ILO
ILO was mentioned here mostly in relation to its tribunal, ILO-AT. Articles below.
09.09.11 Cablegate: Importing the USPTO Into Europe, Using the ‘EU Patent’
09.11.11 Cablegate: “The Free Software Movement is Building Support Within the Government of Brazil and Throughout Brazil”
09.11.11 Cablegate: Turkey’s Patents Trajectory on Bad TRIPS
05.20.13 Links 20/5/2013: Plenty of Linux News, Google/Android Announcements
06.15.13 Links 15/6/2013: IBM and KVM, KDE 4.11 Beta
08.10.13 Links 10/8/2013: Debian Celebrates 20 Years, Android Blobs Debated
01.26.14 Systematic Looting of Society Disguised as ‘Crisis’ (for Austerity/Privatisation) and Bogus ‘Charity’ as Solution
06.15.14 Links 15/6/2014: News Catchup, Build-up for Another Iraq Invasion
09.14.14 Links 14/9/2014: Eucalyptus Devoured
10.31.14 The EPO Is More Corrupt Under Battistelli Than Under Alison Brimelow: Part VIII
12.07.14 Links 7/12/2014: New Linux Release, Marines and Prisoners on GNU/Linux
02.14.15 Links 14/2/2015: Mageia 5 Beta 3 Released, TPP Imperialism
03.23.15 The Royal Norwegian Department of Labour on the Right of European Patent Office (EPO) Workers to Strike
03.24.15 Benoît Battistelli’s EPO is Under Attack From French Politicians Yet Again
03.29.15 When the EPO Came Under Fire From the Netherlands and Before Systemic Corruption Was Revealed
04.03.15 The EPO’s Dutch Appeal Court Judgment Controversy: List of Political Interventions
04.10.15 New Article Chronicles Suicides and Nervous Breakdowns at the EPO Due to the Management’s Abuses
04.29.15 As Core Issues Still Not Addressed, Another Protest Against EPO Management Scheduled for Tomorrow in Munich, Germany
05.25.15 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Benoît Battistelli and Four EPO Suicides
06.08.15 Spanish Media on Reign of Terror at EPO: Managerial Misconduct, Blocked E-mails (Censorship), and Abuse of Legal Immunity
06.09.15 When the European Patent Office Lost in Court and Refused to Obey the Law: An Analysis
06.24.15 Links 24/6/2015: Meizu MX4, Red Hat and Samsung Partner, Women in Open Source Awards
09.22.15 The European Patent Office’s Autocracy Has Proven the Streisand Effect, Amplifying Its Opposition’s Messages
10.30.15 The International Labour Organisation Highlights Problems of Broader Dimensions at EPO
11.03.15 EPO “Careering Towards the Precipice of Disaster”
11.09.15 European Federation of Public Service Unions Pressures Dutch Prime Minister to Take Action Against the EPO’s Violations
11.18.15 EPO: It’s Like a Family Business – Part II
11.27.15 Blogger Who Wrote About the EPO’s Abuses Retires
12.08.15 Lawyers’ Response to Incredible Accusations From EPO Management and Its Praetorian Guard
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
01.10.16 How the EPO Imposes Secrecy Around Mock ‘Trials’ and What the EPO Calls ‘Violence’
01.12.16 Transparency is Sunlight in the Kingdom of the EPO Vampires
01.16.16 Transparencia es Luz del Sol en el Reino de los Vampiros de la OEP
01.18.16 European Patent Office (EPO) is Not “the Real World” But a Parallel Universe Without Any Regard for the Rule of Law
01.18.16 Techrights Needs Translations as Another EPO Staff Protest Looms
01.19.16 Poor Journalism From Süddeutsche Zeitung Perpetuates the EPO Management’s Lies
01.20.16 The Next Phase of Union Busting: Battistelli Now Cutting Salaries of Yet More EPO Staff Representatives
01.26.16 Philip Cordery Says the EPO Situation is Well Known to All, as Attested by the Numerous Press Articles, Political Actions, or Administrative Recommendations
