Software Patents in Europe

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Several large companies that include Microsoft, IBM, Philips and Nokia have been lobbying the European Parliament and the EPO for software patents in Europe. This poses a threat to Free/libre software and we've covered this in the posts beneath.

Contents 1 2022 2 2021 3 2020 4 2019 5 2018 6 2017 7 2016 8 2015 9 2014 10 2013 11 2012 12 2011 13 2010 14 2009 15 2008 16 2007

2022

• Klaus Grabinski Expressing Support for Software Patents in Violation of the European Patent Convention (and Common Sense)
• Software Patents in the EPO Are Still Illegal, But Criminals in Charge of the EPO Still Try to Stage a Coup Against the Law
• Meme: António Campinos Loves Kangaroo Court for Software Patents
• The European Commission's Policy-Making on Software Patents Inside Standards
• Let's Put an End to Software Patents by Contacting Our Representatives (Politicians)
• When Europe's Largest Patent Office is Governed by Lawyers, Bankers, and Career-Climbing Opportunists Who Violate the European Patent Convention (EPC) for Them
• The EPO Bubble — Part XII — The Shape of Things to Come?
• The EPO's Misguided and Misleading Approach to Software Patenting, Disguised Using Disingenuous Newspeak and Buzzwords
• The EPO Bubble — Part XI — The Viennese ICT Patent Orchestrator
• Teaser The Food Expert Who Got an ‘Appetite’ for Software Patents
• EPO's Georg Weber Increasing Grant Rates Close to 100% in Software Patents (for Supposed 'Success')
• What the Latest EPO Leaks Teach Us About the Management's Plans for Software Patents in Europe
• Meme: “So I Wrote an Algorithm”
• The EPO Bubble — Part X — A Leaked E-mail Provides Some Clues...
• Meme: Software Patents by Any Other Name (or Buzzword)
• The EPO Bubble — Part V — Propping Up the Bubble?
• Bastian Best is Still Wrong and Dishonest About Software Patents
• European Software Patents Cannot Withstand Scrutiny, EPO Management Wants Kangaroo Courts (UPC) to Change That
• EPO Celebrates Software Patents Again, Dubbing Them 'Hey Hi' (AI) and '4IR'
• António Campinos Promotes Software Patents Using Buzzwords and Sketchy Loopholes With Dubious Legal Basis
• Meme: Jorgotta Be Kidding Us, Campinos!
• EPO.org Now Openly Brags About Making Illegal Patents a Welcomed Part of the Examination Guidelines
• When Most Granted Patents (and Fake ‘Growth’) Are Just Software Patents and EPO ‘Joins the Club’
• The EPO is Granting Loads of Software Patents in Order to Fake 'Growth'

2021

• Power Without Countervailing Power in Patent Law
• Süddeutsche Zeitung Became a Propaganda Arm of EPO Management (and by Extension Software Patents/Patent Lobbyists)
• Meme: 'Open Source' Study/Report From the European Commission Promotes Software Patents in Europe
• 5 Years Ago: Benjamin Henrion (FFII) Explains the Connection Between Software Patents and UPC
• About Half of the Supposed ‘Growth’ in Patents is Abstract Stuff or ‘Software-Related’ (Patents That Courts Would Quite Likely Reject)
• Patenting Software and Patenting Music
• Richard Stallman Explains Why He Protests and Condemns the EPO (for Promoting Software Patents in Other Continents, Too)
• Meme: Patents on ‘Magic’
• EPO Bribing Scholars to Justify Software Patents, Then Using Narrow Surveys to Justify Unlawful Guidelines for Examiners (e.g. Software Patents as ‘Hey Hi’)
• Philippe Aigrain, Who Fought Against Software Patents, Died This Past Weekend
• EPO Would Never Have Posted This
• Heli Pihlajamaa Promoting Software Patents to Patent Maximalists
• Virtual Injustice — Part 8: A Well-Connected ‘IP’ Maximalist
• Say Hey Hi to Inventions and Patents
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 13: Internal Members: Gunnar Eliasson and Andrea Ritzka
• Richard Stallman on How UPC is a Trojan Horse for Software Patents in Europe
• EPO President António Campinos Promoting Microsoft Proprietary Software (Monopoly) and Software Patents
• Hey, Hi, Welcome to the EPO
• The EPO is Drunk and Should Go Home
• The ‘Hey Hi’ of António Campinos Will Survive This
• EPO Promoting Illegal Software Patents Under the Guise of NET/Hey Hi
• The German Constitutional Court Needs to Recognise That the EPO’s Tribunals Are Not Independent and EPC Has Not or Isn’t Being Honoured for Quite Some Time Now
• EPO Does the Unlawful While Leveraging Women’s Rights as an Opportunistic Form of Disguise
• The EPO's Software Blunders Are Inevitable Outcome of Technically Clueless Management Which Grants Illegal Patents on Software
• EPO President Pushes Illegal Software Patents in South America (Over the Telephone With a Misleading New Puff Piece)
• Hey Hi (AI) is Just a Trojan Horse for Illegal Software Patents, According to EPO Management and Litigation Firms It’s in Bed With

