EPO 2021 Archive

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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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Contents 1 2021 1.1 December 1.2 November 1.3 October 1.4 September 1.5 August 1.6 July 1.7 June 1.8 May 1.9 April 1.10 March 1.11 February 1.12 January

2021

December

• Meme: EPO 'Social Dialogue': Blah Blah Blah Blah (But Nothing Gets Changed for the Better)
• 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021: 4 Years of António Campinos Failing and EPO Granting Loads of Invalid Patents
• COVID-19 Has Exacerbated Already Severe Psychological Harm Associated With Working for the EPO
• Associates and Enablers of Benoît Battistelli Are Commenting in IP Kat Today
• Response to Latest Call for EPO Strike Contains Lies From Campinos (and Another Warning That Quality of European Patents Has Collapsed)
• EPO Staff Representation: “We Believe That the EPO Should… Invest in Staff and in Quality” (Not Cuts and Worse)
• EUIPO-EPO Nepotism and Cross-Pollination/Staff Influx Depicted
• The EPO is Selling Europe and Selling Out Its Own Workers (After Using Them)
• EPO: Getting Rid of Examiners, Hiring PR People Instead
• The EPO Conflict Affects Everyone in Europe and We Should Support Patent Examiners, Who Are Also Victims of a Corrupt System (Besieged by Dictators Installed in a Systemic Coup d'État)
• German Media on Half a Decade of EPO Appeals and 'Legal' Hearings Held Unlawfully in Haar
• The EPO ‘Mafia’
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXX: The Idiosyncratic Italians
• Update Regarding Slovenia and Vojko Toman
• Meme: Will You Trust These Clowns With Your Confidential Data?
• EPO's Privacy Violations Being 'Normalised'
• The EPO's 'IT' Systems Have Become a ClusterZuck, Based on EPO Insiders
• Meme: EPO Data Protection
• EPO's Illegal Surveillance Covered Up by Buzzwords Bingo and Acronyms: Data Protection Board (DPB), Data Protection Rules (DPR), and Data Protection Officer (DPO)
• From One Form of Fake 'Independence' ('Exile') to Another Phony and Shallow 'Autonomy' (Webchats)
• Slovenia Needs More Courageous Leadership (Like Vesna Stanković Juričić), Not 'Puppets' of the Patent and Copyright Cartels
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXIX: On the Slippery Slope to Capture
• Slovenia’s Lobbyists Problem
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXVIII: Ensnared in the Tentacles of the SAZAS Octopus
• Listen: Vesna Stanković Juričić Confronts Corrupt Team Battistelli (Leaked Audio)
• The Story of Slovenia's Fall or a Surrender to the So-called 'IP' Cartel
• Meme: The 'Cartel' Ran Home With All the Money...
• Slovenian Patent Office as a Hostage
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXVII: Stubbornly Independent Slovenia
• The EPO is in 'Damage Control' Mode (and It Shows)
• Serbia and Europe's Largest (Also Most Corrupt) Patent Office, the EPO
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXVI: Serbian Sour Grapes
• Meme: UPC Meme From FFII
• The Precarious Situation of Slovakia as One of Battistelli’s EPO ‘Pawns’ in the East
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXV: Slovakian Scruples
• Tomorrow is the First Anniversary of Strike Against President Campinos at the European Patent Office
• If EPOnia Was a Country, It Would Rank About 6th in the World for Union Density
• Meme/Teaser: Buying Power or Securing Control (the Leadership Positions) of Europe's Largest Patent Office
• Norway’s Handling of EPO Dictatorship
• EPO Staff Representatives Cautioned Delegates About Illegal Strike Regulations (But Were Ignored by Delegates)
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXIV: An “Extremely Dubious” Proposal
• A Year After the Last EPO Strike Another One May be Brewing
• Patent Quality at the EPO Has Collapsed Since Battistelli Came, According to EPO Staff
• Meme: The Birth of EPOnia
• Only Norway Followed the Advice of EPO Workers and Consulted Relevant Ministries About Unlawful EPO Policies
• The EPO’s Staff Does Need to Go on Strike in Order to Highlight Abuse/Misuse of Granting Authority and Mishandling of Patent Examiners
• Meme: Strikes Should Not be Regulated by the People Those Strikes Are Against
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXIII: Swedish Scepticism
• EPO Management Now Exploits Autistic People as “White-washing Communication Exercise for an Organization Which Has Breached Fundamental Rights”
• Meme/Teaser: On Tolerating ‘Kings’ in Charge of the EPO
• Jérôme’s UPC ‘Sausage Factory’ in Brussels
• Meme: Team UPC Undermining Home/Host Nations
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXII: “Plucky Little Belgium”?
• Meme: A 'Neutral' (Facial Expression) Jérôme Debrulle
• Need for an EPO That Works for Europe and for Science
• Meme/Teaser: Can't Say “No” to Munich's Battistelli
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXI: The Abstentionists
• Meme: EU Assurances
• Clare Daly (GUE/NGL) Does What Every Public Official in Europe Should Have Done About EPO Shenanigans
• Meme: Rowing to the Bottom of the Ocean
• EPO Gradually Reduced to ‘Fee Collection Agency’ Which Eliminates Its Very Own Staff
• The Committee on Patent Law (PLC) Informed About Overlooked Issues “Which Might Have a Bearing on the Validity of EPO Patents.”
• Meme: Meanwhile in Austria...
• The EPO’s Web Site is a Parade of Endless Lies and Celebration of Gross Violations of the Law
• The Letter EPO Management Does Not Want Applicants to See (or Respond to)
• EPO-Bribed IAM ‘Media’ Has Praised Quality, Which Even EPO Staff (Examiners) Does Not Praise
• Meme: António Campinos and Socialist Posturing
• António Campinos as EPO President is Considered Worse Than Benoît Battistelli (in Some Regards) After 3.5 Years in Europe’s Second-Largest Institution
• The EPO’s “Gender Awareness Report”
• EPO Staff Committee Compares the Tactics of António Campinos to Benoît Battistelli’s
• Prof. Thomas Jaeger in GRUR: Unified Patent Court (UPC) “Incompatible With EU Law“
• EPO Cannot and Will Not Self-Regulate
• Meme: Germany's Licence to Break the Law
• EPO Dislikes Science and Scientists

November

• Meme: EPO Administrative Council Believing EPO-Bribed ‘Media’ (IAM Still Shilling and Lying for Cash)
• The EPO’s Mythical “Gap” Has Been Found and It’s Bonuses for People Who Use Pure Fiction to Steal From Patent Examiners
• By 2022 0% of 'News' Coverage About Patents Will Be Actual Journalism (Patent Litigation Sector Has Hijacked the World Wide Web to Disseminate Self-Promotional Misinformation)
• EPO Staff Engagement Survey Predates the Pandemic and Provides False Assumptions for EPO Policies or Policy-Setting
• EPO: We Support Women and Gay People, But We Also Support People Who Behead Them (in the Interest of Patent Profits)
• New Ways of Working for António Campinos, Even From One’s Own Home During a Crisis
• Meme: Patent Searches and Examinations Without Colleagues to Help (and Line Managers You Cannot See)
• This Aged Very Poorly: Unified Patent Court (UPC) “Should Enter Into Force in 2014.”
• Studying EPO and Patent Affairs Through RSS Feeds and Organising the Collected Information
• Meme: Team UPC Could Use a Lesson in Geography
• Unified Patent Court Committee Refuses Access to Secret Draft Declaration to Bypass National Parliaments, Brexit, and the Vienna Convention
• EPO Dictatorship Coming Home to Roost
• Meme: Need New Hardware to Work for EPO
• The Central Staff Committee of the EPO Has Just Alleged That EPO Management Discarded All Input From Staff Representatives While Monetising the Pandemic
• Working From Home When the Rich and Powerful Corporations (or Governments) Make All the Important Decisions and Rules
• Meme: Workplace of the Future
• EPO Management Will Exploit the Pandemic to Crush Patent Examiners Like It Crushed the Rule of Law (and Judges)
• San Marino: From “Libertas” to a Battistelli and Kongstad Chinchilla
• Meme: Bilateral Battistelli
• Meme: Sun King Against the Law
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXX: San Marino and the Perfidious Betrayal of Liberty
• Power Without Countervailing Power in Patent Law
• Meme/Teaser San Marino Grape Stomp
• IP Kat Was Declawed by Battistelli’s Threats and Sanctions and Now It’s Collapsing
• Recycling Enablers of the EPO Regime and Bribing Them (or Rewarding Them) Years Later
• Meme: In 2022 We're Back to 2014
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part IXXX: The EPOnian Micro-States - Monaco and Malta
• The EPO Never Left 'King' Battistelli Behind It