01.28.16 Philip Cordery Dice que la Situación de la OEP es Bien Conocida por Todos, Lo Atestigua Numerosos Artículos de Prensa, Acciones Políticas, o Recomendaciones Administrativas
01.31.16 Political Complaints About European Patent Office Abuses Keep Flooding in After Firing of Staff Representatives (Busting of Unions)
02.06.16 Rumours About Dismissal of Benoît Battistelli and New Letter From Union Syndicale Federale Blasting Battistelli’s Behaviour
02.18.16 Danish Left’s Alternate for European Parliament Slams the European Patent Office While Staff Protests Are Again Ignored by the German Media
02.18.16 Open Letter Explains Why Disciplinary Committees at the EPO Have Become a Sham Under Battistelli’s Regime
02.19.16 Rumours Suggest That Battistelli, Already Enjoying Life With a Huge (But Still Secret) Salary, Wants More Than a Decade’s Worth of Salary to Leave
03.05.16 Fallout of the FFPE EPO MoU With Battistelli’s Circle
03.10.16 The European Patent Office is in a State of Transition, But Not Battistelli’s Transition or ‘Reform’
03.19.16 International Labour Organisation Should Ask EPO Staff About the Surge in Cases, Not Just EPO Management, Which Chronically Lies
03.20.16 European Patent Office: Administrative Council gives the President a bollocking
03.25.16 Letter Says EPO MoU “Raises Questions About FFPE’s Credibility as a Federation of Genuine Staff Unions”
03.30.16 SUEPO Publishes Translations of German Media Reports About the EPO
04.07.16 On Day of Strike FFPE-EPO Reaffirms Status as Yellow (Fake/Management-Leaning) Union, Receives ‘Gifts’
04.11.16 Church of EPO: How Team Battistelli Engineered the Dismissal of People Not Sufficiently Loyal to Them – Part II
04.12.16 La Iglesia de EPO: ¿Como el Equipo de Battistelli Arregló El Despido de la Gente No lo Suficiéntemente Leales a Ellos?– Parte II
04.16.16 Administrative Council “Openly Showed Disapproval of Battistelli’s Behaviour” at the EPO
05.01.16 The European Patent Office Still Silently Abusive, Will Pay $15,000 in Compensation to Female Worker After Belated ILO Judgment
05.02.16 ES: La Oficina Europea de Patentes Todavía Sigilósamente Abusiva, Pagará $15,000 en Compensasió a Trabajadora Tras un Tardío Fallo de la ILO
05.30.16 Links 30/5/2016: Linux 4.7 RC1, Best Linux Distros
06.07.16 Links 7/6/2016: Manjaro Linux 16.06, Firefox 47.0
06.10.16 The EPO is in a Mess So Sordid That It Pays for Positive Publicity, Further Abolishes Labour Rights (to Punish Whistleblowers) and More
06.13.16 Another EPO Staff Demonstration Planned for a Fortnight From Now When Battistelli Wishes to Make the EPO Even Crazier
06.20.16 Under Battistelli’s Regime the EPO is a Lawless, Dark Place
07.18.16 Battistelli Has Implemented De Facto EPO Coup to Remove Oversight, Give Himself Total Power, and Allegedly Give UPC Gifts (Loot) to French Officials
07.18.16 Links 18/7/2016: Vista 10 a Failure, FreeType 2.7
07.28.16 EPO Loses More Than 80% of Cases at the International Labour Organisation (ILO)
07.30.16 Actions by Team Battistelli Against the European Patent Convention (EPC) and the Role Played by Željko Topić in Crushing Opposition
07.30.16 EPO Crushed the Boards of Appeal (i.e. Quality Control) and Insiders Explain Why
08.04.16 Patent Quality in Europe (EPO) Declining Under Battistelli in Spite of the USPTO’s Cautionary Tale
08.16.16 That Time When the Administrative Council Helped Battistelli Crush Oversight (Audit Committee) and What ILO Said About It a Month Ago
