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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:

2021 Articles (Latest First)

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

October 2021

• Meme/Teaser: Double-Dipping Friedrich Rödler
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XIV: Battistelli's Iberian Facilitators - Portugal
• Reign in Spain
• Meme: Spanish Inquisition
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XIII: Battistelli’s Iberian Facilitators – Spain
• From Competitive (Top-Level, High-Calibre, Well-Paid) Jobs to 2,000 Euros a Month -- How the EPO is Becoming a Sweatshop by Patent Examiners' Standards
• Meme: Protecting European Patent Courts From EPO ‘Mafia’
• With EPO 'Strike Regulations' Belatedly Ruled Unlawful, EPO Management May be Lowering the Salary Even Further by Introducing Outside 'Temps' or Casual Workers
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XII: The French Connection
• Meme: Another Maladministration Meeting Comes to an End
• Splitting the Time to Cover More Leaks and Exposés
• Meme: Destroying the Workplace
• EPO Management Tricks EPO Staff Into Taking More Paycuts
• Süddeutsche Zeitung Became a Propaganda Arm of EPO Management (and by Extension Software Patents/Patent Lobbyists)
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XI: “General Bock” - Battistelli's Swiss Apprentice?
• Meme/Teaser: Swiss Alexandre Benallas
• Meme/Teaser: Swiss Rumbustious Alpha-Rambos
• Unqualified Managers and Demoralising Leadership in Switzerland (Like in EPO)
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part X: Introducing the Controversial Christian Bock
• Betrayal Not Only of Swiss Workers But All European Workers, Courtesy of Roland Grossenbacher and Christian Bock
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part IX: More Holes Than Swiss Cheese
• The 168th Meeting of the EPO Administrative Council as a Test of the EPO's Oversight Mechanisms
• Meme/Teaser: Alpha Males
• John Alty, Sean Dennehey, and Gerard Barrett as Enablers of Thatcherite “Strike Regulations” at the EPO (and Bonus: Team Battistelli’s Cheerleader ‘Managing IP’ Ceases Print Publication)
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part VIII: Perfidious Albion and Pusillanimous Hibernia
• UPC (Unethical Paid Coverage): Fake News and Paid-For 'Planted' Articles Everywhere
• Etienne Schneider, Lex Kaufhold and Other Officials Empowered EPO’s Tyranny of Lawlessness, But Will Iris Depoulain Put an End to That?
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part VII: Luxembourgish Laxity
• Meme: It's No Rosa Luxemburg
• The Unlawful Legacy of Guus Broesterhuizen, Paul van Beukering, and Derk-Jan de Groot
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part VI: A Distinct Lack of Dutch Courage
• Meme/Teaser: Double Dutch of Double Standards
• Christoph Ernst and Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger as Battistelli’s ‘Enablers’ in Germany
• Meme: Nicht Unser Bier
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part V: Germany Says “Ja”
• Top EPO Applicants (Six Nations/States of Seven Founding States) Approved Unlawful Strike Regulations, Illegally Crushing EPO Examiners
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part IV: The Founding States
• Meme/Teaser: The Seven Nations and the Six Nations
• Meme: Isabel Frommelt and Esther Schindler Too Busy to Vote or Even Attend
• Cannot Cast a Ballot for Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Liechtenstein (Even Whilst Attending for the Vote)?
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part III: Three Missing Votes
• Reposted: Right of Strike Breached at the EPO -- Statement by Union Syndicale Fédérale (USF)
• Meme/Teaster When All Else Fails, Blame “Soros”
• Treating the Law Like It's Merely a Recommendation That Rich and Powerful People Can Ignore Whenever It Suits Them
• Meme: Took Longer Than Battistelli's Presidency (and as Long as False UPC Promises)
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part II: A “Unanimous” Endorsement?
• Meme: Totally and Perfectly Legal
• EPO Collusion
• Meme: Attacking the Workers, the Press, and the Law
• Meme: Voting in the EPO
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part I: Let the Sunshine In!
• Teaser: New EPO Series About Battistelli's Illegal “Strike Regulations”
• Meme: Margot Forgot UPC Facts
• Angela Merkel’s Coalition Has Not Helped EPO Staff and Not Even Bloggers Blackmailed by EPO Management

