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  • 08.24.07 OOXML: Deception, Lies, FUD, Apple & Germany Become Microsoft Tools
  • 10.31.07 Germany Leans Towards ODF, GNOME Receives Public Correction
  • 11.07.07 Quick Mention: Increased Support for ODF and Linux in Germany
  • 11.25.07 OOXML Muscling Its Way Through German Politics
  • 03.19.08 Another Large Migration to OpenDocument Format (ODF), Germany Elevates ODF
  • 03.21.08 Quick Mention: Freiburg City Council in Migration to OpenDocument Format
  • 03.28.08 OOXML Irregularities in Germany (and Britain Again)
  • 03.30.08 Microsoft’s Latest OOXML Corruptions in Germany, Croatia, Norway
  • 04.24.08 Big Set of Shakeups for Microsoft Office, ODF Rises
  • 06.03.08 Germany and Denmark Show Signs of Endorsement of Appeals, Complaints Against ISO OOXML
  • 08.08.08 New OOXML Fiasco: Germany and Canada Propose Microsoft as Editor for ODF-OOXML Convergence
  • 02.14.09 Spiegel: German Military Downed by Microsoft Windows
  • 04.08.09 Microsoft Breaks the Law in Germany and Gets Convicted, Fined
  • 10.06.09 1st, 3rd, and 4th Top-selling Laptops in Amazon Germany Come with GNU/Linux
  • 05.19.10 Siemens Betrays Germans by Legalising Software Patents in Europe
  • 06.08.10 European Lesson About Novell’s Software Patents, Germany Seemingly Continues to Allow Software Patents
  • 06.16.10 “Ballmer’s Departure Seems to be Imminent”
  • 10.04.10 New Article Says Nokia Might be Bought by Microsoft After Appointing Microsoft President as CEO
  • 01.13.11 Microsoft Patent Cartel (CPTN) Dodges German Federal Cartel Office
  • 08.08.11 US Moves Towards Limiting Software Patenting, Germany Remains Confused About EU Patent Laws
  • 08.25.11 Links – Wikileaks Betrayed, Germany’s East Texas, Spying
  • 06.20.12 Germany Against Software Patents
  • 10.01.12 Government of Germany Should Ban Internet Explorer for Crimes, Lock-in, Not Just Security
  • 06.09.13 Software Patenting Under Attack in Germany
  • 06.15.13 Germany Should Follow the ‘Munich Model’ and Move to Free Software After PRISM Revelations
  • 08.07.13 Germany Reaffirms Position Against Software Patents, Free Software Triumphant
  • 12.10.13 Microsoft’s Anti-Linux/Android Patent (FAT) Collapses in Europe, But Microsoft-backed Xamarin Tries to Interject Other Microsoft Patents Into Google Gear
  • 12.22.13 More Details Revealed About How the NSA Infiltrates Windows and Other Proprietary Software, Governments Should Now Ban Microsoft
  • 02.04.15 German Translation of Ruling Against Željko Topić, the EPO’s Vice-President
  • 02.19.15 EPO Staff Protests Against Benoît Battistelli’s Lowering of Patents Quality (Scope Expansion and Software Patents for Profit)
  • 04.18.15 More Translations of French Article About the EPO
  • 08.26.15 Microsoft Aggression Against GNU/Linux Amid Vista 10′s Failure
  • 01.13.16 Germany Needs to Respect the European Patent Convention and Stop Issuing Software Patents, Also Reject UPC
  • 02.04.16 Readers’ Article: A Strange Conspiracy of Silence in the German Media (Part I)
  • 02.18.16 The EPO’s Patent Coup in Europe Moves on With Conflict of Interests-Plagued German Authorities for UPC
  • 02.22.16 Germany, Which Allows People in Europe and Abroad to Patent Software (EPC Shunned), Simply Cannot be Trusted With the EPO and UPC
  • 03.01.16 Ongoing Investigation: Why Mainstream Media — and German Media in Particular — Has Mostly Ignored Latest Developments at the EPO
  • 03.13.16 Kontrovers Coverage of Abuses at the European Patent Office (With Subtitles Added)
  • 03.14.16 German Transcript of Bayerischer Rundfunk Coverage About EPO
  • 03.16.16 Reader’s Article: “Guantanamo Possible in Germany”
  • 06.04.16 Software Patents in Europe and the UPC Already a Problem
  • 12.03.16 Dutch Media Covers Latest EPO Scandals, German Media Totally Absent (a Media Blackout of Convenience)
  • 12.15.16 Shame on the German Media for the Media Blackout Surrounding EPO Protests in Munich (and Sometimes Berlin)
  • 03.12.17 Germany Cannot Ratify the UPC Because Britain is Leaving the EU and Unitary Patent Strongly/Strictly Depends on the UK
  • 03.13.17 How Big a Lie is Team UPC Spreading About Germany and Unitary Patent? A Must Read.
  • 03.16.17 German Media is Not Covering EPO Scandals and Instead Repeating Patently False Claims From EPO Management
  • 06.12.17 German Barrier to the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Bound to Bring the Insidious Plans to a Halt
  • 06.13.17 The UPC Gravy Train is Claimed to Have Been “Halted” in Germany and More Oppositions or Constitutional Complaints Are on Their Way
  • 07.16.17 Guest Post: Is Germany’s UPC Ratification Postponement Related to Problems at the  EPO?
  • 07.31.17 German Media Finally Waking up to EPO Scandals?
  • 08.03.17 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part II: Andrej Matijević and Željko Topić
  • 08.03.17 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part III: DZIV and EPO Nepotism
  • 08.05.17 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part IV: Tena Mišetić, Ivan Mišetić, Croatia Airlines, Lufthansa, and Deutsche Telekom
  • 08.06.17 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part V: Lufthansa and Croatia Airlines Overlap
  • 08.07.17 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part VI: The Complaint to Merkel
  • 08.07.17 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part VII: Immunity for Topić (EPO VP4) Just When He Really Needed It
  • 08.09.17 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part VIII: Outcome at DZIV (Zagreb) Miraculously Known Six Months in Advance
  • 08.10.17 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part IX: Potentially Fatal Injury to Air Plus Trademark Holder
  • 08.11.17 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part X: In Closing
  • 09.03.17 What Germany and the EPO Could (and Should) Learn From Australia About Patent Scope
  • 09.10.17 Latest Updates on UPC Constitutional Complaint in Germany and Brexit Barrier to UPC in Britain
  • 10.19.17 SUEPO to the Media, Regarding Campinos: “No Comment, It’s Too Dangerous”
  • 11.09.17 Administrative Council of the EPO is Concerned That the Office is Largely German and Male, Recruitment Bar Has Fallen
  • 12.29.17 Raw: When the EPO Violated German Law and ECHR Got Invoked Along With the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht)
  • 01.09.18 Possible Explanation for German Media Barely Covering Very Major EPO Scandals
  • 02.07.18 Team UPC Resorts to Paid ‘Articles’ and Lobbying With Battistelli in an Effort to Cause the UK and Germany to Ignore Their Own Laws
  • 06.01.18 In Gross Violation of German Law, as Per EPO Tradition, Fronleichnam ‘Stolen’ by Benoît Battistelli
  • 11.20.18 Germany Likes EPO in Munich, Litigation Factory in Düsseldorf and Mannheim (Like Eastern District of Texas)


  • 01.26.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: OpenSUSE 11.0, 10.3, and 10.1 in German Government
  • 04.12.08 Increased OpenOffice.org Support in Germany; Updegrove Pitches Real Standards in Texas
  • 08.21.08 Can Germany Fine Microsoft for Slandering GNU/Linux?
  • 02.17.09 German Press on Novell Shafting Its German Employees
  • 03.16.09 Reader’s Article: Microsoft On-my-way in Germany
  • 04.14.09 Defenders of Democracy and Free Speech Under Attack from Germany, AstroTurfers, and Maybe Microsoft
  • 12.02.09 Mozilla Firefox Cruises Past Internet Explorer in Germany
  • 12.09.09 Germany Takes Microsoft’s Bill
  • 01.16.10 Germany’s Office for Information Security Warns Against Microsoft’s Internet Explorer After China Attacks
  • 01.21.10 ODF Roundup: Norway, Germany Migration, ODF 1.2 Support, and ODF 1.1 Interop Profile
  • 01.30.10 German Federal Office of Justice: SCO Breaches Regulations in Germany
  • 02.04.10 Judge Uwe Scharen is Validating Software Patents in Germany
  • 04.23.10 USPTO Starts Rejecting Software Patents While Germany Mistakenly Overrides the Law and Approves Microsoft’s
  • 05.20.10 Patents Roundup: Novell’s and Apple’s Latest Software Patents, Ruling in Germany, and Harms to Software Freedom
  • 05.21.10 Who to Blame for Germany’s Dangerous Decision Regarding Software Patents
  • 05.21.10 Siemens’ and Microsoft’s Actions in Germany May Harm KDE
  • 07.21.10 Fraunhofer FOKUS and the Software Patents Lobby in Germany
  • 02.24.11 Only US Department of Justice and German Federal Cartel Office Can Really Stop AttachMSFT Deal
  • 05.15.11 TechBytes Episode 46: GNU/Linux in Germany, Android’s Openness, and More
  • 08.12.11 Germany Does Badly Regarding Software Patents
  • 04.11.12 Microsoft Misdirection From Germany Amid AOL Patents Snatch
  • 04.17.12 Microsoft’s Love/Hate Relationship With Germany
  • 07.30.12 Home of S.u.S.E., Germany, is Relying on Red Hat and Avoiding Microsoft Extortion Tax
  • 11.29.12 UEFI Apologists Versus Germany’s Government Judgment on UEFI Insecurity
  • 05.04.13 The European Patent Office is Breaking the Law Regarding Software Patents, German Parliament Finally Complains
  • 06.19.13 British and German Governments Under Siege by Lobbyists of Microsoft and Its Local Partners, Free Software Policy Dumped in Favour of Backdoors-Enabled Binaries
  • 08.22.13 NSA Back Doors Get Microsoft Windows Excluded From Procurement in Germany
  • 08.27.13 The Latest NSA Scandals: Espionage in Germany, the United Nations, and Untold Blackmail to Trap the Messengers
  • 11.07.13 The Latest NSA Ugliness: Skype Gets Worse, Snowden Speaks to Germany, New Zealand Becomes NSA’s Little Brother, and ‘Paedophilia’ Used to Defend the NSA
  • 11.25.13 NSA-Guided Assassinations by Drone Face Backlash in Germany, Pakistan, and Beyond
  • 01.29.14 British Government is Cracking Down on Climate Activism, Japan is Nuked, Germany Turns to Renewable Energy
  • 02.03.14 Privacy/NSA Watch: Corporate Spying, Snowden Smears, German Anger, and More Lawsuits
  • 12.13.14 News From France and Germany: Battistelli Under Fire, But Not Fired Yet, Just Firing His Opposition
  • 04.02.15 English, French and German Translations of Dutch Article About EPO Abuses
  • 04.03.15 English, French and German Translations of De Telegraaf Article About Ivo Opstelten’s Defence of Benoît Battistelli
  • 04.29.15 As Core Issues Still Not Addressed, Another Protest Against EPO Management Scheduled for Tomorrow in Munich, Germany
  • 06.03.15 EPO Corruption Compared to FIFA Corruption While ‘Control Risks’ Helps EPO Hide/Suppress Evidence of Corruption; Calls on German Authorities to Crack Down on Both
  • 08.25.15 Letter Signed by Two German Officials Becomes a Microsoft Weapon of Propaganda
  • 09.24.15 German Press Explains EPO Investigation Unit (I.U.), Struggles to Openly Speak to the Secretive EPO
  • 09.25.15 Süddeutsche Zeitung Explains Imminent Federal Scrutiny Against Battistelli’s EPO in Germany
  • 10.19.15 German Media Shows Discriminatory EPO Practices More Than Just a ‘Pilot’ (Reaching Second Half of 2016), Started When Microsoft Pressured EPO (Lodged Complaints)
  • 10.20.15 German Broadcaster on European Patent Office (EPO) Preferential Treatment for Microsoft and Others
  • 10.30.15 Former German Constitutional Court Judge Denounces the EPO’s Possible Campaign of Defamation Against Judge Accused of Truth-Telling
  • 11.21.15 German Media Reveals That Out-of-Control EPO Management is Even Threatening and Abusing Lawyers Now
  • 11.21.15 Translation of Thomas Magenheim-Hörmann’s Article in the German Media, Urging European Politicians to Intervene in EPO Chaos and Lawlessness
  • 11.21.15 German Press Says Broken EPO Lets President Severely Punish Staff Not Even Guilty of Any Wrongdoing
  • 12.26.15 Monday Talk at Chaos Computer Club (Germany) Makes the Case Against Software Patents
  • 01.02.16 German and European Patent Attorney Warns That UPC Would Bring More Patent Trolls to Europe, With Help From the EPO
  • 02.05.16 Readers’ Article: A Strange Conspiracy of Silence in the German Media (Part II)
  • 02.18.16 Danish Left’s Alternate for European Parliament Slams the European Patent Office While Staff Protests Are Again Ignored by the German Media
  • 03.02.16 German Television to Cover the EPO Scandals at 9 PM (CET) Tonight — Half an Hour From Now (Updated)
  • 03.06.16 Kontrovers: German Program (With Subtitles) About the European Patent Office
  • 03.15.16 German High-Quality Video About the European Patent Office
  • 03.21.16 Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and the United Kingdom Urge Benoît Battistelli to Allow Independent Investigation of His EPO Union-Busting Moves
  • 03.30.16 SUEPO Publishes Translations of German Media Reports About the EPO
  • 04.28.16 If EPO “Form of Thinking Were to be Followed, Guantanamo on German Soil Would be Possible.”
  • 05.26.16 EPO Management Under Growing Stress From Croatian Law Enforcement Authorities, German Politicians, Italian Media
  • 06.01.16 As Bavarian Parliament Expresses Disdain Over EPO Leadership’s Abuses German Media Listens and Staff Union Releases New Survey
  • 06.27.16 Battistelli May Still be on the Way Out as Pressure Grows in Germany, UPC in Shambles
  • 07.17.16 After the FTI Consulting-EPO Reputation Laundering Deal’s Expansion in Germany Süddeutsche Zeitung ‘Forgets’ That the EPO Even Exists
  • 08.12.16 German Media Becomes Aware of Battistelli’s Defiance of the Very Basis of the EPO
  • 09.03.16 Battistelli is Even Attacking the French, and Not Just in Germany But Also on Dutch Territory
  • 11.26.16 The Sad State of German Anti-Corruption Authorities and Investigative Journalism, as Demonstrated by the EPO
  • 12.30.16 German Justice Minister Heiko Maas, Who Flagrantly Ignores Serious EPO Abuses, Helps Battistelli’s Agenda (‘Reform’) With the UPC
  • 01.02.17 365 Days Later, German Justice Minister Heiko Maas Remains Silent and Thus Complicit in EPO Abuses on German Soil
  • 02.07.17 Reception of the New German Ambassador (Dirk Brengelmann) at the EPO, in Presence of the Stasi-Like Investigative Unit
  • 03.21.17 Letter to Angela Merkel Expresses Concerns About Impact of EPO Scandals on Germany and Its Image
  • 03.25.17 Depressing EPO News: Attacks on Staff, Attacks on Life, Brain Drain, Patents on Life, Patent Trolls Come to Germany, and Spain Being Misled
  • 03.26.17 Heiko Maas and the State of Germany Viewed as Increasingly Complicit in EPO Scandals and Toxic UPC Agenda
  • 04.06.17 Like EPO ‘Grants’ (up 40% in a Year), Patent Trolls in Europe Are Growing at Double-Digit Rates (Now 20% of All German Lawsuits)
  • 04.25.17 EPO Fiasco to be Discussed in German Local Authority (Bavarian Parliament) Some Time Today as the Institution Continues Its Avoidable Collapse
  • 04.28.17 Kather Augenstein and Bristows Shift Attention to Germany in an Effort to Ram the Dying UPC Down Everyone’s Throats
  • 06.11.17 German Media Would Rather Write Articles About Beer Than About Serious and Unprecedented EPO Scandals
  • 06.13.17 In Spite of Censorship by IP Kat, Issues Associated With UPC Had Become Apparent, Even Before Germany Halted Ratification
  • 07.25.17 How the EPO’s Terrible Decisions May Implicate the Government of Germany and Lufthansa
  • 07.30.17 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part I: Further Information About Andrej Matijević
  • 08.02.17 EPO: Germans “Discover That Behind the Mad Figures, the Granted Patents Are of Crap Quality and That This Does Not Serve Their Interests”
  • 08.07.17 German Media Names António Campinos as Likely Successor of Battistelli
  • 08.10.17 German Media Paints a Picture of Benoît Battistelli as a Drunken ‘Putin’ Looking to Push UPC at All Costs
  • 08.29.17 Hiring of German Judges for UPC Has Been Halted as the Future of UPC as a Whole Now in Doubt
  • 09.27.17 Battistelli Follows German Law Only When It Suits Him, Three Holidays Just Canceled
  • 10.07.17 Additional Complaints About the Unitary Patent (UPC) Pile Up in Germany, Here’s How to Submit More
  • 10.15.17 Articles in English and German Speak About the Decline in Quality of European Patents (Granted by the EPO)
  • 10.20.17 UPC Looks Like More of a Distant Dream (or Nightmare) as Germany Adds Another Two Months’ Delay
  • 11.24.17 Raw: Why EPO Host Nations (Netherlands and Germany) Turn a Blind Eye to Horrific Scenarios
  • 12.12.17 German Media Helps Cover Up — Not Cover — the Latest EPO Scandal
  • 12.31.17 Raw: The European Patent Office (EPO) is a Cash Cow of Germany
  • 01.11.18 EPO Lobby and Team UPC’s ‘Resistance’ to the UPC Opposition in Germany
  • 01.25.18 A European Unitary Patent-Like System (e.g. UPC) is Not Compatible With Law; Expect it to Rot Away at the German Federal Constitutional Court
  • 02.22.18 As Expected, Bristows and Others Already Lying About UPC Status in Germany, But Doing This Anonymously (to Dodge Accountability for Lies)
  • 05.17.18 Rise in Patent Trolls’ Activity in Germany Noted Amid Declining Patent Quality at the EPO
  • 06.23.18 Mainstream Media in Germany Covers Battistelli’s Corruption at the EPO Just as He Leaves
  • 07.06.18 German Media Compares Team Battistelli at the EPO to the Mafia
  • 10.06.18 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Obsolete for More Reasons Than the German Constitutional Court, But Team UPC in the UK Refuses to Give Up
  • 10.19.18 Ingve Björn Stjerna Has Just Warned That If Team UPC and the European Patent Office Rigged the Proceedings of the German Constitutional Court, Consequences Would be Significant
  • 10.23.18 German Court on UPC Constitutional Complaint: “No Oral Hearing is Currently Scheduled. A Decision Date is Not Foreseeable at Present.”
  • 12.21.18 Team UPC Belatedly Admits Lying About the German UPC Complaint (Fabricated ‘Rumours’)
  • 01.06.19 The German Constitutional Court’s Decision on Unitary Patent (UPC) is Very, Very Far
  • 02.06.19 The Attack on the Independence of the European Judges Has Apparently Expanded to the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht)
  • 02.24.19 Video: Alexandre Benalla on Carrying Weapons in Munich’s EPO Premises (Strictly Illegal in Germany)
  • 02.25.19 English Translation: Alexandre Benalla Thinks He Can Carry a Weapon in Germany
  • 04.12.19 Global Finance Magazine Spreads Lies About the Unitary Patent and German Constitutional Court
  • 04.24.19 German Federal Patent Court Curbs the Patent Maximalism of the EPO, Which Promotes Patents on Nature and/or Maths Every Single Day


  • 11.23.06 Analysing the Rationale for the Deal
  • 12.02.06 Novell Discourages Government Supervision, Regulations Over Microsoft
  • 12.05.06 Here Comes Microsoft’s Anti-OpenDocument Study
  • 12.09.06 Danaergeschenk
  • 01.06.07 Assorted Links and Weekend Video
  • 01.16.07 In the News: Novell On Top Distros, OpenOffice, and Support
  • 03.04.07 Microsoft Takes Patents Game to Europe, Uses Novell as Excuse (Then Grabs Toys and Goes Back Home)
  • 05.13.07 Praise Time: Novell Does Something Right
  • 05.17.07 Red Hat Does Well, But Linspire Needs a Gentle Shake
  • 08.12.07 OOXML Deception and Spin
  • 08.22.07 ODF/OOXML Watch: Bill Gates Lobbies Behind the Scenes Again, Jason Matusow Deceives (Updated)
  • 08.27.07 OOXML Watch: More Deception and More Manipulation, Norway ‘Corrupted’
  • 08.28.07 Novell’s “Underperform” and SCO’s Cash Injections That Brought Its Demise
  • 08.28.07 Microsoft Fuels OpenDocument Disinformation with Funded Analyst Propaganda
  • 08.28.07 OOXML ‘Corruption Train’ Arriving at Sweden (Updated)
  • 08.30.07 OOXML Watch: Sweden’s OOXML Fiasco Representative of the Norm?
  • 08.30.07 Dissecting Microsoft’s OOXML/ODF Strategy
  • 08.31.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday: OpenSUSE Faster and Better, Novell’s Financial Results Lift Stock
  • 08.31.07 The Latest News on the Microsoft OOXML Fiasco (Updated)
  • 08.31.07 This Just in: Sweden’s Vote on OOXML Nullified Due to That So-called ”Bribery” Incident (Updatedx3)
  • 09.06.07 OOXML/ISO Watch: Microsoft May Have Broken Antitrust Laws
  • 09.07.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday:OpenSUSE @ Beta3, SLED Preloads, Virtual Iron, and More
  • 10.15.07 Novell, Patents, and Unrest (Updated)
  • 10.20.07 Quick Updates on Linspire and SCO — Two Companies That Won’t Recover
  • 10.28.07 Disinformation on the Rise, Shameless Linux FUD Makes a Comeback
  • 10.31.07 OOXML? Not Any Time Soon, Says Sutor.
  • 11.02.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday: Quiet Week, Novell and SUSE Still Kicking Though
  • 11.12.07 OpenDocument ‘Traitors’ Group is Out, Belgium is In
  • 11.16.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part IV: Dell, China, SCO, and Ron Hovsepian Interview
  • 11.18.07 Flashback: Microsoft’s FUD Against Free Software
  • 11.20.07 Korea Chooses OpenDocument Format
  • 11.23.07 The GNU GPL is Already Proven and Tested in Court
  • 11.27.07 The ‘eet’ Nuisance Has Many Proxies/Indentities
  • 11.28.07 Quick Mention: The Programmer’s Advantage in ODF, OOXML Coverage from Hungary
  • 12.10.07 Microsoft Sends Paid Army to Fight OpenDocument Format in Europe
  • 01.07.08 Patents Roundup: Illustrating the Serious Issue Using Examples
  • 01.08.08 There is No Community and There is No Communism, Either
  • 01.12.08 More Good News for OpenDocument Format, OOXML Slides Down the Gutter
  • 01.17.08 Bill Gates Invades the Land of Linus, Uses Dumping Techniques
  • 01.21.08 If Cattle, Use OOXML; If Wise, Use ODF
  • 01.23.08 The Latest OOXML/ODF FUD from the Philippines, Microsoft and Gates Go Batting in Europe
  • 01.30.08 OOXML Poison: Melvin Calimag Received Redmond’s Kool-Aid Too
  • 02.05.08 Rob Weir and Bob Sutor Return to Discussing the OOXML Frauds
  • 02.08.08 OOXML Abuses: Making Room for Antitrust Regulators
  • 02.19.08 The OSP Lie, the OOXML Bribe and Other Interesting Moves in Portugal
  • 02.28.08 Week of Corruptions :: Day 4 :: Briberies in Sweden
  • 03.03.08 Updates on OpenDocument Format in Europe
  • 03.06.08 Novell Enters a Microsoft Partners Triangle
  • 03.06.08 Novell Does Microsoft’s Legwork, Markets Software Patent Deals
  • 03.06.08 Assorted New Reactions to the OOXML BRM, March Vote
  • 03.16.08 Stephane Rodriguez’s Latest on OOXML Intra-operability, Munich’s Mayor Protests Against OOXML
  • 03.16.08 Novell/Microsoft Translator: Fail
  • 03.18.08 Microsoft Apparently Invaded Vodafone to Made Deal
  • 03.22.08 MonoDevelop in the Press, Which Totally Misses the Point
  • 03.23.08 Document Freedom Day Coming Shortly with Plenty of Support
  • 03.27.08 What Makes Novell the Black Sheep of the Free Software Universe
  • 03.28.08 Quick Mention: Has Korea Just Voted “Yes” to OOXML? (Updated)
  • 03.28.08 OOXML Roundup; BSI’s Sellout Did Not Go Unnoticed
  • 03.29.08 A Look Back at OOXML BRM, Stacking, ISO’s Admission of Failure
  • 03.30.08 Buying Consensus Short of Classical Bribery
  • 03.31.08 ISO Frozen. Too Much Corruption?
  • 04.01.08 British Standards Institute (BSI) Under Fire After Possible ‘Inside Job’
  • 04.01.08 Bye-Bye ‘S’ Oh-Oh!
  • 04.02.08 ISO Feels OK With Corruption, Officially Approves OOXML (Updated)
  • 04.02.08 Microsoft’s Abuse of ISO Made a Lot of Sworn Enemies
  • 04.02.08 ISO Rubber Stamp for OOXML? Not So Fast (Track)
  • 04.04.08 Return of the ‘Peter O’Kelly Mouthpiece’ and Why Microsoft Lost the Standards War
  • 04.04.08 Microsoft’s Software Patent Injection and Other Insanities
  • 04.06.08 Microsoft Bullies Over Software Patents, Takes a Hit Also
  • 04.09.08 European Nations Give the Thumbs Down to Microsoft OOXML, Misconduct Noted
  • 04.19.08 Why Schools Must Embrace ODF and FOSS; Healthy Boost for KOffice and OpenDocument Format
  • 04.20.08 ISO Maxes Up Damage Control, OOXML Storm Looming
  • 04.21.08 Roger Frost (ISO) and Stephen McGibbon (Microsoft) Proudly Lied to the Public (Updated)
  • 04.21.08 Thank You, Norway, for Pictorial Memories
  • 04.28.08 One Decade Later, Same Tricks Persist
  • 04.30.08 Novell’s ‘Binary Bridges’: Could SUSE Ever Inherit the Anti-Features of Windows?
  • 05.10.08 Linspire, Xandros and the Stories Only eWeek Will Tell You About
  • 05.14.08 Off Topic: A World Where Almost One in Two PCs is a Windows Zombie PC
  • 05.16.08 "/o/2008/05/16/patent-summary-eu-uk/ Patents Roundup: From the Fight Against EU Sanity to Novell, Microsoft, and Moonblight [sic]]
  • 05.21.08 OOXML Roundup: Complaints, Competition, Cracks and Complacency
  • 05.22.08 Taking Stock of Microsoft’s Vapourware Announcement
  • 05.22.08 Groklaw: Microsoft’s ODF Moves Vapourware, Possible Trojan Horse for Software Patents
  • 05.24.08 OOXML Incidents Index: From A to C
  • 05.25.08 OOXML Incidents Index: From Denmark to Greece
  • 05.25.08 When Technology Meets Politics
  • 05.26.08 OOXML Incidents Index: From Hungary to Jordan
  • 05.26.08 OOXML Incidents Index: From Kenya to Norway
  • 05.26.08 OOXML Incidents Index: From Pakistan to Syria
  • 05.26.08 OOXML Incidents Index: From Thailand to Vietnam
  • 05.27.08 Free Software versus Today’s Intellectual Monopolies — Overview
  • 05.27.08 Phasing Out Malice to Make Room for Necessary Change
  • 05.29.08 Office and OOXML Under Pressure, So Microsoft Retaliates with ODF
  • 05.30.08 Saving Students from The Latest Microsoft Lock-in (Live @ edu)
  • 06.02.08 ODF: Open Standard; OOXML: The New and Unimproved .DOC/.XLS/Other
  • 06.03.08 Interesting New Moves in Kenya After Alleged Microsoft Blackmail
  • 06.07.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: OpenSUSE 11 Evaluations, Pre-orders
  • 06.10.08 The OOXML Fiasco: Updates from 3 Countries That Protested
  • 06.21.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: OpenSUSE 11.0 GM Roundup
  • 07.05.08 Intellectual Monopolies Insanely Out of Control
  • 07.07.08 Maximalists and Lobbyists Take Over Europe, Internet, PCs
  • 07.08.08 WikiLeaks Catches ISO with Pants Down
  • 07.16.08 Charlie Mccreevy to Hollywood: I Hereby Give You Europe
  • 07.16.08 “ODF Has Truly Won,” Say OOXML Voices Again
  • 07.22.08 The Patent Comedy is Real
  • 07.25.08 Free Software vs Microsoft: It’s Down to Patent Law Now
  • 08.10.08 Software Patents: India, OIN, the Trolls, and the Monopolists
  • 08.19.08 British Government Laughs at Digital Standards Organisation with a Straight Face
  • 08.23.08 SCO Roundup: Novell Litigation, Money from Me Inc Software
  • 08.29.08 State of the Intellectual Bully: Patent Raids, Trolls, and Microsoft
  • 09.01.08 Eye on Microsoft: Bigger Clouds and Worse Security
  • 09.01.08 Patents Roundup: China, Theft, TiVo, and Microsoft
  • 09.01.08 Novell’s Stock Options Scandal Just Weeks Before Deal with Microsoft
  • 09.06.08 Patents News: Philips Pirates, Candidates Wants Reform, Trolls Still on the Loose
  • 09.09.08 Quick Mention: Patent Pirate (Philips) to be Sued
  • 09.26.08 A Triumph for Common Sense in the Patent System
  • 10.03.08 A Question About Patents: IBM, OIN, Linux Foundation, and Novell
  • 10.04.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Two Weeks of (Mostly) Proprietary Novell Technology
  • 10.06.08 Norway Changes OOXML Vote, Receives New Microsoft Search Base (Updatedx2)
  • 10.18.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part IV: Miscellaneous Novell News
  • 10.24.08 Important Step for Software Patents in the European Union
  • 10.25.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Business Around SUSE (SLE*) and Xandros
  • 10.29.08 Use of False Promises to Attract Free Software Developers
  • 10.30.08 Failing SCO, Microsoft Eyes EU and Software Patents
  • 11.04.08 Experts Indicate That re Bilski Does Impact Software Patents
  • 11.08.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Almost Eventless Week for Novell
  • 11.20.08 Reader’s Post: The Windows Software Development Minefield, and Mono
  • 11.24.08 Microsoft’s B.A.D. (Bribing, Addicting, Dumping) Comes to the Philippines
  • 11.24.08 Eye on Microsoft: Vista/7 Trouble and More Security Chaos
  • 11.26.08 Apple Attacks GNU/Linux Users, Lies to the Public, Gets Sued by Patent Troll
  • 12.02.08 Patents Roundup: From Microsoft’s Trolls to Obama Policies
  • 12.06.08 OOXML is Patent Trap, Royalties Render it Obsolete
  • 12.09.08 The Many Signs That GNU/Linux Grew Significantly in 2007 – Part 2
  • 12.09.08 Make Peace, Not Windows Zombies
  • 12.10.08 ODF Alliance Newsletter – 10 December 2008
  • 12.13.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: OpenSUSE 11.1 Days Away
  • 12.17.08 OpenDocument Gains Traction, So the Redmond Bully Returns
  • 12.23.08 Why is the Gates Foundation Investing in Governments?