October

• When Corporate Media Cannot Tell the Difference Between EPO and EU
• FFII: Unified Patent Court is 100 Times More Expensive and an SME Killer, Europe is Committing an Economic Suicide
• Meme: The EPO's 'Habibi'
• The European Patent Office is in Disarray Because of the National Delegates, Not in Spite of Them
• Meme/Teaser: EPO Governance Crisis: One Country, One Vote
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXVIII: Benoît and António's Loyal “Habibi”
• Meme: Not in Our Name...
• FFII on Manipulation and Recycling of the Unified Patent Court (UPC)’s Impact Assessment
• Meme/Teaser: Germany (EPO) Assimilated to Turkish Culture/Dictatorship
• Cyprus as Satellite Nation of ‘Special Interests’ in the European Patent Office and Organisation
• Meme: Inventing ‘Authentic Interpretation’ (Maybe They Should Also Patent It)
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXVII: Cypriot Complicity
• Meme: Asleep at the Wheel
• Meme/Teaser: June 2013: Too Hot to Vote
• Meme/Satire: A Toast to the UPC
• Big Holes in EPO Budget, Overseen by a Greek Official
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXVI: A Trojan Horse on the Budget and Finance Committee
• Meme: Italy is in London
• Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII): EU Declares Unitary Patent’s PPI Agreement ‘Into Force’ While UK is Still a Condition, Ignoring Brexit and the Rule of Law
• Meme: The EPO’s “New Normal”
• This New Edward Snowden Video is Relevant to Media Cover-up in Service of EPO Management
• EPO Home-Working (or ‘Remote’ Working or ‘Teleworking’) Isn’t an Act of Generosity But of Exploitation
• Meme: False Choices and False Dichotomy Designed for Self-Harm
• Meme: EPO Presidential Surveys
• ‘Shaping the New Normal’ Survey at the EPO Got 5,554 EPO Staff to Participate, But It Was Controlled by Liars With an Agenda
• Many of the National Delegations (or Delegates) in the EPO's Administrative Council Have No Understanding of What They Vote on
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXV: The Balkan League - Fresh Blood or Same Old, Same Old?
• Meme: Sounds Legit
• Meme: Mayoral Patent Office Chief
• Romania's Patent Office (OSIM): Nine Different Chiefs in Just Eight Years
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXIV: The Balkan League - Romania
• Meme: “Social Democracy” at the EPO
• Meme: António Campinos Visits the OSIM
• Meme/Teaser: Meet the President
• Bulgarian Like Bavarian Serfdom
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXIII: The Balkan League - Bulgaria
• Meme/Teaser: Oligarchs-Controlled Patent Offices With Media Connections That Cover Up Corruption
• The Demolition of the EPO Was Made Possible With Assistance From Countries That Barely Have European Patents
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXII: The Balkan League - North Macedonia and Albania
• Some Memes About What Croatia Means to the European Patent Office
• Gangster Culture in the EPO
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXI: The Balkan League – The Doyen and His “Protégée”
• Meme/Teaser: Crime Express
• Unlawful Regimes Even Hungary and Poland Would Envy
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XX: The Visegrád Group
• Meme: ILO Designed to Fail: EPO Presidents Cannot be Held Accountable If ILOAT Takes Almost a Decade to Issue a Simple Ruling
• Meme: Speaking the Same Language
• António Campinos Thinks Salary Reductions Months Before He Leaves is “Exceptional Social Gesture”
• 'Satellite States' of EPO Autocrats
• Meme: Don't Mention 'Brexit' to Team UPC
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part IXX: The Baltic States
• Meme: Strike Triangulations, Reception Issues
• Meme: Is Saying “No!” to Unlawful Proposals Considered “Impolite”?
• Meme: EPO Legal Sophistry and Double Dipping
• Meme/Teaser: “Judge a Person Both by His Friends and Enemies”
• 'Cluster-Voting' in the European Patent Office/Organisation (When a Country With 1.9 Million Citizens Has the Same Voting Power as a Country With 83.1 Million Citizens)
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XVIII: Helsinki's Accord
• Meme: Living as a Human Resource, Working for Despots
• Meme: Giving the Knee
• Josef Kratochvìl Rewarded Again for Covering Up EPO Corruption and the EPO Bribes the Press for Lies Whilst Also Lying About Its Colossal Privacy Violations
• Meme: Sorry, Wrong Country (Or: Slovenia isn't Great Britain)
• How Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden Voted on Patently Unlawful Regulations at the EPO
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XVII: The Non-Monolithic Nordic Bloc
• Norway Should Have Voted Against Benoît Battistelli’s Illegal (Anti-)’Strike Regulations’ at the European Patent Office
• Meme/Teaser: Benoît Battistelli, King of Iceland
• Meme/Teaser: Thrown Under the Bus
• The World Needs to Know What Many Austrians Already Know About Rude Liar, the Notorious ‘Double-Dipper’
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XVI: The Demise of the Austrian Double-Dipper
• Meme/Teaser More to Life Than Patents
• Meme: The Austrian School of Friedrich Rude Liar
• Austria’s Right-Wing Politicians Displaying Their Arrogance to EPO Examiners
• Meme: Friedrich Rödler’s Increasingly Incomprehensible Debt Quagmire, Years Before EPO Money Was Trafficked Into the Stock Market
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XV: Et Tu Felix Austria…
• Meme: First Illegally Banning Strikes, Then Illegally Taking Over Courts
• Portuguese Network of Enablers
• Meme/Teaser: Double-Dipping Friedrich Rödler
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XIV: Battistelli's Iberian Facilitators - Portugal
• The Reign in Spain
• Meme: Spanish Inquisition
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XIII: Battistelli’s Iberian Facilitators – Spain
• From Competitive (Top-Level, High-Calibre, Well-Paid) Jobs to 2,000 Euros a Month -- How the EPO is Becoming a Sweatshop by Patent Examiners' Standards
• Meme: Protecting European Patent Courts From EPO ‘Mafia’
• With EPO 'Strike Regulations' Belatedly Ruled Unlawful, EPO Management May be Lowering the Salary Even Further by Introducing Outside 'Temps' or Casual Workers
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XII: The French Connection
• Meme: Another Maladministration Meeting Comes to an End
• Splitting the Time to Cover More Leaks and Exposés
• Meme: Destroying the Workplace
• EPO Management Tricks EPO Staff Into Taking More Paycuts
• Süddeutsche Zeitung Became a Propaganda Arm of EPO Management (and by Extension Software Patents/Patent Lobbyists)
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XI: “General Bock” - Battistelli's Swiss Apprentice?
• Meme/Teaser: Swiss Alexandre Benallas
• Meme/Teaser: Swiss Rumbustious Alpha-Rambos
• Unqualified Managers and Demoralising Leadership in Switzerland (Like in EPO)
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part X: Introducing the Controversial Christian Bock
• Betrayal Not Only of Swiss Workers But All European Workers, Courtesy of Roland Grossenbacher and Christian Bock
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part IX: More Holes Than Swiss Cheese
• The 168th Meeting of the EPO Administrative Council as a Test of the EPO's Oversight Mechanisms
• Meme/Teaser: Alpha Males
• John Alty, Sean Dennehey, and Gerard Barrett as Enablers of Thatcherite “Strike Regulations” at the EPO (and Bonus: Team Battistelli’s Cheerleader ‘Managing IP’ Ceases Print Publication)
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part VIII: Perfidious Albion and Pusillanimous Hibernia
• UPC (Unethical Paid Coverage): Fake News and Paid-For 'Planted' Articles Everywhere
• Etienne Schneider, Lex Kaufhold and Other Officials Empowered EPO’s Tyranny of Lawlessness, But Will Iris Depoulain Put an End to That?
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part VII: Luxembourgish Laxity
• Meme: It's No Rosa Luxemburg
• The Unlawful Legacy of Guus Broesterhuizen, Paul van Beukering, and Derk-Jan de Groot
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part VI: A Distinct Lack of Dutch Courage
• Meme/Teaser: Double Dutch of Double Standards
• Christoph Ernst and Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger as Battistelli’s ‘Enablers’ in Germany
• Meme: Nicht Unser Bier
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part V: Germany Says “Ja”
• Top EPO Applicants (Six Nations/States of Seven Founding States) Approved Unlawful Strike Regulations, Illegally Crushing EPO Examiners
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part IV: The Founding States
• Meme/Teaser: The Seven Nations and the Six Nations
• Meme: Isabel Frommelt and Esther Schindler Too Busy to Vote or Even Attend
• Cannot Cast a Ballot for Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Liechtenstein (Even Whilst Attending for the Vote)?
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part III: Three Missing Votes
• Reposted: Right of Strike Breached at the EPO -- Statement by Union Syndicale Fédérale (USF)
• Meme/Teaser When All Else Fails, Blame “Soros”
• Treating the Law Like It's Merely a Recommendation That Rich and Powerful People Can Ignore Whenever It Suits Them
• Meme: Took Longer Than Battistelli's Presidency (and as Long as False UPC Promises)
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part II: A “Unanimous” Endorsement?
• Meme: Totally and Perfectly Legal
• EPO Collusion
• Meme: Attacking the Workers, the Press, and the Law
• Meme: Voting in the EPO
• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part I: Let the Sunshine In!
• Teaser: New EPO Series About Battistelli's Illegal “Strike Regulations”
• Meme: Margot Forgot UPC Facts
• Angela Merkel’s Coalition Has Not Helped EPO Staff and Not Even Bloggers Blackmailed by EPO Management

