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G 1/21 is a Catastrophe for the EPO's Legitimacy

You don't need to kidnap judges if you control all the judges' boss



Summary: Team Campinos is sinking in a sea of scandals; it won't be long before the public finds out, even if much of the media is deeply compromised (on the receiving end of EPO threats and/or bribes)

THIS coming Friday G€ 1/21 will resume,unless further delays (or cancellations) are to be announced on the day or before that date.



Don't expect media to cover this. If any so-called 'IP' site covers G 1/21 next week, expect mostly fluff/puff pieces such as this.

"Benoît Battistelli 'kidnapped' and defamed judges whom he didn't like (before collective punishment), whereas Campinos uses more subtle tactics to accomplish the same thing."It is generally expected that law firms will respond to the EPO and operatives of António Campinos will carry on pretending that this case still has legitimacy. Benoît Battistelli 'kidnapped' and defamed judges whom he didn't like (before collective punishment), whereas Campinos uses more subtle tactics to accomplish the same thing.

Before we reach Friday and before we publish any further commentary on the matter, let's look back at some of the series we've been dealing with since March.

Privacy Violations (How EPO Has Been Outsourced to the United States):



Government Complicity Series (How Germany Helps EPO Management):



Oversight by Kangaroo Courts (Longstanding Loss of Independence):



Hearing on G€ 1/21 (Resulting in Postponement):

  1. Virtual Injustice -- Part 1: António's Increasingly Wonky Legal Fudge Factory
  2. Virtual Injustice -- Part 2: The ViCo Oral Proceedings of 28 May 2021
  3. Virtual Injustice -- Part 3: All the President's Men…
  4. Virtual Injustice -- Part 4: Mihály Ficsor, the EPO's Hungarian “Fixer”
  5. Virtual Injustice -- Part 5: Benoît's “Friends” in Budapest
  6. Virtual Injustice -- Part 6: Best Buddies With António
  7. Virtual Injustice -- Part 7: Musical Chairs and Revolving Doors
  8. Virtual Injustice -- Part 8: A Well-Connected 'IP' Maximalist
  9. Virtual Injustice -- Part 9: Heli, the EPO's Nordic Ice-Queen
  10. Virtual Injustice -- Part 10: Vapid and Superficial Coverage in the 'IP' Blogosphere
  11. Virtual Injustice -- Part 11: Perceptive Comments and Caustic Criticism
  12. Virtual Injustice -- Part 12: Carl Josefsson – Down But Not Out!
  13. Virtual Injustice -- Part 13: Let the Games Continue…
  14. Virtual Injustice -- Part 14: How Mandatory ViCo Became the “New Normal”
  15. Virtual Injustice -- Part 15: A Pandora's Box... But for Whom?


There's more to come. The outcome is unknown, but judging by DDOS attacks we've suffered for the past couple of days it seems likely someone is very eager to make the site unavailable. If such attacks becomes successful, use IPFS and Gemini. Everything is there too.

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