingdom Amid Nefarious Back Room Deals
02.16.17 New Scholarly Paper Says “UK’s Withdrawal From the EU Could Mean That the Entire (Unitary Patent) System Will Not Go Into Effect”
02.20.17 Paid-for UPC Proponent, IAM ‘Magazine’, Debunked on UPC Again
02.23.17 UPC Roundup: War on the Appeal Boards, British Motion Against the UPC, Fröhlinger Recalled, and Fake News About Spain
02.24.17 IAM, Greased up by the EPO, Continues Lobbying by Shaming Tactics for the UPC, Under the Guise of ‘News’
02.28.17 New Survey Shows That Even Patent Professionals Know That Team UPC is Lying About Unitary Patent Roadmaps
03.01.17 MIP (Managing IP) International Patent Forum 2017 to Have EPO and UPC Propaganda, as Before
03.01.17 Now is the Time to Sign the Petition Against the Unitary Patent (UPC)
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 The Very Thought of UPC in the UK “is a Perfect Example of What Lobbying Can Achieve!”
03.09.17 UK software companies oppose Unitary Patent ratification
03.10.17 ‘Lobbyists’ Annsley Merelle Ward and Alan Johnson (Bristows) Return to Using IP Kat to Spread Fake News About Unitary Patent (UPC)
03.11.17 Why Techrights is Nowadays Focused on the EPO and UPC (Unitary Patent)
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 British Site ‘Managing IP’ Continues to Organise UPC Lobbying Events to Promote the Unitary Patent in the UK, Isle of Man, Maybe Even Ireland and Beyond
03.12.17 Fake News From the EPO and Team UPC About Unitary Patent in the UK in Spite of Brexit
03.12.17 No, Spain is Not Joining the UPC, That’s Just What UPC Lobbyists Want Everyone to Believe
03.13.17 How Big a Lie is Team UPC Spreading About Germany and Unitary Patent? A Must Read.
03.14.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) Misinformation in Spanish Media and EPO-Connected (Paid) Media That Lobbies Spain
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 Unitary Patent (UPC) and “Breach of EU Law”
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
03.24.17 Bernhard Rapkay, Former MEP and Rapporteur on Unitary Patent, Shoots Down UPC Hopes While UPC Hopefuls Recognise That Spain Isn’t Interested Either
03.26.17 Thanks to Merpel, the World Knows EPO Scandals a Lot Better, But It’s a Shame That IP Kat Helped UPC
03.27.17 The Crook Goes to Brussels to Lie About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
03.28.17 Techrights Was Right About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
03.29.17 March 29th: The Day the Unitary Patent (UPC) Died
04.01.17 ‘Managing IP’ (MIP) is Seeding UPC Optimism Based on Nothing Concrete
04.02.17 Growing Suspicions of Planned Obsolescence at the European Patent Office
04.02.17 Team UPC ‘Took Over’ IP Kat, Readers Don’t Believe What It Says
04.03.17 As a Bargaining Chip, UPC (Unitary Patent/Unified Patent Court) is a Curse, Not a Gift
04.04.17 Latest EPO Crisis: Junk Patents Granted in Preparation for Vision of Europe as Litigation Central (UPC)
04.05.17 Is Bristows UPC Falsifying UK-IPO Quotes or Just Using Informal Words to Lobby for the Unitary Patent (UPC)?
04.05.17 IP Kat is Helping Battistelli by Lobbying for the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Spreading Falsehoods
04.07.17 IP Kat or IP Troll? IP2Innovate Warns That UPC Would Help Patent Trolls While IP Kat Promotes UPC
04.09.17 Lying Has Become the Norm When It Comes to the Unitary Patent (UPC)
04.09.17 Asian Companies Already Suffer From Patent Maximalism/Radicalism and UPC Would Make Things Even Worse
04.10.17 These Terrifying Comments From Patent Practitioners Suggest They Too Believe UPC is Intended to Make EPO Virtually Obsolete
04.11.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) is Stuck as the “British Are Hesitant in UPC Ratification,” According to New Report
04.14.17 No, Bristows, UPC Won’t Happen Just Because You Mislead About It
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
04.27.17 Team UPC and CIPA Are Lobbying, Publishing Puff Pieces, and Rewriting the Law for Unitary Patent (UPC) Behind Closed Doors
04.28.17 Kather Augenstein and Bristows Shift Attention to Germany in an Effort to Ram the Dying UPC Down Everyone’s Throats
05.10.17 Team UPC Still Twists and Fabricates Statements to Make It Seem Like Unitary Patent is Happening Soon
05.11.17 By Promoting the UPC, in Defiance of Public Will, the EPO Has Become Patent Trolls’ Best Friend
05.12.17 Our Assessment: Unitary Patent (UPC) Will Crumble Along With Battistelli’s Regime at the EPO
05.30.17 The Silencing of Critics of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in Media and in Blogs
06.01.17 Patent Trolls in Europe and the Looming Collapse of the UPC
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
06.11.17 The British Election May Have Just ‘Killed’ the Unitary Patent (UPC)
06.12.17 German Barrier to the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Bound to Bring the Insidious Plans to a Halt
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 The UPC Gravy Train is Claimed to Have Been “Halted” in Germany and More Oppositions or Constitutional Complaints Are on Their Way
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)
06.20.17 At the European Inventor Award Ceremony Benoît Battistelli Lied to a Lot of Scientists and “Media Partners” About the UPC
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
06.28.17 Bristows LLP is Still Trying to Attach Wings to the UPC and Distract From Serious (Likely Fatal) Barriers to It
06.30.17 Former ‘Kats’ Debunk IP Kat (Bristows) on Unitary Patent, Insisting It May Even be Dead
07.05.17 Expect No Progress Whatsoever on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) During the Summer and Likely Too Little Even in Fall
07.06.17 No UPC Progress, Only Further Delays and Lots of Puff Pieces From the EPO and Bristows (Team UPC) Today
07.06.17 Elżbieta Bieńkowska Cares More About the Unitary Patent Coup D’état (Which She Encourages) Than She Cares About the Rule of Law and People’s Lives
07.11.17 In an Age of Mass Deception by Team UPC Benjamin Henrion (FFII) to Deliver a Talk About UPC and Software Patents
07.14.17 Michel Barnier, Once a Leading Proponent of UPC, No Longer Certain the UK Can Fit in or That UPC Will Happen
07.15.17 Science|Business Quotes Michel Barnier, Then Speculates Battistelli’s Way to Promote Erroneous Perception of UPC Inevitability
07.16.17 Guest Post: Is Germany’s UPC Ratification Postponement Related to Problems at the EPO?
07.16.17 Serious Factual Errors in UPC Coverage at Science|Business and Lack of Coverage in the General Media
07.17.17 UPC Puff Piece in the Scottish Media is Just an Advertisement by Marks & Clerk
07.18.17 New Paper Explains Why UPC Ratification Efforts Have Been Just About as Corrupt as EPO Under Battistelli
07.19.17 The British Government May be Pulling Out of the UPC Fantasy, Team UPC in Panic or Denial About It
07.20.17 Battistelli’s EPO Abuses May Soon Lead to the Death of the UPC and Return of the Old Order (‘EPO Glory’)
07.20.17 Unified Patent Court (UPC): A Conspiracy of Lies and Silence
08.01.17 90% of WIPR Readers Give Up Hope on Unitary Patent (UPC) in the UK, But Team UPC Keeps Lying About It
08.12.17 The Corruption of the European Patent Office and CIPO’s (Canada) Participation in This
08.18.17 Lack of Independent Judiciary Under the Unitary Patent (Like Boards of Appeal Under Battistelli, in Defiance of the EPC) Will Possibly Kill the Unified Patent Court
08.23.17 Benoît Battistelli’s Misbehaviour Condemned the UPC to Death
08.23.17 UPC Hopefuls (Litigation Firms) Come to Life Amid Unitary Patent EPO Text, But Nothing New to See Here
08.29.17 Hiring of German Judges for UPC Has Been Halted as the Future of UPC as a Whole Now in Doubt
08.30.17 IP Kat Missing in Action as Unitary Patent (UPC) Rots
09.06.17 Juve Reveals That Ingve Stjerna is the ‘UPC Slayer’ While the EPO Continues to Lobby, Mislead
09.07.17 EPO Management is Lobbying for Software Patents and the UPC in ICT Seminar 2017
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”
09.11.17 Ingve Stjerna’s Complaint Casts a Shadow Over the Unconstitutional Unified Patent Court (UPC)
09.13.17 Latest Attempts to Blow Air Into the Sails of the Sinking Unitary Patent (UPC)
09.15.17 Watchtroll Helps the EPO Peddle Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
09.15.17 The UPC Fantasy is Going Nowhere as Complaints and Paperwork Pile Up
09.15.17 At Event of EPO SLAPP Firm, a Suggestion That the UPC Should be Scrapped Because It’s Stuck
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 In an Effort to Push the Unitary Patent (UPC), EPO and the Liar in Chief Spread the Famous Lie About SMEs
09.22.17 The EPO’s Latest Lies About the UPC and SMEs Unraveled, Long-Term Plan Described as Daunting
09.26.17 EPO Lies About the UPC, Violations of Human Rights, and ‘Green’ European Patents
09.27.17 The Unitary Patent (UPC) is Now Rotting in Ireland
10.07.17 Additional Complaints About the Unitary Patent (UPC) Pile Up in Germany, Here’s How to Submit More
10.14.17 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Rotting Like the European Patent Office
10.18.17 Patent Firms From the United States Try Hard to Push the Unitary Patent (UPC), Which Would Foment Litigation Wars in Europe
10.19.17 Team UPC Continues to Promote Illusion of UPC Progress Where There’s None
10.20.17 UPC Looks Like More of a Distant Dream (or Nightmare) as Germany Adds Another Two Months’ Delay
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
10.30.17 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
11.04.17 Even One of the UPC’s Biggest Boosters, Wolters Kluwer, Admits UPC is in Trouble
11.08.17 Kluwer Patent Blog Down for Over a Day, Key Article Archived, UPC Deception Carries On
11.09.17 Patent Office of the Netherlands Expresses Uncertainty About UPC, Voices Concern About Benoît Battistelli’s Attack on Staff
11.09.17 Consensus Around the High Likelihood That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead and Backlash Against Deniers of It
11.17.17 Today’s EPO and Team UPC Do Not Work for Europe But Actively Work Against Europe
11.17.17 EPO ‘Business’ From the United States Has Nosedived and UPC is on Its Death Throes
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
11.25.17 Even UPC Proponents Admit UPC is Dead: “This is the End, My Friend”
11.26.17 “Legal and Administrative Rules at the EPO Are Similar to Those at SIPO” (China)
12.03.17 Bristows Again Rebutted, Few Days After Telling Lies and Spreading Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
12.03.17 How CEIPI in Strasbourg is Allegedly Facilitating Another Battistelli ‘Scam’ Surrounding the Unitary Patent (UPC)
12.05.17 French Disgrace: Teachers at CEIPI Not Happy About Benoît Battistelli as Upcoming President of the CEIPI Administrative Board
12.05.17 The Latest Noise About UPC in the UK
12.05.17 Unified Patent Court (UPC) is “Fata Morgana”
12.07.17 International Labour Organisation/ILOAT for UPC Yet Another Problem for Unitary Patent-Style Regime
12.07.17 Battistelli’s ‘Mole’ Lucy Neville-Rolfe is Still Trying to Push Unitary Patent (UPC) Through in the United Kingdom
12.08.17 The European Union Now Repeats Paid Propaganda From the EPO (Regarding the Unitary Patent)
12.11.17 Bristows is Being Hammered With Negative Comments For Its Unitary Patent (UPC) Lies
12.16.17 Bristows LLP/IP Kat Carrying on With Dead UPC Jingoism
12.19.17 Dr. Siegfried Broß Says UPC is in Constitutional and Democratic Grey Area, Abuses at the European Patent Office Contribute to That
12.23.17 Alexander Ramsay is Wrong, Unitary Patent (UPC) Won’t Start Any Time Soon and Probably Never
12.25.17 Raw: SUEPO Connected the Unitary Patent (UPC) to Abuses at the European Patent Office
12.27.17 The Unitary Patent is Dying or Dead, But Team UPC Might Rebrand Again and Reattempt
12.28.17 UPC IT Working Group is Chasing Rainbows and Unicorns
01.02.18 2018 Starts at the EPO and Both EPC and UPC Are in State of Crisis
01.03.18 Battistelli’s Attacks on Judge Corcoran Threaten Not Only the EPC But Also UPC
01.05.18 The EPO’s Attack on the Boards of Appeal Dooms the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Team UPC Alters Its Tactics
01.06.18 Sane Responses to the Latest Pressure From Team UPC Amid Brexit Negotiations
01.10.18 Jo Johnson’s Departure is Another Major Blow for Team UPC (Unified Patent Court)
01.11.18 EPO Lobby and Team UPC’s ‘Resistance’ to the UPC Opposition in Germany
01.13.18 Late on a Friday is a Good Time to Spread Misinformation About Unified Patent Court (UPC) Without Being Challenged
01.16.18 EPO Management and Team UPC Carry on Lying About Unified Patent Court, Sinking to New Lows in the Process
01.22.18 Team UPC Calls Critics of the UPC Idiots, Deletes Their Comments, and Blocks Them
01.24.18 Team UPC Has Been Reduced to Rubble and Misinformation
01.25.18 A European Unitary Patent-Like System (e.g. UPC) is Not Compatible With Law; Expect it to Rot Away at the German Federal Constitutional Court
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
01.30.18 The Failure of ILO’s Administrative Tribunal Highlights Poor State of Justice in Europe and Worldwide
01.31.18 The UPC/SEP/FRAND Lobby Has Resorted to Just Insulting the Opposition
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
02.08.18 The UPC Lobby Wants to Crush the Boards of Appeal (BoA) While EPO Changes Rules of Procedure of the BoA
02.09.18 Team UPC is Working Overtime to Impose UPC on Europe, Based on a Pile of Lies
02.10.18 Lawyer Fraud and the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
02.11.18 In Spite of Suppression Attempts, Resistance to UPC and EPO Tyranny Still Enters Kluwer Patent Blog
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
02.18.18 UPC Optimism Languishes Even Among Paid UPC Propagandists Such as IAM
02.21.18 End of the UPC Lobby and Withdrawal of UPCA May Seem Imminent
02.22.18 As Expected, Bristows and Others Already Lying About UPC Status in Germany, But Doing This Anonymously (to Dodge Accountability for Lies)
02.23.18 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Dead, But Spin From Team UPC is Now Abundant
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
03.03.18 EPO Annual Report Will Dominate the News Next Week, Whereas Unitary Patent (UPC) is a Goner
03.06.18 UPC and Beyond: Constitutional Issues Cannot be Brushed Under the Carpet
03.07.18 The Right-Wing Alternative für Deutschland Opposes Unitary Patent (UPC), Just Like UKIP in Britain
03.13.18 Battistelli Likes to Describe His Critics as ‘Nazis’, Team UPC Will Attempt the Same Thing Against UPC Critics
03.15.18 Careful Not to Conflate UPC Critics With AfD or Anti-EU Elements
03.23.18 Team Battistelli and Team UPC Are Both Very Deep in Denial
04.07.18 Team UPC’s and Team Battistelli’s Lobbying Not Over Yet, Even Though the UPC is Likely Dead for Good
04.26.18 Britain Has Not Fully Completed Unified Patent Court (UPC) Ratification and It Remains Incompatible With Brexit
04.26.18 With Unified Patent Court (UPC) on Its Death Throes, Team UPC Now Resorts to Promoting Pertinent Parts of the Agreement (UPCA)
04.28.18 British Technology News Sites Point Out the Absurdity of Ratifying UPC in the UK Amid Brexit
04.29.18 Even Vocal Proponents of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Admit That There Are ‘Holes’ in the Announcement From Sam Gyimah
04.29.18 Short: EPO Paid for ‘Study’ (Corrupting Academia) to Push Unitary Patent Agenda, Then Advertised the Outcome
05.01.18 People Are Belatedly Asking All Those ‘Awkward’ Questions About UPC and the Lies Told by Team UPC
05.07.18 Rumour: The European Patent Office Has Just ‘Done a Patrick Corcoran’ Again (Forced Removal)
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
05.17.18 Rise in Patent Trolls’ Activity in Germany Noted Amid Declining Patent Quality at the EPO
05.22.18 France is Irrelevant to Whether or Not UPC Ever Becomes a Reality, Moving/Outsourcing de Facto Patent Examination to European Courts Managed in/Presided by France
05.24.18 Perpetuating the Big Lie That Unitary Patent (UPC) is About to Kick Off
05.25.18 The Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court (UPC): This Week’s Latest Spin and Lies
05.27.18 Software Patents Advocacy and UPC Lies Go Hand in Hand
05.30.18 EUROCHAMBRES is an Echo Chamber of the Patent Litigation ‘Industry’ Hoping to Mislead the EU’s Competitiveness Council on UPC
05.31.18 IP Kat is Still Acting as a Propaganda Front for UPC (and EU Software Patents) Lobbying by US-Based Front Groups
06.02.18 Team UPC Turns to a Spanish ‘Flavour’ of Unitary Patent Propaganda (Just Like Last Year)
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)
06.18.18 Beware Team UPC’s Biggest Two Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
06.19.18 Articles About a Unitary Patent System Are Lies and Marketing From Law Firms With ‘Lawsuits Lust’
06.24.18 Nearly Half of Patent Applications at the EPO Are (at Least Partly) Software Patents, According to the EPO, and Not Many Patents Are European (Foreign, Not Domestic)
06.30.18 Team UPC’s Radicals, Firms Like Bristows LLP, Have Decided That It’s Time to Change Constitutions to Accommodate Clearly Unconstitutional Unitary Patent (UPC)
07.02.18 IAM is Still Working for Benoît Battistelli and His Toxic Agenda
07.03.18 First Act of António Campinos: Pushing the Unconstitutional Unitary Patent (UPC)
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 No, Europe Does Not Gear up for the Unitary Patent, But Team UPC Wants Everyone to Think So and EPO Amplifies These Lies
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 Yesterday’s Misleading News From Team UPC and Its Aspiring Management of the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
07.18.18 The EPO — Like the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and Unitary Patent System — is an Untenable Mess
07.19.18 Mafia Tactics in Team UPC and Battistelli’s Circle
08.02.18 The EPO’s Systematic Attacks on Justice and on Judges Have Likely Played the Biggest Role in the Death of Unitary Patent (UPC)
08.05.18 Law Firms Are Offering Very Misleading and Self-Serving Advice Regarding ‘Unitary’ Effect for European Patents
08.09.18 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement is Paralysed, So Team UPC is Twisting Old News
08.25.18 The Unitary Patent (UPC) is Not Delayed; It’s Dead and Without Any Major Rework It Will Go Nowhere
08.30.18 Feeling Shut Out of the European Patent System, Team UPC Persists With Misleading Claims and Falsehoods
09.06.18 Even Overzealous Patent Maximalists Nowadays Admit That Time is Running Out for the Unitary Patent (UPC)
09.14.18 Max Planck Institute Pours More Water on the Dying Unitary Patent (UPC)
09.23.18 Advocacy of the Unitary Patent System Has Become Almost Identical to the ‘Leave’ (Brexit) Campaign
09.25.18 António Campinos Goes to UPC-Hostile Country, UPC Continues to Languish and Team UPC Carries on Pushing for Software Patents in Europe (Courts Also)
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
09.29.18 Team UPC Wants More (Patent) Taxes on Society While Defending/Shielding the Super-rich From Taxes That Might Otherwise Benefit Society
09.30.18 AIPPI is Led by Team UPC’s People and ‘AIPPI Congress Report’ Published by Team UPC
10.11.18 UPC Cowardice: Team UPC Uses Cloaks of Anonymity to Discredit Authors of Scholarly UPC Paper They Don’t Like
10.18.18 It’s Almost 2019 and Team UPC is Still Pretending Unitary Patent (UPC) Exists, Merely Waiting for Britain to Join
10.23.18 German Court on UPC Constitutional Complaint: “No Oral Hearing is Currently Scheduled. A Decision Date is Not Foreseeable at Present.”
