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IAM Magazine and its associated sites exist to spread patent maximalism. The subject was explored in some of the articles below.

  • 05.23.08 IAM Denies Software Patents Knock on Europe’s Back Door
  • 06.19.15 Microsoft-Connected Patent Aggressor (Finjan Holdings) Hailed by Patent Lawyers’ Site, CEO Phil Hartstein Glamourised
  • 06.28.15 IAM Biased: How IAM ‘Magazine’ Glorifies Patent Stockpiling
  • 06.28.15 Williamson v. Citrix Online (at CAFC) Reinforces Alice v. CLS Bank (at SCOTUS) in Crushing Software Patents
  • 11.30.15 Media Alert: IAM ‘Magazine’ Does Not Protect Sources
  • 12.12.15 IAM ‘Magazine’ Protects Patent Trolls, Blocks People Who Disapprove
  • 03.05.16 EPO and IAM: a Marriage of Convenience
  • 03.06.16 EPO y IAM: un Matrimonio de Conveniencia
  • 03.30.16 IAM ‘Magazine’ Cannot Say ‘Patent Trolls’
  • 04.02.16 Biased IAM’s Editor in Chief Goes on the Offensive Against (Software) Patent Sceptics, Still a Trolls Denialist
  • 04.02.16 IAM ‘Magazine’ No Puede Decir ‘Trolles de Patentes’
  • 04.04.16 IAM Magazine Glorifies the World’s Largest Patent Troll, Microsoft’s and Bill Gates’ Patent Troll Intellectual Ventures
  • 04.04.16 El Parcializado Editor en Jefe de IAM Va a la Ofensiva Contra Escépticos de las Patentes (Software), Todavía un Denialista de Trolles
  • 04.05.16 El ´Magazine´ IAM Glorifica al Troll de Patentes Más Grande del Mundo, el Troll de Bill Gates y Microsoft Intellectual Ventures
  • 05.08.16 IAM ‘Magazine’ Preaching (Patent Maximalism), Not Reporting
  • 05.14.16 ES: La ‘Revista’ IAM Como Siempre Predicando (Maximalismo de Patentes), No Reportando
  • 06.07.16 Time to Call Out Joff Wild (IAM’s Editor in Chief) for His EPO-Connected UPC Propaganda, Other Agenda-Pushing Initiatives
  • 07.11.16 China Mimics Patent Protectionism and Patent Aggression Strategies of Other Countries
  • 07.16.16 Law Professors Try to Put an End to Patent Trolls So Patent Trolls-Funded IAM ‘Magazine’ Complains
  • 09.23.16 Journalism 102: Do Not Become Like ‘Managing IP’ or IAM ‘Magazine’ (the Megaphones of the EPO’s Management)
  • 12.22.16 IAM is Still the EPO’s Favourite Propaganda Mill
  • 02.03.17 Why Randall Rader Must Never Be Inside the USPTO, Let Alone the Patent Profession
  • 02.12.17 IAM ‘Magazine’ as Megaphone for Chamber of Corporates (CoC), Which Tries Shaming India Into Software Patenting
  • 02.24.17 IAM, Greased up by the EPO, Continues Lobbying by Shaming Tactics for the UPC, Under the Guise of ‘News’
  • 02.28.17 IAM Just Can’t Stop Pushing for Software Patents in India
  • 02.28.17 IAM ‘Magazine’ Rented Out to Microsoft Again, in Order to Attack Amazon (as Host of Free/Libre Software) Using Software Patents FUD
  • 03.02.17 China Adopts Software Patents and IAM ‘Magazine’ (Lobbyists) Continues to Shame India Into It
  • 03.21.17 In IAM, Asian Courts That Deliver Justice Are “Unfriendly” and Asian Patent Trolls Are Desirable
  • 03.28.17 IAM Magazine is Very Blatantly Promoting Patent Trolls and Their Agenda
  • 04.06.17 LexOrbis is Wrong About Software Patents
  • 04.09.17 Asian Companies Already Suffer From Patent Maximalism/Radicalism and UPC Would Make Things Even Worse
  • 04.10.17 IAM ‘Magazine’ in a Campaign to Destroy India’s IT Industry and Help Patent Trolls There
  • 04.11.17 Voices of Patent Trolls Are Alive and Well (and Partly Paid by Battistelli’s EPO)
  • 04.16.17 IAM is a Think Tank for Patent Trolls, Software Patents, the EPO, Microsoft, and Whoever Else is Willing to Pay
  • 04.19.17 IAM, the Patent Trolls’ Voice, is Trying to Deny There is a Growing Trolling Problem in Europe
  • 05.03.17 Bristows and IAM: Brits Who Lobby for Patent Trolls in Britain
  • 10.18.17 IAM is Wrong, the Narrative Isn’t Changing, Except in the Battistelli-Funded (at EPO’s Expense) Financial Times
  • 12.02.17 Ignore IAM’s Jaw-Dropping Spin, Tencent Flourished in Spite of Patents, Not Thanks to Them
  • 12.03.17 IAM in Think Tank Mode Promotes Patent Maximalism, Characteristically Sponsored by the Patent Microcosm
  • 12.12.17 The Mask Falls: Lobbyist David Kappos Now Composes Pieces for the Patent Trolls’ Lobby (IAM)
  • 12.17.17 The Latest IAM Puff Pieces That Launder the ‘Reputation’ of Patent Trolls
  • 02.08.18 When INPI Met INPI and IAM Met the EPO
  • 02.10.18 The Relationship Between IAM and the EPO’s President Battistelli Tightens Further After Payments for UPC Promotion
  • 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
  • 03.13.18 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby (IAM) Already Pressures Andrei Iancu, Inciting a USPTO Director Against PTAB
  • 03.13.18 IAM and IBM Want Lots of Patent Litigation in India
  • 03.18.18 UPC/Battistelli Booster IAM Blames Brexit Rather Than EPO Abuses
  • 03.19.18 Blocks and Paywalls Won’t Protect the Patent Trolls’ Lobby From Scrutiny/Fact-Checking
  • 04.08.18 IAM Encourages Patent Aggression, CCIA Highlights Cost of Being Accused of Infringement, Professor Tun-Jen Chiang Explores Free Speech Aspects of Patents
  • 04.29.18 Team UPC and Team Battistelli in IP Kat and IAM
  • 05.03.18 Bristows LLP Already Uses Kluwer Patent Blog and IP Kat as Its UPC Megaphone, Now IAM as Well
  • 06.03.18 Change of Government in Spain Does Not Change the Fact That Unitary Patent (UPC) Would be Terrible for Spanish Companies
  • 06.04.18 IAM and EPO Are Almost Inseparable
  • 06.04.18 The Only Way to Improve Patent Certainty in the US is to Improve Patent Quality, Not to Lower It
  • 06.09.18 Shawn Ambwani (Unified Patents) Refutes the US Chamber of Commerce on Patents, But the Patent Trolls’ Lobby (IAM) Uses Him to Trot Out Yet More Misleading Propaganda
  • 06.12.18 IPBC, a Patent Trolls-Funded Event of IAM, is Advancing the Attacks on Section 101/Alice
  • 06.14.18 IAM Concludes Its Latest Anti-§ 101 Think Tank, Featuring Crooked Benoît Battistelli
  • 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
  • 07.02.18 IAM is Still Working for Benoît Battistelli and His Toxic Agenda
  • 07.07.18 IAM Keeps Promoting Brian Yates and His New Patent Troll, iPEL, Which is About to Become Very Aggressive
  • 07.18.18 IAM is Pushing SEPs/FRAND Agenda for Patent Trolls and Monopolists That Fund IAM
  • 09.07.18 IAM Media Engages in Trademark Violations While Trying to Misrepresent Free/Open Source Software in Relation to Software Patents
  • 10.18.18 IAM and IP Kat Are Still Megaphones of Battistelli and His Agenda
  • 11.04.18 Software Patents Proponents Abound: IAM, IBM, Kappos, OIN and Microsoft


  • 10.04.08 Patent Systems Under Fire, IAM Magazine Concerned
  • 05.04.13 The European Patent Office is Breaking the Law Regarding Software Patents, German Parliament Finally Complains
  • 09.01.15 Patents Roundup: IAM’s Claims About India, Lawyers’ Patent Bias, ITC for Microsoft, and PTAB Against Kyle Bass
  • 12.19.15 EPO Pays FTI Consulting (Nearly a Million Bucks), Which Pays IAM for Pro-UPC Propaganda Event
  • 12.21.15 The Forgotten History of IAM ‘Magazine’ as EPO Management’s Megaphone and EPO Union Basher
  • 03.10.16 Patents Roundup: Patent Trolls, Patent Reform, IAM’s Willful Ignorance, PTAB Paranoia, and Long Briefs
  • 03.11.16 Business Profit Over Science: Patent Scope at the EPO Has Gone So Badly Out of Control That Even the European Parliament is Complaining
  • 03.14.16 Rodeo de Patentes: Trolls de Patentes, Reforma de Patentes, Ignorancia Voluntaria de IAM, Paranoia de PTB y Bragas Largas
  • 03.25.16 Patents Roundup: Patent Trolls Groomed by IAM, Reform Strives to Tackle Trolls, NewEgg and LOTNet Explore Alternate Solutions
  • 03.28.16 Redondeo de Patentes: Los Trolles de Patentes Acícalados por IAM, la Reforma se Esfuerza para Enfrentárse a los Trolles, NewEgg y LOTNet Exploran Soluciones Alternativas
  • 04.11.16 FOSS at Risk From Software Patents, Which Are Still Being Promoted by Bristows, IAM, IBM, and Steve Lundberg (Frequent Villains)
  • 04.12.16 FOSS en Riesgo a Causa de las Patentes de Software, Las que Todavía Siguen Siendo Promovidas por Bristows, IAM, IBM, y Steve Lundberg (Los Villanos Usuales)
  • 05.14.16 IAM ‘Magazine’: Not Just Paid by the Patent Trolls and Legal Giants But Also Speaking With (and For) Them
  • 06.19.16 How the Halo Electronics Case Helps Patent Trolls and How Publications Funded by Patent Trolls (IAM for Instance) Covered This
  • 07.03.16 IAM’s Latest Take on the UPC: Dead End For Another 2.5 Years (At Least) With No Effective Workarounds
  • 07.09.16 ES: La Última Opinión de IAM en la UPC: En un Callejón sin Salida por Otros 2.5 Años (Por lo Menos) Con no Salidas Efectivas
  • 07.11.16 Yet More Reality Distortion Fields From Microsoft’s Ex-Chief Patent Counsel in Collaboration With IAM
  • 09.08.16 A New Wave of the EPO’s Much-Expected Propaganda Push, Aided by ‘Managing IP’ and IAM ‘Magazine’
  • 09.14.16 East Asian Patent Activity Viewed by IAM ‘Magazine’ as ‘Proof’ of “IP’s Growing Strategic Role”
  • 09.22.16 Patent Law Firms, David Kappos, and IAM ‘Magazine’ Still Shelter Software Patents by Cherry-Picking and Lobbying
  • 11.06.16 EPO Ally IAM Magazine Calls Battistelli’s Dismissal of EPO Staff Representative Laurent Prunier “a Needless Own Goal.”
  • 11.13.16 IAM’s Interest in Patent Trolls Going Global, Capitalising on Declining Patent Quality
  • 11.15.16 Trolls-Friendly IAM Magazine: Climate in Patent Trolling Has Worsened (for the Trolls)
  • 11.19.16 European Media, Dutch Parliament and Spectacularly Enough Even IP Kat (Yes, It’s Back!) Subject the EPO to Serious Scrutiny
  • 12.04.16 Asia’s Patent Litigation Chaos Getting Worse, Reaching Countries in the West, and Sites Like IAM Actively Promote This
  • 12.18.16 IAM is Shedding a Tear (and Spinning) for Patent Trolls
  • 01.08.17 Update on Patent Trolls and Their Enablers: IAM, Fortress, Inventergy, Nokia, MOSAID/Conversant, Microsoft, Intellectual Ventures, Faraday Future, A*STAR, GPNE, AlphaCap Ventures, and TC Heartland
  • 02.05.17 No, IAM, UPC Did Not “Spring Back to Life”
  • 02.05.17 IAM Helps Enemies of India’s Interests Lobby for Software Patents in the Country
  • 02.20.17 Paid-for UPC Proponent, IAM ‘Magazine’, Debunked on UPC Again
  • 02.21.17 Inverting Narratives: IAM ‘Magazine’ Paints Massive Patent Bully Microsoft (Preying on the Weak) as a Defender of the Powerless
  • 03.03.17 Watchtroll, IAM and Other Patent Maximalists Lobby Donald Trump, Neil Gorsuch and Others for Patent Maximalism
  • 03.12.17 IAM Continues Promoting Patent Trolls and Large Corporations’ Interests, New Harvard Study Explains Why Small Business Employment is Harmed the Most
  • 03.17.17 IAM Remains Battistelli’s Propaganda Mill, Helping to Manufacture and Reinforce Lies About Quality
  • 03.20.17 What IAM Says About AST, RPX, Ericsson, and IBM
  • 04.01.17 Watchtroll, IAM, and the Plot to Overthrow Patent Reformer at the USPTO in Order to Make Litigation (and Trolls) Great Again
  • 05.02.17 At IAM Event in Korea, Patent Trolls in the Panels and Advocacy of Software Patents From the EPO
  • 06.10.17 IAM ‘Magazine’, an Adjunct or Megaphone to the Battistelli Regime, Called ‘Independent’ by the EPO and Used for ‘Quality’ Propaganda
  • 07.17.17 Software Patents Lobbying at IAM Strives to Reinforce the Positions of Patent Maximalists
  • 11.29.17 IAM Celebrates (With the Patent Cartel) a System of Unjust Monopolisation of Industry Standards Through Unethical Patent Thickets
  • 01.21.18 IAM Together With Its Partner, IIPCC, is Lobbying the USPTO to Crush PTAB and Restore Patent Chaos
  • 01.26.18 Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) Are Not Inventions, But Sites of the Patent Microcosm (e.g. IAM) Want Us to Believe Otherwise
  • 02.04.18 IAM Magazine, Authored by Benoît Battistelli, is Rubbish Compared to Patent Scholars
  • 02.06.18 Battistelli Works With IAM and Pays European Media to Promote Software Patents in Europe
  • 02.11.18 Pharma Patents Have Become Harder to Enforce, So IAM Together With the Patent Microcosm Sets Up Lobbying Events
  • 02.11.18 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby, IAM, Does Puff Pieces for GE’s Patent Litigation Arm (Soon to Keynote IAM Event)
  • 02.13.18 Almost All Patent Lawsuits in China Are Filed by the Chinese, But IAM (Cherry) Picks the Exception
  • 02.18.18 UPC Optimism Languishes Even Among Paid UPC Propagandists Such as IAM
  • 03.10.18 IAM Only Ever Seems Happy When There’s Patent Aggression and Patent Trolls
  • 03.20.18 BIO, MDMA and PhRMA Are Pushing the PTAB-Hostile STRONGER Patents Act While IAM and Patently-O Continue to Bash PTAB
  • 04.10.18 IAM Churning Out Support for the Software Patents and HEVC Lobby
  • 04.15.18 IAM, Patently-O and Watchtroll (the Patent Trolls’ Lobby) Try to Stop Patent Oppositions/Petitions (PTAB)
  • 05.27.18 IAM Warns That China is Outpacing the United States at Granting Rubbish, Unproductive Patents on Abstract Things
  • 06.03.18 Finnegan, IAM and Other Proponents of Patent Trolls Try to Dominate the Debate About Patent Scope and Oversight
  • 06.04.18 As European Patent Office Goes Down in Many Aspects/Respects (Quality, Employee Profiles and More) IAM — the EPO’s Mouthpiece — Claims “Patent Renaissance”, Repeats EPO Lies
  • 06.12.18 Corrupt Benoît Battistelli Promotes Software Patents in IAM’s Patent Trolls-Funded Event in the United States
  • 07.15.18 IAM/Joff Wild May Have Become a de Facto Media Partner of the Patent Troll iPEL
  • 07.27.18 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby, IAM, is Concerned That China is Now Treating Patent Trolls as the Criminals They Really Are (Extortion)
  • 08.05.18 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby, IAM, Continues to Promote Patent Troll iPEL, Which is Unethical
  • 09.11.18 Patentability of Software Constantly Pushed by the EPO Under António Campinos With Help From IAM, CIPA, IPO and Other Litigation Front Groups
  • 09.16.18 IAM, Watchtroll and the EPO Still Spread the Mentality of Patent Maximalism
  • 05.07.19 Even IAM Admits That When It Comes to Patents It’s Quality That Counts, Not Quantity


  • 02.04.08 Patents != Innovation
  • 03.02.08 Patents Roundup: From Apple to OOXML (and Undercover Lobbyi$T$)
  • 03.26.08 XAML/Silverlight and the Microsoft Software Patent Play
  • 05.21.08 Software Patents in Europe and Microsoft’s Huge Lobbying Budget as of Late
  • 06.21.08 Monopoly Abuser Feels the Wrath of Intellectual Monopolies
  • 06.27.08 It Must Be Official: The USPTO is (Brain) Dead
  • 07.02.08 Microsoft Lobbyists Abound for Software Patents in Europe
  • 09.06.08 IDG, IDC, and Microsoft Money on Their Table (Updated)
  • 09.15.08 Patent Revolt in European Patent Office
  • 09.16.08 Patents Roundup: Renewed Backlash, GPLv3 Beyond 3,000
  • 09.20.08 More Microsoft Patent Trolls, Extortions, and SCO
  • 09.22.08 Patents Roundup: India Fights Software Patents, BSA Intervention, Trolls League
  • 10.06.08 Patent Literature’s Topic of the Day: the Failure of the System
  • 10.07.08 Patents Roundup: TiVo, Amazon and Community Patent
  • 10.09.08 Patents Roundup: Symbian Derails UKIPO, Monopolists Try to Ruin Indian Law
  • 10.20.08 Patents Roundup: Microsoft’s Own Patent Trolls Subjugate Indians; New Evidence of Ill Systems
  • 03.17.09 Is the EPO Selling Out to Microsoft?
