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SUEPO

The Staff Union of the EPO was mentioned in the following past articles.

  • 09.15.08 Patent Revolt in European Patent Office
  • 09.16.08 Patents Roundup: Renewed Backlash, GPLv3 Beyond 3,000
  • 09.20.08 More Microsoft Patent Trolls, Extortions, and SCO
  • 09.21.08 ZDNet: “Microsoft Has Turned Into the Biggest Patent Troll in the World”
  • 10.04.08 Patent Systems Under Fire, IAM Magazine Concerned
  • 05.13.10 Open Standards Out of EU Digital Agenda; EBoA Does Not Stop Software Patents in Europe
  • 09.15.14 Željko Topić, Benoît Battistelli, and the European Patent Office (EPO): Part II
  • 10.14.14 The EPO’s Protection Triangle of Battistelli, Kongstad, and Topić: Part VI
  • 12.08.14 EPO Staff Protests Today and Protested Last Week, Targeting Corruption in the Institution
  • 12.09.14 Protests Against EPO Corruption Approach 1,000 in Attendance
  • 12.12.14 Dreaming of a Just Christmas: When a Third of EPO Walks Out to Revolt and European Judges Attack the EPO Over Abuses
  • 12.31.14 EPO Staff Protests to Continue in the New Year, Techrights to Release New Material
  • 01.11.15 The EPO Connection Now a Liability as Administrative Council Has Become a Laughing Stock, Jesper Kongstad to be Targeted by EPO Staff Protests
  • 01.29.15 An Estimated 1,000 EPO Employees-Strong Legion Engulfs Danish Consulate to Protest Jesper Kongstad’s (of Administrative Council) Protection of Benoît Battistelli
  • 02.02.15 Benoît Battistelli and Jesper Kongstad Continue to Blame Everything on SUEPO
  • 02.03.15 More Press Coverage From the Danish Media About EPO Abuses and Protest at Danish Consulate
  • 02.08.15 The EPO’s Vice-President Željko Topić and the Case of Ivan Kabalin: Part XIII
  • 02.11.15 The EPO’s Digital War (Censorship) Against Staff Web Site
  • 02.11.15 Cyberattacks on SUEPO Server Raise More Questions
  • 02.15.15 English Translation of Article About Protest at Danish Consulate Over EPO Abuses
  • 02.15.15 Amid EPO Scandals, Call to Dissolve the EPO and Start All Over Again (With New Management and New Direction)
  • 02.15.15 English Translation of Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About Benoît Battistelli, Željko Topić, and EPO Tyranny
  • 02.18.15 EPO Scandals: The Story So Far
  • 02.19.15 EPO Staff Protests Against Benoît Battistelli’s Lowering of Patents Quality (Scope Expansion and Software Patents for Profit)
  • 02.20.15 Benoît Battistelli Once Again Threatens EPO Staff That ‘Dares’ to Protest, Battistelli Exploits Terror Attacks to Pretend to Respect Free Speech
  • 02.24.15 Benoît Battistelli Thinks ‘President’ is Above the Law, Decides to Ignore the Court’s Ruling
  • 03.25.15 The EPO’s Administrative Council is Under Increased Pressure to Rein in and to Finally Stop Benoît Battistelli
  • 03.26.15 The EPO’s Dutch Scandal Leaves Battistelli and His Cronies on the Run
  • 04.01.15 When Battistelli’s Defender, Dutch Justice Minister Ivo Opstelten, Attacked Europeans’ Right to Demonstrate
  • 04.02.15 Željko Topić: “SUEPO Staff Union Has No Standing in This Office. SUEPO Has No Role to Play in This Office.”
