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WIPO

WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization, was covered in the following past articles while it was mostly run by Francis Gurry, an international lawyer from Australia.

  • 10.29.07 A Reader’s Perspective: Entering the Minds of the Patent Trolls
  • 10.31.07 It’s Not Over in Europe; WIPO Wants Some More Open Source Whipping
  • 12.09.07 “Intellectual Property” Wars Taken to the World Wide Web
  • 12.11.07 Video: WIPO Uses “Intellectual Propety“ (So-called ‘Propaganda Term’)
  • 03.04.08 Patents Roundup: Ending Software Patents and WIPO’s Above-the-law Wishes
  • 08.20.09 WIPO: By the Elites, for the Elites
  • 11.20.09 Patents Roundup: Observations About WIPO Numbers, Deteriorating System and Its Effects
  • 09.22.10 The Free Software Foundation Fights Software Patents in the Southern Hemisphere
  • 12.16.15 New WIPO Figures Reinforce Reality Where More Patents Needn’t Imply More Innovation, Just Lower Standards
  • 02.24.16 The Joint Subcommittee Hearing on the World Intellectual Property Organisation’s Vicious Attacks on Whistleblowers
  • 02.24.16 Possible Connections Found Between WIPO Misconduct and “a Dozen Serious Criminal Charges” Against EPO’s Željko Topić
  • 05.05.16 US Congress Should Investigate EPO and Battistelli, Not Just WIPO and Francis Gurry
  • 05.11.16 ES: El Congreso de los EE.UU. Debería Investigar a Battistelli, No Sólo a la WIPO y Francis Gurry
  • 10.19.16 Addendum: EPO’s Alberto Casado Cerviño, WIPO’s Francis Gurry, and EUIPO’s Archambeau
  • 03.14.17 WIPO is in the Business of Publishing Ads for Notorious Patent Aggressors (Facing Antitrust Charges) and Promoting Software Patents
  • 05.04.17 Latest WIPO Scandal, Echoing EPO Scandals, Demonstrates Freedom of the Press Coming Under Attack From International Patent Institutions
  • 05.21.17 Media and Staff Association Elections at EPO and WIPO Are Compromised
  • 08.31.17 The Dark Side of WIPO and Attempts to Suppress Information Mirror the EPO’s Tactics
  • 10.11.17 With Surveillance Recruits at the EPO, Are (or Were) DNA Tests Ever on the Agenda?


  • 03.31.09 Patents Roundup: Red Hat, Former USPTO Commissioner on Patent Demise, and WIPO Notes
  • 06.09.10 Patents Roundup: CSIRO Slammed, TiVo Loses, WIPO Harms China, and Patents Do Yoga
  • 09.12.10 WIPO and WTO Are Not International
  • 10.11.11 Patents Roundup: Backlash, WIPO, Facebook, and Acacia Attacks Linux/Android
  • 01.06.18 Patent Maximalists’ Utopia: INPI-Like Patent Systems Where Every Application is Blessed and WIPO-Inspired Assumption That the More, the Merrier
  • 07.19.18 When Amplifying the Message of ‘Global Innovation Index 2018′ IP Watch Sounds Like WIPO and IP Watchdog (Watchtroll)
  • 11.14.18 WIPO Corruption and Coverup Mirror EPO Tactics


  • 05.23.07 Novell, Patent Busters
  • 10.28.07 Europe, Intellectual Property, and Software Patent Stories
  • 11.07.07 Today’s Lessons on Software Patents
  • 11.23.07 Novell’s Dirty Little Secret: It Helps OOXML (Updated)
  • 11.28.07 Patent Trolls, Intel and Microsoft Betray the Children
  • 04.13.08 Patents Roundup: Abstract Ideas and Perceptual Monopolies
  • 05.02.08 Quick Mention: Microsoft Gets Stung by Software Patents Again
  • 05.14.08 Latest Attempt to Expand Software Patents to Europe; Microsoft Shenanigan Revisited
  • 06.22.08 ODF/OOXML Synopsis: UK Action Status, Microsoft RAND, GPL Exclusion
  • 07.01.08 Microsoft Proxies and Software Patents in Europe
  • 07.02.08 Microsoft Lobbyists Abound for Software Patents in Europe
  • 09.06.08 Patents News: Philips Pirates, Candidates Wants Reform, Trolls Still on the Loose