  • 12.29.08 Microsoft and Cronies Create Another EU Lobby at Taxpayers’ Expense?
  • 12.31.08 Sander’s Report Ignores Microsoft’s OOXML Corruptions
  • 01.04.09 Is Microsoft ‘Pulling an EDGI’ on Kerala? (Updated)
  • 01.06.09 World Says: ODF Has Truly Won
  • 01.07.09 Attack ODF, Get a Job at Microsoft
  • 01.09.09 Novell is Heckling Boycott Novell, Anonymously
  • 01.09.09 Novell’s EMEA President Quits
  • 01.10.09 Microsoft’s Dumping Strategy Versus GNU/Linux (EDGI Continued)
  • 01.12.09 Microsoft Already Drops Clues About Layoffs
  • 01.16.09 EDGI Finale: Microsoft’s “Linux Compete Squad”
  • 01.20.09 Microsoft Linux in VDI Magazine
  • 01.21.09 Extension Extortion (Updated)">Stop Press: ACTA and Copyright Extension Extortion (Updated)
  • 01.24.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Strategy, CMDB, Virtualisation and More
  • 01.28.09 New Year, New Readers
  • 02.01.09 ODF Alliance Newsletter January 2009
  • 02.05.09 Novell Layoffs May Have Not Been Announced Yet
  • 02.06.09 Ron Hovsepian on Novell Layoffs
  • 02.13.09 Botnets and Bounties Versus Real Security
  • 02.13.09 Quick Mention: SUSE Developers Among Those Laid Off from Novell
  • 02.18.09 Novell Layoffs Next Week, Europe Affected the Most
  • 02.20.09 Novell Promotes ASP.NET, Demotes OpenSUSE
  • 02.24.09 Patents Roundup: Microsoft, RAND, Extortion, and Ending Software Patents
  • 02.26.09 Microsoft Uses Pressure Groups to Push Software Patents Into Europe
  • 02.28.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: More on the Financial Results, Novell Figures
  • 02.28.09 ODF Alliance Newsletter: Latvia and UK Join the ODF Bandwagon
  • 03.01.09 Why Microsoft is Likely to Lose the TomTom Case (Plus Summary)
  • 03.03.09 Microsoft Faces Investors’ Backlash, More Quiet Layoffs
  • 03.06.09 Signs of Microsoft Corruption in the United Kingdom and Czech Republic
  • 03.10.09 Patents Roundup: Splashtop Encumbered by Patents, Google Linux Phone Sued by Patent Troll, TomTom Update and More
  • 03.12.09 Patent Trolls — Including Acacia — Attack Linux Users/Devices
  • 03.15.09 CompTIA, Martin Bean, Fraunhofer Fokus, and Other Microsoft Boosters
  • 03.17.09 Is the EPO Selling Out to Microsoft?
  • 03.18.09 Patents Roundup: Backlash, Pseudo Reform, Patent Trolls and Microsoft
  • 03.25.09 Microsoft’s “Burning The Ships” is Corporate Patent Propaganda (and How Novell Helps It)
  • 03.28.09 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: March 27th, 2009 – Part 2
  • 03.29.09 Red Hat, Microsoft, EU Lobbyists, and Software Patents
  • 03.30.09 Microsoft Pays Professor to Write a Paper Against IBM’s GNU/Linux-Powered Mainframes
  • 04.01.09 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: March 31st, 2009 – Part 1
  • 04.04.09 Novell Offshores Some of Its SUSE Operations to East Asia
  • 04.05.09 Eye on Apple: This is Open?
  • 04.06.09 My Response to the Enlarged Board of Appeal
  • 04.06.09 Patents Roundup: Microsoft Likes Patent Deform, OIN to Strike Back, EU Still Besieged for Software Patents
  • 04.06.09 The Question of Software Patents without Democracy
  • 04.09.09 Project of the Day: GNote
  • 04.10.09 Microsoft and the Economics of Crime
  • 04.10.09 Microsoft Office Crimes and Offenses Against Standards
  • 04.11.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE on ARM
  • 04.17.09 The Latest Patent Comedy from Europe
  • 04.18.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Past, Present, and Former Novellers All Over the Place
  • 04.19.09 Software Patents Roundup: Protests in the EU, OLPC Suffers, Microsoft Seeds More Patent FUD
  • 04.20.09 Patents Roundup: Microsoft, CSIRO, Patent Hawk, and “Corrupt, Malicious” EPO
  • 04.24.09 Patents Roundup: Attack on Science, Lobby for Software Patents in EU and India, More Rebellion
  • 04.24.09 It’s Unofficial: Microsoft Pays ASUS (Kickbacks) to Block GNU/Linux. Will EU Commission Step in?
  • 05.01.09 Microsoft Teaches Spanish Schools How to Smoke Windows
  • 05.01.09 Microsoft: Red Hat Should be Happy to Take Microsoft Patents
  • 05.01.09 Utah Press Writes About Novell Layoffs, But Does Not Include Numbers
  • 05.02.09 General Electric Joins Microsoft’s Fight Against Free Software
  • 05.02.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE at Heise, LinuxCon 2009, and Google SoC
  • 05.02.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SLED at H-P, SLES at IBM, and Xandros/Scalix
  • 05.02.09 Microsoft’s PR Department (Waggener Edstrom) Patents AstroTurfing-related Methods
  • 05.04.09 Microsoft Fights to Make GNU/Linux a Fringe Phenomenon
  • 05.05.09 OIN Explains TomTom’s Settlement with Microsoft (and Other Patent News)
  • 05.09.09 EPO and the Swiss Department of Justice Want to Make Some Free Software a Crime
  • 05.10.09 Microsoft Uses Lobbyists to Attack Holland’s Migration to Free Software and Sort of Bribes South African Teachers Who Use Windows
  • 05.12.09 Software Patents Want to Enter Europe from the Back Door
  • 05.14.09 Is Net Applications One Order of Magnitude Off Target?
  • 05.18.09 Microsoft Unleashes the Gartner Group to Sabotage Migration to GNU/Linux in Europe
  • 05.20.09 The EU Council Answers Marco Cappato’s Question About Microsoft Dependence vs. Europe’s IT Independence
  • 05.24.09 Microsoft’s Sabotage of ODF Still in the News
  • 05.27.09 Reddit Accommodated by Mono Boosters, Including Novell Employees
  • 05.27.09 US Breeds Software Patents
  • 05.29.09 Lawsuit Against Microsoft/Switzerland Succeeds So Far, More Countries/Companies Should Follow Suit
  • 05.29.09 Patents Roundup: Updates from Europe, Many More Patent Trolls, and Backlash
  • 06.01.09 Is This Bing or is it Bong?
  • 06.05.09 The EPO Does Not Work for European Citizens
  • 06.05.09 Details of Microsoft’s Lobbying in Europe
  • 06.21.09 SCO, Microsoft, Novell, and Other News from Utah
  • 06.27.09 Lunch with Microsoft to Talk About ODF, Which it is Attacking
  • 06.27.09 Patents Roundup: Novell Still Applying for Software Patents (and Other Patent News)
  • 06.29.09 Microsoft Prepares a Bogus Study to Defend Abandonment of American Workforce
  • 07.11.09 Groklaw Unearths Another SCO Scandal; SCO Heads Sued for Theft, Computer Fraud and Abuse
  • 07.11.09 Why the United Patent Litigation System Could Bring Software Patents to Europe
  • 07.13.09 Patents Roundup: Software Landmines in New Zealand, the US, and Microsoft/Linux
  • 07.14.09 SCO Scandals Get Worse: unXis Seems to be All About SCO
  • 07.19.09 The Ukraine’s GNU/Linux Ambitions and Microsoft’s MOU Response
  • 07.24.09 SCO Scandals Finally in the News
  • 07.29.09 SCO Lies About Hans Bayer
  • 08.01.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: HackWeek, SUSE Studio, and OpenSUSE 11.2 Milestone 4
  • 08.08.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: Hackweek, KDE in OpenSUSE, and More
  • 08.08.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE Studio, National Vision, and Xandros
  • 08.14.09 Novell Creates OpenSUSE Team But Decreases OpenSUSE Support
  • 08.18.09 Reminder of What Microsoft Did in Denmark and What It’s Up to Now
  • 08.26.09 Bill Gates Called “LUNIX” a Threat Back in 1997
  • 08.28.09 Linux to Fill the Gap Left by Exploding iPhones and Overweight Sub-notebooks
  • 08.29.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE 11.2 Milestone 6
  • 08.31.09 What People Say About Microsoft’s War on Open Standards
  • 09.03.09 Patents Roundup: Patent Propaganda from the BBC, IBM in the Shadows, and Early Mistakes from David Kappos
  • 09.05.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SLES/SLED and Xandros in the News
  • 09.10.09 More Anti-Red Hat Whitepapers from Novell, More Mono/.NET Convergence
  • 09.11.09 Why Does Novell Still Neglect OpenSUSE?
  • 09.12.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE with KDE 4.3.1, Conference Near
  • 09.12.09 Latest Wins for OpenDocument Format
  • 09.14.09 Nathan Myhrvold Connected to Father of Patent Trolling, Ray Niro
  • 09.19.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE 11.2 Reaches 7th Milestone, Conference Takes Place
  • 09.21.09 ODF Alliance Newsletter: September 2009
  • 09.23.09 Novell Helps Microsoft Zune and CodePlex Foundation Helps Novell
  • 09.23.09 ODF Olympiad 2009 Announced, Now Accepting Submissions
  • 09.26.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: iFolder, Teaming 2, and Other Minor Issues
  • 09.26.09 Microsoft Abuse with Software Patents Carries on
  • 09.26.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE Conference 2009 Reports
  • 09.28.09 With Friends Like These, Who Needs Microsoft?
  • 10.02.09 Microsoft Fights Back as More Nations Adopt ODF
  • 10.02.09 Company That Attacks ODF Gains More Control of ODF (and Why Open Source Should be Careful, Too)
  • 10.07.09 Richard Stallman Explains Why Not SUSE
  • 10.10.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: Official OpenSUSE Boosting Team
  • 10.23.09 Lots of New Vendor/Developer Support for OpenDocument Format
  • 10.26.09 What Went Wrong with Vista 7 Launch (and How GNU/Linux Already Takes Advantage)
  • 10.28.09 Some Perceive Toddlers as Emerging Markets, a Business
  • 10.28.09 Patents Roundup: OIN Grows, Microsoft Ally LG Uses Patent Bullies, Microsoft and Amazon Advance Anti-Free Software Laws
  • 10.30.09 Free Software Sued by Red Bend, Patent Reform Called for Again
  • 10.31.09 The Guardian Tells Microsoft’s Lies
  • 11.05.09 Confirmed: Microsoft Publicly Lies About Market Share of GNU/Linux
  • 11.07.09 Man of the Day: Matthias Ettrich
  • 11.07.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE 11.2 Days Away, Events Organised, New Board Needed
  • 11.18.09 EIF Scrutinised, ODF Evolves, and Microsoft’s OOXML “Lies” Lead to Backlash from Danish Standards Committee
  • 11.19.09 How Denmark Avoids a “Scientology Cult” in IT
  • 11.27.09 FSFE and Others Denounce Latest Microsoft-inspired FUD Against GNU/Linux and Free Software
  • 11.28.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: More Reviews of OpenSUSE – Rants and Raves
  • 11.28.09 Video Transcript of Vandana Shiva on Insane Patents
  • 11.30.09 Helge Sander Helps Microsoft Again by Blocking ODF in Denmark
  • 11.30.09 Patents Roundup: Threat of Software Patents in Mexico, Sweden; Microsoft Still Fights with (and for) Software Patents
  • 12.05.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE in London, Nürnberg; Infrastructure Repositories Migration
  • 12.06.09 Eye on Microsoft: BitLocker Offers No Protection, Webcams and Windows Compromise
  • 12.12.09 Japanese ODF Standard Released, Alex Brown Seemingly Attacks OOXML Dissent (Again)
  • 12.14.09 Don’t Mention the L Word!
  • 12.16.09 Microsoft Assumes You Too Are a Criminal
  • 12.16.09 ODF Gains in Europe, Microsoft Still Sneakily Attacks ODF
  • 12.17.09 Research: Internet in Developing Countries Crippled by Microsoft Windows Zombies
  • 12.23.09 Patents Roundup: Software Patents and ACTA at STOA, Gates-backed Monsanto Wants to Own Mexico’s Food Supply
  • 12.25.09 ODF Roundup: More Developer Support, But More FUD as Well
  • 12.26.09 Novell Legal News: SCO and MoFo
  • 12.30.09 Kerala is Still Ahead of the Curve
  • 01.03.10 Microsoft Bribes to Make Education Microsoft-based
  • 01.07.10 Novell is Still Fishing for Software Patents, Microsoft and Apple Do Patent Evils
  • 01.09.10 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE Survey and Site Changes, Breakage
  • 01.11.10 Microsoft Recruits Partners to Fight Against Google
  • 01.17.10 Microsoft Takes Responsibility for Internet Explorer Chaos, Conficker Damage Carries on
  • 01.19.10 Reader’s Post: 3 Stories on Advising Against Using IE
  • 01.19.10 More Nations Make Statements Against Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, So Microsoft Advertises ‘Upgrades’
  • 01.19.10 Microsoft Sues Google
  • 01.20.10 “Emergency!” Says Microsoft as It’s Losing Market Share; All Versions of Windows Are Vulnerable
  • 01.20.10 Patriotic Duty to Abandon Microsoft
  • 01.20.10 Obama Finally Slams the USPTO, But Parrots Talking Point from Microsoft and Intellectual Monopolists
  • 01.22.10 Microsoft Security Negligence Confirmed: Critical Internet Explorer Flaw Known and Ignored for 4 Months
  • 01.23.10 Internet Explorer Vulnerable a Day After the Critical Patch, Firefox Keeps Gaining, But China Remains Stuck
  • 01.25.10 Croatian Association of GNU/Linux Users Fights Against Microsoft Abusers
  • 01.26.10 Australia May Ban Infected Windows PCs; Nearly Half of Europe No Longer Uses Internet Explorer
  • 01.30.10 GNU/Linux Yawns at Apple’s Large iPhone (Without the Phone Functionality)
  • 01.30.10 Novell News Summary – Part I: Two Weeks of OpenSUSE, Some Reviews Accumulated
  • 01.30.10 ODF is Winning in Europe; ‘Microsoft Press’ Spreads ODF FUD as OpenOffice.org Passes to Oracle
  • 02.02.10 Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Faces More Bans or Backlash
  • 02.02.10 Patents Roundup: Software Patents in the United States, Europe, and Rise of the Patent Trolls
  • 02.04.10 Computer History Development Timeline: Microsoft Perspective
  • 02.04.10 Microsoft Whitewashes Criminal History in the Press and Attacks the GPL Using Allies
  • 02.07.10 Another Misdirected Response from the Government to the Company “Not Engineered for Security”
  • 02.09.10 Steve Ballmer Visits Obama Once Again as His Fight Against Google Continues
  • 02.09.10 Norwegian Agency for Public Management and eGovernment Slams Microsoft OOXML
  • 02.13.10 ODF Roundup: News from Scandinavia, OpenOffice.org 3.2, and Symphony 3.0 Beta 2
  • 02.14.10 Patents Roundup: Escalations in Europe, SAP Pretense, CCIA Goes Wrong, and IETF Opens Up
  • 02.18.10 ODF Alliance Newsletter: February 2009
  • 02.19.10 Patents Roundup: America, Europe and Asia Share a Problem with Software Patents
  • 02.22.10 Bill Gates Invests Heavily in Deception About Global Warming and in Abusive Monopolies
  • 02.25.10 Microsoft Unleashes the Hounds on Google While Abusing the Law With Warrantless Spying
  • 02.26.10 Patents Roundup: Google Versus Patent Trolls, Patents Unrest, Microsoft’s Friend Fraunhofer to Report on Software Patents in Europe
  • 02.27.10 Novell News Summary – Part I: Milestone 2 of OpenSUSE 11.3, FOSDEM
  • 03.02.10 Patents Roundup: H.264, ‘Innovation Alliance’, and Microsoft’s Patent Racketeer
  • 03.03.10 Bull Migrates Desktops to OpenOffice.org, Munich Succeeds With Migration as Well
  • 03.03.10 Microsoft’s Government Insider Wants Mac Users and GNU/Linux Users to Pay Microsoft for Its Incompetence
  • 03.04.10 Firm Behind Novell Bid Has Shady Past, Could be Tied to Microsoft (Paul E. Singer’s ‘Vulture Fund’)
  • 03.06.10 Microsoft Angers the World by Asking for a Form of Security Bailout, More Fundamental Windows Flaws Found
  • 03.08.10 Microsoft to Use FDA Official to Take Over Patient Records in the United States
  • 03.08.10 Apple the Bully Goes Hunting for Patent ‘Violators’ With the Sisvel Army
  • 03.13.10 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE Build Service 1.7.2, live.opensuse.org, and OpenSUSE on TV
  • 03.19.10 Patents Roundup: Europe, ACTA, Aldi Attacked by the MPEG Cartel, and More
  • 03.23.10 Mono, the Monopolist’s Sidekick
  • 03.25.10 Microsoft Accused by US Senate of “Enabling Tyranny”
  • 03.27.10 Vista 7 Cracked Again
  • 03.31.10 Patents Roundup: Several Defeats for Bad Types of Patents, Apple Risks Embargo, and Microsoft Lobbies Europe Intensely
  • 04.01.10 Deutschlandfunk, Deutschlandradio, and the Nation of New Zealand Show the Way Regarding Software Patentability
  • 04.03.10 Novell News Summary – Part I: Matt Berringer at UKUUG, OpenSUSE Beego, and FAIL Page
  • 04.07.10 Aggressive Marketing for Vista 7
  • 04.10.10 Patents Roundup: Fordham Conference for Software Patents in Europe, NZOSS Responds to Pro-Software Patents Lobbyists, and TurboHercules’ Ties With Microsoft Explained
  • 04.19.10 Bribery at HP and Penalty on GNU/Linux Use
  • 04.22.10 Hugo Lueders (CompTIA): Association’s Members Are “Trade Secret”
  • 04.27.10 Why Klaus-Heiner Lehne Lobbies for Software Patents (Money of Course)
  • 04.28.10 Patents Roundup: Bilski Excerpts, MAFIAA Patenting P2P-Spamming Methods, More on FAT in Europe
  • 04.30.10 Steve Jobs: “A Patent Pool is Being Assembled to Go After Theora and Other “Open Source” Codecs Now.”
  • 05.02.10 “Those Who Can, Do. Those Who Can’t, Sue.” (Updated)
  • 05.17.10 FFII and End Software Patents (ESP) Respond to Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA) Regarding Software Patentability
  • 05.17.10 Bad Apple, Part I: Is Apple Trademark-Bullying Linux Competition, Again?
  • 05.21.10 Advocates of Free/Open Source Software and Standards Do Not Welcome EU ICT Plan (Digital Agenda)
  • 05.22.10 By Pushing Mono Into Android, Novell Puts Microsoft Before Freedom
  • 05.22.10 OpenSUSE Needs an Independent Equivalent (Like PCLinuxOS for Mandriva) to Ensure Takeover of Novell Leaves it Safe
  • 05.23.10 Patents Roundup: Patent Bully Erich Spangenberg Finally Loses, Europe Still Troubled, Microsoft Bullies With Software Patents, Monsanto Uses Earthquakes to Spread Patent Liabilities
  • 05.24.10 Microsoft’s Cloudy Skies Over Norway
  • 05.25.10 Samba Lawyer About Software Patents: The Only Solution is Abolition
  • 05.26.10 Microsoft and MPEG-LA Called “Patent Trolls”, Antitrust Complaint Filed
  • 05.26.10 Patents Roundup: USPTO Workshop, Bilski Action, and Patents-Imposed Death
  • 05.30.10 Google: Do Know Evil?
  • 06.02.10 What a Difference Patentability of Software Makes: Microsoft #3 in USPTO, #33 in EPO
  • 06.04.10 Microsoft’s Attack on GNU/Linux and ODF Continues
  • 06.07.10 Patents Roundup: More Regarding Red Hat, Klaus-Heiner Lehne, Patents on Genes, and USPTO Speed Lane
  • 06.09.10 Patents Roundup: CSIRO Slammed, TiVo Loses, WIPO Harms China, and Patents Do Yoga
  • 06.10.10 UPLS is on the Rocks
  • 06.12.10 Software Patents Debate in LinuxTag 2010 and Elsewhere in Europe
  • 06.15.10 Debate Rages on Regarding the Open Invention Network (OIN)
  • 06.16.10 United States of Microsoft?
  • 06.24.10 New Zealand’s Legislation Regarding Software Patents Shows That the US is the Boss
  • 06.25.10 Patents Roundup: EU Patent Deform, MPEG-LA, OIN, New Zealand, and Patent Trolls
  • 06.26.10 Entryism Watch: Australia’s Largest ISP Dumps GNU/Linux Mirror Months After Putting Microsoft in Charge
  • 06.28.10 Manual for Removing Microsoft Trap From Ubuntu GNU/Linux (and Lessons of TomTom and SCO Cases)
  • 06.29.10 IBM’s Black Helicopters
  • 07.01.10 Microsoft is Trying to Kill Linux Conferences
  • 07.09.10 Patents Roundup: Bosch Security Systems Patents Signals, NetApp Bullies ZFS Providers, New Zealand Infiltrated by Foreign Lobby ‘NZ’ICT
  • 07.10.10 Keeping the Software Patents Monster Caged in Japan and in the United States
  • 07.20.10 Eye on Security: Internet Still Threatened by Microsoft Windows
  • 07.20.10 Links: Women in Free Software, India’s “National Browser” is Free Software, Apple Calls Firefox Home “Adults Only”, OpenSolaris Blues, WordPress on GPL, New Wine…
  • 07.21.10 Siemens is Bad for Industry, Partly Due to Microsoft
  • 07.22.10 Links: Putting GNU/Linux On One’s Netbook, Free Software Week in the Basque Country, and Leftover News
  • 07.22.10 Links: Net Neutrality and Digital Economy Act Under Fire
  • 07.22.10 ASUS Dumps Vista 7, Goes With Linux Instead (and Windows Has Other New Problems)
  • 07.23.10 Novell Too Busy (With Proprietary Software) to Promote OpenSUSE
  • 07.23.10 Links: Many New Releases of GNU/Linux, More Tablets
  • 07.24.10 Links: KDevelop 4.0.1, GNOME 3…
  • 07.28.10 Windows Trojans and Potential for Paedophilia
  • 07.31.10 The Price of Personal Data
  • 08.11.10 Open Invention Network (OIN) and Linux Foundation Still Legitimise Software Patents
  • 08.11.10 OpenSUSE Turns 5
  • 08.11.10 Klinkert Zindel Partner is Promoting Software Patents in Europe
  • 08.13.10 “EPO Still Operating in a Vacuum”
  • 08.16.10 Apple News in July-August, Culminating in Fraud
  • 08.17.10 Novell Still Negotiating Sale – Touching Base With the News
  • 08.23.10 EU: Advocate General on Community Patent and Software Patents Still at Stake
  • 08.23.10 Microsoft and Facebook Share Data, Advertisements, and Bad Practices
  • 08.25.10 Microsoft Can’t Do Hardware
  • 08.25.10 Response to Judith Wilcox and Axel H. Horns Regarding Patents to Software Developers
  • 08.30.10 Oracle Promotes hypePod/hypeTunes Just Weeks After Suing Android, Java’s Founder Has Message for Ellison
  • 09.03.10 Microsoft Crashes Rival’s Event (OpenOffice.org Conference) Using Moritz Berger
  • 09.10.10 GNU/Linux Desktop Market Share in the United States Not the Global Share
  • 09.13.10 Microsoft-funded IDC (IDG) Attacks GNU/Linux in Russian Schools, Accused of Using “Corrupt” Data
  • 09.13.10 ‘Microsoft Tax’ Comes in More Than One Form
  • 09.14.10 Open Tech Exchange Explains How Microsoft Derailed GNU/Linux in Governments, Using “Corruption”
  • 09.16.10 Full Lobbyists Lineup From Association for Competitive Technology
  • 09.17.10 Microsoft Attacks Android With Software Patents, This Time Verbally
  • 09.19.10 In Search of the Full Story About Swiss Canton and Microsoft
  • 09.20.10 Silverlight is Dying Not Just Because of HTML 5 But Because of Adobe Trash Too
  • 09.21.10 Novell and Affiliates Turn to Software Patents While US Senators Make Things Worse, Not Better
  • 09.21.10 Bad September for Microsoft Security, Symantec Buyout Rumours
  • 09.23.10 Today’s SCO Bankruptcy Hearing is Called Off, Potential Suitors Named
  • 09.26.10 What Everyone Needs to Know About Wikileaks and Microsoft Lobbyists Like Anke Domscheit-Berg, Zuck, and Maybe Florian Müller
  • 09.28.10 LibreOffice is Launched, Offering Independence from Oracle
  • 09.30.10 Strong Momentum in the Fight Against Weak Patents
  • 09.30.10 Microsoft Canada is Sending Out the Shills, Trying to ‘Consume’ Free Software Advocates
  • 09.30.10 Stuxnet is Immortal on Microsoft Windows, Siemens Should Just Move Fully to GNU/Linux
  • 10.12.10 Belgian EU Presidency and BSA Threaten Europe’s Digital Future With Software Patents
  • 10.12.10 Novell is Very Focused on Fog Computing So Far This Month
  • 10.21.10 How Mono Helps Microsoft DirectX, With Contribution From VMB_ware
  • 10.21.10 Free Software Proponents Expose the Microsoft-Funded (F)RAND Lobbyists and Their Lies, Microsoft to Lobby Directly in SOSOCON 2010
  • 10.23.10 From Copyrights to Patents: How Software Patents Became the Top Linux Issue
  • 11.08.10 Newly-elected UK Government Hopes to Imitate the United States With Software Patents
  • 11.12.10 EU Plan to Potentially Welcome Software Patents is Finally Defeated
  • 11.23.10 AttachMSFT and Novell for Fog Computing, Worse Than Proprietary Software
  • 11.28.10 New Push for Software Patents in Europe (Innovation Union) While UK’s Tim Berners-Lee Opposes (F)RAND
  • 12.03.10 The Problem is Microsoft Windows, Not the Computer
  • 12.04.10 Microsoft Lobbyists Are Still Duping EU Politicians for Software Patents to be Legalised
  • 12.08.10 Using Financial Blackmail to Convince Spain to Allow Software Patents to Enter Europe
  • 12.13.10 McCreevy’s Successors Are Getting Their Way With Software Patents in Europe
  • 12.17.10 New Details Surface About Novell/Microsoft/AttachMSFT [sic Deal]
  • 12.27.10 Microsoft Cannot Offer Security on the Web, Either
  • 12.29.10 Exploring Novell’s Passing of Software Patents to Microsoft – Now Reported to The Competition Authorities
  • 01.04.11 Yet More Microsoft Staff (Now Suzan DelBene) Enters Government to Assist Microsoft’s Looting of the System
  • 01.05.11 Ukraine, Russia, China and Several More Countries Under Attack From Microsoft Pirates
  • 01.06.11 Use Microsoft Windows, Get Assassinated
  • 01.11.11 Microsoft-run Patent Cartel Retreats Following Formal Complaint, But Why? (Updated)
  • 01.12.11 OpenSUSE Board (Non-Novell Part) Realises There Are Novell Ownership Issues, Novell Exploits the Community
  • 01.16.11 Iran Shows the Downside of Using Proprietary Software
  • 01.16.11 Novell Does More Harm Than Good at This Stage
  • 01.19.11 Patents Roundup: Software Patent Opinions in the UK
  • 01.19.11 OIN is Very Different From CPTN and UNIX Risk is Revisited
  • 01.20.11 OSI and FSF Unite in Face of Common Enemy CPTN/Microsoft
  • 01.20.11 Dubious News From Microsoft Boosters
  • 01.21.11 European Commission Disappoints Regarding Free Software and Patents
  • 01.21.11 In Defence of OIN and Android
  • 01.26.11 Should Techrights Watch Facebook?