08.18.16 Turkey Subjected to the European Patent Convention (EPC) But Benoît Battistelli is Not?
08.19.16 The Cost/Toll of the ‘New’ EPO and Where All That Money Goes or Comes From
08.29.16 Links 29/8/2016: Linux 4.8 RC4, Maru OS Source Code
09.08.16 A New Wave of the EPO’s Much-Expected Propaganda Push, Aided by ‘Managing IP’ and IAM ‘Magazine’
09.12.16 Benoît Battistelli is Putting More EPO Staff Representatives in Front of His Firing Line
11.04.16 In the Case of Frenchman Laurent Prunier, Battistelli Reasserts Himself as Psychopathic Bully
11.05.16 EPO President Benoît Hernandez About the Social Atmosphere and Life’s Great Joys
11.13.16 Benoît Battistelli Reinforces the Perception That García-Escudero is His Pet Chinchilla at the Board of Appeals Committee (BoAC)
11.15.16 Leaked Letter Reveals How Battistelli Still Exploits FFPE-EPO (Yellow Union) to Attack the Real EPO Union, SUEPO
11.19.16 Links 19/11/2016: KDE Applications 16.12 Beta, Zorin OS 12
11.20.16 Cases Against the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Demise of Transparency International (Which EPO Partly ‘Absorbed’)
11.23.16 Employees of European Patent Office Take Action Against Culture of Fear
11.24.16 Asking Team UPC or the EPO About the UPC is Like Asking Clinton About Winning Presidential Elections
11.29.16 ILOAT Decisions: Upcoming Publication of Two EPO Cases (Abuse Against Staff)
11.29.16 The International Labour Organisation Once Again Proves Useless for Labour of the EPO
12.01.16 Two ILO Decisions on EPO Cases Are Released, at Least One Judgment is Considered Good for Staff
12.01.16 The Rule of Law and Justice Don’t Exist Inside the EPO, Confirms the International Labour Organisation (ILO)
12.02.16 Relocating the Boards of Appeal to Haar is a Poisonous Priority at Battistelli’s EPO
12.03.16 More French Politicians Are Complaining That Benoît Battistelli is a Disgrace to France and Urge for Action
12.05.16 Rumour: EPO in Berlin the Next Casualty of Battistelli’s ‘Reform’ (Organisational Suicide Plan)
12.05.16 Leaked: Battistelli Acknowledges Bunk ‘Justice’ in About 100 Cases at the Internal Appeals Committee of the EPO
12.05.16 EPO at a Tipping Point: Battistelli Quarrelling With French Politicians, Administrative Council Urged to Act, Staff Unrest Peaking
12.06.16 Endgame for Battistelli at the European Patent Office (EPO)
12.06.16 EPO Suicides Greater in Number Than is Widely Reported, Unjust System a Contributor to These
12.08.16 British Media Slams Battistelli for Attempting to Cover Up 2 Years of Juridical Abuses With Help From the Administrative Council of the EPO
12.08.16 Links 8/12/2016: Korora GNU/Linux 25, SparkyLinux 4.5.1
12.12.16 Caricature: The European Patent Office Finds Quick Fix for ILO
12.13.16 EPO Staff: Mr. Battistelli is Causing Immeasurable Damage to the Office; He is Now Untenable
12.14.16 Outside Pressure is Growing: CERN Staff Association Reaffirms Commitment to SUEPO, The Staff Union of the EPO
12.14.16 EPO Protest Begins and ILO Staff Union Expresses Support for EPO Staff
12.16.16 Why EPO Staff is Up in Arms
12.19.16 EPO President Benoît Battistelli “Should Be in Prison”
12.27.16 2017 Will be the Year Team Battistelli Collapsed and EPO ‘Reform’ Became All About Detoxifying the Organisation
01.01.17 No Separation of Powers or Justice at the EPO: Reign of Terror by Battistelli Explained in Letter to the Administrative Council
01.03.17 New Article From Heise Explains Erosion of Patent Quality at the European Patent Office (EPO)
01.24.17 The EPO’s Freedom to Disregard the Law and Abuse Employees is “Being Taken up by the Council of Europe”