2020

• Microsoft Hosts a European Software Patents Propaganda Event (in ‘Hey Hi’ Clothing) Featuring Thierry Breton and Litigation Firms
• Meme: Software Patents in the Patents-as-Buzzwords Office
• The European Buzzwords Office
• Video: What the European Patent Office Means by AI and 4IR (a Plot to Advance Illegal Software Patents)
• The EPO is Promoting Software Patents This Week, Seeking to Impress the Administrative Council With Illegal Patents
• EPO Management Has No Plans Other Than Granting Loads of Invalid Patents (e.g. Software Patents) to Pocket Fees and Then Grift/Gamble With the Money
• Meme: Things Will Get Amusing When/If EPO Proceedings Are Cancelled Due to Patent Trolls Suing the Platforms Using Software Patents (Granted by the EPO)
• The EPO is Using Hype Wave and Buzzword to Promote Illegal Software Patents in a So-Called “Digital Conference”
• IAM Celebrating and Glorifying Illegal Patents With Fake 'Awards' and Bogus 'Endorsements'
• The EPO is Pushing Illegal Software Patents Together With WIPO
• Ongoing (Albeit Secret) Campaign of Patent Extortion Against GNU/Linux Distributions Using Software Patents, Even Expired Ones in Europe
• Meme: António the Computer Genius
• Managing 'Intellectual Property' (Managing 'IP') is Promoting Software Patents for a Fee
• Unified Patents Comes to Europe, Challenging Bogus Software Patents That EPO Should Never Have Granted
• The Enlarged Board of Appeal Cannot Independently Rule on the Matter of Software Patentability
• Marks & Clerk Reveals That António Campinos, With Zero Experience in Software, is Lobbying Judges (Who Are Supposed to be Independent But Are Actually Controlled by Him) to Open the Floodgates to Illegal Software Patents
• Using 'Hey Hi' (AI) and Mindless Buzzwords to Spread Confusion and Blur the Gap Between Computer-Generated Patents and Patents on Algorithms
• The EPO Continues to Publicly Brag About Granting Illegal Patents to Fake 'Production' (It's Not Really Production But Abuse of the Granting Authority)
• The Industrial Revolution 5.0 (or 6.0) - Symptom of Totally Incompetent Management at the European Patent Office
• It is Not Possible to Prevent Software Patent Grants in Europe as Long as the EPO is Profoundly Corrupt and the EU Looks the Other Way
• EFF Should Also Speak About the EPO Granting Software Patents Against the Law
• EPO: A Lawless Institution That Makes Its Staff Look Bad
• Greenwashing and Peace-washing Patents We Can Never Coexist With (and the Law Forbids Anyway)
• USPTO and EPO Openly Brag About Breaking the (Case)Law to Grant Software Patents That Courts Would Reject, Even the Very Highest Courts
• European Law Firms Are Marketing Illegal Software Patents Using Meaningless Buzzwords
• EPO Management is Trying to Violate the EPC and Justify Its Illegal Software Patent Grants During a Pandemic's Peak
• Technical Computer-Implemented Digital Videogame AI on the Blockchain
• Mask Against the European Patent Convention
• Almost a Month Later Lies Persist About the “Fate of the Unified Patent Court” and Software Patents It Was Supposed to Introduce/Cement
• The European Patent Office Admits That It's Faking Its 'Results' by Granting Loads of Illegal Software Patents
• Coronavirus Has Not Slowed Down the EPO's Promotion of Illegal Software Patents
• Software Patents Remain Junk Patents in the United States (Not Enforceable), Whereas the EPO Keeps Granting Them and Promoting Them
• Digitalisation and Digital Technologies as a Ploy to Justify Illegal Software Patents
• Digital Communication, Digitalisation and Videogaming Among the EPO's Latest Smokescreens for Illegal and Abstract Patents on Algorithms
• Emotional Blackmail for Illegal Software Patents
• Faking Production With Fake Patents on Software
• The Battle Against Software Patents Rages on
• The Next Task is Defeating European Software Patents Because the Media Certainly Isn't Doing Its Job
• The EU's EUIPO Will Later Today Help the EPO (Run by EUIPO's Former Chief) Promote Illegal Software Patents
• Patent Scavenging or Racing to the Bottom of Patent Quality
• EPO: Goodbye to the Rule of Law and Hey Hi, AI!
• Poor Excuses for Granting Poor (and Often Illegal/Invalid) Patents
• European Patent Office (EPO) Granting Patents on Surveillance Software
• We Will Never Have a Meaningful Debate About Patents When the Media Calls Algorithms “AI” and the EPO is Called “EU Patent Office”

