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The European Patent Office (EPO) has been granting software patents all across Europe despite the law (as per the EPC) explicitly forbidding it. The profit motive ultimately compromised patent quality; the problem was obscured by publishers like IAM but repeatedly stressed by SUEPO, the Staff Union of the EPO. There were even more mischievous practices going on, especially after the EPO's former head, Alison Brimelow, got replaced by a megalomaniac called Benoît Battistelli (now in CEIPI), who gradually drove away anything or anyone who threatened his undemocratic ambition of total power. He was helped by Jesper Kongstad, Christoph Ernst, Raimund Lutz, and Željko Topić. There was a culture of blatant nepotism (e.g. Elodie Bergot) and disrespect for courts, e.g. Willy (Guillaume) Minnoye stating intent to ignore (disobey) court rulings. He even rejected ILO rulings and sought an unconstitutional court, the UPC, promoted by big litigators such as Bristows LLP. Battistelli chose António Campinos, a French dual national (born in France) from EUIPO, as his successor (soon joined by former colleague Nellie Simon and Stephen Rowan from UKIPO). Both block Techrights at all EPO sites, not just in Germany, in order to prevent staff from accessing facts; IP Kat was also temporarily blocked (until it stopped exposing EPO abuses). EPO problems persist to date, but European media is reluctant to mention these.

We've archived older articles in the following pages: EPO 2018 Archive | EPO 2017 Archive | EPO 2016 Archive | EPO 2015 Archive | EPO 2008-2014 Archive

In recent years Techrights wrote about the EPO in the below long and short posts, organised chronologically, with addition of the following colour coding for improved organisation based on theme:

2020

November

• The European Patent Office Should be Run by Patent Examiners (Scientists), Not Politicians
• Member of the EPO's Boards of Appeal Explains Why VICOs (or ViCo/Video Conferences/Virtual 'Hearings') Are Not Suitable for Justice
• Meme: Things Will Get Amusing When/If EPO Proceedings Are Cancelled Due to Patent Trolls Suing the Platforms Using Software Patents (Granted by the EPO)
• Dr. Bausch Questions the Merits and Claims of EPO Management Regarding ViCo ('Skynet' Virtual 'Courts')
• Massive Collective Action Begins at the European Patent Office Today, Demanding Change and Forewarning the Management (Litigation)
• EPO Management is Still Distracting From the 'Elephant in the Room' by Corrupting Media and Academia
• EPO's Central Staff Committee on Latest Meeting With Office Dictator: “No Meaningful Discussion Could Take Place.”
• Growing Concerns That EPO Staff Has Been Placed Under de Facto House Arrest by an Entirely Unaccountable Office
• Internal Error: Unified Patent Court and Unitary Patent Incompatible With the Constitution and Basic Laws
• The EPO is Using Hype Wave and Buzzword to Promote Illegal Software Patents in a So-Called “Digital Conference”
• Dutch Delegation and German Delegation at the Administrative Council of the EPO Upset at the Office for Secrecy, Working Behind the Scenes to Crush Productive Staff
• Legal Action at the European Patent Office (EPO) Leveraged Against Management... for Robbing EPO Staff and Robbing Europe, by Extension
• New Position Paper on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Says It’s “Not the Best Solution for Europe” — Clearly an Understatement
• Mortality Rates Increase at the EPO and Christmases (or Holidays) During Corona Mean Fewer Days Off
• Newly Abnormal: A Crackdown on EPO Staff and Labour Rights in 'Survey' Clothing (Willis Towers Watson)
• IAM Celebrating and Glorifying Illegal Patents With Fake 'Awards' and Bogus 'Endorsements'
• Been There, Done That: Team UPC's 'October' Becomes 'Early November' and Now Late November
• The Only Real Dialogue the 'European' Patent Office is Having... is With Litigation Parasites, Even Foreign Ones
• Inside the EPO During Corona: SUEPO (EPO Staff Union) and the Central Staff Committee Blast the Office for Illegal Practices and Threaten Legal Action
• Inside the EPO During Corona: The EPO is Violating Workers'/Stakeholders' Privacy and Breaking Data Protection Law (Again)
• Conduct of EPO Management Lacks “Basis in Legality” According to EPO Staff Representatives
• Inside the EPO During Corona: Managers Don't Think of the Children, Cut Their Budget for First Time in Half a Century
• Inside the EPO During Corona: Sending Staff Home to Justify Cutting Their Benefits and Maybe Even Key Allowances
• Inside the EPO During Corona: Acting Chairperson of the Central Staff Committee of the EPO Suggests Involving Staff Representatives in Corona Task Force
• Inside the EPO During Corona: There's No Rule of Law Anymore and That Takes Its Toll on 'Low-Level' Staff
• Two Years Without Progress on Impartiality of Internal Tribunals at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• Inside the EPO During Corona: EPO Staff Representatives Grew Increasingly Frustrated in June as EPO Had Acted Like a Law-Infringing Monarchy, Not a Public Institution
• Inside the EPO During Corona: The Office Management Never Cared About the Well-being of Staff (and Still Doesn't)
• The Stench Follows and Spreads: Another UPC Lie Now Followed by Lies From the Government of Germany
• Inside the EPO During Corona: The Hoax 'Study' From Campinos and Donald Trump Associate (Mercer) Debunked, EPO Management Uninterested Because Facts Are Inconvenient
• SUEPO's EPO Staff Survey: Confidence in Staff Representatives at All-Time High and Confidence in EPO President at Only 3%
• Inside the EPO During Corona: Half a Year Ago EPO Management Was a 'Superspreader' of COVID-19 and It Broke the Law Regarding Masks
• European Patent Office Union (SUEPO) Reiterates Its Allegation, Backed by Professionals, That the Management is Crushing the Office and Its Staff Based on a Manufactured “Hoax”
• Judges at the EPO (Boards of Appeal) Can Still be Punished for Ruling 'Unfavourably' on Patent Maximalism
• Inside the EPO During Corona: The EPO is Silently Shrinking in Vienna and Dictator António Campinos Defends His Bully and Union Buster, Elodie Bergot
• Inside the EPO During Corona: António Campinos Running Europe's Monopolies-Granting Monopoly Like a Shop With Essentials While Crushing Those Who 'Stock the Shelves'
• EPO Staff Representatives Explain Why the Appeals Committee is Flawed and Transparency is Lacking
• Inside the EPO During Corona: COVID-in-the-Head António Campinos Acts Like a Maniac and Starts Shouting at Meetings (Refusing to Listen to Anybody or Accept Reality)
• Inside the EPO During Corona: Letter to Stephen Rowan About EPO Management Exploiting the Pandemic to Demand Harder Work (Instead of Loosening and Lowering Expectations/Workload)
• Nobody Was Ever Punished for Bullying Laurent Prunier (Bergot and Others Kept Their EPO Jobs and They Continue to Oppress and Silence Staff Representatives)
• Inside the EPO During Corona: The European Patent Office (EPO), in Clear Violation of the Law and the EPC, Forces Parties to Join Surveillance Sessions (American Spying Companies) to Squash False European Patents
• Inside the EPO During Corona: The EPO's Fat Cash Cow is Decreasing Salaries of Staff During a Public Crisis
• Inside the EPO During Corona: The António Campinos Monologue, Talking Inwards While Pretending to Represent the EPO's Interests
• Inside the EPO During Corona: More Microsoft and More Corruption/Nepotism From António Campinos (Loyal Friends Get Top Jobs to Cover Up/Perpetuate Scandals)
• Inside the EPO During Corona: The EPO Recklessly Breaking the Law With Videoconference (ViCo) for European Patents
• Something About to Hit the Fan at the EPO
• Monday Will Not be “Early November”
• Inside the EPO During Corona: Sweep-up Man Christoph Ernst Abuses Notion of Leave (Break From Work)
• Inside the EPO During Corona: Repressive Tyrant António Campinos Still Blocking Techrights and Still Preventing Staff Representatives From Speaking Openly to Staff
• Not Even a Pandemic That Kills Millions of People Will Stop the EPO Regime From Granting Loads of Fake Patents (Monopolies That Save Nobody)
• Inside the EPO During Corona: The Eye in the Sky(pe)
• Inside the EPO During Corona: Death Toll of Benoît Battistelli's 'Suicide Wave' Will be Exceeded by the 'Corona Wave' of António Campinos
• Inside the EPO During Corona: Cameras and Microphones in EPO People's Private Homes “Have Been Broadly Welcomed by the Patent Profession” (the Law and EPO Staff Don't Count)
• Inside the EPO During Corona: “We All Should be Creative and Open” Was the Excuse to Break the Rules and Violate Laws/Constitutions at the EPO (European Patent Office)
• Inside the EPO During Corona: 'Sick' António Campinos Uses a Global Sickness to Illegally Rob EPO Staff, Already Besieged by the Pandemic
• Inside the EPO During Corona: Like Benoît Battistelli, António Campinos Leaves Out Staff Representation Out of Consultation Regarding Unprecedented Health Crisis Which Impacts Staff
• Inside the EPO During Corona: The Management of the European Patent Office Was (Fore)Warned About Exploiting a Public Health Crisis
• Inside the EPO During Corona: A New Series About the European Patent Office During European Lock-downs
• The Vote on the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA) Will Happen... Last Month?!
• EPO Insider Explains “Team Leaders” and the Downfall of the EPO
• Meme: António Campinos is the EPO's 'Fanta' (Making EPO Fascism Seem Acceptable, Gentle, Caring and Kind)
• Meme: EPO as a Looted Institution Where Crime is the 'Norm' Nowadays
• The EPO is Pushing Illegal Software Patents Together With WIPO
• The EPO's Love Affair With Authoritarian Regimes Accompanies Europe's Embrace of Lawless, Unconstitutional Patent Regimes
• Team UPC and Team Campinos Are Causing Constitutional Crises in Germany (Even Amid Pandemic)

October

• Meme: Two Dictators: How the EPO Shuffled the Dictatorship's Cards
• 2020: The Year the Patent System Converged With Naked Fascism
• Meme: When EPO Staff Claims to be 'Ill' or 'Sick'... During a Pandemic's European Peak
• The EPO Has Relegated or Lowered Itself to Extremely Poor Standards
• The European Commission is Still M.I.A. Regarding EPO Corruption (and the EPO's Management Plays Dirty, as Always)
• We’ve Relegated UPC ‘Fake News’ to Our Daily Links (Because It Has Gotten Increasingly Ridiculous)
• Cartoon: Internal EPO Caricature About the Direction the Office Has Taken
• EPO Management is Making Patent Examiners Poorer and Shuts Out the Union
• EPO Management is Violating COVID-19 Rules That Managers Gladly Flout While Threatening Staff (Because They're Above the Law, Which They Routinely Break)
• This Did Not Age Well: UPC to Start... 5 Years Ago
• EPO Management Threatens People Who Come Back to Work
• The EPO is Far Too Rogue to Reform Itself
• Watchtroll Demonises People Wrongly Accused of Patent Infringement (or Sued Using Fake Patents), Suggests or Insinuates EPO is More Lenient Than Today's USPTO
• Credibility Crisis of UPC Boosters
• Propaganda Regarding UPC Legislation Progresses Through Bristows (as Usual)
• Greenwashing the Corruption of the European Patent Office

