From Techrights

Contents 1 General Introduction 2 Articles Index 2.1 2021 Articles (Latest First) 2.1.1 July 2021 2.1.2 June 2021 2.1.3 May 2021 2.1.4 April 2021 2.1.5 March 2021 2.1.6 February 2021 2.1.7 January 2021

General Introduction

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

Articles Index

We've archived older articles in the following pages: EPO 2020 Archive | EPO 2019 Archive | EPO 2018 Archive | EPO 2017 Archive | EPO 2016 Archive | EPO 2015 Archive | EPO 2008-2014 Archive

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

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Scope	Repression	Labour	Above the law	Credibility
Software (abstract) patents	Institutional abuse	Staff deaths/suicides	Ignoring court orders or due process	Budgetary issues
Patents on life	Censorship/Gagging	Crushing protests	Crushing oversight or other branches	Reputation issues (EU)
Patent maximalism/UPC	DDOS	Union-busting	Character assassination/Defamation	Favouritism/Nepotism
Patent trolls	Legal bullying	Abolishing workers' rights	Propaganda/Misinformation/Paying the media	Conflict of interest/Dubious connections
Systemic synthesis	Illegal surveillance	State within a state	Alleged bribery	Organisational crisis

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2021 Articles (Latest First)

For an outline of recent events, see EPO in 2021.

July 2021

• For 17 Days (and Counting) António Campinos Has Failed to Respond to Call for Compliance With the Law
• Raw: Elodie Bergot Breaking the Law by Threatening Against the Exercise of Fundamental Rights
• European Media Does Not Care About Europe's Second-Largest Institution Crushing Basic Laws and Fundamental Rights
• Meme: Enforcing ILO-AT Rulings...
• Meme: Rowan and António Sittin' on a Tree...
• Meme: António Lost His Power Over Patent Examiners
• European Patent Office is Going on Strike (or Strikes)
• Meme: No Crime Goes Unrewarded at the EPO
• Meme: When Sociopaths or Psychopaths Run Europe's Second-Largest Institution
• Meme: EPO Asked to Comply With the Law and Correct Behaviour
• The EPO’s ‘News’ Page Annotated
• Meme: EPO 2025 (When Most of the Decent Patent Examiners Have Been Chased Away)
• Where There’s Smoke…
• Meme: European Patent Mill
• EPO is in Trouble, It’s Just Covering That Up
• EPO Examiners Should Be in Charge of EPO Policies, Not Self-Serving Politicians Who Exploit and Flaunt Diplomatic Immunity
• Meme: If We Don't Agree There's a Gap...
• EPO Collapsing Under Managerial Corruption and Neglect of Staff
• The EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal Acknowledges That It’s Rigged Even After a Shuffle
• Meme: It’s Always an Emergency When You Need to Protect Criminals From Prosecution/Accountability
• Staff Elements in Working Group on *[Teleworking Explain Lies From EPO Management, Which Isn’t Working (Only Robbing and Stealing From the EPO)
• EPO Staff Seeking Reparations After Unlawful Practices and a Decade of Abuse by EPO 'Mafia'
• Increasing Capacity in Techrights (partly about EPO)
• Meme: Couldn't Even Qualify for Management at GAP
• Philippe Aigrain, Who Fought Against Software Patents, Died This Past Weekend
• The EPO's Administrative Council Just Chose Another Battistelli (for the Same Toxic Agenda)
• António Campinos Needs to be Removed From the EPO as Soon as Possible Along With Friends He Brought Over
• Meme: The EPO's Kakistocracy
• Video: Mind the Mental Gap
• Would Never Have Posted This
• Meme: EPO Telenovela: Sua Vida me Pertence by Tony Campinos
• EPO Dictator Campinos Continues Crushing EPO Staff, Outpacing Battistelli in Terms of His Abuses
• UPC @ FCC
• Techrights News to Muse (partly about EPO)
• Meme: Sparkling Wine for Team UPC
• Chronicles of the Defunct Patent Office/Legal System in Europe
• Meme: When Timing is Impossible to Ignore
• Journalists Who Don’t Even Know What the UPC is (or What It’s Called) Carry Water for the Patent Litigation Lobby
• Arguing With Diplomatic Immunity
• EPO's Staff Union Fights for the EPO's Survival and Viability
• ILOAT Finally Overturns Battistelli's Vichyite Strike Regulations
• Meme: Will EPO Comply?
• Video: ILO-AT Caseload Shows That António Campinos Failed and Should be Sacked by the Administrative Council of the EPO
• Among 43 New Judgments From ILO-AT, Which ‘Oversees’ Dozens of Institutions, 25 (More Than 58%) Concern the EPO’s Staff
• Living the EPO Lie
• EPO Management: A Mafia That Discourages Journalism and Reduces Truth to Anonymous Whispers (Ducking Detection by the Mafia)
• European Patent Office (EPO) and the EPO's Administrative Council Both Complicit in Illegal Outsourcing to Microsoft (and Industrial Espionage)
• The EPO's Administrative Council Has Just Shown Evidence of Its Complicity (Again)
• Holiday for António, Glass and Metal Cages for the Rest of Us
• Making EPO Crimes a ‘New Normal’
• EPO’s “Towards a New Normal” Hogwash Just Another Attempt to Make Unlawful and Unconstitutional Policies Seem OK and ‘Normalised’
• Meme: EPO Airlines
• Delay After Delay, Blunder After Blunder, the ‘New Normal’ of António Campinos Faces Obstacles
• Techrights Statement on Today's EPO Hearing (Enlarged Board of Appeal)
• 'ViCo' Technical Issues Already Curtail the Case About EPO 'ViCo', Decision Cannot be Issued Today!
• Meme: Making EBoA Great Again
• Court on Call (or Calle)
• EPO Circus Versus European Constitutions
• EPO Run by Completely and Totally Incompetent and Irresponsible People
• EPO Referral Case G 1/21: It's Popcorn Time!

