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    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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    2019

    December

  • In 2018 and in 2019 António Campinos Has in Effect Been a Guardian of Battistelli's Corruption
  • Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement (UPCA) Will be Ratified in the Year 202020
  • Bristows and AstraZeneca (IP Kat) Won't Offer Balanced Coverage of EPO Patent Cases
  • Who Will Merpel be in 2020? (Now Defending Battistelli's Attacks on EPO Judges and Serious Violations of the EPC)
  • Thierry Breton: Why He Matters to EPO Affairs (and a Lot More in Europe If Not the World, Not Just in France)
  • Not Everything Needs to Be Patented
  • D Young & Co LLP Spreading Team UPC Talking Points
  • EPO G 1/19 (Software Patents Case) Already Compromised by Overt Violations of the European Patent Convention (EPC)
  • EPO Throws DABUS Under the Bus... But for the Wrong Reasons
  • Understanding Thierry Breton: A Happy Ending - for Some at Least.
  • EPO Management is Always Right
  • Understanding Thierry Breton: “Oh, Dem Golden Slippers…”
  • Understanding Thierry Breton: A “Club Med” Coup in Brussels?
  • The EPO Likes “Hey Hi” (AI) Only When It Lets Actual Humans Fake 'Production'
  • Understanding Thierry Breton: Little Miss Ladson Goes to Brussels
  • Journalism in the Area of Patents and the Domain of Patent Litigation is Dead
  • More 'Fake News' About Unified Patent Court (UPC) and Battistelli's CEIPI Emerges as a Booster
  • Understanding Thierry Breton: The “Killer Shark” Resurfaces…
  • Issues Cannot be Treated in Complete Isolation When Everything is Connected
  • Understanding Thierry Breton: Concordia, Integritas, Industria
  • Understanding Thierry Breton: Emmanuel Macron and His “Joker” in Brussels
  • Unitary Patent (UPC) Should Become Synonymous With Lies, Coups, Entryism, Lobbying and Bullying
  • European Patents Losing Their Appeal, Lustre and Glamour
  • Only the EPO Goes as Far as Bribing Publishers (the Media) to Promote Software Patents and Publish Fictional Stories
  • EU Needs to Show That It Cares About SMEs and Not 'European Champions' That Are Actually Foreign Monopolies
  • At the EPO Money — Not Quality — is King
  • The EPO's Strategic Failure 2023
  • EPO Promoting Software Patents in Countries Where These Are Illegal
  • Actions Against EPO Corruption and Unitary Patent (UPC) Injustice/Lobbying
  • Demonstration Against Unitary Software Patents, Thursday 12 Dec in Brussels
  • Fake European Patents (on Algorithms) Leading to Fake Embargoes
  • Unitary Patent (UPC) Died Along With the Credibility of Managing IP and the Rest of the UPC Lobby
  • The EPO Rejects Innovation
  • Europeans Still Need to Save the European Patent Office From Those Who Attack Its Patent Quality
  • 'Priceless' Tickets to the EPO's Back End and Team UPC
  • New EPO Leak Shows That the Rumours and Jokes Are Partly True and We Know Who 'Runs the Show'
  • 13 Years of UPC Promises
  • Is Water Wet?
  • The EPO's President Admits He's Illegally Granting Software Patents (CII, 4IR, IoT, AI and Blockchain Mean Software Patents at the EPO)
  • Maximalists Cherry-Picking the So-Called 'Corbyn' 'Leak' for Their Patent Agenda While the US Lobbies Britain for Software Patents and Worse