01.30.17 Everything Benoît Battistelli Does Without Staff Consultation is Without Merit, More So Amid Union-Busting Catastrophe
01.31.17 Battistelli “Got Full Dictatorial Unaccountable Control of a Diplomatically Immune Organisation”
02.01.17 Links 1/2/2017: LibreOffice 5.3 Officially Released
02.02.17 International Labour Organisation to Issue More Judgments on ‘Above the Law’ European Patent Office Next Week
02.03.17 Links 3/2/2017: New Stable/LTS Linux Releases, Olimex DIY Laptop Kit Launches
02.06.17 Links 6/2/2017: Linux 4.10 RC7, Next Debian Release ‘Frozen’
02.07.17 Translation: Battistelli’s Patent Office Remains a Legal Island
02.08.17 The News the EPO is Distracting From: No Justice for EPO Workers at ILO (Necessitating Immediate Removal of Immunity)
02.09.17 Video: 123rd Session of ILO Tribunal Judgments Session Talks About EPO
02.15.17 Claude Rouiller (ILOAT) and ILO Rulings Effectively Disregarded by the European Patent Office
02.16.17 EPO Staff Representatives to Escalate Complaint About Severe Injustices to the EPO’s Secretive Board 28
02.17.17 Our Assessment: EPO Wants a Lot of Low-Quality Patents and Low-Paid Staff With UPC (Prosecution Galore)
02.20.17 Lack of Justice in and Around the EPO Drawing Scrutiny
02.21.17 The Sickness of the EPO – Part I: Motivation for New Series of Articles
02.27.17 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part VIII: When Governed by Criminals, Truth-Tellers Are Cast as Criminals and Criminals as Justice Deliverers
03.06.17 ILO: “EPO Threaten(s) the Ability of the Administrative Tribunal of the ILO to Serve All Other Organizations”
03.07.17 With a Week Left Before the Administrative Council’s Meeting, Pressure on Battistelli to Leave the EPO Continues to Grow
03.08.17 Latest EPO ‘Results’ Should be Grounds for Immediate Dismissal of Battistelli Rather Than Celebrations
03.08.17 The European Patent Office is Wasting Its Already Limited Budget on Misleading Press Releases/Paid-for Coverage That Overlook Sharp Decline in Patent Quality
03.14.17 EPO Protest Tomorrow, Heads of Delegations Informed Regarding the Reasons
03.17.17 The EPO’s Abuses and Claims of Immunity From Prosecution Increasingly Fracture the Dutch Establishment
03.20.17 Supposedly ‘Pampered’ Prisoners Are Still Prisoners of the EPO
03.22.17 The EPO is Lying to Its Own Staff About ILO and Endless (Over 2 Years) EPO Mistrials
03.22.17 EPO’s Georg Weber Continues Horrifying Trend of EPO Promoting Software Patents in Defiance of Directive, EPC, and Common Sense
03.22.17 The Battistelli Regime, With Its Endless Scandals, Threatens to Crash the Unitary Patent (UPC), Stakeholders Concerned
03.25.17 Judge and Justice Bashing in the United States, EPC Bashing at the EPO
03.26.17 Even the EPO’s Administrative Council No Longer Trusts Its Chairman, Battistelli’s ‘Chinchilla’ Jesper Kongstad
03.26.17 Heiko Maas and the State of Germany Viewed as Increasingly Complicit in EPO Scandals and Toxic UPC Agenda
03.30.17 EPO is a Laughing Stock in International Media This Week (Quality of Patents) After Decades-Long Reputation Building
04.02.17 Growing Suspicions of Planned Obsolescence at the European Patent Office
04.23.17 EPO Staff Representatives Fired Using “Disciplinary Committee That Was Improperly Composed” as Per ILO’s Decision
04.27.17 China’s Suffering From Patent Maximalism Has Europe Forewarned
05.04.17 Latest WIPO Scandal, Echoing EPO Scandals, Demonstrates Freedom of the Press Coming Under Attack From International Patent Institutions
05.07.17 ILO Gives the European Patent Office Unfair Advantage in Disputes With Staff
05.11.17 The EPO is in Disarray and Additional Complaints to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) May Be Imminent