June 2021

• The Already-Weak Impression of EPO Lawfulness (Under António Campinos) is Over
• More G1/21 Scandals as the Stacked Panel Scrambles to Cover Up the Misconduct
• Communications of the Boards of Appeal of the EPO Still Controlled by the Office, Which Also Censors Public Input Submissions (Observations)
• Meme: Trying to Become More Evil Than Battistelli After 3 Years in Office
• EPO Treats Staff as Disposable, Hence More Reluctant to Defy Unlawful Guidelines and Policies
• What to Do If the Techrights Web Site is Offline
• EPO ViCo on Trial
• Meme: The EPO’s Hand on the Scales (With Fixers Inside the Most Important Hearings)
• The European Patent Office (EPO) Articles, Almost 3,500 of Them in Total, Now Listed in Gemini
• G 1/21 is a Catastrophe for the EPO’s Legitimacy
• Meme: Timely Timing?
• Virtual Injustice — Part 15: A Pandora’s Box… But for Whom?
• Virtual Injustice — Part 14: How Mandatory ViCo Became the “New Normal”
• Virtual Injustice — Part 13: Let the Games Continue…
• EPO: Fake Patents, Fake (Paid-for) Patent Coverage, and Fake Awards for Public Relations Purposes
• We Need and Deserve a Saner Patent System in Europe
• The EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal Has Already Lost the Case in the Court of Public Opinion
• Virtual Injustice — Part 12: Carl Josefsson – Down But Not Out!
• Virtual Injustice — Part 11: Perceptive Comments and Caustic Criticism
• Meme: When the 'Court' Drops
• The EPO's Virtual Injustice and Virtual ('News') Media
• Meme: Swedish Justice
• Virtual Injustice -- Part 10: Vapid and Superficial Coverage in the 'IP' Blogosphere
• Heli Pihlajamaa Promoting Software Patents to Patent Maximalists
• The Lying by Team UPC, Led Again by Kevin Mooney
• Meme: The Enlarged Bored People With Presidential Decrees
• Response to Misinformation From EPO Officials
• Meme: Tilting the Scales for Software Patents
• Virtual Injustice — Part 9: Heli, the EPO’s Nordic Ice-Queen
• Virtual Injustice — Part 8: A Well-Connected ‘IP’ Maximalist
• Virtual Injustice — Part 7: Musical Chairs and Revolving Doors
• Hardly Shocking and Not At All Surprising That Thugs Who Run the EPO Hired External Thugs to Help Them Oppress Aggrieved Staff
• Meme: There Are No Elections in Mafia-Type Regimes; It's About Family and Friends...
• Meme: EPO 'Lawfulness' as Crude Budget Wars
• A Parade of 'Yes Men': EPO's Budget and Finance Committee as Rubber-stamper of the Dictatorship That Pays the Salary
• Meme: Illegal Location, Illegal Methods (Haar ViCo)
• The ‘Fixer’ of António Campinos Taints G1/21 (ViCo Hearing)
• Virtual Injustice — Part 6: Best Buddies With António
• Classic: Old EPO Strike
• Virtual Injustice -- Part 5: Benoît's “Friends” in Budapest
• EU Already Captured by — and Lying for — Corrupt EPO Officials, Team UPC, and Lobbyists of Multinational Corporations
• Meme: Virtual Code of Conduct (ViCoC)
• Virtual Injustice — Part 4: Mihály Ficsor, the EPO’s Hungarian “Fixer”
• Virtual Injustice — Part 3: All the President’s Men…
• EPO ‘ViCo’ Prior Art (or ViCo Going Back to the 1980s)
• The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Needs to Get Its Act Together on the EPO's GDPR Violations
• EPO ‘ViCo’ Prior Art (~30 Years Ago): Barely Innovative at All
• Meme: Lord Justice Sir
• The EPO’s Lack of Objective Legal System is No Laughing Matter
• Virtual Injustice — Part 2: The ViCo Oral Proceedings of 28 May 2021
• Purpose of Patents
• Why We Fight for Real Justice at the European Patent Office
• Virtual Injustice — Part 1: António’s Increasingly Wonky Legal Fudge Factory
• EPO Management Pours Money Down the River, Wasting Budget on Failed and Failing Projects
• Time for the Boards of Appeal to Host Their Own Files, Knowing That the Patent Office is Censoring Submissions From the Public
• Meme: Judges Aren’t the Enemy
• The Correlation Between Software Freedom and Universal Justice
• EPO Management: We Listen to Users, Especially Monopolists and Overzealous Litigation Firms
• The Kanté of Alicante
• The EPO’s Censorship of Stakeholders is a Misguided Case of Digging One’s Own Grave
• The Giftküche of Haar (Allegedly a Part of Munich, as the EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal Refuses to Even Check)
• Video: 'Shoot the Messenger' Tactics
• EPO G 1/21 Update: Fresh Allegations of Cronyism Against Campinos
• Never Ever Let Those Who Expose Corruption Be Framed as 'Public Enemies'
• Meme: EPOnian ‘Justice’ (Just Us, the Superpowers)
• Almost a ‘Media Blackout’ About What Happened Last Friday at the EPO
• One Week Since the EPO's Boards of Appeal Came to a Standstill Due to Lack of Independence and Impartiality
• Meme: Approving the Actions of the Boss
• Some Potentially Good News About the EPO

