SUEPO
The Staff Union of the EPO was mentioned in the following past articles.
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
09.21.08 ZDNet: “Microsoft Has Turned Into the Biggest Patent Troll in the World”
10.04.08 Patent Systems Under Fire, IAM Magazine Concerned
05.13.10 Open Standards Out of EU Digital Agenda; EBoA Does Not Stop Software Patents in Europe
09.15.14 Željko Topić, Benoît Battistelli, and the European Patent Office (EPO): Part II
10.14.14 The EPO’s Protection Triangle of Battistelli, Kongstad, and Topić: Part VI
12.08.14 EPO Staff Protests Today and Protested Last Week, Targeting Corruption in the Institution
12.09.14 Protests Against EPO Corruption Approach 1,000 in Attendance
12.12.14 Dreaming of a Just Christmas: When a Third of EPO Walks Out to Revolt and European Judges Attack the EPO Over Abuses
12.31.14 EPO Staff Protests to Continue in the New Year, Techrights to Release New Material
01.11.15 The EPO Connection Now a Liability as Administrative Council Has Become a Laughing Stock, Jesper Kongstad to be Targeted by EPO Staff Protests
01.29.15 An Estimated 1,000 EPO Employees-Strong Legion Engulfs Danish Consulate to Protest Jesper Kongstad’s (of Administrative Council) Protection of Benoît Battistelli
02.02.15 Benoît Battistelli and Jesper Kongstad Continue to Blame Everything on SUEPO
02.03.15 More Press Coverage From the Danish Media About EPO Abuses and Protest at Danish Consulate
02.08.15 The EPO’s Vice-President Željko Topić and the Case of Ivan Kabalin: Part XIII
02.11.15 The EPO’s Digital War (Censorship) Against Staff Web Site
02.11.15 Cyberattacks on SUEPO Server Raise More Questions
02.15.15 English Translation of Article About Protest at Danish Consulate Over EPO Abuses
02.15.15 Amid EPO Scandals, Call to Dissolve the EPO and Start All Over Again (With New Management and New Direction)
02.15.15 English Translation of Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About Benoît Battistelli, Željko Topić, and EPO Tyranny
02.18.15 EPO Scandals: The Story So Far
02.19.15 EPO Staff Protests Against Benoît Battistelli’s Lowering of Patents Quality (Scope Expansion and Software Patents for Profit)
02.20.15 Benoît Battistelli Once Again Threatens EPO Staff That ‘Dares’ to Protest, Battistelli Exploits Terror Attacks to Pretend to Respect Free Speech
02.24.15 Benoît Battistelli Thinks ‘President’ is Above the Law, Decides to Ignore the Court’s Ruling
03.25.15 The EPO’s Administrative Council is Under Increased Pressure to Rein in and to Finally Stop Benoît Battistelli
03.26.15 The EPO’s Dutch Scandal Leaves Battistelli and His Cronies on the Run
04.01.15 When Battistelli’s Defender, Dutch Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten, Attacked Europeans’ Right to Demonstrate
04.02.15 Željko Topić: “SUEPO Staff Union Has No Standing in This Office. SUEPO Has No Role to Play in This Office.”
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
04.18.15 More Translations of French Article About the EPO
04.24.15 EPO Management is Trying Hard to Appease Its Critics While Pushing Forth Unitary Patent Agenda
04.29.15 As Core Issues Still Not Addressed, Another Protest Against EPO Management Scheduled for Tomorrow in Munich, Germany
05.21.15 More Utter Shame Unveiled at Battistelli’s EPO: Intimidation Tactics With Help From ‘Control Risks’
05.25.15 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Benoît Battistelli and Four EPO Suicides
05.25.15 Süddeutsche Zeitung Says Talking Helps While EPO Management Back-stabs Other Side of the Table
06.04.15 The EPO Sinks Deeper in a Scandal After Paying Public Money for Military-Connected Control Risks to Stalk Journalists and Staff
06.06.15 EPO and Administrative Council Stall Criticism by Pretending to Negotiate With Staff Whilst Actually Attacking It
06.06.15 EPO Officially Confirms That It Specifically Hired Control Risks Group (CRG) to Spy on Journalists and Their Sources
06.07.15 Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About the EPO’s Investigation Unit and Control Risks Group
06.07.15 The High Cost of Low Patent Bar at the EPO
06.08.15 Spanish Media on Reign of Terror at EPO: Managerial Misconduct, Blocked E-mails (Censorship), and Abuse of Legal Immunity
06.09.15 EPO Surveillance, Threats, and Patronisation of Dutch Legal System Covered in Dutch Article From De Volkskrant
06.09.15 European Patent Office (EPO) Now Uses Keyloggers to Spy on Staff
06.09.15 When the European Patent Office Lost in Court and Refused to Obey the Law: An Analysis
06.10.15 More European Politicians Pressure and Sometimes Slam the European Patent Office (EPO) Amid New Scandals
06.10.15 EPO Comes Under Fire From the Bavarian Data Protection Supervisor After the Spying Scandal
06.12.15 Badische Zeitung Labels European Patent Office (EPO) a Police State for Use of Very Intrusive Mass Surveillance Software (Updated)
06.17.15 More Political Interventions in EPO Abuse Cases
06.17.15 SUEPO to SUE Government of the Netherlands for Protecting the EPO’s Thugs
06.18.15 French Newspaper Les Echos Censors Criticism of Benoît Battistelli and the EPO (Updated)
06.22.15 Demonstration Against European Patent Office Management in Munich This Wednesday
06.25.15 An Estimated 1,000 EPO Staff in Munich Demonstrated Against EPO Management Yesterday Afternoon
06.26.15 The Council of Europe Slams the EPO as Political Pressure Grows for EPO Management to Obey the Law
06.26.15 The EPO’s Circus of Nepotism, Corporatism and Gross Abuse is Promoting the Unitary Patent
06.28.15 After Intervention by the Council of Europe Comes a Detailed Summary of the Situation in the European Patent Office (EPO)
07.01.15 Munich Press, Münchner Merkur, Slams the Munich-based EPO
07.02.15 Translation of Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’ Speech Against EPO Management and New Parliamentarian Interventions
07.10.15 EPO Appointments: Standards of a Third World Country
07.11.15 European Censorship: Tyrants of the EPO Blacklist Techrights, Web Site Not Accessible Office-Wide
07.16.15 SUEPO Post Vanishes: Belated Self-Censorship or Threats From EPO Management?
07.20.15 Patents Expansion in Europe May be Looming
08.05.15 EPO Measures Productivity Using the Wrong Yardstick in Order to Sell Its Racket to the Public
08.27.15 Censorship, Self-Censorship and Intimidation Now the Modus Operandi at EPO
09.09.15 Benoît Battistelli and His Goons From Control Risks (CRG) Try to Crush Unions, Not Just Journalism
09.10.15 The EPO’s Vicious Attacks on Its Very Own Staff Have Peaked (War on Dissent) While Oppressive Patent Regime (UPC) Phased in
09.11.15 EPO Has Become Political and Benoît Battistelli is Lobbying for UPC (Large Corporations’ Wishlist)
09.12.15 EPO Staff Suicides Estimated to Have Grown Tenfold Under Current Regime — Claim
09.17.15 European Patent Office Expands Censorship and Intimidation Against Staff as Pressure Mounts
09.21.15 Dutch Report: EPO Suicides Possibly Caused by Working Conditions Imposed by EPO’s Management
09.22.15 The European Patent Office’s Autocracy Has Proven the Streisand Effect, Amplifying Its Opposition’s Messages
09.22.15 Dutch Politician John Kerstens Says EPO Investigative Unit is Called ‘the Gestapo’
09.23.15 Translation Needed of Article About EPO Threats Against SUEPO’s Elizabeth Hardon
09.23.15 EPO Management Justifies Censorship (Even of Journalists) Using Its Vice-President Željko Topić
09.24.15 German Press Explains EPO Investigation Unit (I.U.), Struggles to Openly Speak to the Secretive EPO
09.25.15 Süddeutsche Zeitung Explains Imminent Federal Scrutiny Against Battistelli’s EPO in Germany
10.02.15 Microsoft’s Secret Special Relationship With EPO Illustrates Serious Corruption at Microsoft and the EPO
10.04.15 Article Explains Why SUEPO Went Silent Well Over a Week Ago: Nobody is Allowed to Talk to Journalists Without Permission From Battistelli
10.06.15 Željko Topić Attacks EPO Staff for ‘Daring’ to Legally Challenge the EPO’s Management Over Its Gross Abuses in Europe
10.07.15 EPO Staff to Disrupt Administrative Council Meeting With Public Demonstration That Raises Awareness of Abuses
10.08.15 The Coup D’état of Benoît Battistelli Follows an Imperialist Model, Threatens Opposition and Dissent
10.09.15 Benoît Battistelli’s Office Accused of Institutional Harassment Against EPO Staff in New Letter to the Administrative Council, Calling for External Investigation
10.11.15 European Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda Says TPP Will Bring Software Patents to Europe and Other Continents/Countries
10.13.15 Confirmed: Benoît Battistelli is Crushing the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA)
10.13.15 Staff of the EPO Under Siege Ahead of Tomorrow’s Demonstration in Munich
10.16.15 The ‘Sherlocks’ of EPO/Spin-Doctoring Pretend That All of the EPO’s Problems Boil Down to One Disgruntled Person (Updated)
10.16.15 Translation Needed: High Employee Sabotaged European Patent Office (EPO)
10.16.15 EPO Cleverly Frames Total War Against Its Own Staff as a War Against Nazism
10.19.15 Benoît Battistelli et al in an Allegedly New Campaign of Defamation Against Staff Member
10.19.15 German Media Shows Discriminatory EPO Practices More Than Just a ‘Pilot’ (Reaching Second Half of 2016), Started When Microsoft Pressured EPO (Lodged Complaints)
10.20.15 Brute Force Cracking Attempts Against Techrights
10.20.15 German Broadcaster on European Patent Office (EPO) Preferential Treatment for Microsoft and Others
10.21.15 EPO Increases Repressions: Allegedly Bans Staff From Helping Refugees (Updated)
10.24.15 SUEPO Reiterates Call for Independent Mediation and “Doubts That There Can Ever be Social Peace With Mr Battistelli as President”
10.26.15 The Deteriorating Working Conditions at the EPO Show Reluctance to Make Talented Staff (or Ill Staff) Happy
10.28.15 Control Risks Group (CRG), Transparency International, the European Patent Office (EPO) Investigative Unit and the Obvious Conflicts of Interest
10.30.15 Benoît Battistelli Became an Embarrassment to the European Patent Organisation, Allege EPO Workers
10.30.15 Former German Constitutional Court Judge Denounces the EPO’s Possible Campaign of Defamation Against Judge Accused of Truth-Telling
11.03.15 The Benoît Battistelli Way or the Highway: EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal is Being Discredited, SUEPO Web Site is Down Again
11.03.15 More European Politicians Take on the EPO for Ignoring the Rule of Law
11.03.15 EPO “Careering Towards the Precipice of Disaster”
11.04.15 A State Within a State: Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About the EPO’s Bizarre Existence Above the Law
11.18.15 The EPO’s Management Has Just Reaffirmed Its Possible Role in Contributing to Staff Suicides
11.20.15 Gross Aggression by EPO Management Shows the Urgent Need to Remove Immunity From EPO
11.20.15 In an Effort to Counter EPO Staff Narrative (After ~2,000 of Staff Protest) EPO Management Portrays Staff as Violent But Provides No Evidence
11.20.15 EPO: It’s Like a Family Business – Part III
11.21.15 German Media Reveals That Out-of-Control EPO Management is Even Threatening and Abusing Lawyers Now
11.21.15 EPO: It’s Like a Family Business – Part IV
11.21.15 German Press Says Broken EPO Lets President Severely Punish Staff Not Even Guilty of Any Wrongdoing
11.22.15 President Battistelli Now Pressures/Threatens Politicians Who ‘Dare’ to Complain About Abuses and Unacceptable Conditions at the EPO
11.23.15 The Bogus Narrative Floated by EPO Management: Our Judges and Examiners Are Armed and Violent
11.23.15 European Central Bank Staff Committee Adds to Growing Pressure on Abusive EPO Management
11.23.15 Support SUEPO or End Up Like They and Some of the Boards Did
11.23.15 NRC Handelsblad (Dutch Evening Newspaper) Speaks About EPO’s Refusal to Accept Court Orders From The Hague
11.24.15 Response to Bogus Accusations That EPO Staff Protests Are Really an Attempt to Derail UPC
11.24.15 New Heise Article Makes It Clear That ‘Nazi’-Themed Accusations Against the Suspended Board Judge Were Insufficiently Substantiated
11.24.15 United They Stand: FFPE-EPO Supports Suspended Staff Representatives From SUEPO
11.25.15 EPO Management Needs to Finally Recognise That It Itself is the Issue, Not the Staff or the Unions
11.25.15 Debunking the EPO’s Latest Marketing Nonsense From Les Échos and More on Benoît Battistelli’s Nastygram to French Politician