  • 04.03.15 The EPO’s Dutch Appeal Court Judgment Controversy: List of Political Interventions
  • 04.10.15 New Article Chronicles Suicides and Nervous Breakdowns at the EPO Due to the Management’s Abuses
  • 04.18.15 More Translations of French Article About the EPO
  • 04.24.15 EPO Management is Trying Hard to Appease Its Critics While Pushing Forth Unitary Patent Agenda
  • 04.29.15 As Core Issues Still Not Addressed, Another Protest Against EPO Management Scheduled for Tomorrow in Munich, Germany
  • 05.21.15 More Utter Shame Unveiled at Battistelli’s EPO: Intimidation Tactics With Help From ‘Control Risks’
  • 05.25.15 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Benoît Battistelli and Four EPO Suicides
  • 05.25.15 Süddeutsche Zeitung Says Talking Helps While EPO Management Back-stabs Other Side of the Table
  • 06.04.15 The EPO Sinks Deeper in a Scandal After Paying Public Money for Military-Connected Control Risks to Stalk Journalists and Staff
  • 06.06.15 EPO and Administrative Council Stall Criticism by Pretending to Negotiate With Staff Whilst Actually Attacking It
  • 06.06.15 EPO Officially Confirms That It Specifically Hired Control Risks Group (CRG) to Spy on Journalists and Their Sources
  • 06.07.15 Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About the EPO’s Investigation Unit and Control Risks Group
  • 06.07.15 The High Cost of Low Patent Bar at the EPO
  • 06.08.15 Spanish Media on Reign of Terror at EPO: Managerial Misconduct, Blocked E-mails (Censorship), and Abuse of Legal Immunity
  • 06.09.15 EPO Surveillance, Threats, and Patronisation of Dutch Legal System Covered in Dutch Article From De Volkskrant
  • 06.09.15 European Patent Office (EPO) Now Uses Keyloggers to Spy on Staff
  • 06.09.15 When the European Patent Office Lost in Court and Refused to Obey the Law: An Analysis
  • 06.10.15 More European Politicians Pressure and Sometimes Slam the European Patent Office (EPO) Amid New Scandals
  • 06.10.15 EPO Comes Under Fire From the Bavarian Data Protection Supervisor After the Spying Scandal
  • 06.12.15 Badische Zeitung Labels European Patent Office (EPO) a Police State for Use of Very Intrusive Mass Surveillance Software (Updated)
  • 06.17.15 More Political Interventions in EPO Abuse Cases
  • 06.17.15 SUEPO to SUE Government of the Netherlands for Protecting the EPO’s Thugs
  • 06.18.15 French Newspaper Les Echos Censors Criticism of Benoît Battistelli and the EPO (Updated)
  • 06.22.15 Demonstration Against European Patent Office Management in Munich This Wednesday
  • 06.25.15 An Estimated 1,000 EPO Staff in Munich Demonstrated Against EPO Management Yesterday Afternoon
  • 06.26.15 The Council of Europe Slams the EPO as Political Pressure Grows for EPO Management to Obey the Law
  • 06.26.15 The EPO’s Circus of Nepotism, Corporatism and Gross Abuse is Promoting the Unitary Patent
  • 06.28.15 After Intervention by the Council of Europe Comes a Detailed Summary of the Situation in the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 07.01.15 Munich Press, Münchner Merkur, Slams the Munich-based EPO
  • 07.02.15 Translation of Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’ Speech Against EPO Management and New Parliamentarian Interventions
  • 07.10.15 EPO Appointments: Standards of a Third World Country
  • 07.11.15 European Censorship: Tyrants of the EPO Blacklist Techrights, Web Site Not Accessible Office-Wide
  • 07.16.15 SUEPO Post Vanishes: Belated Self-Censorship or Threats From EPO Management?
  • 07.20.15 Patents Expansion in Europe May be Looming
  • 08.05.15 EPO Measures Productivity Using the Wrong Yardstick in Order to Sell Its Racket to the Public
  • 08.27.15 Censorship, Self-Censorship and Intimidation Now the Modus Operandi at EPO
  • 09.09.15 Benoît Battistelli and His Goons From Control Risks (CRG) Try to Crush Unions, Not Just Journalism
  • 09.10.15 The EPO’s Vicious Attacks on Its Very Own Staff Have Peaked (War on Dissent) While Oppressive Patent Regime (UPC) Phased in
  • 09.11.15 EPO Has Become Political and Benoît Battistelli is Lobbying for UPC (Large Corporations’ Wishlist)
  • 09.12.15 EPO Staff Suicides Estimated to Have Grown Tenfold Under Current Regime — Claim
  • 09.17.15 European Patent Office Expands Censorship and Intimidation Against Staff as Pressure Mounts
  • 09.21.15 Dutch Report: EPO Suicides Possibly Caused by Working Conditions Imposed by EPO’s Management
  • 09.22.15 The European Patent Office’s Autocracy Has Proven the Streisand Effect, Amplifying Its Opposition’s Messages
  • 09.22.15 Dutch Politician John Kerstens Says EPO Investigative Unit is Called ‘the Gestapo’
  • 09.23.15 Translation Needed of Article About EPO Threats Against SUEPO’s Elizabeth Hardon
  • 09.23.15 EPO Management Justifies Censorship (Even of Journalists) Using Its Vice-President Željko Topić
  • 09.24.15 German Press Explains EPO Investigation Unit (I.U.), Struggles to Openly Speak to the Secretive EPO
  • 09.25.15 Süddeutsche Zeitung Explains Imminent Federal Scrutiny Against Battistelli’s EPO in Germany
  • 10.02.15 Microsoft’s Secret Special Relationship With EPO Illustrates Serious Corruption at Microsoft and the EPO
