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EPO Coverage to Increase in 2016, Including UPC Reality Checks
EPO a “European Institution Which Does Not Fall Under EU Law”
Buying Panels and Paying the Media to Cement Personal Agenda: The Bill Gates Common Core Case Mirrors the Battistelli Unitary Patent Case
Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part IV: Criticism Regarding Patent Scope is Verboten
Revolving Doors of High-Level EPO Management: Jacques Michel and the Questel Deal With the EPO
Battistelli’s Proposed Changes to Pensions “Difficult to Understand”, “Liable to Cause Instability”, Without Consultation or Justification
EPO Whistleblowing: How (Not) to Use Machines at the Office
Summary of the EPO-Europatis Series
Loose Data 'Protection' and Likely Privacy Infringements at the EPO: Here's Who Gets Employees' Internal Data
Europatis: “Turnover of €211,800 and Zero Employees”
Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part III: Death in the Family
Benoît Battistelli Fails to Get Majority of 38 Member States to Crush the Boards, Which Are Already Being Crushed Anyway (23 Vacant Judge Positions)
Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part II: Patent Office as a Cancer
Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part I: An Introduction
Concerns About the Unitary Patent Court (UPC) Among EPO Staff an Outcome of Battistelli’s Attacks on Staff
I-AM EPO: How the Record of the EPO's Management Dispute With Staff and the EPC is Being Rewritten by EPO-Funded Media
Managing IP Interview With Battistelli Shows That He's Either Deluded or Dishonest About EPO Realities
EPO Administrative Council: the Situation is “Detrimental to the Proper Functioning of the Office and the Public Image of the Whole Organisation”
Europe Under Siege by Patent Lawyers, UPC Ambitions, and the Administrative Council’s Continued Passive Support of Battistelli
Translation of the Latest Communiqué About the Administrative Council, No Longer Published by ‘President’
EPO Level of Trust Reaches All-Time Low: Workers Distrust the Available Phones in Their Offices, Use Mobiles Instead
The Forgotten History of IAM 'Magazine' as EPO Management's Megaphone and EPO Union Basher
Upcoming Series: The EPO as ‘Public’ Service for Private Profits
Battistelli’s Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part V
An Atmosphere of Revolt Inside the European Patent Office
More Sunday Humour: Fictional Diary From the European Patent Office
Battistelli's Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part IV
EPO Management Discovers Media is Against It
Watch Out for ‘Divide and Rule’ Tactics From the Control Risks- and FTI Consulting-Steered EPO
Jacques Michel (Former EPO VP1), Benoît Battistelli’s EPO, and the Leak of Internal Staff Data to Michel’s Private Venture
Rumour: Administrative Council Advises Benoît Battistelli Not to Fire Staff Representatives
EPO Pays FTI Consulting (Nearly a Million Bucks), Which Pays IAM for Pro-UPC Propaganda Event
EPI Silently Removes Criticism of the European Patent Office/Organisation, Techrights Preserves It
EPO Irrelevancy, Two Decades to be Granted an EPO Patent, Outrage Over Patents on Plants in EPO
Benoît Battistelli: “An Earthquake Would be Needed for the Administrative Council... Not to Support My Major Proposals.”
Battistelli's Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part III
EPO Union Responds to Željko Topić and Raimund Lutz's Attempt to Intimidate Staff That Joins Unions
Ahead of Administrative Council Meeting, General Consultative Committee Warned of “Witch Hunt in Pursuit of SUEPO Officials” (Union Busting)
Administrative Council Does Not Crush the Boards But Does Crush the Unions (Suspension Duration Sextupled)
EPO Attacks Staff Representatives’ Right to Work Just One Week Before Christmas
Members of the European Parliament Slam the EPO for Patent Maximalism That Led to Granting of Patents on Plants
Benoît Battistelli's EPO Continues Its Self-Congratulatory PR Charade, Neglecting to Even Acknowledge the Catastrophes Therein
Battistelli Wants to Make “Lobbying in the Field of European and Unitary Patent” a “Prohibited Activity” for All Except Himself
European Patent Institute (EPI) Not Happy With the EPO’s Terrible Treatment of the Boards of Appeal