  • 01.26.11 Michael McLoughlin, Kevin McBride, and Florian Müller
  • 02.05.11 Free Software Foundation’s Statement on Microsoft/Novell/CPTN Patent Attack Against Software Freedom
  • 02.05.11 Shock, Horror: International Chamber of Commerce Promotes Intellectual Monopolies
  • 02.06.11 Report: Nokia’s New CEO From Microsoft About to Fire Existing Nokia Executives
  • 02.10.11 Bad Security News for Apple and for Microsoft (Updated)
  • 02.10.11 USPTO Has Patents Blocking American Innovation, Brainwashed European Minority Wants to Emulate This Mess
  • 02.11.11 Microsoft’s Nokia ‘Deal’ is More Like a Takeover, Patents Pose a Problem
  • 02.13.11 Maneuverers of Microsoft in an Age of Software Patents
  • 02.16.11 Microsoft is Bribing Teachers Again, Maybe Others Too
  • 02.16.11 Ostracise Miguel de Icaza Like Stephen Elop Should Have Been Ostracised From Nokia
  • 02.21.11 Novell Keeps Amassing More Software Patents, Feeding a Rogue System
  • 02.21.11 Shareholders’ Announcement of Class Action Lawsuit Against AttachMSFT Deal (While Novell Claims to Have Received an OK, Lawsuits and CPTN Probe Ignored)
  • 02.22.11 When Intellectual Monopolies Become Criminal
  • 03.02.11 Spain is Still Against the EU Patent
  • 03.03.11 Microsoft is Still Fueling Anti-Linux ‘IP’ Wars Using Other Companies (SCO, Novell, Maybe Nokia)
  • 03.16.11 Triumph Against Software Patents in Europe as EU Treaty Brought Up
  • 04.05.11 Links /4/2011: Mourning Mozilla Messaging, Celebrating Simple Java API for ODF
  • 04.05.11 Microsoft’s Refined Plan of Using Novell to Attack Competitors
  • 04.09.11 Noted: Issue of Microsoft’s Anti-Competitive Operating System Bundling Raised by European Parliamentarians
  • 04.10.11 Novell’s Patents Will Harm GNU/Linux, Proving That Everyone’s Software Patents Are Bad
  • 04.16.11 Articles of ZDNet UK
  • 04.18.11 Losing the Battle Against Software Patents?
  • 04.20.11 Apple’s Anti-Linux Patent Lawsuits Give Another Reason for Concern Over CPTN
  • 04.21.11 How Novell Betrayed OIN and Joined Microsoft Instead
  • 04.22.11 Proprietary Software Increasingly Eliminates Freedom, Privacy, and Dignity
  • 04.24.11 Shades of SCO in Action Against Android
  • 04.26.11 The Lobby Against Linux
  • 04.27.11 Claim: Bill Gates Hired Patent Trolls to Attack the Competition of Microsoft While Mystery Lawyer Tries Taking Debian GNU/Linux Off the Web
  • 04.27.11 Federal Agents Should Prosecute Microsoft for Market Abuses With Patents Following Extortiongate
  • 05.03.11 Mono Development Canned (Updated: Everyone Laid Off)
  • 05.04.11 Attachmate’s Novell Strategy So Far: Kill Mono, Keep SUSE, Maybe Antitrust Against Microsoft
  • 05.05.11 Groklaw Worried About Novell Polluting Ubuntu With Mono, IBM’s Open Source VP Thinks Microsoft Might Scoop Mono
  • 05.09.11 Season of Renames
  • 05.09.11 Proprietary Software Against Civil Rights
  • 05.12.11 People Who Left SUSE Because of Novell’s Atrocious Patent Deal
  • 05.13.11 Exclusive: Microsoft Patent Schemes Nobody Knows About
  • 05.19.11 AttachMSFT Still in Control of SUSE, Even After Novell Takeover and Split
  • 05.20.11 Europe’s Peanut Gallery Wants Software Patents
  • 05.21.11 TechBytes Episode 47: Unity With the Wife
  • 05.27.11 TechBytes Episode 48: Will The Real Steve Ballmer Please Step Down?
  • 06.03.11 TechBytes Episode 49: Linux – To Boldly Go…
  • 06.05.11 TechBytes Episode 50: With Rusty Again, Challenging FUD
  • 06.10.11 Q&A With Puppet Labs’ James Turnbull Regarding Pro Puppet
  • 06.13.11 France and the United Kingdom Want to Drown in Software Patents Sea of Risk
  • 06.15.11 TechBytes Episode 51: Nokia and Apple, GPL’s Importance, Silverlight’s Death, and Copyrights Unrest
  • 06.26.11 TechBytes Episode 52: Desktop Environments and the Demise of Ubuntu
  • 07.06.11 TechBytes Episode 53: WebOS, Universal Laws, and Tablets
  • 07.06.11 TechBytes Episode 54: Patent Extortion, Economy Shifting, Tablets Lacking
  • 07.07.11 Federal Agents Unhappy About Microsoft’s and Apple’s Patent Strategy, Reversals Possible
  • 07.13.11 Regulators in the US/Canada Authorise Linux-hostile Patent Cartel, Google Must Help Abolish Software Patents Now
  • 07.15.11 TechBytes Episode 55: Google’s Growth, Sabayon Linux 6, and Sony-Microsoft
  • 07.24.11 TechBytes Episode 56: GNU/Linux Versus Mac OS X
  • 07.31.11 Links White Spaces, Police Hacking, Pollution and Censorship
  • 08.03.11 Links – Mesh Nets, More on US Gene Patents, Big Pollution
  • 08.06.11 TechBytes Episode 57: Desktop Choice is Grand
  • 08.08.11 Microsoft Caught Paying Burson-Marsteller to Smear Google
  • 08.08.11 Attachmate’s First Milestone: Sign Another Patent Deal With Microsoft, Pay Microsoft a ‘Linux Tax’ on SUSE
  • 08.10.11 Apple is Killing Jobs, Killing Products
  • 08.12.11 Links – Nokia Dying, Astroturf as Warfare, Protest as Hacking, Big Pollution.
  • 08.12.11 Global Dimming for the Cult of Patents
  • 08.13.11 After Icahn Entryism, Motorola Too Considers Strategy of Extorting Linux Phone Makers
  • 08.14.11 Tablets, Phones, Linux, and Android Are Dragged Into Patent Mayhem by Microsoft, Apple, and Their Allies
  • 08.16.11 Apple Fabricates ‘Evidence’ to Ban Linux Devices
  • 08.16.11 Links – More Google/Motorola/Android, Wind Power, Wealth and Political Power
  • 08.17.11 A Demise of the Patent Plot Against Linux
  • 08.20.11 Links – More on the Demise of webOS, SpyPhone and Facebook Busted
  • 08.22.11 Links – Addiction Redefined, Microsoft Florian and Barbarous Trump.
  • 08.23.11 Europe Under Threat From Software Patents Through the Back Door, Warns FSF Founder
  • 08.24.11 TechBytes Episode 58: HP’s 180, Google’s New Patents, and the New GIMP
  • 08.28.11 Cablegate Reveals US Pressure for EU Patent (Unitary Patent) Alongside ACTA, More Pro-Patents Lobbyists Observed
  • 09.02.11 Developers Who Leave SUSE/Attachmate
  • 09.05.11 As Attachmate Distances Itself From SUSE, Commitment to UNIX Copyrights Doubted
  • 09.05.11 Links – Web Stats, Mego Petrospective, Tracking Company Busted, MPAA Exposed.
  • 09.05.11 TechBytes Episode 59: Privacy, Tablets, and Dream Studio
  • 09.08.11 Cablegate: How Microsoft Apparently Attacked GNU/Linux Adoption in Turkey
  • 09.09.11 Cablegate: Importing the USPTO Into Europe, Using the ‘EU Patent’
  • 09.10.11 Cablegate: US Government Assesses Value of New EU Commission to Itself
  • 09.10.11 2011 Patent ‘Reform’: Change We Can’t Believe in
  • 09.11.11 Cablegate: Investigation Launched Against Initiator of Kurdish GNU/Linux Distribution
  • 09.11.11 Cablegate: Turkey’s Patents Trajectory on Bad TRIPS
  • 09.11.11 Cablegate: Chancellor Merkel Organises Initiative Striving for “Increased Support for Cooperation Between U.S. and EU Patent Agencies”
  • 09.11.11 Cablegate: US Reaction to Minister Ewa Bjorling Pushing for EU Patent, Pressure on Slovenia to Jump Along
  • 09.12.11 Current Patent ‘Reform’ Criticised in the Press, Software Patents Need to Go
  • 09.14.11 Cablegate: Even Amid Departure From Microsoft, Bill Gates Lobbies Pakistani Government to Pay Microsoft
  • 09.14.11 Mobile Patent Wars Merely a Symptom of a Broken Patent System
  • 09.15.11 Cablegate: Bill Gates Belittles the World
  • 09.15.11 Cablegate: Microsoft’s “Relationship With the Government” and Pressure for Countries to Adopt Intellectual Monopolies Using Shame Lists
  • 09.16.11 Cablegate: Government Uses Google Earth, Blames Google Earth
  • 09.16.11 Cablegate: Microsoft’s Tax Dodge
  • 09.16.11 Cablegate: Lord Mandelson Meets the Qaddafi Family and Dates the Copyright Lobby
  • 09.17.11 Cablegate: EU Negotiations About EU Patent/Community Patent
  • 09.21.11 Patent Reform and Android
  • 09.22.11 TechBytes Episode 60: Microsoft Versus Dual Booters, Google Competition Matters, and Google+
  • 09.24.11 MAD Wars: Apple Faces Patent Blowback
  • 09.24.11 British Industry Invaded by US Patent Aggressors and Parasitic Patent Lawyers
  • 09.24.11 TechBytes Episode 61: Sebastian on Mageia and the GNU/Linux Desktop
  • 09.25.11 The Parallel Universe of Patent Lawyers
  • 09.27.11 Novell/Attachmate Emphasises Fog Computing/Hypervisors Rather Than Open Source
  • 09.27.11 Attachmate Too Passive as Novell Products Dissolve
  • 09.30.11 Microsoft Systematically Corrupts the Media
  • 10.03.11 TechBytes Episode 62: I Told You So
  • 10.04.11 Attachmate Apathetic and SUSE No Better Than Free GNU/Linux (With No Microsoft Tax)
  • 10.07.11 Halliburton in a War With European Patent Law
  • 10.09.11 OpenSUSE Wants Donations, Loses Volunteers Force
  • 10.09.11 Links – Brazil Defies ACTA, Creeping Biometrics Use
  • 10.10.11 TechBytes Episode 63: Enter KDE
  • 10.13.11 TechBytes Episode 64: From Russia to Bristol
  • 10.14.11 Links – Lots of bad deals made behind closed doors.
  • 10.16.11 Links – Microsoft Security Failure, Spyware, Pollution and Corruption
  • 10.24.11 Apple Badgeware
  • 10.25.11 Microsoft Throws More Lobbyists Into the Ring to Ban Linux Phones
  • 11.02.11 TechBytes Episode 65: End of the Season
  • 11.06.11 Links – Education update, Anti-Trust and Privacy
  • 11.07.11 SUSE Gets Lost in the ‘Cloud’
  • 11.10.11 Apple’s Latest Attacks and Problems Clearly Show That Apple is Losing
  • 11.12.11 “Patent Judges Want the Last Word Over Patent Law in Europe”
  • 11.23.11 Apple’s Patent Aggression Against Linux/Android Hits the Wall in Europe
  • 11.27.11 Patents Roundup: Broken System as the News Attests to the Failure
  • 11.29.11 ‘Pulling an ACTA’ to Legalise Software Patents in Europe
  • 12.01.11 Apple is Losing Its Mind and Its Cases Against Linux
  • 12.01.11 Software Patents Come to Europe Through the Back Door
  • 12.14.11 Software Patents in the EU Become a Central Concern Again
  • 12.15.11 Apple’s Patent War on Linux Turns Back Against Apple, Which Allegedly Resorts to Using Patent Trolls
  • 12.15.11 When OOXML Attacks Free Software
  • 12.18.11 Updates on Novell and Other FOSS Taxers
  • 12.21.11 Latest Patent Attacks on Linux/Android and Why They Matter
  • 12.23.11 Apple Does Malicious Stuff With Patents as More Courts Sidle With Linux/Android
  • 12.27.11 The Exodus of Novell Executives and Life After Novell
  • 12.28.11 Cablegate: Brazil Advocates, Praises “the Usefulness of Free, Open Source Software”
  • 12.28.11 Cablegate: US Government Talks About Providing Free Software that Helps Chinese Netizens Overcome Filters
  • 12.28.11 Cablegate: Indian Ambassador Criticises UNESCO for Signing a Software Agreement With Microsoft (Updated)
  • 12.28.11 EPO and Other Lawyers-dominated Circles Push for Software Patenting
  • 12.30.11 Cablegate: Lithuania ‘Watched’ for Not Accepting Monopoly/’IP’ Regime From West, Government Adoption of Free Software Noted
  • 12.30.11 Cablegate: UNESCO Was Pro-Free Software Before Gates and Microsoft Intervention
  • 01.07.12 Links – An Unhappy New Year at the Marriott, Microsoft set backs, GNU/Linux and Free Software Advances.
  • 01.12.12 Links – Microsoft Malware and Lockouts, Idiots Press SOPA Forward, US “Bailouts” add up to $16 Trillion
  • 01.13.12 Apple Cult Defends Android-Hostile Cult Leader, Engages in Extortion of Android and Shops, Gets Sued for It
  • 01.14.12 Links – A quick SOPA Update – they don’t hear you.
  • 01.23.12 Patents Roundup: Windows Declining, Microsoft and Apple Attack Linux
  • 01.25.12 Patents Roundup: Oracle, Microsoft (via MOSAID), and Apple Lawsuits Against Linux/Android
  • 01.29.12 Links – Please sign the Avaaz petition against ACTA.
  • 02.01.12 Microsoft Mole Failed to Sell Phones, Managed to Pass Patents to Microsoft’s Patent Trolls
  • 02.03.12 Groklaw Update on Android Patent Cases and Response to FUD From Microsoft Lobbyists
  • 02.05.12 Apple, Which Started Patent Wars, Gets What It Deserves
  • 02.14.12 Patent Forecast Improves for Android/Linux
  • 02.15.12 Links – Education Watch, BBC Apologizes for Selling Out, BP Oil Lingers
  • 02.19.12 Apple Versus Google When the Patent System Approves ‘Slide to Unlock’ as a Monopoly
  • 02.22.12 Patents Let Giants Attack the Rest, Apple Attack FOSS
  • 03.01.12 Google Helps EPO Manage Monopolies, Unitary Patent Aided
  • 03.05.12 Novell Decommissioned
  • 03.05.12 Patents Roundup: Hype, Critics, and Threat to Linux/Android
  • 03.31.12 Microsoft’s 352 Patent is a Needle in the Haystack
  • 04.02.12 Update on Patent Failures and Microsoft Lawsuits Against Linux Companies
  • 04.04.12 Microsoft Patent War on Android/Linux is Backfiring, Oracle is Still Unable to Win a Single Case
  • 04.12.12 Apple, Microsoft, Oracle (CPTN) and the Latest Patent Hoard Against Android/Linux
  • 04.14.12 Apple and Google/Android Suffer the Wrath of intellectual Monopolies
  • 04.17.12 Microsoft is Attacking Free Software and Standards in the UK, Behind Closed Doors
  • 04.20.12 After the Demise of Microsoft’s FAT Patent
  • 04.26.12 Links – ACTA/CISPA Update, Other Crimes, Corruption and Failure.
  • 05.12.12 Software Patents and Trolls Devour Jobs While Microsoft Proxies Sue Android Companies
  • 05.21.12 In Motorola Case, Microsoft Boosters Use Slashdot for Anti-Linux/Android Patent Propaganda
  • 05.26.12 Microsoft Linux (SUSE) Developed More Closely With Microsoft
  • 06.02.12 Microsoft Takes Up a Notch Effort to Tax and Control Linux
  • 06.20.12 The Alternative Press Explains What the Gates Foundation Et Al. Are Doing
  • 07.01.12 European Council Slows Down Software Patents
  • 07.01.12 The FSF Moves From Petition to Recommendations Regarding UEFI Fight
  • 07.03.12 Apple’s (and MPEG-LA’s) Fight Against Diversity
  • 07.12.12 Microsoft is Working to Make Android Non-Free by Extortion, Apple Works to Ban It
  • 07.20.12 Microsoft-funded SUSE Promotes the Microsoft-controlled OOXML
  • 07.23.12 Microsoft Uses Proprietary Formats to Impede and Derail Government Migrations to Free Software
  • 07.23.12 The Skype Interception Campaign
  • 07.28.12 Microsoft- and Bill Gates-funded Gartner Quickly Deletes Evidence of Vista 8 Disdain
  • 07.30.12 Software Patents Protest Spreads Everywhere
  • 07.30.12 Microsoft Already Uses Software Patents to Actually Remove Linux Devices from the European Market
  • 08.06.12 Vista 8′s Catastrophic Arrival Will Make GNU/Linux a Superior Gaming Platform, Claims Creator of Minecraft, Not Just Valve
  • 08.06.12 TechBytes Episode 74: Charles-H. Schulz on ODF, OOXML, and LibreOffice
  • 08.13.12 Judge Koh Bamboozled by Apple to Block Computing Freedom, Should Penalise Apple for Contempt of the Court
  • 08.18.12 Rogue Lobbyist Microsoft Florian Ousted by Judge
  • 08.20.12 Android Litigation Update
  • 09.27.12 Europe and New Zealand Share a Software Patents Problem As Such
  • 09.27.12 Microsoft Admits Rogue Play on Standards, ODF Suffers
  • 10.02.12 Apple and Microsoft Bias
  • 10.06.12 Patents Can Drive Apple and Microsoft Away From Litigation Tactics
  • 10.12.12 Samsung May Be Trying to Reduce Microsoft Patent Tax With F2FS
  • 10.16.12 Microsoft Patent Trolls Get Staff From Microsoft While ‘Mother Ship’ Sues Google Over Android
  • 11.05.12 Apple Hides Apology
  • 11.15.12 Rotten Patent System Not Just a Bad Apple, CCIA Seeks Change
  • 11.18.12 Bogus Correlations for Disinformation on Software Patents
  • 11.19.12 Holding Back Standards Adoption in Europe
  • 11.21.12 Freiburg Should Use ODF Only, Just Like Portugal
  • 11.21.12 Software Patents Through ‘Union’ in Europe
  • 11.22.12 Vista 8 Endorsements Are Fake, Microsoft Decided to Break Rather Than Make
  • 12.02.12 Microsoft Enjoys Seattle Bias in Patent Case Against Android
  • 12.04.12 SCOTUS Can Show Support for Public Interests by Stopping USPTO’s Systemic Corruption
  • 12.05.12 Supporting UEFI in 2012 is Like Supporting OOXML in 2007
  • 12.10.12 Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Glyn Moody, April, FSFE and Many Others Oppose Unitary Patent (Vote is Today)
  • 12.11.12 ‘Unitary Patent’ Helps Microsoft Extend Linux/Android Patent Extortion to Europe
  • 01.04.13 US Media Bias in Android Patent Cases
  • 01.08.13 Guest Post: Windows RT – Jail Breaking!
  • 01.10.13 FRAND Quite Likely the First Casualty at USPTO, Not Patents (Directly)
  • 01.19.13 Vista 8 is Dying With the Desktop Based on More Data Points, Security Issues Persist
  • 01.24.13 Confirmed: Microsoft Coordinated Propaganda Against Munich’s Migration to GNU/Linux
  • 01.25.13 Munich Responds to Microsoft FUD
  • 01.31.13 Microsoft by Proxy: Intellectual Ventures, Silver Lake, Ignition, and Now HP
  • 02.05.13 Former Novell Employees in Microsoft’s Fight Against GNU/Linux Adoption
  • 02.05.13 USPTO Shows That It Wants to Go Global
  • 02.07.13 Adventures in UEFI Mischief and Selective Criticism of Google
  • 03.01.13 FRAND Challenged by CCIA Amid FRAND Pressure From Anti-Android Camp
  • 03.06.13 Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza Finally Quits GNU/Linux; Even He Does Not Want Vista 8, Samsung Dumps Vista 8 Tablets
  • 03.14.13 Android/Google Under Patent Attacks, Calls for Other Companies to Stop the Patent Litigation Frenzy
  • 03.14.13 Nokia is Suing Android Directly, Using Patents; Microsoft’s Elop to Blame
  • 03.24.13 Boycott Nokia for Attacking Free Software, FFII’s President Suggests
  • 03.26.13 European Commission Finally Receives Complaint About Microsoft’s UEFI Restricted Boot Scheme
  • 03.31.13 Rackspace and Red Hat Battle Against Vile Troll (‘Uniloc USA’) Can Help Weaken Software Patents in the US
  • 04.07.13 Red Hat et al. (Including Android’s Guardian) Complain About Companies That Attack FOSS With Patents, Apple Sites Quote ‘FOSS Patents’ Spin on Yet Another Loss Against Android
  • 04.09.13 Those Who Push for Patent Reform and Those Who Protect Protectionism
  • 05.03.13 Bill Gates — Not Just Microsoft — Stole Millions From Irish Taxpayers, US Taxpayers Still Robbed by Corruption of Microsoft Moles
  • 05.12.13 Unitary Patent Impediments Covertly Addressed by EU Member Governments
  • 05.14.13 Software Patents Reality Distortion Field
  • 05.16.13 Microsoft Skype Messaging Surveillance Not the Main Issue, Audio Recording (Bugging) and Computer Hijacking Are
  • 05.18.13 The Reality Distortion Field of Patent Lawyers Helps Impede Abolition of Software Patents
  • 05.19.13 Microsoft-controlled Nokia is Lobbying to Enable Bans on Android Imports (Linux Phones as a Whole in Danger)
  • 05.19.13 Microsoft Spin Regarding Skype Spying Does Not Withstand Scrutiny
  • 05.23.13 CAFC Decision Still Overridden by Overzealous Patent Lawyers in the Press, The Guardian and Other Corporate Press (CBS and AFP Included) Still Guard the Establishment
  • 05.25.13 Microsoft Brings the Notion of Buying Games to End, Consumer Rights Groups Should Sue
  • 05.27.13 With Xbox, Microsoft Helps Spy on Living Rooms, Not Just Personal Space Through Webcam/Microphone (Skype)
  • 05.30.13 The EPO Has Gone Rogue, Disregards the Law
  • 05.30.13 Proof That Microsoft — Not Google — is Top Privacy Infringer
  • 06.01.13 Patent Lawyers Fight to Keep and Facilitate Software Patents Worldwide, Using Misinterpretation, Distraction, and Loopholes
  • 06.07.13 The Good News: White House Knows the Patent System is Broken. The Bad News: It Does Not Understand Why.
  • 06.14.13 As the Battle to Legitimise Software Patents in New Zealand and Europe Carries on, New Systemic Corruption Found
  • 06.15.13 Confirmed: Microsoft Tells the NSA About Back Doors in Windows
  • 06.15.13 Still Missing the Point of Patent Scope (Patents on Mathematics and Nature) as the Problem in the United States
  • 06.18.13 Judge Jackson Dies While Microsoft Continues to Abuse the System, This Time Using Nokia as a Front
  • 06.19.13 White House Should Identify USPTO as the Problem, Not Patent Trolls
  • 06.21.13 Microsoft is Suing Android/Google/Motorola Again, This Time Through Intellectual Ventures (Updated)
  • 06.24.13 If You Use Microsoft Windows, the NSA Can Brick Your Computer Hardware Remotely
  • 06.27.13 Back Door Access Discovered in Backup Servers of HP, Showing Urgent Need to Dump Proprietary Software
  • 06.28.13 The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Ought to Refocus on Crushing Software Patents, Not Patent Trolls or “Stupid Patents”
  • 07.01.13 The British Military Gives the United States Back Doors Into All of Its Computers
  • 07.06.13 Novell/SUSE is Microsoft in Linux
  • 07.08.13 Bill and Melinda Gates: The Couple That Made Eugenics Hip
  • 07.10.13 The Patent Lawyers in the EU and NZ Must Not Decide on Patent Policy Including Software Patents
  • 07.11.13 Microsoft Tries in Phones the Same Bribery Strategy It Allegedly Tried for Elimination of GNU/Linux in Sub-notebook
  • 07.11.13 Privacy Crimes of Microsoft Confirmed: Microsoft Colluded With the NSA in Criminal Surveillance (Illegal, Unconstitutional Program)
  • 07.11.13 Microsoft Windows Has New NSA Back Doors, Copies Spyware From Ubuntu
  • 07.14.13 US Patent System Utterly Broken and Threatens Expansion to Europe
  • 07.15.13 Another Back Door Found in HP Servers (LeftHand)
  • 08.12.13 Groklaw Slams the US Legal Framework for (Mis)Handling of Patents
  • 08.20.13 Actions of US Government Shut Down Groklaw Pre-emptively; Observing the US’ Sanctions Economy and the Danger of Expansion to Europe
  • 08.24.13 Microsoft’s International Crimes, NSA Collusion, and Taxpayers’ Payments for Microsoft to Collude With the NSA
  • 09.20.13 Big Money in FUD Against Free/Libre Software Licensing
  • 09.20.13 Fighting the Lies
  • 09.24.13 With Government Support, GNU/Linux is Growing in the City of Munich, the Argentinian, Chinese, British Markets
  • 09.27.13 Microsoft’s Patent Mafia Called the Proof That Patent Trolls Must be Eradicated or Patent Law Changed
  • 10.03.13 Even Microsoft Chief (Departed) Admits That Microsoft is a Very Serious Violator of Privacy
  • 10.07.13 Fighting Spies: Public Services in Europe Keep Moving to Free/Open Source Software
  • 10.18.13 Scarcity of Women is Not a Free Software Issue But a Western Issue (Science Stereotypes)
  • 10.21.13 Richard Stallman: How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?
  • 10.23.13 Mozilla Gains More Credibility by Hiring Xiph.org Founder Monty Montgomery
  • 10.24.13 GNU/Linux Desktops Continue to Multiply to Appease Users
  • 10.24.13 The World According to Forrester’s Clients: Bashing Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice
  • 10.24.13 Free Software/Open Source-Related Links for September-October 2013
  • 10.28.13 The NSA Causes an Atlantic Blunder
  • 10.28.13 Black Tuesday 2013 is Tomorrow (Wall Street, New York)
  • 10.30.13 British Prime Minister David Cameron Takes His War on Press Freedom Even Further, Japan Follows Suit
  • 11.12.13 New Evidence of Criminality in Spying Agencies, Going as Far as Exploiting FOSS Sites to Spread Malware
  • 11.12.13 If What We Have is Really Democracy, Then Corporations Are People
  • 11.14.13 Torture in the United States and What It Means to US Citizens
  • 11.15.13 Free/Libre Software Has Conquered the Area of Content Management Systems
  • 11.15.13 Latest CIA/NSA Scandals: More Espionage, Intimidation Against Journalists, Illegal Activities, and Facebook Cooperation
  • 11.17.13 How The Corporate Media Plays a Role in Climatic Disasters, Then Exploits Them for Ratings
  • 11.18.13 NSA-Created Malware Used Politically and Relied on Microsoft-Provided Back Doors/Weak Encryption
  • 11.22.13 Microsoft Windows is a Trojan Horse for the NSA
  • 11.24.13 Trusting Trust and Trusting Red Hat et al.
  • 11.27.13 The Cheapening of ‘Open Source’, Where Source No Longer Means Source Code
  • 11.27.13 Latest NSA Scandals: Interception of UK Wired Communications, Blackmail and Demonisation by Spying on Sex Surfing
  • 11.28.13 As Europe Vows to Embrace Free/Libre Software, Transparency Required to Expose Microsoft Bribery and Other Corruption
  • 12.04.13 NSA Leaks: Still Yielding New Scandals, But Fewer Than Before
  • 12.06.13 ‘Unauthorised’ Programming and What It Means to Software Freedom
  • 12.10.13 The Time for Freedom-Respecting Routers Has Come
  • 12.16.13 NSA Roundup: Latest News in a Nutshell
  • 12.18.13 New Examples of Censorship in West Europe, Facebook, Google, Saudi Arabia, China, Japan, and North America
  • 12.18.13 Copyright Infringement/Sharing is the New ‘Terrorism’, No Laws Required for Authorities to Take Extreme (and Sometimes Illegal) Action
  • 12.19.13 Most Famous Derivative of Debian Could Become SteamOS, Not Ubuntu
  • 12.20.13 Microsoft Booster at the Microsoft-Leaning Ars Technica: UEFI Restricted Boot is Good
  • 12.26.13 Urge Hardware Companies to Stop Using UEFI (or Boycott Them), Don’t Work on UEFI
  • 12.30.13 Wrapping Up a Year of NSA Disgrace, Propaganda Film Advocating State Abuses Already in Preparation (Starring Benedict Cumberbatch Again)
  • 01.07.14 Microsoft is Still Dreaming of Crushing Android by Doing What It Accuses Google of Doing
  • 01.10.14 Snowden’s Impact Continues to Drive Change in 2014
  • 01.14.14 DRM is Not Dying, It is Spreading Like a Virus, Even to the World Wide Web
  • 01.15.14 Copyright Law May be Reformed in the West, Infringement (For Now) Treated as Worse Than Murder and Rape
  • 01.15.14 Privacy Watch: Latest Stories
  • 01.16.14 Economic Disparity Watch: January 2014
  • 01.16.14 Interventions Watch: January 2014
  • 01.16.14 Police Watch: January 2014
  • 01.20.14 Linking Surveillance to Assassinations
  • 01.21.14 NSA Watch: Latest News About Privacy
  • 01.22.14 Linux Foundation’s Events, LCA 2014, and Other FOSS Events
  • 01.22.14 Heise Breaks Promise: Takes ‘H Online’ Offline, Essentially Deleting Thousands of High-Quality FOSS Articles
  • 01.22.14 Snowden’s Defence, Snowden Q & A, Privacy Advantage in Industry, The Coming End of Facebook
  • 01.23.14 Privacy Watch: Today’s Stories of Interest
  • 01.24.14 Amid NSA Scandals and Revelations Delhi Government and European Governments Are Moving to GNU/Linux and Free Software
  • 01.25.14 Privacy Watch: NHS Sells Out, Snowden Makes Headlines, GOP Uses NSA for Anti-Obama Partisanship, NSA Program Deemed Illegal, Bieber Rips NSA Coverage
  • 01.27.14 Privacy News: Ten States Against the NSA, Snowden Speaks About Espionage
  • 01.28.14 NSA Watch: GCHQ/NSA Gang Up Against Servers, Hide Violations, Face Blowback
  • 01.29.14 Snowden Nominated for Nobel Prize, Europe Moves Away From NSA, Surveillance ‘Reform’ Revolves Around Useless Figures (Update: Head of GCHQ Steps Down!)
