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EPO 2021 Archive

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  • Colour codes:

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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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    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?