EPO 2016 Archive

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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

February

• Update on Civil Complaints and Criminal Complaints Against EPO Vice-President Željko Topić in Lufthansa/Airplus Case
• Problems of Governance in International Organizations: the EPO
• Media Alert: Spokespeople of the EPO Are Lying to Journalists
• Confirmed by Dutch Media (Telegraaf): Benoît Battistelli Makes Unreasonable Compensation Demands (Spanish translation )
• EPO “Management by Fear… Within a System Which is Not Subject to Any Outside Control.”
• Battistelli-Led EPO “Led to Tensions and Even to Suicides Among Employees, Say the Unions”
• Member States Are Turning Against “Tyrannical” Chief of European Patent Office (Benoît Battistelli)
• Next Week Looks Likely to Bring Another Battistelli Crisis at the EPO
• Article Translation (de Volkskrant): EPO Employees Are Tired of Tyranny and Take to the Streets
• Censorship in Land of So-called ‘Social Dialogue’: EPO is Still Blocking Techrights Web Site, But There Are Exceptions/Loopholes
• Even Battistelli-Funded Media Admits That Battistelli is in Deep Trouble Right Now (Spanish translation )
• New Evidence Emerges, Showing That Unitary Patent (UPC) is Indeed an SME Killer That Negatively Affects Europe for Patent Lawyers’ Sake (Spanish translation )
• Dutch Report: “External Investigation” Likely to be Launched Into “the Punitive Measures That Battistelli Imposed on Union Members.”
• Repurposed Misinformation Campaign: The EPO’s PR Team is Lying to The Register in Order to Help Battistelli Save Face
• Dutch Media Reinforces Rumours That Battistelli is on His Way Out, Only a Matter of Money Now
• The English Version of the Central Staff Committee’s Open Letter to the Praesidium of the Administrative Council Regarding Battistelli’s ‘Social Study’ EPO Propaganda
• Nearly a Thousand EPO Employees Prepared to Go on Strike in Just a Fortnight, Team Battistelli Getting Desperate to Stop That
• More Fire Power for Team Battistelli With New Promotion of French Lady
• European Patent Office: Battistelli Gets Official Warning
• The Mass Media Recognises This May be the End of the Battistelli Regime
• Further Militarisation of the EPO
• The EPO’s Investigative Unit (I.U.) Called ‘Gestapo’ on Dutch Television
• Possible Connections Found Between WIPO Misconduct and “a Dozen Serious Criminal Charges” Against EPO’s Željko Topić
• EPO-Funded Unitary Patent (UPC) Propaganda Events and the Latest on the Undemocratic (Even Antidemocratic) UPC Push
• Federation of International Civil Servants’ Associations Bemoans EPO Climate of “Fear, Threats, Intimidation or Retaliation”
• More Information About Battistelli's Utterly Miserable Last EPO Moves (Leaked Photo Included) (Spanish translation )
• Request of Transcription and Translation: FICSA Letter Against EPO, French Media on EPO Abuses
• New Leak: Battistelli’s Circle, Now Fighting for Survival, Circulates a Letter (and Why Some at the EPO Believe It’s a Form of Blackmail)
• Leaked: Board 28 Message to Heads of Delegation of the Administrative Council (EPO)
• The European Patent Office’s Head of Recruitment and Talent Management Quits, More People Reportedly Exit Quietly
• “Bavarian Government is Unable to Become Involved in the Business Operations of Supra-national Organizations” Like EPO
• More Political Action in France, Still Firmly Against the Largely French EPO Management
• New EPO Rumours About Benoît Battistelli's Potential Role in the Bygmalion Affair
• Germany, Which Allows People in Europe and Abroad to Patent Software (EPC Shunned), Simply Cannot be Trusted With the EPO and UPC
• Call for Information: Separating EPO Rumours From Confirmed Facts
• Patent Trolls and the Rise of Non-Practicing Parasites Not Just in the US But Also in Europe (Spanish translation )
• A Preview of Injunctions/Raids Heaven in Europe With the Unitary Patent (Continent-Wide Bans and Embargoes by Patent Lawyers)
