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Jesper Kongstad

Jesper Kongstad headed DKPTO and the EPO's Administrative Council. His legacy is, to say the least, utterly embarrassing. He was reportedly sacked by the Danish government and then vanished into the private sector.

  • 10.14.14 The EPO’s Protection Triangle of Battistelli, Kongstad, and Topić: Part VI
  • 01.11.15 The EPO Connection Now a Liability as Administrative Council Has Become a Laughing Stock, Jesper Kongstad to be Targeted by EPO Staff Protests
  • 01.29.15 An Estimated 1,000 EPO Employees-Strong Legion Engulfs Danish Consulate to Protest Jesper Kongstad’s (of Administrative Council) Protection of Benoît Battistelli
  • 01.30.15 Media Coverage of Demonstration Against Jesper Kongstad of the Administrative Council (EPO)
  • 02.19.15 The Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys Slams the European Patent Office for Structural Failings
  • 12.16.15 AIPPI Sends Angry Letter to the Administrative Council Regarding the EPO’s Attacks on the Boards and Staff Unions, Saying it Damages the EPO’s Function and Reputation
  • 03.10.16 Central Staff Committee of the European Patent Office Asks the Chairman of the Administrative Council to Take Action Next Week or Risk General (Office-Wide) Strike
  • 03.17.16 Institutional Failure and Dirty Tricks: Benoît Battistelli Seemingly Gets Support Like Microsoft Gets Support
  • 08.09.16 Rumours About Likely Salary of (or Compensation to) Jesper Kongstad of the EPO Administrative Council
  • 10.04.16 Addendum: Controversial Chinchilla Farming by the Kongstad Family
  • 10.04.16 Introduction to Jesper Kongstad, EPO Chairman of the Administrative Council
  • 10.04.16 Danish Fairy Tales and Legends: The Secret Life of Jesper Kongstad
  • 10.06.16 Danish Stories – Part II: Kongstad’s Political Masters in Denmark and Rumoured Connections to the Venstre Party
  • 10.12.16 Addendum II: Article About the Kongstads’ Villa Becoming a Breeding Farm for the Fur Industry
  • 10.12.16 Danish Stories – Part V: Jesper Kongstad’s Chinchilla Fur Farming
  • 11.18.16 Drunk on ‘Production’, the European Patent Office (EPO) Grants Patents on Recipes
  • 03.09.17 Ousting of Benoît Battistelli Next Week Seems Feasible, But Jesper Kongstad Protects Rather Than Supervises Battistelli
  • 03.16.17 Battistelli Wants to be ‘King’ for a Decade or Longer, Jesper Kongstad Protects Him
  • 03.26.17 His Master’s Voice, Jesper Kongstad, Blocks Discussion of Investigative and Disciplinary Procedures at the EPO
  • 03.26.17 Even the EPO’s Administrative Council No Longer Trusts Its Chairman, Battistelli’s ‘Chinchilla’ Jesper Kongstad
  • 03.29.17 Kongstad and Battistelli Have Staged a Coup at the European Patent Organisation (EPO)
  • 05.05.17 Battistelli’s Protector, Jesper Kongstad, Resigns!
  • 05.06.17 Translations and Speculations About Jesper Kongstad’s Planned Departure From the EPO
  • 06.05.17 Battistelli’s ‘Boss’, Jesper Kongstad, Rumoured to Have Been Paid by Battistelli
  • 06.26.17 Leaked: Job Opening Advertised as Battistelli’s ‘Mole’ at the Administrative Council, Jesper Kongstad, Leaves in Shame
  • 07.13.17 Looking Forward to a Battistelli-less and Kongstad-less European Patent Office
  • 09.30.17 Jesper Kongstad’s Last Day is Today, But the EPO Remains a Sordid Mess Like the UPC
  • 10.10.17 Jesper Kongstad Was Not Honest About Early Retirement, He is Joining the Private Sector
  • 12.29.17 Raw: When the EPO Suppressed Human Rights, Including Strikes, Chairman Jesper Kongstad Supported the Suppression
  • 01.14.18 EPC Foresaw the Administrative Council Overseeing the Patent Office, Jesper Kongstad Made It “Working Together”
  • 05.05.18 The European Patent Organisation (EPO) Stopped Working and It’s Also the Fault of Jesper Kongstad, Not Just Benoît Battistelli
  • 02.02.15 Benoît Battistelli and Jesper Kongstad Continue to Blame Everything on SUEPO
  • 11.10.15 The Bureaucratic Nonsense That Came Out of Benoît Battistelli and Jesper Kongstad at EPOPIC
  • 10.07.16 Danish Stories – Part III: Jesper Kongstad a Danish Civil Servant With a Distinctly Entrepreneurial Streak
  • 10.09.16 Addendum I: FJORDBLINK MEDICAL ApS Technically Housed in Jesper Kongstad’s New Mansion?