11.25.15 The Sun King Delusion: The Views of Techrights Are Just a Mirror of EPO Staff Unions
11.26.15 A Call for Bloggers and Journalists: Did EPO Intimidate and Threaten You Too? Please Speak Out.
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’
11.29.15 Why the European Patent Office Cannot Really Sue and Why It’s All — More Likely Than Not — Just SLAPP
11.30.15 Željko Topić Tries to Do to EPO Staff What He Did in Croatia, Now Crushes Staff Assembly in The Hague
12.01.15 The European Patent Office (EPO) Crushes Not Only Unions But Also the Press and Even Bloggers
12.01.15 The Spanish EPO Scandal – Part II
12.01.15 EPO Staff Representatives Highlight to Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’ How Battistelli Deceived Him
12.02.15 New EPO Job Advertisement Reveals Gestapo-Like ‘Deep State’, Operating Outside the Rule of Law and Managed Secretly by a Tyrannical President
12.02.15 Any Negative Press Cuttings, Reports and Reactions From the Media”">EPO “Intranet Fails to Present Any Negative Press Cuttings, Reports and Reactions From the Media”
12.02.15 The Spanish EPO Scandal – Part III
12.03.15 French Member of Parliament Reacts to EPO Management Amidst Ongoing Attacks on Staff Representatives and Facts-free Information War
12.03.15 EPO Staff Protest Statistics: Over 2,600 Signatures (So Far) in Petition, About 800 Staff in The Hague Protest, Much More to Come in Munich
12.04.15 EPO Does Not Seem to Have Investigators, Only Accusers and Prosecutors (Loyal to the President)
12.06.15 Article Highlights EPO’s Capitalist Venture Tendencies, Seeking to Just Maximize Profit, Irrespective of Public Interests and Human Factors
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)
12.06.15 Staff Union of the EPO Responds to Benoît Battistelli’s Alleged Defamation of Staff Representatives
12.07.15 Outside Interventions Sought in EPO Amid Scandals, New Intervention Comes From OHIM
12.07.15 FRAND Tax, Patent Trolls as Satellites of Large Patent Aggressors, EPO Puff Pieces, and Another Imminent EPO Protest
12.08.15 Hypocrite in Chief: Benoît Battistelli Compares Staff Union to ‘Mafia’
12.08.15 Lawyers’ Response to Incredible Accusations From EPO Management and Its Praetorian Guard
12.08.15 EPO’s Team Battistelli is Promoting Only the Oppressors
12.09.15 Union Busting at the European Patent Office, Dressed Up as ‘Investigation’
12.09.15 Software Patents and EPO Coverage
12.10.15 Tightening Media Control: European Patent Office (EPO) Silences Blogs of Critics by Intimidation, Lawsuits
12.10.15 A Little Taste of European Patent Office ‘Justice’
12.12.15 The EPO’s Failed (Dismissed) Attempt to Dismiss a Judge Alleged to Have Communicated About EPO Abuses
12.12.15 EPO Central Staff Committee Warns That EPO President Illegally Changes the Rules to Remove the Rights of the Accused, Crush Dissent/Unions
12.13.15 When SUEPO Called the EPO a “Public Service Organisation Out of Control”
12.14.15 Watch Out For the EPO-SUEPO Parity Spin
12.14.15 EPO No Longer in the ‘Business’ of Just Granting Patents But Politics and Lobbying Also
12.14.15 Heise Article Tackles EPO ‘Feud’ (Union Busting in Disguise), Techrights’ Remarks Follow
12.15.15 Very High Proportion of EPO Staff in Berlin Goes to the Streets to Protest and to Defend SUEPO From the Union Busters
12.15.15 When Europe’s Leading International Patent Litigators Get Fed Up With Benoît Battistelli and Want Him Sent to ‘Exile’
12.15.15 Ahead of Tomorrow’s Administrative Council Meeting EPO Staff Representatives Warn Heads of Delegations About Union Busting and Other Abuses
12.17.15 EPO Attacks Staff Representatives’ Right to Work Just One Week Before Christmas
12.17.15 EPO Union Responds to Željko Topić and Raimund Lutz’s Attempt to Intimidate Staff That Joins Unions
12.17.15 Ahead of Administrative Council Meeting, General Consultative Committee Warned of “Witch Hunt in Pursuit of SUEPO Officials” (Union Busting)
12.18.15 Benoît Battistelli: “An Earthquake Would be Needed for the Administrative Council… Not to Support My Major Proposals.”
12.19.15 Watch Out for ‘Divide and Rule’ Tactics From the Control Risks- and FTI Consulting-Steered EPO
12.20.15 EPO Management Discovers Media is Against It
12.21.15 The Forgotten History of IAM ‘Magazine’ as EPO Management’s Megaphone and EPO Union Basher
12.22.15 Europe Under Siege by Patent Lawyers, UPC Ambitions, and the Administrative Council’s Continued Passive Support of Battistelli
12.22.15 EPO Level of Trust Reaches All-Time Low: Workers Distrust the Available Phones in Their Offices, Use Mobiles Instead
12.23.15 Managing IP Interview With Battistelli Shows That He’s Either Deluded or Dishonest About EPO Realities
12.24.15 I-AM EPO: How the Record of the EPO’s Management Dispute With Staff and the EPC is Being Rewritten by EPO-Funded Media
12.24.15 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part I: An Introduction
12.24.15 Concerns About the Unitary Patent Court (UPC) Among EPO Staff an Outcome of Battistelli’s Attacks on Staff
12.27.15 Battistelli’s Proposed Changes to Pensions “Difficult to Understand”, “Liable to Cause Instability”, Without Consultation or Justification
01.03.16 The Long EPO Queue for European SMEs That Cannot Hop Like Multinational Corporations
01.04.16 La Larga Cola Para Las PYMEs Europeas que No Pueden Evitar Como Si lo Hace las Corporaciones Multinacionales
01.04.16 Shedding Light on the Secretive Mock Trial of Elizabeth Hardon and Others (EPO Union Busting)
01.05.16 So Much for ‘Vocal Minority’… Half of EPO Staff Signed Petition in Support of SUEPO
01.10.16 A Busy Week Ahead for the EPO’s Management as Union-busting Efforts Culminate
01.12.16 Una Semana Ocupadísima para la Gerencia de la OEP Mientras sus Esfuerzos por Desmantelar su Unión Culminan
01.12.16 The European Patent Office (EPO) Still Quietly Abusive
01.12.16 Transparency is Sunlight in the Kingdom of the EPO Vampires
01.14.16 La Ofícina Europea de Patentes (OEP) Sigue Completamente Abusiva
01.14.16 The EPO is Manufacturing Propaganda Again, Releasing Misleading Figures to the Media
01.15.16 How the EPO Prevented Scapegoats (‘Defendants’) in Its Mock ‘Trials’ From Actually Presenting a Defense
01.15.16 Massive EPO Protests After Team Battistelli Fires Legitimate Critics and Staff Representatives (Even Those With Young Children)
01.15.16 Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’ Lashes Out at EPO for Firing Staff Representatives
01.16.16 The Witch-hunt Against Elizabeth Hardon Leads Back to Battistelli
01.16.16 Summarising the Latest Attacks by the European Patent Office (EPO) on European Society, With Complicity of Corporate Media
01.16.16 La OEP Está Manufacturando Propaganda de Nuevo Publicando Engañosas Figuras a los Medios de Comunicación
01.16.16 Masivas Protestas en la OEP Después que el Equipo Battistelli Despide a Críticos y Representates de su Unión (Incluso aquellos con Niños)
01.16.16 EPO Staff Protests in Berlin and Vienna
01.16.16 Transparencia es Luz del Sol en el Reino de los Vampiros de la OEP
01.17.16 Battistelli Hopes That People Forget (or Don’t Know About) Criminal Charges Against Željko Topić, But Croatian Media Does Not Forget as Election Imminent
01.17.16 ¿Cómo la OEP Evitó Que Sus Chivos Expiatorios (´Acusados´) Presentes sus Defensas en los ¨Juicios¨ Contra Ellos
01.17.16 Team Battistelli Has Brought Dirty Politics to the EPO, Pension Cuts May be “Blatantly Illegal”
01.17.16 Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’ Responde Críticamente a la OEP por Despedir a Sus Representates
01.18.16 Battistelli’s Legitimacy Under Political Fire After He Fired Staff Representatives, Claims He’s Neither Suitable Nor Eligible to be EPO President
01.18.16 European Patent Office (EPO) is Not “the Real World” But a Parallel Universe Without Any Regard for the Rule of Law
01.18.16 Techrights Needs Translations as Another EPO Staff Protest Looms
01.18.16 French Politician Philip Cordery Calls the EPO Authoritarian, Says the Union-busting Decisions Are Purely Scandalous
01.19.16 Battistelli “Exacerbated the Penalties Which Were Recommended by the Disciplinary Committees for All Three EPO Unionists” (Under Mock Trial)
01.19.16 Poor Journalism From Süddeutsche Zeitung Perpetuates the EPO Management’s Lies
01.19.16 Tomorrow’s EPO Protest to Target Union-busting Actions Disguised as ‘Social Dialogue’ or ‘Union Recognition’
01.20.16 Politico Frances Philip Cordery llama a la OEP por lo que es: Autoritarian, Dice las Decisiones Destructivas Contra la Unión Son Puramente Escándalosas
01.20.16 The EPO’s PR Team May be Trying a New ‘Damage Control’ Strategy Amid Historic Protests by Staff
01.20.16 La Legitimidad de Battistelli bajo Fuego Político Después que Despidió Representates de la Unión, Reclamos que El NO es el Indicado or Ineligible para Presidente de la OEP
01.20.16 Benoît Battistelli Blasted by Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’, Who Initiates More Political Actions Against Him
01.20.16 The Next Phase of Union Busting: Battistelli Now Cutting Salaries of Yet More EPO Staff Representatives
01.22.16 Two More EPO Protests on Their Way, Thousands of Employees Projected to Attend Overall
01.22.16 Benoît Battistelli es Repréndido por Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’, Quien Ha Iniciado Acciones Políticas en Su Contra
01.23.16 Additional Information About EPO Management and Its Abuses, as Told by Anonymous Comments
01.24.16 Dismissal of EPO Staff Representatives Does Not Eliminate Them as EPO Staff Sticks Together, Shares the Burden, the Pain
01.24.16 Süddeutsche Zeitung After FTI Consulting Deal: EPO Ghostwriter or Journalism?
01.26.16 Despido de los Representantes de Empleados de la OEP No los Elimina, Al Unirse los Empleados Comparten la Carga y el Dolor
01.26.16 Philip Cordery Says the EPO Situation is Well Known to All, as Attested by the Numerous Press Articles, Political Actions, or Administrative Recommendations
01.26.16 No More Defeatism: Battistelli’s Days at the European Patent Office May be Numbered
01.28.16 Independent Dutch Investigation to Commence Into the Working Conditions at the European Patent Office in Rijswijk
01.28.16 EPO Protests Earn Coverage on Dutch Television, Programme Starts Now (10PM CET)
01.28.16 Over a Thousand People Protest at The Hague; The EPO’s PR Team is Lying Again About the Busting of Staff Unions, Pretends There is “Union Recognition”
01.28.16 Philip Cordery Dice que la Situación de la OEP es Bien Conocida por Todos, Lo Atestigua Numerosos Artículos de Prensa, Acciones Políticas, o Recomendaciones Administrativas
01.29.16 Dutch Media’s Coverage of Protest at The Hague Leaves VP1 Minnoye a New Laughing Stock of the EPO’s Staff
01.30.16 Translation: What If the European Patent Office Were to Torture?
01.30.16 The Connection Between the EPO’s Investigative Unit/Battistelli Policies and EPO Suicides
01.31.16 MEP Konstantina Kouneva (Former Trade Unionist) Again Takes Action Against the European Patent Office for Union-Busting Actions
02.02.16 Münchner Merkur Explains That EPO Staff is Defecting to SUEPO, Even The Council Distrusts Battistelli Now
02.02.16 SUEPO (EPO Staff Union) Appears to Have Launched a New and Improved Web Site After Attempts to Crush (‘Decapitate’) SUEPO
02.03.16 The Most Detailed Explanation (Yet) of What’s Wrong With the EPO
02.06.16 The ‘Offenses’ of EPO Staff Representatives Boil Down to Truth-Telling
02.06.16 Rumours About Dismissal of Benoît Battistelli and New Letter From Union Syndicale Federale Blasting Battistelli’s Behaviour
02.07.16 EPO Staff Responds to Team Battistelli’s Expansion to Include French Economic Propagandist on the Payroll
02.08.16 ‘Aversion to Change’ Propaganda From the EPO Echoes or Parrots Lenin and Stalin
02.08.16 The European Patent Office “is Acting as Though the Law Does Not Apply to It.”
02.09.16 Besieged Benoît Battistelli Mimics ‘Damage Control’ Tactics of FIFA or Blatter as More Judges Start Getting Involved in EPO Scandals
02.09.16 EPO Union (SUEPO) Getting Busted: “More and More People are Joining the Union, but Fewer and Fewer People Dare to Take on Leading Positions There.”