  • November

  • Management of the EPO is Afraid of Scientists and Judges
  • The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Dead and Alexander Ramsay is Only Making a Total Fool of Himself
  • Many European Patents Lack Validity and Blogs/Press Won't Talk About That
  • 5 Out of 6 EPO Workers Vote for a Strike as Quality (and Validity) of Patents Continues to Fall
  • Team UPC is So Drunk on Kool-Aid That It Has Become Truly Comical!
  • Understanding Thierry Breton: Thierry and the EPO's “Sun-King”
  • JUVE Has Become Little But a Team UPC Propaganda Site
  • The Collapse of European Patents Continues
  • Even the US is Surprised or Baffled by Post-Brexit Unified Patent Court (UPC) Fantasies, Reveal Secret Documents
  • Just About Everything the EPO Tells Stakeholders, Media and Even Its Own Workers is the Opposite of What's True
  • Understanding Thierry Breton: “Mister Cash” and “Madame Bailout”
  • Understanding Thierry Breton: Thierry & Nicolas – a Bromance That Turned Sour?
  • German Constitutional Court Attempts to Distance Itself From Prof. Huber’s 'Interview' With Team UPC
  • EPO Misuses Patent-Granting Powers to Help Litigation, Not Science
  • Britain 'Taking Back Control' From the Wrong Institution; the EPO is the Greater Culprit
  • Understanding Thierry Breton: More Influential Friends in High Places
  • Global Patent Warming
  • Teaser: “Enriching Exchanges”
  • Understanding Thierry Breton: Socialising With the Elite
  • Justice Peter Huber Speaking to a Front Group of Team UPC May Compromise the Integrity of the FCC and Its Outcomes
  • Injustice at Every Level Would Simply Doom the Entire Patent System
  • Understanding Thierry Breton: Thierry and the $100 Billion Man
  • Understanding Thierry Breton: Atos Healthcare - “The Ugly Face of Business”
  • Justice Peter Huber of the German Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) Calls 'Bullshit' a Rumour Nobody Really Spreads
  • Understanding Thierry Breton: What Thierry Did Next...
  • EPO Geared Towards Financial Exploitation of Europe Instead of Serving Europe
  • Understanding Thierry Breton: Noël Forgeard and His “Golden Parachute”
  • We've Already Entered the Era When Patents Should be Presumed Invalid
  • Understanding Thierry Breton: Insider-Trading Scandal at EADS
  • Openwashing Institutionalised NPEs (OIN) and Software Patents With Notorious Managers From the EPO
  • Understanding Thierry Breton: The “Cost-Killer” Tries to Tame the National Debt
  • to Last Week’s Thierry Breton Hearing
  • Unitary Patent is Dead Partly Because the EPO Demonstrated That EPC is Being Routinely Violated, Illegal Patents Granted
  • Understanding Thierry Breton: Chirac’s Entrepreneurial “Joker”
  • Koch's Reply to EPO Through ILO and Techrights' Interpretation of Koch v EPO Documents Help Show That ILO-AT is Played by EPO Management
  • EPO Running ILO's Tribunal (ILO-AT) 'in a Loop' to Perpetually Delay and Drain the EPO's Complainants (Aggrieved Staff) Out of Money
  • ILO is Not Functioning and ILO-AT Helps the Abusive Management of the European Patent Office
  • Understanding Thierry Breton: Moral Responsibility for “a Capitalism That Kills”?
  • FOSSPatents Conference is Against FOSS, Promoting the FOSS-Hostile Construct Known as RAND or FRAND
  • Europe is Under Attack
  • Understanding Thierry Breton: Toxic Management Goes on Trial in France
  • Thierry Breton’s Video/Live Grilling is Over, But the Grilling Continues Online
  • The EPO's Low Patent Quality is Not Just Suicidal; It is Illegal
  • Techrights' Interpretation of Koch v EPO: The EPO's Management Still Attacks Staff Representatives
  • Understanding Thierry Breton: “Mister Cash” Arrives at France Télécom
  • The Breton-Battistelli Relationship and Breton Hiding His Employment Record at Rothschild & Cie Banque
  • A Lot of EPO Staff on Dutch Land Protested (Despite Abusive Threats From Management) and a Strike is Reportedly Next
  • Understanding Thierry Breton: In the Beginning...
  • Teaser: Thierry Breton and His Disquieting Past
  • EPO and EU: People Behind the Faces
  • EPO Corruption Compared to Cocaine Scandals in Antwerp
  • SUEPO Showed That the Media Won't Cover EPO Corruption Until Half the Workers March in the Streets
  • SUEPO Protests Against Management of the European Patent Office Brought Back Discussions About Corruption
  • Video: Dutch Media on EPO Protest
  • Think Tanks, Bristows, 'Simmons' and 'Birds' Can Only Ever Lie to Us About the Dead Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • The EPO's Management is Trying Really Hard to Distract the Media From EPO Unrest (and It Has Been Partly Successful)
  • 'Artificial Intelligence' (AI) Will Only Doom Patent Offices If It's Used to Stamp Millions of Invalid Patents (IPs)
  • Quick Mention: Some Dutch Media Covers Dutch EPO Protest
  • The EPO 'Patent Factory' Likes the IAM Copy-Paste Factory
  • PR ‘Innovation’: Bombarding the Media With Puff Pieces to Distract From EPO Staff Actions Against Corrupt Management
  • It Feels Like EPO Management is Trying to Distract the Media and the Staff From Today's Big Protest
  • SUEPO Organises Hague Protest — Second EPO Protest in a Fortnight, Targeting the Portuguese Embassy in The Hague
  • The EPO Instructs European Examiners to Grant Junk Patents on Algorithms (Maths and Stats)
  • The European Patent Office (EPO) Carelessly Shows the Only 'Small' 'Businesses' It Serves Are Law Firms and Patent Trolls
  • António Campinos and Comrade Iancu (US) Both Push Software Patents Into Europe to the Detriment of Small Businesses and Developers
  • The European Courts Won't be Receptive When European Patent (EP) Just Means Invalid Patent (IP)
  • The European Union is Harmed by EPO Abuses
  • Meme: EPO Tyranny Irrespective of One's Name/Brand
  • The EPO's Staff Lacks the Autonomy Crucially Needed to Decide Whether European Patents Granted by the EPO Are Indeed Legitimate
  • Today's EPO is Working Against Europe


  • October

  • Immunity Breeds Lawlessness
  • Today's EPO is an Illegal Institution Promoting and Granting Illegal Patents
  • Yesterday in EPOPIC Andrei Iancu and António Campinos Shared a Salad of Ridiculous Buzzwords
  • EPO May be Financially Defrauding the Public and Its Employees
  • Patent Evergreening Kills
  • An Illegal Practice: The EPO Continues to Grant Unlawful Patents and Then Brag About These
  • EPO Advertises Questel and Rather Extremist Views on Patents
  • The Media is Not Observing But Actively Participating in Patent Lies of the EPO and Self-Serving Law Firms
  • G1/19: Enlarged Board of Appeal Bombarded by Monopolies, Law Firms and EPO President in Favour of Software Patenting
  • EPO Management Plays With -- and for -- the Wrong People
  • Reforming (Fixing) the EPO is the Goal
  • Humour: EPO Has the Solution
  • EPO Staff Protested Today and SUEPO Explains Why
  • EPO Diplomatic Immunity
  • Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna Reveals How the German Government Actively Ignored SMEs to Push the Notorious 'Unitary Patent' Sham
  • SUEPO Protest Tomorrow. All EPO Staff in Munich Ought to Attend and Prepare to Strike Too.
  • EPO Will Need a Lot More Than Photo Ops and Hoax 'Studies' to Restore the Perception of Lawfulness
  • EPO: It’s Only Getting Worse
  • It Has Begun: EPO Staff Protests Against António Campinos (Starting Wednesday)
  • European Patent Office and US Patent and Trademark Office Cranks Discovered Buzzwords, Stopped Worrying, Started Granting Patents They Know to be Fake
  • “The True Hypocrite is the One Who Ceases to Perceive His Deception, the One Who Lies With Sincerity,” Said André Paul Guillaume Gide (Nobel Prize in Literature)
  • The EPO Cannot Guard Fake European Patents From Scrutiny (in the Long Run)
  • New EPO Meme: Who Wants to Make Billions From a 'Public' Monopoly?
  • EPO Staff Union and Staff Representatives Ought to Demand EPO Stops Bullying Publishers and Censoring Their Sites
  • Bribes, Lies, Fundamental Violations of the Law and Cover-Up: This is Today's European Patent Office
  • EPO Staff Resolution Against Neoliberal Policies of António Campinos
  • Raw: EPO Comes Under Fire for Lowering Patent Quality Under the Orwellian Guise of “Collaborative Quality Improvements” (CQI)
  • When They Run Out of Things to Patent They'll Patent Nature Itself...
  • EPO Boards of Appeal Need Courage and Structural Disruption to Halt Software Patents in Europe
  • Professor Dr. Maximilian Haedicke on Lack of Separation of Powers at the EPO (Which Dooms UPC)
  • “The Stupidest Patent/Tax Policy Ever”
  • Meme: Software Patents at the EPO
  • Today's EPO is Working for Patent Trolls and the 'Aye Pee' (IP) 'Industry' Instead of Science
  • The Campinos Car Crash
  • Software Patents (or Monopolies on Algorithms) Are Not 'Property' and They're Not Even Legally Valid
  • The EPO's Universal Patent Injustice Concealed With Polyglottic Tricks
  • António Campinos, With Diplomatic Immunity, Continues Breaking the Law by Granting Patents the EU and EPC Forbade
  • EPO is Trying to 'Force-Feed' Europe Some Fake Patents by Hijacking Courts
  • If the EPO Plans to Go 'Virtually' Private (Outside Contracting), Then Failing It Would be Deliberate
  • The EPO is Gradually Being Outsourced to Private, For-Profit, Unaccountable and Notorious Companies
  • EPO President Campinos is Just a Great Pretender With 'Soft Power' Skills
  • The EPO's President Campinos is a Liar
  • EPO a Hostage of Law (Litigation) Firms
  • EPO Management Flies Halfway Across the Globe for Photo Ops in Country With 0.02% of European Patents
  • The Injustice at the EPO Deepens, From Examination to Oppositions/Appeals and From BoA to Courts (UPC Prospects)
  • The EPO's Endgame: Robbing EPO Staff to Enrich Private Companies
  • EPO Leak: António Campinos Announces Impending Cuts While Outsourcing to Private Firms Like Serco
  • The EPO's 'Solution' to Being Caught Granting Illegal Patents is to Punish Those Who Show That
  • AI and Other Nonsensical Technobabble Exploited by EPO Management to Do Illegal Things
  • Corruption on Every Level Persists at the European Patent Office
  • Today's EPO is Pursuing 'Troll Justice' (Bullying and Blackmail), Not Real Justice
  • EPO Releases Decision Regarding G 2/19 (the 'Haar Question') in a Language Only About 10% of Member States Speak
  • The EPO Keeps Breaking the Law While Trying to Legalise What's Illegal
  • EPO Makes Guidelines for Examination That Formally Allow Software Patents in Defiance of European Law
  • The Greenwashing and Chronic Lying From the EPO Spreads to EU Through EUIPO


