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Colour codes:

Scope	Repression	Labour	Above the law	Credibility
Software (abstract) patents	Institutional abuse	Staff deaths/suicides	Ignoring court orders or due process	Budgetary issues
Patents on life	Censorship/Gagging	Crushing protests	Crushing oversight or other branches	Reputation issues (EU)
Patent maximalism/UPC	DDOS	Union-busting	Character assassination/Defamation	Favouritism/Nepotism
Patent trolls	Legal bullying	Abolishing workers' rights	Propaganda/Misinformation/Paying the media	Conflict of interest/Dubious connections
Systemic synthesis	Illegal surveillance	State within a state	Alleged bribery	Organisational crisis

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Contents 1 2018 1.1 December 1.2 November 1.3 October 1.4 September 1.5 August 1.6 July 1.7 June 1.8 May 1.9 April 1.10 March 1.11 February 1.12 January

2018

December

• Even Joff Wild and the Patent Trolls' Lobby Finally Admit Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead
• The Demise of the UPC 'Legislative Coup' Continued in 2018
• The Quality of European Patents Likely Declined Even Further in 2018
• UPC Died in 2016 or 2017; But the EPO Continues to Issue Fake Software Patents That European Courts Reject
• Today's EPO Envisions a Europe of Patent Trolls, Not of Science and Technology
• Team UPC Belatedly Admits Lying About the German UPC Complaint (Fabricated 'Rumours')
• EPO: Adherence to the Law at the Office Postponed Indefinitely, 'Reform' Going Ahead (Divergence From the Law)
• UPC Would Mean Patent Scope Gone Out of Control and Beyond/Above the Law
• Immunity of the European Patent Office Has Helped Shield Dangerous Thugs From Justice
• Patent Law Firms' War on Facts and Constant Lying About Unitary Patent
• EPO Chief Economist Yann Ménière Keynote Speaker at Patent Trolls-Funded Event Set Up by the Patent Trolls' Lobby
• The European Patent Organisation (EPO) Loses Legitimacy If (or When) Christoph Ernst Becomes Subservient to António Campinos
• The European Patent Troll Wants as Much Litigation as Possible
• António Campinos Turns His 'Boss' Into His Lapdog, Just Like Battistelli and Kongstad
• EPO Trust, Leadership and Commitment
• With 'Brexit' in a Lot of Headlines Team UPC Takes the Unitary Patent Lies up a Notch
• The EPO Not Only Abandoned the EPC But Also the Biotech Directive
• Patents on Abstract Things and on Life (or Patents Which Threaten Lives) Merely Threaten the Very Legitimacy of Patent Offices, Including EPO
• Florian Müller's Article About SEPs and the EPO
• EPO Vice-President Željko Topić in New Article About Corruption in Croatia
• The Quality of European Patents Continues to Deteriorate Under António Campinos and Software Patents Are Advocated Every Day
• Team UPC is Still Spreading False Rumours in an Effort to Trick Politicians and Pressure Judges
• Patents on Life and Patents That Kill the Poor Would Only Delegitimise the European Patent Office
• EPO 'Untapped Potential'
• The European Patent Organisation is Like a Private Club and Roland Grossenbacher is Back in It
• The European Patent Office Remains a Lawless Place Where Judges Are Afraid of the Banker in Chief
• Many of the Same People Are Still in Charge of the European Patent Office Even Though They Broke the Law
• EPO, in Its Patent Trolls-Infested Forum, Admits It is Granting Bogus Software Patents Under the Guise of 'Blockchain'
• The Patent Litigation Bubble is Imploding in the US While the UPC Dies in Europe
• EPO Management Keeps Embarrassing Itself, UPC More Dead Than Before, and Nokia Turns Aggressive
• Patent Trolls, USPTO Director Andrei Iancu and Section 101 (partly about EPO)
• Be Wary of the Latest Lies About the Unified Patent Court (UPC), Courtesy of CIPA and Marks & Clerk (Team UPC)
• EPO Management High-Fiving Patent Propaganda Sites Like 'Managing IP' While Granting Illegitimate Patents on Algorithms
• “ILO Gave the EPO Medical Committee a Good Slapping”
• Science Minister Sam Gyimah, Who Tactlessly Ratified UPC in the UK, Has Just Resigned
• Patent Offices Reward Microsoft for Corruption

November

• António Campinos is Working for Patent Trolls at the Expense of Science and Technology
• Even Sites That Served UPC Propaganda for Years (for These Sites' Owners) Have Come to Admit That the UPC Might Already be Dead
• Union Syndicale Fédérale Tells António Campinos to End 'Political' Cases Against EPO Staff Representatives
• Clouding Abstract Software Patents Using Acronyms and Buzzwords
• 127th Session of ILO Tribunal Rulings Will Deal With European Patent Organisation Complaints (Appeals) Tomorrow Afternoon, Staff Grows Tired of Office President António Campinos
• The Demise of Software Patents in Patent Courts Worldwide Would Mean Much-Needed Staff Cuts in Litigation Giants (partly about EPO)
• EPO Nowadays Closely Associates With Site That Attacks, Insults and Calls for Resignations of Judges (Those Who Scrutinise Patents)
• EPO's Head of Human Resources Elodie Bergot “Condemned for Harassment in France When She Worked for the Caisse Assurance Retraites”
• António Campinos Has Run Out of Time, EPO Staff Representation Now Views Him as Just Another Battistelli and Wants Immediate Change
• Team UPC Refuses to Stop Lying, Pays Money to Spread Its Unified Patent Court (UPC) Lies in the Media
• Thanksgiving EPO Roundup: UPC Lies, Software Patents Considered Harmful and SUEPO Condemns Union-Busting Activities (Which Carry on Under António Campinos)
• To Mask the Decline in Patent Quality, e.g. Granting of Software Patents a.k.a. Computer-Implemented Inventions (CII), EPO Makes Oppositions Harder
• Patent Trolls in EPO Events That Promote Software Patents
• Appalling Patent Quality at the European Patent Office, More Lies About the Unified Patent Court (UPC), and Assault on Those Who Warned About It All Along
• Germany Likes EPO in Munich, Litigation Factory in Düsseldorf and Mannheim (Like Eastern District of Texas)
• The European Patent Office is Attracting Patent Trolls
• The European Patent Office Comes up With a Plethora of New Buzzwords by Which to Refer to Software Patents
• Patent Maximalists in Europe Keep Mentioning China Even Though It Barely Matters to European Patents
• Team UPC Has Been Reduced to Lies, Lies, and More Lies about the Unified Patent Court Agreement
• Ignoring and Bashing Courts: Is This the Future of Patent Offices in the West? (partly about EPO)
• A Question of Debt: António Campinos, Lexology, Law Gazette, and Sam Gyimah
• Science Minister Sam Gyimah and the EPO Are Eager to Attack Science by Bringing Patent Trolls to Europe/European Union and the United Kingdom
• USF Revisits EPO Abuses, Highlighting an Urgent Need for Action
• Second Day of EPOPIC: Yet More Promotion of Software Patents in Europe in Defiance of Courts, EPC, Parliament and Common Sense
• Allegations That António Campinos 'Bought' His Presidency and is Still Paying for it
• WIPO Corruption and Coverup Mirror EPO Tactics
• The USPTO and EPO Pretend to Care About Patent Quality by Mingling With the Terms “Patent” and “Quality”
• Yannis Skulikaris Promotes Software Patents at EPOPIC, Defending the Questionable Practice Under António Campinos
• Team UPC, Fronting for Patent Trolls From the US, is Calling Facts “Resistance”
• Guest Post: EPO Spins Censorship of Staff Representation
• EPO 'Outsourcing' Rumours
• Pro-Litigation Front Groups Like CIPA and Team UPC Control the EPO, Which Shamelessly Grants Software Patents
• Latest Loophole: To Get Software Patents From the EPO One Can Just Claim That They're 'on a Car'
• The Huge Cost of Wrongly-Granted European Patents, Recklessly Granted by the European Patent Office (EPO)
• EPO Stacking up Buzzwords (4IR, AI, Now SDV) to Compel Examiners to Grant Patents on Algorithms
• EPO Needs to Publicly Apologise for Granting Bogus/Fake Patents to Aggressive Companies Like Monsanto (Now Bayer)
• The Death of the UPC is Only a “Tragedy” for Patent Trolls and Their Facilitators
• The António Campinos Private/Secret Meeting With ILO Officials a Slap Across the Face to Employees of the European Patent Office
• European Software Patents: From AI to Blockchains and Now... Self-Driving Vehicles
• Guy Ryder (ILO) Should Meet Staff Representatives, Not Corrupt Team Battistelli
• The European Patent Office Lost Its Way, Found Buzzwords Instead
• Managing IP and Law Gazette Speak for Patent Trolls and Team UPC (Which Supports and Profits From Trolls)
• Blockchain Hype Exploited by the EPO and by Patent Law Firms to Wrongly Assert Free/Libre Software Can Coexist With Software Patents
• EPO Granting European Patents on Nature and on Thoughts
• Team UPC's Last Resort: Stacked Panels, Anonymously Belittling the Opposition (e.g. Ingve Björn Stjerna) and Taking Control of the Media
• António Campinos Continues to Conflate Speed With Quality
• Today the EPO Has Officially Lowered Patent Quality by Allowing Software Patents by Means of Dog Whistles