September

• EPO Management Looks for New and 'Innovative' Ways to Exploit Scientists and Distract From EPO Corruption
• The Latest Greenwashing Campaign by the EPO is Just 'Chinese Propaganda'
• High-Profile and Invalid (Invalidated) European Patents Harm the Presumption of Validity of European Patents
• Epitaph for (Death of) Patent-Centric Media: Litigation Giant Bird & Bird Nowadays Doing Ads as 'Podcasts' in Think Tank Site 'Managing IP'
• More EPO Disclosures: An Explanation of How an EPO Survey Plots to Dismantle the EPO's Staff
• Germany Would Violate 3 International Agreements With the Unitary Patent, Says FFII
• Meme: António Campinos Fools Nobody at the EPO Anymore
• EPO Gradually Becomes a Set of Private Corporations (Some Aren't Even European and Work Against Europeans)
• António Campinos is Believed to be “Dismantling” the EPO
• Solidarity at the EPO Means Resisting the EPO's Management and Supporting Colleagues
• Meme: EPO Cannot Recover by Brushing Aside Issues and by Bribing the Media
• Team UPC Has Run Out of Allies as Even Patent Lawyers Increasingly Distance Themselves and Only Junior Staff is Still Willing to Lie for the Team
• EPO Oral Proceedings Have Been Outsourced to the United States (Proprietary Software With Surveillance Back Doors)
• Team UPC Wants Germany to Break International Law
• Fake Patents Granted by the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA) and the EPO's Misleading Propaganda Video Series (Conflating Patents With Other Things) Exploits Dead People
• UPC 'Progress' or Hoax?
• Meme: António the Computer Genius
• Information Deficit at the European Patent Office
• Law360 Says the EPO's Popularity is Decreasing

August

• Managing 'Intellectual Property' (Managing 'IP') is Promoting Software Patents for a Fee
• Six Years of EPO Scandals
• Unpublished EPO Material
• Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) on the European Commission 'Public' Consultation Regarding a Misnomer
• Meme: Always Masking the EPO
• Bergot-Streisand Effect: The EPO Tried to Spike These Publications (and Succeeded for 4 Years Until This Was Ruled Unlawful)
• The Central Staff Committee of the EPO Remarks on Unlawful Censorship by the Office
• EPO Censorship Rebuked by Former UK Human Rights Judge
• EPO Should Quit Blaming COVID-19 for Its Demise
• Team UPC Has Almost Vanished
• Europe Deserves Better Than Today's EPO
• European Patent Office Management Swims With Sharks and Liars
• Meme: Testosterone Patent Office
• The Criminals Who Run the EPO Are Exploiting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People to Distract From Their Corruption and Crimes
• EPO Workers Are Losing Their Homes and Losing Their Time Off; It's All About So-called 'Production'
• Managing IP Still Champions Fake 'News' for Team UPC

July

• It's Good to be King (of EPOnia)
• Meme: Demolishing Facts, As Always, With Help From IAM 'Magazine'
• When the Mainstream German Media Stops Reporting or Even Talking About EPO Scandals for No Valid Reason/s
• Meme: Party Time in EPOnia
• Weeks of DDOS Attacks Simply Mean We're Effective and This Illegal DDOS Campaign Won't Discourage Techrights (partly about EPO)
• Meme: EPO Administrative Council Replaced One Dude With a Dud
• EPO Management Wants to Introduce 'Code of Conduct' With Which to Impose Censorship of Staff Representatives' Communications With Staff
• Contrary to Common Myths, Free Software and GNU/Linux Are Typically Way Ahead of Proprietary Software (Which Copies and Then Patents) (partly about EPO)
• Golden Cages Are Still Cages and Working From Home Can Become a Legal Mess (partly about EPO)
• No Real Holiday in EPOnia ('Island' of the European Patent Office)
• Techrights Supports the EU. That Does Not Mean Support for Today's EPO. The EPO Lost Its Way (and Head).
• Meme: European Patent Optics
• The EPO is Still a Sordid Mess and the Media Doesn't Talk About That, So Where Do We Go From Here?
• Art 7(2) UPCA Doomed Unitary Patent (UPC) for Good
• Meme: Inhumane EPO
• Ten Years Since 'EPO 9/11'
• Judging by What the EPO Did to European Media, in Effect Dooming It, Workers of the EPO Are Right to Call Their Managers “Mafia”
• EQE to Become Another Example of EPO Outsourcing
• Meme: This Did Not Age Well, Did It?
• EPO Insider on Unitary Patent (UPC): “There is No Longer a Legal Context and No One Left to Implement It and Nothing to Be Rescued.”
• A Very Corrupt EPO Uses COVID-19 to Pretend to be Benevolent (Politicians Running Technical Institutions as Recipe for Failure)
• Meme: Team UPC Layoffs Are Next
• Very Strong Consensus That the UPC is Dead for Good (The UPC Hopefuls Might Try Another Thing, But It Can Take Almost a Decade)
• As Techrights Predicted All Along, UPC Support Would Become a Self-Inflicted Wound for Germany and the EU (or European Commission)
• Meme/Humour: July 20, 2020: Independence From UPC
• The General Consensus is That UPC is Dead, Which Means Many European Patents Are Also Dead (or Zombies)
• Unified Patents Comes to Europe, Challenging Bogus Software Patents That EPO Should Never Have Granted
• Meme/Humour: This is Just How Crazy Team UPC Has Become
• Final Death for UPC: UK Officially Withdraws, Leaving Only France
• Marketing Illegal Things at the European Patent Office and Amplifying Old Lies About UPC
• When You Break the Law and Have Nothing Positive to Say Why Not Exploit COVID-19 for Cheap, Fact-Free Marketing/Self-Promotion Along With a Superficial 'Study'?
• The Enlarged Board of Appeal Cannot Independently Rule on the Matter of Software Patentability
• Meme/Humour: EPO Wants Only Obedient and Mindless Workers
• Team UPC and Other UPC Boosters Twist the Facts, Deliberately Lie and Rely on De Facto 'Moles' in Powerful Roles/Seats
• Humour/Meme: EPO Needs Management That Understands and Pursues Science, Not Litigation
• 'IP5' Patent Offices May Have Become the Biggest Threat to the Patent System (partly about EPO)
• Meme: EPO Accountability 2020?
• Thierry Breton and the European Commission Must Answer Perfectly Legitimate Questions About European Patent Office Corruption
• Marks & Clerk Reveals That António Campinos, With Zero Experience in Software, is Lobbying Judges (Who Are Supposed to be Independent But Are Actually Controlled by Him) to Open the Floodgates to Illegal Software Patents
• The EPO's Corruption is Like a Cancer That Has Spread to and Infected the EU as Well
• Humour/Meme: Today's EPO is Run by Con Men and Fraudsters
• Chinese EPO
• Humour/Meme: EPO is Recruiting
• SUEPO (the EPO's Staff Union): “EPO Will Let Highly Experienced Examiners and Formalities Officers Leave Without Any Possibility of Knowledge Transfer to New Recruits”
• Leaked: EPO's Revised Operational Plan Exploits COVID-19 to Attack EPO Staff
• Commissioner Thierry Breton, Acting Like a Patent Maximalists' 'Mole' (as Expected All Along), is Now Formally Lying for Team UPC
• EPO Management Has Hunted Down Journalists and Killed Journalism
• Reminder: EPO Management Failed to Provide Staff With Facial Masks (as Advised/Required by Law)
• The EPO's Misleading 'Studies' Are Just More of the Same Perception Management Routines
• Humour/Meme: Half a Decade Has Passed and EPO Management Was Never Held Accountable for Illegal Surveillance
• Humour/Meme: High on Production, Stoned on Pseudoscience
• Missing From EPO Management: Actual Scientists
• Humour: The 'Orange One' Does Not Respect Judges Either
• António Campinos: President or Quasi-Autocratic Corporate Puppet?
• The Media Continues to Ignore Corruption of António Campinos
• A Call for Patent Sanity
• European FRAND (Related to SEP) Proponent and Famed Programmer Comes to Realise That It's Actually a “Scam”
• Not Even a Single Corporate Journalist Has Written Anything About These Very Important Bits of News
• Humour: COVID-19 is Very, Very Afraid of Human Beings Making More Monopolies Instead of Fighting Together
• The News is Never 'Slow', It's Just Journalism That's Slowing Down (and Investigative Journalism Coming Under Attack)
• Humour: IAM Ranked Top for Quality of EPO Propaganda
• When They're Done With Patents on Foods and Recipes They'll Have Patents on Fashion, Taste and Smell
• António Campinos Should Speak to Peasants, Not Litigation Lawyers
• Christine Lambrecht (German Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection) Ignores the Fact That Even Patent Experts Reject the Unitary Patent (UPC)
• Humour: A Union in Whose Interests?
• FFPE EPO Has Rendered Itself Obsolete by Liaising With Benoît Battistelli
• Humour: Bigger is Always Better When You're a Deluded Maximalist
• 'Managing Intellectual Property' Managing to Become Uncritical Parrot of EPO Management
• Humour: European Patents Only Useful Outside the Legal Framework?
• The Lock-downs Are Over and Still Zero Media Coverage About EPO Scandals and Corruption
• After 2 Years and 2 Days António Campinos is a Perfect Leader, Fostering EPO Abuses While Smiling
• Humour: As If Monopolies for Life Will Save People's Lives...

June

• EPO Management Celebrates the Lowering of Patent Quality While Granting Invalid Patents (IPs) Instead of European Patents (EPs)
• Humour: There's Always a Way... (to Grant Patents on Almost Anything)
• Crocodiles Can Only Ever Fake Empathy (just partly about EPO; the latter parts)
• “Technological Progress is Like an Axe in the Hands of a Pathological Criminal,” Albert Einstein, Famous European Patent Clerk
• Greenwashing and Exploitation of COVID-19 by EPO Management, Aided by Deeply Compromised (Corrupt) Media
• European Patents on Life (GMO) That Only Enrich Lawyers, Facilitating the War on Genetics and Generics (Access to Medicines)
• Humour: European Inventor Award (EIA) Still a Hallmark of EPO Corruption
• Latest EPO Cartoon: Lufthansa
• António Campinos is Just an Empty Suit: 2 Years in the Office and Only 3% Approval Rate (Worse Than Battistelli)
• Humour: EPO Still Above the Law in 2020
• The EPO's 'Early Certainty From Google' Approach (“Closest Prior Art”) Means Loads of Fake European Patents and Frivolous Litigation/Shakedowns
• Christine Lambrecht and Ajit Pai: Twins Separated at Birth and Their Political Horse Trading
• Lawyers That Lie Chronically
• Humour: Litigation Industry-Run Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (“BMJV”)
• Reminder to German Readers: Please Lodge Polite Complaints Against the Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (“BMJV”) Trying to Undermine the Constitution
• How to Tell the German Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (“BMJV”) That Violating the Constitution is Not Acceptable
• Humour: Diverse EPO Panel
• Corporate Media is (or as) a Barrier to Truth (partly about issues of EPO censorship)
• Confidential: Dispute Over Establishment of EPO in Munich (January 1974)
• Germany Has a Major Constitutional and Reputational Crisis Due to Team UPC
• Despite the Silence, EPO Staff May be More Repressed Than Ever, Hope is Being Lost
• EPO Staff Union: “Buzzwords Are Indicators of Empty Statements Which Make the Communication Artificial and Simply Show a Lack of Authenticity.”
• EPO 2020 Vision: Billions for Gambling, No Money for Masks (for Staff's Safety)
• UPC is Coming, It's Coming!!!
• Tilmann and Tilmann: Has Juve Been Reduced to a Team UPC Propaganda Apparatus?
• EPO 'Killing the Young' for So-called 'Production' (of Patent Monopolies for the Rich)
• Humour: Rendering the FCC, Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, Obsolete
• FFII Takes Stance Against the German Federal Ministry of Justice for Breaking the Law to Appease Team UPC
• Humour: A Buzzword for Every European Patent
• Using 'Hey Hi' (AI) and Mindless Buzzwords to Spread Confusion and Blur the Gap Between Computer-Generated Patents and Patents on Algorithms
• Battistelli's and Bergot's Unforgettable Attack on the Right to Strike Still Defended by the 'Nice' President Campinos
• EPO Never Gave Staff Any Time to Rest and Now It Wants Everyone Back at the Office With COVID-19 (for Which There's No Solution Yet)
• Self-Harming Acts: Germany's Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection Cares Neither About Justice Nor Consumers (or German SMEs)
• Contrary to What 'Managing IP' Tells Readers, Australia Still Rejects Software Patents (partly about EPO)
• Humour: António Skypinos
• EPO Has “the Worst Pension System, the Worst Career System, and the Worst Salary Adjustment Procedure in the World of International Organisations” (Whilst Amassing Money It's Not Allowed to Have)
• Team UPC Keeps Perpetuating the Fiction UPCA Will be Ratified Soon (It Cannot, It's Illegal)
• EPO Uses Microsoft to Illegally Spy on EPO Staff Inside Their Homes, Uses Microsoft's Tactics of Hijacking Trademarks and Mottos
• SUEPO (Staff Union of EPO): “The Imbalance Between the Importance of (Patent) Quality and Quantity Remains a Cause for Concern” and Only 3% of EPO Staff Has Confidence in President Campinos
• Humour: European Pandemic Office
• Defunct EPO in the Age of Defunct UPC (Even If EPO Fakes 'Quality' and Team UPC Keeps Faking 'Progress')
• IAM's EPO Propaganda Helps Perpetuate Crimes and Corruption
• Internal Publication About the EPO's Financial Fraud
• Team UPC is Betraying Italy Like It Did Spain, As It Envisions France (Paris) as Replacement for Italy (Milan) Amid Brexit
• Raw: How Microsoft and/or the EPO Killed an Important EPO Story About Their SLAPP Against Techrights and Others
• The Huge Damage (Except for Patent Lawyers' Bottom Line) Caused by Fake European Patents
• Sword Group Violates Its Own Commitment by Working for the EPO
• All They Want is Litigation, Not Innovation
• The Past Does Not Go Away, Except From Short-Term Memories

