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The European Patent Office (EPO) has been granting software patents in 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. Both block Techrights all all 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).

Techrights wrote about the EPO in the following posts, organised chronologically, with addition of the following colour coding for improved organisation:

2019

July

• 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

2018

December

• Even Joff Wild and the Patent Trolls' Lobby Finally Admit Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead
• The Demise of the UPC 'Legislative Coup' Continued in 2018
• The Quality of European Patents Likely Declined Even Further in 2018
• UPC Died in 2016 or 2017; But the EPO Continues to Issue Fake Software Patents That European Courts Reject
• Today's EPO Envisions a Europe of Patent Trolls, Not of Science and Technology
• Team UPC Belatedly Admits Lying About the German UPC Complaint (Fabricated 'Rumours')
• EPO: Adherence to the Law at the Office Postponed Indefinitely, 'Reform' Going Ahead (Divergence From the Law)
• UPC Would Mean Patent Scope Gone Out of Control and Beyond/Above the Law
• Immunity of the European Patent Office Has Helped Shield Dangerous Thugs From Justice
• Patent Law Firms' War on Facts and Constant Lying About Unitary Patent
• EPO Chief Economist Yann Ménière Keynote Speaker at Patent Trolls-Funded Event Set Up by the Patent Trolls' Lobby
• The European Patent Organisation (EPO) Loses Legitimacy If (or When) Christoph Ernst Becomes Subservient to António Campinos
• The European Patent Troll Wants as Much Litigation as Possible
• António Campinos Turns His 'Boss' Into His Lapdog, Just Like Battistelli and Kongstad
• EPO Trust, Leadership and Commitment
• With 'Brexit' in a Lot of Headlines Team UPC Takes the Unitary Patent Lies up a Notch
• The EPO Not Only Abandoned the EPC But Also the Biotech Directive
• Patents on Abstract Things and on Life (or Patents Which Threaten Lives) Merely Threaten the Very Legitimacy of Patent Offices, Including EPO
• Florian Müller's Article About SEPs and the EPO
• EPO Vice-President Željko Topić in New Article About Corruption in Croatia
• The Quality of European Patents Continues to Deteriorate Under António Campinos and Software Patents Are Advocated Every Day
• Team UPC is Still Spreading False Rumours in an Effort to Trick Politicians and Pressure Judges
• Patents on Life and Patents That Kill the Poor Would Only Delegitimise the European Patent Office
• EPO 'Untapped Potential'
• The European Patent Organisation is Like a Private Club and Roland Grossenbacher is Back in It
• The European Patent Office Remains a Lawless Place Where Judges Are Afraid of the Banker in Chief
• Many of the Same People Are Still in Charge of the European Patent Office Even Though They Broke the Law
• EPO, in Its Patent Trolls-Infested Forum, Admits It is Granting Bogus Software Patents Under the Guise of 'Blockchain'
• The Patent Litigation Bubble is Imploding in the US While the UPC Dies in Europe
• EPO Management Keeps Embarrassing Itself, UPC More Dead Than Before, and Nokia Turns Aggressive
• Patent Trolls, USPTO Director Andrei Iancu and Section 101 (partly about EPO)
• Be Wary of the Latest Lies About the Unified Patent Court (UPC), Courtesy of CIPA and Marks & Clerk (Team UPC)
• EPO Management High-Fiving Patent Propaganda Sites Like 'Managing IP' While Granting Illegitimate Patents on Algorithms
• “ILO Gave the EPO Medical Committee a Good Slapping”
• Science Minister Sam Gyimah, Who Tactlessly Ratified UPC in the UK, Has Just Resigned
• Patent Offices Reward Microsoft for Corruption

November

• António Campinos is Working for Patent Trolls at the Expense of Science and Technology
• Even Sites That Served UPC Propaganda for Years (for These Sites' Owners) Have Come to Admit That the UPC Might Already be Dead
• Union Syndicale Fédérale Tells António Campinos to End 'Political' Cases Against EPO Staff Representatives
• Clouding Abstract Software Patents Using Acronyms and Buzzwords
• 127th Session of ILO Tribunal Rulings Will Deal With European Patent Organisation Complaints (Appeals) Tomorrow Afternoon, Staff Grows Tired of Office President António Campinos
• The Demise of Software Patents in Patent Courts Worldwide Would Mean Much-Needed Staff Cuts in Litigation Giants (partly about EPO)
• EPO Nowadays Closely Associates With Site That Attacks, Insults and Calls for Resignations of Judges (Those Who Scrutinise Patents)
• EPO's Head of Human Resources Elodie Bergot “Condemned for Harassment in France When She Worked for the Caisse Assurance Retraites”
• António Campinos Has Run Out of Time, EPO Staff Representation Now Views Him as Just Another Battistelli and Wants Immediate Change
• Team UPC Refuses to Stop Lying, Pays Money to Spread Its Unified Patent Court (UPC) Lies in the Media
• Thanksgiving EPO Roundup: UPC Lies, Software Patents Considered Harmful and SUEPO Condemns Union-Busting Activities (Which Carry on Under António Campinos)
• To Mask the Decline in Patent Quality, e.g. Granting of Software Patents a.k.a. Computer-Implemented Inventions (CII), EPO Makes Oppositions Harder
• Patent Trolls in EPO Events That Promote Software Patents
• 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
• Germany Likes EPO in Munich, Litigation Factory in Düsseldorf and Mannheim (Like Eastern District of Texas)
• The European Patent Office is Attracting Patent Trolls
• The European Patent Office Comes up With a Plethora of New Buzzwords by Which to Refer to Software Patents
• Patent Maximalists in Europe Keep Mentioning China Even Though It Barely Matters to European Patents
• Team UPC Has Been Reduced to Lies, Lies, and More Lies about the Unified Patent Court Agreement
• Ignoring and Bashing Courts: Is This the Future of Patent Offices in the West? (partly about EPO)
• A Question of Debt: António Campinos, Lexology, Law Gazette, and Sam Gyimah
• Science Minister Sam Gyimah and the EPO Are Eager to Attack Science by Bringing Patent Trolls to Europe/European Union and the United Kingdom
• USF Revisits EPO Abuses, Highlighting an Urgent Need for Action
• Second Day of EPOPIC: Yet More Promotion of Software Patents in Europe in Defiance of Courts, EPC, Parliament and Common Sense
• Allegations That António Campinos 'Bought' His Presidency and is Still Paying for it
• WIPO Corruption and Coverup Mirror EPO Tactics
• The USPTO and EPO Pretend to Care About Patent Quality by Mingling With the Terms “Patent” and “Quality”
• Yannis Skulikaris Promotes Software Patents at EPOPIC, Defending the Questionable Practice Under António Campinos
• Team UPC, Fronting for Patent Trolls From the US, is Calling Facts “Resistance”
• Guest Post: EPO Spins Censorship of Staff Representation
• EPO 'Outsourcing' Rumours
• Pro-Litigation Front Groups Like CIPA and Team UPC Control the EPO, Which Shamelessly Grants Software Patents
• Latest Loophole: To Get Software Patents From the EPO One Can Just Claim That They're 'on a Car'
• The Huge Cost of Wrongly-Granted European Patents, Recklessly Granted by the European Patent Office (EPO)
• EPO Stacking up Buzzwords (4IR, AI, Now SDV) to Compel Examiners to Grant Patents on Algorithms
• EPO Needs to Publicly Apologise for Granting Bogus/Fake Patents to Aggressive Companies Like Monsanto (Now Bayer)
• The Death of the UPC is Only a “Tragedy” for Patent Trolls and Their Facilitators
• The António Campinos Private/Secret Meeting With ILO Officials a Slap Across the Face to Employees of the European Patent Office
• European Software Patents: From AI to Blockchains and Now... Self-Driving Vehicles
• Guy Ryder (ILO) Should Meet Staff Representatives, Not Corrupt Team Battistelli
• The European Patent Office Lost Its Way, Found Buzzwords Instead
• Managing IP and Law Gazette Speak for Patent Trolls and Team UPC (Which Supports and Profits From Trolls)
• Blockchain Hype Exploited by the EPO and by Patent Law Firms to Wrongly Assert Free/Libre Software Can Coexist With Software Patents
• EPO Granting European Patents on Nature and on Thoughts
• Team UPC's Last Resort: Stacked Panels, Anonymously Belittling the Opposition (e.g. Ingve Björn Stjerna) and Taking Control of the Media
• António Campinos Continues to Conflate Speed With Quality
• Today the EPO Has Officially Lowered Patent Quality by Allowing Software Patents by Means of Dog Whistles

October

• Team UPC Hijacks the Debate in the Media and in British Parliament
• EPO Insider: Under António Campinos “the Union Busting Done by the Administration Continues Even Worse Than Before”
• The EPO Lost Any Sense of Shame About Granting Patents on Software, Which It Openly Welcomes and Even Encourages
• EPO President António Campinos Speaks of “Greater Transparency,” But He's Even More Secretive Than Battistelli and He Lets Patent Quality Slip Further
• Lobbying and Blackmail Rewarded? JUVE Awards Team UPC Firm Bardehle Pagenberg, Which Represents Microsoft's Worst Patent Troll, Intellectual Ventures.
• On PTAB, Andrei Iancu is to the Patent Litigation Giants What Ajit Pai is to Big Telecom (Former Employers) (partly about EPO)
• The EPO is Trying to Make Software Patents Look and Feel 'Healthy'
• António Campinos Just a Quieter Version of Battistelli
• Battistelli and Team UPC Still Waiting for a Campinos Miracle
• EPO: Software Patents Are Allowed, Just Say 'AI' in the Patent Applications and We'll Compel Examiners to Grant
• Pretty Revealing That EPO Management Promotes Software Patents and IP Kat Promotes Patent Trolls
• The EPO Under António Campinos Has Opened More Doors to Software Patents and Only Litigators Are Happy
• German Court on UPC Constitutional Complaint: “No Oral Hearing is Currently Scheduled. A Decision Date is Not Foreseeable at Present.”
• The Identity Crisis of the European Patent Office, Wrongly Believing It Exists to Serve Lawyers and Patent Trolls Outside Europe
• 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
• It's Almost 2019 and Team UPC is Still Pretending Unitary Patent (UPC) Exists, Merely Waiting for Britain to Join
• IAM and IP Kat Are Still Megaphones of Battistelli and His Agenda
• EPO Under António Campinos Relaxes the Rules on Software Patenting and the Litigation 'Industry' Loves That
• Corporate Media's Failure to Cover Patents Properly and Our New Hosting Woes
• EPO Insider/Märpel Says President Campinos Already Acts Like Battistelli
• Quality of Patents Granted by the EPO is Still Low and Nobody Will Benefit Except Lawyers, Jubilant Over Growing Lenience on Software Patents
• 100 Days Into the Term of Campinos There is Already an EPO Suicide
• Friend Brings a Friend, Boss Becomes Subordinate: the EPO Under António Campinos is Starting to Look a Lot Like Team Battistelli 2.0
• UPC Cowardice: Team UPC Uses Cloaks of Anonymity to Discredit Authors of Scholarly UPC Paper They Don't Like
• New EPO Guidelines: Granting European Patents on Business Methods, Algorithms, Mental Acts and Other Abstract Stuff
• António Campinos Makes Excuses for Granting European Patents on Software in Spite of the EPC
• Antibody Patents Should Not be Allowed (Nor Should CRISPR Patents) (partly about EPO)
• When It Comes to Patent Quality António Campinos Might be Even Worse Than Benoît Battistelli
• The Era of Fake Patents (or Software Patents) is Upon Us (partly about EPO)
• The European Patent Office Has Assaulted Patent Quality While Trying to Distract From That
• 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
• Patents on Life and on Algorithms in Europe Will Doom the EPO
• Europe is Getting Flooded With Software Patents, Repeating the Mistakes Made by the United States
• Submissive, Bribed and EPO-Connected Media Organisations Help Perpetuate Corruption by Failing or Refusing to Cover It
• More Patents Would Mean More Tax Evasion for Large Corporations and More Taxes/Duties on Society
• Nellie Simon Expected to Join the ‘Club Med’ of Battistelli and Campinos
• The European Council Fulfills Corrupt Battistelli's Alleged Promise, Making Christian Archambeau Head of EUIPO
• EPO Under António Campinos an Unprecedented Booster of Software Patents

September

• AIPPI is Led by Team UPC's People and 'AIPPI Congress Report' Published by Team UPC
• Team UPC Wants More (Patent) Taxes on Society While Defending/Shielding the Super-rich From Taxes That Might Otherwise Benefit Society
• Superficially Artificial or Artificially Superficial Patents on 'AI' Are Fake Patents
• How Team UPC is Reacting to the Demise of EPO- and EU-Connected Court That Would Have Put Patent Maximalists in Charge
• In the EPO Under António Campinos and His Predecessor Battistelli Patents Can Almost be Presumed “Invalid” (in Courts)
• EPO Central Staff Committee: 30 Percent of Staff Are in Principle Targetable as ‘Challenging People’
• French Media Confirms Alexandre Benalla Just One of Six Battistelli Bodyguards, Employed at the Cost of €8,000-€10,000 Per Month (for Benalla Alone!)
• Lots of UPC Noise/News This Week Over a Document Which Merely Weakens Commitment to the UPC
• Director Iancu and President Campinos Both Serve the Litigation 'Industry' Instead of Science and Technology
• António Campinos Goes to UPC-Hostile Country, UPC Continues to Languish and Team UPC Carries on Pushing for Software Patents in Europe (Courts Also)
• The Man Whose Actions Could Potentially Land Team Battistelli in Jail
• Reader's Article: Affaire Benalla Strongly Connected to EPO/OEB/EPA and Former President Benoît Battistelli
• Guest Post on Ronan Le Gleut and Benalla at the French Senate (in Light of Battistelli's Epic Abuses)
• Benoît Battistelli Refuses to Talk to the Media About Bringing Firearms to the EPO
• Advocacy of the Unitary Patent System Has Become Almost Identical to the 'Leave' (Brexit) Campaign
• Bogus Patents Which Oughtn't Have Been Granted Make Products Deliberately Worse, Reducing Innovation and Worsening Customers' Experience (partly about EPO)
• EPO is Like a Patent Litigation (Without Actual Trial) Office, Not a Patent Examination Office
• Philippe Cadre From the French National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) Wants to Join António Campinos
• Criticism of Unitary Patent (UPC) Agreement Doomed the UPC and Patent Trolls' Plan -- Along With the Litigation Lobby -- for Unified 'Extortion Vector'
• It Wasn't Judges With Weapons in Their Office, It Was Benoît Battistelli Who Brought Firearms to the European Patent Office (EPO)
• Today's European Patent Office (EPO) Works for Large, Foreign Pharmaceutical Companies in Pursuit of Patents on Nature, Life, and Essential/Basic Drugs
• The EPO Has Quit Pretending That It Cares About Patent Quality, All It Cares About is Quantity of Lawsuits
• IAM, Watchtroll and the EPO Still Spread the Mentality of Patent Maximalism
• Battistelli “Has Deeply Hurt the Whole Patent Profession, Examiners as Well as Agents” and Also the Image of France
• António Campinos Needs to Listen to Doctors Without Borders (MSF) et al to Salvage What's Left of Public Consent for the EPO
• The Max Planck Institute's Determination on UPC's (Unitary Patent) Demise is Only “Controversial” in the Eyes of Rabid Members of Team UPC
• Max Planck Institute Pours More Water on the Dying Unitary Patent (UPC)
• EPO Seals Many Death Sentences With Acceptance of EP 2604620
• EPO Granted a Controversial European Patent (Under Battistelli) Which May Literally Kill a Lot of People
• Patents on Life at the EPO Are a Symptom of Declining Patent Quality
• Patentability of Software Constantly Pushed by the EPO Under António Campinos With Help From IAM, CIPA, IPO and Other Litigation Front Groups
• Fresh Rumours of Further Accelerated Layoffs at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• 35 U.S.C. § 101 Squashes Already-Granted US Patents, Europe Needs Post-Grant Appeals to Accomplish the Same Because EPO Grants Software Patents
• CIPA and EPO, Two UPC Boosters, Get Together to Promote Software Patents in Spite of the EPC
• Election of New Vice-Presidents at EPO Seems Rigged, Say Insiders and Former Insiders
• 'Reformist' Campinos Seems to be Accelerating EPO Layoffs by Removing Without Warning Staff That's Perceived as Not Loyal Enough
• Even Overzealous Patent Maximalists Nowadays Admit That Time is Running Out for the Unitary Patent (UPC)
• António Campinos: New Caricature by EPO Insiders
• EPO Has “Far Too High Production Targets” Which “Deteriorates the Quality of Products Delivered”
• The António Campinos-Led EPO is Over-Relying on Bogus and Abstract Software Patents to Fill the Gaps
• A Retreat From Patent Quality Means a Retreat of Patent Applicants
• Coming to Grips With the Fact That EPO Layoffs Are Already in Effect

August

• Feeling Shut Out of the European Patent System, Team UPC Persists With Misleading Claims and Falsehoods
• António Campinos Already Implements a 'Shadow' Layoffs Method at the EPO
• Stupid European Patent: Hairdressing Salon and Mobile Building for the Same
• The Unitary Patent (UPC) is Not Delayed; It's Dead and Without Any Major Rework It Will Go Nowhere
• In Koch v EPO, a Rare Glimpse at Tricks the EPO Employs at the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organisation (ILO)
• Admissibility of the Unitary Patent Constitutional Complaint Was Likely the Final Nail in the Coffin of the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
• Almost Two Months After the ILO Ruling Staff Representative Brumme is Finally Back on the Job at EPO
• President Battistelli 'Killed' the EPO; António Campinos Will 'Finish the Job'
• Patent Lawyers Writing Patent Law for Their Own Enrichment Rather Than for Innovation (partly about EPO)
• EPO-Style Problem-Solution: Tackling Backlog by Granting Lots of Low-Quality (Bogus) European Patents, Causing a Surge in Troll/Frivolous Litigation
• The Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement is Paralysed, So Team UPC is Twisting Old News
• WeMove.EU Tackles Low Patent Quality at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• Racing to the Bottom, the António Campinos-Led EPO Continues to Promote Software Patents, Just Like China
• Playing With Words and Buzzwords in a Landscape of Software Patents Rejections (partly about EPO)
• Law Firms Are Offering Very Misleading and Self-Serving Advice Regarding 'Unitary' Effect for European Patents
• António Campinos is Not Improving Patent Quality or Even the Social Climate at the EPO (False Promises)
• The EPO's Systematic Attacks on Justice and on Judges Have Likely Played the Biggest Role in the Death of Unitary Patent (UPC)
• The EPO's Administrative Council is Not Interested in Saving the EPO, Only 'Producing' as Many (Low-Quality) Patents as Possible
• Government Decision to Start Corruption Investigation Into Croatia Airlines and Its Director Jasmin Bajic Could Implicate EPO Vice-President

July

• SUEPO Seems to be Disappointed by António Campinos as His First Month in Office Comes to an End
• What EPO Staff is 'Hopeful' After a Month of António Campinos Doing Absolutely Nothing to Reverse Battistelli's Ruinous Policies?
• The Golden Cage of the EPO is No Longer Golden and It Increasingly Looks Like It's Shutting Down, However Gradually
• The EPO Abandoned Patent Quality and António Campinos Has No Intention of Changing That
• Reader's Post: How the EPO Silently Halves Salaries of Senior EPO Staff (or Gets Rid of Them)
• Correspondence With Dražen Petrović Reveals That ILO-AT is Indeed an Employer's Court, Favouring EPO Management Over EPO Staff
• António Campinos, Four Weeks on the Job, Still in Defiance/Violation of ILO Rulings, Still Engaging in PR and Face-Saving Distraction Instead
• Dysfunctional State of the EPO and Benoît Battistelli's Shadow
• As the Quality of European Patents Sinks António Campinos Must Heed China's Warning, Not Copy SIPO/TIPO
• Alexandre Benalla, Macron's Violent Bodyguard, Was Also Battistelli's Bodyguard
• Under António Campinos the EPO's Appeal Boards, Including the Enlarged Board of Appeal, Still Lack Independence
• China Belatedly Tackles Patent Trolls, Albeit After Giving Them the Green Light With Broad and Low-Quality Patents Such as Software Patents (partly about EPO)
• 'Efficiency' in Action: António Campinos is Sending Jobs Abroad, Then Gagging Critics
• The EPO (European Patent Office) Under António Campinos is Just Another Battistelli EPO; Still UPC and Software Patents Lobbying
• Erosion of Patent Justice in Europe With Kangaroo Courts and Low-Quality European Patents
• Mafia Tactics in Team UPC and Battistelli's Circle
• The EPO — Like the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and Unitary Patent System — is an Untenable Mess
• Software Patents Royalty (Tax) Campaign by IBM, a Serial Patent Bully, and the EPO's Participation in All This
• The European Council Needs to Check Battistelli's Back Room Deals/Back Door/Backchannel With Respect to Christian Archambeau
• Yesterday's Misleading News From Team UPC and Its Aspiring Management of the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
• Time for the European Commission to Investigate EPO Corruption Because It May be Partly or Indirectly Connected to EU-IPO, an EU Agency
• Cautionary Tale: ILO Administrative Tribunal Cases (Appeals) 'Intercepted' Under António Campinos
• Number of Oppositions to Grants/Awards of European Patents at the EPO Has Skyrocketed, Based on Internal Data
• 'Transaction' Complete: Former EPO Executive From Belgium Takes the Seat of António Campinos at EU-IPO
• EPO Abuses Against People With Disabilities Followed by Legal Bullying?
• Weeks Later António Campinos Still in Noncompliance With the Courts (ILO’s Tribunal)
• Constitutionality and CJEU as Barriers, the UPC Agreement (UPCA) is Already Moot in the United Kingdom
• It's Not About EPO 'Backlog' But About Faking 'Production' by Lowering Standards
• 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'
• Signs of Upcoming Changes at EPO: Raimund Lutz, Željko Topić and Other 'Team Battistelli' Folks Are Being Replaced
• Actions — Not Mere Words — Are Needed to Improve Patent Quality and Climate at the European Patent Office
• Project Battistelli: Documenting the Ugly and Illegal Things Battistelli Did at the EPO
• 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…”
• One Week of António Campinos at the EPO: Early Uncertainty
• Team UPC Suggested Changing Constitutions to Facilitate the Unconstitutional UPC. It Didn't Go Well...
• German Media Compares Team Battistelli at the EPO to the Mafia
• No, Europe Does Not Gear up for the Unitary Patent, But Team UPC Wants Everyone to Think So and EPO Amplifies These Lies
• António Campinos Tries to Come Across as a Goodwill Manager, But He Will be Judged by His Actions, Not by His Words
• EPO Protest/s Suppressed Even at the Opening of a Construction Site for Battistelli's Guests
• Cartoon on Brexistelli: “The End of a Dictatorship”
• Staff Union of the EPO: “ILO-AT Remains Very Much an Employer’s Court” (Not Employees')
• Yesterday's UPC Event Was a Reminder That Team Battistelli is Still in Charge of the European Patent Organisation, Fronting for Team UPC
• First Act of António Campinos: Pushing the Unconstitutional Unitary Patent (UPC)
• IAM is Still Working for Benoît Battistelli and His Toxic Agenda
• First Day for António Campinos is Done, But Some Media is Still Publishing 90th-Minute Battistelli Puff Pieces
• Asked by the Media Why European Inventor Award Was Held in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the EPO Refuses to Explain
• Patent Law Firms Have Become Debased and Intolerant of Courts/Judges, Just Like EPO Management (partly about EPO)
• Stop Patenting Life, Nature is Not an Invention (partly about EPO)
• The EPO's Attacks on Bloggers Other Than Me (and ILO-AT Being Utterly Unpredictable)
• Welcoming António Campinos, New President of the European Patent Office

