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UPC

The Unified Patent Court (UPC) or Unitary Patent is a likely failed effort to change patent prosecution across Europe. It was covered or mentioned in the articles below.

  • 11.30.09 Patent Tax and Microsoft Tax in Europe: An Update
  • 10.11.10 Links 11/10/2010: New Ubuntu Reviews, MySQL Up-selling
  • 10.13.10 Links 13/10/2010: Australian Taxation Office Accepts Desktop GNU/Linux, Linux Foundation-Funded Survey Debated
  • 10.21.10 Links 21/10/2010: Linux 2.6.36 is Out, Red Hat’s CEO Says Software Vendor Model is Broken
  • 02.24.11 Links 24/2/2011: Mutter 2.91.90 Released Alongside GNOME Shell, Android 3.0 Surfaces
  • 06.22.11 Links 22/6/2011: GNU/Linux Dominates More of HPC, Red Hat Upgraded
  • 10.07.11 EU Patent Failing to Materialise, But EPO and Politicians Begin to Overstep Their Line of Authority to Intervene
  • 11.28.11 Lehne and the Polish Presidency Continue to March for Software Patents in Europe
  • 08.27.12 Links 27/8/2012: Twitter Joins Linux Foundation, *ubuntu 12.04.1
  • 11.21.12 Software Patents Through ‘Union’ in Europe
  • 11.30.12 Links 1/12/2012: Qt 4.8.4 Released, Nokia Recruiting Android Talent
  • 06.14.13 As the Battle to Legitimise Software Patents in New Zealand and Europe Carries on, New Systemic Corruption Found
  • 06.19.13 White House Should Identify USPTO as the Problem, Not Patent Trolls
  • 07.17.13 Panorama of Richard Stallman: The P Series (2013)
  • 08.05.13 European Commission Takes Next Step Towards Legalising Software Patents in Europe
  • 08.20.13 Actions of US Government Shut Down Groklaw Pre-emptively; Observing the US’ Sanctions Economy and the Danger of Expansion to Europe
  • 04.18.14 Links 18/4/2014: New KDE, Kubuntu, and More
  • 05.30.14 Software Patents Are Still a Threat to Europe Due to ‘Unitary’ Patent
  • 08.11.14 Another Depressing Look at the Patent Systems in the US and in Europe
  • 09.29.14 More Good News About Demise of Software Patents and Along With Them, Consequently, Patent Trolls
  • 10.22.14 Links 22/10/2014: Chromebooks Surge, NSA Android Endorsement
  • 11.06.14 EPO and UPC in Europe Now the Hope of Patent Maximalists, China Too is Assimilating
  • 12.28.14 EPO Corruption: Battistelli Augments His ‘Loyals’ Circle With Frederic Angermann and Charm Offensive in Patent Lawyers’ Sites
  • 01.05.15 Links 5/1/2015: Acer Chromebook 15, GNOME Internet Radio Locator (GIRL)
  • 01.14.15 Links 15/1/2015: KDE Plasma 5.2 Beta, Elive 2.5.2 Beta
  • 01.24.15 As Battistelli Breaks the Rules and Topić Silences Staff, New European Parliament Petition for Tackling the EPO’s Abuses is Needed
  • 02.07.15 The European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW) is Again Protesting Against EPO as More Crackdowns by EPO Management Reveal Depth of Abuse
  • 02.15.15 FFII and the American IP Law Association Comment on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Envisioned by EPO
  • 02.18.15 EPO Scandals: The Story So Far
  • 03.16.15 EPO Management Still in a Freefall, Tries to Warp/Divert the Debate Away From Its Abuses
  • 04.08.15 The EPO is Becoming More Like the USPTO Under Benoît Battistelli’s Greed-Driven Reign
  • 04.10.15 New Article Chronicles Suicides and Nervous Breakdowns at the EPO Due to the Management’s Abuses
  • 04.12.15 European Unitary Patent Decision Due 5th of May
  • 04.29.15 As Core Issues Still Not Addressed, Another Protest Against EPO Management Scheduled for Tomorrow in Munich, Germany
  • 05.18.15 The EPO’s Fight to Bring Software Patents Into Europe is One Step Closer to a ‘Victory’ (for Multinationals)
  • 05.26.15 Patent Scope at the EPO is Totally Out of Control, UPC Will Make Things Worse
  • 05.29.15 Propaganda Mode for UPC Agreement Whilst EPO Increasingly Grants Patents on Software
  • 06.10.15 More European Politicians Pressure and Sometimes Slam the European Patent Office (EPO) Amid New Scandals
  • 06.20.15 Better Watch Out or the United States Will Export Software Patents to Europe, Along With Patent Trolls
  • 06.25.15 An Estimated 1,000 EPO Staff in Munich Demonstrated Against EPO Management Yesterday Afternoon
  • 07.20.15 Patents Expansion in Europe May be Looming
  • 07.21.15 Patents Regime in Europe: Mixture of Greed, Competition Abuses, and Propaganda
  • 07.26.15 The ‘Unitary’ Patent Trojan Horse Rammed Down the Throat of Europe
  • 08.03.15 The World is Changing and Patent Law Can Change Either for Better or for Worse
  • 08.13.15 Geographical Scope of Broadening Scope of Patents is Expanding With 1%-Centric ‘Globalisation’ and ‘Trade’ Deals
  • 08.17.15 Patents Roundup: Patent Reform, Google’s ‘Startups’ Ploy, JDate, Fitbit, Cisco, and UPC in the UK
  • 08.27.15 Patent Practitioners: “The Unitary Patent Might be Able to Open the Floodgates for Software Patents in Europe”
  • 08.30.15 Increase in Lobbying for Software Patents in Europe and Its Trojan Horse, the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 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)
  • 09.14.15 Patents Roundup: Europe’s and India’s Software Patents Affair, US Continues to Demote Software Patents With Alice Case
  • 09.23.15 Changes at Techrights
  • 09.24.15 EPO Managers, Patent Lawyers, Commissioners and Other Non-Technical Personnel Tackle Democracy, Alter Laws in Bulk and in Secret
  • 10.01.15 The ‘Microsoft Loves Linux’ Baloney is Still Being Floated in the Media While Microsoft Attacks Linux With Patents, New Lawsuits Reported
  • 10.02.15 Microsoft’s Secret Special Relationship With EPO Illustrates Serious Corruption at Microsoft and the EPO
  • 10.05.15 With Software Patents in Europe (and Pushes for the Same Thing in Australia and India) Patent Trolls Now Come to Europe, Attack Android/Linux
  • 10.05.15 Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna Explains Why the UPC (“Unitary Patent“ System) is an Undemocratic Sham Whilst UPC Silently Advanced by Patent Lawyers and Politicians
  • 10.06.15 Commenters Provide Possible Explanations for Mr Van der Eijk Being on Unlimited Sick Leave
  • 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
  • 10.11.15 European Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda Says TPP Will Bring Software Patents to Europe and Other Continents/Countries
  • 10.12.15 Benoît Battistelli’s Group of ‘Loyals’ Crushes Not Only the Independent Boards But Also ‘Unwanted’ Directorates-General
  • 10.13.15 Confirmed: Benoît Battistelli is Crushing the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA)
  • 10.13.15 Patent Trolls Roundup: MPHJ, Kyle Bass, Acacia, Intellectual Ventures, Unwired Planet, Core Wireless, Vringo, and Unified Patents
  • 10.13.15 EPO Management Lobbies for the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Uses This to Advance Software Patents in Europe
  • 10.14.15 Clare Curran (New Zealand Parliament) Pressures Her Government to Reveal Whether TPP Acts as a Trojan Horse for Software Patents
  • 10.14.15 EPO Completely Loses It and Starts Banning Even More Sites Ahead of Today’s Demonstration, UPC Proceeding Behind Closed Doors
  • 10.15.15 Exclusive: Leaked E-mail From Grant Philpott (EPO Principal Telecommunications Director) Shows Collusion Between EPO and Microsoft to Prioritise Most Notorious Patent Bully, Microsoft
  • 10.16.15 EPO Cleverly Frames Total War Against Its Own Staff as a War Against Nazism
  • 10.22.15 Techrights to Increase Coverage of EPO Scandals and the Unitary Patent
  • 10.23.15 US Patent ‘Industry’ (Parasites) Defends Patently Broken System That It Profits From, Pushes for UPC in Europe
  • 10.25.15 EPO Slammed for Granting Patents on Life
  • 10.27.15 Board of Appeal Thwarts a Software Patent Application in the EPO, From Company Indirectly Connected to the EPO
  • 10.27.15 European Patent Organisation: Hallmark of a Corrupted (by Corporations) Entity
  • 10.28.15 Secret Deals at the EPO Discredit Europe and Need to Stop Immediately
  • 10.28.15 Battistelli’s EPO Loses ‘Customers’ Because It Plays ‘Favourites’ With Large Corporations
  • 10.28.15 Battistelli’s EPO Loses ‘Customers’ Because It Plays ‘Favourites’ With Large Corporations
  • 10.30.15 IBM Bemoans the Collapse of Software Patents in the US and Wants US Congress to Intervene for ‘Certainty’
  • 11.03.15 The Benoît Battistelli Way or the Highway: EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal is Being Discredited, SUEPO Web Site is Down Again
  • 11.04.15 The Latest Propaganda From Benoît Battistelli is Promotion of the Unitary Patent (UPC) at Political Levels
  • 11.10.15 New Reports Highlight Need to Crack Down on the European Patent Office and Microsoft
  • 11.19.15 Patent Lawyers Want to Bring Software Patents (Hence Patent Trolls Too) to Europe, Piggyback Battistelli’s Habitual UPC Promotion
  • 11.24.15 Response to Bogus Accusations That EPO Staff Protests Are Really an Attempt to Derail UPC
  • 11.25.15 The Broken Window Economics of Patent Trolls Are Already Coming to Europe
  • 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 European Patent Office (EPO) a “Kingdom Above the EU Countries, a Tyranny With ZERO Accountability”
  • 11.26.15 Saving the Integrity of the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 11.28.15 The Latest EPO Spin: Staff Protesters Compared to ‘Anti-Patent Campaigners’ or ‘Against UPC’
  • 11.30.15 Media Alert: IAM ‘Magazine’ Does Not Protect Sources
  • 12.02.15 Links 2/12/2015: Microsoft and Debian, Thunderbird’s Fate
  • 12.04.15 EurActiv’s Puff Piece for EPO (Amid High-Budget Media Blitz) Reveals Just How Clueless and Tactless the EPO’s President Really is
  • 12.04.15 The Media is Already Flooded With EPO Propaganda, Some Likely Paid for With €73,000-Per-Month ‘Special’ New Budget
  • 12.05.15 EPO All-Time Low: Memorandum From the Praesidium (of the Boards of Appeal) Complains to the Administrative Council About Latest Questionable Moves
  • 12.06.15 Article Highlights EPO’s Capitalist Venture Tendencies, Seeking to Just Maximize Profit, Irrespective of Public Interests and Human Factors
  • 12.07.15 New WIPR Survey Shows 96% of Respondents Are Concerned About the Situation at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 12.12.15 EPO Censored Itself After Publishing a Document Which Had Been Leaked Anyway
  • 12.12.15 The European Patent Office is a Lobby Organisation, Was and Still is Lobbying for Expansion of Patent Scope (Also to Software) Through UPC
  • 12.13.15 Keeping the European Patent Office (EPO) Out of Politics Amid the EPO’s Campaign to Deceive the Media, Politicians
  • 12.14.15 EPO No Longer in the ‘Business’ of Just Granting Patents But Politics and Lobbying Also
  • 12.15.15 Battistelli’s Vision of UPC is Closer Contract With Major Applicants (Abroad), Contrary to European Interests
  • 12.16.15 Battistelli Wants to Make “Lobbying in the Field of European and Unitary Patent” a “Prohibited Activity” for All Except Himself
  • 12.16.15 European Patent Institute (EPI) Not Happy With the EPO’s Terrible Treatment of the Boards of Appeal
  • 12.16.15 New WIPO Figures Reinforce Reality Where More Patents Needn’t Imply More Innovation, Just Lower Standards
  • 12.16.15 UPC and Patent Trolls: The Connection Revisited
  • 12.17.15 Benoît Battistelli’s EPO Continues Its Self-Congratulatory PR Charade, Neglecting to Even Acknowledge the Catastrophes Therein
  • 12.19.15 Watch Out for ‘Divide and Rule’ Tactics From the Control Risks- and FTI Consulting-Steered EPO
  • 12.19.15 EPO Pays FTI Consulting (Nearly a Million Bucks), Which Pays IAM for Pro-UPC Propaganda Event
  • 12.22.15 Translation of the Latest Communiqué About the Administrative Council, No Longer Published by ‘President’
  • 12.22.15 Europe Under Siege by Patent Lawyers, UPC Ambitions, and the Administrative Council’s Continued Passive Support of Battistelli
  • 12.23.15 EPO Administrative Council: the Situation is “Detrimental to the Proper Functioning of the Office and the Public Image of the Whole Organisation”
  • 12.24.15 I-AM EPO: How the Record of the EPO’s Management Dispute With Staff and the EPC is Being Rewritten by EPO-Funded Media
  • 12.24.15 Concerns About the Unitary Patent Court (UPC) Among EPO Staff an Outcome of Battistelli’s Attacks on Staff
  • 12.28.15 Buying Panels and Paying the Media to Cement Personal Agenda: The Bill Gates Common Core Case Mirrors the Battistelli Unitary Patent Case
  • 12.28.15 Today’s Chaos Computer Club (CCC) Talk: EU Software and Business Method Patents: Call for Action
  • 12.31.15 Software Patents Used by Patent Trolls in the United States Are Squashed in Courts
  • 12.31.15 EPO Coverage to Increase in 2016, Including UPC Reality Checks
  • 01.01.16 European Patent Office (EPO) Starts New Year With Hogwash
  • 01.02.16 Abogados de Patentes de Alemania y Europa advierten que la UPC traerá más Trolls de Patentes a Europa con ayuda de la EPO
  • 01.02.16 German and European Patent Attorney Warns That UPC Would Bring More Patent Trolls to Europe, With Help From the EPO
  • 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
  • 01.05.16 Links 5/1/2016: NVIDIA Shows Linux Some Love, Black Lab Enterprise Linux 8.0 DP3
  • 01.05.16 The European Patent Office (EPO) Has Become a Propaganda Mill After the FTI Consulting Deal
  • 01.05.16 So Much for ‘Vocal Minority’… Half of EPO Staff Signed Petition in Support of SUEPO
  • 01.05.16 Patent Lawyers and People in ‘IP’ Jobs Warp the Debate About the Patent System: EPO-Funded Writers, Glorification of Patent Trolls, and Software Patents
  • 01.08.16 The European Patent Office (EPO) Doesn’t Like Spanish, So Why Should the Spanish Tolerate the EPO?
  • 01.08.16 Patent Lawyers Continue to Spin Grim News About Patents (UPC, Lawsuits Peak, Patent Raids) as Good News
  • 01.10.16 A La Oficina Europea de Patentes (OEP) no le gusta el Español, Así que PorQué los Espańoles la Toleran?
  • 01.10.16 A Busy Week Ahead for the EPO’s Management as Union-busting Efforts Culminate
  • 01.10.16 Patent Lawyers and Judges Don’t Understand Software Development and It Harms Programmers, Practicing Software Companies
  • 01.11.16 Abogados de Patentes Continua to Circular Tenebrosas Noticias Acerca de Patentes, UPC, Demandas a Granel, Ataques de Patentes Como Buenas Noticias
  • 01.12.16 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
  • 01.13.16 Germany Needs to Respect the European Patent Convention and Stop Issuing Software Patents, Also Reject UPC
  • 01.14.16 La Ofícina Europea de Patentes (OEP) Sigue Completamente Abusiva
  • 01.15.16 Hundreds of EPO Staff at The Hague (Including Managers) Spontaneously Protested Today, Making Almost Half of All Staff Present
  • 01.16.16 Summarising the Latest Attacks by the European Patent Office (EPO) on European Society, With Complicity of Corporate Media
  • 01.17.16 Team Battistelli Has Brought Dirty Politics to the EPO, Pension Cuts May be “Blatantly Illegal”
  • 01.17.16 Unitary Patent (UPC) Highlights Reality Behind the EPO’s Management and Its Multinational/Overseas Bosses
  • 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
  • 01.20.16 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 La Corte Unitaria de Patentes (UPC) Resalta la Realidad Detrás la Gerencia de la OEP y sus Jefes de las Multinacionales del Extranjero
  • 01.20.16 EPO/FTI Consulting-funded Event for UPC Will Be Stuffed With Mega-corporations from the United States
  • 01.20.16 In Unison, Nations Hop Aboard the Unitary Patent Train Wreck, For (Foreign) Corporate Gain at Europe’s Expense
  • 01.23.16 EPO Implicitly Acknowledges Declining Patent Quality by Agreeing to Finally Dump Some Monsanto GMO Patents
  • 01.23.16 Additional Information About EPO Management and Its Abuses, as Told by Anonymous Comments
  • 01.24.16 Software Patents and Patent Taxes: How 100 Grams Worth of Components Can Cost as Much as $1000
  • 01.24.16 Eventos de Consultantes Promovido para la Corte Unitaria de Patentes por la OEP/FTI, Estará Repleto de Mega-Corporaciones de los Estados Unidos
  • 01.26.16 Philip Cordery Says the EPO Situation is Well Known to All, as Attested by the Numerous Press Articles, Political Actions, or Administrative Recommendations
  • 01.28.16 Many Software Firms No Longer Bother With Software Patents, Especially After Alice
  • 01.28.16 Patents Roundup: Apple, Patent Trolls, Software Patents, East Texas, and Rick Frenkel (Best Known as Patent Troll Tracker)
  • 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 Patentes Resumen: los trolls de patentes de Apple, Patentes de Software, Este de Texas, Rick Frenkel (mejor conocido como Rastreador de Trolles de Patentes)
  • 01.29.16 FOSDEM Talk Against Software Patents and Against UPC This Weekend
  • 01.31.16 Richard Stallman: European Software Patents Are Back With the Unitary Patent Court (UPC)
  • 02.01.16 Slides of New Talk Which Explains the Connection Between the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Software Patents
  • 02.03.16 Patent Invalidation Statistics and Cost of Patent Litigation (Even If Bogus) Show That Patent Scope and Examination Standards a Problem in Europe, Not Just the US
  • 02.03.16 Richard Stallman: Patentes Europeas de Software Regresan con la Corte Unitaria de Patentes (UPC)
  • 02.03.16 The Most Detailed Explanation (Yet) of What’s Wrong With the EPO
  • 02.06.16 Diápositivas de Nueva Charla Explican la Connección Entre la Corte De Patentes Unitarias (UPC) y Patentes de Software
  • 02.07.16 UPC: To Understand Who Would Benefit From It Just Look at Who’s Promoting It (Like TPP)
  • 02.07.16 EPO Staff Responds to Team Battistelli’s Expansion to Include French Economic Propagandist on the Payroll
  • 02.07.16 Estadísticas de Invalidación de Patentes y Costos de Litigación de Patentes (incluso si son falsas) Muestran que la Esfera de Patentes y los Estándares de Examinación son un Probleman, No Sólo en Los Estados Unidos
  • 02.08.16 Latest Propaganda From the EPO’s Management an Effort to Make the EPO the Tool of Megacorporations
  • 02.09.16 La Más Detallada Explicación (hasta ahora) de ¿Qué esta mal con la OEP?