  • 11.05.08 Ideas Are Not a Property, Devices May Be
  • 01.21.09 Extension Extortion (Updated)">Stop Press: ACTA and Copyright Extension Extortion (Updated)
  • 03.04.09 Patents Roundup: Reform, Case Against Linux, Microsoft Patent Trolls and More
  • 03.10.09 Patents Roundup: Splashtop Encumbered by Patents, Google Linux Phone Sued by Patent Troll, TomTom Update and More
  • 03.25.09 Microsoft’s “Burning The Ships” is Corporate Patent Propaganda (and How Novell Helps It)
  • 04.06.09 The Question of Software Patents without Democracy
  • 04.13.09 How Microsoft (and Apple) Wants to Own GNU/Linux, in the ‘Intellectual’ Sense
  • 04.16.09 More Details About the ACTA Trickle In
  • 04.19.09 Software Patents Roundup: Protests in the EU, OLPC Suffers, Microsoft Seeds More Patent FUD
  • 05.13.09 Novell Still Validates Software Patents by Applying for More
  • 05.18.09 Does Microsoft Use Its Sponsored IDC/BSA Study for Extortion Across the World?
  • 06.22.09 New USPTO Director to Be Appointed, Bad News for Freedom
  • 07.24.09 Patents Roundup: Why Microsoft’s Patents Are Useless; More Patent Failure News
  • 08.09.09 Patents Roundup: Patent Applications Fall, Patent System Criticised, In Re Bilski Returns
  • 08.11.09 Patents Roundup: Britannica Loses, SpinVox Shamed, FFII Updated, and More
  • 09.04.09 Software Patents Do Not Apply to Microsoft
  • 09.26.09 Microsoft Abuse with Software Patents Carries on
  • 10.05.09 Microsoft Gets Its Way in Ireland, As Usual
  • 10.15.09 Microsoft Hooks up with the Press and the Government to Cement Protectionist Measures
  • 10.17.09 More on Gates’ Evil Foundation (GMO)
  • 10.30.09 Free Software Sued by Red Bend, Patent Reform Called for Again
  • 11.11.09 US Chamber Among the Shills for ACTA, Apparently
  • 12.09.09 Patents Roundup: Peer-To-Patent Australia, Microsoft and ACTA
  • 12.17.09 FSFE Highlights Brad Smith’s Attack on Free Software, Microsoft Blogs Present Smith’s Spin
  • 01.18.10 Patents Roundup: Neelie Kroes and Microsoft Patents Revisited, Steve Ballmer Lobbies Obama on Patents, Apple Wants Linux Phones Embargoed (Using Patents)
  • 01.27.10 Mozilla is Fighting for Us
  • 01.28.10 Patents Roundup: Novell Gets More Software Patents, Patent Watchtroll Gene Quinn is Sued, Microsoft Writer Slams Firefox for Protesting Against Patents
  • 01.31.10 Patents Roundup: Patent Overload, ACTA, and More
  • 02.04.10 Judge Uwe Scharen is Validating Software Patents in Germany
  • 02.06.10 Microsoft Wants More Licensing Instead of Windows Bans
  • 04.10.10 Patents Roundup: Fordham Conference for Software Patents in Europe, NZOSS Responds to Pro-Software Patents Lobbyists, and TurboHercules’ Ties With Microsoft Explained
  • 05.10.10 “Patent Law for Computer Scientists” Should be Named “Computer Science for Patent Lawyers”
  • 05.28.10 “We’re in the Era of Digital Video, and It’s a Mess,” –Steve Jobs, MPEG-LA Proponent/Lobbyist
  • 06.01.10 A Glimpse Back at Red Hat’s and Novell’s Stance on Software Patents in 2005
  • 07.23.10 Patents Roundup: Identifying Real Patent Foes and Conflicts of Interests
  • 08.28.10 Mozilla Avoids MPEG-LA’s Latest Poison Pill and Rejects Patents Just Like Samba Does
  • 09.07.10 Red Hat Should Eliminate All of Its Patents, or At Least Attach Self-Destructive Clauses to Them
  • 09.11.10 European Patent Law is Being Abducted by Big Business and Patent Lawyers
  • 09.29.10 Microsoft’s Patent Offensives, Patent Trolls, and Other Patent Agitators
  • 10.07.10 Patents Roundup: Opposition to Software Patents and General ‘Ownership’ of Software Ideas
  • 10.15.10 With Patent Quality This Low, Who Needs Any?