September

• Meme: “This is Intentional Fraud” (European Commission on Impact Assessment of the UPC)
• Nobody to Talk to About EPO Abuses, Including Abuses Against the Media and Against the EPO's Own Staff
• Meme: Paid-for UPC Echo Chamber: How Disinformation Campaigns or Political Meddling Work Online
• Meme: Planting UPC Fiction in the Media
• Slovenia and Germany (or Austria) Are Not Called “United Kingdom”
• The “You Pee, See?” (UPC) Tactics: Fake it Till You Make it
• Meme: Meeting Later Today in Slovenia
• “What the Heli, Battistelli?”
• When It Comes to UPC, EPO is Still Stuck in Pre-Brexit Mindset (More Than Half a Decade in the Past)
• Meme: Route de France
• How Basic Laws and Fundamental Rights Got Crushed in the European Patent Office
• Meme: When the EPO Watches Everything (‘Dissidents’, Media, Etc.) and Isn’t Being Watched by Anybody
• Virtual Oversight
• Meme: Some People Are Just Above the Law
• The EPO Must Forsake Its Diplomatic Immunity and Quit Pretending It's About Patent Law (or Any Law)
• Meme: President Campinos Addresses the Legacy of Battistelli’s “Strike Regulations”
• Meme: The EPO's Carte Blanche and 'Diplomatic Immunity' Card
• As Expected, Minimal Pseudo Compliance From EPO Management, Adding Insult to Injury
• The EPO is on the Run (Escaping Negative Press Coverage)
• Meme: Lowering the Standards...
• Meme: The EPO-EUIPO “Good Brother” Network
• Meme: The Best Quality Propaganda
• Preparations for the Next Series and Further Improvements in IPFS and Gemini
• Microsoft and the EPO: A History of Threats and Suppression Against the Free Press
• Meme: The B4 Summit: Baltic Benoît Battistelli in Belarus
• Meme: Looting Europe and Taking Away From the Office
• Formally Challenging the EPO and Microsoft for Apparent Efforts to Suppress Reporting With Evidence of Crimes, Including Violations of EPO Data Protection Guidelines
• Meme: Warning – Tree Felling in Progress
• EPO Management is Hiding Under the ‘Cloud’ While Violating Privacy Laws
• Meme: Microsoft Says Its Paying Clients (Like EPO) Don't Violate Privacy Law
• Coming Soon: EPO Series on Lawlessness
• Meme: 70 Days of Non-Compliance
• EPO “Board 28” Meeting: Imaginary Dialogue Between EPO President Campinos and the Chair of the Administrative Council, Josef Kratochvíl
• Meme: EPO Management, Always Right
• Recent Focus on Git, Gemini, and Upcoming Series About EPO Abuses
• EPO Bribes at the Expense of EPO Users and the European Union (EU)
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XX – Top Jobs at EUIPO for “Compliant” Baltic Officials?
• Meme: Thanking and Rewarding My Rigga’ in Riga
• Meme: EPO and EUIPO Aren’t Democratic Institutions
• Meme: 'Open Source' Study/Report From the European Commission Promotes Software Patents in Europe
• What Patent Colonialism Looks Like
• Meme: The Coloniser Campinos, Preying on the Poor
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part IXX – The EUIPO Connection
• Meme: Put the Ballot in This Box…
• All the President’s Men and Women in Latvia
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XVIII – A Baltic Circus in Riga
• Meme: Be My Rigga'
• Corruption in Latvia's Patent Office
• Meme: Forward Pharma Meets EPO Patent ‘Quality’
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XVII – Secret Bank Accounts in Switzerland and Germany
• EPO Oversight
• EPO Timeliness (or How the European Patent Organisation/Office Uses Time to Deny Justice)
• Nearly 3,000 Days of EPO Violating Fundamental Rights of EPO Staff, and Not Without Help From an Overwhelmingly Complicit Administrative Council
• Two Months of ILO-AT Non-Compliance at the EPO and a Decade of a Docile Administrative Council That Approves Illegal Proposals
• Meme: Very International Patent Office...
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XVI – A Promising Start Followed by an Unfortunate Cock-Up
• The EPO's Lithuanian Representation, Leadership, or Delegation
• Meme: When the National Average Salary is 400-500 Euros a Month
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XV – Worse Than “a Backward Kolkhoz”…
• 5 Years Ago: Benjamin Henrion (FFII) Explains the Connection Between Software Patents and UPC
• Meme: Teaser About Lithuanian Patent Office Affairs…
• The Government of Germany Needs to Quit Supporting Fraud
• The Younger Face of the Estonian Patent Office
• Meme: Consistent Standards
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XIV – Business as Usual in Tallinn
• Lies and Deceit, Striving to Expand the Coup From Patent Offices to Patent Courts
• Meme: That Didn't Go Too Well for Alexander Ramsay, Master Liar of Team UPC...
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XIII – Out With the Old, in With the New?
• Six Years Ago Belgian TV Compared Benoît Battistelli to a Mass Murderer, El Chapo Guzmán
• Benoît Battistelli’s Napoleonic Baltic Crusade: Phase II, Fortification and Cover-Up
• How Much Corruption Can One Survive in EPO?
• A Vast Sea of Corruption Flowing Out of EPOnia (Munich/Bavaria/Germany)
• Meme: The Rigga' From Riga
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XII – Battistelli and His Baltic Fiefdoms
• OHIM/EUIPO Giving Top Roles to Repeatedly-Convicted Fraudsters is Bad for the Reputation of the European Union
• Meme: António Campinos Poured Bleach on a Convicted Criminal
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part XI – With a Little Help From My Friends…
• Just Like in China, Even an EPO 'Emeritus' Cannot Criticise the Regime of EPOnia...
• Meme: Daniel X. Thomas Still Works for Benoît Battistelli
• Response to Daniel X. Thomas, Former Director at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• Meme: When Everything is Basically Rigged...
• António ‘Gap’ Campinos Explains His Plan to Indoctrinate/Brainwash the Public About So-called ‘IP’ (Misleading, Vague Term, Also a Deliberate Misnomer)
• It's a Big Club
• Meme: A Cat (or Kat) That Sold All Its Souls…
• Meme: A Network of Brothers
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part X – A Pan-European “Good Brother” Network Celebration?
• Meme: Facts and Laws Don't Matter to Team UPC
• Team UPC Has Spread a Dozen or So Fake News Headlines With Patently False Claims, Which It’s Unable and Unwilling to Justify