  • 02.09.16 The EPO’s Benoît Battistelli is the Dictator Who Can No Longer Dictate Like He Used to
  • 02.10.16 EPO Brain Drain (Even Directors Fed Up With Team Battistelli) and Rumours About Battistelli Becoming President of the UPC
  • 02.10.16 UPC Nepotism, Political Abuses, and UPC Involvement From the Legal Firm That EPO Hired to Bully Techrights
  • 02.11.16 Only Half a Dozen Cuban Patents Filed at EPO, But Hugely Unpopular Battistelli Goes to Cuba to Garner Cheap Support
  • 02.11.16 Nepotismo de la UPC, Abusos Políticos, y el Envolvimiento en la UPC de la Firma ¨Legal¨ que la OEP Contrato para Matonear a Techrights
  • 02.11.16 New EPO Protests Amid Nervous Breakdowns of Spanish EPO Employee (After Institutional Bullying by Battistelli’s Goons), Spain Rejects the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 02.12.16 In Lawyerland, Simulated UPC ‘Trials’ and More Extraordinary EPO Propaganda for Change That Would Harm Europe to Help Patent Lawyers and Their Big Clients
  • 02.13.16 Sólo Media Docena de Patentes Cubana Registradas en la OEP, Pero el Trístemente Célebre Battistelli Va a Cuba a Acumular Apoyo Baráto
  • 02.13.16 The European Patent Office, Aloof/Apathetic to Inventors and Human Rights, Simply Cannot be Trusted With 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
  • 02.14.16 Patents Roundup: Software Patents, Patenting Loopholes, PTAB, Patent Trolls, and Software Patents Propagandists
  • 02.15.16 Última Propaganda de la Gerencia de la OEP un Esfuerzo para hacer de ella la Herramienta de las Grandes Corporaciones
  • 02.15.16 La Oficina Europea de Patentes, Por Encima/Apatética a los Inventores y los Derechos Humanos, Simplemente NO Puede Ser Confíada con la Patente Unitaria (UPC)
  • 02.17.16 Patent Lawyers and EPO Officials Are Parading the Unitary Patent (UPC) in, Despite Lack of Democratic Process
  • 02.18.16 Danish Left’s Alternate for European Parliament Slams the European Patent Office While Staff Protests Are Again Ignored by the German Media
  • 02.18.16 The EPO’s Patent Coup in Europe Moves on With Conflict of Interests-Plagued German Authorities for UPC
  • 02.19.16 A Preview of Injunctions/Raids Heaven in Europe With the Unitary Patent (Continent-Wide Bans and Embargoes by Patent Lawyers)
  • 02.19.16 Patent Trolls and the Rise of Non-Practicing Parasites Not Just in the US But Also in Europe
  • 02.22.16 Germany, Which Allows People in Europe and Abroad to Patent Software (EPC Shunned), Simply Cannot be Trusted With the EPO and UPC
  • 02.22.16 It’s Official: Death of Software Patents Reaffirmed in India
  • 02.22.16 Los Abogados de Patentes y los Oficiales de la OEP están Desfilando Como si Fuese Carnaval a Favor de La Corte Unitaria de Patentes, A Pesar de la Falta de Proceso Democrático
  • 02.23.16 New Leak: Battistelli’s Circle, Now Fighting for Survival, Circulates a Letter (and Why Some at the EPO Believe It’s a Form of Blackmail)
  • 02.23.16 Los Trolles de Patentes y el Aumento de Entidades No-Practicantes No Sólo en Los Estados Unidos Pero También En Europa
  • 02.23.16 Es Oficial: La Muerte de las Patentes de Software Reafirmada en India.
  • 02.24.16 EPO-Funded Unitary Patent (UPC) Propaganda Events and the Latest on the Undemocratic (Even Antidemocratic) UPC Push
  • 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 New Evidence Emerges, Showing That Unitary Patent (UPC) is Indeed an SME Killer That Negatively Affects Europe for Patent Lawyers’ Sake
  • 02.28.16 Nueva Evidencia Emerge, Mostrando que La Corte Unitaria de Patentes es en Realidad un Asesino de PYMEs Que Afecta a Europa para Beneficio de los Abogados de Patentes
  • 02.29.16 After Alice, Patent Trial and Appeal Board is Invalidating Software Patents and Other Abstract Patents
  • 03.01.16 Team Battistelli’s New Media Strategy at Times of EPO Emergency
  • 03.02.16 UPC Anything But a Certainty With Battistelli on His Way Out, But Patent Lawyers Are Still in Denial
  • 03.03.16 Overview of Today’s Growing Press Coverage About the European Patent Office
  • 03.03.16 EPO Propaganda is Already Sticking in Some Media
  • 03.04.16 La UPC No Pasa Nada Con Battistelli de Salida, Pero los Abogados de Patentes Todavía lo Niegan
  • 03.04.16 Unitary Patent (UPC) Propagandists Are Louder Than Ever as Its Architect in Chief (Battistelli) is Probably About to Get Sacked
  • 03.05.16 EPO and IAM: a Marriage of Convenience
  • 03.05.16 Forget Staff Union-busting ‘Strike Ballots’, How About Ballots on Presidential Matters?
  • 03.06.16 EPO y IAM: un Matrimonio de Conveniencia
  • 03.08.16 Claim and Perception: Under Battistelli, EPO More Permissive on Software Patents Than USPTO, In Spite of the EPC
  • 03.08.16 Rumoured Successor of Battistelli, Christoph Ernst, Previously Seen as Antagonist of Battistelli But What About UPC?
  • 03.10.16 A Patent Office or a Lobbying Firm? ‘European’ Patent Office (EPO) Sticking its Nose in UPC Matters Again.
  • 03.10.16 Patents Roundup: Patent Trolls, Patent Reform, IAM’s Willful Ignorance, PTAB Paranoia, and Long Briefs
  • 03.12.16 Battistelli Acting Like a Politician, Lobbying for UPC All Across Europe and Coming to London Soon
  • 03.13.16 Benjamin Henrion’s (FFII) FOSDEM Talk About UPC and Software Patents in Europe
  • 03.14.16 Rodeo de Patentes: Trolls de Patentes, Reforma de Patentes, Ignorancia Voluntaria de IAM, Paranoia de PTB y Bragas Largas
  • 03.15.16 Consequences of Straining Staff: Patent Quality at the European Patent Office Has Gotten Rather Terrible
  • 03.15.16 Overthrowing Battistelli Only Part of a Bigger Job (Restoration of Quality and Human Decency at the European Patent Office)
  • 03.17.16 On Bristows LLP and Other Self-Serving Non-Practising Voices for Software Patents and UPC Injustice
  • 03.18.16 En Bristows LLP y Otras Egoístas Entidades no Prácticantes Voces por las Patentes de Software y la Injusticia de la UPC
  • 03.22.16 Software Patents: Dying, Spreading, or Hardly Surviving?
  • 03.23.16 Focus on Patent Trolls Persists, With Increasing Use of Euphemisms Such as NPEs and PAEs
  • 03.26.16 Ingve Björn Stjerna’s New Book About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Why It’s Important
  • 03.26.16 Patents Roundup: SCOTUS, U.S. Code § 101, CAFC, PTAB, and Software Patents in the Far East (Australia, Korea, Taiwan, China)
  • 03.29.16 Crisis Deepens at the European Patent Office, General Strike Planned for Next Thursday
  • 03.29.16 The Media is Still Awash With Unitary Patent (UPC) Misinformation
  • 03.30.16 UPC Would Bring Software Patents to Europe and Open the Floodgates to Litigation
  • 04.01.16 David Kappos Whines About the Supreme Court Shutting the Door on Many Software Patents
  • 04.01.16 La UPC Traería Patentes de Software a Europa y Abriría las Compuertas a Litigación
  • 04.02.16 Biased IAM’s Editor in Chief Goes on the Offensive Against (Software) Patent Sceptics, Still a Trolls Denialist
  • 04.02.16 David Kappos Lloriquea Porque La Corte Suprema Esta Cerrándo la Puerta a Varias Patentes de Software
  • 04.02.16 UPC Lobbying and Propaganda at the Fordham IP Think Tank (‘Conference’) 2016 in New York, With a Clear EPO Role
  • 04.03.16 EPO Strike in 3.5 Days Effective in All Sites, Lots for EPO Staff to be Angry About
  • 04.03.16 EUIPO y sus Sospechosa Relación con la EPO
  • 04.03.16 Cabildeo por la UPC y Propaganda en el Grupo de Interés Fordham IP (‘Conferencia’) 2016 en Nueav York, Con un Claro Rol de la EPO
  • 04.04.16 Battistelli’s Inner Circle is Expanding With More Miraculous EPO Promotions and Allegedly More Bodyguards
  • 04.04.16 El Parcializado Editor en Jefe de IAM Va a la Ofensiva Contra Escépticos de las Patentes (Software), Todavía un Denialista de Trolles
  • 04.05.16 European Patent Office Insists That Obeying the Law is Not Realistic, UPC Another Example of That
  • 04.05.16 Christian Archambeau on the Verge of EUIPO and EPO, Making the Two Less Distinguishable
  • 04.05.16 El Circulo Intimo de Battistelli se Expande Con Más Milagrosas Promociones y Su Guardia Pretoriana También Se Incrementa
  • 04.06.16 From US Military to International Banking and External ‘Review’ of EPO ‘Investigations’ (Union-Busting and War on Dissent)
  • 04.07.16 EPO is on Strike, Battistelli Escapes to London With His Bodyguards for More UPC Lobbying, FTI Consulting Goes for Brussels
  • 04.08.16 La EPO esta en Huelga, Battistelli Escapa a Londres con su Guardia Pretoriana para más Cabildeo por la UPC, FTI Consulting Va a Bruselas
  • 04.08.16 Lobbyists for Software Patents in ‘Journalism’ and ‘Reform’ Clothing (With Microsoft Connections)
  • 04.08.16 Desde los Militares de los Estados Unidos a la Banca Internacional y la ´Revisión´ Externa de las Investigaciones de la EPO (Golpes a la Unión y Guerra contra los Disidentes)
  • 04.08.16 EPSU Explains Why SUEPO Fights for More Than Just EPO Employees and for Rights of Workers at International Institutions
  • 04.09.16 EPSU Explica Porqué la SUEPO Lucha Por Más que los Empleados de la EPO Y Los Derechos de los Trabajadores de Instituciones Internacionales
  • 04.09.16 Cabilderos por las Patentes de Software en Ropas de ‘Periodismo’ y ‘Reforma’ (con Conecciones a Microsoft)
  • 04.09.16 Patents Roundup: US Patent System/Landscape Disqualified, Corrupted, Saturated With Patent Trolls, and Funded by Microsoft
  • 04.11.16 FOSS at Risk From Software Patents, Which Are Still Being Promoted by Bristows, IAM, IBM, and Steve Lundberg (Frequent Villains)
  • 04.11.16 Resumen de Patentes: Systema/Paisaje de Patentes de los EE.UU. Descalificado, Corrupto, Saturado Con Trolles de Patentes, y Financiado Por y Para Microsoft
  • 04.12.16 FOSS en Riesgo a Causa de las Patentes de Software, Las que Todavía Siguen Siendo Promovidas por Bristows, IAM, IBM, y Steve Lundberg (Los Villanos Usuales)
  • 04.12.16 European Patent Lawyers Who Conveniently Promote Software Patents in Spite of the Rules and the EPC
  • 04.14.16 Totally Inappropriate: The European Patent Office is Still Intervening in European Law and Politics
  • 04.18.16 Say the Truth About the US Patent System, Get Attacked by the Patent Propaganda Machine (Disguised as Press)
  • 04.19.16 European Patent Office Deemphasising Quality and Looking to Replace the Key Workers
  • 04.19.16 The ‘Great Conspiracy’ of Patent Lawyers, Lobbyists and Large Corporations for UPC and for Software Patents
  • 04.21.16 Growing Threats of Software Patents in Europe and the FRAND Trap Which Microsoft Promotes/Lobbies For
  • 04.22.16 ES: Creciéntes Amenazas de las Patentes de Software en Europa y la Trampa FRAND Que Microsoft Promueve/Cabildea
  • 04.22.16 Fighting Back Against Limitations on Software Development in Europe
  • 04.23.16 ES: Luchando Contra las Limitaciones Para el Desarrollo de Software en Europa
  • 04.24.16 ES: Di la Verdad Acerca del Sistema de Patentes de los EE.UU., Conseguiras Ser Atacado por la Máquina Propagandistica de Patentes (Disfrazada de Prensa)
  • 04.28.16 If EPO “Form of Thinking Were to be Followed, Guantanamo on German Soil Would be Possible.”
  • 04.28.16 Amid Referendum “the New European Unitary Patent System is Likely to Collapse Before It Started”
  • 04.29.16 ES: ”Si la Forma de Pensar de la EPO fuese Seguida, Guantánamo Sería Posible en Suelo Alemán.”
  • 04.30.16 How to Salvage the EPO’s Reputation: Create More Boards of Appeal in Europe and Abolish the Misguided UPC Fantasy
  • 05.01.16 ES: ¿Cómo Salvar la Reputación de la EPO?: Crear Más Jurados de Apelaciónes en Europa y Abolir la Malgíada/Malintencionada Fantasía de la UPC
  • 05.02.16 Nefarious Forces for Patent Abuse and Software Patents in the United States, Australia, India, Korea, and Europe
  • 05.03.16 New Paper About the UPC Explains Why It is Bad for Small- and Medium-sized European Businesses
  • 05.05.16 Enemies of Europe: A Month After Promoting UPC in London, Benoît Battistelli and the EPO Do This in Helsinki
  • 05.06.16 Links 6/5/2016: Neptune 4.5.1, Parts of Basho DB Liberated
  • 05.07.16 ES: Nuevo Reporte Acerca de la UPC Explica Por Que est Tán Mala Para Los Pequeños- y Medianos Negocios Europeos
  • 05.07.16 ES: Los Enemigos de Europ: Un Mes Después de Promover la UPC en Londres, Benoît Battistelli y la EPO Hacen lo Mismo en Helsinki
  • 05.07.16 ES: Fuerzas Viles Para el Abuso de Patentes y Patentes de Software en los EE.UU,. Australia, India, Korea, y Europe
  • 05.09.16 European Digital SME Alliance: Unified Patent Court (UPC) “Unconstitutional”, Harms SMEs, Brings Software Patents to Europe, “Should be Based on EU Law and Not on an International Agreement.”
  • 05.09.16 Corporate Imperialism in Europe Through the UPC, the Horrible Patent Deal Almost Nobody Heard of
  • 05.10.16 Golden Parachute or Not, Battistelli is Wasting Huge Amounts of Money on His Longtime Bodyguards Fetish
  • 05.10.16 A Soup of UPC Lies Courtesy of the EPO, Patent Lawyers, and Large Clients (Like Multinational Corporations)
  • 05.11.16 ES: El Congreso de los EE.UU. Debería Investigar a Battistelli, No Sólo a la WIPO y Francis Gurry
  • 05.11.16 ES: Paracaídas de Oro o No, Battistelli Está Desperdiciándo Dinero Con Su Fetiche de Guardia Pretoriana
  • 05.11.16 ES: La UPC: Una Sopa de Mentiras Cortesía de la EPO, Abogados de Patentes, y Grandes Clientes (Como Corporaciónes Multinaciónales)
  • 05.12.16 Raising Barriers to UPC Cancellation and Withdrawal
  • 05.15.16 UPC is Class War (the Rich Fighting Everyone Else), Hence the Increasing Militarisation of the European Patent Office
  • 05.16.16 UPC an Attack Not Only on the European Public But Also on Staff of the EPO
  • 05.17.16 If Battistelli Stayed and UPC Became a Reality, Patent Quality at the EPO Would Get a Lot Worse
  • 05.17.16 ES: La UPC es Guerra de Classes (los Ricos contra Todo el Mundo), He Aqu el Porque de la Militarización de la Oficina Europea de Patentes
  • 05.18.16 ES: La UPC un Ataque No Sólo Contra el Público Europeo Pero También Contra los Empleados de la EPO
  • 05.19.16 Anonymous Commenters Debate Whether Battistelli’s EPO Can Revoke Pensions of Dismissed Employees Who Dare — GASP — Find Alternative Employment
  • 05.19.16 It’s All Just Artificial Distractions From EPO Management, ‘Yellow’ Union Comes Under Scrutiny Again
  • 05.21.16 ES: Comentadores Anónimos Debaten Si la EPO de Battistelli Puede Revocar las Pensiones de Empleados Que Se Atreveen — GASP — a Buscar Empleo Alternativo
  • 05.21.16 EPO Patent ‘Quality’ and ‘Patent Creation’ Myth: Capsule-Based Coffee Sales and Trauma
  • 05.22.16 Disrupting Battistelli’s Distracting Propaganda: EPO Staff to Protest Again in About a Fortnight
  • 05.22.16 ES: Los Mitos de la EPO ‘Calidad’ de Patentes y de ‘Creación’ de Patentes: Basados en Ventas de Cafe y Trauma
  • 05.22.16 Corrupting Democracy? Growing Frequency of Rumours That the EPO’s President Battistelli is ‘Buying’ Votes of Small Member States
  • 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 The Media Starts Informing the European Public About the Downsides of UPC While EPO Accelerates Its Lobbying for Ratification
  • 05.24.16 ES: Interrumpiendo la Propagánda Distractante de Battistelli: los Empleados de la EPO Protestará de Nuevo en una Quincena
  • 05.25.16 Links 25/5/2016: Nginx 1.11, F1 2015 Coming to GNU/Linux Tomorrow
  • 05.26.16 Victim Card Ends up in Another Blunder for Battistelli and His Six Bodyguards
  • 05.26.16 EPO Management Under Growing Stress From Croatian Law Enforcement Authorities, German Politicians, Italian Media
  • 05.26.16 The EPO is Doing Great, Says EPO-Connected ‘News’ Site
  • 05.26.16 Italian Report About EPO Now Available in English
  • 05.28.16 ES: Algunos Detalles Acerca de ¿Cómo el Presidente de la EPO Es Rumoreado Estar Comprando Votos, y el Porqué es Suficientemente Base Para un Despido Inmediato?
