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Benoît Battistelli

This is a list of articles about (or which mention) Benoît Battistelli, EPO President from 2010 to 2018 (now at CEIPI). Battistelli is widely regarded as the EPO's worst-ever President.

  • 05.04.13 The European Patent Office is Breaking the Law Regarding Software Patents, German Parliament Finally Complains
  • 09.15.14 Željko Topić, Benoît Battistelli, and the European Patent Office (EPO): Part II
  • 09.22.14 European Patent Office/Organisation – Suspicion of Improper Collusion Between EPO President and Chairman of the Administrative Council: Part III
  • 10.14.14 The EPO’s Protection Triangle of Battistelli, Kongstad, and Topić: Part VI
  • 10.31.14 The EPO Is More Corrupt Under Battistelli Than Under Alison Brimelow: Part VIII
  • 12.06.14 EPO Imploding: Battistelli Throws a Fit at EPO’s Investigation Unit
  • 12.07.14 EPO Scandal: Benoît Battistelli’s Arrogance Recognised by European Delegations
  • 12.11.14 France Gets Involved in Battistelli’s Abuses in the EPO – Part XII (Updated)
  • 12.12.14 Dreaming of a Just Christmas: When a Third of EPO Walks Out to Revolt and European Judges Attack the EPO Over Abuses
  • 12.13.14 News From France and Germany: Battistelli Under Fire, But Not Fired Yet, Just Firing His Opposition
  • 12.31.14 EPO Staff Protests to Continue in the New Year, Techrights to Release New Material
  • 01.07.15 Intellectual Property Judges’ Association (IPJA) Speaks Out Against EPO Tyrant Battistelli
  • 01.13.15 EPO Misdirections Debunked: Refuting Battistelli’s Nonsense and Bogeyman Theory
  • 01.13.15 Dutch MEP Dennis De Jong, Criticising Battistelli and Topić, Calls for Action Against EPO Management
  • 01.29.15 An Estimated 1,000 EPO Employees-Strong Legion Engulfs Danish Consulate to Protest Jesper Kongstad’s (of Administrative Council) Protection of Benoît Battistelli
  • 02.17.15 Benoît Battistelli Has Made Oversight of European Patent Office Absolutely Impossible
  • 02.20.15 Benoît Battistelli Once Again Threatens EPO Staff That ‘Dares’ to Protest, Battistelli Exploits Terror Attacks to Pretend to Respect Free Speech
  • 02.24.15 Benoît Battistelli Thinks ‘President’ is Above the Law, Decides to Ignore the Court’s Ruling
  • 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’
  • 04.01.15 When Battistelli’s Defender, Dutch Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten, Attacked Europeans’ Right to Demonstrate
  • 04.02.15 When Battistelli’s Defender Ivo Opstelten Turned Out to be Also Defending (Paying) Narcotics Traffickers
  • 04.03.15 English, French and German Translations of De Telegraaf Article About Ivo Opstelten’s Defence of Benoît Battistelli
  • 04.30.15 The EPO’s Tyrant, Benoît Battistelli, is Probably on His Way Out, Threatens to Resign
  • 05.21.15 More Utter Shame Unveiled at Battistelli’s EPO: Intimidation Tactics With Help From ‘Control Risks’
  • 05.25.15 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Benoît Battistelli and Four EPO Suicides
  • 07.11.15 European Censorship: Tyrants of the EPO Blacklist Techrights, Web Site Not Accessible Office-Wide
  • 09.08.15 Benoît Battistelli in Denial Over Suicides in EPO, Accuses and Threatens the Messengers
  • 09.09.15 Benoît Battistelli and His Goons From Control Risks (CRG) Try to Crush Unions, Not Just Journalism
  • 09.23.15 EPO President Benoît Battistelli Compared to Famous Criminals on European Television
  • 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
  • 10.13.15 EPO Staff is Happy, Says EPO Propaganda Still in the Making
  • 10.13.15 Confirmed: Benoît Battistelli is Crushing the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA)
  • 10.19.15 Benoît Battistelli et al in an Allegedly New Campaign of Defamation Against Staff Member
  • 10.24.15 SUEPO Reiterates Call for Independent Mediation and “Doubts That There Can Ever be Social Peace With Mr Battistelli as President”
  • 10.30.15 Benoît Battistelli Became an Embarrassment to the European Patent Organisation, Allege EPO Workers
  • 11.04.15 The Latest Propaganda From Benoît Battistelli is Promotion of the Unitary Patent (UPC) at Political Levels
  • 11.04.15 The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part II
  • 11.19.15 Another George Bush Moment: Benoît Battistelli Says EPO Believes in “Fundamental Principles of Freedom, Equality and Justice”
  • 11.22.15 President Battistelli Now Pressures/Threatens Politicians Who ‘Dare’ to Complain About Abuses and Unacceptable Conditions at the EPO
  • 12.01.15 EPO Staff Representatives Highlight to Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’ How Battistelli Deceived Him
  • 12.04.15 Amid EPO Exodus/Brain Drain, Two Options: ‘Gestapo’ Staff and Assistant to Battistelli Have Quit or Battistelli’s Praetorian Guard is Expanding
  • 12.14.15 Battistelli’s Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part I
  • 12.15.15 Battistelli’s Vision of UPC is Closer Contract With Major Applicants (Abroad), Contrary to European Interests
  • 12.15.15 When Europe’s Leading International Patent Litigators Get Fed Up With Benoît Battistelli and Want Him Sent to ‘Exile’
  • 12.16.15 Battistelli Wants to Make “Lobbying in the Field of European and Unitary Patent” a “Prohibited Activity” for All Except Himself
  • 12.18.15 Benoît Battistelli: “An Earthquake Would be Needed for the Administrative Council… Not to Support My Major Proposals.”
  • 12.18.15 Battistelli’s Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part III
  • 12.23.15 Managing IP Interview With Battistelli Shows That He’s Either Deluded or Dishonest About EPO Realities
  • 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)
  • 01.03.16 British MEP May Soon Complain to Benoît Battistelli About EPO Process, No Closer Contacts With Ordinary Applicants
  • 01.16.16 The Witch-hunt Against Elizabeth Hardon Leads Back to Battistelli
  • 01.17.16 Battistelli Hopes That People Forget (or Don’t Know About) Criminal Charges Against Željko Topić, But Croatian Media Does Not Forget as Election Imminent
  • 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
  • 01.19.16 Battistelli “Exacerbated the Penalties Which Were Recommended by the Disciplinary Committees for All Three EPO Unionists” (Under Mock Trial)
  • 01.26.16 No More Defeatism: Battistelli’s Days at the European Patent Office May be Numbered
  • 01.29.16 Battistelli and His Bodyguards: Paranoia, Megalomania, or Both? Are China-Style ‘Suicide Nets’ Next on the EPO’s Agenda?
  • 02.01.16 Under Battistelli’s Regime the European Patent Office is Rapidly Rotting
  • 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 Even the Legal Community is Upset at Benoît Battistelli for the Damage He Did to the EPO
  • 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
  • 02.19.16 Rumours Suggest That Battistelli, Already Enjoying Life With a Huge (But Still Secret) Salary, Wants More Than a Decade’s Worth of Salary to Leave
  • 02.22.16 New EPO Rumours About Benoît Battistelli’s Potential Role in the Bygmalion Affair
  • 02.23.16 More Information About Battistelli’s Utterly Miserable Last EPO Moves (Leaked Photo Included)
  • 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)
  • 02.25.16 European Patent Office: Battistelli Gets Official Warning
  • 02.25.16 The Mass Media Recognises This May be the End of the Battistelli Regime
  • 02.25.16 Más Información Acerca de los Ultimos Miserables Movimientos de la OEP de Battistelli (Foto Filtrada Incluida)
  • 02.26.16 Even Battistelli-Funded Media Admits That Battistelli is in Deep Trouble Right Now
  • 02.26.16 Member States Are Turning Against “Tyrannical” Chief of European Patent Office (Benoît Battistelli)
  • 02.27.16 Confirmed by Dutch Media (Telegraaf): Benoît Battistelli Makes Unreasonable Compensation Demands
  • 02.28.16 Incluso los Medios Financiados por Battistelli Admiten que Actualmente El Se Encuentra en Problemas
  • 03.01.16 Battistelli and Godwin’s Law (Comparing One’s Opposition to Nazis)
  • 03.02.16 Team Battistelli Uses FFPE to Give an Illusion of EPO Peace With ‘Unions’ and Justify/Support a Now-Famous Lie
  • 03.02.16 Confirmado por los Medios Holandadeses (Telegraaf): Benoît Battistelli Hace Irracionales Demandas de Compensación
  • 03.05.16 Remember What Benoît Battistelli Said About His Salary and His Bonus
  • 03.06.16 Busted Battistelli: EPO President Publicly Lies About the State of the EPO, So What About His Secret Contract, Salary and Other Undisclosed Benefits?
  • 03.06.16 Vote for EPO Strike This Tuesday in Order to Replace EPO Management
  • 03.07.16 Atrapado: Battistelli Presidente de la EPO Publicamente miente Acerca del Estado de su Organización, Así que Acerca de su Contrato Secreto, Salario y otros Ocultos Beneficios?
  • 03.08.16 Claim and Perception: Under Battistelli, EPO More Permissive on Software Patents Than USPTO, In Spite of the EPC
  • 03.08.16 Rumoured Successor of Battistelli, Christoph Ernst, Previously Seen as Antagonist of Battistelli But What About UPC?
  • 03.11.16 EPO Tells La Tribune That Benoît Battistelli’s Salary is “We Don’t Comment on Rumours”
  • 03.12.16 Battistelli Acting Like a Politician, Lobbying for UPC All Across Europe and Coming to London Soon
  • 03.13.16 EPO Under Benoît Battistelli: Nepotism, Misinformation, Poor Patent Quality, Terrible Working Conditions, and Increase in Prices
  • 03.15.16 EPO’s Central Staff Committee Asks Benoît Battistelli to Undo Union-Busting Activities and Obey the Dutch Court’s Judgment
  • 03.16.16 EPO’s Leadership All-time Low: Benoît Battistelli’s Meeting With Secretary Martijn van Dam Explodes
  • 03.16.16 Dutch Media (NRC) Cites Documents Leaked to Techrights and EPO Refuses to Comment on Them
  • 03.16.16 EPO’s Comite Central De Empleados Pide A Benoît Battistelli Retractarse en sus Actividades Destructivas Contra el Sindicato y a Obedecer a la Corte Holandesa
  • 03.17.16 Institutional Failure and Dirty Tricks: Benoît Battistelli Seemingly Gets Support Like Microsoft Gets Support
  • 03.18.16 Benoît Battistelli Made SUEPO Stronger by Trying to Decapitate It, May in Fact Have Self-Decapitated EPO (President in the Chopping Line)
  • 03.19.16 Conflict at the European Patent Office: Battistelli gets away with a slap on the wrist
  • 03.20.16 Conflicto en la Oficina Europea de Patentes: Battistelli se sale con un tirón de orejas
  • 03.20.16 The ‘Results’ That Battistelli and His EPO Bunch Brag About Not Believed by Patent Lawyers and Patent Examiners
  • 03.22.16 Los ‘Resultados’ Que Battistellli y Sus Compadres de la EPO se Enorgullece NO son Creídos por los Abogados de Patentes y Exáminadores de Patentes
  • 03.22.16 More Vomit-Inducing Publicity Stunts From Benoît Battistelli and the EPO Management
  • 03.25.16 “The Decision of the President [Battistelli to Overstep the Recommendation of the Disciplinary Committee is Arbitrary and Shows Bad Faith.”]
  • 03.30.16 EPO Losing Time: Two Weeks Later, Benoît Battistelli Has Made Virtually No Progress to Save Himself From Sacking
  • 04.04.16 Battistelli’s Inner Circle is Expanding With More Miraculous EPO Promotions and Allegedly More Bodyguards
  • 04.05.16 EPO Management Mocks Justice and Bans Judges, Takes Away Their Independence
  • 04.05.16 El Circulo Intimo de Battistelli se Expande Con Más Milagrosas Promociones y Su Guardia Pretoriana También Se Incrementa
  • 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 Busted Battistelli: EPO President Violating the EPO’s Code of Conduct
  • 04.09.16 Aja! Battistelli: El Presidente de la EPO President Violando el Código de Conducta de la EPO
  • 04.10.16 Church of EPO: How Team Battistelli Engineered the Dismissal of People Not Sufficiently Loyal to Them – Part I
  • 04.11.16 La Iglesia de EPO: ¿Como el Equipo de Battistelli Arregló El Despido de la Gente No lo Suficiéntemente Leales a Ellos? – Parte I
  • 04.16.16 Administrative Council “Openly Showed Disapproval of Battistelli’s Behaviour” at the EPO
  • 04.16.16 Benoît Battistelli “Left in Anger During an Initial Meeting With the State Secretary [Who Started Talking About Working Conditions for the Staff”]
  • 04.19.16 Munich State Attorney is Pursuing Criminal Charges Against the European Patent Office
  • 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
  • 05.03.16 ES: Gobiernos en Europa Todavía Activos en Contra de la Gerencia de la EPO
  • 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: Los Enemigos de Europ: Un Mes Después de Promover la UPC en Londres, Benoît Battistelli y la EPO Hacen lo Mismo en Helsinki
  • 05.17.16 Two Months Down the Line, Battistelli Has Done None of What the Administrative Council Told Him to Do; He Should be Sacked Next Month
  • 05.20.16 Notorious EPO Tyrant, Benoît Battistelli, Meets Other Tyrants, Reportedly ‘Cleanses’ the Administrative Council
  • 05.21.16 ES: El Notorio Tirano de la EPO, Benoît Battistelli, Se Reune Con Otros Tiranos, Reportes de Que ‘Limpia’ el Consejo Administrativo
  • 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
  • 05.24.16 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
  • 05.29.16 New EPO Caricature: Nouveaux Garde-Vélo (New Bicycle Guards)
  • 05.29.16 Rumour: Battistelli Wants to Extend the Term of Topić’s EPO Appointment in Spite of Criminal Charges Against Him
  • 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
  • 06.01.16 ES: Rumor: Battistelli Quiere Extender el Periódo de Topic en la EPO a Pesar de los Cargos Criminales en Su Contra
  • 06.01.16 Save the Boards of Appeal to Save the EPO From Battistelli’s Neoliberal Vision and Recipe for Disaster
  • 06.02.16 Closer Look at Players in Battistelli’s Information War: Part I
  • 06.04.16 Battistelli is Destroying the European Patent Office and Wasting a Lot of Money Hiding This Fact
  • 06.05.16 EPO Tyranny Comes Under Fire From Politicians in Luxembourg
  • 06.07.16 Enlarged Board of Appeals Can Decide Whether Battistelli’s Attack on the Boards Will Become Public
  • 06.08.16 ES: Mirada Cercana a los Protagonistas en la Guerra Informativa de Battistelli: Parte 1
  • 06.08.16 Goodbye to Patent Quality at the EPO, Thanks to Team Battistelli With Its Extreme Policies
  • 06.09.16 Battistelli is Said to be Engineering Further Attacks on People Whom He Already Fired From the EPO
  • 06.09.16 Dutch Media Reveals That Battistelli Continues His Vicious War on Staff Unions, Laurent Prunier the Latest Casualty (The Hague)
  • 06.10.16 Tuesday Hearing at Room 131 Regarding Illegally Suspended (and Then Defamed) Judge Who Said the Truth About Serious Abuse at the Top of EPO
  • 06.11.16 ES: Se Dice Que Battistelli Esta Fabricando Más Ataques en Contra de la Gente a la Que Ya Despidió de la EPO
  • 06.11.16 EPO Press Spokesperson and Director External Communications Busy Creating Distractions From EPO Controversies
  • 06.11.16 ES: Medios Holandeses Revelan que Battistelli Continua su Feroz Guerra Contra el Sindicato de Empleados, Laurent Prunier la Última Victima (La Hague)
  • 06.12.16 ES: Audiencia el Martes en la Sala 131 Acerca del Ilegalmente Suspendido (y luego Difamado) Juez Que Dijo la Verdad Acerca de los Serios Abusos en la Cúpula de la EPO
  • 06.13.16 Association of the Members of the Boards of Appeal Urges EPO Administrative Council to End Battistelli’s Coup
  • 06.13.16 Out-of-Control Battistelli Repeatedly Breaks Office Rules and EPC Rules, Then Tries to Change the Rules (Retroactive Legalisation)
  • 06.14.16 Timely ‘Gifts’ From Battistelli to Member States (Shortly Before They Can — and Should — Sack Him)
  • 06.14.16 Battistelli is Sending Threatening Messages/Letters Again, in Another Desperate Effort to Cover Up His Campaign of Defamation Against EPO Whistleblowers (Updated)
  • 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 Apparently Breaks the Rules Again and Says That Transparent Trial is Unlawful, Threatens Those Involved
  • 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: Battistelli esta Mandando Mensajes/Cartas Amenazadoras de Nuevo, en Otro Desesperado Esfuerzo de Cubrir su Campaña de Difamación en Contra de Personal de la EPO Que Sacan a Luz la Verdard (Actualizado)
  • 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)
  • 06.23.16 Looks Increasingly Plausible That Battistelli is Covering up Bogus and/or Illegally-Obtained ‘Evidence’ From the EPO’s Investigative Unit
  • 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
  • 06.27.16 Caricature: European Patent Office (EPO) Under Battistelli
  • 06.28.16 ES: Con la UPC Muerta por el Resto del Termino de Battistelli, No Hay Razón para que la EPO o el Consejo Administrativo Sigan Manteniéndolo Más
  • 06.28.16 Injunction Against Battistelli’s Investigative Unit (Known Internally as ‘Gestapo’) Amid Serious Injustices and Bogus ‘Trials’
  • 06.28.16 ES: Cada Vez Más Parece Que Battistelli está Escondiéndo ‘Evidencia’ Falsa y/o Ilegalmente Obtenda de la Unidad Investigativa de la EPO
  • 06.29.16 Battistelli Attacks Not Only His Staff But Also Patents Themselves (Their Quality) and the Legal Legitimacy Surrounding the EPO
  • 06.29.16 Battistelli is Creating an Atmosphere of Terror at the EPO While Exploiting Terror Attacks to Garner Sympathy
  • 06.29.16 Rumours That EPO President Battistelli Got Sacked to be Replaced by Christoph Ernst Appear to be Baseless
  • 06.29.16 EPO Management Bunker: “The Bailiff Who Came to Deliver the Subpoena was Escorted off the Property by Five Security Guards.”
  • 06.29.16 EPO Caricature: Administrative Council Control of Benoît Battistelli
  • 06.29.16 EPO Caricature: Firing Benoît Battistelli
  • 06.30.16 Battistelli’s Last Moves Are Desperate Attempts to Crush the Messenger (SUEPO), Which Will Almost Certainly Backfire on (if Not Fire) Battistelli
  • 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
  • 07.03.16 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
  • 07.04.16 Image of Battistelli’s EPO Tarnished in the UK and Elsewhere as Battistelli Warms up to Cuba, Colombia, and Panama
  • 07.05.16 SUEPO “Speechless” About Administrative Council Delegates for “Cavalier Attitude Towards Law-Making” and “Contempt for Consultative Processes”
  • 07.09.16 Battistelli and Team UPC Working Behind Closed Doors to Overcome Brexit and Impose Patent Injustice
  • 07.09.16 ES: La Imagen de la EPO de Battistelli Manchada en el Reino Unido y en Todo Lugar Mientras Battistelli Encanta a Cuba, Colombia, y Panama
  • 07.11.16 Coup D’état in Relation to the European Patent Office
  • 07.11.16 ES: Battistelli y el Equipo UPC Trabajando a Puertas Cerradas para Sobreponerse a Brexit e Imponer la Injusticia de Patentes
  • 07.11.16 Benoît Battistelli’s Attacks on EPO Unions, Judges, Boards, and Even Justice Itself the Subject of Media Fascination
  • 07.13.16 EPO’s Battistelli Continues to Court Small Countries’ Officials and Spin That as “Small Businesses From These Countries”
  • 07.15.16 EPO’s Battistelli, Who Breaks the Law, Subverts the Course of Justice and Refuses to Obey Court Orders, Says the Unthinkable Amid Terror Attacks
  • 07.16.16 This is Why Benoît Battistelli Has 0% Approval Rating Among ‘His’ Staff at the EPO
  • 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 ES: La EPO de Battistelli, Quién Quiebra la Ley, Subvierte el Curso de la Justicia y Rechaza Obedecer las Ordenes de la Corte Dice lo Impensable en Medio de los Actos de Terror
  • 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
  • 07.27.16 Early Certainty That Benoît Battistelli is Dangerously Clueless and a Major Risk to the EPO
  • 07.28.16 To Understand What Battistelli Has Turned the EPO Into Look at Turkey and China
  • 08.06.16 Francis Gurry — Like Benoît Battistelli — Compared to Sepp Blatter of FIFA
  • 08.08.16 Rumours About Secret EPO Salary of Benoît Battistelli
  • 08.09.16 “EPO Shows an Operating Loss of €145,000,000”
  • 08.18.16 Turkey Subjected to the European Patent Convention (EPC) But Benoît Battistelli is Not?
  • 08.22.16 Battistelli the Liar Causes a Climate of Confrontation in French Politics, Lies About Patent Quality (Among Many Other Things)
  • 09.03.16 Battistelli is Even Attacking the French, and Not Just in Germany But Also on Dutch Territory
  • 09.08.16 Another New Low for the EPO and Battistelli (Updated)
  • 09.12.16 Benoît Battistelli is Putting More EPO Staff Representatives in Front of His Firing Line
  • 09.13.16 Battistelli is Killing the EPO, in His Own Words…
  • 09.13.16 The Duke Law Patent Quality Conference and the Planned Erosion of Patent Quality at the EPO, for the Sake of So-called ‘Production’
  • 09.15.16 Battistelli is Lying About Patent Quality While It Continues to Nosedive at the EPO as Part of His Neo-liberal ‘Production’ Strategy
  • 09.18.16 EPO President Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are Still Lying, Don’t Believe a Word They Say
  • 09.19.16 When EPO Liar-in-Chief Benoît Battistelli Defamed His Staff in Parliament, Comparing Them to Nazis and Criminals
  • 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)
  • 09.23.16 White Male-Dominated EPO Management Sinks to New Lows, Again
  • 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
  • 09.27.16 Team Battistelli Intensifies the Attack on the Boards of Appeal Again
  • 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 Loose Patent Scope Becoming a Publicity Nightmare for the EPO and Battistelli Does a China Outreach (Worst/Most Notorious on Patent Quality)
  • 10.06.16 Battistelli’s Preparation for a Propaganda Session That Excludes EPO Staff Representation
  • 10.13.16 EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point – Part III: How Benoît Battistelli Planned to Expand His Attacks on EPO Staff (But Failed)
  • 10.16.16 EPO Social Conference Another Example of Astronomical Waste of Money by Benoît Battistelli
  • 10.18.16 Battistelli Wants Us to Believe a Patent Office in a Freefall (EPO) is “Stronger and More Sustainable”
  • 10.21.16 EPO Caricature: Battistelli’s High Five
  • 10.24.16 Battistelli Plans to Expand the Social [sic ‘Study’ (Then ‘Conference’) Propaganda Until Next Month, Under the ‘Workshop’ Umbrella]
  • 10.26.16 Budget and Finance Committee of the Administrative Council (EPO) Confirms Exile of the Boards of Appeal
  • 11.04.16 In the Case of Frenchman Laurent Prunier, Battistelli Reasserts Himself as Psychopathic Bully
  • 11.04.16 Leaked: An Out-of-Control EPO Union-Busting Parade of Battistelli Marches on in The Hague
  • 11.05.16 Dismissal of Laurent Prunier Worse Than It Seems as Battistelli Almost ‘Pulls a Hardon’ by Taking Away Pension Rights Too
  • 11.06.16 EPO Ally IAM Magazine Calls Battistelli’s Dismissal of EPO Staff Representative Laurent Prunier “a Needless Own Goal.”
  • 11.08.16 EPO I.U. Cartoon Highlights the Way EPO Staff Feels About the Management Under Battistelli
  • 11.10.16 Battistelli Must Go, Says Yet Another French Politician, Arguing He is “Extremely Damaging to the Image of France”
  • 11.15.16 Guest Post: Behind the GCC Meeting and How Battistelli Finds Excuses for His Union-Busting Campaign at the EPO
  • 11.17.16 Battistelli Should be Made Redundant (Fired) Before All EPO Staff Becomes Redundant in a Defunct Office That Flagrantly Mocks the Law
  • 11.18.16 Drunk on ‘Production’, the European Patent Office (EPO) Grants Patents on Recipes
  • 11.26.16 Caught in a Lie Again: EPO Management Just Cannot Stop Lying, Even About People Whom It Gags Using Threats (to Cover Up Battistelli’s Abuses)
  • 11.29.16 Mixing Politics and EPO: How Battistelli Defies the Very Basic Rules of the Office
  • 12.03.16 More French Politicians Are Complaining That Benoît Battistelli is a Disgrace to France and Urge for Action
  • 12.06.16 Les Échos Chamber: Having Corrupted the Media (With EPO Money), Battistelli Now Uses It for More UPC Propaganda
  • 12.06.16 Endgame for Battistelli at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 12.10.16 “Corrupt Benoît Battistelli and Željko Topić Today in Zagreb at 25th Anniversary of SIPO Croatia”
  • 12.11.16 The EPO Sent Its Second ‘Monster’ to Croatia to Lobby for the Unitary Patent (UPC), Did Not Mention Anything About It
  • 12.12.16 Benoît Battistelli Besieged
  • 12.13.16 EPO Staff: Mr. Battistelli is Causing Immeasurable Damage to the Office; He is Now Untenable
  • 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 Staff Union of the European Central Bank Blasts Benoît Battistelli
  • 12.18.16 Not Just in Europe: EPO ‘Mafioso’ Benoît Battistelli Brings Software Patents (“Computer-Implemented Inventions”) to Another Place That Explicitly Banned Them
  • 12.19.16 EPO President Benoît Battistelli “Should Be in Prison”
  • 12.19.16 From Bad to Worse: When a Horrible Regime (EPO) Publicly Makes Itself Look Like One
  • 12.20.16 Benoît Battistelli’s Reign of Terror at the EPO Milks a Terror Attack Again, Shows Extreme Hypocrisy
  • 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
  • 01.20.17 Battistelli is an Autocrat Above the Law and It’s OK, Holland’s High Council Says
  • 01.26.17 Conflict Between Benoît Battistelli and Roland Grossenbacher, Former Chairman of the Administrative Council of the EPO
  • 01.27.17 Gurry and Battistelli: When Alternative Facts and Oppression Are Becoming Business as Usual
  • 01.29.17 Battistelli Keeps Filling His Swamp at the European Patent Office for Social Control and Immunity Purposes
  • 01.31.17 Battistelli Brags About Being Unaccountable, But He is Wrong and is Probably in Defiance of the Law
  • 02.01.17 EPO Stakeholders Want Battistelli and His Goons Ousted, They Can Accomplish This by Working Together (Like a Union)
  • 02.02.17 Growing Rift Between EPO Stakeholders and the Office, Due to Battistelli’s Appalling Leadership
  • 02.06.17 The EPO’s President, Benoît Battistelli, May Have Become One of Europe’s Most Hated People
  • 02.07.17 Battistelli Judges Himself to be Excellent, in the Same Way Other Autocrats Judge Themselves to be Benevolent
  • 02.07.17 Translation: Juve Survey That Shows 0% Approval of Battistelli and Growing Concerns About the EPO
  • 02.12.17 Nazi Analogies at the EPO Are the Work of Battistelli, Who Libels Staff Representatives and Judges by Calling Them Nazis and Criminals
  • 02.12.17 Not Only EPO Staff Are Committing Suicide; the EPO as a Whole is Committing Institutional Suicide
  • 02.14.17 For Valentine’s Day, Battistelli Learns to Stop Worrying and Love to Lie
  • 02.20.17 EPO Caricature: Battistelli’s Wall
  • 02.28.17 The Boards of Appeal Openly Complain (in the EPO’s Web Site) About Battistelli, But Don’t Tell Battistelli About It…
  • 03.07.17 With a Week Left Before the Administrative Council’s Meeting, Pressure on Battistelli to Leave the EPO Continues to Grow
  • 03.08.17 Latest EPO ‘Results’ Should be Grounds for Immediate Dismissal of Battistelli Rather Than Celebrations
  • 03.09.17 Ousting of Benoît Battistelli Next Week Seems Feasible, But Jesper Kongstad Protects Rather Than Supervises Battistelli
  • 03.11.17 The Battistelli Mafia and Corsica
  • 03.14.17 Battistelli Receives Another Letter From FICSA, is Urged to Meet EPO Staff Representatives Whom He Fired to Bust the Unions
  • 03.16.17 Benoît Battistelli “Should Not Have Been in Charge of Anything More Involved Than a Hamster Cage Without the Hamster…”
  • 03.17.17 IAM Remains Battistelli’s Propaganda Mill, Helping to Manufacture and Reinforce Lies About Quality
  • 03.20.17 Are Lithuania and Latvia the Latest Additions to the List of Benoît Battistelli’s Vassal States?
  • 03.22.17 The Photos the EPO Absolutely Doesn’t Want the Public to See: Battistelli is Building a Palace Using Stakeholders’ Money
  • 03.22.17 The Battistelli Regime, With Its Endless Scandals, Threatens to Crash the Unitary Patent (UPC), Stakeholders Concerned
  • 03.23.17 “Terror” Patent Office Bemoans Terror, Spreads Lies
  • 03.23.17 The Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation Has Just Buried an Innocent Judge That Battistelli Does Not Like
  • 03.26.17 Even the EPO’s Administrative Council No Longer Trusts Its Chairman, Battistelli’s ‘Chinchilla’ Jesper Kongstad
  • 03.27.17 The Crook Goes to Brussels to Lie About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 03.28.17 Benoît Battistelli ‘Pulls an Erdoğan’ Faster Than Erdoğan
  • 03.29.17 Kongstad and Battistelli Have Staged a Coup at the European Patent Organisation (EPO)
  • 03.30.17 Director Michelle Lee Across the Table From EPO ‘Mafioso’ Benoît Battistelli
  • 03.30.17 Devaluation of European Patents is a Recipe for Institutional Suicide and Immeasurable Harm to Europe’s Economy
  • 04.07.17 The European Patent Convention (EPC) is Habitually Being Violated by the President of the EPO
  • 04.10.17 EPO’s Benoît Battistelli is Again Exploiting Truck Attacks to Spread Lies and Garner Sympathy (for the Abuser)
  • 04.16.17 EPO Patent Quality and Quality of Service Have Become a Disaster, Say EPO Stakeholders
  • 04.25.17 EPO Fiasco to be Discussed in German Local Authority (Bavarian Parliament) Some Time Today as the Institution Continues Its Avoidable Collapse
  • 04.25.17 Astoundingly, IP Kat Has Become a Leading Source of UPC and Battistelli Propaganda
  • 05.01.17 The Sickness of the EPO – Part VIII: Allegations That the EPO Has No Honest Doctors, Only ‘Fake’ Ones Subservient to Team Battistelli
  • 05.27.17 Colossal Institutional Failure Surrounding the European Patent Office (EPO) and EPO Chickens Out of Debate About It
  • 06.10.17 IAM ‘Magazine’, an Adjunct or Megaphone to the Battistelli Regime, Called ‘Independent’ by the EPO and Used for ‘Quality’ Propaganda
  • 06.13.17 Battistelli to Leave the European Patent Office Without the Unitary Patent He Repeatedly Promised in Vain Over the Years
  • 06.15.17 Leaked: Job Advertisement for Removing Battistelli From the European Patent Office
  • 06.17.17 The Writings on the Wall at the European Patent Office: Number of Directors May Soon Decline From 150 to Just 65-70
  • 06.28.17 Christoph Ernst, Long Speculated to be Battistelli’s Successor, Becomes Battistelli’s ‘Boss’
  • 07.03.17 It’s Official: Battistelli Will Leave the EPO in Less Than a Year
  • 07.04.17 EPO Silent About EPO Strikes and Battistelli Leaving
  • 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
  • 07.13.17 Looking Forward to a Battistelli-less and Kongstad-less European Patent Office
  • 08.07.17 German Media Names António Campinos as Likely Successor of Battistelli
  • 08.10.17 German Media Paints a Picture of Benoît Battistelli as a Drunken ‘Putin’ Looking to Push UPC at All Costs
  • 08.12.17 Under Battistelli, EPO Ceased to Reward Inventors, Rewards Only Battistelli and Fellow Thugs Instead
  • 08.23.17 Benoît Battistelli’s Misbehaviour Condemned the UPC to Death
  • 09.10.17 European Patent Office (EPO) Implements Erdoğan-Style or Ottoman-Like Purge for King Battistelli
  • 09.11.17 Upcoming EPO Series: Benoît Battistelli’s ‘Club Med’
  • 09.23.17 Latest EPO Rumours Allege That Benoît Battistelli Rigged the Process of EPO President’s Selection
  • 10.08.17 Thugs United: Francis Gurry Lecture, Courtesy of Benoît Battistelli
  • 10.10.17 Battistelli’s Club Med at the EPO – Part VIII: Summary and Photos of Battistelli’s Club Med
  • 10.12.17 The Hogwash Begins: Patent Microcosm’s Media Pretends Campinos is Anything But Battistelli’s French Succession Plan
  • 10.22.17 The Difference Between Alain Pompidou and Benoît Battistelli as EPO President
  • 10.26.17 Benoît Battistelli Still Involved in Politics, Probably in Defiance of Clear Rules for International Civil Servants
  • 10.28.17 Fresh Allegations That the Belgian EPO Delegation is Compromised or in Cahoots With Benoît Battistelli
  • 11.05.17 At the EPO Under Battistelli Truth is Being Called “Defamation”
  • 11.06.17 Battistelli’s Serious Conflict of Interest in Saint-Germain-en-Laye Disqualifies Him as EPO President
  • 11.09.17 Team Battistelli Snubbed by the EPO’s Representatives of Nations
  • 11.19.17 Update on the EPO’s Crackdown on the Boards of Appeal
  • 11.25.17 In New EPO Interview With Juve, Chairman of the Administrative Council Criticises Battistelli
  • 11.26.17 “Legal and Administrative Rules at the EPO Are Similar to Those at SIPO” (China)
  • 11.27.17 Battistelli’s Big Fat Greek Wedding at the EPO’s Budget and Finance Committee
  • 12.03.17 Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos Playing Musical Chairs at CEIPI
  • 12.03.17 How CEIPI in Strasbourg is Allegedly Facilitating Another Battistelli ‘Scam’ Surrounding the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 12.04.17 SUEPO on “the Belief of the President That He is Above the Law.”