AIPPI Sends Angry Letter to the Administrative Council Regarding the EPO's Attacks on the Boards and Staff Unions, Saying it Damages the EPO's Function and Reputation)
New WIPO Figures Reinforce Reality Where More Patents Needn't Imply More Innovation, Just Lower Standards (a discussion about the EPO and UPC included)
Unanimous Negative Opinion on the Proposal of Benoît Battistelli to Eliminate Basic Rights at EPO
Battistelli's Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part II
UPC and Patent Trolls: The Connection Revisited
Very High Proportion of EPO Staff in Berlin Goes to the Streets to Protest and to Defend SUEPO From the Union Busters
Ahead of Tomorrow's Administrative Council Meeting EPO Staff Representatives Warn Heads of Delegations About Union Busting and Other Abuses
Battistelli's Vision of UPC is Closer Contract With Major Applicants (Abroad), Contrary to European Interests
When Europe's Leading International Patent Litigators Get Fed Up With Benoît Battistelli and Want Him Sent to 'Exile'
Watch Out For the EPO-SUEPO Parity Spin
Heise Article Tackles EPO ‘Feud’ (Union Busting in Disguise), Techrights’ Remarks Follow
Battistelli’s Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part I
EPO No Longer in the ‘Business’ of Just Granting Patents But Politics and Lobbying Also
Keeping the European Patent Office (EPO) Out of Politics Amid the EPO's Campaign to Deceive the Media, Politicians
When SUEPO Called the EPO a “Public Service Organisation Out of Control”
The EPO’s Failed (Dismissed) Attempt to Dismiss a Judge Alleged to Have Communicated About EPO Abuses
The European Patent Office is a Lobby Organisation, Was and Still is Lobbying for Expansion of Patent Scope (Also to Software) Through UPC
EPO Censored Itself After Publishing a Document Which Had Been Leaked Anyway
EPO Central Staff Committee Warns That EPO President Illegally Changes the Rules to Remove the Rights of the Accused, Crush Dissent/Unions
A Day After Massive EPO Protest Benoît Battistelli Tries Using Money to Appease Staff
EPO 'Sweetener' for Administrative Council National Delegates
New Private Eye Article Says EPO “Doesn't Actually Deny That There's a Fast-Track Project Allowing Big Firms to Queue-Jump”
Series Teaser: EPO President Battistelli's Relationship With Power
EPO Scandals in Private Eye Again
Photos From EPO Protest in Munich
A Little Taste of European Patent Office 'Justice'
The EPO’s Double Standard on Confidentiality
Contacting National Delegations to Complain About the European Patent Office (EPO)
EPO Vice-President Željko Topić Formally Weakens the Right to Strike, Threatens Financial Retaliation
Surveillance Audits at the EPO
Tightening Media Control: European Patent Office (EPO) Silences Blogs of Critics by Intimidation, Lawsuits
Union Busting at the European Patent Office, Dressed Up as 'Investigation'
An Introduction and an Overview of European Patent Office (EPO) Scandals
Software Patents and EPO Coverage
Watch Out for the Latest EPO Charm Offensive in the Media, Greenwashing Being the Theme Du Jour
EPO 'Investigators' Are Almost Technically Illiterate, Definitely Biased by Design
Chairman of the Administrative Council Failed to Stop Suspension (and Potential Firing) of EPO Staff Representatives
EPO's Team Battistelli is Promoting Only the Oppressors
Legal Analysis Reveals That EPO Principal Director for Human Resources (Bergot) Resorts to “Gross Violation of Due Process”
Hypocrite in Chief: Benoît Battistelli Compares Staff Union to ‘Mafia’
Lawyers’ Response to Incredible Accusations From EPO Management and Its Praetorian Guard
EPO Management: Associating a Whistleblowing Judge With Nazism and Weapons, Associating Staff Representatives With Snipers!
Team Battistelli Plans to Send to Exile (or Effectively Fire) Law-abiding Staff Because the Staff is Independent and Unwilling to Sack a Whistleblower
FRAND Tax, Patent Trolls as Satellites of Large Patent Aggressors, EPO Puff Pieces, and Another Imminent EPO Protest
The EPO is Trying to Make It a Serious Offense to Merely Inform Colleagues About Oneself (or Others) Being Subjected to Institutional Harassment/Witch-hunt by Team Battistelli
Did the EPO Spike a BBC Story Regarding Discriminatory Practices, Legal Bullying of Bloggers, and/or Microsoft Bias?