  • 10.04.15 Article Explains Why SUEPO Went Silent Well Over a Week Ago: Nobody is Allowed to Talk to Journalists Without Permission From Battistelli
  • 10.06.15 Željko Topić Attacks EPO Staff for ‘Daring’ to Legally Challenge the EPO’s Management Over Its Gross Abuses in Europe
  • 10.07.15 EPO Staff to Disrupt Administrative Council Meeting With Public Demonstration That Raises Awareness of Abuses
  • 10.08.15 The Coup D’état of Benoît Battistelli Follows an Imperialist Model, Threatens Opposition and Dissent
  • 10.09.15 Benoît Battistelli’s Office Accused of Institutional Harassment Against EPO Staff in New Letter to the Administrative Council, Calling for External Investigation
  • 10.11.15 European Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda Says TPP Will Bring Software Patents to Europe and Other Continents/Countries
  • 10.13.15 Confirmed: Benoît Battistelli is Crushing the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA)
  • 10.13.15 Staff of the EPO Under Siege Ahead of Tomorrow’s Demonstration in Munich
  • 10.16.15 The ‘Sherlocks’ of EPO/Spin-Doctoring Pretend That All of the EPO’s Problems Boil Down to One Disgruntled Person (Updated)
  • 10.16.15 Translation Needed: High Employee Sabotaged European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 10.16.15 EPO Cleverly Frames Total War Against Its Own Staff as a War Against Nazism
  • 10.19.15 Benoît Battistelli et al in an Allegedly New Campaign of Defamation Against Staff Member
  • 10.19.15 German Media Shows Discriminatory EPO Practices More Than Just a ‘Pilot’ (Reaching Second Half of 2016), Started When Microsoft Pressured EPO (Lodged Complaints)
  • 10.20.15 Brute Force Cracking Attempts Against Techrights
  • 10.20.15 German Broadcaster on European Patent Office (EPO) Preferential Treatment for Microsoft and Others
  • 10.21.15 EPO Increases Repressions: Allegedly Bans Staff From Helping Refugees (Updated)
  • 10.24.15 SUEPO Reiterates Call for Independent Mediation and “Doubts That There Can Ever be Social Peace With Mr Battistelli as President”
  • 10.26.15 The Deteriorating Working Conditions at the EPO Show Reluctance to Make Talented Staff (or Ill Staff) Happy
  • 10.28.15 Control Risks Group (CRG), Transparency International, the European Patent Office (EPO) Investigative Unit and the Obvious Conflicts of Interest
  • 10.30.15 Benoît Battistelli Became an Embarrassment to the European Patent Organisation, Allege EPO Workers
  • 10.30.15 Former German Constitutional Court Judge Denounces the EPO’s Possible Campaign of Defamation Against Judge Accused of Truth-Telling
  • 11.03.15 The Benoît Battistelli Way or the Highway: EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal is Being Discredited, SUEPO Web Site is Down Again
  • 11.03.15 More European Politicians Take on the EPO for Ignoring the Rule of Law
  • 11.03.15 EPO “Careering Towards the Precipice of Disaster”
  • 11.04.15 A State Within a State: Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About the EPO’s Bizarre Existence Above the Law
  • 11.18.15 The EPO’s Management Has Just Reaffirmed Its Possible Role in Contributing to Staff Suicides
  • 11.20.15 Gross Aggression by EPO Management Shows the Urgent Need to Remove Immunity From EPO
  • 11.20.15 In an Effort to Counter EPO Staff Narrative (After ~2,000 of Staff Protest) EPO Management Portrays Staff as Violent But Provides No Evidence
  • 11.20.15 EPO: It’s Like a Family Business – Part III
  • 11.21.15 German Media Reveals That Out-of-Control EPO Management is Even Threatening and Abusing Lawyers Now
  • 11.21.15 EPO: It’s Like a Family Business – Part IV
  • 11.21.15 German Press Says Broken EPO Lets President Severely Punish Staff Not Even Guilty of Any Wrongdoing
  • 11.22.15 President Battistelli Now Pressures/Threatens Politicians Who ‘Dare’ to Complain About Abuses and Unacceptable Conditions at the EPO
  • 11.23.15 The Bogus Narrative Floated by EPO Management: Our Judges and Examiners Are Armed and Violent
  • 11.23.15 European Central Bank Staff Committee Adds to Growing Pressure on Abusive EPO Management
  • 11.23.15 Support SUEPO or End Up Like They and Some of the Boards Did
  • 11.23.15 NRC Handelsblad (Dutch Evening Newspaper) Speaks About EPO’s Refusal to Accept Court Orders From The Hague
  • 11.24.15 Response to Bogus Accusations That EPO Staff Protests Are Really an Attempt to Derail UPC
  • 11.24.15 New Heise Article Makes It Clear That ‘Nazi’-Themed Accusations Against the Suspended Board Judge Were Insufficiently Substantiated
  • 11.24.15 United They Stand: FFPE-EPO Supports Suspended Staff Representatives From SUEPO
  • 11.25.15 EPO Management Needs to Finally Recognise That It Itself is the Issue, Not the Staff or the Unions
  • 11.25.15 Debunking the EPO’s Latest Marketing Nonsense From Les Échos and More on Benoît Battistelli’s Nastygram to French Politician
  • 11.25.15 The Sun King Delusion: The Views of Techrights Are Just a Mirror of EPO Staff Unions
  • 11.26.15 A Call for Bloggers and Journalists: Did EPO Intimidate and Threaten You Too? Please Speak Out.