• Source: EPO’s Administrative Council Not Pursuing Battistelli’s Witch-hunt Against a Judge Anymore
• Rumours Suggest That Battistelli, Already Enjoying Life With a Huge (But Still Secret) Salary, Wants More Than a Decade’s Worth of Salary to Leave
• EPO Management Reportedly in a State of Collapse, Rumours Suggest Battistelli Possibly Out Soon, Events Canceled
• Open Letter Explains Why Disciplinary Committees at the EPO Have Become a Sham Under Battistelli's Regime
• Team Battistelli Tries to Bend the Rules to Prevent the European Patent Office From Going on Strike
• The EPO's Patent Coup in Europe Moves on With Conflict of Interests-Plagued German Authorities for UPC
• Danish Left's Alternate for European Parliament Slams the European Patent Office While Staff Protests Are Again Ignored by the German Media
• Patent Lawyers and EPO Officials Are Parading the Unitary Patent (UPC) in, Despite Lack of Democratic Process (Spanish translation )
• How the European Patent Office (EPO) is Crushing Staff Unions and Why EPO Staff Has a Moral Duty to Protest
• The European Patent Office (EPO) Openly Advocates Software Patents Despite the Rules (Spanish translation )
• Transcript of EPO Official Admitting on Television (Nieuwsuur Interview) That Courts Are of No Interest to Him
• Caricature of the Day: Willy Minnoye (EPO) Above the Law
• A New MUST-READ Article From Croatia About EPO Vice-President Željko Topić, Condemning His Behaviour Even Inside the EPO
• EPO VP1 Willy Minnoye and His Bizarre Claims About Systematic Crackdown on the EPO Unions (More Than Half a Dozen People Targeted is Clearly Not a Coincidence)
• The Abuses of the EPO’s Management Against Staff Extend to Their Families
• With Software Patents, “the Low Level of the USPTO Has Now Been Reached by the EPO” (Spanish translation )
• The European Patent Office, Aloof/Apathetic to Inventors and Human Rights, Simply Cannot be Trusted With the Unitary Patent (UPC) (Spanish translation )
• Feedback About Battistelli’s ‘Meet the President’ Event in Rijswijk (4th of February, 2016)
• In Lawyerland, Simulated UPC 'Trials' and More Extraordinary EPO Propaganda for Change That Would Harm Europe to Help Patent Lawyers and Their Big Clients
• New EPO Protests Amid Nervous Breakdowns of Spanish EPO Employee (After Institutional Bullying by Battistelli's Goons), Spain Rejects the Unitary Patent (UPC) (Spanish translation )
• Only Half a Dozen Cuban Patents Filed at EPO, But Hugely Unpopular Battistelli Goes to Cuba to Garner Cheap Support (Spanish translation )
• EPO Brain Drain (Even Directors Fed Up With Team Battistelli) and Rumours About Battistelli Becoming President of the UPC
• More Than 20 Years in the Line: European Patent Office and Claims of European Convention on Human Rights Infringement Against Applicants/Stakeholders
• UPC Nepotism, Political Abuses, and UPC Involvement From the Legal Firm That EPO Hired to Bully Techrights (Spanish translation )
• Member of European Parliament Brings Up “Ongoing Violations of the Fundamental and Employment Rights of the Staff of EPO” (Spanish translation )
• Besieged Benoît Battistelli Mimics 'Damage Control' Tactics of FIFA or Blatter as More Judges Start Getting Involved in EPO Scandals
• Several Political Parties Directly Challenge the European Patent Office for Ignoring the Law, Not Obeying Court Orders
• Even the Legal Community is Upset at Benoît Battistelli for the Damage He Did to the EPO
• EPO Union (SUEPO) Getting Busted: “More and More People are Joining the Union, but Fewer and Fewer People Dare to Take on Leading Positions There.”
• The EPO's Benoît Battistelli is the Dictator Who Can No Longer Dictate Like He Used to
• The European Patent Office “is Acting as Though the Law Does Not Apply to It.”
• Latest Propaganda From the EPO's Management an Effort to Make the EPO the Tool of Megacorporations (Spanish translation )
• 'Aversion to Change' Propaganda From the EPO Echoes or Parrots Lenin and Stalin
• The Alice Case Continues to Smash Software Patents (This Time OpenTV’s); Will the EPO Ever Pay Attention?