10.30.18 Team UPC Hijacks the Debate in the Media and in British Parliament
11.04.18 Team UPC’s Last Resort: Stacked Panels, Anonymously Belittling the Opposition (e.g. Ingve Björn Stjerna) and Taking Control of the Media
11.08.18 The Death of the UPC is Only a “Tragedy” for Patent Trolls and Their Facilitators
11.12.18 Team UPC, Fronting for Patent Trolls From the US, is Calling Facts “Resistance”
11.14.18 Science Minister Sam Gyimah and the EPO Are Eager to Attack Science by Bringing Patent Trolls to Europe/European Union and the United Kingdom
11.15.18 A Question of Debt: António Campinos, Lexology, Law Gazette, and Sam Gyimah
11.17.18 Team UPC Has Been Reduced to Lies, Lies, and More Lies about the Unified Patent Court Agreement
11.20.18 Appalling Patent Quality at the European Patent Office, More Lies About the Unified Patent Court (UPC), and Assault on Those Who Warned About It All Along
11.22.18 Thanksgiving EPO Roundup: UPC Lies, Software Patents Considered Harmful and SUEPO Condemns Union-Busting Activities (Which Carry on Under António Campinos)
11.24.18 Team UPC Refuses to Stop Lying, Pays Money to Spread Its Unified Patent Court (UPC) Lies in the Media
11.29.18 Even Sites That Served UPC Propaganda for Years (for These Sites’ Owners) Have Come to Admit That the UPC Might Already be Dead
12.01.18 Science Minister Sam Gyimah, Who Tactlessly Ratified UPC in the UK, Has Just Resigned
12.09.18 Team UPC is Still Spreading False Rumours in an Effort to Trick Politicians and Pressure Judges
12.11.18 With ‘Brexit’ in a Lot of Headlines Team UPC Takes the Unitary Patent Lies up a Notch
12.15.18 Patent Law Firms’ War on Facts and Constant Lying About Unitary Patent
12.19.18 UPC Would Mean Patent Scope Gone Out of Control and Beyond/Above the Law
12.21.18 Team UPC Belatedly Admits Lying About the German UPC Complaint (Fabricated ‘Rumours’)
12.22.18 UPC Died in 2016 or 2017; But the EPO Continues to Issue Fake Software Patents That European Courts Reject
12.28.18 The Demise of the UPC ‘Legislative Coup’ Continued in 2018
12.30.18 Even Joff Wild and the Patent Trolls’ Lobby Finally Admit Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead
01.06.19 The German Constitutional Court’s Decision on Unitary Patent (UPC) is Very, Very Far
01.11.19 The Fiction That Spain (or Italy) Can Salvage the UPC
01.15.19 Team UPC on Dead UPC: Choosing Gowns for Corpses
01.16.19 Brexit Has Failed, But So Has the Unitary Patent (UPC)
01.19.19 The UPC is Dead. But Bristows is Now Fully Engaged in Necrophilia.
01.25.19 Team UPC Has Been Reduced to a Self-Satirising Drama Show
02.02.19 Concerns About Stephan Harbarth’s Unitary Patent (UPC) Vested Interests and His Entrance Into the Constitutional Court That Decides on UPC
02.07.19 UPC Part of the Litigation ‘Industry’ Lobby and the Efforts to Change (Significantly Lower) Patent Quality Bar/Scope
02.14.19 Unitary Patent (UPC) is All About Imposing Patent Maximalists’ Ideology of Greed and Self Interest on Courts in the Name of ‘Unification’ or ‘Consistency’ or ‘Community’
02.22.19 Team UPC Excited Over Nothing, President Campinos Rarely Even Mentions UPC Anymore
02.23.19 Bristows is Still Hoping to ‘Overthrow’ the Courts and Throw Out Ingve Stjerna’s Complaint (About the Likes of Bristows)
02.28.19 The Latest Brexit Developments Add Another Nail (Among Many) to the Unified Patent Court’s (UPC) Coffin
03.14.19 Good News Everyone! UPC Ready to Go… in 2015!
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
03.20.19 Team UPC Buries Its Credibility Deeper in the Grave
03.21.19 Team UPC (Unitary Patent) is a Headless Chicken
04.12.19 Global Finance Magazine Spreads Lies About the Unitary Patent and German Constitutional Court
04.20.19 The Likes of Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA), Team Campinos and Team UPC Don’t Represent Europe But Hurt Europe
05.05.19 It’s 2019 and Team UPC is Still Composing ‘Fake News’ (Lobbying Disguised as Reporting)
05.09.19 Lusting for a Unified Patent Court (UPC) That Respects Invalid European Patents, Including Software Patents
05.11.19 Team UPC Has Run Out of Arguments, So Now It’s Just Writing Anti-Brexit Rants With Testicles in the Headlines
05.18.19 Unified Patent Court Won’t Happen Just Because the Litigation Microcosm Wants It
01.31.11 April/End Software Patents/FFII Ask European Parliament to Postpone Enhanced Cooperation on Unitary Patent After CJEU Opinion
12.28.11 European Commission Betrays the European Public With Stance on OOXML and Unitary Patent
02.01.12 EU Unitary Patent: Status Update
02.05.12 Unitary Patent and the Emergence of More Junk Patents
03.01.12 Google Helps EPO Manage Monopolies, Unitary Patent Aided
03.05.12 President José Manuel Barroso Does Not Understand Patents; Time to Fight the Unitary Patent Like We Fought ACTA
07.05.12 Fighting the Unitary Patent Like We Fought ACTA in Europe
11.23.12 European Free Software Activists Fight Against Software Patents Loopholes: Unitary Patent and FRAND
12.10.12 Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Glyn Moody, April, FSFE and Many Others Oppose Unitary Patent (Vote is Today)
12.11.12 ‘Unitary Patent’ Helps Microsoft Extend Linux/Android Patent Extortion to Europe
12.11.12 The Nightmare Before Christmas: Unitary Patent Reportedly Approved
05.12.13 Unitary Patent Impediments Covertly Addressed by EU Member Governments
05.30.14 Software Patents Are Still a Threat to Europe Due to ‘Unitary’ Patent
01.30.15 European Unitary Patent and Court System in Trouble
02.15.15 FFII and the American IP Law Association Comment on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Envisioned by EPO
05.26.15 Patent Scope at the EPO is Totally Out of Control, UPC Will Make Things Worse
08.17.15 Patents Roundup: Patent Reform, Google’s ‘Startups’ Ploy, JDate, Fitbit, Cisco, and UPC in the UK
09.10.15 The EPO’s Vicious Attacks on Its Very Own Staff Have Peaked (War on Dissent) While Oppressive Patent Regime (UPC) Phased in
09.11.15 EPO Has Become Political and Benoît Battistelli is Lobbying for UPC (Large Corporations’ Wishlist)
10.13.15 EPO Management Lobbies for the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Uses This to Advance Software Patents in Europe
10.14.15 EPO Completely Loses It and Starts Banning Even More Sites Ahead of Today’s Demonstration, UPC Proceeding Behind Closed Doors
10.22.15 Techrights to Increase Coverage of EPO Scandals and the Unitary Patent
10.23.15 US Patent ‘Industry’ (Parasites) Defends Patently Broken System That It Profits From, Pushes for UPC in Europe
11.04.15 The Latest Propaganda From Benoît Battistelli is Promotion of the Unitary Patent (UPC) at Political Levels
11.24.15 Response to Bogus Accusations That EPO Staff Protests Are Really an Attempt to Derail UPC
11.28.15 The Latest EPO Spin: Staff Protesters Compared to ‘Anti-Patent Campaigners’ or ‘Against UPC’
12.16.15 Battistelli Wants to Make “Lobbying in the Field of European and Unitary Patent” a “Prohibited Activity” for All Except Himself
12.19.15 EPO Pays FTI Consulting (Nearly a Million Bucks), Which Pays IAM for Pro-UPC Propaganda Event
12.28.15 Buying Panels and Paying the Media to Cement Personal Agenda: The Bill Gates Common Core Case Mirrors the Battistelli Unitary Patent Case
01.02.16 Abogados de Patentes de Alemania y Europa advierten que la UPC traerá más Trolls de Patentes a Europa con ayuda de la EPO
01.02.16 German and European Patent Attorney Warns That UPC Would Bring More Patent Trolls to Europe, With Help From the EPO
01.08.16 Patent Lawyers Continue to Spin Grim News About Patents (UPC, Lawsuits Peak, Patent Raids) as Good News
01.11.16 Abogados de Patentes Continua to Circular Tenebrosas Noticias Acerca de Patentes, UPC, Demandas a Granel, Ataques de Patentes Como Buenas Noticias
01.13.16 Germany Needs to Respect the European Patent Convention and Stop Issuing Software Patents, Also Reject UPC
01.20.16 La Corte Unitaria de Patentes (UPC) Resalta la Realidad Detrás la Gerencia de la OEP y sus Jefes de las Multinacionales del Extranjero
02.03.16 Richard Stallman: Patentes Europeas de Software Regresan con la Corte Unitaria de Patentes (UPC)
02.10.16 EPO Brain Drain (Even Directors Fed Up With Team Battistelli) and Rumours About Battistelli Becoming President of the UPC
02.13.16 Nuevas Protestas Contra La Vil OEP en Medio de Crisis Nerviosa de su Empleado Español (Después del Matoneo Institucional de Los Chacales de Battistelli), España Rechaza la Patente Unitaria UPC
02.22.16 Germany, Which Allows People in Europe and Abroad to Patent Software (EPC Shunned), Simply Cannot be Trusted With the EPO and UPC
03.08.16 Rumoured Successor of Battistelli, Christoph Ernst, Previously Seen as Antagonist of Battistelli But What About UPC?
04.05.16 European Patent Office Insists That Obeying the Law is Not Realistic, UPC Another Example of That
04.16.16 European Patent Office and Human Rights Violations: Article Translation Into English Reveals Upcoming Lawsuit Against the EPO Over Institutional Harassment
04.19.16 The ‘Great Conspiracy’ of Patent Lawyers, Lobbyists and Large Corporations for UPC and for Software Patents
04.30.16 How to Salvage the EPO’s Reputation: Create More Boards of Appeal in Europe and Abolish the Misguided UPC Fantasy
05.01.16 ES: ¿Cómo Salvar la Reputación de la EPO?: Crear Más Jurados de Apelaciónes en Europa y Abolir la Malgíada/Malintencionada Fantasía de la UPC
06.04.16 Software Patents in Europe and the UPC Already a Problem
06.14.16 EPO and Its ‘Buddies’ in the Media Lobby for the UPC in Spite of and in the Face of Resistance
06.17.16 Benoît Battistelli Admits That UPC is Not a Done Deal, in Spite of His Expensive PR and Misleading Media Coverage That He Had the EPO Pay Untold Millions For
06.18.16 ES: La EPO y sus ‘Compadres’ en los Medios Cabildean por la UPC a Pesar de y Enfrentar Resistencia
06.22.16 IP Europe’s UPC Lobbying and the EPO Connection
06.27.16 Battistelli May Still be on the Way Out as Pressure Grows in Germany, UPC in Shambles
07.05.16 Potential Alignment of Special Interests at Mishcon de Reya: EPO, Microsoft, and Brexit (or UPC)
07.10.16 ES: El Alineamiénto Potential de Intereses Especiales con Mishcon de Reya: EPO, Microsoft, y Brexit (o la UPC)
07.11.16 Will Battistelli’s Friend/Ally Lucy Neville-Rolfe Shamelessly Attack British Democracy and Push for UPC in Spite of Brexit?
07.22.16 Haar Mentioned as Likely Site of Appeal Boards as Their Eradication or Marginalisation Envisioned by UPC Proponent Benoît Battistelli
08.06.16 Managing IP (MIP) Organises a UPC Event (European Patent ‘Reform’ Forum), the Largest Patent Microcosm/Corporate Players Dominate Through Fee Discrimination
08.18.16 Battistelli’s European Patent Office Goes to the United States to Speak About the UPC and Software Patents
08.26.16 The EPO’s Francesco Zaccà Presenting in Turin Alongside Patent Trolls (Like the Patent Mafia Sisvel) and Lobbyists/Front Groups for Software Patents, UPC
09.06.16 Convergence Between the EPO and the Media: ‘Managing IP’ as Battistelli and UPC Platform
09.15.16 Battistelli and His Circle — Not Just Team UPC — Still Delusional About the Prospects of a Unified Patent Court (UPC)
09.19.16 With or Without the UPC (Which Will Probably Never Happen) Battistelli is Crushing the EPO and Ejects Experienced Staff, a Future Without Examination Possible
09.20.16 Like Big Tobacco Lobbyists, Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are Just Chronically Lying and Manipulating Politicians With Their Lies
09.23.16 Journalism 101: Do Not Believe Anything That Benoît Battistelli and the EPO’s Management Say (Also Don’t Fall for the UPC Hype)
09.29.16 IP Kat is Lobbying Heavily for the UPC, Courtesy of Team UPC
10.01.16 Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are at War With European Democracy, Which They View as an Obstacle to Money and Power
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
10.09.16 Has IP Kat’s Unofficial (Self-)Censorship Policy Expanded From Protecting the EPO’s Image to Protecting the UPC?
11.18.16 Like Team UPC, the Internet Association (Megacorporations’ Front Group) Hijacks the Voice of Small Businesses in an Effort to Steer Patent Policy Against Them
12.06.16 Les Échos Chamber: Having Corrupted the Media (With EPO Money), Battistelli Now Uses It for More UPC Propaganda
12.13.16 Another New Book, This Time From Dr Luke McDonagh, Chronicles the Demise of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement
12.21.16 With Lucy Neville-Rolfe Out (Confirmed Today!) and Chaos in the EPO’s Management, the UPC’s Prospects Look Worse Than Ever in the UK and Europe as a Whole
01.12.17 Brexit Means No UPC (Unified Patent Court)
01.21.17 ‘Reform’ at the EPO Means Destroying the Staff Union, Crushing Patent Examiners, and Imposing on Europe a System It Does Not Want (UPC)
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)
02.26.17 Wouter Pors and Other UPC Boosters Believe That Repeating the Lies Will Potentially Make Them Truths
03.02.17 EPO Budget Obscures and Distorts Facts About the Unitary Patent (UPC) in a Classic Antidemocratic Exercise by an Unaccountable Institution
03.21.17 What the Patent Microcosm is Saying About the EPO and the UPC
03.22.17 The Battistelli Regime, With Its Endless Scandals, Threatens to Crash the Unitary Patent (UPC), Stakeholders Concerned
03.26.17 Heiko Maas and the State of Germany Viewed as Increasingly Complicit in EPO Scandals and Toxic UPC Agenda
03.28.17 In Attempt to Promote the Horrific UPC (Poor Quality of Patents Everywhere), Minnoye and Casado Cerviño Attack Their Own Staff for Saying the Truth
03.30.17 Deconstructing the Latest ‘Damage Control’ From Team UPC Amid Demise of Unitary Patent Pipe Dreams
04.01.17 Bristows UPC Delusions Are Back, Attempting to Distract From Bad News (UPC Isn’t Happening)
04.02.17 The UK’s Involvement in a Hypothetical UPC Post-Brexit Far From Certain, Admits Law Firm, Contrary to Those Who Stand to Profit
04.13.17 Politician Links UPC to EPO Abuses and Slams the European Commission for Overlooking EPO Tragedies Like “Violations of Fundamental Rights” and Deaths
04.20.17 Bristows-Run IP Kat Continues to Spread Lies to Promote the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Advance the EPO Management’s Agenda
04.25.17 Astoundingly, IP Kat Has Become a Leading Source of UPC and Battistelli Propaganda
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
04.30.17 Unified Patent Propaganda Courtesy of a Cabal of Firms That Constructed the UPC
05.22.17 Speculations About Battistelli’s End of Term, Campinos at EUIPO, and Failed UPC Ambitions
06.13.17 Battistelli to Leave the European Patent Office Without the Unitary Patent He Repeatedly Promised in Vain Over the Years
