EPO 2019 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 2019 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

2019

December

• In 2018 and in 2019 António Campinos Has in Effect Been a Guardian of Battistelli's Corruption
• Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement (UPCA) Will be Ratified in the Year 202020
• Bristows and AstraZeneca (IP Kat) Won't Offer Balanced Coverage of EPO Patent Cases
• Who Will Merpel be in 2020? (Now Defending Battistelli's Attacks on EPO Judges and Serious Violations of the EPC)
• Thierry Breton: Why He Matters to EPO Affairs (and a Lot More in Europe If Not the World, Not Just in France)
• Not Everything Needs to Be Patented
• D Young & Co LLP Spreading Team UPC Talking Points
• EPO G 1/19 (Software Patents Case) Already Compromised by Overt Violations of the European Patent Convention (EPC)
• EPO Throws DABUS Under the Bus... But for the Wrong Reasons
• Understanding Thierry Breton: A Happy Ending - for Some at Least.
• EPO Management is Always Right
• Understanding Thierry Breton: “Oh, Dem Golden Slippers…”
• Understanding Thierry Breton: A “Club Med” Coup in Brussels?
• The EPO Likes “Hey Hi” (AI) Only When It Lets Actual Humans Fake 'Production'
• Understanding Thierry Breton: Little Miss Ladson Goes to Brussels
• Journalism in the Area of Patents and the Domain of Patent Litigation is Dead
• More 'Fake News' About Unified Patent Court (UPC) and Battistelli's CEIPI Emerges as a Booster
• Understanding Thierry Breton: The “Killer Shark” Resurfaces…
• Issues Cannot be Treated in Complete Isolation When Everything is Connected
• Understanding Thierry Breton: Concordia, Integritas, Industria
• Understanding Thierry Breton: Emmanuel Macron and His “Joker” in Brussels
• Unitary Patent (UPC) Should Become Synonymous With Lies, Coups, Entryism, Lobbying and Bullying
• European Patents Losing Their Appeal, Lustre and Glamour
• Only the EPO Goes as Far as Bribing Publishers (the Media) to Promote Software Patents and Publish Fictional Stories
• EU Needs to Show That It Cares About SMEs and Not 'European Champions' That Are Actually Foreign Monopolies
• At the EPO Money — Not Quality — is King
• The EPO's Strategic Failure 2023
• EPO Promoting Software Patents in Countries Where These Are Illegal
• Actions Against EPO Corruption and Unitary Patent (UPC) Injustice/Lobbying
• Demonstration Against Unitary Software Patents, Thursday 12 Dec in Brussels
• Fake European Patents (on Algorithms) Leading to Fake Embargoes
• Unitary Patent (UPC) Died Along With the Credibility of Managing IP and the Rest of the UPC Lobby
• The EPO Rejects Innovation
• Europeans Still Need to Save the European Patent Office From Those Who Attack Its Patent Quality
• 'Priceless' Tickets to the EPO's Back End and Team UPC
• New EPO Leak Shows That the Rumours and Jokes Are Partly True and We Know Who 'Runs the Show'
• 13 Years of UPC Promises
• Is Water Wet?
• The EPO's President Admits He's Illegally Granting Software Patents (CII, 4IR, IoT, AI and Blockchain Mean Software Patents at the EPO)
• Maximalists Cherry-Picking the So-Called 'Corbyn' 'Leak' for Their Patent Agenda While the US Lobbies Britain for Software Patents and Worse