Outside Interventions Sought in EPO Amid Scandals, New Intervention Comes From OHIM
New WIPR Survey Shows 96% of Respondents Are Concerned About the Situation at the European Patent Office (EPO)
Staff Union of the EPO Responds to Benoît Battistelli’s Alleged Defamation of Staff Representatives
Article Highlights EPO’s Capitalist Venture Tendencies, Seeking to Just Maximize Profit, Irrespective of Public Interests and Human Factors
EPO “Synonymous With Psychological Depressions, Nervous Breakdowns, and Even Suicides”
The EPO's PR Agency is Connected to Fracking AstroTurf in the United States
No Wonder Staff of the EPO Gets Sick of the Management, Which Games Sickness Statistics in Order to Delude the World
The Tail That Wags the Dog: How an EPO President Virtually Controls the Administrative Council (AC)
Suppression of Voices Critical of the European Patent Office (EPO)
The USPTO, With All Its Serious Issues, Increasingly Looks Like the EPO’s Role Model
More Than 2,000 People, Including Directors, Said to Have Protested in Munich (About HALF of All EPO Staff Including The Hague Protest)
Like JPMorgan, EPO Management Has Started a Defamatory Smear Campaign Against Critics
European Private Office (EPO) Increasingly the Subject of Media Scrutiny Despite Huge Spendings on Reputation Laundering
EPO All-Time Low: Memorandum From the Praesidium (of the Boards of Appeal) Complains to the Administrative Council About Latest Questionable Moves
EPO Does Not Seem to Have Investigators, Only Accusers and Prosecutors (Loyal to the President)
The Media is Already Flooded With EPO Propaganda, Some Likely Paid for With €73,000-Per-Month 'Special' New Budget
EurActiv's Puff Piece for EPO (Amid High-Budget Media Blitz) Reveals Just How Clueless and Tactless the EPO's President Really is
Amid EPO Exodus/Brain Drain, Two Options: 'Gestapo' Staff and Assistant to Battistelli Have Quit or Battistelli's Praetorian Guard is Expanding
Impact of Software Patents and Excessive/Unregulated Profit Motives at USPTO: Now Even Common Encryption (i.e. Computer Security) Under Patent Attacks (a large portion speaks about patent scope at the EPO and privatisation, nepotism etc.)
French Member of Parliament Reacts to EPO Management Amidst Ongoing Attacks on Staff Representatives and Facts-free Information War
EPO Staff Protest Statistics: Over 2,600 Signatures (So Far) in Petition, About 800 Staff in The Hague Protest, Much More to Come in Munich
EPO “Intranet Fails to Present Any Negative Press Cuttings, Reports and Reactions From the Media”
The Spanish EPO Scandal – Part III
New EPO Job Advertisement Reveals Gestapo-Like ‘Deep State’, Operating Outside the Rule of Law and Managed Secretly by a Tyrannical President
Punto Informatico (Italian Media) About EPO's Legal Bullying Against Techrights
The European Patent Office (EPO) Crushes Not Only Unions But Also the Press and Even Bloggers
The Spanish EPO Scandal – Part II
EPO Staff Representatives Highlight to Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’ How Battistelli Deceived Him
Željko Topić Tries to Do to EPO Staff What He Did in Croatia, Now Crushes Staff Assembly in The Hague
The Spanish EPO Scandal – Part I
Media Alert: IAM ‘Magazine’ Does Not Protect Sources
Public Protests by European Patent Office (EPO) Staff Weaken the EPO's Attacks on the Media
Why the European Patent Office Cannot Really Sue and Why It's All -- More Likely Than Not -- Just SLAPP
How the EPO Twisted Defamation Law in a Failed Bid to Silence Techrights
The Latest EPO Spin: Staff Protesters Compared to ‘Anti-Patent Campaigners’ or ‘Against UPC’
The Serious Implication of Controversial FTI Consulting Contract: Every Press Article About EPO Could Have Been Paid for by EPO
EPO: We Have Always Been at War With Europe (or Europeans)
What Everyone Needs to Know About the EPO's New War on Journalism
EPO Did Not Want to Take Down One Techrights Article, It Wanted to Take Down Many Articles Using Intimidation, SLAPPing, and Psychological Manipulation Late on a Friday Night
The European Private Office: What Was Once a Public Service is Now Crony Capitalism With Private Contractors
When the EPO Liaised With Capone (Literally) to Silence Bloggers, Delete Articles
Blogger Who Wrote About the EPO's Abuses Retires
Leaked: EPO Award of €880,000 “in Order to Address the Media Presence of the EPO” (Reputation Laundering)
Documents Needed: Contract or Information About EPO PR/Media Campaign to Mislead the World
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Saving the Integrity of the European Patent Office (EPO)
A Call for Bloggers and Journalists: Did EPO Intimidate and Threaten You Too? Please Speak Out.