02.09.16 Several Political Parties Directly Challenge the European Patent Office for Ignoring the Law, Not Obeying Court Orders
02.09.16 La Más Detallada Explicación (hasta ahora) de ¿Qué esta mal con la OEP?
02.11.16 New EPO Protests Amid Nervous Breakdowns of Spanish EPO Employee (After Institutional Bullying by Battistelli’s Goons), Spain Rejects the Unitary Patent (UPC)
02.13.16 Nuevas Protestas Contra La Vil OEP en Medio de Crisis Nerviosa de su Empleado Español (Después del Matoneo Institucional de Los Chacales de Battistelli), España Rechaza la Patente Unitaria UPC
02.16.16 How the European Patent Office (EPO) is Crushing Staff Unions and Why EPO Staff Has a Moral Duty to Protest
02.16.16 The Abuses of the EPO’s Management Against Staff Extend to Their Families
02.16.16 EPO VP1 Willy Minnoye and His Bizarre Claims About Systematic Crackdown on the EPO Unions (More Than Half a Dozen People Targeted is Clearly Not a Coincidence)
02.18.16 Danish Left’s Alternate for European Parliament Slams the European Patent Office While Staff Protests Are Again Ignored by the German Media
02.19.16 Rumours Suggest That Battistelli, Already Enjoying Life With a Huge (But Still Secret) Salary, Wants More Than a Decade’s Worth of Salary to Leave
02.22.16 More Political Action in France, Still Firmly Against the Largely French EPO Management
02.22.16 “Bavarian Government is Unable to Become Involved in the Business Operations of Supra-national Organizations” Like EPO
02.23.16 Leaked: Board 28 Message to Heads of Delegation of the Administrative Council (EPO)
02.24.16 Federation of International Civil Servants’ Associations Bemoans EPO Climate of “Fear, Threats, Intimidation or Retaliation”
02.24.16 The EPO’s Investigative Unit (I.U.) Called ‘Gestapo’ on Dutch Television
02.25.16 The Mass Media Recognises This May be the End of the Battistelli Regime
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 Article Translation (de Volkskrant): EPO Employees Are Tired of Tyranny and Take to the Streets
02.26.16 Member States Are Turning Against “Tyrannical” Chief of European Patent Office (Benoît Battistelli)
02.26.16 Censorship in Land of So-called ‘Social Dialogue’: EPO is Still Blocking Techrights Web Site, But There Are Exceptions/Loopholes
02.27.16 Media Alert: Spokespeople of the EPO Are Lying to Journalists
02.27.16 EPO “Management by Fear… Within a System Which is Not Subject to Any Outside Control.”
02.27.16 Confirmed by Dutch Media (Telegraaf): Benoît Battistelli Makes Unreasonable Compensation Demands
03.01.16 Team Battistelli’s New Media Strategy at Times of EPO Emergency
03.01.16 EPO Attracts Complaints Over (Mental) Torture Against Staff
03.02.16 Team Battistelli Uses FFPE to Give an Illusion of EPO Peace With ‘Unions’ and Justify/Support a Now-Famous Lie
03.02.16 Confirmado por los Medios Holandadeses (Telegraaf): Benoît Battistelli Hace Irracionales Demandas de Compensación
03.03.16 Overview of Today’s Growing Press Coverage About the European Patent Office
03.03.16 In the EPO’s Official Photo Op, “Only One of the Faces is Actually FFPE-EPO”
03.03.16 Further Evidence Suggests and Shows Stronger Evidence That Team Battistelli Uses FFPE-EPO as ‘Yellow Union’ Against SUEPO
03.03.16 EPO Media Strategy: Call the Whistleblowers Nazis and Criminals
03.03.16 3/3 is EPO Propaganda Day: Techrights to Respond and Alert the Media About Misinformation
03.04.16 3/3 es Día Para Propaganda de la OEP: Techrights Responderá y Alertará Contra las Mentiras delos Medios
03.04.16 “FFPE-EPO Was Set up About 9 Years Ago With Management Encouragement”
03.05.16 Remember What Benoît Battistelli Said About His Salary and His Bonus
03.05.16 JUVE Translation: EPO Quick to Announce Success Story of Dialogue with Small Unions
03.05.16 Forget Staff Union-busting ‘Strike Ballots’, How About Ballots on Presidential Matters?
03.05.16 Despite Its Propaganda Campaign (‘Union Recognition’ and ‘Results’) the EPO’s Management is Totally Flipping Out
03.05.16 Fallout of the FFPE EPO MoU With Battistelli’s Circle
03.06.16 Busted Battistelli: EPO President Publicly Lies About the State of the EPO, So What About His Secret Contract, Salary and Other Undisclosed Benefits?
03.06.16 Traducción JUVE: EPO Lista Para Anunciar la Exitósa Historia de Diálogo Con Sindicatos Pequeños
03.06.16 Kontrovers: German Program (With Subtitles) About the European Patent Office
03.06.16 The EPO’s Media Strategy at Work: Union Feuds and Group Fracturing
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
03.08.16 4,062 of Staff Vote on EPO Strike, Over 91% in Favour
03.08.16 Rumoured Successor of Battistelli, Christoph Ernst, Previously Seen as Antagonist of Battistelli But What About UPC?
03.08.16 Super Tuesday: EPO Workers Are Voting for a Strike Today
03.09.16 Team Battistelli’s Bergot Reacts to Strike Action
03.09.16 Another EPO Protest Next Week, Strategically Planned to Coincide With the Administrative Council’s Meeting
03.09.16 Caricature of the Day: Recognising FFPE EPO
03.10.16 Central Staff Committee of the European Patent Office Asks the Chairman of the Administrative Council to Take Action Next Week or Risk General (Office-Wide) Strike
03.10.16 The European Patent Office is in a State of Transition, But Not Battistelli’s Transition or ‘Reform’
03.11.16 The European Patent Organisation’s Administrative Council Can Stop the Strike by Agreeing/Working to Reintegrate Staff Representatives and End Benoît Battistelli’s Witch-hunts
03.11.16 The Article Which Reinforces Rumours About Christoph Ernst Replacing President Battistelli at the EPO
03.14.16 EPO Hypocritically Responds to TV Program by Defamation/Mocking of the Dead and Threats to the Media (Truth as Defamation?)
03.14.16 EPO Protest in Munich in a Couple of Days
03.15.16 Overthrowing Battistelli Only Part of a Bigger Job (Restoration of Quality and Human Decency at the European Patent Office)
03.16.16 Survey Confirms What Board 28 Already Admits: the European Patent Office is Deep in a State of Crisis Since Benoît Battistelli Took Over
03.17.16 Institutional Failure and Dirty Tricks: Benoît Battistelli Seemingly Gets Support Like Microsoft Gets Support
03.17.16 Insider’s Account (Not Face-Saving EPO Statement) Reveals That Even Battistelli’s Allies Turn Against Him, EPO ‘Results’ Not Believed by Some, and Munich Protests Break Records
03.17.16 In the Mainstream Media, the European Patent Office is Already Becoming Another FIFA, Lies Aplenty as Last Remaining ‘Damage Control’ Strategy
03.18.16 Benoît Battistelli Made SUEPO Stronger by Trying to Decapitate It, May in Fact Have Self-Decapitated EPO (President in the Chopping Line)
03.18.16 Translation of Article Highlights Bavarian Political Motion, Protest Scale and Severity in Munich
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 International Labour Organisation Should Ask EPO Staff About the Surge in Cases, Not Just EPO Management, Which Chronically Lies
03.19.16 Conflict at the European Patent Office: Battistelli gets away with a slap on the wrist
03.20.16 Conflicto en la Oficina Europea de Patentes: Battistelli se sale con un tirón de orejas
03.20.16 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 European Patent Office: Administrative Council gives the President a bollocking
03.21.16 De Telegraaf Says There is Reorganisation Under Way at the European Patent Office
03.21.16 EPO Scandals in British Media: Third Time in Private Eye
03.21.16 Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and the United Kingdom Urge Benoît Battistelli to Allow Independent Investigation of His EPO Union-Busting Moves
03.22.16 More Vomit-Inducing Publicity Stunts From Benoît Battistelli and the EPO Management
03.22.16 Union Syndicale Federale Slams FFPE-EPO for Helping Abusive EPO Management by Signing a Malicious, Divisive Document
03.23.16 FFPE-EPO Says MoU With Battistelli Will “Defend Employment Conditions” (Updated)
03.24.16 Their Masters’ Voice (Who Block Techrights): FFPE-EPO Openly Discourages Members From Reading Techrights
03.25.16 “The Decision of the President Battistelli to Overstep the Recommendation of the Disciplinary Committee is Arbitrary and Shows Bad Faith.”
03.25.16 La Voz de Sus Amos (¿Quiénes Bloquean Techrights?): La FFPE-EPO Abiertamente Desalienta a Sus Miembros a Leer Techrights
03.25.16 Letter Says EPO MoU “Raises Questions About FFPE’s Credibility as a Federation of Genuine Staff Unions”
03.26.16 Battistelli is Trying to Save His EPO Job After Getting Called Out, But Doesn’t Give Back Busted Union Leaders Their Jobs; Strike Imminent
03.28.16 Preserving Material About the European Patent Office (EPO) and Abuses by EPO Management
03.30.16 EPO Losing Time: Two Weeks Later, Benoît Battistelli Has Made Virtually No Progress to Save Himself From Sacking
03.30.16 SUEPO Publishes Translations of German Media Reports About the EPO
03.31.16 SUEPO Publica Traducciones de los Medios Alemanes Acerca de la EPO
04.03.16 EPO Strike in 3.5 Days Effective in All Sites, Lots for EPO Staff to be Angry About
04.04.16 EPO Management Says Not a Word About Strike This Week, Not Informing Customers/Stakeholders Either
04.06.16 Muestra Solidaridad a tus Compañeros Trabajadores. Ponte en Huelga Mañana
04.06.16 Show Solidarity to Fellow EPO Workers. Go on Strike Tomorrow.
04.06.16 Staff Union of the European Patent Office Sends Out a Striking Message With a T-Shirts Campaign
04.07.16 European Patent Office Half Empty Today
04.07.16 On Day of Strike FFPE-EPO Reaffirms Status as Yellow (Fake/Management-Leaning) Union, Receives ‘Gifts’
04.08.16 Oficina Europea De Patentes Vacía Hasta la Mitad Hoy
04.08.16 EPSU Explains Why SUEPO Fights for More Than Just EPO Employees and for Rights of Workers at International Institutions
04.09.16 EPSU Explica Porqué la SUEPO Lucha Por Más que los Empleados de la EPO Y Los Derechos de los Trabajadores de Instituciones Internacionales
04.10.16 What is Known (and Not Known) About Attacks on Croatian Portal That Exposed Željko Topić, the Notorious EPO Vice-President
04.11.16 Church of EPO: How Team Battistelli Engineered the Dismissal of People Not Sufficiently Loyal to Them – Part II
04.14.16 Needed Urgently: Information About the Secret Meeting of Board 28 and Battistelli’s Yellow Union, FFPE-EPO
04.16.16 Administrative Council “Openly Showed Disapproval of Battistelli’s Behaviour” at the EPO
04.16.16 European Patent Office and Human Rights Violations: Article Translation Into English Reveals Upcoming Lawsuit Against the EPO Over Institutional Harassment
04.17.16 European Patent Office and Violaciónes a los Derechos Humanos: Traducción de Artículo Revela Juicio Pendiente Contra la EPO por Acoso Instituciónal