May

• EPO's Illegal Patents and Massive Corruption Go Unnoticed by Corporate Media and Sites That Cover Patent News
• Sick Alexander Ramsey is Using a Public Health Crisis to Lie About the Unitary Patent, Whose Fall Made Him Redundant and/or Obsolete
• Weaponised Media Promoting an Illegal Patent System (UPC), Exploiting Major Pandemic in the Process
• The EPO Became a Very Radical Institution
• UPC Lies That Make One Laugh...
• EPO Propaganda on Steroids (or on EPO)
• Breton (EU) 'Joins' Team UPC to Help His Buddy Battistelli... Again
• Working From Home on Patent Monopolies Would Lower Their Quality and Perceived Legitimacy
• The Attitude of António Campinos Toward Courts and Toward Justice Same as Benoît Battistelli's
• Ode to the 'Orange One'
• Home Working at the EPO: Your Corporate, Global Monopolies Will Be Rubber-stamped From Private Homes
• The Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court Book
• Spillover: Team UPC Trying to Fill Up the Cup 'Half Empty'
• The EPO Continues to Publicly Brag About Granting Illegal Patents to Fake 'Production' (It's Not Really Production But Abuse of the Granting Authority)
• The Industrial Revolution 5.0 (or 6.0) - Symptom of Totally Incompetent Management at the European Patent Office
• Same Casting, Same Management, Exactly the Same Agenda at the European Patent Office
• Further Complications Ahead for Team UPC as Unitary Patent-Type Plans Become Untenable and Complaints Pile Up
• Amid Lock-Down the EPO is Still Laughing at the Law
• EPO Comes Home
• EPO-FLIER: Do Your Best
• Why is the EPO Advertising Microsoft?
• The Radicals Are the Patent Boosters, Not the Sceptics and Rationalists
• Constitutional Court’s Justice Huber Reaffirms Substantial Concerns About Viability of the Unitary Patent/UPC
• How the EPO Muzzled Critical Media: The Case of IP Kat
• It is Not Possible to Prevent Software Patent Grants in Europe as Long as the EPO is Profoundly Corrupt and the EU Looks the Other Way
• Not Even One Single Article About the EPO's Attacks on the EPO’s Boards of Appeal
• Taylor Wessing's Latest UPC Spin: No More/Additional Complaints Against UPC Lodged
• Groups Like 'No Patents on Seeds!' and 'Friends of the Earth Germany' Respond to Bayer's GMO Patents (Previously Monsanto) in Light of EPO's Watered-Down Decision
• EPO Still Needs to Close the GM/GMO Loophole (You Don't Get to 'Own' Life by Arbitrarily Tinkering With Life's Code)
• The GMO Loophole Prevails at EPO Though Allowing People to Patent Life and Nature (or Even Mathematics) Harms Europe For the Sake of Litigation Euros
• During Public Health Crisis the European Patent Office Operates Further Outside the Rule of Law (Exploiting This Crisis)
• Reinforcing the EPO's Illegal Actions for Power and Profit
• EPO 'Courts' Outsourced to Microsoft
• Hair (and Heir) Management at the EPO
• Fake Technological 'Advancement' (or 'Efficiencies'): EPO Still Breaking the Law and the Ever-So-Shy Media Refuses to Talk About That
• EFF Should Also Speak About the EPO Granting Software Patents Against the Law
• A Europe That Works for Patent Trolls and Their Legal Representatives
• The EPO is Not Changing
• Media That Contains Lies Because It is Designed to Contain Lies (Including UPC Lies)
• How Many More Lives Will the European Patent Office Destroy?
• EPO is Killing Free Software and Personal Privacy During Quarantine or Lock-Down
• New Cartoon: EPO Dialogue

April

• Evidence of Profound European Patent Office Corruption in Official Journal 4/2020
• COVID-19 Crisis: When EPO Outsources Everything to a Surveillance System of Microsoft and the NSA
• Tidying Up 13 Years of EPO Archives
• The Litigation 'Industry' is Not a Real Industry and Team UPC Sought to Harm Real, Productive Industries
• EPO: A Lawless Institution That Makes Its Staff Look Bad
• Hope Alone Won't Bring the Dead Back to Life; Team UPC Has Entered Embalming Stage
• The Rise of Bribed Media and Bribed Academia as Cynical 'Journalism' and 'Research' About Patents
• Greenwashing and Peace-washing Patents We Can Never Coexist With (and the Law Forbids Anyway)
• USPTO and EPO Openly Brag About Breaking the (Case)Law to Grant Software Patents That Courts Would Reject, Even the Very Highest Courts
• 3,500 Articles Later the EPO Remains a Cruel and Unjust Place Governed by Despots
• EPO and So-called 'Watchdog' Compatible in the Judge-Bashing Sense
• UPC Totally Still Has Momentum
• France Keeps Winning European Inventor Award (Millions of Euros of EPO Budget)
• The Role Played by Media Controlled by Litigation Companies in Promoting the Unitary Patent (UPC) Ploy
• The Covert Corruption of Publishers That Cover Patent 'News'
• European Law Firms Are Marketing Illegal Software Patents Using Meaningless Buzzwords
• JUVE Has a Prank 'Survey' That's Just UPC Lobbying (As Usual)
• EPO Management is Trying to Violate the EPC and Justify Its Illegal Software Patent Grants During a Pandemic's Peak
• British Government Again Confirms Death of the UPC, But Team UPC is Not Listening
• Technical Computer-Implemented Digital Videogame AI on the Blockchain
• Mask Against the European Patent Convention
• Almost a Month Later Lies Persist About the “Fate of the Unified Patent Court” and Software Patents It Was Supposed to Introduce/Cement
• The Fall of the UPC: Series Index
• EPO 'Mafia': Break the Law and Send Mafia-Like Entities to Bully People Who Point Out the Lawbreaking
• The European Patent Office Admits That It's Faking Its 'Results' by Granting Loads of Illegal Software Patents
• What They Told Us About the UPC...
• The Fall of the UPC - Part XX: Summary and Conclusions
• The Fall of the UPC – Part XIX: How Law Firms Responded to the Collapse of the UPC (Lying Was All Too Common)
• The Fall of the UPC - Part XVIII: Media 'Scratching' the Bottom of the Barrel
• More Threats From Elodie Bergot: The EPO is Back in a State of Disarray and That Authoritarian Atmosphere of Fear
• Campinos Uses Donald Trump Associates to Attack the EPO's Staff Amid Coronavirus Pandemic (Whilst Also Threatening Staff Representatives)
• EPO Staff Union (SUEPO): “We Are Back to Battistelli's Times”
• The Fall of the UPC - Part XVII: Bardehle Pagenberg in 'Corona Zombie' Mode
• The Fall of the UPC - Part XVI: What's Reality Got to Do With It? Ask Hogan Lovells.
• The Fall of the UPC - Part XV: A Three-Week Parade of Lies From Team UPC and Its Media Collaborators
• Coronavirus Has Not Slowed Down the EPO's Promotion of Illegal Software Patents
• The Fall of the UPC - Part XIV: Media Owned and Controlled by Law Firms Did Not Properly Cover the Decision of the German Constitutional Court (FCC)
• Software Patents Remain Junk Patents in the United States (Not Enforceable), Whereas the EPO Keeps Granting Them and Promoting Them
• The Fall of the UPC - Part XIII: A Death Worth Celebrating and Many Lies Worth Debunking
• When the Decision is OK and the Judge's Motivations Are Also OK
• The Fall of the UPC - Part XII: Doing the Unthinkable by Blaming the Judge's (Justice's) Wife?
• The Fall of the UPC - Part XI: Lies Told by Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie (BDI) in Süddeutsche Zeitung
• EPO is Just Like Some Cruel Political Party and Not a Patent Office
• Digitalisation and Digital Technologies as a Ploy to Justify Illegal Software Patents
• The Fall of the UPC - Part X: How We Shall Catalogue UPC Lies
• Digital Communication, Digitalisation and Videogaming Among the EPO's Latest Smokescreens for Illegal and Abstract Patents on Algorithms
• Emotional Blackmail for Illegal Software Patents