August

• Two Institutions, Two Dictators
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part IX – António’s Faithful Acolyte in Alicante
• António Campinos is Not a Patents Person and He Doesn't Belong at the EPO
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part VIII – Pulling for the Portuguese Pretender?
• EPO Occupational Health
• Meme: A Pretender Bartender From France
• A Deeply Disturbing Culture of Corruption and Nepotism
• Meme: Compensating for Daddy
• Elected Like a Mafia Don, Governing the EPO Like a Mafioso…
• Fixing Elections, Scoring Points Behind Closed Doors
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part VII – A Self-Appointed “Select Committee”
• Meme: Monkey See, Monkey Do (Secret Meetings in Eastern Forests)
• Buying Elections at the Expense of the Finnish Taxpayers
• Meme: Appointing Dictators for Life
• Convicted Fraudster 'in Charge' of Patent Delegations From Four Nations?
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part VI – “A Good Friend of Estonia and a Steady Cooperation Partner”
• About Half of the Supposed ‘Growth’ in Patents is Abstract Stuff or ‘Software-Related’ (Patents That Courts Would Quite Likely Reject) (partly about EPO)
• Meme: Smoking Päts
• Meme: Mr. Casino Martti Enäjärvi
• Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH) Governed by a Criminal for Two Decades
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part V – A Man With a Conviction…
• Finnish Media Has Already Explained What Sorts of People We’re Dealing With…
• Part 5 Teaser: Enäjärvi Caught
• So-called ‘IP’ Statistics for the Baltic States Reveal Very Few Patents
• Meme: Finnishing Off the European Patent Convention (EPC)
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part IV – Martti Enäjärvi and His “Good Brother” Networks
• Meme: Only the 'Very Best People' for the Finnish Public Sector
• Finland Corruption Levels Aren’t What They Seem (or Perceived to Be)
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part III – Introducing the Finnish “Facilitator”
• Meme: Martti ‘Vichy’ Enäjärvi
• A Closer Look at Baltic States’ Membership in the EPO and the Significance
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part II – Old Wine in New Bottles…
• Meme: Finnish Your Coffee
• Meme: Doyen in the Baltic Region
• How Finland, With About 20 Times More European Patents Than Baltic States Combined, Has Controlled Those States for the Battistelli Era Regime (and Campinos Era Too)
• EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part I – More Captured Delegates?
• Meme: Internal Stacked Committees, Sponsored by Special Interests
• Expecting the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation to Actually Follow the Law…
• Joff Wild’s Latest Wild Lies
• Patenting Software and Patenting Music (partly about EPO)
• Meme: In the EPO, Criminals Get Promoted, Not Arrested
• Richard Stallman Explains Why He Protests and Condemns the EPO (for Promoting Software Patents in Other Continents, Too)
• Naming and Shaming 'Captured' Publications That Knowingly and Intentionally Published Fake News About the EU's Unified Patent Court So Far This Week
• Flashback: Team UPC in 2014 Saying UPC Would Start Next Year (2015)
• Team UPC Should be Taken to Court by Clients (for Misleading Them, Only for Personal Gain)
• Warning: Campaign of Disinformation by Team UPC
• Meme: Who Needs Laws Anyway?
• Corruption is Everywhere, But EPO Officials Very Well Know the Law and They Know That They Break the Law
• An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part XIV: No Great Loss…
• Meme: Every Publisher in Europe Was Supposed to Cover EPO Corruption
• Meme: Capturing the Situation…
• Corruption at the EPO’s Governance (or the Administrative Council) is Not Limited to Balkan States
• An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part XIII: In Good Company…
• With Its Handling of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement (UPCA), Germany Shows It’s No Better Than Poland or Hungary
• Meme: Skinny Dipping Double-Dippers
• Media Participates in Cover-Up — and Thus Enablement — of Rogue Representatives and Mischievous National Delegates Inside the EPO
• Meme: EPO’s Captured Nations as Bought and Paid-for Votes
• An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part XII: Captured Delegates on the Administrative Council?
• When Nations Are Dens of Nepotism and Corruption, Just Like the EPO
• An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part XI: Captured States in the EU’s Waiting Room
• Meme: Macedonian State Capture (Control From Afar)
• Meme: The MaceDoyen
• When Corrupt Officials Are Put in Charge of Law, Justice, and Patent-Granting Institutions
• Meme: Drumming Up Support for Illegal Proposals
• An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part X: A “Fall Guy” For the Deputy Minister?
• Meme: Patents on ‘Magic’
• The EPO's Extraordinary Gerrymandering Landscape and Belated Introduction to Goran Gerasinmovski
• EPO, Europe’s Second-Largest Organisation, as a Hub of Corrupt Politics
• Meme: North Macedonia is the Same as Germany
• An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part IX: “There Are Indications of a Violation of the Law…”
• The Grave Dangers of Politicised Patent Offices and a Politicians-Run EPO
• Meme: EPO Needs D & I in Opinions and Representation, Too
• Meme: Too Many Hats
• An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part VIII: An Inspector Calls
• Meme: A Statement That Wouldn’t Age Well…
• An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part VII: An Academic Institution With a Political Mission
• Meme: There is a Special Place in Hell for the EPO’s Social Dialogue
• EPO Pinkwashing Helps Nothing Except the Ego of Oppressive and Despotic EPO Management
• Meme: Honorary Doctorates and Doctored Doctorates
• EPO is Driving Under the Influence (DUI), Just Like the President's Son
• Meme: Diplomatic Mill
• An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part VI: A Learned Legal Luminary
• Meme: Restoring Peace by Spending 6 Million Euros to Fight Staff in Court (Approved by the EPO’s Administrative Council)
• Freenode is Now Dead. But is the EPO Too ‘Dead Man Walking’? When Rogues Are Left in Charge…
• Presumption of Patent Invalidity in Europe
• An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part V: Sharing Out the Spoils of Public Office
• An Ode to Josef
• EPO as a Combat Zone, Governed by Separatists Who Take Bribes
• Meme: EPO: Over a Month of Non-Compliance With Court Rulings!
• Meme: More Than Meets the Eye...
• An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part IV: A Party Political Animal
• Meme: The Administrative Council’s Strategy for Saving the EPO: Paying Up (Bribing) the Media and Lawyering Up EPO Staff
• The Corruption Virus at the EPO, Europe’s Largest and Most Important Patent Office
• Meme: Competition for the ‘Doyen’ (in the Boardroom or the Bedroom?)
• An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part III: A Longtime Associate of the Doyen
• Meme: Doyen for North Macedonia
• An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part II: A Mysterious Fist-Bumping Masquerade in Skopje
• Meme: Inventors as 'Robots' in the Western World and Global South (partly about EPO)
• The European Patent Organisation Discredits the European Patent System
• An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part I: A New EPO Balkan Affair?
• The Patent Quality Song (partly about EPO)
• Meme: Patents for Bots (the Other Kind of ‘Hey Hi’ Patents) (partly about EPO)
• EPO Bribing Scholars to Justify Software Patents, Then Using Narrow Surveys to Justify Unlawful Guidelines for Examiners (e.g. Software Patents as ‘Hey Hi’)
• The EPO is Europe’s Largest Scale Scam (by Far the Largest)
• Four Weeks of Non-Compliance: EPO Only Accepts Courts That It Rigs and Controls
• It Almost Feels Like Battistelli Still Runs the EPO (by Extension/Proxy)
• Meme: Vichyite Battistelli Committed Crimes and His Buddy António Snubs Courts That Confirm These Are Crimes
• Meme: Nobody and Nothing Harms Europe’s Reputation Like the EPO Does