  • 05.02.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: SCO-Novell, DMTF, Security, and Partners
  • 05.05.09 OIN Explains TomTom’s Settlement with Microsoft (and Other Patent News)
  • 05.08.09 Goodbye, Alison Brimelow (EPO President)
  • 05.11.09 IBM’s Missed Opportunity to Help Free Software
  • 05.27.09 US Breeds Software Patents
  • 06.11.09 Microsoft IP Ventures and Intellectual Ventures
  • 06.23.09 Patents Roundup: Microsoft, Danger in New Zealand, and Rise of Opposition
  • 09.22.09 Patents Roundup: Intellectual Monopolies Under Attack, IBM and Patent Trolls Get Miserable
  • 10.03.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: Distribution Channel, Virtualisation, Mail, Identity, Security, and More
  • 03.20.10 Microsoft and Its Front Group, Association for Competitive Technology (ACT), Organise Software Patents Lobby Events in Europe
  • 03.22.10 Microsoft and Apple Still Intend to Use Software Patents Against GNU/Linux
  • 03.25.10 Software Development Times Magazine (SD Times) Sometimes Composed by Patent Lawyers
  • 04.30.10 Steve Jobs: “A Patent Pool is Being Assembled to Go After Theora and Other “Open Source” Codecs Now.”
  • 05.06.10 Free Software Foundation Europe Likens Apple/Microsoft Behaviour to Blackmail
  • 05.12.10 Patents Shred Europe’s Democracy to Pieces
  • 05.13.10 Open Standards Out of EU Digital Agenda; EBoA Does Not Stop Software Patents in Europe
  • 05.13.10 Novell News Drought
  • 05.21.10 Who to Blame for Germany’s Dangerous Decision Regarding Software Patents
  • 06.22.10 Framework for Legalising Software Patents in Europe Falls Over, So Why Does Canonical Join the OIN?
  • 07.08.10 Financial Report Says That Novell “Continues to Disappoint” and Novell Still Wants to ‘Own’ OpenOffice.org
  • 09.11.10 European Patent Law is Being Abducted by Big Business and Patent Lawyers
  • 09.22.10 The Free Software Foundation Fights Software Patents in the Southern Hemisphere
  • 10.28.10 Eye on Patents: The USPTO is Failing
  • 11.08.10 Newly-elected UK Government Hopes to Imitate the United States With Software Patents
  • 01.19.11 If Patents Win in the West, Then the Chinese Win
  • 01.21.11 ES: Si Patentes ganar en el Oeste, Entonces los Chinos Ganan
  • 02.05.11 Shock, Horror: International Chamber of Commerce Promotes Intellectual Monopolies
  • 03.23.11 ‘New’ Leaked E-mails from Microsoft Show How Microsoft Brands ‘PCs’ Windows
  • 05.02.11 Windows Phone 7 is Dying, So Microsoft is Just Attacking, Extorting Android
  • 06.29.11 Microsoft Lobbyists Still Push for Software Patents in Europe
  • 08.12.11 Links – Nokia Dying, Astroturf as Warfare, Protest as Hacking, Big Pollution.
  • 09.25.11 The Parallel Universe of Patent Lawyers
  • 10.04.11 Lobbying for Patents in the EU and the US
  • 11.03.11 Patents Roundup: Software Patents, Patent Trolls, Reexaminations, and Apple
  • 11.28.11 More Novell Staff is Leaving as Novell Products Get Ditched by Customers
  • 03.14.13 Software Patents Proponent Martin Goetz Groomed by a Microsoft Booster, Unrest Over Software Patents Evident in Europe
  • 05.11.13 While New Zealand (NZ) Stomps on Software Patents High US Court Helps Legitimise Them, Again
  • 05.14.13 Software Patents Reality Distortion Field
  • 05.18.13 The Reality Distortion Field of Patent Lawyers Helps Impede Abolition of Software Patents
  • 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
  • 07.14.13 Patent Troll: I Am Not a Troll
  • 07.24.14 USPTO Officially Sets New Guidelines to Limit Scope of Software Patents in the United States
  • 09.03.14 Pro-Software Patents Voices Finally Acknowledge the Demise of Software Patents in the United States
  • 09.18.14 Articles About the Death of Software Patents in the United States
  • 10.04.14 Corporate Media Repeats Microsoft Propaganda About Patents by Claiming Microsoft Makes Billions From Android
  • 10.14.14 The EPO’s Protection Triangle of Battistelli, Kongstad, and Topić: Part VI
  • 12.14.14 Software Patents Are Dying in the US, But Patent Lawyers Refuse to Admit It
  • 12.16.14 Keeping Software Patents Out of Europe Following the Demise of Software Patents in the US
  • 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
  • 04.13.15 EFF Uses Alice v. CLS Bank Case to Pressure USPTO to Halt Software Patenting
  • 04.29.15 As Core Issues Still Not Addressed, Another Protest Against EPO Management Scheduled for Tomorrow in Munich, Germany
  • 05.25.15 Large Corporations Call the Shots in US Patent Reform
  • 06.20.15 Better Watch Out or the United States Will Export Software Patents to Europe, Along With Patent Trolls
  • 07.16.15 In the Media and in Politics, Everyone Talks About Patent Trolls, Not Patent Scope
  • 07.20.15 Even Watered-Down (by Large Corporations) Patent ‘Reform’ Bills Cannot Pass in Congress
  • 07.20.15 Software Patents Are Still Being Demolished by US Courts, Google Makes Prior Art Searches Simpler
  • 08.03.15 The World is Changing and Patent Law Can Change Either for Better or for Worse
  • 08.06.15 Software Patents Gradually Getting Crushed, Even in the United States
  • 08.10.15 Finjan, Cisco, JDate and Other Companies Acting Like Patent Trolls; New Threats to Linux
  • 09.07.15 India Shoots Itself in the Foot With Software Patents, Time to Act and Prevent This Worldwide
  • 09.10.15 David Kappos From IBM and the USPTO is Still Lobbying for Software Patents, This Time With a New Glorified ‘Paper’
  • 09.14.15 ‘New’ Microsoft: One of Several Architects of Microsoft’s Patent War on GNU/Linux Gets Promoted Even Further, Gates is Lobbying China’s President After Linux Adoption
  • 09.14.15 Patents Roundup: Europe’s and India’s Software Patents Affair, US Continues to Demote Software Patents With Alice Case
  • 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
  • 10.09.15 Mobile Linux (e.g. Android) Still a Victim of Software Patents, No Peace in Sight
  • 10.12.15 Many New Losses for Software Patents in the US, Courtesy of Alice Case/§101
  • 10.13.15 Patent Trolls Roundup: MPHJ, Kyle Bass, Acacia, Intellectual Ventures, Unwired Planet, Core Wireless, Vringo, and Unified Patents
  • 10.13.15 EPO Management Lobbies for the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Uses This to Advance Software Patents in Europe
  • 10.16.15 EPO’s Jeremy Philpott Confirms That Discriminatory (Software) Patent Processing Practices Started With Microsoft, Because of Microsoft
  • 10.27.15 European Patent Organisation: Hallmark of a Corrupted (by Corporations) Entity
  • 10.28.15 Battistelli’s EPO Loses ‘Customers’ Because It Plays ‘Favourites’ With Large Corporations
  • 10.28.15 Battistelli’s EPO Loses ‘Customers’ Because It Plays ‘Favourites’ With Large Corporations
  • 11.12.15 Trading Technologies is Stockpiling Software Patents, Surprised When These Are Challenged After Alice/§101
  • 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
  • 11.17.15 Patent Boundaries in the US and the Risk of Europe Repeating the Mistakes of the US
  • 11.28.15 What Everyone Needs to Know About the EPO’s New War on Journalism
  • 11.28.15 The Latest EPO Spin: Staff Protesters Compared to ‘Anti-Patent Campaigners’ or ‘Against UPC’
  • 12.03.15 Impact of Software Patents and Excessive/Unregulated Profit Motives at USPTO: Now Even Common Encryption (i.e. Computer Security) Under Patent Attacks
  • 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
  • 12.04.15 The Media is Already Flooded With EPO Propaganda, Some Likely Paid for With €73,000-Per-Month ‘Special’ New Budget
  • 12.05.15 How Patent Lawyers Cover Alice v. CLS Bank (Alice Case/§101)
  • 12.06.15 EPO “Synonymous With Psychological Depressions, Nervous Breakdowns, and Even Suicides”
  • 12.06.15 More Than 2,000 People, Including Directors, Said to Have Protested in Munich (About HALF of All EPO Staff Including The Hague Protest)
  • 12.07.15 FRAND Tax, Patent Trolls as Satellites of Large Patent Aggressors, EPO Puff Pieces, and Another Imminent EPO Protest
  • 12.08.15 Watch Out for the Latest EPO Charm Offensive in the Media, Greenwashing Being the Theme Du Jour
  • 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
  • 01.01.16 Meeting the EPO’s PR Team and Learning Its Dirty Tricks
  • 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 Patent Lawyers Continue to Spin Grim News About Patents (UPC, Lawsuits Peak, Patent Raids) as Good News
  • 01.11.16 Abogados de Patentes Continua to Circular Tenebrosas Noticias Acerca de Patentes, UPC, Demandas a Granel, Ataques de Patentes Como Buenas Noticias
  • 01.12.16 Why the Corporations-Leaning US Political System Does Not and Will Not Help Resolve the Patent Chaos
  • 01.15.16 ¿Porqué el Systema Político de los Estados Unidos inclinado hacia las CORPORACIONES NO Ayudara a Resolver el Caos de Patentes
  • 01.19.16 Poor Journalism From Süddeutsche Zeitung Perpetuates the EPO Management’s Lies
  • 01.20.16 EPO/FTI Consulting-funded Event for UPC Will Be Stuffed With Mega-corporations from the United States
  • 01.23.16 EPO Implicitly Acknowledges Declining Patent Quality by Agreeing to Finally Dump Some Monsanto GMO Patents
  • 01.24.16 Patent Lawyers and Their Sites/Media Still a Barrier to End of Software Patents and Patent Wars
  • 01.24.16 Süddeutsche Zeitung After FTI Consulting Deal: EPO Ghostwriter or Journalism?
  • 01.24.16 Software Patents and Patent Taxes: How 100 Grams Worth of Components Can Cost as Much as $1000
  • 01.24.16 Eventos de Consultantes Promovido para la Corte Unitaria de Patentes por la OEP/FTI, Estará Repleto de Mega-Corporaciones de los Estados Unidos
  • 01.26.16 The United States’ Patent System Lets Software Patents Rot, as Patent Trolls Take Over the System and Unrest Grows
  • 01.27.16 Los Abogados de Patentes y sus Sitios/Medios de Comunicación Todavía Son una Barrera para Terminar las Guerras de Patentes
  • 01.29.16 EFF: “Software Patents Ruin Everything”
  • 01.31.16 EFF: “Las Patentes de Software Arruinan Todo”
  • 02.08.16 Latest Propaganda From the EPO’s Management an Effort to Make the EPO the Tool of Megacorporations
  • 02.14.16 Patents Roundup: Software Patents, Patenting Loopholes, PTAB, Patent Trolls, and Software Patents Propagandists
  • 02.15.16 Última Propaganda de la Gerencia de la OEP un Esfuerzo para hacer de ella la Herramienta de las Grandes Corporaciones
  • 02.17.16 A Short Visit to Pro-Patents (or Patent Maximalism) Sites of Patent Lawyers and Patent Predators
  • 02.19.16 A Preview of Injunctions/Raids Heaven in Europe With the Unitary Patent (Continent-Wide Bans and Embargoes by Patent Lawyers)
  • 02.20.16 Business Model of Patent Trolls Terribly Shaken as Their Weapon of Choice (Software Patents) Tackled, New Developments Emerge
  • 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 Repurposed Misinformation Campaign: The EPO’s PR Team is Lying to The Register in Order to Help Battistelli Save Face
  • 02.26.16 Even Battistelli-Funded Media Admits That Battistelli is in Deep Trouble Right Now
  • 02.28.16 Incluso los Medios Financiados por Battistelli Admiten que Actualmente El Se Encuentra en Problemas
  • 02.29.16 Why the US Political Debate About Patent ‘Reform’ is Still Deficient and the Legal System Probably Broken Beyond Repair
  • 03.01.16 Team Battistelli’s New Media Strategy at Times of EPO Emergency
  • 03.01.16 The Horrible State of the US Patent System With Its Infamous Software Patents and the Latest Deception From Patent Lawyers-Dominated Media
  • 03.03.16 Overview of Today’s Growing Press Coverage About the European Patent Office
  • 03.03.16 EPO Propaganda is Already Sticking in Some Media
  • 03.03.16 3/3 is EPO Propaganda Day: Techrights to Respond and Alert the Media About Misinformation
  • 03.04.16 3/3 es Día Para Propaganda de la OEP: Techrights Responderá y Alertará Contra las Mentiras delos Medios
  • 03.04.16 Unitary Patent (UPC) Propagandists Are Louder Than Ever as Its Architect in Chief (Battistelli) is Probably About to Get Sacked
  • 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?
  • 03.07.16 No, Biggest Patent Troll of 2014 is Not eDekka But a Microsoft-Connected and Bill Gates-Funded Patent Troll (or Extensive Network Thereof)
  • 03.07.16 Avoid IBM Until It Rescinds/Retracts/Reverses Its Weaponisation of Software Patents
  • 03.07.16 Atrapado: Battistelli Presidente de la EPO Publicamente miente Acerca del Estado de su Organización, Así que Acerca de su Contrato Secreto, Salario y otros Ocultos Beneficios?
  • 03.07.16 Software Patents Are a Dying Breed in the United States and the EPO Should Take Notice
  • 03.10.16 A Patent Office or a Lobbying Firm? ‘European’ Patent Office (EPO) Sticking its Nose in UPC Matters Again.