05.20.17 EPO: Can the Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) Still Save It?
05.21.17 Media and Staff Association Elections at EPO and WIPO Are Compromised
05.21.17 New Documents Help Demonstrate That ILO Delivers Institutional Injustice to EPO Employees and Cushions Team Battistelli
05.22.17 Martijn van Dam is Wrong to Believe That Battistelli’s Abuses Are Somehow Acceptable or Tolerable Because His Term is Possibly Ending
05.27.17 Colossal Institutional Failure Surrounding the European Patent Office (EPO) and EPO Chickens Out of Debate About It
06.01.17 Shame on the Administrative Tribunal of ILO for Helping Team Battistelli Abuse EPO Staff
06.21.17 The Administrative Tribunal of ILO Will Deliver EPO Judgments in Six Days
06.23.17 Primer to the Crisis and Scandals at the European Patent Office (EPO)
06.25.17 Systemic Injustice at the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Causes Serious Harm to Complainants’ Health, Including EPO Complainants
06.28.17 Letter Warns of “Reform Marathon” a Few Days Before Benoît Battistelli’s Job is Offered to Someone Else
06.29.17 European Patent Office is on Strike Until Tuesday and Insiders Study the New Head of the Organisation
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
07.04.17 EPO Silent About EPO Strikes and Battistelli Leaving
07.06.17 Elżbieta Bieńkowska Cares More About the Unitary Patent Coup D’état (Which She Encourages) Than She Cares About the Rule of Law and People’s Lives
07.13.17 Looking Forward to a Battistelli-less and Kongstad-less European Patent Office
07.18.17 New Paper Explains Why UPC Ratification Efforts Have Been Just About as Corrupt as EPO Under Battistelli
07.26.17 Lufthansa Leaks? Nokia Leaks? Prepare for Further Digging Into EPO Scandals
08.08.17 EPO Already Thinks It’s the UPC (Which Will Likely Never Happen)
08.17.17 Corruption at the European Patent Office and Systematic Bullying That Leads People to Suicide/Bankruptcy
08.22.17 Links 22/8/2017: Linux 4.13 RC6, Mesa 17.1.7, Wine 2.15, Android O
08.27.17 How Much Longer Can Guy Ryder and Claude Rouiller Ignore Abuses and Cement Injustice at the EPO?
09.07.17 SUEPO Protests Against the Apparent Complicity of ILO in EPO Abuses
09.13.17 EPO Gets Together With Patent Radicals to Promote Software Patents
09.23.17 Latest EPO Rumours Allege That Benoît Battistelli Rigged the Process of EPO President’s Selection
09.28.17 The Effects of ILO and the EPO on Disability
10.22.17 Speaking of “Social Democracy” While Suffering Extreme Democratic Deficiency
10.22.17 The Difference Between Alain Pompidou and Benoît Battistelli as EPO President
10.24.17 Freedom of Expression is Dying Not Only at the EPO But Also Outside the EPO (Media Coverage of the EPO)
10.30.17 Belgium’s Jérôme Debrulle, the EPO and the UPC Connection
10.31.17 “EPI Makes No Protest When the AC Connives With Battistelli to Trash the Rule of Law”
11.20.17 Team Battistelli’s Attacks on the EPO Boards of Appeal Predate the Illegal Sanctions Against a Judge
11.30.17 ILO is About to Publish “Exceptional” Decisions, Most of Them Regarding the EPO
12.05.17 The Latest Noise About UPC in the UK
12.06.17 Another Day of EPO Injustices in Europe and Campinos/Battistelli Connections at CEIPI
12.07.17 Meanwhile in Eponia, Tyrant Battistelli Must be Seeking Advice on How to Refuse to Obey Court’s Orders (Again)
12.07.17 Battistelli’s EPO is Once Again Caught in Very Gross Violation of the European Patent Convention (EPC)
12.07.17 Less Than 24 Hours Later the EPO Already Refuses to Obey Court Orders From ILO (Updated)