September 2021

• Meme: “This is Intentional Fraud” (European Commission on Impact Assessment of the UPC)
• Nobody to Talk to About EPO Abuses, Including Abuses Against the Media and Against the EPO's Own Staff
• Meme: Paid-for UPC Echo Chamber: How Disinformation Campaigns or Political Meddling Work Online
• Meme: Planting UPC Fiction in the Media
• Slovenia and Germany (or Austria) Are Not Called “United Kingdom”
• The “You Pee, See?” (UPC) Tactics: Fake it Till You Make it
• Meme: Meeting Later Today in Slovenia
• “What the Heli, Battistelli?”
• When It Comes to UPC, EPO is Still Stuck in Pre-Brexit Mindset (More Than Half a Decade in the Past)
• Meme: Route de France
• How Basic Laws and Fundamental Rights Got Crushed in the European Patent Office
• Meme: When the EPO Watches Everything (‘Dissidents’, Media, Etc.) and Isn’t Being Watched by Anybody
• Virtual Oversight
• Meme: Some People Are Just Above the Law
• The EPO Must Forsake Its Diplomatic Immunity and Quit Pretending It's About Patent Law (or Any Law)
• Meme: President Campinos Addresses the Legacy of Battistelli’s “Strike Regulations”
• Meme: The EPO's Carte Blanche and 'Diplomatic Immunity' Card
• As Expected, Minimal Pseudo Compliance From EPO Management, Adding Insult to Injury
• The EPO is on the Run (Escaping Negative Press Coverage)
• Meme: Lowering the Standards...
• Meme: The EPO-EUIPO “Good Brother” Network
• Meme: The Best Quality Propaganda
• Preparations for the Next Series and Further Improvements in IPFS and Gemini
• Microsoft and the EPO: A History of Threats and Suppression Against the Free Press
• Meme: The B4 Summit: Baltic Benoît Battistelli in Belarus
• Meme: Looting Europe and Taking Away From the Office
• Formally Challenging the EPO and Microsoft for Apparent Efforts to Suppress Reporting With Evidence of Crimes, Including Violations of EPO Data Protection Guidelines
• Meme: Warning – Tree Felling in Progress
• EPO Management is Hiding Under the ‘Cloud’ While Violating Privacy Laws
• Meme: Microsoft Says Its Paying Clients (Like EPO) Don't Violate Privacy Law
• Coming Soon: EPO Series on Lawlessness
• Meme: 70 Days of Non-Compliance
• EPO “Board 28” Meeting: Imaginary Dialogue Between EPO President Campinos and the Chair of the Administrative Council, Josef Kratochvíl
• Meme: EPO Management, Always Right
• Recent Focus on Git, Gemini, and Upcoming Series About EPO Abuses
• EPO Bribes at the Expense of EPO Users and the European Union (EU)
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XX – Top Jobs at EUIPO for “Compliant” Baltic Officials?
• Meme: Thanking and Rewarding My Rigga’ in Riga
• Meme: EPO and EUIPO Aren’t Democratic Institutions
• Meme: 'Open Source' Study/Report From the European Commission Promotes Software Patents in Europe
• What Patent Colonialism Looks Like
• Meme: The Coloniser Campinos, Preying on the Poor
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part IXX – The EUIPO Connection
• Meme: Put the Ballot in This Box…
• All the President’s Men and Women in Latvia
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XVIII – A Baltic Circus in Riga
• Meme: Be My Rigga'
• Corruption in Latvia's Patent Office
• Meme: Forward Pharma Meets EPO Patent ‘Quality’
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XVII – Secret Bank Accounts in Switzerland and Germany
• EPO Oversight
• EPO Timeliness (or How the European Patent Organisation/Office Uses Time to Deny Justice)
• Nearly 3,000 Days of EPO Violating Fundamental Rights of EPO Staff, and Not Without Help From an Overwhelmingly Complicit Administrative Council
• Two Months of ILO-AT Non-Compliance at the EPO and a Decade of a Docile Administrative Council That Approves Illegal Proposals
• Meme: Very International Patent Office...
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XVI – A Promising Start Followed by an Unfortunate Cock-Up
• The EPO's Lithuanian Representation, Leadership, or Delegation
• Meme: When the National Average Salary is 400-500 Euros a Month
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XV – Worse Than “a Backward Kolkhoz”…
• 5 Years Ago: Benjamin Henrion (FFII) Explains the Connection Between Software Patents and UPC
• Meme: Teaser About Lithuanian Patent Office Affairs…
• The Government of Germany Needs to Quit Supporting Fraud
• The Younger Face of the Estonian Patent Office
• Meme: Consistent Standards
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XIV – Business as Usual in Tallinn
• Lies and Deceit, Striving to Expand the Coup From Patent Offices to Patent Courts
• Meme: That Didn't Go Too Well for Alexander Ramsay, Master Liar of Team UPC...
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XIII – Out With the Old, in With the New?
• Six Years Ago Belgian TV Compared Benoît Battistelli to a Mass Murderer, El Chapo Guzmán
• Benoît Battistelli’s Napoleonic Baltic Crusade: Phase II, Fortification and Cover-Up
• How Much Corruption Can One Survive in EPO?
• A Vast Sea of Corruption Flowing Out of EPOnia (Munich/Bavaria/Germany)
• Meme: The Rigga' From Riga
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XII – Battistelli and His Baltic Fiefdoms
• OHIM/EUIPO Giving Top Roles to Repeatedly-Convicted Fraudsters is Bad for the Reputation of the European Union
• Meme: António Campinos Poured Bleach on a Convicted Criminal
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XI – With a Little Help From My Friends…
• Just Like in China, Even an EPO 'Emeritus' Cannot Criticise the Regime of EPOnia...
• Meme: Daniel X. Thomas Still Works for Benoît Battistelli
• Response to Daniel X. Thomas, Former Director at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• Meme: When Everything is Basically Rigged...
• António ‘Gap’ Campinos Explains His Plan to Indoctrinate/Brainwash the Public About So-called ‘IP’ (Misleading, Vague Term, Also a Deliberate Misnomer)
• It's a Big Club
• Meme: A Cat (or Kat) That Sold All Its Souls…
• Meme: A Network of Brothers
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part X – A Pan-European “Good Brother” Network Celebration?
• Meme: Facts and Laws Don't Matter to Team UPC
• Team UPC Has Spread a Dozen or So Fake News Headlines With Patently False Claims, Which It’s Unable and Unwilling to Justify