  • 03.12.16 Battistelli Acting Like a Politician, Lobbying for UPC All Across Europe and Coming to London Soon
  • 03.12.16 India Got it Right on Software Patents, But Gives Up on Pharmaceutical Aspects
  • 03.13.16 Microsoft Accused of “Patent Trolling” While the United States Moves Closer to Restricting Patent Trolls
  • 03.14.16 Old Article About Battistelli’s Right-hand Man, Željko Topić, Highlights Severity of the Whole Situation
  • 03.15.16 Microsoft Acusado de “Trolling con Patentes” Mientras Que Los Estados Unidos se Mueve Cerca a Restringir a los Trolles de Patentes
  • 03.17.16 Institutional Failure and Dirty Tricks: Benoît Battistelli Seemingly Gets Support Like Microsoft Gets Support
  • 03.17.16 Patents Roundup: EMC, Pure Storage, OpenTV, Apple, Segway, and Alice (Software Patents)
  • 03.18.16 Redondeo de Patentes: EMC, Pure Storage, OpenTV, Apple, Segway, y Alice (Patentes de Software)
  • 03.19.16 Reversal Spin: SUEPO Needs to Make Peace Rather Than Benoît Battistelli Needing to Make Peace After Dismissing SUEPO’s Leaders
  • 03.19.16 Patents Roundup: The Eastern District of Texas, Jurisdiction Changes, Dubious Patents, and Even Sanctions
  • 03.20.16 The ‘Results’ That Battistelli and His EPO Bunch Brag About Not Believed by Patent Lawyers and Patent Examiners
  • 03.20.16 Propaganda Reversa: La SUEPO Necesita hacer la Paz En Vez que Benoît Battistelli Lo Haga Después de Despedir a los Líderes de SUEPO
  • 03.20.16 Horacio Gutierrez Has Left Microsoft, But the Patent Extortion Against Linux Continues, Also by Satellites
  • 03.21.16 Redondeo de Patentes: El Distrito Este de Texas, Cambios de Juridicción, Patentes Dubias, e Incluso Sanciones
  • 03.22.16 Los ‘Resultados’ Que Battistellli y Sus Compadres de la EPO se Enorgullece NO son Creídos por los Abogados de Patentes y Exáminadores de Patentes
  • 03.22.16 Horacio Gutierrez Ha Dejado Microsoft, Pero la Extortion de Patentes Contra Linux Continua, Tambien por sus Satelites
  • 03.23.16 Focus on Patent Trolls Persists, With Increasing Use of Euphemisms Such as NPEs and PAEs
  • 03.26.16 Patents Roundup: SCOTUS, U.S. Code § 101, CAFC, PTAB, and Software Patents in the Far East (Australia, Korea, Taiwan, China)
  • 03.30.16 Hope at the End of the Tunnel as More Software Patents Are Squashed in the US
  • 03.31.16 New EPO Marketing Campaign: Drive Your Audi Home
  • 04.02.16 USPTO Still a Fine Mess, ITC Restricted as Sanctions/Embargo Enforcer
  • 04.02.16 Nueva Campaña de Marketing de la EPO: Conduce to Audi a Casa
  • 04.02.16 Esperanza al Final del Tunel Mientras que Más Patentes de Software Son Aplastadas en los Estados Unidos
  • 04.03.16 Patents Roundup: More on Patent Shakedowns, IBM Rejoins the Shakedowns Club With Software Patents, China Worries About Patent Certainty (Too Low a Standard)
  • 04.05.16 Massive Cases Launched by Patent Trolls in the US Almost Always About Software Patents
  • 04.07.16 US Patent Trolls Epidemic and Microsoft/Intellectual Ventures’ Latest Contribution to That
  • 04.08.16 Busted Battistelli: EPO President Violating the EPO’s Code of Conduct
  • 04.08.16 Lobbyists for Software Patents in ‘Journalism’ and ‘Reform’ Clothing (With Microsoft Connections)
  • 04.08.16 Epidemia de Trolles de Patentes en los EE.UU. La Última Contribución a ello de Microsoft/Intellectual Ventures
  • 04.09.16 Cabilderos por las Patentes de Software en Ropas de ‘Periodismo’ y ‘Reforma’ (con Conecciones a Microsoft)
  • 04.09.16 Aja! Battistelli: El Presidente de la EPO President Violando el Código de Conducta de la EPO
  • 04.09.16 Patents Roundup: US Patent System/Landscape Disqualified, Corrupted, Saturated With Patent Trolls, and Funded by Microsoft
  • 04.11.16 Resumen de Patentes: Systema/Paisaje de Patentes de los EE.UU. Descalificado, Corrupto, Saturado Con Trolles de Patentes, y Financiado Por y Para Microsoft
  • 04.12.16 Software Patents Hoarders Going Down in the United States
  • 04.13.16 Listening to Patent Lawyers Who Never Wrote Any Code to Decide on Software Patents
  • 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
  • 04.14.16 Codiciósos Acumuladores de Patentes de Software Caen en Picada en Los EE.UU
  • 04.15.16 Escuchando a los Abogados de Patentes Quienes Nunca Escribieron Una Línea de Codigo Decidir en Patentes de Software
  • 04.16.16 Criticisms of the Patent System of the United States, Which is Imposed on the Rest of the World Using Corporate Lobbyists and Attracts or Creates Patent Trolls
  • 04.18.16 Say the Truth About the US Patent System, Get Attacked by the Patent Propaganda Machine (Disguised as Press)
  • 04.19.16 The ‘Great Conspiracy’ of Patent Lawyers, Lobbyists and Large Corporations for UPC and for Software Patents
  • 04.20.16 Corporate Lobbying for Software Patents in the United States and Against Alice, Against Patent Reform
  • 04.22.16 More Patents Don’t Mean More Innovation, Just More Money for Patent Lawyers and Patent Offices
  • 04.23.16 ES: Más Patentes No Significa Más Innovación, Simplemente Más Dinero Para los Abogados de Patentes y las Oficinas de Patentes
  • 04.24.16 ES: Di la Verdad Acerca del Sistema de Patentes de los EE.UU., Conseguiras Ser Atacado por la Máquina Propagandistica de Patentes (Disfrazada de Prensa)
  • 04.24.16 New Microsoft-Funded Push to Make Software Patents Stronger in the US, Backed by the Usual Suspects as Microsoft Increasingly Struggles as a Producing Company
  • 04.26.16 ES: El Nuevo Impulso Finánciado por Microsoft Para Reforzar las Patentes de Software en los EE.UU., Apoyado por los Sospechosos Usuales (La Sagrada Familia) Mientras que Microsoft Cada Vez Más Lucha Como Compañíá Productiva
  • 04.26.16 A Farce of a System: How SIPO, USPTO, and Increasingly the EPO Too Turn Into Filing Systems (No Proper Examination/Filtering Required)
  • 04.27.16 ES: Una Fársa de Sistema: ¿Cómo la SIPO, USPTO, y cada vez más la EPO se Convierten en Llenado de Patentes (No Se Requiere Propia Examinación)
  • 04.28.16 USTR is Trying to Shame and Bully India Into Introducing Software Patents in India
  • 05.01.16 The US Patent System: Where One Wastes Years in Court and Spends $8,000,000 in Lawyers’ Fees Fighting a Bogus Patent
  • 05.02.16 ES: El Sistema de Patentes de los EE.UU: Donde Uno Desperdicia Años en Corte y Gasta $8,000,000 en Honorarios de Abogados Peleándo una Patente Falsa
  • 05.02.16 Nefarious Forces for Patent Abuse and Software Patents in the United States, Australia, India, Korea, and Europe
  • 05.07.16 ES: Fuerzas Viles Para el Abuso de Patentes y Patentes de Software en los EE.UU,. Australia, India, Korea, y Europe
  • 05.08.16 Microsoft’s Patent Troll and Taxman Intellectual Ventures Gets Indirectly Closer to Google (Android/ChromeOS Steward) and to Linux
  • 05.08.16 US Bodies Are Locking Up the Commons and Industry Standards in Patent Enclosures, in Order to Benefit Few Monopolists
  • 05.08.16 Patent Maximalists Are Afraid of — and Increasingly Obsessed With — PTAB’s Patent Invalidations (Inter Partes Reviews)
  • 05.09.16 Corporate Imperialism in Europe Through the UPC, the Horrible Patent Deal Almost Nobody Heard of
  • 05.10.16 IBM is Not a ‘Patent Troll’ But Increasingly, Over Time, Troll-Like
  • 05.10.16 Patent Policy is a Mess and It’s Not Hard to See Why
  • 05.11.16 ES: El Troll de Patentes y Taxman de Microsoft Intellectual Ventures Se Acerca Indirectamente a Google (Android/ChromeOS Supervisor) y a Linux
  • 05.11.16 ES: Los Maximalistas de Patentes Están Asustados de — y Cada Vez Más Obsesionados Con — Las Invalidaciónes de PTAB (Revisiones Entre las Partes)
  • 05.12.16 Large Firms Which Are Becoming Troll-Like Threaten Linux, Try to Embargo Imports
  • 05.12.16 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Statistics and New Chief Judge Who is Really a Scientist
  • 05.14.16 ES: Estadísticas del Tribunal de Juicio de Patentes y Jurado de Patentes (PTAB) y El Nuevo Juez Supremo Quién Realmente es un Científico
  • 05.15.16 Relying on EPO, CAFC — Originator of Software Patents in the US — Tries to Bring Them Back Into Play in Microsoft Case
  • 05.15.16 ES: Compañías Grandes Que Se Están Convirtiéndo Trolles Amenazan a Linux, Tratan de Embargar Importaciónes
  • 05.22.16 Disrupting Battistelli’s Distracting Propaganda: EPO Staff to Protest Again in About a Fortnight
  • 05.22.16 IP3 Demonstrates That Today’s Patent Systems Devolve Into a Conglomerates’ Game, Won’t Protect the Mythical Small Inventor
  • 05.23.16 ‘Celebrity’ Patent Trolls and the Elusive Battle Against Patent Trolls (or Eastern District of Texas Courts) Rather Than Software Patents
  • 05.24.16 ES: Interrumpiendo la Propagánda Distractante de Battistelli: los Empleados de la EPO Protestará de Nuevo en una Quincena
  • 05.26.16 Victim Card Ends up in Another Blunder for Battistelli and His Six Bodyguards
  • 05.26.16 The EPO is Doing Great, Says EPO-Connected ‘News’ Site
  • 05.26.16 Microsoft Has Killed Nokia (and Its Own Mobile Ambitions), But Watch What it Does With Patents
  • 05.29.16 A Mix of Patent Aggression and Sanctions/Raids (Using Controversial Patents) Against East Asian Companies
  • 05.29.16 Patent Lawyers’ Marketing Dominates and Marginalises Meaningful Analyses of Software Patenting in the US
  • 05.30.16 ES: Tarjeta de Victima Termina en Otra Torpeza para Battistelli Seis de su Guardia Pretoriana
  • 05.30.16 ES: La EPO esta Excelente, Dice Sitio de ‘Noticias’ Conectado a Ella
  • 05.30.16 Make Nothing, Sue Everybody: The Reality of Patent Trolls Increasingly Understood by the ‘Mainstream’
  • 05.31.16 Patents Roundup: When the Patent Systems Turn Against People and Adjust According to Patent Lawyers and Their Largest Clients
  • 05.31.16 Microsoft’s Former Chief Patent Counsel Praises Elevation of Software Patents in Microsoft Case, Adds to Cherry-Picking and Lobbying by Patent Lawyers
  • 06.02.16 Closer Look at Players in Battistelli’s Information War: Part III (Buying the Media, Manufacturing ‘Studies’ With Secret Contracts)
  • 06.03.16 Closer Look at Players in Battistelli’s Information War: Part IV (Wellkom)
  • 06.05.16 Microsoft is Still an Evil Company, Don’t Believe the Reputation Laundering ‘Campaigners’
  • 06.05.16 IBM, Google and Microsoft Patent Stockpiles Demonstrate That Today’s US Patent System Exists for Billionaires, Not for Inventors
  • 06.06.16 Media Sites Still Filled to the Rim With Pro-Software Patents Propaganda (Lies by Omission)
  • 06.06.16 Spangenberg’s Reputation Laundering, Parasitic Taxes on Products Everyone Uses, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Calls Patent Trolling “Extortion”
  • 06.06.16 The Enemy Within: How Patent Lawyers, Their Media and the Whole Patent Establishment Became an Enemy to Their Nations
  • 06.07.16 EPO’s Old Spokesman (10 Years in Munich) Resigns Again After Only 5 Weeks, EPO is Just Buying the Media Now
  • 06.08.16 EPO Powers Up Its Spam Machines, ‘Media Partners’ Start Their Prepared ‘Articles’ (Puff Pieces)
  • 06.08.16 ES: Mirada Cercana a los Protagonistas de la Guerra Informativa de Battistellir: Parte IV (Wellkom)
  • 06.08.16 Leaks Required: EPO’s Plan to Crush the Appeal Boards and Media Contracts for Puff Pieces
  • 06.10.16 EPO ‘Bought’ the Financial Times, Which Now Operates in ‘Mouthpiece Mode’ for Mr. Battistelli
  • 06.11.16 Patent Lawyers Want a ‘Death Squad’ to Kill PTAB, Which Eliminates Software Patents at a Growing Pace
  • 06.12.16 ES: La EPO ‘Compró’ al Financial Times, El Cual Opera a ‘Modo de Vocero’ Para el sr. Battistelli
  • 06.12.16 Patent Bubbles Implode and Patents Are Passed to Trolls for ‘Monetisation’
  • 06.13.16 Bought Media Coverage at the European Patent Office
  • 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
  • 06.18.16 ES: La EPO y sus ‘Compadres’ en los Medios Cabildean por la UPC a Pesar de y Enfrentar Resistencia
  • 06.19.16 Patent Examiners and Insiders Acknowledge Profound Demise in Patent Quality Under Battistelli
  • 06.21.16 As Alice Turns Two, Bilski Blog Says 36,000 (Software) Patent Applications Have Been Rejected Thanks to It
  • 06.21.16 Supreme Court on Cuozzo v Lee Another Major Loss for Software Patents in the United States
  • 06.21.16 Patent Lawyers, Having Lost Much of the Battle for Software Patents in the US, Resort to Harmful Measures and Spin
  • 06.22.16 EPO “Recruitment of Brits is Down by 80%”
  • 06.25.16 With UPC Dead for Battistelli’s Entire Remaining Term, No Reason for the EPO or the Administrative Council to Keep Battistelli Around
  • 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 ES: Con la UPC Muerta por el Resto del Termino de Battistelli, No Hay Razón para que la EPO o el Consejo Administrativo Sigan Manteniéndolo Más
  • 06.29.16 Growing Consensus Even Among Patent Professionals That UPC is Dying Everywhere If Not Just in the UK
  • 07.01.16 Goodbye Halo, Hello Revisionism (or How Patent Profiteers Perfume a Terrible SCOTUS Decision That Helps Patent Trolls)
  • 07.02.16 Patents Roundup: Patent Maximalism, Apple’s Patent Deception, and Failure of Patent-Centric Media to Name and Shame Patent Trolls
  • 07.02.16 Cuozzo Case Summarised, Immersion Corp. v HTC Corp. to Remain Negligible Unless it Too Reaches SCOTUS
  • 07.04.16 UPC a Dead Project, as Per Analysis From Foley and Lardner LLP; What Next for Team Battistelli and Team UPC?
  • 07.05.16 Signs of Progress: Overly Litigious US Patent System Calms Down a Bit, Reform Upsets Megacorporations
  • 07.07.16 Invalidation of Bogus Patents (Software Patents and Other Abstract Patents) Peaking at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
  • 07.08.16 Conflicts of Interest and Payments From Large Corporations Bias Coverage of Patents in the News
  • 07.09.16 When the Patent Litigation Business is Trying to Create Demand for Software Patents and for Disputes/Lawsuits
  • 07.12.16 Climate of Patent Maximalism (Departure From Patent Quality Control) Leads to More Litigation, Not Innovation
  • 07.14.16 Deathwatch of the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPC)
  • 07.17.16 Microsoft and Its Patent Minions at Nokia Still Have Patent Stacking Ambitions Against Android/Linux OEMs
  • 07.22.16 Patents Roundup: BlackBerry, Huawei, PTAB, GAO, Aggressive Universities With Patents, and Software Patents in Europe
  • 07.24.16 The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) Comes Across as Against Software Patents, Relates to the EPO as Well
  • 07.26.16 Microsoft Says It Loves Linux, But Its Anti-Linux Patent Trolls Are Still Around and Active
  • 07.27.16 Software Patents a Dying Breed, But Patent Lawyers in Denial Over it and Notorious Judge Rodney Gilstrap Ignores Alice (Supreme Court)
  • 07.30.16 Continued Erosion of Software Patents in the US and With It a Demise in Abusive Litigation by Patent Trolls
  • 07.30.16 The Illusion of Patents as Necessary for Maintaining Western Dominance Increasingly Debunked
  • 07.30.16 Academic Discussion About Patents’ Harm and Good, Pushers of Software Patents Still Upset at Alice Decision
  • 08.01.16 The USPTO’s Dark Legacy of Software Patents Still the Cause of Spurious/Frivolous Litigation, Residue Which is Software Patent Trolls and Lawyers Will Try to Change the Law
  • 08.02.16 The Protocol on Privileges and Immunities of the UPC is a Dead End, But Team UPC Tries to Ram it Down Europeans’ Throats
  • 08.04.16 Apple’s Lawsuits Against Android Are Helping Patent Trolls, Canadian Android OEM BlackBerry Turns to Texas for Trolling
  • 08.04.16 Patent Quality in Europe (EPO) Declining Under Battistelli in Spite of the USPTO’s Cautionary Tale
  • 08.05.16 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is Putting an End to Lots of Software Patents; Patent Microcosm Spins and Distracts From This
  • 08.06.16 Managing IP (MIP) Organises a UPC Event (European Patent ‘Reform’ Forum), the Largest Patent Microcosm/Corporate Players Dominate Through Fee Discrimination
  • 08.11.16 ‘Constitutional Crisis’ at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 08.22.16 Battistelli the Liar Causes a Climate of Confrontation in French Politics, Lies About Patent Quality (Among Many Other Things)
  • 08.25.16 PTAB Emerges as Hero of USPTO Because Quality of Patents Improves, Software Patents Are Effectively Dead (or Dying Once Reassessed)
  • 08.26.16 Being for Patent Quality or Against Patenting Excess Does Not Make You Anti-Patents
  • 09.02.16 UPC Threatens to Send the European Patent Office Circling Down the Drain
  • 09.03.16 The European Patent Office is Utterly Desperate for Attention as Its Status Worldwide Sinks and It Resorts to ‘Spamming’ All Major Universities in Europe
  • 09.04.16 Death of Software Patents Almost Everywhere Except the Eastern District of Texas
  • 09.04.16 There is No Future for the UPC in Spite of What the EPO and the Patent Microcosm Keep Telling Us
  • 09.05.16 East Asia and Southeast Asia Become a Patent Trolls’ Powerhouse
  • 09.05.16 Patent System in the US Must Revert Back to Original Goals or Lose Credibility
  • 09.06.16 Convergence Between the EPO and the Media: ‘Managing IP’ as Battistelli and UPC Platform
  • 09.06.16 Microsoft’s Legacy at Nokia is Patent Shakedown and Feeding of Patent Trolls
  • 09.07.16 Risk of Going Bankrupt for Foolishly Asserting Software Patents After Alice
  • 09.11.16 USPTO Fraud Accusations and the ‘Coverup’ Attempt by USPTO Circles Inside the Corporate Media
  • 09.11.16 The Patent Microcosm is Losing the Fight Over Software Patenting and Now It Plays Dirty
  • 09.13.16 Web Site ‘Managing IP’ is Managing to Come Across as an EPO Mouthpiece
  • 09.14.16 As Expected, Misleading Coverage Regarding Software Patents in the Wake of McRO v Bandai Namco
  • 09.18.16 After McRO v Namco Case (at CAFC) the Patent Microcosm Works Overtime to Produce Pro-Software Patents Propaganda, Smear the Supreme Court
  • 09.18.16 Patent Trial and Appeal Board Under Attack by Law Firms, Which Will Soon Infiltrate It in the Form of ‘Bar Association’
  • 09.19.16 Patents Roundup: Disclosure Requirements, Mobile Patents, Patent Lawyers’ Plagiarism, USPTO Getting Sued, and Corporate Domination of the Patent System
  • 09.20.16 Like Big Tobacco Lobbyists, Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are Just Chronically Lying and Manipulating Politicians With Their Lies
  • 09.20.16 Microsoft and Patent Law Firms in the United States Can’t Stop Writing About McRo in a Coordinated Push to Resurrect Software Patents
  • 09.23.16 Journalism 101: Do Not Believe Anything That Benoît Battistelli and the EPO’s Management Say (Also Don’t Fall for the UPC Hype)
  • 09.25.16 Software Patents Propped Up by Patent Law Firms That Are Lying, Further Assisted by Rogue Elements Like David Kappos and Randall Rader (Revolving Doors)
  • 09.25.16 What Insiders Are Saying About the Sad State of the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 09.27.16 Patent Trolling a Growing Problem in East Asia (Software Patents Also), Whereas in the US the Problem Goes Away Along With Software Patents
  • 09.29.16 Team UPC is Interjecting Itself Into the Media Ahead of Tomorrow’s Lobbying Push Against the European Council and Against European Interests
  • 10.01.16 Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are at War With European Democracy, Which They View as an Obstacle to Money and Power
  • 10.02.16 Several Software Patents of Microsoft’s Patent Troll Intellectual Ventures Have Just Been Trashed by the Federal Circuit, But Patent Law Firms Keep Quiet About It
  • 10.02.16 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Under Persistent Attack From the Patent Microcosm
  • 10.03.16 Software Patents Are Against the First Amendment, Rules a CAFC Judge in Historic Decision That is Another Nail in the Software Patents Coffin
  • 10.03.16 Translation and Response to Battistelli’s Face-Saving ‘Interview’ With Juve
  • 10.04.16 Radio Silence in the Quarters of Patent Lawyers as Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Likely Ends Software Patents
  • 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
  • 10.09.16 From World’s Best to World’s Worst: China’s SIPO (Worst of Asia) and France (Worst of Europe) the Vision for EPO
  • 10.10.16 Towards the End of Patent Trolls in the United States
  • 10.10.16 Towards the End of Software Patents in the United States
  • 10.12.16 Patents Roundup: Blackjack Patent Application, Apple’s Software and Design Patents, Decline in Patent Litigation and Alternating Troll Trends
  • 10.24.16 UPC Preparatory Committee Puts the Brakes on UPC Amid Brexit and Growing Uncertainty
  • 10.29.16 The Former Chief Economist of the EPO Warns That Battistelli’s Implicit Policy of Lowering Patent Quality (for Quantity) Will Bring Patent Trolls to Europe
  • 10.30.16 An Update on the Apple v Samsung Patent Cases — Cases That Apple Must Lose in Order for Linux to ‘Win’
  • 10.30.16 The Importance of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board Proven by the Fact That It’s Under Endless Attacks From the Patent Microcosm
  • 10.30.16 Courts Are Being Showered With Motions to Invalidate Software Patents, Former USPTO Officials Like Kappos and Stoll in a Panic
  • 10.30.16 The Patent Trolls Are Moving East as Patents on Software Lose Their Lustre in the United States
  • 11.05.16 The Death of Patent Quality at the EPO and the European Commission’s Latest Smackdown of the EPO’s Patent Maximalism
  • 11.07.16 Microsoft’s Evil Patent Agenda, Issues Pertaining to Patent Scope, and the Mass Invalidation of Software Patents in the US
  • 11.07.16 Patent Law Firms and Their Publishers Latch Onto Rare CAFC Cases Where Software Patents Somehow Survive
  • 11.07.16 Where the Sun Rises (Far East) and Software Patents Emanate (US) Come the Patent Trolls
  • 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 “Not My President“: The Sentiment of European Patent Office Staff Towards Their Fascistic Boss
  • 11.14.16 What the New US Government May Mean to Patents and the Latest Death of Software Patents in the US
  • 11.16.16 The EPO Lowering Patent Quality, Accused of Issuing Invalid Patents, and Promoting Software Patents (Hence Trolls)
  • 11.17.16 Battistelli Should be Made Redundant (Fired) Before All EPO Staff Becomes Redundant in a Defunct Office That Flagrantly Mocks the Law
  • 11.18.16 The Demise of Software Patents in India Illustrated by Infosys’ Policy and Abandonment of Applications
  • 11.19.16 USPTO Director Michelle K. Lee Reportedly on Her Way Out, US Patent Reform Put on Hold
  • 11.19.16 Microsoft and Its Patent Trolls Continue to Lobby for Software Patents
  • 11.20.16 Patent Maximalists Would Have Us Believe That Patent Trolls Are Beneficial and Admirable
  • 11.22.16 China’s Shot in Its Own Foot Repeats the United States’ Error on Software Patents
  • 11.23.16 EPO Protest Tomorrow at The Hague
  • 11.24.16 Giants of Asia: India More Restrictive on Patent Scope, China More Lenient
  • 11.24.16 Patent Quality at the EPO Depends on the Future of the Boards of Appeal (Which Battistelli is Killing Not So Softly)
  • 11.24.16 Video and Audio: Press Coverage From Today’s EPO Protest at The Hague
  • 11.24.16 Asking Team UPC or the EPO About the UPC is Like Asking Clinton About Winning Presidential Elections
  • 11.26.16 China Creates a Patent Bubble That Contributes to Patent Inflation
  • 11.26.16 Duplicate Events for Lobbying by Team UPC Meddle in Politics in an Effort to Enrich Itself at Europe’s Expense
  • 11.27.16 Director Lee’s USPTO Managed to Drain the Swamp Filled by David Kappos and His Colleagues, But Trump Will Likely Dismiss Her Soon
  • 11.27.16 Danger of Letting a Bunch of Patent Law Firms Attempt to Hijack the European Patent System With UPC
  • 11.28.16 Patent Attorney Mark Summerfield: EPO Administrative Council “Members Should be Ashamed.”