June

• Team UPC's Radicals, Firms Like Bristows LLP, Have Decided That It's Time to Change Constitutions to Accommodate Clearly Unconstitutional Unitary Patent (UPC)
• Union Syndicale Fédérale: Apparently ILO Considered Kicking Out the EPO for Repeatedly Refusing and Failing to Obey the Law
• WirtschaftsWoche Authors Articles About Corruption of the European Patent Office
• Insults, Lies and Propaganda on Battistelli's Last Day at the European Patent Office
• Three Days Later Still Not a Single Word From the EPO About Union Busting Gone Awry and Court Orders to Reinstate/Promote Staff Representatives
• Eight Years of Battistelli
• President Benoît Battistelli is Finished, But the Huge Mess He Has Created is Not
• 'Party Poopers': Protests Greet Battistelli's Premature Inauguration of an Unfinished Building That Caused Massive Losses
• SUEPO and EPO Staff Respond to Yesterday's ILO-AT Rulings on Malika Weaver, Ion Brumme, and Elizabeth Hardon
• J A Kemp Pushing the Boundaries of Patent Scope in Europe With Antibodies and SPCs
• Corruption at the EPO Should be a Subject Anybody Can Speak About, Even Insiders
• Something is Clearly Wrong and Patently Defunct at ILO/ILO-AT
• Perfect Metaphor for Benoît Battistelli: Unfinished Work That Nobody Likes and Which Causes Truly Massive Losses
• Battistelli is 'Pulling a Lamy' With a Lot More Money at Stake (and Examiners' Future)
• This Afternoon ILO Has an Opportunity to Salvage Its Reputation (or Reaffirm Growing Suspicions That It Has Been Compromised by the EPO)
• The EPO Seems to Have Corrupted ILO/ILO-AT Like It Corrupted the Media and Academia (Using 'Toxic' EPO Budget)
• Benoît Battistelli's 'Dowry' From the Administrative Council of the EPO
• The ILO Tribunal: Is It Still Worthy of Our Trust?
• 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)
• Patent Factory Europe (PFE) is a Patent Troll's Publicity Stunt, Attempting to Frame a Predator as the Small Businesses' Friend and Ally
• Mainstream Media in Germany Covers Battistelli's Corruption at the EPO Just as He Leaves
• “Dr Ernst Should be Forced by National Politicians to Step Down With Immediate Effect” After Battistelli's Latest EPO Scandals
• Battistelli and Topić Lose Their Bogus 'Case' Against Judge Corcoran After They Defamed Him and Ruined His Career/Life
• 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
• EPO Insiders Correct the Record of Benoît Battistelli’s Tyranny and Abuse of Law: “Legal Harassment and Retaliation”
• Articles About a Unitary Patent System Are Lies and Marketing From Law Firms With 'Lawsuits Lust'
• The Decline in Patent Quality at the EPO Causes Frivolous Lawsuits That Only Lawyers Profit From
• What Battistelli's Workers Think of His Latest EPO Propaganda
• More Media Reports About Decline in Quality of European Patents (Granted by the EPO)
• Beware Team UPC's Biggest Two Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
• Diversity at the EPO
• The EPO's Response to the Open Letter About Decline in Patent Quality as the Latest Example of Arrogance and Resistance to Facts, Truth
• The 'Artificial Intelligence' (AI) Hype, Propped Up by Events of the European Patent Office (EPO), is Infectious and It Threatens Patent Quality Worldwide
• The '4iP Council' is a Megaphone of Team UPC and Team Battistelli at the EPO
• Grünecker, Hoffmann Eitle, Maiwald and Vossius & Partner Find the Courage to Express Concerns About Battistelli's Ugly Legacy and Low Patent Quality
• IAM Concludes Its Latest Anti-§ 101 Think Tank, Featuring Crooked Benoît Battistelli
• Buzzwords and Three-Letter Acronyms Still Abused by the EPO to Grant a Lot of Patents on Algorithms
• Corrupt Benoît Battistelli Promotes Software Patents in IAM's Patent Trolls-Funded Event in the United States
• The EPO’s ‘Expert’ Georg Weber is Still Advocating Software Patents in Europe (But He Disguises Them Using Buzzwords)
• Battistelli's EPO is Outdoing North Korea When It Comes to Propaganda and Abuses Against Staff
• Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe Blind to Its Participation in a Scam Around Patents on Nature (latter parts about the EPO)
• Another Victim of Corrupt Benoît Battistelli
• Everyone Talks About Apple's Notorious Design Patents But Not About 'Abstract' European Patents Used Against Apple and Linux
• Benoît Battistelli Should Have Received an Award for Corruption, But He Completely Controlled the Show in His Own Theatre
• Battistelli is Still Patently Delusional About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
• Patents on Nature, Life and the Environment: Lessons From EPO and Australian Courts
• Marks & Clerk Blames Battistelli’s Victims, the Boards of Appeal, Whose Job Guarded Patent Quality
• Today, at the Expense of Millions (€) of EPO Budget, Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos Engage in Shameless Self Promotion
• What Team UPC Wants: Patent Trolls, Unified Patent Court (UPC), Software Patents, and Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs)
• IP Kat as an Extension of Team UPC After Departure of the Blog's Founder
• 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
• IAM and EPO Are Almost Inseparable
• 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
• Change of Government in Spain Does Not Change the Fact That Unitary Patent (UPC) Would be Terrible for Spanish Companies
• The European Patent Office Dominates Media Coverage in the Form of Paid-For Puff Pieces, Suppresses Coverage About Corruption
• Team UPC Turns to a Spanish 'Flavour' of Unitary Patent Propaganda (Just Like Last Year)
• In Gross Violation of German Law, as Per EPO Tradition, Fronleichnam 'Stolen' by Benoît Battistelli
• The EPO's Lobbying Chief Apparently Came From Saint-Germain-en-Laye 2 Years After Benoît Battistelli
• Software Patents Are a Dying Breed of Patents Except in China (and Maybe EPO) (partly about EPO)

May

• The EPO is Demolishing European Law With Terms Like ICT, CII, AI, and 4IR
• IP Kat is Still Acting as a Propaganda Front for UPC (and EU Software Patents) Lobbying by US-Based Front Groups
• Märpel Looks at Benoît Battistelli's Toxic Financial Affairs at the EPO
• St. Germain’s “Système Lamy” and Its EPO Clone - Part 3: Shooting the Messengers and Defaming Opponents
• EUROCHAMBRES is an Echo Chamber of the Patent Litigation 'Industry' Hoping to Mislead the EU's Competitiveness Council on UPC
• The European Patent Office: From Patent Maximalism to Corruption and Gerrymandering
• St. Germain’s “Système Lamy” and Its EPO Clone - Part 2: Misinformation and Silencing of Dissent
• St. Germain’s “Système Lamy” and Its EPO Clone - Part 1: Rubber-stamp Committees and Secret Meetings
• Guest Series: Système Lamy and Système Battistelli at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• Software Patents Advocacy and UPC Lies Go Hand in Hand
• Index for EPO and Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of "Toxic Loans" Series
• Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of "Toxic Loans": Quo Vadis EPO?
• Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of "Toxic Loans": The SIDRU “Toxic Loan” Débâcle a Case of “Take the Money and Run...”
• EPO, a Longtime Privacy Offender, Uses General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Day to Lie to the Public
• The Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court (UPC): This Week's Latest Spin and Lies
• Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of "Toxic Loans": The SIDRU “Toxic Loan” Débâcle and Criticism of Lamy From Local Opposition Groups
• New EPO Caricature: The Rubber Stamp
• Perpetuating the Big Lie That Unitary Patent (UPC) is About to Kick Off
• EPO Validation in Former French Colonies That Have Zero European Patents
• Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of "Toxic Loans": The Cautionary Tale of SIDRU and Its “Toxic Loans”
• 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
• Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of "Toxic Loans": The Emperor’s New Investment Guidelines
• Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of "Toxic Loans": Cautionary Tale for the EPO?
• António Campinos Will Push Toward a France-Based Unified Patent Court (UPC)
• Aurélien Pétiaud's ILO Case (EPO Appeal) an Early Sign That ILO Protects Abusers and Power, Not Workers
• Système Battistelli (ENArque) at the EPO is Inspired by Système Lamy in Saint-Germain-en Laye
• Fishy Things Noticed Ahead of the Passage of a Lot of EPO Budget (Applicants' Money) to Battistelli's Other (and Simultaneous) Employer
• Today's EPO Financially Rewards Abuses and Violations of the Law
• So-Called 'System Battistelli' is Destroying the EPO, Warn Insiders
• Rise in Patent Trolls' Activity in Germany Noted Amid Declining Patent Quality at the EPO
• EPO's Battistelli Taking Days Off Work for Political 'Duties' (Parties) in His French Theatre Where He'll Bring Buckets of EPO Budget (EPO Stakeholders' Money)
• The EPO's 'Inventor Award' Scam: Part III
• EPO Has Become Overzealous About Software Patents, Probably More So Than Almost Anywhere Else
• The EPO Has Become Extremely Corrupt and Dishonest
• Reader's Post: The Last Delusion of Benoît Battistelli Before His Departure on June 30th
• EPO-Funded Propaganda for Software Patents Reaches as Far as East Asia and the EPO Then Brags About That
• Guest Article: Battistelli's Salary in Saint-Germain-en-Laye Nearly Quadrupled Last Year
• EPO Staff Deprived and Denied Basic Rights, Even Justice, But Almost Nobody in the 'Mainstream' Wants to Talk About It
• The EPO's 'Inventor Award' Scam: Part II
• Report on the (Mal)Functioning of the ILOAT From the 332nd Session of the ILO Governing Body
• The EPO's 'Inventor Award' Scam: Part I
• EPO Scandals Are Far Worse Than FIFA's (or Even Emissionsgate/Dieselgate), But Will European Media Belatedly Realise This?
• Barker Brettell is Wrong About Unified Patent Court (UPC) and the United Kingdom
• Rumours Confirmed: Latest EPO Official Journal Misused to Promote Battistelli's (and Campinos') Employer, Another EPO Employee Has Just Been 'Corcoranised'
• The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Not Happening, But Kluwer Patent Blog Pretends It's Already in Force
• EPO Policy (Squashing Examination) is Already Crashing Stocks, Destroying Companies
• Forward Pharma an Example of the Devastating Effect of Granting Patents in Error -- A Problem Appeal Boards Must Correct
• Guest Article: More Battistelli Revelations From the Archives of the Municipal Council of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
• Rumour: The European Patent Office Has Just 'Done a Patrick Corcoran' Again (Forced Removal)
• News From the Frontline: EPO Continues Unabated on Its Destructive Path
• The European Patent Office's Decline in Patent Quality a 'Blessing' in Disguise But Mostly a Curse to Apple
• If Anyone Has Defamed the European Patent Organisation/Office (EPO) It's Benoît Battistelli
• The European Patent Organisation (EPO) Stopped Working and It's Also the Fault of Jesper Kongstad, Not Just Benoît Battistelli
• In the Latest EPO Official Journal (April's Publication) Battistelli's Next Employer is Mentioned Literally Hundreds of Times and Promoted in 20 Pages out of 75 Pages
• From Saint-Germain-en-Laye to Strasbourg, Even the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Might Side With Nicolas Sárközy's Thug at the EPO
• Elizabeth Holmes Charged With “Massive Fraud” and Team Battistelli Rushes to Distance Itself From Her
• Guest Article: Benoît Battistelli's Election as Deputy Mayor Was Pre-announced in the Local Press
• Bristows LLP Already Uses Kluwer Patent Blog and IP Kat as Its UPC Megaphone, Now IAM as Well
• Marks & Clerk is Still Pushing Patent Maximalism Agenda in Europe and Britain, Including UPC/UPCA/Unitary Patent (UP)
• The European Patent Office Has Become a Kakistocracy
• Not Enough Opposition/s to Wrongly-Granted European Patents
• Battistelli's Alleged 'Success' is Like That of the United States Mint
• People Are Belatedly Asking All Those 'Awkward' Questions About UPC and the Lies Told by Team UPC
• A Test for European Media: Will It Cover the Battistelli-TAD Scandal Like It Covered FIFA Scandals?

April

• The European Patent System is Nowadays Based on a 'Banana Republic' Model
• Team UPC and Team Battistelli in IP Kat and IAM
• Guest Article: Is the EPO Deliberately Disseminating “False Facts” About Benoît Battistelli's Political Activities in Saint-Germain-en-Laye?
• EPO Gazette: The Obligatory EPO Propaganda That Paints an Oppressive Office as 'Fun and Games'
• Even Vocal Proponents of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Admit That There Are 'Holes' in the Announcement From Sam Gyimah
• Short: EPO Paid for 'Study' (Corrupting Academia) to Push Unitary Patent Agenda, Then Advertised the Outcome
• Short: The EPO is Limiting Itself to Microsoft Office and PowerPoint (the 'Special Relationship')
• Short: Adding a Sense of Fear/Perceived Threat to the EPO With Number Plate Recognition (Surveillance)
• Short: Quality, Quality, Quality, Quality. Just Keep Repeating This Lie and Hope It'll Stick.
• British Technology News Sites Point Out the Absurdity of Ratifying UPC in the UK Amid Brexit
• The EPO Grants Software Patents Under the 'CII' Umbrella, Mass Litigation in Europe Already a Problem
• Short: EPO Brags About EPO-Bribed Media Covering EPO-Funded 'Study'
• In Protest of IP Kat No Longer Covering EPO Abuses, Märpel Rises in “R.I.P. Kat”
• Short: EPO Says That Most (Over 50%) of Patent Applications at the EPO Are Software Patents
• 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
• Like a Cancer, EPO-Bribed Media Continues to Produce Puff Pieces for Benoît Battistelli
• World IP Day, a Propaganda Opportunity for Patent Maximalists, is Becoming More About Feminism (partly about EPO)
• Britain Has Not Fully Completed Unified Patent Court (UPC) Ratification and It Remains Incompatible With Brexit
• With Unified Patent Court (UPC) on Its Death Throes, Team UPC Now Resorts to Promoting Pertinent Parts of the Agreement (UPCA)
• Reporting Benoît Battistelli Before He Too 'Pulls a Željko Topić'
• Battistelli Misuses EPO Budget to Saturate the European Media With Puff Pieces About His Event
• Battistelli's EPO Continues to Promote Software Patents and Even Pays the Media to Play Along, Impacting Other Continents
• The European Patent Office (EPO) Wastes a Lot of Money on External PR Agencies for Battistelli's 'Heist'
• Today's EPO is Not Compatible With the Law and It's Grossly Incompatible With Truth and Justice
• Holding Benoît Battistelli Accountable After the EPO
• Today's European Patent Office Works for Patent Extremists and for Team UPC Rather Than for Europe or for Innovation
• The EPO is Dying and Those Who Have Killed It Are Becoming Very Rich in the Process
• Short: Just Keep Repeating the Lie (“Quality”) Until People Might Believe It
• EPO Hoards Billions of Euros (Taken From the Public), Decreases Quality to Get More Money, Reduces Payments to Staff
• Short: Calling Battistelli's Town (Where He Works) “Force for Innovation” to Justify the Funneling of EPO Funds to It
• Short: EPO Bribes the Media and Then Brags About the Paid-for Outcome to Staff
• Short: EPO's “Working Party for Quality” is to Quality What the “Democratic People's Republic of Korea” is to Democracy
• Short: This Spring's Message From the EPO's President (Corrected)
• Short: Highly Misleading and Unscientific Graphics From the EPO for an Illusion of Growth
• Short: EPO Explains to Examiners Why They Should and Apparently Can Grant Software Patents (in Spite of EPC)
• When News About the EPO is Dominated by Sponsored 'Reports' and Press Releases Because Publishers Are Afraid of (or Bribed by) the EPO
• The Boards of Appeal at the European Patent Organisation (EPO) Complain That They Are Understaffed, Not Just Lacking the Independence They Depend on
• Guest Post: Responding to Your Recent Posting “The European Patent Office Will Never Hold Its Destroyers Accountable”
• The EPO in 2018: Partnering With Saudi Arabia and Cambodia (With Zero European Patents)
• The EPO Continues to Lie About Patent Quality Whilst Openly Promoting Software Patents, Even Outside Europe
• The European Patent Office (EPO) Grants Patents in Error, Insiders Are Complaining That It's the Management's Fault
• The European Patent Office Will Never Hold Its Destroyers Accountable
• With Liars Like These...
• Killing Patent Quality and Encouraging ‘Covert’ Software Patents Using the Buzzwords Du Jour
• Crisis of Quality at the EPO Extends to Staff (Notably Examiners) and Management as Institutional Integrity is Severely Compromised
• The 'Blockchaining' of Software Patents (to Dodge the Rules/Guidelines) Now Coming to Europe
• One Last Battistelli Heist: Millions of Euros for Saint-Germain-en-Laye
• EPO in 'Low Profile' Mode, Only to be Mentioned in Relation to India's Oil Drilling/Miners
• Patent Maximalists Against Patent Quality and Against the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Organisation (EPO)
• Team UPC’s and Team Battistelli's Lobbying Not Over Yet, Even Though the UPC is Likely Dead for Good
• 'SIPO Europe': More Low-Quality Patents at Lower Costs
• The European Patent Office (EPO) Will Need to Acknowledge It Has a Patent Quality Issue, Then Tackle It or Perish
• The Mass Litigation Lobby Craves for Patent Armageddon (partly about EPO)
• Benoît Battistelli's Era Yields Not Only Invalid and Harmful Monopolies But Also Breeds Distrust and Layoffs
• Anonymous USPTO Whistleblower Explained Internal Management Affairs Last Month (partly about EPO)
• (Joke) António Campinos Withdraws From Plan to Directly Run the EPO, Patent Office to be Run by Google ‘AI’ Instead
• EPO is Untrustworthy

March

• Senator Jean-Yves Leconte Accuses EPO and/or ILO of Injustice, But Don't Expect Media to Notice or Cover It
• Patent Quality, Not Quantity, is What Really Matters
• The Administrative Council of the EPO Continues to Reaffirm Complicity in Battistelli's Abuses
• Professionals' Survey: Almost Everybody (90%) Accepts That EPO Patent Quality Has Fallen Under Battistelli
• Benoît Battistelli the Latest Example of Massive Bonuses Given to People Who Destroyed Their Own Organisation
• China's Equivalent of PTAB and BoA, the Patent Reexamination Board (PRB), Can Confirm Some Chinese Patents Are of Low Quality (partly about EPO)
• Team Battistelli and Team UPC Are Both Very Deep in Denial
• Guest Post: Battistelli's Former “Padrone” Facing Corruption Charges in France
• The European Patent Office’s (EPO) Declining Patent Quality 'Tackled' by Making Appeals/Oppositions Harder and More Expensive
• The Federation of International Civil Servants' Association: Frenchman “Campinos is Known for Having Close Ties to Mr. Battistelli Who Strongly Supported His Candidacy.”
• Japan is Becoming Firmer on Patents, Whereas China Goes in the Opposite Direction (partly about EPO)
• Battistelli's Ongoing Attacks on the Boards Are Helping Unitary Patent (UPC), Which in Turn Helps French Patent Trolls
• SUEPO: “Today May Be Your Last Chance to Demonstrate Against the Seriously Flawed Reforms That Mr Battistelli Has Imposed” on EPO Staff
• Battistelli's EPO Became Extremely Reliant on China for Distraction and on Endless Supply of Applications (Supply Which Doesn't Exist)
• UPC/Battistelli Booster IAM Blames Brexit Rather Than EPO Abuses
• European Commission Again Urged to Tackle Abuses at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• Luxembourg Can Become a Hub of Patent Trolls If the EPO Carries on With Its 'Reforms', Even Without the UPC
• The Patent 'Printing Machine' of the EPO Will Spawn Many Lawsuits and Extortions (Threats of Lawsuits), in Effect Taxing Europe
• Deleted EPO Tweets and Promotion of Software Patents Amid Complaints About Abuse and Demise of Patent Quality
• Guest Post: Suspected “Whitewashing” Operations by Željko Topić in Croatia
• Monumental Effort to Highlight Decline in Quality of European Patents (a Quarter of Examiners Sign Petition in Spite of Fear), Yet Barely Any Press Coverage
• Careful Not to Conflate UPC Critics With AfD or Anti-EU Elements
• 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
• The EPO is a Mess Under Battistelli and Stakeholders Including Law Firms Will Suffer, Not Just EP Holders
• The EPO Under Battistelli Has Become Like China Under Xi and CPC
• LWilly Minnoye (EPO) Threatened Staff With Disabilities Said to Have Been Caused by the EPO Work Pressures
• EPO Staff Union Organises Protest to Complain About Inability “of the Office to Recruit the Highly Qualified Staff it Needs.”
• Battistelli Likes to Describe His Critics as 'Nazis', Team UPC Will Attempt the Same Thing Against UPC Critics
• Session in Bavaria to Discuss the Abuses of the European Patent Office Later Today
• EPO Patent 'Growth' Not Achieved But Demanded/Mandated by Battistelli, by Lowering Quality of Patents/Services
• Doubt Over Independence of Judges at the EPO Clouds Reason in Deciding Regarding Patents on Life
• Glimmer of Hope for the EPO's Boards of Appeal as Bavarian Parliament 'Regroups' on Tuesday
• The EPO's PR Department Receives Return on Investment (Puff Pieces) for Paying the Media
• The European Patent Office (EPO) Ought to Lead in Patent Scope, Not Slide to the Bottom of the Pile
• Patent Trolls and Their Lobbyists Continue to Attack Academics Who Warn About Patent Trolls in Europe
• EPO Hires External PR Agencies to Control Coverage of Its Annual Report, Deny Investigative Journalism
• Benoît Battistelli and Confidants Like Bergot Want to Make a Lot of EPO Staff Redundant Without the Staff Ever Noticing
• The Right-Wing Alternative für Deutschland Opposes Unitary Patent (UPC), Just Like UKIP in Britain
• Guest Post: EPO Defrauds Small Patent Applicant Company, Asha Nutrition Sciences, in Collusion with Applicant’s Own Lawyer…
• EPO Annual Results/Report: Revenue From Patent Applications is Apparently Down Yet Again and Work is Running Out
• There's No Patent Trolls Problem in Europe, Say Law Firms That Represent and Front for Patent Trolls
• The European Patent Office is Buying 'Alternative Facts' and Its Annual Report Will be More of the Same
• Dr. Thorsten Bausch: Quality of European Patents Going Down, “Likely Caused by the Current EPO Policy Focusing too Much on 'Production'.”
• UPC and Beyond: Constitutional Issues Cannot be Brushed Under the Carpet
• EPO Annual Report Will Dominate the News Next Week, Whereas Unitary Patent (UPC) is a Goner
• Next Week's Annual Report From the EPO Will Say Nothing About Decline in Patent Quality
• Battistelli's Last Four Months: Peak Censorship at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• Élodie Bergot Meets Barbra Streisand: Here is the Letter the EPO's Bergot is Trying Really Hard to Hide/Censor
• European Patent Office (EPO) in Chaos and Attempting to Silence the Staff Would Only Exacerbate Matters
• The Latest Bristows Spin Distracts From the Fact that Britain Has No Intention of Ratifying UPC and Brexit Agreement Altogether Omits It
• Élodie Bergot Threatens Staff Representatives Who Spread Information About the EPO
• The UPC is Dead, But Team UPC is Lying to British Politicians in an Effort to Trick Them
• USF Warns Campinos (EPO President in 4 Months) of “Extreme” Situation at the EPO
• The European Patent Office (EPO) Should Lead the Way in Combating Patents on Nature and on Life
• Similar Scandal at the USPTO (to Battistelli's Nepotism) and Upcoming Lies About 'Results' (in Annual Report, Out Next Week)

February

• The EPO's Appeal Boards Remain Utterly Dependent and Far From Impartial After Battistelli's Assault on Their Independence
• EPO Refuses to Admit that Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Dead, But It's Boosting Others Who Are Lying About It for a Living
• Changes Introduced by the EPO's Administrative Council Made It Abundantly Clear That Separation of Powers Does Not Exist for Independence of Judges
• The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Dead, But Spin From Team UPC is Now Abundant
• EPO Roundup: Low Profile, Employment Changes, Patent Trolls, Refusal to Obey Courts, and Animal Breeding Patents
• As Expected, Bristows and Others Already Lying About UPC Status in Germany, But Doing This Anonymously (to Dodge Accountability for Lies)
• Further Attacks on EPO Staff and the Appeal Boards; Former EPO Boards of Appeal Member Speaks About EPO Scandals
• End of the UPC Lobby and Withdrawal of UPCA May Seem Imminent
• EPO's Board 28 Spikes Article 53 in CA/3/18, Apparently After Battistelli Withdrew It
• Rumour: European Patent Office to Lay Off a Significant Proportion of Its Workforce
• The Patent Trolls' Lobby, Bristows and IAM Among Others, Downplays Darts-IP/IP2Innovate Report About Rising If Not Soaring Troll Activity in Europe
• The Patent Microcosm's Embrace of Buzzwords and False Marketing Strives to Make Patent Examiners Redundant and Patent Quality Extremely Low
• Today, at 12:30 CET, Bavarian State Parliament Will Speak About EPO Abuses
• Another Loud Warning From EPO Workers About the Decline of Patent Quality
• UPC Optimism Languishes Even Among Paid UPC Propagandists Such as IAM
• 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
• Bavarian State Parliament Has Upcoming Debate About Issues Which Can Thwart UPC for Good
• The EPO is Being Destroyed and There's Nothing Left to Replace It Except National Patent Offices
• The Latest Lies About Unitary Patent (UPC) and the EPO
• Speech Deficit and No Freedom of Association at the EPO
• No, Britain is Not Ratifying 'Unitary' Anything, But Team UPC Insinuates It Will (Desperate Effort to Affect Tomorrow's Outcome)
• The EPO's Paid Promotion of Software Patents Gets Patent Maximalists All Excited and Emboldened
• The EPO Now Censors the Central Staff Committee Like It Used to Censor SUEPO
• Watch Out for Buzzwords That Are Used to Mask Patents on Software, Even in Europe
• EPO Opposition to CRISPR Patents Has Wide-Ranging and Far-Reaching Impact, But Mind Not the Lobbyists
• Patent Maximalists Won't Get Their Way and UPC Will Likely Never Happen (Even After Battistelli)
• Pharma Patents Have Become Harder to Enforce, So IAM Together With the Patent Microcosm Sets Up Lobbying Events (partly about EPO)
• Statistics About Patents in the US Are Encouraging as These Suggest Ongoing Improvements (partly about EPO)
• In Spite of Suppression Attempts, Resistance to UPC and EPO Tyranny Still Enters Kluwer Patent Blog
• The Relationship Between IAM and the EPO's President Battistelli Tightens Further After Payments for UPC Promotion
• Lawyer Fraud and the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
• Team UPC is Working Overtime to Impose UPC on Europe, Based on a Pile of Lies
• The EPO's Working Party on Quality is Battistelli's Own Ministry of Truth
• When INPI Met INPI and IAM Met the EPO
• The UPC Lobby Wants to Crush the Boards of Appeal (BoA) While EPO Changes Rules of Procedure of the BoA
• Mark Rutte Under Pressure to Stop Battistelli's EPO From Violating Laws With Impunity
• Team UPC Resorts to Paid 'Articles' and Lobbying With Battistelli in an Effort to Cause the UK and Germany to Ignore Their Own Laws
• Patent Filings in India Are Declining, Just Like at the European Patent Office (partly about EPO)
• Battistelli Works With IAM and Pays European Media to Promote Software Patents in Europe
• IAM Magazine, Authored by Benoît Battistelli, is Rubbish Compared to Patent Scholars
• India and Europe Do Not Permit Software Patents, But Patent Law Firms Try to Work Around the Law
• Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on "Jurisdictional Immunity of International Organisations and Rights of Their Staff"
• The European Council Confirms That the Unitary/Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA) is “Outside the Legal Framework of the European Union”
• Too Much to Cover Up at the EPO, the UN, and UN Agencies

