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In 2017, after heavy involvement and lobbying by Benoît Battistelli, António Campinos (longtime acquaintance of Battistelli) became President-elect of the EPO. We had been writing about Campinos for a number of years before that. EPO staff representatives have alleged, as recently as spring of 2020, that with Campinos they're all back to the Battistelli era.

EPO

2023

Translating the Lies of António Campinos (EPO)

The Photo Ops Festival of the Funky President António Campinos and Revolt From the Patent Examiners Whom He Perpetually Oppresses

António Campinos is Unable to Recruit Patent Examiners, Europe's Largest Patent Office in State of Crisis

EPO Central Staff Committee Says António Campinos Became Like Benoît Battistelli After 4 Years at the Office ('Lost From Sight')

Meme: António Campinos Wants to Be F***ing President Until 2028

2022

EPO President António Campinos 'Too Busy' to Talk to Staff Representatives as Scandals Continue to Pile Up

Meme: António Campinos-Controlled (EPO-Commissioned) Surveys Are Just for Show (to Help 'Validate' Lies)

António Campinos Could Not Possibly Choose a Worse Time to Show Solidarity With Communist China

From About 2-3 Blog Posts Per Day to Not Even One Per Day (After Covering Up for 'Good' EPO Under António Campinos)

Meme: The ‘F***ing President’ at the EPO

António 'I'm the F***ing President' Campinos Arranges Meeting With EPO Staff to Lie About Staff's Position and Then Crush the Most Basic Rights of Staff

They Can't Even Spell UPC Right (in António's Prepared Lobbying Speech to Politicians, Delivered Last Month)

António Campinos on Unified Patent Court (UPC) Delays and Trying to Leapfrog the Actual Legal Process (Because It's Illegal)

Meme: Criminals Have Feelings Too...

António Campinos Once Again Failing to Obey Court Orders, Making Up Ludicrous Excuses for Non-Compliance

António Campinos: Portuguese in Absentia (Exile)

The António Campinos Photo Ops Tour: Pretending to Support Ukraine While Sending the EPO's Jobs and Applicants' Money to Belarus

4 Years of Monopoly Tony (Mr. Campinos) Violating the Rights of Free Association/Expression/Speech as EPO President

There's No F***ing Debate With “the F***ing President” (What António Campinos Calls Himself!)

EPO Steering Off the Road, Just Like the Drunken Son of António Campinos, Who Crashed the Car and Begged for Impunity

Meme: President Crybaby

People Are Very Angry That Campinos Was Left in Positions of Power Without Any Competition and in Spite of Failing to Fulfill Essential Goals

Cautionary Tales About an António Campinos-Run EPO

Corrupt António Campinos Bought Himself Another Term by Bribing Voters, Whom None of the Staff Trusts

Meme: Benoît Battistelli and António Campino Buying Elections Since 2010

EPO Staff Survey's Preliminary Results Published (Almost 2,000 Staff Surveyed), António Campinos Less Trustworthy Than Benoît Battistelli at Similar Points in Their Terms

Meme: Speaking Professionally at the EPO

Physical Demonstrations Against EPO Considered This Month, Work-to-Rule Industrial Action May Continue, and 96% Think António Campinos Violating the Code of Conduct Means the Office Should Release Recordings

Meme: The Wild West of the Cattle-Riding Campino, Tony the Great

Like Batka, Like Son

National Representatives (Delegations) Need to Listen to EPO Staff When Deciding on the Future of António Campinos

António Campinos Needs to be Fired by Month's End (Notice of Permanent End of Term)

Meme: A Need for Father's Discipline?

EPO Staff Demands Release of the F***ing Recordings of António Campinos Breaching the Code of Conduct of the Office With Repeated Slurs/Swear Words

Meme: The Reverse Barroso

Diversity and Inclusion at the European Patent Office (EPO)

EPO President António Campinos Addresses South America

Meme: Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation Can Oust António Campinos Next Month (But Will It?)

Meme: It Was Just an Accident

Video: Antonio 'F' Campinos in His Very Own Words

Meme: Divine Protection

António Campinos and the Alicante Clique (EPO Management, Appointed Based on Nepotism Despite Lack of Qualifications) Nowadays Exploiting Kids for PR Charades

Meme: Snake on a Plane

António Campinos Promotes Software Patents Using Buzzwords and Sketchy Loopholes With Dubious Legal Basis

Meme: Jorgotta Be Kidding Us, Campinos!