October

• Team UPC Hijacks the Debate in the Media and in British Parliament
• EPO Insider: Under António Campinos “the Union Busting Done by the Administration Continues Even Worse Than Before”
• The EPO Lost Any Sense of Shame About Granting Patents on Software, Which It Openly Welcomes and Even Encourages
• EPO President António Campinos Speaks of “Greater Transparency,” But He's Even More Secretive Than Battistelli and He Lets Patent Quality Slip Further
• Lobbying and Blackmail Rewarded? JUVE Awards Team UPC Firm Bardehle Pagenberg, Which Represents Microsoft's Worst Patent Troll, Intellectual Ventures.
• On PTAB, Andrei Iancu is to the Patent Litigation Giants What Ajit Pai is to Big Telecom (Former Employers) (partly about EPO)
• The EPO is Trying to Make Software Patents Look and Feel 'Healthy'
• António Campinos Just a Quieter Version of Battistelli
• Battistelli and Team UPC Still Waiting for a Campinos Miracle
• EPO: Software Patents Are Allowed, Just Say 'AI' in the Patent Applications and We'll Compel Examiners to Grant
• Pretty Revealing That EPO Management Promotes Software Patents and IP Kat Promotes Patent Trolls
• The EPO Under António Campinos Has Opened More Doors to Software Patents and Only Litigators Are Happy
• German Court on UPC Constitutional Complaint: “No Oral Hearing is Currently Scheduled. A Decision Date is Not Foreseeable at Present.”
• The Identity Crisis of the European Patent Office, Wrongly Believing It Exists to Serve Lawyers and Patent Trolls Outside Europe
• Ingve Björn Stjerna Has Just Warned That If Team UPC and the European Patent Office Rigged the Proceedings of the German Constitutional Court, Consequences Would be Significant
• It's Almost 2019 and Team UPC is Still Pretending Unitary Patent (UPC) Exists, Merely Waiting for Britain to Join
• IAM and IP Kat Are Still Megaphones of Battistelli and His Agenda
• EPO Under António Campinos Relaxes the Rules on Software Patenting and the Litigation 'Industry' Loves That
• Corporate Media's Failure to Cover Patents Properly and Our New Hosting Woes
• EPO Insider/Märpel Says President Campinos Already Acts Like Battistelli
• Quality of Patents Granted by the EPO is Still Low and Nobody Will Benefit Except Lawyers, Jubilant Over Growing Lenience on Software Patents
• 100 Days Into the Term of Campinos There is Already an EPO Suicide
• Friend Brings a Friend, Boss Becomes Subordinate: the EPO Under António Campinos is Starting to Look a Lot Like Team Battistelli 2.0
• UPC Cowardice: Team UPC Uses Cloaks of Anonymity to Discredit Authors of Scholarly UPC Paper They Don't Like
• New EPO Guidelines: Granting European Patents on Business Methods, Algorithms, Mental Acts and Other Abstract Stuff
• António Campinos Makes Excuses for Granting European Patents on Software in Spite of the EPC
• Antibody Patents Should Not be Allowed (Nor Should CRISPR Patents) (partly about EPO)
• When It Comes to Patent Quality António Campinos Might be Even Worse Than Benoît Battistelli
• The Era of Fake Patents (or Software Patents) is Upon Us (partly about EPO)
• The European Patent Office Has Assaulted Patent Quality While Trying to Distract From That
• The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Obsolete for More Reasons Than the German Constitutional Court, But Team UPC in the UK Refuses to Give Up
• Patents on Life and on Algorithms in Europe Will Doom the EPO
• Europe is Getting Flooded With Software Patents, Repeating the Mistakes Made by the United States
• Submissive, Bribed and EPO-Connected Media Organisations Help Perpetuate Corruption by Failing or Refusing to Cover It
• More Patents Would Mean More Tax Evasion for Large Corporations and More Taxes/Duties on Society
• Nellie Simon Expected to Join the ‘Club Med’ of Battistelli and Campinos
• The European Council Fulfills Corrupt Battistelli's Alleged Promise, Making Christian Archambeau Head of EUIPO
• EPO Under António Campinos an Unprecedented Booster of Software Patents

September

• AIPPI is Led by Team UPC's People and 'AIPPI Congress Report' Published by Team UPC
• Team UPC Wants More (Patent) Taxes on Society While Defending/Shielding the Super-rich From Taxes That Might Otherwise Benefit Society
• Superficially Artificial or Artificially Superficial Patents on 'AI' Are Fake Patents
• How Team UPC is Reacting to the Demise of EPO- and EU-Connected Court That Would Have Put Patent Maximalists in Charge
• In the EPO Under António Campinos and His Predecessor Battistelli Patents Can Almost be Presumed “Invalid” (in Courts)
• EPO Central Staff Committee: 30 Percent of Staff Are in Principle Targetable as ‘Challenging People’
• French Media Confirms Alexandre Benalla Just One of Six Battistelli Bodyguards, Employed at the Cost of €8,000-€10,000 Per Month (for Benalla Alone!)
• Lots of UPC Noise/News This Week Over a Document Which Merely Weakens Commitment to the UPC
• Director Iancu and President Campinos Both Serve the Litigation 'Industry' Instead of Science and Technology
• António Campinos Goes to UPC-Hostile Country, UPC Continues to Languish and Team UPC Carries on Pushing for Software Patents in Europe (Courts Also)
• The Man Whose Actions Could Potentially Land Team Battistelli in Jail
• Reader's Article: Affaire Benalla Strongly Connected to EPO/OEB/EPA and Former President Benoît Battistelli
• Guest Post on Ronan Le Gleut and Benalla at the French Senate (in Light of Battistelli's Epic Abuses)
• Benoît Battistelli Refuses to Talk to the Media About Bringing Firearms to the EPO
• Advocacy of the Unitary Patent System Has Become Almost Identical to the 'Leave' (Brexit) Campaign
• Bogus Patents Which Oughtn't Have Been Granted Make Products Deliberately Worse, Reducing Innovation and Worsening Customers' Experience (partly about EPO)
• EPO is Like a Patent Litigation (Without Actual Trial) Office, Not a Patent Examination Office
• Philippe Cadre From the French National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) Wants to Join António Campinos
• Criticism of Unitary Patent (UPC) Agreement Doomed the UPC and Patent Trolls' Plan -- Along With the Litigation Lobby -- for Unified 'Extortion Vector'
• It Wasn't Judges With Weapons in Their Office, It Was Benoît Battistelli Who Brought Firearms to the European Patent Office (EPO)
• Today's European Patent Office (EPO) Works for Large, Foreign Pharmaceutical Companies in Pursuit of Patents on Nature, Life, and Essential/Basic Drugs
• The EPO Has Quit Pretending That It Cares About Patent Quality, All It Cares About is Quantity of Lawsuits
• IAM, Watchtroll and the EPO Still Spread the Mentality of Patent Maximalism
• Battistelli “Has Deeply Hurt the Whole Patent Profession, Examiners as Well as Agents” and Also the Image of France
• António Campinos Needs to Listen to Doctors Without Borders (MSF) et al to Salvage What's Left of Public Consent for the EPO
• The Max Planck Institute's Determination on UPC's (Unitary Patent) Demise is Only “Controversial” in the Eyes of Rabid Members of Team UPC
• Max Planck Institute Pours More Water on the Dying Unitary Patent (UPC)
• EPO Seals Many Death Sentences With Acceptance of EP 2604620
• EPO Granted a Controversial European Patent (Under Battistelli) Which May Literally Kill a Lot of People
• Patents on Life at the EPO Are a Symptom of Declining Patent Quality
• Patentability of Software Constantly Pushed by the EPO Under António Campinos With Help From IAM, CIPA, IPO and Other Litigation Front Groups
• Fresh Rumours of Further Accelerated Layoffs at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• 35 U.S.C. § 101 Squashes Already-Granted US Patents, Europe Needs Post-Grant Appeals to Accomplish the Same Because EPO Grants Software Patents
• CIPA and EPO, Two UPC Boosters, Get Together to Promote Software Patents in Spite of the EPC
• Election of New Vice-Presidents at EPO Seems Rigged, Say Insiders and Former Insiders
• 'Reformist' Campinos Seems to be Accelerating EPO Layoffs by Removing Without Warning Staff That's Perceived as Not Loyal Enough
• Even Overzealous Patent Maximalists Nowadays Admit That Time is Running Out for the Unitary Patent (UPC)
• António Campinos: New Caricature by EPO Insiders
• EPO Has “Far Too High Production Targets” Which “Deteriorates the Quality of Products Delivered”
• The António Campinos-Led EPO is Over-Relying on Bogus and Abstract Software Patents to Fill the Gaps
• A Retreat From Patent Quality Means a Retreat of Patent Applicants
• Coming to Grips With the Fact That EPO Layoffs Are Already in Effect

