IAM
IAM Magazine and its associated sites exist to spread patent maximalism. The subject was explored in some of the articles below.
05.23.08 IAM Denies Software Patents Knock on Europe’s Back Door
06.19.15 Microsoft-Connected Patent Aggressor (Finjan Holdings) Hailed by Patent Lawyers’ Site, CEO Phil Hartstein Glamourised
06.28.15 IAM Biased: How IAM ‘Magazine’ Glorifies Patent Stockpiling
06.28.15 Williamson v. Citrix Online (at CAFC) Reinforces Alice v. CLS Bank (at SCOTUS) in Crushing Software Patents
11.30.15 Media Alert: IAM ‘Magazine’ Does Not Protect Sources
12.12.15 IAM ‘Magazine’ Protects Patent Trolls, Blocks People Who Disapprove
03.05.16 EPO and IAM: a Marriage of Convenience
03.06.16 EPO y IAM: un Matrimonio de Conveniencia
03.30.16 IAM ‘Magazine’ Cannot Say ‘Patent Trolls’
04.02.16 Biased IAM’s Editor in Chief Goes on the Offensive Against (Software) Patent Sceptics, Still a Trolls Denialist
04.02.16 IAM ‘Magazine’ No Puede Decir ‘Trolles de Patentes’
04.04.16 IAM Magazine Glorifies the World’s Largest Patent Troll, Microsoft’s and Bill Gates’ Patent Troll Intellectual Ventures
04.04.16 El Parcializado Editor en Jefe de IAM Va a la Ofensiva Contra Escépticos de las Patentes (Software), Todavía un Denialista de Trolles
04.05.16 El ´Magazine´ IAM Glorifica al Troll de Patentes Más Grande del Mundo, el Troll de Bill Gates y Microsoft Intellectual Ventures
05.08.16 IAM ‘Magazine’ Preaching (Patent Maximalism), Not Reporting
05.14.16 ES: La ‘Revista’ IAM Como Siempre Predicando (Maximalismo de Patentes), No Reportando
06.07.16 Time to Call Out Joff Wild (IAM’s Editor in Chief) for His EPO-Connected UPC Propaganda, Other Agenda-Pushing Initiatives
07.11.16 China Mimics Patent Protectionism and Patent Aggression Strategies of Other Countries
07.16.16 Law Professors Try to Put an End to Patent Trolls So Patent Trolls-Funded IAM ‘Magazine’ Complains
09.23.16 Journalism 102: Do Not Become Like ‘Managing IP’ or IAM ‘Magazine’ (the Megaphones of the EPO’s Management)
12.22.16 IAM is Still the EPO’s Favourite Propaganda Mill
02.03.17 Why Randall Rader Must Never Be Inside the USPTO, Let Alone the Patent Profession
02.12.17 IAM ‘Magazine’ as Megaphone for Chamber of Corporates (CoC), Which Tries Shaming India Into Software Patenting
02.24.17 IAM, Greased up by the EPO, Continues Lobbying by Shaming Tactics for the UPC, Under the Guise of ‘News’
02.28.17 IAM Just Can’t Stop Pushing for Software Patents in India
02.28.17 IAM ‘Magazine’ Rented Out to Microsoft Again, in Order to Attack Amazon (as Host of Free/Libre Software) Using Software Patents FUD
03.02.17 China Adopts Software Patents and IAM ‘Magazine’ (Lobbyists) Continues to Shame India Into It
03.21.17 In IAM, Asian Courts That Deliver Justice Are “Unfriendly” and Asian Patent Trolls Are Desirable
03.28.17 IAM Magazine is Very Blatantly Promoting Patent Trolls and Their Agenda
04.06.17 LexOrbis is Wrong About Software Patents
04.09.17 Asian Companies Already Suffer From Patent Maximalism/Radicalism and UPC Would Make Things Even Worse
04.10.17 IAM ‘Magazine’ in a Campaign to Destroy India’s IT Industry and Help Patent Trolls There
04.11.17 Voices of Patent Trolls Are Alive and Well (and Partly Paid by Battistelli’s EPO)
04.16.17 IAM is a Think Tank for Patent Trolls, Software Patents, the EPO, Microsoft, and Whoever Else is Willing to Pay
04.19.17 IAM, the Patent Trolls’ Voice, is Trying to Deny There is a Growing Trolling Problem in Europe
05.03.17 Bristows and IAM: Brits Who Lobby for Patent Trolls in Britain
10.18.17 IAM is Wrong, the Narrative Isn’t Changing, Except in the Battistelli-Funded (at EPO’s Expense) Financial Times
12.02.17 Ignore IAM’s Jaw-Dropping Spin, Tencent Flourished in Spite of Patents, Not Thanks to Them
12.03.17 IAM in Think Tank Mode Promotes Patent Maximalism, Characteristically Sponsored by the Patent Microcosm
12.12.17 The Mask Falls: Lobbyist David Kappos Now Composes Pieces for the Patent Trolls’ Lobby (IAM)
12.17.17 The Latest IAM Puff Pieces That Launder the ‘Reputation’ of Patent Trolls
02.08.18 When INPI Met INPI and IAM Met the EPO
02.10.18 The Relationship Between IAM and the EPO’s President Battistelli Tightens Further After Payments for UPC Promotion
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
03.13.18 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby (IAM) Already Pressures Andrei Iancu, Inciting a USPTO Director Against PTAB
03.13.18 IAM and IBM Want Lots of Patent Litigation in India
03.18.18 UPC/Battistelli Booster IAM Blames Brexit Rather Than EPO Abuses
03.19.18 Blocks and Paywalls Won’t Protect the Patent Trolls’ Lobby From Scrutiny/Fact-Checking
04.08.18 IAM Encourages Patent Aggression, CCIA Highlights Cost of Being Accused of Infringement, Professor Tun-Jen Chiang Explores Free Speech Aspects of Patents
04.29.18 Team UPC and Team Battistelli in IP Kat and IAM
05.03.18 Bristows LLP Already Uses Kluwer Patent Blog and IP Kat as Its UPC Megaphone, Now IAM as Well
06.03.18 Change of Government in Spain Does Not Change the Fact That Unitary Patent (UPC) Would be Terrible for Spanish Companies
06.04.18 IAM and EPO Are Almost Inseparable
06.04.18 The Only Way to Improve Patent Certainty in the US is to Improve Patent Quality, Not to Lower It
06.09.18 Shawn Ambwani (Unified Patents) Refutes the US Chamber of Commerce on Patents, But the Patent Trolls’ Lobby (IAM) Uses Him to Trot Out Yet More Misleading Propaganda
06.12.18 IPBC, a Patent Trolls-Funded Event of IAM, is Advancing the Attacks on Section 101/Alice
06.14.18 IAM Concludes Its Latest Anti-§ 101 Think Tank, Featuring Crooked Benoît Battistelli
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
07.02.18 IAM is Still Working for Benoît Battistelli and His Toxic Agenda
07.07.18 IAM Keeps Promoting Brian Yates and His New Patent Troll, iPEL, Which is About to Become Very Aggressive
07.18.18 IAM is Pushing SEPs/FRAND Agenda for Patent Trolls and Monopolists That Fund IAM
09.07.18 IAM Media Engages in Trademark Violations While Trying to Misrepresent Free/Open Source Software in Relation to Software Patents
10.18.18 IAM and IP Kat Are Still Megaphones of Battistelli and His Agenda
11.04.18 Software Patents Proponents Abound: IAM, IBM, Kappos, OIN and Microsoft
10.04.08 Patent Systems Under Fire, IAM Magazine Concerned
05.04.13 The European Patent Office is Breaking the Law Regarding Software Patents, German Parliament Finally Complains
09.01.15 Patents Roundup: IAM’s Claims About India, Lawyers’ Patent Bias, ITC for Microsoft, and PTAB Against Kyle Bass
12.19.15 EPO Pays FTI Consulting (Nearly a Million Bucks), Which Pays IAM for Pro-UPC Propaganda Event
12.21.15 The Forgotten History of IAM ‘Magazine’ as EPO Management’s Megaphone and EPO Union Basher
03.10.16 Patents Roundup: Patent Trolls, Patent Reform, IAM’s Willful Ignorance, PTAB Paranoia, and Long Briefs
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
03.14.16 Rodeo de Patentes: Trolls de Patentes, Reforma de Patentes, Ignorancia Voluntaria de IAM, Paranoia de PTB y Bragas Largas
03.25.16 Patents Roundup: Patent Trolls Groomed by IAM, Reform Strives to Tackle Trolls, NewEgg and LOTNet Explore Alternate Solutions
03.28.16 Redondeo de Patentes: Los Trolles de Patentes Acícalados por IAM, la Reforma se Esfuerza para Enfrentárse a los Trolles, NewEgg y LOTNet Exploran Soluciones Alternativas
04.11.16 FOSS at Risk From Software Patents, Which Are Still Being Promoted by Bristows, IAM, IBM, and Steve Lundberg (Frequent Villains)
04.12.16 FOSS en Riesgo a Causa de las Patentes de Software, Las que Todavía Siguen Siendo Promovidas por Bristows, IAM, IBM, y Steve Lundberg (Los Villanos Usuales)
05.14.16 IAM ‘Magazine’: Not Just Paid by the Patent Trolls and Legal Giants But Also Speaking With (and For) Them
06.19.16 How the Halo Electronics Case Helps Patent Trolls and How Publications Funded by Patent Trolls (IAM for Instance) Covered This
07.03.16 IAM’s Latest Take on the UPC: Dead End For Another 2.5 Years (At Least) With No Effective Workarounds
07.09.16 ES: La Última Opinión de IAM en la UPC: En un Callejón sin Salida por Otros 2.5 Años (Por lo Menos) Con no Salidas Efectivas
07.11.16 Yet More Reality Distortion Fields From Microsoft’s Ex-Chief Patent Counsel in Collaboration With IAM
09.08.16 A New Wave of the EPO’s Much-Expected Propaganda Push, Aided by ‘Managing IP’ and IAM ‘Magazine’
09.14.16 East Asian Patent Activity Viewed by IAM ‘Magazine’ as ‘Proof’ of “IP’s Growing Strategic Role”
09.22.16 Patent Law Firms, David Kappos, and IAM ‘Magazine’ Still Shelter Software Patents by Cherry-Picking and Lobbying
11.06.16 EPO Ally IAM Magazine Calls Battistelli’s Dismissal of EPO Staff Representative Laurent Prunier “a Needless Own Goal.”
11.13.16 IAM’s Interest in Patent Trolls Going Global, Capitalising on Declining Patent Quality
11.15.16 Trolls-Friendly IAM Magazine: Climate in Patent Trolling Has Worsened (for the Trolls)
11.19.16 European Media, Dutch Parliament and Spectacularly Enough Even IP Kat (Yes, It’s Back!) Subject the EPO to Serious Scrutiny
12.04.16 Asia’s Patent Litigation Chaos Getting Worse, Reaching Countries in the West, and Sites Like IAM Actively Promote This
12.18.16 IAM is Shedding a Tear (and Spinning) for Patent Trolls
01.08.17 Update on Patent Trolls and Their Enablers: IAM, Fortress, Inventergy, Nokia, MOSAID/Conversant, Microsoft, Intellectual Ventures, Faraday Future, A*STAR, GPNE, AlphaCap Ventures, and TC Heartland
02.05.17 No, IAM, UPC Did Not “Spring Back to Life”
02.05.17 IAM Helps Enemies of India’s Interests Lobby for Software Patents in the Country
02.20.17 Paid-for UPC Proponent, IAM ‘Magazine’, Debunked on UPC Again
02.21.17 Inverting Narratives: IAM ‘Magazine’ Paints Massive Patent Bully Microsoft (Preying on the Weak) as a Defender of the Powerless
03.03.17 Watchtroll, IAM and Other Patent Maximalists Lobby Donald Trump, Neil Gorsuch and Others for Patent Maximalism
03.12.17 IAM Continues Promoting Patent Trolls and Large Corporations’ Interests, New Harvard Study Explains Why Small Business Employment is Harmed the Most
03.17.17 IAM Remains Battistelli’s Propaganda Mill, Helping to Manufacture and Reinforce Lies About Quality
03.20.17 What IAM Says About AST, RPX, Ericsson, and IBM
04.01.17 Watchtroll, IAM, and the Plot to Overthrow Patent Reformer at the USPTO in Order to Make Litigation (and Trolls) Great Again
05.02.17 At IAM Event in Korea, Patent Trolls in the Panels and Advocacy of Software Patents From the EPO
06.10.17 IAM ‘Magazine’, an Adjunct or Megaphone to the Battistelli Regime, Called ‘Independent’ by the EPO and Used for ‘Quality’ Propaganda
07.17.17 Software Patents Lobbying at IAM Strives to Reinforce the Positions of Patent Maximalists
11.29.17 IAM Celebrates (With the Patent Cartel) a System of Unjust Monopolisation of Industry Standards Through Unethical Patent Thickets
01.21.18 IAM Together With Its Partner, IIPCC, is Lobbying the USPTO to Crush PTAB and Restore Patent Chaos
01.26.18 Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) Are Not Inventions, But Sites of the Patent Microcosm (e.g. IAM) Want Us to Believe Otherwise
02.04.18 IAM Magazine, Authored by Benoît Battistelli, is Rubbish Compared to Patent Scholars
02.06.18 Battistelli Works With IAM and Pays European Media to Promote Software Patents in Europe
02.11.18 Pharma Patents Have Become Harder to Enforce, So IAM Together With the Patent Microcosm Sets Up Lobbying Events
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 Almost All Patent Lawsuits in China Are Filed by the Chinese, But IAM (Cherry) Picks the Exception
02.18.18 UPC Optimism Languishes Even Among Paid UPC Propagandists Such as IAM
03.10.18 IAM Only Ever Seems Happy When There’s Patent Aggression and Patent Trolls
03.20.18 BIO, MDMA and PhRMA Are Pushing the PTAB-Hostile STRONGER Patents Act While IAM and Patently-O Continue to Bash PTAB
04.10.18 IAM Churning Out Support for the Software Patents and HEVC Lobby
04.15.18 IAM, Patently-O and Watchtroll (the Patent Trolls’ Lobby) Try to Stop Patent Oppositions/Petitions (PTAB)
05.27.18 IAM Warns That China is Outpacing the United States at Granting Rubbish, Unproductive Patents on Abstract Things
06.03.18 Finnegan, IAM and Other Proponents of Patent Trolls Try to Dominate the Debate About Patent Scope and Oversight
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
06.12.18 Corrupt Benoît Battistelli Promotes Software Patents in IAM’s Patent Trolls-Funded Event in the United States
07.15.18 IAM/Joff Wild May Have Become a de Facto Media Partner of the Patent Troll iPEL
07.27.18 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby, IAM, is Concerned That China is Now Treating Patent Trolls as the Criminals They Really Are (Extortion)
08.05.18 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby, IAM, Continues to Promote Patent Troll iPEL, Which is Unethical