  • 05.28.16 EPO Management Warns People About Scams When the EPO’s Management is Itself Falling for Scams
  • 05.28.16 ES: Los Medios de Comunicación Comienzan a Informar al Público Europeo Acercas de las Desventájas de la UPC Mientras que la EPO Acelera su Cabildeo por Ratificación
  • 05.28.16 ES: La Gerencia de la EPO Bajo Creciénte Estres por las Autoridades Legales Croatas, Políticas Alemanas, y los Medios Italianos
  • 05.29.16 Battistelli’s ‘Special Relationship’ With Portugal and the ‘Inventor of the Year’ Charade
  • 05.30.16 ES: Tarjeta de Victima Termina en Otra Torpeza para Battistelli Seis de su Guardia Pretoriana
  • 05.30.16 Unitary Microsoft: EPO Excludes People Who Are Not Microsoft Customers From UPC Participation
  • 05.31.16 Microsoft’s Former Chief Patent Counsel Praises Elevation of Software Patents in Microsoft Case, Adds to Cherry-Picking and Lobbying by Patent Lawyers
  • 06.01.16 ES: La Gerencia de la EPO Adviérte a la Gente Cuando Ellos Mismos Estan Cayendo Presa de Scams
  • 06.01.16 ES: Microsoft Unitario: La EPO Excluye a la Gente Que No Son Clientes de Microsoft Para Participar en La UPC
  • 06.01.16 Save the Boards of Appeal to Save the EPO From Battistelli’s Neoliberal Vision and Recipe for Disaster
  • 06.03.16 Closer Look at Players in Battistelli’s Information War: Part IV (Wellkom)
  • 06.04.16 Battistelli is Destroying the European Patent Office and Wasting a Lot of Money Hiding This Fact
  • 06.04.16 Software Patents in Europe and the UPC Already a Problem
  • 06.06.16 The Enemy Within: How Patent Lawyers, Their Media and the Whole Patent Establishment Became an Enemy to Their Nations
  • 06.07.16 Streisand Effect Award Won by EPO: It Has Just Blocked IP Kat Blog (Updatedx7)
  • 06.07.16 EPO’s Old Spokesman (10 Years in Munich) Resigns Again After Only 5 Weeks, EPO is Just Buying the Media Now
  • 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 EPO Powers Up Its Spam Machines, ‘Media Partners’ Start Their Prepared ‘Articles’ (Puff Pieces)
  • 06.08.16 Goodbye to Patent Quality at the EPO, Thanks to Team Battistelli With Its Extreme Policies
  • 06.08.16 ES: Mirada Cercana a los Protagonistas de la Guerra Informativa de Battistellir: Parte IV (Wellkom)
  • 06.08.16 Leaks Required: EPO’s Plan to Crush the Appeal Boards and Media Contracts for Puff Pieces
  • 06.09.16 EPO’s European Inventor Award 2016 (EIA16) is Not an Award Event, It Is a Propaganda and Lobbying Event of Battistelli, EPO Just Foots the Bill
  • 06.10.16 EPO ‘Bought’ the Financial Times, Which Now Operates in ‘Mouthpiece Mode’ for Mr. Battistelli
  • 06.10.16 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: El Premio al Inventor Europeo 2016 (EIA16) del la EPO No es un Evento de Premiación, es Sólo un Evento de Propaganda y Cabildeo de Battistelli, la EPO Simplemente Paga por Ello
  • 06.12.16 Why Anonymous Dissent Against EPO on Google Platforms May be Risky
  • 06.12.16 ES: La EPO ‘Compró’ al Financial Times, El Cual Opera a ‘Modo de Vocero’ Para el sr. Battistelli
  • 06.13.16 Another EPO Staff Demonstration Planned for a Fortnight From Now When Battistelli Wishes to Make the EPO Even Crazier
  • 06.13.16 Links 13/6/2016: Linux 4.7 RC3, Samsung’s Tizen Focus
  • 06.14.16 Timely ‘Gifts’ From Battistelli to Member States (Shortly Before They Can — and Should — Sack Him)
  • 06.14.16 EPO and Its ‘Buddies’ in the Media Lobby for the UPC in Spite of and in the Face of Resistance
  • 06.15.16 Battistelli’s European Patent Office Broadens FTI Consulting Contract to Undermine the Media, Wastes Millions of Euros
  • 06.15.16 Benoît Battistelli’s Façade Continues: Exploiting Terror Attacks Again, Throwing Expensive Parties at the EPO’s Expense, Crushing More Workers’ Rights
  • 06.15.16 British Media Tackling Other British Media That the EPO’s Benoît Battistelli Paid for His Propaganda Campaign
  • 06.17.16 Benoît Battistelli Admits That UPC is Not a Done Deal, in Spite of His Expensive PR and Misleading Media Coverage That He Had the EPO Pay Untold Millions For
  • 06.18.16 ES: La Oficina Europea de Patentes de Battistelli Amplia su Contrato con el Nefasto FTI Consulting Para Neutralizar a los Medios, Desperdicia Millones de Euros
  • 06.18.16 ES: Oportunos ‘Regalos’ de Battistelli a los Estados Miembros (Poco antes de que Ellos Puedan — y Deberían — Despedirlo)
  • 06.18.16 Brain Drain at the EPO: Qualified Patent Examiners Leave in Droves, Young Ones Blindly Loyal to Management Reduce Patent Quality
  • 06.18.16 When the EPO’s PR Team Says About UPC (Unitary Patent) That It Can be Delayed It Means Derailed or Called Off
  • 06.18.16 ES: La EPO y sus ‘Compadres’ en los Medios Cabildean por la UPC a Pesar de y Enfrentar Resistencia
  • 06.20.16 New Paper Demonstrates That Unitary Patent (UPC) is Little More Than a Conspiracy of Patent ‘Professionals’ and Their Self Interest
  • 06.21.16 Supreme Court on Cuozzo v Lee Another Major Loss for Software Patents in the United States
  • 06.21.16 The Conspiracy of Patent Lawyers for UPC and Battistelli’s Role in Preparing by Firing People
  • 06.22.16 IP Europe’s UPC Lobbying and the EPO Connection
  • 06.23.16 As Decision on the UK’s EU Status Looms, EPO Deep in a Crisis of Patent Quality
  • 06.23.16 Patent Lawyers Love (and Amplify) Halo and Enfish, Omit or Dismiss Cuozzo and Alice
  • 06.25.16 With UPC Dead for Battistelli’s Entire Remaining Term, No Reason for the EPO or the Administrative Council to Keep Battistelli Around
  • 06.26.16 Patents Roundup: Bad Quality (USPTO), Bad Analysis (India), Bad Microsoft, Bad Actors (Trolls), Bad Scope (Software Patents), and the Ugly
  • 06.27.16 Battistelli May Still be on the Way Out as Pressure Grows in Germany, UPC in Shambles
  • 06.28.16 New Efforts to Work Around Barriers to UPC in Light of ‘Brexit’; Behind These Efforts Are Self-Serving Patent Profiteers
  • 06.28.16 ES: Con la UPC Muerta por el Resto del Termino de Battistelli, No Hay Razón para que la EPO o el Consejo Administrativo Sigan Manteniéndolo Más
  • 06.28.16 Injunction Against Battistelli’s Investigative Unit (Known Internally as ‘Gestapo’) Amid Serious Injustices and Bogus ‘Trials’
  • 06.29.16 Growing Consensus Even Among Patent Professionals That UPC is Dying Everywhere If Not Just in the UK
  • 06.29.16 The Latest Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) Would Have Us Believe That It’s Alive and Well
  • 06.30.16 You Know That UPC is Quite Likely Dead (at Least in the UK) When Even Baroness Neville-Rolfe Dodges the Question (Updated)
  • 07.01.16 Battistelli’s Destructive Actions Will Drive EPO Applicants Away to National Patent Offices, Putting at Risk the Whole EU-Wide (and Beyond) Project
  • 07.01.16 The European Patent Organisation’s Administrative Council Helps Benoît Battistelli Destroy Patent Quality for the Sake of ‘Production’
  • 07.01.16 As Expected, ‘Team UPC’ Continues Fighting for Its Project’s Survival in Spite of ‘Brexit’
  • 07.02.16 ES: Como Era de Esperarse, El ´Equipo UPC´ Continúa Luchando para que Su Proyecto Sobreviva a Pesar de Brexit
  • 07.03.16 ES: Las Acciiónes Destructivas de Battistelli Llevaran a los Aplicantes de la EPO Hacia las Oficinas Nacionales de Patentes, Poniéndo en Riesgo el Proyecto Total de la UE y Más Allá
  • 07.03.16 IAM’s Latest Take on the UPC: Dead End For Another 2.5 Years (At Least) With No Effective Workarounds
  • 07.04.16 UPC a Dead Project, as Per Analysis From Foley and Lardner LLP; What Next for Team Battistelli and Team UPC?
  • 07.05.16 Signs of Progress: Overly Litigious US Patent System Calms Down a Bit, Reform Upsets Megacorporations
  • 07.05.16 Potential Alignment of Special Interests at Mishcon de Reya: EPO, Microsoft, and Brexit (or UPC)
  • 07.09.16 Battistelli and Team UPC Working Behind Closed Doors to Overcome Brexit and Impose Patent Injustice
  • 07.09.16 ES: La Última Opinión de IAM en la UPC: En un Callejón sin Salida por Otros 2.5 Años (Por lo Menos) Con no Salidas Efectivas
  • 07.10.16 ES: El Alineamiénto Potential de Intereses Especiales con Mishcon de Reya: EPO, Microsoft, y Brexit (o la UPC)
  • 07.11.16 ES: Battistelli y el Equipo UPC Trabajando a Puertas Cerradas para Sobreponerse a Brexit e Imponer la Injusticia de Patentes
  • 07.11.16 Will Battistelli’s Friend/Ally Lucy Neville-Rolfe Shamelessly Attack British Democracy and Push for UPC in Spite of Brexit?
  • 07.11.16 Benoît Battistelli’s Attacks on EPO Unions, Judges, Boards, and Even Justice Itself the Subject of Media Fascination
  • 07.13.16 EPO’s Battistelli Continues to Court Small Countries’ Officials and Spin That as “Small Businesses From These Countries”
  • 07.14.16 Deathwatch of the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPC)
  • 07.15.16 What If EPO Under Battistelli Gets Broken Beyond Repair Just Like the UPC?
  • 07.17.16 ES: La EPO de Battistelli Continúa Cortejando a Officiales de Países Pequeños y su Propaganda de Beneficiar a las “PYMEs de Aquellos Países”
  • 07.17.16 ES: ¿Que si la EPO Bajo Battistelli Se Arruina Sin Posibilidad de Reparación Como la UPC?
  • 07.17.16 Microsoft and Its Patent Minions at Nokia Still Have Patent Stacking Ambitions Against Android/Linux OEMs
  • 07.18.16 Battistelli Has Implemented De Facto EPO Coup to Remove Oversight, Give Himself Total Power, and Allegedly Give UPC Gifts (Loot) to French Officials
  • 07.18.16 EPO Social Report is a Big Pile of Lies That Responsible Journalists Must Ignore
  • 07.20.16 EPO USA: Under Battistelli, the ‘European’ Patent Office Emulates All the Mistakes of the USPTO
  • 07.22.16 Haar Mentioned as Likely Site of Appeal Boards as Their Eradication or Marginalisation Envisioned by UPC Proponent Benoît Battistelli
  • 07.22.16 EPO Attaché Albert Keyack Viewed as Somewhat of a Mole, Reporting From the US Embassy in Brazil Until Shortly Before the Temer Coup
  • 07.26.16 Kluwer Thinks People Are Clueless About the Unitary Patent System and Pretends It’s Business as Usual
  • 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
  • 07.27.16 CAFC Meddling in PTAB Affairs; Unified Patents Fights a Good Fight by Invalidating Software Patents
  • 07.30.16 EPO Crushed the Boards of Appeal (i.e. Quality Control) and Insiders Explain Why
  • 08.01.16 Software Patents Still a Problem in Europe (in Spite of the European Patent Convention), the UPC Would Make Things Worse
  • 08.02.16 The Protocol on Privileges and Immunities of the UPC is a Dead End, But Team UPC Tries to Ram it Down Europeans’ Throats
  • 08.03.16 Lucy in the Sky With Battistelli’s Diamonds (EU Budget) But No UPC in Sight
  • 08.04.16 Patent Quality in Europe (EPO) Declining Under Battistelli in Spite of the USPTO’s Cautionary Tale
  • 08.06.16 Managing IP (MIP) Organises a UPC Event (European Patent ‘Reform’ Forum), the Largest Patent Microcosm/Corporate Players Dominate Through Fee Discrimination
  • 08.08.16 Software Patents Not Potent in the United States Anymore, But Threat of Resurgence Persists Inside CAFC
  • 08.09.16 “EPO Shows an Operating Loss of €145,000,000”
  • 08.09.16 “EPO is Quickly Turning Into a Registration System”
  • 08.11.16 ‘Constitutional Crisis’ at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 08.14.16 Patent Microcosm Shuts Out the Poor: Unified Patent Court (UPC) Promotion by Practising Law Institute (PLI) Only for the Wealthy
  • 08.16.16 Personal Audio LLC and Patent Troll Jim Logan Demonstrate the Harms of Software Patents and Why They Must Never Spread to Europe
  • 08.18.16 Battistelli’s European Patent Office Goes to the United States to Speak About the UPC and Software Patents
  • 08.19.16 The Cost/Toll of the ‘New’ EPO and Where All That Money Goes or Comes From
  • 08.25.16 Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice Calls the European Patent Office “Rotten”, Other Sources Scrutinise Recent Moves
  • 08.26.16 The EPO’s Francesco Zaccà Presenting in Turin Alongside Patent Trolls (Like the Patent Mafia Sisvel) and Lobbyists/Front Groups for Software Patents, UPC
  • 08.28.16 More Lies From President Benoît Battistelli and the EPO Crisis Which Continues to Deepen
  • 08.29.16 Let Them Eat Patents
  • 09.02.16 UPC Threatens to Send the European Patent Office Circling Down the Drain
  • 09.04.16 There is No Future for the UPC in Spite of What the EPO and the Patent Microcosm Keep Telling Us
  • 09.05.16 The EPO’s Assistant/Secretary for Bergot (Nepotism Supreme) Demonstrates a Race to the Bottom With Temporary Appointments, Operation ‘Clean House’
  • 09.06.16 Convergence Between the EPO and the Media: ‘Managing IP’ as Battistelli and UPC Platform
  • 09.08.16 A New Wave of the EPO’s Much-Expected Propaganda Push, Aided by ‘Managing IP’ and IAM ‘Magazine’
  • 09.12.16 EU Law and UPC: Brought to You by Microsoft and the European Patent Office
  • 09.13.16 Battistelli is Killing the EPO, in His Own Words…
  • 09.13.16 Web Site ‘Managing IP’ is Managing to Come Across as an EPO Mouthpiece
  • 09.13.16 Team UPC Has Not Grown Tired of Kicking a Dead (Trojan) Horse
  • 09.13.16 Team UPC Has Not Grown Tired of Kicking a Dead (Trojan) Horse
  • 09.14.16 As Part of So-called ‘Reforms’, the EPO’s President is Gradually Eliminating the Boards of Appeal, Not Just Their Independence
  • 09.15.16 Battistelli and His Circle — Not Just Team UPC — Still Delusional About the Prospects of a Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • 09.18.16 EPO President Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are Still Lying, Don’t Believe a Word They Say
  • 09.18.16 After McRO v Namco Case (at CAFC) the Patent Microcosm Works Overtime to Produce Pro-Software Patents Propaganda, Smear the Supreme Court
  • 09.19.16 With or Without the UPC (Which Will Probably Never Happen) Battistelli is Crushing the EPO and Ejects Experienced Staff, a Future Without Examination Possible
  • 09.20.16 Like Big Tobacco Lobbyists, Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are Just Chronically Lying and Manipulating Politicians With Their Lies
  • 09.20.16 The EPO’s ‘Investigative’ Function is Totally Out of Control and Continues to Get Bigger, Whitewashed by So-called ‘Review’
  • 09.23.16 Journalism 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 Journalism 102: Do Not Become Like ‘Managing IP’ or IAM ‘Magazine’ (the Megaphones of the EPO’s Management)
  • 09.24.16 Bristows LLP’s Hatred/Disdain of UK/EU Democracy Demonstrated; Says “Not Only Will the Pressure for UK Ratification of the UPC Agreement Continue, But a Decision is Wanted Within Weeks.”
  • 09.25.16 The EPO Does Not Want Skilled (and ‘Expensive’) Staff, Layoffs a Growing Concern
  • 09.25.16 Software Patents Propped Up by Patent Law Firms That Are Lying, Further Assisted by Rogue Elements Like David Kappos and Randall Rader (Revolving Doors)
  • 09.25.16 What Insiders Are Saying About the Sad State of the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 09.26.16 The Moral Depravity of the European Patent Office Under Battistelli
  • 09.27.16 Team Battistelli Intensifies the Attack on the Boards of Appeal Again
  • 09.27.16 After the EPO Paid the Financial Times to Produce Propaganda the Newspaper Continues to Produce UPC Puff Pieces, Just Ahead of EU Council Meeting
  • 09.27.16 The Battistelli Effect: “We Will be Gradually Forced to File Our Patent Applications Outside the EPO in the Interests of Our Clients”
  • 09.28.16 Cementing Autocracy: The European Patent Office Against Democracy, Against Media, and Against the Rule of Law
  • 09.29.16 IP Kat is Lobbying Heavily for the UPC, Courtesy of Team UPC
  • 09.29.16 Letter From the Dutch Institute of Patent Attorneys (Nederlandse Orde van Octrooigemachtigden) to the Administrative Council of the EPO
  • 09.29.16 Team UPC is Interjecting Itself Into the Media Ahead of Tomorrow’s Lobbying Push Against the European Council and Against European Interests
  • 09.30.16 Unprecedented Levels of UPC Lobbying by Big Business Europe (Multinationals) and Their Patent Law Firms
  • 10.01.16 Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are at War With European Democracy, Which They View as an Obstacle to Money and Power
  • 10.03.16 Translation and Response to Battistelli’s Face-Saving ‘Interview’ With Juve
  • 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
  • 10.05.16 Echo Chamber’s Lobbying: Team UPC Citing Team UPC as ‘Proof’ Regarding the UPC
  • 10.06.16 Links 6/10/2016: KDE Student Programs, Dell With Ubuntu Linux
  • 10.09.16 Has IP Kat’s Unofficial (Self-)Censorship Policy Expanded From Protecting the EPO’s Image to Protecting the UPC?
  • 10.09.16 Towards the End of Patent Trolls-Friendly Courts in the United States
  • 10.09.16 The UPC is Dead, Says Opinion Partly Funded by Team UPC, But Patent Scope in Europe Remains an Issue
  • 10.11.16 “Very Mysterious Things Going on at the IPKat Recently”
  • 10.13.16 The EPO is Out of Control on (Patent) Scope and Team UPC Floods the Media in a Desperate Last Attempt
  • 10.16.16 UPC Preparatory Committee Projects Optimism in an Effort to Salvage Its Dying Project, the Unitary/Unified Patent
  • 10.16.16 As Expected, Benoît Battistelli Puts Longtime Ally Roland Grossenbacher on Top of Boards of Appeal
  • 10.18.16 The Long History or Seeds of Control by Fear and Punishment at the EPO
  • 10.20.16 Battistelli Ruins Not Only the EPO But Also the Whole of Europe By Ushering in Software Patents That Patent Trolls Love So Much
  • 10.20.16 Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead, But ‘Managing IP’ and Selfish Patent Law Firms Still Try to Resurrect It
  • 10.24.16 Updates Regarding EPO and BoAC: Unrest and Injustice Carry on
  • 10.24.16 EPO and EUIPO Join Hands to Release Propaganda (for European Media to Parrot) Some Time Tomorrow
  • 10.24.16 UPC Preparatory Committee Puts the Brakes on UPC Amid Brexit and Growing Uncertainty
  • 10.25.16 No Promising Future For the EPO Under Battistelli (If Any Future At All)
  • 10.27.16 Leaked: Budget and Finance Committee Outcomes That Jeopardise What’s Left of the EPO’s Future
  • 10.29.16 The Former Chief Economist of the EPO Warns That Battistelli’s Implicit Policy of Lowering Patent Quality (for Quantity) Will Bring Patent Trolls to Europe
  • 10.30.16 FTC Slams Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), Effectively Patent Trolls, Which Are a Growing Problem in Europe
  • 10.30.16 The Patent Trolls Are Moving East as Patents on Software Lose Their Lustre in the United States
  • 11.02.16 Breaking the European Patent System With the UPC Hammer, Courtesy of the EPO and Lawyers-Centric ‘News’ Sites
  • 11.05.16 UPC a Threat to the Boards of Appeal at the EPO (Soon Haar) and to Patent Quality in Europe
  • 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
  • 11.07.16 Don’t Believe Team UPC; the UPC is Going Nowhere Fast
  • 11.08.16 At EPOPIC Today, As Expected, Software Patents Courtesy of EPO
  • 11.12.16 Decline in Patent Quality at the EPO Increasingly Reaffirmed by More Branches, Insiders, and Even the European Commission
  • 11.13.16 IAM’s Interest in Patent Trolls Going Global, Capitalising on Declining Patent Quality
  • 11.13.16 Benoît Battistelli Reinforces the Perception That García-Escudero is His Pet Chinchilla at the Board of Appeals Committee (BoAC)
  • 11.18.16 Like Team UPC, the Internet Association (Megacorporations’ Front Group) Hijacks the Voice of Small Businesses in an Effort to Steer Patent Policy Against Them
  • 11.19.16 European Media, Dutch Parliament and Spectacularly Enough Even IP Kat (Yes, It’s Back!) Subject the EPO to Serious Scrutiny
  • 11.22.16 Crisis at the EPO Deepens as Dutch Parliament Dives in, European Parliament Snubbed by EPO Management, and Battistelli Relies on ‘High Corruption’ States
  • 11.23.16 Caricature: Team Battistelli’s UPC Strategy
  • 11.24.16 Giants of Asia: India More Restrictive on Patent Scope, China More Lenient
  • 11.24.16 Asking Team UPC or the EPO About the UPC is Like Asking Clinton About Winning Presidential Elections
  • 11.25.16 EPO and the Art of Distraction, Disinformation
  • 11.26.16 Duplicate Events for Lobbying by Team UPC Meddle in Politics in an Effort to Enrich Itself at Europe’s Expense
  • 11.27.16 Danger of Letting a Bunch of Patent Law Firms Attempt to Hijack the European Patent System With UPC
  • 11.29.16 Mixing Politics and EPO: How Battistelli Defies the Very Basic Rules of the Office
  • 11.29.16 The UPC Scam Part I: EPO-Bribed Media Outlets Lie to Brits (and to Europeans) About the UPC
  • 11.29.16 The UPC Scam Part III: The “Patent Mafia”
  • 11.29.16 The UPC Scam Part II: The Patent Echo Chamber at Work, Prematurely Congratulating Itself in Its ‘News’ Sites
  • 11.29.16 The UPC Scam Part IV: Bumps Along the Road for UPC, With or Without the UK and Brexit
  • 12.01.16 Dutch and French Politicians Complain About the European Patent Office, British Media Coverage Regular Now
  • 12.02.16 Relocating the Boards of Appeal to Haar is a Poisonous Priority at Battistelli’s EPO
  • 12.03.16 More French Politicians Are Complaining That Benoît Battistelli is a Disgrace to France and Urge for Action
  • 12.03.16 Dutch Media Covers Latest EPO Scandals, German Media Totally Absent (a Media Blackout of Convenience)
  • 12.04.16 Asia’s Patent Litigation Chaos Getting Worse, Reaching Countries in the West, and Sites Like IAM Actively Promote This
  • 12.04.16 Patent Trolls of Microsoft and Ericsson Are Trying to Tax Everything, Especially Linux Devices
  • 12.05.16 The UPC Scam Part V: Unitary Patent Regime a Fantasy of Patent Trolls
  • 12.06.16 Les Échos Chamber: Having Corrupted the Media (With EPO Money), Battistelli Now Uses It for More UPC Propaganda
  • 12.06.16 The UPC Scam Part VII: A Fine Mess in the Making, as Nothing Can be Made of It Amid/After Brexit
  • 12.06.16 USPTO Echo Chamber That Lacks Actual Software Professionals Deciding on Patentability of Software
  • 12.06.16 The UPC Scam Part VI: The Real Story Which People Missed Due to Puff Pieces Seeded by Battistelli-Bribed Media is That UPC Technically Cannot Come to the UK
  • 12.08.16 Memo “Deliberately Leaked to Cover up the UPC” With Its Many Associated Issues Amid Brexit
  • 12.09.16 Ignore the Bristows UPC Echo Chamber, the UPC is Not Happening
  • 12.11.16 The EPO Sent Its Second ‘Monster’ to Croatia to Lobby for the Unitary Patent (UPC), Did Not Mention Anything About It
  • 12.12.16 Software Patents Battles: Lobby to Restore US Software Patents, IBM’s and Google’s Positions on the Subject, and Microsoft/Intellectual Ventures With Their Ongoing Attacks on Linux
  • 12.13.16 Media Blackout in Croatian Mainstream Media About Criminal Charges Against EPO’s Croatian Vice-President and EPO President’s Notoriety
  • 12.13.16 The EPO Keeps Bullying Examiners and Even Judges, EPO’s Mouthpiece PwC Now Bullies Researchers
  • 12.13.16 Another New Book, This Time From Dr Luke McDonagh, Chronicles the Demise of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement
  • 12.14.16 Rumour: Carl Josefsson to Head EPO Boards of Appeal, Battistelli Unhappy
  • 12.14.16 EPO is “Googlebombing” Croatia With Puff Pieces Rather Than Discussion/Coverage of Vice-President’s Dark Side
  • 12.15.16 Team UPC Salivating Over Unitary Patent Fantasy Even Though It is Stuck in a Limbo
  • 12.16.16 Will the Patent Microcosm of London Please Stop Misleading the Public About UPC?