European Patent Office (EPO) a “Kingdom Above the EU Countries, a Tyranny With ZERO Accountability”
EPO Management Needs to Finally Recognise That It Itself is the Issue, Not the Staff or the Unions
Even the EPO Central Staff Committee is Unhappy With EPO Management
Debunking the EPO’s Latest Marketing Nonsense From Les Échos and More on Benoît Battistelli’s Nastygram to French Politician
The Sun King Delusion: The Views of Techrights Are Just a Mirror of EPO Staff Unions
United They Stand: FFPE-EPO Supports Suspended Staff Representatives From SUEPO
Censoring WIPR Article About Censorship by EPO
Censorship at the EPO Escalates: Now We Have Threats to Sue Publishers
Response to Bogus Accusations That EPO Staff Protests Are Really an Attempt to Derail UPC
New Heise Article Makes It Clear That 'Nazi'-Themed Accusations Against the Suspended Board Judge Were Insufficiently Substantiated
European Central Bank Staff Committee Adds to Growing Pressure on Abusive EPO Management
Gross Violation of Workers’ Rights in EPO: Denial of Christmas Vacation/Leave for Slower Workers
The Bogus Narrative Floated by EPO Management: Our Judges and Examiners Are Armed and Violent
Support SUEPO or End Up Like They and Some of the Boards Did
NRC Handelsblad (Dutch Evening Newspaper) Speaks About EPO's Refusal to Accept Court Orders From The Hague
EPO President Battistelli Now Intimidates Even National Delegations
A Look at the Latest Gross Deletionism at the EPO’s ‘Media Partner’, French Newspaper Les Échos
Rumour About Efforts to Dismiss a Board Judge by Intimidating Boards of Appeal
President Battistelli Now Pressures/Threatens Politicians Who ‘Dare’ to Complain About Abuses and Unacceptable Conditions at the EPO
EPO: It’s Like a Family Business – Part IV
Translation of Thomas Magenheim-Hörmann's Article in the German Media, Urging European Politicians to Intervene in EPO Chaos and Lawlessness
German Press Says Broken EPO Lets President Severely Punish Staff Not Even Guilty of Any Wrongdoing
German Media Reveals That Out-of-Control EPO Management is Even Threatening and Abusing Lawyers Now
It Pays (Off) to ‘Bribe’ the Media: Watch How Les Échos Covers EPO Matters and Self-Censors
‘Leaked’ PDF Shows How EPO Management Tried to Crush Judge Who ‘Dared’ to Criticise EPO Management
EPO: It’s Like a Family Business – Part III
In an Effort to Counter EPO Staff Narrative (After ~2,000 of Staff Protest) EPO Management Portrays Staff as Violent But Provides No Evidence
Gross Aggression by EPO Management Shows the Urgent Need to Remove Immunity From EPO
Patent Lawyers Want to Bring Software Patents (Hence Patent Trolls Too) to Europe, Piggyback Battistelli's Habitual UPC Promotion
Another George Bush Moment: Benoît Battistelli Says EPO Believes in “Fundamental Principles of Freedom, Equality and Justice”
Meltdown at the EPO, Massive Staff Protests This Afternoon
The EPO's Management Has Just Reaffirmed Its Possible Role in Contributing to Staff Suicides
EPO: It's Like a Family Business - Part II
EPO: It’s Like a Family Business – Part I
The EPO is Criticised Again for Serving the Monsanto (and Syngenta) Agenda
The Bureaucratic Nonsense That Came Out of Benoît Battistelli and Jesper Kongstad at EPOPIC
New Reports Highlight Need to Crack Down on the European Patent Office and Microsoft
European Federation of Public Service Unions Pressures Dutch Prime Minister to Take Action Against the EPO's Violations
The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part VII
The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part VI
The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part V
The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part IV
IP Kat Bemoans Crushing of the EPO’s Boards by an Increasingly Paranoid EPO Management
The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part III
Dutch Political Action Against the EPO’s Management Greater Than Previously Estimated
The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part II
The Latest Propaganda From Benoît Battistelli is Promotion of the Unitary Patent (UPC) at Political Levels
A State Within a State: Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About the EPO's Bizarre Existence Above the Law
The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part I
More European Politicians Take on the EPO for Ignoring the Rule of Law
The Benoît Battistelli Way or the Highway: EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal is Being Discredited, SUEPO Web Site is Down Again
EPO “Careering Towards the Precipice of Disaster”
Private Eye Covers the EPO Scandals, Says EPO Hired 'British Snooping Firm Global Risk Consultants'