January

• The UPC/SEP/FRAND Lobby Has Resorted to Just Insulting the Opposition
• Patent Justice at the EPO is as Bad as Justice for Workers
• Even Kluwer Patent Blog Decides to Comment on the EPO's Bizarre Financial Behaviour
• The Failure of ILO’s Administrative Tribunal Highlights Poor State of Justice in Europe and Worldwide
• A Danish Company Has Just Collapsed Due to Patent Quality Issues at the EPO
• ILO Has Once Again Let Down Labour at the EPO by Siding With Union Busters
• The EPO's Central Staff Committee Explains How Battistelli's Attacks on Judge Corcoran Annul Any Perception of Independence
• Another Blow for the Unitary Patent (UPC) as More Delays Are Confirmed, Court Won't Rule on Constitutional Issues Any Time Soon
• Patents on Life at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• Quality of Service and Quality of Patents at the EPO Are Both at Peril
• The Corcoran Incident Demonstrates That the EPO's Boards of Appeal Are Threatened and Battistelli Violates Laws
• The 'Collusion': IP Kat's (Until Recently) Stephen Jones Meets Battistelli to Lobby for the Unitary Patent (UPC)
• Sam Gyimah Replaced Jo Johnson More Than a Fortnight Ago, But Team UPC Has Ignored It Until Now
• The EPO is Already in Violation of ILO Rulings on Judge Corcoran
• 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
• Justice Still Elusive at the EPO and ILOAT, But a Glimmer of Hope Remains
• Team UPC Has Been Reduced to Rubble and Misinformation
• CRISPR Patent Debacle Demonstrated That Opposition Divisions Do Their Job, But Also Highlighted Serious Deficiency in Patent-Granting Process
• Confidence in European Patents (EPs) is Eroding and Stakeholders Are Already Suffering
• Even More Uncertain a Future for the Independence of the EPO Boards of Appeal as Judge Corcoran Too Gets Sent to 'Exile'
• The Response to Accusations of Censorship by Team UPC? Yet More Censorship to Shield UPC From Criticism
• Team UPC Calls Critics of the UPC Idiots, Deletes Their Comments, and Blocks Them
• How the Opposition to CRISPR Patents at the EPO Sent Shockwaves Through the Industry
• Patent Quality (Not Numbers) as an Asset: Oppositions, Appeals and Rejections at the EPO
• The EPO Ignores This Week's Decision Which Demonstrates Patent Scope Gone Awry; Software Patents Brought Up Again
• Patent Prosecution Highway: Low-Quality Patents for High-Frequency Patent Aggressors
• Press Coverage About the EPO Board Revoking Broad's CRISPR Patent
• No Patents on Life (CRISPR), Said EPO Boards of Appeal Just a Few Hours Ago
• Only Two Weeks on the Job, Judge Patrick Corcoran is Already Being Threatened by EPO Management
• EPO Board of Appeal Has an Opportunity to Stop Controversial Patents on Life
• EPO Management and Team UPC Carry on Lying About Unified Patent Court, Sinking to New Lows in the Process
• EPO Scandals Played a Considerable Role in Sinking the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
• European Patent Office Causes Physical Harm to Employees, Then Fires Them
• Battistelli Was Always (Right From the Start and Since Candidacy) All About Money
• “Under the Intergovernmental EPC System It is Difficult to Speak of a Functional Separation of Powers”
• Automotives, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 Among the Buzz Terms Used to Bypass Alice and the EPC Nowadays
• EPC Foresaw the Administrative Council Overseeing the Patent Office, Jesper Kongstad Made It “Working Together”
• 2010: Blaming the Messenger (SUEPO) for Staff Unhappiness at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• 2010: Deterioration of Working Conditions (e.g. Office Space) for EPO Staff
• Budget at the EPO Decided Before Consultation
• Less Than Half a Year in the Job, Battistelli Already Disobeys/Disregards Rulings From ILO's Tribunal
• Only Half a Year in the Job, Battistelli Breaks EPO Nomination Rules
• Dr. Derk Visser's Book About the European Patent Convention (EPC) Explains What Battistelli Has Done
• Late on a Friday is a Good Time to Spread Misinformation About Unified Patent Court (UPC) Without Being Challenged
• EPO Lobby and Team UPC's 'Resistance' to the UPC Opposition in Germany
• 126th Session of the ILO Administrative Tribunal is Around the Corner and EPO Staff Representatives Will Have Their Cases Heard Soon
• The European Parliament JURI Mission to Munich Looks Like Complicity With EPO Abuses
• Benoît Battistelli Lies About Patent Quality; the Numbers Speak for Themselves However
• Jo Johnson's Departure is Another Major Blow for Team UPC (Unified Patent Court)
• Battistelli's Year 1 at EPO: General Advisory Committee Not Being Provided Crucial Information
• Battistelli's Year 1 at EPO: Using 'Staff Dignity' as a Pretext to Attack the Dignity of EPO Staff and Staff Representatives
• Possible Explanation for German Media Barely Covering Very Major EPO Scandals
• For European Patents to Maintain Value the EPO Must Fix Patent Quality and Attract 'Expensive' (High-Calibre) Staff
• President Battistelli Silently Curtailed Part Time Home Working Introduced by His British Predecessor, Alison Brimelow
• How the Creation of a Role for 'Chief Information Officer' at the EPO Came About
• Anonymous “Kluwer Patent Blogger” is Probably Just Bristows LLP Hiding Its Identity While It Publicly Lies or Distorts Facts About UPC
• The Mystery and Secrecy of the Decision to Disband the EPO's Auditory Function After Battistelli Became President
• Shortly After His EPO Appointment Benoît Battistelli Already Ignored the Judicial System of the EPO
• Staff of the EPO Has Had No Concrete Participatory Role at the EPO for at Least 7 Years
• President Battistelli Has Acted Like a King Since His Early Days at the EPO
• Élodie Bergot's HR Roadmap Explained by EPO Staff Representatives
• The European Patent Office Suffers an Unprecedented Patent Quality Crisis Reminiscent of the World's Worst Offices
• Sane Responses to the Latest Pressure From Team UPC Amid Brexit Negotiations
• The EPO's Attack on the Boards of Appeal Dooms the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Team UPC Alters Its Tactics
• Translation Shows That Carl Josefsson and Christoph Ernst Refuse to Comment on EPO Injustice as It Might Embarrass Battistelli
• Battistelli's Attacks on Judge Corcoran Threaten Not Only the EPC But Also UPC
• Job Applicants at the EPO Disappointed, Reference Made in Interview to Slavery
• EPO Management Claims “Higher Quality Patents” and Everyone at the EPO Knows That It's a Face-Saving Lie
• 2018 Starts at the EPO and Both EPC and UPC Are in State of Crisis
• EPO Has Become an 'Investment Bank'
• Raw: Separation of Powers Obliterated by EPO President and Vice-Presidents
• Raw: Battistelli's Stacking of the General Advisory Committee Not Legal, Asserted Staff Representatives
• Raw: Battistelli Puts ‘Team Battistelli’ in Charge of ‘Scrutinising’ His Proposals
• Raw: EPO Violates ILO Rulings by Denying the Consultation Process Access to Vital Information
• Raw: Justice at the EPO Sometimes Comes Before Death
• EPO Insiders: EPO Has Become a Hoarder Rather Than a Patent Office
• Raw: Battistelli Comes Up With a "Chief Information Officer" Role and Offers This Position to Man From Same Place as Him
• Raw: Central Staff Committee Explains the Upper Limb Disorder (ULD) Crisis at the EPO
• Raw: The EPO's Disregard for Christmas and New Year's Days Off
• How Institut International des Brevets (IIB), INPADOC and Other Historic Endeavours Relate to EPO and DG1/DG2
• Not Everyone Would Run the European Patent Office Like Benoît Battistelli Does

2017

December

• Raw: Battistelli Had Already Spoiled the Independence of the EPO's Boards of Appeal More Than Half a Decade Ago
• Raw: EPO Was Forewarned About the Investigative Unit (IU) Turning Against Law-Abiding Dissent Using Illegal Surveillance
• Raw: Circular Decision-Making as Consultation at the EPO Done by Same Party That Suggests and Approves Changes
• Raw: The European Patent Office (EPO) is a Cash Cow of Germany
• Raw: Fake Consultations at the EPO Give the False Impression Legal Procedures Are Followed
• Raw: Battistelli, Topić and Bergot Are Stonewalling Until Staff Representatives Speak to EPO Staff
• Raw: Battistelli Nervous About Perception of EPO Nepotism (French Cronyism) and Attacks Those Who Take Note of It
• Raw: How Battistelli Stacked (to Effectively Control) the Consultation Process Rubber-stamping All His Controversial Proposals
• Raw: EPO Staff Went on Strike, Referencing -- Among Other Things -- Battistelli's French Nepotism
• Just 3 Days Before Christmas Judge Corcoran is Told That His Boss Becomes Battistelli, Who Wants to Remain in Control for Years to Come
• Christoph Ernst Does Not Boss Benoît Battistelli Like He's Supposed to, But Battistelli's Bosses/Colleagues in France Can be Contacted
• Raw: Željko Topić's “Poorly Veiled Attempt to Intimidate Staff” of the EPO
• Raw: International Labour Organisation on Incredible (and Unsuitable/Inadequate) Promotions at the European Patent Office
• Raw: How and Why the EPO Code of Conduct (CoC) Came About
• Raw: Battistelli Uses External Lawyers to Bully Staff That Complains (Like He Repeatedly Did Against Techrights)
• Raw: École nationale d’administration (ENA) and the EPO, Where Being French Means Climbing to the Top and Dominating Recruitment/Entryism
• Raw: Battistelli the Patent Office Shark Shouting From the Rooftop (Isar)
• Raw: Rights Which the Dutch Court Ruled That the EPO Had Violation
• Raw: Central Staff Committee of the EPO Warns the Organisation That It Votes in Favour of Breaching Fundamental Rights
• Raw: When the EPO Violated German Law and ECHR Got Invoked Along With the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht)
• Battistelli Becomes Judge Corcoran's (Almost) Direct Boss and People Doubt He Will Last Long
• Raw: Željko Topić Tries to Defend an Illegal Suppression of Labour Rights
• Raw: EPO Compared to Thatcherism Amid Suppression of Bargaining/Strikes
• Raw: When the EPO Suppressed Human Rights, Including Strikes, Chairman Jesper Kongstad Supported the Suppression
• European Patent Office Works With Blue Coat Systems, Enabler of Authoritarian Regimes
• EPO Surveillance in Scanners and Printers
• Raw: Staff Union of the EPO Explains the Battistelli Operandi
• Another Option for EPO Whistleblowers
• UPC IT Working Group is Chasing Rainbows and Unicorns
• Raw: Lies Inside the EPO Gazette
• Raw: EPO Stonewalled Staff Committee, Failing to Reply to About 30 Letters in Succession
• Raw: Battistelli Threatened EPO Staff Representatives as They Walked Out
• Raw: “A Vote on Strike Action Has Turned Into a Vote of Non-Confidence.”
• Raw: Bergot and Topić Sent Threats to Hundreds of EPO Staff as Far Back as Half a Decade Ago
• Raw: LIFER Strike at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• Raw: Half of EPO Staff Went on Strike, Topić Gave False Figures
• Raw: Another Example of Battistelli Trying to Hold the EPO's Central Staff Committee Accountable for Other People's Words
• Raw: European Patent Office's Willy Minnoye Interferes With Discussion of EPO Policies
• Raw: Collective Accountability for Staff Committees Over Anonymous Letters?
• Raw: EPO 'Democracy' With No Separation of Powers and No Access to Justice
• EPO Remains in Defiance or Violation of ILO Rulings as Corcoran Contract Ends in 3 Days
• Raw: Battistelli Stacking the Deck of the Internal EPO 'Court'
• Raw: Battistelli's “Behaviour is Not Only Dangerous for the EPO Staff But is Also Putting the Reputation of the Organisation at Risks.”
• The Unitary Patent is Dying or Dead, But Team UPC Might Rebrand Again and Reattempt
• Raw: Benoît Battistelli Names Things the Opposite of What They Really Are
• Raw: Benoît Battistelli Would Not Openly Discuss Staff Suicides
• Raw: Lack of Independence of the Boards of Appeal at the EPO Poses a Serious Issue for Unitary Patent-Type Regime (UPC)
• Raw: How President Benoît Battistelli Exercises Almost Complete Control Over the Legal Process
• Raw: EPO Staff Union Illustrates Structural Deficiency of the EPO
• Raw: Consultation Process at the EPO, Rooted in Basic Rules, Has Been Compromised and Stacked by Battistelli
• Raw: Administrative Council of the EPO Was Warned 4 Years Ago About “Governance and Overall Reputation of the Organisation.”
• Raw: “The EPO is Redefining the Words “Social” and “Democracy”.”
• Raw: EPO Classifies Staff Based on Perceived 'Loyalty' and Intimidates/Punishes Those Exercising Their Rights
• Raw: Contents of Benoît Battistelli's SLAPP Letters to Staff Representatives (Sent on Friday to Limit Access to Legal Advice)
• Raw: The EPO Trusted and Used BigPulse Until the Question/Outcome No Longer Suited Benoît Battistelli
• Raw: EPO Had Sent to Staff Representatives Threatening Letters Similar to the Ones Sent to Techrights
• Raw: EPO Paving the Way to Overstressed Patent Examiners and Decreased Patent Quality
• Raw: Before the EPO Blocked Techrights and Threatened to Sue It Also Blocked Its Staff Union's Web-Based Platform and Threatened to Sue
• Raw: Philip Cordery Urged France to Withdraw/End Battistelli's Presidency at the EPO
• Raw: Battistelli's Circle (Topić and Bergot) Undermines Justice at the European Patent Office
• Raw: “Social Democracy” at the EPO Means Staff Gets to Comment on Changes That Have Already Been Implemented Anyway
• Raw: French-Led EPO Gives Air France Non-Exclusive Contract for All Staff Flights (Even Though EPO Lacks Branches in France)
• Raw: Before Battistelli Sacked Nearly a Handful of Staff Representatives He Warned a Dozen and Had Already Punished Some
• Raw: PEACES Initiative of the Staff Union of the EPO
• Patent Justice Deficit Disorder
• Raw: EPO's “Battistelli is Heading Directly Back to the Middle Ages.”
• Raw: SUEPO Connected the Unitary Patent (UPC) to Abuses at the European Patent Office
• Raw: European Patent Organisation Knew About Benoît Battistelli's Gross Nepotism for at Least Four Years, Did Nothing to Stop It
• Raw: Sylvie Jacobs, President of USF, Warns the Administrative Council of the EPO About Battistelli Nepotism and Other Abuses
• Raw: How to Tell Benoît Battistelli is Lying
• Raw: How SUEPO Explained the EPO Situation Three Years Ago
• Patent Quality Nosedives at EPO, Say Insiders Whose Permanent Contract is About to be Terminated in 8 Days to Increase Pressure to Grant Patents Sparingly
• Alexander Ramsay is Wrong, Unitary Patent (UPC) Won't Start Any Time Soon and Probably Never
• “Change of Attitude and Behaviour Needed,” Say Anonymous EPO Workers About the Management and Administrative Council
• Caricature: The European Patent Office (EPO) Career System
• Media Blackout in Most European Media Regarding the Latest Major EPO Scandal
• EPO Judicial Crisis Has Not Ended, But the Administrative Council Certainly Tries to Sell That Impression
• Christoph Ernst's Inability to Rein in the European Patent Organisation Will Doom Everything
• PTAB Bashing in the US and the Attack on the Boards of Appeal in Europe All About Lowering Patent Quality
• Today's Report From the Administrative Council (AC) of the European Patent Organisation 'Tackles' the Most Important Issue: Judge Corcoran
• Bavarian Regional Parliament Talks About the EPO's Outrageous Decisions to Simply Disregard International Courts
• CERN Staff Association Condemns the European Patent Office (EPO) for Disobeying ILO/ILOAT Judgments
• Secrecy Surrounds the Fate of Patrick Corcoran, Even AMBA is Being Kept in the Dark by Carl Josefsson
• Dr. Siegfried Broß Says UPC is in Constitutional and Democratic Grey Area, Abuses at the European Patent Office Contribute to That
• “As an EPO Employee, I Am Actually Embarrassed by the Behaviour of the President and the Administrative Council”
• Battistelli Feels as Though He's Above the Law, So No Wonder He Pursues Software Patents in Europe (Against the Rules)
• Raw: Benoît Battistelli Has Long Been Obsessed With 'Alternative Facts' (Lying) Regarding Everything
• Raw: At the EPO “Social Democracy” is Actually a Euphemism for Authoritarian Regime
• Battistelli’s ‘UPC Buddy’ Michel Barnier Helped Squash EU Intervention in Dysfunctional (Subverted by Battistelli) Administrative Council
• Raw: “Experienced Examiners Can Examine Anything.” (Even Not in Their Field!)
• The EPO Has Found 'Creative' New Ways to Bribe the Media and Promote Software Patents
• EPO Busy Distracting From Miscarriage/Abuse of Justice at the EPO (Both Office and Organisation)
• Bristows LLP/IP Kat Carrying on With Dead UPC Jingoism
• Patrick Corcoran is Innocent, Yet Battistelli Will/May Have the Power to Sack Him Next Month (in DG1)
• EPO Administrative Council Disallows Discussion About Violations of the Law by Benoît Battistelli
• Judge Corcoran Got His User ID/Desk Back (as ILO Asked), But Cannot Perform Actual Work
• Battistelli-Campinos Transition Will Be a Smooth One as the Administrative Council Remains the Same and the Boards Still Besieged
• German Media Helps Cover Up -- Not Cover -- the Latest EPO Scandal
• Team UPC's Tilmann Defends Rogue Vote at 1 AM in the Morning With Just 5% of Politicians (Those With Vested Interests) Attending
• The EPO Protest Tomorrow Isn't Just About Judge Corcoran But About the EPO as a Whole
• Claim: Judge Corcoran to Be Put Under Benoît Battistelli's Control in DG1
• The European Patent Organisation Refrains (For Nearly a Week) From Speaking About Battistelli's Abuses as Judged by ILO Tribunal
• Carl Josefsson Lets Judge Patrick Corcoran Come Back to Work at the EPO
• Bristows is Being Hammered With Negative Comments For Its Unitary Patent (UPC) Lies
• Judge Corcoran Turns to His Government for Help and EPO 'House Ban' is Finally Lifted
• Raw: Battistelli's Control/Domination Over the Boards of Appeal
• Raw: Conflicts of Interest of EPO Vice-President
• Raw: Three Years for 'Justice' (to be Disregarded by Benoît Battistelli) at ILO and Over a Decade at the EPO
• Raw: Scuttling of the General Advisory Committee and Battistelli Stacking the Deck to Have 'Yes Men' as Representatives
• Like the EPO, Taiwan/China (SIPO) Harm SMEs With a Policy of Patent Maximalism Which Fosters Litigation, Not Innovation
• Bristows Continues to Lie About Unitary Patent (UPC) in Britain Only to Get Rebutted in Comments, As Usual (Criticism Not Deleted Yet)
• The European Union Now Repeats Paid Propaganda From the EPO (Regarding the Unitary Patent)
• European Media Covers the Latest EPO Scandal and the EPO's Refusal to Obey Orders of a Court
• Antonius Tangena From the European Patent Institute (EPI) 'Aids' Željko Topić's Appointment at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• SUEPO Announces Protest, EPO Distracts From the Scandal, and Readers Spill the Beans
• EPO Scandal Spills Over to Irish Media, So It's Time for the Backstory
• Battistelli's EPO is Once Again Caught in Very Gross Violation of the European Patent Convention (EPC)
• Less Than 24 Hours Later the EPO Already Refuses to Obey Court Orders From ILO
• ILO Said Give the Judge His Job Back, But Christoph Ernst's Administrative Council Will Likely Let Him Go (Unemployed)
• Meanwhile in Eponia, Tyrant Battistelli Must be Seeking Advice on How to Refuse to Obey Court's Orders (Again)
• Battistelli's 'Mole' Lucy Neville-Rolfe is Still Trying to Push Unitary Patent (UPC) Through in the United Kingdom
• ILO is 'Forcing' Team Battistelli to Compensate the Banned Judge and Give Him Back His Job
• International Labour Organisation/ILOAT for UPC Yet Another Problem for Unitary Patent-Style Regime
• CEIPI and EPO: The Story So Far
• Another Day of EPO Injustices in Europe and Campinos/Battistelli Connections at CEIPI
• The Latest Noise About UPC in the UK
• The EPO Relies on Media Cowardice and Complicity (to Not Report Obvious Issues With Battistelli at CEIPI)
• The European Patent Office Enrages the Powerless to Empower the Super-Powerful (Outside Europe)
• French Disgrace: Teachers at CEIPI Not Happy About Benoît Battistelli as Upcoming President of the CEIPI Administrative Board
• Unified Patent Court (UPC) is “Fata Morgana”
• Raw: The EPO's Pattern of Using “Security” as Pretext for Ban on Protests
• SUEPO on “the Belief of the President That He is Above the Law.”
• How CEIPI in Strasbourg is Allegedly Facilitating Another Battistelli 'Scam' Surrounding the Unitary Patent (UPC)
• Guest Post: Free Dental Care in BRD (Banana Republik Deutschland)
• Bristows Again Rebutted, Few Days After Telling Lies and Spreading Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
• Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos Playing Musical Chairs at CEIPI
• The European Patent Office No Longer Acts Like a Patent Office But a Prosecutor
• Irish Media Coverage of the EPO
• EPO Caricature: Son of Campinos

November

• Ignore Today’s Fake News From IP Kat/Bristows, the UK is Not Ratifying the Unitary Patent (UPC)
• EPO Fiasco Deepens While the Media Writes Puff Pieces About the EPO
• EPO's Minnoye “Pushed for Quick Searches and Quick Grants, With the Result That Every Recent File Was De Facto Dealt With Under PACE.”
• ILO is About to Publish “Exceptional” Decisions, Most of Them Regarding the EPO
• EPO Spreads Two Lies Today, One About Patent 'Production' and Another About 'Quality'
• EPO Budget (Users' Money) Has Been Corrupting Media and Academia
• Buzzwords/Terms Like “Industry 4.0” or ICT as Cover for CII (Software Patents) at the EPO
• Pressure is Growing for Christoph Ernst to Stop Destruction of Career System Ahead of Arrival of Campinos as EPO President
• EPO is Already Going 'Dark' Like in China
• French Stress Levels at the EPO and Replacement of Patent Quality With 'Autopilot' (Like INPI, France)
• Benoît Battistelli and Željko Topić (EPO President and Vice-President) Try to Keep 'Independent' Judge in a Limbo
• Battistelli's Big Fat Greek Wedding at the EPO's Budget and Finance Committee
• Raw: Open Letter Regarding Likely Violations of the EPC and Damage to the EPO's Reputation
• Raw: Administrative Council of the EPO Blocked an Audit of the EPO for Corruption
• “Legal and Administrative Rules at the EPO Are Similar to Those at SIPO” (China)
• Raw: National Delegates at the EPO Stood by and Mostly Supported Battistelli While Six Staff Committed Suicide
• Early Certainty Battistelli Will be Gone Soon: “JUVE Interview Creates the Impression That Benoit Battistelli’s Term in Office is Already Over.”
• Raw: Central Staff Committee Requested EPO Audit by Transparency International One Year Before EPO Simply Hired Transparency International's Director to Become EPO Spokesperson
• Raw: Battistelli Forbade EPO Strike Ballots at Least Four Times
• Raw: Stacking the Deck to Interfere With a Fair Election at the EPO
• EPO Becoming Like China is Something to Worry About, Not Something to Celebrate
• In New EPO Interview With Juve, Chairman of the Administrative Council Criticises Battistelli
• Even UPC Proponents Admit UPC is Dead: “This is the End, My Friend”
• EPO Uses Bunk 'Study' and Team UPC Uses Italy to Prop Up Delusions About the Unitary Patent
• Battistelli's Home Country, France (Where He is a Politician in Defiance of the Rules), is a Patent Troll
• Raw: The EPO's Elodie Bergot Suppressed Staff Representation While Cracking Down on Staff's Rights
• Raw: Why EPO Host Nations (Netherlands and Germany) Turn a Blind Eye to Horrific Scenarios
• Raw: EPO 'Social Democracy' is Like a 1AM Vote on UPC by Only 5% of Politicians
• Amid Constitutional Court Barrier, Unitary Patent (UPC) Looks Dead Even to UPC Proponents, the EPO's UPC 'Study' Comes Under Fire
• The European Patent Office Has Become the 'Foxconn' of Patent Offices
• EPO is Imploding as Benoît Battistelli Drains Out Work, Talent, and Justice
• Team Battistelli's Attacks on the EPO Boards of Appeal Predate the Illegal Sanctions Against a Judge
• Update on the EPO's Crackdown on the Boards of Appeal
• EPO 'Business' From the United States Has Nosedived and UPC is on Its Death Throes
• Today's EPO and Team UPC Do Not Work for Europe But Actively Work Against Europe
• The Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) is Rightly Upset If Not Shocked at What Battistelli and Bergot Are Doing to the Office
• EPO Continues to Disobey the Law on Software Patents in Europe
• Benoît Battistelli and Elodie Bergot Have Just Ensured That EPO Will Get Even More Corrupt
• Declines in Patent Quality at the EPO and 'Independent' Judges Can No Longer Say a Thing
• The EPO is Now Corrupting Academia, Wasting Stakeholders' Money Lying to Stakeholders About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
• Decline of Skills Level of Staff Like Examiners and Impartiality (Independence) of Judges at the EPO Should Cause Concern, Alarm
• The Patent Trolls' Lobby is Losing the Battle for Europe
• Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead to the EPO and ANSERA is Not the Answer as Patent Quality Declines and Talented Staff Leaves
• Benoît Battistelli Gives Power to Željko Topić, Not Just to António Campinos
• Next EPO President Will Continue a Cooperation Which Does Not Exist
• Consensus Around the High Likelihood That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead and Backlash Against Deniers of It
• The EPO in the Hands of Politicians Who Serve Their Towns Rather Than Users of the EPO
• Team Battistelli Snubbed by the EPO's Representatives of Nations
• Administrative Council of the EPO is Concerned That the Office is Largely German and Male, Recruitment Bar Has Fallen
• Patent Office of the Netherlands Expresses Uncertainty About UPC, Voices Concern About Benoît Battistelli's Attack on Staff
• Benoît Battistelli Brews New Scandals in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and in Haar
• Kluwer Patent Blog Down for Over a Day, Key Article Archived, UPC Deception Carries On
• Expect an Avalanche of Bad Patents (Including Software Patents) From the EPO to Become Invalid, Shaving Off a Lot of Imaginary Value
• Jacques Michel's EUROPATIS and Questel at EPOPIC Event, Which EPO Uses for Lobbying Purposes
• Kluwer Patent Blog is Down/Sabotaged, But UPC and EPO Spin Carries on in Other Sites
• Battistelli's Serious Conflict of Interest in Saint-Germain-en-Laye Disqualifies Him as EPO President
• Raw: Staff Representative Whom Battistelli Drove to Collapse for Wanting to Conduct an EPO Staff Survey (Which Battistelli Had Abolished)
• At the EPO Under Battistelli Truth is Being Called “Defamation”
• The “Big Holdup” at the EPO: Battistelli Wants Access to the Pension Reserve Fund (PRF)
• European Patent Office No Longer “Strives to Stand out as a Model International Public-Service Organisation”
• In October, Silence in the Media Regarding EPO Scandals Turned From Self-Censorship Into Censorship
• Even One of the UPC's Biggest Boosters, Wolters Kluwer, Admits UPC is in Trouble
• University College London (UCL) Becomes Part of the Patent Fanatics Lobby, Supported by the EPO’s PR Firm FTI Consulting
• The Screws Tighten on Benoît Battistelli as His Departure is Just Two Seasons Away, Media Still Largely Complicit
• UPC is Collapsing, But Bristows LLP is Pushing Propaganda Into the Media, Which Gives Misleading News