  • 11.28.16 Patents Roundup: Patent Trolls, Patent Quality, and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”)
  • 11.29.16 Learning From the Mistakes of the US Patent System (and More Latterly China) When Assessing Patent Maximalism
  • 12.04.16 Software Patents Continue Their Invalidation Process, But Patent Law Firms Try to Deny This in Order to Attract Misinformed (or Poorly-Informed) Clients
  • 12.04.16 Patent Trolls of Microsoft and Ericsson Are Trying to Tax Everything, Especially Linux Devices
  • 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
  • 12.05.16 Microsoft’s Push for Software Patents Another Reminder That There is No ‘New’ Microsoft
  • 12.06.16 More Examples of Microsoft and Its Patent Trolls Taxing Linux, Even After Microsoft ‘Joined’ (Paid) the Linux Foundation
  • 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 Good Riddance. Ray Niro is Dead.
  • 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
  • 12.09.16 Ignore the Bristows UPC Echo Chamber, the UPC is Not Happening
  • 12.11.16 CSIRO/CRISPR Monopolies on Life (Through Patent Law) May Soon be Dead
  • 12.11.16 Supreme Cases and Some Supreme Outcomes That Tighten Patent Scope in the United States
  • 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 EPO Staff: Mr. Battistelli is Causing Immeasurable Damage to the Office; He is Now Untenable
  • 12.14.16 Administrative Council of the EPO Must Recognise Critical Brain Drain, Loss of Talent, Loss of Patent Quality
  • 12.14.16 Tough Time for Patent Trolls, Only About 1 in 5 Patent Cases Won in the United States
  • 12.18.16 More and More Lobbying for Software Patents, Not Just in Battistelli’s EPO But Also in India and the US
  • 12.18.16 Hijacking the Dialogue: How Patent Law Firms Distort the Record on Software Patents in the United States
  • 12.19.16 Boris Teksler Jumps From Ericsson’s Patent Troll to Microsoft’s
  • 12.20.16 BlackBerry Calls off Phone Business, Becomes Full-Time Patent Troll, Files Even More Patent Lawsuits in Texas
  • 12.21.16 “China” is to Watchtroll (and the Bucket of Patent Maximalists) What “Russia” is to Clinton and DNC
  • 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
  • 12.22.16 Nokia is Now Officially a Patent Troll, Almost 6 Years After Microsoft Turned It Into One
  • 12.26.16 Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Bilski Blog is Actually AGAINST Alice and Bilski, in Favour of Software Patents
  • 01.03.17 New Article From Heise Explains Erosion of Patent Quality at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 01.05.17 Technical Failure of the European Patent Office (EPO) a Growing Cause for Concern
  • 01.07.17 2017: Latest Year That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Still Stuck in a Limbo
  • 01.10.17 With Help From the US Supreme Court (Key Cases), Patent Trolls Are Going Away
  • 01.11.17 The Patent Microcosm is Already Sucking up to Donald Trump in an Effort to Enrich Itself at Everyone’s Expense
  • 01.11.17 Gradual Collapse of Microsoft’s Extensive (and External) Patent Trolling Operations
  • 01.11.17 Patent Quality in the United States Can Only be Assessed at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and the Courts
  • 01.12.17 Brexit/Trump Effect: Patent Systems With Institutional Corruption and Nepotism
  • 01.12.17 Patent Maximalism — Like Copyright Maximalism — Relies on Misconceptions and Mass Deception
  • 01.12.17 Patent Trolls and Software Patents: CloudTrade, Patent Practitioners Density, and Via Licensing
  • 01.15.17 Number of New Patent Cases in the US Fell 25% Last Year, Thanks in Part to the Demise of Software Patent Trolls
  • 01.16.17 Independent and Untainted Web Sites About Patents Are Still Few and Rare
  • 01.16.17 The 20% Rule: Patent Trolling Suffers Double-Digit Declines and Patent Troll Technicolor is Collapsing
  • 01.19.17 Doomsday Scenario in the Back Mirror as Michelle Lee Keeps Her Job (and Much-Needed Patent Reform) at the USPTO
  • 01.20.17 Kudelski Group Not Only Acts Like a Patent Troll But Also Run by Intellectual Ventures Person; Mobile Market in Dire State of Patent Armageddon
  • 01.21.17 Shakeup Against Patent Parasites in the US and More Rumours/Speculations About USPTO Director Michelle Lee After Trump’s Inauguration
  • 01.23.17 Patent Trolls Like Finjan Holdings and Thomas Edison; the Latest Loss for Software Patents in the US and Their Move to China
  • 01.24.17 China Drowns in Worthless Patents, the United States (FTC) Bemoans Patent Trolls, and Australia is Urged by Its Commission to Decommission Software Patents
  • 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 The United States Has Just Made It Even Harder to Appeal PTAB Decisions (Usually to Invalidate Software Patents)
  • 01.27.17 Ray Niro’s Troll Firm Has Collapsed, the Patent Microcosm Scrambles to Stop Patent Reform and Even Attacks Michelle Lee (USPTO Director)
  • 01.28.17 An Unexpected Reality: The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Emerged as a Champion in Fighting Software Patents in the US
  • 01.28.17 Good Luck to Apple in Its Fight Against Qualcomm’s Patents (Some of Them Software Patents), Not Just Against Nokia
  • 01.29.17 The Future of Patent Trolls in the US Will Also Determine Europe’s
  • 02.01.17 EPO Stakeholders Want Battistelli and His Goons Ousted, They Can Accomplish This by Working Together (Like a Union)
  • 02.03.17 Team UPC Continues to be a Premier Source of Fake News About Unitary Patent in the United Kingdom
  • 02.05.17 Rapid Collapse of Patent Aggressors’ Patent Strategy: Creative, Microsoft, RPX, LinkedIn, and Fitbit
  • 02.05.17 Software Patents Are Dying, But ‘Cloudwashing’ of Patents Lets Some Slip in and Marks & Clerk Offers Bad Advice
  • 02.06.17 China is Quickly Becoming a Patent Litigation Mess and Web Sites of Lawyers (or Their Fronts) Like It
  • 02.06.17 Questions Arise About Patent Policy and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board Amid Deregulation by Trump
  • 02.06.17 IBM is Attacking Patent Reform and is Lobbying for Resurgence of Software Patents
  • 02.06.17 PTAB Should Initiate Inter Partes Reviews (IPRs) of Universities’ Dubious Patents as Long as They Feed Patent Trolls
  • 02.07.17 Battistelli Judges Himself to be Excellent, in the Same Way Other Autocrats Judge Themselves to be Benevolent
  • 02.07.17 Patent Trolls Update: IPVALUE, Cypress, OIN, Open Patents, Blackbird, CATO and So-called ‘Efficient Infringement’
  • 02.09.17 Good News on the Patent Trolls Front as Collapse of Such Parasitic Firms Continues, US Government Signals Ongoing Reform
  • 02.12.17 Microsoft’s Latest Attack Plan on GNU/Linux Has Become Clearer and It’s Still About Software Patents
  • 02.13.17 The Federal Circuit Grapples With Extreme Measures Like Embargoes Over Patents
  • 02.13.17 New Information About the Gradual Collapse of RPX, a Microsoft-Backed Patent Troll
  • 02.13.17 The Patent Microcosm Resorts to Fake News and Misinformation in a Desperate Effort to Convince Trump to ‘Pull a Reagan’ (Patent Maximalism)
  • 02.13.17 UPC Petition Launched to Halt Ratification Plans in the United Kingdom Amid Nefarious Back Room Deals
  • 02.14.17 Microsoft Has Not Managed to Blackmail Huawei Over Android and GNU/Linux, But Its Trolls/Satellites Are Trying
  • 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 Center for Intellectual Property Understanding (CIPU) is a Lobby Group for Software Patents and Patent Maximalism
  • 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”
  • 02.16.17 New Survey Reveals That High Patent Quality, or Elimination of Bad Patents, is Desirable to Patent Holders
  • 02.17.17 SoftBank Group, New Owner of ARM, Could Potentially Become (in Part) a Patent Troll or an Aggressor Like Qualcomm
  • 02.18.17 As the United States Shuts Its Door on Low-Quality Patents the Patent Trolls Move to Asia
  • 02.22.17 The Appeal Board (PTAB) and Federal Circuit (CAFC) Maintain Good Pace of Patent Elimination Where Scope Was Exceeded
  • 02.26.17 Google’s Stewardship of GNU/Linux (Android, Chromebooks and More) in Doubt After Company Resorts to Patent ‘First Strikes’
  • 02.27.17 A US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) Which is Hostile Towards Patent Maximalists May Closely Examine More Patents That Apple Uses Against Android
  • 02.28.17 The Boards of Appeal Openly Complain (in the EPO’s Web Site) About Battistelli, But Don’t Tell Battistelli About It…
  • 02.28.17 Does the EPO Want Patent Quality to Decline Against the USPTO and Become Akin to SIPO?
  • 02.28.17 New Survey Shows That Even Patent Professionals Know That Team UPC is Lying About Unitary Patent Roadmaps
  • 02.28.17 Xinova is a Patent Troll With Connections to Microsoft and Intellectual Ventures, the World’s Largest Troll
  • 03.02.17 The Long Reach of Microsoft’s Patent Troll, Intellectual Ventures, and the Impact on TiVo
  • 03.03.17 East Asia is Known for Hardware Innovations, Not Software Innovations, and Software Patents Will Do the Latter No Favours
  • 03.04.17 Canada Does Not Permit Software Patents, So Its Notorious Patent Trolls Go Abroad for Legal Action
  • 03.04.17 Jo Johnson: UPC Agreement is “Currently Only Open to EU Member States” (i.e. Britain Cannot Join or Ratify)
  • 03.04.17 Using “China!” and Distortion of Data From Lex Machina, the Litigation Lobby Promotes Software Patents
  • 03.06.17 The EPO’s Connections to or Facilitation of Bayer and Monsanto Explored in New Article
  • 03.08.17 The European Patent Office is Wasting Its Already Limited Budget on Misleading Press Releases/Paid-for Coverage That Overlook Sharp Decline in Patent Quality
  • 03.10.17 With Latest Promotions, Microsoft Puts Its Tokens in the Patent Shakedown Basket, Its Patent Trolls Fight for Software Patents
  • 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
  • 03.13.17 What Appears Like News Sites or Blogs About Patents and ‘IP’ Got Polluted by Lobbying That Peddles Corporate Agenda
  • 03.14.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) Misinformation in Spanish Media and EPO-Connected (Paid) Media That Lobbies Spain
  • 03.14.17 Patent Trolling Allegedly Runs in the Blood (or Interests) of the Trump Family, in Spite of the USPTO’s and Courts’ Growing Hostility Towards Patent Trolls
  • 03.14.17 WIPO is in the Business of Publishing Ads for Notorious Patent Aggressors (Facing Antitrust Charges) and Promoting Software Patents
  • 03.15.17 Microsoft Continues to Hoard Patents — Even Buying Patents — While Using Them Against GNU/Linux
  • 03.16.17 Incredibly Unscientific: EPO is Making up Excuses for Decline in Patent Applications
  • 03.16.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) and “Breach of EU Law”
  • 03.16.17 A Fight Over Patent Quality in the United States
  • 03.18.17 EPO Management Deeply Concerned That the Public Has Found Out Quality of European Patents (EPs) Nosedived Under Battistelli’s Regime
  • 03.19.17 What’s OIN Doing While Microsoft is Siccing Patent Trolls on Azure Competitors’ Customers?