August 2021

• Two Institutions, Two Dictators
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part IX – António’s Faithful Acolyte in Alicante
• António Campinos is Not a Patents Person and He Doesn't Belong at the EPO
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part VIII – Pulling for the Portuguese Pretender?
• EPO Occupational Health
• Meme: A Pretender Bartender From France
• A Deeply Disturbing Culture of Corruption and Nepotism
• Meme: Compensating for Daddy
• Elected Like a Mafia Don, Governing the EPO Like a Mafioso…
• Fixing Elections, Scoring Points Behind Closed Doors
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part VII – A Self-Appointed “Select Committee”
• Meme: Monkey See, Monkey Do (Secret Meetings in Eastern Forests)
• Buying Elections at the Expense of the Finnish Taxpayers
• Meme: Appointing Dictators for Life
• Convicted Fraudster 'in Charge' of Patent Delegations From Four Nations?
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part VI – “A Good Friend of Estonia and a Steady Cooperation Partner”
• About Half of the Supposed ‘Growth’ in Patents is Abstract Stuff or ‘Software-Related’ (Patents That Courts Would Quite Likely Reject) (partly about EPO)
• Meme: Smoking Päts
• Meme: Mr. Casino Martti Enäjärvi
• Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH) Governed by a Criminal for Two Decades
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part V – A Man With a Conviction…
• Finnish Media Has Already Explained What Sorts of People We’re Dealing With…
• Part 5 Teaser: Enäjärvi Caught
• So-called ‘IP’ Statistics for the Baltic States Reveal Very Few Patents
• Meme: Finnishing Off the European Patent Convention (EPC)
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part IV – Martti Enäjärvi and His “Good Brother” Networks
• Meme: Only the 'Very Best People' for the Finnish Public Sector
• Finland Corruption Levels Aren’t What They Seem (or Perceived to Be)
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part III – Introducing the Finnish “Facilitator”
• Meme: Martti ‘Vichy’ Enäjärvi
• A Closer Look at Baltic States’ Membership in the EPO and the Significance
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part II – Old Wine in New Bottles…
• Meme: Finnish Your Coffee
• Meme: Doyen in the Baltic Region
• How Finland, With About 20 Times More European Patents Than Baltic States Combined, Has Controlled Those States for the Battistelli Era Regime (and Campinos Era Too)
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part I – More Captured Delegates?
• Meme: Internal Stacked Committees, Sponsored by Special Interests
• Expecting the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation to Actually Follow the Law…
• Joff Wild’s Latest Wild Lies
• Patenting Software and Patenting Music (partly about EPO)
• Meme: In the EPO, Criminals Get Promoted, Not Arrested
• Richard Stallman Explains Why He Protests and Condemns the EPO (for Promoting Software Patents in Other Continents, Too)
• Naming and Shaming 'Captured' Publications That Knowingly and Intentionally Published Fake News About the EU's Unified Patent Court So Far This Week
• Flashback: Team UPC in 2014 Saying UPC Would Start Next Year (2015)
• Team UPC Should be Taken to Court by Clients (for Misleading Them, Only for Personal Gain)
• Warning: Campaign of Disinformation by Team UPC
• Meme: Who Needs Laws Anyway?
• Corruption is Everywhere, But EPO Officials Very Well Know the Law and They Know That They Break the Law
• An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part XIV: No Great Loss…
• Meme: Every Publisher in Europe Was Supposed to Cover EPO Corruption
• Meme: Capturing the Situation…
• Corruption at the EPO’s Governance (or the Administrative Council) is Not Limited to Balkan States
• An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part XIII: In Good Company…
• With Its Handling of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement (UPCA), Germany Shows It’s No Better Than Poland or Hungary
• Meme: Skinny Dipping Double-Dippers