  • September

  • Even IP Kat Explains Why the EPO and the EUIPO Are Lying Through Their Teeth With a Paid-for So-called ‘Study’
  • EPO: Same Old Abuses, More Fake Patents, But Slightly Different Faces
  • Only Weeks After Czech Government Rejects UPC (Unitary Patent) António Campinos Flies There, Apparently in Order to Lobby Government Officials
  • EU Parliament Needs to Clarify Once Again That Software Patents Granted by the EPO Are Illegal and Void
  • Media as Propaganda Apparatus of Patent Offices Which Are Run for and by Lawyers and Law Firms
  • The European Patent Office's Relationship With Licensing Executives Society International (LESI) Shows Whose Interests Today's Management Really Serves
  • EPO Logic: Businesses That Have Trademarks and/or Patents Have Only Succeeded Because of Trademarks and/or Patents
  • Corporate Media Covering (Amplifying) EPO Lies But Not EPO Abuses
  • The EPO and the USPTO Keep Granting Illegal Patents and Mainstream Media Doesn't Talk About That
  • Patent Maximalists Have Ruined the European Patent Office, Which Became a Lying Organisation That Bullies Everyone
  • EPO Under Fire From EU Parliament, But Patent Trolls Already Storm Europe, Emboldened by Low Quality of European Patent
  • Patent Extremism is Not Normal and Not an Innocent Mindset
  • When Patent 'Professionals' Sound Like Children Who Learned to Parrot Some Intentionally-Misleading Buzzwords, Myths and Lies
  • The European Parliament Needs to Become More Outspoken About EPO Abuses
  • When the EPO Sees Itself as Above European Law, Grants Patents in Defiance of the EPC (Its Founding Document) and Violates Staff's Labour Rights/Protections (International Law)
  • Update on Koch v EPO: Internal Appeals Committee (IAC) Composition Still Likely Illegal
  • EPO is Not European
  • The EPO's Central Staff Committee and SUEPO (Staff Union) Respond to “Fascist Bills” Supported by EPO President António Campinos
  • Storm Brewing in the European Patent Office After a Hot Summer
  • EPO President Along With Bristows, Managing IP and Other Team UPC Boosters Are Lobbying for Software Patents in Clear and Direct Violation of the EPC
  • Illegal/Invalid Patents (IPs) Have Become the 'Norm' in Europe
  • Patent Maximalists, Orbiting the European Patent Office, Work to 'Globalise' a System of Monopolies on Everything
  • Unitary Patent (UPC) Promotion by Team Battistelli 'Metastasising' in Private Law Firms
  • EPO: Give Us Low-Quality Patent Applications, Patent Trolls Have Use for Those
  • Patent Charlatans and Frauds Are Doing a Disservice to Europe and to Europe's Patent System
  • The European Patent Convention (“EPC”) Does Not Allow Patenting of Life Itself
  • European Patent Office's Cooperation and Collaboration With Patent Trolls Instead of Science and Technology
  • Koch Explains the Dirty Games the European Patent Office Plays at ILO
  • When ILO 'Justice' for EPO Staff Gets 'Lost in the Post'
  • Serco's Censorship of Media or EPO's Censorship of Media? Either Way, There's a Profound Media Crisis in Europe.
  • National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI France) Not Immune Like the EPO and the Courts Find it Guilty of Mismanagement
  • EPO Rating Cartoon
  • The Corrupt EPO Apparently Hides Its Serco Outsourcing Deal
  • Jo Johnson Quitting Twice in Two Years is a Terrible Sign for the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • Fake Software Patents in Europe (Invalid Patents) Would Only Discourage or Drive Away the European Software Industry, But Lawyers Don't Care
  • Patent Trolls Are Destroying Free/Open Source Software and They're Coming to Europe, Thanks to the European Patent Office
  • Bristows UPC Propaganda (in Pseudonymous Form) Shames the Government's Officials in Order to Install Corrupt Officials
  • The Electronic Frontier Foundation Opposes Software Patents (in the US), So Why Does It Keep 100% Silent About Europe and the EPO?
  • EPO Cannot With a Straight Face Lecture People About the Law (Which It Routinely and Knowingly Violates)