  • 10.09.16 Danish Stories – Part IV: Jesper Kongstad and FJORDBLINK MEDICAL ApS
  • 10.12.16 Index: Our Jesper Kongstad Series of Danish Stories
  • 10.27.16 ‘Balkan Express’ Teaser: EPO’s Željko Topić, Kuterovac, Campinos, Gurry, Battistelli and the DKPTO (Kongstad)
  • 03.31.17 Culpability for EPO Injustice in the Administrative Council Chaired by Battistelli’s Protector, Jesper Kongstad
  • 12.13.18 António Campinos Turns His ‘Boss’ Into His Lapdog, Just Like Battistelli and Kongstad
  • 01.29.09 The End of Software Patents?
  • 09.15.14 Željko Topić, Benoît Battistelli, and the European Patent Office (EPO): Part II
  • 10.07.14 Benoît Battistelli’s Balkan Standards in EPO: Part V
  • 10.20.14 The EPO’s Public Relations Disaster Amid Distrust From Within (and EPO Communications Chief Leaves): Part VII
  • 12.08.14 EPO Staff Protests Today and Protested Last Week, Targeting Corruption in the Institution
  • 12.13.14 News From France and Germany: Battistelli Under Fire, But Not Fired Yet, Just Firing His Opposition
  • 12.28.14 EPO Corruption: Battistelli Augments His ‘Loyals’ Circle With Frederic Angermann and Charm Offensive in Patent Lawyers’ Sites
  • 01.07.15 Intellectual Property Judges’ Association (IPJA) Speaks Out Against EPO Tyrant Battistelli
  • 02.01.15 The EPO’s Paid Propaganda Campaign in the Media
  • 02.03.15 More Press Coverage From the Danish Media About EPO Abuses and Protest at Danish Consulate
  • 02.15.15 English Translation of Article About Protest at Danish Consulate Over EPO Abuses
  • 02.18.15 EPO Scandals: The Story So Far
  • 02.19.15 EPO Staff Protests Against Benoît Battistelli’s Lowering of Patents Quality (Scope Expansion and Software Patents for Profit)
  • 04.02.15 Željko Topić: “SUEPO (Staff Union) Has No Standing in This Office. SUEPO Has No Role to Play in This Office.”
  • 04.24.15 EPO Management is Trying Hard to Appease Its Critics While Pushing Forth Unitary Patent Agenda
  • 05.25.15 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Benoît Battistelli and Four EPO Suicides
  • 05.25.15 Süddeutsche Zeitung Says Talking Helps While EPO Management Back-stabs Other Side of the Table
  • 06.06.15 EPO and Administrative Council Stall Criticism by Pretending to Negotiate With Staff Whilst Actually Attacking It
  • 06.06.15 EPO Officially Confirms That It Specifically Hired Control Risks Group (CRG) to Spy on Journalists and Their Sources
  • 06.26.15 The EPO’s Circus of Nepotism, Corporatism and Gross Abuse is Promoting the Unitary Patent
  • 06.28.15 After Intervention by the Council of Europe Comes a Detailed Summary of the Situation in the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 08.21.15 EPO Corruption of Patent Boundaries: Business Methods and Algorithms Patented
  • 10.05.15 New Information on Limbo in the Enlarged Board, Courtesy of Illegal Actions by the EPO’s Benoît Battistelli
  • 10.16.15 The ‘Sherlocks’ of EPO/Spin-Doctoring Pretend That All of the EPO’s Problems Boil Down to One Disgruntled Person (Updated)
  • 10.24.15 SUEPO Reiterates Call for Independent Mediation and “Doubts That There Can Ever be Social Peace With Mr Battistelli as President”
  • 10.26.15 The Deteriorating Working Conditions at the EPO Show Reluctance to Make Talented Staff (or Ill Staff) Happy
  • 10.28.15 Control Risks Group (CRG), Transparency International, the European Patent Office (EPO) Investigative Unit and the Obvious Conflicts of Interest