May 2021

• Meme: EPO Bad for Your Health (Even as President)
• President of the Boards of Appeal and His ‘Handler’ António Campinos Need to Step Down to Save the EPO
• President Campinos is Finished (EPO Crisis Afoot)
• Meme: Outsourced Panel to Decide on Legality of Outsourced Panels
• Breaking: G1/21 (ViCo Hearing) Going Down the Drain
• Postscriptum: Carl Josefsson Sidelined From G 1/21!
• Latest News on G 1/21: Another Spanner in the Works
• Managing Perceptions for the EPO’s Regime
• When the Lips of António Campinos Move...
• The Haarian Praetorian Guard
• Outline of Recent EPO Series: Kangaroo Courts, German Government Complicity, and Gross Privacy Violations by Unaccountable Officials
• Media Colluding With EPO Autocrats Who Break the Law, Aiming to Mislead the Public
• They Don't Want Us to Hear...
• The Golden Decision
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 20: Summing up
• EPO Propaganda, Looking to Legitimise a Rigged Panel of Judges, Starts With Author Who Did Puff Pieces With António Campinos
• An Ode to Jeannine Hoppe and Nikolaus Obrovski
• Deciphering the EPO's Media Strategy for Handling Its Illegal Practices, Which It Already Extends Until Next Year (Without Even Waiting for the Kangaroo Court's Ruling)
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 19: Ladies and Gentlemen, Place Your Bets…
• Get Ready for a Torrent of EPO Propaganda
• Meme: Judges in Haar Must Behave Themselves
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 18: Promoting the Illusion of Peace and Haar-mony
• Meme: ViCo: Videoconference as ‘Courtroom’
• EPO Deciding on the Legality of ViCo… Over ViCo
• Article 116(1) EPC and the Stacked Courts Initially Entrusted to Judge Their Own Actions
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 17: The External Members: Evangelos Chatzikos and Richard Arnold
• Nobody Loves the EPO (or EPC) Like the Staff Representatives and the Union, SUEPO
• We Need to Save Europe From the Lawlessness of EPO ‘Mafia’ (Corrupt Management That Doesn’t Understand Patents or Law)
• Meme: Appeal for Independence
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 16: The Mystery of the “Missing Signatures”
• Leaky and Freaky Patent Office
• Rational Patent Office Gone Irrational
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 15: The EBA Letter of 8 December 2014
• Meme: The EPO's Very Special Dept. of Justice
• Breaking EPO News Regarding G 1/21: Judge Calle Josefsson Deposed as Chairman
• EPO Corruption Impacts Everybody, Even Those Uncaring About Patents and Those Outside Europe
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 14: Nemo Iudex in Causa Sua?
• Say Hey Hi to Inventions and Patents
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 13: Internal Members: Gunnar Eliasson and Andrea Ritzka
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 12: Internal Members: Ingo Beckedorf
• The EPO Has Slipped Out of Control and Now It's a Mass Litigation “Mafia” With Immunity
• António Campinos is Already Worse Than Benoît Battistelli and Maybe More Aggressive as Well
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 11: The Rapporteur Who Once Was Vice-President