  • 12.16.16 Small Nations With Almost Not a Single European Patent Sign the Death Knell of EPO Patent Quality
  • 12.19.16 From Bad to Worse: When a Horrible Regime (EPO) Publicly Makes Itself Look Like One
  • 12.21.16 Accusations of Administrative Council (of the EPO) Complicity in Illicit Retaliation Against Appeal Boards at the Behest of Battistelli
  • 12.21.16 With Lucy Neville-Rolfe Out (Confirmed Today!) and Chaos in the EPO’s Management, the UPC’s Prospects Look Worse Than Ever in the UK and Europe as a Whole
  • 12.21.16 No Justice at the EPO, Whose Underlying Purpose Was (Originally) to Do Patents Justice
  • 12.23.16 Sean Dennehey, UK Delegate (EPO) and Head of UK IPO, Already Resists Battistelli; Should Also Understand British Businesses Don’t Want or Need the UPC
  • 12.26.16 After Microsoft’s Notorious Intervention Nokia is Nothing But a Patent Troll Whose Patent Portfolio Needs to be Smashed
  • 12.30.16 German Justice Minister Heiko Maas, Who Flagrantly Ignores Serious EPO Abuses, Helps Battistelli’s Agenda (‘Reform’) With the UPC
  • 12.31.16 2016 in Review and Plans for 2017
  • 12.31.16 EPO’s Central Staff Committee Complains About Battistelli’s Bodyguards Fetish and Corruption of the Media
  • 01.01.17 When EPO Vice-President, Who Will Resign Soon, Made a Mockery of the EPO
  • 01.01.17 EPO Select Committee is Wrong About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 01.02.17 Europe Should Listen to SMEs Regarding the UPC, as Battistelli, Team UPC and the Select Committee Lie About It
  • 01.03.17 New Article From Heise Explains Erosion of Patent Quality at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 01.05.17 Technical Failure of the European Patent Office (EPO) a Growing Cause for Concern
  • 01.07.17 2017: Latest Year That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Still Stuck in a Limbo
  • 01.11.17 No End to Battistelli’s Witch-hunts Against the Media, Against Staff, and Against Politicians
  • 01.12.17 Brexit/Trump Effect: Patent Systems With Institutional Corruption and Nepotism
  • 01.12.17 Brexit Means No UPC (Unified Patent Court)
  • 01.15.17 Constitutionality as a Barrier and Brexit Barriers to UPC Keep the Whole Pipe Dream Deadlocked
  • 01.16.17 ‘Financial Director’ Publishes Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 01.17.17 More Fake News About the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Based on Lobbying Tactics From Bristows UPC and the Preparatory Committee
  • 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)
  • 01.19.17 Corporate (Wall Street) Media Agrees That Brexit Dooms the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 01.19.17 Farce of an ‘Independence’ for the Boards of Appeal as Another Ally of Benoît Battistelli Enters as Parasite Inside the ‘Overseer’/Host
  • 01.20.17 Beware Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 01.21.17 ‘Reform’ at the EPO Means Destroying the Staff Union, Crushing Patent Examiners, and Imposing on Europe a System It Does Not Want (UPC)
  • 01.24.17 Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna: UPC’s “Entry Into Force is Not at all Secured,” Contrary to What Team UPC Says
  • 01.27.17 Gurry and Battistelli: When Alternative Facts and Oppression Are Becoming Business as Usual
  • 01.28.17 Juve Survey: Stakeholders Want Benoît Battistelli Out
  • 01.29.17 The Future of Patent Trolls in the US Will Also Determine Europe’s
  • 02.01.17 EPO Stakeholders Want Battistelli and His Goons Ousted, They Can Accomplish This by Working Together (Like a Union)
  • 02.02.17 New WIPR Survey and Other Data Points Suggest That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead, at Least in the UK
  • 02.03.17 Weekend Talk in Brussels to Speak of “Open Patents”, Relevant to the EPO at Times of Growing Lenience on Software Patents
  • 02.03.17 Team UPC Continues to be a Premier Source of Fake News About Unitary Patent in the United Kingdom
  • 02.05.17 No, IAM, UPC Did Not “Spring Back to Life”
  • 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 Battistelli’s EPO is Under Fire From Major Applicants for So-called ‘Early Certainty’ (Low Quality and Rushed Patent Examination)
  • 02.07.17 The European Patent Office Officially Dishonours Justice, So It’s Time for SUEPO to Become Clandestine
  • 02.08.17 Laughable and Misleading: What the EPO Has Become Amid an Avalanche of Bad News
  • 02.08.17 The News the EPO is Distracting From: No Justice for EPO Workers at ILO (Necessitating Immediate Removal of Immunity)
  • 02.09.17 Video: 123rd Session of ILO Tribunal Judgments Session Talks About EPO
  • 02.13.17 UPC Petition Launched to Halt Ratification Plans in the United Kingdom Amid Nefarious Back Room Deals
  • 02.14.17 For Valentine’s Day, Battistelli Learns to Stop Worrying and Love to Lie
  • 02.14.17 EPO-Connected Writers Are Using Alternative Facts or Fake News to Promote the Unitary Patent in British Media
  • 02.16.17 New Scholarly Paper Says “UK’s Withdrawal From the EU Could Mean That the Entire (Unitary Patent) System Will Not Go Into Effect”
  • 02.16.17 New Survey Reveals That High Patent Quality, or Elimination of Bad Patents, is Desirable to Patent Holders
  • 02.17.17 Our Assessment: EPO Wants a Lot of Low-Quality Patents and Low-Paid Staff With UPC (Prosecution Galore)
  • 02.17.17 Technicolor, Having Turned Into a Patent Troll, Attacks Android/Tizen/Linux With Patents in Europe
  • 02.19.17 The EPO is Becoming an Embarrassment to Europe and a Growing Threat to the European Union
  • 02.20.17 Paid-for UPC Proponent, IAM ‘Magazine’, Debunked on UPC Again
  • 02.23.17 UPC Roundup: War on the Appeal Boards, British Motion Against the UPC, Fröhlinger Recalled, and Fake News About Spain
  • 02.24.17 IAM, Greased up by the EPO, Continues Lobbying by Shaming Tactics for the UPC, Under the Guise of ‘News’
  • 02.26.17 Wouter Pors and Other UPC Boosters Believe That Repeating the Lies Will Potentially Make Them Truths
  • 02.27.17 Patent Trolls on Their Way Out in the United States and Their Way Into China, No Thanks to the Open Invention Network (OIN)
  • 02.28.17 New Survey Shows That Even Patent Professionals Know That Team UPC is Lying About Unitary Patent Roadmaps
  • 03.01.17 MIP (Managing IP) International Patent Forum 2017 to Have EPO and UPC Propaganda, as Before
  • 03.01.17 Now is the Time to Sign the Petition Against the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 03.02.17 EPO Budget Obscures and Distorts Facts About the Unitary Patent (UPC) in a Classic Antidemocratic Exercise by an Unaccountable Institution
  • 03.03.17 What Battistelli Means by Social Democracy at the EPO is What North Korea Means by Democratic People’s Republic
  • 03.04.17 EPO Mimics Interpol, But Interpol Should Raid the EPO and End the Management’s Abuses Once and for All
  • 03.04.17 Jo Johnson: UPC Agreement is “Currently Only Open to EU Member States” (i.e. Britain Cannot Join or Ratify)
  • 03.05.17 Poisonous Patents at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 03.05.17 The Very Thought of UPC in the UK “is a Perfect Example of What Lobbying Can Achieve!”
  • 03.07.17 EPO Record Low on Quality of European Patents (EPs) in 2016
  • 03.07.17 With a Week Left Before the Administrative Council’s Meeting, Pressure on Battistelli to Leave the EPO Continues to Grow
  • 03.07.17 Another Delegation Antagonistic on EPO Matters is ‘Decapitated’ (Sean Dennehey)
  • 03.08.17 Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Bert Koenders: Rapid Improvements in European Patent Office or Else ‘High Level’ Action
  • 03.08.17 The European Patent Office is Wasting Its Already Limited Budget on Misleading Press Releases/Paid-for Coverage That Overlook Sharp Decline in Patent Quality
  • 03.08.17 Battistelli’s Shock Doctrine is Coming to the EPO’s Boards of Appeal, Having Already Rattled the Office
  • 03.09.17 UK software companies oppose Unitary Patent ratification
  • 03.10.17 After EPO Sanctions Against IP Kat (Censorship of More Than 10,000 Articles) Even Merpel Throws in the Towel
  • 03.10.17 ‘Lobbyists’ Annsley Merelle Ward and Alan Johnson (Bristows) Return to Using IP Kat to Spread Fake News About Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 03.11.17 Why Techrights is Nowadays Focused on the EPO and UPC (Unitary Patent)
  • 03.12.17 Germany Cannot Ratify the UPC Because Britain is Leaving the EU and Unitary Patent Strongly/Strictly Depends on the UK
  • 03.12.17 IAM Continues Promoting Patent Trolls and Large Corporations’ Interests, New Harvard Study Explains Why Small Business Employment is Harmed the Most
  • 03.12.17 British Site ‘Managing IP’ Continues to Organise UPC Lobbying Events to Promote the Unitary Patent in the UK, Isle of Man, Maybe Even Ireland and Beyond
  • 03.12.17 The Patent Microcosm is Lobbying by Shaming, Typically for Patent Maximalism in the United States and Elsewhere
  • 03.12.17 Fake News From the EPO and Team UPC About Unitary Patent in the UK in Spite of Brexit
  • 03.12.17 No, Spain is Not Joining the UPC, That’s Just What UPC Lobbyists Want Everyone to Believe
  • 03.13.17 How Big a Lie is Team UPC Spreading About Germany and Unitary Patent? A Must Read.
  • 03.13.17 What Appears Like News Sites or Blogs About Patents and ‘IP’ Got Polluted by Lobbying That Peddles Corporate Agenda
  • 03.14.17 The European Patent Office is in a State of Collapse and It Coughs Up Rubbish Patents Until Its Death
  • 03.14.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) Misinformation in Spanish Media and EPO-Connected (Paid) Media That Lobbies Spain
  • 03.15.17 New Examples of Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC), Courtesy of Patent Law Firms Looking to Prey on Gullible SMEs
  • 03.16.17 CERN Staff Association “Profoundly Shocked by the Situation That Has Persisted in the European Patent Office (EPO)”
  • 03.16.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) and “Breach of EU Law”
  • 03.17.17 IAM Remains Battistelli’s Propaganda Mill, Helping to Manufacture and Reinforce Lies About Quality
  • 03.17.17 Whenever Battistelli’s EPO Says Something These Days, Safest to Just Assume It’s a Lie (Because It Typically Is)
  • 03.17.17 UPC Fake News Rising Sharply as Door Closes for Unitary Patent Ratification and Jo Johnson ‘Needs’ to Believe the UPC Will Actually Happen
  • 03.18.17 European Directives and Boards of Appeal Desperately Needed to Keep EPO Patent Scope in Check
  • 03.18.17 EPO Management Deeply Concerned That the Public Has Found Out Quality of European Patents (EPs) Nosedived Under Battistelli’s Regime
  • 03.18.17 Letter From European Public Services Organisation (IPSO) to Angela Merkel and Heiko Maas Regarding EPO Union-Busting Catastrophe
  • 03.20.17 Supposedly ‘Pampered’ Prisoners Are Still Prisoners of the EPO
  • 03.21.17 At EPO “I Have the Feeling That Lowering Quality is Part of a Concerted Plan.”
  • 03.21.17 What the Patent Microcosm is Saying About the EPO and the UPC
  • 03.22.17 The Battistelli Regime, With Its Endless Scandals, Threatens to Crash the Unitary Patent (UPC), Stakeholders Concerned
  • 03.23.17 The Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation Has Just Buried an Innocent Judge That Battistelli Does Not Like
  • 03.23.17 Nepotism at the European Patent Office and Suspicious Absence of Tenders for Big Projects
  • 03.24.17 Bernhard Rapkay, Former MEP and Rapporteur on Unitary Patent, Shoots Down UPC Hopes While UPC Hopefuls Recognise That Spain Isn’t Interested Either
  • 03.25.17 Depressing EPO News: Attacks on Staff, Attacks on Life, Brain Drain, Patents on Life, Patent Trolls Come to Germany, and Spain Being Misled
  • 03.26.17 Heiko Maas and the State of Germany Viewed as Increasingly Complicit in EPO Scandals and Toxic UPC Agenda
  • 03.26.17 Thanks to Merpel, the World Knows EPO Scandals a Lot Better, But It’s a Shame That IP Kat Helped UPC
  • 03.27.17 The Crook Goes to Brussels to Lie About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 03.28.17 In Attempt to Promote the Horrific UPC (Poor Quality of Patents Everywhere), Minnoye and Casado Cerviño Attack Their Own Staff for Saying the Truth
  • 03.28.17 Techrights Was Right About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 03.28.17 With Important Supreme Court Decisions Looming, Mainstream Media Tackles Patent Trolls
  • 03.29.17 Kongstad and Battistelli Have Staged a Coup at the European Patent Organisation (EPO)
  • 03.29.17 March 29th: The Day the Unitary Patent (UPC) Died
  • 03.30.17 Devaluation of European Patents is a Recipe for Institutional Suicide and Immeasurable Harm to Europe’s Economy
  • 03.30.17 EPO is a Laughing Stock in International Media This Week (Quality of Patents) After Decades-Long Reputation Building
  • 03.30.17 Deconstructing the Latest ‘Damage Control’ From Team UPC Amid Demise of Unitary Patent Pipe Dreams
  • 03.31.17 EPO Likes to Pretend to be Tolerated in Spite of Patenting Life, Seeds, Plants and More
  • 03.31.17 Culpability for EPO Injustice in the Administrative Council Chaired by Battistelli’s Protector, Jesper Kongstad
  • 03.31.17 In Spite of Confirmation, Uncertainty and Doubt Still Being Cast on Michelle Lee’s USPTO Leadership (by Her Opponents)
  • 04.01.17 Bristows UPC Delusions Are Back, Attempting to Distract From Bad News (UPC Isn’t Happening)
  • 04.01.17 ‘Managing IP’ (MIP) is Seeding UPC Optimism Based on Nothing Concrete
  • 04.02.17 The Litigation Lobby is Causing Chaos in Patent Offices, Still in a Coordinated Effort to Convert Patents Into Nothing But Legal Chaos That Harms Science
  • 04.02.17 Growing Suspicions of Planned Obsolescence at the European Patent Office
  • 04.02.17 Team UPC ‘Took Over’ IP Kat, Readers Don’t Believe What It Says
  • 04.02.17 The UK’s Involvement in a Hypothetical UPC Post-Brexit Far From Certain, Admits Law Firm, Contrary to Those Who Stand to Profit
  • 04.03.17 As a Bargaining Chip, UPC (Unitary Patent/Unified Patent Court) is a Curse, Not a Gift
  • 04.04.17 Latest EPO Crisis: Junk Patents Granted in Preparation for Vision of Europe as Litigation Central (UPC)
  • 04.05.17 Is Bristows UPC Falsifying UK-IPO Quotes or Just Using Informal Words to Lobby for the Unitary Patent (UPC)?