  • August

  • The Judges of the Boards of Appeal Are Still Controlled by the European Patent Office and European Patent Quality is Therefore in a Freefall
  • The Admission Phase/Stage: Even Team UPC is Coming to Grips With the UPC's Demise
  • The Collapse of the UPC Would Further Decrease the Perceived Value of European Patents, Which European Courts Rightly Reject
  • Updates on Koch v EPO, Anette Koch’s Case Which the EPO Would Rather Nobody Heard About
  • USPTO and EPO: Call Software Patents 'Hey Hi' ('AI') and Use Microsoft Software (or Else!)
  • Patent Maximalists Refuse to Accept That Their War on Patent Quality Also Dooms a Pan-European Patent Court System
  • Managing IP as Team UPC's Megaphone and Lobbying Front
  • No More Rights for EPO Staff?
  • Some Patent Attorneys Dislike Techrights Not Because It's Wrong But Because Software Patents Are Wrong (and Sometimes Illegal)
  • Edward as a Nodder to Team UPC Kool-Aid
  • Guest Post: António Campinos' European Patent Office Redefines Modern Slavery in the Heart of Europe in 2019
  • EPO Cannot Handle Patent Justice With a Backlog of About 10,000 Cases at the Boards of Appeal
  • The European Patent Office Increases Surveillance: Can't Get Food Without Being Spied on
  • Breaking the Law Has Become the Norm at the European Patent Office
  • Patent Prosecution Highways and Examination Highways Are Dooming the EPO
  • Software Patents Won't Come Back Just Because They're (Re)Framed/Branded as "HEY HI" (AI)
  • IP Kat Pays the Price for Being a Megaphone of Team UPC
  • The EPO's War on the Convention on the Grant of European Patents 2000 (EPC 2000), Not Just Brexit, Kills the Unitary Patent (UP/UPC) and Dooms Justice
  • Spreading False Rumours or What's Most Likely Lies (Falsehoods) Won't Help Restore Justice at the EPO
  • Europe is Gradually Becoming a Hotspot for Patent Litigation and Trolls as Patent Quality Decreases
  • The EPO is Still Violating the EPC Every Day
  • The Tight Embrace of the 'Hey Hi' (AI) Hype is Strangling the Patent System
  • IP Kat as Amplifier of Team UPC at a Time When UPC is Dead
  • Honest Media Regarding Patent Matters is Dead
  • Lies, Lies and More Lies From the EPO (While Corporate Media in Europe Plays Along)
  • Germany's Infamous Patent Troll IPCom Shows That the EPO's Failure Hurts Not Only Germany But the Whole of Europe and Customers in General
  • European Media on the Death of the Unitary Patent (UP/UPC/UPCA)
  • António Campinos Puts European Patent Quality on a Suicide Diet/Plan and All EPO Staff on Notice
  • Patent Trolls' Paradise: The EPO is a Rubber-Stamping Machine, So Why Not Automatically Generate Patent Applications?
  • The EPO and the European Media Continue to Ignore or Cover Up the Haar Case
  • EPO Not Only an Eyesore But Also an Environmental Liability
  • The Boards' (of Appeal) Fear of Enforcing the Law (EPC) Will Doom the European Patent Office


  • July

  • Today's European Patent Office (EPO) Stifles Access to Medicine With Its More Dubious European Patents
  • The American Patent Microcosm Models Its Lobbying for Software Patents Based on the EPO's Ongoing Violations of the EPC
  • Prime Minister Boris Johnson Has Turned Into a Complete Joke the Cabinet Entrusted to Deal With UPC Limbo
  • Patent Trolls Are Not a Solved Problem and They Are Definitely a Growing Problem in Europe
  • Europe's Lowered Patent Standards
  • IP Kat Used to Blast the EPO for Profound Lack of Justice. Now It's Just Meowing With the EPO's Management.
  • Anything to Distract From the EPO's Plunging Patent Quality
  • EPO is Fast Becoming the Office of Invalid Patents (IPs)
  • EPO Continues to Grant Hundreds of Thousands of Illegal Software Patents and the Media Doesn't Care
  • Greenwashing to Distract From the EPO Breaking the Law, Rigging Justice and Its Own Courts
  • EPO Gradually Becoming the World's Most Permissive (Low Patent Quality) Patent Office by Consciously Violating the EPC
  • Companies That Collapse Because the European Patent Office (EPO) Gave Them Fake Patents in a Hurry
  • Demand for European Patents Will Continue to Decrease If a Lot of European Patents Turn Out to be Invalid, Worthless
  • 2 Days Later (Case in Progress) and Still Media Silence About G 2/19
  • Index: G 2/19 (Enlarged Board of Appeal, EPO)
  • EPO Looney Tunes – Part 4: G 2/19 - Faites Vos Jeux…
  • Media Not Interested in G 2/19, Which Demonstrates Patent Justice is Nowadays Impossible at the EPO
  • EPO Looney Tunes – Part 3: The Legal Line-up for G 2/19
  • EPO Looney Tunes - Part 2: The “Difficult Legacy” and Its Dark Historical Shadow
  • EPO Noise Machine Turned On as Haar Hearing Kicks Off, Patrick Corcoran Defamed Again
  • EPO Looney Tunes - Part 1: Is D-Day Approaching for Battistelli’s “Difficult Legacy”?
  • Patent Certainty Waning, But That's Still OK for Patent Trolls
  • European Media Continues to Ignore the EPO Crisis While Law Firms and EPO Management Cover Things Up
  • Campinos is Already Widely Seen as Battistelli the Second, Even Among EPO Stakeholders
  • EPO Further Harms Justice and Quality by Weakening Processes Associated With the EPO’s Boards of Appeal
  • EPO 'Tackles' Patent Quality Concerns by Issuing New Report With “Quality” in the Title
  • Anonymous Comments Are the Only Thing of Value Left at IP Kat
  • EPO-Bribed Media Speaks to Team UPC, Produces UPC Puff Pieces With Plenty of Falsehoods and (Forbidden) Software Patents Advocacy
  • Another Day of Misleading Media Coverage About the EPO and More Squashed European Patents
  • Higher Patent Quality and More Patent Justice Rather Than Buzzwords and Litigation
  • Only a Matter of Time Before the European Patent Bubble Implodes
  • Only After Millions Were Spent on Lawyers Microsoft's Patent Troll in Europe Loses European Patent Used to Shake Down Android (Linux) Vendors
  • Ethiopian Media Gamed by EPO Management, Just Like European Media
  • The EPO's Administrative Council is Drunk on Cooperation Money (Bribes)
  • The European Patent Office is Disconnected From the Rule of Law and European Media Could Not Care Less
  • António Campinos is Almost 100% the Same as Benoît Battistelli
  • EPO Management Exacerbates Its Patent Invalidity Crisis by Rushing Examination Even Further in New Pilots
  • The EPO is More Interested in Silencing Its Critics Than in Actually Correcting Injustices