July

• For 17 Days (and Counting) António Campinos Has Failed to Respond to Call for Compliance With the Law
• Raw: Elodie Bergot Breaking the Law by Threatening Against the Exercise of Fundamental Rights
• European Media Does Not Care About Europe's Second-Largest Institution Crushing Basic Laws and Fundamental Rights
• Meme: Enforcing ILO-AT Rulings...
• Meme: Rowan and António Sittin' on a Tree...
• Meme: António Lost His Power Over Patent Examiners
• European Patent Office is Going on Strike (or Strikes)
• Meme: No Crime Goes Unrewarded at the EPO
• Meme: When Sociopaths or Psychopaths Run Europe's Second-Largest Institution
• Meme: EPO Asked to Comply With the Law and Correct Behaviour
• The EPO’s ‘News’ Page Annotated
• Meme: EPO 2025 (When Most of the Decent Patent Examiners Have Been Chased Away)
• Where There’s Smoke…
• Meme: European Patent Mill
• EPO is in Trouble, It’s Just Covering That Up
• EPO Examiners Should Be in Charge of EPO Policies, Not Self-Serving Politicians Who Exploit and Flaunt Diplomatic Immunity
• Meme: If We Don't Agree There's a Gap...
• EPO Collapsing Under Managerial Corruption and Neglect of Staff
• The EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal Acknowledges That It’s Rigged Even After a Shuffle
• Meme: It’s Always an Emergency When You Need to Protect Criminals From Prosecution/Accountability
• Staff Elements in Working Group on *[Teleworking Explain Lies From EPO Management, Which Isn’t Working (Only Robbing and Stealing From the EPO)
• EPO Staff Seeking Reparations After Unlawful Practices and a Decade of Abuse by EPO 'Mafia'
• Increasing Capacity in Techrights (partly about EPO)
• Meme: Couldn't Even Qualify for Management at GAP
• Philippe Aigrain, Who Fought Against Software Patents, Died This Past Weekend
• The EPO's Administrative Council Just Chose Another Battistelli (for the Same Toxic Agenda)
• António Campinos Needs to be Removed From the EPO as Soon as Possible Along With Friends He Brought Over
• Meme: The EPO's Kakistocracy
• Video: Mind the Mental Gap
• Would Never Have Posted This
• Meme: EPO Telenovela: Sua Vida me Pertence by Tony Campinos
• EPO Dictator Campinos Continues Crushing EPO Staff, Outpacing Battistelli in Terms of His Abuses
• UPC @ FCC
• Techrights News to Muse (partly about EPO)
• Meme: Sparkling Wine for Team UPC
• Chronicles of the Defunct Patent Office/Legal System in Europe
• Meme: When Timing is Impossible to Ignore
• Journalists Who Don’t Even Know What the UPC is (or What It’s Called) Carry Water for the Patent Litigation Lobby
• Arguing With Diplomatic Immunity
• EPO's Staff Union Fights for the EPO's Survival and Viability
• ILOAT Finally Overturns Battistelli's Vichyite Strike Regulations
• Meme: Will EPO Comply?
• Video: ILO-AT Caseload Shows That António Campinos Failed and Should be Sacked by the Administrative Council of the EPO
• Among 43 New Judgments From ILO-AT, Which ‘Oversees’ Dozens of Institutions, 25 (More Than 58%) Concern the EPO’s Staff
• Living the EPO Lie
• EPO Management: A Mafia That Discourages Journalism and Reduces Truth to Anonymous Whispers (Ducking Detection by the Mafia)
• European Patent Office (EPO) and the EPO's Administrative Council Both Complicit in Illegal Outsourcing to Microsoft (and Industrial Espionage)
• The EPO's Administrative Council Has Just Shown Evidence of Its Complicity (Again)
• Holiday for António, Glass and Metal Cages for the Rest of Us
• Making EPO Crimes a ‘New Normal’
• EPO’s “Towards a New Normal” Hogwash Just Another Attempt to Make Unlawful and Unconstitutional Policies Seem OK and ‘Normalised’
• Meme: EPO Airlines
• Delay After Delay, Blunder After Blunder, the ‘New Normal’ of António Campinos Faces Obstacles
• Techrights Statement on Today's EPO Hearing (Enlarged Board of Appeal)
• 'ViCo' Technical Issues Already Curtail the Case About EPO 'ViCo', Decision Cannot be Issued Today!
• Meme: Making EBoA Great Again
• Court on Call (or Calle)
• EPO Circus Versus European Constitutions
• EPO Run by Completely and Totally Incompetent and Irresponsible People
• EPO Referral Case G 1/21: It's Popcorn Time!

June

• The Already-Weak Impression of EPO Lawfulness (Under António Campinos) is Over
• More G1/21 Scandals as the Stacked Panel Scrambles to Cover Up the Misconduct
• Communications of the Boards of Appeal of the EPO Still Controlled by the Office, Which Also Censors Public Input Submissions (Observations)
• Meme: Trying to Become More Evil Than Battistelli After 3 Years in Office
• EPO Treats Staff as Disposable, Hence More Reluctant to Defy Unlawful Guidelines and Policies
• What to Do If the Techrights Web Site is Offline
• EPO ViCo on Trial
• Meme: The EPO’s Hand on the Scales (With Fixers Inside the Most Important Hearings)
• The European Patent Office (EPO) Articles, Almost 3,500 of Them in Total, Now Listed in Gemini
• G 1/21 is a Catastrophe for the EPO’s Legitimacy
• Meme: Timely Timing?
• Virtual Injustice — Part 15: A Pandora’s Box… But for Whom?
• Virtual Injustice — Part 14: How Mandatory ViCo Became the “New Normal”
• Virtual Injustice — Part 13: Let the Games Continue…
• EPO: Fake Patents, Fake (Paid-for) Patent Coverage, and Fake Awards for Public Relations Purposes
• We Need and Deserve a Saner Patent System in Europe
• The EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal Has Already Lost the Case in the Court of Public Opinion
• Virtual Injustice — Part 12: Carl Josefsson – Down But Not Out!
• Virtual Injustice — Part 11: Perceptive Comments and Caustic Criticism
• Meme: When the 'Court' Drops
• The EPO's Virtual Injustice and Virtual ('News') Media
• Meme: Swedish Justice
• Virtual Injustice -- Part 10: Vapid and Superficial Coverage in the 'IP' Blogosphere
• Heli Pihlajamaa Promoting Software Patents to Patent Maximalists
• The Lying by Team UPC, Led Again by Kevin Mooney
• Meme: The Enlarged Bored People With Presidential Decrees
• Response to Misinformation From EPO Officials
• Meme: Tilting the Scales for Software Patents
• Virtual Injustice — Part 9: Heli, the EPO’s Nordic Ice-Queen
• Virtual Injustice — Part 8: A Well-Connected ‘IP’ Maximalist
• Virtual Injustice — Part 7: Musical Chairs and Revolving Doors
• Hardly Shocking and Not At All Surprising That Thugs Who Run the EPO Hired External Thugs to Help Them Oppress Aggrieved Staff
• Meme: There Are No Elections in Mafia-Type Regimes; It's About Family and Friends...
• Meme: EPO 'Lawfulness' as Crude Budget Wars
• A Parade of 'Yes Men': EPO's Budget and Finance Committee as Rubber-stamper of the Dictatorship That Pays the Salary
• Meme: Illegal Location, Illegal Methods (Haar ViCo)
• The ‘Fixer’ of António Campinos Taints G1/21 (ViCo Hearing)
• Virtual Injustice — Part 6: Best Buddies With António
• Classic: Old EPO Strike
• Virtual Injustice -- Part 5: Benoît's “Friends” in Budapest
• EU Already Captured by — and Lying for — Corrupt EPO Officials, Team UPC, and Lobbyists of Multinational Corporations
• Meme: Virtual Code of Conduct (ViCoC)
• Virtual Injustice — Part 4: Mihály Ficsor, the EPO’s Hungarian “Fixer”
• Virtual Injustice — Part 3: All the President’s Men…
• EPO ‘ViCo’ Prior Art (or ViCo Going Back to the 1980s)
• The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Needs to Get Its Act Together on the EPO's GDPR Violations
• EPO ‘ViCo’ Prior Art (~30 Years Ago): Barely Innovative at All
• Meme: Lord Justice Sir
• The EPO’s Lack of Objective Legal System is No Laughing Matter
• Virtual Injustice — Part 2: The ViCo Oral Proceedings of 28 May 2021
• Purpose of Patents
• Why We Fight for Real Justice at the European Patent Office
• Virtual Injustice — Part 1: António’s Increasingly Wonky Legal Fudge Factory
• EPO Management Pours Money Down the River, Wasting Budget on Failed and Failing Projects
• Time for the Boards of Appeal to Host Their Own Files, Knowing That the Patent Office is Censoring Submissions From the Public
• Meme: Judges Aren’t the Enemy
• The Correlation Between Software Freedom and Universal Justice
• EPO Management: We Listen to Users, Especially Monopolists and Overzealous Litigation Firms
• The Kanté of Alicante
• The EPO’s Censorship of Stakeholders is a Misguided Case of Digging One’s Own Grave
• The Giftküche of Haar (Allegedly a Part of Munich, as the EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal Refuses to Even Check)
• Video: 'Shoot the Messenger' Tactics
• EPO G 1/21 Update: Fresh Allegations of Cronyism Against Campinos
• Never Ever Let Those Who Expose Corruption Be Framed as 'Public Enemies'
• Meme: EPOnian ‘Justice’ (Just Us, the Superpowers)
• Almost a ‘Media Blackout’ About What Happened Last Friday at the EPO
• One Week Since the EPO's Boards of Appeal Came to a Standstill Due to Lack of Independence and Impartiality
• Meme: Approving the Actions of the Boss
• Some Potentially Good News About the EPO