  • 01.30.14 NSA Watch: Climate as ‘Terrorism’, War on Journalism and Anonymity, Anger in Europe and Angry Birds
  • 01.31.14 NSA Watch: New Faces, Same Policy, Obama Defends Clapper
  • 02.05.14 NSA Watch: More Disturbing Revelations
  • 02.06.14 Privacy Watch: GCHQ Resorts to DDOS Attacks, New Smears Against Snowden, Greenwald to Get Journalism Award
  • 02.11.14 Latest News About Surveillance, Torture, and Assassination
  • 02.12.14 Skynet Watch: From Targeting Terrorists to Targeting Protesters and From Foreign to Domestic
  • 02.13.14 DRM is Protectionism and Misuse of Laws, Nothing Technical
  • 02.14.14 Skynet Watch in the Media (Friday)
  • 02.16.14 Weekend News: Surveillance, Espionage, Foreign Policy, and Assassination Debate
  • 02.17.14 Latest Headlines About Surveillance and Drone Strikes
  • 02.21.14 Latest Examples of Public Sector Moves to Free Software
  • 02.23.14 Intelligence Abuses: Ombudsman Spied on, Phone Data Sold, Bugging by Media, Espionage, Monarchy, PRISM, Lawsuits…
  • 02.25.14 Abuses of Rights: News About Surveillance, Torture, and Assassination
  • 02.27.14 Erosion of Rights: Latest Headlines
  • 03.02.14 Leftovers: Cybervandalism in China, US/UK, Destabilisation of Ukraine and Militarism
  • 03.04.14 Skype Chief Executive Quits Microsoft Amid NSA Scandals
  • 03.05.14 An Android World: Limitless Expansion in Tablets, Smaller Devices, and New Hardware
  • 03.11.14 DroNSA: Targeted Assassinations, Surveillance on Torture Reporters/Researchers, and Snowden’s Latest Speeches
  • 03.12.14 Copyright News: EU Copyright Consultation Not Serious, Google ‘Gets’ It on Copyrights
  • 03.12.14 News Roundup: Public Services in Europe Rush to Free Software
  • 03.16.14 Watching Abuses of Power: Police, Secret Agencies, Militarism, Surveillance, and Censorship
  • 03.18.14 GNU/Linux at Google: Android, ChromeOS, Chromebooks, and Chrome News
  • 03.18.14 Assassination, Imprisoning Dissent, Torture, Interventions, Surveillance, and Censorship
  • 03.19.14 Desktop Environments: GNOME 3.12, KDE Wins Award, Enlightenment Updates
  • 03.19.14 Servers and Networks: GNU/Linux Still a Leader
  • 03.21.14 End of Week News: Mass Surveillance, Drones, Oversight Failure, Ukraine…
  • 03.23.14 More Drones Debate, Espionage Against China
  • 03.25.14 Nobody Sent to Prison After Microsoft Abused Privacy of Customers
  • 03.26.14 Law No Longer Matters When it Comes to Copyrights, as the Copyright Monopoly is Above the Law, Uses Anti-Terrorism Instruments
  • 03.27.14 Modern Warfare: Assassination, Surveillance, Censorship and More Digital Abuses
  • 03.30.14 Links: Civil Rights Abuses, Secrecy, Surveillance and Assassination Without Oversight
  • 03.31.14 Copyright and Monopoly News
  • 04.01.14 Links: Latest Reports on Modernised (Digitised) Oppression
  • 04.01.14 UEFI is Bricking Computers When One Removes Spyware With Back Doors (Microsoft Windows)
  • 04.03.14 News Links: Aggression and Surveillance
  • 04.05.14 News Links: Human Rights, Surveillance, International Law…
  • 04.06.14 Links: News About Surveillance, Covert Intervention, Drones…
  • 04.07.14 Newegg Beats Patent Troll, Sony Becomes DMCA Troll, NSA/PRISM Dropbox Blocks Accounts Based on Suspicion
  • 04.07.14 Links: Privacy Erosion and Other Technological Erosions of Rights
  • 04.10.14 eGov News: Moves to Free/Libre Software
  • 04.10.14 ODF News: ODF 1.2, European Support for ODF, LibreOffice and More
  • 04.10.14 Political News: Western Foreign Policy, Torture, Surveillance, and Assassination
  • 04.11.14 FOSS News: Latest Developments and Breakthroughs
  • 04.12.14 Political News: Protests Face a Ban, Covert Actions Continue, Cold War Era Imperialism, Privacy, and War on Justice
  • 04.13.14 Mobile Linux Not Just Android: Jolla, WebOS, and Firefox OS News
  • 04.13.14 Open Access on the Rise: Textbooks, Journals, Etc.
  • 04.13.14 Links: Surveillance, Intervention, Torture and Drones
  • 04.18.14 Some Perspective on Heartbleed®
  • 05.11.14 Former CIA Head Says Metadata Kills, So Don’t Use Duck Duck Go (Hosted by the CIA’s #1 Technology Partner)
  • 05.22.14 World’s Largest Population Heading Towards GNU/Linux Because Windows is Not Secure (NSA Trojan Horse)
  • 05.30.14 When NSA/PRISM/Microsoft Skype Turns Voice Conversations Into Text in Real Time
  • 07.05.14 Publicly-funded NHS Would Enjoy Symbiotic Relationship With Free — as in Freedom — Software
  • 07.06.14 Internet of Things Alliance Now Has a Mole, Microsoft
  • 07.13.14 Wirelessly-Controlled Contraceptives and Other Villainous Bill Gates Initiatives
  • 07.13.14 Cronyism at Play: European Hostility Towards Free/Libre Software Despite Espionage and Moles
  • 07.16.14 Secrecy Allows British Government to be Manipulated by Microsoft for Spyware Behind Closed Doors
  • 08.03.14 Windows Will Go Extinct in the Back End and the Desktop
  • 08.18.14 Gartner Group Advocates Using Defective Software With Back Doors
  • 08.19.14 After Microsoft’s Soft Bribe Some Non-Technical Deputy Does Not Like Free Software, Microsoft-Linked Media Responds to This Non-News by Making Bogus Claims of Munich Leaving GNU/Linux (Updated)
  • 08.20.14 Corruption Watch: Microsoft Lobbying Designed to Kill Chile’s Free Software Policy and Promote Microsoft With Subsidies, More Dirty Tricks Emerge in Munich
  • 08.22.14 Microsoft is Still Preying on British Taxpayers, Playing Politics
  • 08.23.14 Blowback in Chile and Munich After Microsoft Intervention
  • 08.27.14 FUD Against Google and FOSS Security Amid Microsoft Windows Security Blunders
  • 08.28.14 Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) Companies Versus FOSS Moles (VMware, Sonatype, Xamarin)
  • 09.08.14 Suspicion of High-Level Corruption at the European Patent Office (EPO): Part I
  • 09.15.14 Željko Topić, Benoît Battistelli, and the European Patent Office (EPO): Part II
  • 09.16.14 The United Kingdom Should Dump Microsoft For the Sake of National Security
  • 09.17.14 Italy is Cracking Down on Microsoft’s Monopoly Abuse While Gradually Moving to GNU/Linux
  • 10.07.14 Benoît Battistelli’s Balkan Standards in EPO: Part V
  • 10.08.14 How Microsoft Handles Disasters: Grace Hopper Conference Has Been Infiltrated by “Microsoft Disaster Response”
  • 10.20.14 The EPO’s Public Relations Disaster Amid Distrust From Within (and EPO Communications Chief Leaves): Part VII
  • 10.25.14 City of Berlin Does Not Abandon Free Software, It’s Only Tax Authorities
  • 10.31.14 The EPO Is More Corrupt Under Battistelli Than Under Alison Brimelow: Part VIII
  • 11.01.14 How to Complain About the EPO to National Delegations in Europe: Part IX
  • 11.13.14 Microsoft Windows is Still Designed as a Paradise of Back Doors, Intrusion, Wiretaps, and Interception
  • 12.08.14 EPO Staff Protests Today and Protested Last Week, Targeting Corruption in the Institution
  • 12.11.14 Rolling of Heads Likely Imminent at EPO
  • 12.12.14 Dreaming of a Just Christmas: When a Third of EPO Walks Out to Revolt and European Judges Attack the EPO Over Abuses
  • 01.02.15 New NSA Leaks Confirm That Microsoft Skype is a Wiretapping Hub
  • 01.04.15 Just in: Fresh Call From Croatia to Arrest EPO Vice-President Željko Topić
  • 01.07.15 Intellectual Property Judges’ Association (IPJA) Speaks Out Against EPO Tyrant Battistelli
  • 01.11.15 The EPO Connection Now a Liability as Administrative Council Has Become a Laughing Stock, Jesper Kongstad to be Targeted by EPO Staff Protests
  • 01.18.15 Battistelli’s Latest Propaganda War Tries to Convince EPO Staff That Željko Topić’s Many Criminal Charges Don’t Exist
  • 01.19.15 Translations of Member of the European Parliament Complaining About European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 01.20.15 Failure of the EPO Can Derail the Trojan Horse of Software Patents and Patent Trolls
  • 01.24.15 As Battistelli Breaks the Rules and Topić Silences Staff, New European Parliament Petition for Tackling the EPO’s Abuses is Needed
  • 01.30.15 Text of Ruling/Decision Against Željko Topić (Regarding Audi as a Bribe)
  • 02.01.15 Catarina Holtz From the EPO Boards of Appeal Explains Bad Behaviour of the Management With Regards to EPC 2000
  • 02.02.15 Benoît Battistelli and Jesper Kongstad Continue to Blame Everything on SUEPO
  • 02.03.15 More Press Coverage From the Danish Media About EPO Abuses and Protest at Danish Consulate
  • 02.08.15 The EPO Shaken by Croatian Revelations: Part XIV
  • 02.08.15 The EPO’s Vice-President Željko Topić and the Case of Ivan Kabalin: Part XIII
  • 02.11.15 The EPO’s Digital War (Censorship) Against Staff Web Site
  • 02.11.15 Cyberattacks on SUEPO Server Raise More Questions
  • 02.11.15 EPO Staff to March to British Consulate to Protest Against the Administrative Council (AC)
  • 02.11.15 Corruption at the Croatian State Intellectual Property Office Which Željko Topić Came From: Part XV
  • 02.15.15 FFII and the American IP Law Association Comment on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Envisioned by EPO
  • 02.15.15 English Translation of Article About Protest at Danish Consulate Over EPO Abuses
  • 02.15.15 The Case of Rikard Frgacic Versus the Croatian SIPO: Allegation of Corruption in Relation to Trademark Reassignment Under Željko Topić’s Watch: Part XVI
  • 02.18.15 EPO Scandals: The Story So Far
  • 02.19.15 Željko Topić’s History in SIPO Leaves a Legacy of Alleged DZIV Vehicles (Bribes), Authorship Abuses, and Intimidation Against Reporters
  • 02.22.15 The EPO’s Sham ‘Internal Investigation’ of EPO Vice-President Željko Topić’s Affairs
  • 03.17.15 Rikard Frgačić Explains Željko Topić’s Behaviour and the Lufthansa Case
  • 03.18.15 Benoît Battistelli Allegedly Turns to Moscow and Putin-Inspired Tactics to Oppress and Suppress EPO Staff (Updated)
  • 03.24.15 Benoît Battistelli’s EPO is Under Attack From French Politicians Yet Again
  • 03.25.15 The EPO’s Administrative Council is Under Increased Pressure to Rein in and to Finally Stop Benoît Battistelli
  • 04.01.15 When Battistelli’s Defender, Dutch Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten, Attacked Europeans’ Right to Demonstrate
  • 04.02.15 Željko Topić: “SUEPO Staff Union Has No Standing in This Office. SUEPO Has No Role to Play in This Office.”
  • 04.10.15 New Article Chronicles Suicides and Nervous Breakdowns at the EPO Due to the Management’s Abuses
  • 05.11.15 Europe is Saying Goodbye to Microsoft, Moves to ODF
  • 05.25.15 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Benoît Battistelli and Four EPO Suicides
  • 05.25.15 Süddeutsche Zeitung Says Talking Helps While EPO Management Back-stabs Other Side of the Table
  • 05.26.15 Patent Scope at the EPO is Totally Out of Control, UPC Will Make Things Worse
  • 06.04.15 The EPO Sinks Deeper in a Scandal After Paying Public Money for Military-Connected Control Risks to Stalk Journalists and Staff
  • 06.06.15 EPO Officially Confirms That It Specifically Hired Control Risks Group (CRG) to Spy on Journalists and Their Sources
  • 06.07.15 Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About the EPO’s Investigation Unit and Control Risks Group
  • 06.09.15 EPO Surveillance, Threats, and Patronisation of Dutch Legal System Covered in Dutch Article From De Volkskrant
  • 06.09.15 European Patent Office (EPO) Now Uses Keyloggers to Spy on Staff
  • 06.09.15 Full Translation of Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About Blackhat Tactics (Keyloggers) in EPO (Updated)
  • 06.09.15 When the European Patent Office Lost in Court and Refused to Obey the Law: An Analysis
  • 06.10.15 EPO Comes Under Fire From the Bavarian Data Protection Supervisor After the Spying Scandal
  • 06.12.15 Badische Zeitung Labels European Patent Office (EPO) a Police State for Use of Very Intrusive Mass Surveillance Software (Updated)
  • 06.14.15 EPO Data Protection Officer ‘Just a Dictator’s Minion’, Approved Keyloggers and Hidden Cameras
  • 06.15.15 Translation of Süddeutsche Zeitung Article Calling for External Oversight of Data Protection at the EPO
  • 06.17.15 SUEPO to SUE Government of the Netherlands for Protecting the EPO’s Thugs
  • 06.20.15 Better Watch Out or the United States Will Export Software Patents to Europe, Along With Patent Trolls
  • 06.26.15 The Council of Europe Slams the EPO as Political Pressure Grows for EPO Management to Obey the Law
  • 06.28.15 After Intervention by the Council of Europe Comes a Detailed Summary of the Situation in the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 06.30.15 Techrights Confirmed as a Target of EPO Surveillance, With Help From Control Risks Group (CRG)
  • 07.01.15 Munich Press, Münchner Merkur, Slams the Munich-based EPO
  • 07.09.15 The Real Reason Microsoft Gives Money to OpenBSD is Not Security or Free Software But Proprietary Windows With Back Doors
  • 07.14.15 Governments-Connected ‘Hacking Team’ Targets UEFI, Reveal Leaks
  • 07.20.15 Patents Expansion in Europe May be Looming
  • 07.21.15 Patents Regime in Europe: Mixture of Greed, Competition Abuses, and Propaganda
  • 08.04.15 ‘Sanader’s Protégé’ Željko Topić Slammed by Press in His Home Country
  • 08.05.15 Microsoft’s Patent Attacks on Free Software Intensify as Microsoft’s Mobile Ambitions Officially Dead and Vista 10 Failing
  • 08.20.15 After OOXML Propaganda, New Assocham Propaganda Calls for Back Doors, Spyware and Other Malicious, Self-defeating Traps Inside Government of India
  • 08.24.15 Sabine Pfeiler and Otto Seidl Should Take Note as Russia — Like China — is in the Process of Banning Microsoft Windows for Security Reasons
  • 08.27.15 Microsoft Loves Linux to Death and Still Tries to Kill GNU/Linux
  • 08.27.15 Censorship, Self-Censorship and Intimidation Now the Modus Operandi at EPO
  • 08.29.15 Apple’s Patent Cases Against Android Are Falling Apart, as Acknowledged Even by the Anti-Android Lobby
  • 09.09.15 Benoît Battistelli and His Goons From Control Risks (CRG) Try to Crush Unions, Not Just Journalism
  • 09.09.15 EPO Management May Not Have Resigned (Yet), But the Rest of the Staff is Leaving in Droves
  • 09.10.15 The EPO’s Vicious Attacks on Its Very Own Staff Have Peaked (War on Dissent) While Oppressive Patent Regime (UPC) Phased in
  • 09.17.15 European Patent Office Expands Censorship and Intimidation Against Staff as Pressure Mounts
  • 09.22.15 The European Patent Office’s Autocracy Has Proven the Streisand Effect, Amplifying Its Opposition’s Messages
  • 09.22.15 Dutch Politician John Kerstens Says EPO Investigative Unit is Called ‘the Gestapo’
  • 09.23.15 Translation Needed of Article About EPO Threats Against SUEPO’s Elizabeth Hardon
  • 09.23.15 EPO Management Justifies Censorship (Even of Journalists) Using Its Vice-President Željko Topić
  • 09.24.15 Europe’s Acceptance of and Resistance to Software Patents, Courtesy of Corporate Front Groups and Courtrooms Respectively
  • 10.04.15 Article Explains Why SUEPO Went Silent Well Over a Week Ago: Nobody is Allowed to Talk to Journalists Without Permission From Battistelli
  • 10.05.15 With Software Patents in Europe (and Pushes for the Same Thing in Australia and India) Patent Trolls Now Come to Europe, Attack Android/Linux
  • 10.05.15 Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna Explains Why the UPC (“Unitary Patent“ System) is an Undemocratic Sham Whilst UPC Silently Advanced by Patent Lawyers and Politicians
  • 10.06.15 Commenters Provide Possible Explanations for Mr Van der Eijk Being on Unlimited Sick Leave
  • 10.06.15 Željko Topić Attacks EPO Staff for ‘Daring’ to Legally Challenge the EPO’s Management Over Its Gross Abuses in Europe
  • 10.09.15 Benoît Battistelli’s Office Accused of Institutional Harassment Against EPO Staff in New Letter to the Administrative Council, Calling for External Investigation
  • 10.13.15 EPO Management is Running Out of Time as More Media Remarks on Its Abuses
  • 10.13.15 EPO Management Lobbies for the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Uses This to Advance Software Patents in Europe
  • 10.16.15 The ‘Sherlocks’ of EPO/Spin-Doctoring Pretend That All of the EPO’s Problems Boil Down to One Disgruntled Person (Updated)
  • 10.16.15 EPO is Trademark-Bullying Its Critics, Trying Repeatedly to Remove Bad Publicity With Help From Menacing Legal Threats (SLAPP)
  • 10.16.15 EPO Cleverly Frames Total War Against Its Own Staff as a War Against Nazism
  • 10.16.15 Microsoft-Connected FOSS FUD Firm Black Duck Says It Can Cost $25,000 to Fix a Bug in FOSS
  • 10.19.15 Benoît Battistelli et al in an Allegedly New Campaign of Defamation Against Staff Member
  • 10.20.15 Brute Force Cracking Attempts Against Techrights
  • 10.26.15 The Deteriorating Working Conditions at the EPO Show Reluctance to Make Talented Staff (or Ill Staff) Happy
  • 10.27.15 Board of Appeal Thwarts a Software Patent Application in the EPO, From Company Indirectly Connected to the EPO
  • 10.27.15 European Patent Organisation: Hallmark of a Corrupted (by Corporations) Entity
  • 10.28.15 Control Risks Group (CRG), Transparency International, the European Patent Office (EPO) Investigative Unit and the Obvious Conflicts of Interest
  • 10.30.15 Benoît Battistelli Became an Embarrassment to the European Patent Organisation, Allege EPO Workers
  • 10.30.15 Private Eye Covers the EPO Scandals, Says EPO Hired ‘British Snooping Firm Global Risk Consultants’
  • 10.31.15 Patents Roundup: Software Patents in India, the US, Microsoft’s Dubious Software Patents, and Mark Cuban
  • 11.03.15 The Benoît Battistelli Way or the Highway: EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal is Being Discredited, SUEPO Web Site is Down Again
  • 11.04.15 The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part II
  • 11.04.15 A State Within a State: Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About the EPO’s Bizarre Existence Above the Law
  • 11.05.15 CopyCamp ’15 in Warsaw Discussed the Problem of Patents on Software, Which Still Exist in Europe
  • 11.05.15 Dutch Political Action Against the EPO’s Management Greater Than Previously Estimated
  • 11.05.15 Dutch Political Action Against the EPO’s Management Greater Than Previously Estimated
  • 11.06.15 IP Kat Bemoans Crushing of the EPO’s Boards by an Increasingly Paranoid EPO Management
  • 11.06.15 The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part IV
  • 11.08.15 The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part VI
  • 11.09.15 The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part VII
  • 11.10.15 New Reports Highlight Need to Crack Down on the European Patent Office and Microsoft
  • 11.13.15 New Academic Paper Explains Why Europe Has Virtually No Patent Trolls, Italian Patent Troll Sisvel Makes a Comeback, Patent Lawyers Belittle the Problem
  • 11.18.15 EPO: It’s Like a Family Business – Part II
  • 11.18.15 Meltdown at the EPO, Massive Staff Protests This Afternoon
  • 11.19.15 Patent Lawyers Want to Bring Software Patents (Hence Patent Trolls Too) to Europe, Piggyback Battistelli’s Habitual UPC Promotion
  • 11.20.15 Gross Aggression by EPO Management Shows the Urgent Need to Remove Immunity From EPO
  • 11.20.15 In an Effort to Counter EPO Staff Narrative (After ~2,000 of Staff Protest) EPO Management Portrays Staff as Violent But Provides No Evidence
  • 11.22.15 Rumour About Efforts to Dismiss a Board Judge by Intimidating Boards of Appeal
  • 11.23.15 EPO President Battistelli Now Intimidates Even National Delegations
  • 11.23.15 NRC Handelsblad (Dutch Evening Newspaper) Speaks About EPO’s Refusal to Accept Court Orders From The Hague
  • 11.24.15 Censoring WIPR Article About Censorship by EPO
  • 11.24.15 Response to Bogus Accusations That EPO Staff Protests Are Really an Attempt to Derail UPC
  • 11.24.15 United They Stand: FFPE-EPO Supports Suspended Staff Representatives From SUEPO
  • 11.25.15 EPO Management Needs to Finally Recognise That It Itself is the Issue, Not the Staff or the Unions
  • 11.25.15 Debunking the EPO’s Latest Marketing Nonsense From Les Échos and More on Benoît Battistelli’s Nastygram to French Politician
  • 11.26.15 European Patent Office (EPO) a “Kingdom Above the EU Countries, a Tyranny With ZERO Accountability”
  • 11.26.15 A Call for Bloggers and Journalists: Did EPO Intimidate and Threaten You Too? Please Speak Out.
  • 11.26.15 Documents Needed: Contract or Information About EPO PR/Media Campaign to Mislead the World
  • 11.27.15 The European Private Office: What Was Once a Public Service is Now Crony Capitalism With Private Contractors
  • 11.27.15 Leaked: EPO Award of €880,000 “in Order to Address the Media Presence of the EPO” (Reputation Laundering)
  • 11.28.15 What Everyone Needs to Know About the EPO’s New War on Journalism
  • 11.29.15 How the EPO Twisted Defamation Law in a Failed Bid to Silence Techrights
  • 11.29.15 Why the European Patent Office Cannot Really Sue and Why It’s All — More Likely Than Not — Just SLAPP
  • 12.01.15 The European Patent Office (EPO) Crushes Not Only Unions But Also the Press and Even Bloggers
  • 12.01.15 The Spanish EPO Scandal – Part II
  • 12.01.15 EPO Staff Representatives Highlight to Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’ How Battistelli Deceived Him
  • 12.02.15 New EPO Job Advertisement Reveals Gestapo-Like ‘Deep State’, Operating Outside the Rule of Law and Managed Secretly by a Tyrannical President
  • 12.02.15 Any Negative Press Cuttings, Reports and Reactions From the Media”">EPO “Intranet Fails to Present Any Negative Press Cuttings, Reports and Reactions From the Media”
  • 12.04.15 EurActiv’s Puff Piece for EPO (Amid High-Budget Media Blitz) Reveals Just How Clueless and Tactless the EPO’s President Really is
  • 12.06.15 Article Highlights EPO’s Capitalist Venture Tendencies, Seeking to Just Maximize Profit, Irrespective of Public Interests and Human Factors
  • 12.06.15 The EPO’s PR Agency is Connected to Fracking AstroTurf in the United States
  • 12.06.15 EPO “Synonymous With Psychological Depressions, Nervous Breakdowns, and Even Suicides”
  • 12.06.15 Staff Union of the EPO Responds to Benoît Battistelli’s Alleged Defamation of Staff Representatives
  • 12.08.15 Team Battistelli Plans to Send to Exile (or Effectively Fire) Law-abiding Staff Because the Staff is Independent and Unwilling to Sack a Whistleblower
  • 12.09.15 An Introduction and an Overview of European Patent Office (EPO) Scandals
  • 12.09.15 Union Busting at the European Patent Office, Dressed Up as ‘Investigation’
  • 12.09.15 Software Patents and EPO Coverage
  • 12.10.15 Contacting National Delegations to Complain About the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 12.10.15 The EPO’s Double Standard on Confidentiality
  • 12.10.15 Surveillance Audits at the EPO
  • 12.12.15 The EPO’s Failed (Dismissed) Attempt to Dismiss a Judge Alleged to Have Communicated About EPO Abuses
  • 12.12.15 A Day After Massive EPO Protest Benoît Battistelli Tries Using Money to Appease Staff
  • 12.12.15 EPO ‘Sweetener’ for Administrative Council National Delegates
  • 12.12.15 The European Patent Office is a Lobby Organisation, Was and Still is Lobbying for Expansion of Patent Scope (Also to Software) Through UPC
  • 12.14.15 Watch Out For the EPO-SUEPO Parity Spin
  • 12.14.15 EPO No Longer in the ‘Business’ of Just Granting Patents But Politics and Lobbying Also
  • 12.14.15 Heise Article Tackles EPO ‘Feud’ (Union Busting in Disguise), Techrights’ Remarks Follow
  • 12.15.15 When Europe’s Leading International Patent Litigators Get Fed Up With Benoît Battistelli and Want Him Sent to ‘Exile’
  • 12.15.15 Ahead of Tomorrow’s Administrative Council Meeting EPO Staff Representatives Warn Heads of Delegations About Union Busting and Other Abuses
  • 12.16.15 AIPPI Sends Angry Letter to the Administrative Council Regarding the EPO’s Attacks on the Boards and Staff Unions, Saying it Damages the EPO’s Function and Reputation
  • 12.16.15 European Patent Institute (EPI) Not Happy With the EPO’s Terrible Treatment of the Boards of Appeal
  • 12.17.15 Administrative Council Does Not Crush the Boards But Does Crush the Unions (Suspension Duration Sextupled)
  • 12.17.15 EPO Attacks Staff Representatives’ Right to Work Just One Week Before Christmas
  • 12.17.15 EPO Union Responds to Željko Topić and Raimund Lutz’s Attempt to Intimidate Staff That Joins Unions
  • 12.17.15 Ahead of Administrative Council Meeting, General Consultative Committee Warned of “Witch Hunt in Pursuit of SUEPO Officials” (Union Busting)
  • 12.18.15 EPO Irrelevancy, Two Decades to be Granted an EPO Patent, Outrage Over Patents on Plants in EPO
  • 12.20.15 EPO Management Discovers Media is Against It
  • 12.20.15 More Sunday Humour: Fictional Diary From the European Patent Office
  • 12.21.15 The Forgotten History of IAM ‘Magazine’ as EPO Management’s Megaphone and EPO Union Basher
  • 12.22.15 Europe Under Siege by Patent Lawyers, UPC Ambitions, and the Administrative Council’s Continued Passive Support of Battistelli
  • 12.22.15 EPO Level of Trust Reaches All-Time Low: Workers Distrust the Available Phones in Their Offices, Use Mobiles Instead
  • 12.24.15 I-AM EPO: How the Record of the EPO’s Management Dispute With Staff and the EPC is Being Rewritten by EPO-Funded Media
  • 12.24.15 Concerns About the Unitary Patent Court (UPC) Among EPO Staff an Outcome of Battistelli’s Attacks on Staff
  • 12.26.15 Benoît Battistelli Fails to Get Majority of 38 Member States to Crush the Boards, Which Are Already Being Crushed Anyway (23 Vacant Judge Positions)
  • 12.26.15 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part II: Patent Office as a Cancer
  • 12.26.15 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part III: Death in the Family
  • 12.27.15 Battistelli’s Proposed Changes to Pensions “Difficult to Understand”, “Liable to Cause Instability”, Without Consultation or Justification
  • 12.27.15 Revolving Doors of High-Level EPO Management: Jacques Michel and the Questel Deal With the EPO
  • 12.31.15 Software Patents Used by Patent Trolls in the United States Are Squashed in Courts
  • 01.01.16 Microsoft, Which Actively Aids State-Sponsored Attacks Even in Russia (Cold War Archrival), Says It Will Battle State-Sponsored Attacks
  • 01.05.16 The European Patent Office (EPO) Has Become a Propaganda Mill After the FTI Consulting Deal
  • 01.05.16 Patent Lawyers and People in ‘IP’ Jobs Warp the Debate About the Patent System: EPO-Funded Writers, Glorification of Patent Trolls, and Software Patents
  • 01.08.16 The European Patent Office (EPO) Doesn’t Like Spanish, So Why Should the Spanish Tolerate the EPO?
  • 01.08.16 Patent Lawyers Continue to Spin Grim News About Patents (UPC, Lawsuits Peak, Patent Raids) as Good News
  • 01.12.16 The European Patent Office (EPO) Still Quietly Abusive
  • 01.12.16 Transparency is Sunlight in the Kingdom of the EPO Vampires
  • 01.14.16 The EPO is Manufacturing Propaganda Again, Releasing Misleading Figures to the Media
  • 01.15.16 How the EPO Prevented Scapegoats (‘Defendants’) in Its Mock ‘Trials’ From Actually Presenting a Defense
  • 01.15.16 Massive EPO Protests After Team Battistelli Fires Legitimate Critics and Staff Representatives (Even Those With Young Children)
  • 01.15.16 Hundreds of EPO Staff at The Hague (Including Managers) Spontaneously Protested Today, Making Almost Half of All Staff Present
  • 01.16.16 Summarising the Latest Attacks by the European Patent Office (EPO) on European Society, With Complicity of Corporate Media
  • 01.16.16 The EPO “Hearing Was a Mockery.”