12.07.17 ILO Said Give the Judge His Job Back, But Christoph Ernst’s Administrative Council Will Likely Let Him Go (Unemployed)
12.07.17 International Labour Organisation/ILOAT for UPC Yet Another Problem for Unitary Patent-Style Regime
12.07.17 ILO is ‘Forcing’ Team Battistelli to Compensate the Banned Judge and Give Him Back His Job
12.07.17 Battistelli’s ‘Mole’ Lucy Neville-Rolfe is Still Trying to Push Unitary Patent (UPC) Through in the United Kingdom
12.08.17 European Media Covers the Latest EPO Scandal and the EPO’s Refusal to Obey Orders of a Court
12.08.17 EPO Scandal Spills Over to Irish Media, So It’s Time for the Backstory
12.08.17 SUEPO Announces Protest, EPO Distracts From the Scandal, and Readers Spill the Beans
12.09.17 Raw: Three Years for ‘Justice’ (to be Disregarded by Benoît Battistelli) at ILO and Over a Decade at the EPO
12.11.17 Bristows is Being Hammered With Negative Comments For Its Unitary Patent (UPC) Lies
12.11.17 Judge Corcoran Turns to His Government for Help and EPO ‘House Ban’ is Finally Lifted
12.12.17 Claim: Judge Corcoran to Be Put Under Benoît Battistelli’s Control in DG1
12.12.17 Carl Josefsson Lets Judge Patrick Corcoran Come Back to Work at the EPO
12.12.17 The European Patent Organisation Refrains (For Nearly a Week) From Speaking About Battistelli’s Abuses as Judged by ILO Tribunal
12.12.17 Team UPC’s Tilmann Defends Rogue Vote at 1 AM in the Morning With Just 5% of Politicians (Those With Vested Interests) Attending
12.13.17 EPO Administrative Council Disallows Discussion About Violations of the Law by Benoît Battistelli
12.13.17 Judge Corcoran Got His User ID/Desk Back (as ILO Asked), But Cannot Perform Actual Work
12.14.17 Patrick Corcoran is Innocent, Yet Battistelli Will/May Have the Power to Sack Him Next Month (in DG1)
12.16.17 EPO Busy Distracting From Miscarriage/Abuse of Justice at the EPO (Both Office and Organisation)
12.18.17 Battistelli Feels as Though He’s Above the Law, So No Wonder He Pursues Software Patents in Europe (Against the Rules)
12.19.17 Today’s Report From the Administrative Council (AC) of the European Patent Organisation ‘Tackles’ the Most Important Issue: Judge Corcoran
12.19.17 Secrecy Surrounds the Fate of Patrick Corcoran, Even AMBA is Being Kept in the Dark by Carl Josefsson
12.21.17 EPO Judicial Crisis Has Not Ended, But the Administrative Council Certainly Tries to Sell That Impression
12.21.17 Media Blackout in Most European Media Regarding the Latest Major EPO Scandal
12.23.17 “Change of Attitude and Behaviour Needed,” Say Anonymous EPO Workers About the Management and Administrative Council
12.26.17 Raw: Administrative Council of the EPO Was Warned 4 Years Ago About “Governance and Overall Reputation of the Organisation.”
12.28.17 EPO Remains in Defiance or Violation of ILO Rulings as Corcoran Contract Ends in 3 Days
12.29.17 Raw: Central Staff Committee of the EPO Warns the Organisation That It Votes in Favour of Breaching Fundamental Rights
12.29.17 Raw: Željko Topić Tries to Defend an Illegal Suppression of Labour Rights
12.30.17 Raw: Battistelli Uses External Lawyers to Bully Staff That Complains (Like He Repeatedly Did Against Techrights)
12.31.17 Just 3 Days Before Christmas Judge Corcoran is Told That His Boss Becomes Battistelli, Who Wants to Remain in Control for Years to Come
01.01.18 Raw: EPO Violates ILO Rulings by Denying the Consultation Process Access to Vital Information
01.01.18 Not Everyone Would Run the European Patent Office Like Benoît Battistelli Does
01.05.18 The EPO’s Attack on the Boards of Appeal Dooms the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Team UPC Alters Its Tactics