Former German Constitutional Court Judge Denounces the EPO’s Possible Campaign of Defamation Against Judge Accused of Truth-Telling
Benoît Battistelli Became an Embarrassment to the European Patent Organisation, Allege EPO Workers
The International Labour Organisation Highlights Problems of Broader Dimensions at EPO
EPO Press Spokesperson and Obvious Conflicts of Interest With Supposed Anti-Corruption Group Transparency International
Battistelli's EPO Loses 'Customers' Because It Plays 'Favourites' With Large Corporations
Secret Deals at the EPO Discredit Europe and Need to Stop Immediately
Control Risks Group (CRG), Transparency International, the European Patent Office (EPO) Investigative Unit and the Obvious Conflicts of Interest
In the United States, USPTO Helps Create Trolls, Whereas in Europe, the EPO Itself is the Troll
Board of Appeal Thwarts a Software Patent Application in the EPO, From Company Indirectly Connected to the EPO
European Patent Organisation: Hallmark of a Corrupted (by Corporations) Entity
The Deteriorating Working Conditions at the EPO Show Reluctance to Make Talented Staff (or Ill Staff) Happy
EPO Slammed for Granting Patents on Life
How the Chief Information Officer of the EPO is Connected to the President of the EPO
SUEPO Reiterates Call for Independent Mediation and “Doubts That There Can Ever be Social Peace With Mr Battistelli as President”
US Patent 'Industry' (Parasites) Defends Patently Broken System That It Profits From, Pushes for UPC in Europe
Techrights to Increase Coverage of EPO Scandals and the Unitary Patent
Slate Magazine Explains Why Excessive Patenting is a Bad Thing, Gives a Cautionary Tale for EPO and Others
EPO Increases Repressions: Allegedly Bans Staff From Helping Refugees
German Broadcaster on European Patent Office (EPO) Preferential Treatment for Microsoft and Others
Benoît Battistelli et al in an Allegedly New Campaign of Defamation Against Staff Member
German Media Shows Discriminatory EPO Practices More Than Just a ‘Pilot’ (Reaching Second Half of 2016), Started When Microsoft Pressured EPO (Lodged Complaints)
EPO Cleverly Frames Total War Against Its Own Staff as a War Against Nazism
EPO is Trademark-Bullying Its Critics, Trying Repeatedly to Remove Bad Publicity With Help From Menacing Legal Threats (SLAPP)
The 'Sherlocks' of EPO/Spin-Doctoring Pretend That All of the EPO's Problems Boil Down to One Disgruntled Person
EPO’s Jeremy Philpott Confirms That Discriminatory (Software) Patent Processing Practices Started With Microsoft, Because of Microsoft
Translation Needed: High Employee Sabotaged European Patent Office (EPO)
EPO Says Crushing Patent Neutrality is a Good Thing® Because Authenticity of Self-Incriminating EPO Document Cannot be Denied
EPO Completely Loses It and Starts Banning Even More Sites Ahead of Today's Demonstration, UPC Proceeding Behind Closed Doors
Staff of the EPO Under Siege Ahead of Tomorrow's Demonstration in Munich
EPO Management Lobbies for the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Uses This to Advance Software Patents in Europe
Confirmed: Benoît Battistelli is Crushing the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA)
EPO Staff is Happy, Says EPO Propaganda Still in the Making
EPO Management is Running Out of Time as More Media Remarks on Its Abuses
Benoît Battistelli's Group of 'Loyals' Crushes Not Only the Independent Boards But Also 'Unwanted' Directorates-General
Leaked: EPO Prioritises Work for Large Foreign Corporations, Discrimination Not Accidental But Centrally Planned
Benoît Battistelli's Office Accused of Institutional Harassment Against EPO Staff in New Letter to the Administrative Council, Calling for External Investigation
Bad News for the EPO's Judicial Independence and Due Process in Next Week's Administrative Council (AC) Meeting
The Coup D'état of Benoît Battistelli Follows an Imperialist Model, Threatens Opposition and Dissent
EPO Staff to Disrupt Administrative Council Meeting With Public Demonstration That Raises Awareness of Abuses
Željko Topić Attacks EPO Staff for ‘Daring’ to Legally Challenge the EPO’s Management Over Its Gross Abuses in Europe
Commenters Provide Possible Explanations for Mr Van der Eijk Being on Unlimited Sick Leave
With Software Patents in Europe (and Pushes for the Same Thing in Australia and India) Patent Trolls Now Come to Europe, Attack Android/Linux
New Information on Limbo in the Enlarged Board, Courtesy of Illegal Actions by the EPO’s Benoît Battistelli
Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna Explains Why the UPC (“Unitary Patent“ System) is an Undemocratic Sham Whilst UPC Silently Advanced by Patent Lawyers and Politicians