• Meme: Captured EPO
• An Urgent Need to Fix the EPO, Which is Becoming Rogue at Every Level (Even the 'Legal' Level)
• Calle Josefsson as Living Proof That Attacking the Causes You Once Proclaimed to Stand for is Very Profitable
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 10: A Faustian Pact?
• EPO Staff Representatives Not Amused to See an Office That Steals From Staff and Even From Pensioners
• Meme: Virtual Prisons for Virtual Hearings (Haarings)
• President of the Boards of Appeal, the Star of the Haar Show
• Virtual ‘Courts’ Aren’t Courts and Aren’t Suitable Substitutes, Either
• Haar Song
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 9: Squeezing Out the Lifeblood of Democracy?
• EPO.org is a Really Awful Source of Information
• Meme: When All That Matters is ‘Production’ and ‘Timeliness’
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 8: The Radical Student “Brotherhood”
• Christoph Ernst Lecturing Us on “Transparency” and EPO Corruption (as Well as Assault on the EPC) Becoming a “New Normal”
• Jacques Michel and Willy (Guillaume) Minnoye: Stakeholders in EPO Lawlessness
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 7: Calle’s Strange Metamorphosis
• Making up Law at the EPO
• Meme: Calle Calling…
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 6: The Habermasian Who Warned About “Legal Anarchy”
• EPO Justice
• Meme: Judges the Office Cannot Control Are Just Nazis With Weapons in Their Office...
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 5: Battistelli’s “Swedish Chef”
• The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 4: The President of the Boards of Appeal
• Judging the Judges
• When EU Authorities Tell You to Complain to the EPO Itself About EPO Privacy Violations...
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 3: The Current Line-up
• Meme: Longing for the Original IP Kat…
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 2: Just Another Pro Forma Rubber-Stamping Exercise?
• The European Campinos Award
• Personal Thoughts About the EPO 'Kangaroo Court' Scandal
• Doing Justice by Reporting Injustice
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 1: Rumours of a Kangaroo Court at EPOnia
• Europe's Second-Largest Institution, the EPO, is Partly Based in the United States
• Mass Litigation Over the Salary Adjustment Procedure (SAP), Basically an Attack on All EPO Staff, Even EPO Pensioners
• EPO ‘Dialogue’ With Staff Representatives is as Dead as ‘Dialogue’ With the Union
• Then We Take Berlin…
• Meme: Who Needs Examination Anyway When There's 'Hey Hi' (AI)?
• Europe’s Second-Largest Institution Corrupting the Media and Buying Expensive Puff Pieces
• Free Software Proponents Don’t Fall for Bullshit (Same is True for EPO Examiners)
• EPO Already Wasting Money on Media Manipulation Campaigns for European Inventor Award
• EPO Disregards Animal Welfare
• Meme: You Cannot Measure Innovation by the Quantity of Paperwork
• The EPO Can Never and Will Never Recover If It Fails to Communicate With People Who Actually Understand the Job of a Patent Office