2019

• 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
• The EPO Likes “Hey Hi” (AI) Only When It Lets Actual Humans Fake 'Production'
• Only the EPO Goes as Far as Bribing Publishers (the Media) to Promote Software Patents and Publish Fictional Stories
• EPO Promoting Software Patents in Countries Where These Are Illegal
• Demonstration Against Unitary Software Patents, Thursday 12 Dec in Brussels
• Fake European Patents (on Algorithms) Leading to Fake Embargoes
• 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
• Global Patent Warming
• 'Artificial Intelligence' (AI) Will Only Doom Patent Offices If It's Used to Stamp Millions of Invalid Patents (IPs)
• The EPO Instructs European Examiners to Grant Junk Patents on Algorithms (Maths and Stats)
• António Campinos and Comrade Iancu (US) Both Push Software Patents Into Europe to the Detriment of Small Businesses and Developers
• 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
• An Illegal Practice: The EPO Continues to Grant Unlawful Patents and Then Brag About These
• G1/19: Enlarged Board of Appeal Bombarded by Monopolies, Law Firms and EPO President in Favour of Software Patenting
• EPO Boards of Appeal Need Courage and Structural Disruption to Halt Software Patents in Europe
• “The Stupidest Patent/Tax Policy Ever”
• Meme: Software Patents at the EPO
• Software Patents (or Monopolies on Algorithms) Are Not 'Property' and They're Not Even Legally Valid
• AI and Other Nonsensical Technobabble Exploited by EPO Management to Do Illegal Things
• EPO Makes Guidelines for Examination That Formally Allow Software Patents in Defiance of European Law
• EU Parliament Needs to Clarify Once Again That Software Patents Granted by the EPO Are Illegal and Void
• 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
• Fake Software Patents in Europe (Invalid Patents) Would Only Discourage or Drive Away the European Software Industry, But Lawyers Don't Care
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation Opposes Software Patents (in the US), So Why Does It Keep 100% Silent About Europe and the EPO?
• Some Patent Attorneys Dislike Techrights Not Because It's Wrong But Because Software Patents Are Wrong (and Sometimes Illegal)
• Patent Trolls' Paradise: The EPO is a Rubber-Stamping Machine, So Why Not Automatically Generate Patent Applications?
• The American Patent Microcosm Models Its Lobbying for Software Patents Based on the EPO's Ongoing Violations of the EPC
• EPO Continues to Grant Hundreds of Thousands of Illegal Software Patents and the Media Doesn't Care
• EPO Gradually Becoming the World's Most Permissive (Low Patent Quality) Patent Office by Consciously Violating the EPC
• EPO-Bribed Media Speaks to Team UPC, Produces UPC Puff Pieces With Plenty of Falsehoods and (Forbidden) Software Patents Advocacy
• IBM Happy That Patent Quality at EPO Collapsed and It's Easy to Get Software Patents
• American Front Group Open Invention Network (Riding the Linux Brand) is a Proponent of Software Patents in Europe
• Say 'Hey Hi' to Software Patents
• Patent Professionals in Europe Have Devolved Into a Marketing Industry
• 'AI Taskforce' is Actually a Taskforce for Software Patents
• António Campinos — Unlike His Father — Engages in Imperialism (Using Invalid Patents)
• Patent Quality Continues to Slip in Europe and We Know Who Will Profit From That (and Distract From It)
• Lawlessness at the EPO Means That Software Patents Are Still Being Granted and EPO Judges Have Their Hands Tied
• The European Patent Office is a Global Threat, Not Just a Threat to Europe
• An Office of Patent Extremists
• The War on Patent Quality
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The Quality of Patents is Connected to the Quality of Life of Patent Examiners
• German Federal Patent Court Curbs the Patent Maximalism of the EPO, Which Promotes Patents on Nature and/or Maths Every Single Day]
• 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 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
• 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
• EPO Still Wasting Budget, Paying Media and Academics for Spin
• Who Does the Legal System Really Serve or Favour in European Patent Disputes?
• Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) — Like MedTech at the EPO — Just Another Dodge for Illegitimate Software Patents
• The EPO Continues Granting Bogus Patents on Mathematics and Nature, But There's Hope Over the Horizon
• Artificially-Intelligent Blockchained Internet of Things Industrial Revolutionary CII or Software Patents by Any Other Name
• The EPO is Still a Software Patents Propaganda Machine and Thus an Enemy of Software Developers in 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
• 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 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
• Patent Law Firms Are Truly (and Visibly) Panicking Over the Demise of Software Patents
• 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
• The Technical Board of Appeal Will Need True Independence to Squash Software Patents at the EPO (T 0489/14)
• T 0489/14: Will the European Patent Organisation Put an End to Software Patents at Long Last?
• Software Patents Are in a Freefall in Courts Worldwide, But the EPO Keeps Granting and Promoting These
• How Long Can the EPO Bend the Rules Before the Avalanche of Invalid Software Patents?
• What Happened in the United States Now Happens in Europe: Lots of Patents Turn Out to Be Bunk, Fake, Bogus, Invalid and Thus Worthless
• 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
• “EPO Lawlessness Again”
• Innovating the Idea That Software Patents (Monopolies on Algorithms) Are Covering 'Artificial' 'Intelligence' (AI and ML as Loopholes)
• 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
• EPO President Campinos Works With Patent Trolls and With Team UPC to Promote Software Patents
• The European Patent Office's Promotion of Software Patents Overlooks Ongoing 'Spillage' of the Patent Crisis to Patent Courts (Rejecting Such Patents)
• Fake Software Patents, Patent Trolls and Assault on Generic Medicine in Europe
• The EPO Continues to Grant Software Patents Even Though Many European Patents Are Being Invalidated Already
• 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
• Declining Patent Quality and Lies About Software Patents at the EPO
• Software Patents Are a Dying Breed, So Marks & Clerk and Other Legal Monoliths Promote the EPO's Buzzwords (Loopholes)
• EPO Defying Patent Restrictions/Limits From the European Parliament, the European Commission and the European Countries It Claims to Represent
• IBM, Which Will Soon be Buying Red Hat, is Promoting Software Patents in Europe
• The EPO's Low Patent Quality Can Kill the European Software Industry and Kill People Too