  • June

  • Tribalism Still a Major Problem at the European Patent Office
  • The New (Staged and Scripted) Video of António Campinos Feels Like a Drunken Satire
  • Director Iancu and President Benoît Battistelli Disappeared
  • EPO Staff, Lawyers and Courts Are Growing Tired of the Debased Patent Office and Administrative Council
  • UPC Was the EPO's (and Patent Maximalists') Attempt to Abolish Patent Justice
  • The EPO's “Collaborative Quality Improvements” (CQI), Formerly Known as “Team Collaboration Project,” Shows the EPO Grossly Violating the Law, Granting Patents in Clear Violation of the EPC
  • EPO CQI: Raw Leak of the Latest EPO 'Ingenuity'
  • The EPO Has Successfully Muzzled the Media
  • The European Patent Office Remains a Crooked Patent Office That Harms Staff and Abolishes the Rule of Law
  • USPTO and EPO Faking Growth by Granting Patents on Everything in Nature, But Campaigners Strike Back
  • IBM Happy That Patent Quality at EPO Collapsed and It's Easy to Get Software Patents
  • Patent Extremism: Stacking the Panels, the Surveys, the Hearings, the Debates
  • The EPO Needs a President Who Obeys the Law, Not One Who Obeys Battistelli
  • With Water (Treatment) Already Patented It Won't Take Long for Patents (and Patent Royalties) on Air
  • What Patents the EPO Has Just Awarded (With a Special Reward), Not Just Granted
  • Required Reading: Mental State of Team Battistelli/Campinos
  • EPO Directors Would be Wise to Rebel Against Team Campinos While They Still Have the Job
  • American Front Group Open Invention Network (Riding the Linux Brand) is a Proponent of Software Patents in Europe
  • Say 'Hey Hi' to Software Patents
  • Leaked: Harassment of EPO Directors by Team Campinos
  • Patent Professionals in Europe Have Devolved Into a Marketing Industry
  • Ignore the EPO's Dumb Festival and Focus on the Abuses Against the Workforce and Its Quality of Work
  • Indifference or Even Hostility Towards Patent Quality Results in Grave Injustice
  • 'AI Taskforce' is Actually a Taskforce for Software Patents
  • Weaponising Russophobia Against One's Critics
  • When the EPO is Run by Politicians It’s Expected to Be Aggressive and Corrupt Like Purely Political Establishments
  • As European Patent Office Management Covers up Collapse in Patent Quality Don't Expect UPC to Ever Kick Off
  • António Campinos — Unlike His Father — Engages in Imperialism (Using Invalid Patents)
  • António Campinos Takes EPO Waste and Corruption to Unprecedented Levels and Scale
  • The EPO is a Patent Troll's Wet Dream
  • EPO Spreading Patent Extremists' Ideology to the Whole World, Now to South Korea
  • Leaked Financial 'Study' Document Shows EPO Management and Mercer Engaging in an Elaborate “Hoax”
  • Measuring Patent Quality and Employer Quality in Europe
  • Granting More Fundamentally Wrong Patents Will Mean Reduced Certainty, Not Increased Certainty (partly about EPO)
  • Patent Quality Continues to Slip in Europe and We Know Who Will Profit From That (and Distract From It)
  • António Campinos Given an Extension to Prove He Respects the Rule of Law
  • Lawlessness at the EPO Means That Software Patents Are Still Being Granted and EPO Judges Have Their Hands Tied
  • The Preparatory Committee of the UPC Does Not Decide for Constitutional Courts
  • The Paid-For UPC Lies
  • The European Patent Office is a Global Threat, Not Just a Threat to Europe
  • Drunk on Power
  • EPO Advertises Jobs for Lawyers That Combat EPO Staff, 'Emergency' Call Surfacing
  • EPO Meltdown and Collapse in Patent Quality Don't Bother Bristows Kat
  • EUIPO/EPO Redundancies While Spending a Billion Euros on Unnecessary Buildings
  • European Patent Quality Totally and Utterly Collapses While Team UPC Hopes It Can Make the Courts 'Kangaroo' Ones
  • António Campinos “Will Have the First Strike on His Hands and Learn That If He Goes Down on This Path He May be Even More Despised Than Battistelli.”
  • An Office of Patent Extremists
  • More Tall Tales From EPOnia - A Little Apéritif to Whet the Appetite…
  • António Campinos as German Sheriff Rather Than Office President