August

• Feeling Shut Out of the European Patent System, Team UPC Persists With Misleading Claims and Falsehoods
• António Campinos Already Implements a 'Shadow' Layoffs Method at the EPO
• Stupid European Patent: Hairdressing Salon and Mobile Building for the Same
• The Unitary Patent (UPC) is Not Delayed; It's Dead and Without Any Major Rework It Will Go Nowhere
• In Koch v EPO, a Rare Glimpse at Tricks the EPO Employs at the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organisation (ILO)
• Admissibility of the Unitary Patent Constitutional Complaint Was Likely the Final Nail in the Coffin of the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
• Almost Two Months After the ILO Ruling Staff Representative Brumme is Finally Back on the Job at EPO
• President Battistelli 'Killed' the EPO; António Campinos Will 'Finish the Job'
• Patent Lawyers Writing Patent Law for Their Own Enrichment Rather Than for Innovation (partly about EPO)
• EPO-Style Problem-Solution: Tackling Backlog by Granting Lots of Low-Quality (Bogus) European Patents, Causing a Surge in Troll/Frivolous Litigation
• The Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement is Paralysed, So Team UPC is Twisting Old News
• WeMove.EU Tackles Low Patent Quality at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• Racing to the Bottom, the António Campinos-Led EPO Continues to Promote Software Patents, Just Like China
• Playing With Words and Buzzwords in a Landscape of Software Patents Rejections (partly about EPO)
• Law Firms Are Offering Very Misleading and Self-Serving Advice Regarding 'Unitary' Effect for European Patents
• António Campinos is Not Improving Patent Quality or Even the Social Climate at the EPO (False Promises)
• The EPO's Systematic Attacks on Justice and on Judges Have Likely Played the Biggest Role in the Death of Unitary Patent (UPC)
• The EPO's Administrative Council is Not Interested in Saving the EPO, Only 'Producing' as Many (Low-Quality) Patents as Possible
• Government Decision to Start Corruption Investigation Into Croatia Airlines and Its Director Jasmin Bajic Could Implicate EPO Vice-President

July

• SUEPO Seems to be Disappointed by António Campinos as His First Month in Office Comes to an End
• What EPO Staff is 'Hopeful' After a Month of António Campinos Doing Absolutely Nothing to Reverse Battistelli's Ruinous Policies?
• The Golden Cage of the EPO is No Longer Golden and It Increasingly Looks Like It's Shutting Down, However Gradually
• The EPO Abandoned Patent Quality and António Campinos Has No Intention of Changing That
• Reader's Post: How the EPO Silently Halves Salaries of Senior EPO Staff (or Gets Rid of Them)
• Correspondence With Dražen Petrović Reveals That ILO-AT is Indeed an Employer's Court, Favouring EPO Management Over EPO Staff
• António Campinos, Four Weeks on the Job, Still in Defiance/Violation of ILO Rulings, Still Engaging in PR and Face-Saving Distraction Instead
• Dysfunctional State of the EPO and Benoît Battistelli's Shadow
• As the Quality of European Patents Sinks António Campinos Must Heed China's Warning, Not Copy SIPO/TIPO
• Alexandre Benalla, Macron's Violent Bodyguard, Was Also Battistelli's Bodyguard
• Under António Campinos the EPO's Appeal Boards, Including the Enlarged Board of Appeal, Still Lack Independence
• China Belatedly Tackles Patent Trolls, Albeit After Giving Them the Green Light With Broad and Low-Quality Patents Such as Software Patents (partly about EPO)
• 'Efficiency' in Action: António Campinos is Sending Jobs Abroad, Then Gagging Critics
• The EPO (European Patent Office) Under António Campinos is Just Another Battistelli EPO; Still UPC and Software Patents Lobbying
• Erosion of Patent Justice in Europe With Kangaroo Courts and Low-Quality European Patents
• Mafia Tactics in Team UPC and Battistelli's Circle
• The EPO — Like the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and Unitary Patent System — is an Untenable Mess
• Software Patents Royalty (Tax) Campaign by IBM, a Serial Patent Bully, and the EPO's Participation in All This
• The European Council Needs to Check Battistelli's Back Room Deals/Back Door/Backchannel With Respect to Christian Archambeau
• Yesterday's Misleading News From Team UPC and Its Aspiring Management of the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
• Time for the European Commission to Investigate EPO Corruption Because It May be Partly or Indirectly Connected to EU-IPO, an EU Agency
• Cautionary Tale: ILO Administrative Tribunal Cases (Appeals) 'Intercepted' Under António Campinos
• Number of Oppositions to Grants/Awards of European Patents at the EPO Has Skyrocketed, Based on Internal Data
• 'Transaction' Complete: Former EPO Executive From Belgium Takes the Seat of António Campinos at EU-IPO
• EPO Abuses Against People With Disabilities Followed by Legal Bullying?
• Weeks Later António Campinos Still in Noncompliance With the Courts (ILO’s Tribunal)
• Constitutionality and CJEU as Barriers, the UPC Agreement (UPCA) is Already Moot in the United Kingdom
• It's Not About EPO 'Backlog' But About Faking 'Production' by Lowering Standards
• The Lack of Genuine, Honest Discussion About Patent Quality Means That Under António Campinos Software Patents Will Continue to be Granted, Campinos Strives to Make Them 'Unitary'
• Signs of Upcoming Changes at EPO: Raimund Lutz, Željko Topić and Other 'Team Battistelli' Folks Are Being Replaced
• Actions — Not Mere Words — Are Needed to Improve Patent Quality and Climate at the European Patent Office
• Project Battistelli: Documenting the Ugly and Illegal Things Battistelli Did at the EPO
• Battistelli's 'Legacy' Up in Flames as Britain is “Ending the Jurisdiction of the CJEU in the UK, With No More Preliminary References from UK Courts…”
• One Week of António Campinos at the EPO: Early Uncertainty
• Team UPC Suggested Changing Constitutions to Facilitate the Unconstitutional UPC. It Didn't Go Well...
• German Media Compares Team Battistelli at the EPO to the Mafia
• No, Europe Does Not Gear up for the Unitary Patent, But Team UPC Wants Everyone to Think So and EPO Amplifies These Lies
• António Campinos Tries to Come Across as a Goodwill Manager, But He Will be Judged by His Actions, Not by His Words
• EPO Protest/s Suppressed Even at the Opening of a Construction Site for Battistelli's Guests
• Cartoon on Brexistelli: “The End of a Dictatorship”
• Staff Union of the EPO: “ILO-AT Remains Very Much an Employer’s Court” (Not Employees')
• Yesterday's UPC Event Was a Reminder That Team Battistelli is Still in Charge of the European Patent Organisation, Fronting for Team UPC
• First Act of António Campinos: Pushing the Unconstitutional Unitary Patent (UPC)
• IAM is Still Working for Benoît Battistelli and His Toxic Agenda
• First Day for António Campinos is Done, But Some Media is Still Publishing 90th-Minute Battistelli Puff Pieces
• Asked by the Media Why European Inventor Award Was Held in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the EPO Refuses to Explain
• Patent Law Firms Have Become Debased and Intolerant of Courts/Judges, Just Like EPO Management (partly about EPO)
• Stop Patenting Life, Nature is Not an Invention (partly about EPO)
• The EPO's Attacks on Bloggers Other Than Me (and ILO-AT Being Utterly Unpredictable)
• Welcoming António Campinos, New President of the European Patent Office