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
09.16.18 IAM, Watchtroll and the EPO Still Spread the Mentality of Patent Maximalism
05.07.19 Even IAM Admits That When It Comes to Patents It’s Quality That Counts, Not Quantity
02.04.08 Patents != Innovation
03.02.08 Patents Roundup: From Apple to OOXML (and Undercover Lobbyi$T$)
03.26.08 XAML/Silverlight and the Microsoft Software Patent Play
05.21.08 Software Patents in Europe and Microsoft’s Huge Lobbying Budget as of Late
06.21.08 Monopoly Abuser Feels the Wrath of Intellectual Monopolies
06.27.08 It Must Be Official: The USPTO is (Brain) Dead
07.02.08 Microsoft Lobbyists Abound for Software Patents in Europe
09.06.08 IDG, IDC, and Microsoft Money on Their Table (Updated)
09.15.08 Patent Revolt in European Patent Office
09.16.08 Patents Roundup: Renewed Backlash, GPLv3 Beyond 3,000
09.20.08 More Microsoft Patent Trolls, Extortions, and SCO
09.22.08 Patents Roundup: India Fights Software Patents, BSA Intervention, Trolls League
10.06.08 Patent Literature’s Topic of the Day: the Failure of the System
10.07.08 Patents Roundup: TiVo, Amazon and Community Patent
10.09.08 Patents Roundup: Symbian Derails UKIPO, Monopolists Try to Ruin Indian Law
10.20.08 Patents Roundup: Microsoft’s Own Patent Trolls Subjugate Indians; New Evidence of Ill Systems
03.17.09 Is the EPO Selling Out to Microsoft?
05.02.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO-Novell, DMTF, Security, and Partners
05.05.09 OIN Explains TomTom’s Settlement with Microsoft (and Other Patent News)
05.08.09 Goodbye, Alison Brimelow (EPO President)
05.11.09 IBM’s Missed Opportunity to Help Free Software
05.27.09 US Breeds Software Patents
06.11.09 Microsoft IP Ventures and Intellectual Ventures
06.23.09 Patents Roundup: Microsoft, Danger in New Zealand, and Rise of Opposition
09.22.09 Patents Roundup: Intellectual Monopolies Under Attack, IBM and Patent Trolls Get Miserable
10.03.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: Distribution Channel, Virtualisation, Mail, Identity, Security, and More
03.20.10 Microsoft and Its Front Group, Association for Competitive Technology (ACT), Organise Software Patents Lobby Events in Europe
03.22.10 Microsoft and Apple Still Intend to Use Software Patents Against GNU/Linux
03.25.10 Software Development Times Magazine (SD Times) Sometimes Composed by Patent Lawyers
04.30.10 Steve Jobs: “A Patent Pool is Being Assembled to Go After Theora and Other “Open Source” Codecs Now.”
05.06.10 Free Software Foundation Europe Likens Apple/Microsoft Behaviour to Blackmail
05.12.10 Patents Shred Europe’s Democracy to Pieces
05.13.10 Open Standards Out of EU Digital Agenda; EBoA Does Not Stop Software Patents in Europe
05.13.10 Novell News Drought
05.21.10 Who to Blame for Germany’s Dangerous Decision Regarding Software Patents
06.22.10 Framework for Legalising Software Patents in Europe Falls Over, So Why Does Canonical Join the OIN?
07.08.10 Financial Report Says That Novell “Continues to Disappoint” and Novell Still Wants to ‘Own’ OpenOffice.org
09.11.10 European Patent Law is Being Abducted by Big Business and Patent Lawyers
09.22.10 The Free Software Foundation Fights Software Patents in the Southern Hemisphere
10.28.10 Eye on Patents: The USPTO is Failing
11.08.10 Newly-elected UK Government Hopes to Imitate the United States With Software Patents
01.19.11 If Patents Win in the West, Then the Chinese Win
01.21.11 ES: Si Patentes ganar en el Oeste, Entonces los Chinos Ganan
02.05.11 Shock, Horror: International Chamber of Commerce Promotes Intellectual Monopolies
03.23.11 ‘New’ Leaked E-mails from Microsoft Show How Microsoft Brands ‘PCs’ Windows
05.02.11 Windows Phone 7 is Dying, So Microsoft is Just Attacking, Extorting Android
06.29.11 Microsoft Lobbyists Still Push for Software Patents in Europe
08.12.11 Links – Nokia Dying, Astroturf as Warfare, Protest as Hacking, Big Pollution.
09.25.11 The Parallel Universe of Patent Lawyers
10.04.11 Lobbying for Patents in the EU and the US
11.03.11 Patents Roundup: Software Patents, Patent Trolls, Reexaminations, and Apple
11.28.11 More Novell Staff is Leaving as Novell Products Get Ditched by Customers
03.14.13 Software Patents Proponent Martin Goetz Groomed by a Microsoft Booster, Unrest Over Software Patents Evident in Europe
05.11.13 While New Zealand (NZ) Stomps on Software Patents High US Court Helps Legitimise Them, Again
05.14.13 Software Patents Reality Distortion Field
05.18.13 The Reality Distortion Field of Patent Lawyers Helps Impede Abolition of Software Patents
05.23.13 CAFC Decision Still Overridden by Overzealous Patent Lawyers in the Press, The Guardian and Other Corporate Press (CBS and AFP Included) Still Guard the Establishment
07.14.13 Patent Troll: I Am Not a Troll
07.24.14 USPTO Officially Sets New Guidelines to Limit Scope of Software Patents in the United States
09.03.14 Pro-Software Patents Voices Finally Acknowledge the Demise of Software Patents in the United States
09.18.14 Articles About the Death of Software Patents in the United States
10.04.14 Corporate Media Repeats Microsoft Propaganda About Patents by Claiming Microsoft Makes Billions From Android
10.14.14 The EPO’s Protection Triangle of Battistelli, Kongstad, and Topić: Part VI
12.14.14 Software Patents Are Dying in the US, But Patent Lawyers Refuse to Admit It
12.16.14 Keeping Software Patents Out of Europe Following the Demise of Software Patents in the US
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
04.13.15 EFF Uses Alice v. CLS Bank Case to Pressure USPTO to Halt Software Patenting
04.29.15 As Core Issues Still Not Addressed, Another Protest Against EPO Management Scheduled for Tomorrow in Munich, Germany
05.25.15 Large Corporations Call the Shots in US Patent Reform
06.20.15 Better Watch Out or the United States Will Export Software Patents to Europe, Along With Patent Trolls
07.16.15 In the Media and in Politics, Everyone Talks About Patent Trolls, Not Patent Scope
07.20.15 Even Watered-Down (by Large Corporations) Patent ‘Reform’ Bills Cannot Pass in Congress
07.20.15 Software Patents Are Still Being Demolished by US Courts, Google Makes Prior Art Searches Simpler
08.03.15 The World is Changing and Patent Law Can Change Either for Better or for Worse
08.06.15 Software Patents Gradually Getting Crushed, Even in the United States
08.10.15 Finjan, Cisco, JDate and Other Companies Acting Like Patent Trolls; New Threats to Linux
09.07.15 India Shoots Itself in the Foot With Software Patents, Time to Act and Prevent This Worldwide
09.10.15 David Kappos From IBM and the USPTO is Still Lobbying for Software Patents, This Time With a New Glorified ‘Paper’
09.14.15 ‘New’ Microsoft: One of Several Architects of Microsoft’s Patent War on GNU/Linux Gets Promoted Even Further, Gates is Lobbying China’s President After Linux Adoption
09.14.15 Patents Roundup: Europe’s and India’s Software Patents Affair, US Continues to Demote Software Patents With Alice Case
10.05.15 With Software Patents in Europe (and Pushes for the Same Thing in Australia and India) Patent Trolls Now Come to Europe, Attack Android/Linux
10.09.15 Mobile Linux (e.g. Android) Still a Victim of Software Patents, No Peace in Sight
10.12.15 Many New Losses for Software Patents in the US, Courtesy of Alice Case/§101
10.13.15 Patent Trolls Roundup: MPHJ, Kyle Bass, Acacia, Intellectual Ventures, Unwired Planet, Core Wireless, Vringo, and Unified Patents
10.13.15 EPO Management Lobbies for the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Uses This to Advance Software Patents in Europe
10.16.15 EPO’s Jeremy Philpott Confirms That Discriminatory (Software) Patent Processing Practices Started With Microsoft, Because of Microsoft
10.27.15 European Patent Organisation: Hallmark of a Corrupted (by Corporations) Entity
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
11.12.15 Trading Technologies is Stockpiling Software Patents, Surprised When These Are Challenged After Alice/§101
11.13.15 New Academic Paper Explains Why Europe Has Virtually No Patent Trolls, Italian Patent Troll Sisvel Makes a Comeback, Patent Lawyers Belittle the Problem
11.17.15 Patent Boundaries in the US and the Risk of Europe Repeating the Mistakes of the US
11.28.15 What Everyone Needs to Know About the EPO’s New War on Journalism
11.28.15 The Latest EPO Spin: Staff Protesters Compared to ‘Anti-Patent Campaigners’ or ‘Against UPC’
12.03.15 Impact of Software Patents and Excessive/Unregulated Profit Motives at USPTO: Now Even Common Encryption (i.e. Computer Security) Under Patent Attacks
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 How Patent Lawyers Cover Alice v. CLS Bank (Alice Case/§101)
12.06.15 EPO “Synonymous With Psychological Depressions, Nervous Breakdowns, and Even Suicides”
12.06.15 More Than 2,000 People, Including Directors, Said to Have Protested in Munich (About HALF of All EPO Staff Including The Hague Protest)
12.07.15 FRAND Tax, Patent Trolls as Satellites of Large Patent Aggressors, EPO Puff Pieces, and Another Imminent EPO Protest
12.08.15 Watch Out for the Latest EPO Charm Offensive in the Media, Greenwashing Being the Theme Du Jour
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
01.01.16 Meeting the EPO’s PR Team and Learning Its Dirty Tricks
01.05.16 The European Patent Office (EPO) Has Become a Propaganda Mill After the FTI Consulting Deal
01.05.16 Patent Lawyers and People in ‘IP’ Jobs Warp the Debate About the Patent System: EPO-Funded Writers, Glorification of Patent Trolls, and Software Patents
01.08.16 Patent Lawyers Continue to Spin Grim News About Patents (UPC, Lawsuits Peak, Patent Raids) as Good News
01.11.16 Abogados de Patentes Continua to Circular Tenebrosas Noticias Acerca de Patentes, UPC, Demandas a Granel, Ataques de Patentes Como Buenas Noticias
01.12.16 Why the Corporations-Leaning US Political System Does Not and Will Not Help Resolve the Patent Chaos
01.15.16 ¿Porqué el Systema Político de los Estados Unidos inclinado hacia las CORPORACIONES NO Ayudara a Resolver el Caos de Patentes
01.19.16 Poor Journalism From Süddeutsche Zeitung Perpetuates the EPO Management’s Lies
01.20.16 EPO/FTI Consulting-funded Event for UPC Will Be Stuffed With Mega-corporations from the United States
01.23.16 EPO Implicitly Acknowledges Declining Patent Quality by Agreeing to Finally Dump Some Monsanto GMO Patents
01.24.16 Patent Lawyers and Their Sites/Media Still a Barrier to End of Software Patents and Patent Wars
01.24.16 Süddeutsche Zeitung After FTI Consulting Deal: EPO Ghostwriter or Journalism?
01.24.16 Software Patents and Patent Taxes: How 100 Grams Worth of Components Can Cost as Much as $1000
01.24.16 Eventos de Consultantes Promovido para la Corte Unitaria de Patentes por la OEP/FTI, Estará Repleto de Mega-Corporaciones de los Estados Unidos
01.26.16 The United States’ Patent System Lets Software Patents Rot, as Patent Trolls Take Over the System and Unrest Grows
01.27.16 Los Abogados de Patentes y sus Sitios/Medios de Comunicación Todavía Son una Barrera para Terminar las Guerras de Patentes
01.29.16 EFF: “Software Patents Ruin Everything”
01.31.16 EFF: “Las Patentes de Software Arruinan Todo”
02.08.16 Latest Propaganda From the EPO’s Management an Effort to Make the EPO the Tool of Megacorporations
02.14.16 Patents Roundup: Software Patents, Patenting Loopholes, PTAB, Patent Trolls, and Software Patents Propagandists
02.15.16 Última Propaganda de la Gerencia de la OEP un Esfuerzo para hacer de ella la Herramienta de las Grandes Corporaciones
02.17.16 A Short Visit to Pro-Patents (or Patent Maximalism) Sites of Patent Lawyers and Patent Predators
02.19.16 A Preview of Injunctions/Raids Heaven in Europe With the Unitary Patent (Continent-Wide Bans and Embargoes by Patent Lawyers)
02.20.16 Business Model of Patent Trolls Terribly Shaken as Their Weapon of Choice (Software Patents) Tackled, New Developments Emerge
02.24.16 EPO-Funded Unitary Patent (UPC) Propaganda Events and the Latest on the Undemocratic (Even Antidemocratic) UPC Push
02.24.16 Possible Connections Found Between WIPO Misconduct and “a Dozen Serious Criminal Charges” Against EPO’s Željko Topić
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 Even Battistelli-Funded Media Admits That Battistelli is in Deep Trouble Right Now
02.28.16 Incluso los Medios Financiados por Battistelli Admiten que Actualmente El Se Encuentra en Problemas
02.29.16 Why the US Political Debate About Patent ‘Reform’ is Still Deficient and the Legal System Probably Broken Beyond Repair
03.01.16 Team Battistelli’s New Media Strategy at Times of EPO Emergency
03.01.16 The Horrible State of the US Patent System With Its Infamous Software Patents and the Latest Deception From Patent Lawyers-Dominated Media
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 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 Unitary Patent (UPC) Propagandists Are Louder Than Ever as Its Architect in Chief (Battistelli) is Probably About to Get Sacked
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?
03.07.16 No, Biggest Patent Troll of 2014 is Not eDekka But a Microsoft-Connected and Bill Gates-Funded Patent Troll (or Extensive Network Thereof)
03.07.16 Avoid IBM Until It Rescinds/Retracts/Reverses Its Weaponisation of Software Patents
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?