  • 01.16.16 EPO Staff Protests in Berlin and Vienna
  • 01.17.16 Battistelli Hopes That People Forget (or Don’t Know About) Criminal Charges Against Željko Topić, But Croatian Media Does Not Forget as Election Imminent
  • 01.17.16 ¿Cómo la OEP Evitó Que Sus Chivos Expiatorios (´Acusados´) Presentes sus Defensas en los ¨Juicios¨ Contra Ellos
  • 01.17.16 Unitary Patent (UPC) Highlights Reality Behind the EPO’s Management and Its Multinational/Overseas Bosses
  • 01.18.16 Battistelli’s Legitimacy Under Political Fire After He Fired Staff Representatives, Claims He’s Neither Suitable Nor Eligible to be EPO President
  • 01.18.16 European Patent Office (EPO) is Not “the Real World” But a Parallel Universe Without Any Regard for the Rule of Law
  • 01.18.16 Techrights Needs Translations as Another EPO Staff Protest Looms
  • 01.19.16 SLAPP-Happy EPO Vice-President Željko Topić Loses Croatian Defamation Lawsuit — AGAIN!
  • 01.19.16 Poor Journalism From Süddeutsche Zeitung Perpetuates the EPO Management’s Lies
  • 01.20.16 The EPO’s PR Team May be Trying a New ‘Damage Control’ Strategy Amid Historic Protests by Staff
  • 01.20.16 Benoît Battistelli Blasted by Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’, Who Initiates More Political Actions Against Him
  • 01.20.16 The Next Phase of Union Busting: Battistelli Now Cutting Salaries of Yet More EPO Staff Representatives
  • 01.22.16 Two More EPO Protests on Their Way, Thousands of Employees Projected to Attend Overall
  • 01.23.16 EPO Implicitly Acknowledges Declining Patent Quality by Agreeing to Finally Dump Some Monsanto GMO Patents
  • 01.23.16 Additional Information About EPO Management and Its Abuses, as Told by Anonymous Comments
  • 01.23.16 Union-Busting Strategies Backfire: After Additional EPO Protests/Actions (Over 2,000 in Attendance With More to Come) a STRIKE is Being Planned
  • 01.24.16 Dismissal of EPO Staff Representatives Does Not Eliminate Them as EPO Staff Sticks Together, Shares the Burden, the Pain
  • 01.24.16 Süddeutsche Zeitung After FTI Consulting Deal: EPO Ghostwriter or Journalism?
  • 01.26.16 The United States’ Patent System Lets Software Patents Rot, as Patent Trolls Take Over the System and Unrest Grows
  • 01.26.16 Philip Cordery Says the EPO Situation is Well Known to All, as Attested by the Numerous Press Articles, Political Actions, or Administrative Recommendations
  • 01.26.16 No More Defeatism: Battistelli’s Days at the European Patent Office May be Numbered
  • 01.28.16 Independent Dutch Investigation to Commence Into the Working Conditions at the European Patent Office in Rijswijk
  • 01.28.16 Over a Thousand People Protest at The Hague; The EPO’s PR Team is Lying Again About the Busting of Staff Unions, Pretends There is “Union Recognition”
  • 01.28.16 Philip Cordery Dice que la Situación de la OEP es Bien Conocida por Todos, Lo Atestigua Numerosos Artículos de Prensa, Acciones Políticas, o Recomendaciones Administrativas
  • 01.30.16 When European SMEs Make the Mistake of Relying on the EPO’s Integrity, Now Want to Even SUE the EPO
  • 01.30.16 Translation: What If the European Patent Office Were to Torture?
  • 01.31.16 MEP Konstantina Kouneva (Former Trade Unionist) Again Takes Action Against the European Patent Office for Union-Busting Actions
  • 02.01.16 Under Battistelli’s Regime the European Patent Office is Rapidly Rotting
  • 02.02.16 Münchner Merkur Explains That EPO Staff is Defecting to SUEPO, Even The Council Distrusts Battistelli Now
  • 02.02.16 SUEPO (EPO Staff Union) Appears to Have Launched a New and Improved Web Site After Attempts to Crush (‘Decapitate’) SUEPO
  • 02.03.16 Patent Invalidation Statistics and Cost of Patent Litigation (Even If Bogus) Show That Patent Scope and Examination Standards a Problem in Europe, Not Just the US
  • 02.03.16 The Most Detailed Explanation (Yet) of What’s Wrong With the EPO
  • 02.04.16 The Siege Continues: Patent Lawyers Want More Patents, Including Software Patents, In Spite of Alice
  • 02.06.16 The ‘Offenses’ of EPO Staff Representatives Boil Down to Truth-Telling
  • 02.07.16 UPC: To Understand Who Would Benefit From It Just Look at Who’s Promoting It (Like TPP)
  • 02.08.16 ‘Aversion to Change’ Propaganda From the EPO Echoes or Parrots Lenin and Stalin
  • 02.08.16 Latest Propaganda From the EPO’s Management an Effort to Make the EPO the Tool of Megacorporations
  • 02.09.16 Besieged Benoît Battistelli Mimics ‘Damage Control’ Tactics of FIFA or Blatter as More Judges Start Getting Involved in EPO Scandals
  • 02.09.16 EPO Union (SUEPO) Getting Busted: “More and More People are Joining the Union, but Fewer and Fewer People Dare to Take on Leading Positions There.”
  • 02.09.16 Even the Legal Community is Upset at Benoît Battistelli for the Damage He Did to the EPO
  • 02.09.16 Several Political Parties Directly Challenge the European Patent Office for Ignoring the Law, Not Obeying Court Orders
  • 02.10.16 Member of European Parliament Brings Up “Ongoing Violations of the Fundamental and Employment Rights of the Staff of EPO”
  • 02.10.16 UPC Nepotism, Political Abuses, and UPC Involvement From the Legal Firm That EPO Hired to Bully Techrights
  • 02.11.16 Only Half a Dozen Cuban Patents Filed at EPO, But Hugely Unpopular Battistelli Goes to Cuba to Garner Cheap Support
  • 02.12.16 In Lawyerland, Simulated UPC ‘Trials’ and More Extraordinary EPO Propaganda for Change That Would Harm Europe to Help Patent Lawyers and Their Big Clients
  • 02.13.16 The European Patent Office, Aloof/Apathetic to Inventors and Human Rights, Simply Cannot be Trusted With the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 02.14.16 Patents Roundup: Software Patents, Patenting Loopholes, PTAB, Patent Trolls, and Software Patents Propagandists
  • 02.16.16 How the European Patent Office (EPO) is Crushing Staff Unions and Why EPO Staff Has a Moral Duty to Protest
  • 02.16.16 The Abuses of the EPO’s Management Against Staff Extend to Their Families
  • 02.16.16 EPO VP1 Willy Minnoye and His Bizarre Claims About Systematic Crackdown on the EPO Unions (More Than Half a Dozen People Targeted is Clearly Not a Coincidence)
  • 02.16.16 Transcript of EPO Official Admitting on Television (Nieuwsuur Interview) That Courts Are of No Interest to Him
  • 02.18.16 EPO Management Reportedly in a State of Collapse, Rumours Suggest Battistelli Possibly Out Soon, Events Canceled
  • 02.18.16 Open Letter Explains Why Disciplinary Committees at the EPO Have Become a Sham Under Battistelli’s Regime
  • 02.18.16 Team Battistelli Tries to Bend the Rules to Prevent the European Patent Office From Going on Strike
  • 02.19.16 Rumours Suggest That Battistelli, Already Enjoying Life With a Huge (But Still Secret) Salary, Wants More Than a Decade’s Worth of Salary to Leave
  • 02.19.16 Source: EPO’s Administrative Council Not Pursuing Battistelli’s Witch-hunt Against a Judge Anymore
  • 02.22.16 More Political Action in France, Still Firmly Against the Largely French EPO Management
  • 02.22.16 “Bavarian Government is Unable to Become Involved in the Business Operations of Supra-national Organizations” Like EPO
  • 02.22.16 Call for Information: Separating EPO Rumours From Confirmed Facts
  • 02.24.16 EPO-Funded Unitary Patent (UPC) Propaganda Events and the Latest on the Undemocratic (Even Antidemocratic) UPC Push
  • 02.24.16 Possible Connections Found Between WIPO Misconduct and “a Dozen Serious Criminal Charges” Against EPO’s Željko Topić
  • 02.25.16 The English Version of the Central Staff Committee’s Open Letter to the Praesidium of the Administrative Council Regarding Battistelli’s ‘Social Study’ EPO Propaganda
  • 02.25.16 European Patent Office: Battistelli Gets Official Warning
  • 02.25.16 The Mass Media Recognises This May be the End of the Battistelli Regime
  • 02.25.16 Dutch Media Reinforces Rumours That Battistelli is on His Way Out, Only a Matter of Money Now
  • 02.26.16 Article Translation (de Volkskrant): EPO Employees Are Tired of Tyranny and Take to the Streets
  • 02.26.16 New Evidence Emerges, Showing That Unitary Patent (UPC) is Indeed an SME Killer That Negatively Affects Europe for Patent Lawyers’ Sake
  • 02.27.16 EPO “Management by Fear… Within a System Which is Not Subject to Any Outside Control.”
  • 02.28.16 Problems of Governance in International Organizations: the EPO
  • 02.29.16 Update on Civil Complaints and Criminal Complaints Against EPO Vice-President Željko Topić in Lufthansa/Airplus Case
  • 03.01.16 Battistelli and Godwin’s Law (Comparing One’s Opposition to Nazis)
  • 03.01.16 Team Battistelli’s New Media Strategy at Times of EPO Emergency
  • 03.01.16 EPO Attracts Complaints Over (Mental) Torture Against Staff
  • 03.02.16 EPO at Boiling Point: Why Battistelli is Believed to be Paid About $2,000,000 Per Year and Who Created and Circulated a Letter in His Support
  • 03.02.16 Brace Yourselves for Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Tomorrow the European Patent Office Will Spread Propaganda Based on Half Truths and Misdirection
  • 03.03.16 Overview of Today’s Growing Press Coverage About the European Patent Office
  • 03.03.16 In the EPO’s Official Photo Op, “Only One of the Faces is Actually FFPE-EPO”
  • 03.03.16 Further Evidence Suggests and Shows Stronger Evidence That Team Battistelli Uses FFPE-EPO as ‘Yellow Union’ Against SUEPO
  • 03.03.16 EPO Media Strategy: Call the Whistleblowers Nazis and Criminals
  • 03.03.16 3/3 is EPO Propaganda Day: Techrights to Respond and Alert the Media About Misinformation
  • 03.04.16 Why the Letter in Support of Battistelli is Worse Than a Lie and Should be Thrown to the Wastebasket by the Organisation’s Administrative Council
  • 03.04.16 Unitary Patent (UPC) Propagandists Are Louder Than Ever as Its Architect in Chief (Battistelli) is Probably About to Get Sacked
  • 03.05.16 Remember What Benoît Battistelli Said About His Salary and His Bonus
  • 03.05.16 Forget Staff Union-busting ‘Strike Ballots’, How About Ballots on Presidential Matters?
  • 03.05.16 Fallout of the FFPE EPO MoU With Battistelli’s Circle
  • 03.06.16 Busted Battistelli: EPO President Publicly Lies About the State of the EPO, So What About His Secret Contract, Salary and Other Undisclosed Benefits?
  • 03.06.16 The EPO’s Media Strategy at Work: Union Feuds and Group Fracturing
  • 03.08.16 Claim and Perception: Under Battistelli, EPO More Permissive on Software Patents Than USPTO, In Spite of the EPC
  • 03.08.16 Rumoured Successor of Battistelli, Christoph Ernst, Previously Seen as Antagonist of Battistelli But What About UPC?
  • 03.10.16 Central Staff Committee of the European Patent Office Asks the Chairman of the Administrative Council to Take Action Next Week or Risk General (Office-Wide) Strike
  • 03.10.16 The European Patent Office is in a State of Transition, But Not Battistelli’s Transition or ‘Reform’
  • 03.10.16 A Patent Office or a Lobbying Firm? ‘European’ Patent Office (EPO) Sticking its Nose in UPC Matters Again.
  • 03.11.16 EPO Tells La Tribune That Benoît Battistelli’s Salary is “We Don’t Comment on Rumours”
  • 03.11.16 The Article Which Reinforces Rumours About Christoph Ernst Replacing President Battistelli at the EPO
  • 03.12.16 Growing Awareness of Microsoft’s Campaign Against Linux, Based on Poor Quality Software Patents and Secret Settlements
  • 03.13.16 European Patent Office Kontrovers TV Coverage (English Version)
  • 03.13.16 L’Office Européen des Brevets (OEB/European Patent Office) Kontrovers Coverage
  • 03.14.16 English Transcript of Bayerischer Rundfunk Coverage About EPO
  • 03.14.16 French Transcript of Bayerischer Rundfunk Coverage About EPO
  • 03.14.16 EPO Hypocritically Responds to TV Program by Defamation/Mocking of the Dead and Threats to the Media (Truth as Defamation?)
  • 03.14.16 EPO Rumours About Antonio Campinos as Replacement for Benoît Battistelli
  • 03.14.16 Old Article About Battistelli’s Right-hand Man, Željko Topić, Highlights Severity of the Whole Situation
  • 03.16.16 EPO’s Leadership All-time Low: Benoît Battistelli’s Meeting With Secretary Martijn van Dam Explodes
  • 03.16.16 Dutch Media (NRC) Cites Documents Leaked to Techrights and EPO Refuses to Comment on Them
  • 03.17.16 Institutional Failure and Dirty Tricks: Benoît Battistelli Seemingly Gets Support Like Microsoft Gets Support
  • 03.17.16 Insider’s Account (Not Face-Saving EPO Statement) Reveals That Even Battistelli’s Allies Turn Against Him, EPO ‘Results’ Not Believed by Some, and Munich Protests Break Records
  • 03.17.16 Patents Roundup: EMC, Pure Storage, OpenTV, Apple, Segway, and Alice (Software Patents)
  • 03.17.16 In the Mainstream Media, the European Patent Office is Already Becoming Another FIFA, Lies Aplenty as Last Remaining ‘Damage Control’ Strategy
  • 03.18.16 Translation of Article Highlights Bavarian Political Motion, Protest Scale and Severity in Munich
  • 03.18.16 Article Highlights Madness When It Comes to Overstressing EPO Staff and Pushing Towards Overpatenting (Even Life!) in Pursuit of Profits
  • 03.19.16 Conflict at the European Patent Office: Battistelli gets away with a slap on the wrist
  • 03.22.16 Software Patents: Dying, Spreading, or Hardly Surviving?
  • 03.23.16 Ongoing Investigations: EPO’s Attacks on the Media
  • 03.23.16 Focus on Patent Trolls Persists, With Increasing Use of Euphemisms Such as NPEs and PAEs
  • 03.25.16 Letter Says EPO MoU “Raises Questions About FFPE’s Credibility as a Federation of Genuine Staff Unions”
  • 03.26.16 Battistelli is Trying to Save His EPO Job After Getting Called Out, But Doesn’t Give Back Busted Union Leaders Their Jobs; Strike Imminent
  • 03.26.16 Ingve Björn Stjerna’s New Book About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Why It’s Important
  • 03.27.16 Battistelli esta Tratando de Salvar Su Trabajo en la EPO Despues que le llamaron la Atención, Pero no Regresa su Trabajo A los Lideres Sindicales Despedidos; Huelga Inminente
  • 03.28.16 Preserving Material About the European Patent Office (EPO) and Abuses by EPO Management
  • 03.29.16 Crisis Deepens at the European Patent Office, General Strike Planned for Next Thursday
  • 03.29.16 The Media is Still Awash With Unitary Patent (UPC) Misinformation
  • 03.30.16 EPO Losing Time: Two Weeks Later, Benoît Battistelli Has Made Virtually No Progress to Save Himself From Sacking
  • 03.30.16 UPC Would Bring Software Patents to Europe and Open the Floodgates to Litigation
  • 03.31.16 New EPO Marketing Campaign: Drive Your Audi Home
  • 04.02.16 Biased IAM’s Editor in Chief Goes on the Offensive Against (Software) Patent Sceptics, Still a Trolls Denialist
  • 04.02.16 UPC Lobbying and Propaganda at the Fordham IP Think Tank (‘Conference’) 2016 in New York, With a Clear EPO Role
  • 04.04.16 EPO Management Says Not a Word About Strike This Week, Not Informing Customers/Stakeholders Either
  • 04.05.16 European Patent Office Insists That Obeying the Law is Not Realistic, UPC Another Example of That
  • 04.07.16 EPO is on Strike, Battistelli Escapes to London With His Bodyguards for More UPC Lobbying, FTI Consulting Goes for Brussels
  • 04.08.16 Lobbyists for Software Patents in ‘Journalism’ and ‘Reform’ Clothing (With Microsoft Connections)
  • 04.10.16 What is Known (and Not Known) About Attacks on Croatian Portal That Exposed Željko Topić, the Notorious EPO Vice-President
  • 04.14.16 Croatian News Site Explains Where Criminal Cases Against EPO Vice-President Željko Topić Stand
  • 04.14.16 US Lobbyist for Software Patents, David Kappos, Uses EPO’s Snubbing of the EPC to Spread Misinformation and Patent Monopolies on Software/Algorithms
  • 04.14.16 Patent Trolls in the US, Storm of Patent Litigation Expected in China, and Yahoo’s Patents (Potentially on Sale) Become Subject of Intrigue
  • 04.16.16 Administrative Council “Openly Showed Disapproval of Battistelli’s Behaviour” at the EPO
  • 04.16.16 Benoît Battistelli “Left in Anger During an Initial Meeting With the State Secretary Who Started Talking About Working Conditions for the Staff”
  • 04.18.16 EPO Integrity on the Line: The Story of Željko Topić’s Controversial Diploma – Part I
  • 04.19.16 Munich State Attorney is Pursuing Criminal Charges Against the European Patent Office
  • 04.19.16 The ‘Great Conspiracy’ of Patent Lawyers, Lobbyists and Large Corporations for UPC and for Software Patents
  • 04.21.16 Bavarian Parliament Discusses EPO Abuses
  • 04.22.16 The Chaos in the EPO Impacts Stakeholders
  • 04.22.16 EPO Integrity on the Line: The Story of Željko Topić’s Controversial Diploma – Part V
  • 04.22.16 Fighting Back Against Limitations on Software Development in Europe
  • 05.02.16 Governments in Europe Still Active Against EPO Management
  • 05.03.16 New Paper About the UPC Explains Why It is Bad for Small- and Medium-sized European Businesses
  • 05.05.16 Enemies of Europe: A Month After Promoting UPC in London, Benoît Battistelli and the EPO Do This in Helsinki
  • 05.05.16 Amid French Political Actions Against EPO Management French Consulate the Target of Next Week’s EPO Staff Protest
  • 05.09.16 European Digital SME Alliance: Unified Patent Court (UPC) “Unconstitutional”, Harms SMEs, Brings Software Patents to Europe, “Should be Based on EU Law and Not on an International Agreement.”
  • 05.15.16 With Software Patents Abound, Free/Open Source Software Loses, Patent Lawyers Gain
  • 05.16.16 UPC an Attack Not Only on the European Public But Also on Staff of the EPO
  • 05.19.16 Anonymous Commenters Debate Whether Battistelli’s EPO Can Revoke Pensions of Dismissed Employees Who Dare — GASP — Find Alternative Employment
  • 05.20.16 Notorious EPO Tyrant, Benoît Battistelli, Meets Other Tyrants, Reportedly ‘Cleanses’ the Administrative Council
  • 05.22.16 Disrupting Battistelli’s Distracting Propaganda: EPO Staff to Protest Again in About a Fortnight
  • 05.22.16 Corrupting Democracy? Growing Frequency of Rumours That the EPO’s President Battistelli is ‘Buying’ Votes of Small Member States
  • 05.24.16 Some Details About How the EPO’s President is Rumoured to be ‘Buying’ Votes and Why It’s Grounds/Basis for “Immediate Dismissal”
  • 05.26.16 Italian Report About EPO Now Available in English
  • 05.31.16 Extremely Dodgy Dealings at the European Patent Office
  • 06.01.16 Crazed Battistelli is Trying Plan B to Demolish the Boards of Appeal (Quality Control), Praesidium/Association of Members Strikes Back
  • 06.02.16 Closer Look at Players in Battistelli’s Information War: Part I
  • 06.02.16 Closer Look at Players in Battistelli’s Information War: Part II (BlueCoat)
  • 06.02.16 Closer Look at Players in Battistelli’s Information War: Part III (Buying the Media, Manufacturing ‘Studies’ With Secret Contracts)
  • 06.04.16 Battistelli is Destroying the European Patent Office and Wasting a Lot of Money Hiding This Fact
  • 06.07.16 Politicians Susann Biedefeld (MdL) and Agnes Jongerius (S and D) the Latest to Express Anger at EPO’s Management Over Its Abuses
  • 06.07.16 EPO Protest Tomorrow: Help the Media (Not ‘Media Partners’ in EPO Management’s Pocket) See What EPO Staff Really Thinks (Updated)
  • 06.08.16 ES: Mirada Cercana a los Protagonistas en la Guerra Informativa de Battistelli: Parte III (Comprando a los Medios, Fabricando ´estudios´con Contratos Secrétos)
  • 06.09.16 Battistelli is Said to be Engineering Further Attacks on People Whom He Already Fired From the EPO
  • 06.09.16 EPO’s European Inventor Award 2016 (EIA16) is Not an Award Event, It Is a Propaganda and Lobbying Event of Battistelli, EPO Just Foots the Bill
  • 06.09.16 Dutch Media Reveals That Battistelli Continues His Vicious War on Staff Unions, Laurent Prunier the Latest Casualty (The Hague)
  • 06.10.16 The Commission is Complicit in EPO Abuses, According to Marc Tarabella
  • 06.10.16 EPO ‘Bought’ the Financial Times, Which Now Operates in ‘Mouthpiece Mode’ for Mr. Battistelli
  • 06.10.16 The EPO is in a Mess So Sordid That It Pays for Positive Publicity, Further Abolishes Labour Rights (to Punish Whistleblowers) and More
  • 06.11.16 EPO Press Spokesperson and Director External Communications Busy Creating Distractions From EPO Controversies
  • 06.12.16 ES: La Comisión es Complice en los Abusos de la EPO, De Acuerdo a Marc Tarabella
  • 06.13.16 Bought Media Coverage at the European Patent Office
  • 06.13.16 Report From Thursday Protest in EPO Munich Branch/Headquarters
  • 06.13.16 Spontaneous Protest at EPO Today as Battistelli Still Acts Defiantly, Three Days of ‘Trial’ Starting Tomorrow
  • 06.14.16 EPO and Its ‘Buddies’ in the Media Lobby for the UPC in Spite of and in the Face of Resistance
  • 06.14.16 Rights Groups, Media, Developers and Others Are Rising Up Against Patent Trolls, But the Problem is Always Software Patents
  • 06.14.16 Endgame of Manipulating Media With Payments and PR: The ‘Blame Everything and Everyone But EPO Management’ Tactics
  • 06.15.16 Battistelli’s European Patent Office Broadens FTI Consulting Contract to Undermine the Media, Wastes Millions of Euros
  • 06.15.16 EPO Investigative Unit Causes “Trauma, Will Ruin the Health or Even the Family”
  • 06.15.16 British Media Tackling Other British Media That the EPO’s Benoît Battistelli Paid for His Propaganda Campaign
  • 06.18.16 Brain Drain at the EPO: Qualified Patent Examiners Leave in Droves, Young Ones Blindly Loyal to Management Reduce Patent Quality
  • 06.18.16 The Rule of Money and Power, Not the Rule of Law, at the European Patent Office
  • 06.20.16 Under Battistelli’s Regime the EPO is a Lawless, Dark Place
  • 06.20.16 New Paper Demonstrates That Unitary Patent (UPC) is Little More Than a Conspiracy of Patent ‘Professionals’ and Their Self Interest
  • 06.21.16 EPO Self-Censorship by IP Kat or Just Censorship of Opinions That IP Kat Does Not Share/Accept (Updated)
  • 06.21.16 The Conspiracy of Patent Lawyers for UPC and Battistelli’s Role in Preparing by Firing People
  • 06.23.16 Looks Increasingly Plausible That Battistelli is Covering up Bogus and/or Illegally-Obtained ‘Evidence’ From the EPO’s Investigative Unit
  • 06.23.16 As Decision on the UK’s EU Status Looms, EPO Deep in a Crisis of Patent Quality
  • 06.23.16 Benoît Battistelli Should Resign in Light of New Leak of Decision in His Vendetta Against Truth-Telling Judge (Updated)
  • 06.26.16 Patents Roundup: Bad Quality (USPTO), Bad Analysis (India), Bad Microsoft, Bad Actors (Trolls), Bad Scope (Software Patents), and the Ugly
  • 06.28.16 New Efforts to Work Around Barriers to UPC in Light of ‘Brexit’; Behind These Efforts Are Self-Serving Patent Profiteers
  • 06.28.16 Injunction Against Battistelli’s Investigative Unit (Known Internally as ‘Gestapo’) Amid Serious Injustices and Bogus ‘Trials’
  • 06.29.16 Rumours That EPO President Battistelli Got Sacked to be Replaced by Christoph Ernst Appear to be Baseless
  • 06.29.16 EPO Management Bunker: “The Bailiff Who Came to Deliver the Subpoena was Escorted off the Property by Five Security Guards.”
  • 06.29.16 Growing Consensus Even Among Patent Professionals That UPC is Dying Everywhere If Not Just in the UK
  • 07.01.16 Battistelli’s Destructive Actions Will Drive EPO Applicants Away to National Patent Offices, Putting at Risk the Whole EU-Wide (and Beyond) Project
  • 07.01.16 Realistic English Translation of EPO Announcement About Crushing of Patent Quality
  • 07.01.16 The European Patent Organisation’s Administrative Council Helps Benoît Battistelli Destroy Patent Quality for the Sake of ‘Production’
  • 07.03.16 Grim Situation at the European Patent Office Following Battistelli’s Latest Lawlessness Tendencies, as Explained by Concerned Insiders
  • 07.03.16 Post-Jeremy IP Kat Deems It OK to Publish Anonymous Comment Comparing Techrights to “Daesh” While Censoring Polite Response to That
  • 07.04.16 Image of Battistelli’s EPO Tarnished in the UK and Elsewhere as Battistelli Warms up to Cuba, Colombia, and Panama
  • 07.04.16 Team Battistelli Parties Like It’s Still 2010 (Pre-Battistelli Governance), Fails to Acknowledge Demise of EPO as Popular Employer and Instead Lies to Staff
  • 07.07.16 Weapons of Mass Distraction at the EPO Cost the EPO Millions of Euros
  • 07.09.16 Battistelli and Team UPC Working Behind Closed Doors to Overcome Brexit and Impose Patent Injustice
  • 07.11.16 Will Battistelli’s Friend/Ally Lucy Neville-Rolfe Shamelessly Attack British Democracy and Push for UPC in Spite of Brexit?
  • 07.11.16 “We Need to Inform Politicians, Journalists ... Ministers or Representatives that the Whole European Patent System is at Risk.”
  • 07.12.16 Hot Summer: EPO Management on Trial This Week
  • 07.14.16 Deathwatch of the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPC)
  • 07.15.16 What If EPO Under Battistelli Gets Broken Beyond Repair Just Like the UPC?
  • 07.18.16 Battistelli Has Implemented De Facto EPO Coup to Remove Oversight, Give Himself Total Power, and Allegedly Give UPC Gifts (Loot) to French Officials
  • 07.22.16 Blockstream Has No Patents, But Pledges Not to Sue Using Patents
  • 07.22.16 Glimpse at Patent Systems Across the World: Better Quality Control at the USPTO Post-America Invents Act (2011), Unlike the EPO Post-Battistelli (2010)
  • 07.26.16 Munich Attack Mentioned by EPO But Not Ansbach
  • 08.01.16 Software Patents Still a Problem in Europe (in Spite of the European Patent Convention), the UPC Would Make Things Worse
  • 08.14.16 Pushers of Software Patents Outside the United States (Which is Belatedly Squashing These Patents)
  • 08.18.16 The End of an Era at the USPTO as Battistelli-Like (EPO) Granting Policies Are Over
  • 08.26.16 The EPO’s Francesco Zaccà Presenting in Turin Alongside Patent Trolls (Like the Patent Mafia Sisvel) and Lobbyists/Front Groups for Software Patents, UPC
  • 08.28.16 More Lies From President Benoît Battistelli and the EPO Crisis Which Continues to Deepen
  • 09.02.16 UPC Threatens to Send the European Patent Office Circling Down the Drain
  • 09.03.16 Specialists in Public International Law Bemoan Privacy Violations at the European Patent Office
  • 09.08.16 Another New Low for the EPO and Battistelli (Updated)
  • 09.08.16 A New Wave of the EPO’s Much-Expected Propaganda Push, Aided by ‘Managing IP’ and IAM ‘Magazine’
  • 09.11.16 New Paper Outlines Concerns That the EPO as a Patent Examination Office is Dying, Gradually Turning Into a Registration Office
  • 09.12.16 Benoît Battistelli is Putting More EPO Staff Representatives in Front of His Firing Line
  • 09.12.16 Brain Drain at the EPO Under Battistelli is Becoming a Critical Problem
  • 09.12.16 EU Law and UPC: Brought to You by Microsoft and the European Patent Office
  • 09.13.16 Web Site ‘Managing IP’ is Managing to Come Across as an EPO Mouthpiece
  • 09.14.16 As Part of So-called ‘Reforms’, the EPO’s President is Gradually Eliminating the Boards of Appeal, Not Just Their Independence
  • 09.15.16 Battistelli and His Circle — Not Just Team UPC — Still Delusional About the Prospects of a Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • 09.19.16 When EPO Liar-in-Chief Benoît Battistelli Defamed His Staff in Parliament, Comparing Them to Nazis and Criminals
  • 09.20.16 Like Big Tobacco Lobbyists, Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are Just Chronically Lying and Manipulating Politicians With Their Lies
  • 09.24.16 Bristows LLP’s Hatred/Disdain of UK/EU Democracy Demonstrated; Says “Not Only Will the Pressure for UK Ratification of the UPC Agreement Continue, But a Decision is Wanted Within Weeks.”
  • 09.27.16 Team Battistelli Intensifies the Attack on the Boards of Appeal Again
  • 09.27.16 Beware the Patent Law Firms Insinuating That Software Patents Are Back Because of McRO
  • 09.27.16 The Battistelli Effect: “We Will be Gradually Forced to File Our Patent Applications Outside the EPO in the Interests of Our Clients”
  • 09.28.16 EPO’s Board 28 Notes Battistelli’s “Three Current Investigations/Disciplinary Proceedings Involving SUEPO Members in The Hague.”