  • 03.20.17 Apple and Microsoft, Two Patent Aggressors That Habitually Attack GNU/Linux Distributors, Get Sued by a Patent Troll, Soverain IP
  • 03.21.17 Intellectual Ventures — Like Microsoft (Which It Came From) — Spreads Patents to Manifest a Lot of Lawsuits
  • 03.21.17 Letter to Angela Merkel Expresses Concerns About Impact of EPO Scandals on Germany and Its Image
  • 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 Protectionism v Sharing: How the US Supreme Court Decides Patent Cases
  • 03.23.17 China Seems to be Using Patents to Push Foreign Companies Out of China, in the Same Way It Infamously Uses Censorship
  • 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
  • 03.25.17 Depressing EPO News: Attacks on Staff, Attacks on Life, Brain Drain, Patents on Life, Patent Trolls Come to Germany, and Spain Being Misled
  • 03.25.17 Judge and Justice Bashing in the United States, EPC Bashing at the EPO
  • 03.25.17 It Certainly Looks Like Microsoft is Already Siccing Its Patent Trolls, Including Intellectual Ventures, on Companies That Use Linux (Until They Pay ‘Protection’ Money)
  • 03.28.17 Techrights Was Right About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 03.28.17 With Important Supreme Court Decisions Looming, Mainstream Media Tackles Patent Trolls
  • 03.29.17 Recognising the Death of Software Patents, Microsoft’s Largest Ally in India Belatedly Joins the Linux-Centric Open Invention Network
  • 03.29.17 LG Not Only Suing Rivals Using Patents But is Also Passing Patents for Trolls Like Sentegra to Sue
  • 03.30.17 Director Michelle Lee Across the Table From EPO ‘Mafioso’ Benoît Battistelli
  • 03.30.17 Devaluation of European Patents is a Recipe for Institutional Suicide and Immeasurable Harm to Europe’s Economy
  • 03.30.17 Oral Arguments in the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) Suggest That the TC Heartland Case Will Likely Crush the Eastern District of Texas, Presently Infested With Patent Trolls
  • 03.30.17 Deconstructing the Latest ‘Damage Control’ From Team UPC Amid Demise of Unitary Patent Pipe Dreams
  • 03.31.17 In Spite of Confirmation, Uncertainty and Doubt Still Being Cast on Michelle Lee’s USPTO Leadership (by Her Opponents)
  • 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 The UK’s Involvement in a Hypothetical UPC Post-Brexit Far From Certain, Admits Law Firm, Contrary to Those Who Stand to Profit
  • 04.04.17 Microsoft’s Patent Extortion Against Linux Now Targets Watches With Linux on Them
  • 04.04.17 Patent Trolls in the Headlines: TC Heartland, University of Florida, Hilco, and Uniloc
  • 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)
  • 04.06.17 At the Courts, Another Reminder of PTAB’s Importance and Ericsson’s War (via Patent Trolls) Against Linux and Android
  • 04.09.17 Lying Has Become the Norm When It Comes to the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 04.10.17 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is Already Part of Reform (AIA), So Attempts to ‘Reform’ It May be Efforts to Appease Maximalists and Bullies
  • 04.11.17 Software Patents Lobbying Sites Are Really Desperate to Oust the Director of the Patent Office
  • 04.12.17 Abundance of Patents is Not the Goal, Quality of Patents is the Goal
  • 04.13.17 The World is Burning for Qualcomm, Whose Dependence on Software Patent Bullying is Being Tackled in Several Continents
  • 04.14.17 The Gradual Fall If Not Sudden Collapse of Patent Trolls Associated With Microsoft
  • 04.19.17 The Patent Microcosm Keeps Attacking Every Patent Office/System That is Doing the Right Thing
  • 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 Even Patent Bullies Like Microsoft and Facebook Find the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Useful
  • 04.21.17 Affordable and Sophisticated Mobile Devices Are Kept Away by Patent Trolls and Aggressors That Tax Everything
  • 04.22.17 Intellectual Discovery and Microsoft Feed Patent Trolls Like Intellectual Ventures Which Then Strategically Attack Rivals
  • 04.22.17 The European Patent Office Has Just Killed a Cat (or Skinned a ‘Kat’)
  • 04.25.17 Astoundingly, IP Kat Has Become a Leading Source of UPC and Battistelli Propaganda
  • 04.25.17 In South Asia, Old Myths to Promote Patent Maximalism, Courtesy of the Patent Microcosm
  • 04.26.17 PatentShield is Not the Solution and It Won’t Protect Google/Android From Patent Trolls Like Microsoft’s
  • 04.27.17 China’s Suffering From Patent Maximalism Has Europe Forewarned
  • 04.28.17 United for Patent Reform Defends USPTO Director Michelle Lee From Attacks by the Patent Microcosm
  • 04.30.17 Alice">High Courts in the United States Still Neither Grappling/Interfering With PTAB Nor Overturning Alice
  • 04.30.17 “Spectator” and “The Patent Scam” (New Site/Movie) Tackle the Patent Trolls Epidemic
  • 04.30.17 Unified Patent Propaganda Courtesy of a Cabal of Firms That Constructed the UPC
  • 05.02.17 The Patent Microcosm and Its Ludicrous New Narrative/Tale That Patent Reform is a Plot of Large Corporations
  • 05.02.17 Alice, PTAB, and Patent Reform (AIA)">The Patent Microcosm Still Demonises Alice, PTAB, and Patent Reform (AIA)
  • 05.07.17 Revisionism About Microsoft Software Patent Deals Implicating GNU/Linux
  • 05.07.17 USPTO Shoots Itself in the Foot by Granting a Patent on Paper Bag
  • 05.07.17 The Patent Microcosm’s Failed Push for Software Patents Resurgence in the US and Similar Attempts in India and China
  • 05.08.17 Death of ‘IP’ Media: Front Groups of Microsoft Described as “Representing SME Developers” by Bristows
  • 05.10.17 Team UPC Still Twists and Fabricates Statements to Make It Seem Like Unitary Patent is Happening Soon
  • 05.14.17 The US Supreme Court Consults USPTO Director Michelle Lee Regarding the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Which is Invalidating Software Patents With CAFC’s Approval
  • 05.14.17 The Attacks of Patent Trolls as Outlined in the Media This Past Week
  • 05.14.17 OIN is Still a Distraction Unless We Want GNU/Linux to Coexist With Software Patents (Rather Than Eliminate Those)
  • 05.14.17 3 Years After the Alice Case at the Supreme Court the Plague of Software Patents is Easier to Cope With
  • 05.22.17 Great News: While IBM et al Try to Undermine Patent Reform the Supreme Court Deepens the Reform in TC Heartland Case
  • 05.29.17 Panic in Patent Maximalists’ Circles as Both Trolls and Software Patents (TC Heartland and Alice) Are Dying
  • 06.01.17 Patent Trolls in Europe and the Looming Collapse of the UPC
  • 06.11.17 Bristows/IP Kat Still Promoting UPC and Patent Trolls, Also Accused of Deleting Comments and “Brown-nosing” Judges to Help Patent Trolls
  • 06.11.17 The British Election May Have Just ‘Killed’ the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 06.13.17 In Spite of Censorship by IP Kat, Issues Associated With UPC Had Become Apparent, Even Before Germany Halted Ratification
  • 06.14.17 Even UPC Proponents, Paid by the EPO’s PR Firm, Admit That UPC May Never Happen
  • 06.15.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) Will Start “Real Soon” Now… Said Team UPC For So Many Years
  • 06.20.17 European Patent Office (EPO) Whistleblowing Guidelines: Motivation and Impact of Leaks
  • 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 Microsoft and Bill Gates Become More Actively Involved in Their Biggest Patent Troll (and World’s Biggest Troll), Intellectual Ventures
  • 06.24.17 The STRONGER Patents Act is One Among Several New Pushes for Patent Chaos in the United States
  • 06.25.17 The US Patent Office (USPTO) Should Now be Headed by Drew Hirshfeld, a Patent Examiner Who Rose to the Top, Not a Lawyer Like Joseph Matal
  • 06.25.17 The Supreme Court Can Reassert the Legitimacy of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Later This Year or Next Year
  • 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 Microsoft’s Troll Intellectual Ventures, via Dominion Harbor, Goes Patent-Trolling in China
  • 07.02.17 The Decline in Patent Quality at the European Patent Office (EPO) Already Causes Mass Abandonment of Patents
  • 07.02.17 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is Under Attack From the Patent Microcosm, Which Wants It Not to Exist Anymore
  • 07.03.17 It’s Official: Battistelli Will Leave the EPO in Less Than a Year
  • 07.03.17 India Has No Software Patents “Per Se” Just Like Europe Has No Software Patents “As Such”
  • 07.04.17 EPO Silent About EPO Strikes and Battistelli Leaving
  • 07.05.17 Suspicion That Antonio Campinos Will Apply for Benoît Battistelli’s Job to Succeed Him
  • 07.05.17 Expect No Progress Whatsoever on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) During the Summer and Likely Too Little Even in Fall
  • 07.05.17 The EPO’s Liar in Chief, Benoît Battistelli, is Googlebombing Again
  • 07.06.17 Weeks Later, British Media Writes About British EPO Worker That Committed Suicide and the Administrative Council’s ‘Coverup’
  • 07.08.17 In India, the Elephant in the Room is the Term “Per Se” — a New Loophole for Software Patenting
  • 07.08.17 Patent Trolls Are Still a Problem, But Microsoft Remains One of the Biggest Patent Trolls (Non-Practicing in Mobile)
  • 07.08.17 ‘Trolling’ by the University of Florida, the University of California and the California Institute of Technology
  • 07.09.17 The Present Trend of Patent Trolls Paying the Legal Fees of Their Victims Would Discourage Trolling
  • 07.09.17 Supreme Court Saves the Day as Latest Statistics Reveal Slump in Patent Litigation (Mostly Trolls) in the Eastern District of Texas
  • 07.10.17 Patent Trolls Roundup: GPNE, Blackbird Technologies, Uniloc and More
  • 07.10.17 Lobbying Against the US Supreme Court’s Landmark Decision (Alice) by Bristows, IBM, David Kappos, IPO, ABA, AIPLA, Adam Mossoff and Kevin Madigan
  • 07.13.17 As Expected, Benoît Battistelli Shaved off Billions of Euros Worth of ‘Value’ From European Patents and Thus Alienated Stakeholders
  • 07.16.17 In the Face of Malicious Lobbying, High Tech Inventors Alliance (HTIA) and Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) Protect PTAB
  • 07.16.17 Immersion, FitBit, Jawbone, and Creative Chose to be a Pile of Patents Rather Than Real Companies
  • 07.16.17 After the ‘Fall’ of Texas, Patent Trolls Struggle and Some Are on the Retreat
  • 07.16.17 Debate About Software Patentability in India Still Dominated by Patent Lawyers Rather Than Software Developers
  • 07.16.17 Serious Factual Errors in UPC Coverage at Science|Business and Lack of Coverage in the General Media
  • 07.16.17 Those Who Endlessly Attacked Michelle Lee Now Attack Supporters of PTAB, Not Just PTAB
  • 07.17.17 Anti-Patent Trolls Reform in the US Evolves Nicely and Rogue Judges Get Named, Shamed
  • 07.20.17 Microsoft is Googlebombing “Linux” This Week in Order to Sell Proprietary Software That Does Not Run on GNU/Linux (and While Blackmailing OEMs Over Linux)
  • 07.20.17 PTAB Persists and AIA Dominates in Spite of Smears and Bullying From Patent Extremists Including Watchtroll
  • 07.20.17 Patent Reform in the United States is Led by the Supreme Court, Not Industrial Lobbies
  • 07.20.17 Unified Patent Court (UPC): A Conspiracy of Lies and Silence
  • 07.20.17 The Bizarre World of US Patents and Ongoing Pursuit/Granting of Software Patents in Spite of Section 101
  • 07.22.17 Patent Troll MPEG-LA Expands From Software Patents to Patents on Life While USPTO is Virtually Headless
  • 07.23.17 Alice/U.S.C. § 101 is a Done Deal, Meaning Software Patents Are Effectively Dead in the US
  • 07.23.17 IBM and Watchtroll, Together With Microsoft, Among the Driving Forces for Resurgence of Software Patents
  • 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 “Reprehensible” Rodney Gilstrap Continues to Snub the US Supreme Court by Refusing to Let Non-Texan Companies Move Out of Texas
  • 07.27.17 The USPTO Report on Section 101 is Somewhat Farcical as Input Comes From the Patent Microcosm, Not Producing Companies
  • 07.30.17 PACE of Prosecution Prioritised Over Quality of Patents and Examination
  • 07.30.17 Microsoft’s (Patent) War on GNU/Linux Continues, But It’s Disguised Using Intermediaries
  • 07.31.17 Publisher Funded by Nokia’s and Microsoft’s Patent Trolls Expects More Attacks on Android OEMs
  • 08.02.17 Growing Threat to Free/Libre Software From Software Patents: Apple, Microsoft and Nokia Charge Ahead
  • 08.03.17 High Cost of Erroneous Patent Grants
  • 08.03.17 Trolls Roundup: Buying up the Competition Using Patents and the Post-TC Heartland Figures
  • 08.04.17 Software Patents Are Not Potent in Courts and Are Not Good for Marketing Purposes Either (They Cause Alienation)
  • 08.06.17 Patents in the US Are Becoming Stronger (Better Quality), But the Patent ‘Industry’ is Trying to Change That
  • 08.06.17 TC Heartland Puts Patent Trolls and the Eastern District of Texas in a Straitjacket, But EFF Wants Transparency Too
  • 08.09.17 Sinking Patent Quality at the Brazilian Patent and Trademark Office (BPTO)
  • 08.09.17 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Continues to Invalidate Software Patents, Should Tackle Public Universities Too
  • 08.09.17 When It Comes to Software Patents, the EPO Has Become Among the Worst in the World
  • 08.12.17 Microsoft’s Patent Troll Intellectual Ventures is Going After Carriers Now
  • 08.12.17 Pro-PTAB Lobbying Leaves the Patent Microcosm Squirming, Lying
  • 08.17.17 Ericsson Hired From the World’s Largest Patent Troll and Became a Massive Troll in Europe
  • 08.18.17 The Staff Union of the EPO Has Long Warned About Declining Patent Quality
  • 08.22.17 Bristows LLP Tries Hard to Maintain the Illusion That UPC is Alive, Using Media Placements and Paid Plugs
  • 08.24.17 Patent Trolls Network-1 and Microsoft-Connected Finjan and Intellectual Ventures in the News Again
  • 08.26.17 Patent Exhaustion and Implosion Will Follow Patent Maximalism in the Far East, But Low-Quality Patents May be Strategic
  • 08.30.17 Australian Government Cracks Down on Patent Maximalism, Dealing a Blow to Parasitic Firms
  • 08.31.17 IBM Helps a Microsoft-Connected Patent Troll Create Another Trolling Branch, Known as Finjan Blue
  • 08.31.17 Trump’s USPTO Nominee is a Supporter of Software Patents
  • 08.31.17 Patent Trolls Are Under Attack and on the Run
  • 09.02.17 Patently-O’s War on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Continues
  • 09.03.17 LexOrbis is Trying to Sneak Software Patents Into India in Defiance of the Ban
  • 09.05.17 Dominion Harbor is an Internet Troll as Well as a Patent Troll
  • 09.05.17 Deepening EPO Crisis and a New Report Titled “EPO Patent Filing a Rigged Game in Europe”
  • 09.06.17 When Patent Maximalists Say ‘Innovation’ is Moving to Asia or China They Mean Litigation Chaos Moves There
  • 09.10.17 Qualcomm Fails to Stop iPhones Coming From China, But Apple Now Faces Many Patent Lawsuits in China
  • 09.10.17 European Patent Office in Shambles and the EU’s Brexit Position Paper Suggests UPC is Off the Agenda
  • 09.11.17 Latest Assaults on PTAB and More PTAB Bashing, This Time by Anticipat
  • 09.11.17 Upcoming EPO Series: Benoît Battistelli’s ‘Club Med’
  • 09.11.17 “Reprehensible” Judge Rodney Gilstrap Ignores the Supreme Court of the United States
  • 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
  • 09.17.17 Why the Mohawk Tribe Should Fire Its Lawyers and Dump the Patents Which Now Tarnish Its Name
  • 09.17.17 Citing the European Patent Convention, Spanish Court Tosses Lawsuit With EPO-Granted European Patent
  • 09.17.17 Amazon and Google Have Both Become Part of the Software Patents Problem
  • 09.17.17 Patent Trolls Update: Eolas, Conversant (MOSAID), Leigh Rothschild, and Electronic Communication Technologies
  • 09.20.17 Mark Kokes, the Man Behind BlackBerry’s Patent Aggression, Leaves the Company
  • 09.21.17 East Asia’s Patent Peril and the Curse of Patent Trolls
  • 09.21.17 The Latest Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and CIPO’s Participation in Those
  • 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 The Mohawk-PTAB Fiasco Threatens the Tribe’s Reputation More Than It Threatens PTAB
  • 09.24.17 Fake News About Software Patents in the United States
  • 09.26.17 Dying Computer Giants Turn Patents Into an Extortion Racket
  • 09.30.17 Jesper Kongstad’s Last Day is Today, But the EPO Remains a Sordid Mess Like the UPC
  • 09.30.17 Trolling Conglomerates MPEG-LA and Fortress Are Plotting to Start Another Round of Patent Shakedowns
  • 09.30.17 How Tribes in America Have Fallen for a “Scam” That Now Facilitates Patent Trolls
  • 10.01.17 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is Still Defended by Technology Companies and Heckled by Those Who Tax Them
  • 10.01.17 China Advertises Itself as a Friend of Patent Trolls, Google’s Patent Leadership Headless
  • 10.02.17 The Software Patents/Litigation Industry is Dying in the United States and China Takes This Heavy Burden
  • 10.03.17 US Supreme Court Defends Position on Alice, Maintaining/Cementing a Ban on Software Patents Like the Rest of the World
  • 10.04.17 BlackBerry’s Aggressive Patent Strategy Was a Miserable Failure
  • 10.04.17 EPO Management Gambled on Europe Being a Patent Litigation Hub/Capital, But It’s All Coming Down in Flames Now
  • 10.04.17 Microsoft-Connected Patent Trolls Continue to File New Lawsuits and Collect Patents for Further Litigation Purposes
  • 10.04.17 Momentum of PTAB is Growing and Political/Industrial Support is Growing Too
  • 10.07.17 Gains for PTAB Supporters and Excuses From PTAB Opponents (the Litigation/Trolling ‘Industry’)
  • 10.07.17 Patent Trolls to Watch Out For: ZiiLabs, VLSI Technology LLC, and AlphaCap Ventures
  • 10.08.17 Microsoft Lobbying, the EPO, and Software Patents Disguised as ‘Internet of Things’
  • 10.08.17 Patent Microcosm, Patent Media and Patent Office: “It’s a Big Club and You Ain’t in It”
  • 10.11.17 China is Getting Full of — and Fed Up With — Patent Trolls
  • 10.11.17 The FRAND Lobby is Trying to Sneak Software Patents Into Countries That Banned Them
  • 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 The Hogwash Begins: Patent Microcosm’s Media Pretends Campinos is Anything But Battistelli’s French Succession Plan
  • 10.14.17 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Supported by Congress, a Federal Judge, Soon to be Supported by the Supreme Court Too?