  • 12.05.17 The EPO Relies on Media Cowardice and Complicity (to Not Report Obvious Issues With Battistelli at CEIPI)
  • 12.05.17 French Disgrace: Teachers at CEIPI Not Happy About Benoît Battistelli as Upcoming President of the CEIPI Administrative Board
  • 12.06.17 Another Day of EPO Injustices in Europe and Campinos/Battistelli Connections at CEIPI
  • 12.07.17 Meanwhile in Eponia, Tyrant Battistelli Must be Seeking Advice on How to Refuse to Obey Court’s Orders (Again)
  • 12.09.17 Raw: Scuttling of the General Advisory Committee and Battistelli Stacking the Deck to Have ‘Yes Men’ as Representatives
  • 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
  • 12.13.17 EPO Administrative Council Disallows Discussion About Violations of the Law by Benoît Battistelli
  • 12.17.17 Raw: Benoît Battistelli Has Long Been Obsessed With ‘Alternative Facts’ (Lying) Regarding Everything
  • 12.18.17 Battistelli Feels as Though He’s Above the Law, So No Wonder He Pursues Software Patents in Europe (Against the Rules)
  • 12.18.17 “As an EPO Employee, I Am Actually Embarrassed by the Behaviour of the President and the Administrative Council”
  • 12.23.17 Raw: How to Tell Benoît Battistelli is Lying
  • 12.23.17 Raw: Sylvie Jacobs, President of USF, Warns the Administrative Council of the EPO About Battistelli Nepotism and Other Abuses
  • 12.25.17 Raw: Before Battistelli Sacked Nearly a Handful of Staff Representatives He Warned a Dozen and Had Already Punished Some
  • 12.25.17 Raw: European Patent Organisation Knew About Benoît Battistelli’s Gross Nepotism for at Least Four Years, Did Nothing to Stop It
  • 12.26.17 Raw: How President Benoît Battistelli Exercises Almost Complete Control Over the Legal Process
  • 12.27.17 Raw: Battistelli’s “Behaviour is Not Only Dangerous for the EPO Staff But is Also Putting the Reputation of the Organisation at Risks.”
  • 12.28.17 Raw: Another Example of Battistelli Trying to Hold the EPO’s Central Staff Committee Accountable for Other People’s Words
  • 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)
  • 12.29.17 Raw: Staff Union of the EPO Explains the Battistelli Operandi
  • 12.30.17 Raw: How and Why the EPO Code of Conduct (CoC) Came About
  • 12.30.17 Raw: Battistelli Uses External Lawyers to Bully Staff That Complains (Like He Repeatedly Did Against Techrights)
  • 12.31.17 Raw: How Battistelli Stacked (to Effectively Control) the Consultation Process Rubber-stamping All His Controversial Proposals
  • 12.31.17 Raw: Battistelli Nervous About Perception of EPO Nepotism (French Cronyism) and Attacks Those Who Take Note of It
  • 12.31.17 Raw: Battistelli, Topić and Bergot Are Stonewalling Until Staff Representatives Speak to EPO Staff
  • 01.01.18 Raw: Battistelli Puts ‘Team Battistelli’ in Charge of ‘Scrutinising’ His Proposals
  • 01.03.18 Translation Shows That Carl Josefsson and Christoph Ernst Refuse to Comment on EPO Injustice as It Might Embarrass Battistelli
  • 01.06.18 President Battistelli Has Acted Like a King Since His Early Days at the EPO
  • 01.14.18 Battistelli Was Always (Right From the Start and Since Candidacy) All About Money
  • 01.14.18 EPC Foresaw the Administrative Council Overseeing the Patent Office, Jesper Kongstad Made It “Working Together”
  • 01.26.18 The ‘Collusion’: IP Kat’s (Until Recently) Stephen Jones Meets Battistelli to Lobby for the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 02.04.18 IAM Magazine, Authored by Benoît Battistelli, is Rubbish Compared to Patent Scholars
  • 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
  • 02.10.18 The Relationship Between IAM and the EPO’s President Battistelli Tightens Further After Payments for UPC Promotion
  • 03.14.18 The EPO is a Mess Under Battistelli and Stakeholders Including Law Firms Will Suffer, Not Just EP Holders
  • 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
  • 03.22.18 Battistelli’s Ongoing Attacks on the Boards Are Helping Unitary Patent (UPC), Which in Turn Helps French Patent Trolls
  • 03.22.18 The Federation of International Civil Servants’ Association: Frenchman “Campinos is Known for Having Close Ties to Mr. Battistelli Who Strongly Supported His Candidacy.”
  • 03.23.18 Guest Post: Battistelli’s Former “Padrone” Facing Corruption Charges in France
  • 03.27.18 The Administrative Council of the EPO Continues to Reaffirm Complicity in Battistelli’s Abuses
  • 04.03.18 Benoît Battistelli’s Era Yields Not Only Invalid and Harmful Monopolies But Also Breeds Distrust and Layoffs
  • 04.11.18 One Last Battistelli Heist: Millions of Euros for Saint-Germain-en-Laye
  • 04.18.18 Guest Post: Responding to Your Recent Posting “The European Patent Office Will Never Hold Its Destroyers Accountable”
  • 04.21.18 Short: Calling Battistelli’s Town (Where He Works) “Force for Innovation” to Justify the Funneling of EPO Funds to It
  • 04.22.18 EPO Hoards Billions of Euros (Taken From the Public), Decreases Quality to Get More Money, Reduces Payments to Staff
  • 04.23.18 Holding Benoît Battistelli Accountable After the EPO
  • 04.24.18 The European Patent Office (EPO) Wastes a Lot of Money on External PR Agencies for Battistelli’s ‘Heist’
  • 04.26.18 Reporting Benoît Battistelli Before He Too ‘Pulls a Željko Topić’
  • 05.01.18 A Test for European Media: Will It Cover the Battistelli-TAD Scandal Like It Covered FIFA Scandals?
  • 05.04.18 Guest Article: Benoît Battistelli’s Election as Deputy Mayor Was Pre-announced in the Local Press
  • 05.05.18 If Anyone Has Defamed the European Patent Organisation/Office (EPO) It’s Benoît Battistelli
  • 05.13.18 Guest Article: Battistelli’s Salary in Saint-Germain-en-Laye Nearly Quadrupled Last Year
  • 05.14.18 Reader’s Post: The Last Delusion of Benoît Battistelli Before His Departure on June 30th
  • 05.17.18 EPO’s Battistelli Taking Days Off Work for Political ‘Duties’ (Parties) in His French Theatre Where He’ll Bring Buckets of EPO Budget (EPO Stakeholders’ Money)
  • 05.18.18 Système Battistelli (ENArque) at the EPO is Inspired by Système Lamy in Saint-Germain-en Laye
  • 05.27.18 Letting the USPTO Decide on Fees Would Lead to a ‘Battistelli Scenario’
  • 06.01.18 In Gross Violation of German Law, as Per EPO Tradition, Fronleichnam ‘Stolen’ by Benoît Battistelli
  • 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
  • 06.05.18 IP Kat as an Extension of Team UPC After Departure of the Blog’s Founder
  • 06.09.18 Benoît Battistelli Should Have Received an Award for Corruption, But He Completely Controlled the Show in His Own Theatre
  • 06.11.18 Another Victim of Corrupt Benoît Battistelli
  • 06.12.18 Corrupt Benoît Battistelli Promotes Software Patents in IAM’s Patent Trolls-Funded Event in the United States
  • 06.20.18 EPO Insiders Correct the Record of Benoît Battistelli’s Tyranny and Abuse of Law: “Legal Harassment and Retaliation”
  • 06.22.18 “Dr Ernst Should be Forced by National Politicians to Step Down With Immediate Effect” After Battistelli’s Latest EPO Scandals
  • 06.25.18 Benoît Battistelli’s ‘Dowry’ From the Administrative Council of the EPO
  • 06.26.18 Battistelli is ‘Pulling a Lamy’ With a Lot More Money at Stake (and Examiners’ Future)
  • 06.26.18 Perfect Metaphor for Benoît Battistelli: Unfinished Work That Nobody Likes and Which Causes Truly Massive Losses
  • 06.28.18 President Benoît Battistelli is Finished, But the Huge Mess He Has Created is Not
  • 06.28.18 Eight Years of Battistelli
  • 06.29.18 Insults, Lies and Propaganda on Battistelli’s Last Day at the European Patent Office
  • 07.02.18 First Day for António Campinos is Done, But Some Media is Still Publishing 90th-Minute Battistelli Puff Pieces
  • 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…”
  • 07.08.18 Project Battistelli: Documenting the Ugly and Illegal Things Battistelli Did at the EPO
  • 07.10.18 Signs of Upcoming Changes at EPO: Raimund Lutz, Željko Topić and Other ‘Team Battistelli’ Folks Are Being Replaced
  • 07.17.18 Time for the European Commission to Investigate EPO Corruption Because It May be Partly or Indirectly Connected to EU-IPO, an EU Agency
  • 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)
  • 09.23.18 Benoît Battistelli Refuses to Talk to the Media About Bringing Firearms to the EPO
  • 09.26.18 French Media Confirms Alexandre Benalla Just One of Six Battistelli Bodyguards, Employed at the Cost of €8,000-€10,000 Per Month (for Benalla Alone!)
  • 10.01.18 The European Council Fulfills Corrupt Battistelli’s Alleged Promise, Making Christian Archambeau Head of EUIPO
  • 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
  • 11.07.18 Guy Ryder (ILO) Should Meet Staff Representatives, Not Corrupt Team Battistelli
  • 11.24.18 António Campinos Has Run Out of Time, EPO Staff Representation Now Views Him as Just Another Battistelli and Wants Immediate Change
  • 01.31.19 President Campinos Maintains Battistelli’s Abusive Sanctions, EPO Staff Increasingly Losing Faith and Hope in Him
  • 02.10.19 Corrupt Battistelli Paid a Fortune (EPO Budget) for Outlaw/Rogue ‘Bodyguards’ From Firm Linked to Russian Oligarch Iskander Makhmudov
  • 02.14.19 Outline/Index of the Alexandre Benalla/Battistelli Scandal
  • 02.23.19 Video: Alexandre Benalla Speaks About His Relationship With Battistelli
  • 03.05.19 Battistelli’s Presidency Was a Write-off Presidency (of Potentially Billions of Euros in Losses)


  • 10.07.14 Benoît Battistelli’s Balkan Standards in EPO: Part V
  • 11.16.14 How the EPO’s Executive Branch (Battistelli and Topić) Banned Scrutiny and Created Authoritarian Model of Control: Part X
  • 12.09.14 Exclusive: The Enlarged Board of Appeal Complains About Battistelli’s Corrupt Management to the Administrative Council (Updated)
  • 12.28.14 EPO Corruption: Battistelli Augments His ‘Loyals’ Circle With Frederic Angermann and Charm Offensive in Patent Lawyers’ Sites
  • 01.18.15 Battistelli’s Latest Propaganda War Tries to Convince EPO Staff That Željko Topić’s Many Criminal Charges Don’t Exist
  • 01.24.15 As Battistelli Breaks the Rules and Topić Silences Staff, New European Parliament Petition for Tackling the EPO’s Abuses is Needed
  • 02.02.15 Benoît Battistelli and Jesper Kongstad Continue to Blame Everything on SUEPO
  • 02.15.15 English Translation of Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About Benoît Battistelli, Željko Topić, and EPO Tyranny
  • 02.19.15 EPO Staff Protests Against Benoît Battistelli’s Lowering of Patents Quality (Scope Expansion and Software Patents for Profit)
  • 03.18.15 Benoît Battistelli Allegedly Turns to Moscow and Putin-Inspired Tactics to Oppress and Suppress EPO Staff (Updated)
  • 03.23.15 Benoît Battistelli’s EPO Comes Under Attack From the British
  • 03.25.15 The EPO’s Administrative Council is Under Increased Pressure to Rein in and to Finally Stop Benoît Battistelli
  • 03.26.15 The EPO’s Dutch Scandal Leaves Battistelli and His Cronies on the Run
  • 04.08.15 The EPO is Becoming More Like the USPTO Under Benoît Battistelli’s Greed-Driven Reign
  • 06.18.15 French Newspaper Les Echos Censors Criticism of Benoît Battistelli and the EPO (Updated)
  • 07.03.15 Amid Controversy, Political Scrutiny and Increased Media Pressure Željko Topić and Benoît Battistelli Allegedly Cancel Today’s Trip to Zagreb (Croatia) Where Topić Faces Many Criminal Charges
  • 09.11.15 EPO Has Become Political and Benoît Battistelli is Lobbying for UPC (Large Corporations’ Wishlist)
  • 09.25.15 Süddeutsche Zeitung Explains Imminent Federal Scrutiny Against Battistelli’s EPO in Germany
  • 10.02.15 Chairman of the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA) and EPO Vice-President of DG3 Suspiciously on Unlimited Sick Leave After Benoît Battistelli’s Unprecedented Attacks on Other EBoA Staff
  • 10.05.15 New Information on Limbo in the Enlarged Board, Courtesy of Illegal Actions by the EPO’s Benoît Battistelli
  • 10.08.15 The Coup D’état of Benoît Battistelli Follows an Imperialist Model, Threatens Opposition and Dissent
  • 10.09.15 Benoît Battistelli’s Office Accused of Institutional Harassment Against EPO Staff in New Letter to the Administrative Council, Calling for External Investigation
  • 10.12.15 Benoît Battistelli’s Group of ‘Loyals’ Crushes Not Only the Independent Boards But Also ‘Unwanted’ Directorates-General
  • 10.28.15 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
  • 11.03.15 The Benoît Battistelli Way or the Highway: EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal is Being Discredited, SUEPO Web Site is Down Again
  • 11.10.15 The Bureaucratic Nonsense That Came Out of Benoît Battistelli and Jesper Kongstad at EPOPIC
  • 11.19.15 Patent Lawyers Want to Bring Software Patents (Hence Patent Trolls Too) to Europe, Piggyback Battistelli’s Habitual UPC Promotion
  • 11.23.15 EPO President Battistelli Now Intimidates Even National Delegations
  • 11.25.15 Debunking the EPO’s Latest Marketing Nonsense From Les Échos and More on Benoît Battistelli’s Nastygram to French Politician
  • 12.06.15 Staff Union of the EPO Responds to Benoît Battistelli’s Alleged Defamation of Staff Representatives
  • 12.07.15 The EPO is Trying to Make It a Serious Offense to Merely Inform Colleagues About Oneself (or Others) Being Subjected to Institutional Harassment/Witch-hunt by Team Battistelli
  • 12.08.15 Team Battistelli Plans to Send to Exile (or Effectively Fire) Law-abiding Staff Because the Staff is Independent and Unwilling to Sack a Whistleblower
  • 12.08.15 Hypocrite in Chief: Benoît Battistelli Compares Staff Union to ‘Mafia’
  • 12.08.15 EPO’s Team Battistelli is Promoting Only the Oppressors
  • 12.11.15 Series Teaser: EPO President Battistelli’s Relationship With Power
  • 12.12.15 A Day After Massive EPO Protest Benoît Battistelli Tries Using Money to Appease Staff
  • 12.16.15 Battistelli’s Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part II
  • 12.16.15 Unanimous Negative Opinion on the Proposal of Benoît Battistelli to Eliminate Basic Rights at EPO
  • 12.17.15 Benoît Battistelli’s EPO Continues Its Self-Congratulatory PR Charade, Neglecting to Even Acknowledge the Catastrophes Therein
  • 12.19.15 Rumour: Administrative Council Advises Benoît Battistelli Not to Fire Staff Representatives
  • 12.19.15 Jacques Michel (Former EPO VP1), Benoît Battistelli’s EPO, and the Leak of Internal Staff Data to Michel’s Private Venture
  • 12.20.15 Battistelli’s Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part IV
  • 12.21.15 Battistelli’s Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part V
  • 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
  • 12.27.15 Battistelli’s Proposed Changes to Pensions “Difficult to Understand”, “Liable to Cause Instability”, Without Consultation or Justification
  • 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
  • 01.15.16 Massive EPO Protests After Team Battistelli Fires Legitimate Critics and Staff Representatives (Even Those With Young Children)
  • 01.16.16 Masivas Protestas en la OEP Después que el Equipo Battistelli Despide a Críticos y Representates de su Unión (Incluso aquellos con Niños)
  • 01.17.16 Team Battistelli Has Brought Dirty Politics to the EPO, Pension Cuts May be “Blatantly Illegal”
  • 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
  • 01.20.16 The Next Phase of Union Busting: Battistelli Now Cutting Salaries of Yet More EPO Staff Representatives
  • 01.22.16 Benoît Battistelli es Repréndido por Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’, Quien Ha Iniciado Acciones Políticas en Su Contra
  • 01.23.16 EPO President Battistelli and Vice-President Topić Are Having Political Problems
  • 01.30.16 The Connection Between the EPO’s Investigative Unit/Battistelli Policies and EPO Suicides
  • 01.31.16 Battistelli Y Su Guardia Pretoriana: ¿Paranoia, Megalomanía, o Ambas? ¿Está los ‘Redes de Suicidio’ Estilo-China en la OEP Próxima Agenda?
  • 02.02.16 Münchner Merkur Explains That EPO Staff is Defecting to SUEPO, Even The Council Distrusts Battistelli Now
  • 02.04.16 Benoît Battistelli’s EPO: From Show Trials and Mock Trials to a Self-Aggrandising Propaganda Event Later Today in Rijswijk
  • 02.06.16 Rumours About Dismissal of Benoît Battistelli and New Letter From Union Syndicale Federale Blasting Battistelli’s Behaviour
  • 02.07.16 EPO Staff Responds to Team Battistelli’s Expansion to Include French Economic Propagandist on the Payroll
  • 02.10.16 EPO Brain Drain (Even Directors Fed Up With Team Battistelli) and Rumours About Battistelli Becoming President of the UPC
  • 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)
  • 02.13.16 Feedback About Battistelli’s ‘Meet the President’ Event in Rijswijk (4th of February, 2016)
  • 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
  • 02.18.16 EPO Management Reportedly in a State of Collapse, Rumours Suggest Battistelli Possibly Out Soon, Events Canceled
  • 02.18.16 Open Letter Explains Why Disciplinary Committees at the EPO Have Become a Sham Under Battistelli’s Regime
  • 02.18.16 Team Battistelli Tries to Bend the Rules to Prevent the European Patent Office From Going on Strike
  • 02.19.16 Source: EPO’s Administrative Council Not Pursuing Battistelli’s Witch-hunt Against a Judge Anymore
  • 02.25.16 The English Version of the Central Staff Committee’s Open Letter to the Praesidium of the Administrative Council Regarding Battistelli’s ‘Social Study’ EPO Propaganda
  • 02.25.16 Nearly a Thousand EPO Employees Prepared to Go on Strike in Just a Fortnight, Team Battistelli Getting Desperate to Stop That
  • 02.25.16 Dutch Media Reinforces Rumours That Battistelli is on His Way Out, Only a Matter of Money Now
  • 02.25.16 Dutch Report: “External Investigation” Likely to be Launched Into “the Punitive Measures That Battistelli Imposed on Union Members.”
  • 02.25.16 More Fire Power for Team Battistelli With New Promotion of French Lady
  • 02.25.16 Repurposed Misinformation Campaign: The EPO’s PR Team is Lying to The Register in Order to Help Battistelli Save Face
  • 02.26.16 Next Week Looks Likely to Bring Another Battistelli Crisis at the EPO
  • 02.27.16 Battistelli-Led EPO “Led to Tensions and Even to Suicides Among Employees, Say the Unions”
  • 03.01.16 Team Battistelli’s New Media Strategy at Times of EPO Emergency
  • 03.02.16 EPO at Boiling Point: Why Battistelli is Believed to be Paid About $2,000,000 Per Year and Who Created and Circulated a Letter in His Support
  • 03.02.16 UPC Anything But a Certainty With Battistelli on His Way Out, But Patent Lawyers Are Still in Denial
  • 03.03.16 Further Evidence Suggests and Shows Stronger Evidence That Team Battistelli Uses FFPE-EPO as ‘Yellow Union’ Against SUEPO
  • 03.04.16 La UPC No Pasa Nada Con Battistelli de Salida, Pero los Abogados de Patentes Todavía lo Niegan
  • 03.04.16 Why the Letter in Support of Battistelli is Worse Than a Lie and Should be Thrown to the Wastebasket by the Organisation’s Administrative Council
  • 03.04.16 Unitary Patent (UPC) Propagandists Are Louder Than Ever as Its Architect in Chief (Battistelli) is Probably About to Get Sacked
  • 03.05.16 Fallout of the FFPE EPO MoU With Battistelli’s Circle
  • 03.09.16 Team Battistelli’s Bergot Reacts to Strike Action
  • 03.09.16 Exclusive: Leaked Document Refutes Battistelli’s Words and Shows He is Still Deplored by the Board
  • 03.10.16 Video Sheds Light on Policy/Stance of the Man Rumoured to be Battistelli’s Successor at the EPO
  • 03.10.16 The European Patent Office is in a State of Transition, But Not Battistelli’s Transition or ‘Reform’
  • 03.10.16 Exclusivo: Documento Filtrado Rechaza las Palabras de Battistelli y Muestra Que Todavía es Deplorado por la Junta
  • 03.11.16 The European Patent Organisation’s Administrative Council Can Stop the Strike by Agreeing/Working to Reintegrate Staff Representatives and End Benoît Battistelli’s Witch-hunts
  • 03.11.16 The Article Which Reinforces Rumours About Christoph Ernst Replacing President Battistelli at the EPO
  • 03.14.16 EPO Rumours About Antonio Campinos as Replacement for Benoît Battistelli
  • 03.14.16 Old Article About Battistelli’s Right-hand Man, Željko Topić, Highlights Severity of the Whole Situation
  • 03.15.16 Overthrowing Battistelli Only Part of a Bigger Job (Restoration of Quality and Human Decency at the European Patent Office)
  • 03.15.16 Battistelli Unsurprisingly Rejects Opportunity to Salvage His Status, EPO Strike Likely to Proceed Soon
  • 03.16.16 Exclusive: New Leaked Document Shows Board 28 Surprised Battistelli and Had a Long Unilateral Argument With Him Over Union-Busting (‘Disciplinary Cases’), Called It a “Crisis”
  • 03.16.16 Survey Confirms What Board 28 Already Admits: the European Patent Office is Deep in a State of Crisis Since Benoît Battistelli Took Over
  • 03.16.16 Battistelli No Sorprendio a Nadie al Rechazar la Oportunidad para Salvar su Status, Huelga de la EPO Probablemente Procederá Pronto
  • 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
  • 03.19.16 Reversal Spin: SUEPO Needs to Make Peace Rather Than Benoît Battistelli Needing to Make Peace After Dismissing SUEPO’s Leaders
  • 03.20.16 Propaganda Reversa: La SUEPO Necesita hacer la Paz En Vez que Benoît Battistelli Lo Haga Después de Despedir a los Líderes de SUEPO
  • 03.21.16 Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and the United Kingdom Urge Benoît Battistelli to Allow Independent Investigation of His EPO Union-Busting Moves
  • 03.23.16 FFPE-EPO Says MoU With Battistelli Will “Defend Employment Conditions” (Updated)
  • 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
  • 03.27.16 Battistelli esta Tratando de Salvar Su Trabajo en la EPO Despues que le llamaron la Atención, Pero no Regresa su Trabajo A los Lideres Sindicales Despedidos; Huelga Inminente
  • 04.08.16 Why 2,657 EPO Workers Going on Strike is Actually a Lot Less Than Would Strike If It Wasn’t for Obstructions From Team Battistelli
  • 04.09.16 El ¿Porqué 2,657 de los trabajadore de la EPO Fueron Actualmente Menos de los Que Hubieran ido a la Huelga Si No Fuese Por las Obstrucciones de los Chacales de Battistelli
  • 04.11.16 Church of EPO: How Team Battistelli Engineered the Dismissal of People Not Sufficiently Loyal to Them – Part II
  • 04.12.16 La Iglesia de EPO: ¿Como el Equipo de Battistelli Arregló El Despido de la Gente No lo Suficiéntemente Leales a Ellos?– Parte II
  • 04.13.16 Church of EPO: How Team Battistelli Engineered the Dismissal of People Not Sufficiently Loyal to Them – Part III
  • 04.14.16 La Iglesia de EPO: ¿Como el Equipo de Battistelli Arregló El Despido de la Gente No lo Suficiéntemente Leales a Ellos?– Parte III
  • 04.14.16 Needed Urgently: Information About the Secret Meeting of Board 28 and Battistelli’s Yellow Union, FFPE-EPO
  • 04.18.16 Church of EPO: How Team Battistelli Engineered the Dismissal of People Not Sufficiently Loyal to Them – Part IV
  • 04.21.16 Battistelli’s MoU and Photo Op With the Institute of Professional Representatives Helps Disguise Its Harsh Criticism of the EPO
  • 04.22.16 ES: El MOU de Battistelli el Arreglo Fotográfico Con el Instituto Profesional de Representantes Ayuda a Disfrazar el Duro Criticismo de la EPO
  • 04.22.16 In Battistelli’s Mini Union (Minion) It Takes Less Than 10 Votes to ‘Win’ an Election
  • 04.24.16 ES: Toma Menos de 10 Votos para ‘Ganar’ una Elección en la Mini Unión (Minion) de Battistelli
  • 05.02.16 Not Just Benoît Battistelli and Willy Minnoye (EPO): Željko Topić Too Thinks He is Above the Law, Avoids the Judges and Courts
  • 05.05.16 US Congress Should Investigate EPO and Battistelli, Not Just WIPO and Francis Gurry
  • 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
  • 05.17.16 If Battistelli Stayed and UPC Became a Reality, Patent Quality at the EPO Would Get a Lot Worse
  • 05.19.16 Anonymous Commenters Debate Whether Battistelli’s EPO Can Revoke Pensions of Dismissed Employees Who Dare — GASP — Find Alternative Employment
  • 05.21.16 ES: Comentadores Anónimos Debaten Si la EPO de Battistelli Puede Revocar las Pensiones de Empleados Que Se Atreveen — GASP — a Buscar Empleo Alternativo
  • 05.22.16 Corrupting Democracy? Growing Frequency of Rumours That the EPO’s President Battistelli is ‘Buying’ Votes of Small Member States
  • 05.28.16 Battistelli’s Assault on EPO Staff’s Right to Strike in Relation to French Politics and That ‘Bicycle’ Pretext for Crackdowns
  • 06.01.16 ES: El Asalto de Battistelli a los Derechos a la Huelga de sus Empleados en Relación a Políticas Francesas y el Pretexto de la Bicicleta para sus Ataques
  • 06.01.16 Crazed Battistelli is Trying Plan B to Demolish the Boards of Appeal (Quality Control), Praesidium/Association of Members Strikes Back
  • 06.01.16 Battistelli’s Self-Serving ‘European Inventor of the Year’ Charade a Classic Example of Waste and Abuse
  • 06.02.16 Closer Look at Players in Battistelli’s Information War: Part II (BlueCoat)
  • 06.02.16 Closer Look at Players in Battistelli’s Information War: Part III (Buying the Media, Manufacturing ‘Studies’ With Secret Contracts)
  • 06.03.16 Closer Look at Players in Battistelli’s Information War: Part IV (Wellkom)
  • 06.05.16 ES: El Loco Battistelli Esta Tratando Plan B Para Destruír las Salas de Apelaciónes (Control de Calidad), Praesidium/Asociación de Miembros Contraataca
  • 06.06.16 Public Proceedings Next Week Could Expose Battistelli’s Incredible and Unprecedented Attack on EPO Judge
  • 06.08.16 ES: Mirada Cercana a los Protagonistas en la Guerra Informativa de Battistelli: Parte II (BlueCoat)
  • 06.08.16 ES: Mirada Cercana a los Protagonistas de la Guerra Informativa de Battistellir: Parte IV (Wellkom)
  • 06.08.16 ES: Mirada Cercana a los Protagonistas en la Guerra Informativa de Battistelli: Parte III (Comprando a los Medios, Fabricando ´estudios´con Contratos Secrétos)
  • 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 Battistelli’s EPO is Buying Media Coverage for Lobbying Purposes, But Not at Battistelli’s Expense
  • 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 ES: La EPO ‘Compró’ al Financial Times, El Cual Opera a ‘Modo de Vocero’ Para el sr. Battistelli
  • 06.12.16 ES: La EPO de Battistelli Está Comprando Cubrimiénto de los Medios Para Sus Objetivos Cabilderso, Pero No de Los Bolsillos de Battistelli
  • 06.13.16 Another EPO Staff Demonstration Planned for a Fortnight From Now When Battistelli Wishes to Make the EPO Even Crazier
  • 06.13.16 Spontaneous Protest at EPO Today as Battistelli Still Acts Defiantly, Three Days of ‘Trial’ Starting Tomorrow
  • 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 No Exaggeration Necessary: the EPO Under Benoît Battistelli Has North Korean Standards of ‘Justice’
  • 06.19.16 Patent Examiners and Insiders Acknowledge Profound Demise in Patent Quality Under Battistelli
  • 06.20.16 Under Battistelli’s Regime the EPO is a Lawless, Dark Place
  • 06.20.16 Money Flying to Private Companies Without Tenders at Battistelli’s EPO (by the Tens of Millions!)
  • 06.21.16 The Conspiracy of Patent Lawyers for UPC and Battistelli’s Role in Preparing by Firing People
  • 06.23.16 Benoît Battistelli Should Resign in Light of New Leak of Decision in His Vendetta Against Truth-Telling Judge (Updated)
  • 06.27.16 Battistelli May Still be on the Way Out as Pressure Grows in Germany, UPC in Shambles
  • 06.28.16 ES: El Caradura Benoît Battistelli Debería Renunciar a Luz de la Filtrada Nueva Decisión en Su Vendeta en Contra de un Juez que se Atrevió a Decir la Verdad (Actualizado)
  • 06.29.16 The EPO Has Become Battistelli’s Circus and the Administrative Council Has Been Reduced to (Illegal) Circus Animals Controlled With ‘Treats’
  • 06.29.16 Benoît Battistelli Further Weaponises His EPO ‘Stasi’ With CA/52/16
  • 07.01.16 The European Patent Organisation’s Administrative Council Helps Benoît Battistelli Destroy Patent Quality for the Sake of ‘Production’
  • 07.03.16 What Team Battistelli Claims to be Independence of the Boards of Appeal Actually a Likely Dismissal Plan for ‘Unwanted’ Judge (and Maybe His Protectors), Potentially Permanent Unemployment Plan
  • 07.04.16 Team Battistelli Parties Like It’s Still 2010 (Pre-Battistelli Governance), Fails to Acknowledge Demise of EPO as Popular Employer and Instead Lies to Staff
  • 07.04.16 UPC a Dead Project, as Per Analysis From Foley and Lardner LLP; What Next for Team Battistelli and Team UPC?
  • 07.06.16 The ‘Administrative’ Council is to Benoît Battistelli What FISA is to the NSA
  • 07.09.16 ES: El Consejo ‘Administrativo’ es para Benoît Battistelli lo que la FISA es para la NSA
  • 07.11.16 Will Battistelli’s Friend/Ally Lucy Neville-Rolfe Shamelessly Attack British Democracy and Push for UPC in Spite of Brexit?
  • 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?