06.13.17 A Massive Proponent of UPC, CIPA, Enters IP Kat, as Readers Call Out Stacked UPC ‘Panels’
06.25.17 Wouter Pors Under Fire for Lying or Manipulating in the Name of the Unitary Patent (UPC)
06.29.17 The UPC’s Figurehead, Alexander Ramsay, Admits UPC is Stuck, Bristows LLP Comes Up With ‘Alternative Facts’
07.22.17 Lack of Independence of the Boards of Appeal at the European Patent Organisation (EPO) a Fatal Blow for the UPC
07.26.17 The ‘New’ IP Kat on Patents: A Front Group for Team UPC (Bristows) and CIPA (British Patent Microcosm)
07.26.17 The Latest Lies From the EPO (Regarding Quality) and the Reason the UPC Won’t Happen (Any Time Soon at Least)
08.08.17 EPO Already Thinks It’s the UPC (Which Will Likely Never Happen)
08.10.17 German Media Paints a Picture of Benoît Battistelli as a Drunken ‘Putin’ Looking to Push UPC at All Costs
08.22.17 Bristows LLP Tries Hard to Maintain the Illusion That UPC is Alive, Using Media Placements and Paid Plugs
08.31.17 Bristows Turns British Government Report Which Says Nothing About the UPC Into a Self-Serving Plug and a Lie
09.05.17 One Week Left for Battistelli’s Coronation of Another Frenchman, António Campinos, to Lobby for UPC?
09.07.17 Personal Attacks, Censorship of Comments and More Nefarious Tricks Expected in the Wake of UPC Panic
09.11.17 Upcoming EPO Series: Benoît Battistelli’s ‘Club Med’
09.21.17 UPC Threatens to Weaponise Software Patents in Countries That Forbade These
09.28.17 The EPO Continues to Lie About the UPC and About SMEs, Even Several Times Per Day Now
09.30.17 Jesper Kongstad’s Last Day is Today, But the EPO Remains a Sordid Mess Like the UPC
10.02.17 Death of European Patent Quality: The EPO Officially Sends the Appeal Boards to Exile Despite the UPC Going Nowhere
10.19.17 Europe is Being Robbed by Team Battistelli and the UPC/PPH Would Make Things Worse
11.02.17 UPC is Collapsing, But Bristows LLP is Pushing Propaganda Into the Media, Which Gives Misleading News
11.08.17 Kluwer Patent Blog is Down/Sabotaged, But UPC and EPO Spin Carries on in Other Sites
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
11.15.17 The EPO is Now Corrupting Academia, Wasting Stakeholders’ Money Lying to Stakeholders About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
11.24.17 Raw: EPO ‘Social Democracy’ is Like a 1AM Vote on UPC by Only 5% of Politicians
11.30.17 Ignore Today’s Fake News From IP Kat/Bristows, the UK is Not Ratifying the Unitary Patent (UPC)
12.09.17 Bristows Continues to Lie About Unitary Patent (UPC) in Britain Only to Get Rebutted in Comments, As Usual (Criticism Not Deleted Yet)
12.12.17 Team UPC’s Tilmann Defends Rogue Vote at 1 AM in the Morning With Just 5% of Politicians (Those With Vested Interests) Attending
12.17.17 Battistelli’s ‘UPC Buddy’ Michel Barnier Helped Squash EU Intervention in Dysfunctional (Subverted by Battistelli) Administrative Council
12.26.17 Raw: Lack of Independence of the Boards of Appeal at the EPO Poses a Serious Issue for Unitary Patent-Type Regime (UPC)
01.07.18 Anonymous “Kluwer Patent Blogger” is Probably Just Bristows LLP Hiding Its Identity While It Publicly Lies or Distorts Facts About UPC
01.15.18 EPO Scandals Played a Considerable Role in Sinking the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
01.23.18 The Response to Accusations of Censorship by Team UPC? Yet More Censorship to Shield UPC From Criticism
01.25.18 Sam Gyimah Replaced Jo Johnson More Than a Fortnight Ago, But Team UPC Has Ignored It Until Now
01.26.18 The ‘Collusion’: IP Kat’s (Until Recently) Stephen Jones Meets Battistelli to Lobby for the Unitary Patent (UPC)
02.10.18 The Relationship Between IAM and the EPO’s President Battistelli Tightens Further After Payments for UPC Promotion
02.12.18 Patent Maximalists Won’t Get Their Way and UPC Will Likely Never Happen (Even After Battistelli)
02.15.18 Bavarian State Parliament Has Upcoming Debate About Issues Which Can Thwart UPC for Good
02.17.18 UPC Has Done Nothing for Europe Except Destruction of the EPO and Imminent Layoffs Due to Lack of Applications and Lowered Value of European Patents
02.27.18 EPO Refuses to Admit that Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Dead, But It’s Boosting Others Who Are Lying About It for a Living
03.17.18 Luxembourg Can Become a Hub of Patent Trolls If the EPO Carries on With Its ‘Reforms’, Even Without the UPC
03.18.18 UPC/Battistelli Booster IAM Blames Brexit Rather Than EPO Abuses
03.22.18 Battistelli’s Ongoing Attacks on the Boards Are Helping Unitary Patent (UPC), Which in Turn Helps French Patent Trolls
03.24.18 Using Politics to Do the Patent Trolls’ Bidding With STRONGER Patents Act, Just Like the UPC in Europe
04.09.18 The ‘Sisvelisation’ of Europe, With or Without the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
04.22.18 Today’s European Patent Office Works for Patent Extremists and for Team UPC Rather Than for Europe or for Innovation
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
04.29.18 Team UPC and Team Battistelli in IP Kat and IAM
05.03.18 Bristows LLP Already Uses Kluwer Patent Blog and IP Kat as Its UPC Megaphone, Now IAM as Well
05.03.18 Marks & Clerk is Still Pushing Patent Maximalism Agenda in Europe and Britain, Including UPC/UPCA/Unitary Patent (UP)
05.20.18 António Campinos Will Push Toward a France-Based Unified Patent Court (UPC)
06.03.18 Change of Government in Spain Does Not Change the Fact That Unitary Patent (UPC) Would be Terrible for Spanish Companies
06.05.18 IP Kat as an Extension of Team UPC After Departure of the Blog’s Founder
06.05.18 The Demise of the EPO and Collapse of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) May Mean That António Campinos Will Soon Fire ~15% of the Workforce
06.14.18 The ’4iP Council’ is a Megaphone of Team UPC and Team Battistelli at the EPO
07.10.18 Signs of Upcoming Changes at EPO: Raimund Lutz, Željko Topić and Other ‘Team Battistelli’ Folks Are Being Replaced
07.11.18 The Lack of Genuine, Honest Discussion About Patent Quality Means That Under António Campinos Software Patents Will Continue to be Granted, Campinos Strives to Make Them ‘Unitary’
07.21.18 The EPO (European Patent Office) Under António Campinos is Just Another Battistelli EPO; Still UPC and Software Patents Lobbying
08.21.18 Admissibility of the Unitary Patent Constitutional Complaint Was Likely the Final Nail in the Coffin of the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
09.07.18 CIPA and EPO, Two UPC Boosters, Get Together to Promote Software Patents in Spite of the EPC
09.15.18 The Max Planck Institute’s Determination on UPC’s (Unitary Patent) Demise is Only “Controversial” in the Eyes of Rabid Members of Team UPC
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’
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
10.25.18 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.
11.06.18 Managing IP and Law Gazette Speak for Patent Trolls and Team UPC (Which Supports and Profits From Trolls)
11.10.18 Pro-Litigation Front Groups Like CIPA and Team UPC Control the EPO, Which Shamelessly Grants Software Patents
12.02.18 Be Wary of the Latest Lies About the Unified Patent Court (UPC), Courtesy of CIPA and Marks & Clerk (Team UPC)
12.03.18 EPO Management Keeps Embarrassing Itself, UPC More Dead Than Before, and Nokia Turns Aggressive
12.05.18 The Patent Litigation Bubble is Imploding in the US While the UPC Dies in Europe
01.20.19 JUVE Creates English Site, Promotes Unified Patent Court (UPC)
02.09.19 EPO President Campinos Works With Patent Trolls and With Team UPC to Promote Software Patents
03.04.19 Unitary Patent (UPC/A) Constitutional Complaint Can be Decided in a Matter of Years (If Ever)
03.06.19 Quality Issues at the European Patent Office Can Lead It Down the Same Downward Path as the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
03.30.19 The UK Supreme Court’s Latest Decision is Ammunition for the FCC to Scuttle the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA)
05.16.19 The EPO’s Key Function — Like the UPC’s Vision — Has Virtually Collapsed
02.21.08 Microsoft, Siemens and Phillips Named for Software Patents in Europe
10.24.08 Important Step for Software Patents in the European Union
08.12.09 Guess Which Software Giant is Promoting Software Patents
11.30.09 Patent Tax and Microsoft Tax in Europe: An Update
01.21.10 Patents Roundup: ACTA Threatens Free Software in New Zealand, the Rambus Extortion Racket Expands, and Google Earns New Monopoly
02.18.10 Wakeup Call to Google, Regarding Software Patents
02.19.10 Patents Roundup: America, Europe and Asia Share a Problem with Software Patents
04.22.10 IBM Might Pay Microsoft Even More for Imaginary Software Patents (in Linux) Through SUSE/Novell
01.19.11 Patents Roundup: A Quick Look at Europe
01.21.11 European Commission Disappoints Regarding Free Software and Patents
01.25.11 Patent Lobbying in Europe
01.28.11 Patents Roundup: Coverage From the United States, China, Vietnam, South Pacific, and Europe
02.04.11 Europe Enters the Patents Cold War
03.16.11 Triumph Against Software Patents in Europe as EU Treaty Brought Up
04.02.11 The FFII Undresses the European Union
04.15.11 Senior Figure at Nokia: “This isn’t a deal between Nokia and Microsoft, this is a Microsoft take over.”
05.20.11 Europe’s Peanut Gallery Wants Software Patents
05.31.11 Why Europe Must Prepare to Abolish and Block All Software Patents
06.13.11 France and the United Kingdom Want to Drown in Software Patents Sea of Risk
06.14.11 What Software Patents Bring to Society
06.19.11 FFII Warns About Latest Patent Threats in Europe
06.21.11 USPTO is Driving Away Businesses to Countries Like New Zealand, US-based Multinationals Attack New Zealand With Imperialistic Patent Lobbying to Assimilate Policies
06.21.11 US Chamber of Commerce Patent Lobbying, Redmond Patent Troll, and the Fight Against RAND
06.29.11 Microsoft Lobbyists Still Push for Software Patents in Europe
07.07.11 Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier and Polish Presidency Named and Shamed for Patent Policy
07.10.11 Techrights Commends Spain and Italy for Keeping Software Patents Out of Europe
07.15.11 Europe Patent Law Under Pressure, APRIL Gets Increasingly Involved
07.25.11 Mainstream Press is Turning Against Software Patents
08.25.11 Steve’s Duopoly Against Linux
08.30.11 More Mainstream Backlash Against Software Patents and Patents in General
09.01.11 FFII Approached for Opinion on Ill Approach Towards Patents in Europe
10.06.11 Patents Roundup: Europe Under Pressure, Microsoft Moles in the Press, and More Patent Trolls
10.07.11 EU Patent Failing to Materialise, But EPO and Politicians Begin to Overstep Their Line of Authority to Intervene
10.09.11 Halliburton and the UN (World Intellectual Property Organisation): Patent Globalisation, Monopoly Maximalism, and Software Patents
10.12.11 Microsoft Pushing Hard for Software Patents in Europe While Halliburton Makes British/European Patent Lawyers Happy
10.14.11 Microsoft Lobbies for More Patents in Europe While Apple Blocks and Castrates Linux Devices in the EU
11.03.11 Patents Roundup: Software Patents, Patent Trolls, Reexaminations, and Apple
11.12.11 “Patent Judges Want the Last Word Over Patent Law in Europe”
11.28.11 Lehne and the Polish Presidency Continue to March for Software Patents in Europe
11.29.11 ‘Pulling an ACTA’ to Legalise Software Patents in Europe
12.01.11 Software Patents Come to Europe Through the Back Door
12.08.11 Links – SOPA and NDAA round up.
12.28.11 Commissioner Barnier: Enemy of European Development
12.28.11 Software Patents: How Europe Lost Its Sovereignty
12.28.11 Patent Lawyers Push for Software Patents, Poorly
12.28.11 EPO and Other Lawyers-dominated Circles Push for Software Patenting
01.04.12 Starting 2012 With Patent Extortion and Litigation
01.06.12 In the Age of Defective Patent Systems, Google Receives Patents to Defend Android From Lawsuits
01.11.12 Danish Presidency Wants to Open Europe to Patent Trolls and Software Patents, Italy Reportedly Surrenders
01.21.12 EPO Advisory Board Likes Patents
02.22.12 FOSS-Hostile Patent Policies in Europe and the FFII’s Response to That
02.25.12 While Attacking Android/Linux With FRAND and Lawsuits Apple and Microsoft Pretend to be the Victims
03.25.12 Software Patents in Israel and the Effect on Europe
04.17.12 Microsoft’s Love/Hate Relationship With Germany
05.26.12 Activism Against Software Patents and Patent Trolls
05.29.12 Time to Refocus on Microsoft’s Attacks — Including by Proxy — on Free Android
06.07.12 Software Patents Want to Spread and Harm Civil Rights, Fair Competition
06.27.12 New Evidence Arrives to Support Patent System Overhaul While EFF Pressures Congress
07.10.12 Call for Action Against Software Patents in Europe
09.27.12 Europe and New Zealand Share a Software Patents Problem As Such
10.09.12 Contact European Parliament Members Today to Stop Software Patents
10.21.12 European Debate on Patents Should Borrow Lessons From Apple vs. Samsung
10.24.12 Business Press (Forbes) Questions Patents
11.08.12 Spain Trashes FRAND (Software Patents Tax), Microsoft Lobby Keeps Promoting FRAND
11.18.12 Bogus Correlations for Disinformation on Software Patents
11.26.12 Patents-free Standards in the UK
12.10.12 Stop Software Patents in Europe, Polish Government May Already Repeat Its Anti-ACTA Action
01.01.13 Groups of Lawyers Will Not Solve the Patent Problem
01.16.13 FFII Challenges Software Patents in Europe, DOJ Does the Same in the United States But With a Twist
01.19.13 New Fights Against Software Patents Around the World
02.05.13 USPTO Shows That It Wants to Go Global
02.19.13 No Genuine Debates About Real Patent Reform, Just Covert Patent Expansion
02.25.13 Europe, Australia and New Zealand: Patent Updates
03.14.13 Software Patents Proponent Martin Goetz Groomed by a Microsoft Booster, Unrest Over Software Patents Evident in Europe
03.24.13 Software Patents and Thickets in Asia, Europe
04.03.13 Having Been Attacked by Battery Life Patents in Europe, Google Pursues Battery Life Software Patents
04.18.13 Pressuring for US Style European Patent System and Anti-Android Policies, Courtesy of Bill Gates and His Goons
04.19.13 Electronic Frontier Foundation, Google, Red Hat et al. Should Work to Eliminate Software Patents, Not Just Patent Trolls
05.04.13 The European Patent Office is Breaking the Law Regarding Software Patents, German Parliament Finally Complains
05.08.13 Patent Attack on Skype Following Microsoft’s Patent Attacks on Free Codecs, Media/Communication; Some More Microsoft Lobbying Regarding Patents
05.20.13 Patent Policy Laundering in the European Union and New Zealand
05.23.13 WebM is No Ogg, It is Not Freedom-Respecting Anymore, Even in Countries That Have No Software Patents
06.05.13 Interference With Free(dom) Software Policy in European Governments and Beyond
06.14.13 As the Battle to Legitimise Software Patents in New Zealand and Europe Carries on, New Systemic Corruption Found
06.19.13 White House Should Identify USPTO as the Problem, Not Patent Trolls
07.17.13 Panorama of Richard Stallman: The P Series (2013)
08.05.13 European Commission Takes Next Step Towards Legalising Software Patents in Europe
08.20.13 Actions of US Government Shut Down Groklaw Pre-emptively; Observing the US’ Sanctions Economy and the Danger of Expansion to Europe
11.20.13 Richard Stallman on Software Patents in Europe
01.15.14 Privacy Watch: Latest Stories
05.09.14 The US Patent System is Only Getting Worse as 92% of Patent Applications Now ‘Successful’, Everything Under the Sun Patented
06.29.14 Arguments Persist Over Whether Software Patents Died in the US Whilst European Patent Law is Quietly Assimilated to US
08.11.14 Another Depressing Look at the Patent Systems in the US and in Europe
09.08.14 Suspicion of High-Level Corruption at the European Patent Office (EPO): Part I
09.29.14 More Good News About Demise of Software Patents and Along With Them, Consequently, Patent Trolls
10.20.14 The EPO’s Public Relations Disaster Amid Distrust From Within (and EPO Communications Chief Leaves): Part VII
10.31.14 The EPO Is More Corrupt Under Battistelli Than Under Alison Brimelow: Part VIII
12.13.14 News From France and Germany: Battistelli Under Fire, But Not Fired Yet, Just Firing His Opposition
12.16.14 Keeping Software Patents Out of Europe Following the Demise of Software Patents in the US
12.28.14 EPO Breaking News: The European Parliament Dismisses Complaint About EPO Abuses
12.28.14 EPO Corruption: Battistelli Augments His ‘Loyals’ Circle With Frederic Angermann and Charm Offensive in Patent Lawyers’ Sites
01.10.15 Software Patents in an Age of Political Corruption and Corporate Domination
01.20.15 Failure of the EPO Can Derail the Trojan Horse of Software Patents and Patent Trolls
01.24.15 As Battistelli Breaks the Rules and Topić Silences Staff, New European Parliament Petition for Tackling the EPO’s Abuses is Needed
02.07.15 The European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW) is Again Protesting Against EPO as More Crackdowns by EPO Management Reveal Depth of Abuse
02.11.15 Corruption at the Croatian State Intellectual Property Office Which Željko Topić Came From: Part XV
02.15.15 Chart of the Day: The Worrisome Rise and Domination of Software Patents in the United States
02.18.15 EPO Scandals: The Story So Far
02.19.15 The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys Slams the European Patent Office for Structural Failings
03.16.15 EPO Management Still in a Freefall, Tries to Warp/Divert the Debate Away From Its Abuses
03.24.15 Benoît Battistelli’s EPO is Under Attack From French Politicians Yet Again
03.24.15 Benoît Battistelli’s EPO Comes Under Fire From Prominent Figures Who Are Key EPO Stakeholders, Expect Battistelli to Resign ‘in the Longer Term’
04.02.15 Željko Topić: “SUEPO Staff Union Has No Standing in This Office. SUEPO Has No Role to Play in This Office.”