May

• Meme: EPO Bad for Your Health (Even as President)
• President of the Boards of Appeal and His ‘Handler’ António Campinos Need to Step Down to Save the EPO
• President Campinos is Finished (EPO Crisis Afoot)
• Meme: Outsourced Panel to Decide on Legality of Outsourced Panels
• Breaking: G1/21 (ViCo Hearing) Going Down the Drain
• Postscriptum: Carl Josefsson Sidelined From G 1/21!
• Latest News on G 1/21: Another Spanner in the Works
• Managing Perceptions for the EPO’s Regime
• When the Lips of António Campinos Move...
• The Haarian Praetorian Guard
• Outline of Recent EPO Series: Kangaroo Courts, German Government Complicity, and Gross Privacy Violations by Unaccountable Officials
• Media Colluding With EPO Autocrats Who Break the Law, Aiming to Mislead the Public
• They Don't Want Us to Hear...
• The Golden Decision
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 20: Summing up
• EPO Propaganda, Looking to Legitimise a Rigged Panel of Judges, Starts With Author Who Did Puff Pieces With António Campinos
• An Ode to Jeannine Hoppe and Nikolaus Obrovski
• Deciphering the EPO's Media Strategy for Handling Its Illegal Practices, Which It Already Extends Until Next Year (Without Even Waiting for the Kangaroo Court's Ruling)
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 19: Ladies and Gentlemen, Place Your Bets…
• Get Ready for a Torrent of EPO Propaganda
• Meme: Judges in Haar Must Behave Themselves
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 18: Promoting the Illusion of Peace and Haar-mony
• Meme: ViCo: Videoconference as ‘Courtroom’
• EPO Deciding on the Legality of ViCo… Over ViCo
• Article 116(1) EPC and the Stacked Courts Initially Entrusted to Judge Their Own Actions
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 17: The External Members: Evangelos Chatzikos and Richard Arnold
• Nobody Loves the EPO (or EPC) Like the Staff Representatives and the Union, SUEPO
• We Need to Save Europe From the Lawlessness of EPO ‘Mafia’ (Corrupt Management That Doesn’t Understand Patents or Law)
• Meme: Appeal for Independence
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 16: The Mystery of the “Missing Signatures”
• Leaky and Freaky Patent Office
• Rational Patent Office Gone Irrational
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 15: The EBA Letter of 8 December 2014
• Meme: The EPO's Very Special Dept. of Justice
• Breaking EPO News Regarding G 1/21: Judge Calle Josefsson Deposed as Chairman
• EPO Corruption Impacts Everybody, Even Those Uncaring About Patents and Those Outside Europe
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 14: Nemo Iudex in Causa Sua?
• Say Hey Hi to Inventions and Patents
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 13: Internal Members: Gunnar Eliasson and Andrea Ritzka
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 12: Internal Members: Ingo Beckedorf
• The EPO Has Slipped Out of Control and Now It's a Mass Litigation “Mafia” With Immunity
• António Campinos is Already Worse Than Benoît Battistelli and Maybe More Aggressive as Well
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 11: The Rapporteur Who Once Was Vice-President
• Meme: Captured EPO
• An Urgent Need to Fix the EPO, Which is Becoming Rogue at Every Level (Even the 'Legal' Level)
• Calle Josefsson as Living Proof That Attacking the Causes You Once Proclaimed to Stand for is Very Profitable
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 10: A Faustian Pact?
• EPO Staff Representatives Not Amused to See an Office That Steals From Staff and Even From Pensioners
• Meme: Virtual Prisons for Virtual Hearings (Haarings)
• President of the Boards of Appeal, the Star of the Haar Show
• Virtual ‘Courts’ Aren’t Courts and Aren’t Suitable Substitutes, Either
• Haar Song
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 9: Squeezing Out the Lifeblood of Democracy?
• EPO.org is a Really Awful Source of Information
• Meme: When All That Matters is ‘Production’ and ‘Timeliness’
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 8: The Radical Student “Brotherhood”
• Christoph Ernst Lecturing Us on “Transparency” and EPO Corruption (as Well as Assault on the EPC) Becoming a “New Normal”
• Jacques Michel and Willy (Guillaume) Minnoye: Stakeholders in EPO Lawlessness
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 7: Calle’s Strange Metamorphosis
• Making up Law at the EPO
• Meme: Calle Calling…
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 6: The Habermasian Who Warned About “Legal Anarchy”
• EPO Justice
• Meme: Judges the Office Cannot Control Are Just Nazis With Weapons in Their Office...
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 5: Battistelli’s “Swedish Chef”
• The EPO's War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 4: The President of the Boards of Appeal
• Judging the Judges
• When EU Authorities Tell You to Complain to the EPO Itself About EPO Privacy Violations...
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 3: The Current Line-up
• Meme: Longing for the Original IP Kat…
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 2: Just Another Pro Forma Rubber-Stamping Exercise?
• The European Campinos Award
• Personal Thoughts About the EPO 'Kangaroo Court' Scandal
• Doing Justice by Reporting Injustice
• The EPO’s War on Justice and Assault on the Law — Part 1: Rumours of a Kangaroo Court at EPOnia
• Europe's Second-Largest Institution, the EPO, is Partly Based in the United States
• Mass Litigation Over the Salary Adjustment Procedure (SAP), Basically an Attack on All EPO Staff, Even EPO Pensioners
• EPO ‘Dialogue’ With Staff Representatives is as Dead as ‘Dialogue’ With the Union
• Then We Take Berlin…
• Meme: Who Needs Examination Anyway When There's 'Hey Hi' (AI)?
• Europe’s Second-Largest Institution Corrupting the Media and Buying Expensive Puff Pieces
• Free Software Proponents Don’t Fall for Bullshit (Same is True for EPO Examiners)
• EPO Already Wasting Money on Media Manipulation Campaigns for European Inventor Award
• EPO Disregards Animal Welfare
• Meme: You Cannot Measure Innovation by the Quantity of Paperwork
• The EPO Can Never and Will Never Recover If It Fails to Communicate With People Who Actually Understand the Job of a Patent Office