Meme: It’s My Working Party… And I’ll Cry If I Want to!

Meme: Monopoly Tony

It Took Campinos Three or More Years to Undo Illegal Battistelli Actions on Boards of Appeal and Strike Regulations (Only After Losing at ILO-AT!), But He Does Not Mention That

The Lies and Delusions of António Campinos

António Campinos Racing Towards Zero Percent (Popularity/Approval Rates), a Lot Lower Than Lukashenko

F for Fake: “You will never have such a nice person being the fake President for the next fifty fake years. So you wake up and make agreements with me, or you never will for your fake life.”

António: The Antichrist of Jorge Campinos

António Campinos Has Dubbed Himself the “F***ing President”

Russian Gaspinos

What the F Did António Campinos Just Say???

When the EPO's Manager or Fake 'Daddy' Gets the 'Hammer' Out

Meme: No More Mr. Nice Guy?

Meme: Lukampinos

Meme: In Just a Few Years António Campinos is Undoing Decades of His Father's Legacy

EPO Staff Representatives Warn Delegates of the Council That Campinos is Now Outsourcing the EPO, Just Like He Did EUIPO, in Very Clear Violation of Fundamental Rules

António's EPO is Dead, Long Live the EPC?

António Campinos Wants to Undo His Father’s Legacy for Several More Years, Spreading Corruption Across Europe and the World

Meme: Megaphone of António Campinos

BREAKING NEWS/EXCLUSIVE: António Campinos Confirms That He is Seeking Reappointment

Meme: Drunk Driving, Like Son of António Campinos

20-22 Vision: António Campinos Still Pillaging and Plundering EPO Staff

Meme: Just Another Battistelli

2021

Meme: EPO 'Social Dialogue': Blah Blah Blah Blah (But Nothing Gets Changed for the Better)

2018, 2019, 2020, 2021: 4 Years of António Campinos Failing and EPO Granting Loads of Invalid Patents

Tomorrow is the First Anniversary of Strike Against President Campinos at the European Patent Office

Meme: António Campinos and Socialist Posturing

António Campinos as EPO President is Considered Worse Than Benoît Battistelli (in Some Regards) After 3.5 Years in Europe’s Second-Largest Institution

EPO Staff Committee Compares the Tactics of António Campinos to Benoît Battistelli’s

Meme: Speaking the Same Language

António Campinos Thinks Salary Reductions Months Before He Leaves is “Exceptional Social Gesture”

EPO “Board 28” Meeting: Imaginary Dialogue Between EPO President Campinos and the Chair of the Administrative Council, Josef Kratochvíl

Meme: António Campinos Poured Bleach on a Convicted Criminal

António ‘Gap’ Campinos Explains His Plan to Indoctrinate/Brainwash the Public About So-called ‘IP’ (Misleading, Vague Term, Also a Deliberate Misnomer)

Two Institutions, Two Dictators

EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part IX – António’s Faithful Acolyte in Alicante

António Campinos is Not a Patents Person and He Doesn't Belong at the EPO

EPO Exposé: The Besieged Baltic States – Part VIII – Pulling for the Portuguese Pretender?

For 17 Days (and Counting) António Campinos Has Failed to Respond to Call for Compliance With the Law

Meme: António Lost His Power Over Patent Examiners

António Campinos Needs to be Removed From the EPO as Soon as Possible Along With Friends He Brought Over

Meme: The EPO's Kakistocracy

Video: Mind the Mental Gap

Meme: EPO Telenovela: Sua Vida me Pertence by Tony Campinos

EPO Dictator Campinos Continues Crushing EPO Staff, Outpacing Battistelli in Terms of His Abuses

Video: ILO-AT Caseload Shows That António Campinos Failed and Should be Sacked by the Administrative Council of the EPO

Delay After Delay, Blunder After Blunder, the ‘New Normal’ of António Campinos Faces Obstacles

The Already-Weak Impression of EPO Lawfulness (Under António Campinos) is Over

Meme: Trying to Become More Evil Than Battistelli After 3 Years in Office

Virtual Injustice — Part 1: António’s Increasingly Wonky Legal Fudge Factory

Meme: EPO Bad for Your Health (Even as President)

President of the Boards of Appeal and His ‘Handler’ António Campinos Need to Step Down to Save the EPO

President Campinos is Finished (EPO Crisis Afoot)

When the Lips of António Campinos Move...