  • 09.29.16 Letter From the Dutch Institute of Patent Attorneys (Nederlandse Orde van Octrooigemachtigden) to the Administrative Council of the EPO
  • 09.30.16 New Paper Provides Evidence of Sinking Patent Quality at the EPO, Refuting the Liar in Chief Battistelli
  • 10.02.16 Guest Post: Lenovo Forums Possibly Banned All Comcast Users in Illinois in Order to Silence Discussion of Linux on Yoga Problems
  • 10.03.16 Translation and Response to Battistelli’s Face-Saving ‘Interview’ With Juve
  • 10.04.16 Staff of the EPO is Going Out in Protest (Munich and The Hague) While EPO Management Buys European Media to Control This Media, Promote UPC
  • 10.05.16 No Justice Even for a Judge at the EPO, as the Whole Institution is Beyond Rotten and Quite Corrupt
  • 10.05.16 Echo Chamber’s Lobbying: Team UPC Citing Team UPC as ‘Proof’ Regarding the UPC
  • 10.09.16 Danish Stories – Part IV: Jesper Kongstad and FJORDBLINK MEDICAL ApS
  • 10.09.16 Has IP Kat’s Unofficial (Self-)Censorship Policy Expanded From Protecting the EPO’s Image to Protecting the UPC?
  • 10.10.16 Towards the End of Software Patents in the United States
  • 10.11.16 The Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) Protested Today in Munich (Against the EPO’s Management) While President Benoît Battistelli Lied
  • 10.13.16 EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point – Part III: How Benoît Battistelli Planned to Expand His Attacks on EPO Staff (But Failed)
  • 10.16.16 EPO Social Conference Another Example of Astronomical Waste of Money by Benoît Battistelli
  • 10.16.16 As Expected, Benoît Battistelli Puts Longtime Ally Roland Grossenbacher on Top of Boards of Appeal
  • 10.18.16 French Article About the EPO “Crisis”
  • 10.18.16 Subject of the European Patent Office’s Abuses Raised in European Parliament by Ulrike Müller (ALDE)
  • 10.20.16 Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead, But ‘Managing IP’ and Selfish Patent Law Firms Still Try to Resurrect It
  • 10.25.16 Leaked: Minutes From the Administrative Council of the EPO Regarding the ‘Reform’ (Exile) of the Boards of Appeal
  • 10.25.16 No Promising Future For the EPO Under Battistelli (If Any Future At All)
  • 10.25.16 Leaked Minutes From the EPO Reveal That Battistelli is Detached From Reality and Blames Everything on “Union Officials”
  • 10.31.16 The Insane World of Patent Maximalism and Professor Joshua Pearce’s Case for Weakening Patent Rights
  • 11.02.16 Patent Maximalism is Destroying the European Patent Office (Just a Paperwork Assembly Line), Exile of Boards Ensures No Turnaround
  • 11.02.16 Breaking the European Patent System With the UPC Hammer, Courtesy of the EPO and Lawyers-Centric ‘News’ Sites
  • 11.04.16 In the Case of Frenchman Laurent Prunier, Battistelli Reasserts Himself as Psychopathic Bully
  • 11.05.16 The Death of Patent Quality at the EPO and the European Commission’s Latest Smackdown of the EPO’s Patent Maximalism
  • 11.05.16 Dismissal of Laurent Prunier Worse Than It Seems as Battistelli Almost ‘Pulls a Hardon’ by Taking Away Pension Rights Too
  • 11.07.16 Threats to Dismissed EPO Staff Representative Allegedly Hold Pension (Blackmail Point) to Silence Him Even After Unjust Dismissal, Munich Goes Protesting for Him
  • 11.08.16 EPO Social Workshops on Monday and Tuesday? No, EPO Staff up in Arms!
  • 11.10.16 SUEPO (EPO Staff Union) “Fears Now That the Intention Behind This Blow is “to Destroy” the Union.”
  • 11.10.16 “Not My President“: The Sentiment of European Patent Office Staff Towards Their Fascistic Boss
  • 11.13.16 Benoît Battistelli Reinforces the Perception That García-Escudero is His Pet Chinchilla at the Board of Appeals Committee (BoAC)
  • 11.14.16 Leaked: Proof That Benoît Battistelli Disregarded Orders From the Administrative Council (Again)
  • 11.16.16 The EPO Lowering Patent Quality, Accused of Issuing Invalid Patents, and Promoting Software Patents (Hence Trolls)
  • 11.18.16 Drunk on ‘Production’, the European Patent Office (EPO) Grants Patents on Recipes
  • 11.19.16 European Media, Dutch Parliament and Spectacularly Enough Even IP Kat (Yes, It’s Back!) Subject the EPO to Serious Scrutiny
  • 11.20.16 Cases Against the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Demise of Transparency International (Which EPO Partly ‘Absorbed’)
  • 11.23.16 Union Syndicale Fédérale Writes Letters to the Chinchilla Man of the Administrative Council About Battistelli’s EPO Abuses, No Sign of Reply/Reaction
  • 11.26.16 Benoît Battistelli’s Affinity for Tiny Countries Exploits the Ease of ‘Buying’ Their Votes
  • 11.26.16 China Creates a Patent Bubble That Contributes to Patent Inflation
  • 11.26.16 SLAPP-Happy EPO Vice-President Slapped Out of the Municipal Criminal Court in Zagreb for the Third Time!
  • 11.29.16 The UPC Scam Part II: The Patent Echo Chamber at Work, Prematurely Congratulating Itself in Its ‘News’ Sites
  • 11.29.16 The UPC Scam Part IV: Bumps Along the Road for UPC, With or Without the UK and Brexit
  • 12.01.16 Dutch and French Politicians Complain About the European Patent Office, British Media Coverage Regular Now
  • 12.01.16 The Rule of Law and Justice Don’t Exist Inside the EPO, Confirms the International Labour Organisation (ILO)
  • 12.02.16 Relocating the Boards of Appeal to Haar is a Poisonous Priority at Battistelli’s EPO
  • 12.04.16 Patent Trolls of Microsoft and Ericsson Are Trying to Tax Everything, Especially Linux Devices
  • 12.05.16 Leaked: Battistelli Acknowledges Bunk ‘Justice’ in About 100 Cases at the Internal Appeals Committee of the EPO
  • 12.05.16 EPO at a Tipping Point: Battistelli Quarrelling With French Politicians, Administrative Council Urged to Act, Staff Unrest Peaking
  • 12.05.16 Quality of Patents at the EPO Dependent on the Appeal Boards When Battistelli Assesses Performance Using the Wrong ‘Production’ Yardstick
  • 12.06.16 EPO Spiraling Down the Drain as Experienced Examiners and Judges Are Seemingly Being Replaced by Interns
  • 12.06.16 EPO Suicides Greater in Number Than is Widely Reported, Unjust System a Contributor to These
  • 12.06.16 Heiko Maas, the SPD “Cash for Access” Affair, and Suspicions of Unwarranted Censorship at IP Kat (Again)
  • 12.06.16 The UPC Scam Part VII: A Fine Mess in the Making, as Nothing Can be Made of It Amid/After Brexit
  • 12.06.16 The UPC Scam Part VI: The Real Story Which People Missed Due to Puff Pieces Seeded by Battistelli-Bribed Media is That UPC Technically Cannot Come to the UK
  • 12.08.16 British Media Slams Battistelli for Attempting to Cover Up 2 Years of Juridical Abuses With Help From the Administrative Council of the EPO
  • 12.10.16 EPO Protest This Coming Wednesday Strives to Restore the Rule of Law and Freedom of Speech at the Office
  • 12.12.16 Benoît Battistelli Besieged
  • 12.12.16 Software Patents Battles: Lobby to Restore US Software Patents, IBM’s and Google’s Positions on the Subject, and Microsoft/Intellectual Ventures With Their Ongoing Attacks on Linux
  • 12.13.16 Media Blackout in Croatian Mainstream Media About Criminal Charges Against EPO’s Croatian Vice-President and EPO President’s Notoriety
  • 12.13.16 Staff Union of the European Central Bank Blasts Benoît Battistelli
  • 12.15.16 Confirmed: Judge Carl Josefsson Chosen by the Administrative Council for the Secretive Patent Organisation
  • 12.15.16 Team UPC Salivating Over Unitary Patent Fantasy Even Though It is Stuck in a Limbo
  • 12.16.16 Will the Patent Microcosm of London Please Stop Misleading the Public About UPC?
  • 12.16.16 Small Nations With Almost Not a Single European Patent Sign the Death Knell of EPO Patent Quality
  • 12.17.16 Fury Over the Administrative Council of the EPO Controlling Nothing and Being Controlled by Battistelli
  • 12.18.16 The USPTO Helps Large Businesses Crush Small Businesses
  • 12.19.16 EPO President Benoît Battistelli “Should Be in Prison”
  • 12.20.16 Benoît Battistelli’s Reign of Terror at the EPO Milks a Terror Attack Again, Shows Extreme Hypocrisy
  • 12.21.16 With Lucy Neville-Rolfe Out (Confirmed Today!) and Chaos in the EPO’s Management, the UPC’s Prospects Look Worse Than Ever in the UK and Europe as a Whole
  • 12.21.16 Good Luck to Apple in Exposing the Network of Patent Trolls That is Connected to Microsoft, Nokia, Ericsson, BlackBerry and Other Failed Mobile Players
  • 12.21.16 No Justice at the EPO, Whose Underlying Purpose Was (Originally) to Do Patents Justice
  • 12.27.16 Leaked: Letter to Quality Support (DQS) at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 12.27.16 Bad Service at the European Patent Office (EPO) Escalated in the Form of Complaints to European Authorities/Politicians
  • 12.31.16 EPO’s Central Staff Committee Complains About Battistelli’s Bodyguards Fetish and Corruption of the Media
  • 01.01.17 EPO Select Committee is Wrong About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 01.02.17 Europe Should Listen to SMEs Regarding the UPC, as Battistelli, Team UPC and the Select Committee Lie About It
  • 01.02.17 Teaser: Corruption Indictments Brought Against Vice-President of the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 01.06.17 India Keeps Rejecting Software Patents in Spite of Pressure From Large Foreign Multinationals
  • 01.10.17 FFPE-EPO, the EPO Management’s Pet/Yellow Union, Helps Union-Busting (Against SUEPO) in Letter to Notorious Vice-President
  • 01.11.17 No End to Battistelli’s Witch-hunts Against the Media, Against Staff, and Against Politicians
  • 01.12.17 Brexit Means No UPC (Unified Patent Court)
  • 01.15.17 Constitutionality as a Barrier and Brexit Barriers to UPC Keep the Whole Pipe Dream Deadlocked
  • 01.17.17 More Fake News About the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Based on Lobbying Tactics From Bristows UPC and the Preparatory Committee
  • 01.18.17 A Lot More Fake News About the UPC, Trying to Convince People That the UK is Ratifying (It’s Not, It Cannot)
  • 01.20.17 Battistelli is an Autocrat Above the Law and It’s OK, Holland’s High Council Says
  • 01.20.17 Beware Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 01.21.17 EPO Abuses Now Make the Netherlands Look Like a Facilitator of Human/Labour Rights Abuses
  • 01.23.17 Media Blasts EPO Over Immunity Amid Suicides, Battistelli’s Behaviour Compared to Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s
  • 01.24.17 Leaked: Team Battistelli, Exploiting a Controversial Decision From the Netherlands, is Trying to Squash SUEPO
  • 01.24.17 Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna: UPC’s “Entry Into Force is Not at all Secured,” Contrary to What Team UPC Says
  • 01.26.17 French Media Says Benoît Battistelli Turned the Patent Office Into a Sort of North Korea
  • 01.27.17 The European Spam Office: 37% of Twitter ‘Followers’ Are Fake, Maybe Even Paid For (Waste of EPO Budget)
  • 01.28.17 Juve Survey: Stakeholders Want Benoît Battistelli Out
  • 01.31.17 Battistelli Brags About Being Unaccountable, But He is Wrong and is Probably in Defiance of the Law
  • 01.31.17 Battistelli “Got Full Dictatorial Unaccountable Control of a Diplomatically Immune Organisation”
  • 02.01.17 EPO Stakeholders Want Battistelli and His Goons Ousted, They Can Accomplish This by Working Together (Like a Union)
  • 02.02.17 Growing Rift Between EPO Stakeholders and the Office, Due to Battistelli’s Appalling Leadership
  • 02.02.17 New WIPR Survey and Other Data Points Suggest That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead, at Least in the UK
  • 02.03.17 “Team Battistelli Continues With Intimidation Tactics”
  • 02.03.17 Why Randall Rader Must Never Be Inside the USPTO, Let Alone the Patent Profession
  • 02.03.17 Team UPC Continues to be a Premier Source of Fake News About Unitary Patent in the United Kingdom
  • 02.05.17 Culture of Terror at The European Patent Office Escalates Thanks to Dutch Government’s Complicity
  • 02.07.17 Translation: Juve Survey That Shows 0% Approval of Battistelli and Growing Concerns About the EPO
  • 02.07.17 Battistelli’s EPO is Under Fire From Major Applicants for So-called ‘Early Certainty’ (Low Quality and Rushed Patent Examination)
  • 02.07.17 Translation: Battistelli’s Patent Office Remains a Legal Island
  • 02.07.17 The European Patent Office Officially Dishonours Justice, So It’s Time for SUEPO to Become Clandestine
  • 02.12.17 Nazi Analogies at the EPO Are the Work of Battistelli, Who Libels Staff Representatives and Judges by Calling Them Nazis and Criminals
  • 02.13.17 UPC Petition Launched to Halt Ratification Plans in the United Kingdom Amid Nefarious Back Room Deals
  • 02.14.17 India Cites Public Interest in Patent Case Where Embargo Attempted Against Local Drugmaker
  • 02.14.17 EPO-Connected Writers Are Using Alternative Facts or Fake News to Promote the Unitary Patent in British Media
  • 02.15.17 Claude Rouiller (ILOAT) and ILO Rulings Effectively Disregarded by the European Patent Office
  • 02.16.17 Yet More Complaints About the European Patent Office in the Bavarian Regional Government
  • 02.16.17 Guest Post: EPO, an Idyllic Place to Work
  • 02.16.17 New Scholarly Paper Says “UK’s Withdrawal From the EU Could Mean That the Entire (Unitary Patent) System Will Not Go Into Effect”
  • 02.17.17 Technicolor, Having Turned Into a Patent Troll, Attacks Android/Tizen/Linux With Patents in Europe
  • 02.19.17 The EPO is Becoming an Embarrassment to Europe and a Growing Threat to the European Union
  • 02.20.17 Lack of Justice in and Around the EPO Drawing Scrutiny
  • 02.20.17 Paid-for UPC Proponent, IAM ‘Magazine’, Debunked on UPC Again
  • 02.22.17 Report From Yesterday’s Debate About the European Patent Office (EPO) at the Bavarian Landtag
  • 02.22.17 French Politician Richard Yung Tells the Government About Abuses at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 03.01.17 Now is the Time to Sign the Petition Against the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 03.02.17 EPO Budget Obscures and Distorts Facts About the Unitary Patent (UPC) in a Classic Antidemocratic Exercise by an Unaccountable Institution
  • 03.04.17 EPO Mimics Interpol, But Interpol Should Raid the EPO and End the Management’s Abuses Once and for All
  • 03.05.17 EPO President Benoît Battistelli, Like Far-Right Politicians, is a Great Danger to Europe
  • 03.05.17 The Very Thought of UPC in the UK “is a Perfect Example of What Lobbying Can Achieve!”
  • 03.07.17 Raise Your Glass to the Monopoly — New Article About the European Patent Office Losing It on Patent Scope
  • 03.07.17 With a Week Left Before the Administrative Council’s Meeting, Pressure on Battistelli to Leave the EPO Continues to Grow
  • 03.08.17 EPO “Too Industry-Friendly, Say the Critics”
  • 03.09.17 ‘Evil Tongues’ Inside and Outside the EPO Explain Why Battistelli’s 2016 ‘Results’ Are Bad While the Media Mindlessly Repeats EPO Management’s Talking Points
  • 03.09.17 Ousting of Benoît Battistelli Next Week Seems Feasible, But Jesper Kongstad Protects Rather Than Supervises Battistelli
  • 03.10.17 ‘Lobbyists’ Annsley Merelle Ward and Alan Johnson (Bristows) Return to Using IP Kat to Spread Fake News About Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 03.12.17 The Patent Microcosm is Lobbying by Shaming, Typically for Patent Maximalism in the United States and Elsewhere
  • 03.12.17 No, Spain is Not Joining the UPC, That’s Just What UPC Lobbyists Want Everyone to Believe
  • 03.14.17 EPO Protest Tomorrow, Heads of Delegations Informed Regarding the Reasons
  • 03.14.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) Misinformation in Spanish Media and EPO-Connected (Paid) Media That Lobbies Spain
  • 03.15.17 New Examples of Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC), Courtesy of Patent Law Firms Looking to Prey on Gullible SMEs
  • 03.16.17 Benoît Battistelli “Should Not Have Been in Charge of Anything More Involved Than a Hamster Cage Without the Hamster…”
  • 03.16.17 CERN Staff Association “Profoundly Shocked by the Situation That Has Persisted in the European Patent Office (EPO)”
  • 03.16.17 Battistelli Wants to be ‘King’ for a Decade or Longer, Jesper Kongstad Protects Him
  • 03.17.17 IAM Remains Battistelli’s Propaganda Mill, Helping to Manufacture and Reinforce Lies About Quality
  • 03.18.17 Letter From European Public Services Organisation (IPSO) to Angela Merkel and Heiko Maas Regarding EPO Union-Busting Catastrophe
  • 03.20.17 Insulting Reversal of Narratives at the EPO: Team Battistelli as the Victim
  • 03.20.17 Supposedly ‘Pampered’ Prisoners Are Still Prisoners of the EPO
  • 03.21.17 At EPO “I Have the Feeling That Lowering Quality is Part of a Concerted Plan.”
  • 03.21.17 What the Patent Microcosm is Saying About the EPO and the UPC
  • 03.22.17 EPO’s Georg Weber Continues Horrifying Trend of EPO Promoting Software Patents in Defiance of Directive, EPC, and Common Sense
  • 03.22.17 The Battistelli Regime, With Its Endless Scandals, Threatens to Crash the Unitary Patent (UPC), Stakeholders Concerned
  • 03.23.17 Nepotism at the European Patent Office and Suspicious Absence of Tenders for Big Projects
  • 03.24.17 Bernhard Rapkay, Former MEP and Rapporteur on Unitary Patent, Shoots Down UPC Hopes While UPC Hopefuls Recognise That Spain Isn’t Interested Either
  • 03.26.17 Yes, Battistelli’s Ban on EPO Strikes (or Severe Limitation Thereof) is a Violation of Human Rights
  • 03.26.17 His Master’s Voice, Jesper Kongstad, Blocks Discussion of Investigative and Disciplinary Procedures at the EPO
  • 03.28.17 In Attempt to Promote the Horrific UPC (Poor Quality of Patents Everywhere), Minnoye and Casado Cerviño Attack Their Own Staff for Saying the Truth
  • 03.28.17 A “Perfect Recipe for Fraud” at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 03.28.17 Techrights Was Right About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 03.29.17 Kongstad and Battistelli Have Staged a Coup at the European Patent Organisation (EPO)
  • 03.30.17 Devaluation of European Patents is a Recipe for Institutional Suicide and Immeasurable Harm to Europe’s Economy
  • 03.30.17 Deconstructing the Latest ‘Damage Control’ From Team UPC Amid Demise of Unitary Patent Pipe Dreams
  • 03.31.17 EPO Likes to Pretend to be Tolerated in Spite of Patenting Life, Seeds, Plants and More
  • 03.31.17 EPO Central Staff Committee Points Out to Benoît Battistelli That He is in Gross Violation and Contempt of the Founding Document/Treaty of the EPO
  • 03.31.17 Culpability for EPO Injustice in the Administrative Council Chaired by Battistelli’s Protector, Jesper Kongstad
  • 04.01.17 Bristows UPC Delusions Are Back, Attempting to Distract From Bad News (UPC Isn’t Happening)
  • 04.01.17 Bad Patent Quality (and Software Patents) Good for Patent Law Firms and Trolls, But Not for Anybody Else
  • 04.02.17 The Litigation Lobby is Causing Chaos in Patent Offices, Still in a Coordinated Effort to Convert Patents Into Nothing But Legal Chaos That Harms Science
  • 04.02.17 Team UPC ‘Took Over’ IP Kat, Readers Don’t Believe What It Says
  • 04.03.17 Politicians Hubert Aiwanger, Florian Streibl, Gabi Schmidt and Others Fight for EPO Workers in Bavarian Parliament
  • 04.06.17 The EPO’s Management is Silencing Its Critics by Sheer Intimidation
  • 04.07.17 IP Kat or IP Troll? IP2Innovate Warns That UPC Would Help Patent Trolls While IP Kat Promotes UPC
  • 04.09.17 “There is Still No Sufficient Control Over the Despotism of the EPO President, Benoît Battistelli”
  • 04.09.17 Lying Has Become the Norm When It Comes to the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 04.09.17 Asian Companies Already Suffer From Patent Maximalism/Radicalism and UPC Would Make Things Even Worse
  • 04.10.17 These Terrifying Comments From Patent Practitioners Suggest They Too Believe UPC is Intended to Make EPO Virtually Obsolete
  • 04.11.17 The European Patent Office Has Entered a Dark Era of Anti-Science and Fake ‘Research’
  • 04.11.17 Voices of Patent Trolls Are Alive and Well (and Partly Paid by Battistelli’s EPO)
  • 04.11.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) is Stuck as the “British Are Hesitant in UPC Ratification,” According to New Report
  • 04.12.17 It’s Not Natural for the European Patent Office to Make Nature Patentable
  • 04.13.17 Awful Quality of EPO-Granted European Patents (EPs) Becomes a Mainstream Topic
  • 04.14.17 Adding Insult to Suicide: European Commission’s Site Publishes Benoît Battistelli’s EPO Puff Pieces
  • 04.19.17 IAM, the Patent Trolls’ Voice, is Trying to Deny There is a Growing Trolling Problem in Europe
  • 04.19.17 Another Final Nail in the UPC Coffin: UK General Election
  • 04.20.17 Bristows-Run IP Kat Continues to Spread Lies to Promote the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Advance the EPO Management’s Agenda
  • 04.21.17 Affordable and Sophisticated Mobile Devices Are Kept Away by Patent Trolls and Aggressors That Tax Everything
  • 04.21.17 Expect Team UPC to Remain in Deep Denial About the Unitary Patent/Unified Court (UPC) Having No Prospects
  • 04.26.17 Blog ‘Takeovers’ by Bristows and Then Censorship: Now This Firm Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Then Deletes Comments That Point Out the Errors
  • 04.29.17 Battistelli is Busy Securing the Vote of Countries Whose Support and Tickets Are Easy to ‘Buy’
  • 04.30.17 Unified Patent Propaganda Courtesy of a Cabal of Firms That Constructed the UPC
  • 05.04.17 The EPO’s Administrative Council (AC) is “Amazingly Complicit” or “Awfully Compliant” (Like Much of the Media and Much of the System)
  • 05.08.17 Death of ‘IP’ Media: Front Groups of Microsoft Described as “Representing SME Developers” by Bristows
  • 05.08.17 All Members of the European Parliament Get Warned About the Deterioration at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 05.09.17 ‘European Media Intervention Award’ (EIA), EPO Censorship, Self-Censorship, and Paid ‘Media Partners’
  • 05.10.17 English-Speaking Media Catches Up With Latest Twists in EPO Fiasco, Including Appeal to the European Court of Human Rights
  • 05.10.17 English-Speaking Media Catches Up With Latest Twists in EPO Fiasco, Including Appeal to the European Court of Human Rights
  • 05.10.17 Team UPC Still Twists and Fabricates Statements to Make It Seem Like Unitary Patent is Happening Soon
  • 05.11.17 The EPO is in Disarray and Additional Complaints to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) May Be Imminent
  • 05.13.17 Countries With a Dozen European Patents Are an Easy Photo-Op ‘Sell’ for Battistelli While the EPO’s Demise is Largely Ignored by the Patent Microcosm
  • 05.14.17 The Attacks of Patent Trolls as Outlined in the Media This Past Week
  • 05.14.17 3 Years After the Alice Case at the Supreme Court the Plague of Software Patents is Easier to Cope With
  • 05.27.17 Colossal Institutional Failure Surrounding the European Patent Office (EPO) and EPO Chickens Out of Debate About It
  • 05.30.17 The Silencing of Critics of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in Media and in Blogs
  • 06.01.17 Patent Trolls in Europe and the Looming Collapse of the UPC
  • 06.05.17 EPO Workers May be About to Go on Strike Again
  • 06.10.17 Benoît Battistelli is Scheming to Further Erode the Rule of Law and Promote More of His Cronies at the EPO
  • 06.11.17 The British Election May Have Just ‘Killed’ the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 06.14.17 Even UPC Proponents, Paid by the EPO’s PR Firm, Admit That UPC May Never Happen
  • 06.15.17 Software Patents in Europe Are Still Promoted by the EPO, Even in Defiance of the Ban
  • 06.15.17 Leaked: Job Advertisement for Removing Battistelli From the European Patent Office
  • 06.15.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) Will Start “Real Soon” Now… Said Team UPC For So Many Years
  • 06.17.17 Appalling Press Coverage Regarding the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 06.20.17 Contact Details for the EPO’s Administrative Council Delegations
  • 06.20.17 At the European Inventor Award Ceremony Benoît Battistelli Lied to a Lot of Scientists and “Media Partners” About the UPC
  • 06.21.17 EPO’s Elodie Bergot Calls Staff Suicide Just ‘Passing Away’, Pretends to Care
  • 06.22.17 You Know That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is in Huge Peril When Its Biggest Fans Admit It’s Unlikely to Happen Even Next Year
  • 06.24.17 SUEPO and the EPO’s Central Staff Committee Condemn Battistelli’s Latest Attempt to Change the Rules in Defiance of Laws
  • 06.24.17 The Tide Has Turned Against the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and It Finally Looks as ‘Alive’ as TPP
  • 06.25.17 Wouter Pors Under Fire for Lying or Manipulating in the Name of the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 06.28.17 Ignore the Press Releases and Puff Pieces, the EPO is Going on Strikes
  • 06.28.17 Letter Warns of “Reform Marathon” a Few Days Before Benoît Battistelli’s Job is Offered to Someone Else
  • 06.28.17 Christoph Ernst, Long Speculated to be Battistelli’s Successor, Becomes Battistelli’s ‘Boss’
  • 06.28.17 Bristows LLP is Still Trying to Attach Wings to the UPC and Distract From Serious (Likely Fatal) Barriers to It
  • 06.29.17 European Patent Office is on Strike Until Tuesday and Insiders Study the New Head of the Organisation
  • 06.29.17 The UPC’s Figurehead, Alexander Ramsay, Admits UPC is Stuck, Bristows LLP Comes Up With ‘Alternative Facts’
  • 06.30.17 The EPO Has Officially Confirmed That Christoph Ernst Will ‘Boss’ (and Soon Replace) Battistelli
  • 06.30.17 Former ‘Kats’ Debunk IP Kat (Bristows) on Unitary Patent, Insisting It May Even be Dead
  • 07.01.17 The Future of the EPO Does Not Look Encouraging as Injustice and Abuse Carry On While the Press Looks the Other Way
  • 07.02.17 Professor Pamela Samuelson Debunks the Concept of ‘IP’ by Separating Copyrights From Patents and Demonstrating That Copyrights Are Sufficient for Software
  • 07.03.17 It’s Official: Battistelli Will Leave the EPO in Less Than a Year
  • 07.04.17 EPO Silent About EPO Strikes and Battistelli Leaving
  • 07.05.17 Expect No Progress Whatsoever on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) During the Summer and Likely Too Little Even in Fall
  • 07.06.17 Weeks Later, British Media Writes About British EPO Worker That Committed Suicide and the Administrative Council’s ‘Coverup’
  • 07.06.17 No UPC Progress, Only Further Delays and Lots of Puff Pieces From the EPO and Bristows (Team UPC) Today
  • 07.08.17 On the EPO’s Premises, Investigation After a Small Fall But Not After Suicide of Staff
  • 07.09.17 French Giants Resort to Patent Trolling While Battistelli Attracts Patent Trolls to Europe
  • 07.11.17 In an Age of Mass Deception by Team UPC Benjamin Henrion (FFII) to Deliver a Talk About UPC and Software Patents
  • 07.13.17 Looking Forward to a Battistelli-less and Kongstad-less European Patent Office
  • 07.13.17 Status and Potency of European Patents Compromised
  • 07.14.17 “EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal Has Brought an Unprecedented Level of Certainty to the Law,” But Benoît Battistelli Crushes It
  • 07.15.17 European Commission Betrays the Public by Promoting Software Patents
  • 07.16.17 Serious Factual Errors in UPC Coverage at Science|Business and Lack of Coverage in the General Media
  • 07.17.17 UPC Puff Piece in the Scottish Media is Just an Advertisement by Marks & Clerk
  • 07.18.17 New Paper Explains Why UPC Ratification Efforts Have Been Just About as Corrupt as EPO Under Battistelli
  • 07.19.17 The British Government May be Pulling Out of the UPC Fantasy, Team UPC in Panic or Denial About It
  • 07.20.17 Battistelli’s EPO Abuses May Soon Lead to the Death of the UPC and Return of the Old Order (‘EPO Glory’)
  • 07.20.17 Unified Patent Court (UPC): A Conspiracy of Lies and Silence
  • 07.22.17 Lack of Independence of the Boards of Appeal at the European Patent Organisation (EPO) a Fatal Blow for the UPC
  • 07.23.17 STRASBOURG: Representative of Lufthansa Accused of Corruption
  • 07.23.17 Patents Roundup: Cisco and Arista, MP3 Liberated, and ‘Phone (Patent) Tax’ Estimated
  • 07.24.17 Qualcomm-Apple Dispute Escalates Further (Lawsuits Come to Europe) With the Cost of Linux-Powered Devices Also at Stake
  • 07.26.17 Lufthansa Leaks? Nokia Leaks? Prepare for Further Digging Into EPO Scandals
  • 07.26.17 The Latest Lies From the EPO (Regarding Quality) and the Reason the UPC Won’t Happen (Any Time Soon at Least)
  • 07.29.17 Anonymous Comments Discuss Erosion of Lawful Activity at the EPO, Lowered Patent Quality, Software Patents, and Trump Comparisons
  • 07.30.17 Dutch Government Publication Confirms Battistelli’s Influence Over Smaller EPC States
  • 08.01.17 Heiko Maas May Need to Belatedly Answer Complaint About Illegal Spying on Staff at the EPO
  • 08.01.17 90% of WIPR Readers Give Up Hope on Unitary Patent (UPC) in the UK, But Team UPC Keeps Lying About It
  • 08.03.17 Antonio Campinos in Charge of the EPO Would Mean Greater EUIPO/EPO Overlap
  • 08.03.17 Benoît Battistelli Distracts From Declining Patent Quality at the EPO by Diverting Attention Away to “Timeliness”
  • 08.05.17 Professor Siegfried Broß Has a Long New Article About the EPO
  • 08.07.17 The Very Political Background of António Campinos, Allegedly a Forefront Candidate to Lead the European Patent Office Next Year
  • 08.12.17 Under Battistelli, EPO Ceased to Reward Inventors, Rewards Only Battistelli and Fellow Thugs Instead
  • 08.12.17 The Corruption of the European Patent Office and CIPO’s (Canada) Participation in This
  • 08.12.17 The Corrupt European Patent Office (EPO) Appears to be SLAPPing Judges Now
  • 08.15.17 The EPO is Paying Journalists For Trips Abroad and May be Buying Fake Twitter Followers (Still)
  • 08.15.17 The Collapse of Patent Quality at the EPO is Inviting to Europe Some of the World’s Worst Patent Trolls
  • 08.18.17 The Staff Union of the EPO Has Long Warned About Declining Patent Quality
  • 08.18.17 The EPO’s Management Needs a Perception of Security Crisis
  • 08.18.17 Lack of Independent Judiciary Under the Unitary Patent (Like Boards of Appeal Under Battistelli, in Defiance of the EPC) Will Possibly Kill the Unified Patent Court
  • 08.22.17 News About Patents Dominated by Patent Trolls/Aggressors, Their Press Releases, and Sympathisers
  • 08.23.17 Benoît Battistelli’s Misbehaviour Condemned the UPC to Death
  • 08.23.17 UPC Hopefuls (Litigation Firms) Come to Life Amid Unitary Patent EPO Text, But Nothing New to See Here
  • 08.25.17 At EPO, “Producing Stronger Patents (or Being Able to Produce Them) is Also a Matter of Professional Pride for the Examiners”
  • 08.27.17 Patent Aggression is Bad for Business
  • 08.27.17 EPO Silencers of the Media – Part I: Introduction
  • 08.29.17 Rumours That Another Frenchman is the Only Candidate to Succeed Benoît Battistelli at the EPO
  • 08.30.17 IP Kat Missing in Action as Unitary Patent (UPC) Rots
  • 09.05.17 One Week Left for Battistelli’s Coronation of Another Frenchman, António Campinos, to Lobby for UPC?