April

• When A Source of Pollution and Corruption Paints Itself Green
• Lying and Breaking the Law: Is This the Best Europe's Second-Largest Institution (EPO) Can Do?
• Meme: Greenponia
• The EPO Abuses Climate Change, Hijacking or Misusing Grassroots Activism for Corporate Public Relations Stunts
• At the EPO, the Word “Reform” Means Abolition (Abandonment of Staff)
• The European Patent Office Isn’t About Patents Anymore and It’s Run by Clueless People
• Meme: EPO Comp-LIE-A**
• “Dia da Liberdade” 2021: Some Thoughts For the Day
• Behind the Curtains of Cheap and Cheesy PR the EPO is a Machine of Oppression (Against Its Very Own Staff), Tribunal to Rule on Strike Busting
• At the EPO, Lawlessness Has Become “a New Normal”
• Richard Stallman on How UPC is a Trojan Horse for Software Patents in Europe
• Breaking News: EDPS Admits That It is Powerless to Investigate Claims of GDPR Non-compliance at the EPO
• What the EPO Has 'Normalised' in Europe...
• EPO Staff Union Takes the EPO 'to Court' (the ILO's Tribunal, as the EPO Cannot be Taken to a Proper Court)
• Exposing Hard Truths is the First Step or the Path Towards Justice
• Meme: Laundering Bribes as ‘Cooperation Money’
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 20: Taking Stock
• Meme: Germany’s Red Cash Cow
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 19: The Deafening Silence of the Media
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 18: Zero Tolerance for “Lawless Zones”?
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 17: Jawohl, Herr Minister!
• Over 1,000 EPO Workers Initiate Legal Challenge Against the EPO’s Attack on Salaries (in Defiance of Assurances Made to Workers Who Relocate to Another Country With Whole Families)
• An Examination of Correspondence Between the Tweedledum-Tweedledee Duo, Lutz and Ernst
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 16: An Inimitable Duo
• An Ode to Dr. Ernst
• During Pandemic, With Rising Inflation, Corrupt EPO Management With Its ‘Shadow Budget’ Cracks Down on Education and Childcare Allowance
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 15: Different Strokes for Different Folk
• EPO President Campinos Lying to JURI
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 14: The Notorious Revolving Door
• All EPO Articles Are Available Over Gemini Protocol
• Judge and JURI
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 13: The Failed Promise of a “Good Governance” Guru…
• Challenging Times for EPO Management
• Meme: Bundestagate Series Spoiler
• Breaking News: Campinos to Appear Before the Legals Affairs Committee of the European Parliament on Monday 12 April
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 12: A Worthy Successor to His Mentor?
• Accessibility and Availability First
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Appendix (Benoît Battistelli’s Vichy Syndrome): Georges Henri Léon Battistelli and Charles Robert Battistelli
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 11: The BMJV’s Tweedledee: Dr Christoph Ernst
• News Sites That Talk About Patents Have Become Shameless Self-Promotion 'Plugs' by Law Firms (and Sometimes Outright 'Spam' for Litigation)
• Meme: Self-styled Judges
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 10: A Faithful Lapdog Despised and Reviled by EPO Staff
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 9: A Veritable Virtuoso of Legal Sophistry
• A Patent System for Giant Corporations Like Boeing and Airbus, Not for Ordinary European Citizens
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 8: The EPO’s Tweedledum, Raimund Lutz
• Germany’s Inaction on EPO Privacy Abuses and Corruption in General
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 7: Ms Voßhoff Alerts the Bundestag…
• ‘Not My Department’: How Privacy Abuses Have Been Treated in Germany
• EPOLeaks on Misleading the Bundestag — Part 6: Dr Petri Starts the Ball Rolling…
• The EPO Scandals Are Partly German Government Scandals, Too
• The EPO Bundestagate -- Part 5: The Federal Eagle's Disconcerting Metamorphosis
• Milking the EPO and Lying for the EPO
• The EPO Bundestagate — Part 4: Parroting the GDPR-Compliance Myth
• A BIT Worrying Where the EPO is Going...
• Government of Germany Relays Talking Points Directly From the Mouths of EPO Management
• EPO is a Zombie Institution Where Managers Have “Repeatedly Used Buzzwords and Catchphrases Like “Digital Transformation”, “Artificial Intelligence” and “Upskilling”, to Name a Few.”
• The EPO Bundestagate — Part 3: A “Minor Interpellation” in the German Bundestag
• EPO President António Campinos Promoting Microsoft Proprietary Software (Monopoly) and Software Patents
• EPO: It is All About Germany, Baby!
• The EPO Bundestagate — Part 2: Lack of Parliamentary Oversight, Many Questions and Few Answers…

March

• Meme: It Came From the Cloud... in Haar
• The EPO Bundestagate — Part 1: How the Bundestag Was (and Continues to be) Misled About EPO Affairs
• Coming Up in April: Exposing More EPO Crimes and Advocating Software Freedom
• After Crushing Dialogue With the Union (SUEPO) the EPO’s President Does the Same to Staff Representatives
• EPO Staff Representation Again Warns About Collapse in Patent Quality (Due to Bad Management), Suggests Potential Improvements
• EPO Has Become an Institution of Unbridled Crime, Where Judges Exist Only to Approve the Crimes
• EPO Management Bombards the ‘News’ Section to Distract From Unlawful Attacks on the EPO’s Highest Tribunal (This Time in G 1/21)
• Meme: EPO Robbed
• EPO Robbery Under the Shadow of Pandemic Sweeping Across Europe
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Summing Up: EPO Administrative Council Still Asleep at the Wheel
• As Work/EPO Invalidity Appeals Rejected, More Reasons Emerge to Worry About the Campinos Regime
• EPO Has Abandoned Patent Law and Sooner or Later Stakeholders Will Abandon the EPO Just Like Many Examiners Did
• Meme: Banking on the EPO's Future
• The Sky is the Limit for EPO Management as Patent Quality is Lowered to Gutter Level
• EPO Board of Auditors is Incompetent and Patently Unfit for Purpose
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — The ‘Smoking Gun’: Hard Evidence That the EPO Has Been Lying About GDPR Compliance
• Hey, Hi, Welcome to the EPO
• Almost 100 Pages of Self-Congratulatory Marketing Isn't a Case of Informing the Administrative Council of the EPO But Misleading It Using Fluff and Buzzwords
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part XV: Has the EPO Sold Out Its “Digital Sovereignty”?
• Ghost of Elizabeth Holmes Still Haunts EPO as Her Patents Are Used to Suppress COVID-19 Research in Europe
• EPO Secrecy and Technical Incompetence
• Perception Management and Reality Distortion in EPO Coverage, Sometimes Subsidised by the EPO and Typically Funded by Litigation Giants
• At the EPO ‘New Normal’ is Synonymous With ‘Breaking the Law’… (EPC, Human Rights and More)
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part XIV: When is a Conflict of Interest Not a Conflict of Interest?
• The Microsoft Deal With the EPO is Illegal For a Lot of Reasons
• Meme/Teaser: The European Blackmail Office
• Meme: Masking Their Agenda...
• The Patent Professionals Have Come to Realise That the EPO Boards of Appeal, Controlled by Office Management, Are Kangaroo Courts
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part XIII: A Global 'IP' Player
• Meme: Drunk on Power, Drunk on Diplomatic Immunity (and Impunity)
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part XII: Corruption Addendum
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part XII: Foreign Corrupt Practices, Bid Rigging and “Slush Funds”
• The EPO is Drunk and Should Go Home
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part XI: Close Encounters With the Trust-busters…
• EDPS Documents About Microsoft’s Privacy Violations and Much More to Come Regarding the EPO’s Privacy Scandals
• The ‘Hey Hi’ of António Campinos Will Survive This
• Why We Don’t Expect the Media or Patent ‘News’ Sites to Cover or Even Just Mention EPO Data Scandals
• EPO Promoting Illegal Software Patents Under the Guise of NET/Hey Hi
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part X: The Spectre of GDPR…
• Meme/Teaser: Lipstick on EPO in the 'Cloud'
• Microsoft Breaking European Privacy Laws While Distracting the Public: The Evidence (a Formal 91-Page Report)
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part IX: Know Your Vendor…
• Response to the EPO's Response to Techrights About Microsoft 'Cloud' (Still Failing to Justify the GDPR Violations)
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part VIII Addendum
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part VIII: The Aftermath of Schrems II in Europe
• Europe's Second-Largest Institution (EPO) is Not Only Violating the Law But Also Acting in Defiance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• European Patent Office as Apparatus of American/Corporate Imperialism (by Surveillance and More)
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part VII: Lipstick on a Pig…
• Meme: EPO Encryption, Brought to You by (and for) Microsoft to Subvert
• The German Constitutional Court Needs to Recognise That the EPO’s Tribunals Are Not Independent and EPC Has Not or Isn’t Being Honoured for Quite Some Time Now
• Contacting Your (European) Member of Parliament/Representative to Report EPO-Microsoft GDPR Abuses
• Note to Readers: It's Only When We Cover Microsoft-EPO Scandals That We Receive Legal Threats and Other Pressure from the EPO
• The (e-)EQE Statement From the EPO Makes Things Even Worse as Victims of the Catastrophic Exam Feel Offended and Angry
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law -- Part VI: A Not-so-safe Harbour
• Reporting the European Patent Office and Microsoft for Gross GDPR Violations
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part V: The EU GDPR
• What the EPO's Illegal Outsourcing of Private Data to Microsoft Actually Means (an Issue for Everyone in Europe)
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part IV: The US CLOUD Act Passes Without Public Debate
• The US Government, Fronting Through Microsoft, is Spying on Europe Owing to an Illegal Contract (or Contracts) Signed by Corrupt EPO Officials
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part III: The PATRIOT Act and Mass Surveillance
• EPO Breaking the Law With Microsoft and Promoting Fake 'Encryption' That Violates Confidentiality on Many Levels
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part II: Steve Rowan Announces Microsoft “Outlook Migration”
• Why the Latest EPO Series is Very Important and Also Difficult to Publish
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part I (Start of Series): Enter the “Cloud of Unknowing…”
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part I (Intro): A Fresh Data Protection Scandal Brewing at the EPO?
• EPO Management Could Really Use a Distraction From the Microsoft Blunder and Data Protection Crimes
• Meme: EPO Sells Out Its ‘Digital Sovereignty’ to Microsoft
• EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Primer
• EPO Does the Unlawful While Leveraging Women’s Rights as an Opportunistic Form of Disguise
• Team UPC and Patent-Centric ‘Media’ in Europe Still Committing Suicide (Credibility Sliding Down the Cliff)
• Examining Today’s EPO Propaganda About the Disastrous EQE, a Subject of Much Scorn and EPO Corruption
• German Decision on Unitary Patent/UPC Will Take Years (and It Doesn’t Matter Because the Whole Thing is Dead Already)
• Meme: EPO Management Totally Gets 'Tehc'
• The EPO's Software Blunders Are Inevitable Outcome of Technically Clueless Management Which Grants Illegal Patents on Software
• ‘GatoKeeper’/IP Kat (AstraZeneca) Still Suppressing and Censoring the Public Views or Internal EPO Talks About EPO Corruption
• Five Years of António Campinos Coverage in Techrights (We Correctly Predicted His Presidency in March 2016)
• In 2021 the EPO Works for Parasites Instead of Scientists (and It Cannot Even Hide That Anymore)