EPO Propaganda, Looking to Legitimise a Rigged Panel of Judges, Starts With Author Who Did Puff Pieces With António Campinos

António Campinos is Already Worse Than Benoît Battistelli and Maybe More Aggressive as Well

EPO President António Campinos Promoting Microsoft Proprietary Software (Monopoly) and Software Patents

The ‘Hey Hi’ of António Campinos Will Survive This

Five Years of António Campinos Coverage in Techrights (We Correctly Predicted His Presidency in March 2016)

EPO President Pushes Illegal Software Patents in South America (Over the Telephone With a Misleading New Puff Piece)

Series Index: How António Campinos Resorted to Union-Busting

For the Record: SUEPO’s Correspondence With ‘King’ António Campinos

EPO Crisis Under António Campinos – Part 5: Quo Usque Tandem?

The Bergot Patent Office (Tantrum First, Innovation Later… or Never)

EPO Crisis Under António Campinos – Part 4: Timeline of the Le Guern Controversy

Reckless, Feckless and Factless Campinos ‘Doing a Donald Trump’ on the Staff Union of His Office

EPO Crisis Under António Campinos – Part 3: Campinos Rallies Behind Bergot

Spineless Campinos Protects Team Battistelli From EPO Staff (and From Accountability) Instead of Protecting Staff From Corruption and From Team Battistelli

Leaky Patent Office

EPO Crisis Under António Campinos - Part 2: Madame Bergot Reportedly Goes Ballistic

The EPO's “Mafia” is Back to Blackmailing Staff Representatives

EPO Crisis Under António Campinos - Part 1: Le Guern's “Disappearance” Triggers Internal Crisis at the European Patent Office (EPO)

Meme: Candidate Campinos is Not President Campinos

EPO President António Campinos is Still Not Listening, According to Internal EPO Documents

EPO Management (Team Campinos) to EPO Pensioners: Drop Dead or Stop Asking Questions That Expose Our Lies

2020

Meme: Rabid Tony

Meme: Nobody to Talk to at the European Patent Office

António Campinos Has Been a 'Lame Duck' for Nearly Two Years Now, But the Administrative Council Failed to Act

Two Years of Absolutely Nothing From António Campinos (Except Photo Ops and Self-Praising Fluff)

SUEPO, the Staff Union of the European Patent Office (EPO): António Campinos Gives a “Strong Impression” That “Mr Battistelli is Still Running the Office Through the Trustees He Placed in the House.”

Two Years Ago SUEPO Discussed Rules of Strike With António Campinos and 3 Days From Now EPO Staff in All Sites Goes on Strike

Early Request for António Campinos to Cooperate With EPO Staff Survey (Which Later Showed Less Than 1 in 33 EPO Workers Trust Him)

Old Documents Show That the 'António Campinos Delusion' Lasted Only Months

EPO Staff Already Knew Months After António Campinos Had Been Parachuted Into the Office That He Was a 'Budget Butcher'

Paper on “Improving Governance, Transparency and Accountability at the EPO” Shows That António Campinos Has Accomplished Nothing in Half His Term (2.5 Years)

EPO's Staff Explains How António Campinos and the Mercers Lie About the Office in Order to Crush and Rob the Staff

António Campinos Mastered the 'Art of Ruling' His Father Was Strongly Against

Meme: When Settling Means Admitting EPO Culpability

The Words of António Campinos Himself Reveal Him to be a Terrible Negotiator With No Compromising/Diplomatic Language Skills

The Non-dialogue: EPO “Staff Representatives Retire or Resign Before Expiration of Their Term of Office Because of Their Fatigue and Disillusionment.”

Meme: When Tyranny Has No Race or a Political Wing Diversity Alone Cannot Tackle the Deeper Issues

The Non-dialogue: António Campinos is No Jorge Campinos

Meme: 'Nice' and 'Cool' António Campinos, Now With Extra Sneakers

A Mister António Campinos 'Joins' IAM 'Media' and IAM 'Magazine' (Symptom of Dying Media)

Censored EPO Publication: Evidence That the Censorship of EPO Staff Representation (Central Staff Committee) Started Months After António Campinos Started His Term

EPO Management, Led by António Campinos, Attempted to Stifle or Prevent Staff From Being Surveyed

Inside the EPO During Corona: The Hoax 'Study' From Campinos and Donald Trump Associate (Mercer) Debunked, EPO Management Uninterested Because Facts Are Inconvenient