  • 07.17.16 Exploiting Perceived Emergencies/Disasters, Suspending the Rule of Law, and Suspending Judges: How Erdoğan is Like Battistelli, Except the Coup
  • 07.17.16 Benoît Battistelli and Persistratos
  • 07.20.16 EPO USA: Under Battistelli, the ‘European’ Patent Office Emulates All the Mistakes of the USPTO
  • 07.22.16 Haar Mentioned as Likely Site of Appeal Boards as Their Eradication or Marginalisation Envisioned by UPC Proponent Benoît Battistelli
  • 07.22.16 Glimpse at Patent Systems Across the World: Better Quality Control at the USPTO Post-America Invents Act (2011), Unlike the EPO Post-Battistelli (2010)
  • 07.24.16 Leaked: Boards of Appeal Face ‘Exile’ or ‘Extradition’ in Haar After Standing up to Battistelli
  • 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
  • 07.30.16 Actions by Team Battistelli Against the European Patent Convention (EPC) and the Role Played by Željko Topić in Crushing Opposition
  • 08.03.16 Lucy in the Sky With Battistelli’s Diamonds (EU Budget) But No UPC in Sight
  • 08.04.16 Patent Quality in Europe (EPO) Declining Under Battistelli in Spite of the USPTO’s Cautionary Tale
  • 08.09.16 Deviation From (and Violation of) the EPC Under Battistelli at the EPO for the Sake of ‘Production’
  • 08.11.16 The EPO’s Twitter Account is Drunk (on Battistelli’s Kool-Aid)
  • 08.12.16 German Media Becomes Aware of Battistelli’s Defiance of the Very Basis of the EPO
  • 08.16.16 That Time When the Administrative Council Helped Battistelli Crush Oversight (Audit Committee) and What ILO Said About It a Month Ago
  • 08.18.16 Battistelli’s European Patent Office Goes to the United States to Speak About the UPC and Software Patents
  • 08.18.16 The End of an Era at the USPTO as Battistelli-Like (EPO) Granting Policies Are Over
  • 08.22.16 Not Just President Battistelli: EPO Vice-Presidents Are Still Intentionally Misrepresenting EPO Staff
  • 08.28.16 More Lies From President Benoît Battistelli and the EPO Crisis Which Continues to Deepen
  • 09.01.16 The Long Reach of Battistelli’s Policy of Retribution
  • 09.06.16 High on EPO: Battistelli’s ‘Social Conference’ Nonsense is Intended to Help Suppress Debate About His Abuses Against Staff and Union-Busting Activities
  • 09.06.16 Convergence Between the EPO and the Media: ‘Managing IP’ as Battistelli and UPC Platform
  • 09.11.16 The Collapse of the European Patent Office Under Battistelli Has Already Begun
  • 09.12.16 Brain Drain at the EPO Under Battistelli is Becoming a Critical Problem
  • 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
  • 09.24.16 Released Late on a Friday, EPO Social ‘Study’ (Battistelli-Commissioned Propaganda) Attempts to Blame Staff for Everything
  • 09.26.16 The Moral Depravity of the European Patent Office Under Battistelli
  • 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 EPO’s Board 28 Notes Battistelli’s “Three Current Investigations/Disciplinary Proceedings Involving SUEPO Members in The Hague.”
  • 09.30.16 Battistelli Locks EPO Staff Union Out of Social Conference So That He Can Lie About the Union and the Social Climate
  • 09.30.16 New Paper Provides Evidence of Sinking Patent Quality at the EPO, Refuting the Liar in Chief Battistelli
  • 10.01.16 Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are at War With European Democracy, Which They View as an Obstacle to Money and Power
  • 10.06.16 Team Battistelli Keeps Lying About Judges and Staff Representatives in Order to Decapitate EPO Staff and Even the ‘Independent’ Boards of Appeal
  • 10.09.16 The Administrative Council Seems to Have No Issues With Battistelli Wasting Millions of Euros Buying the Media and Fake ‘Studies’
  • 10.11.16 The Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) Protested Today in Munich (Against the EPO’s Management) While President Benoît Battistelli Lied
  • 10.13.16 EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point – Part IV: When ~1,200 EPO Workers March in Protest and European Politicians Say “Battistelli Must Go”
  • 10.16.16 As Expected, Benoît Battistelli Puts Longtime Ally Roland Grossenbacher on Top of Boards of Appeal
  • 10.17.16 EPO Updates: Battistelli in Trouble, Grossenbacher and Battistelli Having a Fight, EPO Doubles Down on Željko Topić
  • 10.18.16 Leaked Documents Shed More Light on What Happened to Alison Brimelow and How Battistelli Rose to Power
  • 10.19.16 Team Battistelli’s Conspiracy Theory: SUEPO is Behind Everything, EPO Management is Trying to Tell the Media
  • 10.19.16 Battistelli-Commissioned PwC ‘Study’: The Raw Outcome Shows Distortion of the Facts at the EPO’s Notorious ‘Social Conference’
  • 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
  • 10.20.16 EPO Spokesman Lies to IP Watch in Order to Save Face and Save the King (Battistelli)
  • 10.21.16 Battistelli-Commissioned PwC ‘Study’: Survey Comparison Shows Serious Deterioration and Efforts by PwC to Disguise the Truth
  • 10.22.16 Translation of Latest Rant From French MP Philip Cordery About Benoît Battistelli’s Abuses at the EPO
  • 10.23.16 Open Letter Exposing the Farce Which Was Battistelli’s ‘Social Conference’ Coinciding With Further (New) Attacks on EPO Staff Representatives
  • 10.23.16 EPO and the “Iberian Connection”: Patricia García-Escudero Márquez – Battistelli’s Pet Chinchilla on the Boards of Appeal Committee?
  • 10.25.16 No Promising Future For the EPO Under Battistelli (If Any Future At All)
  • 10.25.16 Leaked Minutes From the EPO Reveal That Battistelli is Detached From Reality and Blames Everything on “Union Officials”
  • 10.27.16 ‘Balkan Express’ Teaser: EPO’s Željko Topić, Kuterovac, Campinos, Gurry, Battistelli and the DKPTO (Kongstad)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 11.13.16 Call for Disciplinary Procedures and Dismissal of Mr Battistelli, Mr Topić and Ms Bergot at the EPO
  • 11.13.16 Benoît Battistelli Reinforces the Perception That García-Escudero is His Pet Chinchilla at the Board of Appeals Committee (BoAC)
  • 11.14.16 In the European Patent Office, Battistelli Implements Changes That Clearly Defy the Rule of Law
  • 11.14.16 Leaked: Proof That Benoît Battistelli Disregarded Orders From the Administrative Council (Again)
  • 11.15.16 Leaked Letter Reveals How Battistelli Still Exploits FFPE-EPO (Yellow Union) to Attack the Real EPO Union, SUEPO
  • 11.15.16 Breaking: Dutch Parliament Debate About Immunity of the EPO and the Tyranny of Benoît Battistelli (Updated)
  • 11.16.16 Amid Scapegoating, Union-Shaming and Gagging by Battistelli, SUEPO’s Prunier Provides More Details on Union Busting at the EPO
  • 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
  • 11.23.16 Union Syndicale Fédérale Writes Letters to the Chinchilla Man of the Administrative Council About Battistelli’s EPO Abuses, No Sign of Reply/Reaction
  • 11.23.16 Caricature: Team Battistelli’s UPC Strategy
  • 11.24.16 Patent Quality at the EPO Depends on the Future of the Boards of Appeal (Which Battistelli is Killing Not So Softly)
  • 11.26.16 Benoît Battistelli’s Affinity for Tiny Countries Exploits the Ease of ‘Buying’ Their Votes
  • 12.01.16 A Day in the Life of… Battistelli’s Banana Republic
  • 12.02.16 Relocating the Boards of Appeal to Haar is a Poisonous Priority at Battistelli’s EPO
  • 12.05.16 Rumour: EPO in Berlin the Next Casualty of Battistelli’s ‘Reform’ (Organisational Suicide Plan)
  • 12.05.16 Leaked: Battistelli Acknowledges Bunk ‘Justice’ in About 100 Cases at the Internal Appeals Committee of the EPO
  • 12.05.16 EPO at a Tipping Point: Battistelli Quarrelling With French Politicians, Administrative Council Urged to Act, Staff Unrest Peaking
  • 12.05.16 Quality of Patents at the EPO Dependent on the Appeal Boards When Battistelli Assesses Performance Using the Wrong ‘Production’ Yardstick
  • 12.06.16 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 Boards of Appeal Still Under Attack From Team Battistelli While the EPO Proceeds to Granting Patents on Carlsberg BEER!
  • 12.08.16 British Media Slams Battistelli for Attempting to Cover Up 2 Years of Juridical Abuses With Help From the Administrative Council of the EPO
  • 12.14.16 Rumour: Carl Josefsson to Head EPO Boards of Appeal, Battistelli Unhappy
  • 12.15.16 Big Crack in Team Battistelli: EPO’s Vice-President Willy Minnoye is Leaving!
  • 12.17.16 Fury Over the Administrative Council of the EPO Controlling Nothing and Being Controlled by Battistelli
  • 12.18.16 More and More Lobbying for Software Patents, Not Just in Battistelli’s EPO But Also in India and the US
  • 12.20.16 Leaked: After Vicious Attacks on SUEPO — in Defiance of the Administrative Council’s Demands! — Team Battistelli Pretends to Want Union Recognition
  • 12.21.16 Accusations of Administrative Council (of the EPO) Complicity in Illicit Retaliation Against Appeal Boards at the Behest of Battistelli
  • 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
  • 12.27.16 2017 Will be the Year Team Battistelli Collapsed and EPO ‘Reform’ Became All About Detoxifying the Organisation
  • 12.29.16 The EPO Under Benoît Battistelli Makes the Mafia Look Like Rookies
  • 12.30.16 German Justice Minister Heiko Maas, Who Flagrantly Ignores Serious EPO Abuses, Helps Battistelli’s Agenda (‘Reform’) With the UPC
  • 12.31.16 EPO’s Central Staff Committee Complains About Battistelli’s Bodyguards Fetish and Corruption of the Media
  • 12.31.16 Translation of French Texts About Battistelli and His Awful Perception of Omnipotence
  • 12.31.16 Open EPO Letter Bemoans Battistelli’s Antisocial Autocracy Disguised/Camouflaged Under the Misleading Term “Social Democracy”
  • 01.01.17 Video: French State Secretary for Digital Economy Speaks Out Against Benoît Battistelli at Battistelli’s PR Event
  • 01.01.17 No Separation of Powers or Justice at the EPO: Reign of Terror by Battistelli Explained in Letter to the Administrative Council
  • 01.02.17 Battistelli’s Idea of ‘Independent’ ‘External’ ‘Social’ ‘Study’ is Something to BUY From Notorious Firm PwC
  • 01.02.17 Europe Should Listen to SMEs Regarding the UPC, as Battistelli, Team UPC and the Select Committee Lie About It
  • 01.11.17 No End to Battistelli’s Witch-hunts Against the Media, Against Staff, and Against Politicians
  • 01.17.17 Caricature: Battistelli’s New Year’s Resolution (More EPO Lies)
  • 01.18.17 Union-Busting Action by Team Battistelli Takes Heavy Toll, Techrights Will Continue to Expose EPO Injustices to the World
  • 01.23.17 Hilarious: Battistelli Goes to Former French Colony With No Patents to ‘Buy’ the EPO a Perception of Legitimacy
  • 01.23.17 Media Blasts EPO Over Immunity Amid Suicides, Battistelli’s Behaviour Compared to Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s
  • 01.24.17 Leaked: Team Battistelli, Exploiting a Controversial Decision From the Netherlands, is Trying to Squash SUEPO
  • 01.25.17 New Caricature: Benoît Battistelli ‘Takes Care’ of Roland Grossenbacher’s Dissent
  • 01.26.17 French Media Says Benoît Battistelli Turned the Patent Office Into a Sort of North Korea
  • 01.28.17 Juve Survey: Stakeholders Want Benoît Battistelli Out
  • 01.30.17 Everything Benoît Battistelli Does Without Staff Consultation is Without Merit, More So Amid Union-Busting Catastrophe
  • 01.31.17 Battistelli “Got Full Dictatorial Unaccountable Control of a Diplomatically Immune Organisation”
  • 01.31.17 EPO Members of Team Battistelli Promoted to Shield the Liar in Chief
  • 02.02.17 The Quality of European Patents is Nosediving and Those Who Can Put an End to It (Appeal Boards) Are Controlled by Fear of Battistelli
  • 02.03.17 “Team Battistelli Continues With Intimidation Tactics”
  • 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 Translation: Battistelli’s Patent Office Remains a Legal Island
  • 02.27.17 Top Officials in French Government Are Growing Tired of Battistelli’s Abuses at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 03.01.17 Battistelli and His Swamp Resurface Very Old News, Possibly to Distract From Boards of Appeal Complaining About Battistelli
  • 03.03.17 What Battistelli Means by Social Democracy at the EPO is What North Korea Means by Democratic People’s Republic
  • 03.05.17 EPO President Benoît Battistelli, Like Far-Right Politicians, is a Great Danger to Europe
  • 03.05.17 Team Battistelli, Already Grossly Overpaid (With Salary Gone Hidden), Wants Even More Money
  • 03.08.17 Battistelli’s Shock Doctrine is Coming to the EPO’s Boards of Appeal, Having Already Rattled the Office
  • 03.09.17 ‘Evil Tongues’ Inside and Outside the EPO Explain Why Battistelli’s 2016 ‘Results’ Are Bad While the Media Mindlessly Repeats EPO Management’s Talking Points
  • 03.09.17 Battistelli’s Coup at the EPO Continues: The EPO is Becoming the Cash Cow of Battistelli and His Friends, Until This Cow Will Die
  • 03.14.17 Long New Letter From Battistelli’s ‘Nemesis’, Dutch Secretary of State Martijn van Dam
  • 03.16.17 Battistelli Wants to be ‘King’ for a Decade or Longer, Jesper Kongstad Protects Him
  • 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 EPO Management Deeply Concerned That the Public Has Found Out Quality of European Patents (EPs) Nosedived Under Battistelli’s Regime
  • 03.20.17 Insulting Reversal of Narratives at the EPO: Team Battistelli as the Victim
  • 03.20.17 Battistelli’s EPO Copies China — Not the US — When it Comes to Patenting Software and Expanding Patent Scope
  • 03.26.17 Yes, Battistelli’s Ban on EPO Strikes (or Severe Limitation Thereof) is a Violation of Human Rights
  • 03.28.17 Another Likely Casualty of the Battistelli Regime at the EPO: Validity of Decisions of Terrified Boards of Appeal Judges
  • 03.30.17 As Expected, Photo Op and Battistelli Lies Have Just Come Out, Hilariously Claiming “Higher Quality Patent Procedures”
  • 03.31.17 EPO Central Staff Committee Points Out to Benoît Battistelli That He is in Gross Violation and Contempt of the Founding Document/Treaty of the EPO
  • 03.31.17 Culpability for EPO Injustice in the Administrative Council Chaired by Battistelli’s Protector, Jesper Kongstad
  • 03.31.17 Benoît Battistelli Makes His New Penthouse Financially Self-Sustaining
  • 04.01.17 The Sickness of the EPO – Part VII: 40% of EPO Workers Have Upper Limb Disorder (ULD), Battistelli Covers That Up
  • 04.05.17 IP Kat is Helping Battistelli by Lobbying for the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Spreading Falsehoods
  • 04.09.17 “There is Still No Sufficient Control Over the Despotism of the EPO President, Benoît Battistelli”
  • 04.10.17 Latest EPO Puff Piece From Benoît Battistelli Shows Desperate Need for (and Inability to Attract) Talent
  • 04.11.17 Latest French Hire of Battistelli Rumoured to be After EPO Workers’ Pensions
  • 04.11.17 Voices of Patent Trolls Are Alive and Well (and Partly Paid by Battistelli’s EPO)
  • 04.14.17 Adding Insult to Suicide: European Commission’s Site Publishes Benoît Battistelli’s EPO Puff Pieces
  • 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
  • 05.03.17 Battistelli’s EPO Has Made Life Itself Patentable
  • 05.05.17 Battistelli’s Protector, Jesper Kongstad, Resigns!
  • 05.06.17 European Marketing Office: Battistelli-Commissioned ‘Studies’, Puff Pieces, and Revisionism about PACE
  • 05.10.17 Another Victim of Battistelli’s Monarchy: Dutch Contractors
  • 05.12.17 Our Assessment: Unitary Patent (UPC) Will Crumble Along With Battistelli’s Regime at the EPO
  • 05.13.17 Countries With a Dozen European Patents Are an Easy Photo-Op ‘Sell’ for Battistelli While the EPO’s Demise is Largely Ignored by the Patent Microcosm
  • 05.21.17 Leaked: 2017 European Inventor Award Finalists, or Stooges Whom the Tyrant Battistelli Exploits for PR Purposes and Media Manipulation
  • 05.21.17 New Documents Help Demonstrate That ILO Delivers Institutional Injustice to EPO Employees and Cushions Team Battistelli
  • 05.22.17 Speculations About Battistelli’s End of Term, Campinos at EUIPO, and Failed UPC Ambitions
  • 05.22.17 Martijn van Dam is Wrong to Believe That Battistelli’s Abuses Are Somehow Acceptable or Tolerable Because His Term is Possibly Ending
  • 06.01.17 Shame on the Administrative Tribunal of ILO for Helping Team Battistelli Abuse EPO Staff
  • 06.05.17 Battistelli’s ‘Boss’, Jesper Kongstad, Rumoured to Have Been Paid by Battistelli
  • 06.10.17 Benoît Battistelli is Scheming to Further Erode the Rule of Law and Promote More of His Cronies at the EPO
  • 06.10.17 Tim Moss, Chief Executive of the UK Intellectual Property Office, Will Need to Challenge the Battistelli Regime
  • 06.11.17 No More Battistelli Photo Ops With Michelle Lee as EPO Allies Run Out, Countries Without European Patents Pursued Instead
  • 06.17.17 General Consultative Committee of the EPO Warns About Battistelli’s Plans
  • 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 More Than Six Human Casualties Under Battistelli at the EPO, But the Human Toll Can Become a Lot Worse
  • 06.22.17 Benoît Battistelli Has Lost the Election at the EPO
  • 06.24.17 SUEPO and the EPO’s Central Staff Committee Condemn Battistelli’s Latest Attempt to Change the Rules in Defiance of Laws
  • 06.26.17 Leaked: Job Opening Advertised as Battistelli’s ‘Mole’ at the Administrative Council, Jesper Kongstad, Leaves in Shame
  • 06.26.17 Voter Suppression Tactics by Team Battistelli Serve to Reaffirm View That the EPO is an Authoritarian Regime Which Loathes Voting
  • 06.28.17 EPO Staff Bemoans “Another Reform à la Battistelli That Only Benefits Battistelli”
  • 06.28.17 Letter Warns of “Reform Marathon” a Few Days Before Benoît Battistelli’s Job is Offered to Someone Else
  • 06.30.17 The EPO Has Officially Confirmed That Christoph Ernst Will ‘Boss’ (and Soon Replace) Battistelli
  • 07.05.17 Suspicion That Antonio Campinos Will Apply for Benoît Battistelli’s Job to Succeed Him
  • 07.05.17 The EPO’s Liar in Chief, Benoît Battistelli, is Googlebombing Again
  • 07.12.17 The European Patent Office (EPO) Under Benoît Battistelli is Compared to “Soviet Times”
  • 07.13.17 As Expected, Benoît Battistelli Shaved off Billions of Euros Worth of ‘Value’ From European Patents and Thus Alienated Stakeholders
  • 07.14.17 “EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal Has Brought an Unprecedented Level of Certainty to the Law,” But Benoît Battistelli Crushes It
  • 07.15.17 Science|Business Quotes Michel Barnier, Then Speculates Battistelli’s Way to Promote Erroneous Perception of UPC Inevitability
  • 07.18.17 New Paper Explains Why UPC Ratification Efforts Have Been Just About as Corrupt as EPO Under Battistelli
  • 07.20.17 Battistelli’s EPO Abuses May Soon Lead to the Death of the UPC and Return of the Old Order (‘EPO Glory’)
  • 07.30.17 Dutch Government Publication Confirms Battistelli’s Influence Over Smaller EPC States
  • 08.03.17 Benoît Battistelli Distracts From Declining Patent Quality at the EPO by Diverting Attention Away to “Timeliness”
  • 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
  • 08.29.17 Rumours That Another Frenchman is the Only Candidate to Succeed Benoît Battistelli at the EPO
  • 09.02.17 It’s a Family Business: French Succession Plan at EPO After Battistelli’s Departure
  • 09.05.17 One Week Left for Battistelli’s Coronation of Another Frenchman, António Campinos, to Lobby for UPC?
  • 09.24.17 Battistelli’s Club Med at the EPO – Part I: EPO Validation Agreement With Angola
  • 09.27.17 Battistelli Follows German Law Only When It Suits Him, Three Holidays Just Canceled
  • 09.28.17 Battistelli’s Club Med at the EPO – Part II: António Campinos, Benoît Battistelli and the Angolan Connection
  • 09.29.17 EPO Staff Representatives Help Prevent Seventh Suicide Under Benoît Battistelli
  • 09.29.17 Battistelli’s Club Med at the EPO – Part III: Angola and the Portuguese “Laundromat”
  • 09.30.17 Battistelli’s Club Med at the EPO – Part IV: The Angolan Patent Office (IAPI) Seems Almost Defunct
  • 10.01.17 Battistelli’s Club Med at the EPO – Part V: Portugal’s “Golden Visa” Scheme for Angolan Nationals
  • 10.05.17 The European Patent Office’s New Relationship With Former Portuguese Colonies and the Connection to Battistelli’s Choice of Next President
  • 10.06.17 Battistelli’s Club Med at the EPO – Part VI: “When Corruption Rules” in Portugal – Operation Marquês
  • 10.08.17 Battistelli’s Club Med at the EPO – Part VII: Quo Vadis EPO?
  • 10.10.17 Battistelli’s Choice (Campinos) Confirmed as New EPO President
  • 10.10.17 Early Reports Suggest That Battistelli’s Policies Will Remain at the EPO (in the Form of Campinos)
  • 10.11.17 Musical Chairs as Battistelli’s ‘Chinchilla’ García-Escudero Márquez Could Reportedly Take António Campinos’ Place
  • 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 Under Christoph Ernst, the Council is Just a Megaphone of Battistelli’s EPO, Including on Patent Quality
  • 10.17.17 Rumours That António Campinos Initially Had No Competition at All (for Battistelli’s Succession) Are Confirmed
  • 10.17.17 SUEPO Representatives Like Elizabeth Hardon Vindicated as Battistelli’s Detrimental Effect on Patent Quality is Widely Confirmed
  • 10.18.17 Confessions of EPO Insiders Reveal That European Patents (EPs) Have Lost Their Legitimacy/Value Due to Battistelli’s Policies
  • 10.19.17 Europe is Being Robbed by Team Battistelli and the UPC/PPH Would Make Things Worse
  • 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?
  • 10.31.17 “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
  • 11.05.17 The “Big Holdup” at the EPO: Battistelli Wants Access to the Pension Reserve Fund (PRF)
  • 11.05.17 Raw: Staff Representative Whom Battistelli Drove to Collapse for Wanting to Conduct an EPO Staff Survey (Which Battistelli Had Abolished)
  • 11.08.17 Benoît Battistelli Brews New Scandals in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and in Haar
  • 11.09.17 Patent Office of the Netherlands Expresses Uncertainty About UPC, Voices Concern About Benoît Battistelli’s Attack on Staff
  • 11.11.17 Benoît Battistelli Gives Power to Željko Topić, Not Just to António Campinos
  • 11.15.17 Benoît Battistelli and Elodie Bergot Have Just Ensured That EPO Will Get Even More Corrupt
  • 11.16.17 The Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) is Rightly Upset If Not Shocked at What Battistelli and Bergot Are Doing to the Office
  • 11.20.17 Team Battistelli’s Attacks on the EPO Boards of Appeal Predate the Illegal Sanctions Against a Judge
  • 11.23.17 EPO is Imploding as Benoît Battistelli Drains Out Work, Talent, and Justice
  • 11.25.17 Battistelli’s Home Country, France (Where He is a Politician in Defiance of the Rules), is a Patent Troll
  • 11.25.17 Raw: Battistelli Forbade EPO Strike Ballots at Least Four Times
  • 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 Raw: National Delegates at the EPO Stood by and Mostly Supported Battistelli While Six Staff Committed Suicide
  • 11.28.17 Benoît Battistelli and Željko Topić (EPO President and Vice-President) Try to Keep ‘Independent’ Judge in a Limbo
  • 12.07.17 Battistelli’s EPO is Once Again Caught in Very Gross Violation of the European Patent Convention (EPC)
  • 12.07.17 ILO is ‘Forcing’ Team Battistelli to Compensate the Banned Judge and Give Him Back His Job
  • 12.07.17 Battistelli’s ‘Mole’ Lucy Neville-Rolfe is Still Trying to Push Unitary Patent (UPC) Through in the United Kingdom
  • 12.09.17 Raw: Three Years for ‘Justice’ (to be Disregarded by Benoît Battistelli) at ILO and Over a Decade at the EPO
  • 12.10.17 Raw: Battistelli’s Control/Domination Over the Boards of Appeal
  • 12.12.17 The European Patent Organisation Refrains (For Nearly a Week) From Speaking About Battistelli’s Abuses as Judged by ILO Tribunal
  • 12.14.17 Patrick Corcoran is Innocent, Yet Battistelli Will/May Have the Power to Sack Him Next Month (in DG1)
  • 12.17.17 Battistelli’s ‘UPC Buddy’ Michel Barnier Helped Squash EU Intervention in Dysfunctional (Subverted by Battistelli) Administrative Council
  • 12.25.17 Raw: EPO’s “Battistelli is Heading Directly Back to the Middle Ages.”
  • 12.25.17 Raw: Battistelli’s Circle (Topić and Bergot) Undermines Justice at the European Patent Office
  • 12.25.17 Raw: Philip Cordery Urged France to Withdraw/End Battistelli’s Presidency at the EPO
  • 12.26.17 Raw: The EPO Trusted and Used BigPulse Until the Question/Outcome No Longer Suited Benoît Battistelli
  • 12.26.17 Raw: Consultation Process at the EPO, Rooted in Basic Rules, Has Been Compromised and Stacked by Battistelli
  • 12.26.17 Raw: Benoît Battistelli Names Things the Opposite of What They Really Are
  • 12.26.17 Raw: Contents of Benoît Battistelli’s SLAPP Letters to Staff Representatives (Sent on Friday to Limit Access to Legal Advice)
  • 12.26.17 Raw: Benoît Battistelli Would Not Openly Discuss Staff Suicides
  • 12.27.17 Raw: Battistelli Stacking the Deck of the Internal EPO ‘Court’
  • 12.28.17 Raw: Battistelli Threatened EPO Staff Representatives as They Walked Out
  • 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
  • 12.31.17 Raw: EPO Staff Went on Strike, Referencing — Among Other Things — Battistelli’s French Nepotism
  • 12.31.17 Raw: Battistelli Had Already Spoiled the Independence of the EPO’s Boards of Appeal More Than Half a Decade Ago
  • 12.31.17 Christoph Ernst Does Not Boss Benoît Battistelli Like He’s Supposed to, But Battistelli’s Bosses/Colleagues in France Can be Contacted
  • 01.01.18 Raw: Battistelli’s Stacking of the General Advisory Committee Not Legal, Asserted Staff Representatives
  • 01.01.18 Raw: Battistelli Comes Up With a “Chief Information Officer” Role and Offers This Position to Man From Same Place as Him
  • 01.01.18 Not Everyone Would Run the European Patent Office Like Benoît Battistelli Does
  • 01.03.18 Battistelli’s Attacks on Judge Corcoran Threaten Not Only the EPC But Also UPC
  • 01.06.18 The Mystery and Secrecy of the Decision to Disband the EPO’s Auditory Function After Battistelli Became President
  • 01.06.18 Shortly After His EPO Appointment Benoît Battistelli Already Ignored the Judicial System of the EPO
  • 01.08.18 President Battistelli Silently Curtailed Part Time Home Working Introduced by His British Predecessor, Alison Brimelow
  • 01.09.18 Battistelli’s Year 1 at EPO: General Advisory Committee Not Being Provided Crucial Information
  • 01.09.18 Battistelli’s Year 1 at EPO: Using ‘Staff Dignity’ as a Pretext to Attack the Dignity of EPO Staff and Staff Representatives
  • 01.10.18 Benoît Battistelli Lies About Patent Quality; the Numbers Speak for Themselves However
  • 01.13.18 Less Than Half a Year in the Job, Battistelli Already Disobeys/Disregards Rulings From ILO’s Tribunal
  • 01.13.18 Only Half a Year in the Job, Battistelli Breaks EPO Nomination Rules
  • 01.13.18 Dr. Derk Visser’s Book About the European Patent Convention (EPC) Explains What Battistelli Has Done
  • 01.26.18 The Corcoran Incident Demonstrates That the EPO’s Boards of Appeal Are Threatened and Battistelli Violates Laws
  • 01.30.18 The EPO’s Central Staff Committee Explains How Battistelli’s Attacks on Judge Corcoran Annul Any Perception of Independence
  • 02.06.18 Battistelli Works With IAM and Pays European Media to Promote Software Patents in Europe
  • 02.08.18 Mark Rutte Under Pressure to Stop Battistelli’s EPO From Violating Laws With Impunity
  • 02.09.18 The EPO’s Working Party on Quality is Battistelli’s Own Ministry of Truth
  • 02.12.18 Patent Maximalists Won’t Get Their Way and UPC Will Likely Never Happen (Even After Battistelli)
  • 02.21.18 EPO’s Board 28 Spikes Article 53 in CA/3/18, Apparently After Battistelli Withdrew It
  • 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 Similar Scandal at the USPTO (to Battistelli’s Nepotism) and Upcoming Lies About ‘Results’ (in Annual Report, Out Next Week)
  • 03.02.18 Battistelli’s Last Four Months: Peak Censorship at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 03.08.18 Benoît Battistelli and Confidants Like Bergot Want to Make a Lot of EPO Staff Redundant Without the Staff Ever Noticing
  • 03.12.18 EPO Patent ‘Growth’ Not Achieved But Demanded/Mandated by Battistelli, by Lowering Quality of Patents/Services
  • 03.13.18 Battistelli Likes to Describe His Critics as ‘Nazis’, Team UPC Will Attempt the Same Thing Against UPC Critics
  • 03.14.18 The EPO Under Battistelli Has Become Like China Under Xi and CPC
  • 03.18.18 UPC/Battistelli Booster IAM Blames Brexit Rather Than EPO Abuses
  • 03.20.18 Battistelli’s EPO Became Extremely Reliant on China for Distraction and on Endless Supply of Applications (Supply Which Doesn’t Exist)
  • 03.23.18 Team Battistelli and Team UPC Are Both Very Deep in Denial
  • 03.25.18 Benoît Battistelli the Latest Example of Massive Bonuses Given to People Who Destroyed Their Own Organisation
  • 03.27.18 Professionals’ Survey: Almost Everybody (90%) Accepts That EPO Patent Quality Has Fallen Under Battistelli
  • 04.07.18 Team UPC’s and Team Battistelli’s Lobbying Not Over Yet, Even Though the UPC is Likely Dead for Good
  • 04.25.18 Battistelli’s EPO Continues to Promote Software Patents and Even Pays the Media to Play Along, Impacting Other Continents
  • 04.25.18 Battistelli Misuses EPO Budget to Saturate the European Media With Puff Pieces About His Event
  • 04.27.18 Like a Cancer, EPO-Bribed Media Continues to Produce Puff Pieces for Benoît Battistelli
  • 04.29.18 Guest Article: Is the EPO Deliberately Disseminating “False Facts” About Benoît Battistelli’s Political Activities in Saint-Germain-en-Laye?
  • 04.29.18 Team UPC and Team Battistelli in IP Kat and IAM
  • 05.01.18 Battistelli’s Alleged ‘Success’ is Like That of the United States Mint
  • 05.04.18 Elizabeth Holmes Charged With “Massive Fraud” and Team Battistelli Rushes to Distance Itself From Her
  • 05.05.18 The European Patent Organisation (EPO) Stopped Working and It’s Also the Fault of Jesper Kongstad, Not Just Benoît Battistelli
  • 05.05.18 In the Latest EPO Official Journal (April’s Publication) Battistelli’s Next Employer is Mentioned Literally Hundreds of Times and Promoted in 20 Pages out of 75 Pages
  • 05.08.18 Guest Article: More Battistelli Revelations From the Archives of the Municipal Council of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
  • 05.09.18 Rumours Confirmed: Latest EPO Official Journal Misused to Promote Battistelli’s (and Campinos’) Employer, Another EPO Employee Has Just Been ‘Corcoranised’
  • 05.17.18 So-Called ‘System Battistelli’ is Destroying the EPO, Warn Insiders
  • 05.17.18 Fishy Things Noticed Ahead of the Passage of a Lot of EPO Budget (Applicants’ Money) to Battistelli’s Other (and Simultaneous) Employer
  • 05.28.18 Guest Series: Système Lamy and Système Battistelli at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 05.30.18 Märpel Looks at Benoît Battistelli’s Toxic Financial Affairs at the EPO
  • 05.31.18 The EPO’s Lobbying Chief Apparently Came From Saint-Germain-en-Laye 2 Years After Benoît Battistelli
  • 06.07.18 Marks & Clerk Blames Battistelli’s Victims, the Boards of Appeal, Whose Job Guarded Patent Quality
  • 06.07.18 Today, at the Expense of Millions (€) of EPO Budget, Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos Engage in Shameless Self Promotion
  • 06.09.18 Battistelli is Still Patently Delusional About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 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
  • 06.14.18 The ’4iP Council’ is a Megaphone of Team UPC and Team Battistelli at the EPO
  • 06.19.18 What Battistelli’s Workers Think of His Latest EPO Propaganda
  • 06.21.18 Battistelli and Topić Lose Their Bogus ‘Case’ Against Judge Corcoran After They Defamed Him and Ruined His Career/Life
  • 06.23.18 Mainstream Media in Germany Covers Battistelli’s Corruption at the EPO Just as He Leaves
  • 06.27.18 ‘Party Poopers’: Protests Greet Battistelli’s Premature Inauguration of an Unfinished Building That Caused Massive Losses
  • 07.02.18 IAM is Still Working for Benoît Battistelli and His Toxic Agenda
  • 07.04.18 EPO Protest/s Suppressed Even at the Opening of a Construction Site for Battistelli’s Guests
  • 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
  • 07.06.18 German Media Compares Team Battistelli at the EPO to the Mafia
  • 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 Mafia Tactics in Team UPC and Battistelli’s Circle
  • 07.21.18 The EPO (European Patent Office) Under António Campinos is Just Another Battistelli EPO; Still UPC and Software Patents Lobbying
  • 07.24.18 Alexandre Benalla, Macron’s Violent Bodyguard, Was Also Battistelli’s Bodyguard
  • 07.25.18 Dysfunctional State of the EPO and Benoît Battistelli’s Shadow
  • 07.30.18 What EPO Staff is ‘Hopeful’ After a Month of António Campinos Doing Absolutely Nothing to Reverse Battistelli’s Ruinous Policies?