  • 10.15.17 Access to Medicine is More Important Than Patents
  • 10.15.17 Forget About Apple; Two of the Leading Phone Makers (Samsung and Huawei) Are Bickering Over Patents
  • 10.15.17 Tim Heberden From the Glasshouse Advisory is Throwing Stones in a Glasshouse to Create Patent Litigation
  • 10.15.17 Qualcomm’s Nightmares Are Getting Worse as Antitrust Questions Are Raised and Assessed
  • 10.15.17 US Patent Trolls Are Leaving and the Eastern District of Texas Sees Patent Cases Falling by More Than Half
  • 10.16.17 Patent Troll VirnetX a Reminder to Apple That Software Patents Are a Threat to Apple Too
  • 10.18.17 Patent Firms From the United States Try Hard to Push the Unitary Patent (UPC), Which Would Foment Litigation Wars in Europe
  • 10.19.17 Team UPC Continues to Promote Illusion of UPC Progress Where There’s None
  • 10.20.17 Patent Trolls Roundup: BlackBerry, Dominion Harbor, IPNav, IP Bridge
  • 10.21.17 In the United States, the Patent ‘Industry’ is a Dying Breed and China Adopts This Destructive Force
  • 10.21.17 Anonymous Professionals Speak of Benoît Battistelli’s Destruction of the EPO, But Why Does the Media Turn a Blind Eye?
  • 10.21.17 Microsoft and Nokia’s Patent Trolls by Proxy: First Conversant, Now Provenance Asset Group Holdings LLC
  • 10.21.17 US Patents Appeal Board Attacked by the Patent ‘Industry’, Defended by Federal Courts, and Dodged by Patent Trolls
  • 10.24.17 Let’s Hope That Apple v Samsung Puts an End to Design Patents Once and For All
  • 10.26.17 The European Commission Has Essentially Invalided Many European Patents (EPs) for Being Out of Scope; Are Software Patents (CII) Next?
  • 10.28.17 Amgen is Willing to Kill Many Anemia Patients for Some Patent Revenue
  • 10.28.17 Patent Trolls’ Enablers Celebrate and Lobby for Patents on Software, React in Fury When Google Gets Some
  • 10.29.17 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is Getting Stronger and the Litigation ‘Industry’ Hates It With a Passion
  • 10.31.17 More Information Emerges About Provenance Asset Group LLC, Where Thousands of Nokia Patents Are Being Passed Through
  • 11.02.17 The Screws Tighten on Benoît Battistelli as His Departure is Just Two Seasons Away, Media Still Largely Complicit
  • 11.02.17 More High-Profile Briefs Explain to the US Supreme Court Why PTAB is Desirable and Must be Defended
  • 11.02.17 University College London (UCL) Becomes Part of the Patent Fanatics Lobby, Supported by the EPO’s PR Firm FTI Consulting
  • 11.04.17 IP Kat Peddles Patent Trolls and Software Patents Agenda
  • 11.04.17 Put Matal in Charge of the USPTO Permanently
  • 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
  • 11.05.17 A High US Court (CAFC) Continues Rejecting Software Patents (Even of Microsoft’s Patent Trolls)
  • 11.07.17 Putting Radicals and Foes of Technology in Charge of Patents
  • 11.07.17 Microsoft and Its Patent Trolls Pick Up Patents Whilst Attacking GNU/Linux and Dodging Infringement
  • 11.09.17 Apple v Samsung Dominates the News, But Samsung Has Just Taken on MPEG-LA Using PTAB Inter Partes Reviews
  • 11.09.17 Consensus Around the High Likelihood That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead and Backlash Against Deniers of It
  • 11.10.17 More Microsoft AstroTurfing by Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) and Mingorance
  • 11.13.17 Why Honest Journalism on Patent Matters Barely Exists
  • 11.13.17 Patent Maximalism Around the World
  • 11.13.17 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby is Losing the Battle for Europe
  • 11.13.17 Microsoft: Sheltering Oneself From Patent Litigation While Passing Patents for Trolls to Attack GNU/Linux
  • 11.14.17 Decline of Skills Level of Staff Like Examiners and Impartiality (Independence) of Judges at the EPO Should Cause Concern, Alarm
  • 11.15.17 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Defended by Technology Giants, by Small Companies, by US Congress and by Judges, So Why Does USPTO Make It Less Accessible?
  • 11.16.17 EPO Continues to Disobey the Law on Software Patents in Europe
  • 11.19.17 The Lobbyists Are Trying to Subvert US Law in Favour of Patent Predators
  • 11.19.17 PTAB is Safe, the Patent Extremists Just Try to Scandalise It Out of Sheer Desperation
  • 11.19.17 Alice Remains a Strong Precedential Decision and the Media Has Turned Against Software Patents
  • 11.21.17 Chinese Patent Policy Continues to Mimic All the Worst Elements of the American System
  • 11.22.17 Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Foes Manipulate the Facts to Belittle the Impact of PTAB
  • 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
  • 11.25.17 EPO Becoming Like China is Something to Worry About, Not Something to Celebrate
  • 11.25.17 Battistelli’s Home Country, France (Where He is a Politician in Defiance of the Rules), is a Patent Troll
  • 11.25.17 Even UPC Proponents Admit UPC is Dead: “This is the End, My Friend”
  • 11.26.17 Patent Sharks’ Last Resort: Mohawk Immunity, ‘STRONGER’ Patents Act, Qualcomm Thickets, and SLAPP
  • 11.26.17 Patently-O is Still Trying to Derail Patent Reform in the United States
  • 11.26.17 Oral Arguments in Oil States Energy Services v Greene’s Energy Group (PTAB Case) Are About to Start
  • 11.28.17 EPO Budget (Users’ Money) Has Been Corrupting Media and Academia
  • 11.29.17 PTAB Will Survive the Supreme Court, Admit Even Foes of PTAB Based on This Week’s Hearings
  • 11.30.17 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby is Already Pushing for the USPTO to Help Make Patent Trolls “Great Again”
  • 11.30.17 EPO Fiasco Deepens While the Media Writes Puff Pieces About the EPO
  • 12.05.17 Ericsson’s Chief ‘IP’ Officer Kasim Alfalahi Has Become a Parasite and Patent Troll in Avanci
  • 12.05.17 PTAB, Which Invalidates Software Patents, is Still Under Attack Using Lies From Sites Like Patently-O
  • 12.09.17 Like the EPO, Taiwan/China (SIPO) Harm SMEs With a Policy of Patent Maximalism Which Fosters Litigation, Not Innovation
  • 12.09.17 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board Will Endure Supreme Court Test and Overcome the Tribal Immunity “Scam”
  • 12.09.17 Phones/Mobility (Trillion-Dollar Market) May Have Become Infested and Encumbered by Aggressive, Dying Companies
  • 12.10.17 Next Director of the USPTO Parrots Talking Points of Patent Extremists and Their Lobbyists
  • 12.10.17 Microsoft-Connected Patent Trolls Are Increasingly Active and Microsoft is Selling ‘Protection’ (Azure Subscriptions)
  • 12.10.17 Patents Are Becoming a Welfare System for the Rich and Powerful
  • 12.10.17 Yes, RPost is Definitely a Patent Troll and Its Software Patents Are at Risk Thanks to Alice
  • 12.10.17 The Latest Scams in the Patent World
  • 12.12.17 No, China Isn’t Most Innovative, It’s Just Granting a Lot of Low-Quality Patents
  • 12.12.17 PTAB Haters Fail to Guard Bogus Patents, But They Still Try
  • 12.14.17 Patent Trolls Are Going Bust in the United States (Along With the ‘Protection’ Racket Conglomerates)
  • 12.18.17 PTAB Helps Defend and Encourage Work by Actual Technology Companies in the US, the Patent Trolls’ Lobby is Upset
  • 12.19.17 French and Korean Patent Trolls
  • 12.20.17 Notorious Patent Troll, Erich Spangenberg, Has a New Target
  • 12.20.17 Companies Like Apple and ​Microsoft Benefit the Most From Patents as It’s a System of Protectionism
  • 12.25.17 The Federal Circuit (CAFC) is Doing a Good Job, Which Means It’s Hated and Mocked by the Patent Microcosm
  • 01.03.18 EPO Management Claims “Higher Quality Patents” and Everyone at the EPO Knows That It’s a Face-Saving Lie
  • 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 Patent Maximalists’ Utopia: INPI-Like Patent Systems Where Every Application is Blessed and WIPO-Inspired Assumption That the More, the Merrier
  • 01.06.18 When All That’s Left is a Bunch of Patents: Stories of IBM, Finjan, Ericsson, and Citrix
  • 01.07.18 China’s Self-Destructive Patent Policy Will Replace Assembly Lines of Products With Assembly Lines of Low-Quality Patents and Lawsuits
  • 01.07.18 In US District Courts Patent Litigation Fell by a Whopping 17% Last Year
  • 01.09.18 Judge Paul Michel is Not So Retired; Helps the Patent Trolls’ Lobby Critique His Former Employer
  • 01.09.18 Devices: When Allegations of Software Patent Infringement/s Can Result in Theft (Confiscation) of Physical Devices or Embargo
  • 01.10.18 Jo Johnson’s Departure is Another Major Blow for Team UPC (Unified Patent Court)
  • 01.11.18 EPO Lobby and Team UPC’s ‘Resistance’ to the UPC Opposition in Germany
  • 01.13.18 Top Rank at USPTO Goes to the Biggest Patent Bully, IBM
  • 01.14.18 PTAB is Being Demeaned, But Only by the Very Entities One Ought to Expect (Because They Hate Patent Justice/Quality)
  • 01.14.18 Blockchain Becomes the Target Not Only of Financial Institutions With Software Patents But Also Trolls
  • 01.14.18 If Ericsson and Its Patent Trolls (Like Avanci and Unwired Planet) Cannot Make It, the Patent Microcosm Will Perish
  • 01.14.18 The Patent Microcosm Thinks It’s Wonderful That IP3 is Selling Stupid Patents, Ignores Far More Important News
  • 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 Litigation Roundup: Nintendo, TiVo, Apple, Samsung, Huawei, Philips, UMC
  • 01.15.18 Roundup of Patent News From Canada, South America and Australia
  • 01.16.18 China Tightens Its Knot of Restrictive Rules and Patents
  • 01.16.18 Patent Trolls (Euphemised as “Public IP Companies”) Are Dying in the United States, But the Trouble Isn’t Over
  • 01.16.18 2018 Will be an Even Worse Year for Software Patents Because the US Supreme Court Shields Alice
  • 01.18.18 Patent Prosecution Highway: Low-Quality Patents for High-Frequency Patent Aggressors
  • 01.18.18 Microsoft, Masking/Hiding Itself Behind Patent Trolls, is Still Engaging in Patent Extortion
  • 01.18.18 Press Coverage About the EPO Board Revoking Broad’s CRISPR Patent
  • 01.19.18 The EPO Ignores This Week’s Decision Which Demonstrates Patent Scope Gone Awry; Software Patents Brought Up Again
  • 01.19.18 WesternGeco v ION Geophysical (at the US Supreme Court) Won’t Affect Patent Scope
  • 01.20.18 Patent Litigation in East Asia: Huawei, Samsung, HTC, Nintendo and COLOPL
  • 01.20.18 Patent Litigation in the US is Down Sharply and Patent Trolls’ Demise Has Much to Do With It
  • 01.20.18 Qualcomm/Broadcom/NXP Combination Would Become a Disastrous Patent Thicket Which Benefits Nobody
  • 01.20.18 RPX Might Soon be Owned by Patent Troll Erich Spangenberg
  • 01.24.18 PTAB Engages in Patent Justice, But Lobbyists of Patent Trolls Try to Blame PTAB for All the Problems of the US and Then Promote Iancu
  • 01.24.18 Team UPC Has Been Reduced to Rubble and Misinformation
  • 01.25.18 Justice Still Elusive at the EPO and ILOAT, But a Glimmer of Hope Remains
  • 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
  • 01.26.18 How a Microsoft-Sponsored and IBM-Armed Patent Troll Is Used by Lobbyists of Software Patents
  • 01.27.18 Litigation and Patent Trolls Are Moving to China, Which is Bad for American Litigators But Great for American Technology Firms
  • 01.27.18 Patents on Life at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 01.28.18 The Patent Microcosm Maintains the Illusion That Relative US Demise (e.g. in Innovation) is Due to Patent Reform
  • 01.28.18 On Patent Trolls or Bullies Such as the CAO Group and WiLAN
  • 01.28.18 The European Commission and the Failure to Stop the FRAND/SEP Lobby
  • 01.28.18 With the Heritage Foundation Getting Involved and Andrei Iancu Potentially Appointed on Monday, the Road Ahead Looks Troubling for Patents
  • 01.28.18 An Uphill Battle for Software Patents in the United States, Except When Catchphrases and Buzzwords Are Used
  • 01.30.18 The Lobby for Software Patents — Including Microsoft-Connected Law Firms — Clings Onto One Patent From a Microsoft-Sponsored Patent Troll
  • 01.30.18 China’s Patent Policy Likely to Drive Out Foreign Companies and Maybe That’s Just the Intention
  • 01.30.18 A Korean Android OEM is Bullied by Patent Trolls Which Microsoft Gave Patents to and Paid
  • 01.30.18 A Danish Company Has Just Collapsed Due to Patent Quality Issues at the EPO
  • 01.31.18 Patent Justice at the EPO is as Bad as Justice for Workers
  • 01.31.18 The UPC/SEP/FRAND Lobby Has Resorted to Just Insulting the Opposition
  • 02.03.18 India and Europe Do Not Permit Software Patents, But Patent Law Firms Try to Work Around the Law
  • 02.03.18 It is a Tough Market for Patent Trolls in the US, But Microsoft-Connected Trolls Still Manage to Harm Android/Linux
  • 02.04.18 Contrary to Claims From the Litigation ‘Industry’, AIA, PTAB, and the USPTO’s Inter Partes Reviews (IPRs) Make the US Better for Innovation
  • 02.04.18 The So-called ‘Big Pharma’ Industry is Hoping to Weaken If Not Eliminate PTAB
  • 02.04.18 The Latest Attacks on PTAB Are Old News or Smears Recycled by Watchtroll et al.
  • 02.04.18 PTAB Watch: Paul Hastings’ Naveen Modi, Worlds Inc. and RPX on Trolls in Semiconductors Market (Rambus/Hardware Patents)
  • 02.04.18 PTAB’s Chief Judge David Ruschke Responds to the Smears From the Anti-PTAB Lobby
  • 02.05.18 The ‘Microsoft Operandi’ of Vaguely Alluding to 200+ Patents to Blackmail the Competition is Now Being Copied by China
  • 02.07.18 China’s Patent Strategy Seems to be Driving Away Foreign Companies and Causing Legal Chaos From Within
  • 02.07.18 Patent Filings in India Are Declining, Just Like at the European Patent Office
  • 02.09.18 To Understand the Protection Racket Look Not at Microsoft But at Patent Trolls Which It Sponsors
  • 02.09.18 In China, GUIs Are Not Patent-Enforceable and GUI Patents Are Not Algorithms, Contrary to New Spin
  • 02.10.18 The Chamber of Corporations, Together With the Trolls’ Lobby, Resorts to Alarmist Propaganda in an Effort to Alter Patent Policy
  • 02.10.18 China’s Patent Policy Helps Chinese Oligarchs and Creates a Large Litigation ‘Industry’ Which Protects the Oligarchy
  • 02.11.18 As Andrei Iancu Takes Office (USPTO) Calls to Preserve PTAB Are Issued by Trade Groups of Technology Firms
  • 02.12.18 Denialists of Patent Trolls Are at It Again
  • 02.13.18 Watch Out for Buzzwords That Are Used to Mask Patents on Software, Even in Europe
  • 02.13.18 The Campaign to Subvert the US Patent Office by Misrepresenting Its Successes
  • 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’s Paid Promotion of Software Patents Gets Patent Maximalists All Excited and Emboldened
  • 02.14.18 No, Britain is Not Ratifying ‘Unitary’ Anything, But Team UPC Insinuates It Will (Desperate Effort to Affect Tomorrow’s Outcome)
  • 02.14.18 Andrei Iancu Begins His USPTO Career While Former USPTO Director (and Now Paid Lobbyist) Keeps Meddling in Office Affairs
  • 02.15.18 Speech Deficit and No Freedom of Association at the EPO
  • 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 With Stambler v Mastercard, Patent Maximalists Are Hoping to Prop Up Software Patents and Damage PTAB
  • 02.18.18 An Indoctrinated Minority is Maintaining the Illusion That Patent Policy is to Blame for All or Most Problems of the United States
  • 02.19.18 Patent Trolls Watch: Microsoft-Connected Intellectual Ventures, Finjan, and Rumour of Technicolor-InterDigital Buyout
  • 02.19.18 Makan Delrahim is Wrong; Patents Are a Major Antitrust Problem, Sometimes Disguised Using Trolls Somewhere Like the Eastern District of Texas
  • 02.20.18 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby is Distorting the Record of CAFC on PTAB
  • 02.20.18 Japan Demonstrates Sanity on SEP Policy While US Patent Policy is Influenced by Lobbyists
  • 02.21.18 End of the UPC Lobby and Withdrawal of UPCA May Seem Imminent
  • 02.24.18 Chinese Firms Dominate the Chinese Mobile Market Where Patents Are Used for Nationalist Protectionism
  • 02.24.18 Unified Patents, With Help From PTAB, Succeeds at Disarming Patent Trolls; InterDigital and RPX See a Massive Decline in Income
  • 02.24.18 Automated Tracking Solutions, Aatrix and Berkheimer Don’t Change Anything; They’re Exploited by Patent Extremists to Pressure/Mislead/Insult Judges
  • 02.25.18 As Japan Moves Towards Reducing Patent Lawsuits and Curbing SEP Abuse Will the United States Follow Suit?