June

• Team UPC's Radicals, Firms Like Bristows LLP, Have Decided That It's Time to Change Constitutions to Accommodate Clearly Unconstitutional Unitary Patent (UPC)
• Union Syndicale Fédérale: Apparently ILO Considered Kicking Out the EPO for Repeatedly Refusing and Failing to Obey the Law
• WirtschaftsWoche Authors Articles About Corruption of the European Patent Office
• Insults, Lies and Propaganda on Battistelli's Last Day at the European Patent Office
• Three Days Later Still Not a Single Word From the EPO About Union Busting Gone Awry and Court Orders to Reinstate/Promote Staff Representatives
• Eight Years of Battistelli
• President Benoît Battistelli is Finished, But the Huge Mess He Has Created is Not
• 'Party Poopers': Protests Greet Battistelli's Premature Inauguration of an Unfinished Building That Caused Massive Losses
• SUEPO and EPO Staff Respond to Yesterday's ILO-AT Rulings on Malika Weaver, Ion Brumme, and Elizabeth Hardon
• J A Kemp Pushing the Boundaries of Patent Scope in Europe With Antibodies and SPCs
• Corruption at the EPO Should be a Subject Anybody Can Speak About, Even Insiders
• Something is Clearly Wrong and Patently Defunct at ILO/ILO-AT
• Perfect Metaphor for Benoît Battistelli: Unfinished Work That Nobody Likes and Which Causes Truly Massive Losses
• Battistelli is 'Pulling a Lamy' With a Lot More Money at Stake (and Examiners' Future)
• This Afternoon ILO Has an Opportunity to Salvage Its Reputation (or Reaffirm Growing Suspicions That It Has Been Compromised by the EPO)
• The EPO Seems to Have Corrupted ILO/ILO-AT Like It Corrupted the Media and Academia (Using 'Toxic' EPO Budget)
• Benoît Battistelli's 'Dowry' From the Administrative Council of the EPO
• The ILO Tribunal: Is It Still Worthy of Our Trust?
• Nearly Half of Patent Applications at the EPO Are (at Least Partly) Software Patents, According to the EPO, and Not Many Patents Are European (Foreign, Not Domestic)
• Patent Factory Europe (PFE) is a Patent Troll's Publicity Stunt, Attempting to Frame a Predator as the Small Businesses' Friend and Ally
• Mainstream Media in Germany Covers Battistelli's Corruption at the EPO Just as He Leaves
• “Dr Ernst Should be Forced by National Politicians to Step Down With Immediate Effect” After Battistelli's Latest EPO Scandals
• Battistelli and Topić Lose Their Bogus 'Case' Against Judge Corcoran After They Defamed Him and Ruined His Career/Life
• Even Media of the Patent Microcosm Mentions the Decline in Quality of Patents at the EPO, Based on Its Very Own Stakeholders, While IAM Ignores the News
• EPO Insiders Correct the Record of Benoît Battistelli’s Tyranny and Abuse of Law: “Legal Harassment and Retaliation”
• Articles About a Unitary Patent System Are Lies and Marketing From Law Firms With 'Lawsuits Lust'
• The Decline in Patent Quality at the EPO Causes Frivolous Lawsuits That Only Lawyers Profit From
• What Battistelli's Workers Think of His Latest EPO Propaganda
• More Media Reports About Decline in Quality of European Patents (Granted by the EPO)
• Beware Team UPC's Biggest Two Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
• Diversity at the EPO
• The EPO's Response to the Open Letter About Decline in Patent Quality as the Latest Example of Arrogance and Resistance to Facts, Truth
• The 'Artificial Intelligence' (AI) Hype, Propped Up by Events of the European Patent Office (EPO), is Infectious and It Threatens Patent Quality Worldwide
• The '4iP Council' is a Megaphone of Team UPC and Team Battistelli at the EPO
• Grünecker, Hoffmann Eitle, Maiwald and Vossius & Partner Find the Courage to Express Concerns About Battistelli's Ugly Legacy and Low Patent Quality
• IAM Concludes Its Latest Anti-§ 101 Think Tank, Featuring Crooked Benoît Battistelli
• Buzzwords and Three-Letter Acronyms Still Abused by the EPO to Grant a Lot of Patents on Algorithms
• Corrupt Benoît Battistelli Promotes Software Patents in IAM's Patent Trolls-Funded Event in the United States
• The EPO’s ‘Expert’ Georg Weber is Still Advocating Software Patents in Europe (But He Disguises Them Using Buzzwords)
• Battistelli's EPO is Outdoing North Korea When It Comes to Propaganda and Abuses Against Staff
• Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe Blind to Its Participation in a Scam Around Patents on Nature (latter parts about the EPO)
• Another Victim of Corrupt Benoît Battistelli
• Everyone Talks About Apple's Notorious Design Patents But Not About 'Abstract' European Patents Used Against Apple and Linux
• Benoît Battistelli Should Have Received an Award for Corruption, But He Completely Controlled the Show in His Own Theatre
• Battistelli is Still Patently Delusional About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
• Patents on Nature, Life and the Environment: Lessons From EPO and Australian Courts
• Marks & Clerk Blames Battistelli’s Victims, the Boards of Appeal, Whose Job Guarded Patent Quality
• Today, at the Expense of Millions (€) of EPO Budget, Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos Engage in Shameless Self Promotion
• What Team UPC Wants: Patent Trolls, Unified Patent Court (UPC), Software Patents, and Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs)
• IP Kat as an Extension of Team UPC After Departure of the Blog's Founder
• The Demise of the EPO and Collapse of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) May Mean That António Campinos Will Soon Fire ~15% of the Workforce
• IAM and EPO Are Almost Inseparable
• As European Patent Office Goes Down in Many Aspects/Respects (Quality, Employee Profiles and More) IAM -- the EPO's Mouthpiece -- Claims “Patent Renaissance”, Repeats EPO Lies
• Change of Government in Spain Does Not Change the Fact That Unitary Patent (UPC) Would be Terrible for Spanish Companies
• The European Patent Office Dominates Media Coverage in the Form of Paid-For Puff Pieces, Suppresses Coverage About Corruption
• Team UPC Turns to a Spanish 'Flavour' of Unitary Patent Propaganda (Just Like Last Year)
• In Gross Violation of German Law, as Per EPO Tradition, Fronleichnam 'Stolen' by Benoît Battistelli
• The EPO's Lobbying Chief Apparently Came From Saint-Germain-en-Laye 2 Years After Benoît Battistelli
• Software Patents Are a Dying Breed of Patents Except in China (and Maybe EPO) (partly about EPO)