  • 08.15.18 President Battistelli ‘Killed’ the EPO; António Campinos Will ‘Finish the Job’
  • 09.13.18 EPO Granted a Controversial European Patent (Under Battistelli) Which May Literally Kill a Lot of People
  • 09.16.18 Battistelli “Has Deeply Hurt the Whole Patent Profession, Examiners as Well as Agents” and Also the Image of France
  • 09.24.18 Reader’s Article: Affaire Benalla Strongly Connected to EPO/OEB/EPA and Former President Benoît Battistelli
  • 09.24.18 Guest Post on Ronan Le Gleut and Benalla at the French Senate (in Light of Battistelli’s Epic Abuses)
  • 09.25.18 The Man Whose Actions Could Potentially Land Team Battistelli in Jail
  • 09.28.18 In the EPO Under António Campinos and His Predecessor Battistelli Patents Can Almost be Presumed “Invalid” (in Courts)
  • 10.02.18 Nellie Simon Expected to Join the ‘Club Med’ of Battistelli and Campinos
  • 10.08.18 When It Comes to Patent Quality António Campinos Might be Even Worse Than Benoît Battistelli
  • 10.18.18 IAM and IP Kat Are Still Megaphones of Battistelli and His Agenda
  • 10.24.18 The Patent Microcosm is Trying to Derail Patent Reform and Make Iancu the ‘American Battistelli’
  • 10.25.18 António Campinos Just a Quieter Version of Battistelli
  • 10.25.18 Battistelli and Team UPC Still Waiting for a Campinos Miracle
  • 10.28.18 EPO President António Campinos Speaks of “Greater Transparency,” But He’s Even More Secretive Than Battistelli and He Lets Patent Quality Slip Further
  • 12.13.18 António Campinos Turns His ‘Boss’ Into His Lapdog, Just Like Battistelli and Kongstad
  • 01.26.19 European Patent Quality as Awful Under António Campinos as (If Not Worse Than) Benoît Battistelli and Battistelli Makes a Public Comeback
  • 02.10.19 António Campinos Will Never Hold Battistelli Accountable for His Crimes Because He Too Profits From These
  • 02.12.19 Battistelli’s Bodyguard, Part I: Destruction of Evidence by Alexandre Benalla
  • 02.13.19 Battistelli’s Bodyguard, Part II: Fishing Expedition for Sources in the Alexandre Benalla ‘Underworld’ Scandal
  • 02.13.19 Battistelli’s Bodyguard, Part IV: Suspected Offenses of Forgery and Possible Falsification
  • 02.13.19 Battistelli’s Bodyguard, Part III: Mars, France Close Protection (Benalla’s Family), and Russian Oligarchy
  • 02.14.19 Battistelli’s Bodyguard, Part V: Mediapart Explains the ‘Raid’ Attempt, Reporters Without Borders Involved
  • 02.18.19 António Campinos Still Needs to Hold Team Battistelli Accountable for Illegally Bringing Weapons to the EPO
  • 02.19.19 Battistelli Trashed 223 Millions (of Stakeholders’ Euros) on a System That Destroyed the European Patent Office and Made Few Private Corporations a Lot Richer
  • 02.19.19 António Campinos Still Needs to Undo Battistelli’s Union-Busting Activities at the EPO
  • 02.22.19 Battistelli’s Bodyguard Has Been Arrested, But Battistelli Should Join Him
  • 02.23.19 Hallmark of Corruption: Benalla and Fellow Thugs Paid Roughly the Same Salary as Battistelli (Each!) and There’s a New Chinese Contract Worth €7.2 Million
  • 02.25.19 English Translation: I Have Huge Respect for Battistelli, Said Alexandre Benalla Under Pressure
  • 02.25.19 English Translation: Alexandre Benalla Cannot Tell the Difference Between EPO and the French Republic (or Battistelli and Macron)
  • 02.25.19 Ben and Ben: Benalla and His Enabler, Beny Battistelli
  • 03.04.19 EPO Staff Union: ‘New’ Team Campinos Practice “Reminds Us Strongly of the Battistelli Times.”
  • 03.12.19 EPO’s Latest ‘Results’ Show That António Campinos Has Already Given Up on Patent Quality and is Just Another Battistelli
  • 03.26.19 The Campinos-Battistelli Strategy is Working: Patent Trolls Are Coming to Europe!
  • 04.12.19 New Building as Perfect Metaphor for the EPO Under the Frenchmen Battistelli and Campinos
  • 05.09.19 Corrupt Battistelli is Back for European Inventor Award 2019 — an Extravagant Ceremony He Has Used to Steal Millions of Euros From the EPO
  • 05.11.19 Did Battistelli ‘Steal’ ~$100,000,000 Euros From the EPO?


  • 12.08.08 Memo to IBM: Enough with Software Patents, Please
  • 09.12.10 WIPO and WTO Are Not International
  • 01.19.11 Patents Roundup: A Quick Look at Europe
  • 01.20.11 ES: Patentes Resumen: Una Mirada Rápida a Europa
  • 04.16.11 The EPO Goes Down the Same Abyss as the USPTO
  • 10.07.11 EU Patent Failing to Materialise, But EPO and Politicians Begin to Overstep Their Line of Authority to Intervene
  • 12.28.11 EPO and Other Lawyers-dominated Circles Push for Software Patenting
  • 09.08.14 Suspicion of High-Level Corruption at the European Patent Office (EPO): Part I
  • 09.29.14 European Patent Office Disorganisation: Problems With the Audit Mechanisms – Part IV
  • 10.20.14 The EPO’s Public Relations Disaster Amid Distrust From Within (and EPO Communications Chief Leaves): Part VII
  • 11.01.14 How to Complain About the EPO to National Delegations in Europe: Part IX
  • 11.16.14 Special Report: Many Criminal Charges Against EPO Vice-President Željko Topić
  • 11.23.14 Vesna Stilin’s Remarks on Željko Topić: Part XI
  • 12.08.14 EPO Staff Protests Today and Protested Last Week, Targeting Corruption in the Institution
  • 12.09.14 Protests Against EPO Corruption Approach 1,000 in Attendance
  • 12.11.14 Rolling of Heads Likely Imminent at EPO
  • 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
  • 01.01.15 EPO Under Fire From European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW)
  • 01.11.15 The EPO Connection Now a Liability as Administrative Council Has Become a Laughing Stock, Jesper Kongstad to be Targeted by EPO Staff Protests
  • 01.19.15 Translations of Member of the European Parliament Complaining About European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 01.20.15 Failure of the EPO Can Derail the Trojan Horse of Software Patents and Patent Trolls
  • 01.22.15 The Collapse of European Patent Office Management Culminates With Resignations
  • 01.28.15 Breaking: EPO Vice-President Željko Topić Loses Defamation Case in Croatia
  • 01.30.15 Media Coverage of Demonstration Against Jesper Kongstad of the Administrative Council (EPO)
  • 01.30.15 Text of Ruling/Decision Against Željko Topić (Regarding Audi as a Bribe)
  • 02.01.15 The EPO’s Paid Propaganda Campaign in the Media
  • 02.03.15 More Press Coverage From the Danish Media About EPO Abuses and Protest at Danish Consulate
  • 02.08.15 The EPO’s Vice-President Željko Topić and the Case of Ivan Kabalin: Part XIII
  • 02.11.15 EPO Staff to March to British Consulate to Protest Against the Administrative Council (AC)
  • 02.11.15 Corruption at the Croatian State Intellectual Property Office Which Željko Topić Came From: Part XV
  • 02.15.15 FFII and the American IP Law Association Comment on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Envisioned by EPO
  • 02.15.15 English Translation of Article About Protest at Danish Consulate Over EPO Abuses
  • 02.15.15 Amid EPO Scandals, Call to Dissolve the EPO and Start All Over Again (With New Management and New Direction)
  • 02.15.15 The Case of Rikard Frgacic Versus the Croatian SIPO: Allegation of Corruption in Relation to Trademark Reassignment Under Željko Topić’s Watch: Part XVI
  • 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
  • 02.19.15 Techrights Under Attack Again, Shortly After Important EPO Articles
  • 02.19.15 Željko Topić’s History in SIPO Leaves a Legacy of Alleged DZIV Vehicles (Bribes), Authorship Abuses, and Intimidation Against Reporters
  • 02.22.15 The EPO’s Sham ‘Internal Investigation’ of EPO Vice-President Željko Topić’s Affairs
  • 03.16.15 EPO Management Still in a Freefall, Tries to Warp/Divert the Debate Away From Its Abuses
  • 03.23.15 Politics of Blackmail at the EPO
  • 03.24.15 Concerns Over Željko Topić’s Alleged Powerful Links in Croatian Diplomacy
  • 03.27.15 Željko Topić and Ivan Šimonović, Two Residues of Ivo Sanader’s Corrupt Regime, Seen as Indirectly Connected
  • 03.29.15 When the EPO Came Under Fire From the Netherlands and Before Systemic Corruption Was Revealed
  • 03.29.15 Techrights Cited by European Politicians in Support of EPO Staff’s Causes
  • 04.02.15 English, French and German Translations of Dutch Article About EPO Abuses
  • 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 More Suicides Reported at the Staff-Hostile European Patent Office
  • 04.10.15 New Article Chronicles Suicides and Nervous Breakdowns at the EPO Due to the Management’s Abuses
  • 04.18.15 More Translations of French Article About the EPO
  • 04.21.15 9 Millionth US Patent Tells a Story of Failure and USPTO Misconduct
  • 04.24.15 EPO Management is Trying Hard to Appease Its Critics While Pushing Forth Unitary Patent Agenda
  • 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
  • 05.29.15 Propaganda Mode for UPC Agreement Whilst EPO Increasingly Grants Patents on Software
  • 06.03.15 EPO Corruption Compared to FIFA Corruption While ‘Control Risks’ Helps EPO Hide/Suppress Evidence of Corruption; Calls on German Authorities to Crack Down on Both
  • 06.04.15 The EPO Sinks Deeper in a Scandal After Paying Public Money for Military-Connected Control Risks to Stalk Journalists and Staff
  • 06.06.15 EPO and Administrative Council Stall Criticism by Pretending to Negotiate With Staff Whilst Actually Attacking It
  • 06.06.15 EPO Officially Confirms That It Specifically Hired Control Risks Group (CRG) to Spy on Journalists and Their Sources
  • 06.07.15 Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About the EPO’s Investigation Unit and Control Risks Group
  • 06.07.15 The High Cost of Low Patent Bar at the EPO
  • 06.08.15 Spanish Media on Reign of Terror at EPO: Managerial Misconduct, Blocked E-mails (Censorship), and Abuse of Legal Immunity
  • 06.09.15 EPO Surveillance, Threats, and Patronisation of Dutch Legal System Covered in Dutch Article From De Volkskrant
  • 06.09.15 European Patent Office (EPO) Now Uses Keyloggers to Spy on Staff
  • 06.09.15 EPO May be Creating Its Own Lawless NSA (or GCHQ) With Control Risks Group Deal
  • 06.09.15 Full Translation of Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About Blackhat Tactics (Keyloggers) in EPO (Updated)
  • 06.09.15 When the European Patent Office Lost in Court and Refused to Obey the Law: An Analysis
  • 06.10.15 More European Politicians Pressure and Sometimes Slam the European Patent Office (EPO) Amid New Scandals
  • 06.12.15 Badische Zeitung Labels European Patent Office (EPO) a Police State for Use of Very Intrusive Mass Surveillance Software (Updated)
  • 06.14.15 EPO Data Protection Officer ‘Just a Dictator’s Minion’, Approved Keyloggers and Hidden Cameras
  • 06.17.15 More Political Interventions in EPO Abuse Cases
  • 06.17.15 SUEPO to SUE Government of the Netherlands for Protecting the EPO’s Thugs
  • 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
  • 06.24.15 EPO Protest in Munich and Growing Unpopularity of EPO Management, Media Manipulation by the Management
  • 06.25.15 An Estimated 1,000 EPO Staff in Munich Demonstrated Against EPO Management Yesterday Afternoon
  • 06.26.15 The Council of Europe Slams the EPO as Political Pressure Grows for EPO Management to Obey the Law
  • 06.26.15 The EPO’s Circus of Nepotism, Corporatism and Gross Abuse is Promoting the Unitary Patent
  • 06.28.15 After Intervention by the Council of Europe Comes a Detailed Summary of the Situation in the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 06.30.15 Techrights Confirmed as a Target of EPO Surveillance, With Help From Control Risks Group (CRG)
  • 07.01.15 Munich Press, Münchner Merkur, Slams the Munich-based EPO
  • 07.10.15 EPO Appointments: Standards of a Third World Country
  • 07.16.15 SUEPO Post Vanishes: Belated Self-Censorship or Threats From EPO Management?
  • 08.04.15 ‘Sanader’s Protégé’ Željko Topić Slammed by Press in His Home Country
  • 08.05.15 EPO Measures Productivity Using the Wrong Yardstick in Order to Sell Its Racket to the Public
  • 08.11.15 Patents Roundup: EPO, Alicestorm, Facebook, ‘Trade’ Agreements, and Google Publicity Stunts
  • 08.21.15 EPO Corruption of Patent Boundaries: Business Methods and Algorithms Patented
  • 08.27.15 Another Suicide at the EPO, Fifth by Our Count
  • 08.27.15 Censorship, Self-Censorship and Intimidation Now the Modus Operandi at EPO
  • 09.09.15 EPO Management May Not Have Resigned (Yet), But the Rest of the Staff is Leaving in Droves
  • 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
  • 09.12.15 EPO Staff Suicides Estimated to Have Grown Tenfold Under Current Regime — Claim
  • 09.17.15 European Patent Office Expands Censorship and Intimidation Against Staff as Pressure Mounts
  • 09.21.15 Dutch Report: EPO Suicides Possibly Caused by Working Conditions Imposed by EPO’s Management
  • 09.22.15 The European Patent Office’s Autocracy Has Proven the Streisand Effect, Amplifying Its Opposition’s Messages
  • 09.22.15 Dutch Politician John Kerstens Says EPO Investigative Unit is Called ‘the Gestapo’
  • 09.23.15 EPO Management Justifies Censorship (Even of Journalists) Using Its Vice-President Željko Topić
  • 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 German Press Explains EPO Investigation Unit (I.U.), Struggles to Openly Speak to the Secretive EPO
  • 09.24.15 Europe’s Acceptance of and Resistance to Software Patents, Courtesy of Corporate Front Groups and Courtrooms Respectively
  • 10.02.15 Microsoft’s Secret Special Relationship With EPO Illustrates Serious Corruption at Microsoft and the EPO
  • 10.06.15 Commenters Provide Possible Explanations for Mr Van der Eijk Being on Unlimited Sick Leave
  • 10.06.15 Željko Topić Attacks EPO Staff for ‘Daring’ to Legally Challenge the EPO’s Management Over Its Gross Abuses in Europe
  • 10.07.15 EPO Staff to Disrupt Administrative Council Meeting With Public Demonstration That Raises Awareness of Abuses
  • 10.11.15 Leaked: EPO Prioritises Work for Large Foreign Corporations, Discrimination Not Accidental But Centrally Planned
  • 10.11.15 European Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda Says TPP Will Bring Software Patents to Europe and Other Continents/Countries
  • 10.13.15 Staff of the EPO Under Siege Ahead of Tomorrow’s Demonstration in Munich
  • 10.13.15 EPO Management Lobbies for the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Uses This to Advance Software Patents in Europe
  • 10.14.15 EPO Says Crushing Patent Neutrality is a Good Thing® Because Authenticity of Self-Incriminating EPO Document Cannot be Denied
  • 10.14.15 EPO Completely Loses It and Starts Banning Even More Sites Ahead of Today’s Demonstration, UPC Proceeding Behind Closed Doors
  • 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 Translation Needed: High Employee Sabotaged European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 10.16.15 EPO Cleverly Frames Total War Against Its Own Staff as a War Against Nazism
  • 10.20.15 German Broadcaster on European Patent Office (EPO) Preferential Treatment for Microsoft and Others
  • 10.21.15 EPO Increases Repressions: Allegedly Bans Staff From Helping Refugees (Updated)
  • 10.25.15 How the Chief Information Officer of the EPO is Connected to the President of the EPO
  • 10.26.15 The Deteriorating Working Conditions at the EPO Show Reluctance to Make Talented Staff (or Ill Staff) Happy
  • 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 Control Risks Group (CRG), Transparency International, the European Patent Office (EPO) Investigative Unit and the Obvious Conflicts of Interest
  • 10.30.15 EPO Press Spokesperson and Obvious Conflicts of Interest With Supposed Anti-Corruption Group Transparency International
  • 10.30.15 Private Eye Covers the EPO Scandals, Says EPO Hired ‘British Snooping Firm Global Risk Consultants’
  • 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 More European Politicians Take on the EPO for Ignoring the Rule of Law
  • 11.04.15 The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part I
  • 11.04.15 A State Within a State: Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About the EPO’s Bizarre Existence Above the Law
  • 11.05.15 Dutch Political Action Against the EPO’s Management Greater Than Previously Estimated
  • 11.05.15 Dutch Political Action Against the EPO’s Management Greater Than Previously Estimated
  • 11.05.15 The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part III
  • 11.06.15 The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part IV
  • 11.07.15 The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part V
  • 11.08.15 The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part VI
  • 11.09.15 The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part VII
  • 11.09.15 European Federation of Public Service Unions Pressures Dutch Prime Minister to Take Action Against the EPO’s Violations
  • 11.16.15 EPO: It’s Like a Family Business – Part I
  • 11.17.15 Patent Boundaries in the US and the Risk of Europe Repeating the Mistakes of the US
  • 11.18.15 EPO: It’s Like a Family Business – Part II
  • 11.18.15 Meltdown at the EPO, Massive Staff Protests This Afternoon
  • 11.18.15 The EPO’s Management Has Just Reaffirmed Its Possible Role in Contributing to Staff Suicides
  • 11.20.15 Gross Aggression by EPO Management Shows the Urgent Need to Remove Immunity From EPO
  • 11.20.15 In an Effort to Counter EPO Staff Narrative (After ~2,000 of Staff Protest) EPO Management Portrays Staff as Violent But Provides No Evidence
  • 11.21.15 German Media Reveals That Out-of-Control EPO Management is Even Threatening and Abusing Lawyers Now
  • 11.21.15 Translation of Thomas Magenheim-Hörmann’s Article in the German Media, Urging European Politicians to Intervene in EPO Chaos and Lawlessness
  • 11.21.15 EPO: It’s Like a Family Business – Part IV
  • 11.21.15 German Press Says Broken EPO Lets President Severely Punish Staff Not Even Guilty of Any Wrongdoing
  • 11.21.15 It Pays (Off) to ‘Bribe’ the Media: Watch How Les Échos Covers EPO Matters and Self-Censors
  • 11.22.15 Rumour About Efforts to Dismiss a Board Judge by Intimidating Boards of Appeal
  • 11.23.15 Gross Violation of Workers’ Rights in EPO: Denial of Christmas Vacation/Leave for Slower Workers
  • 11.23.15 The Bogus Narrative Floated by EPO Management: Our Judges and Examiners Are Armed and Violent
  • 11.23.15 A Look at the Latest Gross Deletionism at the EPO’s ‘Media Partner’, French Newspaper Les Échos
  • 11.23.15 NRC Handelsblad (Dutch Evening Newspaper) Speaks About EPO’s Refusal to Accept Court Orders From The Hague
  • 11.24.15 Censorship at the EPO Escalates: Now We Have Threats to Sue Publishers
  • 11.24.15 Response to Bogus Accusations That EPO Staff Protests Are Really an Attempt to Derail UPC
  • 11.24.15 New Heise Article Makes It Clear That ‘Nazi’-Themed Accusations Against the Suspended Board Judge Were Insufficiently Substantiated
  • 11.25.15 EPO Management Needs to Finally Recognise That It Itself is the Issue, Not the Staff or the Unions
  • 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 A Call for Bloggers and Journalists: Did EPO Intimidate and Threaten You Too? Please Speak Out.
  • 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)
  • 11.26.15 Guest Post: The EPO, EPC, Unitary Patent and the Money Issue
  • 11.27.15 The European Private Office: What Was Once a Public Service is Now Crony Capitalism With Private Contractors
  • 11.27.15 When the EPO Liaised With Capone (Literally) to Silence Bloggers, Delete Articles
  • 11.27.15 Leaked: EPO Award of €880,000 “in Order to Address the Media Presence of the EPO” (Reputation Laundering)
  • 11.28.15 The Serious Implication of Controversial FTI Consulting Contract: Every Press Article About EPO Could Have Been Paid for by EPO
  • 11.28.15 EPO: We Have Always Been at War With Europe (or Europeans)
  • 11.28.15 What Everyone Needs to Know About the EPO’s New War on Journalism
  • 11.29.15 How the EPO Twisted Defamation Law in a Failed Bid to Silence Techrights
  • 11.29.15 Why the European Patent Office Cannot Really Sue and Why It’s All — More Likely Than Not — Just SLAPP
  • 11.30.15 Media Alert: IAM ‘Magazine’ Does Not Protect Sources
  • 11.30.15 Željko Topić Tries to Do to EPO Staff What He Did in Croatia, Now Crushes Staff Assembly in The Hague
  • 12.01.15 The European Patent Office (EPO) Crushes Not Only Unions But Also the Press and Even Bloggers
  • 12.01.15 The Spanish EPO Scandal – Part II
  • 12.02.15 Punto Informatico (Italian Media) About EPO’s Legal Bullying Against Techrights
  • 12.02.15 The Spanish EPO Scandal – Part III
  • 12.03.15 French Member of Parliament Reacts to EPO Management Amidst Ongoing Attacks on Staff Representatives and Facts-free Information War
  • 12.03.15 EPO Staff Protest Statistics: Over 2,600 Signatures (So Far) in Petition, About 800 Staff in The Hague Protest, Much More to Come in Munich
  • 12.04.15 EPO Does Not Seem to Have Investigators, Only Accusers and Prosecutors (Loyal to the President)
  • 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 Like JPMorgan, EPO Management Has Started a Defamatory Smear Campaign Against Critics
  • 12.06.15 The Tail That Wags the Dog: How an EPO President Virtually Controls the Administrative Council (AC)
  • 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 No Wonder Staff of the EPO Gets Sick of the Management, Which Games Sickness Statistics in Order to Delude the World
  • 12.06.15 The EPO’s PR Agency is Connected to Fracking AstroTurf in the United States
  • 12.06.15 EPO “Synonymous With Psychological Depressions, Nervous Breakdowns, and Even Suicides”
  • 12.06.15 Suppression of Voices Critical of the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 12.06.15 The USPTO, With All Its Serious Issues, Increasingly Looks Like the EPO’s Role Model
  • 12.07.15 FRAND Tax, Patent Trolls as Satellites of Large Patent Aggressors, EPO Puff Pieces, and Another Imminent EPO Protest
  • 12.07.15 New WIPR Survey Shows 96% of Respondents Are Concerned About the Situation at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 12.08.15 Lawyers’ Response to Incredible Accusations From EPO Management and Its Praetorian Guard
  • 12.08.15 EPO Management: Associating a Whistleblowing Judge With Nazism and Weapons, Associating Staff Representatives With Snipers!
  • 12.08.15 EPO ‘Investigators’ Are Almost Technically Illiterate, Definitely Biased by Design
  • 12.08.15 Chairman of the Administrative Council Failed to Stop Suspension (and Potential Firing) of EPO Staff Representatives
  • 12.09.15 Union Busting at the European Patent Office, Dressed Up as ‘Investigation’
  • 12.10.15 Contacting National Delegations to Complain About the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 12.10.15 Tightening Media Control: European Patent Office (EPO) Silences Blogs of Critics by Intimidation, Lawsuits
  • 12.10.15 A Little Taste of European Patent Office ‘Justice’
  • 12.10.15 The EPO’s Double Standard on Confidentiality
  • 12.12.15 EPO Central Staff Committee Warns That EPO President Illegally Changes the Rules to Remove the Rights of the Accused, Crush Dissent/Unions
  • 12.12.15 IAM ‘Magazine’ Protects Patent Trolls, Blocks People Who Disapprove
  • 12.12.15 EPO ‘Sweetener’ for Administrative Council National Delegates
  • 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
  • 12.13.15 When SUEPO Called the EPO a “Public Service Organisation Out of Control”
  • 12.14.15 Watch Out For the EPO-SUEPO Parity Spin
  • 12.14.15 EPO No Longer in the ‘Business’ of Just Granting Patents But Politics and Lobbying Also
  • 12.14.15 Heise Article Tackles EPO ‘Feud’ (Union Busting in Disguise), Techrights’ Remarks Follow
  • 12.15.15 Very High Proportion of EPO Staff in Berlin Goes to the Streets to Protest and to Defend SUEPO From the Union Busters
  • 12.15.15 More Than Half of US Patent Lawsuits Filed in the Patent Trolls’ Docket, the Eastern District of Texas
  • 12.15.15 In a Case Involving Microsoft, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Originator of Software Patents) Squashes Software Patents
  • 12.15.15 Ahead of Tomorrow’s Administrative Council Meeting EPO Staff Representatives Warn Heads of Delegations About Union Busting and Other Abuses
  • 12.16.15 AIPPI Sends Angry Letter to the Administrative Council Regarding the EPO’s Attacks on the Boards and Staff Unions, Saying it Damages the EPO’s Function and Reputation
  • 12.16.15 Great News: Software Patents Stopped in India, For Now…
  • 12.16.15 New WIPO Figures Reinforce Reality Where More Patents Needn’t Imply More Innovation, Just Lower Standards
  • 12.16.15 UPC and Patent Trolls: The Connection Revisited
  • 12.17.15 Administrative Council Does Not Crush the Boards But Does Crush the Unions (Suspension Duration Sextupled)
  • 12.17.15 EPO Union Responds to Željko Topić and Raimund Lutz’s Attempt to Intimidate Staff That Joins Unions
  • 12.17.15 Ahead of Administrative Council Meeting, General Consultative Committee Warned of “Witch Hunt in Pursuit of SUEPO Officials” (Union Busting)
  • 12.18.15 EPO Irrelevancy, Two Decades to be Granted an EPO Patent, Outrage Over Patents on Plants in EPO
  • 12.18.15 EPI Silently Removes Criticism of the European Patent Office/Organisation, Techrights Preserves It
  • 12.19.15 Watch Out for ‘Divide and Rule’ Tactics From the Control Risks- and FTI Consulting-Steered EPO
  • 12.19.15 EPO Pays FTI Consulting (Nearly a Million Bucks), Which Pays IAM for Pro-UPC Propaganda Event
  • 12.19.15 Patent Maximalism and the Patent Trolls Epidemic Which It Leads to Not a Problem for Patent Lawyers
  • 12.19.15 Microsoft is Entrapping Android With Infamous (ex)FAT Patents and Turning Android Phones Into Microsoft Listening Devices (Bugs)
  • 12.20.15 An Atmosphere of Revolt Inside the European Patent Office
  • 12.20.15 More Sunday Humour: Fictional Diary From the European Patent Office
  • 12.20.15 Software Patents Are Being Defeated to the Detriment of Large Multinationals, Their Patent Lawyers, and Patent Trolls Who Piggyback Them
  • 12.21.15 The Forgotten History of IAM ‘Magazine’ as EPO Management’s Megaphone and EPO Union Basher
  • 12.22.15 Translation of the Latest Communiqué About the Administrative Council, No Longer Published by ‘President’
  • 12.22.15 EPO Level of Trust Reaches All-Time Low: Workers Distrust the Available Phones in Their Offices, Use Mobiles Instead
  • 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
  • 12.24.15 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part I: An Introduction
  • 12.26.15 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part II: Patent Office as a Cancer
  • 12.26.15 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part III: Death in the Family
  • 12.26.15 Summary of the EPO-Europatis Series
  • 12.26.15 EPO Whistleblowing: How (Not) to Use Machines at the Office
  • 12.26.15 Europatis: “Turnover of €211,800 and Zero Employees”
  • 12.26.15 Loose Data ‘Protection’ and Likely Privacy Infringements at the EPO: Here’s Who Gets Employees’ Internal Data
  • 12.27.15 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part IV: Criticism Regarding Patent Scope is Verboten
  • 12.27.15 Revolving Doors of High-Level EPO Management: Jacques Michel and the Questel Deal With the EPO
  • 01.03.16 The Long EPO Queue for European SMEs That Cannot Hop Like Multinational Corporations
  • 01.04.16 Diputado Euro Britanico se quejara a Benoit Batistelli sobre el Proceso de la OEP, No Existe un Contacto Cercano con Aplicantes Ordinarios
  • 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 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
  • 01.10.16 A Busy Week Ahead for the EPO’s Management as Union-busting Efforts Culminate
  • 01.10.16 How the EPO Imposes Secrecy Around Mock ‘Trials’ and What the EPO Calls ‘Violence’
  • 01.12.16 Transparency is Sunlight in the Kingdom of the EPO Vampires
  • 01.13.16 Germany Needs to Respect the European Patent Convention and Stop Issuing Software Patents, Also Reject UPC
  • 01.14.16 La Ofícina Europea de Patentes (OEP) Sigue Completamente Abusiva
  • 01.14.16 The EPO is Manufacturing Propaganda Again, Releasing Misleading Figures to the Media
  • 01.15.16 How the EPO Prevented Scapegoats (‘Defendants’) in Its Mock ‘Trials’ From Actually Presenting a Defense
  • 01.15.16 Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’ Lashes Out at EPO for Firing Staff Representatives
  • 01.15.16 Hundreds of EPO Staff at The Hague (Including Managers) Spontaneously Protested Today, Making Almost Half of All Staff Present
  • 01.16.16 Summarising the Latest Attacks by the European Patent Office (EPO) on European Society, With Complicity of Corporate Media
  • 01.16.16 La OEP Está Manufacturando Propaganda de Nuevo Publicando Engañosas Figuras a los Medios de Comunicación
  • 01.16.16 EPO Staff Protests in Berlin and Vienna
  • 01.16.16 Transparencia es Luz del Sol en el Reino de los Vampiros de la OEP
  • 01.17.16 ¿Cómo la OEP Evitó Que Sus Chivos Expiatorios (´Acusados´) Presentes sus Defensas en los ¨Juicios¨ Contra Ellos
  • 01.17.16 Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’ Responde Críticamente a la OEP por Despedir a Sus Representates
  • 01.17.16 Unitary Patent (UPC) Highlights Reality Behind the EPO’s Management and Its Multinational/Overseas Bosses
  • 01.18.16 European Patent Office (EPO) is Not “the Real World” But a Parallel Universe Without Any Regard for the Rule of Law
  • 01.18.16 Techrights Needs Translations as Another EPO Staff Protest Looms
  • 01.18.16 French Politician Philip Cordery Calls the EPO Authoritarian, Says the Union-busting Decisions Are Purely Scandalous
  • 01.19.16 SLAPP-Happy EPO Vice-President Željko Topić Loses Croatian Defamation Lawsuit — AGAIN!
  • 01.19.16 EPO Management and Its PR Team a Den of Liars, Even Lying to Their Own Staff
  • 01.19.16 Poor Journalism From Süddeutsche Zeitung Perpetuates the EPO Management’s Lies
  • 01.19.16 Tomorrow’s EPO Protest to Target Union-busting Actions Disguised as ‘Social Dialogue’ or ‘Union Recognition’
  • 01.20.16 Politico Frances Philip Cordery llama a la OEP por lo que es: Autoritarian, Dice las Decisiones Destructivas Contra la Unión Son Puramente Escándalosas
  • 01.20.16 The EPO’s PR Team May be Trying a New ‘Damage Control’ Strategy Amid Historic Protests by Staff
  • 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
  • 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
  • 01.23.16 Additional Information About EPO Management and Its Abuses, as Told by Anonymous Comments
  • 01.24.16 Dismissal of EPO Staff Representatives Does Not Eliminate Them as EPO Staff Sticks Together, Shares the Burden, the Pain
  • 01.24.16 Süddeutsche Zeitung After FTI Consulting Deal: EPO Ghostwriter or Journalism?
  • 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 Despido de los Representantes de Empleados de la OEP No los Elimina, Al Unirse los Empleados Comparten la Carga y el Dolor
  • 01.26.16 EPO Protest in The Hague This Week Targets Next Wave of Silent (by Gag Orders) Union Busting
  • 01.26.16 The EPO Goes Lobbying Even More Heavily in Brussels, Reveals New Job Advertisement
  • 01.26.16 Newly-Released Badinter Report Shows That by Treating Staff Like Garbage the European Patent Office is Violating Fundamental Rights
  • 01.28.16 Independent Dutch Investigation to Commence Into the Working Conditions at the European Patent Office in Rijswijk
  • 01.28.16 EPO Protests Earn Coverage on Dutch Television, Programme Starts Now (10PM CET)
  • 01.28.16 EPO Staff at The Hague to Protest Shortly; Here is Why We Should All Support Them
  • 01.28.16 Over a Thousand People Protest at The Hague; The EPO’s PR Team is Lying Again About the Busting of Staff Unions, Pretends There is “Union Recognition”
  • 01.29.16 Dutch Media’s Coverage of Protest at The Hague Leaves VP1 Minnoye a New Laughing Stock of the EPO’s Staff
  • 01.30.16 When European SMEs Make the Mistake of Relying on the EPO’s Integrity, Now Want to Even SUE the EPO
  • 01.30.16 Translation: What If the European Patent Office Were to Torture?