  • 11.28.15 What Everyone Needs to Know About the EPO’s New War on Journalism
  • 11.28.15 The Latest EPO Spin: Staff Protesters Compared to ‘Anti-Patent Campaigners’ or ‘Against UPC’
  • 11.29.15 Why the European Patent Office Cannot Really Sue and Why It’s All — More Likely Than Not — Just SLAPP
  • 11.30.15 Željko Topić Tries to Do to EPO Staff What He Did in Croatia, Now Crushes Staff Assembly in The Hague
  • 12.01.15 The European Patent Office (EPO) Crushes Not Only Unions But Also the Press and Even Bloggers
  • 12.01.15 The Spanish EPO Scandal – Part II
  • 12.01.15 EPO Staff Representatives Highlight to Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’ How Battistelli Deceived Him
  • 12.02.15 New EPO Job Advertisement Reveals Gestapo-Like ‘Deep State’, Operating Outside the Rule of Law and Managed Secretly by a Tyrannical President
  • 12.02.15 Any Negative Press Cuttings, Reports and Reactions From the Media”">EPO “Intranet Fails to Present Any Negative Press Cuttings, Reports and Reactions From the Media”
  • 12.02.15 The Spanish EPO Scandal – Part III
  • 12.03.15 French Member of Parliament Reacts to EPO Management Amidst Ongoing Attacks on Staff Representatives and Facts-free Information War
  • 12.03.15 EPO Staff Protest Statistics: Over 2,600 Signatures (So Far) in Petition, About 800 Staff in The Hague Protest, Much More to Come in Munich
  • 12.04.15 EPO Does Not Seem to Have Investigators, Only Accusers and Prosecutors (Loyal to the President)
  • 12.06.15 Article Highlights EPO’s Capitalist Venture Tendencies, Seeking to Just Maximize Profit, Irrespective of Public Interests and Human Factors
  • 12.06.15 EPO “Synonymous With Psychological Depressions, Nervous Breakdowns, and Even Suicides”
  • 12.06.15 More Than 2,000 People, Including Directors, Said to Have Protested in Munich (About HALF of All EPO Staff Including The Hague Protest)
  • 12.06.15 Staff Union of the EPO Responds to Benoît Battistelli’s Alleged Defamation of Staff Representatives
  • 12.07.15 Outside Interventions Sought in EPO Amid Scandals, New Intervention Comes From OHIM
  • 12.07.15 FRAND Tax, Patent Trolls as Satellites of Large Patent Aggressors, EPO Puff Pieces, and Another Imminent EPO Protest
  • 12.08.15 Hypocrite in Chief: Benoît Battistelli Compares Staff Union to ‘Mafia’
  • 12.08.15 Lawyers’ Response to Incredible Accusations From EPO Management and Its Praetorian Guard
  • 12.08.15 EPO’s Team Battistelli is Promoting Only the Oppressors
  • 12.09.15 Union Busting at the European Patent Office, Dressed Up as ‘Investigation’
  • 12.09.15 Software Patents and EPO Coverage
  • 12.10.15 Tightening Media Control: European Patent Office (EPO) Silences Blogs of Critics by Intimidation, Lawsuits
  • 12.10.15 A Little Taste of European Patent Office ‘Justice’
  • 12.12.15 The EPO’s Failed (Dismissed) Attempt to Dismiss a Judge Alleged to Have Communicated About EPO Abuses
  • 12.12.15 EPO Central Staff Committee Warns That EPO President Illegally Changes the Rules to Remove the Rights of the Accused, Crush Dissent/Unions
  • 12.13.15 When SUEPO Called the EPO a “Public Service Organisation Out of Control”
  • 12.14.15 Watch Out For the EPO-SUEPO Parity Spin
  • 12.14.15 EPO No Longer in the ‘Business’ of Just Granting Patents But Politics and Lobbying Also
  • 12.14.15 Heise Article Tackles EPO ‘Feud’ (Union Busting in Disguise), Techrights’ Remarks Follow
  • 12.15.15 Very High Proportion of EPO Staff in Berlin Goes to the Streets to Protest and to Defend SUEPO From the Union Busters
  • 12.15.15 When Europe’s Leading International Patent Litigators Get Fed Up With Benoît Battistelli and Want Him Sent to ‘Exile’
  • 12.15.15 Ahead of Tomorrow’s Administrative Council Meeting EPO Staff Representatives Warn Heads of Delegations About Union Busting and Other Abuses
  • 12.17.15 EPO Attacks Staff Representatives’ Right to Work Just One Week Before Christmas
  • 12.17.15 EPO Union Responds to Željko Topić and Raimund Lutz’s Attempt to Intimidate Staff That Joins Unions
  • 12.17.15 Ahead of Administrative Council Meeting, General Consultative Committee Warned of “Witch Hunt in Pursuit of SUEPO Officials” (Union Busting)
  • 12.18.15 Benoît Battistelli: “An Earthquake Would be Needed for the Administrative Council… Not to Support My Major Proposals.”