  • 10.26.10 Microsoft’s Pressure for Software Patents in Europe Carries On
  • 10.30.10 When Life of a Patent is the Death of a Person
  • 12.04.10 Large US Corporations Push for Software Patents Through South Korean FTA
  • 12.13.10 McCreevy’s Successors Are Getting Their Way With Software Patents in Europe
  • 02.18.11 FSF Explains Why Software Patents Are Bad While OIN Grows Stronger
  • 05.24.11 Amid Decision on €899,000,000 Fine, ITSSD Goes Batting for Microsoft
  • 09.09.11 Cablegate: Importing the USPTO Into Europe, Using the ‘EU Patent’
  • 09.11.11 Cablegate: US Embassy Recommends That Argentina is Put on Monopolists’ Watch List, Free Software Adoption Noted
  • 09.11.11 Cablegate: “The Free Software Movement is Building Support Within the Government of Brazil and Throughout Brazil”
  • 09.11.11 Cablegate: Turkey’s Patents Trajectory on Bad TRIPS
  • 09.11.11 Cablegate: Japan Working to Cultivate More Patent Monopolies in China, Rooting for Global Patent System (With Software Patents)
  • 09.11.11 Cablegate: US Reaction to Minister Ewa Bjorling Pushing for EU Patent, Pressure on Slovenia to Jump Along
  • 09.15.11 Cablegate: Microsoft Helps the US Inject Western Intellectual Monopolies Into Kazakhstan
  • 09.15.11 Links – Copyright Maximalists turn on Libraries, Other Horrors. Will Yang Return to Yahoo?
  • 09.15.11 Cablegate: Microsoft’s “Relationship With the Government” and Pressure for Countries to Adopt Intellectual Monopolies Using Shame Lists
  • 09.16.11 Cablegate: “IBM Have Advocated That High Quality Software Patents Would Also Have Significant Value”
  • 09.17.11 Cablegate: In 2010, Patent Harmonisation “Not Welcomed by Developing Countries”
  • 09.17.11 Cablegate: Italy’s Decade of Antagonising Patent Colonialism
  • 09.17.11 Cablegate: EU Negotiations About EU Patent/Community Patent
  • 09.26.11 Obama Can Determine If Software Patents Go Away or Go Global
  • 09.30.11 Phantom ‘Industry’ of Patents
  • 10.09.11 Halliburton and the UN (World Intellectual Property Organisation): Patent Globalisation, Monopoly Maximalism, and Software Patents
  • 10.14.11 Links – Lots of bad deals made behind closed doors.