• Media Participates in Cover-Up — and Thus Enablement — of Rogue Representatives and Mischievous National Delegates Inside the EPO
• Meme: EPO’s Captured Nations as Bought and Paid-for Votes
• An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part XII: Captured Delegates on the Administrative Council?
• When Nations Are Dens of Nepotism and Corruption, Just Like the EPO
• An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part XI: Captured States in the EU’s Waiting Room
• Meme: Macedonian State Capture (Control From Afar)
• Meme: The MaceDoyen
• When Corrupt Officials Are Put in Charge of Law, Justice, and Patent-Granting Institutions
• Meme: Drumming Up Support for Illegal Proposals
• An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part X: A “Fall Guy” For the Deputy Minister?
• Meme: Patents on ‘Magic’
• The EPO's Extraordinary Gerrymandering Landscape and Belated Introduction to Goran Gerasinmovski
• EPO, Europe’s Second-Largest Organisation, as a Hub of Corrupt Politics
• Meme: North Macedonia is the Same as Germany
• An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part IX: “There Are Indications of a Violation of the Law…”
• The Grave Dangers of Politicised Patent Offices and a Politicians-Run EPO
• Meme: EPO Needs D & I in Opinions and Representation, Too
• Meme: Too Many Hats
• An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part VIII: An Inspector Calls
• Meme: A Statement That Wouldn’t Age Well…
• An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part VII: An Academic Institution With a Political Mission
• Meme: There is a Special Place in Hell for the EPO’s Social Dialogue
• EPO Pinkwashing Helps Nothing Except the Ego of Oppressive and Despotic EPO Management
• Meme: Honorary Doctorates and Doctored Doctorates
• EPO is Driving Under the Influence (DUI), Just Like the President's Son
• Meme: Diplomatic Mill
• An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part VI: A Learned Legal Luminary
• Meme: Restoring Peace by Spending 6 Million Euros to Fight Staff in Court (Approved by the EPO’s Administrative Council)
• Freenode is Now Dead. But is the EPO Too ‘Dead Man Walking’? When Rogues Are Left in Charge…
• Presumption of Patent Invalidity in Europe
• An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part V: Sharing Out the Spoils of Public Office
• An Ode to Josef
• EPO as a Combat Zone, Governed by Separatists Who Take Bribes
• Meme: EPO: Over a Month of Non-Compliance With Court Rulings!
• Meme: More Than Meets the Eye...
• An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part IV: A Party Political Animal
• Meme: The Administrative Council’s Strategy for Saving the EPO: Paying Up (Bribing) the Media and Lawyering Up EPO Staff
• The Corruption Virus at the EPO, Europe’s Largest and Most Important Patent Office
• Meme: Competition for the ‘Doyen’ (in the Boardroom or the Bedroom?)
• An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part III: A Longtime Associate of the Doyen
• Meme: Doyen for North Macedonia
• An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part II: A Mysterious Fist-Bumping Masquerade in Skopje
• Meme: Inventors as 'Robots' in the Western World and Global South (partly about EPO)
• The European Patent Organisation Discredits the European Patent System
• An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part I: A New EPO Balkan Affair?
• The Patent Quality Song (partly about EPO)
• Meme: Patents for Bots (the Other Kind of ‘Hey Hi’ Patents) (partly about EPO)
• EPO Bribing Scholars to Justify Software Patents, Then Using Narrow Surveys to Justify Unlawful Guidelines for Examiners (e.g. Software Patents as ‘Hey Hi’)
• The EPO is Europe’s Largest Scale Scam (by Far the Largest)
• Four Weeks of Non-Compliance: EPO Only Accepts Courts That It Rigs and Controls
• It Almost Feels Like Battistelli Still Runs the EPO (by Extension/Proxy)
• Meme: Vichyite Battistelli Committed Crimes and His Buddy António Snubs Courts That Confirm These Are Crimes
• Meme: Nobody and Nothing Harms Europe’s Reputation Like the EPO Does

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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