October

• “EPI Makes No Protest When the AC Connives With Battistelli to Trash the Rule of Law”)
• The Diminishing Value of European Patents (EPs)
• Irregularities at the EPO and UPC (Unitary Patent) Dodgy Dealings Should Draw Ire
• Belgium's Jérôme Debrulle, the EPO and the UPC Connection
• Fresh Allegations That the Belgian EPO Delegation is Compromised or in Cahoots With Benoît Battistelli
• The Financial Handling of the EPO is Incredibly Scandalous
• Patent Scope in Europe Should Not be Decided by the Self-Serving Patent Law Firms, But They Totally Dominate the Media
• French Politician Claudine Lepage Confronts the EPO Again, Mentions the Hague Court
• Benoît Battistelli Still Involved in Politics, Probably in Defiance of Clear Rules for International Civil Servants
• New EPC Cartoon
• Professor Siegfried Broß Again Complains About the Situation at the EPO and Issues With the UPC
• The European Commission Has Essentially Invalided Many European Patents (EPs) for Being Out of Scope; Are Software Patents (CII) Next?
• The EPO is Breaking the Law and Its Employees Cannot Speak About It
• Big Blow for the Unitary Patent (UPC) as Even Patent Professionals Say “It’s Dead”
• IP Kat Admits It Was Its Own Choice to Censor (Delete) Many Comments About the European Patent Office
• Freedom of Expression is Dying Not Only at the EPO But Also Outside the EPO (Media Coverage of the EPO)
• What If Lionel Baranes Was EPO President?
• The Last Comment in IP Kat (Before Censorship) Was About Patent Quality at the EPO
• In the European Patent Office, One Gets Rewarded for Mentally Torturing ('Interrogating') Staff
• IP Kat Participates in Deletion of Information About EPO Scandals
• SUEPO Has Just Warned That Patent Quality at the EPO is About to Get Even Worse
• The EPO No Longer Measures Quality of Patents; Instead It Publishes Fake Statistics
• Speaking of “Social Democracy” While Suffering Extreme Democratic Deficiency
• Management by Intimidation Has Caused Deaths at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• The Difference Between Alain Pompidou and Benoît Battistelli as EPO President
• The Darker Past of the Next President of the EPO - Part IV: Links Between CGD (Former Employer of António Campinos) and the INPI
• Anonymous Professionals Speak of Benoît Battistelli's Destruction of the EPO, But Why Does the Media Turn a Blind Eye?
• The Darker Past of the Next President of the EPO - Part III: More Details About Caixa Geral de Depósitos, Former Employer of Campinos
• UPC Looks Like More of a Distant Dream (or Nightmare) as Germany Adds Another Two Months' Delay
• Battistelli's Destruction of the EPO is Bad for Everyone, Even Patent Attorneys
• The Spanish Supreme Court Rejects the EPO's “Problem and Solution Approach” While Quality of European Patents Nosedives
• Europe is Being Robbed by Team Battistelli and the UPC/PPH Would Make Things Worse
• Team UPC Continues to Promote Illusion of UPC Progress Where There's None
• António Campinos: A True EPO Reformer or More of the Same?
• Juve Has Confirmed That António Campinos is French
• Darker Past of the Next President of the EPO - Part II: António Campinos at Banco Caixa Geral de Depósitos
• SUEPO to the Media, Regarding Campinos: “No Comment, It’s Too Dangerous”
• Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) Willing to Work With Campinos But Foresees Difficulties
• The Darker Past of the Next President of the EPO - Part I: Introduction
• Patent Firms From the United States Try Hard to Push the Unitary Patent (UPC), Which Would Foment Litigation Wars in Europe
• Confessions of EPO Insiders Reveal That European Patents (EPs) Have Lost Their Legitimacy/Value Due to Battistelli's Policies
• IAM is Wrong, the Narrative Isn't Changing, Except in the Battistelli-Funded (at EPO's Expense) Financial Times
• SUEPO Representatives Like Elizabeth Hardon Vindicated as Battistelli's Detrimental Effect on Patent Quality is Widely Confirmed
• Rumours That António Campinos Initially Had No Competition at All (for Battistelli's Succession) Are Confirmed
• EPO Stakeholders Complain That the New Chairman Does Not Grasp the Issues at the EPO (or Denies These)
• Monika Ermert's Reports About the Crisis at the EPO and IP Kat's Uncharacteristically Shallow Coverage
• The Systematic Erosion of Workers’ Rights and Holidays at the EPO Goes Years Back
• Articles in English and German Speak About the Decline in Quality of European Patents (Granted by the EPO)
• The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Rotting Like the European Patent Office
• Lying and Faking Now a Standard Procedure at the European Patent Office
• Truly Terrible 'Journalism' About António Campinos Boils Down to Lobbying and Agenda-Pushing
• Under Christoph Ernst, the Council is Just a Megaphone of Battistelli's EPO, Including on Patent Quality
• The Hogwash Begins: Patent Microcosm's Media Pretends Campinos is Anything But Battistelli's French Succession Plan
• Patent Quality at the EPO (European Patents) is Slipping While Battistelli's Office Boasts “Expansion of Early Certainty” (Even Worse)
• Musical Chairs as Battistelli's 'Chinchilla' García-Escudero Márquez Could Reportedly Take António Campinos' Place
• With Surveillance Recruits at the EPO, Are (or Were) DNA Tests Ever on the Agenda?
• Battistelli’s Choice (Campinos) Confirmed as New EPO President
• Judge Cuno Tarfusser Wants to Become the Next EPO President
• Early Reports Suggest That Battistelli's Policies Will Remain at the EPO (in the Form of Campinos)
• Jesper Kongstad Was Not Honest About Early Retirement, He is Joining the Private Sector
• Battistelli's Club Med at the EPO – Part VIII: Summary and Photos of Battistelli's Club Med
• EPO Protest at 12:30 in Munich and Why EPO Staff Should Attend
• Microsoft Lobbying, the EPO, and Software Patents Disguised as 'Internet of Things'
• Depressing State of Affairs at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• Thugs United: Francis Gurry Lecture, Courtesy of Benoît Battistelli
• Battistelli's Club Med at the EPO – Part VII: Quo Vadis EPO?
• Additional Complaints About the Unitary Patent (UPC) Pile Up in Germany, Here's How to Submit More
• Battistelli's Club Med at the EPO – Part VI: “When Corruption Rules” in Portugal - Operation Marquês
• The European Patent Office's New Relationship With Former Portuguese Colonies and the Connection to Battistelli's Choice of Next President
• EPO Makes European SMEs More Vulnerable to Litigation From the Former Soviet Union
• Nepotism at the EPO Has Reached Truly Toxic Levels
• EPO Management Gambled on Europe Being a Patent Litigation Hub/Capital, But It's All Coming Down in Flames Now
• US Supreme Court Defends Position on Alice, Maintaining/Cementing a Ban on Software Patents Like the Rest of the World (partly about EPO)
• Death of European Patent Quality: The EPO Officially Sends the Appeal Boards to Exile Despite the UPC Going Nowhere
• Battistelli's Club Med at the EPO – Part V: Portugal's “Golden Visa” Scheme for Angolan Nationals

September

• Battistelli's Club Med at the EPO – Part IV: The Angolan Patent Office (IAPI) Seems Almost Defunct
• Jesper Kongstad's Last Day is Today, But the EPO Remains a Sordid Mess Like the UPC
• Battistelli's Club Med at the EPO – Part III: Angola and the Portuguese “Laundromat”
• EPO Staff Representatives Help Prevent Seventh Suicide Under Benoît Battistelli
• Battistelli's Club Med at the EPO – Part II: António Campinos, Benoît Battistelli and the Angolan Connection
• The Effects of ILO and the EPO on Disability
• The EPO Continues to Lie About the UPC and About SMEs, Even Several Times Per Day Now
• European Patent Expired, But $70,000,000 in 'Damages'
• EPO Now a Megaphone of IP Europe, a Front Group of Patent Maximalists
• The Unitary Patent (UPC) is Now Rotting in Ireland
• Battistelli Follows German Law Only When It Suits Him, Three Holidays Just Canceled
• EPO Lies About the UPC, Violations of Human Rights, and 'Green' European Patents
• Battistelli's Club Med at the EPO – Part I: EPO Validation Agreement With Angola
• Latest EPO Rumours Allege That Benoît Battistelli Rigged the Process of EPO President's Selection
• Intellectual Ventures, GNU/Linux/Android/FOSS Patents, and the Ascent of European Patent Trolls (partly about EPO)
• The EPO's Latest Lies About the UPC and SMEs Unraveled, Long-Term Plan Described as Daunting
• In an Effort to Push the Unitary Patent (UPC), EPO and the Liar in Chief Spread the Famous Lie About SMEs
• UPC Threatens to Weaponise Software Patents in Countries That Forbade These
• The Latest Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and CIPO's Participation in Those
• Citing the European Patent Convention, Spanish Court Tosses Lawsuit With EPO-Granted European Patent
• European Patent Office Continues to Paint a Rosy UPC Picture Even Though the UPC May Already be Dead
• Tax Evasion by Patent Boxes and Lies About Small Businesses (SMEs) in the Corporate Media
• The UPC Fantasy is Going Nowhere as Complaints and Paperwork Pile Up
• At Event of EPO SLAPP Firm, a Suggestion That the UPC Should be Scrapped Because It’s Stuck
• Watchtroll Helps the EPO Peddle Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
• EPO Gets Together With Patent Radicals to Promote Software Patents
• Patent Boxes Are for Tax Avoidance, But in the Land of Tax Avoidance (Switzerland) No Avoidance for Software Patents
• Latest Attempts to Blow Air Into the Sails of the Sinking Unitary Patent (UPC)
• Ingve Stjerna's Complaint Casts a Shadow Over the Unconstitutional Unified Patent Court (UPC)
• Upcoming EPO Series: Benoît Battistelli's 'Club Med'
• “The Constitutional Problems Linked to the UPC are Far From Being Minor”
• EPO Guest Article: “Pope” Benoît Refuses to Recognise Reformation Day 2017!
• Latest Updates on UPC Constitutional Complaint in Germany and Brexit Barrier to UPC in Britain
• The EPO Has Become a Stasi and Newly-Recruited Staff Are Its Informants
• European Patent Office (EPO) Implements Erdoğan-Style or Ottoman-Like Purge for King Battistelli
• European Patent Office in Shambles and the EU’s Brexit Position Paper Suggests UPC is Off the Agenda
• EPO Management is Lobbying for Software Patents and the UPC in ICT Seminar 2017
• Personal Attacks, Censorship of Comments and More Nefarious Tricks Expected in the Wake of UPC Panic
• SUEPO Protests Against the Apparent Complicity of ILO in EPO Abuses
• Juve Reveals That Ingve Stjerna is the 'UPC Slayer' While the EPO Continues to Lobby, Mislead
• One Week Left for Battistelli's Coronation of Another Frenchman, António Campinos, to Lobby for UPC?
• Today, Koen Lievens From EPO is Promoting Pursuits of Software Patents in Defiance of the European Rules
• Deepening EPO Crisis and a New Report Titled “EPO Patent Filing a Rigged Game in Europe”
• EPO Silencers of the Media - Part V: Jadranka Oklobdžija Versus EPO Vice-President Topić
• EPO Silencers of the Media - Part IV: Response to SLAPP Tactics From EPO Vice-President Željko Topić
• What Germany and the EPO Could (and Should) Learn From Australia About Patent Scope
• ‘Building the Evidence Base on the Performance of the UK Patent System’ Put in Perspective and Threats From Patent Maximalists
• It's a Family Business: French Succession Plan at EPO After Battistelli's Departure
• EPO Silencers of the Media - Part III: EPO Vice-President Topić Takes Association of Writers and Journalists to Court

August

• Bristows Turns British Government Report Which Says Nothing About the UPC Into a Self-Serving Plug and a Lie
• EPO Silencers of the Media - Part II: EPO-Funded Vice-President Topić Has Ongoing SLAPP Cases
• The Dark Side of WIPO and Attempts to Suppress Information Mirror the EPO's Tactics
• IP Kat Missing in Action as Unitary Patent (UPC) Rots
• Rumours That Another Frenchman is the Only Candidate to Succeed Benoît Battistelli at the EPO
• Hiring of German Judges for UPC Has Been Halted as the Future of UPC as a Whole Now in Doubt
• How Much Longer Can Guy Ryder and Claude Rouiller Ignore Abuses and Cement Injustice at the EPO?
• EPO Silencers of the Media - Part I: Introduction
• At EPO, “Producing Stronger Patents (or Being Able to Produce Them) is Also a Matter of Professional Pride for the Examiners”
• UPC Hopefuls (Litigation Firms) Come to Life Amid Unitary Patent EPO Text, But Nothing New to See Here
• Benoît Battistelli's Misbehaviour Condemned the UPC to Death
• Bristows LLP Tries Hard to Maintain the Illusion That UPC is Alive, Using Media Placements and Paid Plugs
• Quality of European Patents Has Sunk, Value Diminished
• 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
• The Staff Union of the EPO Has Long Warned About Declining Patent Quality
• The EPO's Management Needs a Perception of Security Crisis
• Corruption at the European Patent Office and Systematic Bullying That Leads People to Suicide/Bankruptcy
• The Collapse of Patent Quality at the EPO is Inviting to Europe Some of the World's Worst Patent Trolls
• The EPO is Paying Journalists For Trips Abroad and May be Buying Fake Twitter Followers (Still)
• The Farce Which is Nokia's Patent Portfolio, a Ripoff of Other People's Ideas (and Patents) (partly about EPO)
• The Corrupt European Patent Office (EPO) Appears to be SLAPPing Judges Now
• The Corruption of the European Patent Office and CIPO's (Canada) Participation in This
• Under Battistelli, EPO Ceased to Reward Inventors, Rewards Only Battistelli and Fellow Thugs Instead
• EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government - Part X: In Closing
• German Media Paints a Picture of Benoît Battistelli as a Drunken 'Putin' Looking to Push UPC at All Costs
• EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government - Part IX: Potentially Fatal Injury to Air Plus Trademark Holder
• When It Comes to Software Patents, the EPO Has Become Among the Worst in the World
• Sinking Patent Quality at the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO) (partly about EPO)
• EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government - Part VIII: Outcome at DZIV (Zagreb) Miraculously Known Six Months in Advance
• EPO Already Thinks It's the UPC (Which Will Likely Never Happen)
• The Very Political Background of António Campinos, Allegedly a Forefront Candidate to Lead the European Patent Office Next Year
• EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government - Part VII: Immunity for Topić (EPO VP4) Just When He Really Needed It
• German Media Names António Campinos as Likely Successor of Battistelli
• EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government - Part VI: The Complaint to Merkel
• Software Patents and the Unified Patent Court (Talk From Friday)
• EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government - Part V: Lufthansa and Croatia Airlines Overlap
• EPO Directors Who Care About Patent Quality Are Being Kicked Out as Quality Continues to Plunge
• EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government - Part IV: Tena Mišetić, Ivan Mišetić, Croatia Airlines, Lufthansa, and Deutsche Telekom
• Professor Siegfried Broß Has a Long New Article About the EPO
• The Next President of the EPO May Also be French and Without Background in Science
• EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government - Part III: DZIV and EPO Nepotism
• EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government - Part II: Andrej Matijević and Željko Topić
• Benoît Battistelli Distracts From Declining Patent Quality at the EPO by Diverting Attention Away to “Timeliness”
• Antonio Campinos in Charge of the EPO Would Mean Greater EUIPO/EPO Overlap
• EPO: Germans “Discover That Behind the Mad Figures, the Granted Patents Are of Crap Quality and That This Does Not Serve Their Interests”
• 90% of WIPR Readers Give Up Hope on Unitary Patent (UPC) in the UK, But Team UPC Keeps Lying About It
• Heiko Maas May Need to Belatedly Answer Complaint About Illegal Spying on Staff at the EPO

July

• German Media Finally Waking up to EPO Scandals?
• PACE of Prosecution Prioritised Over Quality of Patents and Examination
• Dutch Government Publication Confirms Battistelli's Influence Over Smaller EPC States
• EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government - Part I: Further Information About Andrej Matijević
• Anonymous Comments Discuss Erosion of Lawful Activity at the EPO, Lowered Patent Quality, Software Patents, and Trump Comparisons
• Value of European Patents (EPs) is Diminishing, EPs Get Invalidated, and EPO Insiders Bemoan the Management's Lies About Patent Quality
• The 'New' IP Kat on Patents: A Front Group for Team UPC (Bristows) and CIPA (British Patent Microcosm)
• The Latest Lies From the EPO (Regarding Quality) and the Reason the UPC Won't Happen (Any Time Soon at Least)
• Lufthansa Leaks? Nokia Leaks? Prepare for Further Digging Into EPO Scandals
• How the EPO's Terrible Decisions May Implicate the Government of Germany and Lufthansa
• Patent Maximalists Continue to Warp the Debate/Media Coverage About Patents in Britain (partly about UPC)
• STRASBOURG: Representative of Lufthansa Accused of Corruption
• Lack of Independence of the Boards of Appeal at the European Patent Organisation (EPO) a Fatal Blow for the UPC
• STRASBOURG: Vertreter der Lufthansa wegen Korruption angeklagt
• Battistelli's EPO Abuses May Soon Lead to the Death of the UPC and Return of the Old Order ('EPO Glory')
• Unified Patent Court (UPC): A Conspiracy of Lies and Silence
• The British Government May be Pulling Out of the UPC Fantasy, Team UPC in Panic or Denial About It
• New Paper Explains Why UPC Ratification Efforts Have Been Just About as Corrupt as EPO Under Battistelli
• Software Patents Lobbying at IAM Strives to Reinforce the Positions of Patent Maximalists
• UPC Puff Piece in the Scottish Media is Just an Advertisement by Marks & Clerk
• Serious Factual Errors in UPC Coverage at Science|Business and Lack of Coverage in the General Media
• Guest Post: Is Germany's UPC Ratification Postponement Related to Problems at the EPO?
• European Commission Betrays the Public by Promoting Software Patents
• Science|Business Quotes Michel Barnier, Then Speculates Battistelli's Way to Promote Erroneous Perception of UPC Inevitability
• “EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal Has Brought an Unprecedented Level of Certainty to the Law,” But Benoît Battistelli Crushes It
• Michel Barnier, Once a Leading Proponent of UPC, No Longer Certain the UK Can Fit in or That UPC Will Happen
• Status and Potency of European Patents Compromised
• As Expected, Benoît Battistelli Shaved off Billions of Euros Worth of 'Value' From European Patents and Thus Alienated Stakeholders
• Looking Forward to a Battistelli-less and Kongstad-less European Patent Office
• The European Patent Office (EPO) Under Benoît Battistelli is Compared to “Soviet Times”
• The EPO Should Throw Away All Software Patents in the Same Way It Threw Away Patents on Plants and Animals
• In an Age of Mass Deception by Team UPC Benjamin Henrion (FFII) to Deliver a Talk About UPC and Software Patents
• Subtle Shaming of EPO Staff by EPO Management Earlier Today
• French Giants Resort to Patent Trolling While Battistelli Attracts Patent Trolls to Europe
• The EPO Goes on a Greenwashing PR Campaign After Granting Patents on Life, Seeds, Plants and Genome
• 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
• On the EPO's Premises, Investigation After a Small Fall But Not After Suicide of Staff
• 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
• EPO Plans to Replace Examiners With Software, Yielding Poor Results
• Weeks Later, British Media Writes About British EPO Worker That Committed Suicide and the Administrative Council's 'Coverup'
• No UPC Progress, Only Further Delays and Lots of Puff Pieces From the EPO and Bristows (Team UPC) Today
• The EPO's Liar in Chief, Benoît Battistelli, is Googlebombing Again
• Expect No Progress Whatsoever on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) During the Summer and Likely Too Little Even in Fall
• Death Trap: The ‘New’ (Nouvel) Building of the EPO
• Suspicion That Antonio Campinos Will Apply for Benoît Battistelli's Job to Succeed Him
• EPO Silent About EPO Strikes and Battistelli Leaving
• It's Official: Battistelli Will Leave the EPO in Less Than a Year
• 4 Days of Strike in a Row (Including Weekend), But Tomorrow is No Independence Day at the EPO
• The Decline in Patent Quality at the European Patent Office (EPO) Already Causes Mass Abandonment of Patents
• The Future of the EPO Does Not Look Encouraging as Injustice and Abuse Carry On While the Press Looks the Other Way

June

• Caricature: Charlie EPO
• Former 'Kats' Debunk IP Kat (Bristows) on Unitary Patent, Insisting It May Even be Dead
• The EPO Has Officially Confirmed That Christoph Ernst Will 'Boss' (and Soon Replace) Battistelli
• Lack of Patent Quality at the EPO Already Leads to the Axing of Many European Patents (EPs) in Bulk
• Feedback From the Administrative Council Meeting at The Hague: Worse Than Anyone Expected
• The UPC's Figurehead, Alexander Ramsay, Admits UPC is Stuck, Bristows LLP Comes Up With 'Alternative Facts'
• European Patent Office is on Strike Until Tuesday and Insiders Study the New Head of the Organisation
• Christoph Ernst, Long Speculated to be Battistelli's Successor, Becomes Battistelli's 'Boss'
• Bristows LLP is Still Trying to Attach Wings to the UPC and Distract From Serious (Likely Fatal) Barriers to It
• Letter Warns of “Reform Marathon” a Few Days Before Benoît Battistelli's Job is Offered to Someone Else
• EPO Staff Bemoans “Another Reform à la Battistelli That Only Benefits Battistelli”
• Ignore the Press Releases and Puff Pieces, the EPO is Going on Strikes
• EPO Strikes in All Four EPO Sites for Two Days This Month and Next Month, Under the “Respect Staff” Banner
• Latest EPO Caricature: Staff Committee Maintains Integrity
• Voter Suppression Tactics by Team Battistelli Serve to Reaffirm View That the EPO is an Authoritarian Regime Which Loathes Voting
• Leaked: Job Opening Advertised as Battistelli’s ‘Mole’ at the Administrative Council, Jesper Kongstad, Leaves in Shame
• Wouter Pors Under Fire for Lying or Manipulating in the Name of the Unitary Patent (UPC)
• Systemic Injustice at the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Causes Serious Harm to Complainants' Health, Including EPO Complainants
• SUEPO and the EPO’s Central Staff Committee Condemn Battistelli’s Latest Attempt to Change the Rules in Defiance of Laws
• The Tide Has Turned Against the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and It Finally Looks as 'Alive' as TPP
• Potential Targets of European Patent Office (EPO) Whistleblowing
• Primer to the Crisis and Scandals at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• Workers of the European Patent Office (EPO) Are Going on Strike Again, Almost 90% Voted in Favour
• Benoît Battistelli Has Lost the Election at the EPO
• You Know That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is in Huge Peril When Its Biggest Fans Admit It's Unlikely to Happen Even Next Year
• More Than Six Human Casualties Under Battistelli at the EPO, But the Human Toll Can Become a Lot Worse
• EPO's Elodie Bergot Calls Staff Suicide Just 'Passing Away', Pretends to Care
• The Administrative Tribunal of ILO Will Deliver EPO Judgments in Six Days
• Another Suicide Reported at the EPO While the Paid-for Media Focuses on ‘European Inventor Award’ Charade
• At the European Inventor Award Ceremony Benoît Battistelli Lied to a Lot of Scientists and “Media Partners” About the UPC
• Contact Details for the EPO's Administrative Council Delegations
• Don't Forget to Vote for EPO Strike This Week (Thursday)
• European Patent Office (EPO) Whistleblowing Guidelines: Motivation and Impact of Leaks
• Appalling Press Coverage Regarding the Unitary Patent (UPC)
• The Writings on the Wall at the European Patent Office: Number of Directors May Soon Decline From 150 to Just 65-70
• European Patent Office (EPO) Whistleblowing Guidelines
• General Consultative Committee of the EPO Warns About Battistelli's Plans
• Leaked: European Patent Office Still Uses Microsoft Windows XP... in 2017
• Unitary Patent (UPC) Will Start “Real Soon” Now... Said Team UPC For So Many Years
• EPO Management Wastes Millions of Euros on a Silly, Gratuitous, Self-Serving Festival While EPO Staff is Planning Another Strike
• Software Patents in Europe Are Still Promoted by the EPO, Even in Defiance of the Ban
• Leaked: Job Advertisement for Removing Battistelli From the European Patent Office
• Even UPC Proponents, Paid by the EPO's PR Firm, Admit That UPC May Never Happen
• Caricature: Balance of Justice at the European Patent Office
• A Massive Proponent of UPC, CIPA, Enters IP Kat, as Readers Call Out Stacked UPC 'Panels'
• In Spite of Censorship by IP Kat, Issues Associated With UPC Had Become Apparent, Even Before Germany Halted Ratification
• The UPC Gravy Train is Claimed to Have Been “Halted” in Germany and More Oppositions or Constitutional Complaints Are on Their Way
• Battistelli to Leave the European Patent Office Without the Unitary Patent He Repeatedly Promised in Vain Over the Years
• The EPO is Committing Suicide by Granting Invalid Patents That No Recipient Should Ever Desire
• Is the EPO Pushing Prepared 'Articles' (Ghostwriting) Through Shepard Fox Communications?
• German Barrier to the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Bound to Bring the Insidious Plans to a Halt
• Technical Incompetence at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• Bristows/IP Kat Still Promoting UPC and Patent Trolls, Also Accused of Deleting Comments and “Brown-nosing” Judges to Help Patent Trolls
• The British Election May Have Just 'Killed' the Unitary Patent (UPC)
• No More Battistelli Photo Ops With Michelle Lee as EPO Allies Run Out, Countries Without European Patents Pursued Instead
• European Patent Office May Become Just a Mirage of Examination Office, Much Like INPI (France)
• German Media Would Rather Write Articles About Beer Than About Serious and Unprecedented EPO Scandals
• Benoît Battistelli is Scheming to Further Erode the Rule of Law and Promote More of His Cronies at the EPO
• Tim Moss, Chief Executive of the UK Intellectual Property Office, Will Need to Challenge the Battistelli Regime
• IAM 'Magazine', an Adjunct or Megaphone to the Battistelli Regime, Called 'Independent' by the EPO and Used for 'Quality' Propaganda
• EPO Workers May be About to Go on Strike Again
• Battistelli's 'Boss', Jesper Kongstad, Rumoured to Have Been Paid by Battistelli
• Patent Trolls in Europe and the Looming Collapse of the UPC
• Shame on the Administrative Tribunal of ILO for Helping Team Battistelli Abuse EPO Staff