• EPO Staff Responds to Team Battistelli's Expansion to Include French Economic Propagandist on the Payroll
• UPC: To Understand Who Would Benefit From It Just Look at Who's Promoting It (Like TPP)
• The ‘Offenses’ of EPO Staff Representatives Boil Down to Truth-Telling
• Rumours About Dismissal of Benoît Battistelli and New Letter From Union Syndicale Federale Blasting Battistelli’s Behaviour
• Readers' Article: A Strange Conspiracy of Silence in the German Media (Part II)
• European Patent Office Pretends It's Business as Usual and Prepares New Vanity Pieces (Spanish translation )
• Readers’ Article: A Strange Conspiracy of Silence in the German Media (Part I)
• Benoît Battistelli’s EPO: From Show Trials and Mock Trials to a Self-Aggrandising Propaganda Event Later Today in Rijswijk
• Caricature of the Day: EPO President
• Company Known as European Patent Office Provides Tips on How to Patent Software in Europe
• The Most Detailed Explanation (Yet) of What's Wrong With the EPO (Spanish translation )
• SUEPO (EPO Staff Union) Appears to Have Launched a New and Improved Web Site After Attempts to Crush (‘Decapitate’) SUEPO
• Münchner Merkur Explains That EPO Staff is Defecting to SUEPO, Even The Council Distrusts Battistelli Now
• Slides of New Talk Which Explains the Connection Between the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Software Patents (Spanish translation )
• Under Battistelli’s Regime the European Patent Office is Rapidly Rotting

January

• MEP Konstantina Kouneva (Former Trade Unionist) Again Takes Action Against the European Patent Office for Union-Busting Actions
• Political Complaints About European Patent Office Abuses Keep Flooding in After Firing of Staff Representatives (Busting of Unions)
• Richard Stallman: European Software Patents Are Back With the Unitary Patent Court (UPC) (Spanish translation )
• When European Parliament/Commission Gets Embroiled in the EPO Scandals
• When European SMEs Make the Mistake of Relying on the EPO’s Integrity, Now Want to Even SUE the EPO
• Translation: What If the European Patent Office Were to Torture?
• The Connection Between the EPO’s Investigative Unit/Battistelli Policies and EPO Suicides
• Battistelli and His Bodyguards: Paranoia, Megalomania, or Both? Are China-Style ‘Suicide Nets’ Next on the EPO’s Agenda? (Spanish translation )
• Dutch Media’s Coverage of Protest at The Hague Leaves VP1 Minnoye a New Laughing Stock of the EPO’s Staff
• Dutch Television Talks About EPO Conflict and Today’s Protest at The Hague, Previous Protests Too
• Independent Dutch Investigation to Commence Into the Working Conditions at the European Patent Office in Rijswijk
• EPO Protests Earn Coverage on Dutch Television, Programme Starts Now (10PM CET)
• Over a Thousand People Protest at The Hague; The EPO’s PR Team is Lying Again About the Busting of Staff Unions, Pretends There is “Union Recognition”
• EPO Staff at The Hague to Protest Shortly; Here is Why We Should All Support Them
• No More Defeatism: Battistelli’s Days at the European Patent Office May be Numbered
• EPO Protest in The Hague This Week Targets Next Wave of Silent (by Gag Orders) Union Busting
• The EPO Goes Lobbying Even More Heavily in Brussels, Reveals New Job Advertisement
• Newly-Released Badinter Report Shows That by Treating Staff Like Garbage the European Patent Office is Violating Fundamental Rights
• Philip Cordery Says the EPO Situation is Well Known to All, as Attested by the Numerous Press Articles, Political Actions, or Administrative Recommendations (Spanish translation )
• Süddeutsche Zeitung After FTI Consulting Deal: EPO Ghostwriter or Journalism?
• Dismissal of EPO Staff Representatives Does Not Eliminate Them as EPO Staff Sticks Together, Shares the Burden, the Pain (Spanish translation )
• Union-Busting Strategies Backfire: After Additional EPO Protests/Actions (Over 2,000 in Attendance With More to Come) a STRIKE is Being Planned
• Additional Information About EPO Management and Its Abuses, as Told by Anonymous Comments
• EPO Implicitly Acknowledges Declining Patent Quality by Agreeing to Finally Dump Some Monsanto GMO Patents
• EPO President Battistelli and Vice-President Topić Are Having Political Problems
• Two More EPO Protests on Their Way, Thousands of Employees Projected to Attend Overall
• In Unison, Nations Hop Aboard the Unitary Patent Train Wreck, For (Foreign) Corporate Gain at Europe’s Expense
• The EPO’s PR Team May be Trying a New ‘Damage Control’ Strategy Amid Historic Protests by Staff
• Benoît Battistelli Blasted by Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’, Who Initiates More Political Actions Against Him (Spanish translation )
• The Next Phase of Union Busting: Battistelli Now Cutting Salaries of Yet More EPO Staff Representatives
• EPO/FTI Consulting-funded Event for UPC Will Be Stuffed With Mega-corporations from the United States (Spanish translation )
• SLAPP-Happy EPO Vice-President Željko Topić Loses Croatian Defamation Lawsuit -- AGAIN!