01.11.18 126th Session of the ILO Administrative Tribunal is Around the Corner and EPO Staff Representatives Will Have Their Cases Heard Soon
01.13.18 Less Than Half a Year in the Job, Battistelli Already Disobeys/Disregards Rulings From ILO’s Tribunal
01.14.18 European Patent Office Causes Physical Harm to Employees, Then Fires Them
01.23.18 Confidence in European Patents (EPs) is Eroding and Stakeholders Are Already Suffering
01.23.18 Even More Uncertain a Future for the Independence of the EPO Boards of Appeal as Judge Corcoran Too Gets Sent to ‘Exile’
01.25.18 The EPO is Already in Violation of ILO Rulings on Judge Corcoran
01.25.18 Justice Still Elusive at the EPO and ILOAT, But a Glimmer of Hope Remains
01.30.18 ILO Has Once Again Let Down Labour at the EPO by Siding With Union Busters
01.30.18 The EPO’s Central Staff Committee Explains How Battistelli’s Attacks on Judge Corcoran Annul Any Perception of Independence
01.30.18 The Failure of ILO’s Administrative Tribunal Highlights Poor State of Justice in Europe and Worldwide
01.31.18 Even Kluwer Patent Blog Decides to Comment on the EPO’s Bizarre Financial Behaviour
01.31.18 Patent Justice at the EPO is as Bad as Justice for Workers
02.15.18 The EPO is Being Destroyed and There’s Nothing Left to Replace It Except National Patent Offices
02.21.18 EPO’s Board 28 Spikes Article 53 in CA/3/18, Apparently After Battistelli Withdrew It
02.22.18 Further Attacks on EPO Staff and the Appeal Boards; Former EPO Boards of Appeal Member Speaks About EPO Scandals
02.23.18 EPO Roundup: Low Profile, Employment Changes, Patent Trolls, Refusal to Obey Courts, and Animal Breeding Patents
03.13.18 Willy Minnoye (EPO) Threatened Staff With Disabilities Said to Have Been Caused by the EPO Work Pressures
03.22.18 The Federation of International Civil Servants’ Association: Frenchman “Campinos is Known for Having Close Ties to Mr. Battistelli Who Strongly Supported His Candidacy.”
03.29.18 Senator Jean-Yves Leconte Accuses EPO and/or ILO of Injustice, But Don’t Expect Media to Notice or Cover It
04.01.18 António Campinos Withdraws From Plan to Directly Run the EPO, Patent Office to be Run by Google ‘AI’ Instead
04.17.18 The European Patent Office (EPO) Grants Patents in Error, Insiders Are Complaining That It’s the Management’s Fault
05.03.18 The European Patent Office Has Become a Kakistocracy
05.04.18 From Saint-Germain-en-Laye to Strasbourg, Even the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Might Side With Nicolas Sárközy’s Thug at the EPO
05.07.18 Rumour: The European Patent Office Has Just ‘Done a Patrick Corcoran’ Again (Forced Removal)
05.10.18 EPO Scandals Are Far Worse Than FIFA’s (or Even Emissionsgate/Dieselgate), But Will European Media Belatedly Realise This?
05.10.18 Report on the (Mal)Functioning of the ILOAT From the 332nd Session of the ILO Governing Body
05.12.18 EPO Staff Deprived and Denied Basic Rights, Even Justice, But Almost Nobody in the ‘Mainstream’ Wants to Talk About It
05.15.18 The EPO Has Become Extremely Corrupt and Dishonest
05.19.18 Aurélien Pétiaud’s ILO Case (EPO Appeal) an Early Sign That ILO Protects Abusers and Power, Not Workers
06.03.18 Watchtroll Continues to Attack Officials Who Favour Technology Over Law Firms and This Time Zoe Lofgren is the Target
06.12.18 Battistelli’s EPO is Outdoing North Korea When It Comes to Propaganda and Abuses Against Staff
06.20.18 EPO Insiders Correct the Record of Benoît Battistelli’s Tyranny and Abuse of Law: “Legal Harassment and Retaliation”
06.21.18 Battistelli and Topić Lose Their Bogus ‘Case’ Against Judge Corcoran After They Defamed Him and Ruined His Career/Life