November

• Management of the EPO is Afraid of Scientists and Judges
• The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Dead and Alexander Ramsay is Only Making a Total Fool of Himself
• Many European Patents Lack Validity and Blogs/Press Won't Talk About That
• 5 Out of 6 EPO Workers Vote for a Strike as Quality (and Validity) of Patents Continues to Fall
• Team UPC is So Drunk on Kool-Aid That It Has Become Truly Comical!
• Understanding Thierry Breton: Thierry and the EPO's “Sun-King”
• JUVE Has Become Little But a Team UPC Propaganda Site
• The Collapse of European Patents Continues
• Even the US is Surprised or Baffled by Post-Brexit Unified Patent Court (UPC) Fantasies, Reveal Secret Documents
• Just About Everything the EPO Tells Stakeholders, Media and Even Its Own Workers is the Opposite of What's True
• Understanding Thierry Breton: “Mister Cash” and “Madame Bailout”
• Understanding Thierry Breton: Thierry & Nicolas – a Bromance That Turned Sour?
• German Constitutional Court Attempts to Distance Itself From Prof. Huber’s 'Interview' With Team UPC
• EPO Misuses Patent-Granting Powers to Help Litigation, Not Science
• Britain 'Taking Back Control' From the Wrong Institution; the EPO is the Greater Culprit
• Understanding Thierry Breton: More Influential Friends in High Places
• Global Patent Warming
• Teaser: “Enriching Exchanges”
• Understanding Thierry Breton: Socialising With the Elite
• Justice Peter Huber Speaking to a Front Group of Team UPC May Compromise the Integrity of the FCC and Its Outcomes
• Injustice at Every Level Would Simply Doom the Entire Patent System
• Understanding Thierry Breton: Thierry and the $100 Billion Man
• Understanding Thierry Breton: Atos Healthcare - “The Ugly Face of Business”
• Justice Peter Huber of the German Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) Calls 'Bullshit' a Rumour Nobody Really Spreads
• Understanding Thierry Breton: What Thierry Did Next...
• EPO Geared Towards Financial Exploitation of Europe Instead of Serving Europe
• Understanding Thierry Breton: Noël Forgeard and His “Golden Parachute”
• We've Already Entered the Era When Patents Should be Presumed Invalid
• Understanding Thierry Breton: Insider-Trading Scandal at EADS
• Openwashing Institutionalised NPEs (OIN) and Software Patents With Notorious Managers From the EPO
• Understanding Thierry Breton: The “Cost-Killer” Tries to Tame the National Debt
• to Last Week’s Thierry Breton Hearing
• Unitary Patent is Dead Partly Because the EPO Demonstrated That EPC is Being Routinely Violated, Illegal Patents Granted
• Understanding Thierry Breton: Chirac’s Entrepreneurial “Joker”
• Koch's Reply to EPO Through ILO and Techrights' Interpretation of Koch v EPO Documents Help Show That ILO-AT is Played by EPO Management
• EPO Running ILO's Tribunal (ILO-AT) 'in a Loop' to Perpetually Delay and Drain the EPO's Complainants (Aggrieved Staff) Out of Money
• ILO is Not Functioning and ILO-AT Helps the Abusive Management of the European Patent Office
• Understanding Thierry Breton: Moral Responsibility for “a Capitalism That Kills”?
• FOSSPatents Conference is Against FOSS, Promoting the FOSS-Hostile Construct Known as RAND or FRAND
• Europe is Under Attack
• Understanding Thierry Breton: Toxic Management Goes on Trial in France
• Thierry Breton’s Video/Live Grilling is Over, But the Grilling Continues Online
• The EPO's Low Patent Quality is Not Just Suicidal; It is Illegal
• Techrights' Interpretation of Koch v EPO: The EPO's Management Still Attacks Staff Representatives
• Understanding Thierry Breton: “Mister Cash” Arrives at France Télécom
• The Breton-Battistelli Relationship and Breton Hiding His Employment Record at Rothschild & Cie Banque
• A Lot of EPO Staff on Dutch Land Protested (Despite Abusive Threats From Management) and a Strike is Reportedly Next
• Understanding Thierry Breton: In the Beginning...
• Teaser: Thierry Breton and His Disquieting Past
• EPO and EU: People Behind the Faces
• EPO Corruption Compared to Cocaine Scandals in Antwerp
• SUEPO Showed That the Media Won't Cover EPO Corruption Until Half the Workers March in the Streets
• SUEPO Protests Against Management of the European Patent Office Brought Back Discussions About Corruption
• Video: Dutch Media on EPO Protest
• Think Tanks, Bristows, 'Simmons' and 'Birds' Can Only Ever Lie to Us About the Dead Unified Patent Court (UPC)
• The EPO's Management is Trying Really Hard to Distract the Media From EPO Unrest (and It Has Been Partly Successful)
• 'Artificial Intelligence' (AI) Will Only Doom Patent Offices If It's Used to Stamp Millions of Invalid Patents (IPs)
• Quick Mention: Some Dutch Media Covers Dutch EPO Protest
• The EPO 'Patent Factory' Likes the IAM Copy-Paste Factory
• PR ‘Innovation’: Bombarding the Media With Puff Pieces to Distract From EPO Staff Actions Against Corrupt Management
• It Feels Like EPO Management is Trying to Distract the Media and the Staff From Today's Big Protest
• SUEPO Organises Hague Protest — Second EPO Protest in a Fortnight, Targeting the Portuguese Embassy in The Hague
• The EPO Instructs European Examiners to Grant Junk Patents on Algorithms (Maths and Stats)
• The European Patent Office (EPO) Carelessly Shows the Only 'Small' 'Businesses' It Serves Are Law Firms and Patent Trolls
• António Campinos and Comrade Iancu (US) Both Push Software Patents Into Europe to the Detriment of Small Businesses and Developers
• The European Courts Won't be Receptive When European Patent (EP) Just Means Invalid Patent (IP)
• The European Union is Harmed by EPO Abuses
• Meme: EPO Tyranny Irrespective of One's Name/Brand
• The EPO's Staff Lacks the Autonomy Crucially Needed to Decide Whether European Patents Granted by the EPO Are Indeed Legitimate
• Today's EPO is Working Against Europe

October

• Immunity Breeds Lawlessness
• Today's EPO is an Illegal Institution Promoting and Granting Illegal Patents
• Yesterday in EPOPIC Andrei Iancu and António Campinos Shared a Salad of Ridiculous Buzzwords
• EPO May be Financially Defrauding the Public and Its Employees
• Patent Evergreening Kills
• An Illegal Practice: The EPO Continues to Grant Unlawful Patents and Then Brag About These
• EPO Advertises Questel and Rather Extremist Views on Patents
• The Media is Not Observing But Actively Participating in Patent Lies of the EPO and Self-Serving Law Firms
• G1/19: Enlarged Board of Appeal Bombarded by Monopolies, Law Firms and EPO President in Favour of Software Patenting
• EPO Management Plays With -- and for -- the Wrong People
• Reforming (Fixing) the EPO is the Goal
• Humour: EPO Has the Solution
• EPO Staff Protested Today and SUEPO Explains Why
• EPO Diplomatic Immunity
• Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna Reveals How the German Government Actively Ignored SMEs to Push the Notorious 'Unitary Patent' Sham
• SUEPO Protest Tomorrow. All EPO Staff in Munich Ought to Attend and Prepare to Strike Too.
• EPO Will Need a Lot More Than Photo Ops and Hoax 'Studies' to Restore the Perception of Lawfulness
• EPO: It’s Only Getting Worse
• It Has Begun: EPO Staff Protests Against António Campinos (Starting Wednesday)
• European Patent Office and US Patent and Trademark Office Cranks Discovered Buzzwords, Stopped Worrying, Started Granting Patents They Know to be Fake
• “The True Hypocrite is the One Who Ceases to Perceive His Deception, the One Who Lies With Sincerity,” Said André Paul Guillaume Gide (Nobel Prize in Literature)
• The EPO Cannot Guard Fake European Patents From Scrutiny (in the Long Run)
• New EPO Meme: Who Wants to Make Billions From a 'Public' Monopoly?
• EPO Staff Union and Staff Representatives Ought to Demand EPO Stops Bullying Publishers and Censoring Their Sites
• Bribes, Lies, Fundamental Violations of the Law and Cover-Up: This is Today's European Patent Office
• EPO Staff Resolution Against Neoliberal Policies of António Campinos
• Raw: EPO Comes Under Fire for Lowering Patent Quality Under the Orwellian Guise of “Collaborative Quality Improvements” (CQI)
• When They Run Out of Things to Patent They'll Patent Nature Itself...
• EPO Boards of Appeal Need Courage and Structural Disruption to Halt Software Patents in Europe
• Professor Dr. Maximilian Haedicke on Lack of Separation of Powers at the EPO (Which Dooms UPC)
• “The Stupidest Patent/Tax Policy Ever”
• Meme: Software Patents at the EPO
• Today's EPO is Working for Patent Trolls and the 'Aye Pee' (IP) 'Industry' Instead of Science
• The Campinos Car Crash
• Software Patents (or Monopolies on Algorithms) Are Not 'Property' and They're Not Even Legally Valid
• The EPO's Universal Patent Injustice Concealed With Polyglottic Tricks
• António Campinos, With Diplomatic Immunity, Continues Breaking the Law by Granting Patents the EU and EPC Forbade
• EPO is Trying to 'Force-Feed' Europe Some Fake Patents by Hijacking Courts
• If the EPO Plans to Go 'Virtually' Private (Outside Contracting), Then Failing It Would be Deliberate
• The EPO is Gradually Being Outsourced to Private, For-Profit, Unaccountable and Notorious Companies
• EPO President Campinos is Just a Great Pretender With 'Soft Power' Skills
• The EPO's President Campinos is a Liar
• EPO a Hostage of Law (Litigation) Firms
• EPO Management Flies Halfway Across the Globe for Photo Ops in Country With 0.02% of European Patents
• The Injustice at the EPO Deepens, From Examination to Oppositions/Appeals and From BoA to Courts (UPC Prospects)
• The EPO's Endgame: Robbing EPO Staff to Enrich Private Companies
• EPO Leak: António Campinos Announces Impending Cuts While Outsourcing to Private Firms Like Serco
• The EPO's 'Solution' to Being Caught Granting Illegal Patents is to Punish Those Who Show That
• AI and Other Nonsensical Technobabble Exploited by EPO Management to Do Illegal Things
• Corruption on Every Level Persists at the European Patent Office
• Today's EPO is Pursuing 'Troll Justice' (Bullying and Blackmail), Not Real Justice
• EPO Releases Decision Regarding G 2/19 (the 'Haar Question') in a Language Only About 10% of Member States Speak
• The EPO Keeps Breaking the Law While Trying to Legalise What's Illegal
• EPO Makes Guidelines for Examination That Formally Allow Software Patents in Defiance of European Law
• The Greenwashing and Chronic Lying From the EPO Spreads to EU Through EUIPO