April 2021

• When A Source of Pollution and Corruption Paints Itself Green
• Lying and Breaking the Law: Is This the Best Europe's Second-Largest Institution (EPO) Can Do?
• Meme: Greenponia
• The EPO Abuses Climate Change, Hijacking or Misusing Grassroots Activism for Corporate Public Relations Stunts
• At the EPO, the Word “Reform” Means Abolition (Abandonment of Staff)
• The European Patent Office Isn’t About Patents Anymore and It’s Run by Clueless People
• Meme: EPO Comp-LIE-A**
• “Dia da Liberdade” 2021: Some Thoughts For the Day
• Behind the Curtains of Cheap and Cheesy PR the EPO is a Machine of Oppression (Against Its Very Own Staff), Tribunal to Rule on Strike Busting
• At the EPO, Lawlessness Has Become “a New Normal”
• Richard Stallman on How UPC is a Trojan Horse for Software Patents in Europe
• Breaking News: EDPS Admits That It is Powerless to Investigate Claims of GDPR Non-compliance at the EPO
• What the EPO Has 'Normalised' in Europe...
• EPO Staff Union Takes the EPO 'to Court' (the ILO's Tribunal, as the EPO Cannot be Taken to a Proper Court)
• Exposing Hard Truths is the First Step or the Path Towards Justice
• Meme: Laundering Bribes as ‘Cooperation Money’
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 20: Taking Stock
• Meme: Germany’s Red Cash Cow
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 19: The Deafening Silence of the Media
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 18: Zero Tolerance for “Lawless Zones”?
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 17: Jawohl, Herr Minister!
• Over 1,000 EPO Workers Initiate Legal Challenge Against the EPO’s Attack on Salaries (in Defiance of Assurances Made to Workers Who Relocate to Another Country With Whole Families)
• An Examination of Correspondence Between the Tweedledum-Tweedledee Duo, Lutz and Ernst
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 16: An Inimitable Duo
• An Ode to Dr. Ernst
• During Pandemic, With Rising Inflation, Corrupt EPO Management With Its ‘Shadow Budget’ Cracks Down on Education and Childcare Allowance
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 15: Different Strokes for Different Folk
• EPO President Campinos Lying to JURI
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 14: The Notorious Revolving Door
• All EPO Articles Are Available Over Gemini Protocol
• Judge and JURI
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 13: The Failed Promise of a “Good Governance” Guru…
• Challenging Times for EPO Management
• Meme: Bundestagate Series Spoiler
• Breaking News: Campinos to Appear Before the Legals Affairs Committee of the European Parliament on Monday 12 April
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 12: A Worthy Successor to His Mentor?
• Accessibility and Availability First
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Appendix (Benoît Battistelli’s Vichy Syndrome): Georges Henri Léon Battistelli and Charles Robert Battistelli
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 11: The BMJV’s Tweedledee: Dr Christoph Ernst
• News Sites That Talk About Patents Have Become Shameless Self-Promotion 'Plugs' by Law Firms (and Sometimes Outright 'Spam' for Litigation)
• Meme: Self-styled Judges
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 10: A Faithful Lapdog Despised and Reviled by EPO Staff
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 9: A Veritable Virtuoso of Legal Sophistry
• A Patent System for Giant Corporations Like Boeing and Airbus, Not for Ordinary European Citizens
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 8: The EPO’s Tweedledum, Raimund Lutz
• Germany’s Inaction on EPO Privacy Abuses and Corruption in General
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 7: Ms Voßhoff Alerts the Bundestag…
• ‘Not My Department’: How Privacy Abuses Have Been Treated in Germany
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 6: Dr Petri Starts the Ball Rolling…
• The EPO Scandals Are Partly German Government Scandals, Too
• The EPO Bundestagate -- Part 5: The Federal Eagle's Disconcerting Metamorphosis
• Milking the EPO and Lying for the EPO
• The EPO Bundestagate — Part 4: Parroting the GDPR-Compliance Myth
• A BIT Worrying Where the EPO is Going...
• Government of Germany Relays Talking Points Directly From the Mouths of EPO Management
• EPO is a Zombie Institution Where Managers Have “Repeatedly Used Buzzwords and Catchphrases Like “Digital Transformation”, “Artificial Intelligence” and “Upskilling”, to Name a Few.”
• The EPO Bundestagate — Part 3: A “Minor Interpellation” in the German Bundestag
• EPO President António Campinos Promoting Microsoft Proprietary Software (Monopoly) and Software Patents
• EPO: It is All About Germany, Baby!
• The EPO Bundestagate — Part 2: Lack of Parliamentary Oversight, Many Questions and Few Answers…

