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Summary: Some final analysis and concluding words about the 12-part series regarding despicable attempts to create another patent bubble by artificially increasing grant rates in the area of algorithms/business methods

TODAY we finished the publication of a 12-part series (index below).

The series demonstrated, using some EPO leaks, that António Campinos and his cohorts are scheming to promote European software patents in direct violation of the EPC, European caselaw (national patent courts keep rejecting such patents), and against the will of actual software professionals.

"Europe is credited with the globally-celebrated achievements associated with a lot of modern sciences. Europe deserves a decent patent office, not a bank pretending to be one."Suffice to say, Team Campinos never speaks of "software patents"; instead it plays gymnastics with semantics. Nowadays, at the EPO at least, software patents are "CII" and habitually "HEY HI" (AI) pertaining to "4IR", "Industry 4.0", "blockchain" etc. in "ICT".

The 'word shuffle' is apparently the sole skill required to be promoted to supervisory levels; recruitment and compliance levels have plunged and while many attribute this to Benoît Battistelli they should also consider that it continues to deteriorate under Campinos, largely because of policies of Campinos.

Europe is credited with the globally-celebrated achievements associated with a lot of modern sciences. Europe deserves a decent patent office, not a bank pretending to be one. ⬆

Series index:

1. The EPO Bubble — Part I — An “Unprecedented Surge”
2. The EPO Bubble — Part II — Signs of a Deflating Bubble?
3. The EPO Bubble — Part III — Dividing Up the Spoils...
4. The EPO Bubble — Part IV — A Cashflow Problem Looming on the Horizon?
5. The EPO Bubble — Part V — Propping Up the Bubble?



6. The EPO Bubble — Part VI — From Humble Examiner to CO³
7. The EPO Bubble — Part VII — A Multifaceted Man of Letters
8. The EPO Bubble — Part VIII — The “Algerian Skirmisher” Replaces the “British Grenadier”
9. The EPO Bubble — Part IX — A Well-Remunerated Faustian Pact?
10. The EPO Bubble — Part X — A Leaked E-mail Provides Some Clues...
11. The EPO Bubble — Part XI — The Viennese ICT Patent Orchestrator
12. The EPO Bubble — Part XII — The Shape of Things to Come?