  • 12.19.15 Watch Out for ‘Divide and Rule’ Tactics From the Control Risks- and FTI Consulting-Steered EPO
  • 12.20.15 EPO Management Discovers Media is Against It
  • 12.21.15 The Forgotten History of IAM ‘Magazine’ as EPO Management’s Megaphone and EPO Union Basher
  • 12.22.15 Europe Under Siege by Patent Lawyers, UPC Ambitions, and the Administrative Council’s Continued Passive Support of Battistelli
  • 12.22.15 EPO Level of Trust Reaches All-Time Low: Workers Distrust the Available Phones in Their Offices, Use Mobiles Instead
  • 12.23.15 Managing IP Interview With Battistelli Shows That He’s Either Deluded or Dishonest About EPO Realities
  • 12.24.15 I-AM EPO: How the Record of the EPO’s Management Dispute With Staff and the EPC is Being Rewritten by EPO-Funded Media
  • 12.24.15 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part I: An Introduction
  • 12.24.15 Concerns About the Unitary Patent Court (UPC) Among EPO Staff an Outcome of Battistelli’s Attacks on Staff
  • 12.27.15 Battistelli’s Proposed Changes to Pensions “Difficult to Understand”, “Liable to Cause Instability”, Without Consultation or Justification
  • 01.03.16 The Long EPO Queue for European SMEs That Cannot Hop Like Multinational Corporations
  • 01.04.16 La Larga Cola Para Las PYMEs Europeas que No Pueden Evitar Como Si lo Hace las Corporaciones Multinacionales
  • 01.04.16 Shedding Light on the Secretive Mock Trial of Elizabeth Hardon and Others (EPO Union Busting)
  • 01.05.16 So Much for ‘Vocal Minority’… Half of EPO Staff Signed Petition in Support of SUEPO
  • 01.10.16 A Busy Week Ahead for the EPO’s Management as Union-busting Efforts Culminate
  • 01.12.16 Una Semana Ocupadísima para la Gerencia de la OEP Mientras sus Esfuerzos por Desmantelar su Unión Culminan
  • 01.12.16 The European Patent Office (EPO) Still Quietly Abusive
  • 01.12.16 Transparency is Sunlight in the Kingdom of the EPO Vampires
  • 01.14.16 La Ofícina Europea de Patentes (OEP) Sigue Completamente Abusiva
  • 01.14.16 The EPO is Manufacturing Propaganda Again, Releasing Misleading Figures to the Media
  • 01.15.16 How the EPO Prevented Scapegoats (‘Defendants’) in Its Mock ‘Trials’ From Actually Presenting a Defense
  • 01.15.16 Massive EPO Protests After Team Battistelli Fires Legitimate Critics and Staff Representatives (Even Those With Young Children)
  • 01.15.16 Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’ Lashes Out at EPO for Firing Staff Representatives
  • 01.16.16 The Witch-hunt Against Elizabeth Hardon Leads Back to Battistelli
  • 01.16.16 Summarising the Latest Attacks by the European Patent Office (EPO) on European Society, With Complicity of Corporate Media
  • 01.16.16 La OEP Está Manufacturando Propaganda de Nuevo Publicando Engañosas Figuras a los Medios de Comunicación
  • 01.16.16 Masivas Protestas en la OEP Después que el Equipo Battistelli Despide a Críticos y Representates de su Unión (Incluso aquellos con Niños)
  • 01.16.16 EPO Staff Protests in Berlin and Vienna
  • 01.16.16 Transparencia es Luz del Sol en el Reino de los Vampiros de la OEP
  • 01.17.16 Battistelli Hopes That People Forget (or Don’t Know About) Criminal Charges Against Željko Topić, But Croatian Media Does Not Forget as Election Imminent
  • 01.17.16 ¿Cómo la OEP Evitó Que Sus Chivos Expiatorios (´Acusados´) Presentes sus Defensas en los ¨Juicios¨ Contra Ellos
  • 01.17.16 Team Battistelli Has Brought Dirty Politics to the EPO, Pension Cuts May be “Blatantly Illegal”
  • 01.17.16 Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’ Responde Críticamente a la OEP por Despedir a Sus Representates
  • 01.18.16 Battistelli’s Legitimacy Under Political Fire After He Fired Staff Representatives, Claims He’s Neither Suitable Nor Eligible to be EPO President
  • 01.18.16 European Patent Office (EPO) is Not “the Real World” But a Parallel Universe Without Any Regard for the Rule of Law
  • 01.18.16 Techrights Needs Translations as Another EPO Staff Protest Looms
  • 01.18.16 French Politician Philip Cordery Calls the EPO Authoritarian, Says the Union-busting Decisions Are Purely Scandalous
  • 01.19.16 Battistelli “Exacerbated the Penalties Which Were Recommended by the Disciplinary Committees for All Three EPO Unionists” (Under Mock Trial)