February

• EPO President Pushes Illegal Software Patents in South America (Over the Telephone With a Misleading New Puff Piece)
• The Administrative Council Needs to Fix the EPO While It’s Still Possible
• 'These Questions Remain Unanswered': Campinos Became Battistelli Just Halfway Through His Term
• ‘The One Percent’: Salary Adjustment Procedure (SAP) Supported Only by 1% of EPO Staff
• Series Index: How António Campinos Resorted to Union-Busting
• For the Record: SUEPO’s Correspondence With ‘King’ António Campinos
• EPO Crisis Under António Campinos – Part 5: Quo Usque Tandem?
• The Bergot Patent Office (Tantrum First, Innovation Later… or Never)
• EPO Crisis Under António Campinos – Part 4: Timeline of the Le Guern Controversy
• Reckless, Feckless and Factless Campinos ‘Doing a Donald Trump’ on the Staff Union of His Office
• EPO Crisis Under António Campinos – Part 3: Campinos Rallies Behind Bergot
• Spineless Campinos Protects Team Battistelli From EPO Staff (and From Accountability) Instead of Protecting Staff From Corruption and From Team Battistelli
• Leaky Patent Office
• EPO Crisis Under António Campinos - Part 2: Madame Bergot Reportedly Goes Ballistic
• The EPO's “Mafia” is Back to Blackmailing Staff Representatives
• EPO Crisis Under António Campinos - Part 1: Le Guern's “Disappearance” Triggers Internal Crisis at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• EPO Behaves Like a Private Corporation, Pretends to be Poor Only When That Suits Its Agenda
• When a Patent Office Becomes a Granting Authority Also for University/Academic Grants (With Strings Attached)
• More Broken Promises as EPO Management Pretends That the Office is Poor (While Looting Its Treasury for Personal Gain)
• Patents Over Parents at the EPO
• EPO Management and ‘The Children’ Who Run the Office
• Software Freedom and Patent Systems Are a Political Endeavour (at Least in Part)
• The Good, the Bad, and the Truly Awful in Patent Law
• EPO Propaganda on Overdrive... to the Point of Breaking the EPO's Web Site
• When You Know the EPO Distracts the Media (and Thus the Public) From Something
• End of Patent Justice in Europe
• The Annual EPO/EUIPO Ritual of Lying to the European Public
• Le Guern Leaves the EPO After Attacks on Staff’s (and Pensioners’) Finances Amid Pandemic
• Straw Man Arguments That Distract From EPO Scandals

January

• When So-called 'Public Servants' Simply Serve Themselves and Their Rich Sponsors/Friends (partly about EPO)
• OpenForum Europe (IBM et al) and Linux Foundation Are Boosting and Cooperating With Enemies of Software Freedom (partly about EPO)
• SUEPO Will Challenge Retribution Against Staff That Went on Strike to Protest Illegalities at the EPO
• Meme: Candidate Campinos is Not President Campinos
• Fighting for Free Speech and Censorship Resistance
• Fourth Edition of EPO Staff Survey Shows That Work Affairs Continue to Deteriorate Even Further and Almost Nobody Trusts the Management
• EPO Staff Likely Going on Strike For a Second Year in a Row
• EPO President António Campinos is Still Not Listening, According to Internal EPO Documents
• Kluwer Patent Spin and Distortion of Facts (Regarding UPC and More)
• EPO Staff Representation Complains That EPO Management Exploits Pandemic and 'House Arrests' to Overwork Staff, Lower Quality
• Hey Hi (AI) is Just a Trojan Horse for Illegal Software Patents, According to EPO Management and Litigation Firms It’s in Bed With
• The Central Staff Representatives (CSC) of the EPO Are Petitioning to End the Assault on EPO Staff
• Team UPC Keeps Pretending That UPCA Can Still be Resurrected (Even Without the UK, Which is Strictly a Requirement)
• Sites in Bed With the EPO and UPC 'Covering' the 'News' Without Mentioning Any of the Overt Abuses
• Patent Propaganda and UPC Jingoism Instead of Actual News
• Unitary Patent is Dead and Lies About the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Aren't Ending
• Microsoft Hosts a European Software Patents Propaganda Event (in ‘Hey Hi’ Clothing) Featuring Thierry Breton and Litigation Firms
• EPO: We Are a Community, But We Crush and Rob Our Own Staff (Even Pensioners)
• EPO Management (Team Campinos) to EPO Pensioners: Drop Dead or Stop Asking Questions That Expose Our Lies
• New Leak: Today's EPO Breaks Its Contract With Former Staff of the EPO, Not Just Existing Staff
• Can EPO Leaks Published in 2021 Inspire More Media Coverage About EPO Abuses?