04.18.16 Bavarian Parliament to Discuss the EPO’s Abuses in 24 Hours
04.19.16 Munich State Attorney is Pursuing Criminal Charges Against the European Patent Office
04.21.16 Bavarian Parliament Discusses EPO Abuses
04.22.16 The Chaos in the EPO Impacts Stakeholders
04.22.16 ES: El Parlamento Bávaro Discute los Abusos de la EPO
04.22.16 In Battistelli’s Mini Union (Minion) It Takes Less Than 10 Votes to ‘Win’ an Election
04.24.16 The EPO’s Departure From Truth and Entrance Into the Realms of Chinese Industrial-Grade Propaganda
04.24.16 ES: Toma Menos de 10 Votos para ‘Ganar’ una Elección en la Mini Unión (Minion) de Battistelli
04.27.16 ES: La Departura de la Readidad de la EPO Y Su Entrada en la Esféra Industrial China de Propaganda
04.28.16 If EPO “Form of Thinking Were to be Followed, Guantanamo on German Soil Would be Possible.”
04.29.16 ES: ”Si la Forma de Pensar de la EPO fuese Seguida, Guantánamo Sería Posible en Suelo Alemán.”
05.02.16 Governments in Europe Still Active Against EPO Management
05.03.16 ES: Gobiernos en Europa Todavía Activos en Contra de la Gerencia de la EPO
05.05.16 Amid French Political Actions Against EPO Management French Consulate the Target of Next Week’s EPO Staff Protest
05.10.16 EPO an Ill Organisation, Lots to Protest Against Tomorrow
05.12.16 Italian Television to Cover EPO Abuses, Bringing the Outrage to the Mainstream in Another Country
05.16.16 UPC an Attack Not Only on the European Public But Also on Staff of the EPO
05.17.16 Two Months Down the Line, Battistelli Has Done None of What the Administrative Council Told Him to Do; He Should be Sacked Next Month
05.18.16 ES: La UPC un Ataque No Sólo Contra el Público Europeo Pero También Contra los Empleados de la EPO
05.18.16 Another Almost Empty EPO Presentation at The Hague
05.19.16 It’s All Just Artificial Distractions From EPO Management, ‘Yellow’ Union Comes Under Scrutiny Again
05.21.16 ES: Otra Casi Vacía Presentación de la EPO en La Hague
05.22.16 Disrupting Battistelli’s Distracting Propaganda: EPO Staff to Protest Again in About a Fortnight
05.24.16 Some Details About How the EPO’s President is Rumoured to be ‘Buying’ Votes and Why It’s Grounds/Basis for “Immediate Dismissal”
05.24.16 ES: Interrumpiendo la Propagánda Distractante de Battistelli: los Empleados de la EPO Protestará de Nuevo en una Quincena
05.26.16 EPO Management Under Growing Stress From Croatian Law Enforcement Authorities, German Politicians, Italian Media
05.28.16 ES: Algunos Detalles Acerca de ¿Cómo el Presidente de la EPO Es Rumoreado Estar Comprando Votos, y el Porqué es Suficientemente Base Para un Despido Inmediato?
05.28.16 ES: La Gerencia de la EPO Bajo Creciénte Estres por las Autoridades Legales Croatas, Políticas Alemanas, y los Medios Italianos
05.31.16 Extremely Dodgy Dealings at the European Patent Office
06.01.16 As Bavarian Parliament Expresses Disdain Over EPO Leadership’s Abuses German Media Listens and Staff Union Releases New Survey
06.01.16 ES: Tratos Extremádamente Astutos en La Oficina Europea de Patentes
06.01.16 FFPE-EPO Going Ad Hominem Against FICSA, Brings Nationality Into It
06.07.16 Streisand Effect Award Won by EPO: It Has Just Blocked IP Kat Blog (Updatedx7)
06.07.16 Politicians Susann Biedefeld (MdL) and Agnes Jongerius (S and D) the Latest to Express Anger at EPO’s Management Over Its Abuses
06.07.16 EPO Protest Tomorrow: Help the Media (Not ‘Media Partners’ in EPO Management’s Pocket) See What EPO Staff Really Thinks (Updated)
06.07.16 Perpetual Attack on EPO Staff, Even After the Staff Leaves the EPO
06.07.16 Time to Call Out Joff Wild (IAM’s Editor in Chief) for His EPO-Connected UPC Propaganda, Other Agenda-Pushing Initiatives
06.08.16 Goodbye to Patent Quality at the EPO, Thanks to Team Battistelli With Its Extreme Policies
06.08.16 Leaks Required: EPO’s Plan to Crush the Appeal Boards and Media Contracts for Puff Pieces
06.09.16 Battistelli is Said to be Engineering Further Attacks on People Whom He Already Fired From the EPO
06.09.16 Dutch Media Reveals That Battistelli Continues His Vicious War on Staff Unions, Laurent Prunier the Latest Casualty (The Hague)
06.10.16 The Commission is Complicit in EPO Abuses, According to Marc Tarabella
06.10.16 The EPO is in a Mess So Sordid That It Pays for Positive Publicity, Further Abolishes Labour Rights (to Punish Whistleblowers) and More
06.11.16 ES: Se Dice Que Battistelli Esta Fabricando Más Ataques en Contra de la Gente a la Que Ya Despidió de la EPO
06.11.16 ES: Medios Holandeses Revelan que Battistelli Continua su Feroz Guerra Contra el Sindicato de Empleados, Laurent Prunier la Última Victima (La Hague)
06.12.16 Why Anonymous Dissent Against EPO on Google Platforms May be Risky
06.12.16 ES: La Comisión es Complice en los Abusos de la EPO, De Acuerdo a Marc Tarabella
06.13.16 Report From Thursday Protest in EPO Munich Branch/Headquarters
06.13.16 Another EPO Staff Demonstration Planned for a Fortnight From Now When Battistelli Wishes to Make the EPO Even Crazier
06.13.16 Spontaneous Protest at EPO Today as Battistelli Still Acts Defiantly, Three Days of ‘Trial’ Starting Tomorrow
06.14.16 Endgame of Manipulating Media With Payments and PR: The ‘Blame Everything and Everyone But EPO Management’ Tactics
06.15.16 Benoît Battistelli Apparently Breaks the Rules Again and Says That Transparent Trial is Unlawful, Threatens Those Involved
06.15.16 EPO Brain Drain Goes All the Way to the Top as Head of Patent Administration Abruptly Resigns
06.15.16 EPO Investigative Unit Causes “Trauma, Will Ruin the Health or Even the Family”
06.18.16 When the EPO’s PR Team Says About UPC (Unitary Patent) That It Can be Delayed It Means Derailed or Called Off
06.18.16 No Exaggeration Necessary: the EPO Under Benoît Battistelli Has North Korean Standards of ‘Justice’
06.20.16 Under Battistelli’s Regime the EPO is a Lawless, Dark Place
06.21.16 EPO Self-Censorship by IP Kat or Just Censorship of Opinions That IP Kat Does Not Share/Accept (Updated)
06.23.16 Looks Increasingly Plausible That Battistelli is Covering up Bogus and/or Illegally-Obtained ‘Evidence’ From the EPO’s Investigative Unit
06.23.16 Another Demonstration by European Patent Office (EPO) Staff on Same Day as Administrative Council’s Meeting
06.25.16 With UPC Dead for Battistelli’s Entire Remaining Term, No Reason for the EPO or the Administrative Council to Keep Battistelli Around
06.28.16 ES: Con la UPC Muerta por el Resto del Termino de Battistelli, No Hay Razón para que la EPO o el Consejo Administrativo Sigan Manteniéndolo Más
06.28.16 Injunction Against Battistelli’s Investigative Unit (Known Internally as ‘Gestapo’) Amid Serious Injustices and Bogus ‘Trials’
06.29.16 The EPO Has Become Battistelli’s Circus and the Administrative Council Has Been Reduced to (Illegal) Circus Animals Controlled With ‘Treats’
06.29.16 Short Report From Today’s EPO Protest in Munich
06.29.16 Battistelli Attacks Not Only His Staff But Also Patents Themselves (Their Quality) and the Legal Legitimacy Surrounding the EPO
06.29.16 Battistelli is Creating an Atmosphere of Terror at the EPO While Exploiting Terror Attacks to Garner Sympathy
06.29.16 EPO Management Bunker: “The Bailiff Who Came to Deliver the Subpoena was Escorted off the Property by Five Security Guards.”
06.30.16 Battistelli’s Last Moves Are Desperate Attempts to Crush the Messenger (SUEPO), Which Will Almost Certainly Backfire on (if Not Fire) Battistelli
06.30.16 Publicly-Available Information About the Meeting of the EPO’s Administrative Council
07.01.16 At the European Patent Organisation the Administrative Council Does Not Care About Staff
07.04.16 Team Battistelli Parties Like It’s Still 2010 (Pre-Battistelli Governance), Fails to Acknowledge Demise of EPO as Popular Employer and Instead Lies to Staff
07.05.16 SUEPO “Speechless” About Administrative Council Delegates for “Cavalier Attitude Towards Law-Making” and “Contempt for Consultative Processes”
07.11.16 Coup D’état in Relation to the European Patent Office
07.11.16 “We Need to Inform Politicians, Journalists ... Ministers or Representatives that the Whole European Patent System is at Risk.”
07.11.16 Benoît Battistelli’s Attacks on EPO Unions, Judges, Boards, and Even Justice Itself the Subject of Media Fascination
07.12.16 Hot Summer: EPO Management on Trial This Week
07.14.16 EPO Management on Trial Tomorrow, But It Stated Upfront It Would Not Obey the Legal Ruling While It Rigs Its Own Rulings
07.22.16 Haar Mentioned as Likely Site of Appeal Boards as Their Eradication or Marginalisation Envisioned by UPC Proponent Benoît Battistelli
07.22.16 EPO Insiders Explain Why the EPO’s Examination Quality Rapidly Declines and Will Get Even Worse Because of Willy Minnoye
07.27.16 Patent Lawyers Move Closer to Battistelli’s Rubber-stamping Office While the Appeal Boards Pushed Away as Collective Punishment Which Masks Decline in Patent Quality
07.28.16 To Understand What Battistelli Has Turned the EPO Into Look at Turkey and China
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
08.06.16 Francis Gurry — Like Benoît Battistelli — Compared to Sepp Blatter of FIFA
08.09.16 “EPO is Quickly Turning Into a Registration System”
08.11.16 ‘Constitutional Crisis’ at the European Patent Office (EPO)
08.15.16 Clawing Back the Staff Benefits at the European Patent Office (EPO)
08.16.16 The EPO’s Administrative Council Keeps Postponing Debate About Grounds for Firing the President
08.19.16 The Cost/Toll of the ‘New’ EPO and Where All That Money Goes or Comes From
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 Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice Calls the European Patent Office “Rotten”, Other Sources Scrutinise Recent Moves
08.29.16 Nothing Whatsoever Has Improved at the European Patent Office, It’s Just Summer’s Recess (and Silence)
09.02.16 UPC Threatens to Send the European Patent Office Circling Down the Drain
09.03.16 Battistelli is Even Attacking the French, and Not Just in Germany But Also on Dutch Territory
09.03.16 Specialists in Public International Law Bemoan Privacy Violations at the European Patent Office
09.04.16 There is No Future for the UPC in Spite of What the EPO and the Patent Microcosm Keep Telling Us
09.06.16 High on EPO: Battistelli’s ‘Social Conference’ Nonsense is Intended to Help Suppress Debate About His Abuses Against Staff and Union-Busting Activities
09.08.16 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
09.13.16 Web Site ‘Managing IP’ is Managing to Come Across as an EPO Mouthpiece
09.19.16 With or Without the UPC (Which Will Probably Never Happen) Battistelli is Crushing the EPO and Ejects Experienced Staff, a Future Without Examination Possible
09.23.16 Journalism 101: Do Not Believe Anything That Benoît Battistelli and the EPO’s Management Say (Also Don’t Fall for the UPC Hype)
09.23.16 White Male-Dominated EPO Management Sinks to New Lows, Again
09.25.16 The EPO Does Not Want Skilled (and ‘Expensive’) Staff, Layoffs a Growing Concern
09.25.16 What Insiders Are Saying About the Sad State of the European Patent Office (EPO)
09.27.16 Team Battistelli Intensifies the Attack on the Boards of Appeal Again
09.27.16 The Battistelli Effect: “We Will be Gradually Forced to File Our Patent Applications Outside the EPO in the Interests of Our Clients”
09.28.16 EPO’s Board 28 Notes Battistelli’s “Three Current Investigations/Disciplinary Proceedings Involving SUEPO Members in The Hague.”