May

• The Silencing of Critics of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in Media and in Blogs
• Colossal Institutional Failure Surrounding the European Patent Office (EPO) and EPO Chickens Out of Debate About It
• Speculations About Battistelli's End of Term, Campinos at EUIPO, and Failed UPC Ambitions
• Martijn van Dam is Wrong to Believe That Battistelli's Abuses Are Somehow Acceptable or Tolerable Because His Term is Possibly Ending
• Media and Staff Association Elections at EPO and WIPO Are Compromised
• New Documents Help Demonstrate That ILO Delivers Institutional Injustice to EPO Employees and Cushions Team Battistelli
• Leaked: 2017 European Inventor Award Finalists, or Stooges Whom the Tyrant Battistelli Exploits for PR Purposes and Media Manipulation
• EPO: Can the Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) Still Save It?
• Countries With a Dozen European Patents Are an Easy Photo-Op 'Sell' for Battistelli While the EPO's Demise is Largely Ignored by the Patent Microcosm
• Our Assessment: Unitary Patent (UPC) Will Crumble Along With Battistelli's Regime at the EPO
• The European Patent Office Has a Long History/Track Record of 'Screwing' Contractors
• The Sickness of the EPO – Part IX: Using Confidential Medical Records as a Weapon Against Staff
• The EPO is in Disarray and Additional Complaints to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) May Be Imminent
• By Promoting the UPC, in Defiance of Public Will, the EPO Has Become Patent Trolls' Best Friend
• Team UPC Still Twists and Fabricates Statements to Make It Seem Like Unitary Patent is Happening Soon
• English-Speaking Media Catches Up With Latest Twists in EPO Fiasco, Including Appeal to the European Court of Human Rights
• Another Victim of Battistelli's Monarchy: Dutch Contractors
• 'European Media Intervention Award' (EIA), EPO Censorship, Self-Censorship, and Paid 'Media Partners'
• (Almost) Live Blog From Today's Debate About the EPO in Dutch Parliament
• SUEPO Releases Statement About Its Complaint Regarding the EPO's Immunity, Filed Yesterday at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg
• The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) Against the European Patent Office (EPO), Lower House to Debate the Issue Today
• Death of ‘IP’ Media: Front Groups of Microsoft Described as “Representing SME Developers” by Bristows (partly about EPO)
• All Members of the European Parliament Get Warned About the Deterioration at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• ILO Gives the European Patent Office Unfair Advantage in Disputes With Staff
• Translations and Speculations About Jesper Kongstad's Planned Departure From the EPO
• European Marketing Office: Battistelli-Commissioned 'Studies', Puff Pieces, and Revisionism about PACE
• Battistelli's Protector, Jesper Kongstad, Resigns!
• The EPO's Administrative Council (AC) is “Amazingly Complicit” or “Awfully Compliant” (Like Much of the Media and Much of the System)
• Latest WIPO Scandal, Echoing EPO Scandals, Demonstrates Freedom of the Press Coming Under Attack From International Patent Institutions
• Bristows and IAM: Brits Who Lobby for Patent Trolls in Britain
• Battistelli's EPO Has Made Life Itself Patentable
• At IAM Event in Korea, Patent Trolls in the Panels and Advocacy of Software Patents From the EPO
• The Sickness of the EPO – Part VIII: Allegations That the EPO Has No Honest Doctors, Only 'Fake' Ones Subservient to Team Battistelli
• Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part X: When EPO Calls the Truth “Defamation”

April

• Unified Patent Propaganda Courtesy of a Cabal of Firms That Constructed the UPC
• Twitter Shadowbans Critics of the EPO Now?
• Battistelli is Busy Securing the Vote of Countries Whose Support and Tickets Are Easy to ‘Buy’
• Patent Snake Oil From Brunel University London and PatentDive
• This is How 'Independent' the Boards of Appeal Are Under Battistelli
• Kather Augenstein and Bristows Shift Attention to Germany in an Effort to Ram the Dying UPC Down Everyone's Throats
• Team UPC and CIPA Are Lobbying, Publishing Puff Pieces, and Rewriting the Law for Unitary Patent (UPC) Behind Closed Doors
• China's Suffering From Patent Maximalism Has Europe Forewarned
• The Latest Expensive PR Blitz of the EPO, Led by Jana Mittermaier and Rainer Osterwalder Under the ‘European Inventor Award’ Banner
• Patent Quality Crisis and Unprecedented Trouble at the European Patent Office (EPO) Negatively Affect Legitimate Companies in the US As Well
• 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
• Astoundingly, IP Kat Has Become a Leading Source of UPC and Battistelli Propaganda
• EPO Fiasco to be Discussed in German Local Authority (Bavarian Parliament) Some Time Today as the Institution Continues Its Avoidable Collapse
• Why Authorities in the Netherlands Need to Strip the EPO of Immunity and Investigate Fire Safety Violations
• Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part IX: Testament to the Fear of an Autocratic Regime
• For the Fordham Echo Chamber (Patent Maximalism), Judges From the EPO Boards of Appeal Are Not Worth Entertaining
• EPO Staff Representatives Fired Using “Disciplinary Committee That Was Improperly Composed” as Per ILO's Decision
• The European Patent Office Has Just Killed a Cat (or Skinned a 'Kat')
• Yann Ménière Resorts to Buzzwords to Recklessly Promote Floods of Patents, Dooming the EPO Amid Decline in Patent Applications
• At the EPO, Seeding of Puff Piece in the Press/Academia Sometimes Transparent Enough to View
• Expect Team UPC to Remain in Deep Denial About the Unitary Patent/Unified Court (UPC) Having No Prospects
• EPO in 2017: Erroneously Grant a Lot of Patents in Bulk or Get Sacked
• Bristows-Run IP Kat Continues to Spread Lies to Promote the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Advance the EPO Management's Agenda
• Another Final Nail in the UPC Coffin: UK General Election
• EPO Patent Quality and Quality of Service Have Become a Disaster, Say EPO Stakeholders
• Adding Insult to Suicide: European Commission's Site Publishes Benoît Battistelli's EPO Puff Pieces
• No, Bristows, UPC Won't Happen Just Because You Mislead About It
• Awful Quality of EPO-Granted European Patents (EPs) Becomes a Mainstream Topic
• Politician Links UPC to EPO Abuses and Slams the European Commission for Overlooking EPO Tragedies Like “Violations of Fundamental Rights” and Deaths
• It's Not Natural for the European Patent Office to Make Nature Patentable
• Unitary Patent (UPC) is Stuck as the “British Are Hesitant in UPC Ratification,” According to New Report
• The European Patent Office Has Entered a Dark Era of Anti-Science and Fake 'Research'
• Voices of Patent Trolls Are Alive and Well (and Partly Paid by Battistelli’s EPO)
• Latest French Hire of Battistelli Rumoured to be After EPO Workers' Pensions
• EPO's Benoît Battistelli is Again Exploiting Truck Attacks to Spread Lies and Garner Sympathy (for the Abuser)
• These Terrifying Comments From Patent Practitioners Suggest They Too Believe UPC is Intended to Make EPO Virtually Obsolete
• Latest EPO Puff Piece From Benoît Battistelli Shows Desperate Need for (and Inability to Attract) Talent
• “There is Still No Sufficient Control Over the Despotism of the EPO President, Benoît Battistelli”
• Asian Companies Already Suffer From Patent Maximalism/Radicalism and UPC Would Make Things Even Worse
• Lying Has Become the Norm When It Comes to the Unitary Patent (UPC)
• The Latest on the Collapse of the European Patent Office (EPO)
• Caricature: EPO President and the EPC
• IP Kat or IP Troll? IP2Innovate Warns That UPC Would Help Patent Trolls While IP Kat Promotes UPC
• The European Patent Convention (EPC) is Habitually Being Violated by the President of the EPO
• Like EPO 'Grants' (up 40% in a Year), Patent Trolls in Europe Are Growing at Double-Digit Rates (Now 20% of All German Lawsuits)
• The EPO's Management is Silencing Its Critics by Sheer Intimidation
• Thorsten Bausch (Hoffmann Eitle) Bemoans Declining Quality (Service and Patents) at the European Patent Office
• Is Bristows UPC Falsifying UK-IPO Quotes or Just Using Informal Words to Lobby for the Unitary Patent (UPC)?
• IP Kat is Helping Battistelli by Lobbying for the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Spreading Falsehoods
• EPO Scandals the Focus of Bavarian Parliament Tomorrow
• Latest EPO Crisis: Junk Patents Granted in Preparation for Vision of Europe as Litigation Central (UPC)
• Reign of Fear (Even Terror) at EPO Prevents People From Speaking About Injustices
• As a Bargaining Chip, UPC (Unitary Patent/Unified Patent Court) is a Curse, Not a Gift
• Politicians Hubert Aiwanger, Florian Streibl, Gabi Schmidt and Others Fight for EPO Workers in Bavarian Parliament
• Growing Suspicions of Planned Obsolescence at the European Patent Office
• Team UPC 'Took Over' IP Kat, Readers Don't Believe What It Says
• The UK’s Involvement in a Hypothetical UPC Post-Brexit Far From Certain, Admits Law Firm, Contrary to Those Who Stand to Profit
• The Sickness of the EPO – Part VII: 40% of EPO Workers Have Upper Limb Disorder (ULD), Battistelli Covers That Up
• The 'New' (Nouvel) Building of the EPO Has Dark (and Potentially Fiery) Secrets
• Bristows UPC Delusions Are Back, Attempting to Distract From Bad News (UPC Isn't Happening)
• ‘Managing IP’ (MIP) is Seeding UPC Optimism Based on Nothing Concrete
• Bad Patent Quality (and Software Patents) Good for Patent Law Firms and Trolls, But Not for Anybody Else (partly covers the EPO)
• Benoît Battistelli Makes His New Penthouse Financially Self-Sustaining

March

• EPO Central Staff Committee Points Out to Benoît Battistelli That He is in Gross Violation and Contempt of the Founding Document/Treaty of the EPO
• EPO Likes to Pretend to be Tolerated in Spite of Patenting Life, Seeds, Plants and More
• Culpability for EPO Injustice in the Administrative Council Chaired by Battistelli's Protector, Jesper Kongstad
• Leaked: Meeting in Secret, Jesper Kongstad-Led Council Decides EPO Judge is Guilty Until Proven Innocent
• Deconstructing the Latest 'Damage Control' From Team UPC Amid Demise of Unitary Patent Pipe Dreams
• As Expected, Photo Op and Battistelli Lies Have Just Come Out, Hilariously Claiming “Higher Quality Patent Procedures”
• Devaluation of European Patents is a Recipe for Institutional Suicide and Immeasurable Harm to Europe's Economy
• EPO is a Laughing Stock in International Media This Week (Quality of Patents) After Decades-Long Reputation Building
• Director Michelle Lee Across the Table From EPO ‘Mafioso’ Benoît Battistelli
• March 29th: The Day the Unitary Patent (UPC) Died
• Kongstad and Battistelli Have Staged a Coup at the European Patent Organisation (EPO)
• Europe as the World's Laughing Stock When it Comes to Patent Quality/Scope and the Coming Appeals
• In Attempt to Promote the Horrific UPC (Poor Quality of Patents Everywhere), Minnoye and Casado Cerviño Attack Their Own Staff for Saying the Truth
• Another Likely Casualty of the Battistelli Regime at the EPO: Validity of Decisions of Terrified Boards of Appeal Judges
• Benoît Battistelli 'Pulls an Erdoğan' Faster Than Erdoğan
• A “Perfect Recipe for Fraud” at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• Techrights Was Right About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
• Patents on Life and Patents on Software Serve to Show That EPO Patent Quality Fell Well Behind the US (PTO)
• The Crook Goes to Brussels to Lie About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
• The EPO's HR Roadmap Retrospective
• His Master's Voice, Jesper Kongstad, Blocks Discussion of Investigative and Disciplinary Procedures at the EPO
• Heiko Maas and the State of Germany Viewed as Increasingly Complicit in EPO Scandals and Toxic UPC Agenda
• With IP Kat Coverage of EPO Scandals Coming to an End (Officially), Techrights and The Register Remain to Cover New Developments
• Everyone, Including Patent Law Firms, Will Suffer From the Demise of the EPO
• Yes, Battistelli's Ban on EPO Strikes (or Severe Limitation Thereof) is a Violation of Human Rights
• Even the EPO's Administrative Council No Longer Trusts Its Chairman, Battistelli's 'Chinchilla' Jesper Kongstad
• Thanks to Merpel, the World Knows EPO Scandals a Lot Better, But It's a Shame That IP Kat Helped UPC
• EPO Critics Threatened by Self-Censorship, Comment Censorship, and a Growing Threat to Anonymity
• Judge and Justice Bashing in the United States, EPC Bashing at the EPO
• Looking for EPO Nepotism? Forget About Jouve and Look Closely at Europatis Instead.
• Depressing EPO News: Attacks on Staff, Attacks on Life, Brain Drain, Patents on Life, Patent Trolls Come to Germany, and Spain Being Misled
• Bernhard Rapkay, Former MEP and Rapporteur on Unitary Patent, Shoots Down UPC Hopes While UPC Hopefuls Recognise That Spain Isn't Interested Either
• The Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation Has Just Buried an Innocent Judge That Battistelli Does Not Like
• Nepotism at the European Patent Office and Suspicious Absence of Tenders for Big Projects
• “Terror” Patent Office Bemoans Terror, Spreads Lies
• The EPO is Lying to Its Own Staff About ILO and Endless (Over 2 Years) EPO Mistrials
• EPO’s Georg Weber Continues Horrifying Trend of EPO Promoting Software Patents in Defiance of Directive, EPC, and Common Sense
• The Battistelli Regime, With Its Endless Scandals, Threatens to Crash the Unitary Patent (UPC), Stakeholders Concerned
• The Photos the EPO Absolutely Doesn't Want the Public to See: Battistelli is Building a Palace Using Stakeholders' Money
• “Then They Came For Me—And There Was No One Left To Speak For Me.”
• What the Patent Microcosm is Saying About the EPO and the UPC
• Tough Day for the EPO's Media/Press/PR Team, Trying 'Damage Control' After Important Techrights Publications
• At EPO “I Have the Feeling That Lowering Quality is Part of a Concerted Plan.”
• EPO Reduces the World to Just Seven Nations to Bolster an Illusion of Growing 'Demand' for European Patents
• Letter to Angela Merkel Expresses Concerns About Impact of EPO Scandals on Germany and Its Image
• EPO Caricature: Low Patent Quality Not an Achievement
• Are Lithuania and Latvia the Latest Additions to the List of Benoît Battistelli's Vassal States?
• Supposedly 'Pampered' Prisoners Are Still Prisoners of the EPO
• Insulting Reversal of Narratives at the EPO: Team Battistelli as the Victim
• Battistelli's EPO Copies China -- Not the US -- When it Comes to Patenting Software and Expanding Patent Scope
• “EPO Continues to Grant Software Patents”
• Governance Crisis at EPO Deepens After Latest Meeting of the Administrative Council, Necessitating Urgent Outside Intervention
• EPO Management Deeply Concerned That the Public Has Found Out Quality of European Patents (EPs) Nosedived Under Battistelli's Regime
• European Directives and Boards of Appeal Desperately Needed to Keep EPO Patent Scope in Check
• Letter From European Public Services Organisation (IPSO) to Angela Merkel and Heiko Maas Regarding EPO Union-Busting Catastrophe
• IAM Remains Battistelli's Propaganda Mill, Helping to Manufacture and Reinforce Lies About Quality
• Hidden Away in a Barely-Viewed Video is the Map of Europe Which the EPO Hides, as It Demonstrates Decline in Applications That EPO Cannot Deny
• The EPO's Abuses and Claims of Immunity From Prosecution Increasingly Fracture the Dutch Establishment
• UPC Fake News Rising Sharply as Door Closes for Unitary Patent Ratification and Jo Johnson 'Needs' to Believe the UPC Will Actually Happen
• Whenever Battistelli's EPO Says Something These Days, Safest to Just Assume It's a Lie (Because It Typically Is)
• German Media is Not Covering EPO Scandals and Instead Repeating Patently False Claims From EPO Management
• Benoît Battistelli “Should Not Have Been in Charge of Anything More Involved Than a Hamster Cage Without the Hamster...”
• Unitary Patent (UPC) and “Breach of EU Law”
• Incredibly Unscientific: EPO is Making up Excuses for Decline in Patent Applications
• Battistelli Wants to be 'King' for a Decade or Longer, Jesper Kongstad Protects Him
• CERN Staff Association “Profoundly Shocked by the Situation That Has Persisted in the European Patent Office (EPO)”
• New Examples of Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC), Courtesy of Patent Law Firms Looking to Prey on Gullible SMEs
• Unitary Patent (UPC) Misinformation in Spanish Media and EPO-Connected (Paid) Media That Lobbies Spain
• The European Patent Office is in a State of Collapse and It Coughs Up Rubbish Patents Until Its Death
• Unscientific and Offensive: EPO Deletes From the Map Countries Where Number of Applications at the EPO Has Declined!
• Battistelli Receives Another Letter From FICSA, is Urged to Meet EPO Staff Representatives Whom He Fired to Bust the Unions
• Long New Letter From Battistelli's 'Nemesis', Dutch Secretary of State Martijn van Dam
• EPO Protest Tomorrow, Heads of Delegations Informed Regarding the Reasons
• How Big a Lie is Team UPC Spreading About Germany and Unitary Patent? A Must Read.
• Germany Cannot Ratify the UPC Because Britain is Leaving the EU and Unitary Patent Strongly/Strictly Depends on the UK
• 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
• No, Spain is Not Joining the UPC, That's Just What UPC Lobbyists Want Everyone to Believe
• Fake News From the EPO and Team UPC About Unitary Patent in the UK in Spite of Brexit
• Higher Patent Quality Guarded Even Under the Trump Administration While the EPO Goes the Other Way
• Information From SUEPO on the Functional Allowance Reveals How Top-Level Management Intends to 'Rob' the Cash Cow (EPO Budget)
• The Battistelli Mafia and Corsica
• The EPO is Lying About Patent Quality in Its Official Web Site
• Why Techrights is Nowadays Focused on the EPO and UPC (Unitary Patent)
• After EPO Sanctions Against IP Kat (Censorship of More Than 10,000 Articles) Even Merpel Throws in the Towel
• 'Lobbyists' Annsley Merelle Ward and Alan Johnson (Bristows) Return to Using IP Kat to Spread Fake News About Unitary Patent (UPC)
• Battistelli's Coup at the EPO Continues: The EPO is Becoming the Cash Cow of Battistelli and His Friends, Until This Cow Will Die
• 'Evil Tongues' Inside and Outside the EPO Explain Why Battistelli's 2016 'Results' Are Bad While the Media Mindlessly Repeats EPO Management's Talking Points
• Ousting of Benoît Battistelli Next Week Seems Feasible, But Jesper Kongstad Protects Rather Than Supervises Battistelli
• Latest EPO 'Results' Should be Grounds for Immediate Dismissal of Battistelli Rather Than Celebrations
• Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Bert Koenders: Rapid Improvements in European Patent Office or Else 'High Level' Action
• The European Patent Office is Wasting Its Already Limited Budget on Misleading Press Releases/Paid-for Coverage That Overlook Sharp Decline in Patent Quality
• Battistelli's Shock Doctrine is Coming to the EPO's Boards of Appeal, Having Already Rattled the Office
• EPO “Too Industry-Friendly, Say the Critics”
• Caricature: 'Posterrorism' at the EPO
• Raise Your Glass to the Monopoly -- New Article About the European Patent Office Losing It on Patent Scope
• EPO Record Low on Quality of European Patents (EPs) in 2016
• Another Delegation Antagonistic on EPO Matters is 'Decapitated' (Sean Dennehey)
• With a Week Left Before the Administrative Council's Meeting, Pressure on Battistelli to Leave the EPO Continues to Grow
• The EPO's Connections to or Facilitation of Bayer and Monsanto Explored in New Article
• ILO: “EPO Threaten(s) the Ability of the Administrative Tribunal of the ILO to Serve All Other Organizations”
• The Very Thought of UPC in the UK “is a Perfect Example of What Lobbying Can Achieve!”
• Team Battistelli, Already Grossly Overpaid (With Salary Gone Hidden), Wants Even More Money
• EPO President Benoît Battistelli, Like Far-Right Politicians, is a Great Danger to Europe
• Poisonous Patents at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• EPO Mimics Interpol, But Interpol Should Raid the EPO and End the Management's Abuses Once and for All
• Dutch Foreign Minister Reads the Riot Act to EPO Vice-President Willy/Guillaume Minnoye
• The Sickness of the EPO – Part VI: Firing Handicapped People and Hiring Unskilled, Inexperienced, 'Cheap' Staff
• What Battistelli Means by Social Democracy at the EPO is What North Korea Means by Democratic People's Republic
• EPO Budget Obscures and Distorts Facts About the Unitary Patent (UPC) in a Classic Antidemocratic Exercise by an Unaccountable Institution
• Supplying Techrights With Leaked Material
• MIP (Managing IP) International Patent Forum 2017 to Have EPO and UPC Propaganda, as Before
• Battistelli and His Swamp Resurface Very Old News, Possibly to Distract From Boards of Appeal Complaining About Battistelli
• Now is the Time to Sign the Petition Against the Unitary Patent (UPC)
• Justice is Dead Not Only at the European Patent Office But Also the Whole European Patent Organisation

February

• The Boards of Appeal Openly Complain (in the EPO's Web Site) About Battistelli, But Don't Tell Battistelli About It...
• Web Site of French Senator Richard Yung Cracked Just Days After Criticising the EPO
• New Survey Shows That Even Patent Professionals Know That Team UPC is Lying About Unitary Patent Roadmaps
• Does the EPO Want Patent Quality to Decline Against the USPTO and Become Akin to SIPO?
• Top Officials in French Government Are Growing Tired of Battistelli's Abuses at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part VIII: When Governed by Criminals, Truth-Tellers Are Cast as Criminals and Criminals as Justice Deliverers
• The Sickness of the EPO – Part V: Shedding Light on Institutional Abuse Against Ill and/or Disabled Individuals
• The EPO's Race to the Bottom in Recruitment and Early Retirements Explained by an Insider
• Wouter Pors and Other UPC Boosters Believe That Repeating the Lies Will Potentially Make Them Truths
• IAM, Greased up by the EPO, Continues Lobbying by Shaming Tactics for the UPC, Under the Guise of 'News'
• Patent Scope Gone Awry: European Vegetable Patents Office?
• Yes, There is Definitely Brain Drain (Experience Deficit) at the European Patent Office and Stakeholders Feel It
• The Sickness of the EPO – Part IV: Cruel Management That Deliberately Attacks the Sick and the Weak
• UPC Roundup: War on the Appeal Boards, British Motion Against the UPC, Fröhlinger Recalled, and Fake News About Spain
• The Sickness of the EPO – Part III: Invalidity and Suicides
• Report From Yesterday's Debate About the European Patent Office (EPO) at the Bavarian Landtag
• French Politician Richard Yung Tells the Government About Abuses at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• The Sickness of the EPO – Part II: Background Information and Insights
• EPO Cartoon/Caricature by KrewinkelKrijst
• The Sickness of the EPO – Part I: Motivation for New Series of Articles
• Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part VII: EPO Hypocrisy on Cancer and Lack of Feedback to and From ECPC
• EPO Caricature: Battistelli's Wall
• Paid-for UPC Proponent, IAM 'Magazine', Debunked on UPC Again
• Lack of Justice in and Around the EPO Drawing Scrutiny
• The EPO is Becoming an Embarrassment to Europe and a Growing Threat to the European Union
• Technicolor, Having Turned Into a Patent Troll, Attacks Android/Tizen/Linux With Patents in Europe
• Our Assessment: EPO Wants a Lot of Low-Quality Patents and Low-Paid Staff With UPC (Prosecution Galore)
• Yet More Complaints About the European Patent Office in the Bavarian Regional Government
• EPO Staff Representatives to Escalate Complaint About Severe Injustices to the EPO's Secretive Board 28
• New Survey Reveals That High Patent Quality, or Elimination of Bad Patents, is Desirable to Patent Holders (the latter half of it deals with the EPO)
• Open Patent Office is Not the Solution; Ending Software Patents is the Solution
• New Scholarly Paper Says “UK’s Withdrawal From the EU Could Mean That the Entire (Unitary Patent) System Will Not Go Into Effect”
• Guest Post: EPO, an Idyllic Place to Work
• Claude Rouiller (ILOAT) and ILO Rulings Effectively Disregarded by the European Patent Office
• The European Patent Office Looks More and More Like the Sicilian Mafia Every Day
• EPO-Connected Writers Are Using Alternative Facts or Fake News to Promote the Unitary Patent in British Media
• Leaked: European Patent Office a Fire Hazard Waiting to Cause Tragedy (Possible Deaths)
• For Valentine's Day, Battistelli Learns to Stop Worrying and Love to Lie
• Growingly Desperate for Applicants Amid Brain Drain, EPO Pays Breitbart ‘News’
• UPC Petition Launched to Halt Ratification Plans in the United Kingdom Amid Nefarious Back Room Deals
• Leaked E-mails From the EPO's Roberto Vacca Reveal That Patent Quality at the European Patent Office Has Become Farcical
• Claims That EPO Commits a Crime and Should be Prosecuted in the Netherlands
• Nazi Analogies at the EPO Are the Work of Battistelli, Who Libels Staff Representatives and Judges by Calling Them Nazis and Criminals
• Not Only EPO Staff Are Committing Suicide; the EPO as a Whole is Committing Institutional Suicide
• This is Why Many People at the EPO Commit Suicide
• Video: 123rd Session of ILO Tribunal Judgments Session Talks About EPO
• The News the EPO is Distracting From: No Justice for EPO Workers at ILO (Necessitating Immediate Removal of Immunity)
• Laughable and Misleading: What the EPO Has Become Amid an Avalanche of Bad News
• Immunity of the Intellectual Property Office of the European Union Causes Outrage in Spanish Media
• Battistelli's EPO is Under Fire From Major Applicants for So-called 'Early Certainty' (Low Quality and Rushed Patent Examination)
• Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part VI: Fear Climate and Antipathy Now the ‘Norm’
• Reception of the New German Ambassador (Dirk Brengelmann) at the EPO, in Presence of the Stasi-Like Investigative Unit
• Translation: Juve Survey That Shows 0% Approval of Battistelli and Growing Concerns About the EPO
• Translation: Battistelli's Patent Office Remains a Legal Island
• Battistelli Judges Himself to be Excellent, in the Same Way Other Autocrats Judge Themselves to be Benevolent
• The European Patent Office Officially Dishonours Justice, So It's Time for SUEPO to Become Clandestine
• The EPO's President, Benoît Battistelli, May Have Become One of Europe's Most Hated People
• Culture of Terror at The European Patent Office Escalates Thanks to Dutch Government's Complicity
• No, IAM, UPC Did Not “Spring Back to Life”
• Team UPC Continues to be a Premier Source of Fake News About Unitary Patent in the United Kingdom
• Weekend Talk in Brussels to Speak of “Open Patents”, Relevant to the EPO at Times of Growing Lenience on Software Patents
• “Team Battistelli Continues With Intimidation Tactics”
• Growing Rift Between EPO Stakeholders and the Office, Due to Battistelli’s Appalling Leadership
• New WIPR Survey and Other Data Points Suggest That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead, at Least in the UK
• The Quality of European Patents is Nosediving and Those Who Can Put an End to It (Appeal Boards) Are Controlled by Fear of Battistelli
• International Labour Organisation to Issue More Judgments on ‘Above the Law’ European Patent Office Next Week
• EPO Stakeholders Want Battistelli and His Goons Ousted, They Can Accomplish This by Working Together (Like a Union)
• Someone Needs to Explain/Remind EPO Management That Software Patents Are Not (Supposed to Be) Valid in Europe
• The Netherlands With Its Bizarre Decision to Let the EPO Violate Dutch Law, Now in English