  • 01.31.16 When European Parliament/Commission Gets Embroiled in the EPO Scandals
  • 01.31.16 MEP Konstantina Kouneva (Former Trade Unionist) Again Takes Action Against the European Patent Office for Union-Busting Actions
  • 02.02.16 SUEPO (EPO Staff Union) Appears to Have Launched a New and Improved Web Site After Attempts to Crush (‘Decapitate’) SUEPO
  • 02.03.16 The Most Detailed Explanation (Yet) of What’s Wrong With the EPO
  • 02.04.16 Caricature of the Day: EPO President
  • 02.04.16 European Patent Office Pretends It’s Business as Usual and Prepares New Vanity Pieces
  • 02.05.16 Readers’ Article: A Strange Conspiracy of Silence in the German Media (Part II)
  • 02.06.16 The ‘Offenses’ of EPO Staff Representatives Boil Down to Truth-Telling
  • 02.08.16 ‘Aversion to Change’ Propaganda From the EPO Echoes or Parrots Lenin and Stalin
  • 02.08.16 Latest Propaganda From the EPO’s Management an Effort to Make the EPO the Tool of Megacorporations
  • 02.08.16 The European Patent Office “is Acting as Though the Law Does Not Apply to It.”
  • 02.09.16 EPO Union (SUEPO) Getting Busted: “More and More People are Joining the Union, but Fewer and Fewer People Dare to Take on Leading Positions There.”
  • 02.09.16 Several Political Parties Directly Challenge the European Patent Office for Ignoring the Law, Not Obeying Court Orders
  • 02.09.16 La Más Detallada Explicación (hasta ahora) de ¿Qué esta mal con la OEP?
  • 02.10.16 La Oficina Europea de Patentes Pretende que No Pasa Nada y Prepara una Feria de Vanidad
  • 02.10.16 Member of European Parliament Brings Up “Ongoing Violations of the Fundamental and Employment Rights of the Staff of EPO”
  • 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 Miembro del Parlamente Europe Resalta ¨Las Continuas Violaciones de los Fundamentales Derechos de los Empleados de la OEP¨
  • 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 Última Propaganda de la Gerencia de la OEP un Esfuerzo para hacer de ella la Herramienta de las Grandes Corporaciones
  • 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)
  • 02.15.16 With Software Patents, “the [Low Level of the USPTO Has Now Be[en] Reached by the EPO”]
  • 02.16.16 How the European Patent Office (EPO) is Crushing Staff Unions and Why EPO Staff Has a Moral Duty to Protest
  • 02.16.16 The Abuses of the EPO’s Management Against Staff Extend to Their Families
  • 02.16.16 The European Patent Office (EPO) Openly Advocates Software Patents Despite the Rules
  • 02.16.16 EPO VP1 Willy Minnoye and His Bizarre Claims About Systematic Crackdown on the EPO Unions (More Than Half a Dozen People Targeted is Clearly Not a Coincidence)
  • 02.16.16 Con Patentes de Software, “el [Bajo Nivel de la UPSTO Ahora Ha Sido Alcanzado por la OEP”]
  • 02.16.16 Transcript of EPO Official Admitting on Television (Nieuwsuur Interview) That Courts Are of No Interest to Him
  • 02.16.16 A New MUST-READ Article From Croatia About EPO Vice-President Željko Topić, Condemning His Behaviour Even Inside the EPO
  • 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
  • 02.18.16 The EPO’s Patent Coup in Europe Moves on With Conflict of Interests-Plagued German Authorities for UPC
  • 02.22.16 More Political Action in France, Still Firmly Against the Largely French EPO Management
  • 02.22.16 The European Patent Office’s Head of Recruitment and Talent Management Quits, More People Reportedly Exit Quietly
  • 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
  • 02.22.16 La Oficina Europea de Patentes (OEP) Abiertamente Aboga por las Patentes de Software a Pesar de las Reglas
  • 02.24.16 EPO-Funded Unitary Patent (UPC) Propaganda Events and the Latest on the Undemocratic (Even Antidemocratic) UPC Push
  • 02.24.16 Federation of International Civil Servants’ Associations Bemoans EPO Climate of “Fear, Threats, Intimidation or Retaliation”
  • 02.24.16 Possible Connections Found Between WIPO Misconduct and “a Dozen Serious Criminal Charges” Against EPO’s Željko Topić
  • 02.26.16 In Apple/Samsung Patent Lawsuits Over Android/Linux, Only Patent Lawyers Are Winning (Again)
  • 02.26.16 Article Translation (de Volkskrant): EPO Employees Are Tired of Tyranny and Take to the Streets
  • 02.26.16 Censorship in Land of So-called ‘Social Dialogue’: EPO is Still Blocking Techrights Web Site, But There Are Exceptions/Loopholes
  • 02.26.16 New Evidence Emerges, Showing That Unitary Patent (UPC) is Indeed an SME Killer That Negatively Affects Europe for Patent Lawyers’ Sake
  • 02.27.16 Media Alert: Spokespeople of the EPO Are Lying to Journalists
  • 02.27.16 EPO “Management by Fear… Within a System Which is Not Subject to Any Outside Control.”
  • 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
  • 02.29.16 After Alice, Patent Trial and Appeal Board is Invalidating Software Patents and Other Abstract Patents
  • 02.29.16 Update on Civil Complaints and Criminal Complaints Against EPO Vice-President Željko Topić in Lufthansa/Airplus Case
  • 03.01.16 EPO Attracts Complaints Over (Mental) Torture Against Staff
  • 03.02.16 German Television to Cover the EPO Scandals at 9 PM (CET) Tonight — Half an Hour From Now (Updated)
  • 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
  • 03.03.16 In the EPO’s Official Photo Op, “Only One of the Faces is Actually FFPE-EPO”
  • 03.03.16 EPO Media Strategy: Call the Whistleblowers Nazis and Criminals
  • 03.03.16 3/3 is EPO Propaganda Day: Techrights to Respond and Alert the Media About Misinformation
  • 03.04.16 3/3 es Día Para Propaganda de la OEP: Techrights Responderá y Alertará Contra las Mentiras delos Medios
  • 03.04.16 “FFPE-EPO Was Set up About 9 Years Ago With Management Encouragement”
  • 03.05.16 JUVE Translation: EPO Quick to Announce Success Story of Dialogue with Small Unions
  • 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?
  • 03.05.16 Despite Its Propaganda Campaign (‘Union Recognition’ and ‘Results’) the EPO’s Management is Totally Flipping Out
  • 03.06.16 Traducción JUVE: EPO Lista Para Anunciar la Exitósa Historia de Diálogo Con Sindicatos Pequeños
  • 03.06.16 EPO y IAM: un Matrimonio de Conveniencia
  • 03.06.16 The EPO’s Media Strategy at Work: Union Feuds and Group Fracturing
  • 03.07.16 Software Patents Are a Dying Breed in the United States and the EPO Should Take Notice
  • 03.08.16 4,062 of Staff Vote on EPO Strike, Over 91% in Favour
  • 03.08.16 The Federal Circuit, a So-called ‘Court’, Increasingly Refuted by US Courts and the Appeal Board (PTAB)
  • 03.08.16 Apple’s Software Patents Tax on Android (Linux) Devices Put in Perspective
  • 03.08.16 Super Tuesday: EPO Workers Are Voting for a Strike Today
  • 03.09.16 Another EPO Protest Next Week, Strategically Planned to Coincide With the Administrative Council’s Meeting
  • 03.09.16 Caricature of the Day: Recognising FFPE EPO
  • 03.09.16 Rumours and Unverified Claims Suggest That EPO President is “Bribing” for Perceived Support
  • 03.10.16 Central Staff Committee of the European Patent Office Asks the Chairman of the Administrative Council to Take Action Next Week or Risk General (Office-Wide) Strike
  • 03.10.16 A Patent Office or a Lobbying Firm? ‘European’ Patent Office (EPO) Sticking its Nose in UPC Matters Again.
  • 03.11.16 Business Profit Over Science: Patent Scope at the EPO Has Gone So Badly Out of Control That Even the European Parliament is Complaining
  • 03.12.16 The EPO ‘Results’ Are Bunk
  • 03.13.16 L’Office Européen des Brevets (OEB/European Patent Office) Kontrovers Coverage
  • 03.14.16 English Transcript of Bayerischer Rundfunk Coverage About EPO
  • 03.14.16 French Transcript of Bayerischer Rundfunk Coverage About EPO
  • 03.14.16 German Transcript of Bayerischer Rundfunk Coverage About EPO
  • 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 Protest in Munich in a Couple of Days
  • 03.15.16 Consequences of Straining Staff: Patent Quality at the European Patent Office Has Gotten Rather Terrible
  • 03.16.16 Reader’s Article: “Guantanamo Possible in Germany”
  • 03.17.16 Better Late Than Never: Bavarian Parliament Intervenes in EPO Affairs Amidst Abuses
  • 03.17.16 In the Mainstream Media, the European Patent Office is Already Becoming Another FIFA, Lies Aplenty as Last Remaining ‘Damage Control’ Strategy
  • 03.17.16 Investigation Into Working Conditions at the European Patent Office Will Commence
  • 03.18.16 Translation of Article Highlights Bavarian Political Motion, Protest Scale and Severity in Munich
  • 03.18.16 Article Highlights Madness When It Comes to Overstressing EPO Staff and Pushing Towards Overpatenting (Even Life!) in Pursuit of Profits
  • 03.20.16 European Patent Office: Administrative Council gives the President a bollocking
  • 03.21.16 De Telegraaf Says There is Reorganisation Under Way at the European Patent Office
  • 03.21.16 EPO Scandals in British Media: Third Time in Private Eye
  • 03.22.16 Union Syndicale Federale Slams FFPE-EPO for Helping Abusive EPO Management by Signing a Malicious, Divisive Document
  • 03.24.16 Their Masters’ Voice (Who Block Techrights): FFPE-EPO Openly Discourages Members From Reading Techrights
  • 03.25.16 La Voz de Sus Amos (¿Quiénes Bloquean Techrights?): La FFPE-EPO Abiertamente Desalienta a Sus Miembros a Leer Techrights
  • 03.25.16 Letter Says EPO MoU “Raises Questions About FFPE’s Credibility as a Federation of Genuine Staff Unions”
  • 03.26.16 Ingve Björn Stjerna’s New Book About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Why It’s Important
  • 03.28.16 Kroatische Lobistin für UN im Zentrum des intarnationalen Skandals in EPA
  • 03.29.16 Crisis Deepens at the European Patent Office, General Strike Planned for Next Thursday
  • 03.30.16 Further Militarisation of the European Patent Office Amid Crisis and After Request of Fair and Just Treatment of Staff
  • 03.30.16 Microsoft at EPO: A Look Into the Relationship
  • 03.30.16 SUEPO Publishes Translations of German Media Reports About the EPO
  • 03.31.16 SUEPO Publica Traducciones de los Medios Alemanes Acerca de la EPO
  • 04.01.16 Microsoft en la EPO: Una Mirada a la Relación
  • 04.02.16 EUIPO and the Shady Relation to the EPO
  • 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 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
  • 04.03.16 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
  • 04.04.16 EPO Management Says Not a Word About Strike This Week, Not Informing Customers/Stakeholders Either
  • 04.05.16 EPO’s Board 28 Scheduled to Have What Looks Like an Emergency Meeting, EPO Management Pretends Staff Strikes and Crisis (Board 28′s Word) Don’t Mean a Thing
  • 04.05.16 European Patent Office Insists That Obeying the Law is Not Realistic, UPC Another Example of That
  • 04.06.16 From US Military to International Banking and External ‘Review’ of EPO ‘Investigations’ (Union-Busting and War on Dissent)
  • 04.06.16 Staff Union of the European Patent Office Sends Out a Striking Message With a T-Shirts Campaign
  • 04.07.16 European Patent Office Half Empty Today
  • 04.07.16 On Day of Strike FFPE-EPO Reaffirms Status as Yellow (Fake/Management-Leaning) Union, Receives ‘Gifts’
  • 04.08.16 Oficina Europea De Patentes Vacía Hasta la Mitad Hoy
  • 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)
  • 04.08.16 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
  • 04.09.16 Patents Roundup: US Patent System/Landscape Disqualified, Corrupted, Saturated With Patent Trolls, and Funded by Microsoft
  • 04.10.16 With Software Patents in Autonomous Cars Few Giants Want a Monopoly on Driving, Not Just Physical Car Components
  • 04.10.16 What is Known (and Not Known) About Attacks on Croatian Portal That Exposed Željko Topić, the Notorious EPO Vice-President
  • 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
  • 04.13.16 Patent Fights Over Reform Focus (Marginalising Small Actors), Courts (Judges) Versus Patent Offices (Large Businesses)
  • 04.14.16 Croatian News Site Explains Where Criminal Cases Against EPO Vice-President Željko Topić Stand
  • 04.14.16 US Lobbyist for Software Patents, David Kappos, Uses EPO’s Snubbing of the EPC to Spread Misinformation and Patent Monopolies on Software/Algorithms
  • 04.16.16 European Patent Office and Human Rights Violations: Article Translation Into English Reveals Upcoming Lawsuit Against the EPO Over Institutional Harassment
  • 04.17.16 European Patent Office and Violaciónes a los Derechos Humanos: Traducción de Artículo Revela Juicio Pendiente Contra la EPO por Acoso Instituciónal
  • 04.19.16 European Patent Office Deemphasising Quality and Looking to Replace the Key Workers
  • 04.19.16 EPO Integrity on the Line: The Story of Željko Topić’s Controversial Diploma – Part II
  • 04.19.16 The ‘Great Conspiracy’ of Patent Lawyers, Lobbyists and Large Corporations for UPC and for Software Patents
  • 04.20.16 EPO’s European Inventor Award Still a Subject of Embarrassment, Media Manipulation, Waste of Public Money, and Shameless Self-Promotion
  • 04.21.16 Growing Threats of Software Patents in Europe and the FRAND Trap Which Microsoft Promotes/Lobbies For
  • 04.21.16 EPO Integrity on the Line: The Story of Željko Topić’s Controversial Diploma – Part IV
  • 04.22.16 The Chaos in the EPO Impacts Stakeholders
  • 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
  • 04.23.16 ES: Más Patentes No Significa Más Innovación, Simplemente Más Dinero Para los Abogados de Patentes y las Oficinas de Patentes
  • 04.24.16 The EPO’s Departure From Truth and Entrance Into the Realms of Chinese Industrial-Grade Propaganda
  • 04.24.16 Patents Roundup: Marijuana Patents, Patent Satellites, Patent Trolls, Wars, and Merchants (Notably Lawyers)
  • 04.26.16 A Farce of a System: How SIPO, USPTO, and Increasingly the EPO Too Turn Into Filing Systems (No Proper Examination/Filtering Required)
  • 04.27.16 ES: La Departura de la Readidad de la EPO Y Su Entrada en la Esféra Industrial China de Propaganda
  • 04.27.16 ES: Una Fársa de Sistema: ¿Cómo la SIPO, USPTO, y cada vez más la EPO se Convierten en Llenado de Patentes (No Se Requiere Propia Examinación)
  • 04.28.16 If EPO “Form of Thinking Were to be Followed, Guantanamo on German Soil Would be Possible.”
  • 04.28.16 Amid Referendum “the New European Unitary Patent System is Likely to Collapse Before It Started”
  • 04.29.16 ES: ”Si la Forma de Pensar de la EPO fuese Seguida, Guantánamo Sería Posible en Suelo Alemán.”
  • 05.01.16 The European Patent Office Still Silently Abusive, Will Pay $15,000 in Compensation to Female Worker After Belated ILO Judgment
  • 05.02.16 The European Spam Office (EPO)
  • 05.02.16 ES: La Oficina Europea de Patentes Todavía Sigilósamente Abusiva, Pagará $15,000 en Compensasió a Trabajadora Tras un Tardío Fallo de la ILO
  • 05.02.16 Governments in Europe Still Active Against EPO Management
  • 05.05.16 You Need to Become Proprietary Software Customer (Microsoft Recommended) to Interact with the European Patent Office
  • 05.09.16 Corporate Imperialism in Europe Through the UPC, the Horrible Patent Deal Almost Nobody Heard of
  • 05.10.16 EPO an Ill Organisation, Lots to Protest Against Tomorrow
  • 05.12.16 Italian Television to Cover EPO Abuses, Bringing the Outrage to the Mainstream in Another Country
  • 05.12.16 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Statistics and New Chief Judge Who is Really a Scientist
  • 05.14.16 ES: La USPTO Sigue Jodiéndo a la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos Al Continuar Emitiéndo Patentes de Software que Son Totalmente Fálsas
  • 05.14.16 ES: Estadísticas del Tribunal de Juicio de Patentes y Jurado de Patentes (PTAB) y El Nuevo Juez Supremo Quién Realmente es un Científico
  • 05.15.16 Relying on EPO, CAFC — Originator of Software Patents in the US — Tries to Bring Them Back Into Play in Microsoft Case
  • 05.15.16 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 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
  • 05.18.16 Another Almost Empty EPO Presentation at The Hague
  • 05.19.16 It’s All Just Artificial Distractions From EPO Management, ‘Yellow’ Union Comes Under Scrutiny Again
  • 05.21.16 ES: Otra Casi Vacía Presentación de la EPO en La Hague
  • 05.22.16 IP3 Demonstrates That Today’s Patent Systems Devolve Into a Conglomerates’ Game, Won’t Protect the Mythical Small Inventor
  • 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 Documents Show Zagreb Police Department in Investigation of Vice-President of the European Patent Office
  • 05.25.16 The Latest EPO Victim Card (Played by Željko Topić) Should be Treated as Seriously as Those Bogus Claims of Violence by a Judge (Updatedx3)
  • 05.26.16 Warning: EPO Surveillance May Have Just Gotten Even More Intrusive
  • 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 ES: La Gerencia de la EPO Bajo Creciénte Estres por las Autoridades Legales Croatas, Políticas Alemanas, y los Medios Italianos
  • 05.30.16 ES: Advertencia: La Vigilancia de la EPO Surveillance Puede Haberse Convertido en Más Intrusiva
  • 05.30.16 ES: La EPO esta Excelente, Dice Sitio de ‘Noticias’ Conectado a Ella
  • 05.30.16 The EPO’s Media Partners Like Les Echos Already Produce EPO Puff Pieces (Marketing/Stenography)
  • 05.31.16 Extremely Dodgy Dealings at the European Patent Office
  • 06.01.16 As Bavarian Parliament Expresses Disdain Over EPO Leadership’s Abuses German Media Listens and Staff Union Releases New Survey
  • 06.01.16 ES: Tratos Extremádamente Astutos en La Oficina Europea de Patentes
  • 06.01.16 Vice-President of the European Patent Office Under Many Police Investigations
  • 06.01.16 FFPE-EPO Going Ad Hominem Against FICSA, Brings Nationality Into It
  • 06.01.16 ES: Los Socios de la EPO en los Medios Como Les Echos Ya Están Produciendo Piezas de Hojaldre para la EPO (Stenografíá/Marketing)
  • 06.03.16 How the EPO Helped Prop Up — With ‘European Inventor Award 2015′ — a Fraud That Killed a Lot of People
  • 06.05.16 ES: El Egoísta Desfile de ‘El Inventor Europeo del Año’ Un Clásico Ejemplo de Desperdicio y Abuso
  • 06.06.16 Media Sites Still Filled to the Rim With Pro-Software Patents Propaganda (Lies by Omission)
  • 06.06.16 Spangenberg’s Reputation Laundering, Parasitic Taxes on Products Everyone Uses, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Calls Patent Trolling “Extortion”
  • 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 Politicians Susann Biedefeld (MdL) and Agnes Jongerius (S and D) the Latest to Express Anger at EPO’s Management Over Its Abuses
  • 06.07.16 EPO Protest Tomorrow: Help the Media (Not ‘Media Partners’ in EPO Management’s Pocket) See What EPO Staff Really Thinks (Updated)
  • 06.07.16 EPO’s Old Spokesman (10 Years in Munich) Resigns Again After Only 5 Weeks, EPO is Just Buying the Media Now
  • 06.07.16 Perpetual Attack on EPO Staff, Even After the Staff Leaves the EPO
  • 06.10.16 The Commission is Complicit in EPO Abuses, According to Marc Tarabella
  • 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
  • 06.10.16 Photos From Yesterday’s EPO Protest at The Hague, Reports From Munich and The Hague Staff Protests (About 1,200 in Attendance in Spite of Heavy Rain)
  • 06.12.16 Why Anonymous Dissent Against EPO on Google Platforms May be Risky
  • 06.12.16 ES: La Comisión es Complice en los Abusos de la EPO, De Acuerdo a Marc Tarabella
  • 06.13.16 The Corruption of the Media: EPO Budget as a Gift to Broadcasters Under the EIA2016 Umbrella, FTI Consulting Contracts
  • 06.13.16 Bought Media Coverage at the European Patent Office
  • 06.13.16 Report From Thursday Protest in EPO Munich Branch/Headquarters
  • 06.14.16 Detailed Account of Today’s ‘Trial’ of a Judge Who Said the Truth About the EPO
  • 06.14.16 EPO and Its ‘Buddies’ in the Media Lobby for the UPC in Spite of and in the Face of Resistance
  • 06.14.16 Endgame of Manipulating Media With Payments and PR: The ‘Blame Everything and Everyone But EPO Management’ Tactics
  • 06.15.16 EPO Crisis: What If There Was an Administrative Council Meeting and Nobody Came?
  • 06.15.16 EPO Brain Drain Goes All the Way to the Top as Head of Patent Administration Abruptly Resigns
  • 06.15.16 EPO Investigative Unit Causes “Trauma, Will Ruin the Health or Even the Family”
  • 06.18.16 Brain Drain at the EPO: Qualified Patent Examiners Leave in Droves, Young Ones Blindly Loyal to Management Reduce Patent Quality
  • 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
  • 06.18.16 The Rule of Money and Power, Not the Rule of Law, at the European Patent Office
  • 06.18.16 ES: La EPO y sus ‘Compadres’ en los Medios Cabildean por la UPC a Pesar de y Enfrentar Resistencia
  • 06.19.16 Jericho Systems Threatens Alice, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Threatens the Patent Trial and Appeal (PTAB)
  • 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 Supreme Court on Cuozzo v Lee Another Major Loss for Software Patents in the United States
  • 06.21.16 Caricature: Bygmalion Patent Office
  • 06.21.16 EPO Self-Censorship by IP Kat or Just Censorship of Opinions That IP Kat Does Not Share/Accept (Updated)
  • 06.22.16 EPO “Recruitment of Brits is Down by 80%”
  • 06.22.16 IP Europe’s UPC Lobbying and the EPO Connection
  • 06.23.16 Fake Patents on Software From Fake Australian ‘Inventor’ of Bitcoin and the Globally-Contagious Nature of EPO Patent Scope
  • 06.23.16 As Decision on the UK’s EU Status Looms, EPO Deep in a Crisis of Patent Quality
  • 06.23.16 Another Demonstration by European Patent Office (EPO) Staff on Same Day as Administrative Council’s Meeting
  • 06.26.16 Patents Roundup: Bad Quality (USPTO), Bad Analysis (India), Bad Microsoft, Bad Actors (Trolls), Bad Scope (Software Patents), and the Ugly
  • 06.27.16 Techrights (Almost) at 10: From Software Patents to Novell and to Present Focus on EPO
  • 06.27.16 From Alleged Organised Crime to Vice-President of the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 06.28.16 New Efforts to Work Around Barriers to UPC in Light of ‘Brexit’; Behind These Efforts Are Self-Serving Patent Profiteers
  • 06.29.16 Short Report From Today’s EPO Protest in Munich
  • 06.29.16 Keeping the Guard and Securing Society From Software Patents
  • 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 Publicly-Available Information About the Meeting of the EPO’s Administrative Council
  • 06.30.16 EPO Staff Representative Jesus Areso Explains the Crisis to the Administrative Council
  • 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)
  • 06.30.16 Shadows of Alleged Criminality Over the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 07.01.16 Realistic English Translation of EPO Announcement About Crushing of Patent Quality
  • 07.01.16 Goodbye Halo, Hello Revisionism (or How Patent Profiteers Perfume a Terrible SCOTUS Decision That Helps Patent Trolls)
  • 07.01.16 EPO Leak: Administrative Council’s Latest Meeting Report (Updated)
  • 07.01.16 At the European Patent Organisation the Administrative Council Does Not Care About Staff
  • 07.01.16 No Expectation of the US Patent System Getting Fixed Any Time Soon
  • 07.01.16 As Expected, ‘Team UPC’ Continues Fighting for Its Project’s Survival in Spite of ‘Brexit’
  • 07.02.16 ES: Traduccción Realista al Español del Anuncio de la EPO Acerca de Aplastar la Calidad de Patentes
  • 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 Post-Jeremy IP Kat Deems It OK to Publish Anonymous Comment Comparing Techrights to “Daesh” While Censoring Polite Response to That
  • 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 The European Patent Organisation Jokes About Independence on the 4th of July (US Independence Day)
  • 07.05.16 Decline of Patent Quality at the EPO to Further Exacerbate With Latest Crackdown on Appeal Boards
  • 07.05.16 Potential Alignment of Special Interests at Mishcon de Reya: EPO, Microsoft, and Brexit (or UPC)
  • 07.07.16 Weapons of Mass Distraction at the EPO Cost the EPO Millions of Euros
  • 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
  • 07.10.16 ES: El Alineamiénto Potential de Intereses Especiales con Mishcon de Reya: EPO, Microsoft, y Brexit (o la UPC)
  • 07.11.16 China Mimics Patent Protectionism and Patent Aggression Strategies of Other Countries
  • 07.11.16 “We Need to Inform [Politicians, Journalists ... Ministers or Representatives that the Whole European Patent System is at Risk.”]
  • 07.12.16 Hot Summer: EPO Management on Trial This Week
  • 07.13.16 Fourth-Busiest Quarter for Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), Which Invalidates Software Patents That USPTO Foolishly or Selfishly Granted
  • 07.14.16 EPO Management on Trial Tomorrow, But It Stated Upfront It Would Not Obey the Legal Ruling While It Rigs Its Own Rulings
  • 07.14.16 Deathwatch of the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPC)
  • 07.16.16 The Importance of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and High-Quality Patents (Not Software Patents)
  • 07.17.16 Whistleblower Protection Desperately Needed at the European Patent Office
  • 07.17.16 Microsoft and Its Patent Minions at Nokia Still Have Patent Stacking Ambitions Against Android/Linux OEMs
  • 07.18.16 EPO Social [sic Report is a Big Pile of Lies That Responsible Journalists Must Ignore]
  • 07.22.16 Patents Roundup: BlackBerry, Huawei, PTAB, GAO, Aggressive Universities With Patents, and Software Patents in Europe
  • 07.22.16 EPO Insiders Explain Why the EPO’s Examination Quality Rapidly Declines and Will Get Even Worse Because of Willy Minnoye
  • 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
  • 07.24.16 The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) Comes Across as Against Software Patents, Relates to the EPO as Well
  • 07.24.16 In the US, Patent Trolls Engage in Patent Wars and Shakedowns, Whereas in China/Korea Large Android OEMs Sue One Another
  • 07.26.16 Almost Everything That the Government Accountability Office Says is Applicable to the EPO
  • 07.26.16 Kluwer Thinks People Are Clueless About the Unitary Patent System and Pretends It’s Business as Usual
  • 07.26.16 Munich Attack Mentioned by EPO But Not Ansbach
  • 07.28.16 EPO Loses More Than 80% of Cases at the International Labour Organisation (ILO)
  • 07.30.16 EPO Crushed the Boards of Appeal (i.e. Quality Control) and Insiders Explain Why
  • 07.30.16 The Illusion of Patents as Necessary for Maintaining Western Dominance Increasingly Debunked
  • 08.01.16 The USPTO’s Dark Legacy of Software Patents Still the Cause of Spurious/Frivolous Litigation, Residue Which is Software Patent Trolls and Lawyers Will Try to Change the Law
  • 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 Patent Lawyers Continue to Shoot the Messenger (Attack PTAB) in a Desperate Effort to Salvage Software Patents and Other Rubbish
  • 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
  • 08.06.16 How Low-Quality USPTO Patents Made the US Fertile Ground for Patent Trolling
  • 08.08.16 EPO’s Vice-President Willy Minnoye Was Rumoured to be Leaving
  • 08.09.16 “EPO is Quickly Turning Into a Registration System”
  • 08.09.16 The Problem With Overpatenting: The Google Example
  • 08.09.16 Rumours About Likely Salary of (or Compensation to) Jesper Kongstad of the EPO Administrative Council
  • 08.11.16 ‘Constitutional Crisis’ at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 08.12.16 In Its War Against Android/Linux, Apple Supported by Non-Producing/Non-Practicing Parasites, Whereas Technology Companies Support the Android OEM
  • 08.14.16 Pushers of Software Patents Outside the United States (Which is Belatedly Squashing These Patents)
  • 08.14.16 Patent Microcosm Shuts Out the Poor: Unified Patent Court (UPC) Promotion by Practising Law Institute (PLI) Only for the Wealthy
  • 08.15.16 Clawing Back the Staff Benefits at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 08.16.16 The EPO’s Administrative Council Keeps Postponing Debate About Grounds for Firing the President
  • 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
  • 08.22.16 The Collapse of Software Patents and Patent Law Firms Trying to “Overcome” Alice
  • 08.25.16 Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice Calls the European Patent Office “Rotten”, Other Sources Scrutinise Recent Moves
  • 08.26.16 The EPO, USPTO, and Patent Microcosm Peddle Myths About Patents in Public Universities and Research
  • 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
  • 08.26.16 Erosion of Patent Quality Enables Patent Extortion With Large Portfolios of Low Validity Rate
  • 08.28.16 The United States Has Gotten Over Software Patents
  • 08.29.16 Nothing Whatsoever Has Improved at the European Patent Office, It’s Just Summer’s Recess (and Silence)
  • 08.29.16 Let Them Eat Patents
  • 09.02.16 UPC Threatens to Send the European Patent Office Circling Down the Drain
  • 09.03.16 Specialists in Public International Law Bemoan Privacy Violations at the European Patent Office
  • 09.03.16 The European Patent Office is Utterly Desperate for Attention as Its Status Worldwide Sinks and It Resorts to ‘Spamming’ All Major Universities in Europe
  • 09.04.16 Internal USPTO Documents Reveal a Battle and Protest Over Software Patenting
  • 09.04.16 There is No Future for the UPC in Spite of What the EPO and the Patent Microcosm Keep Telling Us
  • 09.05.16 The EPO’s Assistant/Secretary for Bergot (Nepotism Supreme) Demonstrates a Race to the Bottom With Temporary Appointments, Operation ‘Clean House’
  • 09.05.16 Patent System in the US Must Revert Back to Original Goals or Lose Credibility
  • 09.08.16 The European Privacy Offender (EPO) Sells Data But Only to the Rich and Powerful
  • 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
  • 09.12.16 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
  • 09.14.16 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 For Abuse Like Plagiarism and Malpractice, the US Patent System is Still World Champion
  • 09.20.16 Microsoft and Patent Law Firms in the United States Can’t Stop Writing About McRo in a Coordinated Push to Resurrect Software Patents
  • 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)
  • 09.24.16 Bristows LLP’s Hatred/Disdain of UK/EU Democracy Demonstrated; Says “Not Only Will the Pressure for UK Ratification of the UPC Agreement Continue, But a Decision is Wanted Within Weeks.”
  • 09.25.16 The EPO Does Not Want Skilled (and ‘Expensive’) Staff, Layoffs a Growing Concern
  • 09.25.16 What Insiders Are Saying About the Sad State of the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 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
  • 09.27.16 The EPO’s Continued Push for Software Patents, Marginalisation of Appeals (Reassessment), and Deviation From the EPC
  • 09.28.16 Cementing Autocracy: The European Patent Office Against Democracy, Against Media, and Against the Rule of Law
  • 09.29.16 Leaked: Conclusions of the Secretive EPO Board 28 Meeting (8th of September 2016)
  • 09.29.16 IP Kat is Lobbying Heavily for the UPC, Courtesy of Team UPC
  • 10.01.16 Immunity of the European Patent Office and Lack of Oversight Within the Organisation Mean That It’s a Rogue Entity Above the Law
  • 10.02.16 Not Just the European Patent Office But the Organisation Too a Culprit in Immunity and Impunity
  • 10.03.16 Alice/Section 101 Still Spelling Doom for Proponents of Software Patents, Including Some Patent Law Firms
  • 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
  • 10.04.16 Introduction to Jesper Kongstad, EPO Chairman of the Administrative Council
  • 10.04.16 Danish Fairy Tales and Legends: The Secret Life of Jesper Kongstad
  • 10.05.16 No Justice Even for a Judge at the EPO, as the Whole Institution is Beyond Rotten and Quite Corrupt
  • 10.07.16 Rumour: The European Patent Office Intends to Sack Staff Representatives at The Hague Like It Did in Munich
  • 10.09.16 From World’s Best to World’s Worst: China’s SIPO (Worst of Asia) and France (Worst of Europe) the Vision for EPO
  • 10.09.16 Has IP Kat’s Unofficial (Self-)Censorship Policy Expanded From Protecting the EPO’s Image to Protecting the UPC?