09.28.16 Cementing Autocracy: The European Patent Office Against Democracy, Against Media, and Against the Rule of Law
09.29.16 Leaked: Conclusions of the Secretive EPO Board 28 Meeting (8th of September 2016)
09.29.16 Letter From the Dutch Institute of Patent Attorneys (Nederlandse Orde van Octrooigemachtigden) to the Administrative Council of the EPO
09.30.16 Battistelli Locks EPO Staff Union Out of Social Conference So That He Can Lie About the Union and the Social Climate
09.30.16 Dutch Court Rules Against SUEPO (in a Reversal), But EPO Management Would Have Ignored the Ruling Even If SUEPO Won (Updated)
10.01.16 Immunity of the European Patent Office and Lack of Oversight Within the Organisation Mean That It’s a Rogue Entity Above the Law
10.02.16 Not Just the European Patent Office But the Organisation Too a Culprit in Immunity and Impunity
10.04.16 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
10.05.16 No Justice Even for a Judge at the EPO, as the Whole Institution is Beyond Rotten and Quite Corrupt
10.06.16 Battistelli’s Preparation for a Propaganda Session That Excludes EPO Staff Representation
10.07.16 Rumour: The European Patent Office Intends to Sack Staff Representatives at The Hague Like It Did in Munich
10.09.16 The Administrative Council Seems to Have No Issues With Battistelli Wasting Millions of Euros Buying the Media and Fake ‘Studies’
10.10.16 New Letter to the Delegates of the Administrative Council
10.11.16 “Very Mysterious Things Going on at the IPKat Recently”
10.11.16 The Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) Protested Today in Munich (Against the EPO’s Management) While President Benoît Battistelli Lied
10.16.16 Outline of Latest Press Coverage Regarding the European Patent Office (EPO)
10.16.16 As Expected, Benoît Battistelli Puts Longtime Ally Roland Grossenbacher on Top of Boards of Appeal
10.18.16 Danish Press Coverage of the European Patent Office and the Problems Explored by Techrights
10.18.16 Battistelli Wants Us to Believe a Patent Office in a Freefall (EPO) is “Stronger and More Sustainable”
10.18.16 French Article About the EPO “Crisis”
10.18.16 Leaked: Outcomes of 149th Administrative Council’s Meeting at the European Patent Organisation
10.19.16 Team Battistelli’s Conspiracy Theory: SUEPO is Behind Everything, EPO Management is Trying to Tell the Media
10.19.16 Battistelli-Commissioned PwC ‘Study’: The Raw Outcome Shows Distortion of the Facts at the EPO’s Notorious ‘Social Conference’
10.22.16 Battistelli-Commissioned PwC ‘Study’: Leaked Document Shows PwC’s Dishonesty and Misrepresentation of EPO Staff
10.23.16 Open Letter Exposing the Farce Which Was Battistelli’s ‘Social Conference’ Coinciding With Further (New) Attacks on EPO Staff Representatives
10.24.16 Battistelli Plans to Expand the Social ‘Study’ (Then ‘Conference’) Propaganda Until Next Month, Under the ‘Workshop’ Umbrella
10.25.16 Leaked Minutes From the EPO Reveal That Battistelli is Detached From Reality and Blames Everything on “Union Officials”
11.04.16 In the Case of Frenchman Laurent Prunier, Battistelli Reasserts Himself as Psychopathic Bully
11.05.16 Dismissal of Laurent Prunier Worse Than It Seems as Battistelli Almost ‘Pulls a Hardon’ by Taking Away Pension Rights Too
11.06.16 EPO Ally IAM Magazine Calls Battistelli’s Dismissal of EPO Staff Representative Laurent Prunier “a Needless Own Goal.”
11.07.16 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 SUEPO (EPO Staff Union) “Fears Now That the Intention Behind This Blow is “to Destroy” the Union.”
11.10.16 Battistelli Must Go, Says Yet Another French Politician, Arguing He is “Extremely Damaging to the Image of France”
11.10.16 “Not My President“: The Sentiment of European Patent Office Staff Towards Their Fascistic Boss
11.14.16 Leaked: Proof That Benoît Battistelli Disregarded Orders From the Administrative Council (Again)
11.15.16 Leaked Letter Reveals How Battistelli Still Exploits FFPE-EPO (Yellow Union) to Attack the Real EPO Union, SUEPO
11.15.16 Guest Post: Behind the GCC Meeting and How Battistelli Finds Excuses for His Union-Busting Campaign at the EPO
11.16.16 Amid Scapegoating, Union-Shaming and Gagging by Battistelli, SUEPO’s Prunier Provides More Details on Union Busting at the EPO
11.17.16 Battistelli Should be Made Redundant (Fired) Before All EPO Staff Becomes Redundant in a Defunct Office That Flagrantly Mocks the Law
11.18.16 Concerns Over ‘Terror’ Patent Office: New Article From Dutch Media (Telegraaf)
11.19.16 European Media, Dutch Parliament and Spectacularly Enough Even IP Kat (Yes, It’s Back!) Subject the EPO to Serious Scrutiny
11.20.16 Cases Against the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Demise of Transparency International (Which EPO Partly ‘Absorbed’)
11.23.16 EPO Protest Tomorrow at The Hague
11.23.16 Union Syndicale Fédérale Writes Letters to the Chinchilla Man of the Administrative Council About Battistelli’s EPO Abuses, No Sign of Reply/Reaction
11.24.16 Video and Audio: Press Coverage From Today’s EPO Protest at The Hague
11.25.16 EPO and the Art of Distraction, Disinformation
11.26.16 Caught in a Lie Again: EPO Management Just Cannot Stop Lying, Even About People Whom It Gags Using Threats (to Cover Up Battistelli’s Abuses)
11.26.16 Benoît Battistelli’s Affinity for Tiny Countries Exploits the Ease of ‘Buying’ Their Votes
11.29.16 European Public Service Union Asks EPO Administrative Council “to Re-establish the Rule of Law at the European Patent Office”
12.01.16 Dutch and French Politicians Complain About the European Patent Office, British Media Coverage Regular Now
12.03.16 Dutch Media Covers Latest EPO Scandals, German Media Totally Absent (a Media Blackout of Convenience)
12.05.16 EPO at a Tipping Point: Battistelli Quarrelling With French Politicians, Administrative Council Urged to Act, Staff Unrest Peaking
12.10.16 EPO Protest This Coming Wednesday Strives to Restore the Rule of Law and Freedom of Speech at the Office
12.11.16 EPO ‘Reform’ Seems to Strive for Echo Chamber Mentality, Elimination of Unions, Crackdown on Experienced (Well-Paid) Employees, and Departure From Patent Quality
12.13.16 EPO Staff: Mr. Battistelli is Causing Immeasurable Damage to the Office; He is Now Untenable
12.13.16 The EPO Keeps Bullying Examiners and Even Judges, EPO’s Mouthpiece PwC Now Bullies Researchers
12.13.16 Staff Union of the European Central Bank Blasts Benoît Battistelli
12.14.16 Outside Pressure is Growing: CERN Staff Association Reaffirms Commitment to SUEPO, The Staff Union of the EPO
12.15.16 Confirmed: Judge Carl Josefsson Chosen by the Administrative Council for the Secretive Patent Organisation
12.15.16 Shame on the German Media for the Media Blackout Surrounding EPO Protests in Munich (and Sometimes Berlin)
12.19.16 From Bad to Worse: When a Horrible Regime (EPO) Publicly Makes Itself Look Like One
12.20.16 Leaked: After Vicious Attacks on SUEPO — in Defiance of the Administrative Council’s Demands! — Team Battistelli Pretends to Want Union Recognition
12.21.16 With Lucy Neville-Rolfe Out (Confirmed Today!) and Chaos in the EPO’s Management, the UPC’s Prospects Look Worse Than Ever in the UK and Europe as a Whole
12.27.16 2017 Will be the Year Team Battistelli Collapsed and EPO ‘Reform’ Became All About Detoxifying the Organisation
12.27.16 Negative Publicity (Personal or by Association With the EPO) is Devouring the Institution
12.31.16 EPO’s Central Staff Committee Complains About Battistelli’s Bodyguards Fetish and Corruption of the Media
12.31.16 Open EPO Letter Bemoans Battistelli’s Antisocial Autocracy Disguised/Camouflaged Under the Misleading Term “Social Democracy”
01.01.17 Video: French State Secretary for Digital Economy Speaks Out Against Benoît Battistelli at Battistelli’s PR Event
01.01.17 FFPE-EPO is a Zombie (if Not Dead) Yellow Union Whose Only de Facto Purpose Has Been Attacking the EPO’s Staff Union
01.01.17 When EPO Vice-President, Who Will Resign Soon, Made a Mockery of the EPO
01.02.17 365 Days Later, German Justice Minister Heiko Maas Remains Silent and Thus Complicit in EPO Abuses on German Soil
01.02.17 Teaser: Corruption Indictments Brought Against Vice-President of the European Patent Office (EPO)
01.03.17 New Article From Heise Explains Erosion of Patent Quality at the European Patent Office (EPO)
01.07.17 2017: Latest Year That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Still Stuck in a Limbo
01.10.17 FFPE-EPO, the EPO Management’s Pet/Yellow Union, Helps Union-Busting (Against SUEPO) in Letter to Notorious Vice-President
01.15.17 EPO Abuses Come Under Fire From Politicians in Luxembourg
01.17.17 EPO Totally Silent for a Month, But Deep Inside There Are Serious Cracks
01.18.17 A Lot More Fake News About the UPC, Trying to Convince People That the UK is Ratifying (It’s Not, It Cannot)
01.18.17 Union-Busting Action by Team Battistelli Takes Heavy Toll, Techrights Will Continue to Expose EPO Injustices to the World
01.20.17 Battistelli is an Autocrat Above the Law and It’s OK, Holland’s High Council Says
01.21.17 EPO Abuses Now Make the Netherlands Look Like a Facilitator of Human/Labour Rights Abuses
01.21.17 ‘Reform’ at the EPO Means Destroying the Staff Union, Crushing Patent Examiners, and Imposing on Europe a System It Does Not Want (UPC)
01.23.17 Media Blasts EPO Over Immunity Amid Suicides, Battistelli’s Behaviour Compared to Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s
01.24.17 The EPO’s Freedom to Disregard the Law and Abuse Employees is “Being Taken up by the Council of Europe”
01.24.17 Leaked: Team Battistelli, Exploiting a Controversial Decision From the Netherlands, is Trying to Squash SUEPO
01.26.17 French Media Says Benoît Battistelli Turned the Patent Office Into a Sort of North Korea
01.27.17 The European Spam Office: 37% of Twitter ‘Followers’ Are Fake, Maybe Even Paid For (Waste of EPO Budget)
01.29.17 Battistelli Keeps Filling His Swamp at the European Patent Office for Social Control and Immunity Purposes
01.29.17 Revealed: Lack of Justice at the European Patent Office (EPO), No Valid Courts
01.31.17 Battistelli “Got Full Dictatorial Unaccountable Control of a Diplomatically Immune Organisation”
02.01.17 The Netherlands With Its Bizarre Decision to Let the EPO Violate Dutch Law, Now in English
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 Battistelli Continues With Intimidation Tactics”
02.05.17 Culture of Terror at The European Patent Office Escalates Thanks to Dutch Government’s Complicity
02.06.17 The EPO’s President, Benoît Battistelli, May Have Become One of Europe’s Most Hated People
02.07.17 Translation: Juve Survey That Shows 0% Approval of Battistelli and Growing Concerns About the EPO
02.07.17 Translation: Battistelli’s Patent Office Remains a Legal Island
02.07.17 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part VI: Fear Climate and Antipathy Now the ‘Norm’
02.07.17 The European Patent Office Officially Dishonours Justice, So It’s Time for SUEPO to Become Clandestine
02.07.17 Reception of the New German Ambassador (Dirk Brengelmann) at the EPO, in Presence of the Stasi-Like Investigative Unit
02.14.17 Leaked: European Patent Office a Fire Hazard Waiting to Cause Tragedy (Possible Deaths)
02.15.17 Claude Rouiller (ILOAT) and ILO Rulings Effectively Disregarded by the European Patent Office
02.16.17 Yet More Complaints About the European Patent Office in the Bavarian Regional Government
02.16.17 EPO Staff Representatives to Escalate Complaint About Severe Injustices to the EPO’s Secretive Board 28
02.19.17 The EPO is Becoming an Embarrassment to Europe and a Growing Threat to the European Union