  • 11.04.15 The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part II
  • 11.20.15 In an Effort to Counter EPO Staff Narrative (After ~2,000 of Staff Protest) EPO Management Portrays Staff as Violent But Provides No Evidence
  • 11.21.15 EPO: It’s Like a Family Business – Part IV
  • 11.21.15 German Press Says Broken EPO Lets President Severely Punish Staff Not Even Guilty of Any Wrongdoing
  • 11.22.15 Rumour About Efforts to Dismiss a Board Judge by Intimidating Boards of Appeal
  • 12.03.15 EPO Staff Protest Statistics: Over 2,600 Signatures (So Far) in Petition, About 800 Staff in The Hague Protest, Much More to Come in Munich
  • 12.06.15 The Tail That Wags the Dog: How an EPO President Virtually Controls the Administrative Council (AC)
  • 12.06.15 Article Highlights EPO’s Capitalist Venture Tendencies, Seeking to Just Maximize Profit, Irrespective of Public Interests and Human Factors
  • 12.08.15 Legal Analysis Reveals That EPO Principal Director for Human Resources (Bergot) Resorts to “Gross Violation of Due Process”
  • 12.08.15 Chairman of the Administrative Council Failed to Stop Suspension (and Potential Firing) of EPO Staff Representatives
  • 12.17.15 Administrative Council Does Not Crush the Boards But Does Crush the Unions (Suspension Duration Sextupled)
  • 12.17.15 Ahead of Administrative Council Meeting, General Consultative Committee Warned of “Witch Hunt in Pursuit of SUEPO Officials” (Union Busting)
  • 12.18.15 Battistelli’s Furious Love Affair With French Power: Part III
  • 01.04.16 Shedding Light on the Secretive Mock Trial of Elizabeth Hardon and Others (EPO Union Busting)
  • 01.15.16 Hundreds of EPO Staff at The Hague (Including Managers) Spontaneously Protested Today, Making Almost Half of All Staff Present
  • 01.19.16 Tomorrow’s EPO Protest to Target Union-busting Actions Disguised as ‘Social Dialogue’ or ‘Union Recognition’
  • 01.20.16 The Next Phase of Union Busting: Battistelli Now Cutting Salaries of Yet More EPO Staff Representatives
  • 01.24.16 Süddeutsche Zeitung After FTI Consulting Deal: EPO Ghostwriter or Journalism?
  • 02.05.16 Readers’ Article: A Strange Conspiracy of Silence in the German Media (Part II)
  • 02.06.16 Rumours About Dismissal of Benoît Battistelli and New Letter From Union Syndicale Federale Blasting Battistelli’s Behaviour
  • 02.10.16 EPO Brain Drain (Even Directors Fed Up With Team Battistelli) and Rumours About Battistelli Becoming President of the UPC
  • 02.18.16 Danish Left’s Alternate for European Parliament Slams the European Patent Office While Staff Protests Are Again Ignored by the German Media
  • 02.23.16 Leaked: Board 28 Message to Heads of Delegation of the Administrative Council (EPO)
  • 02.23.16 New Leak: Battistelli’s Circle, Now Fighting for Survival, Circulates a Letter (and Why Some at the EPO Believe It’s a Form of Blackmail)
  • 02.24.16 Possible Connections Found Between WIPO Misconduct and “a Dozen Serious Criminal Charges” Against EPO’s Željko Topić
  • 02.25.16 European Patent Office: Battistelli Gets Official Warning
  • 02.25.16 Dutch Media Reinforces Rumours That Battistelli is on His Way Out, Only a Matter of Money Now
  • 02.25.16 Dutch Report: “External Investigation” Likely to be Launched Into “the Punitive Measures That Battistelli Imposed on Union Members.”
