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2019

December

In 2018 and in 2019 António Campinos Has in Effect Been a Guardian of Battistelli's Corruption
Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement (UPCA) Will be Ratified in the Year 202020
Bristows and AstraZeneca (IP Kat) Won't Offer Balanced Coverage of EPO Patent Cases
Who Will Merpel be in 2020? (Now Defending Battistelli's Attacks on EPO Judges and Serious Violations of the EPC)
Thierry Breton: Why He Matters to EPO Affairs (and a Lot More in Europe If Not the World, Not Just in France)
Not Everything Needs to Be Patented
D Young & Co LLP Spreading Team UPC Talking Points
EPO G 1/19 (Software Patents Case) Already Compromised by Overt Violations of the European Patent Convention (EPC)
EPO Throws DABUS Under the Bus... But for the Wrong Reasons
Understanding Thierry Breton: A Happy Ending - for Some at Least.
EPO Management is Always Right
Understanding Thierry Breton: “Oh, Dem Golden Slippers…”
Understanding Thierry Breton: A “Club Med” Coup in Brussels?
The EPO Likes “Hey Hi” (AI) Only When It Lets Actual Humans Fake 'Production'
Understanding Thierry Breton: Little Miss Ladson Goes to Brussels
Journalism in the Area of Patents and the Domain of Patent Litigation is Dead
More 'Fake News' About Unified Patent Court (UPC) and Battistelli's CEIPI Emerges as a Booster
Understanding Thierry Breton: The “Killer Shark” Resurfaces…
Issues Cannot be Treated in Complete Isolation When Everything is Connected
Understanding Thierry Breton: Concordia, Integritas, Industria
Understanding Thierry Breton: Emmanuel Macron and His “Joker” in Brussels
Unitary Patent (UPC) Should Become Synonymous With Lies, Coups, Entryism, Lobbying and Bullying
European Patents Losing Their Appeal, Lustre and Glamour
Only the EPO Goes as Far as Bribing Publishers (the Media) to Promote Software Patents and Publish Fictional Stories
EU Needs to Show That It Cares About SMEs and Not 'European Champions' That Are Actually Foreign Monopolies
At the EPO Money — Not Quality — is King
The EPO's Strategic Failure 2023
EPO Promoting Software Patents in Countries Where These Are Illegal
Actions Against EPO Corruption and Unitary Patent (UPC) Injustice/Lobbying
Demonstration Against Unitary Software Patents, Thursday 12 Dec in Brussels
Fake European Patents (on Algorithms) Leading to Fake Embargoes
Unitary Patent (UPC) Died Along With the Credibility of Managing IP and the Rest of the UPC Lobby
The EPO Rejects Innovation
Europeans Still Need to Save the European Patent Office From Those Who Attack Its Patent Quality
'Priceless' Tickets to the EPO's Back End and Team UPC
New EPO Leak Shows That the Rumours and Jokes Are Partly True and We Know Who 'Runs the Show'
13 Years of UPC Promises
Is Water Wet?
The EPO's President Admits He's Illegally Granting Software Patents (CII, 4IR, IoT, AI and Blockchain Mean Software Patents at the EPO)
Maximalists Cherry-Picking the So-Called 'Corbyn' 'Leak' for Their Patent Agenda While the US Lobbies Britain for Software Patents and Worse