02.20.17 Lack of Justice in and Around the EPO Drawing Scrutiny
02.23.17 The Sickness of the EPO – Part IV: Cruel Management That Deliberately Attacks the Sick and the Weak
02.24.17 Yes, There is Definitely Brain Drain (Experience Deficit) at the European Patent Office and Stakeholders Feel It
02.27.17 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part VIII: When Governed by Criminals, Truth-Tellers Are Cast as Criminals and Criminals as Justice Deliverers
02.27.17 Top Officials in French Government Are Growing Tired of Battistelli’s Abuses at the European Patent Office (EPO)
02.28.17 Web Site of French Senator Richard Yung Cracked Just Days After Criticising the EPO
03.03.17 What Battistelli Means by Social Democracy at the EPO is What North Korea Means by Democratic People’s Republic
03.03.17 Dutch Foreign Minister Reads the Riot Act to EPO Vice-President Willy/Guillaume Minnoye
03.06.17 ILO: “EPO Threaten(s) the Ability of the Administrative Tribunal of the ILO to Serve All Other Organizations”
03.07.17 Caricature: ‘Posterrorism’ at the EPO
03.08.17 Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Bert Koenders: Rapid Improvements in European Patent Office or Else ‘High Level’ Action
03.09.17 Ousting of Benoît Battistelli Next Week Seems Feasible, But Jesper Kongstad Protects Rather Than Supervises Battistelli
03.10.17 After EPO Sanctions Against IP Kat (Censorship of More Than 10,000 Articles) Even Merpel Throws in the Towel
03.11.17 Information From SUEPO on the Functional Allowance Reveals How Top-Level Management Intends to ‘Rob’ the Cash Cow (EPO Budget)
03.11.17 The Battistelli Mafia and Corsica
03.14.17 Battistelli Receives Another Letter From FICSA, is Urged to Meet EPO Staff Representatives Whom He Fired to Bust the Unions
03.14.17 Long New Letter From Battistelli’s ‘Nemesis’, Dutch Secretary of State Martijn van Dam
03.16.17 Benoît Battistelli “Should Not Have Been in Charge of Anything More Involved Than a Hamster Cage Without the Hamster…”
03.16.17 CERN Staff Association “Profoundly Shocked by the Situation That Has Persisted in the European Patent Office (EPO)”
03.16.17 German Media is Not Covering EPO Scandals and Instead Repeating Patently False Claims From EPO Management
03.16.17 Battistelli Wants to be ‘King’ for a Decade or Longer, Jesper Kongstad Protects Him
03.17.17 The EPO’s Abuses and Claims of Immunity From Prosecution Increasingly Fracture the Dutch Establishment
03.18.17 Letter From European Public Services Organisation (IPSO) to Angela Merkel and Heiko Maas Regarding EPO Union-Busting Catastrophe
03.21.17 Letter to Angela Merkel Expresses Concerns About Impact of EPO Scandals on Germany and Its Image
03.22.17 The Battistelli Regime, With Its Endless Scandals, Threatens to Crash the Unitary Patent (UPC), Stakeholders Concerned
03.26.17 Everyone, Including Patent Law Firms, Will Suffer From the Demise of the EPO
03.31.17 Culpability for EPO Injustice in the Administrative Council Chaired by Battistelli’s Protector, Jesper Kongstad
04.03.17 Politicians Hubert Aiwanger, Florian Streibl, Gabi Schmidt and Others Fight for EPO Workers in Bavarian Parliament
04.04.17 Reign of Fear (Even Terror) at EPO Prevents People From Speaking About Injustices
04.06.17 The EPO’s Management is Silencing Its Critics by Sheer Intimidation
04.09.17 The Latest on the Collapse of the European Patent Office (EPO)
04.10.17 These Terrifying Comments From Patent Practitioners Suggest They Too Believe UPC is Intended to Make EPO Virtually Obsolete
04.13.17 Politician Links UPC to EPO Abuses and Slams the European Commission for Overlooking EPO Tragedies Like “Violations of Fundamental Rights” and Deaths
04.21.17 EPO in 2017: Erroneously Grant a Lot of Patents in Bulk or Get Sacked
04.23.17 EPO Staff Representatives Fired Using “Disciplinary Committee That Was Improperly Composed” as Per ILO’s Decision
04.23.17 Why Authorities in the Netherlands Need to Strip the EPO of Immunity and Investigate Fire Safety Violations
04.25.17 EPO Fiasco to be Discussed in German Local Authority (Bavarian Parliament) Some Time Today as the Institution Continues Its Avoidable Collapse
04.29.17 Battistelli is Busy Securing the Vote of Countries Whose Support and Tickets Are Easy to ‘Buy’
05.01.17 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part X: When EPO Calls the Truth “Defamation”
05.04.17 The EPO’s Administrative Council (AC) is “Amazingly Complicit” or “Awfully Compliant” (Like Much of the Media and Much of the System)
05.04.17 Latest WIPO Scandal, Echoing EPO Scandals, Demonstrates Freedom of the Press Coming Under Attack From International Patent Institutions
05.07.17 ILO Gives the European Patent Office Unfair Advantage in Disputes With Staff
05.08.17 The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) Against the European Patent Office (EPO), Lower House to Debate the Issue Today
05.08.17 All Members of the European Parliament Get Warned About the Deterioration at the European Patent Office (EPO)
05.09.17 SUEPO Releases Statement About Its Complaint Regarding the EPO’s Immunity, Filed Yesterday at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg
05.10.17 English-Speaking Media Catches Up With Latest Twists in EPO Fiasco, Including Appeal to the European Court of Human Rights
05.10.17 English-Speaking Media Catches Up With Latest Twists in EPO Fiasco, Including Appeal to the European Court of Human Rights
05.11.17 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
05.27.17 Colossal Institutional Failure Surrounding the European Patent Office (EPO) and EPO Chickens Out of Debate About It
05.30.17 The Silencing of Critics of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in Media and in Blogs
06.01.17 Shame on the Administrative Tribunal of ILO for Helping Team Battistelli Abuse EPO Staff
06.10.17 Benoît Battistelli is Scheming to Further Erode the Rule of Law and Promote More of His Cronies at the EPO
06.11.17 German Media Would Rather Write Articles About Beer Than About Serious and Unprecedented EPO Scandals
06.13.17 Battistelli to Leave the European Patent Office Without the Unitary Patent He Repeatedly Promised in Vain Over the Years
06.13.17 The UPC Gravy Train is Claimed to Have Been “Halted” in Germany and More Oppositions or Constitutional Complaints Are on Their Way
06.22.17 Benoît Battistelli Has Lost the Election at the EPO
06.24.17 SUEPO and the EPO’s Central Staff Committee Condemn Battistelli’s Latest Attempt to Change the Rules in Defiance of Laws
06.24.17 The Tide Has Turned Against the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and It Finally Looks as ‘Alive’ as TPP
06.25.17 Systemic Injustice at the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Causes Serious Harm to Complainants’ Health, Including EPO Complainants
06.26.17 EPO Strikes in All Four EPO Sites for Two Days This Month and Next Month, Under the “Respect Staff” Banner
06.28.17 Christoph Ernst, Long Speculated to be Battistelli’s Successor, Becomes Battistelli’s ‘Boss’
06.29.17 Feedback From the Administrative Council Meeting at The Hague: Worse Than Anyone Expected
06.29.17 European Patent Office is on Strike Until Tuesday and Insiders Study the New Head of the Organisation
06.30.17 The EPO Has Officially Confirmed That Christoph Ernst Will ‘Boss’ (and Soon Replace) Battistelli
07.01.17 The Future of the EPO Does Not Look Encouraging as Injustice and Abuse Carry On While the Press Looks the Other Way
07.03.17 4 Days of Strike in a Row (Including Weekend), But Tomorrow is No Independence Day at the EPO
07.03.17 4 Days of Strike in a Row (Including Weekend), But Tomorrow is No Independence Day at the EPO
07.05.17 Suspicion That Antonio Campinos Will Apply for Benoît Battistelli’s Job to Succeed Him
07.05.17 Death Trap: The ‘New’ (Nouvel) Building of the EPO
07.06.17 Elżbieta Bieńkowska Cares More About the Unitary Patent Coup D’état (Which She Encourages) Than She Cares About the Rule of Law and People’s Lives
07.08.17 On the EPO’s Premises, Investigation After a Small Fall But Not After Suicide of Staff
07.08.17 If Antonio Campinos (EUIPO) Takes Over the EPO With Alberto Casado Cerviño (Former OHIM/EUIPO) in Charge of Patent Granting, Subversive Loyalty to Battistelli Will Remain
07.12.17 The European Patent Office (EPO) Under Benoît Battistelli is Compared to “Soviet Times”
07.26.17 The Latest Lies From the EPO (Regarding Quality) and the Reason the UPC Won’t Happen (Any Time Soon at Least)
07.31.17 German Media Finally Waking up to EPO Scandals?
08.01.17 Heiko Maas May Need to Belatedly Answer Complaint About Illegal Spying on Staff at the EPO
08.02.17 EPO: Germans “Discover That Behind the Mad Figures, the Granted Patents Are of Crap Quality and That This Does Not Serve Their Interests”
08.03.17 Antonio Campinos in Charge of the EPO Would Mean Greater EUIPO/EPO Overlap
08.07.17 German Media Names António Campinos as Likely Successor of Battistelli
08.07.17 The Very Political Background of António Campinos, Allegedly a Forefront Candidate to Lead the European Patent Office Next Year
08.10.17 German Media Paints a Picture of Benoît Battistelli as a Drunken ‘Putin’ Looking to Push UPC at All Costs
08.12.17 Under Battistelli, EPO Ceased to Reward Inventors, Rewards Only Battistelli and Fellow Thugs Instead
08.17.17 Corruption at the European Patent Office and Systematic Bullying That Leads People to Suicide/Bankruptcy
08.18.17 The Staff Union of the EPO Has Long Warned About Declining Patent Quality
08.20.17 Quality of European Patents Has Sunk, Value Diminished
08.29.17 Hiring of German Judges for UPC Has Been Halted as the Future of UPC as a Whole Now in Doubt
09.05.17 One Week Left for Battistelli’s Coronation of Another Frenchman, António Campinos, to Lobby for UPC?
09.06.17 Juve Reveals That Ingve Stjerna is the ‘UPC Slayer’ While the EPO Continues to Lobby, Mislead
09.07.17 SUEPO Protests Against the Apparent Complicity of ILO in EPO Abuses
09.11.17 Ingve Stjerna’s Complaint Casts a Shadow Over the Unconstitutional Unified Patent Court (UPC)
09.15.17 The UPC Fantasy is Going Nowhere as Complaints and Paperwork Pile Up
09.21.17 The Latest Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and CIPO’s Participation in Those
09.26.17 EPO Lies About the UPC, Violations of Human Rights, and ‘Green’ European Patents
09.29.17 EPO Staff Representatives Help Prevent Seventh Suicide Under Benoît Battistelli
10.05.17 The European Patent Office’s New Relationship With Former Portuguese Colonies and the Connection to Battistelli’s Choice of Next President
10.09.17 EPO Protest at 12:30 in Munich and Why EPO Staff Should Attend
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 Lying and Faking Now a Standard Procedure at the European Patent Office
10.15.17 Articles in English and German Speak About the Decline in Quality of European Patents (Granted by the EPO)
10.16.17 The Systematic Erosion of Workers’ Rights and Holidays at the EPO Goes Years Back
10.17.17 Rumours That António Campinos Initially Had No Competition at All (for Battistelli’s Succession) Are Confirmed
10.17.17 SUEPO Representatives Like Elizabeth Hardon Vindicated as Battistelli’s Detrimental Effect on Patent Quality is Widely Confirmed
10.18.17 Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) Willing to Work With Campinos But Foresees Difficulties
10.19.17 SUEPO to the Media, Regarding Campinos: “No Comment, It’s Too Dangerous”
10.19.17 António Campinos: A True EPO Reformer or More of the Same?
10.21.17 Anonymous Professionals Speak of Benoît Battistelli’s Destruction of the EPO, But Why Does the Media Turn a Blind Eye?