  • 04.05.17 IP Kat is Helping Battistelli by Lobbying for the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Spreading Falsehoods
  • 04.05.17 Misleading (or Partial) Information About PTAB, CAFC, Software Patents, and Patent Trolls in EDTX
  • 04.06.17 Like EPO ‘Grants’ (up 40% in a Year), Patent Trolls in Europe Are Growing at Double-Digit Rates (Now 20% of All German Lawsuits)
  • 04.06.17 The EPO’s Management is Silencing Its Critics by Sheer Intimidation
  • 04.06.17 Thorsten Bausch (Hoffmann Eitle) Bemoans Declining Quality (Service and Patents) at the European Patent Office
  • 04.07.17 IP Kat or IP Troll? IP2Innovate Warns That UPC Would Help Patent Trolls While IP Kat Promotes UPC
  • 04.09.17 Lying Has Become the Norm When It Comes to the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 04.09.17 Asian Companies Already Suffer From Patent Maximalism/Radicalism and UPC Would Make Things Even Worse
  • 04.10.17 Latest EPO Puff Piece From Benoît Battistelli Shows Desperate Need for (and Inability to Attract) Talent
  • 04.10.17 These Terrifying Comments From Patent Practitioners Suggest They Too Believe UPC is Intended to Make EPO Virtually Obsolete
  • 04.11.17 Voices of Patent Trolls Are Alive and Well (and Partly Paid by Battistelli’s EPO)
  • 04.11.17 Software Patents Lobbying Sites Are Really Desperate to Oust the Director of the Patent Office
  • 04.11.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) is Stuck as the “British Are Hesitant in UPC Ratification,” According to New Report
  • 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
  • 04.13.17 Awful Quality of EPO-Granted European Patents (EPs) Becomes a Mainstream Topic
  • 04.13.17 USPTO Director Michelle Lee is Already Reducing Litigation and Saving Lives
  • 04.14.17 Adding Insult to Suicide: European Commission’s Site Publishes Benoît Battistelli’s EPO Puff Pieces
  • 04.14.17 No, Bristows, UPC Won’t Happen Just Because You Mislead About It
  • 04.19.17 IAM, the Patent Trolls’ Voice, is Trying to Deny There is a Growing Trolling Problem in Europe
  • 04.19.17 Another Final Nail in the UPC Coffin: UK General Election
  • 04.20.17 Bristows-Run IP Kat Continues to Spread Lies to Promote the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Advance the EPO Management’s Agenda
  • 04.21.17 Expect Team UPC to Remain in Deep Denial About the Unitary Patent/Unified Court (UPC) Having No Prospects
  • 04.21.17 EPO in 2017: Erroneously Grant a Lot of Patents in Bulk or Get Sacked
  • 04.22.17 The European Patent Office Has Just Killed a Cat (or Skinned a ‘Kat’)
  • 04.22.17 Yann Ménière Resorts to Buzzwords to Recklessly Promote Floods of Patents, Dooming the EPO Amid Decline in Patent Applications
  • 04.23.17 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part IX: Testament to the Fear of an Autocratic Regime
  • 04.25.17 EPO Fiasco to be Discussed in German Local Authority (Bavarian Parliament) Some Time Today as the Institution Continues Its Avoidable Collapse
  • 04.25.17 Astoundingly, IP Kat Has Become a Leading Source of UPC and Battistelli Propaganda
  • 04.26.17 Blog ‘Takeovers’ by Bristows and Then Censorship: Now This Firm Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Then Deletes Comments That Point Out the Errors
  • 04.27.17 China’s Suffering From Patent Maximalism Has Europe Forewarned
  • 04.27.17 Team UPC and CIPA Are Lobbying, Publishing Puff Pieces, and Rewriting the Law for Unitary Patent (UPC) Behind Closed Doors
  • 04.28.17 Kather Augenstein and Bristows Shift Attention to Germany in an Effort to Ram the Dying UPC Down Everyone’s Throats
  • 04.29.17 Battistelli is Busy Securing the Vote of Countries Whose Support and Tickets Are Easy to ‘Buy’
  • 04.29.17 This is How ‘Independent’ the Boards of Appeal Are Under Battistelli
  • 04.30.17 “Spectator” and “The Patent Scam” (New Site/Movie) Tackle the Patent Trolls Epidemic
  • 04.30.17 Unified Patent Propaganda Courtesy of a Cabal of Firms That Constructed the UPC
  • 05.02.17 At IAM Event in Korea, Patent Trolls in the Panels and Advocacy of Software Patents From the EPO
  • 05.03.17 Bristows and IAM: Brits Who Lobby for Patent Trolls in Britain
  • 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)
  • 05.06.17 European Marketing Office: Battistelli-Commissioned ‘Studies’, Puff Pieces, and Revisionism about PACE
  • 05.08.17 Death of ‘IP’ Media: Front Groups of Microsoft Described as “Representing SME Developers” by Bristows
  • 05.09.17 ‘European Media Intervention Award’ (EIA), EPO Censorship, Self-Censorship, and Paid ‘Media Partners’
  • 05.10.17 Team UPC Still Twists and Fabricates Statements to Make It Seem Like Unitary Patent is Happening Soon
  • 05.11.17 By Promoting the UPC, in Defiance of Public Will, the EPO Has Become Patent Trolls’ Best Friend
  • 05.12.17 Our Assessment: Unitary Patent (UPC) Will Crumble Along With Battistelli’s Regime at the EPO
  • 05.14.17 Professor Lisa Larrimore Ouellette Questions Whether Patents Work When Patent Scope is Too Broad
  • 05.22.17 Speculations About Battistelli’s End of Term, Campinos at EUIPO, and Failed UPC Ambitions
  • 05.22.17 Great News: While IBM et al Try to Undermine Patent Reform the Supreme Court Deepens the Reform in TC Heartland Case
  • 05.27.17 The United States Has Already Tackled Both Software Patents and Patent Trolls
  • 05.30.17 The Silencing of Critics of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in Media and in Blogs
  • 06.01.17 Patent Trolls in Europe and the Looming Collapse of the UPC
  • 06.05.17 Battistelli’s ‘Boss’, Jesper Kongstad, Rumoured to Have Been Paid by Battistelli
  • 06.11.17 Bristows/IP Kat Still Promoting UPC and Patent Trolls, Also Accused of Deleting Comments and “Brown-nosing” Judges to Help Patent Trolls
  • 06.11.17 European Patent Office May Become Just a Mirage of Examination Office, Much Like INPI (France)
  • 06.11.17 The British Election May Have Just ‘Killed’ the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 06.12.17 German Barrier to the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Bound to Bring the Insidious Plans to a Halt
  • 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 In Spite of Censorship by IP Kat, Issues Associated With UPC Had Become Apparent, Even Before Germany Halted Ratification
  • 06.13.17 A Massive Proponent of UPC, CIPA, Enters IP Kat, as Readers Call Out Stacked UPC ‘Panels’
  • 06.13.17 The UPC Gravy Train is Claimed to Have Been “Halted” in Germany and More Oppositions or Constitutional Complaints Are on Their Way
  • 06.14.17 Even UPC Proponents, Paid by the EPO’s PR Firm, Admit That UPC May Never Happen
  • 06.15.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) Will Start “Real Soon” Now… Said Team UPC For So Many Years
  • 06.17.17 Appalling Press Coverage Regarding the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 06.20.17 At the European Inventor Award Ceremony Benoît Battistelli Lied to a Lot of Scientists and “Media Partners” About the UPC
  • 06.21.17 EPO’s Elodie Bergot Calls Staff Suicide Just ‘Passing Away’, Pretends to Care
  • 06.22.17 You Know That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is in Huge Peril When Its Biggest Fans Admit It’s Unlikely to Happen Even Next Year
  • 06.23.17 Primer to the Crisis and Scandals at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 06.24.17 The STRONGER Patents Act is One Among Several New Pushes for Patent Chaos in the United States
  • 06.24.17 The Tide Has Turned Against the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and It Finally Looks as ‘Alive’ as TPP
  • 06.25.17 Wouter Pors Under Fire for Lying or Manipulating in the Name of the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 06.28.17 Christoph Ernst, Long Speculated to be Battistelli’s Successor, Becomes Battistelli’s ‘Boss’
  • 06.28.17 Bristows LLP is Still Trying to Attach Wings to the UPC and Distract From Serious (Likely Fatal) Barriers to It
  • 06.29.17 European Patent Office is on Strike Until Tuesday and Insiders Study the New Head of the Organisation
  • 06.29.17 The UPC’s Figurehead, Alexander Ramsay, Admits UPC is Stuck, Bristows LLP Comes Up With ‘Alternative Facts’
  • 06.30.17 The EPO Has Officially Confirmed That Christoph Ernst Will ‘Boss’ (and Soon Replace) Battistelli
  • 06.30.17 Former ‘Kats’ Debunk IP Kat (Bristows) on Unitary Patent, Insisting It May Even be Dead
  • 07.01.17 The Future of the EPO Does Not Look Encouraging as Injustice and Abuse Carry On While the Press Looks the Other Way
  • 07.03.17 It’s Official: Battistelli Will Leave the EPO in Less Than a Year
  • 07.05.17 Expect No Progress Whatsoever on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) During the Summer and Likely Too Little Even in Fall
  • 07.06.17 No UPC Progress, Only Further Delays and Lots of Puff Pieces From the EPO and Bristows (Team UPC) Today
  • 07.06.17 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
  • 07.09.17 French Giants Resort to Patent Trolling While Battistelli Attracts Patent Trolls to Europe
  • 07.09.17 Supreme Court Saves the Day as Latest Statistics Reveal Slump in Patent Litigation (Mostly Trolls) in the Eastern District of Texas
  • 07.11.17 In an Age of Mass Deception by Team UPC Benjamin Henrion (FFII) to Deliver a Talk About UPC and Software Patents
  • 07.12.17 The European Patent Office (EPO) Under Benoît Battistelli is Compared to “Soviet Times”
  • 07.13.17 Looking Forward to a Battistelli-less and Kongstad-less European Patent Office
  • 07.14.17 Michel Barnier, Once a Leading Proponent of UPC, No Longer Certain the UK Can Fit in or That UPC Will Happen
  • 07.15.17 European Commission Betrays the Public by Promoting Software Patents
  • 07.15.17 Science|Business Quotes Michel Barnier, Then Speculates Battistelli’s Way to Promote Erroneous Perception of UPC Inevitability
  • 07.16.17 Guest Post: Is Germany’s UPC Ratification Postponement Related to Problems at the  EPO?
  • 07.16.17 From East to West and Even Down South at the Eastern District of Texas Patent Trolls Are Losing Everything
  • 07.16.17 Serious Factual Errors in UPC Coverage at Science|Business and Lack of Coverage in the General Media
  • 07.17.17 Anti-Patent Trolls Reform in the US Evolves Nicely and Rogue Judges Get Named, Shamed
  • 07.17.17 UPC Puff Piece in the Scottish Media is Just an Advertisement by Marks & Clerk
  • 07.18.17 New Paper Explains Why UPC Ratification Efforts Have Been Just About as Corrupt as EPO Under Battistelli
  • 07.19.17 The British Government May be Pulling Out of the UPC Fantasy, Team UPC in Panic or Denial About It
  • 07.20.17 Battistelli’s EPO Abuses May Soon Lead to the Death of the UPC and Return of the Old Order (‘EPO Glory’)
  • 07.20.17 Unified Patent Court (UPC): A Conspiracy of Lies and Silence
  • 07.22.17 Lack of Independence of the Boards of Appeal at the European Patent Organisation (EPO) a Fatal Blow for the UPC
  • 07.25.17 Patent Maximalists Continue to Warp the Debate/Media Coverage About Patents in Britain
  • 07.26.17 The ‘New’ IP Kat on Patents: A Front Group for Team UPC (Bristows) and CIPA (British Patent Microcosm)
  • 07.26.17 The Latest Lies From the EPO (Regarding Quality) and the Reason the UPC Won’t Happen (Any Time Soon at Least)
  • 07.29.17 The United States International Trade Commission is an Embargo-Loving Bully That Ignores Invalidation of Patents at Hand
  • 07.29.17 Anonymous Comments Discuss Erosion of Lawful Activity at the EPO, Lowered Patent Quality, Software Patents, and Trump Comparisons
  • 07.30.17 PACE of Prosecution Prioritised Over Quality of Patents and Examination
  • 07.31.17 German Media Finally Waking up to EPO Scandals?
  • 08.01.17 90% of WIPR Readers Give Up Hope on Unitary Patent (UPC) in the UK, But Team UPC Keeps Lying About It
  • 08.02.17 EPO: Germans “Discover That Behind the Mad Figures, the Granted Patents Are of Crap Quality and That This Does Not Serve Their Interests”
  • 08.03.17 Antonio Campinos in Charge of the EPO Would Mean Greater EUIPO/EPO Overlap
  • 08.03.17 Benoît Battistelli Distracts From Declining Patent Quality at the EPO by Diverting Attention Away to “Timeliness”
  • 08.05.17 EPO Directors Who Care About Patent Quality Are Being Kicked Out as Quality Continues to Plunge
  • 08.08.17 Adobe Speaks Out Against Patent Maximalism and Software Patents Are on the Retreat
  • 08.08.17 EPO Already Thinks It’s the UPC (Which Will Likely Never Happen)
  • 08.08.17 Extortion and Racketeering: What the Latest Article at The Hill Calls Patent Trolling
  • 08.09.17 When It Comes to Software Patents, the EPO Has Become Among the Worst in the World
  • 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 The Corruption of the European Patent Office and CIPO’s (Canada) Participation in This
  • 08.15.17 The Collapse of Patent Quality at the EPO is Inviting to Europe Some of the World’s Worst Patent Trolls
  • 08.18.17 Lack of Independent Judiciary Under the Unitary Patent (Like Boards of Appeal Under Battistelli, in Defiance of the EPC) Will Possibly Kill the Unified Patent Court
  • 08.22.17 Bristows LLP Tries Hard to Maintain the Illusion That UPC is Alive, Using Media Placements and Paid Plugs
  • 08.23.17 Benoît Battistelli’s Misbehaviour Condemned the UPC to Death
  • 08.23.17 UPC Hopefuls (Litigation Firms) Come to Life Amid Unitary Patent EPO Text, But Nothing New to See Here
  • 08.25.17 At EPO, “Producing Stronger Patents (or Being Able to Produce Them) is Also a Matter of Professional Pride for the Examiners”
  • 08.29.17 Hiring of German Judges for UPC Has Been Halted as the Future of UPC as a Whole Now in Doubt
  • 08.30.17 IP Kat Missing in Action as Unitary Patent (UPC) Rots
  • 08.31.17 Bristows Turns British Government Report Which Says Nothing About the UPC Into a Self-Serving Plug and a Lie
  • 09.02.17 ‘Building the Evidence Base on the Performance of the UK Patent System’ Put in Perspective and Threats From Patent Maximalists
  • 09.03.17 Media Hostility Towards Patent Reform in the US, Software Patents on the Chopping Block
  • 09.03.17 What Germany and the EPO Could (and Should) Learn From Australia About Patent Scope
  • 09.05.17 One Week Left for Battistelli’s Coronation of Another Frenchman, António Campinos, to Lobby for UPC?
  • 09.05.17 Deepening EPO Crisis and a New Report Titled “EPO Patent Filing a Rigged Game in Europe”
  • 09.06.17 Juve Reveals That Ingve Stjerna is the ‘UPC Slayer’ While the EPO Continues to Lobby, Mislead
  • 09.07.17 Personal Attacks, Censorship of Comments and More Nefarious Tricks Expected in the Wake of UPC Panic
  • 09.07.17 EPO Management is Lobbying for Software Patents and the UPC in ICT Seminar 2017
  • 09.10.17 Latest Updates on UPC Constitutional Complaint in Germany and Brexit Barrier to UPC in Britain
  • 09.10.17 European Patent Office in Shambles and the EU’s Brexit Position Paper Suggests UPC is Off the Agenda
  • 09.11.17 “The Constitutional Problems Linked to the UPC are Far From Being Minor”
  • 09.11.17 Ingve Stjerna’s Complaint Casts a Shadow Over the Unconstitutional Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • 09.13.17 Latest Attempts to Blow Air Into the Sails of the Sinking Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 09.15.17 Watchtroll Helps the EPO Peddle Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 09.15.17 The UPC Fantasy is Going Nowhere as Complaints and Paperwork Pile Up
  • 09.15.17 At Event of EPO SLAPP Firm, a Suggestion That the UPC Should be Scrapped Because It’s Stuck
  • 09.16.17 Tax Evasion by Patent Boxes and Lies About Small Businesses (SMEs) in the Corporate Media
  • 09.16.17 European Patent Office Continues to Paint a Rosy UPC Picture Even Though the UPC May Already be Dead
  • 09.17.17 Citing the European Patent Convention, Spanish Court Tosses Lawsuit With EPO-Granted European Patent
  • 09.21.17 The Latest Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and CIPO’s Participation in Those
  • 09.21.17 In an Effort to Push the Unitary Patent (UPC), EPO and the Liar in Chief Spread the Famous Lie About SMEs
  • 09.21.17 UPC Threatens to Weaponise Software Patents in Countries That Forbade These
  • 09.22.17 The EPO’s Latest Lies About the UPC and SMEs Unraveled, Long-Term Plan Described as Daunting
  • 09.23.17 Latest EPO Rumours Allege That Benoît Battistelli Rigged the Process of EPO President’s Selection
  • 09.23.17 The Mohawk-PTAB Fiasco Threatens the Tribe’s Reputation More Than It Threatens PTAB
  • 09.24.17 Fake News About Software Patents in the United States
  • 09.24.17 IBM and IPO Continue Working Behind the Scenes to Undermine Alice and Promote Software Patents
  • 09.26.17 EPO Lies About the UPC, Violations of Human Rights, and ‘Green’ European Patents
  • 09.27.17 EPO Now a Megaphone of IP Europe, a Front Group of Patent Maximalists
  • 09.27.17 The Unitary Patent (UPC) is Now Rotting in Ireland
  • 09.28.17 The EPO Continues to Lie About the UPC and About SMEs, Even Several Times Per Day Now
  • 09.29.17 EPO Staff Representatives Help Prevent Seventh Suicide Under Benoît Battistelli
  • 09.30.17 Jesper Kongstad’s Last Day is Today, But the EPO Remains a Sordid Mess Like the UPC
  • 10.01.17 China Advertises Itself as a Friend of Patent Trolls, Google’s Patent Leadership Headless
  • 10.02.17 Death of European Patent Quality: The EPO Officially Sends the Appeal Boards to Exile Despite the UPC Going Nowhere
  • 10.02.17 The Software Patents/Litigation Industry is Dying in the United States and China Takes This Heavy Burden
  • 10.03.17 US Supreme Court Defends Position on Alice, Maintaining/Cementing a Ban on Software Patents Like the Rest of the World
  • 10.04.17 Nepotism at the EPO Has Reached Truly Toxic Levels
  • 10.04.17 EPO Management Gambled on Europe Being a Patent Litigation Hub/Capital, But It’s All Coming Down in Flames Now
  • 10.05.17 EPO Makes European SMEs More Vulnerable to Litigation From the Former Soviet Union
  • 10.05.17 The European Patent Office’s New Relationship With Former Portuguese Colonies and the Connection to Battistelli’s Choice of Next President
  • 10.07.17 Additional Complaints About the Unitary Patent (UPC) Pile Up in Germany, Here’s How to Submit More
  • 10.08.17 Depressing State of Affairs at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 10.08.17 Microsoft Lobbying, the EPO, and Software Patents Disguised as ‘Internet of Things’
  • 10.12.17 Truly Terrible ‘Journalism’ About António Campinos Boils Down to Lobbying and Agenda-Pushing
  • 10.12.17 Patent Quality at the EPO (European Patents) is Slipping While Battistelli’s Office Boasts “Expansion of Early Certainty” (Even Worse)
  • 10.12.17 The Hogwash Begins: Patent Microcosm’s Media Pretends Campinos is Anything But Battistelli’s French Succession Plan
  • 10.14.17 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Rotting Like the European Patent Office
  • 10.16.17 Monika Ermert’s Reports About the Crisis at the EPO and IP Kat’s Uncharacteristically Shallow Coverage
  • 10.16.17 The Systematic Erosion of Workers’ Rights and Holidays at the EPO Goes Years Back
  • 10.17.17 SUEPO Representatives Like Elizabeth Hardon Vindicated as Battistelli’s Detrimental Effect on Patent Quality is Widely Confirmed
  • 10.17.17 EPO Stakeholders Complain That the New Chairman Does Not Grasp the Issues at the EPO (or Denies These)
  • 10.18.17 Patent Firms From the United States Try Hard to Push the Unitary Patent (UPC), Which Would Foment Litigation Wars in Europe
  • 10.19.17 Europe is Being Robbed by Team Battistelli and the UPC/PPH Would Make Things Worse
  • 10.19.17 Team UPC Continues to Promote Illusion of UPC Progress Where There’s None
  • 10.20.17 Battistelli’s Destruction of the EPO is Bad for Everyone, Even Patent Attorneys
  • 10.20.17 UPC Looks Like More of a Distant Dream (or Nightmare) as Germany Adds Another Two Months’ Delay
  • 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 Speaking of “Social Democracy” While Suffering Extreme Democratic Deficiency
  • 10.23.17 IP Kat Participates in Deletion of Information About EPO Scandals
  • 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)
  • 10.26.17 Big Blow for the Unitary Patent (UPC) as Even Patent Professionals Say “It’s Dead”
  • 10.26.17 Professor Siegfried Broß Again Complains About the Situation at the EPO and Issues With the UPC
  • 10.27.17 Keltie LLP Advertises Dodging Patent Rules (Software Patents) and Dodging Tax
  • 10.30.17 Irregularities at the EPO and UPC (Unitary Patent) Dodgy Dealings Should Draw Ire
  • 10.30.17 Belgium’s Jérôme Debrulle, the EPO and the UPC Connection
  • 10.31.17 “EPI Makes No Protest When the AC Connives With Battistelli to Trash the Rule of Law”
  • 11.02.17 UPC is Collapsing, But Bristows LLP is Pushing Propaganda Into the Media, Which Gives Misleading News
  • 11.02.17 The Screws Tighten on Benoît Battistelli as His Departure is Just Two Seasons Away, Media Still Largely Complicit
  • 11.02.17 University College London (UCL) Becomes Part of the Patent Fanatics Lobby, Supported by the EPO’s PR Firm FTI Consulting
  • 11.04.17 In October, Silence in the Media Regarding EPO Scandals Turned From Self-Censorship Into Censorship
  • 11.04.17 IP Kat Peddles Patent Trolls and Software Patents Agenda
  • 11.04.17 Even One of the UPC’s Biggest Boosters, Wolters Kluwer, Admits UPC is in Trouble
  • 11.06.17 Battistelli’s Serious Conflict of Interest in Saint-Germain-en-Laye Disqualifies Him as EPO President
  • 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
  • 11.08.17 Kluwer Patent Blog Down for Over a Day, Key Article Archived, UPC Deception Carries On
  • 11.09.17 Patent Office of the Netherlands Expresses Uncertainty About UPC, Voices Concern About Benoît Battistelli’s Attack on Staff
  • 11.09.17 Consensus Around the High Likelihood That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead and Backlash Against Deniers of It
  • 11.10.17 More Microsoft AstroTurfing by Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) and Mingorance
  • 11.13.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead to the EPO and ANSERA is Not the Answer as Patent Quality Declines and Talented Staff Leaves
  • 11.13.17 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby is Losing the Battle for Europe
  • 11.14.17 Decline of Skills Level of Staff Like Examiners and Impartiality (Independence) of Judges at the EPO Should Cause Concern, Alarm
  • 11.15.17 The EPO is Now Corrupting Academia, Wasting Stakeholders’ Money Lying to Stakeholders About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 11.15.17 Benoît Battistelli and Elodie Bergot Have Just Ensured That EPO Will Get Even More Corrupt
  • 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
  • 11.17.17 Today’s EPO and Team UPC Do Not Work for Europe But Actively Work Against Europe
  • 11.17.17 EPO ‘Business’ From the United States Has Nosedived and UPC is on Its Death Throes
  • 11.19.17 Update on the EPO’s Crackdown on the Boards of Appeal
  • 11.22.17 Patent Lawyers’ Media Comes to Grips With the End of Software Patents
  • 11.23.17 EPO is Imploding as Benoît Battistelli Drains Out Work, Talent, and Justice
  • 11.23.17 Amid Constitutional Court Barrier, Unitary Patent (UPC) Looks Dead Even to UPC Proponents, the EPO’s UPC ‘Study’ Comes Under Fire
  • 11.24.17 Raw: EPO ‘Social Democracy’ is Like a 1AM Vote on UPC by Only 5% of Politicians
  • 11.25.17 In New EPO Interview With Juve, Chairman of the Administrative Council Criticises Battistelli
  • 11.25.17 Battistelli’s Home Country, France (Where He is a Politician in Defiance of the Rules), is a Patent Troll
  • 11.25.17 EPO Uses Bunk ‘Study’ and Team UPC Uses Italy to Prop Up Delusions About the Unitary Patent
  • 11.25.17 Even UPC Proponents Admit UPC is Dead: “This is the End, My Friend”
  • 11.26.17 “Legal and Administrative Rules at the EPO Are Similar to Those at SIPO” (China)
  • 11.26.17 Early Certainty Battistelli Will be Gone Soon: “JUVE Interview Creates the Impression That Benoit Battistelli’s Term in Office is Already Over.”