January

• Battistelli Brags About Being Unaccountable, But He is Wrong and is Probably in Defiance of the Law
• Battistelli “Got Full Dictatorial Unaccountable Control of a Diplomatically Immune Organisation”
• EPO Members of Team Battistelli Promoted to Shield the Liar in Chief
• Everything Benoît Battistelli Does Without Staff Consultation is Without Merit, More So Amid Union-Busting Catastrophe
• Revealed: Lack of Justice at the European Patent Office (EPO), No Valid Courts
• Battistelli Keeps Filling His Swamp at the European Patent Office for Social Control and Immunity Purposes
• Juve Survey: Stakeholders Want Benoît Battistelli Out
• The European Spam Office: 37% of Twitter 'Followers' Are Fake, Maybe Even Paid For (Waste of EPO Budget)
• Gurry and Battistelli: When Alternative Facts and Oppression Are Becoming Business as Usual
• French Media Says Benoît Battistelli Turned the Patent Office Into a Sort of North Korea
• Conflict Between Benoît Battistelli and Roland Grossenbacher, Former Chairman of the Administrative Council of the EPO
• Journalists Have Learned to Ignore Claims From the EPO's Management, Which Habitually Lies to Journalists
• New Caricature: Benoît Battistelli ‘Takes Care’ of Roland Grossenbacher’s Dissent
• The European Patent Office is Googlebombing and Bamboozling the Public About Quality of European Patents
• The EPO’s Freedom to Disregard the Law and Abuse Employees is “Being Taken up by the Council of Europe”
• Leaked: Team Battistelli, Exploiting a Controversial Decision From the Netherlands, is Trying to Squash SUEPO
• Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna: UPC's “Entry Into Force is Not at all Secured,” Contrary to What Team UPC Says
• Media Blasts EPO Over Immunity Amid Suicides, Battistelli's Behaviour Compared to Dominique Strauss-Kahn's
• Hilarious: Battistelli Goes to Former French Colony With No Patents to 'Buy' the EPO a Perception of Legitimacy
• ‘Reform’ at the EPO Means Destroying the Staff Union, Crushing Patent Examiners, and Imposing on Europe a System It Does Not Want (UPC)
• EPO Abuses Now Make the Netherlands Look Like a Facilitator of Human/Labour Rights Abuses
• Battistelli is an Autocrat Above the Law and It's OK, Holland's High Council Says
• Beware Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
• Corporate (Wall Street) Media Agrees That Brexit Dooms the Unitary Patent (UPC)
• Farce of an 'Independence' for the Boards of Appeal as Another Ally of Benoît Battistelli Enters as Parasite Inside the 'Overseer'/Host
• Union-Busting Action by Team Battistelli Takes Heavy Toll, Techrights Will Continue to Expose EPO Injustices to the World
• A Lot More Fake News About the UPC, Trying to Convince People That the UK is Ratifying (It's Not, It Cannot)
• Rumours Suggest That EPO Management is Aware of Decline in Patent Quality and is Thus Actively Lying About it to the Media/Public
• Resumption of EPO Propaganda ('Meet the President') Officially Starts Tomorrow
• Caricature: Battistelli’s New Year’s Resolution (More EPO Lies)
• More Fake News About the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Based on Lobbying Tactics From Bristows UPC and the Preparatory Committee
• EPO Totally Silent for a Month, But Deep Inside There Are Serious Cracks
• ‘Financial Director’ Publishes Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
• EPO Abuses Come Under Fire From Politicians in Luxembourg
• Constitutionality as a Barrier and Brexit Barriers to UPC Keep the Whole Pipe Dream Deadlocked
• Brexit Means No UPC (Unified Patent Court)
• No End to Battistelli's Witch-hunts Against the Media, Against Staff, and Against Politicians
• FFPE-EPO, the EPO Management's Pet/Yellow Union, Helps Union-Busting (Against SUEPO) in Letter to Notorious Vice-President
• 2017: Latest Year That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Still Stuck in a Limbo
• The Productivity Commission Warns Against Patent Maximalism, Which is Where China (SIPO) is Heading Along With EPO
• Technical Failure of the European Patent Office (EPO) a Growing Cause for Concern
• New Article From Heise Explains Erosion of Patent Quality at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part V: Suspension of Salary and Unfair Trials
• Teaser: Corruption Indictments Brought Against Vice-President of the European Patent Office (EPO)
• 365 Days Later, German Justice Minister Heiko Maas Remains Silent and Thus Complicit in EPO Abuses on German Soil
• Battistelli's Idea of 'Independent' 'External' 'Social' 'Study' is Something to BUY From Notorious Firm PwC
• Europe Should Listen to SMEs Regarding the UPC, as Battistelli, Team UPC and the Select Committee Lie About It
• Video: French State Secretary for Digital Economy Speaks Out Against Benoît Battistelli at Battistelli's PR Event
• When EPO Vice-President, Who Will Resign Soon, Made a Mockery of the EPO
• No Separation of Powers or Justice at the EPO: Reign of Terror by Battistelli Explained in Letter to the Administrative Council
• FFPE-EPO is a Zombie (if Not Dead) Yellow Union Whose Only de Facto Purpose Has Been Attacking the EPO's Staff Union
• EPO Select Committee is Wrong About the Unitary Patent (UPC)

2016

December

• 2016: The Year EPO Staff Went on Strike, Possibly “Biggest Ever Strike in the History of the EPO.”
• Open EPO Letter Bemoans Battistelli's Antisocial Autocracy Disguised/Camouflaged Under the Misleading Term “Social Democracy”
• EPO’s Central Staff Committee Complains About Battistelli’s Bodyguards Fetish and Corruption of the Media
• Translation of French Texts About Battistelli and His Awful Perception of Omnipotence
• German Justice Minister Heiko Maas, Who Flagrantly Ignores Serious EPO Abuses, Helps Battistelli's Agenda ('Reform') With the UPC
• The EPO Under Benoît Battistelli Makes the Mafia Look Like Rookies
• Bad Service at the European Patent Office (EPO) Escalated in the Form of Complaints to European Authorities/Politicians
• Leaked: Letter to Quality Support (DQS) at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• Negative Publicity (Personal or by Association With the EPO) is Devouring the Institution
• 2017 Will be the Year Team Battistelli Collapsed and EPO 'Reform' Became All About Detoxifying the Organisation
• Crisis Inside the EPO as Elodie Bergot, Unqualified for Her Job, Fails to Maintain Staffing
• “Whoever at the EPO Took This Action Clearly Never Heard About the Concept of Separation of Powers”
• 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
• IAM is Still the EPO's Favourite Propaganda Mill
• Accusations of Administrative Council (of the EPO) Complicity in Illicit Retaliation Against Appeal Boards at the Behest of Battistelli
• 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
• No Justice at the EPO, Whose Underlying Purpose Was (Originally) to Do Patents Justice
• Leaked: After Vicious Attacks on SUEPO -- in Defiance of the Administrative Council's Demands! -- Team Battistelli Pretends to Want Union Recognition
• 'SIPO Europe': The EPO's Race to the Bottom of Patent Skills and Patent Quality
• Benoît Battistelli's Reign of Terror at the EPO Milks a Terror Attack Again, Shows Extreme Hypocrisy
• From Bad to Worse: When a Horrible Regime (EPO) Publicly Makes Itself Look Like One
• EPO President Benoît Battistelli “Should Be in Prison”
• EPO Appeal Boards, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and Other Newsworthy Tidbits (partly about EPO)
• More and More Lobbying for Software Patents, Not Just in Battistelli's EPO But Also in India and the US
• Not Just in Europe: EPO 'Mafioso' Benoît Battistelli Brings Software Patents (“Computer-Implemented Inventions”) to Another Place That Explicitly Banned Them
• Fury Over the Administrative Council of the EPO Controlling Nothing and Being Controlled by Battistelli
• Will the Patent Microcosm of London Please Stop Misleading the Public About UPC?
• Small Nations With Almost Not a Single European Patent Sign the Death Knell of EPO Patent Quality
• Why EPO Staff is Up in Arms
• Vote for Exile of the Boards of Appeal Shows That the Administrative Council of the EPO is Still Compromised and Complicit
• Big Crack in Team Battistelli: EPO’s Vice-President Willy Minnoye is Leaving!
• Team UPC Salivating Over Unitary Patent Fantasy Even Though It is Stuck in a Limbo
• Shame on the German Media for the Media Blackout Surrounding EPO Protests in Munich (and Sometimes Berlin)
• Confirmed: Judge Carl Josefsson Chosen by the Administrative Council for the Secretive Patent Organisation
• Rumour: Carl Josefsson to Head EPO Boards of Appeal, Battistelli Unhappy
• Administrative Council of the EPO Must Recognise Critical Brain Drain, Loss of Talent, Loss of Patent Quality
• Large Protest Against EPO Management, in Pictures
• Outside Pressure is Growing: CERN Staff Association Reaffirms Commitment to SUEPO, The Staff Union of the EPO
• EPO is “Googlebombing” Croatia With Puff Pieces Rather Than Discussion/Coverage of Vice-President's Dark Side
• EPO Protest Begins and ILO Staff Union Expresses Support for EPO Staff
• EPO Staff: Mr. Battistelli is Causing Immeasurable Damage to the Office; He is Now Untenable
• Media Blackout in Croatian Mainstream Media About Criminal Charges Against EPO's Croatian Vice-President and EPO President's Notoriety
• The EPO Keeps Bullying Examiners and Even Judges, EPO's Mouthpiece PwC Now Bullies Researchers
• Staff Union of the European Central Bank Blasts Benoît Battistelli
• Another New Book, This Time From Dr Luke McDonagh, Chronicles the Demise of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement
• The European Patent Office Suffers Quality Crisis, Finally (Belatedly) Agrees to Publicly Comment on It
• Benoît Battistelli Besieged
• Caricature: The European Patent Office Finds Quick Fix for ILO
• The EPO Sent Its Second 'Monster' to Croatia to Lobby for the Unitary Patent (UPC), Did Not Mention Anything About It
• EPO 'Reform' Seems to Strive for Echo Chamber Mentality, Elimination of Unions, Crackdown on Experienced (Well-Paid) Employees, and Departure From Patent Quality
• “Corrupt Benoît Battistelli and Željko Topić Today in Zagreb at 25th Anniversary of SIPO Croatia”
• EPO Protest This Coming Wednesday Strives to Restore the Rule of Law and Freedom of Speech at the Office
• The EPO is Collapsing. Attacks on Journalists, Interns as Staff, Patents on Plants, and Bureaucratic Red Tape...
• Ignore the Bristows UPC Echo Chamber, the UPC is Not Happening
• British Media Slams Battistelli for Attempting to Cover Up 2 Years of Juridical Abuses With Help From the Administrative Council of the EPO
• Boards of Appeal Still Under Attack From Team Battistelli While the EPO Proceeds to Granting Patents on Carlsberg BEER!
• Memo “Deliberately Leaked to Cover up the UPC” With Its Many Associated Issues Amid Brexit
• The UPC Scam Part VII: A Fine Mess in the Making, as Nothing Can be Made of It Amid/After Brexit
• 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
• EPO Spiraling Down the Drain as Experienced Examiners and Judges Are Seemingly Being Replaced by Interns
• EPO Suicides Greater in Number Than is Widely Reported, Unjust System a Contributor to These
• Heiko Maas, the SPD “Cash for Access” Affair, and Suspicions of Unwarranted Censorship at IP Kat (Again)
• Endgame for Battistelli at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• Les Échos Chamber: Having Corrupted the Media (With EPO Money), Battistelli Now Uses It for More UPC Propaganda
• Rumour: EPO in Berlin the Next Casualty of Battistelli's 'Reform' (Organisational Suicide Plan)
• Caricature: the Maas App
• Leaked: Battistelli Acknowledges Bunk 'Justice' in About 100 Cases at the Internal Appeals Committee of the EPO
• The UPC Scam Part V: Unitary Patent Regime a Fantasy of Patent Trolls
• EPO at a Tipping Point: Battistelli Quarrelling With French Politicians, Administrative Council Urged to Act, Staff Unrest Peaking
• Quality of Patents at the EPO Dependent on the Appeal Boards When Battistelli Assesses Performance Using the Wrong ‘Production’ Yardstick
• More French Politicians Are Complaining That Benoît Battistelli is a Disgrace to France and Urge for Action
• Dutch Media Covers Latest EPO Scandals, German Media Totally Absent (a Media Blackout of Convenience)
• Relocating the Boards of Appeal to Haar is a Poisonous Priority at Battistelli's EPO
• The Rule of Law and Justice Don't Exist Inside the EPO, Confirms the International Labour Organisation (ILO)
• A Day in the Life of... Battistelli's Banana Republic
• Two ILO Decisions on EPO Cases Are Released, at Least One Judgment is Considered Good for Staff
• Dutch and French Politicians Complain About the European Patent Office, British Media Coverage Regular Now

November

• The UPC Scam Part IV: Bumps Along the Road for UPC, With or Without the UK and Brexit
• The UPC Scam Part III: The “Patent Mafia”
• The UPC Scam Part II: The Patent Echo Chamber at Work, Prematurely Congratulating Itself in Its 'News' Sites
• The UPC Scam Part I: EPO-Bribed Media Outlets Lie to Brits (and to Europeans) About the UPC
• European Public Service Union Asks EPO Administrative Council “to Re-establish the Rule of Law at the European Patent Office”
• ILOAT Decisions: Upcoming Publication of Two EPO Cases (Abuse Against Staff)
• Mixing Politics and EPO: How Battistelli Defies the Very Basic Rules of the Office
• EPO DG1 Principal Director “Out of the Muppet Show”
• Learning From the Mistakes of the US Patent System (and More Latterly China) When Assessing Patent Maximalism (partly about EPO)
• The International Labour Organisation Once Again Proves Useless for Labour of the EPO
• CERN Slams the European Patent Office for Abuse of Employees
• Patent Attorney Mark Summerfield: EPO Administrative Council “Members Should be Ashamed.”
• EPO Caricature: Slowing Down Justice and Giving Luxury Cars as Gifts
• Danger of Letting a Bunch of Patent Law Firms Attempt to Hijack the European Patent System With UPC
• Caught in a Lie Again: EPO Management Just Cannot Stop Lying, Even About People Whom It Gags Using Threats (to Cover Up Battistelli's Abuses)
• Benoît Battistelli's Affinity for Tiny Countries Exploits the Ease of 'Buying' Their Votes
• The Sad State of German Anti-Corruption Authorities and Investigative Journalism, as Demonstrated by the EPO
• Duplicate Events for Lobbying by Team UPC Meddle in Politics in an Effort to Enrich Itself at Europe's Expense
• SLAPP-Happy EPO Vice-President Slapped Out of the Municipal Criminal Court in Zagreb for the Third Time!
• EPO and the Art of Distraction, Disinformation
• Report From Yesterday's EPO Protest at The Hague, Which Several Politicians Attended
• Asking Team UPC or the EPO About the UPC is Like Asking Clinton About Winning Presidential Elections
• Patent Quality at the EPO Depends on the Future of the Boards of Appeal (Which Battistelli is Killing Not So Softly)
• Video and Audio: Press Coverage From Today's EPO Protest at The Hague
• Union Syndicale Fédérale Writes Letters to the Chinchilla Man of the Administrative Council About Battistelli's EPO Abuses, No Sign of Reply/Reaction
• European Patent Office Workers Take Action Against 'Tyrannical' Director
• Employees of European Patent Office Take Action Against Culture of Fear
• Anonymous EPO Staff: EPO Management's Moral Compass is Broken
• EPO Protest Tomorrow at The Hague
• Caricature: Team Battistelli's UPC Strategy
• Caricature: EPO ‘Voting’ When All Votes Are Equal Irrespective of Country’s Size
• Crisis at the EPO Deepens as Dutch Parliament Dives in, European Parliament Snubbed by EPO Management, and Battistelli Relies on 'High Corruption' States
• Cases Against the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Demise of Transparency International (Which EPO Partly 'Absorbed')
• European Media, Dutch Parliament and Spectacularly Enough Even IP Kat (Yes, It's Back!) Subject the EPO to Serious Scrutiny
• Drunk on ‘Production’, the European Patent Office (EPO) Grants Patents on Recipes
• Like Team UPC, the Internet Association (Megacorporations' Front Group) Hijacks the Voice of Small Businesses in an Effort to Steer Patent Policy Against Them
• Cheapening of Patents at the EPO, Cheapening of Staff of the EPO, and Emergence of Large Corporations' Tax Evasion Using Piles of Patents
• Battistelli Should be Made Redundant (Fired) Before All EPO Staff Becomes Redundant in a Defunct Office That Flagrantly Mocks the Law
• Amid Scapegoating, Union-Shaming and Gagging by Battistelli, SUEPO's Prunier Provides More Details on Union Busting at the EPO
• The EPO Lowering Patent Quality, Accused of Issuing Invalid Patents, and Promoting Software Patents (Hence Trolls)
• Violations of Human Rights at the EPO in the Name of Fraud Prevention
• Breaking: Dutch Parliament Debate About Immunity of the EPO and the Tyranny of Benoît Battistelli
• Leaked Letter Reveals How Battistelli Still Exploits FFPE-EPO (Yellow Union) to Attack the Real EPO Union, SUEPO
• Guest Post: Behind the GCC Meeting and How Battistelli Finds Excuses for His Union-Busting Campaign at the EPO
• Leaked: Proof That Benoît Battistelli Disregarded Orders From the Administrative Council (Again)
• In the European Patent Office, Battistelli Implements Changes That Clearly Defy the Rule of Law
• Elodie Bergot's Double Standards: Can Flagrantly Defame EPO Staff Representatives on the Intranet (Union-Shaming), But Cannot Publish Facts
• Call for Disciplinary Procedures and Dismissal of Mr Battistelli, Mr Topić and Ms Bergot at the EPO
• EPO Caricature: Fabricating Evidence
• Benoît Battistelli Reinforces the Perception That García-Escudero is His Pet Chinchilla at the Board of Appeals Committee (BoAC)
• Decline in Patent Quality at the EPO Increasingly Reaffirmed by More Branches, Insiders, and Even the European Commission
• Battistelli Must Go, Says Yet Another French Politician, Arguing He is “Extremely Damaging to the Image of France”
• SUEPO (EPO Staff Union) “Fears Now That the Intention Behind This Blow is “to Destroy” the Union.”
• “Not My President“: The Sentiment of European Patent Office Staff Towards Their Fascistic Boss
• Benoît Battistelli's Marching Orders in Spain Through His 'Pet Chinchilla' Patricia García-Escudero, Whom He Got Overseeing the Boards of Appeal
• EPO Social Workshops on Monday and Tuesday? No, EPO Staff up in Arms!
• At EPOPIC Today, As Expected, Software Patents Courtesy of EPO
• EPO I.U. Cartoon Highlights the Way EPO Staff Feels About the Management Under Battistelli
• Don't Believe Team UPC; the UPC is Going Nowhere Fast
• Threats to Dismissed EPO Staff Representative Allegedly Hold Pension (Blackmail Point) to Silence Him Even After Unjust Dismissal, Munich Goes Protesting for Him
• EPO Ally IAM Magazine Calls Battistelli's Dismissal of EPO Staff Representative Laurent Prunier “a Needless Own Goal.”
• The Death of Patent Quality at the EPO and the European Commission's Latest Smackdown of the EPO's Patent Maximalism
• UPC a Threat to the Boards of Appeal at the EPO (Soon Haar) and to Patent Quality in Europe
• Dismissal of Laurent Prunier Worse Than It Seems as Battistelli Almost 'Pulls a Hardon' by Taking Away Pension Rights Too
• EPO President Benoît Hernandez About the Social Atmosphere and Life’s Great Joys
• Has the Advisor of Željko Topić Just Quit, Got Sacked, or is EPO Vice-President Topić Gaining Even Greater Powers?
• In the Case of Frenchman Laurent Prunier, Battistelli Reasserts Himself as Psychopathic Bully
• Leaked: An Out-of-Control EPO Union-Busting Parade of Battistelli Marches on in The Hague
• Caricature: European Patent Office as Mordor
• Breaking the European Patent System With the UPC Hammer, Courtesy of the EPO and Lawyers-Centric 'News' Sites
• Patent Maximalism is Destroying the European Patent Office (Just a Paperwork Assembly Line), Exile of Boards Ensures No Turnaround