  • 02.26.16 Member States Are Turning Against “Tyrannical” Chief of European Patent Office (Benoît Battistelli)
  • 02.27.16 Battistelli-Led EPO “Led to Tensions and Even to Suicides Among Employees, Say the Unions”
  • 02.27.16 Confirmed by Dutch Media (Telegraaf): Benoît Battistelli Makes Unreasonable Compensation Demands
  • 03.01.16 Team Battistelli’s New Media Strategy at Times of EPO Emergency
  • 03.02.16 Confirmado por los Medios Holandadeses (Telegraaf): Benoît Battistelli Hace Irracionales Demandas de Compensación
  • 03.03.16 EPO Propaganda is Already Sticking in Some Media
  • 03.04.16 Why the Letter in Support of Battistelli is Worse Than a Lie and Should be Thrown to the Wastebasket by the Organisation’s Administrative Council
  • 03.05.16 JUVE Translation: EPO Quick to Announce Success Story of Dialogue with Small Unions
  • 03.06.16 Busted Battistelli: EPO President Publicly Lies About the State of the EPO, So What About His Secret Contract, Salary and Other Undisclosed Benefits?
  • 03.06.16 Traducción JUVE: EPO Lista Para Anunciar la Exitósa Historia de Diálogo Con Sindicatos Pequeños
  • 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?
  • 03.08.16 Rumoured Successor of Battistelli, Christoph Ernst, Previously Seen as Antagonist of Battistelli But What About UPC?
  • 03.09.16 Exclusive: Leaked Document Refutes Battistelli’s Words and Shows He is Still Deplored by the Board
  • 03.10.16 Exclusivo: Documento Filtrado Rechaza las Palabras de Battistelli y Muestra Que Todavía es Deplorado por la Junta
  • 03.11.16 EPO Tells La Tribune That Benoît Battistelli’s Salary is “We Don’t Comment on Rumours”
  • 03.11.16 The European Patent Organisation’s Administrative Council Can Stop the Strike by Agreeing/Working to Reintegrate Staff Representatives and End Benoît Battistelli’s Witch-hunts
  • 03.11.16 The Article Which Reinforces Rumours About Christoph Ernst Replacing President Battistelli at the EPO
  • 03.14.16 EPO Rumours About Antonio Campinos as Replacement for Benoît Battistelli
  • 03.16.16 Exclusive: New Leaked Document Shows Board 28 Surprised Battistelli and Had a Long Unilateral Argument With Him Over Union-Busting (‘Disciplinary Cases’), Called It a “Crisis”
  • 03.17.16 Insider’s Account (Not Face-Saving EPO Statement) Reveals That Even Battistelli’s Allies Turn Against Him, EPO ‘Results’ Not Believed by Some, and Munich Protests Break Records
  • 03.18.16 Benoît Battistelli Made SUEPO Stronger by Trying to Decapitate It, May in Fact Have Self-Decapitated EPO (President in the Chopping Line)
  • 03.19.16 Conflict at the European Patent Office: Battistelli gets away with a slap on the wrist
  • 03.20.16 Conflicto en la Oficina Europea de Patentes: Battistelli se sale con un tirón de orejas
  • 03.20.16 European Patent Office: Administrative Council gives the President a bollocking
  • 03.22.16 More Vomit-Inducing Publicity Stunts From Benoît Battistelli and the EPO Management
  • 03.22.16 Union Syndicale Federale Slams FFPE-EPO for Helping Abusive EPO Management by Signing a Malicious, Divisive Document
  • 03.30.16 EPO Losing Time: Two Weeks Later, Benoît Battistelli Has Made Virtually No Progress to Save Himself From Sacking
  • 03.30.16 SUEPO Publishes Translations of German Media Reports About the EPO
  • 03.31.16 SUEPO Publica Traducciones de los Medios Alemanes Acerca de la EPO
  • 04.16.16 European Patent Office and Human Rights Violations: Article Translation Into English Reveals Upcoming Lawsuit Against the EPO Over Institutional Harassment
  • 04.17.16 European Patent Office and Violaciónes a los Derechos Humanos: Traducción de Artículo Revela Juicio Pendiente Contra la EPO por Acoso Instituciónal
  • 04.18.16 Church of EPO: How Team Battistelli Engineered the Dismissal of People Not Sufficiently Loyal to Them – Part IV
  • 04.19.16 Munich State Attorney is Pursuing Criminal Charges Against the European Patent Office