  • 01.19.16 Poor Journalism From Süddeutsche Zeitung Perpetuates the EPO Management’s Lies
  • 01.19.16 Tomorrow’s EPO Protest to Target Union-busting Actions Disguised as ‘Social Dialogue’ or ‘Union Recognition’
  • 01.20.16 Politico Frances Philip Cordery llama a la OEP por lo que es: Autoritarian, Dice las Decisiones Destructivas Contra la Unión Son Puramente Escándalosas
  • 01.20.16 The EPO’s PR Team May be Trying a New ‘Damage Control’ Strategy Amid Historic Protests by Staff
  • 01.20.16 La Legitimidad de Battistelli bajo Fuego Político Después que Despidió Representates de la Unión, Reclamos que El NO es el Indicado or Ineligible para Presidente de la OEP
  • 01.20.16 Benoît Battistelli Blasted by Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’, Who Initiates More Political Actions Against Him
  • 01.20.16 The Next Phase of Union Busting: Battistelli Now Cutting Salaries of Yet More EPO Staff Representatives
  • 01.22.16 Two More EPO Protests on Their Way, Thousands of Employees Projected to Attend Overall
  • 01.22.16 Benoît Battistelli es Repréndido por Pierre-Yves Le Borgn’, Quien Ha Iniciado Acciones Políticas en Su Contra
  • 01.23.16 Additional Information About EPO Management and Its Abuses, as Told by Anonymous Comments
  • 01.24.16 Dismissal of EPO Staff Representatives Does Not Eliminate Them as EPO Staff Sticks Together, Shares the Burden, the Pain
  • 01.24.16 Süddeutsche Zeitung After FTI Consulting Deal: EPO Ghostwriter or Journalism?
  • 01.26.16 Despido de los Representantes de Empleados de la OEP No los Elimina, Al Unirse los Empleados Comparten la Carga y el Dolor
  • 01.26.16 Philip Cordery Says the EPO Situation is Well Known to All, as Attested by the Numerous Press Articles, Political Actions, or Administrative Recommendations
  • 01.26.16 No More Defeatism: Battistelli’s Days at the European Patent Office May be Numbered
  • 01.28.16 Independent Dutch Investigation to Commence Into the Working Conditions at the European Patent Office in Rijswijk
  • 01.28.16 EPO Protests Earn Coverage on Dutch Television, Programme Starts Now (10PM CET)
  • 01.28.16 Over a Thousand People Protest at The Hague; The EPO’s PR Team is Lying Again About the Busting of Staff Unions, Pretends There is “Union Recognition”
  • 01.28.16 Philip Cordery Dice que la Situación de la OEP es Bien Conocida por Todos, Lo Atestigua Numerosos Artículos de Prensa, Acciones Políticas, o Recomendaciones Administrativas
  • 01.29.16 Dutch Media’s Coverage of Protest at The Hague Leaves VP1 Minnoye a New Laughing Stock of the EPO’s Staff
  • 01.30.16 Translation: What If the European Patent Office Were to Torture?
  • 01.30.16 The Connection Between the EPO’s Investigative Unit/Battistelli Policies and EPO Suicides
  • 01.31.16 MEP Konstantina Kouneva (Former Trade Unionist) Again Takes Action Against the European Patent Office for Union-Busting Actions
  • 02.02.16 Münchner Merkur Explains That EPO Staff is Defecting to SUEPO, Even The Council Distrusts Battistelli Now
  • 02.02.16 SUEPO (EPO Staff Union) Appears to Have Launched a New and Improved Web Site After Attempts to Crush (‘Decapitate’) SUEPO
  • 02.03.16 The Most Detailed Explanation (Yet) of What’s Wrong With the EPO
  • 02.06.16 The ‘Offenses’ of EPO Staff Representatives Boil Down to Truth-Telling
  • 02.06.16 Rumours About Dismissal of Benoît Battistelli and New Letter From Union Syndicale Federale Blasting Battistelli’s Behaviour
  • 02.07.16 EPO Staff Responds to Team Battistelli’s Expansion to Include French Economic Propagandist on the Payroll
  • 02.08.16 ‘Aversion to Change’ Propaganda From the EPO Echoes or Parrots Lenin and Stalin
  • 02.08.16 The European Patent Office “is Acting as Though the Law Does Not Apply to It.”
  • 02.09.16 Besieged Benoît Battistelli Mimics ‘Damage Control’ Tactics of FIFA or Blatter as More Judges Start Getting Involved in EPO Scandals
  • 02.09.16 EPO Union (SUEPO) Getting Busted: “More and More People are Joining the Union, but Fewer and Fewer People Dare to Take on Leading Positions There.”
  • 02.09.16 Several Political Parties Directly Challenge the European Patent Office for Ignoring the Law, Not Obeying Court Orders
  • 02.09.16 La Más Detallada Explicación (hasta ahora) de ¿Qué esta mal con la OEP?