November

Management of the EPO is Afraid of Scientists and Judges
The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Dead and Alexander Ramsay is Only Making a Total Fool of Himself
Many European Patents Lack Validity and Blogs/Press Won't Talk About That
5 Out of 6 EPO Workers Vote for a Strike as Quality (and Validity) of Patents Continues to Fall
Team UPC is So Drunk on Kool-Aid That It Has Become Truly Comical!
Understanding Thierry Breton: Thierry and the EPO's “Sun-King”
JUVE Has Become Little But a Team UPC Propaganda Site
The Collapse of European Patents Continues
Even the US is Surprised or Baffled by Post-Brexit Unified Patent Court (UPC) Fantasies, Reveal Secret Documents
Just About Everything the EPO Tells Stakeholders, Media and Even Its Own Workers is the Opposite of What's True
Understanding Thierry Breton: “Mister Cash” and “Madame Bailout”
Understanding Thierry Breton: Thierry & Nicolas – a Bromance That Turned Sour?
German Constitutional Court Attempts to Distance Itself From Prof. Huber’s 'Interview' With Team UPC
EPO Misuses Patent-Granting Powers to Help Litigation, Not Science
Britain 'Taking Back Control' From the Wrong Institution; the EPO is the Greater Culprit
Understanding Thierry Breton: More Influential Friends in High Places
Global Patent Warming
Teaser: “Enriching Exchanges”
Understanding Thierry Breton: Socialising With the Elite
Justice Peter Huber Speaking to a Front Group of Team UPC May Compromise the Integrity of the FCC and Its Outcomes
Injustice at Every Level Would Simply Doom the Entire Patent System
Understanding Thierry Breton: Thierry and the $100 Billion Man
Understanding Thierry Breton: Atos Healthcare - “The Ugly Face of Business”
Justice Peter Huber of the German Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) Calls 'Bullshit' a Rumour Nobody Really Spreads
Understanding Thierry Breton: What Thierry Did Next...
EPO Geared Towards Financial Exploitation of Europe Instead of Serving Europe
Understanding Thierry Breton: Noël Forgeard and His “Golden Parachute”
We've Already Entered the Era When Patents Should be Presumed Invalid
Understanding Thierry Breton: Insider-Trading Scandal at EADS
Openwashing Institutionalised NPEs (OIN) and Software Patents With Notorious Managers From the EPO
Understanding Thierry Breton: The “Cost-Killer” Tries to Tame the National Debt
to Last Week’s Thierry Breton Hearing
Unitary Patent is Dead Partly Because the EPO Demonstrated That EPC is Being Routinely Violated, Illegal Patents Granted
Understanding Thierry Breton: Chirac’s Entrepreneurial “Joker”
Koch's Reply to EPO Through ILO and Techrights' Interpretation of Koch v EPO Documents Help Show That ILO-AT is Played by EPO Management
EPO Running ILO's Tribunal (ILO-AT) 'in a Loop' to Perpetually Delay and Drain the EPO's Complainants (Aggrieved Staff) Out of Money
ILO is Not Functioning and ILO-AT Helps the Abusive Management of the European Patent Office
Understanding Thierry Breton: Moral Responsibility for “a Capitalism That Kills”?
FOSSPatents Conference is Against FOSS, Promoting the FOSS-Hostile Construct Known as RAND or FRAND
Europe is Under Attack
Understanding Thierry Breton: Toxic Management Goes on Trial in France
Thierry Breton’s Video/Live Grilling is Over, But the Grilling Continues Online
The EPO's Low Patent Quality is Not Just Suicidal; It is Illegal
Techrights' Interpretation of Koch v EPO: The EPO's Management Still Attacks Staff Representatives
Understanding Thierry Breton: “Mister Cash” Arrives at France Télécom
The Breton-Battistelli Relationship and Breton Hiding His Employment Record at Rothschild & Cie Banque
A Lot of EPO Staff on Dutch Land Protested (Despite Abusive Threats From Management) and a Strike is Reportedly Next
Understanding Thierry Breton: In the Beginning...
Teaser: Thierry Breton and His Disquieting Past
EPO and EU: People Behind the Faces
EPO Corruption Compared to Cocaine Scandals in Antwerp
SUEPO Showed That the Media Won't Cover EPO Corruption Until Half the Workers March in the Streets
SUEPO Protests Against Management of the European Patent Office Brought Back Discussions About Corruption
Video: Dutch Media on EPO Protest
Think Tanks, Bristows, 'Simmons' and 'Birds' Can Only Ever Lie to Us About the Dead Unified Patent Court (UPC)
The EPO's Management is Trying Really Hard to Distract the Media From EPO Unrest (and It Has Been Partly Successful)
'Artificial Intelligence' (AI) Will Only Doom Patent Offices If It's Used to Stamp Millions of Invalid Patents (IPs)
Quick Mention: Some Dutch Media Covers Dutch EPO Protest
The EPO 'Patent Factory' Likes the IAM Copy-Paste Factory
PR ‘Innovation’: Bombarding the Media With Puff Pieces to Distract From EPO Staff Actions Against Corrupt Management
It Feels Like EPO Management is Trying to Distract the Media and the Staff From Today's Big Protest
SUEPO Organises Hague Protest — Second EPO Protest in a Fortnight, Targeting the Portuguese Embassy in The Hague
The EPO Instructs European Examiners to Grant Junk Patents on Algorithms (Maths and Stats)
The European Patent Office (EPO) Carelessly Shows the Only 'Small' 'Businesses' It Serves Are Law Firms and Patent Trolls
António Campinos and Comrade Iancu (US) Both Push Software Patents Into Europe to the Detriment of Small Businesses and Developers
The European Courts Won't be Receptive When European Patent (EP) Just Means Invalid Patent (IP)
The European Union is Harmed by EPO Abuses
Meme: EPO Tyranny Irrespective of One's Name/Brand
The EPO's Staff Lacks the Autonomy Crucially Needed to Decide Whether European Patents Granted by the EPO Are Indeed Legitimate
Today's EPO is Working Against Europe

October

Immunity Breeds Lawlessness
Today's EPO is an Illegal Institution Promoting and Granting Illegal Patents
Yesterday in EPOPIC Andrei Iancu and António Campinos Shared a Salad of Ridiculous Buzzwords
EPO May be Financially Defrauding the Public and Its Employees
Patent Evergreening Kills
An Illegal Practice: The EPO Continues to Grant Unlawful Patents and Then Brag About These
EPO Advertises Questel and Rather Extremist Views on Patents
The Media is Not Observing But Actively Participating in Patent Lies of the EPO and Self-Serving Law Firms
G1/19: Enlarged Board of Appeal Bombarded by Monopolies, Law Firms and EPO President in Favour of Software Patenting
EPO Management Plays With -- and for -- the Wrong People
Reforming (Fixing) the EPO is the Goal
Humour: EPO Has the Solution
EPO Staff Protested Today and SUEPO Explains Why
EPO Diplomatic Immunity
Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna Reveals How the German Government Actively Ignored SMEs to Push the Notorious 'Unitary Patent' Sham
SUEPO Protest Tomorrow. All EPO Staff in Munich Ought to Attend and Prepare to Strike Too.
EPO Will Need a Lot More Than Photo Ops and Hoax 'Studies' to Restore the Perception of Lawfulness
EPO: It’s Only Getting Worse
It Has Begun: EPO Staff Protests Against António Campinos (Starting Wednesday)
European Patent Office and US Patent and Trademark Office Cranks Discovered Buzzwords, Stopped Worrying, Started Granting Patents They Know to be Fake
“The True Hypocrite is the One Who Ceases to Perceive His Deception, the One Who Lies With Sincerity,” Said André Paul Guillaume Gide (Nobel Prize in Literature)
The EPO Cannot Guard Fake European Patents From Scrutiny (in the Long Run)
New EPO Meme: Who Wants to Make Billions From a 'Public' Monopoly?
EPO Staff Union and Staff Representatives Ought to Demand EPO Stops Bullying Publishers and Censoring Their Sites
Bribes, Lies, Fundamental Violations of the Law and Cover-Up: This is Today's European Patent Office
EPO Staff Resolution Against Neoliberal Policies of António Campinos
Raw: EPO Comes Under Fire for Lowering Patent Quality Under the Orwellian Guise of “Collaborative Quality Improvements” (CQI)
When They Run Out of Things to Patent They'll Patent Nature Itself...
EPO Boards of Appeal Need Courage and Structural Disruption to Halt Software Patents in Europe
Professor Dr. Maximilian Haedicke on Lack of Separation of Powers at the EPO (Which Dooms UPC)
“The Stupidest Patent/Tax Policy Ever”
Meme: Software Patents at the EPO
Today's EPO is Working for Patent Trolls and the 'Aye Pee' (IP) 'Industry' Instead of Science
The Campinos Car Crash
Software Patents (or Monopolies on Algorithms) Are Not 'Property' and They're Not Even Legally Valid
The EPO's Universal Patent Injustice Concealed With Polyglottic Tricks
António Campinos, With Diplomatic Immunity, Continues Breaking the Law by Granting Patents the EU and EPC Forbade
EPO is Trying to 'Force-Feed' Europe Some Fake Patents by Hijacking Courts
If the EPO Plans to Go 'Virtually' Private (Outside Contracting), Then Failing It Would be Deliberate
The EPO is Gradually Being Outsourced to Private, For-Profit, Unaccountable and Notorious Companies
EPO President Campinos is Just a Great Pretender With 'Soft Power' Skills
The EPO's President Campinos is a Liar
EPO a Hostage of Law (Litigation) Firms
EPO Management Flies Halfway Across the Globe for Photo Ops in Country With 0.02% of European Patents
The Injustice at the EPO Deepens, From Examination to Oppositions/Appeals and From BoA to Courts (UPC Prospects)
The EPO's Endgame: Robbing EPO Staff to Enrich Private Companies
EPO Leak: António Campinos Announces Impending Cuts While Outsourcing to Private Firms Like Serco
The EPO's 'Solution' to Being Caught Granting Illegal Patents is to Punish Those Who Show That
AI and Other Nonsensical Technobabble Exploited by EPO Management to Do Illegal Things
Corruption on Every Level Persists at the European Patent Office
Today's EPO is Pursuing 'Troll Justice' (Bullying and Blackmail), Not Real Justice
EPO Releases Decision Regarding G 2/19 (the 'Haar Question') in a Language Only About 10% of Member States Speak
The EPO Keeps Breaking the Law While Trying to Legalise What's Illegal
EPO Makes Guidelines for Examination That Formally Allow Software Patents in Defiance of European Law
The Greenwashing and Chronic Lying From the EPO Spreads to EU Through EUIPO