04.08.15 The EPO is Becoming More Like the USPTO Under Benoît Battistelli’s Greed-Driven Reign
04.10.15 New Article Chronicles Suicides and Nervous Breakdowns at the EPO Due to the Management’s Abuses
04.21.15 9 Millionth US Patent Tells a Story of Failure and USPTO Misconduct
04.29.15 As Core Issues Still Not Addressed, Another Protest Against EPO Management Scheduled for Tomorrow in Munich, Germany
05.25.15 Süddeutsche Zeitung Says Talking Helps While EPO Management Back-stabs Other Side of the Table
06.06.15 EPO and Administrative Council Stall Criticism by Pretending to Negotiate With Staff Whilst Actually Attacking It
06.10.15 More European Politicians Pressure and Sometimes Slam the European Patent Office (EPO) Amid New Scandals
06.17.15 More Political Interventions in EPO Abuse Cases
06.20.15 Better Watch Out or the United States Will Export Software Patents to Europe, Along With Patent Trolls
06.22.15 Demonstration Against European Patent Office Management in Munich This Wednesday
06.25.15 An Estimated 1,000 EPO Staff in Munich Demonstrated Against EPO Management Yesterday Afternoon
07.08.15 Europe Goes Down a Dark Route When It Comes to Patent Scope and Centralisation
07.21.15 Patents Regime in Europe: Mixture of Greed, Competition Abuses, and Propaganda
08.03.15 The World is Changing and Patent Law Can Change Either for Better or for Worse
08.13.15 Geographical Scope of Broadening Scope of Patents is Expanding With 1%-Centric ‘Globalisation’ and ‘Trade’ Deals
09.02.15 When Even Patent Lawyers’ Blogs Acknowledge the Rapid Demise of Software Patents
09.14.15 Patents Roundup: Europe’s and India’s Software Patents Affair, US Continues to Demote Software Patents With Alice Case
09.23.15 Changes at Techrights
09.24.15 EPO Managers, Patent Lawyers, Commissioners and Other Non-Technical Personnel Tackle Democracy, Alter Laws in Bulk and in Secret
09.24.15 Europe’s Acceptance of and Resistance to Software Patents, Courtesy of Corporate Front Groups and Courtrooms Respectively
10.01.15 The ‘Microsoft Loves Linux’ Baloney is Still Being Floated in the Media While Microsoft Attacks Linux With Patents, New Lawsuits Reported
10.02.15 Microsoft’s Secret Special Relationship With EPO Illustrates Serious Corruption at Microsoft and the EPO
10.04.15 Article Explains Why SUEPO Went Silent Well Over a Week Ago: Nobody is Allowed to Talk to Journalists Without Permission From Battistelli
10.05.15 With Software Patents in Europe (and Pushes for the Same Thing in Australia and India) Patent Trolls Now Come to Europe, Attack Android/Linux
10.06.15 Commenters Provide Possible Explanations for Mr Van der Eijk Being on Unlimited Sick Leave
10.07.15 EPO Staff to Disrupt Administrative Council Meeting With Public Demonstration That Raises Awareness of Abuses
10.08.15 The Coup D’état of Benoît Battistelli Follows an Imperialist Model, Threatens Opposition and Dissent
10.11.15 European Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda Says TPP Will Bring Software Patents to Europe and Other Continents/Countries
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
10.14.15 Clare Curran (New Zealand Parliament) Pressures Her Government to Reveal Whether TPP Acts as a Trojan Horse for Software Patents
10.15.15 Exclusive: Leaked E-mail From Grant Philpott (EPO Principal Telecommunications Director) Shows Collusion Between EPO and Microsoft to Prioritise Most Notorious Patent Bully, Microsoft
10.16.15 The ‘Sherlocks’ of EPO/Spin-Doctoring Pretend That All of the EPO’s Problems Boil Down to One Disgruntled Person (Updated)
10.16.15 EPO is Trademark-Bullying Its Critics, Trying Repeatedly to Remove Bad Publicity With Help From Menacing Legal Threats (SLAPP)
10.16.15 EPO Cleverly Frames Total War Against Its Own Staff as a War Against Nazism
10.25.15 EPO Slammed for Granting Patents on Life
10.27.15 Board of Appeal Thwarts a Software Patent Application in the EPO, From Company Indirectly Connected to the EPO
10.27.15 European Patent Organisation: Hallmark of a Corrupted (by Corporations) Entity
10.28.15 Secret Deals at the EPO Discredit Europe and Need to Stop Immediately
10.28.15 Battistelli’s EPO Loses ‘Customers’ Because It Plays ‘Favourites’ With Large Corporations
10.28.15 Battistelli’s EPO Loses ‘Customers’ Because It Plays ‘Favourites’ With Large Corporations
10.30.15 IBM Bemoans the Collapse of Software Patents in the US and Wants US Congress to Intervene for ‘Certainty’
10.30.15 Former German Constitutional Court Judge Denounces the EPO’s Possible Campaign of Defamation Against Judge Accused of Truth-Telling
11.03.15 The Benoît Battistelli Way or the Highway: EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal is Being Discredited, SUEPO Web Site is Down Again
11.06.15 So-Called ‘Trade’ Treaties Like TPP and TTIP Threaten to Legalise Software Patents in Europe and Even Effectively Ban Software Freedom/Copyleft
11.10.15 New Reports Highlight Need to Crack Down on the European Patent Office and Microsoft
11.10.15 The Bureaucratic Nonsense That Came Out of Benoît Battistelli and Jesper Kongstad at EPOPIC
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
11.22.15 President Battistelli Now Pressures/Threatens Politicians Who ‘Dare’ to Complain About Abuses and Unacceptable Conditions at the EPO
11.23.15 NRC Handelsblad (Dutch Evening Newspaper) Speaks About EPO’s Refusal to Accept Court Orders From The Hague
11.25.15 The Broken Window Economics of Patent Trolls Are Already Coming to Europe
11.25.15 Debunking the EPO’s Latest Marketing Nonsense From Les Échos and More on Benoît Battistelli’s Nastygram to French Politician
11.25.15 The Sun King Delusion: The Views of Techrights Are Just a Mirror of EPO Staff Unions
11.26.15 European Patent Office (EPO) a “Kingdom Above the EU Countries, a Tyranny With ZERO Accountability”
11.26.15 Documents Needed: Contract or Information About EPO PR/Media Campaign to Mislead the World
11.26.15 Saving the Integrity of the European Patent Office (EPO)
11.27.15 When the EPO Liaised With Capone (Literally) to Silence Bloggers, Delete Articles
11.30.15 Media Alert: IAM ‘Magazine’ Does Not Protect Sources
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
12.04.15 The Media is Already Flooded With EPO Propaganda, Some Likely Paid for With €73,000-Per-Month ‘Special’ New Budget
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 Article Highlights EPO’s Capitalist Venture Tendencies, Seeking to Just Maximize Profit, Irrespective of Public Interests and Human Factors
12.06.15 Staff Union of the EPO Responds to Benoît Battistelli’s Alleged Defamation of Staff Representatives
12.06.15 The USPTO, With All Its Serious Issues, Increasingly Looks Like the EPO’s Role Model
12.07.15 New WIPR Survey Shows 96% of Respondents Are Concerned About the Situation at the European Patent Office (EPO)
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
12.13.15 Keeping the European Patent Office (EPO) Out of Politics Amid the EPO’s Campaign to Deceive the Media, Politicians
12.14.15 EPO No Longer in the ‘Business’ of Just Granting Patents But Politics and Lobbying Also
12.16.15 European Patent Institute (EPI) Not Happy With the EPO’s Terrible Treatment of the Boards of Appeal
12.16.15 New WIPO Figures Reinforce Reality Where More Patents Needn’t Imply More Innovation, Just Lower Standards
12.17.15 Benoît Battistelli’s EPO Continues Its Self-Congratulatory PR Charade, Neglecting to Even Acknowledge the Catastrophes Therein
12.18.15 EPO Irrelevancy, Two Decades to be Granted an EPO Patent, Outrage Over Patents on Plants in EPO
12.19.15 Watch Out for ‘Divide and Rule’ Tactics From the Control Risks- and FTI Consulting-Steered EPO
12.20.15 Battistelli’s Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part IV
12.20.15 EPO Management Discovers Media is Against It
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 I-AM EPO: How the Record of the EPO’s Management Dispute With Staff and the EPC is Being Rewritten by EPO-Funded Media
12.26.15 Benoît Battistelli Fails to Get Majority of 38 Member States to Crush the Boards, Which Are Already Being Crushed Anyway (23 Vacant Judge Positions)
12.28.15 Today’s Chaos Computer Club (CCC) Talk: EU Software and Business Method Patents: Call for Action
12.31.15 Software Patents Used by Patent Trolls in the United States Are Squashed in Courts
01.01.16 European Patent Office (EPO) Starts New Year With Hogwash
01.03.16 The Long EPO Queue for European SMEs That Cannot Hop Like Multinational Corporations
01.04.16 La Larga Cola Para Las PYMEs Europeas que No Pueden Evitar Como Si lo Hace las Corporaciones Multinacionales
01.04.16 Shedding Light on the Secretive Mock Trial of Elizabeth Hardon and Others (EPO Union Busting)
01.05.16 The European Patent Office (EPO) Has Become a Propaganda Mill After the FTI Consulting Deal
01.05.16 So Much for ‘Vocal Minority’… Half of EPO Staff Signed Petition in Support of SUEPO
01.05.16 Patent Lawyers and People in ‘IP’ Jobs Warp the Debate About the Patent System: EPO-Funded Writers, Glorification of Patent Trolls, and Software Patents
01.08.16 The European Patent Office (EPO) Doesn’t Like Spanish, So Why Should the Spanish Tolerate the EPO?
01.10.16 A La Oficina Europea de Patentes (OEP) no le gusta el Español, Así que PorQué los Espańoles la Toleran?
01.10.16 A Busy Week Ahead for the EPO’s Management as Union-busting Efforts Culminate
01.10.16 Patent Lawyers and Judges Don’t Understand Software Development and It Harms Programmers, Practicing Software Companies
01.12.16 Una Semana Ocupadísima para la Gerencia de la OEP Mientras sus Esfuerzos por Desmantelar su Unión Culminan
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 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
01.17.16 Team Battistelli Has Brought Dirty Politics to the EPO, Pension Cuts May be “Blatantly Illegal”
01.18.16 Battistelli’s Legitimacy Under Political Fire After He Fired Staff Representatives, Claims He’s Neither Suitable Nor Eligible to be EPO President
01.20.16 La Legitimidad de Battistelli bajo Fuego Político Después que Despidió Representates de la Unión, Reclamos que El NO es el Indicado or Ineligible para Presidente de la OEP
01.20.16 Benoît Battistelli Blasted by Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’, Who Initiates More Political Actions Against Him
01.23.16 EPO Implicitly Acknowledges Declining Patent Quality by Agreeing to Finally Dump Some Monsanto GMO Patents
01.23.16 Additional Information About EPO Management and Its Abuses, as Told by Anonymous Comments
01.24.16 Süddeutsche Zeitung After FTI Consulting Deal: EPO Ghostwriter or Journalism?
01.24.16 Software Patents and Patent Taxes: How 100 Grams Worth of Components Can Cost as Much as $1000
01.24.16 Eventos de Consultantes Promovido para la Corte Unitaria de Patentes por la OEP/FTI, Estará Repleto de Mega-Corporaciones de los Estados Unidos
01.26.16 The EPO Goes Lobbying Even More Heavily in Brussels, Reveals New Job Advertisement
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
01.28.16 Many Software Firms No Longer Bother With Software Patents, Especially After Alice
01.28.16 Patents Roundup: Apple, Patent Trolls, Software Patents, East Texas, and Rick Frenkel (Best Known as Patent Troll Tracker)
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
01.29.16 Patentes Resumen: los trolls de patentes de Apple, Patentes de Software, Este de Texas, Rick Frenkel (mejor conocido como Rastreador de Trolles de Patentes)
01.30.16 When European SMEs Make the Mistake of Relying on the EPO’s Integrity, Now Want to Even SUE the EPO
01.31.16 MEP Konstantina Kouneva (Former Trade Unionist) Again Takes Action Against the European Patent Office for Union-Busting Actions
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
02.07.16 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
02.08.16 Latest Propaganda From the EPO’s Management an Effort to Make the EPO the Tool of Megacorporations
02.09.16 Besieged Benoît Battistelli Mimics ‘Damage Control’ Tactics of FIFA or Blatter as More Judges Start Getting Involved in EPO Scandals
02.09.16 La Más Detallada Explicación (hasta ahora) de ¿Qué esta mal con la OEP?
02.09.16 The EPO’s Benoît Battistelli is the Dictator Who Can No Longer Dictate Like He Used to
02.11.16 Only Half a Dozen Cuban Patents Filed at EPO, But Hugely Unpopular Battistelli Goes to Cuba to Garner Cheap Support
02.13.16 Sólo Media Docena de Patentes Cubana Registradas en la OEP, Pero el Trístemente Célebre Battistelli Va a Cuba a Acumular Apoyo Baráto
02.14.16 Patents Roundup: Software Patents, Patenting Loopholes, PTAB, Patent Trolls, and Software Patents Propagandists
02.15.16 Última Propaganda de la Gerencia de la OEP un Esfuerzo para hacer de ella la Herramienta de las Grandes Corporaciones
02.18.16 Danish Left’s Alternate for European Parliament Slams the European Patent Office While Staff Protests Are Again Ignored by the German Media
02.19.16 Patent Trolls and the Rise of Non-Practicing Parasites Not Just in the US But Also in Europe
02.22.16 More Political Action in France, Still Firmly Against the Largely French EPO Management
02.22.16 It’s Official: Death of Software Patents Reaffirmed in India
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)
02.23.16 Los Trolles de Patentes y el Aumento de Entidades No-Practicantes No Sólo en Los Estados Unidos Pero También En Europa
02.23.16 Es Oficial: La Muerte de las Patentes de Software Reafirmada en India.
02.25.16 Repurposed Misinformation Campaign: The EPO’s PR Team is Lying to The Register in Order to Help Battistelli Save Face
02.28.16 Problems of Governance in International Organizations: the EPO
02.29.16 After Alice, Patent Trial and Appeal Board is Invalidating Software Patents and Other Abstract Patents
03.01.16 Team Battistelli’s New Media Strategy at Times of EPO Emergency
03.03.16 Overview of Today’s Growing Press Coverage About the European Patent Office
03.03.16 EPO Propaganda is Already Sticking in Some Media
03.05.16 EPO and IAM: a Marriage of Convenience
03.05.16 Forget Staff Union-busting ‘Strike Ballots’, How About Ballots on Presidential Matters?
03.06.16 EPO y IAM: un Matrimonio de Conveniencia
03.08.16 Claim and Perception: Under Battistelli, EPO More Permissive on Software Patents Than USPTO, In Spite of the EPC
03.10.16 Patents Roundup: Patent Trolls, Patent Reform, IAM’s Willful Ignorance, PTAB Paranoia, and Long Briefs
03.11.16 EPO Tells La Tribune That Benoît Battistelli’s Salary is “We Don’t Comment on Rumours”
03.14.16 EPO Rumours About Antonio Campinos as Replacement for Benoît Battistelli
03.14.16 Rodeo de Patentes: Trolls de Patentes, Reforma de Patentes, Ignorancia Voluntaria de IAM, Paranoia de PTB y Bragas Largas
03.15.16 Consequences of Straining Staff: Patent Quality at the European Patent Office Has Gotten Rather Terrible
03.15.16 Overthrowing Battistelli Only Part of a Bigger Job (Restoration of Quality and Human Decency at the European Patent Office)
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
03.22.16 Software Patents: Dying, Spreading, or Hardly Surviving?
03.23.16 Focus on Patent Trolls Persists, With Increasing Use of Euphemisms Such as NPEs and PAEs
03.26.16 Battistelli is Trying to Save His EPO Job After Getting Called Out, But Doesn’t Give Back Busted Union Leaders Their Jobs; Strike Imminent
03.26.16 Patents Roundup: SCOTUS, U.S. Code § 101, CAFC, PTAB, and Software Patents in the Far East (Australia, Korea, Taiwan, China)
03.29.16 Crisis Deepens at the European Patent Office, General Strike Planned for Next Thursday
04.01.16 David Kappos Whines About the Supreme Court Shutting the Door on Many Software Patents
04.02.16 Biased IAM’s Editor in Chief Goes on the Offensive Against (Software) Patent Sceptics, Still a Trolls Denialist
04.02.16 David Kappos Lloriquea Porque La Corte Suprema Esta Cerrándo la Puerta a Varias Patentes de Software
04.03.16 EPO Strike in 3.5 Days Effective in All Sites, Lots for EPO Staff to be Angry About
04.03.16 EUIPO y sus Sospechosa Relación con la EPO
04.04.16 Battistelli’s Inner Circle is Expanding With More Miraculous EPO Promotions and Allegedly More Bodyguards
04.04.16 El Parcializado Editor en Jefe de IAM Va a la Ofensiva Contra Escépticos de las Patentes (Software), Todavía un Denialista de Trolles
04.05.16 Christian Archambeau on the Verge of EUIPO and EPO, Making the Two Less Distinguishable
04.05.16 El Circulo Intimo de Battistelli se Expande Con Más Milagrosas Promociones y Su Guardia Pretoriana También Se Incrementa
04.06.16 From US Military to International Banking and External ‘Review’ of EPO ‘Investigations’ (Union-Busting and War on Dissent)
04.08.16 Lobbyists for Software Patents in ‘Journalism’ and ‘Reform’ Clothing (With Microsoft Connections)
04.08.16 Desde los Militares de los Estados Unidos a la Banca Internacional y la ´Revisión´ Externa de las Investigaciones de la EPO (Golpes a la Unión y Guerra contra los Disidentes)
04.09.16 Cabilderos por las Patentes de Software en Ropas de ‘Periodismo’ y ‘Reforma’ (con Conecciones a Microsoft)
04.09.16 Patents Roundup: US Patent System/Landscape Disqualified, Corrupted, Saturated With Patent Trolls, and Funded by Microsoft
04.11.16 FOSS at Risk From Software Patents, Which Are Still Being Promoted by Bristows, IAM, IBM, and Steve Lundberg (Frequent Villains)
04.11.16 Resumen de Patentes: Systema/Paisaje de Patentes de los EE.UU. Descalificado, Corrupto, Saturado Con Trolles de Patentes, y Financiado Por y Para Microsoft
04.12.16 FOSS en Riesgo a Causa de las Patentes de Software, Las que Todavía Siguen Siendo Promovidas por Bristows, IAM, IBM, y Steve Lundberg (Los Villanos Usuales)
04.12.16 European Patent Lawyers Who Conveniently Promote Software Patents in Spite of the Rules and the EPC
04.18.16 Say the Truth About the US Patent System, Get Attacked by the Patent Propaganda Machine (Disguised as Press)
04.19.16 European Patent Office Deemphasising Quality and Looking to Replace the Key Workers
04.21.16 Growing Threats of Software Patents in Europe and the FRAND Trap Which Microsoft Promotes/Lobbies For
04.22.16 ES: Creciéntes Amenazas de las Patentes de Software en Europa y la Trampa FRAND Que Microsoft Promueve/Cabildea
04.22.16 More Patents Don’t Mean More Innovation, Just More Money for Patent Lawyers and Patent Offices
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
04.23.16 ES: Más Patentes No Significa Más Innovación, Simplemente Más Dinero Para los Abogados de Patentes y las Oficinas de Patentes
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)
04.28.16 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.”