  • 02.11.16 New EPO Protests Amid Nervous Breakdowns of Spanish EPO Employee (After Institutional Bullying by Battistelli’s Goons), Spain Rejects the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 02.13.16 Nuevas Protestas Contra La Vil OEP en Medio de Crisis Nerviosa de su Empleado Español (Después del Matoneo Institucional de Los Chacales de Battistelli), España Rechaza la Patente Unitaria UPC
  • 02.16.16 How the European Patent Office (EPO) is Crushing Staff Unions and Why EPO Staff Has a Moral Duty to Protest
  • 02.16.16 The Abuses of the EPO’s Management Against Staff Extend to Their Families
  • 02.16.16 EPO VP1 Willy Minnoye and His Bizarre Claims About Systematic Crackdown on the EPO Unions (More Than Half a Dozen People Targeted is Clearly Not a Coincidence)
  • 02.18.16 Danish Left’s Alternate for European Parliament Slams the European Patent Office While Staff Protests Are Again Ignored by the German Media
  • 02.19.16 Rumours Suggest That Battistelli, Already Enjoying Life With a Huge (But Still Secret) Salary, Wants More Than a Decade’s Worth of Salary to Leave
  • 02.22.16 More Political Action in France, Still Firmly Against the Largely French EPO Management
  • 02.22.16 “Bavarian Government is Unable to Become Involved in the Business Operations of Supra-national Organizations” Like EPO
  • 02.23.16 Leaked: Board 28 Message to Heads of Delegation of the Administrative Council (EPO)
  • 02.24.16 Federation of International Civil Servants’ Associations Bemoans EPO Climate of “Fear, Threats, Intimidation or Retaliation”
  • 02.24.16 The EPO’s Investigative Unit (I.U.) Called ‘Gestapo’ on Dutch Television
  • 02.25.16 The Mass Media Recognises This May be the End of the Battistelli Regime
  • 02.25.16 Repurposed Misinformation Campaign: The EPO’s PR Team is Lying to The Register in Order to Help Battistelli Save Face
  • 02.26.16 Article Translation (de Volkskrant): EPO Employees Are Tired of Tyranny and Take to the Streets
  • 02.26.16 Member States Are Turning Against “Tyrannical” Chief of European Patent Office (Benoît Battistelli)
  • 02.26.16 Censorship in Land of So-called ‘Social Dialogue’: EPO is Still Blocking Techrights Web Site, But There Are Exceptions/Loopholes
  • 02.27.16 Media Alert: Spokespeople of the EPO Are Lying to Journalists
  • 02.27.16 EPO “Management by Fear… Within a System Which is Not Subject to Any Outside Control.”
  • 02.27.16 Confirmed by Dutch Media (Telegraaf): Benoît Battistelli Makes Unreasonable Compensation Demands
  • 03.01.16 Team Battistelli’s New Media Strategy at Times of EPO Emergency
  • 03.01.16 EPO Attracts Complaints Over (Mental) Torture Against Staff
  • 03.02.16 Team Battistelli Uses FFPE to Give an Illusion of EPO Peace With ‘Unions’ and Justify/Support a Now-Famous Lie
  • 03.02.16 Confirmado por los Medios Holandadeses (Telegraaf): Benoît Battistelli Hace Irracionales Demandas de Compensación
  • 03.03.16 Overview of Today’s Growing Press Coverage About the European Patent Office
  • 03.03.16 In the EPO’s Official Photo Op, “Only One of the Faces is Actually FFPE-EPO”
  • 03.03.16 Further Evidence Suggests and Shows Stronger Evidence That Team Battistelli Uses FFPE-EPO as ‘Yellow Union’ Against SUEPO
  • 03.03.16 EPO Media Strategy: Call the Whistleblowers Nazis and Criminals
  • 03.03.16 3/3 is EPO Propaganda Day: Techrights to Respond and Alert the Media About Misinformation
  • 03.04.16 3/3 es Día Para Propaganda de la OEP: Techrights Responderá y Alertará Contra las Mentiras delos Medios
  • 03.04.16 “FFPE-EPO Was Set up About 9 Years Ago With Management Encouragement”
  • 03.05.16 Remember What Benoît Battistelli Said About His Salary and His Bonus
  • 03.05.16 JUVE Translation: EPO Quick to Announce Success Story of Dialogue with Small Unions
  • 03.05.16 Forget Staff Union-busting ‘Strike Ballots’, How About Ballots on Presidential Matters?
  • 03.05.16 Despite Its Propaganda Campaign (‘Union Recognition’ and ‘Results’) the EPO’s Management is Totally Flipping Out
  • 03.05.16 Fallout of the FFPE EPO MoU With Battistelli’s Circle
  • 03.06.16 Busted Battistelli: EPO President Publicly Lies About the State of the EPO, So What About His Secret Contract, Salary and Other Undisclosed Benefits?