May

• The EPO is Demolishing European Law With Terms Like ICT, CII, AI, and 4IR
• IP Kat is Still Acting as a Propaganda Front for UPC (and EU Software Patents) Lobbying by US-Based Front Groups
• Märpel Looks at Benoît Battistelli's Toxic Financial Affairs at the EPO
• St. Germain’s “Système Lamy” and Its EPO Clone - Part 3: Shooting the Messengers and Defaming Opponents
• EUROCHAMBRES is an Echo Chamber of the Patent Litigation 'Industry' Hoping to Mislead the EU's Competitiveness Council on UPC
• The European Patent Office: From Patent Maximalism to Corruption and Gerrymandering
• St. Germain’s “Système Lamy” and Its EPO Clone - Part 2: Misinformation and Silencing of Dissent
• St. Germain’s “Système Lamy” and Its EPO Clone - Part 1: Rubber-stamp Committees and Secret Meetings
• Guest Series: Système Lamy and Système Battistelli at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• Software Patents Advocacy and UPC Lies Go Hand in Hand
• Index for EPO and Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of "Toxic Loans" Series
• Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of "Toxic Loans": Quo Vadis EPO?
• Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of "Toxic Loans": The SIDRU “Toxic Loan” Débâcle a Case of “Take the Money and Run...”
• EPO, a Longtime Privacy Offender, Uses General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Day to Lie to the Public
• The Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court (UPC): This Week's Latest Spin and Lies
• Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of "Toxic Loans": The SIDRU “Toxic Loan” Débâcle and Criticism of Lamy From Local Opposition Groups
• New EPO Caricature: The Rubber Stamp
• Perpetuating the Big Lie That Unitary Patent (UPC) is About to Kick Off
• EPO Validation in Former French Colonies That Have Zero European Patents
• Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of "Toxic Loans": The Cautionary Tale of SIDRU and Its “Toxic Loans”
• France is Irrelevant to Whether or Not UPC Ever Becomes a Reality, Moving/Outsourcing de Facto Patent Examination to European Courts Managed in/Presided by France
• Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of "Toxic Loans": The Emperor’s New Investment Guidelines
• Saint-Germain's Poisonous Legacy of "Toxic Loans": Cautionary Tale for the EPO?
• António Campinos Will Push Toward a France-Based Unified Patent Court (UPC)
• Aurélien Pétiaud's ILO Case (EPO Appeal) an Early Sign That ILO Protects Abusers and Power, Not Workers
• Système Battistelli (ENArque) at the EPO is Inspired by Système Lamy in Saint-Germain-en Laye
• Fishy Things Noticed Ahead of the Passage of a Lot of EPO Budget (Applicants' Money) to Battistelli's Other (and Simultaneous) Employer
• Today's EPO Financially Rewards Abuses and Violations of the Law
• So-Called 'System Battistelli' is Destroying the EPO, Warn Insiders
• Rise in Patent Trolls' Activity in Germany Noted Amid Declining Patent Quality at the EPO
• EPO's Battistelli Taking Days Off Work for Political 'Duties' (Parties) in His French Theatre Where He'll Bring Buckets of EPO Budget (EPO Stakeholders' Money)
• The EPO's 'Inventor Award' Scam: Part III
• EPO Has Become Overzealous About Software Patents, Probably More So Than Almost Anywhere Else
• The EPO Has Become Extremely Corrupt and Dishonest
• Reader's Post: The Last Delusion of Benoît Battistelli Before His Departure on June 30th
• EPO-Funded Propaganda for Software Patents Reaches as Far as East Asia and the EPO Then Brags About That
• Guest Article: Battistelli's Salary in Saint-Germain-en-Laye Nearly Quadrupled Last Year
• EPO Staff Deprived and Denied Basic Rights, Even Justice, But Almost Nobody in the 'Mainstream' Wants to Talk About It
• The EPO's 'Inventor Award' Scam: Part II
• Report on the (Mal)Functioning of the ILOAT From the 332nd Session of the ILO Governing Body
• The EPO's 'Inventor Award' Scam: Part I
• EPO Scandals Are Far Worse Than FIFA's (or Even Emissionsgate/Dieselgate), But Will European Media Belatedly Realise This?
• Barker Brettell is Wrong About Unified Patent Court (UPC) and the United Kingdom
• Rumours Confirmed: Latest EPO Official Journal Misused to Promote Battistelli's (and Campinos') Employer, Another EPO Employee Has Just Been 'Corcoranised'
• The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Not Happening, But Kluwer Patent Blog Pretends It's Already in Force
• EPO Policy (Squashing Examination) is Already Crashing Stocks, Destroying Companies
• Forward Pharma an Example of the Devastating Effect of Granting Patents in Error -- A Problem Appeal Boards Must Correct
• Guest Article: More Battistelli Revelations From the Archives of the Municipal Council of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
• Rumour: The European Patent Office Has Just 'Done a Patrick Corcoran' Again (Forced Removal)
• News From the Frontline: EPO Continues Unabated on Its Destructive Path
• The European Patent Office's Decline in Patent Quality a 'Blessing' in Disguise But Mostly a Curse to Apple
• If Anyone Has Defamed the European Patent Organisation/Office (EPO) It's Benoît Battistelli
• The European Patent Organisation (EPO) Stopped Working and It's Also the Fault of Jesper Kongstad, Not Just Benoît Battistelli
• In the Latest EPO Official Journal (April's Publication) Battistelli's Next Employer is Mentioned Literally Hundreds of Times and Promoted in 20 Pages out of 75 Pages
• From Saint-Germain-en-Laye to Strasbourg, Even the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Might Side With Nicolas Sárközy's Thug at the EPO
• Elizabeth Holmes Charged With “Massive Fraud” and Team Battistelli Rushes to Distance Itself From Her
• Guest Article: Benoît Battistelli's Election as Deputy Mayor Was Pre-announced in the Local Press
• Bristows LLP Already Uses Kluwer Patent Blog and IP Kat as Its UPC Megaphone, Now IAM as Well
• Marks & Clerk is Still Pushing Patent Maximalism Agenda in Europe and Britain, Including UPC/UPCA/Unitary Patent (UP)
• The European Patent Office Has Become a Kakistocracy
• Not Enough Opposition/s to Wrongly-Granted European Patents
• Battistelli's Alleged 'Success' is Like That of the United States Mint
• People Are Belatedly Asking All Those 'Awkward' Questions About UPC and the Lies Told by Team UPC
• A Test for European Media: Will It Cover the Battistelli-TAD Scandal Like It Covered FIFA Scandals?