Inside the EPO During Corona: The EPO is Silently Shrinking in Vienna and Dictator António Campinos Defends His Bully and Union Buster, Elodie Bergot

Inside the EPO During Corona: António Campinos Running Europe's Monopolies-Granting Monopoly Like a Shop With Essentials While Crushing Those Who 'Stock the Shelves'

Inside the EPO During Corona: COVID-in-the-Head António Campinos Acts Like a Maniac and Starts Shouting at Meetings (Refusing to Listen to Anybody or Accept Reality)

Inside the EPO During Corona: The António Campinos Monologue, Talking Inwards While Pretending to Represent the EPO's Interests

Inside the EPO During Corona: More Microsoft and More Corruption/Nepotism From António Campinos (Loyal Friends Get Top Jobs to Cover Up/Perpetuate Scandals)

Inside the EPO During Corona: Repressive Tyrant António Campinos Still Blocking Techrights and Still Preventing Staff Representatives From Speaking Openly to Staff

Inside the EPO During Corona: Death Toll of Benoît Battistelli's 'Suicide Wave' Will be Exceeded by the 'Corona Wave' of António Campinos

Inside the EPO During Corona: 'Sick' António Campinos Uses a Global Sickness to Illegally Rob EPO Staff, Already Besieged by the Pandemic

Inside the EPO During Corona: Like Benoît Battistelli, António Campinos Leaves Out Staff Representation Out of Consultation Regarding Unprecedented Health Crisis Which Impacts Staff

Meme: António Campinos is the EPO's 'Fanta' (Making EPO Fascism Seem Acceptable, Gentle, Caring and Kind)

Meme: António Campinos Fools Nobody at the EPO Anymore

António Campinos is Believed to be “Dismantling” the EPO

Meme: António the Computer Genius

Humour: The 'Orange One' Does Not Respect Judges Either

António Campinos: President or Quasi-Autocratic Corporate Puppet?

The Media Continues to Ignore Corruption of António Campinos

When They're Done With Patents on Foods and Recipes They'll Have Patents on Fashion, Taste and Smell

António Campinos Should Speak to Peasants, Not Litigation Lawyers

After 2 Years and 2 Days António Campinos is a Perfect Leader, Fostering EPO Abuses While Smiling

António Campinos is Just an Empty Suit: 2 Years in the Office and Only 3% Approval Rate (Worse Than Battistelli)

SUEPO (Staff Union of EPO): “The Imbalance Between the Importance of (Patent) Quality and Quantity Remains a Cause for Concern” and Only 3% of EPO Staff Has Confidence in President Campinos

The Attitude of António Campinos Toward Courts and Toward Justice Same as Benoît Battistelli's

More Threats From Elodie Bergot: The EPO is Back in a State of Disarray and That Authoritarian Atmosphere of Fear

Campinos Uses Donald Trump Associates to Attack the EPO's Staff Amid Coronavirus Pandemic (Whilst Also Threatening Staff Representatives)

EPO Staff Union (SUEPO): “We Are Back to Battistelli's Times”

Pretending EPO Corruption Stopped Under António Campinos When It is in Fact a Lot Worse in Several Respects/Aspects (Than It Was Under Benoît Battistelli)

Series Index: “Doyen” for a Yen

EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Epilogue

EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Part 4 - The Role of the EPO Vice-President of DG5 (Christoph Ernst)

EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Part 3 - How to Become a European Patent Attorney Without Passing the EQE

EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Part 2 - Behind the Scenes at Topić IP d.o.o.

EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Part 1 - António and the Balkan Express Connection

EPO Corruption Under António Campinos: Teaser

António Campinos Sponging Off the EPO

António Campinos is Just as Corrupt as Benoît Battistelli, Top Jobs Offered as 'Endowments'

2019

In 2018 and in 2019 António Campinos Has in Effect Been a Guardian of Battistelli's Corruption

The EPO's President Admits He's Illegally Granting Software Patents (CII, 4IR, IoT, AI and Blockchain Mean Software Patents at the EPO)

Yesterday in EPOPIC Andrei Iancu and António Campinos Shared a Salad of Ridiculous Buzzwords

It Has Begun: EPO Staff Protests Against António Campinos (Starting Wednesday)

EPO Staff Resolution Against Neoliberal Policies of António Campinos

António Campinos, With Diplomatic Immunity, Continues Breaking the Law by Granting Patents the EU and EPC Forbade