03.07.16 Software Patents Are a Dying Breed in the United States and the EPO Should Take Notice
03.10.16 A Patent Office or a Lobbying Firm? ‘European’ Patent Office (EPO) Sticking its Nose in UPC Matters Again.
03.12.16 Battistelli Acting Like a Politician, Lobbying for UPC All Across Europe and Coming to London Soon
03.12.16 India Got it Right on Software Patents, But Gives Up on Pharmaceutical Aspects
03.13.16 Microsoft Accused of “Patent Trolling” While the United States Moves Closer to Restricting Patent Trolls
03.14.16 Old Article About Battistelli’s Right-hand Man, Željko Topić, Highlights Severity of the Whole Situation
03.15.16 Microsoft Acusado de “Trolling con Patentes” Mientras Que Los Estados Unidos se Mueve Cerca a Restringir a los Trolles de Patentes
03.17.16 Institutional Failure and Dirty Tricks: Benoît Battistelli Seemingly Gets Support Like Microsoft Gets Support
03.17.16 Patents Roundup: EMC, Pure Storage, OpenTV, Apple, Segway, and Alice (Software Patents)
03.18.16 Redondeo de Patentes: EMC, Pure Storage, OpenTV, Apple, Segway, y Alice (Patentes de Software)
03.19.16 Reversal Spin: SUEPO Needs to Make Peace Rather Than Benoît Battistelli Needing to Make Peace After Dismissing SUEPO’s Leaders
03.19.16 Patents Roundup: The Eastern District of Texas, Jurisdiction Changes, Dubious Patents, and Even Sanctions
03.20.16 The ‘Results’ That Battistelli and His EPO Bunch Brag About Not Believed by Patent Lawyers and Patent Examiners
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
03.20.16 Horacio Gutierrez Has Left Microsoft, But the Patent Extortion Against Linux Continues, Also by Satellites
03.21.16 Redondeo de Patentes: El Distrito Este de Texas, Cambios de Juridicción, Patentes Dubias, e Incluso Sanciones
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 Horacio Gutierrez Ha Dejado Microsoft, Pero la Extortion de Patentes Contra Linux Continua, Tambien por sus Satelites
03.23.16 Focus on Patent Trolls Persists, With Increasing Use of Euphemisms Such as NPEs and PAEs
03.26.16 Patents Roundup: SCOTUS, U.S. Code § 101, CAFC, PTAB, and Software Patents in the Far East (Australia, Korea, Taiwan, China)
03.30.16 Hope at the End of the Tunnel as More Software Patents Are Squashed in the US
03.31.16 New EPO Marketing Campaign: Drive Your Audi Home
04.02.16 USPTO Still a Fine Mess, ITC Restricted as Sanctions/Embargo Enforcer
04.02.16 Nueva Campaña de Marketing de la EPO: Conduce to Audi a Casa
04.02.16 Esperanza al Final del Tunel Mientras que Más Patentes de Software Son Aplastadas en los Estados Unidos
04.03.16 Patents Roundup: More on Patent Shakedowns, IBM Rejoins the Shakedowns Club With Software Patents, China Worries About Patent Certainty (Too Low a Standard)
04.05.16 Massive Cases Launched by Patent Trolls in the US Almost Always About Software Patents
04.07.16 US Patent Trolls Epidemic and Microsoft/Intellectual Ventures’ Latest Contribution to That
04.08.16 Busted Battistelli: EPO President Violating the EPO’s Code of Conduct
04.08.16 Lobbyists for Software Patents in ‘Journalism’ and ‘Reform’ Clothing (With Microsoft Connections)
04.08.16 Epidemia de Trolles de Patentes en los EE.UU. La Última Contribución a ello de Microsoft/Intellectual Ventures
04.09.16 Cabilderos por las Patentes de Software en Ropas de ‘Periodismo’ y ‘Reforma’ (con Conecciones a Microsoft)
04.09.16 Aja! Battistelli: El Presidente de la EPO President Violando el Código de Conducta de la EPO
04.09.16 Patents Roundup: US Patent System/Landscape Disqualified, Corrupted, Saturated With Patent Trolls, and Funded by Microsoft
04.11.16 Resumen de Patentes: Systema/Paisaje de Patentes de los EE.UU. Descalificado, Corrupto, Saturado Con Trolles de Patentes, y Financiado Por y Para Microsoft
04.12.16 Software Patents Hoarders Going Down in the United States
04.13.16 Listening to Patent Lawyers Who Never Wrote Any Code to Decide on Software Patents
04.14.16 Patent Trolls in the US, Storm of Patent Litigation Expected in China, and Yahoo’s Patents (Potentially on Sale) Become Subject of Intrigue
04.14.16 Codiciósos Acumuladores de Patentes de Software Caen en Picada en Los EE.UU
04.15.16 Escuchando a los Abogados de Patentes Quienes Nunca Escribieron Una Línea de Codigo Decidir en Patentes de Software
04.16.16 Criticisms of the Patent System of the United States, Which is Imposed on the Rest of the World Using Corporate Lobbyists and Attracts or Creates Patent Trolls
04.18.16 Say the Truth About the US Patent System, Get Attacked by the Patent Propaganda Machine (Disguised as Press)
04.19.16 The ‘Great Conspiracy’ of Patent Lawyers, Lobbyists and Large Corporations for UPC and for Software Patents
04.20.16 Corporate Lobbying for Software Patents in the United States and Against Alice, Against Patent Reform
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 ES: Di la Verdad Acerca del Sistema de Patentes de los EE.UU., Conseguiras Ser Atacado por la Máquina Propagandistica de Patentes (Disfrazada de Prensa)
04.24.16 New Microsoft-Funded Push to Make Software Patents Stronger in the US, Backed by the Usual Suspects as Microsoft Increasingly Struggles as a Producing Company
04.26.16 ES: El Nuevo Impulso Finánciado por Microsoft Para Reforzar las Patentes de Software en los EE.UU., Apoyado por los Sospechosos Usuales (La Sagrada Familia) Mientras que Microsoft Cada Vez Más Lucha Como Compañíá Productiva
04.26.16 A Farce of a System: How SIPO, USPTO, and Increasingly the EPO Too Turn Into Filing Systems (No Proper Examination/Filtering Required)
04.27.16 ES: Una Fársa de Sistema: ¿Cómo la SIPO, USPTO, y cada vez más la EPO se Convierten en Llenado de Patentes (No Se Requiere Propia Examinación)
04.28.16 USTR is Trying to Shame and Bully India Into Introducing Software Patents in India
05.01.16 The US Patent System: Where One Wastes Years in Court and Spends $8,000,000 in Lawyers’ Fees Fighting a Bogus Patent
05.02.16 ES: El Sistema de Patentes de los EE.UU: Donde Uno Desperdicia Años en Corte y Gasta $8,000,000 en Honorarios de Abogados Peleándo una Patente Falsa
05.02.16 Nefarious Forces for Patent Abuse and Software Patents in the United States, Australia, India, Korea, and Europe
05.07.16 ES: Fuerzas Viles Para el Abuso de Patentes y Patentes de Software en los EE.UU,. Australia, India, Korea, y Europe
05.08.16 Microsoft’s Patent Troll and Taxman Intellectual Ventures Gets Indirectly Closer to Google (Android/ChromeOS Steward) and to Linux
05.08.16 US Bodies Are Locking Up the Commons and Industry Standards in Patent Enclosures, in Order to Benefit Few Monopolists
05.08.16 Patent Maximalists Are Afraid of — and Increasingly Obsessed With — PTAB’s Patent Invalidations (Inter Partes Reviews)
05.09.16 Corporate Imperialism in Europe Through the UPC, the Horrible Patent Deal Almost Nobody Heard of
05.10.16 IBM is Not a ‘Patent Troll’ But Increasingly, Over Time, Troll-Like
05.10.16 Patent Policy is a Mess and It’s Not Hard to See Why
05.11.16 ES: El Troll de Patentes y Taxman de Microsoft Intellectual Ventures Se Acerca Indirectamente a Google (Android/ChromeOS Supervisor) y a Linux
05.11.16 ES: Los Maximalistas de Patentes Están Asustados de — y Cada Vez Más Obsesionados Con — Las Invalidaciónes de PTAB (Revisiones Entre las Partes)
05.12.16 Large Firms Which Are Becoming Troll-Like Threaten Linux, Try to Embargo Imports
05.12.16 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Statistics and New Chief Judge Who is Really a Scientist
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 ES: Compañías Grandes Que Se Están Convirtiéndo Trolles Amenazan a Linux, Tratan de Embargar Importaciónes
05.22.16 Disrupting Battistelli’s Distracting Propaganda: EPO Staff to Protest Again in About a Fortnight
05.22.16 IP3 Demonstrates That Today’s Patent Systems Devolve Into a Conglomerates’ Game, Won’t Protect the Mythical Small Inventor
05.23.16 ‘Celebrity’ Patent Trolls and the Elusive Battle Against Patent Trolls (or Eastern District of Texas Courts) Rather Than Software Patents
05.24.16 ES: Interrumpiendo la Propagánda Distractante de Battistelli: los Empleados de la EPO Protestará de Nuevo en una Quincena
05.26.16 Victim Card Ends up in Another Blunder for Battistelli and His Six Bodyguards
05.26.16 The EPO is Doing Great, Says EPO-Connected ‘News’ Site
05.26.16 Microsoft Has Killed Nokia (and Its Own Mobile Ambitions), But Watch What it Does With Patents
05.29.16 A Mix of Patent Aggression and Sanctions/Raids (Using Controversial Patents) Against East Asian Companies
05.29.16 Patent Lawyers’ Marketing Dominates and Marginalises Meaningful Analyses of Software Patenting in the US
05.30.16 ES: Tarjeta de Victima Termina en Otra Torpeza para Battistelli Seis de su Guardia Pretoriana
05.30.16 ES: La EPO esta Excelente, Dice Sitio de ‘Noticias’ Conectado a Ella
05.30.16 Make Nothing, Sue Everybody: The Reality of Patent Trolls Increasingly Understood by the ‘Mainstream’
05.31.16 Patents Roundup: When the Patent Systems Turn Against People and Adjust According to Patent Lawyers and Their Largest Clients
05.31.16 Microsoft’s Former Chief Patent Counsel Praises Elevation of Software Patents in Microsoft Case, Adds to Cherry-Picking and Lobbying by Patent Lawyers
06.02.16 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 Microsoft is Still an Evil Company, Don’t Believe the Reputation Laundering ‘Campaigners’
06.05.16 IBM, Google and Microsoft Patent Stockpiles Demonstrate That Today’s US Patent System Exists for Billionaires, Not for Inventors
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 EPO’s Old Spokesman (10 Years in Munich) Resigns Again After Only 5 Weeks, EPO is Just Buying the Media Now
06.08.16 EPO Powers Up Its Spam Machines, ‘Media Partners’ Start Their Prepared ‘Articles’ (Puff Pieces)
06.08.16 ES: Mirada Cercana a los Protagonistas de la Guerra Informativa de Battistellir: Parte IV (Wellkom)
06.08.16 Leaks Required: EPO’s Plan to Crush the Appeal Boards and Media Contracts for Puff Pieces
06.10.16 EPO ‘Bought’ the Financial Times, Which Now Operates in ‘Mouthpiece Mode’ for Mr. Battistelli
06.11.16 Patent Lawyers Want a ‘Death Squad’ to Kill PTAB, Which Eliminates Software Patents at a Growing Pace
06.12.16 ES: La EPO ‘Compró’ al Financial Times, El Cual Opera a ‘Modo de Vocero’ Para el sr. Battistelli
06.12.16 Patent Bubbles Implode and Patents Are Passed to Trolls for ‘Monetisation’
06.13.16 Bought Media Coverage at the European Patent Office
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 Rights Groups, Media, Developers and Others Are Rising Up Against Patent Trolls, But the Problem is Always Software Patents
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 Patent Examiners and Insiders Acknowledge Profound Demise in Patent Quality Under Battistelli
06.21.16 As Alice Turns Two, Bilski Blog Says 36,000 (Software) Patent Applications Have Been Rejected Thanks to It
06.21.16 Supreme Court on Cuozzo v Lee Another Major Loss for Software Patents in the United States
06.21.16 Patent Lawyers, Having Lost Much of the Battle for Software Patents in the US, Resort to Harmful Measures and Spin
06.22.16 EPO “Recruitment of Brits is Down by 80%”
06.25.16 With UPC Dead for Battistelli’s Entire Remaining Term, No Reason for the EPO or the Administrative Council to Keep Battistelli Around
06.26.16 Patents Roundup: Bad Quality (USPTO), Bad Analysis (India), Bad Microsoft, Bad Actors (Trolls), Bad Scope (Software Patents), and the Ugly
06.28.16 New Efforts to Work Around Barriers to UPC in Light of ‘Brexit’; Behind These Efforts Are Self-Serving Patent Profiteers
06.28.16 ES: Con la UPC Muerta por el Resto del Termino de Battistelli, No Hay Razón para que la EPO o el Consejo Administrativo Sigan Manteniéndolo Más
06.29.16 Growing Consensus Even Among Patent Professionals That UPC is Dying Everywhere If Not Just in the UK
07.01.16 Goodbye Halo, Hello Revisionism (or How Patent Profiteers Perfume a Terrible SCOTUS Decision That Helps Patent Trolls)
07.02.16 Patents Roundup: Patent Maximalism, Apple’s Patent Deception, and Failure of Patent-Centric Media to Name and Shame Patent Trolls
07.02.16 Cuozzo Case Summarised, Immersion Corp. v HTC Corp. to Remain Negligible Unless it Too Reaches SCOTUS
07.04.16 UPC a Dead Project, as Per Analysis From Foley and Lardner LLP; What Next for Team Battistelli and Team UPC?
07.05.16 Signs of Progress: Overly Litigious US Patent System Calms Down a Bit, Reform Upsets Megacorporations
07.07.16 Invalidation of Bogus Patents (Software Patents and Other Abstract Patents) Peaking at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
07.08.16 Conflicts of Interest and Payments From Large Corporations Bias Coverage of Patents in the News
07.09.16 When the Patent Litigation Business is Trying to Create Demand for Software Patents and for Disputes/Lawsuits
07.12.16 Climate of Patent Maximalism (Departure From Patent Quality Control) Leads to More Litigation, Not Innovation
07.14.16 Deathwatch of the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPC)
07.17.16 Microsoft and Its Patent Minions at Nokia Still Have Patent Stacking Ambitions Against Android/Linux OEMs
07.22.16 Patents Roundup: BlackBerry, Huawei, PTAB, GAO, Aggressive Universities With Patents, and Software Patents in Europe
07.24.16 The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) Comes Across as Against Software Patents, Relates to the EPO as Well
07.26.16 Microsoft Says It Loves Linux, But Its Anti-Linux Patent Trolls Are Still Around and Active
07.27.16 Software Patents a Dying Breed, But Patent Lawyers in Denial Over it and Notorious Judge Rodney Gilstrap Ignores Alice (Supreme Court)
07.30.16 Continued Erosion of Software Patents in the US and With It a Demise in Abusive Litigation by Patent Trolls
07.30.16 The Illusion of Patents as Necessary for Maintaining Western Dominance Increasingly Debunked
07.30.16 Academic Discussion About Patents’ Harm and Good, Pushers of Software Patents Still Upset at Alice Decision
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
08.02.16 The Protocol on Privileges and Immunities of the UPC is a Dead End, But Team UPC Tries to Ram it Down Europeans’ Throats
08.04.16 Apple’s Lawsuits Against Android Are Helping Patent Trolls, Canadian Android OEM BlackBerry Turns to Texas for Trolling
08.04.16 Patent Quality in Europe (EPO) Declining Under Battistelli in Spite of the USPTO’s Cautionary Tale
08.05.16 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is Putting an End to Lots of Software Patents; Patent Microcosm Spins and Distracts From This
08.06.16 Managing IP (MIP) Organises a UPC Event (European Patent ‘Reform’ Forum), the Largest Patent Microcosm/Corporate Players Dominate Through Fee Discrimination
08.11.16 ‘Constitutional Crisis’ at the European Patent Office (EPO)
08.22.16 Battistelli the Liar Causes a Climate of Confrontation in French Politics, Lies About Patent Quality (Among Many Other Things)
08.25.16 PTAB Emerges as Hero of USPTO Because Quality of Patents Improves, Software Patents Are Effectively Dead (or Dying Once Reassessed)
08.26.16 Being for Patent Quality or Against Patenting Excess Does Not Make You Anti-Patents
09.02.16 UPC Threatens to Send the European Patent Office Circling Down the Drain
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 Death of Software Patents Almost Everywhere Except the Eastern District of Texas
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 East Asia and Southeast Asia Become a Patent Trolls’ Powerhouse
09.05.16 Patent System in the US Must Revert Back to Original Goals or Lose Credibility
09.06.16 Convergence Between the EPO and the Media: ‘Managing IP’ as Battistelli and UPC Platform
09.06.16 Microsoft’s Legacy at Nokia is Patent Shakedown and Feeding of Patent Trolls
09.07.16 Risk of Going Bankrupt for Foolishly Asserting Software Patents After Alice
09.11.16 USPTO Fraud Accusations and the ‘Coverup’ Attempt by USPTO Circles Inside the Corporate Media
09.11.16 The Patent Microcosm is Losing the Fight Over Software Patenting and Now It Plays Dirty
09.13.16 Web Site ‘Managing IP’ is Managing to Come Across as an EPO Mouthpiece
09.14.16 As Expected, Misleading Coverage Regarding Software Patents in the Wake of McRO v Bandai Namco
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
09.18.16 Patent Trial and Appeal Board Under Attack by Law Firms, Which Will Soon Infiltrate It in the Form of ‘Bar Association’
09.19.16 Patents Roundup: Disclosure Requirements, Mobile Patents, Patent Lawyers’ Plagiarism, USPTO Getting Sued, and Corporate Domination of the Patent System
09.20.16 Like Big Tobacco Lobbyists, Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are Just Chronically Lying and Manipulating Politicians With Their Lies
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
09.23.16 Journalism 101: Do Not Believe Anything That Benoît Battistelli and the EPO’s Management Say (Also Don’t Fall for the UPC Hype)
09.25.16 Software Patents Propped Up by Patent Law Firms That Are Lying, Further Assisted by Rogue Elements Like David Kappos and Randall Rader (Revolving Doors)
09.25.16 What Insiders Are Saying About the Sad State of the European Patent Office (EPO)
09.27.16 Patent Trolling a Growing Problem in East Asia (Software Patents Also), Whereas in the US the Problem Goes Away Along With Software Patents
09.29.16 Team UPC is Interjecting Itself Into the Media Ahead of Tomorrow’s Lobbying Push Against the European Council and Against European Interests
10.01.16 Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are at War With European Democracy, Which They View as an Obstacle to Money and Power
10.02.16 Several Software Patents of Microsoft’s Patent Troll Intellectual Ventures Have Just Been Trashed by the Federal Circuit, But Patent Law Firms Keep Quiet About It
10.02.16 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Under Persistent Attack From the Patent Microcosm
10.03.16 Software Patents Are Against the First Amendment, Rules a CAFC Judge in Historic Decision That is Another Nail in the Software Patents Coffin
10.03.16 Translation and Response to Battistelli’s Face-Saving ‘Interview’ With Juve
10.04.16 Radio Silence in the Quarters of Patent Lawyers as Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Likely Ends Software Patents
10.04.16 Staff of the EPO is Going Out in Protest (Munich and The Hague) While EPO Management Buys European Media to Control This Media, Promote UPC
10.09.16 From World’s Best to World’s Worst: China’s SIPO (Worst of Asia) and France (Worst of Europe) the Vision for EPO
10.10.16 Towards the End of Patent Trolls in the United States
10.10.16 Towards the End of Software Patents in the United States
10.12.16 Patents Roundup: Blackjack Patent Application, Apple’s Software and Design Patents, Decline in Patent Litigation and Alternating Troll Trends
10.24.16 UPC Preparatory Committee Puts the Brakes on UPC Amid Brexit and Growing Uncertainty
10.29.16 The Former Chief Economist of the EPO Warns That Battistelli’s Implicit Policy of Lowering Patent Quality (for Quantity) Will Bring Patent Trolls to Europe
10.30.16 An Update on the Apple v Samsung Patent Cases — Cases That Apple Must Lose in Order for Linux to ‘Win’
10.30.16 The Importance of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board Proven by the Fact That It’s Under Endless Attacks From the Patent Microcosm
10.30.16 Courts Are Being Showered With Motions to Invalidate Software Patents, Former USPTO Officials Like Kappos and Stoll in a Panic
10.30.16 The Patent Trolls Are Moving East as Patents on Software Lose Their Lustre in the United States
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 Microsoft’s Evil Patent Agenda, Issues Pertaining to Patent Scope, and the Mass Invalidation of Software Patents in the US
11.07.16 Patent Law Firms and Their Publishers Latch Onto Rare CAFC Cases Where Software Patents Somehow Survive
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!