March

• The Fall of the UPC - Part IX: Campinos Opens His Mouth One Week Later (and It's That Hilarious Delusion Again)
• Pretending EPO Corruption Stopped Under António Campinos When It is in Fact a Lot Worse in Several Respects/Aspects (Than It Was Under Benoît Battistelli)
• The Fall of the UPC - Part VIII: Team UPC Celebrates Death, Not Life
• Faking Production With Fake Patents on Software
• With the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Out of the Way Focus Will Return to EPO Corruption
• 'Team UPC' Last Week
• The Fall of the UPC - Part VII: Lies and Revisionism About the Reasons for the UPC's Ultimate Demise (to Leave the Door Open for More Failed Attempts)
• The Fall of the UPC - Part VI: Drowning in Material
• FFII: EU Software Patent Court Stopped by Constitutional Court, Patent Industry Will Try Again
• The Fall of the UPC - Part V: Pretending That Opponents of the Unitary Patent Simply Don't Exist
• The Fall of the UPC - Part IV: IP Kat Became Just a Team UPC Megaphone
• The Fall of the UPC - Part III: Pure Comedy From Watchtroll and Its UPC Lobbyists From Managing IP
• The Fall of the UPC – Part II: Team UPC Will Pay Dearly — for Years If Not a Decade to Come — for Having Repeatedly Lied About Unitary Patent/Unified Patent Court (UPC)
• The Fall of the UPC - Part I: Geeks (Engineers) Celebrate and the EPO Has Lost Its Tongue
• USPTO's and EPO's Leaderships Have Similar Technical and Ethical Problems (partly about EPO)
• Good Friday (FCC buries UPC)
• What Diplomatic Immunity Means to Bundesverfassungsgericht
• Germany's FCC and Its Decision on UPC May Not Matter Much Anymore (and the Government in Berlin Knows That)
• Biggest Threats to Software Freedom (Which Almost Nobody Talks About) (partly about EPO)
• New Article by Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna on UPC Lies Regarding SMEs
• Series Index: “Doyen” for a Yen
• EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Epilogue
• Everybody Knows UPC is Over, Even Those Who Still Attempt to Lie to the Public (and to Their Clients)
• The Result of a Patent Office That Destroyed Patent Quality and Departed From the Underlying Law (Which Was Supposed to Govern and Be Enforced)
• Lost in Corona: Dutch Court Rules That Seat Agreement Signed Between the EPO and the Dutch Government Violates Article 45 TFEU
• Infringing the Fundamental Laws in the Name of Combating Infringements
• EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Part 4 - The Role of the EPO Vice-President of DG5 (Christoph Ernst)
• EQE From the Back Door
• EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Part 3 - How to Become a European Patent Attorney Without Passing the EQE
• EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Part 2 - Behind the Scenes at Topić IP d.o.o.
• Same as the Old Boss
• The Battle Against Software Patents Rages on
• EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Part 1 - António and the Balkan Express Connection
• EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Teaser
• Understanding Thierry Breton: Looking Back
• Ask Former EPO President Alison Brimelow What EPO Means to International Women's Day
• Today's UPC 'Debate' is a Farce, Stuffed by the Litigation 'Industry' Instead of British Industry
• European Granting Convention
• António Campinos Sponging Off the EPO
• JURI Committee (the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs) Buries the Unitary Patent (UPC) for Good
• António Campinos is Just as Corrupt as Benoît Battistelli, Top Jobs Offered as 'Endowments'
• IAM Works (Lies) for Corrupt EPO Management and for Team UPC, Now Behind Paywalls (Possibly to Limit Critics' Access, Lowering Scrutiny and Fact-Checking)
• The Collapse of European Patent Quality is Rather Obvious and EPO Management Cannot Hide it Forever
• Financial and Legal Corruption Scandal in France (INPI) Implicating the Person Benoît Battistelli Put in Charge of the EPO's Finances
• After the Death of the UPC the Next Casualty is the Credibility of Media That Promotes It
• EPO Corruption Has Killed in Germany and the Netherlands Far More Than Coronavirus (Covid-19) Did
• EPO Presflash 002: Diversity and Inclusion (Humour)
• EPO Lobbyists and Team UPC Lobbying Arms Disguised as News Sites
• Large German Publisher Helps EPO Cover Up Abuses While Relaying Lies (Which Are in Turn Relayed to EPO Staff)
• Inverted Narratives: UPC Thugs Are Being Framed as Poor Victims and Patent Trolls Claim to be the Target of Violence
• EPO Outsourcing Policy and Patent Scope to Litigation Giants
• Team UPC Has Already Moved Ahead to the Next Propaganda Phase (UPC Without the UK, Which It Very Strictly Requires)
• The Next Task is Defeating European Software Patents Because the Media Certainly Isn't Doing Its Job

February

• EUIPO and EPO Celebrate Corruption in Croatia
• Death of the UPC (Unitary Patent) Confirmed by the British Government
• The EU's EUIPO Will Later Today Help the EPO (Run by EUIPO's Former Chief) Promote Illegal Software Patents
• Growing Acceptance That There's No Future to the UPC System and the Unitary Patent
• Team UPC: Many Mouths and No Ears
• Team UPC Insults Judges Because the UPC is Dead and UPC Lobbyists Have Nothing Left to Lose
• FFII Press Release: Germany Can No Longer Ratify the Unitary Patent Due to Brexit and the Established AETR Case-law, says FFII
• EPO and Other Patent Updates Over RSS
• When It Comes to a Unitary Patent System, Bad (or Intentionally Dishonest) Legal Advice Has Become the Norm
• Battistelli Blocked Techrights at EPO (Banned for More Than 5 Years), So CEIPI Won't Respect Access to Information Either
• Anatomy of a Crime and Protection From Prosecution
• Today's EPO is a Fraud Managed by Frauds
• Another New 'Clown' for the UPC 'Circus'
• Sometimes ILO-AT is Good for Nothing But Law Firms in or Around Switzerland
• The European Patent Office Continues to Violate the European Patent Convention (EPC) With Impunity While the European Commission Lets That Happen
• EPO Staff Representatives to Challenge Ridiculous and Unnecessary Austerity Measures
• You're Almost Guaranteed to Lose the Argument When You Call People Who Plant Seeds 'Pirates'
• Unified Patent Corruption
• 6 Years in Limbo After EPO Abuses Because ILO is Far Too Slow for Timely Justice (If Any at All)
• “Nothing Has Changed,” Team UPC Says About UPC and Brexit
• The EPO Would Declare It a Success Story If It Granted a Million European Patents a Year
• The Latest Talking Point of Team UPC: Ignore Brexit, UPC Will Miraculously Come Very Soon! (Somehow!)
• Wasting (Misusing) Money on 'Researchers' and So-called 'Studies' Only Reinforces the Perception That the EPO Attacks Science With Its Money, Just Like Climate Deniers and Big Tobacco Lobby
• The Office of Philpott and Pol Pot

January

• Collapse of the UPC is “Business as Usual” According to Bristows LLP
• The EPO's Epic Waste of Money (300 Million Euros) Ended up Not Only a Fire Hazard But Also a Suffocation Risk
• The Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organization (ILO-AT) is Moot, EPO Plays It Like a Fiddle
• EPO as a Kakistocracy of Lies and Bribes
• Enablers of Constitutional Violations and Unified Patent Court (Unitary Patent) Dreams
• Today's EPO Stands for Nothing at All (Except Faking 'Production' to Amass Money for Gambling)
• Patent Scavenging or Racing to the Bottom of Patent Quality
• EPO and UPC Can Become the Next 'Dieselgate'
• EPO: Goodbye to the Rule of Law and Hey Hi, AI!
• When the Monopolists and the Patent Litigation Industry Hijack the News They Control the Narrative
• When EPO Press Coverage Boils Down to Lobbying, Press Releases, EPO Lies, and Bribery
• The Patent Microcosm is Really Panicking as European Patents on Life and Other Spurious Junk (Invalid Patents) Are Successfully Rejected
• Poor Excuses for Granting Poor (and Often Illegal/Invalid) Patents
• Media Reactions to the EPO Coming to Grips With Fake Patents That It Granted (Spoiler: the Media is Controlled by Lawyers of Monopolists and EPO Partners)
• European Commission Pushes for Even Greater Patent Maximalism Instead of Rationality, Patent Zealots' Site Cherry-Picks China as Whipping Boy
• CRISPR Patents Disallowed, But Where Are the Journalists?
• Judges Reject EPO Patents on Life as Constitutional Complaints Against the EPO Pile Up in Germany
• The European Patent Organisation Continues to 'Piss All Over' Separation of Powers
• Zealots of Team UPC (Patent Litigation) Now Attacking the Courts and the Judges, Removing Their Mask on the Face of Things...
• It's Only Factual and Truthful to Point Out That About Half of the EPO's Management Committee Are From the President's Nation (and Many Are Underqualified Friends of His)
• Stranger Than Fiction: Team UPC's Mental Condition
• Systematic Abandonment of the Independence of Judiciary at the EPO (or Collective Amnesia)
• The Media's Obligation is Not to Repeat the Lies of EPO Management, But Money Changes Things
• EPO Management Already Meddles in (Illegally and in Clear Violation of the EPC) BoA Cases. Now It Does the Same to Bundesverfassungsgericht (FCC, Germany's Constitutional Court).
• 'Artificial' 'Growth' (in Number of Fake Patents)
• The Moment That EPO 'Club Med' (Nepotism Galore) Pretends It's Actually Elected Officials and Lawmakers
• Missing in Action: Investigative Reporting About the European Patent Office
• Unitary Patent (UPC) Has Just Been Shot Again, But Team UPC is Unlikely to Talk About It
• The Concept of Confidentiality May be Self-Defeating in the Context of Patents
• An EPO Without EPC or With a Faked EPC
• The EPO's Mrs. UPC is Rumoured to Have Retired Just Like the UPC
• European Patent Office (EPO) Granting Patents on Surveillance Software
• How IP Kat Had Become a Patent Litigation Pressure Group Until the Site's Founder Left
• We Will Never Have a Meaningful Debate About Patents When the Media Calls Algorithms “AI” and the EPO is Called “EU Patent Office”
• Invalid Patents 'Great Again'? (partly about EPO)

2019

December

• In 2018 and in 2019 António Campinos Has in Effect Been a Guardian of Battistelli's Corruption
• Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement (UPCA) Will be Ratified in the Year 202020
• Bristows and AstraZeneca (IP Kat) Won't Offer Balanced Coverage of EPO Patent Cases
• Who Will Merpel be in 2020? (Now Defending Battistelli's Attacks on EPO Judges and Serious Violations of the EPC)
• Thierry Breton: Why He Matters to EPO Affairs (and a Lot More in Europe If Not the World, Not Just in France)
• Not Everything Needs to Be Patented
• D Young & Co LLP Spreading Team UPC Talking Points
• EPO G 1/19 (Software Patents Case) Already Compromised by Overt Violations of the European Patent Convention (EPC)
• EPO Throws DABUS Under the Bus... But for the Wrong Reasons
• Understanding Thierry Breton: A Happy Ending - for Some at Least.
• EPO Management is Always Right
• Understanding Thierry Breton: “Oh, Dem Golden Slippers…”
• Understanding Thierry Breton: A “Club Med” Coup in Brussels?
• The EPO Likes “Hey Hi” (AI) Only When It Lets Actual Humans Fake 'Production'
• Understanding Thierry Breton: Little Miss Ladson Goes to Brussels
• Journalism in the Area of Patents and the Domain of Patent Litigation is Dead
• More 'Fake News' About Unified Patent Court (UPC) and Battistelli's CEIPI Emerges as a Booster
• Understanding Thierry Breton: The “Killer Shark” Resurfaces…
• Issues Cannot be Treated in Complete Isolation When Everything is Connected
• Understanding Thierry Breton: Concordia, Integritas, Industria
• Understanding Thierry Breton: Emmanuel Macron and His “Joker” in Brussels
• Unitary Patent (UPC) Should Become Synonymous With Lies, Coups, Entryism, Lobbying and Bullying
• European Patents Losing Their Appeal, Lustre and Glamour
• Only the EPO Goes as Far as Bribing Publishers (the Media) to Promote Software Patents and Publish Fictional Stories
• EU Needs to Show That It Cares About SMEs and Not 'European Champions' That Are Actually Foreign Monopolies
• At the EPO Money — Not Quality — is King
• The EPO's Strategic Failure 2023
• EPO Promoting Software Patents in Countries Where These Are Illegal
• Actions Against EPO Corruption and Unitary Patent (UPC) Injustice/Lobbying
• Demonstration Against Unitary Software Patents, Thursday 12 Dec in Brussels
• Fake European Patents (on Algorithms) Leading to Fake Embargoes
• Unitary Patent (UPC) Died Along With the Credibility of Managing IP and the Rest of the UPC Lobby
• The EPO Rejects Innovation
• Europeans Still Need to Save the European Patent Office From Those Who Attack Its Patent Quality
• 'Priceless' Tickets to the EPO's Back End and Team UPC
• New EPO Leak Shows That the Rumours and Jokes Are Partly True and We Know Who 'Runs the Show'
• 13 Years of UPC Promises
• Is Water Wet?
• The EPO's President Admits He's Illegally Granting Software Patents (CII, 4IR, IoT, AI and Blockchain Mean Software Patents at the EPO)
• Maximalists Cherry-Picking the So-Called 'Corbyn' 'Leak' for Their Patent Agenda While the US Lobbies Britain for Software Patents and Worse