March 2021

• Meme: It Came From the Cloud... in Haar
• The EPO Bundestagate — Part 1: How the Bundestag Was (and Continues to be) Misled About EPO Affairs
• Coming Up in April: Exposing More EPO Crimes and Advocating Software Freedom
• After Crushing Dialogue With the Union (SUEPO) the EPO’s President Does the Same to Staff Representatives
• EPO Staff Representation Again Warns About Collapse in Patent Quality (Due to Bad Management), Suggests Potential Improvements
• EPO Has Become an Institution of Unbridled Crime, Where Judges Exist Only to Approve the Crimes
• EPO Management Bombards the ‘News’ Section to Distract From Unlawful Attacks on the EPO’s Highest Tribunal (This Time in G 1/21)
• Meme: EPO Robbed
• EPO Robbery Under the Shadow of Pandemic Sweeping Across Europe
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Summing Up: EPO Administrative Council Still Asleep at the Wheel
• As Work/EPO Invalidity Appeals Rejected, More Reasons Emerge to Worry About the Campinos Regime
• EPO Has Abandoned Patent Law and Sooner or Later Stakeholders Will Abandon the EPO Just Like Many Examiners Did
• Meme: Banking on the EPO's Future
• The Sky is the Limit for EPO Management as Patent Quality is Lowered to Gutter Level
• EPO Board of Auditors is Incompetent and Patently Unfit for Purpose
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — The ‘Smoking Gun’: Hard Evidence That the EPO Has Been Lying About GDPR Compliance
• Hey, Hi, Welcome to the EPO
• Almost 100 Pages of Self-Congratulatory Marketing Isn't a Case of Informing the Administrative Council of the EPO But Misleading It Using Fluff and Buzzwords
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part XV: Has the EPO Sold Out Its “Digital Sovereignty”?
• Ghost of Elizabeth Holmes Still Haunts EPO as Her Patents Are Used to Suppress COVID-19 Research in Europe
• EPO Secrecy and Technical Incompetence
• Perception Management and Reality Distortion in EPO Coverage, Sometimes Subsidised by the EPO and Typically Funded by Litigation Giants
• At the EPO ‘New Normal’ is Synonymous With ‘Breaking the Law’… (EPC, Human Rights and More)
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part XIV: When is a Conflict of Interest Not a Conflict of Interest?
• The Microsoft Deal With the EPO is Illegal For a Lot of Reasons
• Meme/Teaser: The European Blackmail Office
• Meme: Masking Their Agenda...
• The Patent Professionals Have Come to Realise That the EPO Boards of Appeal, Controlled by Office Management, Are Kangaroo Courts
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part XIII: A Global 'IP' Player
• Meme: Drunk on Power, Drunk on Diplomatic Immunity (and Impunity)
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part XII: Corruption Addendum
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part XII: Foreign Corrupt Practices, Bid Rigging and “Slush Funds”
• The EPO is Drunk and Should Go Home
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part XI: Close Encounters With the Trust-busters…
• EDPS Documents About Microsoft’s Privacy Violations and Much More to Come Regarding the EPO’s Privacy Scandals
• The ‘Hey Hi’ of António Campinos Will Survive This
• Why We Don’t Expect the Media or Patent ‘News’ Sites to Cover or Even Just Mention EPO Data Scandals
• EPO Promoting Illegal Software Patents Under the Guise of NET/Hey Hi
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part X: The Spectre of GDPR…
• Meme/Teaser: Lipstick on EPO in the 'Cloud'
• Microsoft Breaking European Privacy Laws While Distracting the Public: The Evidence (a Formal 91-Page Report)
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part IX: Know Your Vendor…