11.10.16 “Not My President“: The Sentiment of European Patent Office Staff Towards Their Fascistic Boss
11.14.16 What the New US Government May Mean to Patents and the Latest Death of Software Patents in the US
11.16.16 The EPO Lowering Patent Quality, Accused of Issuing Invalid Patents, and Promoting Software Patents (Hence Trolls)
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 The Demise of Software Patents in India Illustrated by Infosys’ Policy and Abandonment of Applications
11.19.16 USPTO Director Michelle K. Lee Reportedly on Her Way Out, US Patent Reform Put on Hold
11.19.16 Microsoft and Its Patent Trolls Continue to Lobby for Software Patents
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 EPO Protest Tomorrow at The Hague
11.24.16 Giants of Asia: India More Restrictive on Patent Scope, China More Lenient
11.24.16 Patent Quality at the EPO Depends on the Future of the Boards of Appeal (Which Battistelli is Killing Not So Softly)
11.24.16 Video and Audio: Press Coverage From Today’s EPO Protest at The Hague
11.24.16 Asking Team UPC or the EPO About the UPC is Like Asking Clinton About Winning Presidential Elections
11.26.16 China Creates a Patent Bubble That Contributes to Patent Inflation
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 Director Lee’s USPTO Managed to Drain the Swamp Filled by David Kappos and His Colleagues, But Trump Will Likely Dismiss Her Soon
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.”
11.28.16 Patents Roundup: Patent Trolls, Patent Quality, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”)
11.29.16 Learning From the Mistakes of the US Patent System (and More Latterly China) When Assessing Patent Maximalism
12.04.16 Software Patents Continue Their Invalidation Process, But Patent Law Firms Try to Deny This in Order to Attract Misinformed (or Poorly-Informed) Clients
12.04.16 Patent Trolls of Microsoft and Ericsson Are Trying to Tax Everything, Especially Linux Devices
12.05.16 EPO at a Tipping Point: Battistelli Quarrelling With French Politicians, Administrative Council Urged to Act, Staff Unrest Peaking
12.05.16 Quality of Patents at the EPO Dependent on the Appeal Boards When Battistelli Assesses Performance Using the Wrong ‘Production’ Yardstick
12.05.16 Microsoft’s Push for Software Patents Another Reminder That There is No ‘New’ Microsoft
12.06.16 More Examples of Microsoft and Its Patent Trolls Taxing Linux, Even After Microsoft ‘Joined’ (Paid) the Linux Foundation
12.06.16 The UPC Scam Part VII: A Fine Mess in the Making, as Nothing Can be Made of It Amid/After Brexit
12.06.16 Good Riddance. Ray Niro is Dead.
12.06.16 The UPC Scam Part VI: The Real Story Which People Missed Due to Puff Pieces Seeded by Battistelli-Bribed Media is That UPC Technically Cannot Come to the UK
12.09.16 Ignore the Bristows UPC Echo Chamber, the UPC is Not Happening
12.11.16 CSIRO/CRISPR Monopolies on Life (Through Patent Law) May Soon be Dead
12.11.16 Supreme Cases and Some Supreme Outcomes That Tighten Patent Scope in the United States
12.12.16 Software Patents Battles: Lobby to Restore US Software Patents, IBM’s and Google’s Positions on the Subject, and Microsoft/Intellectual Ventures With Their Ongoing Attacks on Linux
12.13.16 EPO Staff: Mr. Battistelli is Causing Immeasurable Damage to the Office; He is Now Untenable
12.14.16 Administrative Council of the EPO Must Recognise Critical Brain Drain, Loss of Talent, Loss of Patent Quality
12.14.16 Tough Time for Patent Trolls, Only About 1 in 5 Patent Cases Won in the United States
12.18.16 More and More Lobbying for Software Patents, Not Just in Battistelli’s EPO But Also in India and the US
12.18.16 Hijacking the Dialogue: How Patent Law Firms Distort the Record on Software Patents in the United States
12.19.16 Boris Teksler Jumps From Ericsson’s Patent Troll to Microsoft’s
12.20.16 BlackBerry Calls off Phone Business, Becomes Full-Time Patent Troll, Files Even More Patent Lawsuits in Texas
12.21.16 “China” is to Watchtroll (and the Bucket of Patent Maximalists) What “Russia” is to Clinton and DNC
12.21.16 Good Luck to Apple in Exposing the Network of Patent Trolls That is Connected to Microsoft, Nokia, Ericsson, BlackBerry and Other Failed Mobile Players
12.22.16 Nokia is Now Officially a Patent Troll, Almost 6 Years After Microsoft Turned It Into One
12.26.16 Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Bilski Blog is Actually AGAINST Alice and Bilski, in Favour of Software Patents
01.03.17 New Article From Heise Explains Erosion of Patent Quality at the European Patent Office (EPO)
01.05.17 Technical Failure of the European Patent Office (EPO) a Growing Cause for Concern
01.07.17 2017: Latest Year That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Still Stuck in a Limbo
01.10.17 With Help From the US Supreme Court (Key Cases), Patent Trolls Are Going Away
01.11.17 The Patent Microcosm is Already Sucking up to Donald Trump in an Effort to Enrich Itself at Everyone’s Expense
01.11.17 Gradual Collapse of Microsoft’s Extensive (and External) Patent Trolling Operations
01.11.17 Patent Quality in the United States Can Only be Assessed at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and the Courts
01.12.17 Brexit/Trump Effect: Patent Systems With Institutional Corruption and Nepotism
01.12.17 Patent Maximalism — Like Copyright Maximalism — Relies on Misconceptions and Mass Deception
01.12.17 Patent Trolls and Software Patents: CloudTrade, Patent Practitioners Density, and Via Licensing
01.15.17 Number of New Patent Cases in the US Fell 25% Last Year, Thanks in Part to the Demise of Software Patent Trolls
01.16.17 Independent and Untainted Web Sites About Patents Are Still Few and Rare
01.16.17 The 20% Rule: Patent Trolling Suffers Double-Digit Declines and Patent Troll Technicolor is Collapsing
01.19.17 Doomsday Scenario in the Back Mirror as Michelle Lee Keeps Her Job (and Much-Needed Patent Reform) at the USPTO
01.20.17 Kudelski Group Not Only Acts Like a Patent Troll But Also Run by Intellectual Ventures Person; Mobile Market in Dire State of Patent Armageddon
01.21.17 Shakeup Against Patent Parasites in the US and More Rumours/Speculations About USPTO Director Michelle Lee After Trump’s Inauguration
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 China Drowns in Worthless Patents, the United States (FTC) Bemoans Patent Trolls, and Australia is Urged by Its Commission to Decommission Software Patents
01.24.17 Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna: UPC’s “Entry Into Force is Not at all Secured,” Contrary to What Team UPC Says
01.26.17 The United States Has Just Made It Even Harder to Appeal PTAB Decisions (Usually to Invalidate Software Patents)
01.27.17 Ray Niro’s Troll Firm Has Collapsed, the Patent Microcosm Scrambles to Stop Patent Reform and Even Attacks Michelle Lee (USPTO Director)
01.28.17 An Unexpected Reality: The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Emerged as a Champion in Fighting Software Patents in the US
01.28.17 Good Luck to Apple in Its Fight Against Qualcomm’s Patents (Some of Them Software Patents), Not Just Against Nokia
01.29.17 The Future of Patent Trolls in the US Will Also Determine Europe’s
02.01.17 EPO Stakeholders Want Battistelli and His Goons Ousted, They Can Accomplish This by Working Together (Like a Union)
02.03.17 Team UPC Continues to be a Premier Source of Fake News About Unitary Patent in the United Kingdom
02.05.17 Rapid Collapse of Patent Aggressors’ Patent Strategy: Creative, Microsoft, RPX, LinkedIn, and Fitbit
02.05.17 Software Patents Are Dying, But ‘Cloudwashing’ of Patents Lets Some Slip in and Marks & Clerk Offers Bad Advice
02.06.17 China is Quickly Becoming a Patent Litigation Mess and Web Sites of Lawyers (or Their Fronts) Like It
02.06.17 Questions Arise About Patent Policy and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board Amid Deregulation by Trump
02.06.17 IBM is Attacking Patent Reform and is Lobbying for Resurgence of Software Patents
02.06.17 PTAB Should Initiate Inter Partes Reviews (IPRs) of Universities’ Dubious Patents as Long as They Feed Patent Trolls
02.07.17 Battistelli Judges Himself to be Excellent, in the Same Way Other Autocrats Judge Themselves to be Benevolent
02.07.17 Patent Trolls Update: IPVALUE, Cypress, OIN, Open Patents, Blackbird, CATO and So-called ‘Efficient Infringement’
02.09.17 Good News on the Patent Trolls Front as Collapse of Such Parasitic Firms Continues, US Government Signals Ongoing Reform
02.12.17 Microsoft’s Latest Attack Plan on GNU/Linux Has Become Clearer and It’s Still About Software Patents
02.13.17 The Federal Circuit Grapples With Extreme Measures Like Embargoes Over Patents
02.13.17 New Information About the Gradual Collapse of RPX, a Microsoft-Backed Patent Troll
02.13.17 The Patent Microcosm Resorts to Fake News and Misinformation in a Desperate Effort to Convince Trump to ‘Pull a Reagan’ (Patent Maximalism)
02.13.17 UPC Petition Launched to Halt Ratification Plans in the United Kingdom Amid Nefarious Back Room Deals
02.14.17 Microsoft Has Not Managed to Blackmail Huawei Over Android and GNU/Linux, But Its Trolls/Satellites Are Trying
02.14.17 India Cites Public Interest in Patent Case Where Embargo Attempted Against Local Drugmaker
02.14.17 EPO-Connected Writers Are Using Alternative Facts or Fake News to Promote the Unitary Patent in British Media
02.15.17 Center for Intellectual Property Understanding (CIPU) is a Lobby Group for Software Patents and Patent Maximalism
02.16.17 New Scholarly Paper Says “UK’s Withdrawal From the EU Could Mean That the Entire (Unitary Patent) System Will Not Go Into Effect”
02.16.17 New Survey Reveals That High Patent Quality, or Elimination of Bad Patents, is Desirable to Patent Holders
02.17.17 SoftBank Group, New Owner of ARM, Could Potentially Become (in Part) a Patent Troll or an Aggressor Like Qualcomm
02.18.17 As the United States Shuts Its Door on Low-Quality Patents the Patent Trolls Move to Asia
02.22.17 The Appeal Board (PTAB) and Federal Circuit (CAFC) Maintain Good Pace of Patent Elimination Where Scope Was Exceeded
02.26.17 Google’s Stewardship of GNU/Linux (Android, Chromebooks and More) in Doubt After Company Resorts to Patent ‘First Strikes’
02.27.17 A US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) Which is Hostile Towards Patent Maximalists May Closely Examine More Patents That Apple Uses Against Android
02.28.17 The Boards of Appeal Openly Complain (in the EPO’s Web Site) About Battistelli, But Don’t Tell Battistelli About It…
02.28.17 Does the EPO Want Patent Quality to Decline Against the USPTO and Become Akin to SIPO?
02.28.17 New Survey Shows That Even Patent Professionals Know That Team UPC is Lying About Unitary Patent Roadmaps
02.28.17 Xinova is a Patent Troll With Connections to Microsoft and Intellectual Ventures, the World’s Largest Troll
03.02.17 The Long Reach of Microsoft’s Patent Troll, Intellectual Ventures, and the Impact on TiVo
03.03.17 East Asia is Known for Hardware Innovations, Not Software Innovations, and Software Patents Will Do the Latter No Favours
03.04.17 Canada Does Not Permit Software Patents, So Its Notorious Patent Trolls Go Abroad for Legal Action
03.04.17 Jo Johnson: UPC Agreement is “Currently Only Open to EU Member States” (i.e. Britain Cannot Join or Ratify)
03.04.17 Using “China!” and Distortion of Data From Lex Machina, the Litigation Lobby Promotes Software Patents
03.06.17 The EPO’s Connections to or Facilitation of Bayer and Monsanto Explored in New Article
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
03.10.17 With Latest Promotions, Microsoft Puts Its Tokens in the Patent Shakedown Basket, Its Patent Trolls Fight for Software Patents
03.12.17 The Patent Microcosm is Lobbying by Shaming, Typically for Patent Maximalism in the United States and Elsewhere
03.12.17 No, Spain is Not Joining the UPC, That’s Just What UPC Lobbyists Want Everyone to Believe
03.13.17 What Appears Like News Sites or Blogs About Patents and ‘IP’ Got Polluted by Lobbying That Peddles Corporate Agenda
03.14.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) Misinformation in Spanish Media and EPO-Connected (Paid) Media That Lobbies Spain
03.14.17 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
03.14.17 WIPO is in the Business of Publishing Ads for Notorious Patent Aggressors (Facing Antitrust Charges) and Promoting Software Patents
03.15.17 Microsoft Continues to Hoard Patents — Even Buying Patents — While Using Them Against GNU/Linux
03.16.17 Incredibly Unscientific: EPO is Making up Excuses for Decline in Patent Applications
03.16.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) and “Breach of EU Law”
03.16.17 A Fight Over Patent Quality in the United States
03.18.17 EPO Management Deeply Concerned That the Public Has Found Out Quality of European Patents (EPs) Nosedived Under Battistelli’s Regime