  • May

  • British Patent Courts Continue to Expose the Collapse in Quality of European Patents
  • António Campinos Didn't Even Last a Year
  • Social 'Studies' and Sponsored 'Articles' Cannot Hide the Fact That EPO is a Terrible Employer Which Currently Harms Europe
  • European Patents Are Eventually Being Revoked. But at Great Expense to Everyone Except Law Firms.
  • Team Campinos Will Try to Make It Difficult to Go on Strike (But Won't Manage to Prevent It)
  • EPO Strikes Further Diminish Chances of UPC Ever Materialising (in Any Shape or Form)
  • EPO Allegedly Becoming Insolvent (Pretext for Cuts), So Staff Gets Punished While Management Takes the Jackpot
  • EPO President Still Not Obeying Courts' Rulings
  • António Campinos Has Run Out of Time and EPO Staff is Going on Strike (Skipping Mere Protests)
  • Quality of Patents is Going Down the Drain and Courts Have Certainly Noticed
  • EUIPO and EPO Abuses Growingly Inseparable
  • The War on Patent Quality
  • Unified Patent Court Won’t Happen Just Because the Litigation Microcosm Wants It
  • Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 4: Happy Birthday to the Kötter Group?
  • The EPO’s Key Function — Like the UPC’s Vision — Has Virtually Collapsed
  • Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 3: “Ein kritikwürdiges Unternehmen”
  • EPO Had a Leakage Problem and Privacy of Stakeholders Was Compromised, Affecting at Least 100 Cases
  • False Hope for Patent Maximalists and Litigation Zealots
  • The Race to the Bottom of Patent Quality at the EPO
  • Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 2: Meet the Kötters
  • Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 1: Urgent Shitstorm Alert
  • Patents That Were Gleefully Granted by the EPO Continue to Perish in Courts
  • Professionally Incompetent EPO Management
  • Did Battistelli 'Steal' ~$100,000,000 Euros From the EPO?
  • The Biased EPO Does Not Want to Hear From Anyone Except Those Who Pay the EPO
  • Team UPC Has Run Out of Arguments, So Now It's Just Writing Anti-Brexit Rants With Testicles in the Headlines
  • Making the Patent System About Productive Actors (Again), Not a Bunch of Law Firms and Trolls
  • Stephen Rowan: From UK-IPO to Operation Coverup of Team António Campinos
  • Lusting for a Unified Patent Court (UPC) That Respects Invalid European Patents, Including Software Patents
  • Illegal Software Patents and Patent Trolls Well Served by European and American Patent Offices But Not Courts
  • Corrupt Battistelli is Back for European Inventor Award 2019 — an Extravagant Ceremony He Has Used to Steal Millions of Euros From the EPO
  • EPO Waste and Mismanagement: Renting Space While Keeping Buildings Empty and Making More of Them
  • Corruption at the EPO is a Threat Not Only to Europe But to Every Continent in the World
  • Why Does the EPO Keep Praising People Who Promote Software Patents, Rewarding Them for Patent Thickets That Harm Software Developers?
  • The EPO is a Threat to Software Developers Everywhere, Not Just in Europe
  • Even IAM Admits That When It Comes to Patents It's Quality That Counts, Not Quantity
  • It's 2019 and Team UPC is Still Composing 'Fake News' (Lobbying Disguised as Reporting)
  • Even EPO Patent 'Justice' is Now Measured in Industrial Terms Like 'Production' Rather Than Accuracy
  • EPO in 2019: Pushing (and Bribing) for Buzzwords to Bypass/Cheat the Law Whilst Abolishing the Court System
  • Lack of Justice at the EPO Continues to Usher in Fake Patents on Abstract Things
  • Union Syndicale Federale (USF) Writes to António Campinos Again Regarding the Appalling Atmosphere at the EPO


  • April

  • Haar is Where EPO Justice Came to Meet Euthanasia
  • The 'Technical Effect' of Attacking the Independence of Judges at the Boards of Appeal and Ignoring/Breaking the Law
  • "Dia da Liberdade" in Portugal -- Wilted Carnations in EPOnia
  • The Quality of Patents is Connected to the Quality of Life of Patent Examiners
  • Supreme Court of the UK, Which Habitually Throws Out European Patents, May Overturn Troublesome Unwired Planet v Huawei Decision
  • German Federal Patent Court Curbs the Patent Maximalism of the EPO, Which Promotes Patents on Nature and/or Maths Every Single Day
  • António Campinos Would Not Refer to the EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeal If He Did Not Control the Outcomes
  • USPTO and EPO Both Slammed for Abandoning Patent Quality and Violating the Law/Caselaw in Order to Grant Illegitimate Patents on Life/Nature and Mathematics
  • The EPO's Use of Phrases Like “High-Quality Patent Services” Means They Know High-Quality European Patents Are 'Bygones'
  • The Likes of Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA), Team Campinos and Team UPC Don't Represent Europe But Hurt Europe
  • Largest Patent Offices Try to Leave Courts in a State of Disarray to Enable the Granting of Fake Patents in the US and Europe
  • The European Patent Office Does Not Care About the Law, Today's Management Constantly Attempts to Bypass the Law
  • Corporate Media Will Never Cover the EPO's Violations of the Law With Respect to Patent Scope
  • Patent Maximalists Are Enabling Injustices and Frauds
  • Caricature: EPO Standing Tall
  • The EPO is Slipping Out of Control Again and It's Another Battistelli-Like Mess With Disregard for the Rule of Law and Patent Scope
  • Global Finance Magazine Spreads Lies About the Unitary Patent and German Constitutional Court
  • New Building as Perfect Metaphor for the EPO Under the Frenchmen Battistelli and Campinos
  • EPO Still Wasting Budget, Paying Media and Academics for Spin
  • EPO Benefits European Patent Trolls With Dodgy European Patents
  • The Myth of Quality of European Patents
  • António Campinos is Already Paying a Lot of Money to Craft an Alternate Reality at the European Patent Office
  • Who Does the Legal System Really Serve or Favour in European Patent Disputes?
  • The Media is (Still) Failing to Cover EPO Corruption
  • The EPO’s Incredulous Survey: Management’s Voice, Management’s Future — EPO Staff ‘Engagement’ Spin (Denial of Issues)
  • Only One in Six EPO Workers Trusts the Management, According to New Survey Skewed by Management
  • Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) — Like MedTech at the EPO — Just Another Dodge for Illegitimate Software Patents
  • Europe's EPO Has Become France’s INPI
  • Even Patent Maximalists Are Not Happy With António Campinos Referring Question of Patents on Life to the Enlarged Board of Appeal
  • The European Patent Office Will Come to Regret the Fake Patents It Has Granted for Short-Term Financial Gains
  • EPO Management is Knowingly and Consciously Granting Invalid European Patents, Including Patents on Life and Nature
  • The Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) Warns About the Granting of Tens of Thousands of Invalid European Patents Every Year
  • The EPO Continues Granting Bogus Patents on Mathematics and Nature, But There's Hope Over the Horizon
  • EPO Judges Lack Independence and the Internal Courts Are Seen to be Lacking Legitimacy (Decisions' Validity) Under António Campinos
  • Artificially-Intelligent Blockchained Internet of Things Industrial Revolutionary CII or Software Patents by Any Other Name
  • Patent Trolls Destroy the European Economy Because EPO Gives Them Questionable Patents