November

• Management of the EPO is Afraid of Scientists and Judges
• The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Dead and Alexander Ramsay is Only Making a Total Fool of Himself
• Many European Patents Lack Validity and Blogs/Press Won't Talk About That
• 5 Out of 6 EPO Workers Vote for a Strike as Quality (and Validity) of Patents Continues to Fall
• Team UPC is So Drunk on Kool-Aid That It Has Become Truly Comical!
• Understanding Thierry Breton: Thierry and the EPO's “Sun-King”
• JUVE Has Become Little But a Team UPC Propaganda Site
• The Collapse of European Patents Continues
• Even the US is Surprised or Baffled by Post-Brexit Unified Patent Court (UPC) Fantasies, Reveal Secret Documents
• Just About Everything the EPO Tells Stakeholders, Media and Even Its Own Workers is the Opposite of What's True
• Understanding Thierry Breton: “Mister Cash” and “Madame Bailout”
• Understanding Thierry Breton: Thierry & Nicolas – a Bromance That Turned Sour?
• German Constitutional Court Attempts to Distance Itself From Prof. Huber’s 'Interview' With Team UPC
• EPO Misuses Patent-Granting Powers to Help Litigation, Not Science
• Britain 'Taking Back Control' From the Wrong Institution; the EPO is the Greater Culprit
• Understanding Thierry Breton: More Influential Friends in High Places
• Global Patent Warming
• Teaser: “Enriching Exchanges”
• Understanding Thierry Breton: Socialising With the Elite
• Justice Peter Huber Speaking to a Front Group of Team UPC May Compromise the Integrity of the FCC and Its Outcomes
• Injustice at Every Level Would Simply Doom the Entire Patent System
• Understanding Thierry Breton: Thierry and the $100 Billion Man
• Understanding Thierry Breton: Atos Healthcare - “The Ugly Face of Business”
• Justice Peter Huber of the German Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) Calls 'Bullshit' a Rumour Nobody Really Spreads
• Understanding Thierry Breton: What Thierry Did Next...
• EPO Geared Towards Financial Exploitation of Europe Instead of Serving Europe
• Understanding Thierry Breton: Noël Forgeard and His “Golden Parachute”
• We've Already Entered the Era When Patents Should be Presumed Invalid
• Understanding Thierry Breton: Insider-Trading Scandal at EADS
• Openwashing Institutionalised NPEs (OIN) and Software Patents With Notorious Managers From the EPO
• Understanding Thierry Breton: The “Cost-Killer” Tries to Tame the National Debt
• to Last Week’s Thierry Breton Hearing
• Unitary Patent is Dead Partly Because the EPO Demonstrated That EPC is Being Routinely Violated, Illegal Patents Granted
• Understanding Thierry Breton: Chirac’s Entrepreneurial “Joker”
• Koch's Reply to EPO Through ILO and Techrights' Interpretation of Koch v EPO Documents Help Show That ILO-AT is Played by EPO Management
• EPO Running ILO's Tribunal (ILO-AT) 'in a Loop' to Perpetually Delay and Drain the EPO's Complainants (Aggrieved Staff) Out of Money
• ILO is Not Functioning and ILO-AT Helps the Abusive Management of the European Patent Office
• Understanding Thierry Breton: Moral Responsibility for “a Capitalism That Kills”?
• FOSSPatents Conference is Against FOSS, Promoting the FOSS-Hostile Construct Known as RAND or FRAND
• Europe is Under Attack
• Understanding Thierry Breton: Toxic Management Goes on Trial in France
• Thierry Breton’s Video/Live Grilling is Over, But the Grilling Continues Online
• The EPO's Low Patent Quality is Not Just Suicidal; It is Illegal
• Techrights' Interpretation of Koch v EPO: The EPO's Management Still Attacks Staff Representatives
• Understanding Thierry Breton: “Mister Cash” Arrives at France Télécom
• The Breton-Battistelli Relationship and Breton Hiding His Employment Record at Rothschild & Cie Banque
• A Lot of EPO Staff on Dutch Land Protested (Despite Abusive Threats From Management) and a Strike is Reportedly Next
• Understanding Thierry Breton: In the Beginning...
• Teaser: Thierry Breton and His Disquieting Past
• EPO and EU: People Behind the Faces
• EPO Corruption Compared to Cocaine Scandals in Antwerp
• SUEPO Showed That the Media Won't Cover EPO Corruption Until Half the Workers March in the Streets
• SUEPO Protests Against Management of the European Patent Office Brought Back Discussions About Corruption
• Video: Dutch Media on EPO Protest
• Think Tanks, Bristows, 'Simmons' and 'Birds' Can Only Ever Lie to Us About the Dead Unified Patent Court (UPC)
• The EPO's Management is Trying Really Hard to Distract the Media From EPO Unrest (and It Has Been Partly Successful)
• 'Artificial Intelligence' (AI) Will Only Doom Patent Offices If It's Used to Stamp Millions of Invalid Patents (IPs)
• Quick Mention: Some Dutch Media Covers Dutch EPO Protest
• The EPO 'Patent Factory' Likes the IAM Copy-Paste Factory
• PR ‘Innovation’: Bombarding the Media With Puff Pieces to Distract From EPO Staff Actions Against Corrupt Management
• It Feels Like EPO Management is Trying to Distract the Media and the Staff From Today's Big Protest
• SUEPO Organises Hague Protest — Second EPO Protest in a Fortnight, Targeting the Portuguese Embassy in The Hague
• The EPO Instructs European Examiners to Grant Junk Patents on Algorithms (Maths and Stats)
• The European Patent Office (EPO) Carelessly Shows the Only 'Small' 'Businesses' It Serves Are Law Firms and Patent Trolls
• António Campinos and Comrade Iancu (US) Both Push Software Patents Into Europe to the Detriment of Small Businesses and Developers
• The European Courts Won't be Receptive When European Patent (EP) Just Means Invalid Patent (IP)
• The European Union is Harmed by EPO Abuses
• Meme: EPO Tyranny Irrespective of One's Name/Brand
• The EPO's Staff Lacks the Autonomy Crucially Needed to Decide Whether European Patents Granted by the EPO Are Indeed Legitimate
• Today's EPO is Working Against Europe

October

• Immunity Breeds Lawlessness
• Today's EPO is an Illegal Institution Promoting and Granting Illegal Patents
• Yesterday in EPOPIC Andrei Iancu and António Campinos Shared a Salad of Ridiculous Buzzwords
• EPO May be Financially Defrauding the Public and Its Employees
• Patent Evergreening Kills
• An Illegal Practice: The EPO Continues to Grant Unlawful Patents and Then Brag About These
• EPO Advertises Questel and Rather Extremist Views on Patents
• The Media is Not Observing But Actively Participating in Patent Lies of the EPO and Self-Serving Law Firms
• G1/19: Enlarged Board of Appeal Bombarded by Monopolies, Law Firms and EPO President in Favour of Software Patenting
• EPO Management Plays With -- and for -- the Wrong People
• Reforming (Fixing) the EPO is the Goal
• Humour: EPO Has the Solution
• EPO Staff Protested Today and SUEPO Explains Why
• EPO Diplomatic Immunity
• Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna Reveals How the German Government Actively Ignored SMEs to Push the Notorious 'Unitary Patent' Sham
• SUEPO Protest Tomorrow. All EPO Staff in Munich Ought to Attend and Prepare to Strike Too.
• EPO Will Need a Lot More Than Photo Ops and Hoax 'Studies' to Restore the Perception of Lawfulness
• EPO: It’s Only Getting Worse
• It Has Begun: EPO Staff Protests Against António Campinos (Starting Wednesday)
• European Patent Office and US Patent and Trademark Office Cranks Discovered Buzzwords, Stopped Worrying, Started Granting Patents They Know to be Fake
• “The True Hypocrite is the One Who Ceases to Perceive His Deception, the One Who Lies With Sincerity,” Said André Paul Guillaume Gide (Nobel Prize in Literature)
• The EPO Cannot Guard Fake European Patents From Scrutiny (in the Long Run)
• New EPO Meme: Who Wants to Make Billions From a 'Public' Monopoly?
• EPO Staff Union and Staff Representatives Ought to Demand EPO Stops Bullying Publishers and Censoring Their Sites
• Bribes, Lies, Fundamental Violations of the Law and Cover-Up: This is Today's European Patent Office
• EPO Staff Resolution Against Neoliberal Policies of António Campinos
• Raw: EPO Comes Under Fire for Lowering Patent Quality Under the Orwellian Guise of “Collaborative Quality Improvements” (CQI)
• When They Run Out of Things to Patent They'll Patent Nature Itself...
• EPO Boards of Appeal Need Courage and Structural Disruption to Halt Software Patents in Europe
• Professor Dr. Maximilian Haedicke on Lack of Separation of Powers at the EPO (Which Dooms UPC)
• “The Stupidest Patent/Tax Policy Ever”
• Meme: Software Patents at the EPO
• Today's EPO is Working for Patent Trolls and the 'Aye Pee' (IP) 'Industry' Instead of Science
• The Campinos Car Crash
• Software Patents (or Monopolies on Algorithms) Are Not 'Property' and They're Not Even Legally Valid
• The EPO's Universal Patent Injustice Concealed With Polyglottic Tricks
• António Campinos, With Diplomatic Immunity, Continues Breaking the Law by Granting Patents the EU and EPC Forbade
• EPO is Trying to 'Force-Feed' Europe Some Fake Patents by Hijacking Courts
• If the EPO Plans to Go 'Virtually' Private (Outside Contracting), Then Failing It Would be Deliberate
• The EPO is Gradually Being Outsourced to Private, For-Profit, Unaccountable and Notorious Companies
• EPO President Campinos is Just a Great Pretender With 'Soft Power' Skills
• The EPO's President Campinos is a Liar
• EPO a Hostage of Law (Litigation) Firms
• EPO Management Flies Halfway Across the Globe for Photo Ops in Country With 0.02% of European Patents
• The Injustice at the EPO Deepens, From Examination to Oppositions/Appeals and From BoA to Courts (UPC Prospects)
• The EPO's Endgame: Robbing EPO Staff to Enrich Private Companies
• EPO Leak: António Campinos Announces Impending Cuts While Outsourcing to Private Firms Like Serco
• The EPO's 'Solution' to Being Caught Granting Illegal Patents is to Punish Those Who Show That
• AI and Other Nonsensical Technobabble Exploited by EPO Management to Do Illegal Things
• Corruption on Every Level Persists at the European Patent Office
• Today's EPO is Pursuing 'Troll Justice' (Bullying and Blackmail), Not Real Justice
• EPO Releases Decision Regarding G 2/19 (the 'Haar Question') in a Language Only About 10% of Member States Speak
• The EPO Keeps Breaking the Law While Trying to Legalise What's Illegal
• EPO Makes Guidelines for Examination That Formally Allow Software Patents in Defiance of European Law
• The Greenwashing and Chronic Lying From the EPO Spreads to EU Through EUIPO