  • 11.26.17 Patent Sharks’ Last Resort: Mohawk Immunity, ‘STRONGER’ Patents Act, Qualcomm Thickets, and SLAPP
  • 11.28.17 EPO Budget (Users’ Money) Has Been Corrupting Media and Academia
  • 11.28.17 EPO is Already Going ‘Dark’ Like in China
  • 11.30.17 Ignore Today’s Fake News From IP Kat/Bristows, the UK is Not Ratifying the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 11.30.17 EPO Fiasco Deepens While the Media Writes Puff Pieces About the EPO
  • 11.30.17 The SEP/Patent Trolls’ Lobby Insults the Victims, Calling Them “Free Riders”
  • 12.02.17 The European Patent Office No Longer Acts Like a Patent Office But a Prosecutor
  • 12.03.17 Bristows Again Rebutted, Few Days After Telling Lies and Spreading Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 12.03.17 How CEIPI in Strasbourg is Allegedly Facilitating Another Battistelli ‘Scam’ Surrounding the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 12.04.17 SUEPO on “the Belief of the President That He is Above the Law.”
  • 12.05.17 French Disgrace: Teachers at CEIPI Not Happy About Benoît Battistelli as Upcoming President of the CEIPI Administrative Board
  • 12.05.17 The Latest Noise About UPC in the UK
  • 12.05.17 Unified Patent Court (UPC) is “Fata Morgana”
  • 12.06.17 Another Day of EPO Injustices in Europe and Campinos/Battistelli Connections at CEIPI
  • 12.06.17 CEIPI and EPO: The Story So Far
  • 12.07.17 Meanwhile in Eponia, Tyrant Battistelli Must be Seeking Advice on How to Refuse to Obey Court’s Orders (Again)
  • 12.07.17 Battistelli’s EPO is Once Again Caught in Very Gross Violation of the European Patent Convention (EPC)
  • 12.07.17 Less Than 24 Hours Later the EPO Already Refuses to Obey Court Orders From ILO (Updated)
  • 12.07.17 International Labour Organisation/ILOAT for UPC Yet Another Problem for Unitary Patent-Style Regime
  • 12.07.17 ILO is ‘Forcing’ Team Battistelli to Compensate the Banned Judge and Give Him Back His Job
  • 12.07.17 Battistelli’s ‘Mole’ Lucy Neville-Rolfe is Still Trying to Push Unitary Patent (UPC) Through in the United Kingdom
  • 12.08.17 EPO Scandal Spills Over to Irish Media, So It’s Time for the Backstory
  • 12.08.17 The European Union Now Repeats Paid Propaganda From the EPO (Regarding the Unitary Patent)
  • 12.09.17 Bristows Continues to Lie About Unitary Patent (UPC) in Britain Only to Get Rebutted in Comments, As Usual (Criticism Not Deleted Yet)
  • 12.09.17 Like the EPO, Taiwan/China (SIPO) Harm SMEs With a Policy of Patent Maximalism Which Fosters Litigation, Not Innovation
  • 12.10.17 Patents Are Becoming a Welfare System for the Rich and Powerful
  • 12.11.17 Bristows is Being Hammered With Negative Comments For Its Unitary Patent (UPC) Lies
  • 12.12.17 Battistelli-Campinos Transition Will Be a Smooth One as the Administrative Council Remains the Same and the Boards Still Besieged
  • 12.12.17 Claim: Judge Corcoran to Be Put Under Benoît Battistelli’s Control in DG1
  • 12.12.17 The European Patent Organisation Refrains (For Nearly a Week) From Speaking About Battistelli’s Abuses as Judged by ILO Tribunal
  • 12.12.17 Team UPC’s Tilmann Defends Rogue Vote at 1 AM in the Morning With Just 5% of Politicians (Those With Vested Interests) Attending
  • 12.13.17 EPO Administrative Council Disallows Discussion About Violations of the Law by Benoît Battistelli
  • 12.14.17 Patrick Corcoran is Innocent, Yet Battistelli Will/May Have the Power to Sack Him Next Month (in DG1)
  • 12.16.17 EPO Busy Distracting From Miscarriage/Abuse of Justice at the EPO (Both Office and Organisation)
  • 12.16.17 Bristows LLP/IP Kat Carrying on With Dead UPC Jingoism
  • 12.17.17 Raw: At the EPO “Social Democracy” is Actually a Euphemism for Authoritarian Regime
  • 12.17.17 Battistelli’s ‘UPC Buddy’ Michel Barnier Helped Squash EU Intervention in Dysfunctional (Subverted by Battistelli) Administrative Council
  • 12.18.17 “As an EPO Employee, I Am Actually Embarrassed by the Behaviour of the President and the Administrative Council”
  • 12.19.17 Today’s Report From the Administrative Council (AC) of the European Patent Organisation ‘Tackles’ the Most Important Issue: Judge Corcoran
  • 12.19.17 PTAB Bashing in the US and the Attack on the Boards of Appeal in Europe All About Lowering Patent Quality
  • 12.19.17 Secrecy Surrounds the Fate of Patrick Corcoran, Even AMBA is Being Kept in the Dark by Carl Josefsson
  • 12.19.17 Dr. Siegfried Broß Says UPC is in Constitutional and Democratic Grey Area, Abuses at the European Patent Office Contribute to That
  • 12.19.17 French and Korean Patent Trolls
  • 12.20.17 Christoph Ernst’s Inability to Rein in the European Patent Organisation Will Doom Everything
  • 12.21.17 EPO Judicial Crisis Has Not Ended, But the Administrative Council Certainly Tries to Sell That Impression
  • 12.21.17 Media Blackout in Most European Media Regarding the Latest Major EPO Scandal
  • 12.23.17 Alexander Ramsay is Wrong, Unitary Patent (UPC) Won’t Start Any Time Soon and Probably Never
  • 12.24.17 2017: The Year Software Patents Died Even in the Court Which Started Them
  • 12.24.17 Post-Alice, the Patent Microcosm is Up in Arms and Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel for Anti-Alice Material
  • 12.25.17 Raw: SUEPO Connected the Unitary Patent (UPC) to Abuses at the European Patent Office
  • 12.26.17 Raw: The EPO Trusted and Used BigPulse Until the Question/Outcome No Longer Suited Benoît Battistelli
  • 12.26.17 Raw: Lack of Independence of the Boards of Appeal at the EPO Poses a Serious Issue for Unitary Patent-Type Regime (UPC)
  • 12.27.17 The Unitary Patent is Dying or Dead, But Team UPC Might Rebrand Again and Reattempt
  • 12.28.17 UPC IT Working Group is Chasing Rainbows and Unicorns
  • 12.28.17 EPO Remains in Defiance or Violation of ILO Rulings as Corcoran Contract Ends in 3 Days
  • 12.29.17 Battistelli Becomes Judge Corcoran’s (Almost) Direct Boss and People Doubt He Will Last Long
  • 12.29.17 Raw: Battistelli the Patent Office Shark Shouting From the Rooftop (Isar)
  • 12.31.17 Just 3 Days Before Christmas Judge Corcoran is Told That His Boss Becomes Battistelli, Who Wants to Remain in Control for Years to Come
  • 01.01.18 How Institut International des Brevets (IIB), INPADOC and Other Historic Endeavours Relate to EPO and DG1/DG2
  • 01.01.18 FRAND is Unfair, Unreasonable and Discriminatory; Ericsson is Still a FRAND Troll
  • 01.02.18 2018 Starts at the EPO and Both EPC and UPC Are in State of Crisis
  • 01.03.18 EPO Management Claims “Higher Quality Patents” and Everyone at the EPO Knows That It’s a Face-Saving Lie
  • 01.03.18 Battistelli’s Attacks on Judge Corcoran Threaten Not Only the EPC But Also UPC
  • 01.05.18 The EPO’s Attack on the Boards of Appeal Dooms the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Team UPC Alters Its Tactics
  • 01.06.18 Sane Responses to the Latest Pressure From Team UPC Amid Brexit Negotiations
  • 01.07.18 Anonymous “Kluwer Patent Blogger” is Probably Just Bristows LLP Hiding Its Identity While It Publicly Lies or Distorts Facts About UPC
  • 01.09.18 For European Patents to Maintain Value the EPO Must Fix Patent Quality and Attract ‘Expensive’ (High-Calibre) Staff
  • 01.10.18 The European Parliament JURI Mission to Munich Looks Like Complicity With EPO Abuses
  • 01.10.18 Jo Johnson’s Departure is Another Major Blow for Team UPC (Unified Patent Court)
  • 01.11.18 EPO Lobby and Team UPC’s ‘Resistance’ to the UPC Opposition in Germany
  • 01.13.18 Late on a Friday is a Good Time to Spread Misinformation About Unified Patent Court (UPC) Without Being Challenged
  • 01.14.18 Blockchain Becomes the Target Not Only of Financial Institutions With Software Patents But Also Trolls
  • 01.15.18 Litigation Roundup: Nintendo, TiVo, Apple, Samsung, Huawei, Philips, UMC
  • 01.15.18 EPO Scandals Played a Considerable Role in Sinking the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • 01.16.18 EPO Management and Team UPC Carry on Lying About Unified Patent Court, Sinking to New Lows in the Process
  • 01.17.18 No Patents on Life (CRISPR), Said EPO Boards of Appeal Just a Few Hours Ago
  • 01.17.18 Only Two Weeks on the Job, Judge Patrick Corcoran is Already Being Threatened by EPO Management
  • 01.18.18 Patent Prosecution Highway: Low-Quality Patents for High-Frequency Patent Aggressors
  • 01.18.18 Press Coverage About the EPO Board Revoking Broad’s CRISPR Patent
  • 01.22.18 Team UPC Calls Critics of the UPC Idiots, Deletes Their Comments, and Blocks Them
  • 01.23.18 The Response to Accusations of Censorship by Team UPC? Yet More Censorship to Shield UPC From Criticism
  • 01.24.18 Team UPC Has Been Reduced to Rubble and Misinformation
  • 01.25.18 Sam Gyimah Replaced Jo Johnson More Than a Fortnight Ago, But Team UPC Has Ignored It Until Now
  • 01.25.18 A European Unitary Patent-Like System (e.g. UPC) is Not Compatible With Law; Expect it to Rot Away at the German Federal Constitutional Court
  • 01.26.18 The Corcoran Incident Demonstrates That the EPO’s Boards of Appeal Are Threatened and Battistelli Violates Laws
  • 01.26.18 The ‘Collusion’: IP Kat’s (Until Recently) Stephen Jones Meets Battistelli to Lobby for the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 01.27.18 Another Blow for the Unitary Patent (UPC) as More Delays Are Confirmed, Court Won’t Rule on Constitutional Issues Any Time Soon
  • 01.28.18 The European Commission and the Failure to Stop the FRAND/SEP Lobby
  • 01.30.18 The EPO’s Central Staff Committee Explains How Battistelli’s Attacks on Judge Corcoran Annul Any Perception of Independence
  • 01.30.18 The Failure of ILO’s Administrative Tribunal Highlights Poor State of Justice in Europe and Worldwide
  • 01.31.18 Patent Justice at the EPO is as Bad as Justice for Workers
  • 01.31.18 The UPC/SEP/FRAND Lobby Has Resorted to Just Insulting the Opposition
  • 02.01.18 Too Much to Cover Up at the EPO, the UN, and UN Agencies
  • 02.03.18 The European Council Confirms That the Unitary/Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA) is “Outside the Legal Framework of the European Union”
  • 02.07.18 Team UPC Resorts to Paid ‘Articles’ and Lobbying With Battistelli in an Effort to Cause the UK and Germany to Ignore Their Own Laws
  • 02.08.18 When INPI Met INPI and IAM Met the EPO
  • 02.08.18 The UPC Lobby Wants to Crush the Boards of Appeal (BoA) While EPO Changes Rules of Procedure of the BoA
  • 02.09.18 Fake ‘Articles’, ‘Debates’ and ‘Webinars’ From Lobbyists Including IBM’s David Kappos, IPO and IPLAC
  • 02.09.18 Team UPC is Working Overtime to Impose UPC on Europe, Based on a Pile of Lies
  • 02.10.18 Lawyer Fraud and the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • 02.10.18 The Relationship Between IAM and the EPO’s President Battistelli Tightens Further After Payments for UPC Promotion
  • 02.11.18 Watchtroll’s PTAB Bashing Agenda Now Exploits ‘the Children’
  • 02.11.18 Pharma Patents Have Become Harder to Enforce, So IAM Together With the Patent Microcosm Sets Up Lobbying Events
  • 02.11.18 In Spite of Suppression Attempts, Resistance to UPC and EPO Tyranny Still Enters Kluwer Patent Blog
  • 02.12.18 Patent Maximalists Won’t Get Their Way and UPC Will Likely Never Happen (Even After Battistelli)
  • 02.13.18 EPO Opposition to CRISPR Patents Has Wide-Ranging and Far-Reaching Impact, But Mind Not the Lobbyists
  • 02.14.18 No, Britain is Not Ratifying ‘Unitary’ Anything, But Team UPC Insinuates It Will (Desperate Effort to Affect Tomorrow’s Outcome)
  • 02.15.18 Bavarian State Parliament Has Upcoming Debate About Issues Which Can Thwart UPC for Good
  • 02.15.18 Speech Deficit and No Freedom of Association at the EPO
  • 02.15.18 The EPO is Being Destroyed and There’s Nothing Left to Replace It Except National Patent Offices
  • 02.15.18 The Latest Lies About Unitary Patent (UPC) and the EPO
  • 02.17.18 UPC Has Done Nothing for Europe Except Destruction of the EPO and Imminent Layoffs Due to Lack of Applications and Lowered Value of European Patents
  • 02.18.18 UPC Optimism Languishes Even Among Paid UPC Propagandists Such as IAM
  • 02.18.18 Academic Patent Immunity is Laughable and Academics Are Influenced by Corporate Money (for Steering Patent Agenda)
  • 02.20.18 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby, Bristows and IAM Among Others, Downplays Darts-IP/IP2Innovate Report About Rising If Not Soaring Troll Activity in Europe
  • 02.20.18 Today, at 12:30 CET, Bavarian State Parliament Will Speak About EPO Abuses (Updated)
  • 02.21.18 End of the UPC Lobby and Withdrawal of UPCA May Seem Imminent
  • 02.21.18 Rumour: European Patent Office to Lay Off a Significant Proportion of Its Workforce
  • 02.22.18 Further Attacks on EPO Staff and the Appeal Boards; Former EPO Boards of Appeal Member Speaks About EPO Scandals
  • 02.22.18 As Expected, Bristows and Others Already Lying About UPC Status in Germany, But Doing This Anonymously (to Dodge Accountability for Lies)
  • 02.23.18 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Dead, But Spin From Team UPC is Now Abundant
  • 02.24.18 Automated Tracking Solutions, Aatrix and Berkheimer Don’t Change Anything; They’re Exploited by Patent Extremists to Pressure/Mislead/Insult Judges
  • 02.25.18 Changes Introduced by the EPO’s Administrative Council Made It Abundantly Clear That Separation of Powers Does Not Exist for Independence of Judges
  • 02.25.18 One Month Later the Patent ‘Industry’ is Still Promoting the Lie That GUIs Are Software and Thus CAFC Elevated Software Patents
  • 02.27.18 EPO Refuses to Admit that Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Dead, But It’s Boosting Others Who Are Lying About It for a Living
  • 03.01.18 The Latest Bristows Spin Distracts From the Fact that Britain Has No Intention of Ratifying UPC and Brexit Agreement Altogether Omits It
  • 03.01.18 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
  • 03.01.18 The UPC is Dead, But Team UPC is Lying to British Politicians in an Effort to Trick Them
  • 03.02.18 Battistelli’s Last Four Months: Peak Censorship at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 03.03.18 EPO Annual Report Will Dominate the News Next Week, Whereas Unitary Patent (UPC) is a Goner
  • 03.04.18 The Attacks on PTAB’s Legitimacy Are Slowing Down and § 101 Continues to be Applied by PTAB
  • 03.06.18 The European Patent Office is Buying ‘Alternative Facts’ and Its Annual Report Will be More of the Same
  • 03.06.18 Dr. Thorsten Bausch: Quality of European Patents Going Down, “Likely Caused by the Current EPO Policy Focusing too Much on ‘Production’.”