  • 02.26.18 US Patent Courts Gravitate Towards Patent Justice Rather Than Patent Maximalism
  • 02.27.18 IBM Has Become More of a Patent Broker Rather Than a Genuine Technology Company
  • 02.27.18 Patent Trolls Like Xperi and Fraunhofer Get Patents and Payments From East Asia
  • 02.27.18 East Asia — Mainland China in Particular — Already Becoming a Victim of Its Patent Policy as Software Patent Trolls Prey on Producing Companies
  • 03.01.18 Similar Scandal at the USPTO (to Battistelli’s Nepotism) and Upcoming Lies About ‘Results’ (in Annual Report, Out Next Week)
  • 03.03.18 Just Months After Japan’s Giant Canon Joined a Patent Nonaggression Pact (OIN) It’s Filing Dozens of Patent Lawsuits
  • 03.03.18 China’s Patent System is a Trade Barrier and a Legal Wall Preventing Fair Competition With the Communist Party of China (CPC)
  • 03.04.18 When Patent Maximalists Openly and Shamelessly Defend a Patent ‘Scam’
  • 03.04.18 A Publicly-Traded Troll, InterDigital, is Trying Hard to Recover Lost Momentum by Adding Tens of Thousands of Technicolor Patents/Applications
  • 03.04.18 Microsoft Should be Subjected to Antitrust Action For an Extensive Network of Patent Blackmail, But With a Lobbyist in Charge (Trump Appointee) Don’t Hold Your Breath
  • 03.06.18 Calling Genetics and Other Things “Life Sciences” Does Not Turn Nature Into Patentable Science
  • 03.06.18 There’s No Patent Trolls Problem in Europe, Say Law Firms That Represent and Front for Patent Trolls
  • 03.08.18 Patent Trolls and Their Lobbyists Continue to Attack Academics Who Warn About Patent Trolls in Europe
  • 03.08.18 The European Patent Office (EPO) Ought to Lead in Patent Scope, Not Slide to the Bottom of the Pile
  • 03.08.18 Japanese and Korean Companies Don’t Pursue Patent Litigation and They’re Doing a Lot Better Than China
  • 03.10.18 Alice/§ 101 is Improving the Quality of Patents in the United States and Patent Law Firms Are Panicking
  • 03.11.18 We Shall Soon Find Out Where Trump Appointees Such as Neil Gorsuch Stand on Patent Policies
  • 03.11.18 Trump’s USPTO Changes Patent Designs, Changes Director/Deputy Director, and Anticipat ‘Ranks’ Patent Examiners Based on How They Deal With Section 101
  • 03.12.18 Patent Academics and CAFC Make a Living Out of Patents, But Both Must Begrudgingly Learn to Accept That Patents Went Too Far
  • 03.12.18 EPO Patent ‘Growth’ Not Achieved But Demanded/Mandated by Battistelli, by Lowering Quality of Patents/Services
  • 03.12.18 Doubt Over Independence of Judges at the EPO Clouds Reason in Deciding Regarding Patents on Life
  • 03.14.18 The EPO is a Mess Under Battistelli and Stakeholders Including Law Firms Will Suffer, Not Just EP Holders
  • 03.15.18 Patent Maximalists Are Still Trying to Create a Patent Bubble in India
  • 03.16.18 Deleted EPO Tweets and Promotion of Software Patents Amid Complaints About Abuse and Demise of Patent Quality
  • 03.17.18 The Patent ‘Printing Machine’ of the EPO Will Spawn Many Lawsuits and Extortions (Threats of Lawsuits), in Effect Taxing Europe
  • 03.17.18 Luxembourg Can Become a Hub of Patent Trolls If the EPO Carries on With Its ‘Reforms’, Even Without the UPC
  • 03.17.18 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Carries on Enforcing § 101, Invalidating Software Patents and Upsetting the Patent ‘Industry’ in the Process
  • 03.18.18 PTAB Hatred is So Intense Among the Patent ‘Industry’ That Even Scammers Are Hailed as Champions If They Target PTAB
  • 03.19.18 From PTAB Bashing to Federal Circuit (CAFC) Bashing: How the Patent ‘Industry’ Sells Software Patents
  • 03.19.18 News About Patents is Often Just Advertisements Composed Directly or Indirectly by Companies That Sell Patents and Patent Services
  • 03.19.18 Patent Maximalists Keep Coming Up With New Terms and Buzzwords to Bypass the Practical Ban on Software Patents
  • 03.20.18 Battistelli’s EPO Became Extremely Reliant on China for Distraction and on Endless Supply of Applications (Supply Which Doesn’t Exist)
  • 03.22.18 Battistelli’s Ongoing Attacks on the Boards Are Helping Unitary Patent (UPC), Which in Turn Helps French Patent Trolls
  • 03.22.18 Aggressive New Activities of Microsoft-Connected Patent Trolls: Finjan, Intellectual Ventures, and Dominion Harbor
  • 03.22.18 Japan is Becoming Firmer on Patents, Whereas China Goes in the Opposite Direction
  • 03.23.18 Team Battistelli and Team UPC Are Both Very Deep in Denial
  • 03.23.18 Ericsson, Acting Directly Rather Than Via the Patent Trolls It Habitually Uses, in a Patent War Against Linux/Android
  • 03.24.18 China’s Equivalent of PTAB and BoA, the Patent Reexamination Board (PRB), Can Confirm Some Chinese Patents Are of Low Quality
  • 03.24.18 The Patent Maximalists Already Pressure USPTO Director Andrei Iancu to Say the ‘Right’ Things
  • 03.25.18 Where Opposition to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB, AIA) Has Come From Over the Past Week If Not Year
  • 03.26.18 On Media Hype, Software Patents, and 35 U.S.C. § 101 Which Annuls Both
  • 03.27.18 Oil States Decision is Approaching and So Does Strategic Smearing of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)
  • 03.29.18 Senator Jean-Yves Leconte Accuses EPO and/or ILO of Injustice, But Don’t Expect Media to Notice or Cover It
  • 03.31.18 Political Actions Against PTAB Are Still a Fringe Phenomenon and the Supreme Court’s Justices Are Unlikely to be Swayed/Persuaded by Such ‘Stunts’
  • 04.03.18 Benoît Battistelli’s Era Yields Not Only Invalid and Harmful Monopolies But Also Breeds Distrust and Layoffs
  • 04.03.18 Berkheimer Can be Overturned and Software Patents Are Still a Waste of Time/Money/Effort in the United States
  • 04.03.18 ‘Patent Imperialism’ in the United States and China
  • 04.03.18 The Mass Litigation Lobby Craves for Patent Armageddon
  • 04.03.18 Scam and Threat in the Mailbox Today, Courtesy of the Anti-PTAB Brigade
  • 04.05.18 It Won’t Be Long Before BlackBerry Becomes Just a Patent Extortion Operation, Formerly Recognised as a Real Company
  • 04.07.18 The Anti-PTAB Brigade is Willing to Embrace Radical Elements Just to Get Its Way
  • 04.07.18 Patent Maximalists Against Patent Quality and Against the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Organisation (EPO)
  • 04.09.18 Hype Waves Exploited by the Software Patents Lobby: Blockchain, Autonomous Driving, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Wearables
  • 04.09.18 The ‘Sisvelisation’ of Europe, With or Without the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • 04.09.18 In Just a Few Years China Became the Eastern District of Texas
  • 04.11.18 USPTO Will Have a Crisis of Legitimacy If Its Officials Work as Lobbyists and Cooperate With Villainous Think Tanks
  • 04.12.18 Patent Trolls in the United States Show the Importance of Stopping Software Patents (Trolls’ Favourite) Worldwide
  • 04.12.18 The USPTO Has a Nepotism and Lobbying Problem That Jeopardises the Rationality of US Patent Law
  • 04.13.18 East Asia Should Have Adopted the Patent Strategy of South Asia, Notably India
  • 04.13.18 Samsung is the ‘New IBM’, Sans the Trolling With Patents
  • 04.14.18 Killing Patent Quality and Encouraging ‘Covert’ Software Patents Using the Buzzwords Du Jour
  • 04.17.18 The EPO Continues to Lie About Patent Quality Whilst Openly Promoting Software Patents, Even Outside Europe
  • 04.17.18 For Samsung and Apple the Biggest Threat Has Become Patent Trolls and Aggressors in China and the Eastern District of Texas, Not Each Other
  • 04.19.18 The Boards of Appeal at the European Patent Organisation (EPO) Complain That They Are Understaffed, Not Just Lacking the Independence They Depend on
  • 04.19.18 When News About the EPO is Dominated by Sponsored ‘Reports’ and Press Releases Because Publishers Are Afraid of (or Bribed by) the EPO
  • 04.19.18 The Patent Microcosm, Patent Trolls and Their Pressure Groups Incite a USPTO Director Against the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and Section 101/Alice
  • 04.21.18 As USPTO Director, Andrei Iancu Gives Three Months for Public Comments on 35 U.S.C. § 101 (Software Patenting Impacted)
  • 04.22.18 Is Andy Ramer’s Departure the End of Cantor Fitzgerald’s Patent Trolls-Feeding Operations and Ambitions?
  • 04.22.18 Today’s European Patent Office Works for Patent Extremists and for Team UPC Rather Than for Europe or for Innovation
  • 04.22.18 The Federal Circuit’s (CAFC) Decisions Are Being Twisted by Patent Propaganda Sites Which Merely Cherry-Pick Cases With Outcomes That Suit Them
  • 04.23.18 Patent Trolls Watch: Red River Innovations, Bradium Technologies/General Patent, and Wordlogic
  • 04.24.18 Patent Maximalists Step Things Up With Director Andrei Iancu and It’s Time for Scientists to Fight Back
  • 04.24.18 The European Patent Office (EPO) Wastes a Lot of Money on External PR Agencies for Battistelli’s ‘Heist’
  • 04.24.18 Quick Mention: As Expected, the US Supreme Court Cements PTAB’s Role With Trump-Appointed Gorsuch Dissenting
  • 04.25.18 Battistelli Misuses EPO Budget to Saturate the European Media With Puff Pieces About His Event
  • 04.26.18 Reporting Benoît Battistelli Before He Too ‘Pulls a Željko Topić’
  • 04.26.18 World IP Day, a Propaganda Opportunity for Patent Maximalists, is Becoming More About Feminism
  • 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
  • 04.30.18 Like a Pack of Spoiled Brats, Patent Maximalists and Media That They Control Bash the Oil States Decision and Distract From It
  • 05.01.18 People Are Belatedly Asking All Those ‘Awkward’ Questions About UPC and the Lies Told by Team UPC
  • 05.02.18 RPX, RIP
  • 05.03.18 The European Patent Office Has Become a Kakistocracy
  • 05.03.18 Marks & Clerk is Still Pushing Patent Maximalism Agenda in Europe and Britain, Including UPC/UPCA/Unitary Patent (UP)
  • 05.05.18 If Anyone Has Defamed the European Patent Organisation/Office (EPO) It’s Benoît Battistelli
  • 05.07.18 Rumour: The European Patent Office Has Just ‘Done a Patrick Corcoran’ Again (Forced Removal)
  • 05.08.18 Forward Pharma an Example of the Devastating Effect of Granting Patents in Error — A Problem Appeal Boards Must Correct
  • 05.09.18 Barker Brettell is Wrong About Unified Patent Court (UPC) and the United Kingdom
  • 05.09.18 Microsoft is Attacking the Competition Through Patent Trolls Based in Texas, Armed by Microsoft’s Former Management
  • 05.09.18 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Not Happening, But Kluwer Patent Blog Pretends It’s Already in Force
  • 05.12.18 The Patent Trolls’ Lobbyists Continue to Deny That the Concept of Trolling Even Exists or Needs Addressing
  • 05.12.18 Patents on Life (or Supposed ‘Gene-Editing’/CRISPR) Are a Gross Distortion of the Raison D’être of Patents
  • 05.13.18 District of Delaware is Becoming Patent Litigation ‘Infestation’ Zone, According to Lex Machina’s Data
  • 05.13.18 The Patent Microcosm is ‘Snookering’ Andrei Iancu on PTAB Deforms and Broadest Reasonable Interpretation (BRI), Amongst Other Things
  • 05.13.18 The Evil, Truly ‘Evil’ Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and the Courts Have the Audacity to Verify/Disprove Patent Validity
  • 05.13.18 Three Weeks After Oil States the Patent Microcosm Has Already ‘Buried’ the Subject and 35 U.S.C. § 101 is Under Threat
  • 05.13.18 Alice/Section 101 is Fine Because Copyrights Already Cover Software and Patents Are Inadequate for Code
  • 05.13.18 The Supreme Court’s SAS Decision and the Race/Campaign to Undermine PTAB With Iancu’s Help
  • 05.14.18 It Doesn’t Take a Genius to See That Microsoft Still Attacks GNU/Linux With Patents to Make Billions of Dollars in ‘Protection’ Money
  • 05.15.18 A Google-Centric and Google-Led Patent Pool Won’t Protect GNU/Linux But Merely ‘Normalise’ Software Patents
  • 05.15.18 Apple and Microsoft Are Still Suing Companies — Using Patents of Course — Which ‘Dare’ Compete (by Leveraging GNU/Linux)
  • 05.15.18 EPO Has Become Overzealous About Software Patents, Probably More So Than Almost Anywhere Else
  • 05.17.18 Today’s EPO Financially Rewards Abuses and Violations of the Law
  • 05.17.18 Rise in Patent Trolls’ Activity in Germany Noted Amid Declining Patent Quality at the EPO
  • 05.19.18 ‘Nokification’ in Hong Kong and China (PRC)
  • 05.19.18 A Year After TC Heartland the Patent Microcosm is Trying to ‘Dilute’ This Supreme Court’s Decision or Work Around It
  • 05.19.18 Patent Law Firms That Profit From Software Patent Applications and Lawsuits Still ‘Pull a Berkheimer’ to Attract Business in Vain
  • 05.20.18 The Attacks on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Have Lost Momentum and the Patent Microcosm Begrudgingly Gives Up
  • 05.20.18 António Campinos Will Push Toward a France-Based Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • 05.23.18 PTAB’s Latest Applications of 35 U.S.C. § 101 and Obviousness Tests to Void U.S. Patents
  • 05.24.18 Walmart, Bank of America, Allied Security Trust (AST) and the Rush for ‘Blockchain’ Patents
  • 05.25.18 The Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court (UPC): This Week’s Latest Spin and Lies
  • 05.27.18 The Way Things Are Going in the Eastern District of Texas and Other US District Courts, South Korean Companies Might as Well Exit the US Like They Exit China
  • 05.27.18 The Patent Extremists Resort to Trump-Styled China-Baiting in an Effort to Destroy US Patent Policy
  • 05.28.18 Microsoft and Its Patent Trolls Face an Uphill Battle in a Patent System Which is Increasingly Hostile Towards Software Patents
  • 05.28.18 Supreme Court Justices and 35 U.S.C. § 101 Are Fixing the USPTO, Voiding ‘Fake Patents’
  • 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 The Chinese Patent System Does a Fine Job Devouring China, But Sites of the Litigation ‘Industry’ Are Absolutely Loving It!
  • 05.31.18 IP Kat is Still Acting as a Propaganda Front for UPC (and EU Software Patents) Lobbying by US-Based Front Groups
  • 06.01.18 Patenting Bar Raised by US Courts, But the Patent Microcosm (Now Infesting ‘Bloomberg Law’ and Other Media) Fights Back With Deception
  • 06.02.18 Team UPC Turns to a Spanish ‘Flavour’ of Unitary Patent Propaganda (Just Like Last Year)
  • 06.02.18 US Antitrust Official Makan Delrahim Encourages Parasitic Patent Behaviour — Not Just Embargoes — in the Phones Domain and Beyond
  • 06.05.18 IP Kat as an Extension of Team UPC After Departure of the Blog’s Founder
  • 06.05.18 Microsoft’s Patent Trolls Continue to Attack Microsoft’s Rivals, Including These Companies’ Use of Free/Open Source Software
  • 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
  • 06.09.18 A Post-TC Heartland (and Post-Alice) Patent System is Bad if Not Fatal News to Patent Trolls Like Microsoft’s Intellectual Ventures
  • 06.09.18 Data From the USPTO Almost Confirms Suspicions That People Named in Patents Are Likely Unrelated (Nothing to Do With These Patents)
  • 06.10.18 Growth in Petitions Against Questionable Patents (PTAB IPRs) and Patent Trolls’ Migration to China
  • 06.11.18 Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe Blind to Its Participation in a Scam Around Patents on Nature
  • 06.12.18 Battistelli’s EPO is Outdoing North Korea When It Comes to Propaganda and Abuses Against Staff
  • 06.13.18 Buzzwords and Three-Letter Acronyms Still Abused by the EPO to Grant a Lot of Patents on Algorithms
  • 06.13.18 When the USPTO Grants Patents in Defiance of 35 U.S.C. § 101 the Courts Will Eventually Squash These Anyway
  • 06.15.18 The ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI) Hype, Propped Up by Events of the European Patent Office (EPO), is Infectious and It Threatens Patent Quality Worldwide
  • 06.15.18 In the United States the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, Which Assures Patent Quality, is Still Being Smeared by Law Firms That Profit From Patent Maximalism, Lawsuits
  • 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 Microsoft is Still ‘Cybermobbing’ Its Competition Using Patent Trolls Such as Finjan
  • 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
  • 06.20.18 The Eastern District of Texas is Where Asian Companies/Patents/Trolls Still Go After TC Heartland
  • 06.24.18 Stronger Patents or None at All: How the Greed of Patent Law Firms and the Patent Office Contributes to Bogus Software Patents Being Amassed
  • 06.24.18 Can Alice/35 U.S.C. § 101 Stop Microsoft-Connected Patent Trolls in the US?