2018

• The Quality of European Patents Likely Declined Even Further in 2018
• UPC Died in 2016 or 2017; But the EPO Continues to Issue Fake Software Patents That European Courts Reject
• EPO Chief Economist Yann Ménière Keynote Speaker at Patent Trolls-Funded Event Set Up by the Patent Trolls' Lobby
• Patents on Abstract Things and on Life (or Patents Which Threaten Lives) Merely Threaten the Very Legitimacy of Patent Offices, Including EPO
• The Quality of European Patents Continues to Deteriorate Under António Campinos and Software Patents Are Advocated Every Day
• EPO, in Its Patent Trolls-Infested Forum, Admits It is Granting Bogus Software Patents Under the Guise of 'Blockchain'
• EPO Management High-Fiving Patent Propaganda Sites Like 'Managing IP' While Granting Illegitimate Patents on Algorithms
• António Campinos is Working for Patent Trolls at the Expense of Science and Technology
• Clouding Abstract Software Patents Using Acronyms and Buzzwords
• The Demise of Software Patents in Patent Courts Worldwide Would Mean Much-Needed Staff Cuts in Litigation Giants
• Thanksgiving EPO Roundup: UPC Lies, Software Patents Considered Harmful and SUEPO Condemns Union-Busting Activities (Which Carry on Under António Campinos)
• To Mask the Decline in Patent Quality, e.g. Granting of Software Patents a.k.a. Computer-Implemented Inventions (CII), EPO Makes Oppositions Harder
• Patent Trolls in EPO Events That Promote Software Patents
• The European Patent Office is Attracting Patent Trolls
• The European Patent Office Comes up With a Plethora of New Buzzwords by Which to Refer to Software Patents
• Second Day of EPOPIC: Yet More Promotion of Software Patents in Europe in Defiance of Courts, EPC, Parliament and Common Sense
• Yannis Skulikaris Promotes Software Patents at EPOPIC, Defending the Questionable Practice Under António Campinos
• Pro-Litigation Front Groups Like CIPA and Team UPC Control the EPO, Which Shamelessly Grants Software Patents
• Latest Loophole: To Get Software Patents From the EPO One Can Just Claim That They're 'on a Car'
• EPO Stacking up Buzzwords (4IR, AI, Now SDV) to Compel Examiners to Grant Patents on Algorithms
• European Software Patents: From AI to Blockchains and Now... Self-Driving Vehicles
• The European Patent Office Lost Its Way, Found Buzzwords Instead
• Blockchain Hype Exploited by the EPO and by Patent Law Firms to Wrongly Assert Free/Libre Software Can Coexist With Software Patents
• EPO Granting European Patents on Nature and on Thoughts
• Today the EPO Has Officially Lowered Patent Quality by Allowing Software Patents by Means of Dog Whistles
• EPO Insider: Under António Campinos “the Union Busting Done by the Administration Continues Even Worse Than Before” (and they are almost forced to grant software patents)
• The EPO Lost Any Sense of Shame About Granting Patents on Software, Which It Openly Welcomes and Even Encourages
• The EPO is Trying to Make Software Patents Look and Feel 'Healthy'
• EPO: Software Patents Are Allowed, Just Say 'AI' in the Patent Applications and We'll Compel Examiners to Grant
• Pretty Revealing That EPO Management Promotes Software Patents and IP Kat Promotes Patent Trolls
• The EPO Under António Campinos Has Opened More Doors to Software Patents and Only Litigators Are Happy
• EPO Under António Campinos Relaxes the Rules on Software Patenting and the Litigation 'Industry' Loves That
• Quality of Patents Granted by the EPO is Still Low and Nobody Will Benefit Except Lawyers, Jubilant Over Growing Lenience on Software Patents
• New EPO Guidelines: Granting European Patents on Business Methods, Algorithms, Mental Acts and Other Abstract Stuff
• António Campinos Makes Excuses for Granting European Patents on Software in Spite of the EPC
• When It Comes to Patent Quality António Campinos Might be Even Worse Than Benoît Battistelli
• Europe is Getting Flooded With Software Patents, Repeating the Mistakes Made by the United States
• More Patents Would Mean More Tax Evasion for Large Corporations and More Taxes/Duties on Society
• EPO Under António Campinos an Unprecedented Booster of Software Patents
• António Campinos Goes to UPC-Hostile Country, UPC Continues to Languish and Team UPC Carries on Pushing for Software Patents in Europe (Courts Also)
• Patentability of Software Constantly Pushed by the EPO Under António Campinos With Help From IAM, CIPA, IPO and Other Litigation Front Groups
• 35 U.S.C. § 101 Squashes Already-Granted US Patents, Europe Needs Post-Grant Appeals to Accomplish the Same Because EPO Grants Software Patents
• CIPA and EPO, Two UPC Boosters, Get Together to Promote Software Patents in Spite of the EPC
• The António Campinos-Led EPO is Over-Relying on Bogus and Abstract Software Patents to Fill the Gaps
• Racing to the Bottom, the António Campinos-Led EPO Continues to Promote Software Patents, Just Like China
• The EPO (European Patent Office) Under António Campinos is Just Another Battistelli EPO; Still UPC and Software Patents Lobbying
• Software Patents Royalty (Tax) Campaign by IBM, a Serial Patent Bully, and the EPO's Participation in All This
• The Lack of Genuine, Honest Discussion About Patent Quality Means That Under António Campinos Software Patents Will Continue to be Granted, Campinos Strives to Make Them 'Unitary'
• Nearly Half of Patent Applications at the EPO Are (at Least Partly) Software Patents, According to the EPO, and Not Many Patents Are European (Foreign, Not Domestic)
• The 'Artificial Intelligence' (AI) Hype, Propped Up by Events of the European Patent Office (EPO), is Infectious and It Threatens Patent Quality Worldwide
• IAM Concludes Its Latest Anti-§ 101 Think Tank, Featuring Crooked Benoît Battistelli
• Buzzwords and Three-Letter Acronyms Still Abused by the EPO to Grant a Lot of Patents on Algorithms
• Corrupt Benoît Battistelli Promotes Software Patents in IAM's Patent Trolls-Funded Event in the United States
• The EPO’s ‘Expert’ Georg Weber is Still Advocating Software Patents in Europe (But He Disguises Them Using Buzzwords)
• The EPO is Demolishing European Law With Terms Like ICT, CII, AI, and 4IR
• Software Patents Advocacy and UPC Lies Go Hand in Hand
• EPO Has Become Overzealous About Software Patents, Probably More So Than Almost Anywhere Else
• EPO-Funded Propaganda for Software Patents Reaches as Far as East Asia and the EPO Then Brags About That
• The EPO Grants Software Patents Under the 'CII' Umbrella, Mass Litigation in Europe Already a Problem
• Short: EPO Says That Most (Over 50%) of Patent Applications at the EPO Are Software Patents
• Battistelli's EPO Continues to Promote Software Patents and Even Pays the Media to Play Along, Impacting Other Continents
• Today's EPO is Not Compatible With the Law and It's Grossly Incompatible With Truth and Justice
• Short: EPO Explains to Examiners Why They Should and Apparently Can Grant Software Patents (in Spite of EPC)
• The EPO Continues to Lie About Patent Quality Whilst Openly Promoting Software Patents, Even Outside Europe
• Deleted EPO Tweets and Promotion of Software Patents Amid Complaints About Abuse and Demise of Patent Quality
• The EPO's Paid Promotion of Software Patents Gets Patent Maximalists All Excited and Emboldened
• Watch Out for Buzzwords That Are Used to Mask Patents on Software, Even in Europe
• Battistelli Works With IAM and Pays European Media to Promote Software Patents in Europe
• India and Europe Do Not Permit Software Patents, But Patent Law Firms Try to Work Around the Law
• The EPO Ignores This Week's Decision Which Demonstrates Patent Scope Gone Awry; Software Patents Brought Up Again
• Automotives, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 Among the Buzz Terms Used to Bypass Alice and the EPC Nowadays

