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Coming Soon: EPO Trip in Spain

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 17, 2025

Insta-gram for EPO.

The circle of António Campinos is in trouble. António Campinos being 'Marcosed'. More readers are sending us information related to this.

Next, we shall visit Alicante and the EU agency, EUIPO. It turns out that there's a lot of "traffic" coming from the Alicante/EUIPO to the EPO and we must first deal with that crucial question. █

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