Article Explains Why SUEPO Went Silent Well Over a Week Ago: Nobody is Allowed to Talk to Journalists Without Permission From Battistelli
Chairman of the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA) and EPO Vice-President of DG3 Suspiciously on Unlimited Sick Leave After Benoît Battistelli's Unprecedented Attacks on Other EBoA Staff
Microsoft's Secret Special Relationship With EPO Illustrates Serious Corruption at Microsoft and the EPO
Süddeutsche Zeitung Explains Imminent Federal Scrutiny Against Battistelli’s EPO in Germany
EPO Managers, Patent Lawyers, Commissioners and Other Non-Technical Personnel Tackle Democracy, Alter Laws in Bulk and in Secret
Europe’s Acceptance of and Resistance to Software Patents, Courtesy of Corporate Front Groups and Courtrooms Respectively
German Press Explains EPO Investigation Unit (I.U.), Struggles to Openly Speak to the Secretive EPO
Translation Needed of Article About EPO Threats Against SUEPO’s Elizabeth Hardon
EPO Management Justifies Censorship (Even of Journalists) Using Its Vice-President Željko Topić
EPO President Benoît Battistelli Compared to Famous Criminals on European Television
Dutch Politician John Kerstens Says EPO Investigative Unit is Called ‘the Gestapo’
The European Patent Office's Autocracy Has Proven the Streisand Effect, Amplifying Its Opposition's Messages
Dutch Report: EPO Suicides Possibly Caused by Working Conditions Imposed by EPO’s Management
European Patent Office Expands Censorship and Intimidation Against Staff as Pressure Mounts
EPO Staff Suicides Estimated to Have Grown Tenfold Under Current Regime -- Claim
EPO Has Become Political and Benoît Battistelli is Lobbying for UPC (Large Corporations' Wishlist)
The EPO’s Vicious Attacks on Its Very Own Staff Have Peaked (War on Dissent) While Oppressive Patent Regime (UPC) Phased in
Benoît Battistelli and His Goons From Control Risks (CRG) Try to Crush Unions, Not Just Journalism
EPO Management May Not Have Resigned (Yet), But the Rest of the Staff is Leaving in Droves
Benoît Battistelli in Denial Over Suicides in EPO, Accuses and Threatens the Messengers
Censorship, Self-Censorship and Intimidation Now the Modus Operandi at EPO
Patent Practitioners: "The Unitary Patent Might be Able to Open the Floodgates for Software Patents in Europe"
Another Suicide at the EPO, Fifth by Our Count
EPO Corruption of Patent Boundaries: Business Methods and Algorithms Patented
EPO Measures Productivity Using the Wrong Yardstick in Order to Sell Its Racket to the Public
‘Sanader’s Protégé’ Željko Topić Slammed by Press in His Home Country
Patents Expansion in Europe May be Looming
SUEPO Post Vanishes: Belated Self-Censorship or Threats From EPO Management?
European Censorship: Tyrants of the EPO Blacklist Techrights, Web Site Not Accessible Office-Wide
EPO Appointments: Standards of a Third World Country
Europe Goes Down a Dark Route When It Comes to Patent Scope and Centralisation
Amid Controversy, Political Scrutiny and Increased Media Pressure Željko Topić and Benoît Battistelli Allegedly Cancel Today’s Trip to Zagreb (Croatia) Where Topić Faces Many Criminal Charges
Translation of Pierre-Yves Le Borgn' Speech Against EPO Management and New Parliamentarian Interventions
Munich Press, Münchner Merkur, Slams the Munich-based EPO
Speculations About the EPO's Possible Role in DDOS Attacks
Techrights Confirmed as a Target of EPO Surveillance, With Help From Control Risks Group (CRG)
DDOS Attacks Against Techrights
After Intervention by the Council of Europe Comes a Detailed Summary of the Situation in the European Patent Office (EPO)
The Council of Europe Slams the EPO as Political Pressure Grows for EPO Management to Obey the Law
The EPO’s Circus of Nepotism, Corporatism and Gross Abuse is Promoting the Unitary Patent
An Estimated 1,000 EPO Staff in Munich Demonstrated Against EPO Management Yesterday Afternoon
EPO Protest in Munich and Growing Unpopularity of EPO Management, Media Manipulation by the Management
Demonstration Against European Patent Office Management in Munich This Wednesday
French Newspaper Les Echos Censors Criticism of Benoît Battistelli and the EPO
SUEPO to SUE Government of the Netherlands for Protecting the EPO’s Thugs
More Political Interventions in EPO Abuse Cases
Translation of Süddeutsche Zeitung Article Calling for External Oversight of Data Protection at the EPO
EPO Data Protection Officer 'Just a Dictator's Minion', Approved Keyloggers and Hidden Cameras
Badische Zeitung Labels European Patent Office (EPO) a Police State for Use of Very Intrusive Mass Surveillance Software
More European Politicians Pressure and Sometimes Slam the European Patent Office (EPO) Amid New Scandals
EPO Comes Under Fire From the Bavarian Data Protection Supervisor After the Spying Scandal