2017

• Battistelli Feels as Though He's Above the Law, So No Wonder He Pursues Software Patents in Europe (Against the Rules)
• The EPO Has Found 'Creative' New Ways to Bribe the Media and Promote Software Patents
• Buzzwords/Terms Like “Industry 4.0” or ICT as Cover for CII (Software Patents) at the EPO
• EPO Continues to Disobey the Law on Software Patents in Europe
• Expect an Avalanche of Bad Patents (Including Software Patents) From the EPO to Become Invalid, Shaving Off a Lot of Imaginary Value
• The European Commission Has Essentially Invalided Many European Patents (EPs) for Being Out of Scope; Are Software Patents (CII) Next?
• 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
• Today, Koen Lievens From EPO is Promoting Pursuits of Software Patents in Defiance of the European Rules
• The Collapse of Patent Quality at the EPO is Inviting to Europe Some of the World's Worst Patent Trolls
• When It Comes to Software Patents, the EPO Has Become Among the Worst in the World
• Software Patents and the Unified Patent Court (Talk From Friday)
• European Commission Betrays the Public by Promoting Software Patents
• Software Patents in Europe Are Still Promoted by the EPO, Even in Defiance of the Ban
• Techrights Was Right About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
• EPO’s Georg Weber Continues Horrifying Trend of EPO Promoting Software Patents in Defiance of Directive, EPC, and Common Sense
• “EPO Continues to Grant Software Patents”
• Someone Needs to Explain/Remind EPO Management That Software Patents Are Not (Supposed to Be) Valid in Europe

2016

• At EPOPIC Today, As Expected, Software Patents Courtesy of EPO
• The EPO's Continued Push for Software Patents, Marginalisation of Appeals (Reassessment), and Deviation From the EPC
• Personal Audio LLC and Patent Troll Jim Logan Demonstrate the Harms of Software Patents and Why They Must Never Spread to Europe
• Software Patents Still a Problem in Europe (in Spite of the European Patent Convention), the UPC Would Make Things Worse
• Software Patents in Europe and the UPC Already a Problem
• UPC Would Bring Software Patents to Europe and Open the Floodgates to Litigation
• Benjamin Henrion's (FFII) FOSDEM Talk About UPC and Software Patents in Europe
• Microsoft-Connected FRAND Lobbying (Software Patents Against Free/Open Source Software) in Brussels
• Company Known as European Patent Office Provides Tips on How to Patent Software in Europe
• Slides of New Talk Which Explains the Connection Between the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Software Patents
• Richard Stallman: European Software Patents Are Back With the Unitary Patent Court (UPC)
• Germany Needs to Respect the European Patent Convention and Stop Issuing Software Patents, Also Reject UPC