September

Even IP Kat Explains Why the EPO and the EUIPO Are Lying Through Their Teeth With a Paid-for So-called ‘Study’
EPO: Same Old Abuses, More Fake Patents, But Slightly Different Faces
Only Weeks After Czech Government Rejects UPC (Unitary Patent) António Campinos Flies There, Apparently in Order to Lobby Government Officials
EU Parliament Needs to Clarify Once Again That Software Patents Granted by the EPO Are Illegal and Void
Media as Propaganda Apparatus of Patent Offices Which Are Run for and by Lawyers and Law Firms
The European Patent Office's Relationship With Licensing Executives Society International (LESI) Shows Whose Interests Today's Management Really Serves
EPO Logic: Businesses That Have Trademarks and/or Patents Have Only Succeeded Because of Trademarks and/or Patents
Corporate Media Covering (Amplifying) EPO Lies But Not EPO Abuses
The EPO and the USPTO Keep Granting Illegal Patents and Mainstream Media Doesn't Talk About That
Patent Maximalists Have Ruined the European Patent Office, Which Became a Lying Organisation That Bullies Everyone
EPO Under Fire From EU Parliament, But Patent Trolls Already Storm Europe, Emboldened by Low Quality of European Patent
Patent Extremism is Not Normal and Not an Innocent Mindset
When Patent 'Professionals' Sound Like Children Who Learned to Parrot Some Intentionally-Misleading Buzzwords, Myths and Lies
The European Parliament Needs to Become More Outspoken About EPO Abuses
When the EPO Sees Itself as Above European Law, Grants Patents in Defiance of the EPC (Its Founding Document) and Violates Staff's Labour Rights/Protections (International Law)
Update on Koch v EPO: Internal Appeals Committee (IAC) Composition Still Likely Illegal
EPO is Not European
The EPO's Central Staff Committee and SUEPO (Staff Union) Respond to “Fascist Bills” Supported by EPO President António Campinos
Storm Brewing in the European Patent Office After a Hot Summer
EPO President Along With Bristows, Managing IP and Other Team UPC Boosters Are Lobbying for Software Patents in Clear and Direct Violation of the EPC
Illegal/Invalid Patents (IPs) Have Become the 'Norm' in Europe
Patent Maximalists, Orbiting the European Patent Office, Work to 'Globalise' a System of Monopolies on Everything
Unitary Patent (UPC) Promotion by Team Battistelli 'Metastasising' in Private Law Firms
EPO: Give Us Low-Quality Patent Applications, Patent Trolls Have Use for Those
Patent Charlatans and Frauds Are Doing a Disservice to Europe and to Europe's Patent System
The European Patent Convention (“EPC”) Does Not Allow Patenting of Life Itself
European Patent Office's Cooperation and Collaboration With Patent Trolls Instead of Science and Technology
Koch Explains the Dirty Games the European Patent Office Plays at ILO
When ILO 'Justice' for EPO Staff Gets 'Lost in the Post'
Serco's Censorship of Media or EPO's Censorship of Media? Either Way, There's a Profound Media Crisis in Europe.
National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI France) Not Immune Like the EPO and the Courts Find it Guilty of Mismanagement
EPO Rating Cartoon
The Corrupt EPO Apparently Hides Its Serco Outsourcing Deal
Jo Johnson Quitting Twice in Two Years is a Terrible Sign for the Unitary Patent (UPC)
Fake Software Patents in Europe (Invalid Patents) Would Only Discourage or Drive Away the European Software Industry, But Lawyers Don't Care
Patent Trolls Are Destroying Free/Open Source Software and They're Coming to Europe, Thanks to the European Patent Office
Bristows UPC Propaganda (in Pseudonymous Form) Shames the Government's Officials in Order to Install Corrupt Officials
The Electronic Frontier Foundation Opposes Software Patents (in the US), So Why Does It Keep 100% Silent About Europe and the EPO?
EPO Cannot With a Straight Face Lecture People About the Law (Which It Routinely and Knowingly Violates)