April

• The European Patent System is Nowadays Based on a 'Banana Republic' Model
• Team UPC and Team Battistelli in IP Kat and IAM
• Guest Article: Is the EPO Deliberately Disseminating “False Facts” About Benoît Battistelli's Political Activities in Saint-Germain-en-Laye?
• EPO Gazette: The Obligatory EPO Propaganda That Paints an Oppressive Office as 'Fun and Games'
• Even Vocal Proponents of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Admit That There Are 'Holes' in the Announcement From Sam Gyimah
• Short: EPO Paid for 'Study' (Corrupting Academia) to Push Unitary Patent Agenda, Then Advertised the Outcome
• Short: The EPO is Limiting Itself to Microsoft Office and PowerPoint (the 'Special Relationship')
• Short: Adding a Sense of Fear/Perceived Threat to the EPO With Number Plate Recognition (Surveillance)
• Short: Quality, Quality, Quality, Quality. Just Keep Repeating This Lie and Hope It'll Stick.
• British Technology News Sites Point Out the Absurdity of Ratifying UPC in the UK Amid Brexit
• The EPO Grants Software Patents Under the 'CII' Umbrella, Mass Litigation in Europe Already a Problem
• Short: EPO Brags About EPO-Bribed Media Covering EPO-Funded 'Study'
• In Protest of IP Kat No Longer Covering EPO Abuses, Märpel Rises in “R.I.P. Kat”
• Short: EPO Says That Most (Over 50%) of Patent Applications at the EPO Are Software Patents
• Sam Gyimah Did What Was Expected Since 2016, But Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Still Completely Stuck in Most Important Country and Is Not Compatible With Brexit
• Like a Cancer, EPO-Bribed Media Continues to Produce Puff Pieces for Benoît Battistelli
• World IP Day, a Propaganda Opportunity for Patent Maximalists, is Becoming More About Feminism (partly about EPO)
• Britain Has Not Fully Completed Unified Patent Court (UPC) Ratification and It Remains Incompatible With Brexit
• With Unified Patent Court (UPC) on Its Death Throes, Team UPC Now Resorts to Promoting Pertinent Parts of the Agreement (UPCA)
• Reporting Benoît Battistelli Before He Too 'Pulls a Željko Topić'
• Battistelli Misuses EPO Budget to Saturate the European Media With Puff Pieces About His Event
• Battistelli's EPO Continues to Promote Software Patents and Even Pays the Media to Play Along, Impacting Other Continents
• The European Patent Office (EPO) Wastes a Lot of Money on External PR Agencies for Battistelli's 'Heist'
• Today's EPO is Not Compatible With the Law and It's Grossly Incompatible With Truth and Justice
• Holding Benoît Battistelli Accountable After the EPO
• Today's European Patent Office Works for Patent Extremists and for Team UPC Rather Than for Europe or for Innovation
• The EPO is Dying and Those Who Have Killed It Are Becoming Very Rich in the Process
• Short: Just Keep Repeating the Lie (“Quality”) Until People Might Believe It
• EPO Hoards Billions of Euros (Taken From the Public), Decreases Quality to Get More Money, Reduces Payments to Staff
• Short: Calling Battistelli's Town (Where He Works) “Force for Innovation” to Justify the Funneling of EPO Funds to It
• Short: EPO Bribes the Media and Then Brags About the Paid-for Outcome to Staff
• Short: EPO's “Working Party for Quality” is to Quality What the “Democratic People's Republic of Korea” is to Democracy
• Short: This Spring's Message From the EPO's President (Corrected)
• Short: Highly Misleading and Unscientific Graphics From the EPO for an Illusion of Growth
• Short: EPO Explains to Examiners Why They Should and Apparently Can Grant Software Patents (in Spite of EPC)
• When News About the EPO is Dominated by Sponsored 'Reports' and Press Releases Because Publishers Are Afraid of (or Bribed by) the EPO
• The Boards of Appeal at the European Patent Organisation (EPO) Complain That They Are Understaffed, Not Just Lacking the Independence They Depend on
• Guest Post: Responding to Your Recent Posting “The European Patent Office Will Never Hold Its Destroyers Accountable”
• The EPO in 2018: Partnering With Saudi Arabia and Cambodia (With Zero European Patents)
• The EPO Continues to Lie About Patent Quality Whilst Openly Promoting Software Patents, Even Outside Europe
• The European Patent Office (EPO) Grants Patents in Error, Insiders Are Complaining That It's the Management's Fault
• The European Patent Office Will Never Hold Its Destroyers Accountable
• With Liars Like These...
• Killing Patent Quality and Encouraging ‘Covert’ Software Patents Using the Buzzwords Du Jour
• Crisis of Quality at the EPO Extends to Staff (Notably Examiners) and Management as Institutional Integrity is Severely Compromised
• The 'Blockchaining' of Software Patents (to Dodge the Rules/Guidelines) Now Coming to Europe
• One Last Battistelli Heist: Millions of Euros for Saint-Germain-en-Laye
• EPO in 'Low Profile' Mode, Only to be Mentioned in Relation to India's Oil Drilling/Miners
• Patent Maximalists Against Patent Quality and Against the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Organisation (EPO)
• Team UPC’s and Team Battistelli's Lobbying Not Over Yet, Even Though the UPC is Likely Dead for Good
• 'SIPO Europe': More Low-Quality Patents at Lower Costs
• The European Patent Office (EPO) Will Need to Acknowledge It Has a Patent Quality Issue, Then Tackle It or Perish
• The Mass Litigation Lobby Craves for Patent Armageddon (partly about EPO)
• Benoît Battistelli's Era Yields Not Only Invalid and Harmful Monopolies But Also Breeds Distrust and Layoffs
• Anonymous USPTO Whistleblower Explained Internal Management Affairs Last Month (partly about EPO)
• (Joke) António Campinos Withdraws From Plan to Directly Run the EPO, Patent Office to be Run by Google ‘AI’ Instead
• EPO is Untrustworthy