  • 11.17.11 Cost of Patent Trolls Studied as Acceptance of USPTO Falls, Developers Complain Even in Press Releases
  • 11.27.11 Patents Roundup: Broken System as the News Attests to the Failure
  • 12.28.11 Cablegate: Apple Attacks French Copyright Law to Induce Various Restrictions (Including DRM), Marginalisation of Rights
  • 12.30.11 Cablegate: Venezuela’s Move to Free/Open Source Software “Expected to Reduce the Demand for U.S. Software Products”
  • 12.30.11 Cablegate: BSA Smears Sri Lanka’s Government for Moving to Free/Open Source Software
  • 12.30.11 Cablegate: Lithuania ‘Watched’ for Not Accepting Monopoly/’IP’ Regime From West, Government Adoption of Free Software Noted
  • 12.30.11 Cablegate: Business Software Alliance (BSA) Pretends to Speak for Open Source, MPA Creates Imaginary Links to Crime
  • 12.30.11 Cablegate: Peru’s Migration to Free/Open Source Software
  • 12.30.11 Cablegate: President Chavez Smeared for Favouring Free/Open Source Software, Venezuela Added to Shame List
  • 12.30.11 Cablegate: Microsoft Rushes Vietnam to Get Rid of Open Source, Including FOSS Policy
  • 04.21.13 Patent Trolls and ‘Royalties’: Distracting From the Real Issue Which is Software Patents
  • 10.18.13 When Progress is Outlawed
  • 11.30.13 The Fiction of ‘Piracy’
  • 09.08.14 Suspicion of High-Level Corruption at the European Patent Office (EPO): Part I
  • 11.16.14 Special Report: Many Criminal Charges Against EPO Vice-President Željko Topić
  • 01.18.15 Battistelli’s Latest Propaganda War Tries to Convince EPO Staff That Željko Topić’s Many Criminal Charges Don’t Exist
  • 03.17.15 Rikard Frgačić Explains Željko Topić’s Behaviour and the Lufthansa Case
  • 04.22.15 The Patents Gold Rush Continues
  • 09.22.15 The European Patent Office’s Autocracy Has Proven the Streisand Effect, Amplifying Its Opposition’s Messages
  • 11.04.15 The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part I
  • 11.04.15 Red Hat Sells Out With a Microsoft Patent Deal
  • 11.05.15 Media Coverage of the Red Hat-Microsoft Deal Includes Microsoft Talking Points and Moles, No Discussion About Patent Aspects
  • 11.24.15 Censoring WIPR Article About Censorship by EPO
  • 11.27.15 Blogger Who Wrote About the EPO’s Abuses Retires
  • 11.29.15 Why the European Patent Office Cannot Really Sue and Why It’s All — More Likely Than Not — Just SLAPP
  • 12.28.15 Today’s Chaos Computer Club (CCC) Talk: EU Software and Business Method Patents: Call for Action
  • 01.15.16 Hundreds of EPO Staff at The Hague (Including Managers) Spontaneously Protested Today, Making Almost Half of All Staff Present
  • 01.23.16 Additional Information About EPO Management and Its Abuses, as Told by Anonymous Comments
  • 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
  • 02.16.16 A New MUST-READ Article From Croatia About EPO Vice-President Željko Topić, Condemning His Behaviour Even Inside the EPO
  • 02.27.16 EPO “Management by Fear… Within a System Which is Not Subject to Any Outside Control.”
  • 02.28.16 Problems of Governance in International Organizations: the EPO
  • 03.05.16 Forget Staff Union-busting ‘Strike Ballots’, How About Ballots on Presidential Matters?
  • 03.09.16 Patent Attorney Joeri Beetz Explains Why EPO Results Are a Lie
  • 03.11.16 Abogado de Patentes Joeri Beetz Explica ¿Porqué los Resultados de la EPO son una MENTIRA?
  • 03.12.16 Battistelli Acting Like a Politician, Lobbying for UPC All Across Europe and Coming to London Soon
  • 03.12.16 The EPO ‘Results’ Are Bunk
  • 03.14.16 EPO Hypocritically Responds to TV Program by Defamation/Mocking of the Dead and Threats to the Media (Truth as Defamation?)
  • 03.14.16 EPO Rumours About Antonio Campinos as Replacement for Benoît Battistelli
  • 03.22.16 More Vomit-Inducing Publicity Stunts From Benoît Battistelli and the EPO Management
  • 03.28.16 Kroatische Lobistin für UN im Zentrum des intarnationalen Skandals in EPA
  • 04.02.16 EUIPO and the Shady Relation to the EPO
  • 04.03.16 EUIPO y sus Sospechosa Relación con la EPO
  • 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
  • 04.10.16 What is Known (and Not Known) About Attacks on Croatian Portal That Exposed Željko Topić, the Notorious EPO Vice-President
  • 04.14.16 Croatian News Site Explains Where Criminal Cases Against EPO Vice-President Željko Topić Stand
  • 04.24.16 Patents Roundup: Marijuana Patents, Patent Satellites, Patent Trolls, Wars, and Merchants (Notably Lawyers)
  • 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.”