EPO President Campinos is Just a Great Pretender With 'Soft Power' Skills

The EPO's President Campinos is a Liar

EPO Leak: António Campinos Announces Impending Cuts While Outsourcing to Private Firms Like Serco

Only Weeks After Czech Government Rejects UPC (Unitary Patent) António Campinos Flies There, Apparently in Order to Lobby Government Officials

The EPO's Central Staff Committee and SUEPO (Staff Union) Respond to “Fascist Bills” Supported by EPO President António Campinos

António Campinos Puts European Patent Quality on a Suicide Diet/Plan and All EPO Staff on Notice

Campinos is Already Widely Seen as Battistelli the Second, Even Among EPO Stakeholders

António Campinos is Almost 100% the Same as Benoît Battistelli

Tribalism Still a Major Problem at the European Patent Office

The New (Staged and Scripted) Video of António Campinos Feels Like a Drunken Satire

The EPO Needs a President Who Obeys the Law, Not One Who Obeys Battistelli

Required Reading: Mental State of Team Battistelli/Campinos

EPO Directors Would be Wise to Rebel Against Team Campinos While They Still Have the Job

Leaked: Harassment of EPO Directors by Team Campinos

When the EPO is Run by Politicians It’s Expected to Be Aggressive and Corrupt Like Purely Political Establishments

António Campinos — Unlike His Father — Engages in Imperialism (Using Invalid Patents)

António Campinos Takes EPO Waste and Corruption to Unprecedented Levels and Scale

António Campinos Given an Extension to Prove He Respects the Rule of Law

Drunk on Power

António Campinos “Will Have the First Strike on His Hands and Learn That If He Goes Down on This Path He May be Even More Despised Than Battistelli.”

More Tall Tales From EPOnia - A Little Apéritif to Whet the Appetite…

António Campinos as German Sheriff Rather Than Office President

António Campinos Didn't Even Last a Year

Team Campinos Will Try to Make It Difficult to Go on Strike (But Won't Manage to Prevent It)

EPO President Still Not Obeying Courts' Rulings

António Campinos Has Run Out of Time and EPO Staff is Going on Strike (Skipping Mere Protests)

EUIPO and EPO Abuses Growingly Inseparable

Stephen Rowan: From UK-IPO to Operation Coverup of Team António Campinos

Union Syndicale Federale (USF) Writes to António Campinos Again Regarding the Appalling Atmosphere at the EPO

"Dia da Liberdade" in Portugal -- Wilted Carnations in EPOnia

António Campinos Would Not Refer to the EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeal If He Did Not Control the Outcomes

The EPO is Slipping Out of Control Again and It's Another Battistelli-Like Mess With Disregard for the Rule of Law and Patent Scope

New Building as Perfect Metaphor for the EPO Under the Frenchmen Battistelli and Campinos

EPO Still Wasting Budget, Paying Media and Academics for Spin*António Campinos is Already Paying a Lot of Money to Craft an Alternate Reality at the European Patent Office

EPO Still Wasting Budget, Paying Media and Academics for Spin

António Campinos is Already Paying a Lot of Money to Craft an Alternate Reality at the European Patent Office

The EPO’s Incredulous Survey: Management’s Voice, Management’s Future — EPO Staff ‘Engagement’ Spin (Denial of Issues)

Even Patent Maximalists Are Not Happy With António Campinos Referring Question of Patents on Life to the Enlarged Board of Appeal

EPO Judges Lack Independence and the Internal Courts Are Seen to be Lacking Legitimacy (Decisions' Validity) Under António Campinos

Tall Tales From the Land of EPOnia: Indications of High-Level Club Med/EUIPO “Entryism”

The Campinos-Battistelli Strategy is Working: Patent Trolls Are Coming to Europe!

António Campinos Makes Up Claims About Patent Quality, Only to be Rebutted by Examiners, Union (Anyone But the 'Puff Pieces' Industry)

Stopping António Campinos and His Software Patents Agenda (Not Legal in Europe) Would Require Independent Courts

EPO's Latest 'Results' Show That António Campinos Has Already Given Up on Patent Quality and is Just Another Battistelli

Europe Will Pay a High Price for Software Patents Advocacy by António Campinos in Europe's Patent-Granting Authority

António Campinos — Like His Father — Lacks Support From Colleagues, Endorsed Only From the Top