October

• The Insane World of Patent Maximalism and Professor Joshua Pearce’s Case for Weakening Patent Rights (partly covers EPO)
• FTC Slams Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), Effectively Patent Trolls, Which Are a Growing Problem in Europe
• The Patent Trolls Are Moving East as Patents on Software Lose Their Lustre in the United States
• 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
• How to Tell You're Deliberately Not Covering Important EPO Scandals
• The EPO's Balkan Express Keeps Chugging Along Despite Predictions of Derailment
• Advice to Journalists: Stop Repeating Propaganda of the EPO, a Serial Liar With a Track Record
• Leaked: Ljiljana Kuterovac Covering Željko Topić's (EPO) Back
• Leaked: Budget and Finance Committee Outcomes That Jeopardise What's Left of the EPO's Future
• 'Balkan Express' Teaser: EPO's Željko Topić, Kuterovac, Campinos, Gurry, Battistelli and the DKPTO (Kongstad)
• Budget and Finance Committee of the Administrative Council (EPO) Confirms Exile of the Boards of Appeal
• Leaked: EPO's Vice-President Willie Minnoye Saying the Unsayable, Then Threatening Anyone Who Keeps Record (Evidence) of It
• Puff Pieces of the EPO-IPO (EPO+EUIPO) Have Begun to Appear Amid New Evidence of Brain Drain, Lowered Standards
• Leaked: Minutes From the Administrative Council of the EPO Regarding the 'Reform' (Exile) of the Boards of Appeal
• No Promising Future For the EPO Under Battistelli (If Any Future At All)
• Leaked Minutes From the EPO Reveal That Battistelli is Detached From Reality and Blames Everything on “Union Officials”
• Battistelli Plans to Expand the Social {sic} 'Study' (Then 'Conference') Propaganda Until Next Month, Under the 'Workshop' Umbrella
• EPO and EUIPO Join Hands to Release Propaganda (for European Media to Parrot) Some Time Tomorrow
• UPC Preparatory Committee Puts the Brakes on UPC Amid Brexit and Growing Uncertainty
• Updates Regarding EPO and BoAC: Unrest and Injustice Carry on
• EPO and the “Iberian Connection”: Patricia García-Escudero Márquez – Battistelli’s Pet Chinchilla on the Boards of Appeal Committee?
• Open Letter Exposing the Farce Which Was Battistelli’s ‘Social Conference’ Coinciding With Further (New) Attacks on EPO Staff Representatives
• Translation of Latest Rant From French MP Philip Cordery About Benoît Battistelli’s Abuses at the EPO
• Battistelli-Commissioned PwC ‘Study’: Leaked Document Shows PwC’s Dishonesty and Misrepresentation of EPO Staff
• Battistelli-Commissioned PwC ‘Study’: Survey Comparison Shows Serious Deterioration and Efforts by PwC to Disguise the Truth
• EPO Teaser - The "Iberian Connection" - Some Photos of García-Escudero and His Royal/Government Connections
• Disruption to Site's Service
• EPO Caricature: Battistelli's High Five
• Battistelli Ruins Not Only the EPO But Also the Whole of Europe By Ushering in Software Patents That Patent Trolls Love So Much
• EPO Spokesman Lies to IP Watch in Order to Save Face and Save the King (Battistelli)
• Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead, But ‘Managing IP’ and Selfish Patent Law Firms Still Try to Resurrect It
• Battistelli-Commissioned PwC ‘Study’: The Raw Outcome Shows Distortion of the Facts at the EPO’s Notorious ‘Social Conference’
• Addendum: EPO’s Alberto Casado Cerviño, WIPO’s Francis Gurry, and EUIPO’s Archambeau
• Worrisome Connections Between EPO VP2 Alberto Casado Cerviño and Patricia García-Escudero Márquez
• EPO Caricature: EQE Questions
• The Long History or Seeds of Control by Fear and Punishment at the EPO
• Subject of the European Patent Office’s Abuses Raised in European Parliament by Ulrike Müller (ALDE)
• French Article About the EPO "Crisis"
• Battistelli Wants Us to Believe a Patent Office in a Freefall (EPO) is “Stronger and More Sustainable”
• Leaked Documents Shed More Light on What Happened to Alison Brimelow and How Battistelli Rose to Power
• Leaked: Outcomes of 149th Administrative Council's Meeting at the European Patent Organisation
• Danish Press Coverage of the European Patent Office and the Problems Explored by Techrights
• EPO Updates: Battistelli in Trouble, Grossenbacher and Battistelli Having a Fight, EPO Doubles Down on Željko Topić
• EPO Social Conference Another Example of Astronomical Waste of Money by Benoît Battistelli
• UPC Preparatory Committee Projects Optimism in an Effort to Salvage Its Dying Project, the Unitary/Unified Patent
• Outline of Latest Press Coverage Regarding the European Patent Office (EPO)
• As Expected, Benoît Battistelli Puts Longtime Ally Roland Grossenbacher on Top of Boards of Appeal
• EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point - Part V: “Siegfried Bross as President of the Boards of Appeal!”
• EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point – Part IV: When ~1,200 EPO Workers March in Protest and European Politicians Say “Battistelli Must Go”
• EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point – Part III: How Benoît Battistelli Planned to Expand His Attacks on EPO Staff (But Failed)
• EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point - Part II: More Photos From Today's Protest at The Hague
• EPO Caricature: EPO-Funded PwC on EPO Happiness
• EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point – Part I: Protest at The Hague and the Huge Things at Stake
• The EPO is Out of Control on (Patent) Scope and Team UPC Floods the Media in a Desperate Last Attempt
• Index: Our Jesper Kongstad Series of Danish Stories
• Addendum II: Article About the Kongstads' Villa Becoming a Breeding Farm for the Fur Industry
• Addendum I: Danish Fur Industry - Further Information Regarding Political Lobbying
• Danish Stories - Part V: Jesper Kongstad's Chinchilla Fur Farming
• “Very Mysterious Things Going on at the IPKat Recently”
• Danish Puff Pieces: Latest 'Puff Pieces' From Denmark About the Opening of a New DKPTO Branch Office
• The Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) Protested Today in Munich (Against the EPO's Management) While President Benoît Battistelli Lied
• New Letter to the Delegates of the Administrative Council
• New Caricature: President Blatter Speaks to the Administrative Council of the EPO
• From World's Best to World's Worst: China's SIPO (Worst of Asia) and France (Worst of Europe) the Vision for EPO
• Has IP Kat's Unofficial (Self-)Censorship Policy Expanded From Protecting the EPO's Image to Protecting the UPC?
• The UPC is Dead, Says Opinion Partly Funded by Team UPC, But Patent Scope in Europe Remains an Issue
• The Administrative Council Seems to Have No Issues With Battistelli Wasting Millions of Euros Buying the Media and Fake ‘Studies’
• Addendum II: FJORDBLINK MEDICAL ApS - Further Information and a Mystery
• Addendum I: FJORDBLINK MEDICAL ApS Technically Housed in Jesper Kongstad's New Mansion?
• Danish Stories - Part IV: Jesper Kongstad and FJORDBLINK MEDICAL ApS
• Rumour: The European Patent Office Intends to Sack Staff Representatives at The Hague Like It Did in Munich
• Danish Stories - Part III: Jesper Kongstad a Danish Civil Servant With a Distinctly Entrepreneurial Streak
• Team Battistelli Keeps Lying About Judges and Staff Representatives in Order to Decapitate EPO Staff and Even the 'Independent' Boards of Appeal
• Battistelli's Preparation for a Propaganda Session That Excludes EPO Staff Representation
• Addendum II: Photos of Troel Lund Poulsen With Fur
• Addendum I: Photos of Troel Lund Poulsen and Michael Dithmer
• Danish Stories - Part II: Kongstad's Political Masters in Denmark and Rumoured Connections to the Venstre Party
• Echo Chamber's Lobbying: Team UPC Citing Team UPC as 'Proof' Regarding the UPC
• Loose Patent Scope Becoming a Publicity Nightmare for the EPO and Battistelli Does a China Outreach (Worst/Most Notorious on Patent Quality)
• No Justice Even for a Judge at the EPO, as the Whole Institution is Beyond Rotten and Quite Corrupt
• 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
• Addendum: Controversial Chinchilla Farming by the Kongstad Family
• Introduction to Jesper Kongstad, EPO Chairman of the Administrative Council
• Danish Fairy Tales and Legends: The Secret Life of Jesper Kongstad
• Translation and Response to Battistelli’s Face-Saving ‘Interview’ With Juve
• Not Just the European Patent Office But the Organisation Too a Culprit in Immunity and Impunity
• Immunity of the European Patent Office and Lack of Oversight Within the Organisation Mean That It's a Rogue Entity Above the Law
• Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are at War With European Democracy, Which They View as an Obstacle to Money and Power

September

• Dutch Court Rules Against SUEPO (in a Reversal), But EPO Management Would Have Ignored the Ruling Even If SUEPO Won
• New Paper Provides Evidence of Sinking Patent Quality at the EPO, Refuting the Liar in Chief Battistelli
• Battistelli Locks EPO Staff Union Out of Social Conference So That He Can Lie About the Union and the Social Climate
• Unprecedented Levels of UPC Lobbying by Big Business Europe (Multinationals) and Their Patent Law Firms
• Team UPC is Interjecting Itself Into the Media Ahead of Tomorrow's Lobbying Push Against the European Council and Against European Interests
• IP Kat is Lobbying Heavily for the UPC, Courtesy of Team UPC
• Leaked: Conclusions of the Secretive EPO Board 28 Meeting (8th of September 2016)
• Letter From the Dutch Institute of Patent Attorneys (Nederlandse Orde van Octrooigemachtigden) to the Administrative Council of the EPO
• EPO's Board 28 Notes Battistelli's “Three Current Investigations/Disciplinary Proceedings Involving SUEPO Members in The Hague."
• Cementing Autocracy: The European Patent Office Against Democracy, Against Media, and Against the Rule of Law
• Team Battistelli Intensifies the Attack on the Boards of Appeal Again
• After the EPO Paid the Financial Times to Produce Propaganda the Newspaper Continues to Produce UPC Puff Pieces, Just Ahead of EU Council Meeting
• The EPO's Continued Push for Software Patents, Marginalisation of Appeals (Reassessment), and Deviation From the EPC
• The Battistelli Effect: “We Will be Gradually Forced to File Our Patent Applications Outside the EPO in the Interests of Our Clients”
• The Moral Depravity of the European Patent Office Under Battistelli
• What Insiders Are Saying About the Sad State of the European Patent Office (EPO)
• The EPO Does Not Want Skilled (and 'Expensive') Staff, Layoffs a Growing Concern
• Patent Quality and Patent Scope the Unspeakable Taboo at the EPO, as Both Are Guillotined by Benoît Battistelli for the Sake of Money
• 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.”
• Released Late on a Friday, EPO Social 'Study' (Battistelli-Commissioned Propaganda) Attempts to Blame Staff for Everything
• White Male-Dominated EPO Management Sinks to New Lows, Again
• Journalism 102: Do Not Become Like 'Managing IP' or IAM 'Magazine' (the Megaphones of the EPO’s Management)
• Journalism 101: Do Not Believe Anything That Benoît Battistelli and the EPO’s Management Say (Also Don’t Fall for the UPC Hype)
• Like Big Tobacco Lobbyists, Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are Just Chronically Lying and Manipulating Politicians With Their Lies
• The EPO's 'Investigative' Function is Totally Out of Control and Continues to Get Bigger, Whitewashed by So-called 'Review'
• With or Without the UPC (Which Will Probably Never Happen) Battistelli is Crushing the EPO and Ejects Experienced Staff, a Future Without Examination Possible
• When EPO Liar-in-Chief Benoît Battistelli Defamed His Staff in Parliament, Comparing Them to Nazis and Criminals
• EPO President Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are Still Lying, Don't Believe a Word They Say
• Battistelli is Lying About Patent Quality While It Continues to Nosedive at the EPO as Part of His Neo-liberal ‘Production’ Strategy
• Battistelli and His Circle — Not Just Team UPC — Still Delusional About the Prospects of a Unified Patent Court (UPC)
• As Part of So-called 'Reforms', the EPO's President is Gradually Eliminating the Boards of Appeal, Not Just Their Independence
• Team UPC Has Not Grown Tired of Kicking a Dead (Trojan) Horse
• Battistelli is Killing the EPO, in His Own Words...
• Web Site 'Managing IP' is Managing to Come Across as an EPO Mouthpiece
• The Duke Law Patent Quality Conference and the Planned Erosion of Patent Quality at the EPO, for the Sake of So-called 'Production'
• Brain Drain at the EPO Under Battistelli is Becoming a Critical Problem
• EU Law and UPC: Brought to You by Microsoft and the European Patent Office
• Benoît Battistelli is Putting More EPO Staff Representatives in Front of His Firing Line
• New Paper Outlines Concerns That the EPO as a Patent Examination Office is Dying, Gradually Turning Into a Registration Office
• The Collapse of the European Patent Office Under Battistelli Has Already Begun
• A New Wave of the EPO's Much-Expected Propaganda Push, Aided by 'Managing IP' and IAM 'Magazine'
• The European Privacy Offender (EPO) Sells Data But Only to the Rich and Powerful
• Another New Low for the EPO and Battistelli
• Convergence Between the EPO and the Media: ‘Managing IP’ as Battistelli and UPC Platform
• High on EPO: Battistelli’s ‘Social Conference’ Nonsense is Intended to Help Suppress Debate About His Abuses Against Staff and Union-Busting Activities
• The EPO’s Assistant/Secretary for Bergot (Nepotism Supreme) Demonstrates a Race to the Bottom With Temporary Appointments, Operation ‘Clean House’
• There is No Future for the UPC in Spite of What the EPO and the Patent Microcosm Keep Telling Us
• The EPO is Wasting a Fortune and Flying to Other Continents in an Apparent Effort to Recruit (Because Brain Drain Continues Very Rapidly)
• Battistelli is Even Attacking the French, and Not Just in Germany But Also on Dutch Territory
• Specialists in Public International Law Bemoan Privacy Violations at the European Patent Office
• The European Patent Office is Utterly Desperate for Attention as Its Status Worldwide Sinks and It Resorts to ‘Spamming’ All Major Universities in Europe
• UPC Threatens to Send the European Patent Office Circling Down the Drain
• The Long Reach of Battistelli’s Policy of Retribution

Willy Minnoye, a top-level manager who declared the EPO would disregard even the highest court rulings

August

• Nothing Whatsoever Has Improved at the European Patent Office, It's Just Summer's Recess (and Silence)
• More Lies From President Benoît Battistelli and the EPO Crisis Which Continues to Deepen
• The EPO's Francesco Zaccà Presenting in Turin Alongside Patent Trolls (Like the Patent Mafia Sisvel) and Lobbyists/Front Groups for Software Patents, UPC
• The EPO, USPTO, and Patent Microcosm Peddle Myths About Patents in Public Universities and Research
• Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice Calls the European Patent Office “Rotten”, Other Sources Scrutinise Recent Moves
• Not Just President Battistelli: EPO Vice-Presidents Are Still Intentionally Misrepresenting EPO Staff
• Battistelli the Liar Causes a Climate of Confrontation in French Politics, Lies About Patent Quality (Among Many Other Things)
• The Cost/Toll of the 'New' EPO and Where All That Money Goes or Comes From
• The End of an Era at the USPTO as Battistelli-Like (EPO) Granting Policies Are Over
• Battistelli's European Patent Office Goes to the United States to Speak About the UPC and Software Patents
• Turkey Subjected to the European Patent Convention (EPC) But Benoît Battistelli is Not?
• Personal Audio LLC and Patent Troll Jim Logan Demonstrate the Harms of Software Patents and Why They Must Never Spread to Europe
• That Time When the Administrative Council Helped Battistelli Crush Oversight (Audit Committee) and What ILO Said About It a Month Ago
• The EPO's Administrative Council Keeps Postponing Debate About Grounds for Firing the President
• A Surge of Staff Complaints About the European Patent Office Drowns the System, Disservice to Justice Noted
• Clawing Back the Staff Benefits at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• Patent Microcosm Shuts Out the Poor: Unified Patent Court (UPC) Promotion by Practising Law Institute (PLI) Only for the Wealthy
• German Media Becomes Aware of Battistelli's Defiance of the Very Basis of the EPO
• ‘Constitutional Crisis’ at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• The EPO’s Twitter Account is Drunk (on Battistelli’s Kool-Aid)
• Rumours About Likely Salary of (or Compensation to) Jesper Kongstad of the EPO Administrative Council
• Deviation From (and Violation of) the EPC Under Battistelli at the EPO for the Sake of 'Production'
• “EPO Shows an Operating Loss of €145,000,000”
• “EPO is Quickly Turning Into a Registration System”
• EPO's Vice-President Willy Minnoye Was Rumoured to be Leaving
• Rumours About Secret EPO Salary of Benoît Battistelli
• Managing IP (MIP) Organises a UPC Event (European Patent ‘Reform’ Forum), the Largest Patent Microcosm/Corporate Players Dominate Through Fee Discrimination
• Francis Gurry — Like Benoît Battistelli — Compared to Sepp Blatter of FIFA
• Patent Quality in Europe (EPO) Declining Under Battistelli in Spite of the USPTO's Cautionary Tale
• Lucy in the Sky With Battistelli's Diamonds (EU Budget) But No UPC in Sight
• The Protocol on Privileges and Immunities of the UPC is a Dead End, But Team UPC Tries to Ram it Down Europeans’ Throats
• Software Patents Still a Problem in Europe (in Spite of the European Patent Convention), the UPC Would Make Things Worse

July

• Actions by Team Battistelli Against the European Patent Convention (EPC) and the Role Played by Željko Topić in Crushing Opposition
• EPO Crushed the Boards of Appeal (i.e. Quality Control) and Insiders Explain Why
• EPO Loses More Than 80% of Cases at the International Labour Organisation (ILO)
• To Understand What Battistelli Has Turned the EPO Into Look at Turkey and China
• 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
• Early Certainty That Benoît Battistelli is Dangerously Clueless and a Major Risk to the EPO
• Munich Attack Mentioned by EPO But Not Ansbach
• Kluwer Thinks People Are Clueless About the Unitary Patent System and Pretends It's Business as Usual
• Almost Everything That the Government Accountability Office Says is Applicable to the EPO
• Leaked: Boards of Appeal Face 'Exile' or 'Extradition' in Haar After Standing up to Battistelli
• Haar Mentioned as Likely Site of Appeal Boards as Their Eradication or Marginalisation Envisioned by UPC Proponent Benoît Battistelli
• EPO Attaché Albert Keyack Viewed as Somewhat of a Mole, Reporting From the US Embassy in Brazil Until Shortly Before the Temer Coup
• EPO Insiders Explain Why the EPO's Examination Quality Rapidly Declines and Will Get Even Worse Because of Willy Minnoye
• Glimpse at Patent Systems Across the World: Better Quality Control at the USPTO Post-America Invents Act (2011), Unlike the EPO Post-Battistelli (2010)
• EPO USA: Under Battistelli, the ‘European’ Patent Office Emulates All the Mistakes of the USPTO
• Battistelli Has Implemented De Facto EPO Coup to Remove Oversight, Give Himself Total Power, and Allegedly Give UPC Gifts (Loot) to French Officials
• EPO Social Report is a Big Pile of Lies That Responsible Journalists Must Ignore
• Exploiting Perceived Emergencies/Disasters, Suspending the Rule of Law, and Suspending Judges: How Erdoğan is Like Battistelli, Except the Coup
• After the FTI Consulting-EPO Reputation Laundering Deal's Expansion in Germany Süddeutsche Zeitung 'Forgets' That the EPO Even Exists
• Benoît Battistelli and Persistratos
• Whistleblower Protection Desperately Needed at the European Patent Office
• This is Why Benoît Battistelli Has 0% Approval Rating Among ‘His’ Staff at the EPO
• What If EPO Under Battistelli Gets Broken Beyond Repair Just Like the UPC? (Spanish translation )
• EPO’s Battistelli, Who Breaks the Law, Subverts the Course of Justice and Refuses to Obey Court Orders, Says the Unthinkable Amid Terror Attacks (Spanish translation )
• Deathwatch of the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPC)
• EPO Management on Trial Tomorrow, But It Stated Upfront It Would Not Obey the Legal Ruling While It Rigs Its Own Rulings
• EPO's Battistelli Continues to Court Small Countries' Officials and Spin That as “Small Businesses From These Countries” (Spanish translation )
• Hot Summer: EPO Management on Trial This Week
• “We Need to Inform {Politicians, Journalists ... Ministers or Representatives} that the Whole European Patent System is at Risk.”
• Will Battistelli's Friend/Ally Lucy Neville-Rolfe Shamelessly Attack British Democracy and Push for UPC in Spite of Brexit?
• Coup D’état in Relation to the European Patent Office
• Benoît Battistelli's Attacks on EPO Unions, Judges, Boards, and Even Justice Itself the Subject of Media Fascination
• Battistelli and Team UPC Working Behind Closed Doors to Overcome Brexit and Impose Patent Injustice (Spanish translation )
• Weapons of Mass Distraction at the EPO Cost the EPO Millions of Euros
• The ‘Administrative’ Council is to Benoît Battistelli What FISA is to the NSA (Spanish translation )
• Decline of Patent Quality at the EPO to Further Exacerbate With Latest Crackdown on Appeal Boards
• SUEPO “Speechless” About Administrative Council Delegates for “Cavalier Attitude Towards Law-Making” and “Contempt for Consultative Processes”
• Potential Alignment of Special Interests at Mishcon de Reya: EPO, Microsoft, and Brexit (or UPC) (Spanish translation )
• Team Battistelli Parties Like It's Still 2010 (Pre-Battistelli Governance), Fails to Acknowledge Demise of EPO as Popular Employer and Instead Lies to Staff
• Image of Battistelli’s EPO Tarnished in the UK and Elsewhere as Battistelli Warms up to Cuba, Colombia, and Panama (Spanish translation )
• UPC a Dead Project, as Per Analysis From Foley and Lardner LLP; What Next for Team Battistelli and Team UPC?
• The European Patent Organisation Jokes About Independence on the 4th of July (US Independence Day)
• Grim Situation at the European Patent Office Following Battistelli's Latest Lawlessness Tendencies, as Explained by Concerned Insiders
• IAM's Latest Take on the UPC: Dead End For Another 2.5 Years (At Least) With No Effective Workarounds (Spanish translation )
• Post-Jeremy IP Kat Deems It OK to Publish Anonymous Comment Comparing Techrights to “Daesh” While Censoring Polite Response to That
• What Team Battistelli Claims to be Independence of the Boards of Appeal Actually a Likely Dismissal Plan for ‘Unwanted’ Judge (and Maybe His Protectors), Potentially Permanent Unemployment Plan
• Battistelli's Destructive Actions Will Drive EPO Applicants Away to National Patent Offices, Putting at Risk the Whole EU-Wide (and Beyond) Project (Spanish translation )
• As Expected, 'Team UPC' Continues Fighting for Its Project's Survival in Spite of 'Brexit' (Spanish translation )
• Realistic English Translation of EPO Announcement About Crushing of Patent Quality (Spanish translation )
• The European Patent Organisation’s Administrative Council Helps Benoît Battistelli Destroy Patent Quality for the Sake of ‘Production’
• At the European Patent Organisation the Administrative Council Does Not Care About Staff
• EPO Leak: Administrative Council’s Latest Meeting Report

June

• Publicly-Available Information About the Meeting of the EPO’s Administrative Council
• Battistelli's Last Moves Are Desperate Attempts to Crush the Messenger (SUEPO), Which Will Almost Certainly Backfire on (if Not Fire) Battistelli
• EPO Staff Representative Jesus Areso Explains the Crisis to the Administrative Council
• Shadows of Alleged Criminality Over the European Patent Office (EPO)
• You Know That UPC is Quite Likely Dead (at Least in the UK) When Even Baroness Neville-Rolfe Dodges the Question
• Short Report From Today's EPO Protest in Munich
• Growing Consensus Even Among Patent Professionals That UPC is Dying Everywhere If Not Just in the UK
• Battistelli Attacks Not Only His Staff But Also Patents Themselves (Their Quality) and the Legal Legitimacy Surrounding the EPO
• Battistelli is Creating an Atmosphere of Terror at the EPO While Exploiting Terror Attacks to Garner Sympathy
• Rumours That EPO President Battistelli Got Sacked to be Replaced by Christoph Ernst Appear to be Baseless
• The EPO Has Become Battistelli's Circus and the Administrative Council Has Been Reduced to (Illegal) Circus Animals Controlled With 'Treats'
• The Latest Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) Would Have Us Believe That It’s Alive and Well
• EPO Management Bunker: “The Bailiff Who Came to Deliver the Subpoena was Escorted off the Property by Five Security Guards.”
• Benoît Battistelli Further Weaponises His EPO ‘Stasi’ With CA/52/16
• EPO Caricature: Administrative Council Control of Benoît Battistelli
• EPO Caricature: Firing Benoît Battistelli
• New Efforts to Work Around Barriers to UPC in Light of ‘Brexit’; Behind These Efforts Are Self-Serving Patent Profiteers
• Injunction Against Battistelli’s Investigative Unit (Known Internally as ‘Gestapo’) Amid Serious Injustices and Bogus ‘Trials’
• From Alleged Organised Crime to Vice-President of the European Patent Office (EPO)
• Battistelli May Still be on the Way Out as Pressure Grows in Germany, UPC in Shambles
• Caricature: European Patent Office (EPO) Under Battistelli
• Techrights (Almost) at 10: From Software Patents to Novell and to Present Focus on EPO (reflection)
• With UPC Dead for Battistelli's Entire Remaining Term, No Reason for the EPO or the Administrative Council to Keep Battistelli Around (Spanish translation )
• Benoît Battistelli Should Resign in Light of New Leak of Decision in His Vendetta Against Truth-Telling Judge (Spanish translation )
• Fake Patents on Software From Fake Australian ‘Inventor’ of Bitcoin and the Globally-Contagious Nature of EPO Patent Scope (just partly about the EPO)
• Looks Increasingly Plausible That Battistelli is Covering up Bogus and/or Illegally-Obtained ‘Evidence’ From the EPO’s Investigative Unit (Spanish translation )
• As Decision on the UK’s EU Status Looms, EPO Deep in a Crisis of Patent Quality
• Another Demonstration by European Patent Office (EPO) Staff on Same Day as Administrative Council’s Meeting
• IP Europe’s UPC Lobbying and the EPO Connection
• EPO “Recruitment of Brits is Down by 80%”
• The Conspiracy of Patent Lawyers for UPC and Battistelli's Role in Preparing by Firing People
• EPO Self-Censorship by IP Kat or Just Censorship of Opinions That IP Kat Does Not Share/Accept
• Caricature: Bygmalion Patent Office
• Under Battistelli’s Regime the EPO is a Lawless, Dark Place
• New Paper Demonstrates That Unitary Patent (UPC) is Little More Than a Conspiracy of Patent ‘Professionals’ and Their Self Interest
• Money Flying to Private Companies Without Tenders at Battistelli’s EPO (by the Tens of Millions!)
• Patent Examiners and Insiders Acknowledge Profound Demise in Patent Quality Under Battistelli
• The Rule of Money and Power, Not the Rule of Law, at the European Patent Office
• Brain Drain at the EPO: Qualified Patent Examiners Leave in Droves, Young Ones Blindly Loyal to Management Reduce Patent Quality
• No Exaggeration Necessary: the EPO Under Benoît Battistelli Has North Korean Standards of ‘Justice’
• When the EPO’s PR Team Says About UPC (Unitary Patent) That It Can be Delayed It Means Derailed or Called Off
• 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
• Benoît Battistelli Apparently Breaks the Rules Again and Says That Transparent Trial is Unlawful, Threatens Those Involved
• Benoît Battistelli’s Façade Continues: Exploiting Terror Attacks Again, Throwing Expensive Parties at the EPO’s Expense, Crushing More Workers’ Rights
• EPO Crisis: What If There Was an Administrative Council Meeting and Nobody Came?
• EPO Brain Drain Goes All the Way to the Top as Head of Patent Administration Abruptly Resigns
• EPO Investigative Unit Causes “Trauma, Will Ruin the Health or Even the Family”
• British Media Tackling Other British Media That the EPO’s Benoît Battistelli Paid for His Propaganda Campaign
• Battistelli’s European Patent Office Broadens FTI Consulting Contract to Undermine the Media, Wastes Millions of Euros (Spanish translation )
• Endgame of Manipulating Media With Payments and PR: The ‘Blame Everything and Everyone But EPO Management’ Tactics
• Detailed Account of Today's 'Trial' of a Judge Who Said the Truth About the EPO
• Timely ‘Gifts’ From Battistelli to Member States (Shortly Before They Can — and Should — Sack Him) (Spanish translation )
• EPO and Its ‘Buddies’ in the Media Lobby for the UPC in Spite of and in the Face of Resistance (Spanish translation )
• Battistelli is Sending Threatening Messages/Letters Again, in Another Desperate Effort to Cover Up His Campaign of Defamation Against EPO Whistleblowers (Spanish translation )
• Another EPO Staff Demonstration Planned for a Fortnight From Now When Battistelli Wishes to Make the EPO Even Crazier
• Bought Media Coverage at the European Patent Office
• New Essay: EPO “president and Council are morally corrupt”
• Report From Thursday Protest in EPO Munich Branch/Headquarters
• Spontaneous Protest at EPO Today as Battistelli Still Acts Defiantly, Three Days of ‘Trial’ Starting Tomorrow
• Out-of-Control Battistelli Repeatedly Breaks Office Rules and EPC Rules, Then Tries to Change the Rules (Retroactive Legalisation)
• Association of the Members of the Boards of Appeal Urges EPO Administrative Council to End Battistelli’s Coup
• The Corruption of the Media: EPO Budget as a Gift to Broadcasters Under the EIA2016 Umbrella, FTI Consulting Contracts
• Why Anonymous Dissent Against EPO on Google Platforms May be Risky
• EPO Press Spokesperson and Director External Communications Busy Creating Distractions From EPO Controversies
• The EPO is in a Mess So Sordid That It Pays for Positive Publicity, Further Abolishes Labour Rights (to Punish Whistleblowers) and More
• EPO 'Bought' the Financial Times, Which Now Operates in 'Mouthpiece Mode' for Mr. Battistelli (Spanish translation )
• Battistelli’s EPO is Buying Media Coverage for Lobbying Purposes, But Not at Battistelli’s Expense (Spanish translation )
• The Commission is Complicit in EPO Abuses, According to Marc Tarabella (Spanish translation )
• Tuesday Hearing at Room 131 Regarding Illegally Suspended (and Then Defamed) Judge Who Said the Truth About Serious Abuse at the Top of EPO (Spanish translation )
• Photos From Yesterday's EPO Protest at The Hague, Reports From Munich and The Hague Staff Protests (About 1,200 in Attendance in Spite of Heavy Rain)
• Battistelli is Said to be Engineering Further Attacks on People Whom He Already Fired From the EPO (Spanish translation )
• Dutch Media Reveals That Battistelli Continues His Vicious War on Staff Unions, Laurent Prunier the Latest Casualty (The Hague) (Spanish translation )
• 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 (Spanish translation )
• Caricature of the Day: Presidential Brakes
• Leaks Required: EPO's Plan to Crush the Appeal Boards and Media Contracts for Puff Pieces
• Goodbye to Patent Quality at the EPO, Thanks to Team Battistelli With Its Extreme Policies
• EPO Powers Up Its Spam Machines, 'Media Partners' Start Their Prepared 'Articles' (Puff Pieces)
• Time to Call Out Joff Wild (IAM’s Editor in Chief) for His EPO-Connected UPC Propaganda, Other Agenda-Pushing Initiatives
• Enlarged Board of Appeals Can Decide Whether Battistelli’s Attack on the Boards Will Become Public
• Perpetual Attack on EPO Staff, Even After the Staff Leaves the EPO
• EPO Protest Tomorrow: Help the Media (Not 'Media Partners' in EPO Management's Pocket) See What EPO Staff Really Thinks
• EPO’s Old Spokesman (10 Years in Munich) Resigns Again After Only 5 Weeks, EPO is Just Buying the Media Now
• Politicians Susann Biedefeld (MdL) and Agnes Jongerius (S and D) the Latest to Express Anger at EPO's Management Over Its Abuses
• Streisand Effect Award Won by EPO: It Has Just Blocked IP Kat Blog
• Today’s Caricature: European Patent Office (EPO) ‘Social Study’
• Public Proceedings Next Week Could Expose Battistelli's Incredible and Unprecedented Attack on EPO Judge
• The Enemy Within: How Patent Lawyers, Their Media and the Whole Patent Establishment Became an Enemy to Their Nations (partly about the EPO)
• EPO Tyranny Comes Under Fire From Politicians in Luxembourg
• Battistelli is Destroying the European Patent Office and Wasting a Lot of Money Hiding This Fact
• Software Patents in Europe and the UPC Already a Problem
• How the EPO Helped Prop Up — With ‘European Inventor Award 2015′ — a Fraud That Killed a Lot of People
• Closer Look at Players in Battistelli’s Information War: Part IV (Wellkom) (Spanish translation )
• Closer Look at Players in Battistelli’s Information War: Part III (Buying the Media, Manufacturing ‘Studies’ With Secret Contracts) (Spanish translation )
• Closer Look at Players in Battistelli's Information War: Part II (BlueCoat) (Spanish translation )
• Closer Look at Players in Battistelli's Information War: Part I (Spanish translation )
• Save the Boards of Appeal to Save the EPO From Battistelli’s Neoliberal Vision and Recipe for Disaster
• As Bavarian Parliament Expresses Disdain Over EPO Leadership's Abuses German Media Listens and Staff Union Releases New Survey
• FFPE-EPO Going Ad Hominem Against FICSA, Brings Nationality Into It
• Vice-President of the European Patent Office Under Many Police Investigations
• Battistelli’s Self-Serving ‘European Inventor of the Year’ Charade a Classic Example of Waste and Abuse (Spanish translation )
• Crazed Battistelli is Trying Plan B to Demolish the Boards of Appeal (Quality Control), Praesidium/Association of Members Strikes Back (Spanish translation )