Full Translation of Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About Blackhat Tactics (Keyloggers) in EPO
EPO Surveillance, Threats, and Patronisation of Dutch Legal System Covered in Dutch Article From De Volkskrant
European Patent Office (EPO) Now Uses Keyloggers to Spy on Staff
When the European Patent Office Lost in Court and Refused to Obey the Law: An Analysis
EPO May be Creating Its Own Lawless NSA (or GCHQ) With Control Risks Group Deal
The European Patent Office Has Become Militarised
Spanish Media on Reign of Terror at EPO: Managerial Misconduct, Blocked E-mails (Censorship), and Abuse of Legal Immunity
The High Cost of Low Patent Bar at the EPO
Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About the EPO's Investigation Unit and Control Risks Group
EPO and Administrative Council Stall Criticism by Pretending to Negotiate With Staff Whilst Actually Attacking It
EPO Officially Confirms That It Specifically Hired Control Risks Group (CRG) to Spy on Journalists and Their Sources
The EPO Sinks Deeper in a Scandal After Paying Public Money for Military-Connected Control Risks to Stalk Journalists and Staff
EPO Corruption Compared to FIFA Corruption While ‘Control Risks’ Helps EPO Hide/Suppress Evidence of Corruption; Calls on German Authorities to Crack Down on Both
EPO Reluctantly (and Privately) Confirms Giving Public Money for Military-connected ‘Control Risks’ to Spy on Journalists and Their Sources While Techrights is Under Fresh DDOS Attacks
The EPO Still Wastes Public Money on Publicity Stunts and 'Reputation Management' Campaigns
Propaganda Mode for UPC Agreement Whilst EPO Increasingly Grants Patents on Software
Patent Scope at the EPO is Totally Out of Control, UPC Will Make Things Worse
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Benoît Battistelli and Four EPO Suicides
Süddeutsche Zeitung Says Talking Helps While EPO Management Back-stabs Other Side of the Table
More Utter Shame Unveiled at Battistelli’s EPO: Intimidation Tactics With Help From ‘Control Risks’
The EPO’s Tyrant, Benoît Battistelli, is Probably on His Way Out, Threatens to Resign
As Core Issues Still Not Addressed, Another Protest Against EPO Management Scheduled for Tomorrow in Munich, Germany
EPO Management is Trying Hard to Appease Its Critics While Pushing Forth Unitary Patent Agenda
More Translations of French Article About the EPO
New Article Chronicles Suicides and Nervous Breakdowns at the EPO Due to the Management’s Abuses
The EPO is Becoming More Like the USPTO Under Benoît Battistelli's Greed-Driven Reign
More Suicides Reported at the Staff-Hostile European Patent Office
English, French and German Translations of De Telegraaf Article About Ivo Opstelten’s Defence of Benoît Battistelli
The EPO’s Dutch Appeal Court Judgment Controversy: List of Political Interventions
Željko Topić: ‘SUEPO {Staff Union} Has No Standing in This Office. SUEPO Has No Role to Play in This Office.’
English, French and German Translations of Dutch Article About EPO Abuses
When Battistelli’s Defender Ivo Opstelten Turned Out to be Also Defending (Paying) Narcotics Traffickers
When Battistelli’s Defender, Dutch Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten, Attacked Europeans’ Right to Demonstrate
When the EPO Came Under Fire From the Netherlands and Before Systemic Corruption Was Revealed
Techrights Cited by European Politicians in Support of EPO Staff’s Causes
Željko Topić and Ivan Šimonović, Two Residues of Ivo Sanader’s Corrupt Regime, Seen as Indirectly Connected
The EPO’s Dutch Scandal Leaves Battistelli and His Cronies on the Run
The EPO's Administrative Council is Under Increased Pressure to Rein in and to Finally Stop Benoît Battistelli
Concerns Over Željko Topić’s Alleged Powerful Links in Croatian Diplomacy
Benoît Battistelli’s EPO Comes Under Fire From Prominent Figures Who Are Key EPO Stakeholders, Expect Battistelli to Resign ‘in the Longer Term’
Benoît Battistelli’s EPO is Under Attack From French Politicians Yet Again
Politics of Blackmail at the EPO
Benoît Battistelli's EPO Comes Under Attack From the British
The Royal Norwegian Department of Labour on the Right of European Patent Office (EPO) Workers to Strike
How the European Patent Office (Management) is Spying on Its Very Own Staff
Translation of Full Judgment Against Željko Topić in Croatian Defamation Case Over Bribery (Mercedes/Audi) and More
Benoît Battistelli Allegedly Turns to Moscow and Putin-Inspired Tactics to Oppress and Suppress EPO Staff
Rikard Frgačić Explains Željko Topić's Behaviour and the Lufthansa Case
Video: How the Željko Topić-Led SIPO Betrayed Croatians
EPO Management Still in a Freefall, Tries to Warp/Divert the Debate Away From Its Abuses