  • 10.09.16 The UPC is Dead, Says Opinion Partly Funded by Team UPC, But Patent Scope in Europe Remains an Issue
  • 10.10.16 New Letter to the Delegates of the Administrative Council
  • 10.11.16 “Very Mysterious Things Going on at the IPKat Recently”
  • 10.12.16 Addendum II: Article About the Kongstads’ Villa Becoming a Breeding Farm for the Fur Industry
  • 10.13.16 EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point – Part I: Protest at The Hague and the Huge Things at Stake
  • 10.13.16 The EPO is Out of Control on (Patent) Scope and Team UPC Floods the Media in a Desperate Last Attempt
  • 10.14.16 EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point – Part V: “Siegfried Bross as President of the Boards of Appeal!”
  • 10.16.16 UPC Preparatory Committee Projects Optimism in an Effort to Salvage Its Dying Project, the Unitary/Unified Patent
  • 10.16.16 Outline of Latest Press Coverage Regarding the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 10.18.16 The Long History or Seeds of Control by Fear and Punishment at the EPO
  • 10.18.16 French Article About the EPO “Crisis”
  • 10.18.16 Leaked: Outcomes of 149th Administrative Council’s Meeting at the European Patent Organisation
  • 10.19.16 Worrisome Connections Between EPO VP2 Alberto Casado Cerviño and Patricia García-Escudero Márquez
  • 10.19.16 Addendum: EPO’s Alberto Casado Cerviño, WIPO’s Francis Gurry, and EUIPO’s Archambeau
  • 10.20.16 Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead, But ‘Managing IP’ and Selfish Patent Law Firms Still Try to Resurrect It
  • 10.21.16 Disruption to Site’s Service
  • 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
  • 10.24.16 UPC Preparatory Committee Puts the Brakes on UPC Amid Brexit and Growing Uncertainty
  • 10.25.16 Leaked: Minutes From the Administrative Council of the EPO Regarding the ‘Reform’ (Exile) of the Boards of Appeal
  • 10.25.16 Puff Pieces of the EPO-IPO (EPO+EUIPO) Have Begun to Appear Amid New Evidence of Brain Drain, Lowered Standards
  • 10.26.16 Leaked: EPO’s Vice-President Willie Minnoye Saying the Unsayable, Then Threatening Anyone Who Keeps Record (Evidence) of It
  • 10.27.16 Leaked: Budget and Finance Committee Outcomes That Jeopardise What’s Left of the EPO’s Future
  • 10.28.16 The EPO’s Balkan Express Keeps Chugging Along Despite Predictions of Derailment
  • 10.28.16 Leaked: Ljiljana Kuterovac Covering Željko Topić’s (EPO) Back
  • 10.30.16 FTC Slams Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), Effectively Patent Trolls, Which Are a Growing Problem in Europe
  • 10.30.16 Courts Are Being Showered With Motions to Invalidate Software Patents, Former USPTO Officials Like Kappos and Stoll in a Panic
  • 10.31.16 The Insane World of Patent Maximalism and Professor Joshua Pearce’s Case for Weakening Patent Rights
  • 11.02.16 Patent Maximalism is Destroying the European Patent Office (Just a Paperwork Assembly Line), Exile of Boards Ensures No Turnaround
  • 11.02.16 Breaking the European Patent System With the UPC Hammer, Courtesy of the EPO and Lawyers-Centric ‘News’ Sites
  • 11.04.16 Has the Advisor of Željko Topić Just Quit, Got Sacked, or is EPO Vice-President Topić Gaining Even Greater Powers?
  • 11.05.16 The Death of Patent Quality at the EPO and the European Commission’s Latest Smackdown of the EPO’s Patent Maximalism
  • 11.07.16 Where the Sun Rises (Far East) and Software Patents Emanate (US) Come the Patent Trolls
  • 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 EPO Social Workshops on Monday and Tuesday? No, EPO Staff up in Arms!
  • 11.08.16 At EPOPIC Today, As Expected, Software Patents Courtesy of EPO
  • 11.10.16 SUEPO (EPO Staff Union) “Fears Now That the Intention Behind This Blow is “to Destroy” the Union.”
  • 11.10.16 “Not My President“: The Sentiment of European Patent Office Staff Towards Their Fascistic Boss
  • 11.12.16 Decline in Patent Quality at the EPO Increasingly Reaffirmed by More Branches, Insiders, and Even the European Commission
  • 11.13.16 IAM’s Interest in Patent Trolls Going Global, Capitalising on Declining Patent Quality
  • 11.14.16 Elodie Bergot’s Double Standards: Can Flagrantly Defame EPO Staff Representatives on the Intranet (Union-Shaming), But Cannot Publish Facts
  • 11.15.16 Correcting Bias in Patent Law Firms’ Articles About Software Patents, Advice to Small Businesses, and Letting Machines Generate Patents
  • 11.15.16 Violations of Human Rights at the EPO in the Name of Fraud Prevention
  • 11.16.16 The EPO Lowering Patent Quality, Accused of Issuing Invalid Patents, and Promoting Software Patents (Hence Trolls)
  • 11.18.16 Concerns Over ‘Terror’ Patent Office: New Article From Dutch Media (Telegraaf)
  • 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
  • 11.19.16 European Media, Dutch Parliament and Spectacularly Enough Even IP Kat (Yes, It’s Back!) Subject the EPO to Serious Scrutiny
  • 11.20.16 Cases Against the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Demise of Transparency International (Which EPO Partly ‘Absorbed’)
  • 11.20.16 Patent Maximalists Would Have Us Believe That Patent Trolls Are Beneficial and Admirable
  • 11.22.16 China’s Shot in Its Own Foot Repeats the United States’ Error on Software Patents
  • 11.23.16 Anonymous EPO Staff: EPO Management’s Moral Compass is Broken
  • 11.23.16 Employees of European Patent Office Take Action Against Culture of Fear
  • 11.23.16 EPO Protest Tomorrow at The Hague
  • 11.23.16 European Patent Office Workers Take Action Against ‘Tyrannical’ Director
  • 11.24.16 Giants of Asia: India More Restrictive on Patent Scope, China More Lenient
  • 11.24.16 Video and Audio: Press Coverage From Today’s EPO Protest at The Hague
  • 11.25.16 EPO and the Art of Distraction, Disinformation
  • 11.25.16 Report From Yesterday’s EPO Protest at The Hague, Which Several Politicians Attended
  • 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
  • 11.28.16 Patent Attorney Mark Summerfield: EPO Administrative Council “Members Should be Ashamed.”
  • 11.29.16 The UPC Scam Part I: EPO-Bribed Media Outlets Lie to Brits (and to Europeans) About the UPC
  • 11.29.16 CERN Slams the European Patent Office for Abuse of Employees
  • 11.29.16 European Public Service Union Asks EPO Administrative Council “to Re-establish the Rule of Law at the European Patent Office”
  • 11.29.16 The International Labour Organisation Once Again Proves Useless for Labour of the EPO
  • 11.29.16 Learning From the Mistakes of the US Patent System (and More Latterly China) When Assessing Patent Maximalism
  • 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
  • 12.01.16 Two ILO Decisions on EPO Cases Are Released, at Least One Judgment is Considered Good for Staff
  • 12.01.16 Dutch and French Politicians Complain About the European Patent Office, British Media Coverage Regular Now
  • 12.01.16 The Rule of Law and Justice Don’t Exist Inside the EPO, Confirms the International Labour Organisation (ILO)
  • 12.03.16 Dutch Media Covers Latest EPO Scandals, German Media Totally Absent (a Media Blackout of Convenience)
  • 12.05.16 Caricature: the Maas App
  • 12.05.16 The UPC Scam Part V: Unitary Patent Regime a Fantasy of Patent Trolls
  • 12.06.16 EPO Spiraling Down the Drain as Experienced Examiners and Judges Are Seemingly Being Replaced by Interns
  • 12.06.16 EPO Suicides Greater in Number Than is Widely Reported, Unjust System a Contributor to These
  • 12.06.16 Heiko Maas, the SPD “Cash for Access” Affair, and Suspicions of Unwarranted Censorship at IP Kat (Again)
  • 12.06.16 The UPC Scam Part VII: A Fine Mess in the Making, as Nothing Can be Made of It Amid/After Brexit
  • 12.08.16 Memo “Deliberately Leaked to Cover up the UPC” With Its Many Associated Issues Amid Brexit
  • 12.09.16 The EPO is Collapsing. Attacks on Journalists, Interns as Staff, Patents on Plants, and Bureaucratic Red Tape…
  • 12.09.16 Ignore the Bristows UPC Echo Chamber, the UPC is Not Happening
  • 12.10.16 EPO Protest This Coming Wednesday Strives to Restore the Rule of Law and Freedom of Speech at the Office
  • 12.11.16 EPO ‘Reform’ Seems to Strive for Echo Chamber Mentality, Elimination of Unions, Crackdown on Experienced (Well-Paid) Employees, and Departure From Patent Quality
  • 12.12.16 Caricature: The European Patent Office Finds Quick Fix for ILO
  • 12.13.16 The EPO Keeps Bullying Examiners and Even Judges, EPO’s Mouthpiece PwC Now Bullies Researchers
  • 12.13.16 The European Patent Office Suffers Quality Crisis, Finally (Belatedly) Agrees to Publicly Comment on It
  • 12.13.16 Another New Book, This Time From Dr Luke McDonagh, Chronicles the Demise of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement
  • 12.14.16 Outside Pressure is Growing: CERN Staff Association Reaffirms Commitment to SUEPO, The Staff Union of the EPO
  • 12.14.16 EPO is “Googlebombing” Croatia With Puff Pieces Rather Than Discussion/Coverage of Vice-President’s Dark Side
  • 12.14.16 Administrative Council of the EPO Must Recognise Critical Brain Drain, Loss of Talent, Loss of Patent Quality
  • 12.15.16 Vote for Exile of the Boards of Appeal Shows That the Administrative Council of the EPO is Still Compromised and Complicit
  • 12.15.16 Shame on the German Media for the Media Blackout Surrounding EPO Protests in Munich (and Sometimes Berlin)
  • 12.15.16 Team UPC Salivating Over Unitary Patent Fantasy Even Though It is Stuck in a Limbo
  • 12.16.16 Why EPO Staff is Up in Arms
  • 12.16.16 Will the Patent Microcosm of London Please Stop Misleading the Public About UPC?
  • 12.16.16 Small Nations With Almost Not a Single European Patent Sign the Death Knell of EPO Patent Quality
  • 12.18.16 With $2.5 Billion in Claimed (and Won) ‘Damages’ in One Single Patent Case of a Pharmaceutical Giant, Does the Patents for ‘Small Guy’ Myth Still Pass Muster?
  • 12.19.16 EPO Appeal Boards, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and Other Newsworthy Tidbits
  • 12.19.16 Software Patents in the US: The Patent Office Gives Blank Checks (Let the Courts Worry About Examination!) and the Patent Microcosm Tries to Undermine Alice, Still
  • 12.20.16 ‘SIPO Europe’: The EPO’s Race to the Bottom of Patent Skills and Patent Quality
  • 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
  • 12.21.16 No Justice at the EPO, Whose Underlying Purpose Was (Originally) to Do Patents Justice
  • 12.22.16 IAM is Still the EPO’s Favourite Propaganda Mill
  • 12.23.16 “Whoever at the EPO Took This Action Clearly Never Heard About the Concept of Separation of Powers”
  • 12.26.16 Crisis Inside the EPO as Elodie Bergot, Unqualified for Her Job, Fails to Maintain Staffing
  • 12.27.16 Negative Publicity (Personal or by Association With the EPO) is Devouring the Institution
  • 12.27.16 Bad Service at the European Patent Office (EPO) Escalated in the Form of Complaints to European Authorities/Politicians
  • 12.31.16 2016: The Year EPO Staff Went on Strike, Possibly “Biggest Ever Strike in the History of the EPO.”
  • 01.01.17 FFPE-EPO is a Zombie (if Not Dead) Yellow Union Whose Only de Facto Purpose Has Been Attacking the EPO’s Staff Union
  • 01.01.17 When EPO Vice-President, Who Will Resign Soon, Made a Mockery of the EPO
  • 01.01.17 EPO Select Committee is Wrong About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 01.02.17 Teaser: Corruption Indictments Brought Against Vice-President of the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 01.03.17 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part V: Suspension of Salary and Unfair Trials
  • 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
  • 01.05.17 The Productivity Commission Warns Against Patent Maximalism, Which is Where China (SIPO) is Heading Along With EPO
  • 01.07.17 2017: Latest Year That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Still Stuck in a Limbo
  • 01.10.17 FFPE-EPO, the EPO Management’s Pet/Yellow Union, Helps Union-Busting (Against SUEPO) in Letter to Notorious Vice-President
  • 01.11.17 The Patent Microcosm is Already Sucking up to Donald Trump in an Effort to Enrich Itself at Everyone’s Expense
  • 01.12.17 Brexit Means No UPC (Unified Patent Court)
  • 01.15.17 EPO Abuses Come Under Fire From Politicians in Luxembourg
  • 01.15.17 Constitutionality as a Barrier and Brexit Barriers to UPC Keep the Whole Pipe Dream Deadlocked
  • 01.15.17 America Invents Act Improved Patent Quality, But Right Wingers Threaten to Make It Worse Again
  • 01.17.17 EPO Totally Silent for a Month, But Deep Inside There Are Serious Cracks
  • 01.18.17 Rumours Suggest That EPO Management is Aware of Decline in Patent Quality and is Thus Actively Lying About it to the Media/Public
  • 01.20.17 Beware Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 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)
  • 01.23.17 Patent Trolls Like Finjan Holdings and Thomas Edison; the Latest Loss for Software Patents in the US and Their Move to China
  • 01.24.17 The EPO’s Freedom to Disregard the Law and Abuse Employees is “Being Taken up by the Council of Europe”
  • 01.24.17 The European Patent Office is Googlebombing and Bamboozling the Public About Quality of European Patents
  • 01.24.17 China Drowns in Worthless Patents, the United States (FTC) Bemoans Patent Trolls, and Australia is Urged by Its Commission to Decommission Software Patents
  • 01.26.17 Journalists Have Learned to Ignore Claims From the EPO’s Management, Which Habitually Lies to Journalists
  • 01.29.17 Revealed: Lack of Justice at the European Patent Office (EPO), No Valid Courts
  • 02.01.17 Someone Needs to Explain/Remind EPO Management That Software Patents Are Not (Supposed to Be) Valid in Europe
  • 02.01.17 The Netherlands With Its Bizarre Decision to Let the EPO Violate Dutch Law, Now in English
  • 02.02.17 International Labour Organisation to Issue More Judgments on ‘Above the Law’ European Patent Office Next Week
  • 02.03.17 Weekend Talk in Brussels to Speak of “Open Patents”, Relevant to the EPO at Times of Growing Lenience on Software Patents
  • 02.05.17 Culture of Terror at The European Patent Office Escalates Thanks to Dutch Government’s Complicity
  • 02.06.17 Questions Arise About Patent Policy and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board Amid Deregulation by Trump
  • 02.07.17 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part VI: Fear Climate and Antipathy Now the ‘Norm’
  • 02.07.17 The European Patent Office Officially Dishonours Justice, So It’s Time for SUEPO to Become Clandestine
  • 02.07.17 Reception of the New German Ambassador (Dirk Brengelmann) at the EPO, in Presence of the Stasi-Like Investigative Unit
  • 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)
  • 02.08.17 Immunity of the Intellectual Property Office of the European Union Causes Outrage in Spanish Media
  • 02.09.17 This is Why Many People at the EPO Commit Suicide
  • 02.13.17 Leaked E-mails From the EPO’s Roberto Vacca Reveal That Patent Quality at the European Patent Office Has Become Farcical
  • 02.13.17 UPC Petition Launched to Halt Ratification Plans in the United Kingdom Amid Nefarious Back Room Deals
  • 02.14.17 Growingly Desperate for Applicants Amid Brain Drain, EPO Pays Breitbart ‘News’
  • 02.14.17 Leaked: European Patent Office a Fire Hazard Waiting to Cause Tragedy (Possible Deaths)
  • 02.14.17 EPO-Connected Writers Are Using Alternative Facts or Fake News to Promote the Unitary Patent in British Media
  • 02.15.17 Claude Rouiller (ILOAT) and ILO Rulings Effectively Disregarded by the European Patent Office
  • 02.15.17 The European Patent Office Looks More and More Like the Sicilian Mafia Every Day
  • 02.16.17 Yet More Complaints About the European Patent Office in the Bavarian Regional Government
  • 02.16.17 Guest Post: EPO, an Idyllic Place to Work
  • 02.16.17 EPO Staff Representatives to Escalate Complaint About Severe Injustices to the EPO’s Secretive Board 28
  • 02.16.17 Open Patent Office is Not the Solution; Ending Software Patents is the Solution
  • 02.16.17 New Survey Reveals That High Patent Quality, or Elimination of Bad Patents, is Desirable to Patent Holders
  • 02.17.17 Our Assessment: EPO Wants a Lot of Low-Quality Patents and Low-Paid Staff With UPC (Prosecution Galore)
  • 02.19.17 The EPO is Becoming an Embarrassment to Europe and a Growing Threat to the European Union
  • 02.20.17 Lack of Justice in and Around the EPO Drawing Scrutiny
  • 02.21.17 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part VII: EPO Hypocrisy on Cancer and Lack of Feedback to and From ECPC
  • 02.22.17 Report From Yesterday’s Debate About the European Patent Office (EPO) at the Bavarian Landtag
  • 02.23.17 The Sickness of the EPO – Part III: Invalidity and Suicides
  • 02.23.17 The Sickness of the EPO – Part IV: Cruel Management That Deliberately Attacks the Sick and the Weak
  • 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 Yes, There is Definitely Brain Drain (Experience Deficit) at the European Patent Office and Stakeholders Feel It
  • 02.26.17 The EPO’s Race to the Bottom in Recruitment and Early Retirements Explained by an Insider
  • 02.26.17 Wouter Pors and Other UPC Boosters Believe That Repeating the Lies Will Potentially Make Them Truths
  • 02.27.17 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part VIII: When Governed by Criminals, Truth-Tellers Are Cast as Criminals and Criminals as Justice Deliverers
  • 02.28.17 Does the EPO Want Patent Quality to Decline Against the USPTO and Become Akin to SIPO?
  • 02.28.17 Web Site of French Senator Richard Yung Cracked Just Days After Criticising the EPO
  • 03.01.17 Justice is Dead Not Only at the European Patent Office But Also the Whole European Patent Organisation
  • 03.01.17 MIP (Managing IP) International Patent Forum 2017 to Have EPO and UPC Propaganda, as Before
  • 03.01.17 Now is the Time to Sign the Petition Against the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 03.02.17 EPO Budget Obscures and Distorts Facts About the Unitary Patent (UPC) in a Classic Antidemocratic Exercise by an Unaccountable Institution
  • 03.02.17 China Adopts Software Patents and IAM ‘Magazine’ (Lobbyists) Continues to Shame India Into It
  • 03.03.17 The Sickness of the EPO – Part VI: Firing Handicapped People and Hiring Unskilled, Inexperienced, ‘Cheap’ Staff
  • 03.03.17 Dutch Foreign Minister Reads the Riot Act to EPO Vice-President Willy/Guillaume Minnoye
  • 03.04.17 EPO Mimics Interpol, But Interpol Should Raid the EPO and End the Management’s Abuses Once and for All
  • 03.04.17 Using “China!” and Distortion of Data From Lex Machina, the Litigation Lobby Promotes Software Patents
  • 03.05.17 The Very Thought of UPC in the UK “is a Perfect Example of What Lobbying Can Achieve!”
  • 03.06.17 ILO: “EPO Threaten(s) the Ability of the Administrative Tribunal of the ILO to Serve All Other Organizations”
  • 03.07.17 Caricature: ‘Posterrorism’ at the EPO
  • 03.07.17 EPO Record Low on Quality of European Patents (EPs) in 2016
  • 03.07.17 Raise Your Glass to the Monopoly — New Article About the European Patent Office Losing It on Patent Scope
  • 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 EPO “Too Industry-Friendly, Say the Critics”
  • 03.10.17 After EPO Sanctions Against IP Kat (Censorship of More Than 10,000 Articles) Even Merpel Throws in the Towel
  • 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 The EPO is Lying About Patent Quality in Its Official Web Site
  • 03.11.17 Information From SUEPO on the Functional Allowance Reveals How Top-Level Management Intends to ‘Rob’ the Cash Cow (EPO Budget)
  • 03.11.17 Why Techrights is Nowadays Focused on the EPO and UPC (Unitary Patent)
  • 03.11.17 Higher Patent Quality Guarded Even Under the Trump Administration While the EPO Goes the Other Way
  • 03.12.17 Germany Cannot Ratify the UPC Because Britain is Leaving the EU and Unitary Patent Strongly/Strictly Depends on the UK
  • 03.12.17 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 Ten Years Later, Microsoft Admission on Dirty Tricks and Borderline Corruption Which It Uses to This Day in Order to Suppress GNU/Linux Adoption in Desktops
  • 03.14.17 Unscientific and Offensive: EPO Deletes From the Map Countries Where Number of Applications at the EPO Has Declined!
  • 03.14.17 EPO Protest Tomorrow, Heads of Delegations Informed Regarding the Reasons
  • 03.14.17 The European Patent Office is in a State of Collapse and It Coughs Up Rubbish Patents Until Its Death
  • 03.14.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) Misinformation in Spanish Media and EPO-Connected (Paid) Media That Lobbies Spain
  • 03.14.17 Patent Trolling Allegedly Runs in the Blood (or Interests) of the Trump Family, in Spite of the USPTO’s and Courts’ Growing Hostility Towards Patent Trolls
  • 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 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
  • 03.16.17 German Media is Not Covering EPO Scandals and Instead Repeating Patently False Claims From EPO Management
  • 03.16.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) and “Breach of EU Law”
  • 03.17.17 The EPO’s Abuses and Claims of Immunity From Prosecution Increasingly Fracture the Dutch Establishment
  • 03.17.17 Hidden Away in a Barely-Viewed Video is the Map of Europe Which the EPO Hides, as It Demonstrates Decline in Applications That EPO Cannot Deny
  • 03.17.17 UPC Fake News Rising Sharply as Door Closes for Unitary Patent Ratification and Jo Johnson ‘Needs’ to Believe the UPC Will Actually Happen
  • 03.18.17 European Directives and Boards of Appeal Desperately Needed to Keep EPO Patent Scope in Check
  • 03.18.17 Governance Crisis at EPO Deepens After Latest Meeting of the Administrative Council, Necessitating Urgent Outside Intervention
  • 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 EPO Caricature: Low Patent Quality Not an Achievement
  • 03.21.17 Tough Day for the EPO’s Media/Press/PR Team, Trying ‘Damage Control’ After Important Techrights Publications
  • 03.21.17 EPO Reduces the World to Just Seven Nations to Bolster an Illusion of Growing ‘Demand’ for European Patents
  • 03.21.17 In IAM, Asian Courts That Deliver Justice Are “Unfriendly” and Asian Patent Trolls Are Desirable
  • 03.21.17 “Then They Came For Me—And There Was No One Left To Speak For Me.”
  • 03.21.17 Letter to Angela Merkel Expresses Concerns About Impact of EPO Scandals on Germany and Its Image
  • 03.21.17 At EPO “I Have the Feeling That Lowering Quality is Part of a Concerted Plan.”
  • 03.21.17 What the Patent Microcosm is Saying About the EPO and the UPC
  • 03.22.17 The EPO is Lying to Its Own Staff About ILO and Endless (Over 2 Years) EPO Mistrials
  • 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 Nepotism at the European Patent Office and Suspicious Absence of Tenders for Big Projects
  • 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
  • 03.25.17 Depressing EPO News: Attacks on Staff, Attacks on Life, Brain Drain, Patents on Life, Patent Trolls Come to Germany, and Spain Being Misled
  • 03.25.17 Judge and Justice Bashing in the United States, EPC Bashing at the EPO
  • 03.25.17 Looking for EPO Nepotism? Forget About Jouve and Look Closely at Europatis Instead.
  • 03.26.17 With IP Kat Coverage of EPO Scandals Coming to an End (Officially), Techrights and The Register Remain to Cover New Developments
  • 03.26.17 His Master’s Voice, Jesper Kongstad, Blocks Discussion of Investigative and Disciplinary Procedures at the EPO
  • 03.26.17 Heiko Maas and the State of Germany Viewed as Increasingly Complicit in EPO Scandals and Toxic UPC Agenda
  • 03.26.17 Thanks to Merpel, the World Knows EPO Scandals a Lot Better, But It’s a Shame That IP Kat Helped UPC
  • 03.26.17 EPO Critics Threatened by Self-Censorship, Comment Censorship, and a Growing Threat to Anonymity
  • 03.27.17 The EPO’s HR Roadmap Retrospective
  • 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
  • 03.28.17 A “Perfect Recipe for Fraud” at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 03.28.17 Techrights Was Right About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 03.29.17 Recognising the Death of Software Patents, Microsoft’s Largest Ally in India Belatedly Joins the Linux-Centric Open Invention Network
  • 03.30.17 EPO is a Laughing Stock in International Media This Week (Quality of Patents) After Decades-Long Reputation Building
  • 03.30.17 Leaked: Meeting in Secret, Jesper Kongstad-Led Council Decides EPO Judge is Guilty Until Proven Innocent
  • 03.30.17 Deconstructing the Latest ‘Damage Control’ From Team UPC Amid Demise of Unitary Patent Pipe Dreams
  • 03.31.17 EPO Likes to Pretend to be Tolerated in Spite of Patenting Life, Seeds, Plants and More
  • 03.31.17 In Spite of Confirmation, Uncertainty and Doubt Still Being Cast on Michelle Lee’s USPTO Leadership (by Her Opponents)
  • 04.01.17 Bristows UPC Delusions Are Back, Attempting to Distract From Bad News (UPC Isn’t Happening)
  • 04.01.17 ‘Managing IP’ (MIP) is Seeding UPC Optimism Based on Nothing Concrete
  • 04.01.17 The ‘New’ (Nouvel) Building of the EPO Has Dark (and Potentially Fiery) Secrets
  • 04.01.17 Bad Patent Quality (and Software Patents) Good for Patent Law Firms and Trolls, But Not for Anybody Else
  • 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
  • 04.02.17 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)
  • 04.04.17 Reign of Fear (Even Terror) at EPO Prevents People From Speaking About Injustices
  • 04.05.17 Is Bristows UPC Falsifying UK-IPO Quotes or Just Using Informal Words to Lobby for the Unitary Patent (UPC)?
  • 04.06.17 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
  • 04.07.17 IP Kat or IP Troll? IP2Innovate Warns That UPC Would Help Patent Trolls While IP Kat Promotes UPC
  • 04.09.17 Caricature: EPO President and the EPC
  • 04.09.17 The Latest on the Collapse of the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 04.09.17 Lying Has Become the Norm When It Comes to the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 04.09.17 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
  • 04.10.17 IAM ‘Magazine’ in a Campaign to Destroy India’s IT Industry and Help Patent Trolls There
  • 04.11.17 The European Patent Office Has Entered a Dark Era of Anti-Science and Fake ‘Research’
  • 04.11.17 Institutional Corruption in the US Patent System Leaves the Door Open to Meddling and Foul Play by the Patent Microcosm
  • 04.11.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) is Stuck as the “British Are Hesitant in UPC Ratification,” According to New Report
  • 04.12.17 It’s Not Natural for the European Patent Office to Make Nature Patentable
  • 04.13.17 Awful Quality of EPO-Granted European Patents (EPs) Becomes a Mainstream Topic
  • 04.14.17 The Gradual Fall If Not Sudden Collapse of Patent Trolls Associated With Microsoft
  • 04.14.17 No, Bristows, UPC Won’t Happen Just Because You Mislead About It
  • 04.19.17 The Patent Microcosm Keeps Attacking Every Patent Office/System That is Doing the Right Thing
  • 04.19.17 Another Final Nail in the UPC Coffin: UK General Election
  • 04.20.17 Bristows-Run IP Kat Continues to Spread Lies to Promote the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Advance the EPO Management’s Agenda
  • 04.21.17 Expect Team UPC to Remain in Deep Denial About the Unitary Patent/Unified Court (UPC) Having No Prospects
  • 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 EPO Staff Representatives Fired Using “Disciplinary Committee That Was Improperly Composed” as Per ILO’s Decision
  • 04.23.17 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part IX: Testament to the Fear of an Autocratic Regime
  • 04.23.17 Why Authorities in the Netherlands Need to Strip the EPO of Immunity and Investigate Fire Safety Violations
  • 04.26.17 Blog ‘Takeovers’ by Bristows and Then Censorship: Now This Firm Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Then Deletes Comments That Point Out the Errors
  • 04.27.17 China’s Suffering From Patent Maximalism Has Europe Forewarned
  • 04.27.17 The Latest Expensive PR Blitz of the EPO, Led by Jana Mittermaier and Rainer Osterwalder Under the ‘European Inventor Award’ Banner
  • 04.29.17 Patent Snake Oil From Brunel University London and PatentDive
  • 04.30.17 Alice">High Courts in the United States Still Neither Grappling/Interfering With PTAB Nor Overturning Alice
  • 04.30.17 Unified Patent Propaganda Courtesy of a Cabal of Firms That Constructed the UPC
  • 05.01.17 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part X: When EPO Calls the Truth “Defamation”
  • 05.02.17 At IAM Event in Korea, Patent Trolls in the Panels and Advocacy of Software Patents From the EPO
  • 05.04.17 The EPO’s Administrative Council (AC) is “Amazingly Complicit” or “Awfully Compliant” (Like Much of the Media and Much of the System)
  • 05.04.17 Latest WIPO Scandal, Echoing EPO Scandals, Demonstrates Freedom of the Press Coming Under Attack From International Patent Institutions
  • 05.06.17 Translations and Speculations About Jesper Kongstad’s Planned Departure From the EPO
  • 05.07.17 ILO Gives the European Patent Office Unfair Advantage in Disputes With Staff
  • 05.08.17 Death of ‘IP’ Media: Front Groups of Microsoft Described as “Representing SME Developers” by Bristows
  • 05.08.17 The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) Against the European Patent Office (EPO), Lower House to Debate the Issue Today
  • 05.08.17 All Members of the European Parliament Get Warned About the Deterioration at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 05.09.17 (Almost) Live Blog From Today’s Debate About the EPO in Dutch Parliament (Updated)
  • 05.09.17 ‘European Media Intervention Award’ (EIA), EPO Censorship, Self-Censorship, and Paid ‘Media Partners’
  • 05.09.17 SUEPO Releases Statement About Its Complaint Regarding the EPO’s Immunity, Filed Yesterday at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg
  • 05.10.17 English-Speaking Media Catches Up With Latest Twists in EPO Fiasco, Including Appeal to the European Court of Human Rights
  • 05.10.17 English-Speaking Media Catches Up With Latest Twists in EPO Fiasco, Including Appeal to the European Court of Human Rights
  • 05.10.17 Team UPC Still Twists and Fabricates Statements to Make It Seem Like Unitary Patent is Happening Soon
  • 05.11.17 The Sickness of the EPO – Part IX: Using Confidential Medical Records as a Weapon Against Staff
  • 05.11.17 The EPO is in Disarray and Additional Complaints to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) May Be Imminent
  • 05.11.17 By Promoting the UPC, in Defiance of Public Will, the EPO Has Become Patent Trolls’ Best Friend
  • 05.12.17 The European Patent Office Has a Long History/Track Record of ‘Screwing’ Contractors
  • 05.14.17 The US Supreme Court Consults USPTO Director Michelle Lee Regarding the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Which is Invalidating Software Patents With CAFC’s Approval
  • 05.20.17 EPO: Can the Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) Still Save It?
  • 05.21.17 Media and Staff Association Elections at EPO and WIPO Are Compromised
  • 06.05.17 EPO Workers May be About to Go on Strike Again
  • 06.10.17 The US Supreme Court Stops Software Patents While They Spread Elsewhere in the World
  • 06.11.17 German Media Would Rather Write Articles About Beer Than About Serious and Unprecedented EPO Scandals
  • 06.11.17 European Patent Office May Become Just a Mirage of Examination Office, Much Like INPI (France)
  • 06.11.17 The British Election May Have Just ‘Killed’ the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 06.12.17 Is the EPO Pushing Prepared ‘Articles’ (Ghostwriting) Through Shepard Fox Communications?
