EPO 2017 Archive

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Colour codes:

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

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Contents 1 2017 1.1 December 1.2 November 1.3 October 1.4 September 1.5 August 1.6 July 1.7 June 1.8 May 1.9 April 1.10 March 1.11 February 1.12 January

2017

December

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

November

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

October

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

September

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

August

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

July

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

June

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

May

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

April

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

March

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

February

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

January

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