September

• Even IP Kat Explains Why the EPO and the EUIPO Are Lying Through Their Teeth With a Paid-for So-called ‘Study’
• EPO: Same Old Abuses, More Fake Patents, But Slightly Different Faces
• Only Weeks After Czech Government Rejects UPC (Unitary Patent) António Campinos Flies There, Apparently in Order to Lobby Government Officials
• EU Parliament Needs to Clarify Once Again That Software Patents Granted by the EPO Are Illegal and Void
• Media as Propaganda Apparatus of Patent Offices Which Are Run for and by Lawyers and Law Firms
• The European Patent Office's Relationship With Licensing Executives Society International (LESI) Shows Whose Interests Today's Management Really Serves
• EPO Logic: Businesses That Have Trademarks and/or Patents Have Only Succeeded Because of Trademarks and/or Patents
• Corporate Media Covering (Amplifying) EPO Lies But Not EPO Abuses
• The EPO and the USPTO Keep Granting Illegal Patents and Mainstream Media Doesn't Talk About That
• Patent Maximalists Have Ruined the European Patent Office, Which Became a Lying Organisation That Bullies Everyone
• EPO Under Fire From EU Parliament, But Patent Trolls Already Storm Europe, Emboldened by Low Quality of European Patent
• Patent Extremism is Not Normal and Not an Innocent Mindset
• When Patent 'Professionals' Sound Like Children Who Learned to Parrot Some Intentionally-Misleading Buzzwords, Myths and Lies
• The European Parliament Needs to Become More Outspoken About EPO Abuses
• When the EPO Sees Itself as Above European Law, Grants Patents in Defiance of the EPC (Its Founding Document) and Violates Staff's Labour Rights/Protections (International Law)
• Update on Koch v EPO: Internal Appeals Committee (IAC) Composition Still Likely Illegal
• EPO is Not European
• The EPO's Central Staff Committee and SUEPO (Staff Union) Respond to “Fascist Bills” Supported by EPO President António Campinos
• Storm Brewing in the European Patent Office After a Hot Summer
• EPO President Along With Bristows, Managing IP and Other Team UPC Boosters Are Lobbying for Software Patents in Clear and Direct Violation of the EPC
• Illegal/Invalid Patents (IPs) Have Become the 'Norm' in Europe
• Patent Maximalists, Orbiting the European Patent Office, Work to 'Globalise' a System of Monopolies on Everything
• Unitary Patent (UPC) Promotion by Team Battistelli 'Metastasising' in Private Law Firms
• EPO: Give Us Low-Quality Patent Applications, Patent Trolls Have Use for Those
• Patent Charlatans and Frauds Are Doing a Disservice to Europe and to Europe's Patent System
• The European Patent Convention (“EPC”) Does Not Allow Patenting of Life Itself
• European Patent Office's Cooperation and Collaboration With Patent Trolls Instead of Science and Technology
• Koch Explains the Dirty Games the European Patent Office Plays at ILO
• When ILO 'Justice' for EPO Staff Gets 'Lost in the Post'
• Serco's Censorship of Media or EPO's Censorship of Media? Either Way, There's a Profound Media Crisis in Europe.
• National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI France) Not Immune Like the EPO and the Courts Find it Guilty of Mismanagement
• EPO Rating Cartoon
• The Corrupt EPO Apparently Hides Its Serco Outsourcing Deal
• Jo Johnson Quitting Twice in Two Years is a Terrible Sign for the Unitary Patent (UPC)
• Fake Software Patents in Europe (Invalid Patents) Would Only Discourage or Drive Away the European Software Industry, But Lawyers Don't Care
• Patent Trolls Are Destroying Free/Open Source Software and They're Coming to Europe, Thanks to the European Patent Office
• Bristows UPC Propaganda (in Pseudonymous Form) Shames the Government's Officials in Order to Install Corrupt Officials
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation Opposes Software Patents (in the US), So Why Does It Keep 100% Silent About Europe and the EPO?
• EPO Cannot With a Straight Face Lecture People About the Law (Which It Routinely and Knowingly Violates)

August

• The Judges of the Boards of Appeal Are Still Controlled by the European Patent Office and European Patent Quality is Therefore in a Freefall
• The Admission Phase/Stage: Even Team UPC is Coming to Grips With the UPC's Demise
• The Collapse of the UPC Would Further Decrease the Perceived Value of European Patents, Which European Courts Rightly Reject
• Updates on Koch v EPO, Anette Koch’s Case Which the EPO Would Rather Nobody Heard About
• USPTO and EPO: Call Software Patents 'Hey Hi' ('AI') and Use Microsoft Software (or Else!)
• Patent Maximalists Refuse to Accept That Their War on Patent Quality Also Dooms a Pan-European Patent Court System
• Managing IP as Team UPC's Megaphone and Lobbying Front
• No More Rights for EPO Staff?
• Some Patent Attorneys Dislike Techrights Not Because It's Wrong But Because Software Patents Are Wrong (and Sometimes Illegal)
• Edward as a Nodder to Team UPC Kool-Aid
• Guest Post: António Campinos' European Patent Office Redefines Modern Slavery in the Heart of Europe in 2019
• EPO Cannot Handle Patent Justice With a Backlog of About 10,000 Cases at the Boards of Appeal
• The European Patent Office Increases Surveillance: Can't Get Food Without Being Spied on
• Breaking the Law Has Become the Norm at the European Patent Office
• Patent Prosecution Highways and Examination Highways Are Dooming the EPO
• Software Patents Won't Come Back Just Because They're (Re)Framed/Branded as "HEY HI" (AI)
• IP Kat Pays the Price for Being a Megaphone of Team UPC
• The EPO's War on the Convention on the Grant of European Patents 2000 (EPC 2000), Not Just Brexit, Kills the Unitary Patent (UP/UPC) and Dooms Justice
• Spreading False Rumours or What's Most Likely Lies (Falsehoods) Won't Help Restore Justice at the EPO
• Europe is Gradually Becoming a Hotspot for Patent Litigation and Trolls as Patent Quality Decreases
• The EPO is Still Violating the EPC Every Day
• The Tight Embrace of the 'Hey Hi' (AI) Hype is Strangling the Patent System
• IP Kat as Amplifier of Team UPC at a Time When UPC is Dead
• Honest Media Regarding Patent Matters is Dead
• Lies, Lies and More Lies From the EPO (While Corporate Media in Europe Plays Along)
• Germany's Infamous Patent Troll IPCom Shows That the EPO's Failure Hurts Not Only Germany But the Whole of Europe and Customers in General
• European Media on the Death of the Unitary Patent (UP/UPC/UPCA)
• António Campinos Puts European Patent Quality on a Suicide Diet/Plan and All EPO Staff on Notice
• Patent Trolls' Paradise: The EPO is a Rubber-Stamping Machine, So Why Not Automatically Generate Patent Applications?
• The EPO and the European Media Continue to Ignore or Cover Up the Haar Case
• EPO Not Only an Eyesore But Also an Environmental Liability
• The Boards' (of Appeal) Fear of Enforcing the Law (EPC) Will Doom the European Patent Office

July

• Today's European Patent Office (EPO) Stifles Access to Medicine With Its More Dubious European Patents
• The American Patent Microcosm Models Its Lobbying for Software Patents Based on the EPO's Ongoing Violations of the EPC
• Prime Minister Boris Johnson Has Turned Into a Complete Joke the Cabinet Entrusted to Deal With UPC Limbo
• Patent Trolls Are Not a Solved Problem and They Are Definitely a Growing Problem in Europe
• Europe's Lowered Patent Standards
• IP Kat Used to Blast the EPO for Profound Lack of Justice. Now It's Just Meowing With the EPO's Management.
• Anything to Distract From the EPO's Plunging Patent Quality
• EPO is Fast Becoming the Office of Invalid Patents (IPs)
• EPO Continues to Grant Hundreds of Thousands of Illegal Software Patents and the Media Doesn't Care
• Greenwashing to Distract From the EPO Breaking the Law, Rigging Justice and Its Own Courts
• EPO Gradually Becoming the World's Most Permissive (Low Patent Quality) Patent Office by Consciously Violating the EPC
• Companies That Collapse Because the European Patent Office (EPO) Gave Them Fake Patents in a Hurry
• Demand for European Patents Will Continue to Decrease If a Lot of European Patents Turn Out to be Invalid, Worthless
• 2 Days Later (Case in Progress) and Still Media Silence About G 2/19
• Index: G 2/19 (Enlarged Board of Appeal, EPO)
• EPO Looney Tunes – Part 4: G 2/19 - Faites Vos Jeux…
• Media Not Interested in G 2/19, Which Demonstrates Patent Justice is Nowadays Impossible at the EPO
• EPO Looney Tunes – Part 3: The Legal Line-up for G 2/19
• EPO Looney Tunes - Part 2: The “Difficult Legacy” and Its Dark Historical Shadow
• EPO Noise Machine Turned On as Haar Hearing Kicks Off, Patrick Corcoran Defamed Again
• EPO Looney Tunes - Part 1: Is D-Day Approaching for Battistelli’s “Difficult Legacy”?
• Patent Certainty Waning, But That's Still OK for Patent Trolls
• European Media Continues to Ignore the EPO Crisis While Law Firms and EPO Management Cover Things Up
• Campinos is Already Widely Seen as Battistelli the Second, Even Among EPO Stakeholders
• EPO Further Harms Justice and Quality by Weakening Processes Associated With the EPO’s Boards of Appeal
• EPO 'Tackles' Patent Quality Concerns by Issuing New Report With “Quality” in the Title
• Anonymous Comments Are the Only Thing of Value Left at IP Kat
• EPO-Bribed Media Speaks to Team UPC, Produces UPC Puff Pieces With Plenty of Falsehoods and (Forbidden) Software Patents Advocacy
• Another Day of Misleading Media Coverage About the EPO and More Squashed European Patents
• Higher Patent Quality and More Patent Justice Rather Than Buzzwords and Litigation
• Only a Matter of Time Before the European Patent Bubble Implodes
• Only After Millions Were Spent on Lawyers Microsoft's Patent Troll in Europe Loses European Patent Used to Shake Down Android (Linux) Vendors
• Ethiopian Media Gamed by EPO Management, Just Like European Media
• The EPO's Administrative Council is Drunk on Cooperation Money (Bribes)
• The European Patent Office is Disconnected From the Rule of Law and European Media Could Not Care Less
• António Campinos is Almost 100% the Same as Benoît Battistelli
• EPO Management Exacerbates Its Patent Invalidity Crisis by Rushing Examination Even Further in New Pilots
• The EPO is More Interested in Silencing Its Critics Than in Actually Correcting Injustices