  • 06.12.17 The EPO is Committing Suicide by Granting Invalid Patents That No Recipient Should Ever Desire
  • 06.12.17 German Barrier to the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Bound to Bring the Insidious Plans to a Halt
  • 06.12.17 Technical Incompetence at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 06.13.17 In Spite of Censorship by IP Kat, Issues Associated With UPC Had Become Apparent, Even Before Germany Halted Ratification
  • 06.13.17 A Massive Proponent of UPC, CIPA, Enters IP Kat, as Readers Call Out Stacked UPC ‘Panels’
  • 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 Caricature: Balance of Justice at the European Patent Office
  • 06.14.17 Even UPC Proponents, Paid by the EPO’s PR Firm, Admit That UPC May Never Happen
  • 06.15.17 EPO Management Wastes Millions of Euros on a Silly, Gratuitous, Self-Serving Festival While EPO Staff is Planning Another Strike
  • 06.15.17 Software Patents in Europe Are Still Promoted by the EPO, Even in Defiance of the Ban
  • 06.16.17 Leaked: European Patent Office Still Uses Microsoft Windows XP… in 2017
  • 06.17.17 European Patent Office (EPO) Whistleblowing Guidelines
  • 06.20.17 Contact Details for the EPO’s Administrative Council Delegations
  • 06.20.17 Another Suicide Reported at the EPO While the Paid-for Media Focuses on ‘European Inventor Award’ Charade
  • 06.20.17 Don’t Forget to Vote for EPO Strike This Week (Thursday)
  • 06.21.17 EPO’s Elodie Bergot Calls Staff Suicide Just ‘Passing Away’, Pretends to Care
  • 06.22.17 You Know That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is in Huge Peril When Its Biggest Fans Admit It’s Unlikely to Happen Even Next Year
  • 06.23.17 Workers of the European Patent Office (EPO) Are Going on Strike Again, Almost 90% Voted in Favour
  • 06.24.17 Potential Targets of European Patent Office (EPO) Whistleblowing
  • 06.24.17 The STRONGER Patents Act is One Among Several New Pushes for Patent Chaos in the United States
  • 06.24.17 The Tide Has Turned Against the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and It Finally Looks as ‘Alive’ as TPP
  • 06.25.17 Systemic Injustice at the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Causes Serious Harm to Complainants’ Health, Including EPO Complainants
  • 06.25.17 The US Patent Office (USPTO) Should Now be Headed by Drew Hirshfeld, a Patent Examiner Who Rose to the Top, Not a Lawyer Like Joseph Matal
  • 06.25.17 Wouter Pors Under Fire for Lying or Manipulating in the Name of the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 06.26.17 Latest EPO Caricature: Staff Committee Maintains Integrity
  • 06.26.17 EPO Strikes in All Four EPO Sites for Two Days This Month and Next Month, Under the “Respect Staff” Banner
  • 06.28.17 Ignore the Press Releases and Puff Pieces, the EPO is Going on Strikes
  • 06.28.17 Bristows LLP is Still Trying to Attach Wings to the UPC and Distract From Serious (Likely Fatal) Barriers to It
  • 06.29.17 Feedback From the Administrative Council Meeting at The Hague: Worse Than Anyone Expected
  • 06.29.17 European Patent Office is on Strike Until Tuesday and Insiders Study the New Head of the Organisation
  • 06.29.17 Lack of Patent Quality at the EPO Already Leads to the Axing of Many European Patents (EPs) in Bulk
  • 06.29.17 The UPC’s Figurehead, Alexander Ramsay, Admits UPC is Stuck, Bristows LLP Comes Up With ‘Alternative Facts’
  • 06.30.17 Former ‘Kats’ Debunk IP Kat (Bristows) on Unitary Patent, Insisting It May Even be Dead
  • 07.01.17 The Future of the EPO Does Not Look Encouraging as Injustice and Abuse Carry On While the Press Looks the Other Way
  • 07.02.17 The Decline in Patent Quality at the European Patent Office (EPO) Already Causes Mass Abandonment of Patents
  • 07.03.17 India Has No Software Patents “Per Se” Just Like Europe Has No Software Patents “As Such”
  • 07.03.17 4 Days of Strike in a Row (Including Weekend), But Tomorrow is No Independence Day at the EPO
  • 07.03.17 4 Days of Strike in a Row (Including Weekend), But Tomorrow is No Independence Day at the EPO
  • 07.05.17 Death Trap: The ‘New’ (Nouvel) Building of the EPO
  • 07.06.17 Weeks Later, British Media Writes About British EPO Worker That Committed Suicide and the Administrative Council’s ‘Coverup’
  • 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 EPO Plans to Replace Examiners With Software, Yielding Poor Results
  • 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
  • 07.08.17 The EPO Goes on a Greenwashing PR Campaign After Granting Patents on Life, Seeds, Plants and Genome
  • 07.08.17 Patent Trolls Are Still a Problem, But Microsoft Remains One of the Biggest Patent Trolls (Non-Practicing in Mobile)
  • 07.08.17 On the EPO’s Premises, Investigation After a Small Fall But Not After Suicide of Staff
  • 07.10.17 Subtle Shaming of EPO Staff by EPO Management Earlier Today
  • 07.10.17 Lobbying Against the US Supreme Court’s Landmark Decision (Alice) by Bristows, IBM, David Kappos, IPO, ABA, AIPLA, Adam Mossoff and Kevin Madigan
  • 07.13.17 Status and Potency of European Patents Compromised
  • 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
  • 07.22.17 Lack of Independence of the Boards of Appeal at the European Patent Organisation (EPO) a Fatal Blow for the UPC
  • 07.22.17 Patent Troll MPEG-LA Expands From Software Patents to Patents on Life While USPTO is Virtually Headless
  • 07.25.17 How the EPO’s Terrible Decisions May Implicate the Government of Germany and Lufthansa
  • 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)
  • 07.27.17 Value of European Patents (EPs) is Diminishing, EPs Get Invalidated, and EPO Insiders Bemoan the Management’s Lies About Patent Quality
  • 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?
  • 08.01.17 Heiko Maas May Need to Belatedly Answer Complaint About Illegal Spying on Staff at the EPO
  • 08.01.17 90% of WIPR Readers Give Up Hope on Unitary Patent (UPC) in the UK, But Team UPC Keeps Lying About It
  • 08.02.17 EPO: Germans “Discover That Behind the Mad Figures, the Granted Patents Are of Crap Quality and That This Does Not Serve Their Interests”
  • 08.02.17 Vultures of the Financial World Are Ruining the Patent System
  • 08.03.17 Antonio Campinos in Charge of the EPO Would Mean Greater EUIPO/EPO Overlap
  • 08.03.17 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part II: Andrej Matijević and Željko Topić
  • 08.03.17 High Cost of Erroneous Patent Grants
  • 08.04.17 The Next President of the EPO May Also be French and Without Background in Science
  • 08.05.17 Professor Siegfried Broß Has a Long New Article About the EPO
  • 08.07.17 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part VII: Immunity for Topić (EPO VP4) Just When He Really Needed It
  • 08.08.17 Adobe Speaks Out Against Patent Maximalism and Software Patents Are on the Retreat
  • 08.08.17 EPO Already Thinks It’s the UPC (Which Will Likely Never Happen)
  • 08.09.17 Sinking Patent Quality at the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO)
  • 08.09.17 When It Comes to Software Patents, the EPO Has Become Among the Worst in the World
  • 08.11.17 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part X: In Closing
  • 08.12.17 The Corruption of the European Patent Office and CIPO’s (Canada) Participation in This
  • 08.15.17 The EPO is Paying Journalists For Trips Abroad and May be Buying Fake Twitter Followers (Still)
  • 08.15.17 The Collapse of Patent Quality at the EPO is Inviting to Europe Some of the World’s Worst Patent Trolls
  • 08.18.17 The Staff Union of the EPO Has Long Warned About Declining Patent Quality
  • 08.18.17 The EPO’s Management Needs a Perception of Security Crisis
  • 08.20.17 Quality of European Patents Has Sunk, Value Diminished
  • 08.22.17 Bristows LLP Tries Hard to Maintain the Illusion That UPC is Alive, Using Media Placements and Paid Plugs
  • 08.23.17 UPC Hopefuls (Litigation Firms) Come to Life Amid Unitary Patent EPO Text, But Nothing New to See Here
  • 08.25.17 At EPO, “Producing Stronger Patents (or Being Able to Produce Them) is Also a Matter of Professional Pride for the Examiners”
  • 08.27.17 How Much Longer Can Guy Ryder and Claude Rouiller Ignore Abuses and Cement Injustice at the EPO?
  • 08.29.17 Hiring of German Judges for UPC Has Been Halted as the Future of UPC as a Whole Now in Doubt
  • 08.31.17 EPO Silencers of the Media – Part II: EPO-Funded Vice-President Topić Has Ongoing SLAPP Cases
  • 08.31.17 The Dark Side of WIPO and Attempts to Suppress Information Mirror the EPO’s Tactics
  • 08.31.17 Trump’s USPTO Nominee is a Supporter of Software Patents
  • 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
  • 09.03.17 EPO Silencers of the Media – Part IV: Response to SLAPP Tactics From EPO Vice-President Željko Topić
  • 09.03.17 What Germany and the EPO Could (and Should) Learn From Australia About Patent Scope
  • 09.05.17 EPO Silencers of the Media – Part V: Jadranka Oklobdžija Versus EPO Vice-President Topić
  • 09.05.17 Today, Koen Lievens From EPO is Promoting Pursuits of Software Patents in Defiance of the European Rules
  • 09.05.17 Deepening EPO Crisis and a New Report Titled “EPO Patent Filing a Rigged Game in Europe”
  • 09.06.17 Juve Reveals That Ingve Stjerna is the ‘UPC Slayer’ While the EPO Continues to Lobby, Mislead
  • 09.07.17 SUEPO Protests Against the Apparent Complicity of ILO in EPO Abuses
  • 09.10.17 The EPO Has Become a Stasi and Newly-Recruited Staff Are Its Informants
  • 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 “Reprehensible” Judge Rodney Gilstrap Ignores the Supreme Court of the United States
  • 09.11.17 EPO Guest Article: “Pope” Benoît Refuses to Recognise Reformation Day 2017!
  • 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
  • 09.17.17 Citing the European Patent Convention, Spanish Court Tosses Lawsuit With EPO-Granted European Patent
  • 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
  • 09.21.17 UPC Threatens to Weaponise Software Patents in Countries That Forbade These
  • 09.22.17 Intellectual Ventures, GNU/Linux/Android/FOSS Patents, and the Ascent of European Patent Trolls
  • 09.22.17 The EPO’s Latest Lies About the UPC and SMEs Unraveled, Long-Term Plan Described as Daunting
  • 09.24.17 Fake News About Software Patents in the United States
  • 09.24.17 PTAB Supreme Court Case (Oil States) is a Case of Patent Parasites Versus the Producing Industry
  • 09.26.17 EPO Lies About the UPC, Violations of Human Rights, and ‘Green’ European Patents
  • 09.27.17 EPO Now a Megaphone of IP Europe, a Front Group of Patent Maximalists
  • 09.28.17 The EPO Continues to Lie About the UPC and About SMEs, Even Several Times Per Day Now
  • 09.28.17 The Effects of ILO and the EPO on Disability
  • 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
  • 10.02.17 The Software Patents/Litigation Industry is Dying in the United States and China Takes This Heavy Burden
  • 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
  • 10.08.17 Depressing State of Affairs at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 10.09.17 EPO Protest at 12:30 in Munich and Why EPO Staff Should Attend
  • 10.10.17 Judge Cuno Tarfusser Wants to Become the Next EPO President
  • 10.11.17 With Surveillance Recruits at the EPO, Are (or Were) DNA Tests Ever on the Agenda?
  • 10.12.17 Truly Terrible ‘Journalism’ About António Campinos Boils Down to Lobbying and Agenda-Pushing
  • 10.14.17 Lying and Faking Now a Standard Procedure at the European Patent Office
  • 10.14.17 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Rotting Like the European Patent Office
  • 10.15.17 Articles in English and German Speak About the Decline in Quality of European Patents (Granted by the EPO)
  • 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 EPO Stakeholders Complain That the New Chairman Does Not Grasp the Issues at the EPO (or Denies These)
  • 10.18.17 Patent Firms From the United States Try Hard to Push the Unitary Patent (UPC), Which Would Foment Litigation Wars in Europe
  • 10.18.17 The Darker Past of the Next President of the EPO – Part I: Introduction
  • 10.18.17 Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) Willing to Work With Campinos But Foresees Difficulties
  • 10.19.17 The Darker Past of the Next President of the EPO – Part II: António Campinos at Banco Caixa Geral de Depósitos
  • 10.19.17 SUEPO to the Media, Regarding Campinos: “No Comment, It’s Too Dangerous”
  • 10.19.17 Juve Has Confirmed That António Campinos is French
  • 10.19.17 António Campinos: A True EPO Reformer or More of the Same?
  • 10.19.17 The Spanish Supreme Court Rejects the EPO’s “Problem and Solution Approach” While Quality of European Patents Nosedives
  • 10.21.17 In the United States, the Patent ‘Industry’ is a Dying Breed and China Adopts This Destructive Force
  • 10.21.17 US Patents Appeal Board Attacked by the Patent ‘Industry’, Defended by Federal Courts, and Dodged by Patent Trolls
  • 10.22.17 Management by Intimidation Has Caused Deaths at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 10.22.17 The Darker Past of the Next President of the EPO – Part IV: Links Between CGD (Former Employer of António Campinos) and the INPI
  • 10.22.17 The Darker Past of the Next President of the EPO – Part IV: Links Between CGD (Former Employer of António Campinos) and the INPI
  • 10.22.17 Speaking of “Social Democracy” While Suffering Extreme Democratic Deficiency
  • 10.22.17 The EPO No Longer Measures Quality of Patents; Instead It Publishes Fake Statistics
  • 10.23.17 IP Kat Participates in Deletion of Information About EPO Scandals
  • 10.23.17 In the European Patent Office, One Gets Rewarded for Mentally Torturing (‘Interrogating’) Staff
  • 10.23.17 SUEPO Has Just Warned That Patent Quality at the EPO is About to Get Even Worse
  • 10.24.17 What If Lionel Baranes Was EPO President?
  • 10.24.17 Freedom of Expression is Dying Not Only at the EPO But Also Outside the EPO (Media Coverage of the EPO)
  • 10.25.17 IP Kat Admits It Was Its Own Choice to Censor (Delete) Many Comments About the European Patent Office
  • 10.26.17 The EPO is Breaking the Law and Its Employees Cannot Speak About It (Updated)
  • 10.26.17 Big Blow for the Unitary Patent (UPC) as Even Patent Professionals Say “It’s Dead”
  • 10.26.17 Professor Siegfried Broß Again Complains About the Situation at the EPO and Issues With the UPC
  • 10.28.17 French Politician Claudine Lepage Confronts the EPO Again, Mentions the Hague Court
  • 10.28.17 The Financial Handling of the EPO is Incredibly Scandalous
  • 10.28.17 Patent Scope in Europe Should Not be Decided by the Self-Serving Patent Law Firms, But They Totally Dominate the Media
  • 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
  • 10.30.17 The Diminishing Value of European Patents (EPs)
  • 11.02.17 UPC is Collapsing, But Bristows LLP is Pushing Propaganda Into the Media, Which Gives Misleading News
  • 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
  • 11.08.17 Jacques Michel’s EUROPATIS and Questel at EPOPIC Event, Which EPO Uses for Lobbying Purposes
  • 11.08.17 Kluwer Patent Blog is Down/Sabotaged, But UPC and EPO Spin Carries on in Other Sites
  • 11.09.17 Administrative Council of the EPO is Concerned That the Office is Largely German and Male, Recruitment Bar Has Fallen
  • 11.09.17 The EPO in the Hands of Politicians Who Serve Their Towns Rather Than Users of the EPO
  • 11.09.17 Consensus Around the High Likelihood That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead and Backlash Against Deniers of It
  • 11.11.17 Next EPO President Will Continue a Cooperation Which Does Not Exist
  • 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
  • 11.13.17 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 The EPO is Now Corrupting Academia, Wasting Stakeholders’ Money Lying to Stakeholders About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 11.15.17 Declines in Patent Quality at the EPO and ‘Independent’ Judges Can No Longer Say a Thing
  • 11.16.17 EPO Continues to Disobey the Law on Software Patents in Europe
  • 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 The European Patent Office Has Become the ‘Foxconn’ of Patent Offices
  • 11.25.17 EPO Becoming Like China is Something to Worry About, Not Something to Celebrate
  • 11.25.17 Raw: The EPO’s Elodie Bergot Suppressed Staff Representation While Cracking Down on Staff’s Rights
  • 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 Raw: Stacking the Deck to Interfere With a Fair Election at the EPO
  • 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 Patently-O is Still Trying to Derail Patent Reform in the United States
  • 11.28.17 EPO Budget (Users’ Money) Has Been Corrupting Media and Academia
  • 11.28.17 Pressure is Growing for Christoph Ernst to Stop Destruction of Career System Ahead of Arrival of Campinos as EPO President
  • 11.28.17 EPO is Already Going ‘Dark’ Like in China
  • 11.28.17 French Stress Levels at the EPO and Replacement of Patent Quality With ‘Autopilot’ (Like INPI, France)
  • 11.29.17 EPO Spreads Two Lies Today, One About Patent ‘Production’ and Another About ‘Quality’
  • 11.30.17 ILO is About to Publish “Exceptional” Decisions, Most of Them Regarding the EPO
  • 11.30.17 EPO’s Minnoye “Pushed for Quick Searches and Quick Grants, With the Result That Every Recent File Was De Facto Dealt With Under PACE.”
  • 11.30.17 EPO Fiasco Deepens While the Media Writes Puff Pieces About the EPO
  • 12.01.17 Irish Media Coverage of the EPO
  • 12.02.17 The European Patent Office No Longer Acts Like a Patent Office But a Prosecutor
  • 12.03.17 Guest Post: Free Dental Care in BRD (Banana Republik Deutschland)
  • 12.04.17 Raw: The EPO’s Pattern of Using “Security” as Pretext for Ban on Protests
  • 12.05.17 Unified Patent Court (UPC) is “Fata Morgana”
  • 12.06.17 CEIPI and EPO: The Story So Far
  • 12.07.17 Less Than 24 Hours Later the EPO Already Refuses to Obey Court Orders From ILO (Updated)
  • 12.07.17 ILO Said Give the Judge His Job Back, But Christoph Ernst’s Administrative Council Will Likely Let Him Go (Unemployed)
  • 12.08.17 Antonius Tangena From the European Patent Institute (EPI) ‘Aids’ Željko Topić’s Appointment at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 12.08.17 European Media Covers the Latest EPO Scandal and the EPO’s Refusal to Obey Orders of a Court
  • 12.08.17 EPO Scandal Spills Over to Irish Media, So It’s Time for the Backstory
  • 12.08.17 SUEPO Announces Protest, EPO Distracts From the Scandal, and Readers Spill the Beans
  • 12.11.17 Judge Corcoran Turns to His Government for Help and EPO ‘House Ban’ is Finally Lifted
  • 12.12.17 Carl Josefsson Lets Judge Patrick Corcoran Come Back to Work at the EPO
  • 12.12.17 German Media Helps Cover Up — Not Cover — the Latest EPO Scandal
  • 12.12.17 The EPO Protest Tomorrow Isn’t Just About Judge Corcoran But About the EPO as a Whole
  • 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
  • 12.16.17 EPO Busy Distracting From Miscarriage/Abuse of Justice at the EPO (Both Office and Organisation)
  • 12.17.17 The EPO Has Found ‘Creative’ New Ways to Bribe the Media and Promote Software Patents
  • 12.17.17 Raw: At the EPO “Social Democracy” is Actually a Euphemism for Authoritarian Regime
  • 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 Bavarian Regional Parliament Talks About the EPO’s Outrageous Decisions to Simply Disregard International Courts
  • 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 Dr. Siegfried Broß Says UPC is in Constitutional and Democratic Grey Area, Abuses at the European Patent Office Contribute to That
  • 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 Patent Quality Nosedives at EPO, Say Insiders Whose Permanent Contract is About to be Terminated in 8 Days to Increase Pressure to Grant Patents Sparingly
  • 12.23.17 “Change of Attitude and Behaviour Needed,” Say Anonymous EPO Workers About the Management and Administrative Council
  • 12.25.17 Raw: French-Led EPO Gives Air France Non-Exclusive Contract for All Staff Flights (Even Though EPO Lacks Branches in France)
  • 12.25.17 Raw: PEACES Initiative of the Staff Union of the EPO
  • 12.25.17 Patent Justice Deficit Disorder
  • 12.25.17 Raw: SUEPO Connected the Unitary Patent (UPC) to Abuses at the European Patent Office
  • 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)
  • 12.26.17 Raw: Administrative Council of the EPO Was Warned 4 Years Ago About “Governance and Overall Reputation of the Organisation.”
  • 12.26.17 Raw: EPO Had Sent to Staff Representatives Threatening Letters Similar to the Ones Sent to Techrights
  • 12.26.17 Raw: “The EPO is Redefining the Words “Social” and “Democracy”.”
  • 12.26.17 Raw: EPO Paving the Way to Overstressed Patent Examiners and Decreased Patent Quality
  • 12.27.17 The Unitary Patent is Dying or Dead, But Team UPC Might Rebrand Again and Reattempt
  • 12.28.17 Raw: Collective Accountability for Staff Committees Over Anonymous Letters?
  • 12.28.17 Raw: EPO ‘Democracy’ With No Separation of Powers and No Access to Justice
  • 12.28.17 Raw: Bergot and Topić Sent Threats to Hundreds of EPO Staff as Far Back as Half a Decade Ago
  • 12.28.17 Raw: LIFER Strike at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 12.28.17 Raw: EPO Stonewalled Staff Committee, Failing to Reply to About 30 Letters in Succession
  • 12.28.17 UPC IT Working Group is Chasing Rainbows and Unicorns
  • 12.28.17 EPO Remains in Defiance or Violation of ILO Rulings as Corcoran Contract Ends in 3 Days
  • 12.28.17 Raw: European Patent Office’s Willy Minnoye Interferes With Discussion of EPO Policies
  • 12.29.17 European Patent Office Works With Blue Coat Systems, Enabler of Authoritarian Regimes
  • 12.29.17 Raw: EPO Compared to Thatcherism Amid Suppression of Bargaining/Strikes
  • 12.29.17 Another Option for EPO Whistleblowers
  • 12.29.17 Raw: Željko Topić Tries to Defend an Illegal Suppression of Labour Rights
  • 12.30.17 Raw: International Labour Organisation on Incredible (and Unsuitable/Inadequate) Promotions at the European Patent Office
  • 12.31.17 Raw: EPO Was Forewarned About the Investigative Unit (IU) Turning Against Law-Abiding Dissent Using Illegal Surveillance
  • 12.31.17 Raw: Circular Decision-Making as Consultation at the EPO Done by Same Party That Suggests and Approves Changes
  • 01.01.18 Raw: Central Staff Committee Explains the Upper Limb Disorder (ULD) Crisis at the EPO
  • 01.01.18 How Institut International des Brevets (IIB), INPADOC and Other Historic Endeavours Relate to EPO and DG1/DG2
  • 01.01.18 Raw: EPO Violates ILO Rulings by Denying the Consultation Process Access to Vital Information
  • 01.01.18 Raw: The EPO’s Disregard for Christmas and New Year’s Days Off
  • 01.01.18 Raw: Separation of Powers Obliterated by EPO President and Vice-Presidents
  • 01.02.18 2018 Starts at the EPO and Both EPC and UPC Are in State of Crisis
  • 01.03.18 EPO Management Claims “Higher Quality Patents” and Everyone at the EPO Knows That It’s a Face-Saving Lie
  • 01.03.18 Job Applicants at the EPO Disappointed, Reference Made in Interview to Slavery
  • 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 Staff of the EPO Has Had No Concrete Participatory Role at the EPO for at Least 7 Years
  • 01.06.18 The European Patent Office Suffers an Unprecedented Patent Quality Crisis Reminiscent of the World’s Worst Offices
  • 01.06.18 Sane Responses to the Latest Pressure From Team UPC Amid Brexit Negotiations
  • 01.07.18 China’s Self-Destructive Patent Policy Will Replace Assembly Lines of Products With Assembly Lines of Low-Quality Patents and Lawsuits
  • 01.08.18 How the Creation of a Role for ‘Chief Information Officer’ at the EPO Came About
  • 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
  • 01.10.18 Jo Johnson’s Departure is Another Major Blow for Team UPC (Unified Patent Court)
  • 01.11.18 126th Session of the ILO Administrative Tribunal is Around the Corner and EPO Staff Representatives Will Have Their Cases Heard Soon
  • 01.14.18 2010: Blaming the Messenger (SUEPO) for Staff Unhappiness at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 01.14.18 Budget at the EPO Decided Before Consultation
  • 01.14.18 “Under the Intergovernmental EPC System It is Difficult to Speak of a Functional Separation of Powers”
  • 01.14.18 European Patent Office Causes Physical Harm to Employees, Then Fires Them
  • 01.16.18 EPO Management and Team UPC Carry on Lying About Unified Patent Court, Sinking to New Lows in the Process
  • 01.17.18 EPO Board of Appeal Has an Opportunity to Stop Controversial Patents on Life
  • 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
  • 01.19.18 The EPO Ignores This Week’s Decision Which Demonstrates Patent Scope Gone Awry; Software Patents Brought Up Again
  • 01.20.18 Patent Quality (Not Numbers) as an Asset: Oppositions, Appeals and Rejections at the EPO
  • 01.22.18 How the Opposition to CRISPR Patents at the EPO Sent Shockwaves Through the Industry
  • 01.23.18 Confidence in European Patents (EPs) is Eroding and Stakeholders Are Already Suffering
  • 01.23.18 Even More Uncertain a Future for the Independence of the EPO Boards of Appeal as Judge Corcoran Too Gets Sent to ‘Exile’
  • 01.24.18 CRISPR Patent Debacle Demonstrated That Opposition Divisions Do Their Job, But Also Highlighted Serious Deficiency in Patent-Granting Process
  • 01.25.18 The EPO is Already in Violation of ILO Rulings on Judge Corcoran
  • 01.25.18 Justice Still Elusive at the EPO and ILOAT, But a Glimmer of Hope Remains
  • 01.25.18 Sam Gyimah Replaced Jo Johnson More Than a Fortnight Ago, But Team UPC Has Ignored It Until Now
  • 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 Quality of Service and Quality of Patents at the EPO Are Both at Peril
  • 01.27.18 Patents on Life at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 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 ILO Has Once Again Let Down Labour at the EPO by Siding With Union Busters
  • 01.30.18 A Danish Company Has Just Collapsed Due to Patent Quality Issues at the EPO
  • 01.30.18 The Failure of ILO’s Administrative Tribunal Highlights Poor State of Justice in Europe and Worldwide
  • 01.31.18 Even Kluwer Patent Blog Decides to Comment on the EPO’s Bizarre Financial Behaviour
  • 01.31.18 Patent Justice at the EPO is as Bad as Justice for Workers
  • 01.31.18 The UPC/SEP/FRAND Lobby Has Resorted to Just Insulting the Opposition
  • 02.01.18 Too Much to Cover Up at the EPO, the UN, and UN Agencies
  • 02.03.18 The European Council Confirms That the Unitary/Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA) is “Outside the Legal Framework of the European Union”
  • 02.08.18 When INPI Met INPI and IAM Met the EPO
  • 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
  • 02.11.18 The Patent Litigation ‘Industry’ Celebrates Outcome of Berkheimer v HP, But It’s Not About § 101
  • 02.11.18 Pharma Patents Have Become Harder to Enforce, So IAM Together With the Patent Microcosm Sets Up Lobbying Events
  • 02.11.18 In Spite of Suppression Attempts, Resistance to UPC and EPO Tyranny Still Enters Kluwer Patent Blog
  • 02.11.18 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby, IAM, Does Puff Pieces for GE’s Patent Litigation Arm (Soon to Keynote IAM Event)
  • 02.13.18 Watch Out for Buzzwords That Are Used to Mask Patents on Software, Even in Europe
  • 02.13.18 EPO Opposition to CRISPR Patents Has Wide-Ranging and Far-Reaching Impact, But Mind Not the Lobbyists
  • 02.14.18 The EPO Now Censors the Central Staff Committee Like It Used to Censor SUEPO
  • 02.14.18 The EPO’s Paid Promotion of Software Patents Gets Patent Maximalists All Excited and Emboldened
  • 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 Bavarian State Parliament Has Upcoming Debate About Issues Which Can Thwart UPC for Good
  • 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
  • 02.15.18 The Latest Lies About Unitary Patent (UPC) and the EPO
  • 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
  • 02.20.18 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 Another Loud Warning From EPO Workers About the Decline of Patent Quality
  • 02.20.18 The Patent Microcosm’s Embrace of Buzzwords and False Marketing Strives to Make Patent Examiners Redundant and Patent Quality Extremely Low
  • 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
  • 02.22.18 As Expected, Bristows and Others Already Lying About UPC Status in Germany, But Doing This Anonymously (to Dodge Accountability for Lies)
  • 02.23.18 EPO Roundup: Low Profile, Employment Changes, Patent Trolls, Refusal to Obey Courts, and Animal Breeding Patents
  • 02.23.18 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Dead, But Spin From Team UPC is Now Abundant
  • 02.25.18 Changes Introduced by the EPO’s Administrative Council Made It Abundantly Clear That Separation of Powers Does Not Exist for Independence of Judges
  • 02.27.18 EPO Refuses to Admit that Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Dead, But It’s Boosting Others Who Are Lying About It for a Living
  • 03.01.18 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 Élodie Bergot Threatens Staff Representatives Who Spread Information About the EPO
  • 03.01.18 European Patent Office (EPO) in Chaos and Attempting to Silence the Staff Would Only Exacerbate Matters
  • 03.01.18 The UPC is Dead, But Team UPC is Lying to British Politicians in an Effort to Trick Them
  • 03.02.18 Élodie Bergot Meets Barbra Streisand: Here is the Letter the EPO’s Bergot is Trying Really Hard to Hide/Censor
  • 03.03.18 China’s Patent System is a Trade Barrier and a Legal Wall Preventing Fair Competition With the Communist Party of China (CPC)
  • 03.03.18 Next Week’s Annual Report From the EPO Will Say Nothing About Decline in Patent Quality
  • 03.03.18 EPO Annual Report Will Dominate the News Next Week, Whereas Unitary Patent (UPC) is a Goner
  • 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 The Right-Wing Alternative für Deutschland Opposes Unitary Patent (UPC), Just Like UKIP in Britain
  • 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 The European Patent Office (EPO) Ought to Lead in Patent Scope, Not Slide to the Bottom of the Pile
  • 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
  • 03.12.18 Doubt Over Independence of Judges at the EPO Clouds Reason in Deciding Regarding Patents on Life
  • 03.13.18 EPO Staff Union Organises Protest to Complain About Inability “of the Office to Recruit the Highly Qualified Staff it Needs.”
  • 03.13.18 Session in Bavaria to Discuss the Abuses of the European Patent Office Later Today
  • 03.13.18 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby (IAM) Already Pressures Andrei Iancu, Inciting a USPTO Director Against PTAB
  • 03.13.18 Willy Minnoye (EPO) Threatened Staff With Disabilities Said to Have Been Caused by the EPO Work Pressures
  • 03.15.18 Careful Not to Conflate UPC Critics With AfD or Anti-EU Elements
  • 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
  • 03.15.18 Monumental Effort to Highlight Decline in Quality of European Patents (a Quarter of Examiners Sign Petition in Spite of Fear), Yet Barely Any Press Coverage
  • 03.16.18 Deleted EPO Tweets and Promotion of Software Patents Amid Complaints About Abuse and Demise of Patent Quality
  • 03.17.18 The Patent ‘Printing Machine’ of the EPO Will Spawn Many Lawsuits and Extortions (Threats of Lawsuits), in Effect Taxing Europe
  • 03.17.18 Luxembourg Can Become a Hub of Patent Trolls If the EPO Carries on With Its ‘Reforms’, Even Without the UPC
  • 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
  • 03.18.18 China Has Become Very Aggressive With Patents
  • 03.19.18 Blocks and Paywalls Won’t Protect the Patent Trolls’ Lobby From Scrutiny/Fact-Checking
  • 03.19.18 News About Patents is Often Just Advertisements Composed Directly or Indirectly by Companies That Sell Patents and Patent Services
  • 03.19.18 Patent Maximalists Keep Coming Up With New Terms and Buzzwords to Bypass the Practical Ban on Software Patents
  • 03.22.18 Japan is Becoming Firmer on Patents, Whereas China Goes in the Opposite Direction
  • 03.23.18 The European Patent Office’s (EPO) Declining Patent Quality ‘Tackled’ by Making Appeals/Oppositions Harder and More Expensive
  • 03.25.18 Where Opposition to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB, AIA) Has Come From Over the Past Week If Not Year
  • 03.26.18 On Media Hype, Software Patents, and 35 U.S.C. § 101 Which Annuls Both
  • 03.29.18 Patent Quality, Not Quantity, is What Really Matters
  • 04.01.18 António Campinos Withdraws From Plan to Directly Run the EPO, Patent Office to be Run by Google ‘AI’ Instead
  • 04.01.18 EPO is Untrustworthy
  • 04.01.18 Anonymous USPTO Whistleblower Explained Internal Management Affairs Last Month
  • 04.03.18 ‘Patent Imperialism’ in the United States and China
  • 04.04.18 The European Patent Office (EPO) Will Need to Acknowledge It Has a Patent Quality Issue, Then Tackle It or Perish
  • 04.04.18 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Breaks More Records, This Time Number of Post-Grant Review Petitions
  • 04.05.18 ‘SIPO Europe’: More Low-Quality Patents at Lower Costs
  • 04.07.18 Patent Maximalists Against Patent Quality and Against the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Organisation (EPO)
  • 04.10.18 EPO in ‘Low Profile’ Mode, Only to be Mentioned in Relation to India’s Oil Drilling/Miners
  • 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
  • 04.14.18 Killing Patent Quality and Encouraging ‘Covert’ Software Patents Using the Buzzwords Du Jour
  • 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
  • 04.18.18 The EPO in 2018: Partnering With Saudi Arabia and Cambodia (With Zero European Patents)
  • 04.19.18 The Boards of Appeal at the European Patent Organisation (EPO) Complain That They Are Understaffed, Not Just Lacking the Independence They Depend on
  • 04.21.18 Short: EPO’s “Working Party for Quality” is to Quality What the “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” is to Democracy
  • 04.21.18 Short: EPO Explains to Examiners Why They Should and Apparently Can Grant Software Patents (in Spite of EPC)
  • 04.21.18 Short: Highly Misleading and Unscientific Graphics From the EPO for an Illusion of Growth
  • 04.22.18 The EPO is Dying and Those Who Have Killed It Are Becoming Very Rich in the Process
  • 04.22.18 Today’s European Patent Office Works for Patent Extremists and for Team UPC Rather Than for Europe or for Innovation
  • 04.22.18 Short: Just Keep Repeating the Lie (“Quality”) Until People Might Believe It
  • 04.22.18 Shelston IP Keeps Pressuring IP Australia to Allow Software Patents and Harm Software Development
  • 04.24.18 Patent Maximalists Step Things Up With Director Andrei Iancu and It’s Time for Scientists to Fight Back
  • 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)
  • 04.26.18 World IP Day, a Propaganda Opportunity for Patent Maximalists, is Becoming More About Feminism
  • 04.27.18 Sam Gyimah Did What Was Expected Since 2016, But Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Still Completely Stuck in Most Important Country and Is Not Compatible With Brexit
  • 04.28.18 Short: EPO Brags About EPO-Bribed Media Covering EPO-Funded ‘Study’
  • 04.28.18 In Protest of IP Kat No Longer Covering EPO Abuses, Märpel Rises in “R.I.P. Kat”
  • 04.28.18 New Zealand and India, Two Nations That Reject Software Patents, Are Still Besieged by Patent Law Firms
  • 04.28.18 British Technology News Sites Point Out the Absurdity of Ratifying UPC in the UK Amid Brexit
  • 04.28.18 The EPO Grants Software Patents Under the ‘CII’ Umbrella, Mass Litigation in Europe Already a Problem
  • 04.29.18 Short: Adding a Sense of Fear/Perceived Threat to the EPO With Number Plate Recognition (Surveillance)
  • 04.29.18 Even Vocal Proponents of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Admit That There Are ‘Holes’ in the Announcement From Sam Gyimah
  • 04.30.18 The European Patent System is Nowadays Based on a ‘Banana Republic’ Model
  • 05.01.18 People Are Belatedly Asking All Those ‘Awkward’ Questions About UPC and the Lies Told by Team UPC
  • 05.02.18 Not Enough Opposition/s to Wrongly-Granted European Patents
  • 05.03.18 The European Patent Office Has Become a Kakistocracy
  • 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)
  • 05.04.18 From Saint-Germain-en-Laye to Strasbourg, Even the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Might Side With Nicolas Sárközy’s Thug at the EPO
  • 05.06.18 Covering Software Patents For 12 Years
  • 05.07.18 Rumour: The European Patent Office Has Just ‘Done a Patrick Corcoran’ Again (Forced Removal)
  • 05.08.18 Forward Pharma an Example of the Devastating Effect of Granting Patents in Error — A Problem Appeal Boards Must Correct
  • 05.09.18 Barker Brettell is Wrong About Unified Patent Court (UPC) and the United Kingdom
  • 05.09.18 EPO Policy (Squashing Examination) is Already Crashing Stocks, Destroying Companies
  • 05.09.18 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Not Happening, But Kluwer Patent Blog Pretends It’s Already in Force
  • 05.10.18 EPO Scandals Are Far Worse Than FIFA’s (or Even Emissionsgate/Dieselgate), But Will European Media Belatedly Realise This?
