The EPO's War on Techrights Was a Massive Mistake
The EPO started the SLAPPs after we had published a few hundreds of articles; we've since then published close to 6,000 because the attacks on us emboldened insiders to help us
In relative terms, allocating 6-7 years to cover lawfare won't be a very long time. I've covered software patents for over 20 years and next year the EPO series turns 12, weighing at about 6,000 articles in total (some contain lengthy videos). The EPO's reputation is irrecoverable now; it cannot even attract examiners with whom to re-earn a good reputation. It's too late.
When Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos chose to attack us (verbally and with lawyers) they only emboldened us to: 1) fight back 2) call for whistleblowers, who came in large numbers.
Sometimes attacking something or someone viciously isn't a smart decision. When bullies picked on my wife she fought back [1, 2] - as other would later do too [1, 2, 3]. From desperation comes misconduct and it's a self-harming loop.
In the case of the EPO, every day this week we plan to publish something very detailed. We'll show what EPO management does not want the "outside world" to see, even if the EPO is meant to be serving Europe and should generally be transparent.
Those who refuse to be transparent because they have bad things to hide will typically have transparency imposed on them, belatedly. They won't be properly prepared for such transparency. And transparency typically breeds good practice. █