  • March

  • The UK Supreme Court's Latest Decision is Ammunition for the FCC to Scuttle the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA)
  • A March in Brussels Next Month, Disgruntled EPO Staff Invited
  • There's No Administrative Council at the EPO Anymore. It's Like a Stamping 'Department' of the Office and the Same Goes for the Boards of Appeal.
  • Tall Tales From the Land of EPOnia: Indications of High-Level Club Med/EUIPO “Entryism”
  • European Patents Found to be Invalid and Deemed Impotent in the Highest British Court (Again)
  • The European Patent Scope is a Lost Cause, Does Not Exist Anymore
  • The EPO is Still a Software Patents Propaganda Machine and Thus an Enemy of Software Developers in Europe
  • Dimitris Xenos on Unconstitutional Supranational Arrangements for Patent Law: Leaving Out the Elected Legislators and the People’s Participatory Rights
  • The Campinos-Battistelli Strategy is Working: Patent Trolls Are Coming to Europe!
  • The Unified Patent Court is Dead, But Doubts Remain Over the EPO's Appeal Boards' Ability to Rule Independently Against Patents on Nature and Code
  • Why the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO) Cannot Ignore Judges, Whereas the EPO Can (and Does)
  • The European Patent Office Needs to Put Lives Before Profits
  • “Criminal Organisation”
  • Team UPC (Unitary Patent) is a Headless Chicken
  • António Campinos Makes Up Claims About Patent Quality, Only to be Rebutted by Examiners, Union (Anyone But the 'Puff Pieces' Industry)
  • CEN and CENELEC Agreement With the EPO Shows That It's Definitely the European Commission's 'Department'
  • Decisions Made Inside the European Patent Organisation (EPO) Lack Credibility Because Examiners and Judges Lack Independence
  • Team UPC Buries Its Credibility Deeper in the Grave
  • The EPO Has Sadly Taken a Side and It's the Patent Trolls' Side
  • To Team UPC the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Has Become a Joke and the European Patent Office (EPO) Never Mentions It Anymore
  • Stopping António Campinos and His Software Patents Agenda (Not Legal in Europe) Would Require Independent Courts
  • The EPO and the USPTO Are Granting Fake Patents on Software, Knowing That Courts Would Reject These
  • EPO 'Results' Are, As Usual, Not Measured Correctly
  • Good News Everyone! UPC Ready to Go... in 2015!
  • EPO's Latest 'Results' Show That António Campinos Has Already Given Up on Patent Quality and is Just Another Battistelli
  • EPO Examiner: “I Have Been Against Software Patents and Eventually 3/4 of My Job is Examining Software Patent Applications.”
  • Europe Will Pay a High Price for Software Patents Advocacy by António Campinos in Europe's Patent-Granting Authority
  • António Campinos — Like His Father — Lacks Support From Colleagues, Endorsed Only From the Top
  • From Patents on Chewing Gum to Toothpaste Patents: How the EPO Came to Focus on Speed and Volume, Not Quality
  • European Patent Office Press Releases (Two in Two Days) Are Disguised as 'News' and Tell the Opposite of the Truth
  • António Campinos Will Not Tackle Any of the Lingering Issues at the European Patent Office
  • Immunity Stripped by the Supreme Court of the United States, Opening the Possibility of Ending Immunity of the EPO As Well
  • The Tide Has Turned Against Patents on Life in Europe
  • Patent Law Firms Are Truly (and Visibly) Panicking Over the Demise of Software Patents
  • 3,000 Posts About the European Patent Office and Why We'll Maintain Our Focus on It
  • Fraud at the European Patent Office, But All Those Arrested Are Perpetrators Without Misused Immunity
  • Power and Corruption: How European Patent Office Nepotism and Despotism Open Doors
  • Quality Issues at the European Patent Office Can Lead It Down the Same Downward Path as the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • Truly and Completely Out of Control, the Unhinged European Patent Office Calls Applicants “Customers” While Offering Patents on Nature, Life, Maths
  • The EPO Technical/Enlarged Board of Appeal Would, Potentially (If It Enjoyed Actual Independence), Serve a 'European Alice' and Eliminate All/Most Software Patents in Europe
  • Battistelli's Presidency Was a Write-off Presidency (of Potentially Billions of Euros in Losses)
  • The Technical Board of Appeal Will Need True Independence to Squash Software Patents at the EPO (T 0489/14)
  • Unitary Patent (UPC/A) Constitutional Complaint Can be Decided in a Matter of Years (If Ever)
  • European Patent Office Careers Bad for One's Health, Properly Assessing Patents is 'Professional Incompetence' Now
  • EPO Staff Union: 'New' Team Campinos Practice “Reminds Us Strongly of the Battistelli Times.”
  • The Collapse of Poor-Quality European Patents Continues in European Courts
  • Lesson From the United States: Overly Permissive Patent Policy (Maximalism) Can Drive Technology Companies Away
  • T 0489/14: Will the European Patent Organisation Put an End to Software Patents at Long Last?