September

• Even IP Kat Explains Why the EPO and the EUIPO Are Lying Through Their Teeth With a Paid-for So-called ‘Study’
• EPO: Same Old Abuses, More Fake Patents, But Slightly Different Faces
• Only Weeks After Czech Government Rejects UPC (Unitary Patent) António Campinos Flies There, Apparently in Order to Lobby Government Officials
• EU Parliament Needs to Clarify Once Again That Software Patents Granted by the EPO Are Illegal and Void
• Media as Propaganda Apparatus of Patent Offices Which Are Run for and by Lawyers and Law Firms
• The European Patent Office's Relationship With Licensing Executives Society International (LESI) Shows Whose Interests Today's Management Really Serves
• EPO Logic: Businesses That Have Trademarks and/or Patents Have Only Succeeded Because of Trademarks and/or Patents
• Corporate Media Covering (Amplifying) EPO Lies But Not EPO Abuses
• The EPO and the USPTO Keep Granting Illegal Patents and Mainstream Media Doesn't Talk About That
• Patent Maximalists Have Ruined the European Patent Office, Which Became a Lying Organisation That Bullies Everyone
• EPO Under Fire From EU Parliament, But Patent Trolls Already Storm Europe, Emboldened by Low Quality of European Patent
• Patent Extremism is Not Normal and Not an Innocent Mindset
• When Patent 'Professionals' Sound Like Children Who Learned to Parrot Some Intentionally-Misleading Buzzwords, Myths and Lies
• The European Parliament Needs to Become More Outspoken About EPO Abuses
• When the EPO Sees Itself as Above European Law, Grants Patents in Defiance of the EPC (Its Founding Document) and Violates Staff's Labour Rights/Protections (International Law)
• Update on Koch v EPO: Internal Appeals Committee (IAC) Composition Still Likely Illegal
• EPO is Not European
• The EPO's Central Staff Committee and SUEPO (Staff Union) Respond to “Fascist Bills” Supported by EPO President António Campinos
• Storm Brewing in the European Patent Office After a Hot Summer
• EPO President Along With Bristows, Managing IP and Other Team UPC Boosters Are Lobbying for Software Patents in Clear and Direct Violation of the EPC
• Illegal/Invalid Patents (IPs) Have Become the 'Norm' in Europe
• Patent Maximalists, Orbiting the European Patent Office, Work to 'Globalise' a System of Monopolies on Everything
• Unitary Patent (UPC) Promotion by Team Battistelli 'Metastasising' in Private Law Firms
• EPO: Give Us Low-Quality Patent Applications, Patent Trolls Have Use for Those
• Patent Charlatans and Frauds Are Doing a Disservice to Europe and to Europe's Patent System
• The European Patent Convention (“EPC”) Does Not Allow Patenting of Life Itself
• European Patent Office's Cooperation and Collaboration With Patent Trolls Instead of Science and Technology
• Koch Explains the Dirty Games the European Patent Office Plays at ILO
• When ILO 'Justice' for EPO Staff Gets 'Lost in the Post'
• Serco's Censorship of Media or EPO's Censorship of Media? Either Way, There's a Profound Media Crisis in Europe.
• National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI France) Not Immune Like the EPO and the Courts Find it Guilty of Mismanagement
• EPO Rating Cartoon
• The Corrupt EPO Apparently Hides Its Serco Outsourcing Deal
• Jo Johnson Quitting Twice in Two Years is a Terrible Sign for the Unitary Patent (UPC)
• Fake Software Patents in Europe (Invalid Patents) Would Only Discourage or Drive Away the European Software Industry, But Lawyers Don't Care
• Patent Trolls Are Destroying Free/Open Source Software and They're Coming to Europe, Thanks to the European Patent Office
• Bristows UPC Propaganda (in Pseudonymous Form) Shames the Government's Officials in Order to Install Corrupt Officials
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation Opposes Software Patents (in the US), So Why Does It Keep 100% Silent About Europe and the EPO?
• EPO Cannot With a Straight Face Lecture People About the Law (Which It Routinely and Knowingly Violates)