August

The Judges of the Boards of Appeal Are Still Controlled by the European Patent Office and European Patent Quality is Therefore in a Freefall
The Admission Phase/Stage: Even Team UPC is Coming to Grips With the UPC's Demise
The Collapse of the UPC Would Further Decrease the Perceived Value of European Patents, Which European Courts Rightly Reject
Updates on Koch v EPO, Anette Koch’s Case Which the EPO Would Rather Nobody Heard About
USPTO and EPO: Call Software Patents 'Hey Hi' ('AI') and Use Microsoft Software (or Else!)
Patent Maximalists Refuse to Accept That Their War on Patent Quality Also Dooms a Pan-European Patent Court System
Managing IP as Team UPC's Megaphone and Lobbying Front
No More Rights for EPO Staff?
Some Patent Attorneys Dislike Techrights Not Because It's Wrong But Because Software Patents Are Wrong (and Sometimes Illegal)
Edward as a Nodder to Team UPC Kool-Aid
Guest Post: António Campinos' European Patent Office Redefines Modern Slavery in the Heart of Europe in 2019
EPO Cannot Handle Patent Justice With a Backlog of About 10,000 Cases at the Boards of Appeal
The European Patent Office Increases Surveillance: Can't Get Food Without Being Spied on
Breaking the Law Has Become the Norm at the European Patent Office
Patent Prosecution Highways and Examination Highways Are Dooming the EPO
Software Patents Won't Come Back Just Because They're (Re)Framed/Branded as "HEY HI" (AI)
IP Kat Pays the Price for Being a Megaphone of Team UPC
The EPO's War on the Convention on the Grant of European Patents 2000 (EPC 2000), Not Just Brexit, Kills the Unitary Patent (UP/UPC) and Dooms Justice
Spreading False Rumours or What's Most Likely Lies (Falsehoods) Won't Help Restore Justice at the EPO
Europe is Gradually Becoming a Hotspot for Patent Litigation and Trolls as Patent Quality Decreases
The EPO is Still Violating the EPC Every Day
The Tight Embrace of the 'Hey Hi' (AI) Hype is Strangling the Patent System
IP Kat as Amplifier of Team UPC at a Time When UPC is Dead
Honest Media Regarding Patent Matters is Dead
Lies, Lies and More Lies From the EPO (While Corporate Media in Europe Plays Along)
Germany's Infamous Patent Troll IPCom Shows That the EPO's Failure Hurts Not Only Germany But the Whole of Europe and Customers in General
European Media on the Death of the Unitary Patent (UP/UPC/UPCA)
António Campinos Puts European Patent Quality on a Suicide Diet/Plan and All EPO Staff on Notice
Patent Trolls' Paradise: The EPO is a Rubber-Stamping Machine, So Why Not Automatically Generate Patent Applications?
The EPO and the European Media Continue to Ignore or Cover Up the Haar Case
EPO Not Only an Eyesore But Also an Environmental Liability
The Boards' (of Appeal) Fear of Enforcing the Law (EPC) Will Doom the European Patent Office

July

Today's European Patent Office (EPO) Stifles Access to Medicine With Its More Dubious European Patents
The American Patent Microcosm Models Its Lobbying for Software Patents Based on the EPO's Ongoing Violations of the EPC
Prime Minister Boris Johnson Has Turned Into a Complete Joke the Cabinet Entrusted to Deal With UPC Limbo
Patent Trolls Are Not a Solved Problem and They Are Definitely a Growing Problem in Europe
Europe's Lowered Patent Standards
IP Kat Used to Blast the EPO for Profound Lack of Justice. Now It's Just Meowing With the EPO's Management.
Anything to Distract From the EPO's Plunging Patent Quality
EPO is Fast Becoming the Office of Invalid Patents (IPs)
EPO Continues to Grant Hundreds of Thousands of Illegal Software Patents and the Media Doesn't Care
Greenwashing to Distract From the EPO Breaking the Law, Rigging Justice and Its Own Courts
EPO Gradually Becoming the World's Most Permissive (Low Patent Quality) Patent Office by Consciously Violating the EPC
Companies That Collapse Because the European Patent Office (EPO) Gave Them Fake Patents in a Hurry
Demand for European Patents Will Continue to Decrease If a Lot of European Patents Turn Out to be Invalid, Worthless
2 Days Later (Case in Progress) and Still Media Silence About G 2/19
Index: G 2/19 (Enlarged Board of Appeal, EPO)
EPO Looney Tunes – Part 4: G 2/19 - Faites Vos Jeux…
Media Not Interested in G 2/19, Which Demonstrates Patent Justice is Nowadays Impossible at the EPO
EPO Looney Tunes – Part 3: The Legal Line-up for G 2/19
EPO Looney Tunes - Part 2: The “Difficult Legacy” and Its Dark Historical Shadow
EPO Noise Machine Turned On as Haar Hearing Kicks Off, Patrick Corcoran Defamed Again
EPO Looney Tunes - Part 1: Is D-Day Approaching for Battistelli’s “Difficult Legacy”?
Patent Certainty Waning, But That's Still OK for Patent Trolls
European Media Continues to Ignore the EPO Crisis While Law Firms and EPO Management Cover Things Up
Campinos is Already Widely Seen as Battistelli the Second, Even Among EPO Stakeholders
EPO Further Harms Justice and Quality by Weakening Processes Associated With the EPO’s Boards of Appeal
EPO 'Tackles' Patent Quality Concerns by Issuing New Report With “Quality” in the Title
Anonymous Comments Are the Only Thing of Value Left at IP Kat
EPO-Bribed Media Speaks to Team UPC, Produces UPC Puff Pieces With Plenty of Falsehoods and (Forbidden) Software Patents Advocacy
Another Day of Misleading Media Coverage About the EPO and More Squashed European Patents
Higher Patent Quality and More Patent Justice Rather Than Buzzwords and Litigation
Only a Matter of Time Before the European Patent Bubble Implodes
Only After Millions Were Spent on Lawyers Microsoft's Patent Troll in Europe Loses European Patent Used to Shake Down Android (Linux) Vendors
Ethiopian Media Gamed by EPO Management, Just Like European Media
The EPO's Administrative Council is Drunk on Cooperation Money (Bribes)
The European Patent Office is Disconnected From the Rule of Law and European Media Could Not Care Less
António Campinos is Almost 100% the Same as Benoît Battistelli
EPO Management Exacerbates Its Patent Invalidity Crisis by Rushing Examination Even Further in New Pilots
The EPO is More Interested in Silencing Its Critics Than in Actually Correcting Injustices