  • 03.06.18 There’s No Patent Trolls Problem in Europe, Say Law Firms That Represent and Front for Patent Trolls
  • 03.06.18 UPC and Beyond: Constitutional Issues Cannot be Brushed Under the Carpet
  • 03.07.18 The Right-Wing Alternative für Deutschland Opposes Unitary Patent (UPC), Just Like UKIP in Britain
  • 03.07.18 EPO Annual Results/Report: Revenue From Patent Applications is Apparently Down Yet Again and Work is Running Out
  • 03.08.18 EPO Hires External PR Agencies to Control Coverage of Its Annual Report, Deny Investigative Journalism
  • 03.08.18 Benoît Battistelli and Confidants Like Bergot Want to Make a Lot of EPO Staff Redundant Without the Staff Ever Noticing
  • 03.09.18 The EPO’s PR Department Receives Return on Investment (Puff Pieces) for Paying the Media
  • 03.10.18 Watchtroll is Back to Attacking Judges of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Because It Can’t Tolerate Justice
  • 03.10.18 Glimmer of Hope for the EPO’s Boards of Appeal as Bavarian Parliament ‘Regroups’ on Tuesday
  • 03.12.18 Doubt Over Independence of Judges at the EPO Clouds Reason in Deciding Regarding Patents on Life
  • 03.13.18 Session in Bavaria to Discuss the Abuses of the European Patent Office Later Today
  • 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 is a Mess Under Battistelli and Stakeholders Including Law Firms Will Suffer, Not Just EP Holders
  • 03.15.18 Careful Not to Conflate UPC Critics With AfD or Anti-EU Elements
  • 03.15.18 EPO Staff Has Just Warned the National Delegates That EPO’s Decline (in Terms of Patent Quality and Staff Welfare) Would Be Beneficial to Patent Trolls
  • 03.16.18 Deleted EPO Tweets and Promotion of Software Patents Amid Complaints About Abuse and Demise of Patent Quality
  • 03.17.18 Luxembourg Can Become a Hub of Patent Trolls If the EPO Carries on With Its ‘Reforms’, Even Without the UPC
  • 03.17.18 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Carries on Enforcing § 101, Invalidating Software Patents and Upsetting the Patent ‘Industry’ in the Process
  • 03.18.18 UPC/Battistelli Booster IAM Blames Brexit Rather Than EPO Abuses
  • 03.20.18 Battistelli’s EPO Became Extremely Reliant on China for Distraction and on Endless Supply of Applications (Supply Which Doesn’t Exist)
  • 03.21.18 SUEPO: “Today May Be Your Last Chance to Demonstrate Against the Seriously Flawed Reforms That Mr Battistelli Has Imposed” on EPO Staff
  • 03.22.18 Battistelli’s Ongoing Attacks on the Boards Are Helping Unitary Patent (UPC), Which in Turn Helps French Patent Trolls
  • 03.23.18 Team Battistelli and Team UPC Are Both Very Deep in Denial
  • 03.23.18 The European Patent Office’s (EPO) Declining Patent Quality ‘Tackled’ by Making Appeals/Oppositions Harder and More Expensive
  • 03.23.18 The Enemies of the Patent System Are Patent Maximalists, Not Those Pursuing Saner Patent Policy
  • 03.24.18 Using Politics to Do the Patent Trolls’ Bidding With STRONGER Patents Act, Just Like the UPC in Europe
  • 03.27.18 Professionals’ Survey: Almost Everybody (90%) Accepts That EPO Patent Quality Has Fallen Under Battistelli
  • 03.27.18 The Administrative Council of the EPO Continues to Reaffirm Complicity in Battistelli’s Abuses
  • 03.29.18 Patent Quality, Not Quantity, is What Really Matters
  • 03.29.18 Senator Jean-Yves Leconte Accuses EPO and/or ILO of Injustice, But Don’t Expect Media to Notice or Cover It
  • 03.31.18 Political Actions Against PTAB Are Still a Fringe Phenomenon and the Supreme Court’s Justices Are Unlikely to be Swayed/Persuaded by Such ‘Stunts’
  • 04.01.18 EPO is Untrustworthy
  • 04.03.18 Benoît Battistelli’s Era Yields Not Only Invalid and Harmful Monopolies But Also Breeds Distrust and Layoffs
  • 04.03.18 ‘Patent Imperialism’ in the United States and China
  • 04.03.18 The Mass Litigation Lobby Craves for Patent Armageddon
  • 04.07.18 Team UPC’s and Team Battistelli’s Lobbying Not Over Yet, Even Though the UPC is Likely Dead for Good
  • 04.09.18 The ‘Sisvelisation’ of Europe, With or Without the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • 04.12.18 Patent Trolls in the United States Show the Importance of Stopping Software Patents (Trolls’ Favourite) Worldwide
  • 04.14.18 Crisis of Quality at the EPO Extends to Staff (Notably Examiners) and Management as Institutional Integrity is Severely Compromised
  • 04.15.18 Academics and Think Tanks for Patent Maximalism
  • 04.16.18 With Liars Like These…
  • 04.16.18 The European Patent Office Will Never Hold Its Destroyers Accountable
  • 04.17.18 The EPO Continues to Lie About Patent Quality Whilst Openly Promoting Software Patents, Even Outside Europe
  • 04.19.18 When News About the EPO is Dominated by Sponsored ‘Reports’ and Press Releases Because Publishers Are Afraid of (or Bribed by) the EPO
  • 04.21.18 Short: Highly Misleading and Unscientific Graphics From the EPO for an Illusion of Growth
  • 04.22.18 The EPO is Dying and Those Who Have Killed It Are Becoming Very Rich in the Process
  • 04.22.18 Today’s European Patent Office Works for Patent Extremists and for Team UPC Rather Than for Europe or for Innovation
  • 04.23.18 Holding Benoît Battistelli Accountable After the EPO
  • 04.24.18 Today’s EPO is Not Compatible With the Law and It’s Grossly Incompatible With Truth and Justice
  • 04.26.18 Reporting Benoît Battistelli Before He Too ‘Pulls a Željko Topić’
  • 04.26.18 Britain Has Not Fully Completed Unified Patent Court (UPC) Ratification and It Remains Incompatible With Brexit
  • 04.26.18 With Unified Patent Court (UPC) on Its Death Throes, Team UPC Now Resorts to Promoting Pertinent Parts of the Agreement (UPCA)
  • 04.27.18 Sam Gyimah Did What Was Expected Since 2016, But Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Still Completely Stuck in Most Important Country and Is Not Compatible With Brexit
  • 04.28.18 In Protest of IP Kat No Longer Covering EPO Abuses, Märpel Rises in “R.I.P. Kat”
  • 04.28.18 Patent Trolls Roundup: The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), Microsoft Trolls, and the Eastern District of Texas
  • 04.28.18 British Technology News Sites Point Out the Absurdity of Ratifying UPC in the UK Amid Brexit
  • 04.29.18 EPO Gazette: The Obligatory EPO Propaganda That Paints an Oppressive Office as ‘Fun and Games’
  • 04.29.18 Even Vocal Proponents of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Admit That There Are ‘Holes’ in the Announcement From Sam Gyimah
  • 04.29.18 Team UPC and Team Battistelli in IP Kat and IAM
  • 04.29.18 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Lives on and People Whom Patents Were Conceived for (Not Lawyers) Are Happy
  • 04.30.18 The European Patent System is Nowadays Based on a ‘Banana Republic’ Model
  • 05.01.18 People Are Belatedly Asking All Those ‘Awkward’ Questions About UPC and the Lies Told by Team UPC
  • 05.01.18 Battistelli’s Alleged ‘Success’ is Like That of the United States Mint
  • 05.03.18 The European Patent Office Has Become a Kakistocracy
  • 05.03.18 Bristows LLP Already Uses Kluwer Patent Blog and IP Kat as Its UPC Megaphone, Now IAM as Well
  • 05.03.18 Marks & Clerk is Still Pushing Patent Maximalism Agenda in Europe and Britain, Including UPC/UPCA/Unitary Patent (UP)
  • 05.05.18 If Anyone Has Defamed the European Patent Organisation/Office (EPO) It’s Benoît Battistelli
  • 05.07.18 Rumour: The European Patent Office Has Just ‘Done a Patrick Corcoran’ Again (Forced Removal)
  • 05.09.18 Barker Brettell is Wrong About Unified Patent Court (UPC) and the United Kingdom
  • 05.09.18 EPO Policy (Squashing Examination) is Already Crashing Stocks, Destroying Companies
  • 05.09.18 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Not Happening, But Kluwer Patent Blog Pretends It’s Already in Force
  • 05.12.18 EPO Staff Deprived and Denied Basic Rights, Even Justice, But Almost Nobody in the ‘Mainstream’ Wants to Talk About It
  • 05.13.18 The Patent Microcosm is ‘Snookering’ Andrei Iancu on PTAB Deforms and Broadest Reasonable Interpretation (BRI), Amongst Other Things
  • 05.15.18 The EPO Has Become Extremely Corrupt and Dishonest
  • 05.15.18 EPO Has Become Overzealous About Software Patents, Probably More So Than Almost Anywhere Else
  • 05.17.18 Today’s EPO Financially Rewards Abuses and Violations of the Law
  • 05.17.18 Rise in Patent Trolls’ Activity in Germany Noted Amid Declining Patent Quality at the EPO
  • 05.20.18 António Campinos Will Push Toward a France-Based Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • 05.22.18 France is Irrelevant to Whether or Not UPC Ever Becomes a Reality, Moving/Outsourcing de Facto Patent Examination to European Courts Managed in/Presided by France
  • 05.24.18 Perpetuating the Big Lie That Unitary Patent (UPC) is About to Kick Off
  • 05.25.18 The Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court (UPC): This Week’s Latest Spin and Lies
  • 05.27.18 The Patent Extremists Resort to Trump-Styled China-Baiting in an Effort to Destroy US Patent Policy
  • 05.27.18 The Irish Knowledge Development Box (KDB) is Just Another Tax Evasion Ploy
  • 05.27.18 Software Patents Advocacy and UPC Lies Go Hand in Hand
  • 05.30.18 The European Patent Office: From Patent Maximalism to Corruption and Gerrymandering
  • 05.30.18 EUROCHAMBRES is an Echo Chamber of the Patent Litigation ‘Industry’ Hoping to Mislead the EU’s Competitiveness Council on UPC
  • 05.30.18 The Chinese Patent System Does a Fine Job Devouring China, But Sites of the Litigation ‘Industry’ Are Absolutely Loving It!
  • 05.31.18 IP Kat is Still Acting as a Propaganda Front for UPC (and EU Software Patents) Lobbying by US-Based Front Groups
  • 05.31.18 Software Patents Are a Dying Breed of Patents Except in China (and Maybe EPO)
  • 06.01.18 In Gross Violation of German Law, as Per EPO Tradition, Fronleichnam ‘Stolen’ by Benoît Battistelli
  • 06.02.18 Team UPC Turns to a Spanish ‘Flavour’ of Unitary Patent Propaganda (Just Like Last Year)
  • 06.03.18 Finnegan, IAM and Other Proponents of Patent Trolls Try to Dominate the Debate About Patent Scope and Oversight
  • 06.03.18 Change of Government in Spain Does Not Change the Fact That Unitary Patent (UPC) Would be Terrible for Spanish Companies
  • 06.03.18 TC Heartland at One: Still an Impediment to Patent Trolls and Other Patent Parasites in the United States
  • 06.03.18 Watchtroll Continues to Attack Officials Who Favour Technology Over Law Firms and This Time Zoe Lofgren is the Target
  • 06.04.18 As European Patent Office Goes Down in Many Aspects/Respects (Quality, Employee Profiles and More) IAM — the EPO’s Mouthpiece — Claims “Patent Renaissance”, Repeats EPO Lies
  • 06.04.18 IAM and EPO Are Almost Inseparable
  • 06.05.18 IP Kat as an Extension of Team UPC After Departure of the Blog’s Founder
  • 06.05.18 The Demise of the EPO and Collapse of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) May Mean That António Campinos Will Soon Fire ~15% of the Workforce
  • 06.07.18 Marks & Clerk Blames Battistelli’s Victims, the Boards of Appeal, Whose Job Guarded Patent Quality
  • 06.07.18 What Team UPC Wants: Patent Trolls, Unified Patent Court (UPC), Software Patents, and Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs)
  • 06.09.18 Battistelli is Still Patently Delusional About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 06.09.18 Patents on Nature, Life and the Environment: Lessons From EPO and Australian Courts
  • 06.10.18 Links 10/6/2018: Devuan ASCII 2.0.0 and Tails 3.7.1
  • 06.11.18 Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe Blind to Its Participation in a Scam Around Patents on Nature
  • 06.12.18 The EPO’s ‘Expert’ Georg Weber is Still Advocating Software Patents in Europe (But He Disguises Them Using Buzzwords)
  • 06.12.18 Battistelli’s EPO is Outdoing North Korea When It Comes to Propaganda and Abuses Against Staff
  • 06.14.18 Grünecker, Hoffmann Eitle, Maiwald and Vossius & Partner Find the Courage to Express Concerns About Battistelli’s Ugly Legacy and Low Patent Quality
  • 06.14.18 IAM Concludes Its Latest Anti-§ 101 Think Tank, Featuring Crooked Benoît Battistelli
  • 06.14.18 The ’4iP Council’ is a Megaphone of Team UPC and Team Battistelli at the EPO
  • 06.15.18 The EPO’s Response to the Open Letter About Decline in Patent Quality as the Latest Example of Arrogance and Resistance to Facts, Truth
  • 06.18.18 Beware Team UPC’s Biggest Two Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 06.18.18 Orrin Hatch, Sponsored the Most by the Pharmaceutical Industry, Tries to Make Its Patents Immune From Scrutiny (PTAB)
  • 06.19.18 Articles About a Unitary Patent System Are Lies and Marketing From Law Firms With ‘Lawsuits Lust’
  • 06.21.18 Even Media of the Patent Microcosm Mentions the Decline in Quality of Patents at the EPO, Based on Its Very Own Stakeholders, While IAM Ignores the News
  • 06.24.18 Patent Factory Europe (PFE) is a Patent Troll’s Publicity Stunt, Attempting to Frame a Predator as the Small Businesses’ Friend and Ally
  • 06.24.18 Nearly Half of Patent Applications at the EPO Are (at Least Partly) Software Patents, According to the EPO, and Not Many Patents Are European (Foreign, Not Domestic)
  • 06.25.18 The EPO Seems to Have Corrupted ILO/ILO-AT Like It Corrupted the Media and Academia (Using ‘Toxic’ EPO Budget)
  • 06.27.18 J A Kemp Pushing the Boundaries of Patent Scope in Europe With Antibodies and SPCs
  • 06.28.18 President Benoît Battistelli is Finished, But the Huge Mess He Has Created is Not
  • 06.29.18 Insults, Lies and Propaganda on Battistelli’s Last Day at the European Patent Office
  • 06.29.18 Three Days Later Still Not a Single Word From the EPO About Union Busting Gone Awry and Court Orders to Reinstate/Promote Staff Representatives
  • 06.30.18 Team UPC’s Radicals, Firms Like Bristows LLP, Have Decided That It’s Time to Change Constitutions to Accommodate Clearly Unconstitutional Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 07.01.18 Welcoming António Campinos, New President of the European Patent Office
  • 07.02.18 IAM is Still Working for Benoît Battistelli and His Toxic Agenda
  • 07.03.18 First Act of António Campinos: Pushing the Unconstitutional Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 07.04.18 Yesterday’s UPC Event Was a Reminder That Team Battistelli is Still in Charge of the European Patent Organisation, Fronting for Team UPC
  • 07.04.18 António Campinos Tries to Come Across as a Goodwill Manager, But He Will be Judged by His Actions, Not by His Words
  • 07.05.18 Abstract Ideas and Mental (Thoughts) Type of Claims Still Deemed Patent-Ineligible, Buzzwords Are Used Instead
  • 07.05.18 No, Europe Does Not Gear up for the Unitary Patent, But Team UPC Wants Everyone to Think So and EPO Amplifies These Lies
  • 07.06.18 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
  • 07.07.18 IAM Keeps Promoting Brian Yates and His New Patent Troll, iPEL, Which is About to Become Very Aggressive
  • 07.08.18 Battistelli’s ‘Legacy’ Up in Flames as Britain is “Ending the Jurisdiction of the CJEU in the UK, With No More Preliminary References from UK Courts…”
  • 07.09.18 Actions — Not Mere Words — Are Needed to Improve Patent Quality and Climate at the European Patent Office
  • 07.10.18 Patent Trolls Rally/Advertise Thomas Massie’s Bill to Abolish PTAB and Promote Software Patents in the US
  • 07.10.18 Signs of Upcoming Changes at EPO: Raimund Lutz, Željko Topić and Other ‘Team Battistelli’ Folks Are Being Replaced
  • 07.11.18 The Lack of Genuine, Honest Discussion About Patent Quality Means That Under António Campinos Software Patents Will Continue to be Granted, Campinos Strives to Make Them ‘Unitary’
  • 07.11.18 Cellspin Soft Will Likely Need to Pay the Accused Party’s Lawyers Too After Frivolous Litigation With Patents Eliminated Under 35 U.S.C. § 101
  • 07.12.18 It’s Not About EPO ‘Backlog’ But About Faking ‘Production’ by Lowering Standards
  • 07.12.18 Thomas Massie and Marcy Kaptur Are Promoting the Interests of Patent Trolls and Patent Lawyers While Calling That “Innovation”
  • 07.13.18 Weeks Later António Campinos Still in Noncompliance With the Courts (ILO’s Tribunal)
  • 07.13.18 Constitutionality and CJEU as Barriers, the UPC Agreement (UPCA) is Already Moot in the United Kingdom
  • 07.17.18 Software Patents Royalty (Tax) Campaign by IBM, a Serial Patent Bully, and the EPO’s Participation in All This
  • 07.17.18 The European Council Needs to Check Battistelli’s Back Room Deals/Back Door/Backchannel With Respect to Christian Archambeau
  • 07.17.18 Yesterday’s Misleading News From Team UPC and Its Aspiring Management of the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • 07.18.18 The EPO — Like the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and Unitary Patent System — is an Untenable Mess
  • 07.19.18 Mafia Tactics in Team UPC and Battistelli’s Circle
  • 07.19.18 Erosion of Patent Justice in Europe With Kangaroo Courts and Low-Quality European Patents
  • 07.19.18 Australia Says No to Software Patents
  • 07.21.18 Cisco v Arista Networks is a Stain on the Reputation of the US International Trade Commission (ITC) and It’s Beginning to Recognise This
  • 07.21.18 The EPO (European Patent Office) Under António Campinos is Just Another Battistelli EPO; Still UPC and Software Patents Lobbying
  • 07.22.18 Patents Roundup: Patent Litigation is Down and Seems to Have Shifted Away From Software Patents
  • 07.24.18 Under António Campinos the EPO’s Appeal Boards, Including the Enlarged Board of Appeal, Still Lack Independence
  • 07.24.18 China Belatedly Tackles Patent Trolls, Albeit After Giving Them the Green Light With Broad and Low-Quality Patents Such as Software Patents
  • 07.25.18 Dysfunctional State of the EPO and Benoît Battistelli’s Shadow
  • 07.26.18 António Campinos, Four Weeks on the Job, Still in Defiance/Violation of ILO Rulings, Still Engaging in PR and Face-Saving Distraction Instead
  • 07.28.18 The EPO Abandoned Patent Quality and António Campinos Has No Intention of Changing That
  • 07.29.18 Links 29/7/2018: Mesa 18.1.5, DebConf18 Starts, Remembering Gerv Markham
  • 07.30.18 Links 30/7/2018: Linux Kernel 4.18 Plans, Linux Foundation Growth
  • 07.31.18 SUEPO Seems to be Disappointed by António Campinos as His First Month in Office Comes to an End
  • 08.01.18 The EPO’s Administrative Council is Not Interested in Saving the EPO, Only ‘Producing’ as Many (Low-Quality) Patents as Possible
  • 08.02.18 The EPO’s Systematic Attacks on Justice and on Judges Have Likely Played the Biggest Role in the Death of Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 08.04.18 António Campinos is Not Improving Patent Quality or Even the Social Climate at the EPO (False Promises)
  • 08.05.18 Law Firms Are Offering Very Misleading and Self-Serving Advice Regarding ‘Unitary’ Effect for European Patents
  • 08.07.18 Arista Shows How ITC Injustice (Embargo Before Facts Are Even Known) Harms Smaller Businesses, Helps Monopolists
  • 08.08.18 WeMove.EU Tackles Low Patent Quality at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 08.09.18 Months After Oil States the Patent Maximalists Still Try to Undermine Inter Partes Reviews (“IPRs”), Refusing to Accept Patent Quality
  • 08.09.18 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement is Paralysed, So Team UPC is Twisting Old News
  • 08.14.18 Patent Lawyers Writing Patent Law for Their Own Enrichment Rather Than for Innovation
  • 08.16.18 Almost Two Months After the ILO Ruling Staff Representative Brumme is Finally Back on the Job at EPO
  • 08.21.18 Admissibility of the Unitary Patent Constitutional Complaint Was Likely the Final Nail in the Coffin of the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • 08.25.18 The Unitary Patent (UPC) is Not Delayed; It’s Dead and Without Any Major Rework It Will Go Nowhere
  • 08.28.18 Patents on Steroids: ITC is Rushing Embargoes Before the Facts Are Even Known
  • 08.30.18 António Campinos Already Implements a ‘Shadow’ Layoffs Method at the EPO
  • 08.30.18 Feeling Shut Out of the European Patent System, Team UPC Persists With Misleading Claims and Falsehoods
  • 09.02.18 The Patent Public Advisory Committee (PPAC) Needs to Instruct the Patent Office to Stop Treating Applicants as Customers/Clients
  • 09.04.18 The António Campinos-Led EPO is Over-Relying on Bogus and Abstract Software Patents to Fill the Gaps
  • 09.06.18 ‘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)
  • 09.07.18 CIPA and EPO, Two UPC Boosters, Get Together to Promote Software Patents in Spite of the EPC
  • 09.11.18 Fresh Rumours of Further Accelerated Layoffs at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 09.11.18 Patentability of Software Constantly Pushed by the EPO Under António Campinos With Help From IAM, CIPA, IPO and Other Litigation Front Groups
  • 09.12.18 The Belated Demise of Propaganda Sites of the Litigation ‘Industry’
  • 09.13.18 EPO Granted a Controversial European Patent (Under Battistelli) Which May Literally Kill a Lot of People
  • 09.13.18 Links 13/9/2018: Parrot 4.2.2, Sailfish OS Nurmonjoki, Eelo Beta
  • 09.14.18 Max Planck Institute Pours More Water on the Dying Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 09.15.18 António Campinos Needs to Listen to Doctors Without Borders (MSF) et al to Salvage What’s Left of Public Consent for the EPO
  • 09.15.18 The Max Planck Institute’s Determination on UPC’s (Unitary Patent) Demise is Only “Controversial” in the Eyes of Rabid Members of Team UPC
  • 09.18.18 The EPO Has Quit Pretending That It Cares About Patent Quality, All It Cares About is Quantity of Lawsuits
  • 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’
  • 09.22.18 EPO is Like a Patent Litigation (Without Actual Trial) Office, Not a Patent Examination Office
  • 09.22.18 Bogus Patents Which Oughtn’t Have Been Granted Make Products Deliberately Worse, Reducing Innovation and Worsening Customers’ Experience
  • 09.23.18 Advocacy of the Unitary Patent System Has Become Almost Identical to the ‘Leave’ (Brexit) Campaign
  • 09.25.18 António Campinos Goes to UPC-Hostile Country, UPC Continues to Languish and Team UPC Carries on Pushing for Software Patents in Europe (Courts Also)
  • 09.26.18 Lots of UPC Noise/News This Week Over a Document Which Merely Weakens Commitment to the UPC
  • 09.28.18 How Team UPC is Reacting to the Demise of EPO- and EU-Connected Court That Would Have Put Patent Maximalists in Charge
  • 09.29.18 Team UPC Wants More (Patent) Taxes on Society While Defending/Shielding the Super-rich From Taxes That Might Otherwise Benefit Society
  • 09.30.18 AIPPI is Led by Team UPC’s People and ‘AIPPI Congress Report’ Published by Team UPC
  • 10.01.18 The European Council Fulfills Corrupt Battistelli’s Alleged Promise, Making Christian Archambeau Head of EUIPO
  • 10.01.18 EPO Under António Campinos an Unprecedented Booster of Software Patents
  • 10.03.18 Links 3/10/2018: IBM Containers and Red Hat Announces Satellite 6.4
  • 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
  • 10.06.18 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Obsolete for More Reasons Than the German Constitutional Court, But Team UPC in the UK Refuses to Give Up
  • 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
  • 10.11.18 UPC Cowardice: Team UPC Uses Cloaks of Anonymity to Discredit Authors of Scholarly UPC Paper They Don’t Like
  • 10.13.18 EPO Insider/Märpel Says President Campinos Already Acts Like Battistelli
  • 10.15.18 Links 15/10/2018: Testing Ubuntu 18.10 Release Candidates, KaOS 2018.10 Released
  • 10.15.18 Corporate Media’s Failure to Cover Patents Properly and Our New Hosting Woes
  • 10.18.18 It’s Almost 2019 and Team UPC is Still Pretending Unitary Patent (UPC) Exists, Merely Waiting for Britain to Join
  • 10.19.18 Ingve Björn Stjerna Has Just Warned That If Team UPC and the European Patent Office Rigged the Proceedings of the German Constitutional Court, Consequences Would be Significant
  • 10.20.18 The Identity Crisis of the European Patent Office, Wrongly Believing It Exists to Serve Lawyers and Patent Trolls Outside Europe
  • 10.23.18 German Court on UPC Constitutional Complaint: “No Oral Hearing is Currently Scheduled. A Decision Date is Not Foreseeable at Present.”