03.19.17 What’s OIN Doing While Microsoft is Siccing Patent Trolls on Azure Competitors’ Customers?
03.20.17 Apple and Microsoft, Two Patent Aggressors That Habitually Attack GNU/Linux Distributors, Get Sued by a Patent Troll, Soverain IP
03.21.17 Intellectual Ventures — Like Microsoft (Which It Came From) — Spreads Patents to Manifest a Lot of Lawsuits
03.21.17 Letter to Angela Merkel Expresses Concerns About Impact of EPO Scandals on Germany and Its Image
03.22.17 EPO’s Georg Weber Continues Horrifying Trend of EPO Promoting Software Patents in Defiance of Directive, EPC, and Common Sense
03.22.17 Protectionism v Sharing: How the US Supreme Court Decides Patent Cases
03.23.17 China Seems to be Using Patents to Push Foreign Companies Out of China, in the Same Way It Infamously Uses Censorship
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 It Certainly Looks Like Microsoft is Already Siccing Its Patent Trolls, Including Intellectual Ventures, on Companies That Use Linux (Until They Pay ‘Protection’ Money)
03.28.17 Techrights Was Right About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
03.28.17 With Important Supreme Court Decisions Looming, Mainstream Media Tackles Patent Trolls
03.29.17 Recognising the Death of Software Patents, Microsoft’s Largest Ally in India Belatedly Joins the Linux-Centric Open Invention Network
03.29.17 LG Not Only Suing Rivals Using Patents But is Also Passing Patents for Trolls Like Sentegra to Sue
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
03.30.17 Oral Arguments in the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) Suggest That the TC Heartland Case Will Likely Crush the Eastern District of Texas, Presently Infested With Patent Trolls
03.30.17 Deconstructing the Latest ‘Damage Control’ From Team UPC Amid Demise of Unitary Patent Pipe Dreams
03.31.17 In Spite of Confirmation, Uncertainty and Doubt Still Being Cast on Michelle Lee’s USPTO Leadership (by Her Opponents)
04.02.17 The Litigation Lobby is Causing Chaos in Patent Offices, Still in a Coordinated Effort to Convert Patents Into Nothing But Legal Chaos That Harms Science
04.02.17 The UK’s Involvement in a Hypothetical UPC Post-Brexit Far From Certain, Admits Law Firm, Contrary to Those Who Stand to Profit
04.04.17 Microsoft’s Patent Extortion Against Linux Now Targets Watches With Linux on Them
04.04.17 Patent Trolls in the Headlines: TC Heartland, University of Florida, Hilco, and Uniloc
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 At the Courts, Another Reminder of PTAB’s Importance and Ericsson’s War (via Patent Trolls) Against Linux and Android
04.09.17 Lying Has Become the Norm When It Comes to the Unitary Patent (UPC)
04.10.17 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is Already Part of Reform (AIA), So Attempts to ‘Reform’ It May be Efforts to Appease Maximalists and Bullies
04.11.17 Software Patents Lobbying Sites Are Really Desperate to Oust the Director of the Patent Office
04.12.17 Abundance of Patents is Not the Goal, Quality of Patents is the Goal
04.13.17 The World is Burning for Qualcomm, Whose Dependence on Software Patent Bullying is Being Tackled in Several Continents
04.14.17 The Gradual Fall If Not Sudden Collapse of Patent Trolls Associated With Microsoft
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 Even Patent Bullies Like Microsoft and Facebook Find the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Useful
04.21.17 Affordable and Sophisticated Mobile Devices Are Kept Away by Patent Trolls and Aggressors That Tax Everything
04.22.17 Intellectual Discovery and Microsoft Feed Patent Trolls Like Intellectual Ventures Which Then Strategically Attack Rivals
04.22.17 The European Patent Office Has Just Killed a Cat (or Skinned a ‘Kat’)
04.25.17 Astoundingly, IP Kat Has Become a Leading Source of UPC and Battistelli Propaganda
04.25.17 In South Asia, Old Myths to Promote Patent Maximalism, Courtesy of the Patent Microcosm
04.26.17 PatentShield is Not the Solution and It Won’t Protect Google/Android From Patent Trolls Like Microsoft’s
04.27.17 China’s Suffering From Patent Maximalism Has Europe Forewarned
04.28.17 United for Patent Reform Defends USPTO Director Michelle Lee From Attacks by the Patent Microcosm
04.30.17 Alice">High Courts in the United States Still Neither Grappling/Interfering With PTAB Nor Overturning Alice
04.30.17 “Spectator” and “The Patent Scam” (New Site/Movie) Tackle the Patent Trolls Epidemic
04.30.17 Unified Patent Propaganda Courtesy of a Cabal of Firms That Constructed the UPC
05.02.17 The Patent Microcosm and Its Ludicrous New Narrative/Tale That Patent Reform is a Plot of Large Corporations
05.02.17 Alice, PTAB, and Patent Reform (AIA)">The Patent Microcosm Still Demonises Alice, PTAB, and Patent Reform (AIA)
05.07.17 Revisionism About Microsoft Software Patent Deals Implicating GNU/Linux
05.07.17 USPTO Shoots Itself in the Foot by Granting a Patent on Paper Bag
05.07.17 The Patent Microcosm’s Failed Push for Software Patents Resurgence in the US and Similar Attempts in India and China
05.08.17 Death of ‘IP’ Media: Front Groups of Microsoft Described as “Representing SME Developers” by Bristows
05.10.17 Team UPC Still Twists and Fabricates Statements to Make It Seem Like Unitary Patent is Happening Soon
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
05.14.17 The Attacks of Patent Trolls as Outlined in the Media This Past Week
05.14.17 OIN is Still a Distraction Unless We Want GNU/Linux to Coexist With Software Patents (Rather Than Eliminate Those)
05.14.17 3 Years After the Alice Case at the Supreme Court the Plague of Software Patents is Easier to Cope With
05.22.17 Great News: While IBM et al Try to Undermine Patent Reform the Supreme Court Deepens the Reform in TC Heartland Case
05.29.17 Panic in Patent Maximalists’ Circles as Both Trolls and Software Patents (TC Heartland and Alice) Are Dying
06.01.17 Patent Trolls in Europe and the Looming Collapse of the UPC
06.11.17 Bristows/IP Kat Still Promoting UPC and Patent Trolls, Also Accused of Deleting Comments and “Brown-nosing” Judges to Help Patent Trolls
06.11.17 The British Election May Have Just ‘Killed’ the Unitary Patent (UPC)
06.13.17 In Spite of Censorship by IP Kat, Issues Associated With UPC Had Become Apparent, Even Before Germany Halted Ratification
06.14.17 Even UPC Proponents, Paid by the EPO’s PR Firm, Admit That UPC May Never Happen
06.15.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) Will Start “Real Soon” Now… Said Team UPC For So Many Years
06.20.17 European Patent Office (EPO) Whistleblowing Guidelines: Motivation and Impact of Leaks
06.22.17 You Know That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is in Huge Peril When Its Biggest Fans Admit It’s Unlikely to Happen Even Next Year
06.24.17 Microsoft and Bill Gates Become More Actively Involved in Their Biggest Patent Troll (and World’s Biggest Troll), Intellectual Ventures
06.24.17 The STRONGER Patents Act is One Among Several New Pushes for Patent Chaos in the United States
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 The Supreme Court Can Reassert the Legitimacy of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Later This Year or Next Year
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 Microsoft’s Troll Intellectual Ventures, via Dominion Harbor, Goes Patent-Trolling in China
07.02.17 The Decline in Patent Quality at the European Patent Office (EPO) Already Causes Mass Abandonment of Patents
07.02.17 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is Under Attack From the Patent Microcosm, Which Wants It Not to Exist Anymore
07.03.17 It’s Official: Battistelli Will Leave the EPO in Less Than a Year
07.03.17 India Has No Software Patents “Per Se” Just Like Europe Has No Software Patents “As Such”
07.04.17 EPO Silent About EPO Strikes and Battistelli Leaving
07.05.17 Suspicion That Antonio Campinos Will Apply for Benoît Battistelli’s Job to Succeed Him
07.05.17 Expect No Progress Whatsoever on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) During the Summer and Likely Too Little Even in Fall
07.05.17 The EPO’s Liar in Chief, Benoît Battistelli, is Googlebombing Again
07.06.17 Weeks Later, British Media Writes About British EPO Worker That Committed Suicide and the Administrative Council’s ‘Coverup’
07.08.17 In India, the Elephant in the Room is the Term “Per Se” — a New Loophole for Software Patenting
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 ‘Trolling’ by the University of Florida, the University of California and the California Institute of Technology
07.09.17 The Present Trend of Patent Trolls Paying the Legal Fees of Their Victims Would Discourage Trolling
07.09.17 Supreme Court Saves the Day as Latest Statistics Reveal Slump in Patent Litigation (Mostly Trolls) in the Eastern District of Texas
07.10.17 Patent Trolls Roundup: GPNE, Blackbird Technologies, Uniloc and More
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 As Expected, Benoît Battistelli Shaved off Billions of Euros Worth of ‘Value’ From European Patents and Thus Alienated Stakeholders
07.16.17 In the Face of Malicious Lobbying, High Tech Inventors Alliance (HTIA) and Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) Protect PTAB
07.16.17 Immersion, FitBit, Jawbone, and Creative Chose to be a Pile of Patents Rather Than Real Companies
07.16.17 After the ‘Fall’ of Texas, Patent Trolls Struggle and Some Are on the Retreat
07.16.17 Debate About Software Patentability in India Still Dominated by Patent Lawyers Rather Than Software Developers
07.16.17 Serious Factual Errors in UPC Coverage at Science|Business and Lack of Coverage in the General Media
07.16.17 Those Who Endlessly Attacked Michelle Lee Now Attack Supporters of PTAB, Not Just PTAB
07.17.17 Anti-Patent Trolls Reform in the US Evolves Nicely and Rogue Judges Get Named, Shamed
07.20.17 Microsoft is Googlebombing “Linux” This Week in Order to Sell Proprietary Software That Does Not Run on GNU/Linux (and While Blackmailing OEMs Over Linux)
07.20.17 PTAB Persists and AIA Dominates in Spite of Smears and Bullying From Patent Extremists Including Watchtroll
07.20.17 Patent Reform in the United States is Led by the Supreme Court, Not Industrial Lobbies
07.20.17 Unified Patent Court (UPC): A Conspiracy of Lies and Silence
07.20.17 The Bizarre World of US Patents and Ongoing Pursuit/Granting of Software Patents in Spite of Section 101
07.22.17 Patent Troll MPEG-LA Expands From Software Patents to Patents on Life While USPTO is Virtually Headless
07.23.17 Alice/U.S.C. § 101 is a Done Deal, Meaning Software Patents Are Effectively Dead in the US
07.23.17 IBM and Watchtroll, Together With Microsoft, Among the Driving Forces for Resurgence of Software Patents
07.24.17 Qualcomm-Apple Dispute Escalates Further (Lawsuits Come to Europe) With the Cost of Linux-Powered Devices Also at Stake
07.26.17 “Reprehensible” Rodney Gilstrap Continues to Snub the US Supreme Court by Refusing to Let Non-Texan Companies Move Out of Texas
07.27.17 The USPTO Report on Section 101 is Somewhat Farcical as Input Comes From the Patent Microcosm, Not Producing Companies
07.30.17 PACE of Prosecution Prioritised Over Quality of Patents and Examination
07.30.17 Microsoft’s (Patent) War on GNU/Linux Continues, But It’s Disguised Using Intermediaries
07.31.17 Publisher Funded by Nokia’s and Microsoft’s Patent Trolls Expects More Attacks on Android OEMs
08.02.17 Growing Threat to Free/Libre Software From Software Patents: Apple, Microsoft and Nokia Charge Ahead
08.03.17 High Cost of Erroneous Patent Grants
08.03.17 Trolls Roundup: Buying up the Competition Using Patents and the Post-TC Heartland Figures
08.04.17 Software Patents Are Not Potent in Courts and Are Not Good for Marketing Purposes Either (They Cause Alienation)
08.06.17 Patents in the US Are Becoming Stronger (Better Quality), But the Patent ‘Industry’ is Trying to Change That
08.06.17 TC Heartland Puts Patent Trolls and the Eastern District of Texas in a Straitjacket, But EFF Wants Transparency Too
08.09.17 Sinking Patent Quality at the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO)
08.09.17 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Continues to Invalidate Software Patents, Should Tackle Public Universities Too
08.09.17 When It Comes to Software Patents, the EPO Has Become Among the Worst in the World
08.12.17 Microsoft’s Patent Troll Intellectual Ventures is Going After Carriers Now
08.12.17 Pro-PTAB Lobbying Leaves the Patent Microcosm Squirming, Lying
08.17.17 Ericsson Hired From the World’s Largest Patent Troll and Became a Massive Troll in Europe
08.18.17 The Staff Union of the EPO Has Long Warned About Declining Patent Quality
08.22.17 Bristows LLP Tries Hard to Maintain the Illusion That UPC is Alive, Using Media Placements and Paid Plugs
08.24.17 Patent Trolls Network-1 and Microsoft-Connected Finjan and Intellectual Ventures in the News Again
08.26.17 Patent Exhaustion and Implosion Will Follow Patent Maximalism in the Far East, But Low-Quality Patents May be Strategic
08.30.17 Australian Government Cracks Down on Patent Maximalism, Dealing a Blow to Parasitic Firms
08.31.17 IBM Helps a Microsoft-Connected Patent Troll Create Another Trolling Branch, Known as Finjan Blue
08.31.17 Trump’s USPTO Nominee is a Supporter of Software Patents
08.31.17 Patent Trolls Are Under Attack and on the Run
09.02.17 Patently-O’s War on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Continues
09.03.17 LexOrbis is Trying to Sneak Software Patents Into India in Defiance of the Ban
09.05.17 Dominion Harbor is an Internet Troll as Well as a Patent Troll
09.05.17 Deepening EPO Crisis and a New Report Titled “EPO Patent Filing a Rigged Game in Europe”
09.06.17 When Patent Maximalists Say ‘Innovation’ is Moving to Asia or China They Mean Litigation Chaos Moves There
09.10.17 Qualcomm Fails to Stop iPhones Coming From China, But Apple Now Faces Many Patent Lawsuits in China
09.10.17 European Patent Office in Shambles and the EU’s Brexit Position Paper Suggests UPC is Off the Agenda
09.11.17 Latest Assaults on PTAB and More PTAB Bashing, This Time by Anticipat
09.11.17 Upcoming EPO Series: Benoît Battistelli’s ‘Club Med’
09.11.17 “Reprehensible” Judge Rodney Gilstrap Ignores the Supreme Court of the United States
09.13.17 Latest Attempts to Blow Air Into the Sails of the Sinking Unitary Patent (UPC)
09.15.17 The UPC Fantasy is Going Nowhere as Complaints and Paperwork Pile Up
09.17.17 Why the Mohawk Tribe Should Fire Its Lawyers and Dump the Patents Which Now Tarnish Its Name
09.17.17 Citing the European Patent Convention, Spanish Court Tosses Lawsuit With EPO-Granted European Patent
09.17.17 Amazon and Google Have Both Become Part of the Software Patents Problem
09.17.17 Patent Trolls Update: Eolas, Conversant (MOSAID), Leigh Rothschild, and Electronic Communication Technologies
09.20.17 Mark Kokes, the Man Behind BlackBerry’s Patent Aggression, Leaves the Company
09.21.17 East Asia’s Patent Peril and the Curse of Patent Trolls
09.21.17 The Latest Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and CIPO’s Participation in Those
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
09.23.17 The Mohawk-PTAB Fiasco Threatens the Tribe’s Reputation More Than It Threatens PTAB
09.24.17 Fake News About Software Patents in the United States
09.26.17 Dying Computer Giants Turn Patents Into an Extortion Racket
09.30.17 Jesper Kongstad’s Last Day is Today, But the EPO Remains a Sordid Mess Like the UPC
09.30.17 Trolling Conglomerates MPEG-LA and Fortress Are Plotting to Start Another Round of Patent Shakedowns
09.30.17 How Tribes in America Have Fallen for a “Scam” That Now Facilitates Patent Trolls
10.01.17 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is Still Defended by Technology Companies and Heckled by Those Who Tax Them
10.01.17 China Advertises Itself as a Friend of Patent Trolls, Google’s Patent Leadership Headless
10.02.17 The Software Patents/Litigation Industry is Dying in the United States and China Takes This Heavy Burden
10.03.17 US Supreme Court Defends Position on Alice, Maintaining/Cementing a Ban on Software Patents Like the Rest of the World
10.04.17 BlackBerry’s Aggressive Patent Strategy Was a Miserable Failure
10.04.17 EPO Management Gambled on Europe Being a Patent Litigation Hub/Capital, But It’s All Coming Down in Flames Now
10.04.17 Microsoft-Connected Patent Trolls Continue to File New Lawsuits and Collect Patents for Further Litigation Purposes
10.04.17 Momentum of PTAB is Growing and Political/Industrial Support is Growing Too
10.07.17 Gains for PTAB Supporters and Excuses From PTAB Opponents (the Litigation/Trolling ‘Industry’)
10.07.17 Patent Trolls to Watch Out For: ZiiLabs, VLSI Technology LLC, and AlphaCap Ventures
10.08.17 Microsoft Lobbying, the EPO, and Software Patents Disguised as ‘Internet of Things’
10.08.17 Patent Microcosm, Patent Media and Patent Office: “It’s a Big Club and You Ain’t in It”
10.11.17 China is Getting Full of — and Fed Up With — Patent Trolls
10.11.17 The FRAND Lobby is Trying to Sneak Software Patents Into Countries That Banned Them
10.11.17 Musical Chairs as Battistelli’s ‘Chinchilla’ García-Escudero Márquez Could Reportedly Take António Campinos’ Place
10.12.17 Truly Terrible ‘Journalism’ About António Campinos Boils Down to Lobbying and Agenda-Pushing
10.12.17 The Hogwash Begins: Patent Microcosm’s Media Pretends Campinos is Anything But Battistelli’s French Succession Plan
10.14.17 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Supported by Congress, a Federal Judge, Soon to be Supported by the Supreme Court Too?