August

• The Judges of the Boards of Appeal Are Still Controlled by the European Patent Office and European Patent Quality is Therefore in a Freefall
• The Admission Phase/Stage: Even Team UPC is Coming to Grips With the UPC's Demise
• The Collapse of the UPC Would Further Decrease the Perceived Value of European Patents, Which European Courts Rightly Reject
• Updates on Koch v EPO, Anette Koch’s Case Which the EPO Would Rather Nobody Heard About
• USPTO and EPO: Call Software Patents 'Hey Hi' ('AI') and Use Microsoft Software (or Else!)
• Patent Maximalists Refuse to Accept That Their War on Patent Quality Also Dooms a Pan-European Patent Court System
• Managing IP as Team UPC's Megaphone and Lobbying Front
• No More Rights for EPO Staff?
• Some Patent Attorneys Dislike Techrights Not Because It's Wrong But Because Software Patents Are Wrong (and Sometimes Illegal)
• Edward as a Nodder to Team UPC Kool-Aid
• Guest Post: António Campinos' European Patent Office Redefines Modern Slavery in the Heart of Europe in 2019
• EPO Cannot Handle Patent Justice With a Backlog of About 10,000 Cases at the Boards of Appeal
• The European Patent Office Increases Surveillance: Can't Get Food Without Being Spied on
• Breaking the Law Has Become the Norm at the European Patent Office
• Patent Prosecution Highways and Examination Highways Are Dooming the EPO
• Software Patents Won't Come Back Just Because They're (Re)Framed/Branded as "HEY HI" (AI)
• IP Kat Pays the Price for Being a Megaphone of Team UPC
• The EPO's War on the Convention on the Grant of European Patents 2000 (EPC 2000), Not Just Brexit, Kills the Unitary Patent (UP/UPC) and Dooms Justice
• Spreading False Rumours or What's Most Likely Lies (Falsehoods) Won't Help Restore Justice at the EPO
• Europe is Gradually Becoming a Hotspot for Patent Litigation and Trolls as Patent Quality Decreases
• The EPO is Still Violating the EPC Every Day
• The Tight Embrace of the 'Hey Hi' (AI) Hype is Strangling the Patent System
• IP Kat as Amplifier of Team UPC at a Time When UPC is Dead
• Honest Media Regarding Patent Matters is Dead
• Lies, Lies and More Lies From the EPO (While Corporate Media in Europe Plays Along)
• Germany's Infamous Patent Troll IPCom Shows That the EPO's Failure Hurts Not Only Germany But the Whole of Europe and Customers in General
• European Media on the Death of the Unitary Patent (UP/UPC/UPCA)
• António Campinos Puts European Patent Quality on a Suicide Diet/Plan and All EPO Staff on Notice
• Patent Trolls' Paradise: The EPO is a Rubber-Stamping Machine, So Why Not Automatically Generate Patent Applications?
• The EPO and the European Media Continue to Ignore or Cover Up the Haar Case
• EPO Not Only an Eyesore But Also an Environmental Liability
• The Boards' (of Appeal) Fear of Enforcing the Law (EPC) Will Doom the European Patent Office

July

• Today's European Patent Office (EPO) Stifles Access to Medicine With Its More Dubious European Patents
• The American Patent Microcosm Models Its Lobbying for Software Patents Based on the EPO's Ongoing Violations of the EPC
• Prime Minister Boris Johnson Has Turned Into a Complete Joke the Cabinet Entrusted to Deal With UPC Limbo
• Patent Trolls Are Not a Solved Problem and They Are Definitely a Growing Problem in Europe
• Europe's Lowered Patent Standards
• IP Kat Used to Blast the EPO for Profound Lack of Justice. Now It's Just Meowing With the EPO's Management.
• Anything to Distract From the EPO's Plunging Patent Quality
• EPO is Fast Becoming the Office of Invalid Patents (IPs)
• EPO Continues to Grant Hundreds of Thousands of Illegal Software Patents and the Media Doesn't Care
• Greenwashing to Distract From the EPO Breaking the Law, Rigging Justice and Its Own Courts
• EPO Gradually Becoming the World's Most Permissive (Low Patent Quality) Patent Office by Consciously Violating the EPC
• Companies That Collapse Because the European Patent Office (EPO) Gave Them Fake Patents in a Hurry
• Demand for European Patents Will Continue to Decrease If a Lot of European Patents Turn Out to be Invalid, Worthless
• 2 Days Later (Case in Progress) and Still Media Silence About G 2/19
• Index: G 2/19 (Enlarged Board of Appeal, EPO)
• EPO Looney Tunes – Part 4: G 2/19 - Faites Vos Jeux…
• Media Not Interested in G 2/19, Which Demonstrates Patent Justice is Nowadays Impossible at the EPO
• EPO Looney Tunes – Part 3: The Legal Line-up for G 2/19
• EPO Looney Tunes - Part 2: The “Difficult Legacy” and Its Dark Historical Shadow
• EPO Noise Machine Turned On as Haar Hearing Kicks Off, Patrick Corcoran Defamed Again
• EPO Looney Tunes - Part 1: Is D-Day Approaching for Battistelli’s “Difficult Legacy”?
• Patent Certainty Waning, But That's Still OK for Patent Trolls
• European Media Continues to Ignore the EPO Crisis While Law Firms and EPO Management Cover Things Up
• Campinos is Already Widely Seen as Battistelli the Second, Even Among EPO Stakeholders
• EPO Further Harms Justice and Quality by Weakening Processes Associated With the EPO’s Boards of Appeal
• EPO 'Tackles' Patent Quality Concerns by Issuing New Report With “Quality” in the Title
• Anonymous Comments Are the Only Thing of Value Left at IP Kat
• EPO-Bribed Media Speaks to Team UPC, Produces UPC Puff Pieces With Plenty of Falsehoods and (Forbidden) Software Patents Advocacy
• Another Day of Misleading Media Coverage About the EPO and More Squashed European Patents
• Higher Patent Quality and More Patent Justice Rather Than Buzzwords and Litigation
• Only a Matter of Time Before the European Patent Bubble Implodes
• Only After Millions Were Spent on Lawyers Microsoft's Patent Troll in Europe Loses European Patent Used to Shake Down Android (Linux) Vendors
• Ethiopian Media Gamed by EPO Management, Just Like European Media
• The EPO's Administrative Council is Drunk on Cooperation Money (Bribes)
• The European Patent Office is Disconnected From the Rule of Law and European Media Could Not Care Less
• António Campinos is Almost 100% the Same as Benoît Battistelli
• EPO Management Exacerbates Its Patent Invalidity Crisis by Rushing Examination Even Further in New Pilots
• The EPO is More Interested in Silencing Its Critics Than in Actually Correcting Injustices