March

• Senator Jean-Yves Leconte Accuses EPO and/or ILO of Injustice, But Don't Expect Media to Notice or Cover It
• Patent Quality, Not Quantity, is What Really Matters
• The Administrative Council of the EPO Continues to Reaffirm Complicity in Battistelli's Abuses
• Professionals' Survey: Almost Everybody (90%) Accepts That EPO Patent Quality Has Fallen Under Battistelli
• Benoît Battistelli the Latest Example of Massive Bonuses Given to People Who Destroyed Their Own Organisation
• China's Equivalent of PTAB and BoA, the Patent Reexamination Board (PRB), Can Confirm Some Chinese Patents Are of Low Quality (partly about EPO)
• Team Battistelli and Team UPC Are Both Very Deep in Denial
• Guest Post: Battistelli's Former “Padrone” Facing Corruption Charges in France
• The European Patent Office’s (EPO) Declining Patent Quality 'Tackled' by Making Appeals/Oppositions Harder and More Expensive
• The Federation of International Civil Servants' Association: Frenchman “Campinos is Known for Having Close Ties to Mr. Battistelli Who Strongly Supported His Candidacy.”
• Japan is Becoming Firmer on Patents, Whereas China Goes in the Opposite Direction (partly about EPO)
• Battistelli's Ongoing Attacks on the Boards Are Helping Unitary Patent (UPC), Which in Turn Helps French Patent Trolls
• SUEPO: “Today May Be Your Last Chance to Demonstrate Against the Seriously Flawed Reforms That Mr Battistelli Has Imposed” on EPO Staff
• Battistelli's EPO Became Extremely Reliant on China for Distraction and on Endless Supply of Applications (Supply Which Doesn't Exist)
• UPC/Battistelli Booster IAM Blames Brexit Rather Than EPO Abuses
• European Commission Again Urged to Tackle Abuses at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• Luxembourg Can Become a Hub of Patent Trolls If the EPO Carries on With Its 'Reforms', Even Without the UPC
• The Patent 'Printing Machine' of the EPO Will Spawn Many Lawsuits and Extortions (Threats of Lawsuits), in Effect Taxing Europe
• Deleted EPO Tweets and Promotion of Software Patents Amid Complaints About Abuse and Demise of Patent Quality
• Guest Post: Suspected “Whitewashing” Operations by Željko Topić in Croatia
• Monumental Effort to Highlight Decline in Quality of European Patents (a Quarter of Examiners Sign Petition in Spite of Fear), Yet Barely Any Press Coverage
• Careful Not to Conflate UPC Critics With AfD or Anti-EU Elements
• EPO Staff Has Just Warned the National Delegates That EPO's Decline (in Terms of Patent Quality and Staff Welfare) Would Be Beneficial to Patent Trolls
• The EPO is a Mess Under Battistelli and Stakeholders Including Law Firms Will Suffer, Not Just EP Holders
• The EPO Under Battistelli Has Become Like China Under Xi and CPC
• Willy Minnoye (EPO) Threatened Staff With Disabilities Said to Have Been Caused by the EPO Work Pressures
• EPO Staff Union Organises Protest to Complain About Inability “of the Office to Recruit the Highly Qualified Staff it Needs.”
• Battistelli Likes to Describe His Critics as 'Nazis', Team UPC Will Attempt the Same Thing Against UPC Critics
• Session in Bavaria to Discuss the Abuses of the European Patent Office Later Today
• EPO Patent 'Growth' Not Achieved But Demanded/Mandated by Battistelli, by Lowering Quality of Patents/Services
• Doubt Over Independence of Judges at the EPO Clouds Reason in Deciding Regarding Patents on Life
• Glimmer of Hope for the EPO's Boards of Appeal as Bavarian Parliament 'Regroups' on Tuesday
• The EPO's PR Department Receives Return on Investment (Puff Pieces) for Paying the Media
• The European Patent Office (EPO) Ought to Lead in Patent Scope, Not Slide to the Bottom of the Pile
• Patent Trolls and Their Lobbyists Continue to Attack Academics Who Warn About Patent Trolls in Europe
• EPO Hires External PR Agencies to Control Coverage of Its Annual Report, Deny Investigative Journalism
• Benoît Battistelli and Confidants Like Bergot Want to Make a Lot of EPO Staff Redundant Without the Staff Ever Noticing
• The Right-Wing Alternative für Deutschland Opposes Unitary Patent (UPC), Just Like UKIP in Britain
• Guest Post: EPO Defrauds Small Patent Applicant Company, Asha Nutrition Sciences, in Collusion with Applicant’s Own Lawyer…
• EPO Annual Results/Report: Revenue From Patent Applications is Apparently Down Yet Again and Work is Running Out
• There's No Patent Trolls Problem in Europe, Say Law Firms That Represent and Front for Patent Trolls
• The European Patent Office is Buying 'Alternative Facts' and Its Annual Report Will be More of the Same
• Dr. Thorsten Bausch: Quality of European Patents Going Down, “Likely Caused by the Current EPO Policy Focusing too Much on 'Production'.”
• UPC and Beyond: Constitutional Issues Cannot be Brushed Under the Carpet
• EPO Annual Report Will Dominate the News Next Week, Whereas Unitary Patent (UPC) is a Goner
• Next Week's Annual Report From the EPO Will Say Nothing About Decline in Patent Quality
• Battistelli's Last Four Months: Peak Censorship at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• Élodie Bergot Meets Barbra Streisand: Here is the Letter the EPO's Bergot is Trying Really Hard to Hide/Censor
• European Patent Office (EPO) in Chaos and Attempting to Silence the Staff Would Only Exacerbate Matters
• The Latest Bristows Spin Distracts From the Fact that Britain Has No Intention of Ratifying UPC and Brexit Agreement Altogether Omits It
• Élodie Bergot Threatens Staff Representatives Who Spread Information About the EPO
• The UPC is Dead, But Team UPC is Lying to British Politicians in an Effort to Trick Them
• USF Warns Campinos (EPO President in 4 Months) of “Extreme” Situation at the EPO
• The European Patent Office (EPO) Should Lead the Way in Combating Patents on Nature and on Life
• Similar Scandal at the USPTO (to Battistelli's Nepotism) and Upcoming Lies About 'Results' (in Annual Report, Out Next Week)

February

• The EPO's Appeal Boards Remain Utterly Dependent and Far From Impartial After Battistelli's Assault on Their Independence
• EPO Refuses to Admit that Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Dead, But It's Boosting Others Who Are Lying About It for a Living
• Changes Introduced by the EPO's Administrative Council Made It Abundantly Clear That Separation of Powers Does Not Exist for Independence of Judges
• The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Dead, But Spin From Team UPC is Now Abundant
• EPO Roundup: Low Profile, Employment Changes, Patent Trolls, Refusal to Obey Courts, and Animal Breeding Patents
• As Expected, Bristows and Others Already Lying About UPC Status in Germany, But Doing This Anonymously (to Dodge Accountability for Lies)
• Further Attacks on EPO Staff and the Appeal Boards; Former EPO Boards of Appeal Member Speaks About EPO Scandals
• End of the UPC Lobby and Withdrawal of UPCA May Seem Imminent
• EPO's Board 28 Spikes Article 53 in CA/3/18, Apparently After Battistelli Withdrew It
• Rumour: European Patent Office to Lay Off a Significant Proportion of Its Workforce
• The Patent Trolls' Lobby, Bristows and IAM Among Others, Downplays Darts-IP/IP2Innovate Report About Rising If Not Soaring Troll Activity in Europe
• The Patent Microcosm's Embrace of Buzzwords and False Marketing Strives to Make Patent Examiners Redundant and Patent Quality Extremely Low
• Today, at 12:30 CET, Bavarian State Parliament Will Speak About EPO Abuses
• Another Loud Warning From EPO Workers About the Decline of Patent Quality
• UPC Optimism Languishes Even Among Paid UPC Propagandists Such as IAM
• UPC Has Done Nothing for Europe Except Destruction of the EPO and Imminent Layoffs Due to Lack of Applications and Lowered Value of European Patents
• Bavarian State Parliament Has Upcoming Debate About Issues Which Can Thwart UPC for Good
• The EPO is Being Destroyed and There's Nothing Left to Replace It Except National Patent Offices
• The Latest Lies About Unitary Patent (UPC) and the EPO
• Speech Deficit and No Freedom of Association at the EPO
• No, Britain is Not Ratifying 'Unitary' Anything, But Team UPC Insinuates It Will (Desperate Effort to Affect Tomorrow's Outcome)
• The EPO's Paid Promotion of Software Patents Gets Patent Maximalists All Excited and Emboldened
• The EPO Now Censors the Central Staff Committee Like It Used to Censor SUEPO
• Watch Out for Buzzwords That Are Used to Mask Patents on Software, Even in Europe
• EPO Opposition to CRISPR Patents Has Wide-Ranging and Far-Reaching Impact, But Mind Not the Lobbyists
• Patent Maximalists Won't Get Their Way and UPC Will Likely Never Happen (Even After Battistelli)
• Pharma Patents Have Become Harder to Enforce, So IAM Together With the Patent Microcosm Sets Up Lobbying Events (partly about EPO)
• Statistics About Patents in the US Are Encouraging as These Suggest Ongoing Improvements (partly about EPO)
• In Spite of Suppression Attempts, Resistance to UPC and EPO Tyranny Still Enters Kluwer Patent Blog
• The Relationship Between IAM and the EPO's President Battistelli Tightens Further After Payments for UPC Promotion
• Lawyer Fraud and the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
• Team UPC is Working Overtime to Impose UPC on Europe, Based on a Pile of Lies
• The EPO's Working Party on Quality is Battistelli's Own Ministry of Truth
• When INPI Met INPI and IAM Met the EPO
• The UPC Lobby Wants to Crush the Boards of Appeal (BoA) While EPO Changes Rules of Procedure of the BoA
• Mark Rutte Under Pressure to Stop Battistelli's EPO From Violating Laws With Impunity
• Team UPC Resorts to Paid 'Articles' and Lobbying With Battistelli in an Effort to Cause the UK and Germany to Ignore Their Own Laws
• Patent Filings in India Are Declining, Just Like at the European Patent Office (partly about EPO)
• Battistelli Works With IAM and Pays European Media to Promote Software Patents in Europe
• IAM Magazine, Authored by Benoît Battistelli, is Rubbish Compared to Patent Scholars
• India and Europe Do Not Permit Software Patents, But Patent Law Firms Try to Work Around the Law
• Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on "Jurisdictional Immunity of International Organisations and Rights of Their Staff"
• The European Council Confirms That the Unitary/Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA) is “Outside the Legal Framework of the European Union”
• Too Much to Cover Up at the EPO, the UN, and UN Agencies