05.02.16 Nefarious Forces for Patent Abuse and Software Patents in the United States, Australia, India, Korea, and Europe
05.07.16 ES: Fuerzas Viles Para el Abuso de Patentes y Patentes de Software en los EE.UU,. Australia, India, Korea, y Europe
05.10.16 Golden Parachute or Not, Battistelli is Wasting Huge Amounts of Money on His Longtime Bodyguards Fetish
05.11.16 ES: El Congreso de los EE.UU. Debería Investigar a Battistelli, No Sólo a la WIPO y Francis Gurry
05.11.16 ES: Paracaídas de Oro o No, Battistelli Está Desperdiciándo Dinero Con Su Fetiche de Guardia Pretoriana
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 It’s All Just Artificial Distractions From EPO Management, ‘Yellow’ Union Comes Under Scrutiny Again
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
05.21.16 EPO Patent ‘Quality’ and ‘Patent Creation’ Myth: Capsule-Based Coffee Sales and Trauma
05.22.16 Disrupting Battistelli’s Distracting Propaganda: EPO Staff to Protest Again in About a Fortnight
05.22.16 ES: Los Mitos de la EPO ‘Calidad’ de Patentes y de ‘Creación’ de Patentes: Basados en Ventas de Cafe y Trauma
05.22.16 IP3 Demonstrates That Today’s Patent Systems Devolve Into a Conglomerates’ Game, Won’t Protect the Mythical Small Inventor
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”
05.24.16 ES: Interrumpiendo la Propagánda Distractante de Battistelli: los Empleados de la EPO Protestará de Nuevo en una Quincena
05.26.16 Victim Card Ends up in Another Blunder for Battistelli and His Six Bodyguards
05.26.16 EPO Management Under Growing Stress From Croatian Law Enforcement Authorities, German Politicians, Italian Media
05.26.16 The EPO is Doing Great, Says EPO-Connected ‘News’ Site
05.26.16 Italian Report About EPO Now Available in English
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 EPO Management Warns People About Scams When the EPO’s Management is Itself Falling for Scams
05.28.16 ES: La Gerencia de la EPO Bajo Creciénte Estres por las Autoridades Legales Croatas, Políticas Alemanas, y los Medios Italianos
05.29.16 Battistelli’s ‘Special Relationship’ With Portugal and the ‘Inventor of the Year’ Charade
05.30.16 ES: Tarjeta de Victima Termina en Otra Torpeza para Battistelli Seis de su Guardia Pretoriana
05.31.16 Microsoft’s Former Chief Patent Counsel Praises Elevation of Software Patents in Microsoft Case, Adds to Cherry-Picking and Lobbying by Patent Lawyers
06.01.16 Crazed Battistelli is Trying Plan B to Demolish the Boards of Appeal (Quality Control), Praesidium/Association of Members Strikes Back
06.01.16 ES: La Gerencia de la EPO Adviérte a la Gente Cuando Ellos Mismos Estan Cayendo Presa de Scams
06.01.16 Save the Boards of Appeal to Save the EPO From Battistelli’s Neoliberal Vision and Recipe for Disaster
06.03.16 Closer Look at Players in Battistelli’s Information War: Part IV (Wellkom)
06.04.16 Battistelli is Destroying the European Patent Office and Wasting a Lot of Money Hiding This Fact
06.06.16 The Enemy Within: How Patent Lawyers, Their Media and the Whole Patent Establishment Became an Enemy to Their Nations
06.07.16 Streisand Effect Award Won by EPO: It Has Just Blocked IP Kat Blog (Updatedx7)
06.07.16 EPO’s Old Spokesman (10 Years in Munich) Resigns Again After Only 5 Weeks, EPO is Just Buying the Media Now
06.08.16 EPO Powers Up Its Spam Machines, ‘Media Partners’ Start Their Prepared ‘Articles’ (Puff Pieces)
06.08.16 Goodbye to Patent Quality at the EPO, Thanks to Team Battistelli With Its Extreme Policies
06.08.16 ES: Mirada Cercana a los Protagonistas de la Guerra Informativa de Battistellir: Parte IV (Wellkom)
06.09.16 EPO’s European Inventor Award 2016 (EIA16) is Not an Award Event, It Is a Propaganda and Lobbying Event of Battistelli, EPO Just Foots the Bill
06.10.16 EPO ‘Bought’ the Financial Times, Which Now Operates in ‘Mouthpiece Mode’ for Mr. Battistelli
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: El Premio al Inventor Europeo 2016 (EIA16) del la EPO No es un Evento de Premiación, es Sólo un Evento de Propaganda y Cabildeo de Battistelli, la EPO Simplemente Paga por Ello
06.12.16 Why Anonymous Dissent Against EPO on Google Platforms May be Risky
06.12.16 ES: La EPO ‘Compró’ al Financial Times, El Cual Opera a ‘Modo de Vocero’ Para el sr. Battistelli
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 Timely ‘Gifts’ From Battistelli to Member States (Shortly Before They Can — and Should — Sack Him)
06.15.16 Battistelli’s European Patent Office Broadens FTI Consulting Contract to Undermine the Media, Wastes Millions of Euros
06.15.16 Benoît Battistelli’s Façade Continues: Exploiting Terror Attacks Again, Throwing Expensive Parties at the EPO’s Expense, Crushing More Workers’ Rights
06.15.16 British Media Tackling Other British Media That the EPO’s Benoît Battistelli Paid for His Propaganda Campaign
06.18.16 ES: La Oficina Europea de Patentes de Battistelli Amplia su Contrato con el Nefasto FTI Consulting Para Neutralizar a los Medios, Desperdicia Millones de Euros
06.18.16 ES: Oportunos ‘Regalos’ de Battistelli a los Estados Miembros (Poco antes de que Ellos Puedan — y Deberían — Despedirlo)
06.18.16 Brain Drain at the EPO: Qualified Patent Examiners Leave in Droves, Young Ones Blindly Loyal to Management Reduce Patent Quality
06.21.16 Supreme Court on Cuozzo v Lee Another Major Loss for Software Patents in the United States
06.23.16 As Decision on the UK’s EU Status Looms, EPO Deep in a Crisis of Patent Quality
06.23.16 Patent Lawyers Love (and Amplify) Halo and Enfish, Omit or Dismiss Cuozzo and Alice
06.26.16 Patents Roundup: Bad Quality (USPTO), Bad Analysis (India), Bad Microsoft, Bad Actors (Trolls), Bad Scope (Software Patents), and the Ugly
06.28.16 Injunction Against Battistelli’s Investigative Unit (Known Internally as ‘Gestapo’) Amid Serious Injustices and Bogus ‘Trials’
07.01.16 Battistelli’s Destructive Actions Will Drive EPO Applicants Away to National Patent Offices, Putting at Risk the Whole EU-Wide (and Beyond) Project
07.01.16 The European Patent Organisation’s Administrative Council Helps Benoît Battistelli Destroy Patent Quality for the Sake of ‘Production’
07.03.16 ES: Las Acciiónes Destructivas de Battistelli Llevaran a los Aplicantes de la EPO Hacia las Oficinas Nacionales de Patentes, Poniéndo en Riesgo el Proyecto Total de la UE y Más Allá
07.03.16 Grim Situation at the European Patent Office Following Battistelli’s Latest Lawlessness Tendencies, as Explained by Concerned Insiders
07.05.16 Signs of Progress: Overly Litigious US Patent System Calms Down a Bit, Reform Upsets Megacorporations
07.11.16 Benoît Battistelli’s Attacks on EPO Unions, Judges, Boards, and Even Justice Itself the Subject of Media Fascination
07.12.16 Climate of Patent Maximalism (Departure From Patent Quality Control) Leads to More Litigation, Not Innovation
07.13.16 EPO’s Battistelli Continues to Court Small Countries’ Officials and Spin That as “Small Businesses From These Countries”
07.17.16 ES: La EPO de Battistelli Continúa Cortejando a Officiales de Países Pequeños y su Propaganda de Beneficiar a las “PYMEs de Aquellos Países”
07.17.16 Microsoft and Its Patent Minions at Nokia Still Have Patent Stacking Ambitions Against Android/Linux OEMs
07.18.16 EPO Social Report is a Big Pile of Lies That Responsible Journalists Must Ignore
07.20.16 EPO USA: Under Battistelli, the ‘European’ Patent Office Emulates All the Mistakes of the USPTO
07.22.16 EPO Attaché Albert Keyack Viewed as Somewhat of a Mole, Reporting From the US Embassy in Brazil Until Shortly Before the Temer Coup
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)
07.27.16 Patent Lawyers Move Closer to Battistelli’s Rubber-stamping Office While the Appeal Boards Pushed Away as Collective Punishment Which Masks Decline in Patent Quality
07.27.16 CAFC Meddling in PTAB Affairs; Unified Patents Fights a Good Fight by Invalidating Software Patents
07.30.16 EPO Crushed the Boards of Appeal (i.e. Quality Control) and Insiders Explain Why
08.04.16 Patent Quality in Europe (EPO) Declining Under Battistelli in Spite of the USPTO’s Cautionary Tale
08.08.16 Software Patents Not Potent in the United States Anymore, But Threat of Resurgence Persists Inside CAFC
08.09.16 “EPO Shows an Operating Loss of €145,000,000”
08.09.16 “EPO is Quickly Turning Into a Registration System”
08.11.16 ‘Constitutional Crisis’ at the European Patent Office (EPO)
08.16.16 Personal Audio LLC and Patent Troll Jim Logan Demonstrate the Harms of Software Patents and Why They Must Never Spread to Europe
08.19.16 The Cost/Toll of the ‘New’ EPO and Where All That Money Goes or Comes From
08.25.16 Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice Calls the European Patent Office “Rotten”, Other Sources Scrutinise Recent Moves
08.28.16 More Lies From President Benoît Battistelli and the EPO Crisis Which Continues to Deepen
08.29.16 Let Them Eat Patents
09.05.16 The EPO’s Assistant/Secretary for Bergot (Nepotism Supreme) Demonstrates a Race to the Bottom With Temporary Appointments, Operation ‘Clean House’
09.08.16 A New Wave of the EPO’s Much-Expected Propaganda Push, Aided by ‘Managing IP’ and IAM ‘Magazine’
09.11.16 New Paper Outlines Concerns That the EPO as a Patent Examination Office is Dying, Gradually Turning Into a Registration Office
09.13.16 Battistelli is Killing the EPO, in His Own Words…
09.14.16 As Part of So-called ‘Reforms’, the EPO’s President is Gradually Eliminating the Boards of Appeal, Not Just Their Independence
09.18.16 After McRO v Namco Case (at CAFC) the Patent Microcosm Works Overtime to Produce Pro-Software Patents Propaganda, Smear the Supreme Court
09.20.16 The EPO’s ‘Investigative’ Function is Totally Out of Control and Continues to Get Bigger, Whitewashed by So-called ‘Review’
09.23.16 Journalism 102: Do Not Become Like ‘Managing IP’ or IAM ‘Magazine’ (the Megaphones of the EPO’s Management)
09.25.16 The EPO Does Not Want Skilled (and ‘Expensive’) Staff, Layoffs a Growing Concern
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)
09.25.16 What Insiders Are Saying About the Sad State of the European Patent Office (EPO)
09.26.16 The Moral Depravity of the European Patent Office Under Battistelli
09.27.16 Team Battistelli Intensifies the Attack on the Boards of Appeal Again
09.27.16 The Battistelli Effect: “We Will be Gradually Forced to File Our Patent Applications Outside the EPO in the Interests of Our Clients”
09.28.16 Cementing Autocracy: The European Patent Office Against Democracy, Against Media, and Against the Rule of Law
09.29.16 Letter From the Dutch Institute of Patent Attorneys (Nederlandse Orde van Octrooigemachtigden) to the Administrative Council of the EPO
10.03.16 Translation and Response to Battistelli’s Face-Saving ‘Interview’ With Juve
10.05.16 No Justice Even for a Judge at the EPO, as the Whole Institution is Beyond Rotten and Quite Corrupt
10.09.16 Towards the End of Patent Trolls-Friendly Courts in the United States
10.16.16 As Expected, Benoît Battistelli Puts Longtime Ally Roland Grossenbacher on Top of Boards of Appeal
10.18.16 The Long History or Seeds of Control by Fear and Punishment at the EPO
10.20.16 Battistelli Ruins Not Only the EPO But Also the Whole of Europe By Ushering in Software Patents That Patent Trolls Love So Much
10.24.16 Updates Regarding EPO and BoAC: Unrest and Injustice Carry on
10.24.16 EPO and EUIPO Join Hands to Release Propaganda (for European Media to Parrot) Some Time Tomorrow
10.25.16 No Promising Future For the EPO Under Battistelli (If Any Future At All)
10.27.16 Leaked: Budget and Finance Committee Outcomes That Jeopardise What’s Left of the EPO’s Future
10.29.16 The Former Chief Economist of the EPO Warns That Battistelli’s Implicit Policy of Lowering Patent Quality (for Quantity) Will Bring Patent Trolls to Europe
10.30.16 FTC Slams Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), Effectively Patent Trolls, Which Are a Growing Problem in Europe
10.30.16 The Patent Trolls Are Moving East as Patents on Software Lose Their Lustre in the United States
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
11.08.16 At EPOPIC Today, As Expected, Software Patents Courtesy of EPO
11.10.16 Benoît Battistelli’s Marching Orders in Spain Through His ‘Pet Chinchilla’ Patricia García-Escudero, Whom He Got Overseeing the Boards of Appeal
11.12.16 Decline in Patent Quality at the EPO Increasingly Reaffirmed by More Branches, Insiders, and Even the European Commission
11.13.16 IAM’s Interest in Patent Trolls Going Global, Capitalising on Declining Patent Quality
11.13.16 Benoît Battistelli Reinforces the Perception That García-Escudero is His Pet Chinchilla at the Board of Appeals Committee (BoAC)
11.19.16 European Media, Dutch Parliament and Spectacularly Enough Even IP Kat (Yes, It’s Back!) Subject the EPO to Serious Scrutiny
11.22.16 Crisis at the EPO Deepens as Dutch Parliament Dives in, European Parliament Snubbed by EPO Management, and Battistelli Relies on ‘High Corruption’ States
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
11.29.16 Mixing Politics and EPO: How Battistelli Defies the Very Basic Rules of the Office
11.29.16 Learning From the Mistakes of the US Patent System (and More Latterly China) When Assessing Patent Maximalism
12.01.16 Dutch and French Politicians Complain About the European Patent Office, British Media Coverage Regular Now
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)
12.04.16 Asia’s Patent Litigation Chaos Getting Worse, Reaching Countries in the West, and Sites Like IAM Actively Promote This
12.04.16 Patent Trolls of Microsoft and Ericsson Are Trying to Tax Everything, Especially Linux Devices
12.05.16 EPO at a Tipping Point: Battistelli Quarrelling With French Politicians, Administrative Council Urged to Act, Staff Unrest Peaking
12.06.16 USPTO Echo Chamber That Lacks Actual Software Professionals Deciding on Patentability of Software
12.12.16 Software Patents Battles: Lobby to Restore US Software Patents, IBM’s and Google’s Positions on the Subject, and Microsoft/Intellectual Ventures With Their Ongoing Attacks on Linux
12.13.16 Media Blackout in Croatian Mainstream Media About Criminal Charges Against EPO’s Croatian Vice-President and EPO President’s Notoriety
12.13.16 The EPO Keeps Bullying Examiners and Even Judges, EPO’s Mouthpiece PwC Now Bullies Researchers
12.14.16 Rumour: Carl Josefsson to Head EPO Boards of Appeal, Battistelli Unhappy
12.14.16 EPO is “Googlebombing” Croatia With Puff Pieces Rather Than Discussion/Coverage of Vice-President’s Dark Side
12.16.16 Small Nations With Almost Not a Single European Patent Sign the Death Knell of EPO Patent Quality
12.19.16 From Bad to Worse: When a Horrible Regime (EPO) Publicly Makes Itself Look Like One
12.21.16 Accusations of Administrative Council (of the EPO) Complicity in Illicit Retaliation Against Appeal Boards at the Behest of Battistelli
12.21.16 No Justice at the EPO, Whose Underlying Purpose Was (Originally) to Do Patents Justice
12.26.16 After Microsoft’s Notorious Intervention Nokia is Nothing But a Patent Troll Whose Patent Portfolio Needs to be Smashed
12.29.16 Software Patents Continue to Collapse, But IBM, Watchtroll and David Kappos Continue to Deny and Antagonise It
12.31.16 2016 in Review and Plans for 2017
12.31.16 EPO’s Central Staff Committee Complains About Battistelli’s Bodyguards Fetish and Corruption of the Media
01.01.17 When EPO Vice-President, Who Will Resign Soon, Made a Mockery of the EPO
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
01.07.17 Eight Wireless Patents Have Just Been Invalidated Under Section 101 (Alice), But Don’t Expect the Patent Microcosm to Cover This News
01.11.17 No End to Battistelli’s Witch-hunts Against the Media, Against Staff, and Against Politicians
01.12.17 Brexit/Trump Effect: Patent Systems With Institutional Corruption and Nepotism
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
01.27.17 Gurry and Battistelli: When Alternative Facts and Oppression Are Becoming Business as Usual
01.28.17 Juve Survey: Stakeholders Want Benoît Battistelli Out
01.29.17 The Future of Patent Trolls in the US Will Also Determine Europe’s
02.01.17 EPO Stakeholders Want Battistelli and His Goons Ousted, They Can Accomplish This by Working Together (Like a Union)
02.03.17 Weekend Talk in Brussels to Speak of “Open Patents”, Relevant to the EPO at Times of Growing Lenience on Software Patents
02.06.17 The EPO’s President, Benoît Battistelli, May Have Become One of Europe’s Most Hated People
02.07.17 Translation: Juve Survey That Shows 0% Approval of Battistelli and Growing Concerns About the EPO
02.07.17 Battistelli’s EPO is Under Fire From Major Applicants for So-called ‘Early Certainty’ (Low Quality and Rushed Patent Examination)
02.07.17 The European Patent Office Officially Dishonours Justice, So It’s Time for SUEPO to Become Clandestine
02.08.17 Laughable and Misleading: What the EPO Has Become Amid an Avalanche of Bad News
02.08.17 The News the EPO is Distracting From: No Justice for EPO Workers at ILO (Necessitating Immediate Removal of Immunity)
02.09.17 Video: 123rd Session of ILO Tribunal Judgments Session Talks About EPO
02.14.17 For Valentine’s Day, Battistelli Learns to Stop Worrying and Love to Lie
02.16.17 New Survey Reveals That High Patent Quality, or Elimination of Bad Patents, is Desirable to Patent Holders
02.17.17 Technicolor, Having Turned Into a Patent Troll, Attacks Android/Tizen/Linux With Patents in Europe
02.19.17 The EPO is Becoming an Embarrassment to Europe and a Growing Threat to the European Union
02.27.17 Top Officials in French Government Are Growing Tired of Battistelli’s Abuses at the European Patent Office (EPO)
02.27.17 Patent Trolls on Their Way Out in the United States and Their Way Into China, No Thanks to the Open Invention Network (OIN)
03.03.17 What Battistelli Means by Social Democracy at the EPO is What North Korea Means by Democratic People’s Republic
03.03.17 East Asia is Known for Hardware Innovations, Not Software Innovations, and Software Patents Will Do the Latter No Favours
03.04.17 EPO Mimics Interpol, But Interpol Should Raid the EPO and End the Management’s Abuses Once and for All
03.05.17 Poisonous Patents at the European Patent Office (EPO)
03.07.17 EPO Record Low on Quality of European Patents (EPs) in 2016
03.07.17 With a Week Left Before the Administrative Council’s Meeting, Pressure on Battistelli to Leave the EPO Continues to Grow
03.07.17 Another Delegation Antagonistic on EPO Matters is ‘Decapitated’ (Sean Dennehey)
03.08.17 Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Bert Koenders: Rapid Improvements in European Patent Office or Else ‘High Level’ Action
03.08.17 The European Patent Office is Wasting Its Already Limited Budget on Misleading Press Releases/Paid-for Coverage That Overlook Sharp Decline in Patent Quality
03.08.17 Battistelli’s Shock Doctrine is Coming to the EPO’s Boards of Appeal, Having Already Rattled the Office
03.10.17 After EPO Sanctions Against IP Kat (Censorship of More Than 10,000 Articles) Even Merpel Throws in the Towel
03.12.17 IAM Continues Promoting Patent Trolls and Large Corporations’ Interests, New Harvard Study Explains Why Small Business Employment is Harmed the Most
03.12.17 The Patent Microcosm is Lobbying by Shaming, Typically for Patent Maximalism in the United States and Elsewhere
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 The European Patent Office is in a State of Collapse and It Coughs Up Rubbish Patents Until Its Death
03.16.17 CERN Staff Association “Profoundly Shocked by the Situation That Has Persisted in the European Patent Office (EPO)”
03.17.17 IAM Remains Battistelli’s Propaganda Mill, Helping to Manufacture and Reinforce Lies About Quality
03.17.17 Whenever Battistelli’s EPO Says Something These Days, Safest to Just Assume It’s a Lie (Because It Typically Is)
03.18.17 European Directives and Boards of Appeal Desperately Needed to Keep EPO Patent Scope in Check
03.18.17 EPO Management Deeply Concerned That the Public Has Found Out Quality of European Patents (EPs) Nosedived Under Battistelli’s Regime
03.18.17 Letter From European Public Services Organisation (IPSO) to Angela Merkel and Heiko Maas Regarding EPO Union-Busting Catastrophe