06.24.18 The ILO Tribunal: Is It Still Worthy of Our Trust?
06.25.18 The EPO Seems to Have Corrupted ILO/ILO-AT Like It Corrupted the Media and Academia (Using ‘Toxic’ EPO Budget)
06.26.18 Something is Clearly Wrong and Patently Defunct at ILO/ILO-AT (Updated)
06.26.18 This Afternoon ILO Has an Opportunity to Salvage Its Reputation (or Reaffirm Growing Suspicions That It Has Been Compromised by the EPO)
06.27.18 SUEPO and EPO Staff Respond to Yesterday’s ILO-AT Rulings on Malika Weaver, Ion Brumme, and Elizabeth Hardon
06.28.18 President Benoît Battistelli is Finished, But the Huge Mess He Has Created is Not
06.29.18 Insults, Lies and Propaganda on Battistelli’s Last Day at the European Patent Office
06.29.18 Three Days Later Still Not a Single Word From the EPO About Union Busting Gone Awry and Court Orders to Reinstate/Promote Staff Representatives
06.29.18 Union Syndicale Fédérale: Apparently ILO Considered Kicking Out the EPO for Repeatedly Refusing and Failing to Obey the Law
07.01.18 The EPO’s Attacks on Bloggers Other Than Me (and ILO-AT Being Utterly Unpredictable)
07.02.18 First Day for António Campinos is Done, But Some Media is Still Publishing 90th-Minute Battistelli Puff Pieces
07.04.18 Staff Union of the EPO: “ILO-AT Remains Very Much an Employer’s Court” (Not Employees’)
07.06.18 German Media Compares Team Battistelli at the EPO to the Mafia
07.06.18 Team UPC Suggested Changing Constitutions to Facilitate the Unconstitutional UPC. It Didn’t Go Well…
07.07.18 One Week of António Campinos at the EPO: Early Uncertainty
07.08.18 Battistelli’s ‘Legacy’ Up in Flames as Britain is “Ending the Jurisdiction of the CJEU in the UK, With No More Preliminary References from UK Courts…”
07.13.18 Weeks Later António Campinos Still in Noncompliance With the Courts (ILO’s Tribunal)
07.14.18 EPO Abuses Against People With Disabilities Followed by Legal Bullying?
07.15.18 Cautionary Tale: ILO Administrative Tribunal Cases (Appeals) ‘Intercepted’ Under António Campinos
07.26.18 António Campinos, Four Weeks on the Job, Still in Defiance/Violation of ILO Rulings, Still Engaging in PR and Face-Saving Distraction Instead
07.27.18 Correspondence With Dražen Petrović Reveals That ILO-AT is Indeed an Employer’s Court, Favouring EPO Management Over EPO Staff
07.27.18 Reader’s Post: How the EPO Silently Halves Salaries of Senior EPO Staff (or Gets Rid of Them)
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)
08.16.18 Almost Two Months After the ILO Ruling Staff Representative Brumme is Finally Back on the Job at EPO
08.25.18 In Koch v EPO, a Rare Glimpse at Tricks the EPO Employs at the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organisation (ILO)
09.24.18 Links 24/9/2018: Linux 4.19 RC5 From Greg Kroah-Hartman, OpenShot 2.4.3 Released
10.23.18 Links 23/10/2018: Mesa 18.3 Planned, RISC OS Adopts Apache Licence, Mozilla Firefox 63.0 Available
10.25.18 António Campinos Just a Quieter Version of Battistelli
11.07.18 Guy Ryder (ILO) Should Meet Staff Representatives, Not Corrupt Team Battistelli
11.08.18 The António Campinos Private/Secret Meeting With ILO Officials a Slap Across the Face to Employees of the European Patent Office
11.13.18 The USPTO and EPO Pretend to Care About Patent Quality by Mingling With the Terms “Patent” and “Quality”
11.14.18 USF Revisits EPO Abuses, Highlighting an Urgent Need for Action
11.24.18 António Campinos Has Run Out of Time, EPO Staff Representation Now Views Him as Just Another Battistelli and Wants Immediate Change
11.27.18 127th Session of ILO Tribunal Rulings Will Deal With European Patent Organisation Complaints (Appeals) Tomorrow Afternoon, Staff Grows Tired of Office President António Campinos
12.01.18 “ILO Gave the EPO Medical Committee a Good Slapping”
12.12.18 EPO Trust, Leadership and Commitment
01.10.19 EPO President “Campinos is Wasting His Credibility With “Sweet” Communiqués Full of Hot Air and Storytelling”
01.29.19 “HE DID NOTHING Since He Arrived, Full Stop.” What EPO People Make of President Campinos…
01.31.19 President Campinos Maintains Battistelli’s Abusive Sanctions, EPO Staff Increasingly Losing Faith and Hope in Him
05.01.19 Union Syndicale Federale (USF) Writes to António Campinos Again Regarding the Appalling Atmosphere at the EPO
05.02.19 EPO in 2019: Pushing (and Bribing) for Buzzwords to Bypass/Cheat the Law Whilst Abolishing the Court System