June

Tribalism Still a Major Problem at the European Patent Office
The New (Staged and Scripted) Video of António Campinos Feels Like a Drunken Satire
Director Iancu and President Benoît Battistelli Disappeared
EPO Staff, Lawyers and Courts Are Growing Tired of the Debased Patent Office and Administrative Council
UPC Was the EPO's (and Patent Maximalists') Attempt to Abolish Patent Justice
The EPO's “Collaborative Quality Improvements” (CQI), Formerly Known as “Team Collaboration Project,” Shows the EPO Grossly Violating the Law, Granting Patents in Clear Violation of the EPC
EPO CQI: Raw Leak of the Latest EPO 'Ingenuity'
The EPO Has Successfully Muzzled the Media
The European Patent Office Remains a Crooked Patent Office That Harms Staff and Abolishes the Rule of Law
USPTO and EPO Faking Growth by Granting Patents on Everything in Nature, But Campaigners Strike Back
IBM Happy That Patent Quality at EPO Collapsed and It's Easy to Get Software Patents
Patent Extremism: Stacking the Panels, the Surveys, the Hearings, the Debates
The EPO Needs a President Who Obeys the Law, Not One Who Obeys Battistelli
With Water (Treatment) Already Patented It Won't Take Long for Patents (and Patent Royalties) on Air
What Patents the EPO Has Just Awarded (With a Special Reward), Not Just Granted
Required Reading: Mental State of Team Battistelli/Campinos
EPO Directors Would be Wise to Rebel Against Team Campinos While They Still Have the Job
American Front Group Open Invention Network (Riding the Linux Brand) is a Proponent of Software Patents in Europe
Say 'Hey Hi' to Software Patents
Leaked: Harassment of EPO Directors by Team Campinos
Patent Professionals in Europe Have Devolved Into a Marketing Industry
Ignore the EPO's Dumb Festival and Focus on the Abuses Against the Workforce and Its Quality of Work
Indifference or Even Hostility Towards Patent Quality Results in Grave Injustice
'AI Taskforce' is Actually a Taskforce for Software Patents
Weaponising Russophobia Against One's Critics
When the EPO is Run by Politicians It’s Expected to Be Aggressive and Corrupt Like Purely Political Establishments
As European Patent Office Management Covers up Collapse in Patent Quality Don't Expect UPC to Ever Kick Off
António Campinos — Unlike His Father — Engages in Imperialism (Using Invalid Patents)
António Campinos Takes EPO Waste and Corruption to Unprecedented Levels and Scale
The EPO is a Patent Troll's Wet Dream
EPO Spreading Patent Extremists' Ideology to the Whole World, Now to South Korea
Leaked Financial 'Study' Document Shows EPO Management and Mercer Engaging in an Elaborate “Hoax”
Measuring Patent Quality and Employer Quality in Europe

Granting More Fundamentally Wrong Patents Will Mean Reduced Certainty, Not Increased Certainty (partly about EPO)

Granting More Fundamentally Wrong Patents Will Mean Reduced Certainty, Not Increased Certainty
Patent Quality Continues to Slip in Europe and We Know Who Will Profit From That (and Distract From It)
António Campinos Given an Extension to Prove He Respects the Rule of Law
Lawlessness at the EPO Means That Software Patents Are Still Being Granted and EPO Judges Have Their Hands Tied
The Preparatory Committee of the UPC Does Not Decide for Constitutional Courts
The Paid-For UPC Lies
The European Patent Office is a Global Threat, Not Just a Threat to Europe
Drunk on Power
EPO Advertises Jobs for Lawyers That Combat EPO Staff, 'Emergency' Call Surfacing
EPO Meltdown and Collapse in Patent Quality Don't Bother Bristows Kat
EUIPO/EPO Redundancies While Spending a Billion Euros on Unnecessary Buildings
European Patent Quality Totally and Utterly Collapses While Team UPC Hopes It Can Make the Courts 'Kangaroo' Ones
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.”
An Office of Patent Extremists
More Tall Tales From EPOnia - A Little Apéritif to Whet the Appetite…
António Campinos as German Sheriff Rather Than Office President