  • 10.24.18 Pretty Revealing That EPO Management Promotes Software Patents and IP Kat Promotes Patent Trolls
  • 10.25.18 Battistelli and Team UPC Still Waiting for a Campinos Miracle
  • 10.27.18 Lobbying and Blackmail Rewarded? JUVE Awards Team UPC Firm Bardehle Pagenberg, Which Represents Microsoft’s Worst Patent Troll, Intellectual Ventures.
  • 10.28.18 The EPO Lost Any Sense of Shame About Granting Patents on Software, Which It Openly Welcomes and Even Encourages
  • 10.28.18 The ITC Makes Embargo Using Almost-Expired Patents a Business Strategy of Intimidation and Harassment
  • 10.29.18 USPTO Under Iancu: Making Patents Low Quality (Again)
  • 10.30.18 Team UPC Hijacks the Debate in the Media and in British Parliament
  • 11.04.18 Law Firms Won’t Improve Patent Quality Because Quality in Patenting Limits Their Ability to Sue (Profit Irrespective of the Outcome)
  • 11.04.18 Team UPC’s Last Resort: Stacked Panels, Anonymously Belittling the Opposition (e.g. Ingve Björn Stjerna) and Taking Control of the Media
  • 11.06.18 Managing IP and Law Gazette Speak for Patent Trolls and Team UPC (Which Supports and Profits From Trolls)
  • 11.08.18 The Death of the UPC is Only a “Tragedy” for Patent Trolls and Their Facilitators
  • 11.10.18 Pro-Litigation Front Groups Like CIPA and Team UPC Control the EPO, Which Shamelessly Grants Software Patents
  • 11.12.18 Team UPC, Fronting for Patent Trolls From the US, is Calling Facts “Resistance”
  • 11.13.18 The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is Working for Patent Trolls and Patent Maximalists
  • 11.13.18 Yannis Skulikaris Promotes Software Patents at EPOPIC, Defending the Questionable Practice Under António Campinos
  • 11.14.18 Allegations That António Campinos ‘Bought’ His Presidency and is Still Paying for it
  • 11.14.18 Science Minister Sam Gyimah and the EPO Are Eager to Attack Science by Bringing Patent Trolls to Europe/European Union and the United Kingdom
  • 11.15.18 A Question of Debt: António Campinos, Lexology, Law Gazette, and Sam Gyimah
  • 11.17.18 Team UPC Has Been Reduced to Lies, Lies, and More Lies about the Unified Patent Court Agreement
  • 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)
  • 11.22.18 Thanksgiving EPO Roundup: UPC Lies, Software Patents Considered Harmful and SUEPO Condemns Union-Busting Activities (Which Carry on Under António Campinos)
  • 11.24.18 Team UPC Refuses to Stop Lying, Pays Money to Spread Its Unified Patent Court (UPC) Lies in the Media
  • 11.25.18 The Demise of Software Patents in Patent Courts Worldwide Would Mean Much-Needed Staff Cuts in Litigation Giants
  • 11.26.18 No, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Has Not Changed Its Position on Software Patents, Which Are Bunk
  • 11.27.18 Links 27/11/2018: GCC 7.4 Coming Soon and a Rare ‘Supply Chain’ Incident
  • 11.29.18 António Campinos is Working for Patent Trolls at the Expense of Science and Technology
  • 11.29.18 Union Syndicale Fédérale Tells António Campinos to End ‘Political’ Cases Against EPO Staff Representatives
  • 11.29.18 Even Sites That Served UPC Propaganda for Years (for These Sites’ Owners) Have Come to Admit That the UPC Might Already be Dead
  • 12.01.18 EPO Management High-Fiving Patent Propaganda Sites Like ‘Managing IP’ While Granting Illegitimate Patents on Algorithms
  • 12.01.18 Science Minister Sam Gyimah, Who Tactlessly Ratified UPC in the UK, Has Just Resigned
  • 12.02.18 Be Wary of the Latest Lies About the Unified Patent Court (UPC), Courtesy of CIPA and Marks & Clerk (Team UPC)
  • 12.03.18 EPO Management Keeps Embarrassing Itself, UPC More Dead Than Before, and Nokia Turns Aggressive
  • 12.05.18 The Patent Litigation Bubble is Imploding in the US While the UPC Dies in Europe
  • 12.05.18 EPO, in Its Patent Trolls-Infested Forum, Admits It is Granting Bogus Software Patents Under the Guise of ‘Blockchain’
  • 12.06.18 The European Patent Office Remains a Lawless Place Where Judges Are Afraid of the Banker in Chief
  • 12.07.18 The European Patent Organisation is Like a Private Club and Roland Grossenbacher is Back in It
  • 12.09.18 Team UPC is Still Spreading False Rumours in an Effort to Trick Politicians and Pressure Judges
  • 12.10.18 US Courts Make the United States’ Patent System Sane Again
  • 12.11.18 With ‘Brexit’ in a Lot of Headlines Team UPC Takes the Unitary Patent Lies up a Notch
  • 12.13.18 The European Patent Troll Wants as Much Litigation as Possible
  • 12.15.18 Patent Law Firms’ War on Facts and Constant Lying About Unitary Patent
  • 12.15.18 The European Patent Organisation (EPO) Loses Legitimacy If (or When) Christoph Ernst Becomes Subservient to António Campinos
  • 12.19.18 UPC Would Mean Patent Scope Gone Out of Control and Beyond/Above the Law
  • 12.21.18 Team UPC Belatedly Admits Lying About the German UPC Complaint (Fabricated ‘Rumours’)
  • 12.22.18 UPC Died in 2016 or 2017; But the EPO Continues to Issue Fake Software Patents That European Courts Reject
  • 12.28.18 The Demise of the UPC ‘Legislative Coup’ Continued in 2018
  • 12.30.18 Even Joff Wild and the Patent Trolls’ Lobby Finally Admit Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead
  • 01.02.19 The Real Harm of Really Bad European Patent Grants
  • 01.03.19 The EPO is So Backwards That the Boss Has Just Become Subservient to the Subject of Oversight
  • 01.06.19 The German Constitutional Court’s Decision on Unitary Patent (UPC) is Very, Very Far
  • 01.08.19 EPO Corruption is Helping Patent Maximalists in the United States
  • 01.09.19 European Patent Office Saga in 2019: “95% of the People Responsible for the Misery Are Still in Place and Have Not Even Been Rebuked”
  • 01.10.19 EPO President “Campinos is Wasting His Credibility With “Sweet” Communiqués Full of Hot Air and Storytelling”
  • 01.11.19 The EPO’s Low Patent Quality Can Kill the European Software Industry and Kill People Too
  • 01.11.19 The Fiction That Spain (or Italy) Can Salvage the UPC
  • 01.12.19 IP Kat Has Turned From EPO Critic (to the Point of Being Blocked by the EPO) to EPO Whitewasher That Gags EPO Whistleblowers
  • 01.13.19 European Patent Office a Textbook Example of Lawless, Rogue Institutions
  • 01.14.19 Council of Europe (CoE) Recognises There’s No Justice at the EPO
  • 01.15.19 Team UPC on Dead UPC: Choosing Gowns for Corpses
  • 01.15.19 IBM, Which Will Soon be Buying Red Hat, is Promoting Software Patents in Europe
  • 01.16.19 Brexit Has Failed, But So Has the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 01.17.19 US Patent Lawyers Will Need to Change Profession or End up Becoming Abundantly Redundant, Unemployed
  • 01.19.19 The UPC is Dead. But Bristows is Now Fully Engaged in Necrophilia.
  • 01.20.19 JUVE Creates English Site, Promotes Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • 01.22.19 Software Patents Are a Dying Breed, So Marks & Clerk and Other Legal Monoliths Promote the EPO’s Buzzwords (Loopholes)
  • 01.22.19 The Whitewashing of the EPO Under António Campinos
  • 01.25.19 Team UPC Has Been Reduced to a Self-Satirising Drama Show
  • 01.26.19 European Patent Quality as Awful Under António Campinos as (If Not Worse Than) Benoît Battistelli and Battistelli Makes a Public Comeback
  • 01.29.19 The EPO Continues to Grant Software Patents Even Though Many European Patents Are Being Invalidated Already
  • 01.30.19 People Are Dying Because of Low Quality of (Wrongly-Granted) European Patents
  • 01.31.19 Fake Software Patents, Patent Trolls and Assault on Generic Medicine in Europe
  • 02.02.19 The European Patent Office’s Promotion of Software Patents Overlooks Ongoing ‘Spillage’ of the Patent Crisis to Patent Courts (Rejecting Such Patents)
  • 02.02.19 Concerns About Stephan Harbarth’s Unitary Patent (UPC) Vested Interests and His Entrance Into the Constitutional Court That Decides on UPC
  • 02.06.19 The Attack on the Independence of the European Judges Has Apparently Expanded to the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht)
  • 02.07.19 UPC Part of the Litigation ‘Industry’ Lobby and the Efforts to Change (Significantly Lower) Patent Quality Bar/Scope
  • 02.09.19 EPO President Campinos Works With Patent Trolls and With Team UPC to Promote Software Patents
  • 02.12.19 Innovating the Idea That Software Patents (Monopolies on Algorithms) Are Covering ‘Artificial’ ‘Intelligence’ (AI and ML as Loopholes)
  • 02.12.19 Gross Violations of the EPC at the European Patent Office as Principal Priority Turns Against Science and Technology
  • 02.14.19 Unitary Patent (UPC) is All About Imposing Patent Maximalists’ Ideology of Greed and Self Interest on Courts in the Name of ‘Unification’ or ‘Consistency’ or ‘Community’
  • 02.16.19 EPO Grants Fake European Patents — Including Software Patents — and European Courts Keep Rejecting These
  • 02.17.19 Techrights’ Priorities Over the Years
  • 02.20.19 How Long Can the EPO Bend the Rules Before the Avalanche of Invalid Software Patents?
  • 02.22.19 Team UPC Excited Over Nothing, President Campinos Rarely Even Mentions UPC Anymore
  • 02.23.19 Bristows is Still Hoping to ‘Overthrow’ the Courts and Throw Out Ingve Stjerna’s Complaint (About the Likes of Bristows)
  • 02.27.19 Teff Just One Among Countless Examples of Sheer Disregard for Patent Quality
  • 02.28.19 The Latest Brexit Developments Add Another Nail (Among Many) to the Unified Patent Court’s (UPC) Coffin
  • 02.28.19 T 0489/14: Will the European Patent Organisation Put an End to Software Patents at Long Last?
  • 03.02.19 Links 2/3/2019: Alpine 3.9.1 and New Wine
  • 03.02.19 The Collapse of Poor-Quality European Patents Continues in European Courts
  • 03.04.19 Unitary Patent (UPC/A) Constitutional Complaint Can be Decided in a Matter of Years (If Ever)
  • 03.05.19 Truly and Completely Out of Control, the Unhinged European Patent Office Calls Applicants “Customers” While Offering Patents on Nature, Life, Maths
  • 03.05.19 The 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
  • 03.05.19 The Technical Board of Appeal Will Need True Independence to Squash Software Patents at the EPO (T 0489/14)
  • 03.06.19 Quality Issues at the European Patent Office Can Lead It Down the Same Downward Path as the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • 03.14.19 Good News Everyone! UPC Ready to Go… in 2015!
  • 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
  • 03.20.19 Decisions Made Inside the European Patent Organisation (EPO) Lack Credibility Because Examiners and Judges Lack Independence
  • 03.20.19 Team UPC Buries Its Credibility Deeper in the Grave
  • 03.21.19 Team UPC (Unitary Patent) is a Headless Chicken
  • 03.22.19 The European Patent Office Needs to Put Lives Before Profits
  • 03.23.19 The Unified Patent Court is Dead, But Doubts Remain Over the EPO’s Appeal Boards’ Ability to Rule Independently Against Patents on Nature and Code
  • 03.26.19 Dimitris Xenos on Unconstitutional Supranational Arrangements for Patent Law: Leaving Out the Elected Legislators and the People’s Participatory Rights
  • 03.27.19 The European Patent Scope is a Lost Cause, Does Not Exist Anymore
  • 03.30.19 The UK Supreme Court’s Latest Decision is Ammunition for the FCC to Scuttle the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA)
  • 04.02.19 EPO Judges Lack Independence and the Internal Courts Are Seen to be Lacking Legitimacy (Decisions’ Validity) Under António Campinos
  • 04.06.19 3 Months Later (and Counting) Software Patents Remain Demolished in the United States
  • 04.09.19 The Media is (Still) Failing to Cover EPO Corruption
  • 04.09.19 Who Does the Legal System Really Serve or Favour in European Patent Disputes?
  • 04.10.19 The Myth of Quality of European Patents
  • 04.11.19 EPO Still Wasting Budget, Paying Media and Academics for Spin
  • 04.12.19 Global Finance Magazine Spreads Lies About the Unitary Patent and German Constitutional Court
  • 04.13.19 Patent Maximalists Are Enabling Injustices and Frauds
  • 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
  • 04.21.19 The EPO’s Use of Phrases Like “High-Quality Patent Services” Means They Know High-Quality European Patents Are ‘Bygones’
  • 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
  • 04.24.19 Supreme Court of the UK, Which Habitually Throws Out European Patents, May Overturn Troublesome Unwired Planet v Huawei Decision
  • 04.25.19 American Patent Courts Keep Narrowing Patent Scope, No Matter What Few Politicians Are Doing on Behalf of Litigation Firms and Patent Trolls
  • 04.25.19 The Quality of Patents is Connected to the Quality of Life of Patent Examiners
  • 04.27.19 The ‘Technical Effect’ of Attacking the Independence of Judges at the Boards of Appeal and Ignoring/Breaking the Law
  • 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
  • 05.02.19 EPO in 2019: Pushing (and Bribing) for Buzzwords to Bypass/Cheat the Law Whilst Abolishing the Court System
  • 05.03.19 In the Courts, Where Patents Are Assessed Independently, Geeks Are Winning the Battle Against Parasitic Litigation Firms
  • 05.05.19 2019: The Year Patent Zealots’ Blogs Have Mostly Collapsed
  • 05.05.19 It’s 2019 and Team UPC is Still Composing ‘Fake News’ (Lobbying Disguised as Reporting)
  • 05.09.19 Lusting for a Unified Patent Court (UPC) That Respects Invalid European Patents, Including Software Patents
  • 05.11.19 Team UPC Has Run Out of Arguments, So Now It’s Just Writing Anti-Brexit Rants With Testicles in the Headlines
  • 05.15.19 False Hope for Patent Maximalists and Litigation Zealots
  • 05.16.19 The EPO’s Key Function — Like the UPC’s Vision — Has Virtually Collapsed
  • 05.18.19 Unified Patent Court Won’t Happen Just Because the Litigation Microcosm Wants It
  • 05.18.19 The War on Patent Quality