  • 09.05.17 Deepening EPO Crisis and a New Report Titled “EPO Patent Filing a Rigged Game in Europe”
  • 09.06.17 Juve Reveals That Ingve Stjerna is the ‘UPC Slayer’ While the EPO Continues to Lobby, Mislead
  • 09.07.17 Personal Attacks, Censorship of Comments and More Nefarious Tricks Expected in the Wake of UPC Panic
  • 09.10.17 Microsoft-Connected Patent Troll Finjan is Now Threatening and Also Suing Firms From Europe
  • 09.10.17 European Patent Office in Shambles and the EU’s Brexit Position Paper Suggests UPC is Off the Agenda
  • 09.11.17 EPO Guest Article: “Pope” Benoît Refuses to Recognise Reformation Day 2017!
  • 09.11.17 “The Constitutional Problems Linked to the UPC are Far From Being Minor”
  • 09.11.17 Ingve Stjerna’s Complaint Casts a Shadow Over the Unconstitutional Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • 09.13.17 Latest Attempts to Blow Air Into the Sails of the Sinking Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 09.15.17 The UPC Fantasy is Going Nowhere as Complaints and Paperwork Pile Up
  • 09.16.17 European Patent Office Continues to Paint a Rosy UPC Picture Even Though the UPC May Already be Dead
  • 09.17.17 Microsoft is Promoting Software Patents in India in Another Effort to Undermine Free/Open Source Software, Microsoft-Connected Trolls Are Still Suing
  • 09.21.17 The Latest Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and CIPO’s Participation in Those
  • 09.21.17 In an Effort to Push the Unitary Patent (UPC), EPO and the Liar in Chief Spread the Famous Lie About SMEs
  • 09.21.17 UPC Threatens to Weaponise Software Patents in Countries That Forbade These
  • 09.22.17 Intellectual Ventures, GNU/Linux/Android/FOSS Patents, and the Ascent of European Patent Trolls
  • 09.22.17 The EPO’s Latest Lies About the UPC and SMEs Unraveled, Long-Term Plan Described as Daunting
  • 09.23.17 Latest EPO Rumours Allege That Benoît Battistelli Rigged the Process of EPO President’s Selection
  • 09.26.17 EPO Lies About the UPC, Violations of Human Rights, and ‘Green’ European Patents
  • 09.27.17 The Unitary Patent (UPC) is Now Rotting in Ireland
  • 09.30.17 Jesper Kongstad’s Last Day is Today, But the EPO Remains a Sordid Mess Like the UPC
  • 10.08.17 Depressing State of Affairs at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 10.08.17 Microsoft Lobbying, the EPO, and Software Patents Disguised as ‘Internet of Things’
  • 10.08.17 Battistelli’s Club Med at the EPO – Part VII: Quo Vadis EPO?
  • 10.09.17 EPO Protest at 12:30 in Munich and Why EPO Staff Should Attend
  • 10.10.17 Early Reports Suggest That Battistelli’s Policies Will Remain at the EPO (in the Form of Campinos)
  • 10.11.17 Musical Chairs as Battistelli’s ‘Chinchilla’ García-Escudero Márquez Could Reportedly Take António Campinos’ Place
  • 10.12.17 Truly Terrible ‘Journalism’ About António Campinos Boils Down to Lobbying and Agenda-Pushing
  • 10.12.17 Patent Quality at the EPO (European Patents) is Slipping While Battistelli’s Office Boasts “Expansion of Early Certainty” (Even Worse)
  • 10.12.17 The Hogwash Begins: Patent Microcosm’s Media Pretends Campinos is Anything But Battistelli’s French Succession Plan
  • 10.14.17 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Rotting Like the European Patent Office
  • 10.16.17 Monika Ermert’s Reports About the Crisis at the EPO and IP Kat’s Uncharacteristically Shallow Coverage
  • 10.16.17 The Systematic Erosion of Workers’ Rights and Holidays at the EPO Goes Years Back
  • 10.17.17 SUEPO Representatives Like Elizabeth Hardon Vindicated as Battistelli’s Detrimental Effect on Patent Quality is Widely Confirmed
  • 10.17.17 EPO Stakeholders Complain That the New Chairman Does Not Grasp the Issues at the EPO (or Denies These)
  • 10.18.17 Patent Firms From the United States Try Hard to Push the Unitary Patent (UPC), Which Would Foment Litigation Wars in Europe
  • 10.18.17 Confessions of EPO Insiders Reveal That European Patents (EPs) Have Lost Their Legitimacy/Value Due to Battistelli’s Policies
  • 10.19.17 Juve Has Confirmed That António Campinos is French
  • 10.19.17 The Spanish Supreme Court Rejects the EPO’s “Problem and Solution Approach” While Quality of European Patents Nosedives
  • 10.19.17 Team UPC Continues to Promote Illusion of UPC Progress Where There’s None
  • 10.20.17 Battistelli’s Destruction of the EPO is Bad for Everyone, Even Patent Attorneys
  • 10.21.17 Anonymous Professionals Speak of Benoît Battistelli’s Destruction of the EPO, But Why Does the Media Turn a Blind Eye?
  • 10.23.17 IP Kat Participates in Deletion of Information About EPO Scandals
  • 10.23.17 SUEPO Has Just Warned That Patent Quality at the EPO is About to Get Even Worse
  • 10.24.17 The Last Comment in IP Kat (Before Censorship) Was About Patent Quality at the EPO
  • 10.24.17 Freedom of Expression is Dying Not Only at the EPO But Also Outside the EPO (Media Coverage of the EPO)
  • 10.26.17 The EPO is Breaking the Law and Its Employees Cannot Speak About It (Updated)
  • 10.26.17 Big Blow for the Unitary Patent (UPC) as Even Patent Professionals Say “It’s Dead”
  • 10.26.17 Professor Siegfried Broß Again Complains About the Situation at the EPO and Issues With the UPC
  • 10.28.17 The Financial Handling of the EPO is Incredibly Scandalous
  • 10.30.17 Irregularities at the EPO and UPC (Unitary Patent) Dodgy Dealings Should Draw Ire
  • 10.30.17 Belgium’s Jérôme Debrulle, the EPO and the UPC Connection
  • 10.31.17 “EPI Makes No Protest When the AC Connives With Battistelli to Trash the Rule of Law”
  • 11.02.17 UPC is Collapsing, But Bristows LLP is Pushing Propaganda Into the Media, Which Gives Misleading News
  • 11.02.17 The Screws Tighten on Benoît Battistelli as His Departure is Just Two Seasons Away, Media Still Largely Complicit
  • 11.04.17 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby Advocates More and More Patent Lawsuits (Litigation ‘Industry’ Profits)
  • 11.04.17 Patent Trolls Are Moving to Asia and That’s a Good Thing for Science and Technology in the West
  • 11.04.17 Even One of the UPC’s Biggest Boosters, Wolters Kluwer, Admits UPC is in Trouble
  • 11.06.17 Battistelli’s Serious Conflict of Interest in Saint-Germain-en-Laye Disqualifies Him as EPO President
  • 11.08.17 Benoît Battistelli Brews New Scandals in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and in Haar
  • 11.08.17 Kluwer Patent Blog Down for Over a Day, Key Article Archived, UPC Deception Carries On
  • 11.09.17 Patent Office of the Netherlands Expresses Uncertainty About UPC, Voices Concern About Benoît Battistelli’s Attack on Staff
  • 11.09.17 Consensus Around the High Likelihood That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead and Backlash Against Deniers of It
  • 11.11.17 Next EPO President Will Continue a Cooperation Which Does Not Exist
  • 11.13.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead to the EPO and ANSERA is Not the Answer as Patent Quality Declines and Talented Staff Leaves
  • 11.15.17 Benoît Battistelli and Elodie Bergot Have Just Ensured That EPO Will Get Even More Corrupt
  • 11.16.17 The Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) is Rightly Upset If Not Shocked at What Battistelli and Bergot Are Doing to the Office
  • 11.17.17 Today’s EPO and Team UPC Do Not Work for Europe But Actively Work Against Europe
  • 11.23.17 The European Patent Office Has Become the ‘Foxconn’ of Patent Offices
  • 11.23.17 EPO is Imploding as Benoît Battistelli Drains Out Work, Talent, and Justice
  • 11.23.17 Amid Constitutional Court Barrier, Unitary Patent (UPC) Looks Dead Even to UPC Proponents, the EPO’s UPC ‘Study’ Comes Under Fire
  • 11.24.17 Raw: EPO ‘Social Democracy’ is Like a 1AM Vote on UPC by Only 5% of Politicians
  • 11.25.17 In New EPO Interview With Juve, Chairman of the Administrative Council Criticises Battistelli
  • 11.25.17 EPO Uses Bunk ‘Study’ and Team UPC Uses Italy to Prop Up Delusions About the Unitary Patent
  • 11.25.17 Even UPC Proponents Admit UPC is Dead: “This is the End, My Friend”
  • 11.26.17 “Legal and Administrative Rules at the EPO Are Similar to Those at SIPO” (China)
  • 11.26.17 Early Certainty Battistelli Will be Gone Soon: “JUVE Interview Creates the Impression That Benoit Battistelli’s Term in Office is Already Over.”
  • 11.28.17 EPO Budget (Users’ Money) Has Been Corrupting Media and Academia
  • 11.28.17 Pressure is Growing for Christoph Ernst to Stop Destruction of Career System Ahead of Arrival of Campinos as EPO President
  • 11.30.17 Ignore Today’s Fake News From IP Kat/Bristows, the UK is Not Ratifying the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 11.30.17 EPO Fiasco Deepens While the Media Writes Puff Pieces About the EPO
  • 12.02.17 The European Patent Office No Longer Acts Like a Patent Office But a Prosecutor
  • 12.03.17 Bristows Again Rebutted, Few Days After Telling Lies and Spreading Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 12.03.17 Guest Post: Free Dental Care in BRD (Banana Republik Deutschland)
  • 12.04.17 SUEPO on “the Belief of the President That He is Above the Law.”
  • 12.05.17 The Latest Noise About UPC in the UK
  • 12.05.17 Ericsson’s Chief ‘IP’ Officer Kasim Alfalahi Has Become a Parasite and Patent Troll in Avanci
  • 12.06.17 Another Day of EPO Injustices in Europe and Campinos/Battistelli Connections at CEIPI
  • 12.07.17 ILO Said Give the Judge His Job Back, But Christoph Ernst’s Administrative Council Will Likely Let Him Go (Unemployed)
  • 12.07.17 ILO is ‘Forcing’ Team Battistelli to Compensate the Banned Judge and Give Him Back His Job
  • 12.07.17 Battistelli’s ‘Mole’ Lucy Neville-Rolfe is Still Trying to Push Unitary Patent (UPC) Through in the United Kingdom
  • 12.08.17 European Media Covers the Latest EPO Scandal and the EPO’s Refusal to Obey Orders of a Court
  • 12.08.17 EPO Scandal Spills Over to Irish Media, So It’s Time for the Backstory
  • 12.08.17 SUEPO Announces Protest, EPO Distracts From the Scandal, and Readers Spill the Beans
  • 12.09.17 Bristows Continues to Lie About Unitary Patent (UPC) in Britain Only to Get Rebutted in Comments, As Usual (Criticism Not Deleted Yet)
  • 12.10.17 Patents Are Becoming a Welfare System for the Rich and Powerful
  • 12.12.17 Battistelli-Campinos Transition Will Be a Smooth One as the Administrative Council Remains the Same and the Boards Still Besieged
  • 12.12.17 Claim: Judge Corcoran to Be Put Under Benoît Battistelli’s Control in DG1
  • 12.12.17 Carl Josefsson Lets Judge Patrick Corcoran Come Back to Work at the EPO
  • 12.12.17 The Mask Falls: Lobbyist David Kappos Now Composes Pieces for the Patent Trolls’ Lobby (IAM)
  • 12.12.17 The EPO Protest Tomorrow Isn’t Just About Judge Corcoran But About the EPO as a Whole
  • 12.12.17 Team UPC’s Tilmann Defends Rogue Vote at 1 AM in the Morning With Just 5% of Politicians (Those With Vested Interests) Attending
  • 12.13.17 EPO Administrative Council Disallows Discussion About Violations of the Law by Benoît Battistelli
  • 12.14.17 Patrick Corcoran is Innocent, Yet Battistelli Will/May Have the Power to Sack Him Next Month (in DG1)
  • 12.16.17 EPO Busy Distracting From Miscarriage/Abuse of Justice at the EPO (Both Office and Organisation)
  • 12.17.17 The Latest IAM Puff Pieces That Launder the ‘Reputation’ of Patent Trolls
  • 12.17.17 Battistelli’s ‘UPC Buddy’ Michel Barnier Helped Squash EU Intervention in Dysfunctional (Subverted by Battistelli) Administrative Council
  • 12.18.17 Battistelli Feels as Though He’s Above the Law, So No Wonder He Pursues Software Patents in Europe (Against the Rules)
  • 12.18.17 “As an EPO Employee, I Am Actually Embarrassed by the Behaviour of the President and the Administrative Council”
  • 12.19.17 Today’s Report From the Administrative Council (AC) of the European Patent Organisation ‘Tackles’ the Most Important Issue: Judge Corcoran
  • 12.19.17 Bavarian Regional Parliament Talks About the EPO’s Outrageous Decisions to Simply Disregard International Courts
  • 12.19.17 Secrecy Surrounds the Fate of Patrick Corcoran, Even AMBA is Being Kept in the Dark by Carl Josefsson
  • 12.19.17 Dr. Siegfried Broß Says UPC is in Constitutional and Democratic Grey Area, Abuses at the European Patent Office Contribute to That
  • 12.19.17 French and Korean Patent Trolls
  • 12.21.17 EPO Judicial Crisis Has Not Ended, But the Administrative Council Certainly Tries to Sell That Impression
  • 12.21.17 Media Blackout in Most European Media Regarding the Latest Major EPO Scandal
  • 12.23.17 Patent Quality Nosedives at EPO, Say Insiders Whose Permanent Contract is About to be Terminated in 8 Days to Increase Pressure to Grant Patents Sparingly
  • 12.23.17 “Change of Attitude and Behaviour Needed,” Say Anonymous EPO Workers About the Management and Administrative Council
  • 12.24.17 2017: The Year Software Patents Died Even in the Court Which Started Them
  • 12.25.17 Raw: French-Led EPO Gives Air France Non-Exclusive Contract for All Staff Flights (Even Though EPO Lacks Branches in France)
  • 12.26.17 Raw: Consultation Process at the EPO, Rooted in Basic Rules, Has Been Compromised and Stacked by Battistelli
  • 12.26.17 Raw: Benoît Battistelli Would Not Openly Discuss Staff Suicides
  • 12.27.17 Raw: Battistelli’s “Behaviour is Not Only Dangerous for the EPO Staff But is Also Putting the Reputation of the Organisation at Risks.”
  • 12.27.17 Raw: Battistelli Stacking the Deck of the Internal EPO ‘Court’
  • 12.27.17 The Unitary Patent is Dying or Dead, But Team UPC Might Rebrand Again and Reattempt
  • 12.28.17 Raw: Collective Accountability for Staff Committees Over Anonymous Letters?
  • 12.28.17 UPC IT Working Group is Chasing Rainbows and Unicorns
  • 12.28.17 EPO Remains in Defiance or Violation of ILO Rulings as Corcoran Contract Ends in 3 Days
  • 12.28.17 Raw: European Patent Office’s Willy Minnoye Interferes With Discussion of EPO Policies
  • 12.29.17 Battistelli Becomes Judge Corcoran’s (Almost) Direct Boss and People Doubt He Will Last Long
  • 12.29.17 Raw: Battistelli the Patent Office Shark Shouting From the Rooftop (Isar)
  • 12.29.17 Raw: Željko Topić Tries to Defend an Illegal Suppression of Labour Rights
  • 12.31.17 Just 3 Days Before Christmas Judge Corcoran is Told That His Boss Becomes Battistelli, Who Wants to Remain in Control for Years to Come
  • 12.31.17 Raw: Circular Decision-Making as Consultation at the EPO Done by Same Party That Suggests and Approves Changes
  • 12.31.17 Raw: Battistelli Had Already Spoiled the Independence of the EPO’s Boards of Appeal More Than Half a Decade Ago
  • 01.01.18 Raw: Battistelli’s Stacking of the General Advisory Committee Not Legal, Asserted Staff Representatives
  • 01.01.18 How Institut International des Brevets (IIB), INPADOC and Other Historic Endeavours Relate to EPO and DG1/DG2
  • 01.01.18 Raw: EPO Violates ILO Rulings by Denying the Consultation Process Access to Vital Information
  • 01.01.18 Raw: Battistelli Comes Up With a “Chief Information Officer” Role and Offers This Position to Man From Same Place as Him
  • 01.01.18 Raw: The EPO’s Disregard for Christmas and New Year’s Days Off
  • 01.01.18 Raw: Separation of Powers Obliterated by EPO President and Vice-Presidents
  • 01.02.18 2018 Starts at the EPO and Both EPC and UPC Are in State of Crisis
  • 01.03.18 Translation Shows That Carl Josefsson and Christoph Ernst Refuse to Comment on EPO Injustice as It Might Embarrass Battistelli
  • 01.03.18 EPO Management Claims “Higher Quality Patents” and Everyone at the EPO Knows That It’s a Face-Saving Lie
  • 01.03.18 Job Applicants at the EPO Disappointed, Reference Made in Interview to Slavery
  • 01.03.18 Battistelli’s Attacks on Judge Corcoran Threaten Not Only the EPC But Also UPC
  • 01.05.18 The EPO’s Attack on the Boards of Appeal Dooms the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Team UPC Alters Its Tactics
  • 01.06.18 The Mystery and Secrecy of the Decision to Disband the EPO’s Auditory Function After Battistelli Became President
  • 01.06.18 President Battistelli Has Acted Like a King Since His Early Days at the EPO
  • 01.07.18 In US District Courts Patent Litigation Fell by a Whopping 17% Last Year
  • 01.08.18 How the Creation of a Role for ‘Chief Information Officer’ at the EPO Came About
  • 01.08.18 President Battistelli Silently Curtailed Part Time Home Working Introduced by His British Predecessor, Alison Brimelow
  • 01.09.18 Battistelli’s Year 1 at EPO: General Advisory Committee Not Being Provided Crucial Information
  • 01.09.18 Battistelli’s Year 1 at EPO: Using ‘Staff Dignity’ as a Pretext to Attack the Dignity of EPO Staff and Staff Representatives
  • 01.10.18 Benoît Battistelli Lies About Patent Quality; the Numbers Speak for Themselves However
  • 01.10.18 Jo Johnson’s Departure is Another Major Blow for Team UPC (Unified Patent Court)
  • 01.13.18 Top Rank at USPTO Goes to the Biggest Patent Bully, IBM
  • 01.13.18 Less Than Half a Year in the Job, Battistelli Already Disobeys/Disregards Rulings From ILO’s Tribunal
  • 01.13.18 Late on a Friday is a Good Time to Spread Misinformation About Unified Patent Court (UPC) Without Being Challenged
  • 01.14.18 2010: Blaming the Messenger (SUEPO) for Staff Unhappiness at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 01.14.18 Budget at the EPO Decided Before Consultation
  • 01.14.18 2010: Deterioration of Working Conditions (e.g. Office Space) for EPO Staff
  • 01.14.18 Automotives, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 Among the Buzz Terms Used to Bypass Alice and the EPC Nowadays
  • 01.15.18 Roundup of Patent News From Canada, South America and Australia
  • 01.16.18 EPO Management and Team UPC Carry on Lying About Unified Patent Court, Sinking to New Lows in the Process
  • 01.17.18 Only Two Weeks on the Job, Judge Patrick Corcoran is Already Being Threatened by EPO Management
  • 01.20.18 Patent Quality (Not Numbers) as an Asset: Oppositions, Appeals and Rejections at the EPO
  • 01.22.18 Team UPC Calls Critics of the UPC Idiots, Deletes Their Comments, and Blocks Them
  • 01.23.18 The Response to Accusations of Censorship by Team UPC? Yet More Censorship to Shield UPC From Criticism
  • 01.24.18 CRISPR Patent Debacle Demonstrated That Opposition Divisions Do Their Job, But Also Highlighted Serious Deficiency in Patent-Granting Process
  • 01.24.18 Team UPC Has Been Reduced to Rubble and Misinformation
  • 01.25.18 Sam Gyimah Replaced Jo Johnson More Than a Fortnight Ago, But Team UPC Has Ignored It Until Now
  • 01.27.18 Another Blow for the Unitary Patent (UPC) as More Delays Are Confirmed, Court Won’t Rule on Constitutional Issues Any Time Soon
  • 01.30.18 The EPO’s Central Staff Committee Explains How Battistelli’s Attacks on Judge Corcoran Annul Any Perception of Independence
  • 01.30.18 The Failure of ILO’s Administrative Tribunal Highlights Poor State of Justice in Europe and Worldwide
  • 01.31.18 Even Kluwer Patent Blog Decides to Comment on the EPO’s Bizarre Financial Behaviour
  • 01.31.18 The UPC/SEP/FRAND Lobby Has Resorted to Just Insulting the Opposition
  • 02.01.18 Too Much to Cover Up at the EPO, the UN, and UN Agencies
  • 02.03.18 Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on “Jurisdictional Immunity of International Organisations and Rights of Their Staff”
  • 02.03.18 The European Council Confirms That the Unitary/Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA) is “Outside the Legal Framework of the European Union”
  • 02.04.18 USPTO May Get a New Director Tomorrow, But It’s Not Good News
  • 02.06.18 Battistelli Works With IAM and Pays European Media to Promote Software Patents in Europe
  • 02.07.18 China’s Patent Strategy Seems to be Driving Away Foreign Companies and Causing Legal Chaos From Within
  • 02.08.18 Mark Rutte Under Pressure to Stop Battistelli’s EPO From Violating Laws With Impunity
  • 02.08.18 When INPI Met INPI and IAM Met the EPO
  • 02.08.18 The UPC Lobby Wants to Crush the Boards of Appeal (BoA) While EPO Changes Rules of Procedure of the BoA
  • 02.10.18 Lawyer Fraud and the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • 02.10.18 The Relationship Between IAM and the EPO’s President Battistelli Tightens Further After Payments for UPC Promotion
  • 02.12.18 Patent Maximalists Won’t Get Their Way and UPC Will Likely Never Happen (Even After Battistelli)
  • 02.12.18 Denialists of Patent Trolls Are at It Again
  • 02.13.18 EPO Opposition to CRISPR Patents Has Wide-Ranging and Far-Reaching Impact, But Mind Not the Lobbyists
  • 02.14.18 The EPO Now Censors the Central Staff Committee Like It Used to Censor SUEPO
  • 02.14.18 No, Britain is Not Ratifying ‘Unitary’ Anything, But Team UPC Insinuates It Will (Desperate Effort to Affect Tomorrow’s Outcome)
  • 02.15.18 Bavarian State Parliament Has Upcoming Debate About Issues Which Can Thwart UPC for Good
  • 02.15.18 The EPO is Being Destroyed and There’s Nothing Left to Replace It Except National Patent Offices
  • 02.16.18 Microsoft’s Patent Moves: Dominion Harbor, Intellectual Ventures, Intellectual Discovery, NEC and Uber
  • 02.17.18 UPC Has Done Nothing for Europe Except Destruction of the EPO and Imminent Layoffs Due to Lack of Applications and Lowered Value of European Patents
  • 02.18.18 UPC Optimism Languishes Even Among Paid UPC Propagandists Such as IAM
  • 02.20.18 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby, Bristows and IAM Among Others, Downplays Darts-IP/IP2Innovate Report About Rising If Not Soaring Troll Activity in Europe
  • 02.20.18 Today, at 12:30 CET, Bavarian State Parliament Will Speak About EPO Abuses (Updated)
  • 02.20.18 Another Loud Warning From EPO Workers About the Decline of Patent Quality
  • 02.21.18 EPO’s Board 28 Spikes Article 53 in CA/3/18, Apparently After Battistelli Withdrew It
  • 02.21.18 End of the UPC Lobby and Withdrawal of UPCA May Seem Imminent
  • 02.21.18 Rumour: European Patent Office to Lay Off a Significant Proportion of Its Workforce
  • 02.22.18 Further Attacks on EPO Staff and the Appeal Boards; Former EPO Boards of Appeal Member Speaks About EPO Scandals
  • 02.23.18 EPO Roundup: Low Profile, Employment Changes, Patent Trolls, Refusal to Obey Courts, and Animal Breeding Patents
  • 02.23.18 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Dead, But Spin From Team UPC is Now Abundant
  • 02.25.18 Changes Introduced by the EPO’s Administrative Council Made It Abundantly Clear That Separation of Powers Does Not Exist for Independence of Judges
  • 02.27.18 The EPO’s Appeal Boards Remain Utterly Dependent and Far From Impartial After Battistelli’s Assault on Their Independence
  • 02.27.18 EPO Refuses to Admit that Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Dead, But It’s Boosting Others Who Are Lying About It for a Living
  • 03.01.18 The Latest Bristows Spin Distracts From the Fact that Britain Has No Intention of Ratifying UPC and Brexit Agreement Altogether Omits It
  • 03.01.18 Élodie Bergot Threatens Staff Representatives Who Spread Information About the EPO
  • 03.01.18 European Patent Office (EPO) in Chaos and Attempting to Silence the Staff Would Only Exacerbate Matters
  • 03.01.18 The UPC is Dead, But Team UPC is Lying to British Politicians in an Effort to Trick Them
  • 03.02.18 Battistelli’s Last Four Months: Peak Censorship at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 03.03.18 EPO Annual Report Will Dominate the News Next Week, Whereas Unitary Patent (UPC) is a Goner
  • 03.06.18 There’s No Patent Trolls Problem in Europe, Say Law Firms That Represent and Front for Patent Trolls
  • 03.07.18 The Right-Wing Alternative für Deutschland Opposes Unitary Patent (UPC), Just Like UKIP in Britain
  • 03.08.18 EPO Hires External PR Agencies to Control Coverage of Its Annual Report, Deny Investigative Journalism
  • 03.09.18 The EPO’s PR Department Receives Return on Investment (Puff Pieces) for Paying the Media
  • 03.10.18 Glimmer of Hope for the EPO’s Boards of Appeal as Bavarian Parliament ‘Regroups’ on Tuesday
  • 03.13.18 Session in Bavaria to Discuss the Abuses of the European Patent Office Later Today
  • 03.13.18 Battistelli Likes to Describe His Critics as ‘Nazis’, Team UPC Will Attempt the Same Thing Against UPC Critics
  • 03.15.18 Careful Not to Conflate UPC Critics With AfD or Anti-EU Elements
  • 03.15.18 EPO Staff Has Just Warned the National Delegates That EPO’s Decline (in Terms of Patent Quality and Staff Welfare) Would Be Beneficial to Patent Trolls
  • 03.17.18 Luxembourg Can Become a Hub of Patent Trolls If the EPO Carries on With Its ‘Reforms’, Even Without the UPC
  • 03.18.18 UPC/Battistelli Booster IAM Blames Brexit Rather Than EPO Abuses
  • 03.23.18 The European Patent Office’s (EPO) Declining Patent Quality ‘Tackled’ by Making Appeals/Oppositions Harder and More Expensive
  • 03.27.18 Professionals’ Survey: Almost Everybody (90%) Accepts That EPO Patent Quality Has Fallen Under Battistelli
  • 03.29.18 Senator Jean-Yves Leconte Accuses EPO and/or ILO of Injustice, But Don’t Expect Media to Notice or Cover It
  • 04.01.18 EPO is Untrustworthy
  • 04.03.18 Benoît Battistelli’s Era Yields Not Only Invalid and Harmful Monopolies But Also Breeds Distrust and Layoffs
  • 04.07.18 Patent Maximalists Against Patent Quality and Against the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Organisation (EPO)
  • 04.07.18 Team UPC’s and Team Battistelli’s Lobbying Not Over Yet, Even Though the UPC is Likely Dead for Good
  • 04.11.18 More SCOTUS Patent Cases on Their Way, But Nothing That Will Change 35 U.S.C. § 101/Alice
  • 04.14.18 The ‘Blockchaining’ of Software Patents (to Dodge the Rules/Guidelines) Now Coming to Europe
  • 04.14.18 Crisis of Quality at the EPO Extends to Staff (Notably Examiners) and Management as Institutional Integrity is Severely Compromised
  • 04.16.18 The European Patent Office Will Never Hold Its Destroyers Accountable
  • 04.18.18 The EPO in 2018: Partnering With Saudi Arabia and Cambodia (With Zero European Patents)
  • 04.19.18 Microsoft’s Lobbying for FRAND Pays Off as Microsoft-Connected Patent Troll Conversant (Formerly MOSAID) Goes After Android OEMs in Europe
  • 04.24.18 Today’s EPO is Not Compatible With the Law and It’s Grossly Incompatible With Truth and Justice
  • 04.26.18 Britain Has Not Fully Completed Unified Patent Court (UPC) Ratification and It Remains Incompatible With Brexit
  • 04.26.18 With Unified Patent Court (UPC) on Its Death Throes, Team UPC Now Resorts to Promoting Pertinent Parts of the Agreement (UPCA)
  • 04.27.18 Sam Gyimah Did What Was Expected Since 2016, But Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Still Completely Stuck in Most Important Country and Is Not Compatible With Brexit
  • 04.28.18 British Technology News Sites Point Out the Absurdity of Ratifying UPC in the UK Amid Brexit
  • 04.29.18 Guest Article: Is the EPO Deliberately Disseminating “False Facts” About Benoît Battistelli’s Political Activities in Saint-Germain-en-Laye?