June

• Tribalism Still a Major Problem at the European Patent Office
• The New (Staged and Scripted) Video of António Campinos Feels Like a Drunken Satire
• Director Iancu and President Benoît Battistelli Disappeared
• EPO Staff, Lawyers and Courts Are Growing Tired of the Debased Patent Office and Administrative Council
• UPC Was the EPO's (and Patent Maximalists') Attempt to Abolish Patent Justice
• The EPO's “Collaborative Quality Improvements” (CQI), Formerly Known as “Team Collaboration Project,” Shows the EPO Grossly Violating the Law, Granting Patents in Clear Violation of the EPC
• EPO CQI: Raw Leak of the Latest EPO 'Ingenuity'
• The EPO Has Successfully Muzzled the Media
• The European Patent Office Remains a Crooked Patent Office That Harms Staff and Abolishes the Rule of Law
• USPTO and EPO Faking Growth by Granting Patents on Everything in Nature, But Campaigners Strike Back
• IBM Happy That Patent Quality at EPO Collapsed and It's Easy to Get Software Patents
• Patent Extremism: Stacking the Panels, the Surveys, the Hearings, the Debates
• The EPO Needs a President Who Obeys the Law, Not One Who Obeys Battistelli
• With Water (Treatment) Already Patented It Won't Take Long for Patents (and Patent Royalties) on Air
• What Patents the EPO Has Just Awarded (With a Special Reward), Not Just Granted
• Required Reading: Mental State of Team Battistelli/Campinos
• EPO Directors Would be Wise to Rebel Against Team Campinos While They Still Have the Job
• American Front Group Open Invention Network (Riding the Linux Brand) is a Proponent of Software Patents in Europe
• Say 'Hey Hi' to Software Patents
• Leaked: Harassment of EPO Directors by Team Campinos
• Patent Professionals in Europe Have Devolved Into a Marketing Industry
• Ignore the EPO's Dumb Festival and Focus on the Abuses Against the Workforce and Its Quality of Work
• Indifference or Even Hostility Towards Patent Quality Results in Grave Injustice
• 'AI Taskforce' is Actually a Taskforce for Software Patents
• Weaponising Russophobia Against One's Critics
• When the EPO is Run by Politicians It’s Expected to Be Aggressive and Corrupt Like Purely Political Establishments
• As European Patent Office Management Covers up Collapse in Patent Quality Don't Expect UPC to Ever Kick Off
• António Campinos — Unlike His Father — Engages in Imperialism (Using Invalid Patents)
• António Campinos Takes EPO Waste and Corruption to Unprecedented Levels and Scale
• The EPO is a Patent Troll's Wet Dream
• EPO Spreading Patent Extremists' Ideology to the Whole World, Now to South Korea
• Leaked Financial 'Study' Document Shows EPO Management and Mercer Engaging in an Elaborate “Hoax”
• Measuring Patent Quality and Employer Quality in Europe
• Granting More Fundamentally Wrong Patents Will Mean Reduced Certainty, Not Increased Certainty (partly about EPO)
• Patent Quality Continues to Slip in Europe and We Know Who Will Profit From That (and Distract From It)
• António Campinos Given an Extension to Prove He Respects the Rule of Law
• Lawlessness at the EPO Means That Software Patents Are Still Being Granted and EPO Judges Have Their Hands Tied
• The Preparatory Committee of the UPC Does Not Decide for Constitutional Courts
• The Paid-For UPC Lies
• The European Patent Office is a Global Threat, Not Just a Threat to Europe
• Drunk on Power
• EPO Advertises Jobs for Lawyers That Combat EPO Staff, 'Emergency' Call Surfacing
• EPO Meltdown and Collapse in Patent Quality Don't Bother Bristows Kat
• EUIPO/EPO Redundancies While Spending a Billion Euros on Unnecessary Buildings
• European Patent Quality Totally and Utterly Collapses While Team UPC Hopes It Can Make the Courts 'Kangaroo' Ones
• António Campinos “Will Have the First Strike on His Hands and Learn That If He Goes Down on This Path He May be Even More Despised Than Battistelli.”
• An Office of Patent Extremists
• More Tall Tales From EPOnia - A Little Apéritif to Whet the Appetite…
• António Campinos as German Sheriff Rather Than Office President

May

• British Patent Courts Continue to Expose the Collapse in Quality of European Patents
• António Campinos Didn't Even Last a Year
• Social 'Studies' and Sponsored 'Articles' Cannot Hide the Fact That EPO is a Terrible Employer Which Currently Harms Europe
• European Patents Are Eventually Being Revoked. But at Great Expense to Everyone Except Law Firms.
• Team Campinos Will Try to Make It Difficult to Go on Strike (But Won't Manage to Prevent It)
• EPO Strikes Further Diminish Chances of UPC Ever Materialising (in Any Shape or Form)
• EPO Allegedly Becoming Insolvent (Pretext for Cuts), So Staff Gets Punished While Management Takes the Jackpot
• EPO President Still Not Obeying Courts' Rulings
• António Campinos Has Run Out of Time and EPO Staff is Going on Strike (Skipping Mere Protests)
• Quality of Patents is Going Down the Drain and Courts Have Certainly Noticed
• EUIPO and EPO Abuses Growingly Inseparable
• The War on Patent Quality
• Unified Patent Court Won’t Happen Just Because the Litigation Microcosm Wants It
• Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 4: Happy Birthday to the Kötter Group?
• The EPO’s Key Function — Like the UPC’s Vision — Has Virtually Collapsed
• Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 3: “Ein kritikwürdiges Unternehmen”
• EPO Had a Leakage Problem and Privacy of Stakeholders Was Compromised, Affecting at Least 100 Cases
• False Hope for Patent Maximalists and Litigation Zealots
• The Race to the Bottom of Patent Quality at the EPO
• Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 2: Meet the Kötters
• Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 1: Urgent Shitstorm Alert
• Patents That Were Gleefully Granted by the EPO Continue to Perish in Courts
• Professionally Incompetent EPO Management
• Did Battistelli 'Steal' ~$100,000,000 Euros From the EPO?
• The Biased EPO Does Not Want to Hear From Anyone Except Those Who Pay the EPO
• Team UPC Has Run Out of Arguments, So Now It's Just Writing Anti-Brexit Rants With Testicles in the Headlines
• Making the Patent System About Productive Actors (Again), Not a Bunch of Law Firms and Trolls
• Stephen Rowan: From UK-IPO to Operation Coverup of Team António Campinos
• Lusting for a Unified Patent Court (UPC) That Respects Invalid European Patents, Including Software Patents
• Illegal Software Patents and Patent Trolls Well Served by European and American Patent Offices But Not Courts
• Corrupt Battistelli is Back for European Inventor Award 2019 — an Extravagant Ceremony He Has Used to Steal Millions of Euros From the EPO
• EPO Waste and Mismanagement: Renting Space While Keeping Buildings Empty and Making More of Them
• Corruption at the EPO is a Threat Not Only to Europe But to Every Continent in the World
• Why Does the EPO Keep Praising People Who Promote Software Patents, Rewarding Them for Patent Thickets That Harm Software Developers?
• The EPO is a Threat to Software Developers Everywhere, Not Just in Europe
• Even IAM Admits That When It Comes to Patents It's Quality That Counts, Not Quantity
• It's 2019 and Team UPC is Still Composing 'Fake News' (Lobbying Disguised as Reporting)
• Even EPO Patent 'Justice' is Now Measured in Industrial Terms Like 'Production' Rather Than Accuracy
• EPO in 2019: Pushing (and Bribing) for Buzzwords to Bypass/Cheat the Law Whilst Abolishing the Court System
• Lack of Justice at the EPO Continues to Usher in Fake Patents on Abstract Things
• Union Syndicale Federale (USF) Writes to António Campinos Again Regarding the Appalling Atmosphere at the EPO