  • 05.10.16 A Soup of UPC Lies Courtesy of the EPO, Patent Lawyers, and Large Clients (Like Multinational Corporations)
  • 05.11.16 ES: La UPC: Una Sopa de Mentiras Cortesía de la EPO, Abogados de Patentes, y Grandes Clientes (Como Corporaciónes Multinaciónales)
  • 05.26.16 EPO Management Under Growing Stress From Croatian Law Enforcement Authorities, German Politicians, Italian Media
  • 05.28.16 EPO Management Warns People About Scams When the EPO’s Management is Itself Falling for Scams
  • 05.28.16 ES: La Gerencia de la EPO Bajo Creciénte Estres por las Autoridades Legales Croatas, Políticas Alemanas, y los Medios Italianos
  • 06.01.16 Crazed Battistelli is Trying Plan B to Demolish the Boards of Appeal (Quality Control), Praesidium/Association of Members Strikes Back
  • 06.01.16 ES: La Gerencia de la EPO Adviérte a la Gente Cuando Ellos Mismos Estan Cayendo Presa de Scams
  • 06.05.16 ES: El Loco Battistelli Esta Tratando Plan B Para Destruír las Salas de Apelaciónes (Control de Calidad), Praesidium/Asociación de Miembros Contraataca
  • 06.14.16 Battistelli is Sending Threatening Messages/Letters Again, in Another Desperate Effort to Cover Up His Campaign of Defamation Against EPO Whistleblowers (Updated)
  • 06.14.16 Detailed Account of Today’s ‘Trial’ of a Judge Who Said the Truth About the EPO
  • 06.15.16 Battistelli’s European Patent Office Broadens FTI Consulting Contract to Undermine the Media, Wastes Millions of Euros
  • 06.15.16 EPO Crisis: What If There Was an Administrative Council Meeting and Nobody Came?
  • 06.18.16 ES: Battistelli esta Mandando Mensajes/Cartas Amenazadoras de Nuevo, en Otro Desesperado Esfuerzo de Cubrir su Campaña de Difamación en Contra de Personal de la EPO Que Sacan a Luz la Verdard (Actualizado)
  • 06.18.16 ES: La Oficina Europea de Patentes de Battistelli Amplia su Contrato con el Nefasto FTI Consulting Para Neutralizar a los Medios, Desperdicia Millones de Euros
  • 06.18.16 The Rule of Money and Power, Not the Rule of Law, at the European Patent Office
  • 06.23.16 Looks Increasingly Plausible That Battistelli is Covering up Bogus and/or Illegally-Obtained ‘Evidence’ From the EPO’s Investigative Unit
  • 06.27.16 From Alleged Organised Crime to Vice-President of the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 06.28.16 ES: Cada Vez Más Parece Que Battistelli está Escondiéndo ‘Evidencia’ Falsa y/o Ilegalmente Obtenda de la Unidad Investigativa de la EPO
  • 06.29.16 The EPO Has Become Battistelli’s Circus and the Administrative Council Has Been Reduced to (Illegal) Circus Animals Controlled With ‘Treats’
  • 07.01.16 At the European Patent Organisation the Administrative Council Does Not Care About Staff
  • 07.06.16 The ‘Administrative’ Council is to Benoît Battistelli What FISA is to the NSA
  • 07.07.16 Weapons of Mass Distraction at the EPO Cost the EPO Millions of Euros
  • 07.09.16 ES: El Consejo ‘Administrativo’ es para Benoît Battistelli lo que la FISA es para la NSA
  • 08.08.16 Rumours About Secret EPO Salary of Benoît Battistelli
  • 08.11.16 The EPO’s Twitter Account is Drunk (on Battistelli’s Kool-Aid)
  • 08.12.16 German Media Becomes Aware of Battistelli’s Defiance of the Very Basis of the EPO
  • 09.03.16 Battistelli is Even Attacking the French, and Not Just in Germany But Also on Dutch Territory
  • 09.29.16 Leaked: Conclusions of the Secretive EPO Board 28 Meeting (8th of September 2016)
  • 09.29.16 Letter From the Dutch Institute of Patent Attorneys (Nederlandse Orde van Octrooigemachtigden) to the Administrative Council of the EPO
  • 09.30.16 Battistelli Locks EPO Staff Union Out of Social Conference So That He Can Lie About the Union and the Social Climate
  • 10.01.16 Immunity of the European Patent Office and Lack of Oversight Within the Organisation Mean That It’s a Rogue Entity Above the Law