  • 04.29.18 Even Vocal Proponents of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Admit That There Are ‘Holes’ in the Announcement From Sam Gyimah
  • 04.29.18 35 U.S.C. § 101 is Still in Tact and Enforceable En Masse (Thousands of Times) by PTAB
  • 05.01.18 A Test for European Media: Will It Cover the Battistelli-TAD Scandal Like It Covered FIFA Scandals?
  • 05.03.18 Bristows LLP Already Uses Kluwer Patent Blog and IP Kat as Its UPC Megaphone, Now IAM as Well
  • 05.03.18 Marks & Clerk is Still Pushing Patent Maximalism Agenda in Europe and Britain, Including UPC/UPCA/Unitary Patent (UP)
  • 05.04.18 From Saint-Germain-en-Laye to Strasbourg, Even the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Might Side With Nicolas Sárközy’s Thug at the EPO
  • 05.04.18 Elizabeth Holmes Charged With “Massive Fraud” and Team Battistelli Rushes to Distance Itself From Her
  • 05.05.18 The European Patent Office’s Decline in Patent Quality a ‘Blessing’ in Disguise But Mostly a Curse to Apple
  • 05.07.18 Rumour: The European Patent Office Has Just ‘Done a Patrick Corcoran’ Again (Forced Removal)
  • 05.09.18 Barker Brettell is Wrong About Unified Patent Court (UPC) and the United Kingdom
  • 05.09.18 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Not Happening, But Kluwer Patent Blog Pretends It’s Already in Force
  • 05.10.18 EPO Scandals Are Far Worse Than FIFA’s (or Even Emissionsgate/Dieselgate), But Will European Media Belatedly Realise This?
  • 05.12.18 The Patent Trolls’ Lobbyists Continue to Deny That the Concept of Trolling Even Exists or Needs Addressing
  • 05.12.18 EPO Staff Deprived and Denied Basic Rights, Even Justice, But Almost Nobody in the ‘Mainstream’ Wants to Talk About It
  • 05.12.18 Patents on Life (or Supposed ‘Gene-Editing’/CRISPR) Are a Gross Distortion of the Raison D’être of Patents
  • 05.15.18 The EPO Has Become Extremely Corrupt and Dishonest
  • 05.15.18 EPO Has Become Overzealous About Software Patents, Probably More So Than Almost Anywhere Else
  • 05.15.18 Xiaomi, Samsung, TCL and Others Demonstrate That in a World With an Abundance of Stupid Patents Like Design Patents Nobody is Safe
  • 05.16.18 The EPO’s ‘Inventor Award’ Scam: Part III
  • 05.17.18 Fishy Things Noticed Ahead of the Passage of a Lot of EPO Budget (Applicants’ Money) to Battistelli’s Other (and Simultaneous) Employer
  • 05.19.18 Aurélien Pétiaud’s ILO Case (EPO Appeal) an Early Sign That ILO Protects Abusers and Power, Not Workers
  • 05.20.18 António Campinos Will Push Toward a France-Based Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • 05.22.18 Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans”: The Emperor’s New Investment Guidelines
  • 05.22.18 France is Irrelevant to Whether or Not UPC Ever Becomes a Reality, Moving/Outsourcing de Facto Patent Examination to European Courts Managed in/Presided by France
  • 05.23.18 Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans”: The Cautionary Tale of SIDRU and Its “Toxic Loans”
  • 05.24.18 Perpetuating the Big Lie That Unitary Patent (UPC) is About to Kick Off
  • 05.25.18 EPO, a Longtime Privacy Offender, Uses General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Day to Lie to the Public
  • 05.25.18 The Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court (UPC): This Week’s Latest Spin and Lies
  • 05.26.18 Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans”: Quo Vadis EPO?
  • 05.27.18 The Patent Extremists Resort to Trump-Styled China-Baiting in an Effort to Destroy US Patent Policy
  • 05.30.18 The European Patent Office: From Patent Maximalism to Corruption and Gerrymandering
  • 05.30.18 EUROCHAMBRES is an Echo Chamber of the Patent Litigation ‘Industry’ Hoping to Mislead the EU’s Competitiveness Council on UPC
  • 05.30.18 Märpel Looks at Benoît Battistelli’s Toxic Financial Affairs at the EPO
  • 05.31.18 IP Kat is Still Acting as a Propaganda Front for UPC (and EU Software Patents) Lobbying by US-Based Front Groups
  • 06.02.18 The European Patent Office Dominates Media Coverage in the Form of Paid-For Puff Pieces, Suppresses Coverage About Corruption
  • 06.02.18 Team UPC Turns to a Spanish ‘Flavour’ of Unitary Patent Propaganda (Just Like Last Year)
  • 06.05.18 IP Kat as an Extension of Team UPC After Departure of the Blog’s Founder
  • 06.05.18 The Demise of the EPO and Collapse of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) May Mean That António Campinos Will Soon Fire ~15% of the Workforce
  • 06.07.18 Today, at the Expense of Millions (€) of EPO Budget, Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos Engage in Shameless Self Promotion
  • 06.07.18 What Team UPC Wants: Patent Trolls, Unified Patent Court (UPC), Software Patents, and Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs)
  • 06.09.18 Battistelli is Still Patently Delusional About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 06.09.18 Patents on Nature, Life and the Environment: Lessons From EPO and Australian Courts
  • 06.10.18 Everyone Talks About Apple’s Notorious Design Patents But Not About ‘Abstract’ European Patents Used Against Apple and Linux
  • 06.11.18 Another Victim of Corrupt Benoît Battistelli
  • 06.11.18 Latest Docket Reports Show That the American Courts/Legal System Still Anything But Patents-Hostile
  • 06.12.18 The EPO’s ‘Expert’ Georg Weber is Still Advocating Software Patents in Europe (But He Disguises Them Using Buzzwords)
  • 06.14.18 Grünecker, Hoffmann Eitle, Maiwald and Vossius & Partner Find the Courage to Express Concerns About Battistelli’s Ugly Legacy and Low Patent Quality
  • 06.14.18 The ’4iP Council’ is a Megaphone of Team UPC and Team Battistelli at the EPO
  • 06.15.18 The EPO’s Response to the Open Letter About Decline in Patent Quality as the Latest Example of Arrogance and Resistance to Facts, Truth
  • 06.17.18 The Affairs of the USPTO Have Turned Into Somewhat of a Battle Against the Courts, Which Are Simply Applying the Law to Invalidate US Patents
  • 06.18.18 Beware Team UPC’s Biggest Two Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 06.19.18 The Decline in Patent Quality at the EPO Causes Frivolous Lawsuits That Only Lawyers Profit From
  • 06.19.18 Articles About a Unitary Patent System Are Lies and Marketing From Law Firms With ‘Lawsuits Lust’
  • 06.21.18 Battistelli and Topić Lose Their Bogus ‘Case’ Against Judge Corcoran After They Defamed Him and Ruined His Career/Life
  • 06.21.18 Even Media of the Patent Microcosm Mentions the Decline in Quality of Patents at the EPO, Based on Its Very Own Stakeholders, While IAM Ignores the News
  • 06.22.18 “Dr Ernst Should be Forced by National Politicians to Step Down With Immediate Effect” After Battistelli’s Latest EPO Scandals
  • 06.24.18 The ILO Tribunal: Is It Still Worthy of Our Trust?
  • 06.24.18 Nearly Half of Patent Applications at the EPO Are (at Least Partly) Software Patents, According to the EPO, and Not Many Patents Are European (Foreign, Not Domestic)
  • 06.25.18 Benoît Battistelli’s ‘Dowry’ From the Administrative Council of the EPO
  • 06.25.18 The EPO Seems to Have Corrupted ILO/ILO-AT Like It Corrupted the Media and Academia (Using ‘Toxic’ EPO Budget)
  • 06.26.18 Battistelli is ‘Pulling a Lamy’ With a Lot More Money at Stake (and Examiners’ Future)
  • 06.28.18 Eight Years of Battistelli
  • 06.29.18 Insults, Lies and Propaganda on Battistelli’s Last Day at the European Patent Office
  • 06.29.18 Three Days Later Still Not a Single Word From the EPO About Union Busting Gone Awry and Court Orders to Reinstate/Promote Staff Representatives
  • 06.29.18 Union Syndicale Fédérale: Apparently ILO Considered Kicking Out the EPO for Repeatedly Refusing and Failing to Obey the Law
  • 06.30.18 Team UPC’s Radicals, Firms Like Bristows LLP, Have Decided That It’s Time to Change Constitutions to Accommodate Clearly Unconstitutional Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 07.01.18 Welcoming António Campinos, New President of the European Patent Office
  • 07.02.18 Patent Law Firms Have Become Debased and Intolerant of Courts/Judges, Just Like EPO Management
  • 07.02.18 First Day for António Campinos is Done, But Some Media is Still Publishing 90th-Minute Battistelli Puff Pieces
  • 07.02.18 IAM is Still Working for Benoît Battistelli and His Toxic Agenda
  • 07.04.18 Yesterday’s UPC Event Was a Reminder That Team Battistelli is Still in Charge of the European Patent Organisation, Fronting for Team UPC
  • 07.06.18 Team UPC Suggested Changing Constitutions to Facilitate the Unconstitutional UPC. It Didn’t Go Well…
  • 07.08.18 Battistelli’s ‘Legacy’ Up in Flames as Britain is “Ending the Jurisdiction of the CJEU in the UK, With No More Preliminary References from UK Courts…”
  • 07.11.18 The Lack of Genuine, Honest Discussion About Patent Quality Means That Under António Campinos Software Patents Will Continue to be Granted, Campinos Strives to Make Them ‘Unitary’
  • 07.13.18 Constitutionality and CJEU as Barriers, the UPC Agreement (UPCA) is Already Moot in the United Kingdom
  • 07.14.18 Number of Oppositions to Grants/Awards of European Patents at the EPO Has Skyrocketed, Based on Internal Data
  • 07.14.18 ‘Transaction’ Complete: Former EPO Executive From Belgium Takes the Seat of António Campinos at EU-IPO
  • 07.17.18 Time for the European Commission to Investigate EPO Corruption Because It May be Partly or Indirectly Connected to EU-IPO, an EU Agency
  • 07.19.18 Mafia Tactics in Team UPC and Battistelli’s Circle
  • 07.28.18 The EPO Abandoned Patent Quality and António Campinos Has No Intention of Changing That
  • 07.31.18 SUEPO Seems to be Disappointed by António Campinos as His First Month in Office Comes to an End
  • 08.01.18 Government Decision to Start Corruption Investigation Into Croatia Airlines and Its Director Jasmin Bajic Could Implicate EPO Vice-President
  • 08.02.18 The EPO’s Systematic Attacks on Justice and on Judges Have Likely Played the Biggest Role in the Death of Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 08.05.18 Ericsson’s Wi-Fi Patent Thicket and Patent Trolls Like Sisvel Harm the Smallest Players in the Market
  • 08.09.18 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement is Paralysed, So Team UPC is Twisting Old News
  • 08.15.18 President Battistelli ‘Killed’ the EPO; António Campinos Will ‘Finish the Job’
  • 08.21.18 Admissibility of the Unitary Patent Constitutional Complaint Was Likely the Final Nail in the Coffin of the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • 08.25.18 The Unitary Patent (UPC) is Not Delayed; It’s Dead and Without Any Major Rework It Will Go Nowhere
  • 08.30.18 António Campinos Already Implements a ‘Shadow’ Layoffs Method at the EPO
  • 08.30.18 Feeling Shut Out of the European Patent System, Team UPC Persists With Misleading Claims and Falsehoods
  • 09.05.18 EPO Has “Far Too High Production [sic Targets” Which “Deteriorates the Quality of Products [sic] Delivered”]
  • 09.06.18 Even Overzealous Patent Maximalists Nowadays Admit That Time is Running Out for the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 09.07.18 ITC is Serving Patent Trolls Now
  • 09.09.18 Watchtroll Calls Company That Defends Itself From Patent-Trolling-Like Behaviour a ‘Patent Troll’
  • 09.14.18 Max Planck Institute Pours More Water on the Dying Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 09.15.18 The Max Planck Institute’s Determination on UPC’s (Unitary Patent) Demise is Only “Controversial” in the Eyes of Rabid Members of Team UPC
  • 09.16.18 Battistelli “Has Deeply Hurt the Whole Patent Profession, Examiners as Well as Agents” and Also the Image of France
  • 09.16.18 IAM, Watchtroll and the EPO Still Spread the Mentality of Patent Maximalism
  • 09.17.18 Qualcomm’s Patent Aggression Threatens Rationality of Patent Scope in Europe and Elsewhere
  • 09.18.18 The EPO Has Quit Pretending That It Cares About Patent Quality, All It Cares About is Quantity of Lawsuits
  • 09.18.18 Today’s European Patent Office (EPO) Works for Large, Foreign Pharmaceutical Companies in Pursuit of Patents on Nature, Life, and Essential/Basic Drugs
  • 09.18.18 Qualcomm’s Escalating Patent Wars Have Already Caused Massive Buybacks (Loss of Reserves) and Loss of Massive Clients
  • 09.20.18 Criticism of Unitary Patent (UPC) Agreement Doomed the UPC and Patent Trolls’ Plan — Along With the Litigation Lobby — for Unified ‘Extortion Vector’
  • 09.22.18 Bogus Patents Which Oughtn’t Have Been Granted Make Products Deliberately Worse, Reducing Innovation and Worsening Customers’ Experience
  • 09.23.18 Advocacy of the Unitary Patent System Has Become Almost Identical to the ‘Leave’ (Brexit) Campaign
  • 09.24.18 Reader’s Article: Affaire Benalla Strongly Connected to EPO/OEB/EPA and Former President Benoît Battistelli
  • 09.24.18 Guest Post on Ronan Le Gleut and Benalla at the French Senate (in Light of Battistelli’s Epic Abuses)
  • 09.25.18 António Campinos Goes to UPC-Hostile Country, UPC Continues to Languish and Team UPC Carries on Pushing for Software Patents in Europe (Courts Also)
  • 09.26.18 Lots of UPC Noise/News This Week Over a Document Which Merely Weakens Commitment to the UPC
  • 09.26.18 French Media Confirms Alexandre Benalla Just One of Six Battistelli Bodyguards, Employed at the Cost of €8,000-€10,000 Per Month (for Benalla Alone!)
  • 09.28.18 How Team UPC is Reacting to the Demise of EPO- and EU-Connected Court That Would Have Put Patent Maximalists in Charge
  • 09.29.18 Team UPC Wants More (Patent) Taxes on Society While Defending/Shielding the Super-rich From Taxes That Might Otherwise Benefit Society
  • 09.30.18 AIPPI is Led by Team UPC’s People and ‘AIPPI Congress Report’ Published by Team UPC
  • 10.05.18 Patents on Life and on Algorithms in Europe Will Doom the EPO
  • 10.06.18 The European Patent Office Has Assaulted Patent Quality While Trying to Distract From That
  • 10.11.18 Friend Brings a Friend, Boss Becomes Subordinate: the EPO Under António Campinos is Starting to Look a Lot Like Team Battistelli 2.0
  • 10.11.18 UPC Cowardice: Team UPC Uses Cloaks of Anonymity to Discredit Authors of Scholarly UPC Paper They Don’t Like
  • 10.13.18 Quality of Patents Granted by the EPO is Still Low and Nobody Will Benefit Except Lawyers, Jubilant Over Growing Lenience on Software Patents
  • 10.13.18 100 Days Into the Term of Campinos There is Already an EPO Suicide
  • 10.18.18 IAM and IP Kat Are Still Megaphones of Battistelli and His Agenda
  • 10.18.18 It’s Almost 2019 and Team UPC is Still Pretending Unitary Patent (UPC) Exists, Merely Waiting for Britain to Join
  • 10.25.18 Battistelli and Team UPC Still Waiting for a Campinos Miracle
  • 11.04.18 Team UPC’s Last Resort: Stacked Panels, Anonymously Belittling the Opposition (e.g. Ingve Björn Stjerna) and Taking Control of the Media
  • 11.06.18 The European Patent Office Lost Its Way, Found Buzzwords Instead
  • 11.08.18 The António Campinos Private/Secret Meeting With ILO Officials a Slap Across the Face to Employees of the European Patent Office
  • 11.10.18 Latest Loophole: To Get Software Patents From the EPO One Can Just Claim That They’re ‘on a Car’
  • 11.11.18 Automation of Searches Will Not Solve the Legitimacy Problem Caused by Patents Lust
  • 11.12.18 Team UPC, Fronting for Patent Trolls From the US, is Calling Facts “Resistance”
  • 11.13.18 The USPTO and EPO Pretend to Care About Patent Quality by Mingling With the Terms “Patent” and “Quality”
  • 11.14.18 USF Revisits EPO Abuses, Highlighting an Urgent Need for Action
  • 11.14.18 Science Minister Sam Gyimah and the EPO Are Eager to Attack Science by Bringing Patent Trolls to Europe/European Union and the United Kingdom
  • 11.17.18 Patent Maximalists in Europe Keep Mentioning China Even Though It Barely Matters to European Patents
  • 11.17.18 Team UPC Has Been Reduced to Lies, Lies, and More Lies about the Unified Patent Court Agreement
  • 11.18.18 The European Patent Office is Attracting Patent Trolls
  • 11.20.18 Appalling Patent Quality at the European Patent Office, More Lies About the Unified Patent Court (UPC), and Assault on Those Who Warned About It All Along
  • 11.24.18 Team UPC Refuses to Stop Lying, Pays Money to Spread Its Unified Patent Court (UPC) Lies in the Media
  • 11.26.18 No, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Has Not Changed Its Position on Software Patents, Which Are Bunk
  • 11.29.18 Union Syndicale Fédérale Tells António Campinos to End ‘Political’ Cases Against EPO Staff Representatives
  • 11.29.18 Even Sites That Served UPC Propaganda for Years (for These Sites’ Owners) Have Come to Admit That the UPC Might Already be Dead
  • 12.01.18 EPO Management High-Fiving Patent Propaganda Sites Like ‘Managing IP’ While Granting Illegitimate Patents on Algorithms
  • 12.01.18 Science Minister Sam Gyimah, Who Tactlessly Ratified UPC in the UK, Has Just Resigned
  • 12.02.18 Be Wary of the Latest Lies About the Unified Patent Court (UPC), Courtesy of CIPA and Marks & Clerk (Team UPC)
  • 12.05.18 The Patent Litigation Bubble is Imploding in the US While the UPC Dies in Europe
  • 12.06.18 The European Patent Office Remains a Lawless Place Where Judges Are Afraid of the Banker in Chief
  • 12.09.18 Patents on Life and Patents That Kill the Poor Would Only Delegitimise the European Patent Office
  • 12.09.18 Florian Müller’s Article About SEPs and the EPO
  • 12.09.18 Team UPC is Still Spreading False Rumours in an Effort to Trick Politicians and Pressure Judges
  • 12.13.18 António Campinos Turns His ‘Boss’ Into His Lapdog, Just Like Battistelli and Kongstad
  • 12.13.18 The European Patent Troll Wants as Much Litigation as Possible
  • 12.19.18 EPO: Adherence to the Law at the Office Postponed Indefinitely, ‘Reform’ Going Ahead (Divergence From the Law)
  • 12.19.18 UPC Would Mean Patent Scope Gone Out of Control and Beyond/Above the Law
  • 12.22.18 UPC Died in 2016 or 2017; But the EPO Continues to Issue Fake Software Patents That European Courts Reject
  • 12.28.18 The Demise of the UPC ‘Legislative Coup’ Continued in 2018
  • 12.30.18 Even Joff Wild and the Patent Trolls’ Lobby Finally Admit Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead
  • 01.02.19 The Real Harm of Really Bad European Patent Grants
  • 01.03.19 The EPO is So Backwards That the Boss Has Just Become Subservient to the Subject of Oversight
  • 01.06.19 Pirate Party Championing Free/Open Source Software in Europe
  • 01.08.19 EPO Corruption is Helping Patent Maximalists in the United States
  • 01.09.19 European Patent Office Saga in 2019: “95% of the People Responsible for the Misery Are Still in Place and Have Not Even Been Rebuked”
  • 01.11.19 The EPO’s Low Patent Quality Can Kill the European Software Industry and Kill People Too
  • 01.12.19 IP Kat Has Turned From EPO Critic (to the Point of Being Blocked by the EPO) to EPO Whitewasher That Gags EPO Whistleblowers
  • 01.15.19 Team UPC on Dead UPC: Choosing Gowns for Corpses
  • 01.16.19 Brexit Has Failed, But So Has the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 01.19.19 The UPC is Dead. But Bristows is Now Fully Engaged in Necrophilia.
  • 01.20.19 JUVE Creates English Site, Promotes Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • 01.22.19 The Whitewashing of the EPO Under António Campinos
  • 01.25.19 Declining Patent Quality and Lies About Software Patents at the EPO
  • 01.29.19 “HE DID NOTHING Since He Arrived, Full Stop.” What EPO People Make of President Campinos…
  • 01.29.19 The Management of the EPO Will Not Manage to Recruit Any Talent If It’s Killing Its Own Staff
  • 01.30.19 People Are Dying Because of Low Quality of (Wrongly-Granted) European Patents
  • 01.31.19 Fake Software Patents, Patent Trolls and Assault on Generic Medicine in Europe
  • 02.01.19 The Reputation of the EPO is Ruined But Now It Ruins the Lives of Staff and Europeans
  • 02.02.19 The European Patent Office’s Promotion of Software Patents Overlooks Ongoing ‘Spillage’ of the Patent Crisis to Patent Courts (Rejecting Such Patents)
  • 02.02.19 Concerns About Stephan Harbarth’s Unitary Patent (UPC) Vested Interests and His Entrance Into the Constitutional Court That Decides on UPC
  • 02.06.19 Bogus European Patents Kill Cancer Patients, But EPO Still Has the Audacity to Ride the Wave of World Cancer Day
  • 02.07.19 UPC Part of the Litigation ‘Industry’ Lobby and the Efforts to Change (Significantly Lower) Patent Quality Bar/Scope
  • 02.09.19 EPO President Campinos Works With Patent Trolls and With Team UPC to Promote Software Patents
  • 02.10.19 Corrupt Battistelli Paid a Fortune (EPO Budget) for Outlaw/Rogue ‘Bodyguards’ From Firm Linked to Russian Oligarch Iskander Makhmudov
  • 02.12.19 Innovating the Idea That Software Patents (Monopolies on Algorithms) Are Covering ‘Artificial’ ‘Intelligence’ (AI and ML as Loopholes)
  • 02.12.19 European Patent Office’s Exploitation of the ‘AI’ Catchphrase/Buzzword to Grant Patents on Algorithms in Defiance of the Rules, the Law, and Common Sense
  • 02.13.19 Battistelli’s Bodyguard, Part II: Fishing Expedition for Sources in the Alexandre Benalla ‘Underworld’ Scandal
  • 02.14.19 “EPO Lawlessness Again”
  • 02.16.19 EPO Grants Fake European Patents — Including Software Patents — and European Courts Keep Rejecting These
  • 02.18.19 António Campinos Still Needs to Hold Team Battistelli Accountable for Illegally Bringing Weapons to the EPO
  • 02.20.19 How Long Can the EPO Bend the Rules Before the Avalanche of Invalid Software Patents?
  • 02.22.19 Team UPC Excited Over Nothing, President Campinos Rarely Even Mentions UPC Anymore
  • 02.23.19 Hallmark of Corruption: Benalla and Fellow Thugs Paid Roughly the Same Salary as Battistelli (Each!) and There’s a New Chinese Contract Worth €7.2 Million
  • 02.23.19 Bristows is Still Hoping to ‘Overthrow’ the Courts and Throw Out Ingve Stjerna’s Complaint (About the Likes of Bristows)
  • 02.25.19 English Translation: I Have Huge Respect for Battistelli, Said Alexandre Benalla Under Pressure
  • 02.25.19 English Translation: Alexandre Benalla Cannot Tell the Difference Between EPO and the French Republic (or Battistelli and Macron)
  • 02.25.19 English Translation: Alexandre Benalla on His Work Experience (or Lack Thereof)
  • 02.25.19 Ben and Ben: Benalla and His Enabler, Beny Battistelli
  • 02.27.19 Teff Just One Among Countless Examples of Sheer Disregard for Patent Quality
  • 03.02.19 The Collapse of Poor-Quality European Patents Continues in European Courts
  • 03.04.19 Unitary Patent (UPC/A) Constitutional Complaint Can be Decided in a Matter of Years (If Ever)
  • 03.05.19 The EPO Technical/Enlarged Board of Appeal Would, Potentially (If It Enjoyed Actual Independence), Serve a ‘European Alice’ and Eliminate All/Most Software Patents in Europe
  • 03.06.19 Quality Issues at the European Patent Office Can Lead It Down the Same Downward Path as the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • 03.08.19 3,000 Posts About the European Patent Office and Why We’ll Maintain Our Focus on It
  • 03.09.19 European Patent Office Press Releases (Two in Two Days) Are Disguised as ‘News’ and Tell the Opposite of the Truth
  • 03.12.19 EPO’s Latest ‘Results’ Show That António Campinos Has Already Given Up on Patent Quality and is Just Another Battistelli
  • 03.14.19 Good News Everyone! UPC Ready to Go… in 2015!
  • 03.17.19 To Team UPC the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Has Become a Joke and the European Patent Office (EPO) Never Mentions It Anymore
  • 03.22.19 “Criminal Organisation”
  • 03.23.19 The Unified Patent Court is Dead, But Doubts Remain Over the EPO’s Appeal Boards’ Ability to Rule Independently Against Patents on Nature and Code
  • 03.26.19 Dimitris Xenos on Unconstitutional Supranational Arrangements for Patent Law: Leaving Out the Elected Legislators and the People’s Participatory Rights
  • 03.26.19 The Campinos-Battistelli Strategy is Working: Patent Trolls Are Coming to Europe!
  • 03.27.19 The European Patent Scope is a Lost Cause, Does Not Exist Anymore
  • 03.30.19 The UK Supreme Court’s Latest Decision is Ammunition for the FCC to Scuttle the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA)
  • 04.01.19 Patent Trolls Destroy the European Economy Because EPO Gives Them Questionable Patents
  • 04.03.19 The EPO Continues Granting Bogus Patents on Mathematics and Nature, But There’s Hope Over the Horizon
  • 04.04.19 EPO Management is Knowingly and Consciously Granting Invalid European Patents, Including Patents on Life and Nature
  • 04.10.19 EPO Benefits European Patent Trolls With Dodgy European Patents
  • 04.10.19 The Myth of Quality of European Patents
  • 04.20.19 The Likes of Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA), Team Campinos and Team UPC Don’t Represent Europe But Hurt Europe
  • 04.24.19 Supreme Court of the UK, Which Habitually Throws Out European Patents, May Overturn Troublesome Unwired Planet v Huawei Decision
  • 04.29.19 Haar is Where EPO Justice Came to Meet Euthanasia
  • 05.02.19 EPO in 2019: Pushing (and Bribing) for Buzzwords to Bypass/Cheat the Law Whilst Abolishing the Court System
  • 05.08.19 Corruption at the EPO is a Threat Not Only to Europe But to Every Continent in the World
  • 05.09.19 Lusting for a Unified Patent Court (UPC) That Respects Invalid European Patents, Including Software Patents
  • 05.11.19 The Biased EPO Does Not Want to Hear From Anyone Except Those Who Pay the EPO
  • 05.11.19 Team UPC Has Run Out of Arguments, So Now It’s Just Writing Anti-Brexit Rants With Testicles in the Headlines
  • 05.14.19 Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 2: Meet the Kötters
  • 05.15.19 False Hope for Patent Maximalists and Litigation Zealots
  • 05.16.19 The EPO’s Key Function — Like the UPC’s Vision — Has Virtually Collapsed
  • 05.16.19 Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 3: “Ein kritikwürdiges Unternehmen”
  • 05.17.19 Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 4: Happy Birthday to the Kötter Group?
  • 05.18.19 Unified Patent Court Won’t Happen Just Because the Litigation Microcosm Wants It
  • 05.18.19 The War on Patent Quality