  • February

  • The Latest Brexit Developments Add Another Nail (Among Many) to the Unified Patent Court's (UPC) Coffin
  • Teff Just One Among Countless Examples of Sheer Disregard for Patent Quality
  • English Translation: Alexandre Benalla Thinks He Can Carry a Weapon in Germany
  • English Translation: Alexandre Benalla on His Work Experience (or Lack Thereof)
  • English Translation: Alexandre Benalla Cannot Tell the Difference Between EPO and the French Republic (or Battistelli and Macron)
  • English Translation: I Have Huge Respect for Battistelli, Said Alexandre Benalla Under Pressure
  • Croatian Media on Fake Diplomas and the EPO Connection
  • There is Still a Patent Quality Crisis at the EPO
  • Ben and Ben: Benalla and His Enabler, Beny Battistelli
  • Alexandre Benalla's Time at the EPO, in His Own Words
  • Video: Alexandre Benalla Explains His Activities Within the European Patent Office
  • Bruno Retailleau on Alexandre Benalla's Perjury
  • Video: Alexandre Benalla on Carrying Weapons in Munich's EPO Premises (Strictly Illegal in Germany)
  • Bristows is Still Hoping to 'Overthrow' the Courts and Throw Out Ingve Stjerna's Complaint (About the Likes of Bristows)
  • Video: Alexandre Benalla Speaks About His Relationship With Battistelli
  • Hallmark of Corruption: Benalla and Fellow Thugs Paid Roughly the Same Salary as Battistelli (Each!) and There's a New Chinese Contract Worth €7.2 Million
  • EPO Insider Video: Nouvel an Architectural Hazard, Not Just a Fire Hazard
  • The European Patent Office Goes Down a Very Slippery Slope by Promoting and Defending Patents on Life/Nature in Defiance of Parliament and the EPC
  • Software Patents Are in a Freefall in Courts Worldwide, But the EPO Keeps Granting and Promoting These
  • Team UPC Excited Over Nothing, President Campinos Rarely Even Mentions UPC Anymore
  • Battistelli's Bodyguard Has Been Arrested, But Battistelli Should Join Him
  • How Long Can the EPO Bend the Rules Before the Avalanche of Invalid Software Patents?
  • Battistelli Trashed 223 Millions (of Stakeholders' Euros) on a System That Destroyed the European Patent Office and Made Few Private Corporations a Lot Richer
  • What Happened in the United States Now Happens in Europe: Lots of Patents Turn Out to Be Bunk, Fake, Bogus, Invalid and Thus Worthless
  • Stephen Rowan's and Nellie Simon's Letter to EPO Staff: eDossier Has “Not Reached the Required Quality Levels.”
  • Search Matters Not at the European Patent Office
  • António Campinos Still Needs to Undo Battistelli's Union-Busting Activities at the EPO
  • António Campinos Still Needs to Hold Team Battistelli Accountable for Illegally Bringing Weapons to the EPO
  • How Many/Most EPO Examiners View 'President' António Campinos
  • Courts in Disagreement: Warning on Wrongly-Granted European Patents and the Looming Collapse of All Software Patents in Europe
  • EPO Grants Fake European Patents — Including Software Patents — and European Courts Keep Rejecting These
  • Nobody But Patent Trolls and Litigators Will Benefit From the Corruption of the European Patent Office
  • Outline/Index of the Alexandre Benalla/Battistelli Scandal
  • “EPO Lawlessness Again”
  • Unitary Patent (UPC) is All About Imposing Patent Maximalists' Ideology of Greed and Self Interest on Courts in the Name of 'Unification' or 'Consistency' or 'Community'
  • Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part V: Mediapart Explains the 'Raid' Attempt, Reporters Without Borders Involved
  • Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part IV: Suspected Offenses of Forgery and Possible Falsification
  • Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part III: Mars, France Close Protection (Benalla's Family), and Russian Oligarchy
  • Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part II: Fishing Expedition for Sources in the Alexandre Benalla 'Underworld' Scandal
  • Innovating the Idea That Software Patents (Monopolies on Algorithms) Are Covering 'Artificial' 'Intelligence' (AI and ML as Loopholes)
  • Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part I: Destruction of Evidence by Alexandre Benalla
  • Gross Violations of the EPC at the European Patent Office as Principal Priority Turns Against Science and Technology
  • European Patent Office’s Exploitation of the ‘AI’ Catchphrase/Buzzword to Grant Patents on Algorithms in Defiance of the Rules, the Law, and Common Sense
  • Corrupt Battistelli Paid a Fortune (EPO Budget) for Outlaw/Rogue 'Bodyguards' From Firm Linked to Russian Oligarch Iskander Makhmudov
  • António Campinos Will Never Hold Battistelli Accountable for His Crimes Because He Too Profits From These
  • EPO President Campinos Works With Patent Trolls and With Team UPC to Promote Software Patents
  • Teff is Not an Invention. Teff is Nature.
  • UPC Part of the Litigation 'Industry' Lobby and the Efforts to Change (Significantly Lower) Patent Quality Bar/Scope
  • The Attack on the Independence of the European Judges Has Apparently Expanded to the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht)
  • EPO Boards of Appeal Still Need Independence
  • Bogus European Patents Kill Cancer Patients, But EPO Still Has the Audacity to Ride the Wave of World Cancer Day
  • Concerns About Stephan Harbarth's Unitary Patent (UPC) Vested Interests and His Entrance Into the Constitutional Court That Decides on UPC
  • The European Patent Office's Promotion of Software Patents Overlooks Ongoing 'Spillage' of the Patent Crisis to Patent Courts (Rejecting Such Patents)
  • The Reputation of the EPO is Ruined But Now It Ruins the Lives of Staff and Europeans


  • January

  • Fake Software Patents, Patent Trolls and Assault on Generic Medicine in Europe
  • President Campinos Maintains Battistelli's Abusive Sanctions, EPO Staff Increasingly Losing Faith and Hope in Him
  • People Are Dying Because of Low Quality of (Wrongly-Granted) European Patents
  • The EPO Continues to Grant Software Patents Even Though Many European Patents Are Being Invalidated Already
  • "HE DID NOTHING Since He Arrived, Full Stop." What EPO People Make of President Campinos...
  • The Management of the EPO Will Not Manage to Recruit Any Talent If It's Killing Its Own Staff
  • Compensation for Damages and Discrimination: The Case (One Among Several) Against EPO Vice-President Topić
  • Another Call for EPO Leaks
  • The USPTO Used to Pose a Threat to European Software Developers. Now It's the EPO Posing a Threat to Software Developers Worldwide.
  • British Courts Once Again Reject Bogus European Patents Granted on Software
  • European Patent Quality as Awful Under António Campinos as (If Not Worse Than) Benoît Battistelli and Battistelli Makes a Public Comeback
  • Declining Patent Quality and Lies About Software Patents at the EPO
  • Team UPC Has Been Reduced to a Self-Satirising Drama Show
  • The Whitewashing of the EPO Under António Campinos
  • Software Patents Are a Dying Breed, So Marks & Clerk and Other Legal Monoliths Promote the EPO's Buzzwords (Loopholes)
  • A Fortnight After His Diplomatic Immunity Ends Outgoing EPO Vice-President Željko Topić is in Court in Zagreb, Croatia
  • JUVE Creates English Site, Promotes Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • EPO Defying Patent Restrictions/Limits From the European Parliament, the European Commission and the European Countries It Claims to Represent
  • The UPC is Dead. But Bristows is Now Fully Engaged in Necrophilia.
  • Brexit Has Failed, But So Has the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • IBM, Which Will Soon be Buying Red Hat, is Promoting Software Patents in Europe
  • Team UPC on Dead UPC: Choosing Gowns for Corpses
  • Council of Europe (CoE) Recognises There's No Justice at the EPO
  • European Patent Office a Textbook Example of Lawless, Rogue Institutions
  • IP Kat Has Turned From EPO Critic (to the Point of Being Blocked by the EPO) to EPO Whitewasher That Gags EPO Whistleblowers
  • The EPO's Low Patent Quality Can Kill the European Software Industry and Kill People Too
  • The Fiction That Spain (or Italy) Can Salvage the UPC
  • EPO President “Campinos is Wasting His Credibility With “Sweet” Communiqués Full of Hot Air and Storytelling”
  • European Patent Office Saga in 2019: “95% of the People Responsible for the Misery Are Still in Place and Have Not Even Been Rebuked”
  • EPO Corruption is Helping Patent Maximalists in the United States
  • EPO Leaks
  • The German Constitutional Court's Decision on Unitary Patent (UPC) is Very, Very Far
  • The EPO is So Backwards That the Boss Has Just Become Subservient to the Subject of Oversight
  • The Real Harm of Really Bad European Patent Grants