June

• Tribalism Still a Major Problem at the European Patent Office
• The New (Staged and Scripted) Video of António Campinos Feels Like a Drunken Satire
• Director Iancu and President Benoît Battistelli Disappeared
• EPO Staff, Lawyers and Courts Are Growing Tired of the Debased Patent Office and Administrative Council
• UPC Was the EPO's (and Patent Maximalists') Attempt to Abolish Patent Justice
• The EPO's “Collaborative Quality Improvements” (CQI), Formerly Known as “Team Collaboration Project,” Shows the EPO Grossly Violating the Law, Granting Patents in Clear Violation of the EPC
• EPO CQI: Raw Leak of the Latest EPO 'Ingenuity'
• The EPO Has Successfully Muzzled the Media
• The European Patent Office Remains a Crooked Patent Office That Harms Staff and Abolishes the Rule of Law
• USPTO and EPO Faking Growth by Granting Patents on Everything in Nature, But Campaigners Strike Back
• IBM Happy That Patent Quality at EPO Collapsed and It's Easy to Get Software Patents
• Patent Extremism: Stacking the Panels, the Surveys, the Hearings, the Debates
• The EPO Needs a President Who Obeys the Law, Not One Who Obeys Battistelli
• With Water (Treatment) Already Patented It Won't Take Long for Patents (and Patent Royalties) on Air
• What Patents the EPO Has Just Awarded (With a Special Reward), Not Just Granted
• Required Reading: Mental State of Team Battistelli/Campinos
• EPO Directors Would be Wise to Rebel Against Team Campinos While They Still Have the Job
• American Front Group Open Invention Network (Riding the Linux Brand) is a Proponent of Software Patents in Europe
• Say 'Hey Hi' to Software Patents
• Leaked: Harassment of EPO Directors by Team Campinos
• Patent Professionals in Europe Have Devolved Into a Marketing Industry
• Ignore the EPO's Dumb Festival and Focus on the Abuses Against the Workforce and Its Quality of Work
• Indifference or Even Hostility Towards Patent Quality Results in Grave Injustice
• 'AI Taskforce' is Actually a Taskforce for Software Patents
• Weaponising Russophobia Against One's Critics
• When the EPO is Run by Politicians It’s Expected to Be Aggressive and Corrupt Like Purely Political Establishments
• As European Patent Office Management Covers up Collapse in Patent Quality Don't Expect UPC to Ever Kick Off
• António Campinos — Unlike His Father — Engages in Imperialism (Using Invalid Patents)
• António Campinos Takes EPO Waste and Corruption to Unprecedented Levels and Scale
• The EPO is a Patent Troll's Wet Dream
• EPO Spreading Patent Extremists' Ideology to the Whole World, Now to South Korea
• Leaked Financial 'Study' Document Shows EPO Management and Mercer Engaging in an Elaborate “Hoax”
• Measuring Patent Quality and Employer Quality in Europe
• Granting More Fundamentally Wrong Patents Will Mean Reduced Certainty, Not Increased Certainty (partly about EPO)
• Patent Quality Continues to Slip in Europe and We Know Who Will Profit From That (and Distract From It)
• António Campinos Given an Extension to Prove He Respects the Rule of Law
• Lawlessness at the EPO Means That Software Patents Are Still Being Granted and EPO Judges Have Their Hands Tied
• The Preparatory Committee of the UPC Does Not Decide for Constitutional Courts
• The Paid-For UPC Lies
• The European Patent Office is a Global Threat, Not Just a Threat to Europe
• Drunk on Power
• EPO Advertises Jobs for Lawyers That Combat EPO Staff, 'Emergency' Call Surfacing
• EPO Meltdown and Collapse in Patent Quality Don't Bother Bristows Kat
• EUIPO/EPO Redundancies While Spending a Billion Euros on Unnecessary Buildings
• European Patent Quality Totally and Utterly Collapses While Team UPC Hopes It Can Make the Courts 'Kangaroo' Ones
• António Campinos “Will Have the First Strike on His Hands and Learn That If He Goes Down on This Path He May be Even More Despised Than Battistelli.”
• An Office of Patent Extremists
• More Tall Tales From EPOnia - A Little Apéritif to Whet the Appetite…
• António Campinos as German Sheriff Rather Than Office President

May

• British Patent Courts Continue to Expose the Collapse in Quality of European Patents
• António Campinos Didn't Even Last a Year
• Social 'Studies' and Sponsored 'Articles' Cannot Hide the Fact That EPO is a Terrible Employer Which Currently Harms Europe
• European Patents Are Eventually Being Revoked. But at Great Expense to Everyone Except Law Firms.
• Team Campinos Will Try to Make It Difficult to Go on Strike (But Won't Manage to Prevent It)
• EPO Strikes Further Diminish Chances of UPC Ever Materialising (in Any Shape or Form)
• EPO Allegedly Becoming Insolvent (Pretext for Cuts), So Staff Gets Punished While Management Takes the Jackpot
• EPO President Still Not Obeying Courts' Rulings
• António Campinos Has Run Out of Time and EPO Staff is Going on Strike (Skipping Mere Protests)
• Quality of Patents is Going Down the Drain and Courts Have Certainly Noticed
• EUIPO and EPO Abuses Growingly Inseparable
• The War on Patent Quality
• Unified Patent Court Won’t Happen Just Because the Litigation Microcosm Wants It
• Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 4: Happy Birthday to the Kötter Group?
• The EPO’s Key Function — Like the UPC’s Vision — Has Virtually Collapsed
• Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 3: “Ein kritikwürdiges Unternehmen”
• EPO Had a Leakage Problem and Privacy of Stakeholders Was Compromised, Affecting at Least 100 Cases
• False Hope for Patent Maximalists and Litigation Zealots
• The Race to the Bottom of Patent Quality at the EPO
• Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 2: Meet the Kötters
• Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 1: Urgent Shitstorm Alert
• Patents That Were Gleefully Granted by the EPO Continue to Perish in Courts
• Professionally Incompetent EPO Management
• Did Battistelli 'Steal' ~$100,000,000 Euros From the EPO?
• The Biased EPO Does Not Want to Hear From Anyone Except Those Who Pay the EPO
• Team UPC Has Run Out of Arguments, So Now It's Just Writing Anti-Brexit Rants With Testicles in the Headlines
• Making the Patent System About Productive Actors (Again), Not a Bunch of Law Firms and Trolls
• Stephen Rowan: From UK-IPO to Operation Coverup of Team António Campinos
• Lusting for a Unified Patent Court (UPC) That Respects Invalid European Patents, Including Software Patents
• Illegal Software Patents and Patent Trolls Well Served by European and American Patent Offices But Not Courts
• Corrupt Battistelli is Back for European Inventor Award 2019 — an Extravagant Ceremony He Has Used to Steal Millions of Euros From the EPO
• EPO Waste and Mismanagement: Renting Space While Keeping Buildings Empty and Making More of Them
• Corruption at the EPO is a Threat Not Only to Europe But to Every Continent in the World
• Why Does the EPO Keep Praising People Who Promote Software Patents, Rewarding Them for Patent Thickets That Harm Software Developers?
• The EPO is a Threat to Software Developers Everywhere, Not Just in Europe
• Even IAM Admits That When It Comes to Patents It's Quality That Counts, Not Quantity
• It's 2019 and Team UPC is Still Composing 'Fake News' (Lobbying Disguised as Reporting)
• Even EPO Patent 'Justice' is Now Measured in Industrial Terms Like 'Production' Rather Than Accuracy
• EPO in 2019: Pushing (and Bribing) for Buzzwords to Bypass/Cheat the Law Whilst Abolishing the Court System
• Lack of Justice at the EPO Continues to Usher in Fake Patents on Abstract Things
• Union Syndicale Federale (USF) Writes to António Campinos Again Regarding the Appalling Atmosphere at the EPO

April

• Haar is Where EPO Justice Came to Meet Euthanasia
• The 'Technical Effect' of Attacking the Independence of Judges at the Boards of Appeal and Ignoring/Breaking the Law
• "Dia da Liberdade" in Portugal -- Wilted Carnations in EPOnia
• The Quality of Patents is Connected to the Quality of Life of Patent Examiners
• Supreme Court of the UK, Which Habitually Throws Out European Patents, May Overturn Troublesome Unwired Planet v Huawei Decision
• German Federal Patent Court Curbs the Patent Maximalism of the EPO, Which Promotes Patents on Nature and/or Maths Every Single Day
• António Campinos Would Not Refer to the EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeal If He Did Not Control the Outcomes
• 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
• The EPO's Use of Phrases Like “High-Quality Patent Services” Means They Know High-Quality European Patents Are 'Bygones'
• The Likes of Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA), Team Campinos and Team UPC Don't Represent Europe But Hurt Europe
• Largest Patent Offices Try to Leave Courts in a State of Disarray to Enable the Granting of Fake Patents in the US and Europe
• The European Patent Office Does Not Care About the Law, Today's Management Constantly Attempts to Bypass the Law
• Corporate Media Will Never Cover the EPO's Violations of the Law With Respect to Patent Scope
• Patent Maximalists Are Enabling Injustices and Frauds
• Caricature: EPO Standing Tall
• The EPO is Slipping Out of Control Again and It's Another Battistelli-Like Mess With Disregard for the Rule of Law and Patent Scope
• Global Finance Magazine Spreads Lies About the Unitary Patent and German Constitutional Court
• New Building as Perfect Metaphor for the EPO Under the Frenchmen Battistelli and Campinos
• EPO Still Wasting Budget, Paying Media and Academics for Spin
• EPO Benefits European Patent Trolls With Dodgy European Patents
• The Myth of Quality of European Patents
• António Campinos is Already Paying a Lot of Money to Craft an Alternate Reality at the European Patent Office
• Who Does the Legal System Really Serve or Favour in European Patent Disputes?
• The Media is (Still) Failing to Cover EPO Corruption
• The EPO’s Incredulous Survey: Management’s Voice, Management’s Future — EPO Staff ‘Engagement’ Spin (Denial of Issues)
• Only One in Six EPO Workers Trusts the Management, According to New Survey Skewed by Management
• Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) — Like MedTech at the EPO — Just Another Dodge for Illegitimate Software Patents
• Europe's EPO Has Become France’s INPI
• Even Patent Maximalists Are Not Happy With António Campinos Referring Question of Patents on Life to the Enlarged Board of Appeal
• The European Patent Office Will Come to Regret the Fake Patents It Has Granted for Short-Term Financial Gains
• EPO Management is Knowingly and Consciously Granting Invalid European Patents, Including Patents on Life and Nature
• The Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) Warns About the Granting of Tens of Thousands of Invalid European Patents Every Year
• The EPO Continues Granting Bogus Patents on Mathematics and Nature, But There's Hope Over the Horizon
• EPO Judges Lack Independence and the Internal Courts Are Seen to be Lacking Legitimacy (Decisions' Validity) Under António Campinos
• Artificially-Intelligent Blockchained Internet of Things Industrial Revolutionary CII or Software Patents by Any Other Name
• Patent Trolls Destroy the European Economy Because EPO Gives Them Questionable Patents