  • 10.02.16 Not Just the European Patent Office But the Organisation Too a Culprit in Immunity and Impunity
  • 10.03.16 Translation and Response to Battistelli’s Face-Saving ‘Interview’ With Juve
  • 10.05.16 No Justice Even for a Judge at the EPO, as the Whole Institution is Beyond Rotten and Quite Corrupt
  • 10.06.16 Team Battistelli Keeps Lying About Judges and Staff Representatives in Order to Decapitate EPO Staff and Even the ‘Independent’ Boards of Appeal
  • 10.09.16 The Administrative Council Seems to Have No Issues With Battistelli Wasting Millions of Euros Buying the Media and Fake ‘Studies’
  • 10.11.16 Danish Puff Pieces: Latest ‘Puff Pieces’ From Denmark About the Opening of a New DKPTO Branch Office
  • 10.12.16 Addendum I: Danish Fur Industry – Further Information Regarding Political Lobbying
  • 10.13.16 EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point – Part III: How Benoît Battistelli Planned to Expand His Attacks on EPO Staff (But Failed)
  • 10.13.16 EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point – Part I: Protest at The Hague and the Huge Things at Stake
  • 10.16.16 As Expected, Benoît Battistelli Puts Longtime Ally Roland Grossenbacher on Top of Boards of Appeal
  • 10.18.16 Danish Press Coverage of the European Patent Office and the Problems Explored by Techrights
  • 10.19.16 Team Battistelli’s Conspiracy Theory: SUEPO is Behind Everything, EPO Management is Trying to Tell the Media
  • 10.20.16 EPO Spokesman Lies to IP Watch in Order to Save Face and Save the King (Battistelli)
  • 10.21.16 Disruption to Site’s Service
  • 10.24.16 Updates Regarding EPO and BoAC: Unrest and Injustice Carry on
  • 10.28.16 The EPO’s Balkan Express Keeps Chugging Along Despite Predictions of Derailment
  • 11.23.16 Union Syndicale Fédérale Writes Letters to the Chinchilla Man of the Administrative Council About Battistelli’s EPO Abuses, No Sign of Reply/Reaction
  • 12.08.16 Boards of Appeal Still Under Attack From Team Battistelli While the EPO Proceeds to Granting Patents on Carlsberg BEER!
  • 12.08.16 British Media Slams Battistelli for Attempting to Cover Up 2 Years of Juridical Abuses With Help From the Administrative Council of the EPO
  • 12.14.16 Outside Pressure is Growing: CERN Staff Association Reaffirms Commitment to SUEPO, The Staff Union of the EPO
  • 12.29.16 The EPO Under Benoît Battistelli Makes the Mafia Look Like Rookies
  • 01.01.17 FFPE-EPO is a Zombie (if Not Dead) Yellow Union Whose Only de Facto Purpose Has Been Attacking the EPO’s Staff Union
  • 01.02.17 Battistelli’s Idea of ‘Independent’ ‘External’ ‘Social’ ‘Study’ is Something to BUY From Notorious Firm PwC
  • 03.03.17 The Sickness of the EPO – Part VI: Firing Handicapped People and Hiring Unskilled, Inexperienced, ‘Cheap’ Staff
  • 03.07.17 With a Week Left Before the Administrative Council’s Meeting, Pressure on Battistelli to Leave the EPO Continues to Grow
  • 03.08.17 Battistelli’s Shock Doctrine is Coming to the EPO’s Boards of Appeal, Having Already Rattled the Office
  • 03.08.17 EPO “Too Industry-Friendly, Say the Critics”
  • 03.09.17 Battistelli’s Coup at the EPO Continues: The EPO is Becoming the Cash Cow of Battistelli and His Friends, Until This Cow Will Die
  • 03.14.17 The European Patent Office is in a State of Collapse and It Coughs Up Rubbish Patents Until Its Death
  • 03.15.17 New Examples of Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC), Courtesy of Patent Law Firms Looking to Prey on Gullible SMEs
  • 03.16.17 Benoît Battistelli “Should Not Have Been in Charge of Anything More Involved Than a Hamster Cage Without the Hamster…”
  • 03.16.17 German Media is Not Covering EPO Scandals and Instead Repeating Patently False Claims From EPO Management
  • 03.18.17 Governance Crisis at EPO Deepens After Latest Meeting of the Administrative Council, Necessitating Urgent Outside Intervention
  • 03.20.17 Supposedly ‘Pampered’ Prisoners Are Still Prisoners of the EPO