January

• The UPC/SEP/FRAND Lobby Has Resorted to Just Insulting the Opposition
• Patent Justice at the EPO is as Bad as Justice for Workers
• Even Kluwer Patent Blog Decides to Comment on the EPO's Bizarre Financial Behaviour
• The Failure of ILO’s Administrative Tribunal Highlights Poor State of Justice in Europe and Worldwide
• A Danish Company Has Just Collapsed Due to Patent Quality Issues at the EPO
• ILO Has Once Again Let Down Labour at the EPO by Siding With Union Busters
• The EPO's Central Staff Committee Explains How Battistelli's Attacks on Judge Corcoran Annul Any Perception of Independence
• Another Blow for the Unitary Patent (UPC) as More Delays Are Confirmed, Court Won't Rule on Constitutional Issues Any Time Soon
• Patents on Life at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• Quality of Service and Quality of Patents at the EPO Are Both at Peril
• The Corcoran Incident Demonstrates That the EPO's Boards of Appeal Are Threatened and Battistelli Violates Laws
• The 'Collusion': IP Kat's (Until Recently) Stephen Jones Meets Battistelli to Lobby for the Unitary Patent (UPC)
• Sam Gyimah Replaced Jo Johnson More Than a Fortnight Ago, But Team UPC Has Ignored It Until Now
• The EPO is Already in Violation of ILO Rulings on Judge Corcoran
• A European Unitary Patent-Like System (e.g. UPC) is Not Compatible With Law; Expect it to Rot Away at the German Federal Constitutional Court
• Justice Still Elusive at the EPO and ILOAT, But a Glimmer of Hope Remains
• Team UPC Has Been Reduced to Rubble and Misinformation
• CRISPR Patent Debacle Demonstrated That Opposition Divisions Do Their Job, But Also Highlighted Serious Deficiency in Patent-Granting Process
• Confidence in European Patents (EPs) is Eroding and Stakeholders Are Already Suffering
• Even More Uncertain a Future for the Independence of the EPO Boards of Appeal as Judge Corcoran Too Gets Sent to 'Exile'
• The Response to Accusations of Censorship by Team UPC? Yet More Censorship to Shield UPC From Criticism
• Team UPC Calls Critics of the UPC Idiots, Deletes Their Comments, and Blocks Them
• How the Opposition to CRISPR Patents at the EPO Sent Shockwaves Through the Industry
• Patent Quality (Not Numbers) as an Asset: Oppositions, Appeals and Rejections at the EPO
• The EPO Ignores This Week's Decision Which Demonstrates Patent Scope Gone Awry; Software Patents Brought Up Again
• Patent Prosecution Highway: Low-Quality Patents for High-Frequency Patent Aggressors
• Press Coverage About the EPO Board Revoking Broad's CRISPR Patent
• No Patents on Life (CRISPR), Said EPO Boards of Appeal Just a Few Hours Ago
• Only Two Weeks on the Job, Judge Patrick Corcoran is Already Being Threatened by EPO Management
• EPO Board of Appeal Has an Opportunity to Stop Controversial Patents on Life
• EPO Management and Team UPC Carry on Lying About Unified Patent Court, Sinking to New Lows in the Process
• EPO Scandals Played a Considerable Role in Sinking the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
• European Patent Office Causes Physical Harm to Employees, Then Fires Them
• Battistelli Was Always (Right From the Start and Since Candidacy) All About Money
• “Under the Intergovernmental EPC System It is Difficult to Speak of a Functional Separation of Powers”
• Automotives, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 Among the Buzz Terms Used to Bypass Alice and the EPC Nowadays
• EPC Foresaw the Administrative Council Overseeing the Patent Office, Jesper Kongstad Made It “Working Together”
• 2010: Blaming the Messenger (SUEPO) for Staff Unhappiness at the European Patent Office (EPO)
• 2010: Deterioration of Working Conditions (e.g. Office Space) for EPO Staff
• Budget at the EPO Decided Before Consultation
• Less Than Half a Year in the Job, Battistelli Already Disobeys/Disregards Rulings From ILO's Tribunal
• Only Half a Year in the Job, Battistelli Breaks EPO Nomination Rules
• Dr. Derk Visser's Book About the European Patent Convention (EPC) Explains What Battistelli Has Done
• Late on a Friday is a Good Time to Spread Misinformation About Unified Patent Court (UPC) Without Being Challenged
• EPO Lobby and Team UPC's 'Resistance' to the UPC Opposition in Germany
• 126th Session of the ILO Administrative Tribunal is Around the Corner and EPO Staff Representatives Will Have Their Cases Heard Soon
• The European Parliament JURI Mission to Munich Looks Like Complicity With EPO Abuses
• Benoît Battistelli Lies About Patent Quality; the Numbers Speak for Themselves However
• Jo Johnson's Departure is Another Major Blow for Team UPC (Unified Patent Court)
• Battistelli's Year 1 at EPO: General Advisory Committee Not Being Provided Crucial Information
• Battistelli's Year 1 at EPO: Using 'Staff Dignity' as a Pretext to Attack the Dignity of EPO Staff and Staff Representatives
• Possible Explanation for German Media Barely Covering Very Major EPO Scandals
• For European Patents to Maintain Value the EPO Must Fix Patent Quality and Attract 'Expensive' (High-Calibre) Staff
• President Battistelli Silently Curtailed Part Time Home Working Introduced by His British Predecessor, Alison Brimelow
• How the Creation of a Role for 'Chief Information Officer' at the EPO Came About
• Anonymous “Kluwer Patent Blogger” is Probably Just Bristows LLP Hiding Its Identity While It Publicly Lies or Distorts Facts About UPC
• The Mystery and Secrecy of the Decision to Disband the EPO's Auditory Function After Battistelli Became President
• Shortly After His EPO Appointment Benoît Battistelli Already Ignored the Judicial System of the EPO
• Staff of the EPO Has Had No Concrete Participatory Role at the EPO for at Least 7 Years
• President Battistelli Has Acted Like a King Since His Early Days at the EPO
• Élodie Bergot's HR Roadmap Explained by EPO Staff Representatives
• The European Patent Office Suffers an Unprecedented Patent Quality Crisis Reminiscent of the World's Worst Offices
• Sane Responses to the Latest Pressure From Team UPC Amid Brexit Negotiations
• The EPO's Attack on the Boards of Appeal Dooms the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Team UPC Alters Its Tactics
• Translation Shows That Carl Josefsson and Christoph Ernst Refuse to Comment on EPO Injustice as It Might Embarrass Battistelli
• Battistelli's Attacks on Judge Corcoran Threaten Not Only the EPC But Also UPC
• Job Applicants at the EPO Disappointed, Reference Made in Interview to Slavery
• EPO Management Claims “Higher Quality Patents” and Everyone at the EPO Knows That It's a Face-Saving Lie
• 2018 Starts at the EPO and Both EPC and UPC Are in State of Crisis
• EPO Has Become an 'Investment Bank'
• Raw: Separation of Powers Obliterated by EPO President and Vice-Presidents
• Raw: Battistelli's Stacking of the General Advisory Committee Not Legal, Asserted Staff Representatives
• Raw: Battistelli Puts ‘Team Battistelli’ in Charge of ‘Scrutinising’ His Proposals
• Raw: EPO Violates ILO Rulings by Denying the Consultation Process Access to Vital Information
• Raw: Justice at the EPO Sometimes Comes Before Death
• EPO Insiders: EPO Has Become a Hoarder Rather Than a Patent Office
• Raw: Battistelli Comes Up With a "Chief Information Officer" Role and Offers This Position to Man From Same Place as Him
• Raw: Central Staff Committee Explains the Upper Limb Disorder (ULD) Crisis at the EPO
• Raw: The EPO's Disregard for Christmas and New Year's Days Off
• How Institut International des Brevets (IIB), INPADOC and Other Historic Endeavours Relate to EPO and DG1/DG2
• Not Everyone Would Run the European Patent Office Like Benoît Battistelli Does