• Poor Journalism From Süddeutsche Zeitung Perpetuates the EPO Management's Lies
• EPO Management and Its PR Team a Den of Liars, Even Lying to Their Own Staff
• Battistelli “Exacerbated the Penalties Which Were Recommended by the Disciplinary Committees for All Three EPO Unionists” (Under Mock Trial)
• Tomorrow's EPO Protest to Target Union-busting Actions Disguised as 'Social Dialogue' or 'Union Recognition'
• Techrights Needs Translations as Another EPO Staff Protest Looms
• French Politician Philip Cordery Calls the EPO Authoritarian, Says the Union-busting Decisions Are Purely Scandalous (Spanish translation )
• European Patent Office (EPO) is Not “the Real World” But a Parallel Universe Without Any Regard for the Rule of Law
• Battistelli's Legitimacy Under Political Fire After He Fired Staff Representatives, Claims He's Neither Suitable Nor Eligible to be EPO President (Spanish translation )
• Team Battistelli Has Brought Dirty Politics to the EPO, Pension Cuts May be “Blatantly Illegal”
• Unitary Patent (UPC) Highlights Reality Behind the EPO’s Management and Its Multinational/Overseas Bosses (Spanish translation )
• Battistelli Hopes That People Forget (or Don’t Know About) Criminal Charges Against Željko Topić, But Croatian Media Does Not Forget as Election Imminent
• Summarising the Latest Attacks by the European Patent Office (EPO) on European Society, With Complicity of Corporate Media
• The EPO “Hearing Was a Mockery.”
• The Witch-hunt Against Elizabeth Hardon Leads Back to Battistelli
• EPO Staff Protests in Berlin and Vienna
• How the EPO Prevented Scapegoats ('Defendants') in Its Mock 'Trials' From Actually Presenting a Defense (Spanish translation )
• Hundreds of EPO Staff at The Hague (Including Managers) Spontaneously Protested Today, Making Almost Half of All Staff Present
• Pierre-Yves Le Borgn' Lashes Out at EPO for Firing Staff Representatives (Spanish translation )
• Massive EPO Protests After Team Battistelli Fires Legitimate Critics and Staff Representatives (Even Those With Young Children) (Spanish translation )
• The EPO is Manufacturing Propaganda Again, Releasing Misleading Figures to the Media (Spanish translation )
• Germany Needs to Respect the European Patent Convention and Stop Issuing Software Patents, Also Reject UPC
• Transparency is Sunlight in the Kingdom of the EPO Vampires (Spanish translation )
• The European Patent Office (EPO) Still Quietly Abusive (Spanish translation )
• How the EPO Imposes Secrecy Around Mock 'Trials' and What the EPO Calls 'Violence'
• Not Just Three (or Even Six) EPO Staff Representatives Under Attack (Spanish translation )
• A Busy Week Ahead for the EPO's Management as Union-busting Efforts Culminate (Spanish translation )
• The European Patent Office (EPO) Doesn’t Like Spanish, So Why Should the Spanish Tolerate the EPO? (Spanish translation )
• Patent Lawyers Say It “Remains to be Seen How the EPO Will Limit the Number of PACE Requests an Applicant Can Make” (Spanish translation )
• Patent Lawyers and People in 'IP' Jobs Warp the Debate About the Patent System: EPO-Funded Writers, Glorification of Patent Trolls, and Software Patents
• So Much for ‘Vocal Minority’… Half of EPO Staff Signed Petition in Support of SUEPO
• The European Patent Office (EPO) Has Become a Propaganda Mill After the FTI Consulting Deal
• Shedding Light on the Secretive Mock Trial of Elizabeth Hardon and Others (EPO Union Busting)
• The Long EPO Queue for European SMEs That Cannot Hop Like Multinational Corporations (Spanish translation )
• What the European Patent Office (EPO) Looks Like to European SMEs (Spanish translation )
• British MEP May Soon Complain to Benoît Battistelli About EPO Process, No Closer Contacts With Ordinary Applicants (Spanish translation )
• German and European Patent Attorney Warns That UPC Would Bring More Patent Trolls to Europe, With Help From the EPO (Spanish translation )
• Meeting the EPO’s PR Team and Learning Its Dirty Tricks
• European Patent Office (EPO) Starts New Year With Hogwash (Spanish translation )