10.22.17 Management by Intimidation Has Caused Deaths at the European Patent Office (EPO)
10.22.17 Speaking of “Social Democracy” While Suffering Extreme Democratic Deficiency
10.22.17 The EPO No Longer Measures Quality of Patents; Instead It Publishes Fake Statistics
10.22.17 The Difference Between Alain Pompidou and Benoît Battistelli as EPO President
10.23.17 IP Kat Participates in Deletion of Information About EPO Scandals
10.23.17 In the European Patent Office, One Gets Rewarded for Mentally Torturing (‘Interrogating’) Staff
10.23.17 SUEPO Has Just Warned That Patent Quality at the EPO is About to Get Even Worse
10.24.17 The Last Comment in IP Kat (Before Censorship) Was About Patent Quality at the EPO
10.24.17 Freedom of Expression is Dying Not Only at the EPO But Also Outside the EPO (Media Coverage of the EPO)
10.25.17 IP Kat Admits It Was Its Own Choice to Censor (Delete) Many Comments About the European Patent Office
10.26.17 The EPO is Breaking the Law and Its Employees Cannot Speak About It (Updated)
10.26.17 Professor Siegfried Broß Again Complains About the Situation at the EPO and Issues With the UPC
10.28.17 The Financial Handling of the EPO is Incredibly Scandalous
10.30.17 Irregularities at the EPO and UPC (Unitary Patent) Dodgy Dealings Should Draw Ire
10.31.17 “EPI Makes No Protest When the AC Connives With Battistelli to Trash the Rule of Law”
11.02.17 The Screws Tighten on Benoît Battistelli as His Departure is Just Two Seasons Away, Media Still Largely Complicit
11.05.17 At the EPO Under Battistelli Truth is Being Called “Defamation”
11.05.17 Raw: Staff Representative Whom Battistelli Drove to Collapse for Wanting to Conduct an EPO Staff Survey (Which Battistelli Had Abolished)
11.08.17 Kluwer Patent Blog is Down/Sabotaged, But UPC and EPO Spin Carries on in Other Sites
11.08.17 Benoît Battistelli Brews New Scandals in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and in Haar
11.09.17 The EPO in the Hands of Politicians Who Serve Their Towns Rather Than Users of the EPO
11.11.17 Next EPO President Will Continue a Cooperation Which Does Not Exist
11.13.17 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby is Losing the Battle for Europe
11.15.17 Declines in Patent Quality at the EPO and ‘Independent’ Judges Can No Longer Say a Thing
11.16.17 The Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) is Rightly Upset If Not Shocked at What Battistelli and Bergot Are Doing to the Office
11.20.17 Team Battistelli’s Attacks on the EPO Boards of Appeal Predate the Illegal Sanctions Against a Judge
11.23.17 The European Patent Office Has Become the ‘Foxconn’ of Patent Offices
11.23.17 EPO is Imploding as Benoît Battistelli Drains Out Work, Talent, and Justice
11.25.17 Raw: The EPO’s Elodie Bergot Suppressed Staff Representation While Cracking Down on Staff’s Rights
11.25.17 Raw: Stacking the Deck to Interfere With a Fair Election at the EPO
11.25.17 In New EPO Interview With Juve, Chairman of the Administrative Council Criticises Battistelli
11.26.17 Early Certainty Battistelli Will be Gone Soon: “JUVE Interview Creates the Impression That Benoit Battistelli’s Term in Office is Already Over.”
11.28.17 Pressure is Growing for Christoph Ernst to Stop Destruction of Career System Ahead of Arrival of Campinos as EPO President
11.28.17 French Stress Levels at the EPO and Replacement of Patent Quality With ‘Autopilot’ (Like INPI, France)
11.29.17 EPO Spreads Two Lies Today, One About Patent ‘Production’ and Another About ‘Quality’
11.30.17 EPO Fiasco Deepens While the Media Writes Puff Pieces About the EPO
12.01.17 Irish Media Coverage of the EPO
12.04.17 SUEPO on “the Belief of the President That He is Above the Law.”
12.06.17 CEIPI and EPO: The Story So Far
12.07.17 ILO is ‘Forcing’ Team Battistelli to Compensate the Banned Judge and Give Him Back His Job
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
12.12.17 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 German Media Helps Cover Up — Not Cover — the Latest EPO Scandal
12.12.17 The EPO Protest Tomorrow Isn’t Just About Judge Corcoran But About the EPO as a Whole
12.16.17 EPO Busy Distracting From Miscarriage/Abuse of Justice at the EPO (Both Office and Organisation)
12.17.17 Raw: Benoît Battistelli Has Long Been Obsessed With ‘Alternative Facts’ (Lying) Regarding Everything
12.18.17 “As an EPO Employee, I Am Actually Embarrassed by the Behaviour of the President and the Administrative Council”
12.19.17 Bavarian Regional Parliament Talks About the EPO’s Outrageous Decisions to Simply Disregard International Courts
12.19.17 CERN Staff Association Condemns the European Patent Office (EPO) for Disobeying ILO/ILOAT Judgments
12.23.17 Raw: How to Tell Benoît Battistelli is Lying
12.23.17 Raw: How SUEPO Explained the EPO Situation Three Years Ago
12.23.17 Patent Quality Nosedives at EPO, Say Insiders Whose Permanent Contract is About to be Terminated in 8 Days to Increase Pressure to Grant Patents Sparingly
12.23.17 “Change of Attitude and Behaviour Needed,” Say Anonymous EPO Workers About the Management and Administrative Council
12.25.17 Raw: European Patent Organisation Knew About Benoît Battistelli’s Gross Nepotism for at Least Four Years, Did Nothing to Stop It
12.25.17 Raw: SUEPO Connected the Unitary Patent (UPC) to Abuses at the European Patent Office
12.26.17 Raw: Administrative Council of the EPO Was Warned 4 Years Ago About “Governance and Overall Reputation of the Organisation.”
12.26.17 Raw: EPO Staff Union Illustrates Structural Deficiency of the EPO
12.28.17 Raw: Bergot and Topić Sent Threats to Hundreds of EPO Staff as Far Back as Half a Decade Ago
12.28.17 Raw: “A Vote on Strike Action Has Turned Into a Vote of Non-Confidence.”
12.29.17 Raw: Battistelli the Patent Office Shark Shouting From the Rooftop (Isar)
12.29.17 Raw: Rights Which the Dutch Court Ruled That the EPO Had Violation
12.31.17 Raw: EPO Was Forewarned About the Investigative Unit (IU) Turning Against Law-Abiding Dissent Using Illegal Surveillance
12.31.17 Raw: The European Patent Office (EPO) is a Cash Cow of Germany
12.31.17 Raw: EPO Staff Went on Strike, Referencing — Among Other Things — Battistelli’s French Nepotism
12.31.17 Raw: Fake Consultations at the EPO Give the False Impression Legal Procedures Are Followed
12.31.17 Raw: Battistelli Nervous About Perception of EPO Nepotism (French Cronyism) and Attacks Those Who Take Note of It
01.03.18 Translation Shows That Carl Josefsson and Christoph Ernst Refuse to Comment on EPO Injustice as It Might Embarrass Battistelli
01.03.18 Battistelli’s Attacks on Judge Corcoran Threaten Not Only the EPC But Also UPC
01.11.18 126th Session of the ILO Administrative Tribunal is Around the Corner and EPO Staff Representatives Will Have Their Cases Heard Soon
01.14.18 2010: Blaming the Messenger (SUEPO) for Staff Unhappiness at the European Patent Office (EPO)
01.22.18 How the Opposition to CRISPR Patents at the EPO Sent Shockwaves Through the Industry
01.24.18 CRISPR Patent Debacle Demonstrated That Opposition Divisions Do Their Job, But Also Highlighted Serious Deficiency in Patent-Granting Process
01.25.18 The EPO is Already in Violation of ILO Rulings on Judge Corcoran
01.26.18 The Corcoran Incident Demonstrates That the EPO’s Boards of Appeal Are Threatened and Battistelli Violates Laws
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
01.31.18 Even Kluwer Patent Blog Decides to Comment on the EPO’s Bizarre Financial Behaviour
02.01.18 Too Much to Cover Up at the EPO, the UN, and UN Agencies
02.03.18 Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on “Jurisdictional Immunity of International Organisations and Rights of Their Staff”
02.03.18 The European Council Confirms That the Unitary/Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA) is “Outside the Legal Framework of the European Union”
02.08.18 Mark Rutte Under Pressure to Stop Battistelli’s EPO From Violating Laws With Impunity
02.14.18 The EPO Now Censors the Central Staff Committee Like It Used to Censor SUEPO
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
02.17.18 UPC Has Done Nothing for Europe Except Destruction of the EPO and Imminent Layoffs Due to Lack of Applications and Lowered Value of European Patents
02.20.18 Today, at 12:30 CET, Bavarian State Parliament Will Speak About EPO Abuses (Updated)
02.20.18 Another Loud Warning From EPO Workers About the Decline of Patent Quality
02.20.18 The Patent Microcosm’s Embrace of Buzzwords and False Marketing Strives to Make Patent Examiners Redundant and Patent Quality Extremely Low
02.23.18 EPO Roundup: Low Profile, Employment Changes, Patent Trolls, Refusal to Obey Courts, and Animal Breeding Patents
03.01.18 European Patent Office (EPO) in Chaos and Attempting to Silence the Staff Would Only Exacerbate Matters
03.01.18 USF Warns Campinos (EPO President in 4 Months) of “Extreme” Situation at the EPO
03.06.18 Dr. Thorsten Bausch: Quality of European Patents Going Down, “Likely Caused by the Current EPO Policy Focusing too Much on ‘Production’.”
03.06.18 There’s No Patent Trolls Problem in Europe, Say Law Firms That Represent and Front for Patent Trolls
03.07.18 EPO Annual Results/Report: Revenue From Patent Applications is Apparently Down Yet Again and Work is Running Out
03.08.18 EPO Hires External PR Agencies to Control Coverage of Its Annual Report, Deny Investigative Journalism
03.09.18 The EPO’s PR Department Receives Return on Investment (Puff Pieces) for Paying the Media
03.10.18 Glimmer of Hope for the EPO’s Boards of Appeal as Bavarian Parliament ‘Regroups’ on Tuesday
03.12.18 EPO Patent ‘Growth’ Not Achieved But Demanded/Mandated by Battistelli, by Lowering Quality of Patents/Services
03.13.18 EPO Staff Union Organises Protest to Complain About Inability “of the Office to Recruit the Highly Qualified Staff it Needs.”
03.13.18 Battistelli Likes to Describe His Critics as ‘Nazis’, Team UPC Will Attempt the Same Thing Against UPC Critics
03.14.18 The EPO Under Battistelli Has Become Like China Under Xi and CPC
03.15.18 EPO Staff Has Just Warned the National Delegates That EPO’s Decline (in Terms of Patent Quality and Staff Welfare) Would Be Beneficial to Patent Trolls
03.15.18 Monumental Effort to Highlight Decline in Quality of European Patents (a Quarter of Examiners Sign Petition in Spite of Fear), Yet Barely Any Press Coverage
03.16.18 Deleted EPO Tweets and Promotion of Software Patents Amid Complaints About Abuse and Demise of Patent Quality
03.18.18 European Commission Again Urged to Tackle Abuses at the European Patent Office (EPO)
03.21.18 SUEPO: “Today May Be Your Last Chance to Demonstrate Against the Seriously Flawed Reforms That Mr Battistelli Has Imposed” on EPO Staff
03.22.18 The Federation of International Civil Servants’ Association: Frenchman “Campinos is Known for Having Close Ties to Mr. Battistelli Who Strongly Supported His Candidacy.”
03.23.18 The European Patent Office’s (EPO) Declining Patent Quality ‘Tackled’ by Making Appeals/Oppositions Harder and More Expensive
03.29.18 Senator Jean-Yves Leconte Accuses EPO and/or ILO of Injustice, But Don’t Expect Media to Notice or Cover It
04.03.18 Benoît Battistelli’s Era Yields Not Only Invalid and Harmful Monopolies But Also Breeds Distrust and Layoffs
04.11.18 One Last Battistelli Heist: Millions of Euros for Saint-Germain-en-Laye
04.16.18 The European Patent Office Will Never Hold Its Destroyers Accountable
04.17.18 The European Patent Office (EPO) Grants Patents in Error, Insiders Are Complaining That It’s the Management’s Fault
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
04.30.18 The European Patent System is Nowadays Based on a ‘Banana Republic’ Model
05.01.18 A Test for European Media: Will It Cover the Battistelli-TAD Scandal Like It Covered FIFA Scandals?
05.02.18 Not Enough Opposition/s to Wrongly-Granted European Patents
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
05.10.18 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
05.14.18 Reader’s Post: The Last Delusion of Benoît Battistelli Before His Departure on June 30th
05.17.18 Today’s EPO Financially Rewards Abuses and Violations of the Law
05.19.18 Aurélien Pétiaud’s ILO Case (EPO Appeal) an Early Sign That ILO Protects Abusers and Power, Not Workers
05.22.18 Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans”: The Emperor’s New Investment Guidelines
05.25.18 EPO, a Longtime Privacy Offender, Uses General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Day to Lie to the Public
05.30.18 St. Germain’s “Système Lamy” and Its EPO Clone – Part 3: Shooting the Messengers and Defaming Opponents
06.07.18 Today, at the Expense of Millions (€) of EPO Budget, Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos Engage in Shameless Self Promotion
06.14.18 Grünecker, Hoffmann Eitle, Maiwald and Vossius & Partner Find the Courage to Express Concerns About Battistelli’s Ugly Legacy and Low Patent Quality
06.15.18 The EPO’s Response to the Open Letter About Decline in Patent Quality as the Latest Example of Arrogance and Resistance to Facts, Truth
06.20.18 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
06.21.18 Even Media of the Patent Microcosm Mentions the Decline in Quality of Patents at the EPO, Based on Its Very Own Stakeholders, While IAM Ignores the News