2015

• Today's Chaos Computer Club (CCC) Talk: EU Software and Business Method Patents: Call for Action
• Patent Lawyers Want to Bring Software Patents (Hence Patent Trolls Too) to Europe, Piggyback Battistelli’s Habitual UPC Promotion
• So-Called ‘Trade’ Treaties Like TPP and TTIP Threaten to Legalise Software Patents in Europe and Even Effectively Ban Software Freedom/Copyleft
• CopyCamp '15 in Warsaw Discussed the Problem of Patents on Software, Which Still Exist in Europe
• EPO Management Lobbies for the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Uses This to Advance Software Patents in Europe
• European Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda Says TPP Will Bring Software Patents to Europe and Other Continents/Countries
• Patent Practitioners: "The Unitary Patent Might be Able to Open the Floodgates for Software Patents in Europe"
• Better Watch Out or the United States Will Export Software Patents to Europe, Along With Patent Trolls
• European Unitary Patent and Court System in Trouble

2014

• EPO and UPC in Europe Now the Hope of Patent Maximalists, China Too is Assimilating
• Another Depressing Look at the Patent Systems in the US and in Europe
• Arguments Persist Over Whether Software Patents Died in the US Whilst European Patent Law is Quietly Assimilated to US
• Software Patents Are Still a Threat to Europe Due to ‘Unitary’ Patent

2013

• European Commission Takes Next Step Towards Legalising Software Patents in Europe
• US Patent System Utterly Broken and Threatens Expansion to Europe
• The Patent Lawyers in the EU and NZ Must Not Decide on Patent Policy Including Software Patents
• As the Battle to Legitimise Software Patents in New Zealand and Europe Carries on, New Systemic Corruption Found
• Software Patenting Under Attack in Germany
• The European Patent Office is Breaking the Law Regarding Software Patents, German Parliament Finally Complains
• With Unitary Patent Scheme, EPO Pushes Hard for Software Patenting (More Leech Income)

2012

• The Aftermath of ‘Unitary’ Patent
• ‘Unitary Patent’ Helps Microsoft Extend Linux/Android Patent Extortion to Europe
• Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Glyn Moody, April, FSFE and Many Others Oppose Unitary Patent (Vote is Today)
• Stop Software Patents in Europe, Polish Government May Already Repeat Its Anti-ACTA Action
• French National Assembly Views Unitary Patent as Illegal
• December 11th an Opportunity for Politicians to Legitimise Software Patents in Europe
• Attempts to Make Unitary Patent Mess Before Xmas
• European Free Software Activists Fight Against Software Patents Loopholes: Unitary Patent and FRAND
• Software Patents Through ‘Union’ in Europe
• Europe to Push for Unitary Patent (Software Patents Loophole) at 7 PM CET Tonight
• Betrayals in Europe Over Software Patents
• Contact European Parliament Members Today to Stop Software Patents
• Europe and New Zealand Share a Software Patents Problem As Such
• Contacting Politicians to Stop Software Patents in Europe
• Call for Action Against Software Patents in Europe
• Fighting the Unitary Patent Like We Fought ACTA in Europe
• European Council Slows Down Software Patents
• Germany Against Software Patents
• Europe’s Unitary Patent Siege
• EU Unitary Patent: Status Update

2011

• Software Patents: How Europe Lost Its Sovereignty
• European Commission Betrays the European Public With Stance on OOXML and Unitary Patent
• EPO and Other Lawyers-dominated Circles Push for Software Patenting
• Patent Lawyers Push for Software Patents, Poorly
• Commissioner Barnier: Enemy of European Development
• Unitary Patent is Not a Done Deal
• Software Patents in the EU Become a Central Concern Again
• Software Patents Come to Europe Through the Back Door
• New Reports Antagonise Patents Madness in Europe
• ‘Pulling an ACTA’ to Legalise Software Patents in Europe
• Lehne and the Polish Presidency Continue to March for Software Patents in Europe
• Microsoft Pushing Hard for Software Patents in Europe While Halliburton Makes British/European Patent Lawyers Happy
• Halliburton in a War With European Patent Law
• EU Patent Failing to Materialise, But EPO and Politicians Begin to Overstep Their Line of Authority to Intervene
• Polish EU Presidency Helps Global Patent Regime
• Europe Patent Law Under Pressure, APRIL Gets Increasingly Involved
• Techrights Commends Spain and Italy for Keeping Software Patents Out of Europe
• Internal Market Commissioner Michel Barnier and Polish Presidency Named and Shamed for Patent Policy
• Microsoft Lobbyists Still Push for Software Patents in Europe
• FFII Warns About Latest Patent Threats in Europe
• France and the United Kingdom Want to Drown in Software Patents Sea of Risk
• Europe’s Software Patents Problem Summarised
• Europe Has Judges Weigh in on Software Patents
• Europe’s Peanut Gallery Wants Software Patents
• Breaking European Patent Law With the Benelux Court Hack
• Klaus-Heiner Lehne Blasted for Conflict of Interest, Florian Müller Shares His Interests
• Elop-led Nokia and Bill Gates Lobby Europe Amid New Push Ushering in Software Patents
• The FFII Undresses the European Union
• The FFII Reports Bad Faith at the European Patent Office
• ”In Europe Microsoft Have Been Putting Significant Resources in Backing The Setting Up Of the European Patent Office“
• Triumph Against Software Patents in Europe as EU Treaty Brought Up
• Spain is Still Against the EU Patent
• European Court of Justice Can Defend European Software Companies From Patents
• Europe Enters the Patents Cold War
• April/End Software Patents/FFII Ask European Parliament to Postpone Enhanced Cooperation on Unitary Patent After CJEU Opinion
• Patent Lobbying in Europe