• Response to the EPO's Response to Techrights About Microsoft 'Cloud' (Still Failing to Justify the GDPR Violations)
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part VIII Addendum
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part VIII: The Aftermath of Schrems II in Europe
• Europe's Second-Largest Institution (EPO) is Not Only Violating the Law But Also Acting in Defiance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• European Patent Office as Apparatus of American/Corporate Imperialism (by Surveillance and More)
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part VII: Lipstick on a Pig…
• Meme: EPO Encryption, Brought to You by (and for) Microsoft to Subvert
• The German Constitutional Court Needs to Recognise That the EPO’s Tribunals Are Not Independent and EPC Has Not or Isn’t Being Honoured for Quite Some Time Now
• Contacting Your (European) Member of Parliament/Representative to Report EPO-Microsoft GDPR Abuses
• Note to Readers: It's Only When We Cover Microsoft-EPO Scandals That We Receive Legal Threats and Other Pressure from the EPO
• The (e-)EQE Statement From the EPO Makes Things Even Worse as Victims of the Catastrophic Exam Feel Offended and Angry
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part VI: A Not-so-safe Harbour
• Reporting the European Patent Office and Microsoft for Gross GDPR Violations
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part V: The EU GDPR
• What the EPO's Illegal Outsourcing of Private Data to Microsoft Actually Means (an Issue for Everyone in Europe)
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part IV: The US CLOUD Act Passes Without Public Debate
• The US Government, Fronting Through Microsoft, is Spying on Europe Owing to an Illegal Contract (or Contracts) Signed by Corrupt EPO Officials
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part III: The PATRIOT Act and Mass Surveillance
• EPO Breaking the Law With Microsoft and Promoting Fake 'Encryption' That Violates Confidentiality on Many Levels
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part II: Steve Rowan Announces Microsoft “Outlook Migration”
• Why the Latest EPO Series is Very Important and Also Difficult to Publish
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part I (Start of Series): Enter the “Cloud of Unknowing…”
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part I (Intro): A Fresh Data Protection Scandal Brewing at the EPO?
• EPO Management Could Really Use a Distraction From the Microsoft Blunder and Data Protection Crimes
• Meme: EPO Sells Out Its ‘Digital Sovereignty’ to Microsoft
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Primer
• EPO Does the Unlawful While Leveraging Women’s Rights as an Opportunistic Form of Disguise
• Team UPC and Patent-Centric ‘Media’ in Europe Still Committing Suicide (Credibility Sliding Down the Cliff)
• Examining Today’s EPO Propaganda About the Disastrous EQE, a Subject of Much Scorn and EPO Corruption
• German Decision on Unitary Patent/UPC Will Take Years (and It Doesn’t Matter Because the Whole Thing is Dead Already)
• Meme: EPO Management Totally Gets 'Tehc'
• The EPO's Software Blunders Are Inevitable Outcome of Technically Clueless Management Which Grants Illegal Patents on Software
• ‘GatoKeeper’/IP Kat (AstraZeneca) Still Suppressing and Censoring the Public Views or Internal EPO Talks About EPO Corruption
• Five Years of António Campinos Coverage in Techrights (We Correctly Predicted His Presidency in March 2016)
• In 2021 the EPO Works for Parasites Instead of Scientists (and It Cannot Even Hide That Anymore)