May

British Patent Courts Continue to Expose the Collapse in Quality of European Patents
António Campinos Didn't Even Last a Year
Social 'Studies' and Sponsored 'Articles' Cannot Hide the Fact That EPO is a Terrible Employer Which Currently Harms Europe
European Patents Are Eventually Being Revoked. But at Great Expense to Everyone Except Law Firms.
Team Campinos Will Try to Make It Difficult to Go on Strike (But Won't Manage to Prevent It)
EPO Strikes Further Diminish Chances of UPC Ever Materialising (in Any Shape or Form)
EPO Allegedly Becoming Insolvent (Pretext for Cuts), So Staff Gets Punished While Management Takes the Jackpot
EPO President Still Not Obeying Courts' Rulings
António Campinos Has Run Out of Time and EPO Staff is Going on Strike (Skipping Mere Protests)
Quality of Patents is Going Down the Drain and Courts Have Certainly Noticed
EUIPO and EPO Abuses Growingly Inseparable
The War on Patent Quality
Unified Patent Court Won’t Happen Just Because the Litigation Microcosm Wants It
Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 4: Happy Birthday to the Kötter Group?
The EPO’s Key Function — Like the UPC’s Vision — Has Virtually Collapsed
Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 3: “Ein kritikwürdiges Unternehmen”
EPO Had a Leakage Problem and Privacy of Stakeholders Was Compromised, Affecting at Least 100 Cases
False Hope for Patent Maximalists and Litigation Zealots
The Race to the Bottom of Patent Quality at the EPO
Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 2: Meet the Kötters
Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 1: Urgent Shitstorm Alert
Patents That Were Gleefully Granted by the EPO Continue to Perish in Courts
Professionally Incompetent EPO Management
Did Battistelli 'Steal' ~$100,000,000 Euros From the EPO?
The Biased EPO Does Not Want to Hear From Anyone Except Those Who Pay the EPO
Team UPC Has Run Out of Arguments, So Now It's Just Writing Anti-Brexit Rants With Testicles in the Headlines
Making the Patent System About Productive Actors (Again), Not a Bunch of Law Firms and Trolls
Stephen Rowan: From UK-IPO to Operation Coverup of Team António Campinos
Lusting for a Unified Patent Court (UPC) That Respects Invalid European Patents, Including Software Patents
Illegal Software Patents and Patent Trolls Well Served by European and American Patent Offices But Not Courts
Corrupt Battistelli is Back for European Inventor Award 2019 — an Extravagant Ceremony He Has Used to Steal Millions of Euros From the EPO
EPO Waste and Mismanagement: Renting Space While Keeping Buildings Empty and Making More of Them
Corruption at the EPO is a Threat Not Only to Europe But to Every Continent in the World
Why Does the EPO Keep Praising People Who Promote Software Patents, Rewarding Them for Patent Thickets That Harm Software Developers?
The EPO is a Threat to Software Developers Everywhere, Not Just in Europe
Even IAM Admits That When It Comes to Patents It's Quality That Counts, Not Quantity
It's 2019 and Team UPC is Still Composing 'Fake News' (Lobbying Disguised as Reporting)
Even EPO Patent 'Justice' is Now Measured in Industrial Terms Like 'Production' Rather Than Accuracy
EPO in 2019: Pushing (and Bribing) for Buzzwords to Bypass/Cheat the Law Whilst Abolishing the Court System
Lack of Justice at the EPO Continues to Usher in Fake Patents on Abstract Things
Union Syndicale Federale (USF) Writes to António Campinos Again Regarding the Appalling Atmosphere at the EPO

April

Haar is Where EPO Justice Came to Meet Euthanasia
The 'Technical Effect' of Attacking the Independence of Judges at the Boards of Appeal and Ignoring/Breaking the Law
"Dia da Liberdade" in Portugal -- Wilted Carnations in EPOnia
The Quality of Patents is Connected to the Quality of Life of Patent Examiners
Supreme Court of the UK, Which Habitually Throws Out European Patents, May Overturn Troublesome Unwired Planet v Huawei Decision
German Federal Patent Court Curbs the Patent Maximalism of the EPO, Which Promotes Patents on Nature and/or Maths Every Single Day
António Campinos Would Not Refer to the EPO's Enlarged Board of Appeal If He Did Not Control the Outcomes
USPTO and EPO Both Slammed for Abandoning Patent Quality and Violating the Law/Caselaw in Order to Grant Illegitimate Patents on Life/Nature and Mathematics
The EPO's Use of Phrases Like “High-Quality Patent Services” Means They Know High-Quality European Patents Are 'Bygones'
The Likes of Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA), Team Campinos and Team UPC Don't Represent Europe But Hurt Europe
Largest Patent Offices Try to Leave Courts in a State of Disarray to Enable the Granting of Fake Patents in the US and Europe
The European Patent Office Does Not Care About the Law, Today's Management Constantly Attempts to Bypass the Law
Corporate Media Will Never Cover the EPO's Violations of the Law With Respect to Patent Scope
Patent Maximalists Are Enabling Injustices and Frauds
Caricature: EPO Standing Tall
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
Global Finance Magazine Spreads Lies About the Unitary Patent and German Constitutional Court
New Building as Perfect Metaphor for the EPO Under the Frenchmen Battistelli and Campinos
EPO Still Wasting Budget, Paying Media and Academics for Spin
EPO Benefits European Patent Trolls With Dodgy European Patents
The Myth of Quality of European Patents
António Campinos is Already Paying a Lot of Money to Craft an Alternate Reality at the European Patent Office
Who Does the Legal System Really Serve or Favour in European Patent Disputes?
The Media is (Still) Failing to Cover EPO Corruption
The EPO’s Incredulous Survey: Management’s Voice, Management’s Future — EPO Staff ‘Engagement’ Spin (Denial of Issues)
Only One in Six EPO Workers Trusts the Management, According to New Survey Skewed by Management
Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) — Like MedTech at the EPO — Just Another Dodge for Illegitimate Software Patents
Europe's EPO Has Become France’s INPI
Even Patent Maximalists Are Not Happy With António Campinos Referring Question of Patents on Life to the Enlarged Board of Appeal
The European Patent Office Will Come to Regret the Fake Patents It Has Granted for Short-Term Financial Gains
EPO Management is Knowingly and Consciously Granting Invalid European Patents, Including Patents on Life and Nature
The Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) Warns About the Granting of Tens of Thousands of Invalid European Patents Every Year
The EPO Continues Granting Bogus Patents on Mathematics and Nature, But There's Hope Over the Horizon
EPO Judges Lack Independence and the Internal Courts Are Seen to be Lacking Legitimacy (Decisions' Validity) Under António Campinos
Artificially-Intelligent Blockchained Internet of Things Industrial Revolutionary CII or Software Patents by Any Other Name
Patent Trolls Destroy the European Economy Because EPO Gives Them Questionable Patents