April

• Haar is Where EPO Justice Came to Meet Euthanasia
• The 'Technical Effect' of Attacking the Independence of Judges at the Boards of Appeal and Ignoring/Breaking the Law
• "Dia da Liberdade" in Portugal -- Wilted Carnations in EPOnia
• The Quality of Patents is Connected to the Quality of Life of Patent Examiners
• Supreme Court of the UK, Which Habitually Throws Out European Patents, May Overturn Troublesome Unwired Planet v Huawei Decision
• German Federal Patent Court Curbs the Patent Maximalism of the EPO, Which Promotes Patents on Nature and/or Maths Every Single Day
• António Campinos Would Not Refer to the EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeal If He Did Not Control the Outcomes
• USPTO and EPO Both Slammed for Abandoning Patent Quality and Violating the Law/Caselaw in Order to Grant Illegitimate Patents on Life/Nature and Mathematics
• The EPO's Use of Phrases Like “High-Quality Patent Services” Means They Know High-Quality European Patents Are 'Bygones'
• The Likes of Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA), Team Campinos and Team UPC Don't Represent Europe But Hurt Europe
• Largest Patent Offices Try to Leave Courts in a State of Disarray to Enable the Granting of Fake Patents in the US and Europe
• The European Patent Office Does Not Care About the Law, Today's Management Constantly Attempts to Bypass the Law
• Corporate Media Will Never Cover the EPO's Violations of the Law With Respect to Patent Scope
• Patent Maximalists Are Enabling Injustices and Frauds
• Caricature: EPO Standing Tall
• The EPO is Slipping Out of Control Again and It's Another Battistelli-Like Mess With Disregard for the Rule of Law and Patent Scope
• Global Finance Magazine Spreads Lies About the Unitary Patent and German Constitutional Court
• New Building as Perfect Metaphor for the EPO Under the Frenchmen Battistelli and Campinos
• EPO Still Wasting Budget, Paying Media and Academics for Spin
• EPO Benefits European Patent Trolls With Dodgy European Patents
• The Myth of Quality of European Patents
• António Campinos is Already Paying a Lot of Money to Craft an Alternate Reality at the European Patent Office
• Who Does the Legal System Really Serve or Favour in European Patent Disputes?
• The Media is (Still) Failing to Cover EPO Corruption
• The EPO’s Incredulous Survey: Management’s Voice, Management’s Future — EPO Staff ‘Engagement’ Spin (Denial of Issues)
• Only One in Six EPO Workers Trusts the Management, According to New Survey Skewed by Management
• Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) — Like MedTech at the EPO — Just Another Dodge for Illegitimate Software Patents
• Europe's EPO Has Become France’s INPI
• Even Patent Maximalists Are Not Happy With António Campinos Referring Question of Patents on Life to the Enlarged Board of Appeal
• The European Patent Office Will Come to Regret the Fake Patents It Has Granted for Short-Term Financial Gains
• EPO Management is Knowingly and Consciously Granting Invalid European Patents, Including Patents on Life and Nature
• The Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) Warns About the Granting of Tens of Thousands of Invalid European Patents Every Year
• The EPO Continues Granting Bogus Patents on Mathematics and Nature, But There's Hope Over the Horizon
• EPO Judges Lack Independence and the Internal Courts Are Seen to be Lacking Legitimacy (Decisions' Validity) Under António Campinos
• Artificially-Intelligent Blockchained Internet of Things Industrial Revolutionary CII or Software Patents by Any Other Name
• Patent Trolls Destroy the European Economy Because EPO Gives Them Questionable Patents