03.20.17 Supposedly ‘Pampered’ Prisoners Are Still Prisoners of the EPO
03.21.17 At EPO “I Have the Feeling That Lowering Quality is Part of a Concerted Plan.”
03.22.17 EPO’s Georg Weber Continues Horrifying Trend of EPO Promoting Software Patents in Defiance of Directive, EPC, and Common Sense
03.23.17 The Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation Has Just Buried an Innocent Judge That Battistelli Does Not Like
03.23.17 Nepotism at the European Patent Office and Suspicious Absence of Tenders for Big Projects
03.25.17 Depressing EPO News: Attacks on Staff, Attacks on Life, Brain Drain, Patents on Life, Patent Trolls Come to Germany, and Spain Being Misled
03.28.17 With Important Supreme Court Decisions Looming, Mainstream Media Tackles Patent Trolls
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
03.30.17 EPO is a Laughing Stock in International Media This Week (Quality of Patents) After Decades-Long Reputation Building
03.31.17 EPO Likes to Pretend to be Tolerated in Spite of Patenting Life, Seeds, Plants and More
03.31.17 Culpability for EPO Injustice in the Administrative Council Chaired by Battistelli’s Protector, Jesper Kongstad
03.31.17 In Spite of Confirmation, Uncertainty and Doubt Still Being Cast on Michelle Lee’s USPTO Leadership (by Her Opponents)
04.02.17 The Litigation Lobby is Causing Chaos in Patent Offices, Still in a Coordinated Effort to Convert Patents Into Nothing But Legal Chaos That Harms Science
04.05.17 Misleading (or Partial) Information About PTAB, CAFC, Software Patents, and Patent Trolls in EDTX
04.06.17 Like EPO ‘Grants’ (up 40% in a Year), Patent Trolls in Europe Are Growing at Double-Digit Rates (Now 20% of All German Lawsuits)
04.06.17 The EPO’s Management is Silencing Its Critics by Sheer Intimidation
04.06.17 Thorsten Bausch (Hoffmann Eitle) Bemoans Declining Quality (Service and Patents) at the European Patent Office
04.10.17 Latest EPO Puff Piece From Benoît Battistelli Shows Desperate Need for (and Inability to Attract) Talent
04.11.17 Voices of Patent Trolls Are Alive and Well (and Partly Paid by Battistelli’s EPO)
04.11.17 Software Patents Lobbying Sites Are Really Desperate to Oust the Director of the Patent Office
04.12.17 Abundance of Patents is Not the Goal, Quality of Patents is the Goal
04.13.17 Awful Quality of EPO-Granted European Patents (EPs) Becomes a Mainstream Topic
04.13.17 USPTO Director Michelle Lee is Already Reducing Litigation and Saving Lives
04.14.17 Adding Insult to Suicide: European Commission’s Site Publishes Benoît Battistelli’s EPO Puff Pieces
04.16.17 EPO Patent Quality and Quality of Service Have Become a Disaster, Say EPO Stakeholders
04.19.17 IAM, the Patent Trolls’ Voice, is Trying to Deny There is a Growing Trolling Problem in Europe
04.21.17 EPO in 2017: Erroneously Grant a Lot of Patents in Bulk or Get Sacked
04.22.17 The European Patent Office Has Just Killed a Cat (or Skinned a ‘Kat’)
04.22.17 Yann Ménière Resorts to Buzzwords to Recklessly Promote Floods of Patents, Dooming the EPO Amid Decline in Patent Applications
04.23.17 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part IX: Testament to the Fear of an Autocratic Regime
04.25.17 EPO Fiasco to be Discussed in German Local Authority (Bavarian Parliament) Some Time Today as the Institution Continues Its Avoidable Collapse
04.27.17 China’s Suffering From Patent Maximalism Has Europe Forewarned
04.29.17 Battistelli is Busy Securing the Vote of Countries Whose Support and Tickets Are Easy to ‘Buy’
04.29.17 This is How ‘Independent’ the Boards of Appeal Are Under Battistelli
04.30.17 “Spectator” and “The Patent Scam” (New Site/Movie) Tackle the Patent Trolls Epidemic
05.02.17 At IAM Event in Korea, Patent Trolls in the Panels and Advocacy of Software Patents From the EPO
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)
05.06.17 European Marketing Office: Battistelli-Commissioned ‘Studies’, Puff Pieces, and Revisionism about PACE
05.08.17 Death of ‘IP’ Media: Front Groups of Microsoft Described as “Representing SME Developers” by Bristows
05.09.17 ‘European Media Intervention Award’ (EIA), EPO Censorship, Self-Censorship, and Paid ‘Media Partners’
05.14.17 Professor Lisa Larrimore Ouellette Questions Whether Patents Work When Patent Scope is Too Broad
05.22.17 Great News: While IBM et al Try to Undermine Patent Reform the Supreme Court Deepens the Reform in TC Heartland Case
05.27.17 The United States Has Already Tackled Both Software Patents and Patent Trolls
06.05.17 Battistelli’s ‘Boss’, Jesper Kongstad, Rumoured to Have Been Paid by Battistelli
06.11.17 European Patent Office May Become Just a Mirage of Examination Office, Much Like INPI (France)
06.21.17 EPO’s Elodie Bergot Calls Staff Suicide Just ‘Passing Away’, Pretends to Care
06.23.17 Primer to the Crisis and Scandals at the European Patent Office (EPO)
06.24.17 The STRONGER Patents Act is One Among Several New Pushes for Patent Chaos in the United States
06.28.17 Christoph Ernst, Long Speculated to be Battistelli’s Successor, Becomes Battistelli’s ‘Boss’
06.29.17 European Patent Office is on Strike Until Tuesday and Insiders Study the New Head of the Organisation
06.30.17 The EPO Has Officially Confirmed That Christoph Ernst Will ‘Boss’ (and Soon Replace) Battistelli
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
07.03.17 It’s Official: Battistelli Will Leave the EPO in Less Than a Year
07.08.17 On the EPO’s Premises, Investigation After a Small Fall But Not After Suicide of Staff
07.08.17 If Antonio Campinos (EUIPO) Takes Over the EPO With Alberto Casado Cerviño (Former OHIM/EUIPO) in Charge of Patent Granting, Subversive Loyalty to Battistelli Will Remain
07.09.17 French Giants Resort to Patent Trolling While Battistelli Attracts Patent Trolls to Europe
07.09.17 Supreme Court Saves the Day as Latest Statistics Reveal Slump in Patent Litigation (Mostly Trolls) in the Eastern District of Texas
07.12.17 The European Patent Office (EPO) Under Benoît Battistelli is Compared to “Soviet Times”
07.13.17 Looking Forward to a Battistelli-less and Kongstad-less European Patent Office
07.13.17 Status and Potency of European Patents Compromised
07.15.17 European Commission Betrays the Public by Promoting Software Patents
07.16.17 From East to West and Even Down South at the Eastern District of Texas Patent Trolls Are Losing Everything
07.17.17 Anti-Patent Trolls Reform in the US Evolves Nicely and Rogue Judges Get Named, Shamed
07.17.17 Software Patents Lobbying at IAM Strives to Reinforce the Positions of Patent Maximalists
07.25.17 Patent Maximalists Continue to Warp the Debate/Media Coverage About Patents in Britain
07.29.17 The United States International Trade Commission is an Embargo-Loving Bully That Ignores Invalidation of Patents at Hand
07.29.17 Anonymous Comments Discuss Erosion of Lawful Activity at the EPO, Lowered Patent Quality, Software Patents, and Trump Comparisons
07.30.17 PACE of Prosecution Prioritised Over Quality of Patents and Examination
07.31.17 German Media Finally Waking up to EPO Scandals?
08.02.17 EPO: Germans “Discover That Behind the Mad Figures, the Granted Patents Are of Crap Quality and That This Does Not Serve Their Interests”
08.03.17 Antonio Campinos in Charge of the EPO Would Mean Greater EUIPO/EPO Overlap
08.03.17 Benoît Battistelli Distracts From Declining Patent Quality at the EPO by Diverting Attention Away to “Timeliness”
08.05.17 EPO Directors Who Care About Patent Quality Are Being Kicked Out as Quality Continues to Plunge
08.08.17 Adobe Speaks Out Against Patent Maximalism and Software Patents Are on the Retreat
08.08.17 Extortion and Racketeering: What the Latest Article at The Hill Calls Patent Trolling
08.09.17 When It Comes to Software Patents, the EPO Has Become Among the Worst in the World
08.15.17 The Collapse of Patent Quality at the EPO is Inviting to Europe Some of the World’s Worst Patent Trolls
08.25.17 At EPO, “Producing Stronger Patents (or Being Able to Produce Them) is Also a Matter of Professional Pride for the Examiners”
09.02.17 ‘Building the Evidence Base on the Performance of the UK Patent System’ Put in Perspective and Threats From Patent Maximalists
09.03.17 Media Hostility Towards Patent Reform in the US, Software Patents on the Chopping Block
09.03.17 What Germany and the EPO Could (and Should) Learn From Australia About Patent Scope
09.05.17 Deepening EPO Crisis and a New Report Titled “EPO Patent Filing a Rigged Game in Europe”
09.16.17 Tax Evasion by Patent Boxes and Lies About Small Businesses (SMEs) in the Corporate Media
09.17.17 Citing the European Patent Convention, Spanish Court Tosses Lawsuit With EPO-Granted European Patent
09.23.17 Latest EPO Rumours Allege That Benoît Battistelli Rigged the Process of EPO President’s Selection
09.23.17 The Mohawk-PTAB Fiasco Threatens the Tribe’s Reputation More Than It Threatens PTAB
09.24.17 Fake News About Software Patents in the United States
09.24.17 IBM and IPO Continue Working Behind the Scenes to Undermine Alice and Promote Software Patents
09.27.17 Battistelli Follows German Law Only When It Suits Him, Three Holidays Just Canceled
09.27.17 EPO Now a Megaphone of IP Europe, a Front Group of Patent Maximalists
09.29.17 EPO Staff Representatives Help Prevent Seventh Suicide Under Benoît Battistelli
10.01.17 China Advertises Itself as a Friend of Patent Trolls, Google’s Patent Leadership Headless
10.02.17 The Software Patents/Litigation Industry is Dying in the United States and China Takes This Heavy Burden
10.03.17 US Supreme Court Defends Position on Alice, Maintaining/Cementing a Ban on Software Patents Like the Rest of the World
10.04.17 Nepotism at the EPO Has Reached Truly Toxic Levels
10.04.17 EPO Management Gambled on Europe Being a Patent Litigation Hub/Capital, But It’s All Coming Down in Flames Now
10.05.17 EPO Makes European SMEs More Vulnerable to Litigation From the Former Soviet Union
10.05.17 The European Patent Office’s New Relationship With Former Portuguese Colonies and the Connection to Battistelli’s Choice of Next President
10.08.17 Depressing State of Affairs at the European Patent Office (EPO)
10.08.17 Microsoft Lobbying, the EPO, and Software Patents Disguised as ‘Internet of Things’
10.12.17 Truly Terrible ‘Journalism’ About António Campinos Boils Down to Lobbying and Agenda-Pushing
10.12.17 Patent Quality at the EPO (European Patents) is Slipping While Battistelli’s Office Boasts “Expansion of Early Certainty” (Even Worse)
10.12.17 The Hogwash Begins: Patent Microcosm’s Media Pretends Campinos is Anything But Battistelli’s French Succession Plan
10.16.17 Another Misleading Article Regarding Patents From Rana Foroohar at the Financial Times
10.16.17 Monika Ermert’s Reports About the Crisis at the EPO and IP Kat’s Uncharacteristically Shallow Coverage
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
10.17.17 EPO Stakeholders Complain That the New Chairman Does Not Grasp the Issues at the EPO (or Denies These)
10.18.17 Confessions of EPO Insiders Reveal That European Patents (EPs) Have Lost Their Legitimacy/Value Due to Battistelli’s Policies
10.20.17 The Darker Past of the Next President of the EPO – Part III: More Details About Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Former Employer of Campinos
10.20.17 Battistelli’s Destruction of the EPO is Bad for Everyone, Even Patent Attorneys
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 Speaking of “Social Democracy” While Suffering Extreme Democratic Deficiency
10.23.17 IP Kat Participates in Deletion of Information About EPO Scandals
10.24.17 The Last Comment in IP Kat (Before Censorship) Was About Patent Quality at the EPO
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)
10.27.17 Keltie LLP Advertises Dodging Patent Rules (Software Patents) and Dodging Tax
10.28.17 French Politician Claudine Lepage Confronts the EPO Again, Mentions the Hague Court
10.31.17 “EPI Makes No Protest When the AC Connives With Battistelli to Trash the Rule of Law”
11.02.17 The Screws Tighten on Benoît Battistelli as His Departure is Just Two Seasons Away, Media Still Largely Complicit
11.02.17 University College London (UCL) Becomes Part of the Patent Fanatics Lobby, Supported by the EPO’s PR Firm FTI Consulting
11.04.17 In October, Silence in the Media Regarding EPO Scandals Turned From Self-Censorship Into Censorship
11.04.17 IP Kat Peddles Patent Trolls and Software Patents Agenda
11.04.17 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby Advocates More and More Patent Lawsuits (Litigation ‘Industry’ Profits)
11.06.17 Battistelli’s Serious Conflict of Interest in Saint-Germain-en-Laye Disqualifies Him as EPO President
11.08.17 Benoît Battistelli Brews New Scandals in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and in Haar
11.10.17 More Microsoft AstroTurfing by Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) and Mingorance
11.13.17 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby is Losing the Battle for Europe
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
11.15.17 Declines in Patent Quality at the EPO and ‘Independent’ Judges Can No Longer Say a Thing
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
11.19.17 Update on the EPO’s Crackdown on the Boards of Appeal
11.22.17 Patent Lawyers’ Media Comes to Grips With the End of Software Patents
11.23.17 EPO is Imploding as Benoît Battistelli Drains Out Work, Talent, and Justice
11.25.17 Raw: Central Staff Committee Requested EPO Audit by Transparency International One Year Before EPO Simply Hired Transparency International’s Director to Become EPO Spokesperson
11.25.17 In New EPO Interview With Juve, Chairman of the Administrative Council Criticises Battistelli
11.25.17 Battistelli’s Home Country, France (Where He is a Politician in Defiance of the Rules), is a Patent Troll
11.26.17 Early Certainty Battistelli Will be Gone Soon: “JUVE Interview Creates the Impression That Benoit Battistelli’s Term in Office is Already Over.”