March

The UK Supreme Court's Latest Decision is Ammunition for the FCC to Scuttle the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA)
A March in Brussels Next Month, Disgruntled EPO Staff Invited
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.
Tall Tales From the Land of EPOnia: Indications of High-Level Club Med/EUIPO “Entryism”
European Patents Found to be Invalid and Deemed Impotent in the Highest British Court (Again)
The European Patent Scope is a Lost Cause, Does Not Exist Anymore
The EPO is Still a Software Patents Propaganda Machine and Thus an Enemy of Software Developers in Europe
Dimitris Xenos on Unconstitutional Supranational Arrangements for Patent Law: Leaving Out the Elected Legislators and the People’s Participatory Rights
The Campinos-Battistelli Strategy is Working: Patent Trolls Are Coming to Europe!
The Unified Patent Court is Dead, But Doubts Remain Over the EPO's Appeal Boards' Ability to Rule Independently Against Patents on Nature and Code
Why the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK-IPO) Cannot Ignore Judges, Whereas the EPO Can (and Does)
The European Patent Office Needs to Put Lives Before Profits
“Criminal Organisation”
Team UPC (Unitary Patent) is a Headless Chicken
António Campinos Makes Up Claims About Patent Quality, Only to be Rebutted by Examiners, Union (Anyone But the 'Puff Pieces' Industry)
CEN and CENELEC Agreement With the EPO Shows That It's Definitely the European Commission's 'Department'
Decisions Made Inside the European Patent Organisation (EPO) Lack Credibility Because Examiners and Judges Lack Independence
Team UPC Buries Its Credibility Deeper in the Grave
The EPO Has Sadly Taken a Side and It's the Patent Trolls' Side
To Team UPC the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Has Become a Joke and the European Patent Office (EPO) Never Mentions It Anymore
Stopping António Campinos and His Software Patents Agenda (Not Legal in Europe) Would Require Independent Courts
The EPO and the USPTO Are Granting Fake Patents on Software, Knowing That Courts Would Reject These
EPO 'Results' Are, As Usual, Not Measured Correctly
Good News Everyone! UPC Ready to Go... in 2015!
EPO's Latest 'Results' Show That António Campinos Has Already Given Up on Patent Quality and is Just Another Battistelli
EPO Examiner: “I Have Been Against Software Patents and Eventually 3/4 of My Job is Examining Software Patent Applications.”
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
From Patents on Chewing Gum to Toothpaste Patents: How the EPO Came to Focus on Speed and Volume, Not Quality
European Patent Office Press Releases (Two in Two Days) Are Disguised as 'News' and Tell the Opposite of the Truth
António Campinos Will Not Tackle Any of the Lingering Issues at the European Patent Office
Immunity Stripped by the Supreme Court of the United States, Opening the Possibility of Ending Immunity of the EPO As Well
The Tide Has Turned Against Patents on Life in Europe
Patent Law Firms Are Truly (and Visibly) Panicking Over the Demise of Software Patents
3,000 Posts About the European Patent Office and Why We'll Maintain Our Focus on It
Fraud at the European Patent Office, But All Those Arrested Are Perpetrators Without Misused Immunity
Power and Corruption: How European Patent Office Nepotism and Despotism Open Doors
Quality Issues at the European Patent Office Can Lead It Down the Same Downward Path as the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
Truly and Completely Out of Control, the Unhinged European Patent Office Calls Applicants “Customers” While Offering Patents on Nature, Life, Maths
The EPO Technical/Enlarged Board of Appeal Would, Potentially (If It Enjoyed Actual Independence), Serve a 'European Alice' and Eliminate All/Most Software Patents in Europe
Battistelli's Presidency Was a Write-off Presidency (of Potentially Billions of Euros in Losses)
The Technical Board of Appeal Will Need True Independence to Squash Software Patents at the EPO (T 0489/14)
Unitary Patent (UPC/A) Constitutional Complaint Can be Decided in a Matter of Years (If Ever)
European Patent Office Careers Bad for One's Health, Properly Assessing Patents is 'Professional Incompetence' Now
EPO Staff Union: 'New' Team Campinos Practice “Reminds Us Strongly of the Battistelli Times.”
The Collapse of Poor-Quality European Patents Continues in European Courts
Lesson From the United States: Overly Permissive Patent Policy (Maximalism) Can Drive Technology Companies Away
T 0489/14: Will the European Patent Organisation Put an End to Software Patents at Long Last?