06.23.18 Mainstream Media in Germany Covers Battistelli’s Corruption at the EPO Just as He Leaves
06.24.18 The ILO Tribunal: Is It Still Worthy of Our Trust?
06.25.18 Benoît Battistelli’s ‘Dowry’ From the Administrative Council of the EPO
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 Battistelli is ‘Pulling a Lamy’ With a Lot More Money at Stake (and Examiners’ Future)
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 Corruption at the EPO Should be a Subject Anybody Can Speak About, Even Insiders
06.27.18 ‘Party Poopers’: Protests Greet Battistelli’s Premature Inauguration of an Unfinished Building That Caused Massive Losses
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
06.28.18 Eight Years of Battistelli
06.29.18 Insults, Lies and Propaganda on Battistelli’s Last Day at the European Patent Office
06.29.18 WirtschaftsWoche Authors Articles About Corruption of the European Patent Office
06.29.18 Three Days Later Still Not a Single Word From the EPO About Union Busting Gone Awry and Court Orders to Reinstate/Promote Staff Representatives
06.29.18 Union Syndicale Fédérale: Apparently ILO Considered Kicking Out the EPO for Repeatedly Refusing and Failing to Obey the Law
07.01.18 The EPO’s Attacks on Bloggers Other Than Me (and ILO-AT Being Utterly Unpredictable)
07.01.18 Welcoming António Campinos, New President of the European Patent Office
07.02.18 Asked by the Media Why European Inventor Award Was Held in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the EPO Refuses to Explain
07.02.18 First Day for António Campinos is Done, But Some Media is Still Publishing 90th-Minute Battistelli Puff Pieces
07.03.18 First Act of António Campinos: Pushing the Unconstitutional Unitary Patent (UPC)
07.04.18 EPO Protest/s Suppressed Even at the Opening of a Construction Site for Battistelli’s Guests
07.04.18 António Campinos Tries to Come Across as a Goodwill Manager, But He Will be Judged by His Actions, Not by His Words
07.04.18 Staff Union of the EPO: “ILO-AT Remains Very Much an Employer’s Court” (Not Employees’)
07.06.18 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
07.14.18 EPO Abuses Against People With Disabilities Followed by Legal Bullying?
07.14.18 Number of Oppositions to Grants/Awards of European Patents at the EPO Has Skyrocketed, Based on Internal Data
07.15.18 Cautionary Tale: ILO Administrative Tribunal Cases (Appeals) ‘Intercepted’ Under António Campinos
07.17.18 What Patent Lawyers Aren’t Saying: Most Patent Litigation Has Become Too Risky to be Worth It
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
07.31.18 SUEPO Seems to be Disappointed by António Campinos as His First Month in Office Comes to an End
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)
08.16.18 Almost Two Months After the ILO Ruling Staff Representative Brumme is Finally Back on the Job at EPO
08.30.18 António Campinos Already Implements a ‘Shadow’ Layoffs Method at the EPO
09.01.18 Coming to Grips With the Fact That EPO Layoffs Are Already in Effect
09.05.18 EPO Has “Far Too High Production Targets” Which “Deteriorates the Quality of Products [sic Delivered”]
09.06.18 ‘Reformist’ Campinos Seems to be Accelerating EPO Layoffs by Removing Without Warning Staff That’s Perceived as Not Loyal Enough
09.06.18 Even Overzealous Patent Maximalists Nowadays Admit That Time is Running Out for the Unitary Patent (UPC)
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)
09.20.18 Criticism of Unitary Patent (UPC) Agreement Doomed the UPC and Patent Trolls’ Plan — Along With the Litigation Lobby — for Unified ‘Extortion Vector’
09.23.18 Benoît Battistelli Refuses to Talk to the Media About Bringing Firearms to the EPO
09.26.18 Lots of UPC Noise/News This Week Over a Document Which Merely Weakens Commitment to the UPC
09.26.18 French Media Confirms Alexandre Benalla Just One of Six Battistelli Bodyguards, Employed at the Cost of €8,000-€10,000 Per Month (for Benalla Alone!)
09.26.18 EPO Central Staff Committee: 30 Percent of Staff Are in Principle Targetable as ‘Challenging People’
10.04.18 Submissive, Bribed and EPO-Connected Media Organisations Help Perpetuate Corruption by Failing or Refusing to Cover It
10.05.18 Patents on Life and on Algorithms in Europe Will Doom the EPO
10.06.18 The European Patent Office Has Assaulted Patent Quality While Trying to Distract From That
10.09.18 António Campinos Makes Excuses for Granting European Patents on Software in Spite of the EPC
10.11.18 Friend Brings a Friend, Boss Becomes Subordinate: the EPO Under António Campinos is Starting to Look a Lot Like Team Battistelli 2.0
10.25.18 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
11.11.18 Guest Post: EPO Spins Censorship of Staff Representation
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
11.14.18 WIPO Corruption and Coverup Mirror EPO Tactics
11.15.18 Ignoring and Bashing Courts: Is This the Future of Patent Offices in the West?
11.20.18 Appalling Patent Quality at the European Patent Office, More Lies About the Unified Patent Court (UPC), and Assault on Those Who Warned About It All Along
11.20.18 Germany Likes EPO in Munich, Litigation Factory in Düsseldorf and Mannheim (Like Eastern District of Texas)
11.21.18 Patent Trolls in EPO Events That Promote Software Patents
11.22.18 Thanksgiving EPO Roundup: UPC Lies, Software Patents Considered Harmful and SUEPO Condemns Union-Busting Activities (Which Carry on Under António Campinos)
11.24.18 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
11.29.18 Union Syndicale Fédérale Tells António Campinos to End ‘Political’ Cases Against EPO Staff Representatives
12.01.18 “ILO Gave the EPO Medical Committee a Good Slapping”
12.06.18 Many of the Same People Are Still in Charge of the European Patent Office Even Though They Broke the Law
12.12.18 EPO Trust, Leadership and Commitment
12.13.18 The European Patent Troll Wants as Much Litigation as Possible
12.15.18 The European Patent Organisation (EPO) Loses Legitimacy If (or When) Christoph Ernst Becomes Subservient to António Campinos
12.22.18 UPC Died in 2016 or 2017; But the EPO Continues to Issue Fake Software Patents That European Courts Reject
12.24.18 The Quality of European Patents Likely Declined Even Further in 2018
12.28.18 The Demise of the UPC ‘Legislative Coup’ Continued in 2018
01.06.19 EPO Leaks
01.09.19 European Patent Office Saga in 2019: “95% of the People Responsible for the Misery Are Still in Place and Have Not Even Been Rebuked”
01.10.19 EPO President “Campinos is Wasting His Credibility With “Sweet” Communiqués Full of Hot Air and Storytelling”
01.14.19 Council of Europe (CoE) Recognises There’s No Justice at the EPO
01.22.19 The Whitewashing of the EPO Under António Campinos
01.27.19 British Courts Once Again Reject Bogus European Patents Granted on Software
01.28.19 Another Call for EPO Leaks
01.29.19 “HE DID NOTHING Since He Arrived, Full Stop.” What EPO People Make of President Campinos…
01.30.19 People Are Dying Because of Low Quality of (Wrongly-Granted) European Patents
01.31.19 President Campinos Maintains Battistelli’s Abusive Sanctions, EPO Staff Increasingly Losing Faith and Hope in Him
02.19.19 Battistelli Trashed 223 Millions (of Stakeholders’ Euros) on a System That Destroyed the European Patent Office and Made Few Private Corporations a Lot Richer
02.19.19 Search Matters Not at the European Patent Office
02.19.19 António Campinos Still Needs to Undo Battistelli’s Union-Busting Activities at the EPO
02.22.19 Battistelli’s Bodyguard Has Been Arrested, But Battistelli Should Join Him
02.27.19 Teff Just One Among Countless Examples of Sheer Disregard for Patent Quality
03.02.19 The Collapse of Poor-Quality European Patents Continues in European Courts
03.04.19 EPO Staff Union: ‘New’ Team Campinos Practice “Reminds Us Strongly of the Battistelli Times.”
03.04.19 European Patent Office Careers Bad for One’s Health, Properly Assessing Patents is ‘Professional Incompetence’ Now
03.05.19 The EPO Technical/Enlarged Board of Appeal Would, Potentially (If It Enjoyed Actual Independence), Serve a ‘European Alice’ and Eliminate All/Most Software Patents in Europe
03.06.19 Fraud at the European Patent Office, But All Those Arrested Are Perpetrators Without Misused Immunity
03.06.19 Quality Issues at the European Patent Office Can Lead It Down the Same Downward Path as the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
03.08.19 António Campinos Will Not Tackle Any of the Lingering Issues at the European Patent Office
03.15.19 Stopping António Campinos and His Software Patents Agenda (Not Legal in Europe) Would Require Independent Courts
03.17.19 To Team UPC the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Has Become a Joke and the European Patent Office (EPO) Never Mentions It Anymore
03.21.19 António Campinos Makes Up Claims About Patent Quality, Only to be Rebutted by Examiners, Union (Anyone But the ‘Puff Pieces’ Industry)
03.24.19 Just Published: Irrational Ignorance at the Patent Office
03.26.19 The Campinos-Battistelli Strategy is Working: Patent Trolls Are Coming to Europe!
03.27.19 The European Patent Scope is a Lost Cause, Does Not Exist Anymore
03.30.19 A March in Brussels Next Month, Disgruntled EPO Staff Invited
04.01.19 Patent Trolls Destroy the European Economy Because EPO Gives Them Questionable Patents
04.02.19 EPO Judges Lack Independence and the Internal Courts Are Seen to be Lacking Legitimacy (Decisions’ Validity) Under António Campinos
04.03.19 The EPO Continues Granting Bogus Patents on Mathematics and Nature, But There’s Hope Over the Horizon
04.04.19 EPO Management is Knowingly and Consciously Granting Invalid European Patents, Including Patents on Life and Nature
04.04.19 The Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) Warns About the Granting of Tens of Thousands of Invalid European Patents Every Year
04.05.19 The European Patent Office Will Come to Regret the Fake Patents It Has Granted for Short-Term Financial Gains
04.06.19 Even Patent Maximalists Are Not Happy With António Campinos Referring Question of Patents on Life to the Enlarged Board of Appeal
04.08.19 Only One in Six EPO Workers Trusts the Management, According to New Survey Skewed by Management
04.09.19 The Media is (Still) Failing to Cover EPO Corruption
04.11.19 EPO Still Wasting Budget, Paying Media and Academics for Spin
04.16.19 Corporate Media Will Never Cover the EPO’s Violations of the Law With Respect to Patent Scope
04.18.19 The European Patent Office Does Not Care About the Law, Today’s Management Constantly Attempts to Bypass the Law
04.20.19 The Likes of Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA), Team Campinos and Team UPC Don’t Represent Europe But Hurt Europe
04.22.19 António Campinos Would Not Refer to the EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal If He Did Not Control the Outcomes
04.22.19 USPTO and EPO Both Slammed for Abandoning Patent Quality and Violating the Law/Caselaw in Order to Grant Illegitimate Patents on Life/Nature and Mathematics
04.24.19 German Federal Patent Court Curbs the Patent Maximalism of the EPO, Which Promotes Patents on Nature and/or Maths Every Single Day
04.25.19 The Quality of Patents is Connected to the Quality of Life of Patent Examiners
04.29.19 Haar is Where EPO Justice Came to Meet Euthanasia
05.01.19 Lack of Justice at the EPO Continues to Usher in Fake Patents on Abstract Things
05.01.19 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
05.02.19 Even EPO Patent ‘Justice’ is Now Measured in Industrial Terms Like ‘Production’ Rather Than Accuracy
05.07.19 Even IAM Admits That When It Comes to Patents It’s Quality That Counts, Not Quantity
05.08.19 Corruption at the EPO is a Threat Not Only to Europe But to Every Continent in the World
05.09.19 Lusting for a Unified Patent Court (UPC) That Respects Invalid European Patents, Including Software Patents
05.09.19 Stephen Rowan: From UK-IPO to Operation Coverup of Team António Campinos
05.11.19 Making the Patent System About Productive Actors (Again), Not a Bunch of Law Firms and Trolls
05.12.19 Professionally Incompetent EPO Management
05.15.19 The Race to the Bottom of Patent Quality at the EPO
05.16.19 The EPO’s Key Function — Like the UPC’s Vision — Has Virtually Collapsed
05.18.19 The War on Patent Quality