2010

• McCreevy’s Successors Are Getting Their Way With Software Patents in Europe
• Using Financial Blackmail to Convince Spain to Allow Software Patents to Enter Europe
• Microsoft Lobbyists Are Still Duping EU Politicians for Software Patents to be Legalised
• New Push for Software Patents in Europe (Innovation Union) While UK’s Tim Berners-Lee Opposes (F)RAND
• EU Plan to Potentially Welcome Software Patents is Finally Defeated
• Michel Barnier Still Confused, Spreading Misconception About Patents and ”Competitiveness“
• Michel Barnier Still Has an Agenda Hostile Towards European Software Developers
• Microsoft’s Pressure for Software Patents in Europe Carries On
• European Patent Law is Being Abducted by Big Business and Patent Lawyers
• European Court of Justice Advocates General Says Pan-EU Patent Court Would Violate the Principles of EU Founding Treaties
• EU: Advocate General on Community Patent and Software Patents Still at Stake
• “EPO Still Operating in a Vacuum”
• UPLS is on the Rocks
• European Lesson About Novell’s Software Patents, Germany Seemingly Continues to Allow Software Patents
• Who to Blame for Germany’s Dangerous Decision Regarding Software Patents
• Siemens Betrays Germans by Legalising Software Patents in Europe
• FFII and End Software Patents (ESP) Respond to Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA) Regarding Software Patentability
• Patents Shred Europe’s Democracy to Pieces
• Canonical Needs to Tell Ubuntu Users How Much It Paid MPEG-LA for Patent ‘Protection’
• ‘IP’ People Want to Add Software Patents to New Zealand and Europe
• Why Klaus-Heiner Lehne Lobbies for Software Patents (Money of Course)
• USPTO Starts Rejecting Software Patents While Germany Mistakenly Overrides the Law and Approves Microsoft’s
• EU Patent System Overrides European Court of Justice
• Microsoft and Its Front Group, Association for Competitive Technology (ACT), Organise Software Patents Lobby Events in Europe
• Patents Roundup: America, Europe and Asia Share a Problem with Software Patents
• Patents Roundup: Escalations in Europe, SAP Pretense, CCIA Goes Wrong, and IETF Opens Up
• How Patent Trolls Harm Free Software and How the European Parliament Plans to Make the Trolls Even Stronger
• Microsoft Tries to Pollute Standards with Software Patents Where It is Illegal
• Patents Roundup: Neelie Kroes and Microsoft Patents Revisited, Steve Ballmer Lobbies Obama on Patents, Apple Wants Linux Phones Embargoed (Using Patents)
• Patents Roundup: Commission Sells Out to Microsoft; Apple and RIM Sued by Gates-backed Kodak
• “Kroes Was Quite Clueless About Software Patents and UPLS,” So the Commission Made a Microsoft Patent Deal Last Week
• OSS Watch Pretends That Microsoft’s Attacks on Free Software Do Not Exist