March

• The UK Supreme Court's Latest Decision is Ammunition for the FCC to Scuttle the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA)
• A March in Brussels Next Month, Disgruntled EPO Staff Invited
• There's No Administrative Council at the EPO Anymore. It's Like a Stamping 'Department' of the Office and the Same Goes for the Boards of Appeal.
• Tall Tales From the Land of EPOnia: Indications of High-Level Club Med/EUIPO “Entryism”
• European Patents Found to be Invalid and Deemed Impotent in the Highest British Court (Again)
• The European Patent Scope is a Lost Cause, Does Not Exist Anymore
• The EPO is Still a Software Patents Propaganda Machine and Thus an Enemy of Software Developers in Europe
• Dimitris Xenos on Unconstitutional Supranational Arrangements for Patent Law: Leaving Out the Elected Legislators and the People’s Participatory Rights
• The Campinos-Battistelli Strategy is Working: Patent Trolls Are Coming to Europe!
• 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
• Why the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO) Cannot Ignore Judges, Whereas the EPO Can (and Does)
• The European Patent Office Needs to Put Lives Before Profits
• “Criminal Organisation”
• Team UPC (Unitary Patent) is a Headless Chicken
• António Campinos Makes Up Claims About Patent Quality, Only to be Rebutted by Examiners, Union (Anyone But the 'Puff Pieces' Industry)
• CEN and CENELEC Agreement With the EPO Shows That It's Definitely the European Commission's 'Department'
• Decisions Made Inside the European Patent Organisation (EPO) Lack Credibility Because Examiners and Judges Lack Independence
• Team UPC Buries Its Credibility Deeper in the Grave
• The EPO Has Sadly Taken a Side and It's the Patent Trolls' Side
• To Team UPC the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Has Become a Joke and the European Patent Office (EPO) Never Mentions It Anymore
• Stopping António Campinos and His Software Patents Agenda (Not Legal in Europe) Would Require Independent Courts
• The EPO and the USPTO Are Granting Fake Patents on Software, Knowing That Courts Would Reject These
• EPO 'Results' Are, As Usual, Not Measured Correctly
• Good News Everyone! UPC Ready to Go... in 2015!
• EPO's Latest 'Results' Show That António Campinos Has Already Given Up on Patent Quality and is Just Another Battistelli
• EPO Examiner: “I Have Been Against Software Patents and Eventually 3/4 of My Job is Examining Software Patent Applications.”
• Europe Will Pay a High Price for Software Patents Advocacy by António Campinos in Europe's Patent-Granting Authority
• António Campinos — Like His Father — Lacks Support From Colleagues, Endorsed Only From the Top
• From Patents on Chewing Gum to Toothpaste Patents: How the EPO Came to Focus on Speed and Volume, Not Quality
• European Patent Office Press Releases (Two in Two Days) Are Disguised as 'News' and Tell the Opposite of the Truth
• António Campinos Will Not Tackle Any of the Lingering Issues at the European Patent Office
• Immunity Stripped by the Supreme Court of the United States, Opening the Possibility of Ending Immunity of the EPO As Well
• The Tide Has Turned Against Patents on Life in Europe
• Patent Law Firms Are Truly (and Visibly) Panicking Over the Demise of Software Patents
• 3,000 Posts About the European Patent Office and Why We'll Maintain Our Focus on It
• Fraud at the European Patent Office, But All Those Arrested Are Perpetrators Without Misused Immunity
• Power and Corruption: How European Patent Office Nepotism and Despotism Open Doors
• Quality Issues at the European Patent Office Can Lead It Down the Same Downward Path as the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
• Truly and Completely Out of Control, the Unhinged European Patent Office Calls Applicants “Customers” While Offering Patents on Nature, Life, Maths
• 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
• Battistelli's Presidency Was a Write-off Presidency (of Potentially Billions of Euros in Losses)
• The Technical Board of Appeal Will Need True Independence to Squash Software Patents at the EPO (T 0489/14)
• Unitary Patent (UPC/A) Constitutional Complaint Can be Decided in a Matter of Years (If Ever)
• European Patent Office Careers Bad for One's Health, Properly Assessing Patents is 'Professional Incompetence' Now
• EPO Staff Union: 'New' Team Campinos Practice “Reminds Us Strongly of the Battistelli Times.”
• The Collapse of Poor-Quality European Patents Continues in European Courts
• Lesson From the United States: Overly Permissive Patent Policy (Maximalism) Can Drive Technology Companies Away
• T 0489/14: Will the European Patent Organisation Put an End to Software Patents at Long Last?

February

• The Latest Brexit Developments Add Another Nail (Among Many) to the Unified Patent Court's (UPC) Coffin
• Teff Just One Among Countless Examples of Sheer Disregard for Patent Quality
• English Translation: Alexandre Benalla Thinks He Can Carry a Weapon in Germany
• English Translation: Alexandre Benalla on His Work Experience (or Lack Thereof)
• English Translation: Alexandre Benalla Cannot Tell the Difference Between EPO and the French Republic (or Battistelli and Macron)
• English Translation: I Have Huge Respect for Battistelli, Said Alexandre Benalla Under Pressure
• Croatian Media on Fake Diplomas and the EPO Connection
• There is Still a Patent Quality Crisis at the EPO
• Ben and Ben: Benalla and His Enabler, Beny Battistelli
• Alexandre Benalla's Time at the EPO, in His Own Words
• Video: Alexandre Benalla Explains His Activities Within the European Patent Office
• Bruno Retailleau on Alexandre Benalla's Perjury
• Video: Alexandre Benalla on Carrying Weapons in Munich's EPO Premises (Strictly Illegal in Germany)
• Bristows is Still Hoping to 'Overthrow' the Courts and Throw Out Ingve Stjerna's Complaint (About the Likes of Bristows)
• Video: Alexandre Benalla Speaks About His Relationship With Battistelli
• Hallmark of Corruption: Benalla and Fellow Thugs Paid Roughly the Same Salary as Battistelli (Each!) and There's a New Chinese Contract Worth €7.2 Million
• EPO Insider Video: Nouvel an Architectural Hazard, Not Just a Fire Hazard
• The European Patent Office Goes Down a Very Slippery Slope by Promoting and Defending Patents on Life/Nature in Defiance of Parliament and the EPC
• Software Patents Are in a Freefall in Courts Worldwide, But the EPO Keeps Granting and Promoting These
• Team UPC Excited Over Nothing, President Campinos Rarely Even Mentions UPC Anymore
• Battistelli's Bodyguard Has Been Arrested, But Battistelli Should Join Him
• How Long Can the EPO Bend the Rules Before the Avalanche of Invalid Software Patents?
• Battistelli Trashed 223 Millions (of Stakeholders' Euros) on a System That Destroyed the European Patent Office and Made Few Private Corporations a Lot Richer
• What Happened in the United States Now Happens in Europe: Lots of Patents Turn Out to Be Bunk, Fake, Bogus, Invalid and Thus Worthless
• Stephen Rowan's and Nellie Simon's Letter to EPO Staff: eDossier Has “Not Reached the Required Quality Levels.”
• Search Matters Not at the European Patent Office
• António Campinos Still Needs to Undo Battistelli's Union-Busting Activities at the EPO
• António Campinos Still Needs to Hold Team Battistelli Accountable for Illegally Bringing Weapons to the EPO
• How Many/Most EPO Examiners View 'President' António Campinos
• Courts in Disagreement: Warning on Wrongly-Granted European Patents and the Looming Collapse of All Software Patents in Europe
• EPO Grants Fake European Patents — Including Software Patents — and European Courts Keep Rejecting These
• Nobody But Patent Trolls and Litigators Will Benefit From the Corruption of the European Patent Office
• Outline/Index of the Alexandre Benalla/Battistelli Scandal
• “EPO Lawlessness Again”
• 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'
• Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part V: Mediapart Explains the 'Raid' Attempt, Reporters Without Borders Involved
• Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part IV: Suspected Offenses of Forgery and Possible Falsification
• Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part III: Mars, France Close Protection (Benalla's Family), and Russian Oligarchy
• Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part II: Fishing Expedition for Sources in the Alexandre Benalla 'Underworld' Scandal
• Innovating the Idea That Software Patents (Monopolies on Algorithms) Are Covering 'Artificial' 'Intelligence' (AI and ML as Loopholes)
• Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part I: Destruction of Evidence by Alexandre Benalla
• Gross Violations of the EPC at the European Patent Office as Principal Priority Turns Against Science and Technology
• European Patent Office’s Exploitation of the ‘AI’ Catchphrase/Buzzword to Grant Patents on Algorithms in Defiance of the Rules, the Law, and Common Sense
• Corrupt Battistelli Paid a Fortune (EPO Budget) for Outlaw/Rogue 'Bodyguards' From Firm Linked to Russian Oligarch Iskander Makhmudov
• António Campinos Will Never Hold Battistelli Accountable for His Crimes Because He Too Profits From These
• EPO President Campinos Works With Patent Trolls and With Team UPC to Promote Software Patents
• Teff is Not an Invention. Teff is Nature.
• UPC Part of the Litigation 'Industry' Lobby and the Efforts to Change (Significantly Lower) Patent Quality Bar/Scope
• The Attack on the Independence of the European Judges Has Apparently Expanded to the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht)
• EPO Boards of Appeal Still Need Independence
• Bogus European Patents Kill Cancer Patients, But EPO Still Has the Audacity to Ride the Wave of World Cancer Day
• Concerns About Stephan Harbarth's Unitary Patent (UPC) Vested Interests and His Entrance Into the Constitutional Court That Decides on UPC
• The European Patent Office's Promotion of Software Patents Overlooks Ongoing 'Spillage' of the Patent Crisis to Patent Courts (Rejecting Such Patents)
• The Reputation of the EPO is Ruined But Now It Ruins the Lives of Staff and Europeans

January

• Fake Software Patents, Patent Trolls and Assault on Generic Medicine in Europe
• President Campinos Maintains Battistelli's Abusive Sanctions, EPO Staff Increasingly Losing Faith and Hope in Him
• People Are Dying Because of Low Quality of (Wrongly-Granted) European Patents
• The EPO Continues to Grant Software Patents Even Though Many European Patents Are Being Invalidated Already
• "HE DID NOTHING Since He Arrived, Full Stop." What EPO People Make of President Campinos...
• The Management of the EPO Will Not Manage to Recruit Any Talent If It's Killing Its Own Staff
• Compensation for Damages and Discrimination: The Case (One Among Several) Against EPO Vice-President Topić
• Another Call for EPO Leaks
• The USPTO Used to Pose a Threat to European Software Developers. Now It's the EPO Posing a Threat to Software Developers Worldwide.
• British Courts Once Again Reject Bogus European Patents Granted on Software
• European Patent Quality as Awful Under António Campinos as (If Not Worse Than) Benoît Battistelli and Battistelli Makes a Public Comeback
• Declining Patent Quality and Lies About Software Patents at the EPO
• Team UPC Has Been Reduced to a Self-Satirising Drama Show
• The Whitewashing of the EPO Under António Campinos
• Software Patents Are a Dying Breed, So Marks & Clerk and Other Legal Monoliths Promote the EPO's Buzzwords (Loopholes)
• A Fortnight After His Diplomatic Immunity Ends Outgoing EPO Vice-President Željko Topić is in Court in Zagreb, Croatia
• JUVE Creates English Site, Promotes Unified Patent Court (UPC)
• EPO Defying Patent Restrictions/Limits From the European Parliament, the European Commission and the European Countries It Claims to Represent
• The UPC is Dead. But Bristows is Now Fully Engaged in Necrophilia.
• Brexit Has Failed, But So Has the Unitary Patent (UPC)
• IBM, Which Will Soon be Buying Red Hat, is Promoting Software Patents in Europe
• Team UPC on Dead UPC: Choosing Gowns for Corpses
• Council of Europe (CoE) Recognises There's No Justice at the EPO
• European Patent Office a Textbook Example of Lawless, Rogue Institutions
• IP Kat Has Turned From EPO Critic (to the Point of Being Blocked by the EPO) to EPO Whitewasher That Gags EPO Whistleblowers
• The EPO's Low Patent Quality Can Kill the European Software Industry and Kill People Too
• The Fiction That Spain (or Italy) Can Salvage the UPC
• EPO President “Campinos is Wasting His Credibility With “Sweet” Communiqués Full of Hot Air and Storytelling”
• European Patent Office Saga in 2019: “95% of the People Responsible for the Misery Are Still in Place and Have Not Even Been Rebuked”
• EPO Corruption is Helping Patent Maximalists in the United States
• EPO Leaks
• The German Constitutional Court's Decision on Unitary Patent (UPC) is Very, Very Far
• The EPO is So Backwards That the Boss Has Just Become Subservient to the Subject of Oversight
• The Real Harm of Really Bad European Patent Grants

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