11.26.17 Patent Sharks’ Last Resort: Mohawk Immunity, ‘STRONGER’ Patents Act, Qualcomm Thickets, and SLAPP
11.28.17 EPO Budget (Users’ Money) Has Been Corrupting Media and Academia
11.28.17 EPO is Already Going ‘Dark’ Like in China
11.30.17 EPO Fiasco Deepens While the Media Writes Puff Pieces About the EPO
11.30.17 The SEP/Patent Trolls’ Lobby Insults the Victims, Calling Them “Free Riders”
12.02.17 The European Patent Office No Longer Acts Like a Patent Office But a Prosecutor
12.03.17 IAM in Think Tank Mode Promotes Patent Maximalism, Characteristically Sponsored by the Patent Microcosm
12.04.17 SUEPO on “the Belief of the President That He is Above the Law.”
12.06.17 Another Day of EPO Injustices in Europe and Campinos/Battistelli Connections at CEIPI
12.06.17 CEIPI and EPO: The Story So Far
12.07.17 Meanwhile in Eponia, Tyrant Battistelli Must be Seeking Advice on How to Refuse to Obey Court’s Orders (Again)
12.07.17 Battistelli’s EPO is Once Again Caught in Very Gross Violation of the European Patent Convention (EPC)
12.07.17 Less Than 24 Hours Later the EPO Already Refuses to Obey Court Orders From ILO (Updated)
12.07.17 ILO is ‘Forcing’ Team Battistelli to Compensate the Banned Judge and Give Him Back His Job
12.08.17 EPO Scandal Spills Over to Irish Media, So It’s Time for the Backstory
12.09.17 Like the EPO, Taiwan/China (SIPO) Harm SMEs With a Policy of Patent Maximalism Which Fosters Litigation, Not Innovation
12.10.17 Patents Are Becoming a Welfare System for the Rich and Powerful
12.12.17 Battistelli-Campinos Transition Will Be a Smooth One as the Administrative Council Remains the Same and the Boards Still Besieged
12.12.17 Claim: Judge Corcoran to Be Put Under Benoît Battistelli’s Control in DG1
12.12.17 The European Patent Organisation Refrains (For Nearly a Week) From Speaking About Battistelli’s Abuses as Judged by ILO Tribunal
12.13.17 EPO Administrative Council Disallows Discussion About Violations of the Law by Benoît Battistelli
12.14.17 Patrick Corcoran is Innocent, Yet Battistelli Will/May Have the Power to Sack Him Next Month (in DG1)
12.16.17 EPO Busy Distracting From Miscarriage/Abuse of Justice at the EPO (Both Office and Organisation)
12.17.17 Raw: At the EPO “Social Democracy” is Actually a Euphemism for Authoritarian Regime
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 PTAB Bashing in the US and the Attack on the Boards of Appeal in Europe All About Lowering Patent Quality
12.19.17 Secrecy Surrounds the Fate of Patrick Corcoran, Even AMBA is Being Kept in the Dark by Carl Josefsson
12.19.17 French and Korean Patent Trolls
12.20.17 Christoph Ernst’s Inability to Rein in the European Patent Organisation Will Doom Everything
12.21.17 EPO Judicial Crisis Has Not Ended, But the Administrative Council Certainly Tries to Sell That Impression
12.21.17 Media Blackout in Most European Media Regarding the Latest Major EPO Scandal
12.23.17 Raw: How SUEPO Explained the EPO Situation Three Years Ago
12.23.17 Raw: Sylvie Jacobs, President of USF, Warns the Administrative Council of the EPO About Battistelli Nepotism and Other Abuses
12.23.17 “Change of Attitude and Behaviour Needed,” Say Anonymous EPO Workers About the Management and Administrative Council
12.24.17 2017: The Year Software Patents Died Even in the Court Which Started Them
12.24.17 Post-Alice, the Patent Microcosm is Up in Arms and Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel for Anti-Alice Material
12.26.17 Raw: The EPO Trusted and Used BigPulse Until the Question/Outcome No Longer Suited Benoît Battistelli
12.28.17 EPO Remains in Defiance or Violation of ILO Rulings as Corcoran Contract Ends in 3 Days
12.29.17 Battistelli Becomes Judge Corcoran’s (Almost) Direct Boss and People Doubt He Will Last Long
12.29.17 Raw: Battistelli the Patent Office Shark Shouting From the Rooftop (Isar)
12.31.17 Just 3 Days Before Christmas Judge Corcoran is Told That His Boss Becomes Battistelli, Who Wants to Remain in Control for Years to Come
01.01.18 How Institut International des Brevets (IIB), INPADOC and Other Historic Endeavours Relate to EPO and DG1/DG2
01.01.18 FRAND is Unfair, Unreasonable and Discriminatory; Ericsson is Still a FRAND Troll
01.03.18 EPO Management Claims “Higher Quality Patents” and Everyone at the EPO Knows That It’s a Face-Saving Lie
01.09.18 For European Patents to Maintain Value the EPO Must Fix Patent Quality and Attract ‘Expensive’ (High-Calibre) Staff
01.10.18 The European Parliament JURI Mission to Munich Looks Like Complicity With EPO Abuses
01.14.18 Blockchain Becomes the Target Not Only of Financial Institutions With Software Patents But Also Trolls
01.15.18 Litigation Roundup: Nintendo, TiVo, Apple, Samsung, Huawei, Philips, UMC
01.17.18 No Patents on Life (CRISPR), Said EPO Boards of Appeal Just a Few Hours Ago
01.17.18 Only Two Weeks on the Job, Judge Patrick Corcoran is Already Being Threatened by EPO Management
01.18.18 Patent Prosecution Highway: Low-Quality Patents for High-Frequency Patent Aggressors
01.18.18 Press Coverage About the EPO Board Revoking Broad’s CRISPR Patent
01.26.18 The Corcoran Incident Demonstrates That the EPO’s Boards of Appeal Are Threatened and Battistelli Violates Laws
01.28.18 The European Commission and the Failure to Stop the FRAND/SEP Lobby
01.30.18 The EPO’s Central Staff Committee Explains How Battistelli’s Attacks on Judge Corcoran Annul Any Perception of Independence
01.31.18 Patent Justice at the EPO is as Bad as Justice for Workers
02.01.18 Too Much to Cover Up at the EPO, the UN, and UN Agencies
02.08.18 When INPI Met INPI and IAM Met the EPO
02.09.18 Fake ‘Articles’, ‘Debates’ and ‘Webinars’ From Lobbyists Including IBM’s David Kappos, IPO and IPLAC
02.11.18 Watchtroll’s PTAB Bashing Agenda Now Exploits ‘the Children’
02.11.18 Pharma Patents Have Become Harder to Enforce, So IAM Together With the Patent Microcosm Sets Up Lobbying Events
02.13.18 EPO Opposition to CRISPR Patents Has Wide-Ranging and Far-Reaching Impact, But Mind Not the Lobbyists
02.15.18 Speech Deficit and No Freedom of Association at the EPO
02.15.18 The EPO is Being Destroyed and There’s Nothing Left to Replace It Except National Patent Offices
02.18.18 Academic Patent Immunity is Laughable and Academics Are Influenced by Corporate Money (for Steering Patent Agenda)
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
02.20.18 Today, at 12:30 CET, Bavarian State Parliament Will Speak About EPO Abuses (Updated)
02.21.18 Rumour: European Patent Office to Lay Off a Significant Proportion of Its Workforce
02.22.18 Further Attacks on EPO Staff and the Appeal Boards; Former EPO Boards of Appeal Member Speaks About EPO Scandals
02.24.18 Automated Tracking Solutions, Aatrix and Berkheimer Don’t Change Anything; They’re Exploited by Patent Extremists to Pressure/Mislead/Insult Judges
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
02.25.18 One Month Later the Patent ‘Industry’ is Still Promoting the Lie That GUIs Are Software and Thus CAFC Elevated Software Patents
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 European Patent Office (EPO) in Chaos and Attempting to Silence the Staff Would Only Exacerbate Matters
03.01.18 USF Warns Campinos (EPO President in 4 Months) of “Extreme” Situation at the EPO
03.02.18 Battistelli’s Last Four Months: Peak Censorship at the European Patent Office (EPO)
03.04.18 The Attacks on PTAB’s Legitimacy Are Slowing Down and § 101 Continues to be Applied by PTAB
03.06.18 The European Patent Office is Buying ‘Alternative Facts’ and Its Annual Report Will be More of the Same
03.06.18 Dr. Thorsten Bausch: Quality of European Patents Going Down, “Likely Caused by the Current EPO Policy Focusing too Much on ‘Production’.”
03.06.18 There’s No Patent Trolls Problem in Europe, Say Law Firms That Represent and Front for Patent Trolls
03.07.18 EPO Annual Results/Report: Revenue From Patent Applications is Apparently Down Yet Again and Work is Running Out
03.08.18 EPO Hires External PR Agencies to Control Coverage of Its Annual Report, Deny Investigative Journalism
03.08.18 Benoît Battistelli and Confidants Like Bergot Want to Make a Lot of EPO Staff Redundant Without the Staff Ever Noticing
03.09.18 The EPO’s PR Department Receives Return on Investment (Puff Pieces) for Paying the Media
03.10.18 Watchtroll is Back to Attacking Judges of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Because It Can’t Tolerate Justice
03.10.18 Glimmer of Hope for the EPO’s Boards of Appeal as Bavarian Parliament ‘Regroups’ on Tuesday
03.12.18 Doubt Over Independence of Judges at the EPO Clouds Reason in Deciding Regarding Patents on Life
03.13.18 Session in Bavaria to Discuss the Abuses of the European Patent Office Later Today
03.14.18 The EPO is a Mess Under Battistelli and Stakeholders Including Law Firms Will Suffer, Not Just EP Holders
03.15.18 EPO Staff Has Just Warned the National Delegates That EPO’s Decline (in Terms of Patent Quality and Staff Welfare) Would Be Beneficial to Patent Trolls
03.16.18 Deleted EPO Tweets and Promotion of Software Patents Amid Complaints About Abuse and Demise of Patent Quality
03.17.18 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Carries on Enforcing § 101, Invalidating Software Patents and Upsetting the Patent ‘Industry’ in the Process
03.20.18 Battistelli’s EPO Became Extremely Reliant on China for Distraction and on Endless Supply of Applications (Supply Which Doesn’t Exist)
03.21.18 SUEPO: “Today May Be Your Last Chance to Demonstrate Against the Seriously Flawed Reforms That Mr Battistelli Has Imposed” on EPO Staff
03.23.18 The European Patent Office’s (EPO) Declining Patent Quality ‘Tackled’ by Making Appeals/Oppositions Harder and More Expensive
03.23.18 The Enemies of the Patent System Are Patent Maximalists, Not Those Pursuing Saner Patent Policy
03.27.18 Professionals’ Survey: Almost Everybody (90%) Accepts That EPO Patent Quality Has Fallen Under Battistelli
03.27.18 The Administrative Council of the EPO Continues to Reaffirm Complicity in Battistelli’s Abuses
03.29.18 Patent Quality, Not Quantity, is What Really Matters
03.29.18 Senator Jean-Yves Leconte Accuses EPO and/or ILO of Injustice, But Don’t Expect Media to Notice or Cover It
03.31.18 Political Actions Against PTAB Are Still a Fringe Phenomenon and the Supreme Court’s Justices Are Unlikely to be Swayed/Persuaded by Such ‘Stunts’
04.01.18 EPO is Untrustworthy
04.03.18 Benoît Battistelli’s Era Yields Not Only Invalid and Harmful Monopolies But Also Breeds Distrust and Layoffs
04.03.18 ‘Patent Imperialism’ in the United States and China
04.03.18 The Mass Litigation Lobby Craves for Patent Armageddon
04.09.18 PTAB and the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Still Rejecting and Removing Dubious Patents
04.12.18 Patent Trolls in the United States Show the Importance of Stopping Software Patents (Trolls’ Favourite) Worldwide
04.14.18 Crisis of Quality at the EPO Extends to Staff (Notably Examiners) and Management as Institutional Integrity is Severely Compromised
04.15.18 Academics and Think Tanks for Patent Maximalism
04.16.18 With Liars Like These…
04.16.18 The European Patent Office Will Never Hold Its Destroyers Accountable
04.17.18 The EPO Continues to Lie About Patent Quality Whilst Openly Promoting Software Patents, Even Outside Europe
04.19.18 When News About the EPO is Dominated by Sponsored ‘Reports’ and Press Releases Because Publishers Are Afraid of (or Bribed by) the EPO
04.21.18 Short: Highly Misleading and Unscientific Graphics From the EPO for an Illusion of Growth
04.22.18 EPO Hoards Billions of Euros (Taken From the Public), Decreases Quality to Get More Money, Reduces Payments to Staff
04.22.18 The EPO is Dying and Those Who Have Killed It Are Becoming Very Rich in the Process
04.23.18 Holding Benoît Battistelli Accountable After the EPO
04.24.18 Today’s EPO is Not Compatible With the Law and It’s Grossly Incompatible With Truth and Justice
04.26.18 Reporting Benoît Battistelli Before He Too ‘Pulls a Željko Topić’
04.27.18 Like a Cancer, EPO-Bribed Media Continues to Produce Puff Pieces for Benoît Battistelli
04.28.18 In Protest of IP Kat No Longer Covering EPO Abuses, Märpel Rises in “R.I.P. Kat”
04.28.18 Patent Trolls Roundup: The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), Microsoft Trolls, and the Eastern District of Texas
04.29.18 EPO Gazette: The Obligatory EPO Propaganda That Paints an Oppressive Office as ‘Fun and Games’
04.29.18 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Lives on and People Whom Patents Were Conceived for (Not Lawyers) Are Happy
04.30.18 The European Patent System is Nowadays Based on a ‘Banana Republic’ Model
05.01.18 Battistelli’s Alleged ‘Success’ is Like That of the United States Mint
05.03.18 The European Patent Office Has Become a Kakistocracy
05.05.18 If Anyone Has Defamed the European Patent Organisation/Office (EPO) It’s Benoît Battistelli
05.09.18 EPO Policy (Squashing Examination) is Already Crashing Stocks, Destroying Companies
05.12.18 EPO Staff Deprived and Denied Basic Rights, Even Justice, But Almost Nobody in the ‘Mainstream’ Wants to Talk About It
05.13.18 The Patent Microcosm is ‘Snookering’ Andrei Iancu on PTAB Deforms and Broadest Reasonable Interpretation (BRI), Amongst Other Things
05.15.18 The EPO Has Become Extremely Corrupt and Dishonest
05.15.18 EPO Has Become Overzealous About Software Patents, Probably More So Than Almost Anywhere Else
05.17.18 Today’s EPO Financially Rewards Abuses and Violations of the Law
05.27.18 The Patent Extremists Resort to Trump-Styled China-Baiting in an Effort to Destroy US Patent Policy
05.27.18 On Ethics of Patent Lawyers
05.27.18 The Irish Knowledge Development Box (KDB) is Just Another Tax Evasion Ploy
05.30.18 The European Patent Office: From Patent Maximalism to Corruption and Gerrymandering
05.30.18 The Chinese Patent System Does a Fine Job Devouring China, But Sites of the Litigation ‘Industry’ Are Absolutely Loving It!