  • 06.24.18 Patent Factory Europe (PFE) is a Patent Troll’s Publicity Stunt, Attempting to Frame a Predator as the Small Businesses’ Friend and Ally
  • 06.24.18 Even After SAS Institute, Inc. v Iancu (Decision on PTAB) There’s No Stopping the Crackdown on Bogus US Patents
  • 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)
  • 06.24.18 TC Heartland is Still Deterring and Suppressing Patent Trolls in the United States
  • 06.26.18 Number of US Patent Lawsuits Was More Than 50% Higher Half a Decade Ago
  • 06.26.18 US Supreme Court is Not Revisiting Patent Scope After Alice
  • 06.27.18 J A Kemp Pushing the Boundaries of Patent Scope in Europe With Antibodies and SPCs
  • 06.28.18 iPEL (Innovative Patents, Ethical Licensing) is Just Another Patent Trolls’ Scam/Ploy Disguised as ‘Ethical’
  • 06.28.18 US Patent Number 10,000,000 May be a Bogus One, as Per Alice/Section 101
  • 06.29.18 Insults, Lies and Propaganda on Battistelli’s Last Day at the European Patent Office
  • 07.01.18 Anthony Kennedy’s Retirement From SCOTUS Means That the Patent Microcosm Has Selective Recollection
  • 07.01.18 Stop Patenting Life, Nature is Not an Invention
  • 07.01.18 Welcoming António Campinos, New President of the European Patent Office
  • 07.02.18 First Day for António Campinos is Done, But Some Media is Still Publishing 90th-Minute Battistelli Puff Pieces
  • 07.02.18 The Corporate Media Continues to Promote Software Patents Which Are Clearly and Demonstrably Next to Worthless (Only the Lawyers Benefit)
  • 07.03.18 First Act of António Campinos: Pushing the Unconstitutional Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 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
  • 07.05.18 Abstract Ideas and Mental (Thoughts) Type of Claims Still Deemed Patent-Ineligible, Buzzwords Are Used Instead
  • 07.07.18 Alice and Mayo (Inspiring § 101) Untouched for the Foreseeable Future, Meaning That the Patent Microcosm Now Smears the US Supreme Court
  • 07.07.18 AIPLA, IPO and NYIPLA Lobby Against Section 101 and Thomas Massie Wants to Stop PTAB
  • 07.08.18 Apple Has Far More to Lose Than to Gain From Patent Maximalism; Apple Needs to Fight for Patent Sanity
  • 07.08.18 The Term ‘Life Science’ Has Outlived Its Usefulness
  • 07.10.18 Patent Trolls Rally/Advertise Thomas Massie’s Bill to Abolish PTAB and Promote Software Patents in the US
  • 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’
  • 07.12.18 Thomas Massie and Marcy Kaptur Are Promoting the Interests of Patent Trolls and Patent Lawyers While Calling That “Innovation”
  • 07.14.18 Jim Skippen, a Longtime Patent Troll, Admits That the Trolling Sector is Collapsing
  • 07.14.18 From East Asia to the Eastern District of Texas: XYZ Printing, Maxell, and X2Y Attenuators
  • 07.15.18 BT and Sonos Are Still Patent Bullies, Seeing Patents as a Backup Plan
  • 07.19.18 When Amplifying the Message of ‘Global Innovation Index 2018′ IP Watch Sounds Like WIPO and IP Watchdog (Watchtroll)
  • 07.19.18 Mafia Tactics in Team UPC and Battistelli’s Circle
  • 07.21.18 The EPO (European Patent Office) Under António Campinos is Just Another Battistelli EPO; Still UPC and Software Patents Lobbying
  • 07.24.18 China Belatedly Tackles Patent Trolls, Albeit After Giving Them the Green Light With Broad and Low-Quality Patents Such as Software Patents
  • 07.25.18 As the Quality of European Patents Sinks António Campinos Must Heed China’s Warning, Not Copy SIPO/TIPO
  • 07.28.18 Microsoft’s Biggest Patent Troll Now Leverages the US ‘International’ Trade Commission (ITC) for Embargo Attempts
  • 07.30.18 What EPO Staff is ‘Hopeful’ After a Month of António Campinos Doing Absolutely Nothing to Reverse Battistelli’s Ruinous Policies?
  • 08.02.18 IBM’s Patent Aggression Celebrated by Law Firms, Condemned by Technical People
  • 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)
  • 08.04.18 António Campinos is Not Improving Patent Quality or Even the Social Climate at the EPO (False Promises)
  • 08.05.18 The Anti-PTAB Lobby Still Predicting Doom and Gloom, as Usual, Despite PTAB’s Year-Over-Year Growth
  • 08.05.18 The Post-TC Heartland East Texas Conundrum and the Oddity of Trials by People Who Don’t Understand the Pertinent Patents
  • 08.05.18 Ericsson’s Wi-Fi Patent Thicket and Patent Trolls Like Sisvel Harm the Smallest Players in the Market
  • 08.06.18 Jury Trials and Apple’s Latest Bitter Affair With Patents
  • 08.06.18 Attributing Negligible Differences to Whatever Suits the Loudest Opponents of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)
  • 08.06.18 Agenda and Lies From Watchtroll Make It Into the Bill of Rohrabacher, the “Inventor Protection Act”
  • 08.09.18 Patents as Profiteering Opportunities for Law Firms Rather Than Drivers of Innovation for Productive Companies
  • 08.09.18 Propaganda Sites of Patent Trolls and Litigators Have Quit Trying to Appear Impartial or Having Integrity
  • 08.09.18 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement is Paralysed, So Team UPC is Twisting Old News
  • 08.11.18 EPO-Style Problem-Solution: Tackling Backlog by Granting Lots of Low-Quality (Bogus) European Patents, Causing a Surge in Troll/Frivolous Litigation
  • 08.12.18 Software Patents, Secured by ‘Smart’ and ‘Intelligent’ Tricks, Help Microsoft and Others Bypass Alice/Section 101
  • 08.13.18 Gene Quinn and ‘Dallas Innovates’ as Couriers of Agenda for Patent Trolls Like iPEL
  • 08.16.18 Almost Two Months After the ILO Ruling Staff Representative Brumme is Finally Back on the Job at EPO
  • 08.18.18 David Ruschke, the PTAB’s Chief, is Moving So the Patent Maximalists Push Their Anti-PTAB Agenda
  • 08.19.18 Patent Trolls Roundup: Conversant Wireless Licensing (Formerly Core Wireless) and Blackbird ‘Technologies’ Still Prey on Real Companies
  • 08.19.18 Alice/35 U.S.C. § 101 and PTAB Are Here to Stay and Even Their Critics (Patent Maximalists) Have Come to Accept That
  • 08.26.18 Patent Trolls Roundup: Epic IP (IP Edge), Cumberland Systems, MacroSolve and Others
  • 08.28.18 Patents on Steroids: ITC is Rushing Embargoes Before the Facts Are Even Known
  • 08.30.18 Feeling Shut Out of the European Patent System, Team UPC Persists With Misleading Claims and Falsehoods
  • 09.04.18 The António Campinos-Led EPO is Over-Relying on Bogus and Abstract Software Patents to Fill the Gaps
  • 09.05.18 CCIA Speaks Out and EFF Lashes Out at Andrei Iancu’s USPTO for Trying to Work Around the Law and Ignore Courts Because of Patent Maximalists’ Agenda
  • 09.07.18 Election of New Vice-Presidents at EPO Seems Rigged, Say Insiders and Former Insiders
  • 09.09.18 The Battle Over PTAB Determines the Fate of Patent Quality in the United States
  • 09.09.18 Renaming Patents on Algorithms to Make Them Look and Sound Less Abstract Than They Really Are
  • 09.12.18 The Belated Demise of Propaganda Sites of the Litigation ‘Industry’
  • 09.16.18 Slamming Courts and Judges Won’t Help the Patent Maximalists; It Can Only Make Things Worse
  • 09.20.18 It Wasn’t Judges With Weapons in Their Office, It Was Benoît Battistelli Who Brought Firearms to the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 09.23.18 Interlude: The Need to Counter Misinformation From the Patent and Litigation ‘Industry’
  • 09.23.18 Open Invention Network is Rendered Obsolete in the Wake of Alice and It’s Not Even Useful in Combating Microsoft’s Patent Trolls
  • 09.25.18 Patent Trolls Roundup: Microsoft’s Patent Troll Collapses, Samsung Fuels Patent Troll Sisvel, and Patent Troll VirnetX Wants Apple’s Cash
  • 09.25.18 Technology Groups and Innovators Bemoan Attempts to Override the Courts to Promote Patent Maximalists’ Agenda by USPTO Director Andrei Iancu
  • 10.01.18 The USPTO is Hopeless, Unlike Patent Courts That Have Become the Target of Ridicule by the Patent ‘Industry’
  • 10.04.18 Europe is Getting Flooded With Software Patents, Repeating the Mistakes Made by the United States
  • 10.04.18 Submissive, Bribed and EPO-Connected Media Organisations Help Perpetuate Corruption by Failing or Refusing to Cover It
  • 10.04.18 Microsoft’s Patent Trolls Are Alive and Well, Seeding Destruction Among Microsoft’s Competition
  • 10.08.18 In Spite of Campaigns Against It, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Squashes Software Patents by the Hundreds Per Month, Patent Maximalists Still Try to Stop It
  • 10.14.18 USPTO FEES Act/SUCCESS Act Gives More Powers to Director Iancu, Supplying Patents for Litigation ‘Business’ and Embargo (ITC)
  • 10.15.18 Corporate Media’s Failure to Cover Patents Properly and Our New Hosting Woes
  • 10.16.18 ‘Cloud’, ‘AI’ and Other Buzzwords as Excuses for Granting Fake Patents on Software
  • 10.18.18 The EPO Under António Campinos Relaxes the Rules on Software Patenting and the Litigation ‘Industry’ Loves That
  • 10.18.18 It’s Almost 2019 and Team UPC is Still Pretending Unitary Patent (UPC) Exists, Merely Waiting for Britain to Join
  • 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
  • 10.21.18 Alice/Mayo and Hatch-Influenced US Patent Office
  • 10.23.18 The EPO Under António Campinos Has Opened More Doors to Software Patents and Only Litigators Are Happy
  • 10.24.18 Colleen Chien’s New Paper Analyses the Basis for Invalidating Software Patents
  • 10.27.18 Lobbying and Blackmail Rewarded? JUVE Awards Team UPC Firm Bardehle Pagenberg, Which Represents Microsoft’s Worst Patent Troll, Intellectual Ventures.
  • 11.01.18 Today the EPO Has Officially Lowered Patent Quality by Allowing Software Patents by Means of Dog Whistles
  • 11.04.18 EPO Granting European Patents on Nature and on Thoughts
  • 11.05.18 Blockchain Hype Exploited by the EPO and by Patent Law Firms to Wrongly Assert Free/Libre Software Can Coexist With Software Patents
  • 11.05.18 The USPTO Under Director Andrei Iancu Actively Disses the Courts and Attacks Fundamental Patent Law
  • 11.08.18 The António Campinos Private/Secret Meeting With ILO Officials a Slap Across the Face to Employees of the European Patent Office
  • 11.08.18 Microsoft is Supporting Patent Trolls, Still. New Leadership at USPTO Gives Room for Concern.
  • 11.13.18 The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is Working for Patent Trolls and Patent Maximalists
  • 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
  • 11.15.18 Patent Maximalists Are Still Trying to Figure Out How to Stop PTAB or Prevent US Patent Quality From Ever Improving
  • 11.15.18 Berkheimer or No Berkheimer, Software Patents Remain Mostly Unenforceable in the United States and the Supreme Court is Fine With That
  • 11.15.18 Ignoring and Bashing Courts: Is This the Future of Patent Offices in the West?
  • 11.15.18 A Question of Debt: António Campinos, Lexology, Law Gazette, and Sam Gyimah
  • 11.17.18 Patent Maximalists in Europe Keep Mentioning China Even Though It Barely Matters to European Patents
  • 11.25.18 Self-Professed Linux ‘Lover’ Microsoft Passes Questionable Patents to DJI as Part of “Microsoft-DJI Collaboration on Azure”
  • 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 Even Sites That Served UPC Propaganda for Years (for These Sites’ Owners) Have Come to Admit That the UPC Might Already be Dead
  • 12.03.18 EPO Management Keeps Embarrassing Itself, UPC More Dead Than Before, and Nokia Turns Aggressive
  • 12.05.18 EPO, in Its Patent Trolls-Infested Forum, Admits It is Granting Bogus Software Patents Under the Guise of ‘Blockchain’
  • 12.09.18 The Quality of European Patents Continues to Deteriorate Under António Campinos and Software Patents Are Advocated Every Day
  • 12.13.18 The European Patent Troll Wants as Much Litigation as Possible
  • 12.15.18 EPO Chief Economist Yann Ménière Keynote Speaker at Patent Trolls-Funded Event Set Up by the Patent Trolls’ Lobby
  • 12.21.18 Today’s EPO Envisions a Europe of Patent Trolls, Not of Science and Technology
  • 12.21.18 Team UPC Belatedly Admits Lying About the German UPC Complaint (Fabricated ‘Rumours’)
  • 12.30.18 Even Joff Wild and the Patent Trolls’ Lobby Finally Admit Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead
  • 01.06.19 Unified Patents Goes After Patent Trolls Funded and Armed (Given Patents) by Microsoft
  • 01.08.19 EPO Corruption is Helping Patent Maximalists in the United States
  • 01.11.19 The Fiction That Spain (or Italy) Can Salvage the UPC
  • 01.15.19 Team UPC on Dead UPC: Choosing Gowns for Corpses
  • 01.29.19 The Management of the EPO Will Not Manage to Recruit Any Talent If It’s Killing Its Own Staff
  • 01.31.19 Fake Software Patents, Patent Trolls and Assault on Generic Medicine in Europe
  • 02.02.19 Concerns About Stephan Harbarth’s Unitary Patent (UPC) Vested Interests and His Entrance Into the Constitutional Court That Decides on UPC
  • 02.10.19 António Campinos Will Never Hold Battistelli Accountable for His Crimes Because He Too Profits From These
  • 02.11.19 The American Software Patents Lobby Has Died
  • 02.12.19 Innovating the Idea That Software Patents (Monopolies on Algorithms) Are Covering ‘Artificial’ ‘Intelligence’ (AI and ML as Loopholes)
  • 02.16.19 Nobody But Patent Trolls and Litigators Will Benefit From the Corruption of the European Patent Office
  • 02.28.19 The Latest Brexit Developments Add Another Nail (Among Many) to the Unified Patent Court’s (UPC) Coffin
  • 03.08.19 Patent Law Firms Are Truly (and Visibly) Panicking Over the Demise of Software Patents
  • 03.11.19 EPO Examiner: “I Have Been Against Software Patents and Eventually 3/4 of My Job is Examining Software Patent Applications.”
  • 03.12.19 EPO’s Latest ‘Results’ Show That António Campinos Has Already Given Up on Patent Quality and is Just Another Battistelli
  • 03.12.19 Microsoft is Complaining About Android and Chrome OS (GNU/Linux) Vendor Not Paying for Microsoft Patents (Updated)
  • 03.14.19 EPO ‘Results’ Are, As Usual, Not Measured Correctly
  • 03.18.19 Director Iancu Generally Viewed as a Lapdog of Patent Trolls
  • 03.21.19 Team UPC (Unitary Patent) is a Headless Chicken
  • 03.22.19 Why the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO) Cannot Ignore Judges, Whereas the EPO Can (and Does)
  • 03.26.19 The Campinos-Battistelli Strategy is Working: Patent Trolls Are Coming to Europe!
  • 03.27.19 The EPO is Still a Software Patents Propaganda Machine and Thus an Enemy of Software Developers in Europe
  • 04.01.19 Patent Trolls Destroy the European Economy Because EPO Gives Them Questionable Patents
  • 04.09.19 Who Does the Legal System Really Serve or Favour in European Patent Disputes?
  • 04.11.19 EPO Still Wasting Budget, Paying Media and Academics for Spin
  • 04.13.19 Patent Maximalists Are Enabling Injustices and Frauds
  • 04.20.19 Largest Patent Offices Try to Leave Courts in a State of Disarray to Enable the Granting of Fake Patents in the US and Europe
  • 04.25.19 The Quality of Patents is Connected to the Quality of Life of Patent Examiners
  • 05.05.19 2019: The Year Patent Zealots’ Blogs Have Mostly Collapsed
  • 05.05.19 It’s 2019 and Team UPC is Still Composing ‘Fake News’ (Lobbying Disguised as Reporting)
  • 05.08.19 Corruption at the EPO is a Threat Not Only to Europe But to Every Continent in the World
  • 05.16.19 The EPO’s Key Function — Like the UPC’s Vision — Has Virtually Collapsed
  • 05.18.19 The War on Patent Quality


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