May

To better control and manipulate the international media, the EPO gave a massive contract to a US-based PR firm, FTI Consulting

• Data Mining Company: EPO is Like Suicide
• Extremely Dodgy Dealings at the European Patent Office (Spanish translation )
• The EPO's Media Partners Like Les Echos Already Produce EPO Puff Pieces (Marketing/Stenography) (Spanish translation )
• Unitary Microsoft: EPO Excludes People Who Are Not Microsoft Customers From UPC Participation (Spanish translation )
• New EPO Caricature: Nouveaux Garde-Vélo (New Bicycle Guards)
• Battistelli's 'Special Relationship' With Portugal and the 'Inventor of the Year' Charade
• Rumour: Battistelli Wants to Extend the Term of Topić's EPO Appointment in Spite of Criminal Charges Against Him (Spanish translation )
• Battistelli's Assault on EPO Staff's Right to Strike in Relation to French Politics and That 'Bicycle' Pretext for Crackdowns (Spanish translation )
• Vice-President of the EPO Under Investigation: Treason, Abuse, Violations, Giving and Receiving Bribes
• EPO Management Warns People About Scams When the EPO's Management is Itself Falling for Scams (Spanish translation )
• Warning: EPO Surveillance May Have Just Gotten Even More Intrusive (Spanish translation )
• Victim Card Ends up in Another Blunder for Battistelli and His Six Bodyguards (Spanish translation )
• Italian Report About EPO Now Available in English
• The EPO is Doing Great, Says EPO-Connected ‘News’ Site (Spanish translation )
• EPO Management Under Growing Stress From Croatian Law Enforcement Authorities, German Politicians, Italian Media (Spanish translation )
• The Latest EPO Victim Card (Played by Željko Topić) Should be Treated as Seriously as Those Bogus Claims of Violence by a Judge
• The Media Starts Informing the European Public About the Downsides of UPC While EPO Accelerates Its Lobbying for Ratification (Spanish translation )
• Some Details About How the EPO’s President is Rumoured to be ‘Buying’ Votes and Why It’s Grounds/Basis for “Immediate Dismissal” (Spanish translation )
• Documents Show Zagreb Police Department in Investigation of Vice-President of the European Patent Office
• Disrupting Battistelli's Distracting Propaganda: EPO Staff to Protest Again in About a Fortnight (Spanish translation )
• Corrupting Democracy? Growing Frequency of Rumours That the EPO’s President Battistelli is ‘Buying’ Votes of Small Member States
• EPO Patent ‘Quality’ and ‘Patent Creation’ Myth: Capsule-Based Coffee Sales and Trauma (Spanish translation )
• Notorious EPO Tyrant, Benoît Battistelli, Meets Other Tyrants, Reportedly 'Cleanses' the Administrative Council (Spanish translation )
• It’s All Just Artificial Distractions From EPO Management, ‘Yellow’ Union Comes Under Scrutiny Again
• Anonymous Commenters Debate Whether Battistelli’s EPO Can Revoke Pensions of Dismissed Employees Who Dare — GASP — Find Alternative Employment (Spanish translation )
• Another Almost Empty EPO Presentation at The Hague (Spanish translation )
• If Battistelli Stayed and UPC Became a Reality, Patent Quality at the EPO Would Get a Lot Worse
• Two Months Down the Line, Battistelli Has Done None of What the Administrative Council Told Him to Do; He Should be Sacked Next Month
• UPC an Attack Not Only on the European Public But Also on Staff of the EPO (Spanish translation )
• UPC is Class War (the Rich Fighting Everyone Else), Hence the Increasing Militarisation of the European Patent Office (Spanish translation )
• Relying on EPO, CAFC -- Originator of Software Patents in the US -- Tries to Bring Them Back Into Play in Microsoft Case
• Raising Barriers to UPC Cancellation and Withdrawal
• Italian Television to Cover EPO Abuses, Bringing the Outrage to the Mainstream in Another Country
• EPO an Ill Organisation, Lots to Protest Against Tomorrow
• Golden Parachute or Not, Battistelli is Wasting Huge Amounts of Money on His Longtime Bodyguards Fetish (Spanish translation )
• A Soup of UPC Lies Courtesy of the EPO, Patent Lawyers, and Large Clients (Like Multinational Corporations) (Spanish translation )
• 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.”
• Corporate Imperialism in Europe Through the UPC, the Horrible Patent Deal Almost Nobody Heard of
• Enemies of Europe: A Month After Promoting UPC in London, Benoît Battistelli and the EPO Do This in Helsinki (Spanish translation )
• You Need to Become Proprietary Software Customer (Microsoft Recommended) to Interact with the European Patent Office
• US Congress Should Investigate EPO and Battistelli, Not Just WIPO and Francis Gurry (Spanish translation )
• Amid French Political Actions Against EPO Management French Consulate the Target of Next Week's EPO Staff Protest
• New Paper About the UPC Explains Why It is Bad for Small- and Medium-sized European Businesses (Spanish translation )
• Governments in Europe Still Active Against EPO Management (Spanish translation )
• The European Spam Office (EPO)
• Not Just Benoît Battistelli and Willy Minnoye (EPO): Željko Topić Too Thinks He is Above the Law, Avoids the Judges and Courts
• The European Patent Office Still Silently Abusive, Will Pay $15,000 in Compensation to Female Worker After Belated ILO Judgment (Spanish translation )

April

• How to Salvage the EPO’s Reputation: Create More Boards of Appeal in Europe and Abolish the Misguided UPC Fantasy (Spanish translation )
• The European Copy-Paste Office (EPO)
• Amid Referendum “the New European Unitary Patent System is Likely to Collapse Before It Started”
• If EPO “Form of Thinking Were to be Followed, Guantanamo on German Soil Would be Possible.” (Spanish translation )
• A Farce of a System: How SIPO, USPTO, and Increasingly the EPO Too Turn Into Filing Systems (No Proper Examination/Filtering Required) (Spanish translation )
• The EPO’s Departure From Truth and Entrance Into the Realms of Chinese Industrial-Grade Propaganda (Spanish translation )
• Fighting Back Against Limitations on Software Development in Europe (Spanish translation )
• In Battistelli’s Mini Union (Minion) It Takes Less Than 10 Votes to ‘Win’ an Election (Spanish translation )
• The Chaos in the EPO Impacts Stakeholders
• EPO Integrity on the Line: The Story of Željko Topić's Controversial Diploma - Part V
• Growing Threats of Software Patents in Europe and the FRAND Trap Which Microsoft Promotes/Lobbies For (Spanish translation )
• Battistelli’s MoU and Photo Op With the Institute of Professional Representatives Helps Disguise Its Harsh Criticism of the EPO (Spanish translation )
• Bavarian Parliament Discusses EPO Abuses (Spanish translation )
• EPO Integrity on the Line: The Story of Željko Topić’s Controversial Diploma – Part IV
• EPO's European Inventor Award Still a Subject of Embarrassment, Media Manipulation, Waste of Public Money, and Shameless Self-Promotion
• EPO Integrity on the Line: The Story of Željko Topić’s Controversial Diploma – Part III
• The 'Great Conspiracy' of Patent Lawyers, Lobbyists and Large Corporations for UPC and for Software Patents
• European Patent Office Deemphasising Quality and Looking to Replace the Key Workers
• Munich State Attorney is Pursuing Criminal Charges Against the European Patent Office
• EPO Integrity on the Line: The Story of Željko Topić’s Controversial Diploma – Part II
• Bavarian Parliament to Discuss the EPO’s Abuses in 24 Hours
• EPO Integrity on the Line: The Story of Željko Topić's Controversial Diploma - Part I
• Church of EPO: How Team Battistelli Engineered the Dismissal of People Not Sufficiently Loyal to Them – Part IV
• Benoît Battistelli “Left in Anger During an Initial Meeting With the State Secretary Who Started Talking About Working Conditions for the Staff”
• Administrative Council “Openly Showed Disapproval of Battistelli’s Behaviour” at the EPO
• European Patent Office and Human Rights Violations: Article Translation Into English Reveals Upcoming Lawsuit Against the EPO Over Institutional Harassment (Spanish translation )
• European Patent Office a Microsoft Stronghold: GNU/Linux and Mac Support Seemingly Just Dumped
• Totally Inappropriate: The European Patent Office is Still Intervening in European Law and Politics
• US Lobbyist for Software Patents, David Kappos, Uses EPO’s Snubbing of the EPC to Spread Misinformation and Patent Monopolies on Software/Algorithms
• Needed Urgently: Information About the Secret Meeting of Board 28 and Battistelli's Yellow Union, FFPE-EPO
• Croatian News Site Explains Where Criminal Cases Against EPO Vice-President Željko Topić Stand
• Church of EPO: How Team Battistelli Engineered the Dismissal of People Not Sufficiently Loyal to Them – Part III (Spanish translation )
• Church of EPO: How Team Battistelli Engineered the Dismissal of People Not Sufficiently Loyal to Them – Part II (Spanish translation )
• What is Known (and Not Known) About Attacks on Croatian Portal That Exposed Željko Topić, the Notorious EPO Vice-President
• Church of EPO: How Team Battistelli Engineered the Dismissal of People Not Sufficiently Loyal to Them - Part I (Spanish translation )
• Busted Battistelli: EPO President Violating the EPO’s Code of Conduct (Spanish translation )
• Why 2,657 EPO Workers Going on Strike is Actually a Lot Less Than Would Strike If It Wasn't for Obstructions From Team Battistelli (Spanish translation )
• EPSU Explains Why SUEPO Fights for More Than Just EPO Employees and for Rights of Workers at International Institutions (Spanish translation )
• European Patent Office Half Empty Today (Spanish translation )
• On Day of Strike FFPE-EPO Reaffirms Status as Yellow (Fake/Management-Leaning) Union, Receives ‘Gifts’
• EPO is on Strike, Battistelli Escapes to London With His Bodyguards for More UPC Lobbying, FTI Consulting Goes for Brussels (Spanish translation )
• From US Military to International Banking and External ‘Review’ of EPO ‘Investigations’ (Union-Busting and War on Dissent) (Spanish translation )
• Staff Union of the European Patent Office Sends Out a Striking Message With a T-Shirts Campaign
• 7 Reasons to Join the Strike at the European Patent Office
• Show Solidarity to Fellow EPO Workers. Go on Strike Tomorrow. (Spanish translation )
• Christian Archambeau on the Verge of EUIPO and EPO, Making the Two Less Distinguishable
• EPO Management Mocks Justice and Bans Judges, Takes Away Their Independence
• European Patent Office Insists That Obeying the Law is Not Realistic, UPC Another Example of That
• EPO’s Board 28 Scheduled to Have What Looks Like an Emergency Meeting, EPO Management Pretends Staff Strikes and Crisis (Board 28′s Word) Don’t Mean a Thing
• Battistelli's Inner Circle is Expanding With More Miraculous EPO Promotions and Allegedly More Bodyguards (Spanish translation )
• EPO Management Says Not a Word About Strike This Week, Not Informing Customers/Stakeholders Either
• EPO Strike in 3.5 Days Effective in All Sites, Lots for EPO Staff to be Angry About
• UPC Lobbying and Propaganda at the Fordham IP Think Tank (‘Conference’) 2016 in New York, With a Clear EPO Role (Spanish translation )
• EUIPO and the Shady Relation to the EPO (Spanish translation )

March

The Office contracted a military-connected and Stasi-connected (through Desa) entity, Control Risks Group, in order to engage in illegal spying inside the Office

• (Satire) New EPO Marketing Campaign: Drive Your Audi Home (Spanish translation )
• Hope at the End of the Tunnel as More Software Patents Are Squashed in the US (also covers quality decline at EPO) (Spanish translation )
• Microsoft at EPO: A Look Into the Relationship (Spanish translation )
• Further Militarisation of the European Patent Office Amid Crisis and After Request of Fair and Just Treatment of Staff
• SUEPO Publishes Translations of German Media Reports About the EPO (Spanish translation )
• EPO Losing Time: Two Weeks Later, Benoît Battistelli Has Made Virtually No Progress to Save Himself From Sacking
• UPC Would Bring Software Patents to Europe and Open the Floodgates to Litigation (Spanish translation )
• The Media is Still Awash With Unitary Patent (UPC) Misinformation
• Crisis Deepens at the European Patent Office, General Strike Planned for Next Thursday
• Scandalous: European Patent Office Serves Only Microsoft Customers With Filing Software (Spanish translation )
• Kroatische Lobistin für UN im Zentrum des intarnationalen Skandals in EPA
• Preserving Material About the European Patent Office (EPO) and Abuses by EPO Management
• Ingve Björn Stjerna’s New Book About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Why It’s Important
• Battistelli is Trying to Save His EPO Job After Getting Called Out, But Doesn’t Give Back Busted Union Leaders Their Jobs; Strike Imminent (Spanish translation )
• “The Decision of the President Battistelli to Overstep the Recommendation of the Disciplinary Committee is Arbitrary and Shows Bad Faith.”
• Letter Says EPO MoU “Raises Questions About FFPE's Credibility as a Federation of Genuine Staff Unions”
• Their Masters’ Voice (Who Block Techrights): FFPE-EPO Openly Discourages Members From Reading Techrights (Spanish translation )
• Ongoing Investigations: EPO’s Attacks on the Media
• FFPE-EPO Says MoU With Battistelli Will “Defend Employment Conditions”
• Why Bayerischer Rundfunk Videos About the European Patent Office Have Been Removed
• Union Syndicale Federale Slams FFPE-EPO for Helping Abusive EPO Management by Signing a Malicious, Divisive Document
• More Vomit-Inducing Publicity Stunts From Benoît Battistelli and the EPO Management
• De Telegraaf Says There is Reorganisation Under Way at the European Patent Office
• EPO Scandals in British Media: Third Time in Private Eye
• Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and the United Kingdom Urge Benoît Battistelli to Allow Independent Investigation of His EPO Union-Busting Moves
• The ‘Results’ That Battistelli and His EPO Bunch Brag About Not Believed by Patent Lawyers and Patent Examiners (Spanish translation )
• European Patent Office: Administrative Council gives the President a bollocking
• Conflict at the European Patent Office: Battistelli gets away with a slap on the wrist (Spanish translation )
• International Labour Organisation Should Ask EPO Staff About the Surge in Cases, Not Just EPO Management, Which Chronically Lies
• Reversal Spin: SUEPO Needs to Make Peace Rather Than Benoît Battistelli Needing to Make Peace After Dismissing SUEPO’s Leaders (Spanish translation )
• Article Highlights Madness When It Comes to Overstressing EPO Staff and Pushing Towards Overpatenting (Even Life!) in Pursuit of Profits
• Benoît Battistelli Made SUEPO Stronger by Trying to Decapitate It, May in Fact Have Self-Decapitated EPO (President in the Chopping Line)
• Translation of Article Highlights Bavarian Political Motion, Protest Scale and Severity in Munich
• Better Late Than Never: Bavarian Parliament Intervenes in EPO Affairs Amidst Abuses
• Insider's Account (Not Face-Saving EPO Statement) Reveals That Even Battistelli's Allies Turn Against Him, EPO 'Results' Not Believed by Some, and Munich Protests Break Records
• Institutional Failure and Dirty Tricks: Benoît Battistelli Seemingly Gets Support Like Microsoft Gets Support
• Investigation Into Working Conditions at the European Patent Office Will Commence
• In the Mainstream Media, the European Patent Office is Already Becoming Another FIFA, Lies Aplenty as Last Remaining 'Damage Control' Strategy
• Survey Confirms What Board 28 Already Admits: the European Patent Office is Deep in a State of Crisis Since Benoît Battistelli Took Over
• Exclusive: New Leaked Document Shows Board 28 Surprised Battistelli and Had a Long Unilateral Argument With Him Over Union-Busting ('Disciplinary Cases'), Called It a “Crisis”
• Dutch Media (NRC) Cites Documents Leaked to Techrights and EPO Refuses to Comment on Them
• EPO’s Leadership All-time Low: Benoît Battistelli’s Meeting With Secretary Martijn van Dam Explodes
• Reader's Article: “Guantanamo Possible in Germany”
• Battistelli Unsurprisingly Rejects Opportunity to Salvage His Status, EPO Strike Likely to Proceed Soon (Spanish translation )
• Consequences of Straining Staff: Patent Quality at the European Patent Office Has Gotten Rather Terrible
• Overthrowing Battistelli Only Part of a Bigger Job (Restoration of Quality and Human Decency at the European Patent Office)
• French High-Quality Video About the European Patent Office
• English High-Quality Video About the European Patent Office
• German High-Quality Video About the European Patent Office
• EPO's Central Staff Committee Asks Benoît Battistelli to Undo Union-Busting Activities and Obey the Dutch Court's Judgment (Spanish translation )
• Old Article About Battistelli's Right-hand Man, Željko Topić, Highlights Severity of the Whole Situation
• French Transcript of Bayerischer Rundfunk Coverage About EPO
• English Transcript of Bayerischer Rundfunk Coverage About EPO
• German Transcript of Bayerischer Rundfunk Coverage About EPO
• EPO Hypocritically Responds to TV Program by Defamation/Mocking of the Dead and Threats to the Media (Truth as Defamation?)
• EPO Protest in Munich in a Couple of Days
• EPO Rumours About Antonio Campinos as Replacement for Benoît Battistelli
• EPO Under Benoît Battistelli: Nepotism, Misinformation, Poor Patent Quality, Terrible Working Conditions, and Increase in Prices
• European Patent Office Kontrovers TV Coverage (English Version)
• L’Office Européen des Brevets (OEB/European Patent Office) Kontrovers Coverage
• Kontrovers Coverage of Abuses at the European Patent Office (With Subtitles Added)
• Benjamin Henrion's (FFII) FOSDEM Talk About UPC and Software Patents in Europe
• The EPO 'Results' Are Bunk
• Battistelli Acting Like a Politician, Lobbying for UPC All Across Europe and Coming to London Soon
• Business Profit Over Science: Patent Scope at the EPO Has Gone So Badly Out of Control That Even the European Parliament is Complaining
• The European Patent Organisation’s Administrative Council Can Stop the Strike by Agreeing/Working to Reintegrate Staff Representatives and End Benoît Battistelli’s Witch-hunts
• EPO Tells La Tribune That Benoît Battistelli’s Salary is “We Don’t Comment on Rumours”
• The Article Which Reinforces Rumours About Christoph Ernst Replacing President Battistelli at the EPO
• Central Staff Committee of the European Patent Office Asks the Chairman of the Administrative Council to Take Action Next Week or Risk General (Office-Wide) Strike
• A Patent Office or a Lobbying Firm? ‘European’ Patent Office (EPO) Sticking its Nose in UPC Matters Again.
• The European Patent Office is in a State of Transition, But Not Battistelli's Transition or 'Reform'
• Video Sheds Light on Policy/Stance of the Man Rumoured to be Battistelli's Successor at the EPO
• Patent Attorney Joeri Beetz Explains Why EPO Results Are a Lie (Spanish translation )
• Rumours and Unverified Claims Suggest That EPO President is “Bribing” for Perceived Support
• Another EPO Protest Next Week, Strategically Planned to Coincide With the Administrative Council’s Meeting
• Exclusive: Leaked Document Refutes Battistelli's Words and Shows He is Still Deplored by the Board (Spanish translation )
• Team Battistelli’s Bergot Reacts to Strike Action
• Caricature of the Day: Recognising FFPE EPO
• 4,062 of Staff Vote on EPO Strike, Over 91% in Favour
• Claim and Perception: Under Battistelli, EPO More Permissive on Software Patents Than USPTO, In Spite of the EPC
• Rumoured Successor of Battistelli, Christoph Ernst, Previously Seen as Antagonist of Battistelli But What About UPC?
• Super Tuesday: EPO Workers Are Voting for a Strike Today
• Software Patents Are a Dying Breed in the United States and the EPO Should Take Notice
• The EPO’s Media Strategy at Work: Union Feuds and Group Fracturing
• Kontrovers: German Program (With Subtitles) About the European Patent Office
• Vote for EPO Strike This Tuesday in Order to Replace EPO Management
• Busted Battistelli: EPO President Publicly Lies About the State of the EPO, So What About His Secret Contract, Salary and Other Undisclosed Benefits? (Spanish translation )
• Fallout of the FFPE EPO MoU With Battistelli's Circle
• EPO and IAM: a Marriage of Convenience (Spanish translation )
• JUVE Translation: EPO Quick to Announce Success Story of Dialogue with Small Unions (Spanish translation )
• Forget Staff Union-busting 'Strike Ballots', How About Ballots on Presidential Matters?
• Remember What Benoît Battistelli Said About His Salary and His Bonus
• Despite Its Propaganda Campaign (‘Union Recognition’ and ‘Results’) the EPO’s Management is Totally Flipping Out
• Why the Letter in Support of Battistelli is Worse Than a Lie and Should be Thrown to the Wastebasket by the Organisation’s Administrative Council
• “FFPE-EPO Was Set up About 9 Years Ago With Management Encouragement”
• Unitary Patent (UPC) Propagandists Are Louder Than Ever as Its Architect in Chief (Battistelli) is Probably About to Get Sacked
• EPO Cartoon: The Presence of Justice
• EPO Strike Still Planned, More Details to be Published Soon
• Further Evidence Suggests and Shows Stronger Evidence That Team Battistelli Uses FFPE-EPO as 'Yellow Union' Against SUEPO
• EPO Propaganda is Already Sticking in Some Media
• Overview of Today’s Growing Press Coverage About the European Patent Office
• In the EPO’s Official Photo Op, “Only One of the Faces is Actually FFPE-EPO”
• 3/3 is EPO Propaganda Day: Techrights to Respond and Alert the Media About Misinformation (Spanish translation )
• EPO Media Strategy: Call the Whistleblowers Nazis and Criminals
• Team Battistelli Uses FFPE to Give an Illusion of EPO Peace With 'Unions' and Justify/Support a Now-Famous Lie
• German Television to Cover the EPO Scandals at 9 PM (CET) Tonight — Half an Hour From Now
• EPO at Boiling Point: Why Battistelli is Believed to be Paid About $2,000,000 Per Year and Who Created and Circulated a Letter in His Support
• UPC Anything But a Certainty With Battistelli on His Way Out, But Patent Lawyers Are Still in Denial (Spanish translation )
• Brace Yourselves for Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Tomorrow the European Patent Office Will Spread Propaganda Based on Half Truths and Misdirection
• Battistelli and Godwin's Law (Comparing One's Opposition to Nazis)
• Team Battistelli’s New Media Strategy at Times of EPO Emergency
• Ongoing Investigation: Why Mainstream Media -- and German Media in Particular -- Has Mostly Ignored Latest Developments at the EPO
• EPO Attracts Complaints Over (Mental) Torture Against Staff