10.15.17 Access to Medicine is More Important Than Patents
10.15.17 Forget About Apple; Two of the Leading Phone Makers (Samsung and Huawei) Are Bickering Over Patents
10.15.17 Tim Heberden From the Glasshouse Advisory is Throwing Stones in a Glasshouse to Create Patent Litigation
10.15.17 Qualcomm’s Nightmares Are Getting Worse as Antitrust Questions Are Raised and Assessed
10.15.17 US Patent Trolls Are Leaving and the Eastern District of Texas Sees Patent Cases Falling by More Than Half
10.16.17 Patent Troll VirnetX a Reminder to Apple That Software Patents Are a Threat to Apple Too
10.18.17 Patent Firms From the United States Try Hard to Push the Unitary Patent (UPC), Which Would Foment Litigation Wars in Europe
10.19.17 Team UPC Continues to Promote Illusion of UPC Progress Where There’s None
10.20.17 Patent Trolls Roundup: BlackBerry, Dominion Harbor, IPNav, IP Bridge
10.21.17 In the United States, the Patent ‘Industry’ is a Dying Breed and China Adopts This Destructive Force
10.21.17 Anonymous Professionals Speak of Benoît Battistelli’s Destruction of the EPO, But Why Does the Media Turn a Blind Eye?
10.21.17 Microsoft and Nokia’s Patent Trolls by Proxy: First Conversant, Now Provenance Asset Group Holdings LLC
10.21.17 US Patents Appeal Board Attacked by the Patent ‘Industry’, Defended by Federal Courts, and Dodged by Patent Trolls
10.24.17 Let’s Hope That Apple v Samsung Puts an End to Design Patents Once and For All
10.26.17 The European Commission Has Essentially Invalided Many European Patents (EPs) for Being Out of Scope; Are Software Patents (CII) Next?
10.28.17 Amgen is Willing to Kill Many Anemia Patients for Some Patent Revenue
10.28.17 Patent Trolls’ Enablers Celebrate and Lobby for Patents on Software, React in Fury When Google Gets Some
10.29.17 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is Getting Stronger and the Litigation ‘Industry’ Hates It With a Passion
10.31.17 More Information Emerges About Provenance Asset Group LLC, Where Thousands of Nokia Patents Are Being Passed Through
11.02.17 The Screws Tighten on Benoît Battistelli as His Departure is Just Two Seasons Away, Media Still Largely Complicit
11.02.17 More High-Profile Briefs Explain to the US Supreme Court Why PTAB is Desirable and Must be Defended
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 IP Kat Peddles Patent Trolls and Software Patents Agenda
11.04.17 Put Matal in Charge of the USPTO Permanently
11.04.17 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby Advocates More and More Patent Lawsuits (Litigation ‘Industry’ Profits)
11.04.17 Patent Trolls Are Moving to Asia and That’s a Good Thing for Science and Technology in the West
11.05.17 A High US Court (CAFC) Continues Rejecting Software Patents (Even of Microsoft’s Patent Trolls)
11.07.17 Putting Radicals and Foes of Technology in Charge of Patents
11.07.17 Microsoft and Its Patent Trolls Pick Up Patents Whilst Attacking GNU/Linux and Dodging Infringement
11.09.17 Apple v Samsung Dominates the News, But Samsung Has Just Taken on MPEG-LA Using PTAB Inter Partes Reviews
11.09.17 Consensus Around the High Likelihood That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead and Backlash Against Deniers of It
11.10.17 More Microsoft AstroTurfing by Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) and Mingorance
11.13.17 Why Honest Journalism on Patent Matters Barely Exists
11.13.17 Patent Maximalism Around the World
11.13.17 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby is Losing the Battle for Europe
11.13.17 Microsoft: Sheltering Oneself From Patent Litigation While Passing Patents for Trolls to Attack GNU/Linux
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 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Defended by Technology Giants, by Small Companies, by US Congress and by Judges, So Why Does USPTO Make It Less Accessible?
11.16.17 EPO Continues to Disobey the Law on Software Patents in Europe
11.19.17 The Lobbyists Are Trying to Subvert US Law in Favour of Patent Predators
11.19.17 PTAB is Safe, the Patent Extremists Just Try to Scandalise It Out of Sheer Desperation
11.19.17 Alice Remains a Strong Precedential Decision and the Media Has Turned Against Software Patents
11.21.17 Chinese Patent Policy Continues to Mimic All the Worst Elements of the American System
11.22.17 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Foes Manipulate the Facts to Belittle the Impact of PTAB
11.23.17 EPO is Imploding as Benoît Battistelli Drains Out Work, Talent, and Justice
11.23.17 Amid Constitutional Court Barrier, Unitary Patent (UPC) Looks Dead Even to UPC Proponents, the EPO’s UPC ‘Study’ Comes Under Fire
11.25.17 EPO Becoming Like China is Something to Worry About, Not Something to Celebrate
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 Even UPC Proponents Admit UPC is Dead: “This is the End, My Friend”
11.26.17 Patent Sharks’ Last Resort: Mohawk Immunity, ‘STRONGER’ Patents Act, Qualcomm Thickets, and SLAPP
11.26.17 Patently-O is Still Trying to Derail Patent Reform in the United States
11.26.17 Oral Arguments in Oil States Energy Services v Greene’s Energy Group (PTAB Case) Are About to Start
11.28.17 EPO Budget (Users’ Money) Has Been Corrupting Media and Academia
11.29.17 PTAB Will Survive the Supreme Court, Admit Even Foes of PTAB Based on This Week’s Hearings
11.30.17 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby is Already Pushing for the USPTO to Help Make Patent Trolls “Great Again”
11.30.17 EPO Fiasco Deepens While the Media Writes Puff Pieces About the EPO
12.05.17 Ericsson’s Chief ‘IP’ Officer Kasim Alfalahi Has Become a Parasite and Patent Troll in Avanci
12.05.17 PTAB, Which Invalidates Software Patents, is Still Under Attack Using Lies From Sites Like Patently-O
12.09.17 Like the EPO, Taiwan/China (SIPO) Harm SMEs With a Policy of Patent Maximalism Which Fosters Litigation, Not Innovation
12.09.17 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board Will Endure Supreme Court Test and Overcome the Tribal Immunity “Scam”
12.09.17 Phones/Mobility (Trillion-Dollar Market) May Have Become Infested and Encumbered by Aggressive, Dying Companies
12.10.17 Next Director of the USPTO Parrots Talking Points of Patent Extremists and Their Lobbyists
12.10.17 Microsoft-Connected Patent Trolls Are Increasingly Active and Microsoft is Selling ‘Protection’ (Azure Subscriptions)
12.10.17 Patents Are Becoming a Welfare System for the Rich and Powerful
12.10.17 Yes, RPost is Definitely a Patent Troll and Its Software Patents Are at Risk Thanks to Alice
12.10.17 The Latest Scams in the Patent World
12.12.17 No, China Isn’t Most Innovative, It’s Just Granting a Lot of Low-Quality Patents
12.12.17 PTAB Haters Fail to Guard Bogus Patents, But They Still Try
12.14.17 Patent Trolls Are Going Bust in the United States (Along With the ‘Protection’ Racket Conglomerates)
12.18.17 PTAB Helps Defend and Encourage Work by Actual Technology Companies in the US, the Patent Trolls’ Lobby is Upset
12.19.17 French and Korean Patent Trolls
12.20.17 Notorious Patent Troll, Erich Spangenberg, Has a New Target
12.20.17 Companies Like Apple and Microsoft Benefit the Most From Patents as It’s a System of Protectionism
12.25.17 The Federal Circuit (CAFC) is Doing a Good Job, Which Means It’s Hated and Mocked by the Patent Microcosm
01.03.18 EPO Management Claims “Higher Quality Patents” and Everyone at the EPO Knows That It’s a Face-Saving Lie
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 Patent Maximalists’ Utopia: INPI-Like Patent Systems Where Every Application is Blessed and WIPO-Inspired Assumption That the More, the Merrier
01.06.18 When All That’s Left is a Bunch of Patents: Stories of IBM, Finjan, Ericsson, and Citrix
01.07.18 China’s Self-Destructive Patent Policy Will Replace Assembly Lines of Products With Assembly Lines of Low-Quality Patents and Lawsuits
01.07.18 In US District Courts Patent Litigation Fell by a Whopping 17% Last Year
01.09.18 Judge Paul Michel is Not So Retired; Helps the Patent Trolls’ Lobby Critique His Former Employer
01.09.18 Devices: When Allegations of Software Patent Infringement/s Can Result in Theft (Confiscation) of Physical Devices or Embargo
01.10.18 Jo Johnson’s Departure is Another Major Blow for Team UPC (Unified Patent Court)
01.11.18 EPO Lobby and Team UPC’s ‘Resistance’ to the UPC Opposition in Germany
01.13.18 Top Rank at USPTO Goes to the Biggest Patent Bully, IBM
01.14.18 PTAB is Being Demeaned, But Only by the Very Entities One Ought to Expect (Because They Hate Patent Justice/Quality)
01.14.18 Blockchain Becomes the Target Not Only of Financial Institutions With Software Patents But Also Trolls
01.14.18 If Ericsson and Its Patent Trolls (Like Avanci and Unwired Planet) Cannot Make It, the Patent Microcosm Will Perish
01.14.18 The Patent Microcosm Thinks It’s Wonderful That IP3 is Selling Stupid Patents, Ignores Far More Important News
01.14.18 Automotives, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 Among the Buzz Terms Used to Bypass Alice and the EPC Nowadays
01.15.18 Litigation Roundup: Nintendo, TiVo, Apple, Samsung, Huawei, Philips, UMC
01.15.18 Roundup of Patent News From Canada, South America and Australia
01.16.18 China Tightens Its Knot of Restrictive Rules and Patents
01.16.18 Patent Trolls (Euphemised as “Public IP Companies”) Are Dying in the United States, But the Trouble Isn’t Over
01.16.18 2018 Will be an Even Worse Year for Software Patents Because the US Supreme Court Shields Alice
01.18.18 Patent Prosecution Highway: Low-Quality Patents for High-Frequency Patent Aggressors
01.18.18 Microsoft, Masking/Hiding Itself Behind Patent Trolls, is Still Engaging in Patent Extortion
01.18.18 Press Coverage About the EPO Board Revoking Broad’s CRISPR Patent
01.19.18 The EPO Ignores This Week’s Decision Which Demonstrates Patent Scope Gone Awry; Software Patents Brought Up Again
01.19.18 WesternGeco v ION Geophysical (at the US Supreme Court) Won’t Affect Patent Scope
01.20.18 Patent Litigation in East Asia: Huawei, Samsung, HTC, Nintendo and COLOPL
01.20.18 Patent Litigation in the US is Down Sharply and Patent Trolls’ Demise Has Much to Do With It
01.20.18 Qualcomm/Broadcom/NXP Combination Would Become a Disastrous Patent Thicket Which Benefits Nobody
01.20.18 RPX Might Soon be Owned by Patent Troll Erich Spangenberg
01.24.18 PTAB Engages in Patent Justice, But Lobbyists of Patent Trolls Try to Blame PTAB for All the Problems of the US and Then Promote Iancu
01.24.18 Team UPC Has Been Reduced to Rubble and Misinformation
01.25.18 Justice Still Elusive at the EPO and ILOAT, But a Glimmer of Hope Remains
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
01.26.18 How a Microsoft-Sponsored and IBM-Armed Patent Troll Is Used by Lobbyists of Software Patents
01.27.18 Litigation and Patent Trolls Are Moving to China, Which is Bad for American Litigators But Great for American Technology Firms
01.27.18 Patents on Life at the European Patent Office (EPO)
01.28.18 The Patent Microcosm Maintains the Illusion That Relative US Demise (e.g. in Innovation) is Due to Patent Reform
01.28.18 On Patent Trolls or Bullies Such as the CAO Group and WiLAN
01.28.18 The European Commission and the Failure to Stop the FRAND/SEP Lobby
01.28.18 With the Heritage Foundation Getting Involved and Andrei Iancu Potentially Appointed on Monday, the Road Ahead Looks Troubling for Patents
01.28.18 An Uphill Battle for Software Patents in the United States, Except When Catchphrases and Buzzwords Are Used
01.30.18 The Lobby for Software Patents — Including Microsoft-Connected Law Firms — Clings Onto One Patent From a Microsoft-Sponsored Patent Troll
01.30.18 China’s Patent Policy Likely to Drive Out Foreign Companies and Maybe That’s Just the Intention
01.30.18 A Korean Android OEM is Bullied by Patent Trolls Which Microsoft Gave Patents to and Paid
01.30.18 A Danish Company Has Just Collapsed Due to Patent Quality Issues at the EPO
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
02.03.18 India and Europe Do Not Permit Software Patents, But Patent Law Firms Try to Work Around the Law
02.03.18 It is a Tough Market for Patent Trolls in the US, But Microsoft-Connected Trolls Still Manage to Harm Android/Linux
02.04.18 Contrary to Claims From the Litigation ‘Industry’, AIA, PTAB, and the USPTO’s Inter Partes Reviews (IPRs) Make the US Better for Innovation