  • 03.23.17 The Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation Has Just Buried an Innocent Judge That Battistelli Does Not Like
  • 03.26.17 With IP Kat Coverage of EPO Scandals Coming to an End (Officially), Techrights and The Register Remain to Cover New Developments
  • 03.28.17 A “Perfect Recipe for Fraud” at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 03.28.17 Benoît Battistelli ‘Pulls an Erdoğan’ Faster Than Erdoğan
  • 03.30.17 EPO is a Laughing Stock in International Media This Week (Quality of Patents) After Decades-Long Reputation Building
  • 03.31.17 In Spite of Confirmation, Uncertainty and Doubt Still Being Cast on Michelle Lee’s USPTO Leadership (by Her Opponents)
  • 04.19.17 Another Final Nail in the UPC Coffin: UK General Election
  • 04.29.17 Battistelli is Busy Securing the Vote of Countries Whose Support and Tickets Are Easy to ‘Buy’
  • 05.04.17 The EPO’s Administrative Council (AC) is “Amazingly Complicit” or “Awfully Compliant” (Like Much of the Media and Much of the System)
  • 05.09.17 SUEPO Releases Statement About Its Complaint Regarding the EPO’s Immunity, Filed Yesterday at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg
  • 05.10.17 English-Speaking Media Catches Up With Latest Twists in EPO Fiasco, Including Appeal to the European Court of Human Rights
  • 05.10.17 English-Speaking Media Catches Up With Latest Twists in EPO Fiasco, Including Appeal to the European Court of Human Rights
  • 05.11.17 The EPO is in Disarray and Additional Complaints to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) May Be Imminent
  • 05.12.17 Our Assessment: Unitary Patent (UPC) Will Crumble Along With Battistelli’s Regime at the EPO
  • 05.21.17 Leaked: 2017 European Inventor Award Finalists, or Stooges Whom the Tyrant Battistelli Exploits for PR Purposes and Media Manipulation
  • 05.22.17 Speculations About Battistelli’s End of Term, Campinos at EUIPO, and Failed UPC Ambitions
  • 06.13.17 Battistelli to Leave the European Patent Office Without the Unitary Patent He Repeatedly Promised in Vain Over the Years
  • 06.20.17 Contact Details for the EPO’s Administrative Council Delegations
  • 06.24.17 Potential Targets of European Patent Office (EPO) Whistleblowing
  • 06.28.17 Christoph Ernst, Long Speculated to be Battistelli’s Successor, Becomes Battistelli’s ‘Boss’
  • 06.29.17 Feedback From the Administrative Council Meeting at The Hague: Worse Than Anyone Expected
  • 06.29.17 European Patent Office is on Strike Until Tuesday and Insiders Study the New Head of the Organisation
  • 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
  • 07.04.17 EPO Silent About EPO Strikes and Battistelli Leaving
  • 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’
  • 07.06.17 No UPC Progress, Only Further Delays and Lots of Puff Pieces From the EPO and Bristows (Team UPC) Today
  • 07.20.17 Battistelli’s EPO Abuses May Soon Lead to the Death of the UPC and Return of the Old Order (‘EPO Glory’)
  • 07.22.17 Lack of Independence of the Boards of Appeal at the European Patent Organisation (EPO) a Fatal Blow for the UPC
  • 07.29.17 Anonymous Comments Discuss Erosion of Lawful Activity at the EPO, Lowered Patent Quality, Software Patents, and Trump Comparisons
  • 08.07.17 German Media Names António Campinos as Likely Successor of Battistelli
  • 08.09.17 When It Comes to Software Patents, the EPO Has Become Among the Worst in the World
  • 08.10.17 German Media Paints a Picture of Benoît Battistelli as a Drunken ‘Putin’ Looking to Push UPC at All Costs
  • 08.29.17 Rumours That Another Frenchman is the Only Candidate to Succeed Benoît Battistelli at the EPO
  • 09.02.17 It’s a Family Business: French Succession Plan at EPO After Battistelli’s Departure
  • 09.05.17 One Week Left for Battistelli’s Coronation of Another Frenchman, António Campinos, to Lobby for UPC?