05.30.18 St. Germain’s “Système Lamy” and Its EPO Clone – Part 3: Shooting the Messengers and Defaming Opponents
05.31.18 Software Patents Are a Dying Breed of Patents Except in China (and Maybe EPO)
06.01.18 In Gross Violation of German Law, as Per EPO Tradition, Fronleichnam ‘Stolen’ by Benoît Battistelli
06.03.18 Finnegan, IAM and Other Proponents of Patent Trolls Try to Dominate the Debate About Patent Scope and Oversight
06.03.18 TC Heartland at One: Still an Impediment to Patent Trolls and Other Patent Parasites in the United States
06.03.18 Watchtroll Continues to Attack Officials Who Favour Technology Over Law Firms and This Time Zoe Lofgren is the Target
06.04.18 As European Patent Office Goes Down in Many Aspects/Respects (Quality, Employee Profiles and More) IAM — the EPO’s Mouthpiece — Claims “Patent Renaissance”, Repeats EPO Lies
06.04.18 IAM and EPO Are Almost Inseparable
06.07.18 Marks & Clerk Blames Battistelli’s Victims, the Boards of Appeal, Whose Job Guarded Patent Quality
06.09.18 Patents on Nature, Life and the Environment: Lessons From EPO and Australian Courts
06.11.18 Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe Blind to Its Participation in a Scam Around Patents on Nature
06.12.18 The EPO’s ‘Expert’ Georg Weber is Still Advocating Software Patents in Europe (But He Disguises Them Using Buzzwords)
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
06.14.18 IAM Concludes Its Latest Anti-§ 101 Think Tank, Featuring Crooked Benoît Battistelli
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
06.18.18 Orrin Hatch, Sponsored the Most by the Pharmaceutical Industry, Tries to Make Its Patents Immune From Scrutiny (PTAB)
06.19.18 The Decline in Patent Quality at the EPO Causes Frivolous Lawsuits That Only Lawyers Profit From
06.21.18 Even Media of the Patent Microcosm Mentions the Decline in Quality of Patents at the EPO, Based on Its Very Own Stakeholders, While IAM Ignores the News
06.24.18 Patent Factory Europe (PFE) is a Patent Troll’s Publicity Stunt, Attempting to Frame a Predator as the Small Businesses’ Friend and Ally
06.25.18 The EPO Seems to Have Corrupted ILO/ILO-AT Like It Corrupted the Media and Academia (Using ‘Toxic’ EPO Budget)
06.26.18 This Afternoon ILO Has an Opportunity to Salvage Its Reputation (or Reaffirm Growing Suspicions That It Has Been Compromised by the EPO)
06.27.18 J A Kemp Pushing the Boundaries of Patent Scope in Europe With Antibodies and SPCs
06.28.18 President Benoît Battistelli is Finished, But the Huge Mess He Has Created is Not
06.29.18 Insults, Lies and Propaganda on Battistelli’s Last Day at the European Patent Office
06.29.18 Three Days Later Still Not a Single Word From the EPO About Union Busting Gone Awry and Court Orders to Reinstate/Promote Staff Representatives
07.01.18 Welcoming António Campinos, New President of the European Patent Office
07.04.18 António Campinos Tries to Come Across as a Goodwill Manager, But He Will be Judged by His Actions, Not by His Words
07.05.18 Abstract Ideas and Mental (Thoughts) Type of Claims Still Deemed Patent-Ineligible, Buzzwords Are Used Instead
07.06.18 German Media Compares Team Battistelli at the EPO to the Mafia
07.07.18 One Week of António Campinos at the EPO: Early Uncertainty
07.07.18 IAM Keeps Promoting Brian Yates and His New Patent Troll, iPEL, Which is About to Become Very Aggressive
07.08.18 Battistelli’s ‘Legacy’ Up in Flames as Britain is “Ending the Jurisdiction of the CJEU in the UK, With No More Preliminary References from UK Courts…”
07.09.18 Actions — Not Mere Words — Are Needed to Improve Patent Quality and Climate at the European Patent Office
07.10.18 Patent Trolls Rally/Advertise Thomas Massie’s Bill to Abolish PTAB and Promote Software Patents in the US
07.11.18 Cellspin Soft Will Likely Need to Pay the Accused Party’s Lawyers Too After Frivolous Litigation With Patents Eliminated Under 35 U.S.C. § 101
07.12.18 It’s Not About EPO ‘Backlog’ But About Faking ‘Production’ by Lowering Standards
07.12.18 Thomas Massie and Marcy Kaptur Are Promoting the Interests of Patent Trolls and Patent Lawyers While Calling That “Innovation”
07.13.18 Weeks Later António Campinos Still in Noncompliance With the Courts (ILO’s Tribunal)
07.14.18 Number of Oppositions to Grants/Awards of European Patents at the EPO Has Skyrocketed, Based on Internal Data
07.17.18 Software Patents Royalty (Tax) Campaign by IBM, a Serial Patent Bully, and the EPO’s Participation in All This
07.17.18 The European Council Needs to Check Battistelli’s Back Room Deals/Back Door/Backchannel With Respect to Christian Archambeau
07.19.18 Erosion of Patent Justice in Europe With Kangaroo Courts and Low-Quality European Patents
07.19.18 Australia Says No to Software Patents
07.21.18 Cisco v Arista Networks is a Stain on the Reputation of the US International Trade Commission (ITC) and It’s Beginning to Recognise This
07.22.18 Patents Roundup: Patent Litigation is Down and Seems to Have Shifted Away From Software Patents
07.24.18 Under António Campinos the EPO’s Appeal Boards, Including the Enlarged Board of Appeal, Still Lack Independence
07.24.18 China Belatedly Tackles Patent Trolls, Albeit After Giving Them the Green Light With Broad and Low-Quality Patents Such as Software Patents
07.25.18 Dysfunctional State of the EPO and Benoît Battistelli’s Shadow
07.26.18 António Campinos, Four Weeks on the Job, Still in Defiance/Violation of ILO Rulings, Still Engaging in PR and Face-Saving Distraction Instead
07.28.18 The EPO Abandoned Patent Quality and António Campinos Has No Intention of Changing That
07.31.18 SUEPO Seems to be Disappointed by António Campinos as His First Month in Office Comes to an End
08.01.18 The EPO’s Administrative Council is Not Interested in Saving the EPO, Only ‘Producing’ as Many (Low-Quality) Patents as Possible
08.04.18 António Campinos is Not Improving Patent Quality or Even the Social Climate at the EPO (False Promises)
08.07.18 Arista Shows How ITC Injustice (Embargo Before Facts Are Even Known) Harms Smaller Businesses, Helps Monopolists
08.08.18 WeMove.EU Tackles Low Patent Quality at the European Patent Office (EPO)
08.09.18 Months After Oil States the Patent Maximalists Still Try to Undermine Inter Partes Reviews (“IPRs”), Refusing to Accept Patent Quality
08.14.18 Patent Lawyers Writing Patent Law for Their Own Enrichment Rather Than for Innovation
08.16.18 Almost Two Months After the ILO Ruling Staff Representative Brumme is Finally Back on the Job at EPO
08.28.18 Patents on Steroids: ITC is Rushing Embargoes Before the Facts Are Even Known
08.30.18 António Campinos Already Implements a ‘Shadow’ Layoffs Method at the EPO
09.02.18 The Patent Public Advisory Committee (PPAC) Needs to Instruct the Patent Office to Stop Treating Applicants as Customers/Clients
09.04.18 The António Campinos-Led EPO is Over-Relying on Bogus and Abstract Software Patents to Fill the Gaps
09.06.18 ‘Reformist’ Campinos Seems to be Accelerating EPO Layoffs by Removing Without Warning Staff That’s Perceived as Not Loyal Enough
09.11.18 Fresh Rumours of Further Accelerated Layoffs at the European Patent Office (EPO)
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
09.12.18 The Belated Demise of Propaganda Sites of the Litigation ‘Industry’
09.13.18 EPO Granted a Controversial European Patent (Under Battistelli) Which May Literally Kill a Lot of People
09.15.18 António Campinos Needs to Listen to Doctors Without Borders (MSF) et al to Salvage What’s Left of Public Consent for the EPO
09.18.18 The EPO Has Quit Pretending That It Cares About Patent Quality, All It Cares About is Quantity of Lawsuits
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)
09.22.18 EPO is Like a Patent Litigation (Without Actual Trial) Office, Not a Patent Examination Office
09.22.18 Bogus Patents Which Oughtn’t Have Been Granted Make Products Deliberately Worse, Reducing Innovation and Worsening Customers’ Experience
10.01.18 The European Council Fulfills Corrupt Battistelli’s Alleged Promise, Making Christian Archambeau Head of EUIPO
10.01.18 EPO Under António Campinos an Unprecedented Booster of Software Patents
10.04.18 Submissive, Bribed and EPO-Connected Media Organisations Help Perpetuate Corruption by Failing or Refusing to Cover It
10.05.18 Patents on Life and on Algorithms in Europe Will Doom the EPO
10.06.18 The European Patent Office Has Assaulted Patent Quality While Trying to Distract From That
10.11.18 Friend Brings a Friend, Boss Becomes Subordinate: the EPO Under António Campinos is Starting to Look a Lot Like Team Battistelli 2.0
10.13.18 EPO Insider/Märpel Says President Campinos Already Acts Like Battistelli
10.15.18 Corporate Media’s Failure to Cover Patents Properly and Our New Hosting Woes
10.20.18 The Identity Crisis of the European Patent Office, Wrongly Believing It Exists to Serve Lawyers and Patent Trolls Outside Europe
10.24.18 Pretty Revealing That EPO Management Promotes Software Patents and IP Kat Promotes Patent Trolls
10.28.18 The EPO Lost Any Sense of Shame About Granting Patents on Software, Which It Openly Welcomes and Even Encourages
10.28.18 The ITC Makes Embargo Using Almost-Expired Patents a Business Strategy of Intimidation and Harassment
10.29.18 USPTO Under Iancu: Making Patents Low Quality (Again)
11.04.18 Law Firms Won’t Improve Patent Quality Because Quality in Patenting Limits Their Ability to Sue (Profit Irrespective of the Outcome)
11.13.18 The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is Working for Patent Trolls and Patent Maximalists
11.13.18 Yannis Skulikaris Promotes Software Patents at EPOPIC, Defending the Questionable Practice Under António Campinos
11.14.18 Allegations That António Campinos ‘Bought’ His Presidency and is Still Paying for it
11.20.18 Germany Likes EPO in Munich, Litigation Factory in Düsseldorf and Mannheim (Like Eastern District of Texas)
11.25.18 The Demise of Software Patents in Patent Courts Worldwide Would Mean Much-Needed Staff Cuts in Litigation Giants
11.26.18 No, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Has Not Changed Its Position on Software Patents, Which Are Bunk
11.29.18 António Campinos is Working for Patent Trolls at the Expense of Science and Technology
11.29.18 Union Syndicale Fédérale Tells António Campinos to End ‘Political’ Cases Against EPO Staff Representatives
12.01.18 EPO Management High-Fiving Patent Propaganda Sites Like ‘Managing IP’ While Granting Illegitimate Patents on Algorithms
12.05.18 EPO, in Its Patent Trolls-Infested Forum, Admits It is Granting Bogus Software Patents Under the Guise of ‘Blockchain’
12.06.18 The European Patent Office Remains a Lawless Place Where Judges Are Afraid of the Banker in Chief
12.07.18 The European Patent Organisation is Like a Private Club and Roland Grossenbacher is Back in It
12.10.18 US Courts Make the United States’ Patent System Sane Again
12.11.18 The EPO Not Only Abandoned the EPC But Also the Biotech Directive
12.13.18 The European Patent Troll Wants as Much Litigation as Possible
12.15.18 The European Patent Organisation (EPO) Loses Legitimacy If (or When) Christoph Ernst Becomes Subservient to António Campinos
01.02.19 The Real Harm of Really Bad European Patent Grants
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”
01.10.19 EPO President “Campinos is Wasting His Credibility With “Sweet” Communiqués Full of Hot Air and Storytelling”
01.11.19 The EPO’s Low Patent Quality Can Kill the European Software Industry and Kill People Too
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
01.13.19 European Patent Office a Textbook Example of Lawless, Rogue Institutions
01.14.19 Council of Europe (CoE) Recognises There’s No Justice at the EPO
01.15.19 IBM, Which Will Soon be Buying Red Hat, is Promoting Software Patents in Europe
01.17.19 US Patent Lawyers Will Need to Change Profession or End up Becoming Abundantly Redundant, Unemployed
01.22.19 Software Patents Are a Dying Breed, So Marks & Clerk and Other Legal Monoliths Promote the EPO’s Buzzwords (Loopholes)
01.22.19 The Whitewashing of the EPO Under António Campinos
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 The EPO Continues to Grant Software Patents Even Though Many European Patents Are Being Invalidated Already
01.30.19 People Are Dying Because of Low Quality of (Wrongly-Granted) European Patents
01.31.19 Fake Software Patents, Patent Trolls and Assault on Generic Medicine in Europe
02.02.19 The European Patent Office’s Promotion of Software Patents Overlooks Ongoing ‘Spillage’ of the Patent Crisis to Patent Courts (Rejecting Such Patents)
02.06.19 The Attack on the Independence of the European Judges Has Apparently Expanded to the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht)
02.12.19 Innovating the Idea That Software Patents (Monopolies on Algorithms) Are Covering ‘Artificial’ ‘Intelligence’ (AI and ML as Loopholes)
02.12.19 European Patent Office’s Exploitation of the ‘AI’ Catchphrase/Buzzword to Grant Patents on Algorithms in Defiance of the Rules, the Law, and Common Sense
02.12.19 Gross Violations of the EPC at the European Patent Office as Principal Priority Turns Against Science and Technology
02.16.19 EPO Grants Fake European Patents — Including Software Patents — and European Courts Keep Rejecting These
02.17.19 Techrights’ Priorities Over the Years
02.20.19 How Long Can the EPO Bend the Rules Before the Avalanche of Invalid Software Patents?
02.27.19 Teff Just One Among Countless Examples of Sheer Disregard for Patent Quality
02.28.19 T 0489/14: Will the European Patent Organisation Put an End to Software Patents at Long Last?
03.02.19 The Collapse of Poor-Quality European Patents Continues in European Courts
03.05.19 Truly and Completely Out of Control, the Unhinged European Patent Office Calls Applicants “Customers” While Offering Patents on Nature, Life, Maths
03.05.19 The EPO Technical/Enlarged Board of Appeal Would, Potentially (If It Enjoyed Actual Independence), Serve a ‘European Alice’ and Eliminate All/Most Software Patents in Europe
03.05.19 The Technical Board of Appeal Will Need True Independence to Squash Software Patents at the EPO (T 0489/14)
03.20.19 Decisions Made Inside the European Patent Organisation (EPO) Lack Credibility Because Examiners and Judges Lack Independence
03.22.19 The European Patent Office Needs to Put Lives Before Profits
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
03.26.19 Dimitris Xenos on Unconstitutional Supranational Arrangements for Patent Law: Leaving Out the Elected Legislators and the People’s Participatory Rights
03.27.19 The European Patent Scope is a Lost Cause, Does Not Exist Anymore
04.02.19 EPO Judges Lack Independence and the Internal Courts Are Seen to be Lacking Legitimacy (Decisions’ Validity) Under António Campinos
04.06.19 3 Months Later (and Counting) Software Patents Remain Demolished in the United States
04.08.19 Europe’s EPO Has Become France’s INPI
04.09.19 The Media is (Still) Failing to Cover EPO Corruption
04.09.19 Who Does the Legal System Really Serve or Favour in European Patent Disputes?
04.10.19 The Myth of Quality of European Patents
04.11.19 EPO Still Wasting Budget, Paying Media and Academics for Spin
04.13.19 Patent Maximalists Are Enabling Injustices and Frauds
04.16.19 Corporate Media Will Never Cover the EPO’s Violations of the Law With Respect to Patent Scope
04.18.19 The European Patent Office Does Not Care About the Law, Today’s Management Constantly Attempts to Bypass the Law
04.20.19 Largest Patent Offices Try to Leave Courts in a State of Disarray to Enable the Granting of Fake Patents in the US and Europe
04.21.19 The EPO’s Use of Phrases Like “High-Quality Patent Services” Means They Know High-Quality European Patents Are ‘Bygones’
04.22.19 USPTO and EPO Both Slammed for Abandoning Patent Quality and Violating the Law/Caselaw in Order to Grant Illegitimate Patents on Life/Nature and Mathematics
04.24.19 German Federal Patent Court Curbs the Patent Maximalism of the EPO, Which Promotes Patents on Nature and/or Maths Every Single Day
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 American Patent Courts Keep Narrowing Patent Scope, No Matter What Few Politicians Are Doing on Behalf of Litigation Firms and Patent Trolls
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 2019: The Year Patent Zealots’ Blogs Have Mostly Collapsed
05.14.19 Patents That Were Gleefully Granted by the EPO Continue to Perish in Courts
05.15.19 False Hope for Patent Maximalists and Litigation Zealots
05.16.19 Stanford’s NPE Litigation Database Makes a Nice Addition in the Fight Against Software Patent Trolls
05.18.19 The War on Patent Quality
10.11.10 Links 11/10/2010: New Ubuntu Reviews, MySQL Up-selling
10.13.10 Links 13/10/2010: Australian Taxation Office Accepts Desktop GNU/Linux, Linux Foundation-Funded Survey Debated
10.21.10 Links 21/10/2010: Linux 2.6.36 is Out, Red Hat’s CEO Says Software Vendor Model is Broken
01.22.11 Links 22/1/2011: Pardus 2011, Red Hat’s Andreas
02.09.11 Links 9/2/2011: Android 2.4 to Ship, IBM/Oracle in Java Leadership
02.24.11 Links 24/2/2011: Mutter 2.91.90 Released Alongside GNOME Shell, Android 3.0 Surfaces
06.22.11 Links 22/6/2011: GNU/Linux Dominates More of HPC, Red Hat Upgraded
08.27.12 Links 27/8/2012: Twitter Joins Linux Foundation, *ubuntu 12.04.1
11.30.12 Links 1/12/2012: Qt 4.8.4 Released, Nokia Recruiting Android Talent
03.05.13 Links 5/3/2013: Chromebook Pixel Raves, IBM Wants FOSS in Fog Computing
04.18.14 Links 18/4/2014: New KDE, Kubuntu, and More
07.15.14 Links 15/7/2014: New Plasma, Google Announces Project Zero
08.08.14 Links 8/8/2014: Qt a Separate Company Again, KDE Frameworks 5.1 Released
10.22.14 Links 22/10/2014: Chromebooks Surge, NSA Android Endorsement
01.05.15 Links 5/1/2015: Acer Chromebook 15, GNOME Internet Radio Locator (GIRL)
01.14.15 Links 15/1/2015: KDE Plasma 5.2 Beta, Elive 2.5.2 Beta
12.02.15 Links 2/12/2015: Microsoft and Debian, Thunderbird’s Fate
01.05.16 Links 5/1/2016: NVIDIA Shows Linux Some Love, Black Lab Enterprise Linux 8.0 DP3
01.05.16 Links 4/1/2016: DNF 1.1.5, *ubuntu 16.04 Alpha 1
05.06.16 Links 6/5/2016: Neptune 4.5.1, Parts of Basho DB Liberated
05.25.16 Links 25/5/2016: Nginx 1.11, F1 2015 Coming to GNU/Linux Tomorrow
06.03.16 Links 3/6/2016: OpenSwitch Under Linux Foundation, GCC 5.4
06.13.16 Links 13/6/2016: Linux 4.7 RC3, Samsung’s Tizen Focus
08.21.16 Links 21/8/2016: Apple and Microsoft Down, Systemd Spreading to Mount
09.06.16 Links 6/9/2016: QEMU 2.7.0, GNU Nano 2.7.0
10.06.16 Links 6/10/2016: KDE Student Programs, Dell With Ubuntu Linux
03.05.17 Links 5/3/2017: Postfix 3.2 Released, Wine 2.3 Released, 4MLinux 21.0 Released
08.26.17 Links 26/8/2017: Audacious 3.9, Krita 3.2.1, Eolie 0.9.1, FreeBSD 10.4 Beta 2
09.09.17 Links 9/9/2017: SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP3, Zorin OS 12.2
11.09.17 Links 9/11/2017: NetworkManager 1.9.90, Ubuntu Wants a New Theme
03.19.18 Links 19/3/2018: Linux 4.16 RC6, Atom 1.25, antiX 17.1, GNU Mcron 1.1
05.28.18 Links 28/5/2018: Linux 4.17 RC7, Fedora 26 EOL Soon
06.10.18 Links 10/6/2018: Devuan ASCII 2.0.0 and Tails 3.7.1
06.22.18 Links 22/6/2018: PulseAudio 12.0, Krita 4.1 Beta, LabPlot 2.5, Git 2.18.0
06.27.18 Links 27/6/2018: Supercomputers All GNU/Linux, Kubernetes 1.11, Plasma 5.13.2
06.29.18 Links 29/6/2018: Python 3.7.0, Google as Linux Foundation Platinum Member
07.10.18 Links 10/7/2018: Wine 3.12, FreeNAS 11.2 Beta, GNU Helps Journalism
07.29.18 Links 29/7/2018: Mesa 18.1.5, DebConf18 Starts, Remembering Gerv Markham
07.30.18 Links 30/7/2018: Linux Kernel 4.18 Plans, Linux Foundation Growth
08.20.18 Links 20/8/2018: Flatpak’s 1.0 Milestone, New GIMP, New Chinese Distro Releases
08.25.18 Links 25/8/2018: Go 1.11, LLVM 7.0 RC2
09.05.18 Links 5/9/2018: New Releases of GNOME, Firefox and Chrome
09.13.18 Links 13/9/2018: Parrot 4.2.2, Sailfish OS Nurmonjoki, Eelo Beta
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
11.27.18 Links 27/11/2018: GCC 7.4 Coming Soon and a Rare ‘Supply Chain’ Incident
11.29.18 Links 29/11/2018: Mesa 18.2.6, Cockpit 183, Dell.com Cracked
12.31.18 Links 31/12/2018: PureOS and Purity, Q4OS 2.7 Scorpion Released
01.18.19 Links 18/1/2019: Mesa 18.3.2, Rust 1.32.0
01.19.19 Links 19/1/2019: Wikipedia Cofounder Moves to GNU/Linux, Wine 4.0 RC7 Released, Godot 3.1 Beta 2, NomadBSD 1.2 RC1
03.02.19 Links 2/3/2019: Alpine 3.9.1 and New Wine
03.04.19 Links 4/3/2019: Linux Hits ’5.0′, Python 2.7.16
04.11.19 Links 11/4/2019: Twisted 19.2.0 Released, Assange Arrested
05.08.19 Links 8/5/2019: RHEL 8, Plasma 5.15.5, GTK 3.96.0
05.09.19 Links 9/5/2019: Krita 4.2 Alpha, GNOME 3.32.2, Ubuntu Touch OTA-9