02.04.18 The So-called ‘Big Pharma’ Industry is Hoping to Weaken If Not Eliminate PTAB
02.04.18 The Latest Attacks on PTAB Are Old News or Smears Recycled by Watchtroll et al.
02.04.18 PTAB Watch: Paul Hastings’ Naveen Modi, Worlds Inc. and RPX on Trolls in Semiconductors Market (Rambus/Hardware Patents)
02.04.18 PTAB’s Chief Judge David Ruschke Responds to the Smears From the Anti-PTAB Lobby
02.05.18 The ‘Microsoft Operandi’ of Vaguely Alluding to 200+ Patents to Blackmail the Competition is Now Being Copied by China
02.07.18 China’s Patent Strategy Seems to be Driving Away Foreign Companies and Causing Legal Chaos From Within
02.07.18 Patent Filings in India Are Declining, Just Like at the European Patent Office
02.09.18 To Understand the Protection Racket Look Not at Microsoft But at Patent Trolls Which It Sponsors
02.09.18 In China, GUIs Are Not Patent-Enforceable and GUI Patents Are Not Algorithms, Contrary to New Spin
02.10.18 The Chamber of Corporations, Together With the Trolls’ Lobby, Resorts to Alarmist Propaganda in an Effort to Alter Patent Policy
02.10.18 China’s Patent Policy Helps Chinese Oligarchs and Creates a Large Litigation ‘Industry’ Which Protects the Oligarchy
02.11.18 As Andrei Iancu Takes Office (USPTO) Calls to Preserve PTAB Are Issued by Trade Groups of Technology Firms
02.12.18 Denialists of Patent Trolls Are at It Again
02.13.18 Watch Out for Buzzwords That Are Used to Mask Patents on Software, Even in Europe
02.13.18 The Campaign to Subvert the US Patent Office by Misrepresenting Its Successes
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’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)
02.14.18 Andrei Iancu Begins His USPTO Career While Former USPTO Director (and Now Paid Lobbyist) Keeps Meddling in Office Affairs
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
02.16.18 Microsoft’s Patent Moves: Dominion Harbor, Intellectual Ventures, Intellectual Discovery, NEC and Uber
02.17.18 With Stambler v Mastercard, Patent Maximalists Are Hoping to Prop Up Software Patents and Damage PTAB
02.18.18 An Indoctrinated Minority is Maintaining the Illusion That Patent Policy is to Blame for All or Most Problems of the United States
02.19.18 Patent Trolls Watch: Microsoft-Connected Intellectual Ventures, Finjan, and Rumour of Technicolor-InterDigital Buyout
02.19.18 Makan Delrahim is Wrong; Patents Are a Major Antitrust Problem, Sometimes Disguised Using Trolls Somewhere Like the Eastern District of Texas
02.20.18 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby is Distorting the Record of CAFC on PTAB
02.20.18 Japan Demonstrates Sanity on SEP Policy While US Patent Policy is Influenced by Lobbyists
02.21.18 End of the UPC Lobby and Withdrawal of UPCA May Seem Imminent
02.24.18 Chinese Firms Dominate the Chinese Mobile Market Where Patents Are Used for Nationalist Protectionism
02.24.18 Unified Patents, With Help From PTAB, Succeeds at Disarming Patent Trolls; InterDigital and RPX See a Massive Decline in Income
02.24.18 Automated Tracking Solutions, Aatrix and Berkheimer Don’t Change Anything; They’re Exploited by Patent Extremists to Pressure/Mislead/Insult Judges
02.25.18 As Japan Moves Towards Reducing Patent Lawsuits and Curbing SEP Abuse Will the United States Follow Suit?
02.26.18 US Patent Courts Gravitate Towards Patent Justice Rather Than Patent Maximalism
02.27.18 IBM Has Become More of a Patent Broker Rather Than a Genuine Technology Company
02.27.18 Patent Trolls Like Xperi and Fraunhofer Get Patents and Payments From East Asia
02.27.18 East Asia — Mainland China in Particular — Already Becoming a Victim of Its Patent Policy as Software Patent Trolls Prey on Producing Companies
03.01.18 Similar Scandal at the USPTO (to Battistelli’s Nepotism) and Upcoming Lies About ‘Results’ (in Annual Report, Out Next Week)
03.03.18 Just Months After Japan’s Giant Canon Joined a Patent Nonaggression Pact (OIN) It’s Filing Dozens of Patent Lawsuits
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)
03.04.18 When Patent Maximalists Openly and Shamelessly Defend a Patent ‘Scam’
03.04.18 A Publicly-Traded Troll, InterDigital, is Trying Hard to Recover Lost Momentum by Adding Tens of Thousands of Technicolor Patents/Applications
03.04.18 Microsoft Should be Subjected to Antitrust Action For an Extensive Network of Patent Blackmail, But With a Lobbyist in Charge (Trump Appointee) Don’t Hold Your Breath
03.06.18 Calling Genetics and Other Things “Life Sciences” Does Not Turn Nature Into Patentable Science
03.06.18 There’s No Patent Trolls Problem in Europe, Say Law Firms That Represent and Front for Patent Trolls
03.08.18 Patent Trolls and Their Lobbyists Continue to Attack Academics Who Warn About Patent Trolls in Europe
03.08.18 The European Patent Office (EPO) Ought to Lead in Patent Scope, Not Slide to the Bottom of the Pile
03.08.18 Japanese and Korean Companies Don’t Pursue Patent Litigation and They’re Doing a Lot Better Than China
03.10.18 Alice/§ 101 is Improving the Quality of Patents in the United States and Patent Law Firms Are Panicking
03.11.18 We Shall Soon Find Out Where Trump Appointees Such as Neil Gorsuch Stand on Patent Policies
03.11.18 Trump’s USPTO Changes Patent Designs, Changes Director/Deputy Director, and Anticipat ‘Ranks’ Patent Examiners Based on How They Deal With Section 101
03.12.18 Patent Academics and CAFC Make a Living Out of Patents, But Both Must Begrudgingly Learn to Accept That Patents Went Too Far
03.12.18 EPO Patent ‘Growth’ Not Achieved But Demanded/Mandated by Battistelli, by Lowering Quality of Patents/Services
03.12.18 Doubt Over Independence of Judges at the EPO Clouds Reason in Deciding Regarding Patents on Life
03.14.18 The EPO is a Mess Under Battistelli and Stakeholders Including Law Firms Will Suffer, Not Just EP Holders
03.15.18 Patent Maximalists Are Still Trying to Create a Patent Bubble in India
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 PTAB Hatred is So Intense Among the Patent ‘Industry’ That Even Scammers Are Hailed as Champions If They Target PTAB
03.19.18 From PTAB Bashing to Federal Circuit (CAFC) Bashing: How the Patent ‘Industry’ Sells Software Patents
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
03.20.18 Battistelli’s EPO Became Extremely Reliant on China for Distraction and on Endless Supply of Applications (Supply Which Doesn’t Exist)
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 Aggressive New Activities of Microsoft-Connected Patent Trolls: Finjan, Intellectual Ventures, and Dominion Harbor
03.22.18 Japan is Becoming Firmer on Patents, Whereas China Goes in the Opposite Direction
03.23.18 Team Battistelli and Team UPC Are Both Very Deep in Denial
03.23.18 Ericsson, Acting Directly Rather Than Via the Patent Trolls It Habitually Uses, in a Patent War Against Linux/Android
03.24.18 China’s Equivalent of PTAB and BoA, the Patent Reexamination Board (PRB), Can Confirm Some Chinese Patents Are of Low Quality
03.24.18 The Patent Maximalists Already Pressure USPTO Director Andrei Iancu to Say the ‘Right’ Things
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
03.27.18 Oil States Decision is Approaching and So Does Strategic Smearing of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)
03.29.18 Senator Jean-Yves Leconte Accuses EPO and/or ILO of Injustice, But Don’t Expect Media to Notice or Cover It
03.31.18 Political Actions Against PTAB Are Still a Fringe Phenomenon and the Supreme Court’s Justices Are Unlikely to be Swayed/Persuaded by Such ‘Stunts’
04.03.18 Benoît Battistelli’s Era Yields Not Only Invalid and Harmful Monopolies But Also Breeds Distrust and Layoffs
04.03.18 Berkheimer Can be Overturned and Software Patents Are Still a Waste of Time/Money/Effort in the United States
04.03.18 ‘Patent Imperialism’ in the United States and China
04.03.18 The Mass Litigation Lobby Craves for Patent Armageddon
04.03.18 Scam and Threat in the Mailbox Today, Courtesy of the Anti-PTAB Brigade
04.05.18 It Won’t Be Long Before BlackBerry Becomes Just a Patent Extortion Operation, Formerly Recognised as a Real Company
04.07.18 The Anti-PTAB Brigade is Willing to Embrace Radical Elements Just to Get Its Way
04.07.18 Patent Maximalists Against Patent Quality and Against the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Organisation (EPO)
04.09.18 Hype Waves Exploited by the Software Patents Lobby: Blockchain, Autonomous Driving, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Wearables
04.09.18 The ‘Sisvelisation’ of Europe, With or Without the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
04.09.18 In Just a Few Years China Became the Eastern District of Texas
04.11.18 USPTO Will Have a Crisis of Legitimacy If Its Officials Work as Lobbyists and Cooperate With Villainous Think Tanks
04.12.18 Patent Trolls in the United States Show the Importance of Stopping Software Patents (Trolls’ Favourite) Worldwide
04.12.18 The USPTO Has a Nepotism and Lobbying Problem That Jeopardises the Rationality of US Patent Law
04.13.18 East Asia Should Have Adopted the Patent Strategy of South Asia, Notably India
04.13.18 Samsung is the ‘New IBM’, Sans the Trolling With Patents
04.14.18 Killing Patent Quality and Encouraging ‘Covert’ Software Patents Using the Buzzwords Du Jour
04.17.18 The EPO Continues to Lie About Patent Quality Whilst Openly Promoting Software Patents, Even Outside Europe
04.17.18 For Samsung and Apple the Biggest Threat Has Become Patent Trolls and Aggressors in China and the Eastern District of Texas, Not Each Other
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
04.19.18 When News About the EPO is Dominated by Sponsored ‘Reports’ and Press Releases Because Publishers Are Afraid of (or Bribed by) the EPO
04.19.18 The Patent Microcosm, Patent Trolls and Their Pressure Groups Incite a USPTO Director Against the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and Section 101/Alice
04.21.18 As USPTO Director, Andrei Iancu Gives Three Months for Public Comments on 35 U.S.C. § 101 (Software Patenting Impacted)
04.22.18 Is Andy Ramer’s Departure the End of Cantor Fitzgerald’s Patent Trolls-Feeding Operations and Ambitions?
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 The Federal Circuit’s (CAFC) Decisions Are Being Twisted by Patent Propaganda Sites Which Merely Cherry-Pick Cases With Outcomes That Suit Them
04.23.18 Patent Trolls Watch: Red River Innovations, Bradium Technologies/General Patent, and Wordlogic
04.24.18 Patent Maximalists Step Things Up With Director Andrei Iancu and It’s Time for Scientists to Fight Back
04.24.18 The European Patent Office (EPO) Wastes a Lot of Money on External PR Agencies for Battistelli’s ‘Heist’
04.24.18 Quick Mention: As Expected, the US Supreme Court Cements PTAB’s Role With Trump-Appointed Gorsuch Dissenting
04.25.18 Battistelli Misuses EPO Budget to Saturate the European Media With Puff Pieces About His Event
04.26.18 Reporting Benoît Battistelli Before He Too ‘Pulls a Željko Topić’
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
04.30.18 Like a Pack of Spoiled Brats, Patent Maximalists and Media That They Control Bash the Oil States Decision and Distract From It
05.01.18 People Are Belatedly Asking All Those ‘Awkward’ Questions About UPC and the Lies Told by Team UPC
05.02.18 RPX, RIP
05.03.18 The European Patent Office Has Become a Kakistocracy
05.03.18 Marks & Clerk is Still Pushing Patent Maximalism Agenda in Europe and Britain, Including UPC/UPCA/Unitary Patent (UP)
05.05.18 If Anyone Has Defamed the European Patent Organisation/Office (EPO) It’s Benoît Battistelli
05.07.18 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 Microsoft is Attacking the Competition Through Patent Trolls Based in Texas, Armed by Microsoft’s Former Management
05.09.18 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Not Happening, But Kluwer Patent Blog Pretends It’s Already in Force
05.12.18 The Patent Trolls’ Lobbyists Continue to Deny That the Concept of Trolling Even Exists or Needs Addressing
05.12.18 Patents on Life (or Supposed ‘Gene-Editing’/CRISPR) Are a Gross Distortion of the Raison D’être of Patents
05.13.18 District of Delaware is Becoming Patent Litigation ‘Infestation’ Zone, According to Lex Machina’s Data
05.13.18 The Patent Microcosm is ‘Snookering’ Andrei Iancu on PTAB Deforms and Broadest Reasonable Interpretation (BRI), Amongst Other Things
05.13.18 The Evil, Truly ‘Evil’ Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and the Courts Have the Audacity to Verify/Disprove Patent Validity
05.13.18 Three Weeks After Oil States the Patent Microcosm Has Already ‘Buried’ the Subject and 35 U.S.C. § 101 is Under Threat
05.13.18 Alice/Section 101 is Fine Because Copyrights Already Cover Software and Patents Are Inadequate for Code
05.13.18 The Supreme Court’s SAS Decision and the Race/Campaign to Undermine PTAB With Iancu’s Help
05.14.18 It Doesn’t Take a Genius to See That Microsoft Still Attacks GNU/Linux With Patents to Make Billions of Dollars in ‘Protection’ Money
05.15.18 A Google-Centric and Google-Led Patent Pool Won’t Protect GNU/Linux But Merely ‘Normalise’ Software Patents
05.15.18 Apple and Microsoft Are Still Suing Companies — Using Patents of Course — Which ‘Dare’ Compete (by Leveraging GNU/Linux)
05.15.18 EPO Has Become Overzealous About Software Patents, Probably More So Than Almost Anywhere Else
05.17.18 Today’s EPO Financially Rewards Abuses and Violations of the Law
05.17.18 Rise in Patent Trolls’ Activity in Germany Noted Amid Declining Patent Quality at the EPO
05.19.18 ‘Nokification’ in Hong Kong and China (PRC)
05.19.18 A Year After TC Heartland the Patent Microcosm is Trying to ‘Dilute’ This Supreme Court’s Decision or Work Around It
05.19.18 Patent Law Firms That Profit From Software Patent Applications and Lawsuits Still ‘Pull a Berkheimer’ to Attract Business in Vain
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)
05.23.18 PTAB’s Latest Applications of 35 U.S.C. § 101 and Obviousness Tests to Void U.S. Patents
05.24.18 Walmart, Bank of America, Allied Security Trust (AST) and the Rush for ‘Blockchain’ Patents
05.25.18 The Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court (UPC): This Week’s Latest Spin and Lies
05.27.18 The Way Things Are Going in the Eastern District of Texas and Other US District Courts, South Korean Companies Might as Well Exit the US Like They Exit China
05.27.18 The Patent Extremists Resort to Trump-Styled China-Baiting in an Effort to Destroy US Patent Policy
05.28.18 Microsoft and Its Patent Trolls Face an Uphill Battle in a Patent System Which is Increasingly Hostile Towards Software Patents
05.28.18 Supreme Court Justices and 35 U.S.C. § 101 Are Fixing the USPTO, Voiding ‘Fake Patents’
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 The Chinese Patent System Does a Fine Job Devouring China, But Sites of the Litigation ‘Industry’ Are Absolutely Loving It!