  • 07.04.16 Image of Battistelli’s EPO Tarnished in the UK and Elsewhere as Battistelli Warms up to Cuba, Colombia, and Panama
  • 07.22.16 Patents Roundup: BlackBerry, Huawei, PTAB, GAO, Aggressive Universities With Patents, and Software Patents in Europe
  • 07.28.16 EPO Loses More Than 80% of Cases at the International Labour Organisation (ILO)
  • 08.06.16 Francis Gurry — Like Benoît Battistelli — Compared to Sepp Blatter of FIFA
  • 08.11.16 ‘Constitutional Crisis’ at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 08.19.16 The Cost/Toll of the ‘New’ EPO and Where All That Money Goes or Comes From
  • 08.29.16 Nothing Whatsoever Has Improved at the European Patent Office, It’s Just Summer’s Recess (and Silence)
  • 09.14.16 As Part of So-called ‘Reforms’, the EPO’s President is Gradually Eliminating the Boards of Appeal, Not Just Their Independence
  • 09.20.16 The EPO’s ‘Investigative’ Function is Totally Out of Control and Continues to Get Bigger, Whitewashed by So-called ‘Review’
  • 09.24.16 Patent Quality and Patent Scope the Unspeakable Taboo at the EPO, as Both Are Guillotined by Benoît Battistelli for the Sake of Money
  • 09.26.16 The Moral Depravity of the European Patent Office Under Battistelli
  • 10.09.16 The Administrative Council Seems to Have No Issues With Battistelli Wasting Millions of Euros Buying the Media and Fake ‘Studies’
  • 10.09.16 The UPC is Dead, Says Opinion Partly Funded by Team UPC, But Patent Scope in Europe Remains an Issue
  • 10.10.16 New Letter to the Delegates of the Administrative Council
  • 10.11.16 The Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) Protested Today in Munich (Against the EPO’s Management) While President Benoît Battistelli Lied
  • 10.16.16 Outline of Latest Press Coverage Regarding the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 10.18.16 Battistelli Wants Us to Believe a Patent Office in a Freefall (EPO) is “Stronger and More Sustainable”
  • 10.18.16 The Long History or Seeds of Control by Fear and Punishment at the EPO
  • 10.19.16 Worrisome Connections Between EPO VP2 Alberto Casado Cerviño and Patricia García-Escudero Márquez
  • 10.20.16 EPO Spokesman Lies to IP Watch in Order to Save Face and Save the King (Battistelli)
  • 10.24.16 UPC Preparatory Committee Puts the Brakes on UPC Amid Brexit and Growing Uncertainty
  • 10.27.16 ‘Balkan Express’ Teaser: EPO’s Željko Topić, Kuterovac, Campinos, Gurry, Battistelli and the DKPTO (Kongstad)
  • 10.28.16 The EPO’s Balkan Express Keeps Chugging Along Despite Predictions of Derailment
  • 11.05.16 UPC a Threat to the Boards of Appeal at the EPO (Soon Haar) and to Patent Quality in Europe
  • 11.24.16 Giants of Asia: India More Restrictive on Patent Scope, China More Lenient
  • 11.28.16 Patent Attorney Mark Summerfield: EPO Administrative Council “Members Should be Ashamed.”