February

The Latest Brexit Developments Add Another Nail (Among Many) to the Unified Patent Court's (UPC) Coffin
Teff Just One Among Countless Examples of Sheer Disregard for Patent Quality
English Translation: Alexandre Benalla Thinks He Can Carry a Weapon in Germany
English Translation: Alexandre Benalla on His Work Experience (or Lack Thereof)
English Translation: Alexandre Benalla Cannot Tell the Difference Between EPO and the French Republic (or Battistelli and Macron)
English Translation: I Have Huge Respect for Battistelli, Said Alexandre Benalla Under Pressure
Croatian Media on Fake Diplomas and the EPO Connection
There is Still a Patent Quality Crisis at the EPO
Ben and Ben: Benalla and His Enabler, Beny Battistelli
Alexandre Benalla's Time at the EPO, in His Own Words
Video: Alexandre Benalla Explains His Activities Within the European Patent Office
Bruno Retailleau on Alexandre Benalla's Perjury
Video: Alexandre Benalla on Carrying Weapons in Munich's EPO Premises (Strictly Illegal in Germany)
Bristows is Still Hoping to 'Overthrow' the Courts and Throw Out Ingve Stjerna's Complaint (About the Likes of Bristows)
Video: Alexandre Benalla Speaks About His Relationship With Battistelli
Hallmark of Corruption: Benalla and Fellow Thugs Paid Roughly the Same Salary as Battistelli (Each!) and There's a New Chinese Contract Worth €7.2 Million
EPO Insider Video: Nouvel an Architectural Hazard, Not Just a Fire Hazard
The European Patent Office Goes Down a Very Slippery Slope by Promoting and Defending Patents on Life/Nature in Defiance of Parliament and the EPC
Software Patents Are in a Freefall in Courts Worldwide, But the EPO Keeps Granting and Promoting These
Team UPC Excited Over Nothing, President Campinos Rarely Even Mentions UPC Anymore
Battistelli's Bodyguard Has Been Arrested, But Battistelli Should Join Him
How Long Can the EPO Bend the Rules Before the Avalanche of Invalid Software Patents?
Battistelli Trashed 223 Millions (of Stakeholders' Euros) on a System That Destroyed the European Patent Office and Made Few Private Corporations a Lot Richer
What Happened in the United States Now Happens in Europe: Lots of Patents Turn Out to Be Bunk, Fake, Bogus, Invalid and Thus Worthless
Stephen Rowan's and Nellie Simon's Letter to EPO Staff: eDossier Has “Not Reached the Required Quality Levels.”
Search Matters Not at the European Patent Office
António Campinos Still Needs to Undo Battistelli's Union-Busting Activities at the EPO
António Campinos Still Needs to Hold Team Battistelli Accountable for Illegally Bringing Weapons to the EPO
How Many/Most EPO Examiners View 'President' António Campinos
Courts in Disagreement: Warning on Wrongly-Granted European Patents and the Looming Collapse of All Software Patents in Europe
EPO Grants Fake European Patents — Including Software Patents — and European Courts Keep Rejecting These
Nobody But Patent Trolls and Litigators Will Benefit From the Corruption of the European Patent Office
Outline/Index of the Alexandre Benalla/Battistelli Scandal
“EPO Lawlessness Again”
Unitary Patent (UPC) is All About Imposing Patent Maximalists' Ideology of Greed and Self Interest on Courts in the Name of 'Unification' or 'Consistency' or 'Community'
Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part V: Mediapart Explains the 'Raid' Attempt, Reporters Without Borders Involved
Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part IV: Suspected Offenses of Forgery and Possible Falsification
Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part III: Mars, France Close Protection (Benalla's Family), and Russian Oligarchy
Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part II: Fishing Expedition for Sources in the Alexandre Benalla 'Underworld' Scandal
Innovating the Idea That Software Patents (Monopolies on Algorithms) Are Covering 'Artificial' 'Intelligence' (AI and ML as Loopholes)
Battistelli's Bodyguard, Part I: Destruction of Evidence by Alexandre Benalla
Gross Violations of the EPC at the European Patent Office as Principal Priority Turns Against Science and Technology
European Patent Office’s Exploitation of the ‘AI’ Catchphrase/Buzzword to Grant Patents on Algorithms in Defiance of the Rules, the Law, and Common Sense
Corrupt Battistelli Paid a Fortune (EPO Budget) for Outlaw/Rogue 'Bodyguards' From Firm Linked to Russian Oligarch Iskander Makhmudov
António Campinos Will Never Hold Battistelli Accountable for His Crimes Because He Too Profits From These
EPO President Campinos Works With Patent Trolls and With Team UPC to Promote Software Patents
Teff is Not an Invention. Teff is Nature.
UPC Part of the Litigation 'Industry' Lobby and the Efforts to Change (Significantly Lower) Patent Quality Bar/Scope
The Attack on the Independence of the European Judges Has Apparently Expanded to the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht)
EPO Boards of Appeal Still Need Independence
Bogus European Patents Kill Cancer Patients, But EPO Still Has the Audacity to Ride the Wave of World Cancer Day
Concerns About Stephan Harbarth's Unitary Patent (UPC) Vested Interests and His Entrance Into the Constitutional Court That Decides on UPC
The European Patent Office's Promotion of Software Patents Overlooks Ongoing 'Spillage' of the Patent Crisis to Patent Courts (Rejecting Such Patents)
The Reputation of the EPO is Ruined But Now It Ruins the Lives of Staff and Europeans

January

Fake Software Patents, Patent Trolls and Assault on Generic Medicine in Europe
President Campinos Maintains Battistelli's Abusive Sanctions, EPO Staff Increasingly Losing Faith and Hope in Him
People Are Dying Because of Low Quality of (Wrongly-Granted) European Patents
The EPO Continues to Grant Software Patents Even Though Many European Patents Are Being Invalidated Already
"HE DID NOTHING Since He Arrived, Full Stop." What EPO People Make of President Campinos...
The Management of the EPO Will Not Manage to Recruit Any Talent If It's Killing Its Own Staff
Compensation for Damages and Discrimination: The Case (One Among Several) Against EPO Vice-President Topić
Another Call for EPO Leaks
The USPTO Used to Pose a Threat to European Software Developers. Now It's the EPO Posing a Threat to Software Developers Worldwide.
British Courts Once Again Reject Bogus European Patents Granted on Software
European Patent Quality as Awful Under António Campinos as (If Not Worse Than) Benoît Battistelli and Battistelli Makes a Public Comeback
Declining Patent Quality and Lies About Software Patents at the EPO
Team UPC Has Been Reduced to a Self-Satirising Drama Show
The Whitewashing of the EPO Under António Campinos
Software Patents Are a Dying Breed, So Marks & Clerk and Other Legal Monoliths Promote the EPO's Buzzwords (Loopholes)
A Fortnight After His Diplomatic Immunity Ends Outgoing EPO Vice-President Željko Topić is in Court in Zagreb, Croatia
JUVE Creates English Site, Promotes Unified Patent Court (UPC)
EPO Defying Patent Restrictions/Limits From the European Parliament, the European Commission and the European Countries It Claims to Represent
The UPC is Dead. But Bristows is Now Fully Engaged in Necrophilia.
Brexit Has Failed, But So Has the Unitary Patent (UPC)
IBM, Which Will Soon be Buying Red Hat, is Promoting Software Patents in Europe
Team UPC on Dead UPC: Choosing Gowns for Corpses
Council of Europe (CoE) Recognises There's No Justice at the EPO
European Patent Office a Textbook Example of Lawless, Rogue Institutions
IP Kat Has Turned From EPO Critic (to the Point of Being Blocked by the EPO) to EPO Whitewasher That Gags EPO Whistleblowers
The EPO's Low Patent Quality Can Kill the European Software Industry and Kill People Too
The Fiction That Spain (or Italy) Can Salvage the UPC
EPO President “Campinos is Wasting His Credibility With “Sweet” Communiqués Full of Hot Air and Storytelling”
European Patent Office Saga in 2019: “95% of the People Responsible for the Misery Are Still in Place and Have Not Even Been Rebuked”
EPO Corruption is Helping Patent Maximalists in the United States
EPO Leaks
The German Constitutional Court's Decision on Unitary Patent (UPC) is Very, Very Far
The EPO is So Backwards That the Boss Has Just Become Subservient to the Subject of Oversight
The Real Harm of Really Bad European Patent Grants

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