2009

• ‘Microsoft Press’ Acknowledges Microsoft’s Free Software-Hostile EU Deal
• European Commission Unable to Defend Free Software from Microsoft Patent Racket
• Patents Roundup: Nokia and Apple Cross Swords, British Patent System Becomes Form of Tax, Israel Besieged by Software Patents
• Microsoft Gets Its Way in the European Commission
• Patent Imperialism Threatens Europe
• McCreevy’s Suicidal Patent Battle to Harm Europe Glorified in Irish Press
• FFII: Swedish Presidency Tries to Sneak Software Patents Into Europe
• Tim Berners-Lee: “Software Patents Are a Terrible Thing”
• ACTA is on Europe’s Agenda (Next Monday) as Patent Devils Lurk
• Patent Tax and Microsoft Tax in Europe: An Update
• Patents Roundup: Threat of Software Patents in Mexico, Sweden; Microsoft Still Fights with (and for) Software Patents
• European Commission Keeps Getting Filled with Microsoft Cronies
• The ‘Microsoft of Europe’ Instructs Oracle on Free Software
• IBM and Open Forum Europe Address European Interoperability Framework (EIF) Fiasco
• European Interoperability Framework (EIF) Corrupted by Microsoft et al, Its Lobbyists
• Patents Roundup: Microsoft’s Software Patents Trick in the EU Revisited and Google Patents Spellchecker
• Parties Behind Complaints Against Microsoft in EU Not Pleased
• Glyn Moody on European Commission’s Inability to Defend Free Software in Face of Microsoft Lies
• Microsoft Wins Free Software-Hostile Deal in Europe, Its Front Group ACT Pleased
• FSFE Wants the European Commission to Stop Microsoft’s Racketeering
• Microsoft Spreads Intellectual Monopoly Law in Europe and Arab States; EFF Takes on Acacia
• European Commission Learns Whether Patents Harm Europe
• Likewise: Microsoft Embraces and Extends Samba with Software Patents?
• Microsoft Takes Software Patents Agenda Up a Notch
• Microsoft Still Lobbies for Software Patents in Europe, via ACT/Jonathan Zuck
• Why the United Patent Litigation System Could Bring Software Patents to Europe
• Formal Complaint Against European Commission for Harbouring Microsoft Lobbyists
• After 3 Months, Europe Lets Microsoft-Influenced EU Panel be Seen
• Details of Microsoft’s Lobbying in Europe
• Is the United Kingdom Immune to Software Patents? Continental Europe is… for Now… Sort of…
• 2 Months and No Disclosure from the European Parliament
• Knuth Tells Europe to Let Him “Innovate in Peace” (Without Software Patents)
• Software Patents Want to Enter Europe from the Back Door
• General Electric Joins Microsoft’s Fight Against Free Software
• Charles McCreevy is Still Advancing Software Patents in Europe
• Patents Roundup: Attack on Science, Lobby for Software Patents in EU and India, More Rebellion
• Microsoft Unleashes Its Paid Guns to Fight European Regulators
• Software Patents Roundup: Protests in the EU, OLPC Suffers, Microsoft Seeds More Patent FUD
• The Latest Patent Comedy from Europe
• Revolt Against Software Patents in Europe
• Patents Roundup: Microsoft Likes Patent Deform, OIN to Strike Back, EU Still Besieged for Software Patents
• The Question of Software Patents without Democracy
• Red Hat, Microsoft, EU Lobbyists, and Software Patents
• Does the European Commission Harbour a Destruction of Free/Open Source Software Workgroup?
• European Patent Office Continues March for Software Patents
• Is the EPO Selling Out to Microsoft?
• European Open Source Software Workgroup a Total Scam: Hijacked and Subverted by Microsoft et al
• Microsoft Uses Pressure Groups to Push Software Patents Into Europe
• Patents Roundup: Disintegration, EU in a Limbo, Applecrosoft Patents and Scientists’ Rebellion
• Patents Roundup: Acacia Extortion, European Lobby, and Failed Systems
• Patents Roundup: Software Patents vs. Microsoft, Novell (And Others)

2008

• Microsoft & Paid Lobbyists Attack Open Source in European Interoperability Framework
• Latest Update on Microsoft’s Plans with Software Patents
• European Patent Office: From Riot to Order?
• Microsoft Lobbyist Jonathan Zuck Infiltrates EU Summit on Intellectual Monopolies
• Failing SCO, Microsoft Eyes EU and Software Patents
• Symbian is Not About Freedom, It’s About DRM and Software Patents (Update)
• Novell’s Michael Meeks Gets Software Patent from the UK
• Patents Roundup: Microsoft, Nokia, and McCreevy for Software Patents
• Software Patents Riot Spreads to Four Continents
• The Software Patents Situation and How It Affects Free Software
• Microsoft Lobbyists Abound for Software Patents in Europe
• Microsoft Proxies and Software Patents in Europe
• EU Lobbyists Awaken, Patent Trolls Abound
• Microsoft Still Insists Free Software Tax in Europe
• IAM Denies Software Patents Knock on Europe’s Back Door
• Software Patents in Europe and Microsoft’s Huge Lobbying Budget as of Late
• Software Patents Roundup: EU’s Back Door; Microsoft Sued Again
• Latest Attempt to Expand Software Patents to Europe; Microsoft Shenanigan Revisited
• UK-IPO Approves Software Patent as Microsoft and its Lobbies Pressure for Software Patents in EU
• Clarification on MySQL and Software Patents
• Europe to Increase Use of Free Software, Lobbyists Try to Force Software Patents Onto Europe
• Richard Stallman Explains Software Patents (Video)
• Microsoft Lobbyists Are Again Hijacking Voices, Fighting for Software Patents
• Microsoft, Siemens and Phillips Named for Software Patents in Europe
• The State of Software Patents in the US, Resistance in Europe
• Lobbyists Among the Causes for Software Patents in Europe
• Trolltech + Nokia = Bad News
• America Invades Britain (with Software Patents)

2007

• The Absurdity of Software Patents Unseen in a Money-minded World
• Europe Says No to Software Patents (Videos)
• Is Sun Microsystems Against Software Patents?
• It’s Not Over in Europe; WIPO Wants Some More Open Source Whipping
• Europe, Intellectual Property, and Software Patent Stories
• Might Europe Reverse Accidental Discrimination Against Samba?
• The Agreement in Europe Could Drive Free Software Projects to Other Countries
• Articles About Microsoft Dropping a GPL/Samba Bomb on Europe
• Is Europe Being Assimilated to America, Patent-wise?
• The Free Software Community Warns the EU About the Microsoft Agreement
• The Fourth ‘Patent Deal’ was with Europe… and the Sixth Deal That Won’t be
• More on Why the Agreement in Europe Simply Sucks!
• A Victory in Europe for Microsoft’s Absurd Patents and So-called ‘Innovation’
• Videos: EFF’s Patent Busting Leader, Patents in Europe, and More Patent FUD
• No Software Patents in Europe (Bad Ideas Rejected Yet Again)
• The Xenix Patent Front and Software Patents in Europe

c/f Michel Barnier