  • 12.05.16 EPO at a Tipping Point: Battistelli Quarrelling With French Politicians, Administrative Council Urged to Act, Staff Unrest Peaking
  • 12.06.16 Endgame for Battistelli at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 12.11.16 The EPO Sent Its Second ‘Monster’ to Croatia to Lobby for the Unitary Patent (UPC), Did Not Mention Anything About It
  • 12.18.16 More and More Lobbying for Software Patents, Not Just in Battistelli’s EPO But Also in India and the US
  • 01.21.17 EPO Abuses Now Make the Netherlands Look Like a Facilitator of Human/Labour Rights Abuses
  • 01.27.17 Gurry and Battistelli: When Alternative Facts and Oppression Are Becoming Business as Usual
  • 02.08.17 Immunity of the Intellectual Property Office of the European Union Causes Outrage in Spanish Media
  • 03.16.17 CERN Staff Association “Profoundly Shocked by the Situation That Has Persisted in the European Patent Office (EPO)”
  • 03.16.17 Incredibly Unscientific: EPO is Making up Excuses for Decline in Patent Applications
  • 03.20.17 Battistelli’s EPO Copies China — Not the US — When it Comes to Patenting Software and Expanding Patent Scope
  • 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
  • 03.30.17 Devaluation of European Patents is a Recipe for Institutional Suicide and Immeasurable Harm to Europe’s Economy
  • 04.02.17 Growing Suspicions of Planned Obsolescence at the European Patent Office
  • 04.12.17 It’s Not Natural for the European Patent Office to Make Nature Patentable
  • 04.27.17 China’s Suffering From Patent Maximalism Has Europe Forewarned
  • 05.07.17 ILO Gives the European Patent Office Unfair Advantage in Disputes With Staff
  • 05.11.17 The EPO is in Disarray and Additional Complaints to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) May Be Imminent
  • 09.01.17 EPO Silencers of the Media – Part III: EPO Vice-President Topić Takes Association of Writers and Journalists to Court
  • 09.02.17 Japan (Kyoto) Based Nintendo Suffers From Texas, the World’s Capital of Patent Litigation
  • 09.15.17 The UPC Fantasy is Going Nowhere as Complaints and Paperwork Pile Up
  • 09.30.17 Battistelli’s Club Med at the EPO – Part IV: The Angolan Patent Office (IAPI) Seems Almost Defunct
  • 10.08.17 Battistelli’s Club Med at the EPO – Part VII: Quo Vadis EPO?
  • 10.12.17 Patent Quality at the EPO (European Patents) is Slipping While Battistelli’s Office Boasts “Expansion of Early Certainty” (Even Worse)
  • 10.19.17 António Campinos: A True EPO Reformer or More of the Same?
  • 10.28.17 The Financial Handling of the EPO is Incredibly Scandalous
  • 12.12.17 No, China Isn’t Most Innovative, It’s Just Granting a Lot of Low-Quality Patents
  • 12.24.17 Post-Alice, the Patent Microcosm is Up in Arms and Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel for Anti-Alice Material
  • 01.01.18 How Institut International des Brevets (IIB), INPADOC and Other Historic Endeavours Relate to EPO and DG1/DG2
  • 01.07.18 China’s Self-Destructive Patent Policy Will Replace Assembly Lines of Products With Assembly Lines of Low-Quality Patents and Lawsuits
  • 01.11.18 126th Session of the ILO Administrative Tribunal is Around the Corner and EPO Staff Representatives Will Have Their Cases Heard Soon
  • 01.18.18 Patent Prosecution Highway: Low-Quality Patents for High-Frequency Patent Aggressors
  • 01.19.18 The EPO Ignores This Week’s Decision Which Demonstrates Patent Scope Gone Awry; Software Patents Brought Up Again
  • 01.24.18 CRISPR Patent Debacle Demonstrated That Opposition Divisions Do Their Job, But Also Highlighted Serious Deficiency in Patent-Granting Process
  • 01.26.18 Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) Are Not Inventions, But Sites of the Patent Microcosm (e.g. IAM) Want Us to Believe Otherwise
  • 02.01.18 Too Much to Cover Up at the EPO, the UN, and UN Agencies