  • 09.21.17 The Latest Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and CIPO’s Participation in Those
  • 09.23.17 Latest EPO Rumours Allege That Benoît Battistelli Rigged the Process of EPO President’s Selection
  • 10.02.17 Death of European Patent Quality: The EPO Officially Sends the Appeal Boards to Exile Despite the UPC Going Nowhere
  • 10.05.17 The European Patent Office’s New Relationship With Former Portuguese Colonies and the Connection to Battistelli’s Choice of Next President
  • 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
  • 10.16.17 The Systematic Erosion of Workers’ Rights and Holidays at the EPO Goes Years Back
  • 10.17.17 EPO Stakeholders Complain That the New Chairman Does Not Grasp the Issues at the EPO (or Denies These)
  • 10.24.17 What If Lionel Baranes Was EPO President?
  • 11.09.17 Patent Office of the Netherlands Expresses Uncertainty About UPC, Voices Concern About Benoît Battistelli’s Attack on Staff
  • 11.25.17 Raw: Central Staff Committee Requested EPO Audit by Transparency International One Year Before EPO Simply Hired Transparency International’s Director to Become EPO Spokesperson
  • 11.25.17 In New EPO Interview With Juve, Chairman of the Administrative Council Criticises Battistelli
  • 11.26.17 Early Certainty Battistelli Will be Gone Soon: “JUVE Interview Creates the Impression That Benoit Battistelli’s Term in Office is Already Over.”
  • 11.28.17 Pressure is Growing for Christoph Ernst to Stop Destruction of Career System Ahead of Arrival of Campinos as EPO President
  • 12.20.17 Christoph Ernst’s Inability to Rein in the European Patent Organisation Will Doom Everything
  • 12.23.17 Raw: Sylvie Jacobs, President of USF, Warns the Administrative Council of the EPO About Battistelli Nepotism and Other Abuses
  • 12.25.17 Raw: SUEPO Connected the Unitary Patent (UPC) to Abuses at the European Patent Office
  • 12.28.17 EPO Remains in Defiance or Violation of ILO Rulings as Corcoran Contract Ends in 3 Days
  • 01.13.18 Dr. Derk Visser’s Book About the European Patent Convention (EPC) Explains What Battistelli Has Done
  • 02.25.18 Changes Introduced by the EPO’s Administrative Council Made It Abundantly Clear That Separation of Powers Does Not Exist for Independence of Judges
  • 03.18.18 European Commission Again Urged to Tackle Abuses at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 04.22.18 Today’s European Patent Office Works for Patent Extremists and for Team UPC Rather Than for Europe or for Innovation
  • 05.13.18 Guest Article: Battistelli’s Salary in Saint-Germain-en-Laye Nearly Quadrupled Last Year
  • 05.26.18 Index for EPO and Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans” Series
  • 06.20.18 EPO Insiders Correct the Record of Benoît Battistelli’s Tyranny and Abuse of Law: “Legal Harassment and Retaliation”
  • 06.22.18 “Dr Ernst Should be Forced by National Politicians to Step Down With Immediate Effect” After Battistelli’s Latest EPO Scandals
  • 09.04.18 A Retreat From Patent Quality Means a Retreat of Patent Applicants
  • 10.11.18 Friend Brings a Friend, Boss Becomes Subordinate: the EPO Under António Campinos is Starting to Look a Lot Like Team Battistelli 2.0
  • 10.25.18 António Campinos Just a Quieter Version of Battistelli
  • 12.15.18 The European Patent Organisation (EPO) Loses Legitimacy If (or When) Christoph Ernst Becomes Subservient to António Campinos
  • 03.30.19 There’s No Administrative Council at the EPO Anymore. It’s Like a Stamping ‘Department’ of the Office and the Same Goes for the Boards of Appeal.
  • 04.02.19 EPO Judges Lack Independence and the Internal Courts Are Seen to be Lacking Legitimacy (Decisions’ Validity) Under António Campinos
  • 04.11.19 EPO Still Wasting Budget, Paying Media and Academics for Spin
  • 05.07.19 Why Does the EPO Keep Praising People Who Promote Software Patents, Rewarding Them for Patent Thickets That Harm Software Developers?
  • 05.09.19 Stephen Rowan: From UK-IPO to Operation Coverup of Team António Campinos