  • 05.10.18 The EPO’s ‘Inventor Award’ Scam: Part I
  • 05.12.18 The EPO’s ‘Inventor Award’ Scam: Part II
  • 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 Alice/Section 101 is Fine Because Copyrights Already Cover Software and Patents Are Inadequate for Code
  • 05.13.18 EPO-Funded Propaganda for Software Patents Reaches as Far as East Asia and the EPO Then Brags About That
  • 05.15.18 The EPO Has Become Extremely Corrupt and Dishonest
  • 05.16.18 The EPO’s ‘Inventor Award’ Scam: Part III
  • 05.17.18 Today’s EPO Financially Rewards Abuses and Violations of the Law
  • 05.17.18 Rise in Patent Trolls’ Activity in Germany Noted Amid Declining Patent Quality at the EPO
  • 05.19.18 Aurélien Pétiaud’s ILO Case (EPO Appeal) an Early Sign That ILO Protects Abusers and Power, Not Workers
  • 05.19.18 LOT Network is a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
  • 05.20.18 The Attacks on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Have Lost Momentum and the Patent Microcosm Begrudgingly Gives Up
  • 05.20.18 António Campinos Will Push Toward a France-Based Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • 05.22.18 Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans”: Cautionary Tale for the EPO?
  • 05.22.18 Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans”: The Emperor’s New Investment Guidelines
  • 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
  • 05.23.18 EPO Validation in Former French Colonies That Have Zero European Patents
  • 05.23.18 Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans”: The Cautionary Tale of SIDRU and Its “Toxic Loans”
  • 05.24.18 Perpetuating the Big Lie That Unitary Patent (UPC) is About to Kick Off
  • 05.24.18 New EPO Caricature: The Rubber Stamp
  • 05.24.18 Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans”: The SIDRU “Toxic Loan” Débâcle and Criticism of Lamy From Local Opposition Groups
  • 05.25.18 EPO, a Longtime Privacy Offender, Uses General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Day to Lie to the Public
  • 05.25.18 The Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court (UPC): This Week’s Latest Spin and Lies
  • 05.26.18 Index for EPO and Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans” Series
  • 05.26.18 Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans”: The SIDRU “Toxic Loan” Débâcle a Case of “Take the Money and Run…”
  • 05.26.18 Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans”: Quo Vadis EPO?
  • 05.27.18 The Patent Extremists Resort to Trump-Styled China-Baiting in an Effort to Destroy US Patent Policy
  • 05.27.18 Software Patents Advocacy and UPC Lies Go Hand in Hand
  • 05.29.18 St. Germain’s “Système Lamy” and Its EPO Clone – Part 1: Rubber-stamp Committees and Secret Meetings
  • 05.29.18 St. Germain’s “Système Lamy” and Its EPO Clone – Part 2: Misinformation and Silencing of Dissent
  • 05.30.18 The European Patent Office: From Patent Maximalism to Corruption and Gerrymandering
  • 05.30.18 EUROCHAMBRES is an Echo Chamber of the Patent Litigation ‘Industry’ Hoping to Mislead the EU’s Competitiveness Council on UPC
  • 05.30.18 St. Germain’s “Système Lamy” and Its EPO Clone – Part 3: Shooting the Messengers and Defaming Opponents
  • 05.31.18 IP Kat is Still Acting as a Propaganda Front for UPC (and EU Software Patents) Lobbying by US-Based Front Groups
  • 05.31.18 Software Patents Are a Dying Breed of Patents Except in China (and Maybe EPO)
  • 06.02.18 The European Patent Office Dominates Media Coverage in the Form of Paid-For Puff Pieces, Suppresses Coverage About Corruption
  • 06.03.18 The Quality of Patents Really Matters Because Without It the Patents Will All Lose Value/Purpose
  • 06.03.18 Finnegan, IAM and Other Proponents of Patent Trolls Try to Dominate the Debate About Patent Scope and Oversight
  • 06.04.18 IAM and EPO Are Almost Inseparable
  • 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
  • 06.10.18 Everyone Talks About Apple’s Notorious Design Patents But Not About ‘Abstract’ European Patents Used Against Apple and Linux
  • 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 IPBC, a Patent Trolls-Funded Event of IAM, is Advancing the Attacks on Section 101/Alice
  • 06.13.18 Buzzwords and Three-Letter Acronyms Still Abused by the EPO to Grant a Lot of Patents on Algorithms
  • 06.15.18 The ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI) Hype, Propped Up by Events of the European Patent Office (EPO), is Infectious and It Threatens Patent Quality Worldwide
  • 06.15.18 In the United States the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, Which Assures Patent Quality, is Still Being Smeared by Law Firms That Profit From Patent Maximalism, Lawsuits
  • 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
  • 06.17.18 The Affairs of the USPTO Have Turned Into Somewhat of a Battle Against the Courts, Which Are Simply Applying the Law to Invalidate US Patents
  • 06.18.18 More Media Reports About Decline in Quality of European Patents (Granted by the EPO)
  • 06.18.18 Beware Team UPC’s Biggest Two Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 06.18.18 Diversity at the EPO
  • 06.19.18 The Decline in Patent Quality at the EPO Causes Frivolous Lawsuits That Only Lawyers Profit From
  • 06.19.18 Articles About a Unitary Patent System Are Lies and Marketing From Law Firms With ‘Lawsuits Lust’
  • 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 The ILO Tribunal: Is It Still Worthy of Our Trust?
  • 06.24.18 The Dangerous Adoption of Patents on Life and Nature
  • 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
  • 06.24.18 Patent Extremism — Like All Extremes — Leads to Bad Outcomes
  • 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)
  • 06.25.18 The EPO Seems to Have Corrupted ILO/ILO-AT Like It Corrupted the Media and Academia (Using ‘Toxic’ EPO Budget)
  • 06.26.18 Something is Clearly Wrong and Patently Defunct at ILO/ILO-AT (Updated)
  • 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
  • 06.27.18 Corruption at the EPO Should be a Subject Anybody Can Speak About, Even Insiders
  • 06.27.18 SUEPO and EPO Staff Respond to Yesterday’s ILO-AT Rulings on Malika Weaver, Ion Brumme, and Elizabeth Hardon
  • 06.29.18 WirtschaftsWoche Authors Articles About Corruption of 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
  • 06.29.18 Union Syndicale Fédérale: Apparently ILO Considered Kicking Out the EPO for Repeatedly Refusing and Failing to Obey the Law
  • 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)
  • 07.01.18 PTAB Agrees With Patent Examiners on Rejections of Applications Based on Alice/Section 101, But Watch Out for the Spin
  • 07.01.18 The EPO’s Attacks on Bloggers Other Than Me (and ILO-AT Being Utterly Unpredictable)
  • 07.01.18 Welcoming António Campinos, New President of the European Patent Office
  • 07.02.18 Asked by the Media Why European Inventor Award Was Held in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the EPO Refuses to Explain
  • 07.03.18 First Act of António Campinos: Pushing the Unconstitutional Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 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
  • 07.04.18 Staff Union of the EPO: “ILO-AT Remains Very Much an Employer’s Court” (Not Employees’)
  • 07.05.18 Abstract Ideas and Mental (Thoughts) Type of Claims Still Deemed Patent-Ineligible, Buzzwords Are Used Instead
  • 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…
  • 07.07.18 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 In Spite of Resistance From the Patent Microcosm the USPTO Strives to Improve Patent Quality
  • 07.09.18 Actions — Not Mere Words — Are Needed to Improve Patent Quality and Climate at the European Patent Office
  • 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’
  • 07.12.18 It’s Not About EPO ‘Backlog’ But About Faking ‘Production’ by Lowering Standards
  • 07.13.18 Weeks Later António Campinos Still in Noncompliance With the Courts (ILO’s Tribunal)
  • 07.13.18 Constitutionality and CJEU as Barriers, the UPC Agreement (UPCA) is Already Moot in the United Kingdom
  • 07.14.18 Number of Oppositions to Grants/Awards of European Patents at the EPO Has Skyrocketed, Based on Internal Data
  • 07.14.18 ‘Transaction’ Complete: Former EPO Executive From Belgium Takes the Seat of António Campinos at EU-IPO
  • 07.15.18 Cautionary Tale: ILO Administrative Tribunal Cases (Appeals) ‘Intercepted’ Under António Campinos
  • 07.15.18 IAM/Joff Wild May Have Become a de Facto Media Partner of the Patent Troll iPEL
  • 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 Yesterday’s Misleading News From Team UPC and Its Aspiring Management of the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • 07.18.18 IAM is Pushing SEPs/FRAND Agenda for Patent Trolls and Monopolists That Fund IAM
  • 07.19.18 Some US Patents’ Quality is So Low That There’s a Garden Clearance/Fire Sale
  • 07.19.18 Erosion of Patent Justice in Europe With Kangaroo Courts and Low-Quality European Patents
  • 07.22.18 Can Trade Secrets Litigation Replace (in Part) Patent Litigation?
  • 07.24.18 Under António Campinos the EPO’s Appeal Boards, Including the Enlarged Board of Appeal, Still Lack Independence
  • 07.25.18 As the Quality of European Patents Sinks António Campinos Must Heed China’s Warning, Not Copy SIPO/TIPO
  • 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
  • 08.02.18 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and Federal Circuit (CAFC) Both Smeared (Judge-Bashing Tactics) for Correctly Applying Patent Law as They See Fit
  • 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)
  • 08.04.18 António Campinos is Not Improving Patent Quality or Even the Social Climate at the EPO (False Promises)
  • 08.07.18 Racing to the Bottom, the António Campinos-Led EPO Continues to Promote Software Patents, Just Like China
  • 08.09.18 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement is Paralysed, So Team UPC is Twisting Old News
  • 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
  • 08.16.18 USPTO Craziness: Changing Rules to Punish PTAB Petitioners and Reward Microsoft for Corruption at ISO
  • 08.18.18 If David Chiles Turned the USPTO Into a ‘Microsoft Shop’ That Might Explain Three Days (or More) of Outages
  • 08.21.18 Admissibility of the Unitary Patent Constitutional Complaint Was Likely the Final Nail in the Coffin of the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • 08.25.18 The Unitary Patent (UPC) is Not Delayed; It’s Dead and Without Any Major Rework It Will Go Nowhere
  • 08.27.18 Stupid European Patent: Hairdressing Salon and Mobile Building for the Same
  • 08.30.18 António Campinos Already Implements a ‘Shadow’ Layoffs Method at the EPO
  • 08.30.18 Feeling Shut Out of the European Patent System, Team UPC Persists With Misleading Claims and Falsehoods
  • 09.01.18 Coming to Grips With the Fact That EPO Layoffs Are Already in Effect
  • 09.02.18 Eligibility Analysis Based on Section 101 Ought to Invalidate All Software Patents and Repel Further Applications
  • 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
  • 09.04.18 A Retreat From Patent Quality Means a Retreat of Patent Applicants
  • 09.05.18 EPO Has “Far Too High Production [sic Targets” Which “Deteriorates the Quality of Products [sic] Delivered”]
  • 09.05.18 CCIA Speaks Out and EFF Lashes Out at Andrei Iancu’s USPTO for Trying to Work Around the Law and Ignore Courts Because of Patent Maximalists’ Agenda
  • 09.06.18 ‘Reformist’ Campinos Seems to be Accelerating EPO Layoffs by Removing Without Warning Staff That’s Perceived as Not Loyal Enough
  • 09.07.18 CIPA and EPO, Two UPC Boosters, Get Together to Promote Software Patents in Spite of the EPC
  • 09.07.18 Election of New Vice-Presidents at EPO Seems Rigged, Say Insiders and Former Insiders
  • 09.07.18 IAM Media Engages in Trademark Violations While Trying to Misrepresent Free/Open Source Software in Relation to Software Patents
  • 09.08.18 35 U.S.C. § 101 Squashes Already-Granted US Patents, Europe Needs Post-Grant Appeals to Accomplish the Same Because EPO Grants Software Patents
  • 09.09.18 The Battle Over PTAB Determines the Fate of Patent Quality in the United States
  • 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
  • 09.13.18 EPO Seals Many Death Sentences With Acceptance of EP 2604620
  • 09.14.18 Max Planck Institute Pours More Water on the Dying Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 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
  • 09.15.18 The Max Planck Institute’s Determination on UPC’s (Unitary Patent) Demise is Only “Controversial” in the Eyes of Rabid Members of Team UPC
  • 09.16.18 IAM, Watchtroll and the EPO Still Spread the Mentality of Patent Maximalism
  • 09.18.18 The EPO Has Quit Pretending That It Cares About Patent Quality, All It Cares About is Quantity of Lawsuits
  • 09.22.18 EPO is Like a Patent Litigation (Without Actual Trial) Office, Not a Patent Examination Office
  • 09.22.18 Philippe Cadre From the French National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) Wants to Join António Campinos
  • 09.25.18 Technology Groups and Innovators Bemoan Attempts to Override the Courts to Promote Patent Maximalists’ Agenda by USPTO Director Andrei Iancu
  • 09.26.18 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
  • 10.03.18 More Patents Would Mean More Tax Evasion for Large Corporations and More Taxes/Duties on Society
  • 10.04.18 Europe is Getting Flooded With Software Patents, Repeating the Mistakes Made by the United States
  • 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
  • 10.07.18 The Era of Fake Patents (or Software Patents) is Upon Us
  • 10.08.18 U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Under Andrei Iancu Subjected to an Assault on Patent Quality
  • 10.09.18 António Campinos Makes Excuses for Granting European Patents on Software in Spite of the EPC
  • 10.11.18 New EPO Guidelines: Granting European Patents on Business Methods, Algorithms, Mental Acts and Other Abstract Stuff
  • 10.11.18 UPC Cowardice: Team UPC Uses Cloaks of Anonymity to Discredit Authors of Scholarly UPC Paper They Don’t Like
  • 10.13.18 Quality of Patents Granted by the EPO is Still Low and Nobody Will Benefit Except Lawyers, Jubilant Over Growing Lenience on Software Patents
  • 10.13.18 100 Days Into the Term of Campinos There is Already an EPO Suicide
  • 10.15.18 Corporate Media’s Failure to Cover Patents Properly and Our New Hosting Woes
  • 10.18.18 It’s Almost 2019 and Team UPC is Still Pretending Unitary Patent (UPC) Exists, Merely Waiting for Britain to Join
  • 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
  • 10.23.18 The EPO Under António Campinos Has Opened More Doors to Software Patents and Only Litigators Are Happy
  • 10.24.18 Pretty Revealing That EPO Management Promotes Software Patents and IP Kat Promotes Patent Trolls
  • 10.25.18 EPO: Software Patents Are Allowed, Just Say ‘AI’ in the Patent Applications and We’ll Compel Examiners to Grant
  • 10.26.18 The EPO is Trying to Make Software Patents Look and Feel ‘Healthy’
  • 10.26.18 On PTAB, Andrei Iancu is to the Patent Litigation Giants What Ajit Pai is to Big Telecom (Former Employers)
  • 10.28.18 The ITC Makes Embargo Using Almost-Expired Patents a Business Strategy of Intimidation and Harassment
  • 10.29.18 PTAB- And Court-Bashing USPTO Director Consistent With ‘Presidential’ Behaviour in Age of Donald Trump
  • 10.30.18 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Judges Oughtn’t Attend Patent Lawyers’ Echo Chamber Events Like the AIPLA Annual Meeting
  • 10.30.18 Team UPC Hijacks the Debate in the Media and in British Parliament
  • 11.01.18 António Campinos Continues to Conflate Speed With Quality
  • 11.01.18 Today the EPO Has Officially Lowered Patent Quality by Allowing Software Patents by Means of Dog Whistles
  • 11.04.18 EPO Granting European Patents on Nature and on Thoughts
  • 11.04.18 Law Firms Won’t Improve Patent Quality Because Quality in Patenting Limits Their Ability to Sue (Profit Irrespective of the Outcome)
  • 11.05.18 Blockchain Hype Exploited by the EPO and by Patent Law Firms to Wrongly Assert Free/Libre Software Can Coexist With Software Patents
  • 11.05.18 The USPTO Under Director Andrei Iancu Actively Disses the Courts and Attacks Fundamental Patent Law
  • 11.06.18 The European Patent Office Lost Its Way, Found Buzzwords Instead
  • 11.07.18 European Software Patents: From AI to Blockchains and Now… Self-Driving Vehicles
  • 11.08.18 EPO Stacking up Buzzwords (4IR, AI, Now SDV) to Compel Examiners to Grant Patents on Algorithms
  • 11.08.18 The António Campinos Private/Secret Meeting With ILO Officials a Slap Across the Face to Employees of the European Patent Office
  • 11.08.18 EPO Needs to Publicly Apologise for Granting Bogus/Fake Patents to Aggressive Companies Like Monsanto (Now Bayer)
  • 11.08.18 The Death of the UPC is Only a “Tragedy” for Patent Trolls and Their Facilitators
  • 11.10.18 Latest Loophole: To Get Software Patents From the EPO One Can Just Claim That They’re ‘on a Car’
  • 11.11.18 Automation of Searches Will Not Solve the Legitimacy Problem Caused by Patents Lust
  • 11.11.18 Guest Post: EPO Spins Censorship of Staff Representation
  • 11.11.18 EPO ‘Outsourcing’ Rumours
  • 11.11.18 The Federal Circuit and PTAB Are Not Slowing Down; Patent Maximalists Claim It’s ‘Harassment’ to Question a Patent’s Validity
  • 11.12.18 Team UPC, Fronting for Patent Trolls From the US, is Calling Facts “Resistance”
  • 11.13.18 The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is Working for Patent Trolls and Patent Maximalists
  • 11.13.18 The USPTO and EPO Pretend to Care About Patent Quality by Mingling With the Terms “Patent” and “Quality”
  • 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
  • 11.14.18 USF Revisits EPO Abuses, Highlighting an Urgent Need for Action
  • 11.14.18 WIPO Corruption and Coverup Mirror EPO Tactics
  • 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 Ignoring and Bashing Courts: Is This the Future of Patent Offices in the West?
  • 11.15.18 A Question of Debt: António Campinos, Lexology, Law Gazette, and Sam Gyimah
  • 11.18.18 The European Patent Office is Attracting Patent Trolls
  • 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
  • 11.21.18 To Mask the Decline in Patent Quality, e.g. Granting of Software Patents a.k.a. Computer-Implemented Inventions (CII), EPO Makes Oppositions Harder
  • 11.22.18 Thanksgiving EPO Roundup: UPC Lies, Software Patents Considered Harmful and SUEPO Condemns Union-Busting Activities (Which Carry on Under António Campinos)
  • 11.24.18 EPO’s Head of Human Resources Elodie Bergot “Condemned for Harassment in France When She Worked for the Caisse Assurance Retraites”
  • 11.24.18 EPO Nowadays Closely Associates With Site That Attacks, Insults and Calls for Resignations of Judges (Those Who Scrutinise Patents)
  • 11.25.18 Patents Are Not Property
  • 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
  • 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 EPO Management High-Fiving Patent Propaganda Sites Like ‘Managing IP’ While Granting Illegitimate Patents on Algorithms
  • 12.02.18 Patent Trolls, USPTO Director Andrei Iancu and Section 101
  • 12.03.18 EPO Management Keeps Embarrassing Itself, UPC More Dead Than Before, and Nokia Turns Aggressive
  • 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 Many of the Same People Are Still in Charge of the European Patent Office Even Though They Broke the Law
  • 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
  • 12.09.18 EPO ‘Untapped Potential’
  • 12.09.18 The Quality of European Patents Continues to Deteriorate Under António Campinos and Software Patents Are Advocated Every Day
  • 12.12.18 EPO Trust, Leadership and Commitment
  • 12.13.18 The European Patent Troll Wants as Much Litigation as Possible
  • 12.15.18 EPO Chief Economist Yann Ménière Keynote Speaker at Patent Trolls-Funded Event Set Up by the Patent Trolls’ Lobby
  • 12.15.18 The European Patent Organisation (EPO) Loses Legitimacy If (or When) Christoph Ernst Becomes Subservient to António Campinos
  • 12.15.18 Immunity of the European Patent Office Has Helped Shield Dangerous Thugs From Justice
  • 12.19.18 EPO: Adherence to the Law at the Office Postponed Indefinitely, ‘Reform’ Going Ahead (Divergence From the Law)
  • 12.21.18 Today’s EPO Envisions a Europe of Patent Trolls, Not of Science and Technology
  • 12.22.18 UPC Died in 2016 or 2017; But the EPO Continues to Issue Fake Software Patents That European Courts Reject
  • 12.24.18 The Quality of European Patents Likely Declined Even Further in 2018
  • 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
  • 01.21.19 A Fortnight After His Diplomatic Immunity Ends Outgoing EPO Vice-President Željko Topić is in Court in Zagreb, Croatia
  • 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
  • 01.27.19 British Courts Once Again Reject Bogus European Patents Granted on Software
  • 01.29.19 “HE DID NOTHING Since He Arrived, Full Stop.” What EPO People Make of President Campinos…
  • 01.29.19 Compensation for Damages and Discrimination: The Case (One Among Several) Against EPO Vice-President Topić
  • 01.29.19 The EPO Continues to Grant Software Patents Even Though Many European Patents Are Being Invalidated Already
  • 01.29.19 The Management of the EPO Will Not Manage to Recruit Any Talent If It’s Killing Its Own Staff
  • 01.31.19 Fake Software Patents, Patent Trolls and Assault on Generic Medicine in Europe
  • 02.01.19 Stupid Acquisition of the Month (or Year): Red Hat Selling Itself to the World’s Biggest Lobbying Power for Software Patents
  • 02.01.19 The Reputation of the EPO is Ruined But Now It Ruins the Lives of Staff and Europeans
  • 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)
  • 02.02.19 Concerns About Stephan Harbarth’s Unitary Patent (UPC) Vested Interests and His Entrance Into the Constitutional Court That Decides on UPC
  • 02.06.19 The Attack on the Independence of the European Judges Has Apparently Expanded to the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht)
  • 02.06.19 EPO Boards of Appeal Still Need Independence
  • 02.07.19 UPC Part of the Litigation ‘Industry’ Lobby and the Efforts to Change (Significantly Lower) Patent Quality Bar/Scope
  • 02.09.19 EPO President Campinos Works With Patent Trolls and With Team UPC to Promote Software Patents
  • 02.11.19 The American Software Patents Lobby Has Died
  • 02.12.19 Innovating the Idea That Software Patents (Monopolies on Algorithms) Are Covering ‘Artificial’ ‘Intelligence’ (AI and ML as Loopholes)
  • 02.12.19 USPTO Director Iancu Works for Anti-SCOTUS (Against Section 101) Lobbyists
  • 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 Nobody But Patent Trolls and Litigators Will Benefit From the Corruption of the European Patent Office
  • 02.16.19 EPO Grants Fake European Patents — Including Software Patents — and European Courts Keep Rejecting These
  • 02.17.19 How Many/Most EPO Examiners View ‘President’ António Campinos
  • 02.19.19 Search Matters Not at the European Patent Office
  • 02.19.19 What Happened in the United States Now Happens in Europe: Lots of Patents Turn Out to Be Bunk, Fake, Bogus, Invalid and Thus Worthless
  • 02.22.19 Software Patents Are in a Freefall in Courts Worldwide, But the EPO Keeps Granting and Promoting These
  • 02.22.19 Team UPC Excited Over Nothing, President Campinos Rarely Even Mentions UPC Anymore
  • 02.23.19 EPO Insider Video: Nouvel an Architectural Hazard, Not Just a Fire Hazard
  • 02.24.19 Video: Alexandre Benalla Explains His Activities Within the European Patent Office
  • 02.24.19 Alexandre Benalla’s Time at the EPO, in His Own Words
  • 02.24.19 Bruno Retailleau on Alexandre Benalla’s Perjury
  • 02.24.19 Video: Alexandre Benalla on Carrying Weapons in Munich’s EPO Premises (Strictly Illegal in Germany)
  • 02.25.19 English Translation: Alexandre Benalla on His Work Experience (or Lack Thereof)
  • 02.25.19 English Translation: Alexandre Benalla Thinks He Can Carry a Weapon in Germany
  • 02.25.19 Croatian Media on Fake Diplomas and the EPO Connection
  • 02.25.19 There is Still a Patent Quality Crisis at the EPO
  • 02.27.19 Teff Just One Among Countless Examples of Sheer Disregard for Patent Quality
  • 02.28.19 The Latest Brexit Developments Add Another Nail (Among Many) to the Unified Patent Court’s (UPC) Coffin
  • 03.02.19 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 Technical Board of Appeal Will Need True Independence to Squash Software Patents at the EPO (T 0489/14)
  • 03.06.19 Power and Corruption: How European Patent Office Nepotism and Despotism Open Doors
  • 03.06.19 Fraud at the European Patent Office, But All Those Arrested Are Perpetrators Without Misused Immunity
  • 03.08.19 Patent Law Firms Are Truly (and Visibly) Panicking Over the Demise of Software Patents
  • 03.08.19 António Campinos Will Not Tackle Any of the Lingering Issues at the European Patent Office
  • 03.09.19 European Patent Office Press Releases (Two in Two Days) Are Disguised as ‘News’ and Tell the Opposite of the Truth
  • 03.10.19 Europe Will Pay a High Price for Software Patents Advocacy by António Campinos in Europe’s Patent-Granting Authority
  • 03.11.19 EPO Examiner: “I Have Been Against Software Patents and Eventually 3/4 of My Job is Examining Software Patent Applications.”
  • 03.13.19 In the Age of Trumpism EFF Needs to Repeatedly Remind Director Iancu That He is Not a Judge and He Cannot Ignore the Courts
  • 03.14.19 Good News Everyone! UPC Ready to Go… in 2015!
  • 03.15.19 Stopping António Campinos and His Software Patents Agenda (Not Legal in Europe) Would Require Independent Courts
  • 03.19.19 The EPO Has Sadly Taken a Side and It’s the Patent Trolls’ Side
  • 03.20.19 Decisions Made Inside the European Patent Organisation (EPO) Lack Credibility Because Examiners and Judges Lack Independence
  • 03.21.19 António Campinos Makes Up Claims About Patent Quality, Only to be Rebutted by Examiners, Union (Anyone But the ‘Puff Pieces’ Industry)
  • 03.22.19 “Criminal Organisation”
  • 03.22.19 Why the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO) Cannot Ignore Judges, Whereas the EPO Can (and Does)
  • 03.24.19 Just Published: Irrational Ignorance at the Patent Office
  • 03.27.19 The European Patent Scope is a Lost Cause, Does Not Exist Anymore
  • 03.27.19 The EPO is Still a Software Patents Propaganda Machine and Thus an Enemy of Software Developers in Europe
  • 03.29.19 Tall Tales From the Land of EPOnia: Indications of High-Level Club Med/EUIPO “Entryism”
  • 03.30.19 A March in Brussels Next Month, Disgruntled EPO Staff Invited
  • 03.30.19 There’s No Administrative Council at the EPO Anymore. It’s Like a Stamping ‘Department’ of the Office and the Same Goes for the Boards of Appeal.
  • 03.30.19 What Happened to the Linux Foundation?
  • 03.31.19 Technology Groups Implore the Deplorable Patent Office of Iancu and Trump
  • 04.01.19 Patent Trolls Destroy the European Economy Because EPO Gives Them Questionable Patents
  • 04.02.19 EPO Judges Lack Independence and the Internal Courts Are Seen to be Lacking Legitimacy (Decisions’ Validity) Under António Campinos
  • 04.03.19 The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) ‘Disses’ Iancu’s Guidance on 35 U.S.C. § 101, Sides With the Supreme Court (Alice) and Caselaw
  • 04.03.19 The EPO Continues Granting Bogus Patents on Mathematics and Nature, But There’s Hope Over the Horizon
  • 04.05.19 The European Patent Office Will Come to Regret the Fake Patents It Has Granted for Short-Term Financial Gains
  • 04.06.19 Even Patent Maximalists Are Not Happy With António Campinos Referring Question of Patents on Life to the Enlarged Board of Appeal
  • 04.08.19 Europe’s EPO Has Become France’s INPI
  • 04.08.19 The EPO’s Incredulous Survey: Management’s Voice, Management’s Future — EPO Staff ‘Engagement’ Spin (Denial of Issues)
  • 04.08.19 Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) — Like MedTech at the EPO — Just Another Dodge for Illegitimate Software Patents
  • 04.08.19 Only One in Six EPO Workers Trusts the Management, According to New Survey Skewed by Management
  • 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 António Campinos is Already Paying a Lot of Money to Craft an Alternate Reality at the European Patent Office
  • 04.11.19 EPO Still Wasting Budget, Paying Media and Academics for Spin
  • 04.12.19 Caricature: EPO Standing Tall
  • 04.13.19 Patent Maximalists Are Enabling Injustices and Frauds
  • 04.14.19 ‘Poor’ (Multi-Millionaire) Novell CEO, Who Colluded With Steve Ballmer Against GNU/Linux, is Trying to Censor Techrights
  • 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 The Likes of Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA), Team Campinos and Team UPC Don’t Represent Europe But Hurt Europe
  • 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
  • 04.22.19 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
  • 04.26.19 “Dia da Liberdade” in Portugal — Wilted Carnations in EPOnia
  • 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
  • 05.02.19 Even EPO Patent ‘Justice’ is Now Measured in Industrial Terms Like ‘Production’ Rather Than Accuracy
  • 05.03.19 In the Courts, Where Patents Are Assessed Independently, Geeks Are Winning the Battle Against Parasitic Litigation Firms
  • 05.05.19 It’s 2019 and Team UPC is Still Composing ‘Fake News’ (Lobbying Disguised as Reporting)
  • 05.07.19 Why Does the EPO Keep Praising People Who Promote Software Patents, Rewarding Them for Patent Thickets That Harm Software Developers?
  • 05.07.19 Even IAM Admits That When It Comes to Patents It’s Quality That Counts, Not Quantity
  • 05.09.19 Lusting for a Unified Patent Court (UPC) That Respects Invalid European Patents, Including Software Patents
  • 05.09.19 EPO Waste and Mismanagement: Renting Space While Keeping Buildings Empty and Making More of Them
  • 05.09.19 Stephen Rowan: From UK-IPO to Operation Coverup of Team António Campinos
  • 05.11.19 Making the Patent System About Productive Actors (Again), Not a Bunch of Law Firms and Trolls
  • 05.15.19 The Race to the Bottom of Patent Quality at the EPO
  • 05.16.19 The EPO’s Key Function — Like the UPC’s Vision — Has Virtually Collapsed
  • 05.17.19 Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 4: Happy Birthday to the Kötter Group?
  • 05.18.19 The War on Patent Quality


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