  • 02.05.18 The ‘Microsoft Operandi’ of Vaguely Alluding to 200+ Patents to Blackmail the Competition is Now Being Copied by China
  • 02.24.18 Not Just EPO: USPTO Too Will See Patent Filings Declining
  • 03.22.18 Japan is Becoming Firmer on Patents, Whereas China Goes in the Opposite Direction
  • 04.01.18 António Campinos Withdraws From Plan to Directly Run the EPO, Patent Office to be Run by Google ‘AI’ Instead
  • 04.03.18 ‘Patent Imperialism’ in the United States and China
  • 04.05.18 ‘SIPO Europe’: More Low-Quality Patents at Lower Costs
  • 04.13.18 David Barcelou May or May Not be a Patent Troll, But He is Certainly a SLAPPing Bully and Watchtroll is Fine With It
  • 04.26.18 World IP Day, a Propaganda Opportunity for Patent Maximalists, is Becoming More About Feminism
  • 05.06.18 Software Patents Are Not Allowed in Canada, But the Patent Microcosm is Trying to Change That
  • 05.09.18 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Not Happening, But Kluwer Patent Blog Pretends It’s Already in Force
  • 05.17.18 In Australia the Productivity Commission Decides/Guides Patent Law
  • 05.27.18 The Patent Extremists Resort to Trump-Styled China-Baiting in an Effort to Destroy US Patent Policy
  • 06.24.18 The Dangerous Adoption of Patents on Life and Nature
  • 07.02.18 First Day for António Campinos is Done, But Some Media is Still Publishing 90th-Minute Battistelli Puff Pieces
  • 07.12.18 Thomas Massie and Marcy Kaptur Are Promoting the Interests of Patent Trolls and Patent Lawyers While Calling That “Innovation”
  • 07.29.18 Section 101/Alice Patent Ineligibility Would Include Artificial Intelligence and Blockchains
  • 08.19.18 From the Eastern District of Texas (US) to Australia Patent Quality Remains a Problem
  • 08.25.18 ‘Cult of Patents’ Has Cheapened Patents and Nowadays Patent Law Firms Are Collapsing
  • 09.01.18 Coming to Grips With the Fact That EPO Layoffs Are Already in Effect
  • 09.26.18 Director Iancu and President Campinos Both Serve the Litigation ‘Industry’ Instead of Science and Technology
  • 10.01.18 EPO Under António Campinos an Unprecedented Booster of Software Patents
  • 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
  • 10.09.18 António Campinos Makes Excuses for Granting European Patents on Software in Spite of the EPC
  • 10.21.18 Lack of Patent Quality Means Lack of Patent Validity and Lack of Legal Certainty
  • 11.06.18 The European Patent Office Lost Its Way, Found Buzzwords Instead
  • 11.08.18 EPO Needs to Publicly Apologise for Granting Bogus/Fake Patents to Aggressive Companies Like Monsanto (Now Bayer)
  • 11.15.18 Berkheimer or No Berkheimer, Software Patents Remain Mostly Unenforceable in the United States and the Supreme Court is Fine With That
  • 12.09.18 EPO Vice-President Željko Topić in New Article About Corruption in Croatia
  • 02.01.19 The Reputation of the EPO is Ruined But Now It Ruins the Lives of Staff and Europeans
  • 02.08.19 Teff is Not an Invention. Teff is Nature.
  • 02.12.19 Innovating the Idea That Software Patents (Monopolies on Algorithms) Are Covering ‘Artificial’ ‘Intelligence’ (AI and ML as Loopholes)
  • 02.25.19 Croatian Media on Fake Diplomas and the EPO Connection
  • 02.27.19 Teff Just One Among Countless Examples of Sheer Disregard for Patent Quality
  • 03.02.19 The Collapse of Poor-Quality European Patents Continues in European Courts
  • 03.15.19 Stopping António Campinos and His Software Patents Agenda (Not Legal in Europe) Would Require Independent Courts
  • 04.04.19 The Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) Warns About the Granting of Tens of Thousands of Invalid European Patents Every Year
  • 05.05.19 It’s 2019 and Team UPC is Still Composing ‘Fake News’ (Lobbying Disguised as Reporting)
  • 05.11.19 Making the Patent System About Productive Actors (Again), Not a Bunch of Law Firms and Trolls