February 2021

• EPO President Pushes Illegal Software Patents in South America (Over the Telephone With a Misleading New Puff Piece)
• The Administrative Council Needs to Fix the EPO While It’s Still Possible
• 'These Questions Remain Unanswered': Campinos Became Battistelli Just Halfway Through His Term
• ‘The One Percent’: Salary Adjustment Procedure (SAP) Supported Only by 1% of EPO Staff
• Series Index: How António Campinos Resorted to Union-Busting
• For the Record: SUEPO’s Correspondence With ‘King’ António Campinos
• EPO Crisis Under António Campinos – Part 5: Quo Usque Tandem?
• The Bergot Patent Office (Tantrum First, Innovation Later… or Never)
• EPO Crisis Under António Campinos – Part 4: Timeline of the Le Guern Controversy
• Reckless, Feckless and Factless Campinos ‘Doing a Donald Trump’ on the Staff Union of His Office
• EPO Crisis Under António Campinos – Part 3: Campinos Rallies Behind Bergot
• Spineless Campinos Protects Team Battistelli From EPO Staff (and From Accountability) Instead of Protecting Staff From Corruption and From Team Battistelli
• Leaky Patent Office
• EPO Crisis Under António Campinos - Part 2: Madame Bergot Reportedly Goes Ballistic
• The EPO's “Mafia” is Back to Blackmailing Staff Representatives
• EPO Crisis Under António Campinos - Part 1: Le Guern's “Disappearance” Triggers Internal Crisis at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• EPO Behaves Like a Private Corporation, Pretends to be Poor Only When That Suits Its Agenda
• When a Patent Office Becomes a Granting Authority Also for University/Academic Grants (With Strings Attached)
• More Broken Promises as EPO Management Pretends That the Office is Poor (While Looting Its Treasury for Personal Gain)
• Patents Over Parents at the EPO
• EPO Management and ‘The Children’ Who Run the Office
• Software Freedom and Patent Systems Are a Political Endeavour (at Least in Part)
• The Good, the Bad, and the Truly Awful in Patent Law
• EPO Propaganda on Overdrive... to the Point of Breaking the EPO's Web Site
• When You Know the EPO Distracts the Media (and Thus the Public) From Something
• End of Patent Justice in Europe
• The Annual EPO/EUIPO Ritual of Lying to the European Public
• Le Guern Leaves the EPO After Attacks on Staff’s (and Pensioners’) Finances Amid Pandemic
• Straw Man Arguments That Distract From EPO Scandals

January 2021

• When So-called 'Public Servants' Simply Serve Themselves and Their Rich Sponsors/Friends (partly about EPO)
• OpenForum Europe (IBM et al) and Linux Foundation Are Boosting and Cooperating With Enemies of Software Freedom (partly about EPO)
• SUEPO Will Challenge Retribution Against Staff That Went on Strike to Protest Illegalities at the EPO
• Meme: Candidate Campinos is Not President Campinos
• Fighting for Free Speech and Censorship Resistance
• Fourth Edition of EPO Staff Survey Shows That Work Affairs Continue to Deteriorate Even Further and Almost Nobody Trusts the Management
• EPO Staff Likely Going on Strike For a Second Year in a Row
• EPO President António Campinos is Still Not Listening, According to Internal EPO Documents
• Kluwer Patent Spin and Distortion of Facts (Regarding UPC and More)
• EPO Staff Representation Complains That EPO Management Exploits Pandemic and 'House Arrests' to Overwork Staff, Lower Quality
• Hey Hi (AI) is Just a Trojan Horse for Illegal Software Patents, According to EPO Management and Litigation Firms It’s in Bed With
• The Central Staff Representatives (CSC) of the EPO Are Petitioning to End the Assault on EPO Staff
• Team UPC Keeps Pretending That UPCA Can Still be Resurrected (Even Without the UK, Which is Strictly a Requirement)
• Sites in Bed With the EPO and UPC 'Covering' the 'News' Without Mentioning Any of the Overt Abuses
• Patent Propaganda and UPC Jingoism Instead of Actual News
• Unitary Patent is Dead and Lies About the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Aren't Ending
• Microsoft Hosts a European Software Patents Propaganda Event (in ‘Hey Hi’ Clothing) Featuring Thierry Breton and Litigation Firms
• EPO: We Are a Community, But We Crush and Rob Our Own Staff (Even Pensioners)
• EPO Management (Team Campinos) to EPO Pensioners: Drop Dead or Stop Asking Questions That Expose Our Lies
• New Leak: Today's EPO Breaks Its Contract With Former Staff of the EPO, Not Just Existing Staff
• Can EPO Leaks Published in 2021 Inspire More Media Coverage About EPO Abuses?

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