The EPO’s Sham ‘Internal Investigation’ of EPO Vice-President Željko Topić’s Affairs
Benoît Battistelli Once Again Threatens EPO Staff That ‘Dares’ to Protest, Battistelli Exploits Terror Attacks to Pretend to Respect Free Speech
The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys Slams the European Patent Office for Structural Failings
Techrights Under Attack Again, Shortly After Important EPO Articles
EPO Staff Protests Against Benoît Battistelli’s Lowering of Patents Quality (Scope Expansion and Software Patents for Profit)
Breaking: European Patent Office Sued by Its Own Staff in The Hague, Must Unblock Staff’s Voices
Željko Topić's History in SIPO Leaves a Legacy of Alleged DZIV Vehicles (Bribes), Authorship Abuses, and Intimidation Against Reporters
Željko Peratović Slammed for Whitewashing Željko Topić After Publishing Important Piece on Behalf of Key Sources
Benoît Battistelli Has Made Oversight of European Patent Office Absolutely Impossible
English Translation of Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About Benoît Battistelli, Željko Topić, and EPO Tyranny
Amid EPO Scandals, Call to Dissolve the EPO and Start All Over Again (With New Management and New Direction)
FFII and the American IP Law Association Comment on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Envisioned by EPO
English Translation of Article About Protest at Danish Consulate Over EPO Abuses
EPO Staff to March to British Consulate to Protest Against the Administrative Council (AC)
The EPO's Digital War (Censorship) Against Staff Web Site
Cyberattacks on SUEPO Server Raise More Questions
The European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW) is Again Protesting Against EPO as More Crackdowns by EPO Management Reveal Depth of Abuse
English Translation of Ruling Against Željko Topić (EPO VP) in Croatian Court
German Translation of Ruling Against Željko Topić, the EPO's Vice-President
More Press Coverage From the Danish Media About EPO Abuses and Protest at Danish Consulate
Benoît Battistelli and Jesper Kongstad Continue to Blame Everything on SUEPO
Catarina Holtz From the EPO Boards of Appeal Explains Bad Behaviour of the Management With Regards to EPC 2000
The EPO's Paid Propaganda Campaign in the Media
Media Coverage of Demonstration Against Jesper Kongstad of the Administrative Council (EPO)
Text of Ruling/Decision Against Željko Topić (Regarding Audi as a Bribe)
An Estimated 1,000 EPO Employees-Strong Legion Engulfs Danish Consulate to Protest Jesper Kongstad's (of Administrative Council) Protection of Benoît Battistelli
Breaking: EPO Vice-President Željko Topić Loses Defamation Case in Croatia
As Battistelli Breaks the Rules and Topić Silences Staff, New European Parliament Petition for Tackling the EPO’s Abuses is Needed
The Collapse of European Patent Office Management Culminates With Resignations
Vesna Stilin Renews Her Fight for Justice in Željko Topić Case (EPO VP)
Failure of the EPO Can Derail the Trojan Horse of Software Patents and Patent Trolls
Translations of Member of the European Parliament Complaining About European Patent Office (EPO)
Battistelli's Latest Propaganda War Tries to Convince EPO Staff That Željko Topić's Many Criminal Charges Don't Exist
Dutch MEP Dennis De Jong, Criticising Battistelli and Topić, Calls for Action Against EPO Management
EPO Misdirections Debunked: Refuting Battistelli’s Nonsense and Bogeyman Theory
The EPO Connection Now a Liability as Administrative Council Has Become a Laughing Stock, Jesper Kongstad to be Targeted by EPO Staff Protests
Intellectual Property Judges’ Association (IPJA) Speaks Out Against EPO Tyrant Battistelli
Investigation Unit a Complete Farce Inside the EPO
Just in: Fresh Call From Croatia to Arrest EPO Vice-President Željko Topić
EPO Under Fire From European Patent Lawyers Association (EPLAW)
Colour codes:
| - |
| Scope |
|---|
| Repression |
| Labour |
| Above the law |
| Credibility |
| Software (abstract) patents |
| Institutional abuse |
| Staff deaths/suicides |
| Ignoring court orders or due process |
| Budgetary issues |
| Patents on life |
| Censorship/Gagging |
| Crushing protests |
| Crushing oversight or other branches |
| Reputation issues (EU) |
| Patent maximalism/UPC |
| DDOS |
| Union-busting |
| Character assassination/Defamation |
| Favouritism/Nepotism |
| Patent trolls |
| Legal bullying |
| Abolishing workers' rights |
| Propaganda/Misinformation/Paying the media |
| Conflict of interest/Dubious connections |
| Systemic synthesis |
| Illegal surveillance |
| State within a state |
| Alleged bribery |
| Organisational crisis |
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