05.31.18 IP Kat is Still Acting as a Propaganda Front for UPC (and EU Software Patents) Lobbying by US-Based Front Groups
06.01.18 Patenting Bar Raised by US Courts, But the Patent Microcosm (Now Infesting ‘Bloomberg Law’ and Other Media) Fights Back With Deception
06.02.18 Team UPC Turns to a Spanish ‘Flavour’ of Unitary Patent Propaganda (Just Like Last Year)
06.02.18 US Antitrust Official Makan Delrahim Encourages Parasitic Patent Behaviour — Not Just Embargoes — in the Phones Domain and Beyond
06.05.18 IP Kat as an Extension of Team UPC After Departure of the Blog’s Founder
06.05.18 Microsoft’s Patent Trolls Continue to Attack Microsoft’s Rivals, Including These Companies’ Use of Free/Open Source Software
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
06.07.18 Today, at the Expense of Millions (€) of EPO Budget, Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos Engage in Shameless Self Promotion
06.09.18 A Post-TC Heartland (and Post-Alice) Patent System is Bad if Not Fatal News to Patent Trolls Like Microsoft’s Intellectual Ventures
06.09.18 Data From the USPTO Almost Confirms Suspicions That People Named in Patents Are Likely Unrelated (Nothing to Do With These Patents)
06.10.18 Growth in Petitions Against Questionable Patents (PTAB IPRs) and Patent Trolls’ Migration to China
06.11.18 Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe Blind to Its Participation in a Scam Around Patents on Nature
06.12.18 Battistelli’s EPO is Outdoing North Korea When It Comes to Propaganda and Abuses Against Staff
06.13.18 Buzzwords and Three-Letter Acronyms Still Abused by the EPO to Grant a Lot of Patents on Algorithms
06.13.18 When the USPTO Grants Patents in Defiance of 35 U.S.C. § 101 the Courts Will Eventually Squash These Anyway
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 Microsoft is Still ‘Cybermobbing’ Its Competition Using Patent Trolls Such as Finjan
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
06.20.18 The Eastern District of Texas is Where Asian Companies/Patents/Trolls Still Go After TC Heartland
06.24.18 Stronger Patents or None at All: How the Greed of Patent Law Firms and the Patent Office Contributes to Bogus Software Patents Being Amassed
06.24.18 Can Alice/35 U.S.C. § 101 Stop Microsoft-Connected Patent Trolls in the US?
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 Even After SAS Institute, Inc. v Iancu (Decision on PTAB) There’s No Stopping the Crackdown on Bogus US Patents
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)
06.24.18 TC Heartland is Still Deterring and Suppressing Patent Trolls in the United States
06.26.18 Number of US Patent Lawsuits Was More Than 50% Higher Half a Decade Ago
06.26.18 US Supreme Court is Not Revisiting Patent Scope After Alice
06.27.18 J A Kemp Pushing the Boundaries of Patent Scope in Europe With Antibodies and SPCs
06.28.18 iPEL (Innovative Patents, Ethical Licensing) is Just Another Patent Trolls’ Scam/Ploy Disguised as ‘Ethical’
06.28.18 US Patent Number 10,000,000 May be a Bogus One, as Per Alice/Section 101
06.29.18 Insults, Lies and Propaganda on Battistelli’s Last Day at the European Patent Office
07.01.18 Anthony Kennedy’s Retirement From SCOTUS Means That the Patent Microcosm Has Selective Recollection
07.01.18 Stop Patenting Life, Nature is Not an Invention
07.01.18 Welcoming António Campinos, New President of 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
07.02.18 The Corporate Media Continues to Promote Software Patents Which Are Clearly and Demonstrably Next to Worthless (Only the Lawyers Benefit)
07.03.18 First Act of António Campinos: Pushing the Unconstitutional Unitary Patent (UPC)
07.04.18 Yesterday’s UPC Event Was a Reminder That Team Battistelli is Still in Charge of the European Patent Organisation, Fronting for Team UPC
07.05.18 Abstract Ideas and Mental (Thoughts) Type of Claims Still Deemed Patent-Ineligible, Buzzwords Are Used Instead
07.07.18 Alice and Mayo (Inspiring § 101) Untouched for the Foreseeable Future, Meaning That the Patent Microcosm Now Smears the US Supreme Court
07.07.18 AIPLA, IPO and NYIPLA Lobby Against Section 101 and Thomas Massie Wants to Stop PTAB
07.08.18 Apple Has Far More to Lose Than to Gain From Patent Maximalism; Apple Needs to Fight for Patent Sanity
07.08.18 The Term ‘Life Science’ Has Outlived Its Usefulness
07.10.18 Patent Trolls Rally/Advertise Thomas Massie’s Bill to Abolish PTAB and Promote Software Patents in the US
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 Thomas Massie and Marcy Kaptur Are Promoting the Interests of Patent Trolls and Patent Lawyers While Calling That “Innovation”
07.14.18 Jim Skippen, a Longtime Patent Troll, Admits That the Trolling Sector is Collapsing
07.14.18 From East Asia to the Eastern District of Texas: XYZ Printing, Maxell, and X2Y Attenuators
07.15.18 BT and Sonos Are Still Patent Bullies, Seeing Patents as a Backup Plan
07.19.18 When Amplifying the Message of ‘Global Innovation Index 2018′ IP Watch Sounds Like WIPO and IP Watchdog (Watchtroll)
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 China Belatedly Tackles Patent Trolls, Albeit After Giving Them the Green Light With Broad and Low-Quality Patents Such as Software Patents
07.25.18 As the Quality of European Patents Sinks António Campinos Must Heed China’s Warning, Not Copy SIPO/TIPO
07.28.18 Microsoft’s Biggest Patent Troll Now Leverages the US ‘International’ Trade Commission (ITC) for Embargo Attempts
07.30.18 What EPO Staff is ‘Hopeful’ After a Month of António Campinos Doing Absolutely Nothing to Reverse Battistelli’s Ruinous Policies?
08.02.18 IBM’s Patent Aggression Celebrated by Law Firms, Condemned by Technical People
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)
08.05.18 The Anti-PTAB Lobby Still Predicting Doom and Gloom, as Usual, Despite PTAB’s Year-Over-Year Growth
08.05.18 The Post-TC Heartland East Texas Conundrum and the Oddity of Trials by People Who Don’t Understand the Pertinent Patents
08.05.18 Ericsson’s Wi-Fi Patent Thicket and Patent Trolls Like Sisvel Harm the Smallest Players in the Market
08.06.18 Jury Trials and Apple’s Latest Bitter Affair With Patents
08.06.18 Attributing Negligible Differences to Whatever Suits the Loudest Opponents of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)
08.06.18 Agenda and Lies From Watchtroll Make It Into the Bill of Rohrabacher, the “Inventor Protection Act”
08.09.18 Patents as Profiteering Opportunities for Law Firms Rather Than Drivers of Innovation for Productive Companies
08.09.18 Propaganda Sites of Patent Trolls and Litigators Have Quit Trying to Appear Impartial or Having Integrity
08.09.18 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement is Paralysed, So Team UPC is Twisting Old News
08.11.18 EPO-Style Problem-Solution: Tackling Backlog by Granting Lots of Low-Quality (Bogus) European Patents, Causing a Surge in Troll/Frivolous Litigation
08.12.18 Software Patents, Secured by ‘Smart’ and ‘Intelligent’ Tricks, Help Microsoft and Others Bypass Alice/Section 101
08.13.18 Gene Quinn and ‘Dallas Innovates’ as Couriers of Agenda for Patent Trolls Like iPEL
08.16.18 Almost Two Months After the ILO Ruling Staff Representative Brumme is Finally Back on the Job at EPO
08.18.18 David Ruschke, the PTAB’s Chief, is Moving So the Patent Maximalists Push Their Anti-PTAB Agenda
08.19.18 Patent Trolls Roundup: Conversant Wireless Licensing (Formerly Core Wireless) and Blackbird ‘Technologies’ Still Prey on Real Companies
08.19.18 Alice/35 U.S.C. § 101 and PTAB Are Here to Stay and Even Their Critics (Patent Maximalists) Have Come to Accept That
08.26.18 Patent Trolls Roundup: Epic IP (IP Edge), Cumberland Systems, MacroSolve and Others
08.28.18 Patents on Steroids: ITC is Rushing Embargoes Before the Facts Are Even Known
08.30.18 Feeling Shut Out of the European Patent System, Team UPC Persists With Misleading Claims and Falsehoods
09.04.18 The António Campinos-Led EPO is Over-Relying on Bogus and Abstract Software Patents to Fill the Gaps
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
09.07.18 Election of New Vice-Presidents at EPO Seems Rigged, Say Insiders and Former Insiders
09.09.18 The Battle Over PTAB Determines the Fate of Patent Quality in the United States
09.09.18 Renaming Patents on Algorithms to Make Them Look and Sound Less Abstract Than They Really Are
09.12.18 The Belated Demise of Propaganda Sites of the Litigation ‘Industry’
09.16.18 Slamming Courts and Judges Won’t Help the Patent Maximalists; It Can Only Make Things Worse
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 Interlude: The Need to Counter Misinformation From the Patent and Litigation ‘Industry’
09.23.18 Open Invention Network is Rendered Obsolete in the Wake of Alice and It’s Not Even Useful in Combating Microsoft’s Patent Trolls
09.25.18 Patent Trolls Roundup: Microsoft’s Patent Troll Collapses, Samsung Fuels Patent Troll Sisvel, and Patent Troll VirnetX Wants Apple’s Cash
09.25.18 Technology Groups and Innovators Bemoan Attempts to Override the Courts to Promote Patent Maximalists’ Agenda by USPTO Director Andrei Iancu
10.01.18 The USPTO is Hopeless, Unlike Patent Courts That Have Become the Target of Ridicule by the Patent ‘Industry’
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
10.04.18 Microsoft’s Patent Trolls Are Alive and Well, Seeding Destruction Among Microsoft’s Competition
10.08.18 In Spite of Campaigns Against It, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Squashes Software Patents by the Hundreds Per Month, Patent Maximalists Still Try to Stop It
10.14.18 USPTO FEES Act/SUCCESS Act Gives More Powers to Director Iancu, Supplying Patents for Litigation ‘Business’ and Embargo (ITC)
10.15.18 Corporate Media’s Failure to Cover Patents Properly and Our New Hosting Woes
10.16.18 ‘Cloud’, ‘AI’ and Other Buzzwords as Excuses for Granting Fake Patents on Software
10.18.18 The EPO Under António Campinos Relaxes the Rules on Software Patenting and the Litigation ‘Industry’ Loves That
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
10.21.18 Alice/Mayo and Hatch-Influenced US Patent Office
10.23.18 The EPO Under António Campinos Has Opened More Doors to Software Patents and Only Litigators Are Happy
10.24.18 Colleen Chien’s New Paper Analyses the Basis for Invalidating Software Patents
10.27.18 Lobbying and Blackmail Rewarded? JUVE Awards Team UPC Firm Bardehle Pagenberg, Which Represents Microsoft’s Worst Patent Troll, Intellectual Ventures.
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
11.05.18 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
11.08.18 The António Campinos Private/Secret Meeting With ILO Officials a Slap Across the Face to Employees of the European Patent Office
11.08.18 Microsoft is Supporting Patent Trolls, Still. New Leadership at USPTO Gives Room for Concern.
11.13.18 The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is Working for Patent Trolls and Patent Maximalists
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 Patent Maximalists Are Still Trying to Figure Out How to Stop PTAB or Prevent US Patent Quality From Ever Improving
11.15.18 Berkheimer or No Berkheimer, Software Patents Remain Mostly Unenforceable in the United States and the Supreme Court is Fine With That
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
11.17.18 Patent Maximalists in Europe Keep Mentioning China Even Though It Barely Matters to European Patents
11.25.18 Self-Professed Linux ‘Lover’ Microsoft Passes Questionable Patents to DJI as Part of “Microsoft-DJI Collaboration on Azure”
11.26.18 No, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Has Not Changed Its Position on Software Patents, Which Are Bunk
11.29.18 Even Sites That Served UPC Propaganda for Years (for These Sites’ Owners) Have Come to Admit That the UPC Might Already be Dead
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’
12.09.18 The Quality of European Patents Continues to Deteriorate Under António Campinos and Software Patents Are Advocated Every Day
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
12.21.18 Today’s EPO Envisions a Europe of Patent Trolls, Not of Science and Technology
12.21.18 Team UPC Belatedly Admits Lying About the German UPC Complaint (Fabricated ‘Rumours’)
12.30.18 Even Joff Wild and the Patent Trolls’ Lobby Finally Admit Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead
01.06.19 Unified Patents Goes After Patent Trolls Funded and Armed (Given Patents) by Microsoft
01.08.19 EPO Corruption is Helping Patent Maximalists in the United States
01.11.19 The Fiction That Spain (or Italy) Can Salvage the UPC
01.15.19 Team UPC on Dead UPC: Choosing Gowns for Corpses
01.29.19 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
02.02.19 Concerns About Stephan Harbarth’s Unitary Patent (UPC) Vested Interests and His Entrance Into the Constitutional Court That Decides on UPC
02.10.19 António Campinos Will Never Hold Battistelli Accountable for His Crimes Because He Too Profits From These
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)
02.16.19 Nobody But Patent Trolls and Litigators Will Benefit From the Corruption of the European Patent Office
02.28.19 The Latest Brexit Developments Add Another Nail (Among Many) to the Unified Patent Court’s (UPC) Coffin
03.08.19 Patent Law Firms Are Truly (and Visibly) Panicking Over the Demise of Software Patents
03.11.19 EPO Examiner: “I Have Been Against Software Patents and Eventually 3/4 of My Job is Examining Software Patent Applications.”
03.12.19 EPO’s Latest ‘Results’ Show That António Campinos Has Already Given Up on Patent Quality and is Just Another Battistelli
03.12.19 Microsoft is Complaining About Android and Chrome OS (GNU/Linux) Vendor Not Paying for Microsoft Patents (Updated)
03.14.19 EPO ‘Results’ Are, As Usual, Not Measured Correctly
03.18.19 Director Iancu Generally Viewed as a Lapdog of Patent Trolls
03.21.19 Team UPC (Unitary Patent) is a Headless Chicken
03.22.19 Why the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO) Cannot Ignore Judges, Whereas the EPO Can (and Does)
03.26.19 The Campinos-Battistelli Strategy is Working: Patent Trolls Are Coming to Europe!
03.27.19 The EPO is Still a Software Patents Propaganda Machine and Thus an Enemy of Software Developers in Europe
04.01.19 Patent Trolls Destroy the European Economy Because EPO Gives Them Questionable Patents
04.09.19 Who Does the Legal System Really Serve or Favour in European Patent Disputes?
04.11.19 EPO Still Wasting Budget, Paying Media and Academics for Spin
04.13.19 Patent Maximalists Are Enabling Injustices and Frauds
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
04.25.19 The Quality of Patents is Connected to the Quality of Life of Patent Examiners
05.05.19 2019: The Year Patent Zealots’ Blogs Have Mostly Collapsed
05.05.19 It’s 2019 and Team UPC is Still Composing ‘Fake News’ (Lobbying Disguised as Reporting)
05.08.19 Corruption at the EPO is a Threat Not Only to Europe But to Every Continent in the World
05.16.19 The EPO’s Key Function — Like the UPC’s Vision — Has Virtually Collapsed
05.18.19 The War on Patent Quality
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07.30.09 Links 30/07/2009: Brazil’s Move to GNU/Linux, IBM ‘s Latest GNU/Linux Announcement
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11.14.12 Links 14/11/2012: Android 4.2 Source Code, Mozilla’s Shumway Project
11.16.12 Links 16/11/2012: Fedora 19 is Schrödinger’s Cat, Android Grabs 90% Smartphones Share in China
12.12.12 Links 13/12/2012: Guy Kawasaki Evangelises Android, WordPress 3.5 is Out
05.08.13 Links 8/5/2013: Linux in Space, Android’s Growing Tablet Domination
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09.02.14 Links 2/9/2014: GNU/Linux in BBC, Calls Against systemd
09.17.16 Links 17/9/2016: Debian 8.6 Released, More Microsoft Layoffs and Dead Products
09.29.16 Links 29/9/2016: Russia Moving to FOSS, New Nmap and PostgreSQL Releases
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02.08.18 Links 8/2/2018: Belated Coverage of Plasma 5.12.0, Mozilla’s ‘IoT’
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04.28.18 Links 28/4/2018: Wine 3.7 Released, FigOS 2.8, GIMP 2.10
05.06.18 Links 6/5/2018: Crostini and Red Hat Summit 2018 Coming
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06.02.18 Links 2/6/2018: Mesa 18.1.1, Debian 7 Long Term Support EoL, Fuchsia Device Prototypes
06.05.18 Links 5/6/2018: GNU/Linux on Samsung Chromebook Plus, GNU Linux-Libre 4.17, Github ‘Knocked Itself Out For Open Source Community’
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06.30.18 Links 30/6/2018: Linux 4.16 EoL, Gentoo Crack, Linux Mint Release
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07.21.18 Links 20/7/2018: MusicBrainz is Back, Microsoft Pushing .NET Through Canonical
07.29.18 Links 29/7/2018: Mesa 18.1.5, DebConf18 Starts, Remembering Gerv Markham
08.09.18 Links 9/8/2018: Mesa 18.2 RC2, Cockpit 175, WPA-2 Hash Cracking
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08.24.18 Links 24/8/2018: Intel’s Gag Backfires, Red Hat Takes Aim at VMware
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