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