March

• The UK Supreme Court's Latest Decision is Ammunition for the FCC to Scuttle the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA)
• A March in Brussels Next Month, Disgruntled EPO Staff Invited
• There's No Administrative Council at the EPO Anymore. It's Like a Stamping 'Department' of the Office and the Same Goes for the Boards of Appeal.
• Tall Tales From the Land of EPOnia: Indications of High-Level Club Med/EUIPO “Entryism”
• European Patents Found to be Invalid and Deemed Impotent in the Highest British Court (Again)
• The European Patent Scope is a Lost Cause, Does Not Exist Anymore
• The EPO is Still a Software Patents Propaganda Machine and Thus an Enemy of Software Developers in Europe
• Dimitris Xenos on Unconstitutional Supranational Arrangements for Patent Law: Leaving Out the Elected Legislators and the People’s Participatory Rights
• The Campinos-Battistelli Strategy is Working: Patent Trolls Are Coming to Europe!
• The Unified Patent Court is Dead, But Doubts Remain Over the EPO's Appeal Boards' Ability to Rule Independently Against Patents on Nature and Code
• Why the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO) Cannot Ignore Judges, Whereas the EPO Can (and Does)
• The European Patent Office Needs to Put Lives Before Profits
• “Criminal Organisation”
• Team UPC (Unitary Patent) is a Headless Chicken
• António Campinos Makes Up Claims About Patent Quality, Only to be Rebutted by Examiners, Union (Anyone But the 'Puff Pieces' Industry)
• CEN and CENELEC Agreement With the EPO Shows That It's Definitely the European Commission's 'Department'
• Decisions Made Inside the European Patent Organisation (EPO) Lack Credibility Because Examiners and Judges Lack Independence
• Team UPC Buries Its Credibility Deeper in the Grave
• The EPO Has Sadly Taken a Side and It's the Patent Trolls' Side
• To Team UPC the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Has Become a Joke and the European Patent Office (EPO) Never Mentions It Anymore
• Stopping António Campinos and His Software Patents Agenda (Not Legal in Europe) Would Require Independent Courts
• The EPO and the USPTO Are Granting Fake Patents on Software, Knowing That Courts Would Reject These
• EPO 'Results' Are, As Usual, Not Measured Correctly
• Good News Everyone! UPC Ready to Go... in 2015!
• EPO's Latest 'Results' Show That António Campinos Has Already Given Up on Patent Quality and is Just Another Battistelli
• EPO Examiner: “I Have Been Against Software Patents and Eventually 3/4 of My Job is Examining Software Patent Applications.”
• Europe Will Pay a High Price for Software Patents Advocacy by António Campinos in Europe's Patent-Granting Authority
• António Campinos — Like His Father — Lacks Support From Colleagues, Endorsed Only From the Top
• From Patents on Chewing Gum to Toothpaste Patents: How the EPO Came to Focus on Speed and Volume, Not Quality
• European Patent Office Press Releases (Two in Two Days) Are Disguised as 'News' and Tell the Opposite of the Truth
• António Campinos Will Not Tackle Any of the Lingering Issues at the European Patent Office
• Immunity Stripped by the Supreme Court of the United States, Opening the Possibility of Ending Immunity of the EPO As Well
• The Tide Has Turned Against Patents on Life in Europe
• Patent Law Firms Are Truly (and Visibly) Panicking Over the Demise of Software Patents
• 3,000 Posts About the European Patent Office and Why We'll Maintain Our Focus on It
• Fraud at the European Patent Office, But All Those Arrested Are Perpetrators Without Misused Immunity
• Power and Corruption: How European Patent Office Nepotism and Despotism Open Doors
• Quality Issues at the European Patent Office Can Lead It Down the Same Downward Path as the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
• Truly and Completely Out of Control, the Unhinged European Patent Office Calls Applicants “Customers” While Offering Patents on Nature, Life, Maths
• The EPO Technical/Enlarged Board of Appeal Would, Potentially (If It Enjoyed Actual Independence), Serve a 'European Alice' and Eliminate All/Most Software Patents in Europe
• Battistelli's Presidency Was a Write-off Presidency (of Potentially Billions of Euros in Losses)
• The Technical Board of Appeal Will Need True Independence to Squash Software Patents at the EPO (T 0489/14)
• Unitary Patent (UPC/A) Constitutional Complaint Can be Decided in a Matter of Years (If Ever)
• European Patent Office Careers Bad for One's Health, Properly Assessing Patents is 'Professional Incompetence' Now
• EPO Staff Union: 'New' Team Campinos Practice “Reminds Us Strongly of the Battistelli Times.”
• The Collapse of Poor-Quality European Patents Continues in European Courts
• Lesson From the United States: Overly Permissive Patent Policy (Maximalism) Can Drive Technology Companies Away
• T 0489/14: Will the European Patent Organisation Put an End to Software Patents at Long Last?

February

• The Latest Brexit Developments Add Another Nail (Among Many) to the Unified Patent Court's (UPC) Coffin
• Teff Just One Among Countless Examples of Sheer Disregard for Patent Quality
• English Translation: Alexandre Benalla Thinks He Can Carry a Weapon in Germany
• English Translation: Alexandre Benalla on His Work Experience (or Lack Thereof)
• English Translation: Alexandre Benalla Cannot Tell the Difference Between EPO and the French Republic (or Battistelli and Macron)
• English Translation: I Have Huge Respect for Battistelli, Said Alexandre Benalla Under Pressure
• Croatian Media on Fake Diplomas and the EPO Connection
• There is Still a Patent Quality Crisis at the EPO
• Ben and Ben: Benalla and His Enabler, Beny Battistelli
• Alexandre Benalla's Time at the EPO, in His Own Words
• Video: Alexandre Benalla Explains His Activities Within the European Patent Office
• Bruno Retailleau on Alexandre Benalla's Perjury
• Video: Alexandre Benalla on Carrying Weapons in Munich's EPO Premises (Strictly Illegal in Germany)
• Bristows is Still Hoping to 'Overthrow' the Courts and Throw Out Ingve Stjerna's Complaint (About the Likes of Bristows)
• Video: Alexandre Benalla Speaks About His Relationship With Battistelli
• Hallmark of Corruption: Benalla and Fellow Thugs Paid Roughly the Same Salary as Battistelli (Each!) and There's a New Chinese Contract Worth €7.2 Million
• EPO Insider Video: Nouvel an Architectural Hazard, Not Just a Fire Hazard
• The European Patent Office Goes Down a Very Slippery Slope by Promoting and Defending Patents on Life/Nature in Defiance of Parliament and the EPC
• Software Patents Are in a Freefall in Courts Worldwide, But the EPO Keeps Granting and Promoting These
• Team UPC Excited Over Nothing, President Campinos Rarely Even Mentions UPC Anymore
• Battistelli's Bodyguard Has Been Arrested, But Battistelli Should Join Him
• How Long Can the EPO Bend the Rules Before the Avalanche of Invalid Software Patents?
• Battistelli Trashed 223 Millions (of Stakeholders' Euros) on a System That Destroyed the European Patent Office and Made Few Private Corporations a Lot Richer
• What Happened in the United States Now Happens in Europe: Lots of Patents Turn Out to Be Bunk, Fake, Bogus, Invalid and Thus Worthless
• Stephen Rowan's and Nellie Simon's Letter to EPO Staff: eDossier Has “Not Reached the Required Quality Levels.”
• Search Matters Not at the European Patent Office
• António Campinos Still Needs to Undo Battistelli's Union-Busting Activities at the EPO
• António Campinos Still Needs to Hold Team Battistelli Accountable for Illegally Bringing Weapons to the EPO
• How Many/Most EPO Examiners View 'President' António Campinos
• Courts in Disagreement: Warning on Wrongly-Granted European Patents and the Looming Collapse of All Software Patents in Europe
• EPO Grants Fake European Patents — Including Software Patents — and European Courts Keep Rejecting These
• Nobody But Patent Trolls and Litigators Will Benefit From the Corruption of the European Patent Office
• Outline/Index of the Alexandre Benalla/Battistelli Scandal
• “EPO Lawlessness Again”
• Unitary Patent (UPC) is All About Imposing Patent Maximalists' Ideology of Greed and Self Interest on Courts in the Name of 'Unification' or 'Consistency' or 'Community'
• Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part V: Mediapart Explains the 'Raid' Attempt, Reporters Without Borders Involved
• Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part IV: Suspected Offenses of Forgery and Possible Falsification
• Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part III: Mars, France Close Protection (Benalla's Family), and Russian Oligarchy
• Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part II: Fishing Expedition for Sources in the Alexandre Benalla 'Underworld' Scandal
• Innovating the Idea That Software Patents (Monopolies on Algorithms) Are Covering 'Artificial' 'Intelligence' (AI and ML as Loopholes)
• Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part I: Destruction of Evidence by Alexandre Benalla
• Gross Violations of the EPC at the European Patent Office as Principal Priority Turns Against Science and Technology
• European Patent Office’s Exploitation of the ‘AI’ Catchphrase/Buzzword to Grant Patents on Algorithms in Defiance of the Rules, the Law, and Common Sense
• Corrupt Battistelli Paid a Fortune (EPO Budget) for Outlaw/Rogue 'Bodyguards' From Firm Linked to Russian Oligarch Iskander Makhmudov
• António Campinos Will Never Hold Battistelli Accountable for His Crimes Because He Too Profits From These
• EPO President Campinos Works With Patent Trolls and With Team UPC to Promote Software Patents
• Teff is Not an Invention. Teff is Nature.
• UPC Part of the Litigation 'Industry' Lobby and the Efforts to Change (Significantly Lower) Patent Quality Bar/Scope
• The Attack on the Independence of the European Judges Has Apparently Expanded to the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht)
• EPO Boards of Appeal Still Need Independence
• Bogus European Patents Kill Cancer Patients, But EPO Still Has the Audacity to Ride the Wave of World Cancer Day
• Concerns About Stephan Harbarth's Unitary Patent (UPC) Vested Interests and His Entrance Into the Constitutional Court That Decides on UPC
• The European Patent Office's Promotion of Software Patents Overlooks Ongoing 'Spillage' of the Patent Crisis to Patent Courts (Rejecting Such Patents)
• The Reputation of the EPO is Ruined But Now It Ruins the Lives of Staff and Europeans

January

• Fake Software Patents, Patent Trolls and Assault on Generic Medicine in Europe
• President Campinos Maintains Battistelli's Abusive Sanctions, EPO Staff Increasingly Losing Faith and Hope in Him
• People Are Dying Because of Low Quality of (Wrongly-Granted) European Patents
• The EPO Continues to Grant Software Patents Even Though Many European Patents Are Being Invalidated Already
• "HE DID NOTHING Since He Arrived, Full Stop." What EPO People Make of President Campinos...
• The Management of the EPO Will Not Manage to Recruit Any Talent If It's Killing Its Own Staff
• Compensation for Damages and Discrimination: The Case (One Among Several) Against EPO Vice-President Topić
• Another Call for EPO Leaks
• The USPTO Used to Pose a Threat to European Software Developers. Now It's the EPO Posing a Threat to Software Developers Worldwide.
• British Courts Once Again Reject Bogus European Patents Granted on Software
• European Patent Quality as Awful Under António Campinos as (If Not Worse Than) Benoît Battistelli and Battistelli Makes a Public Comeback
• Declining Patent Quality and Lies About Software Patents at the EPO
• Team UPC Has Been Reduced to a Self-Satirising Drama Show
• The Whitewashing of the EPO Under António Campinos
• Software Patents Are a Dying Breed, So Marks & Clerk and Other Legal Monoliths Promote the EPO's Buzzwords (Loopholes)
• A Fortnight After His Diplomatic Immunity Ends Outgoing EPO Vice-President Željko Topić is in Court in Zagreb, Croatia
• JUVE Creates English Site, Promotes Unified Patent Court (UPC)
• EPO Defying Patent Restrictions/Limits From the European Parliament, the European Commission and the European Countries It Claims to Represent
• The UPC is Dead. But Bristows is Now Fully Engaged in Necrophilia.
• Brexit Has Failed, But So Has the Unitary Patent (UPC)
• IBM, Which Will Soon be Buying Red Hat, is Promoting Software Patents in Europe
• Team UPC on Dead UPC: Choosing Gowns for Corpses
• Council of Europe (CoE) Recognises There's No Justice at the EPO
• European Patent Office a Textbook Example of Lawless, Rogue Institutions
• IP Kat Has Turned From EPO Critic (to the Point of Being Blocked by the EPO) to EPO Whitewasher That Gags EPO Whistleblowers
• The EPO's Low Patent Quality Can Kill the European Software Industry and Kill People Too
• The Fiction That Spain (or Italy) Can Salvage the UPC
• EPO President “Campinos is Wasting His Credibility With “Sweet” Communiqués Full of Hot Air and Storytelling”
• European Patent Office Saga in 2019: “95% of the People Responsible for the Misery Are Still in Place and Have Not Even Been Rebuked”
• EPO Corruption is Helping Patent Maximalists in the United States
• EPO Leaks
• The German Constitutional Court's Decision on Unitary Patent (UPC) is Very, Very Far
• The EPO is So Backwards That the Boss Has Just Become Subservient to the Subject of Oversight
• The Real Harm of Really Bad European Patent Grants