  • 03.06.16 Traducción JUVE: EPO Lista Para Anunciar la Exitósa Historia de Diálogo Con Sindicatos Pequeños
  • 03.06.16 Kontrovers: German Program (With Subtitles) About the European Patent Office
  • 03.06.16 The EPO’s Media Strategy at Work: Union Feuds and Group Fracturing
  • 03.07.16 Atrapado: Battistelli Presidente de la EPO Publicamente miente Acerca del Estado de su Organización, Así que Acerca de su Contrato Secreto, Salario y otros Ocultos Beneficios?
  • 03.07.16 Software Patents Are a Dying Breed in the United States and the EPO Should Take Notice
  • 03.08.16 4,062 of Staff Vote on EPO Strike, Over 91% in Favour
  • 03.08.16 Rumoured Successor of Battistelli, Christoph Ernst, Previously Seen as Antagonist of Battistelli But What About UPC?
  • 03.08.16 Super Tuesday: EPO Workers Are Voting for a Strike Today
  • 03.09.16 Team Battistelli’s Bergot Reacts to Strike Action
  • 03.09.16 Another EPO Protest Next Week, Strategically Planned to Coincide With the Administrative Council’s Meeting
  • 03.09.16 Caricature of the Day: Recognising FFPE EPO
  • 03.10.16 Central Staff Committee of the European Patent Office Asks the Chairman of the Administrative Council to Take Action Next Week or Risk General (Office-Wide) Strike
  • 03.10.16 The European Patent Office is in a State of Transition, But Not Battistelli’s Transition or ‘Reform’
  • 03.11.16 The European Patent Organisation’s Administrative Council Can Stop the Strike by Agreeing/Working to Reintegrate Staff Representatives and End Benoît Battistelli’s Witch-hunts
  • 03.11.16 The Article Which Reinforces Rumours About Christoph Ernst Replacing President Battistelli at the EPO
  • 03.14.16 EPO Hypocritically Responds to TV Program by Defamation/Mocking of the Dead and Threats to the Media (Truth as Defamation?)
  • 03.14.16 EPO Protest in Munich in a Couple of Days
  • 03.15.16 Overthrowing Battistelli Only Part of a Bigger Job (Restoration of Quality and Human Decency at the European Patent Office)
  • 03.16.16 Survey Confirms What Board 28 Already Admits: the European Patent Office is Deep in a State of Crisis Since Benoît Battistelli Took Over
  • 03.17.16 Institutional Failure and Dirty Tricks: Benoît Battistelli Seemingly Gets Support Like Microsoft Gets Support
  • 03.17.16 Insider’s Account (Not Face-Saving EPO Statement) Reveals That Even Battistelli’s Allies Turn Against Him, EPO ‘Results’ Not Believed by Some, and Munich Protests Break Records
  • 03.17.16 In the Mainstream Media, the European Patent Office is Already Becoming Another FIFA, Lies Aplenty as Last Remaining ‘Damage Control’ Strategy
  • 03.18.16 Benoît Battistelli Made SUEPO Stronger by Trying to Decapitate It, May in Fact Have Self-Decapitated EPO (President in the Chopping Line)
  • 03.18.16 Translation of Article Highlights Bavarian Political Motion, Protest Scale and Severity in Munich
  • 03.19.16 Reversal Spin: SUEPO Needs to Make Peace Rather Than Benoît Battistelli Needing to Make Peace After Dismissing SUEPO’s Leaders
  • 03.19.16 International Labour Organisation Should Ask EPO Staff About the Surge in Cases, Not Just EPO Management, Which Chronically Lies
  • 03.19.16 Conflict at the European Patent Office: Battistelli gets away with a slap on the wrist
  • 03.20.16 Conflicto en la Oficina Europea de Patentes: Battistelli se sale con un tirón de orejas
  • 03.20.16 Propaganda Reversa: La SUEPO Necesita hacer la Paz En Vez que Benoît Battistelli Lo Haga Después de Despedir a los Líderes de SUEPO
  • 03.20.16 European Patent Office: Administrative Council gives the President a bollocking
  • 03.21.16 De Telegraaf Says There is Reorganisation Under Way at the European Patent Office
  • 03.21.16 EPO Scandals in British Media: Third Time in Private Eye
  • 03.21.16 Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and the United Kingdom Urge Benoît Battistelli to Allow Independent Investigation of His EPO Union-Busting Moves
  • 03.22.16 More Vomit-Inducing Publicity Stunts From Benoît Battistelli and the EPO Management
  • 03.22.16 Union Syndicale Federale Slams FFPE-EPO for Helping Abusive EPO Management by Signing a Malicious, Divisive Document
  • 03.23.16 FFPE-EPO Says MoU With Battistelli Will “Defend Employment Conditions” (Updated)
  • 03.24.16 Their Masters’ Voice (Who Block Techrights): FFPE-EPO Openly Discourages Members From Reading Techrights
  • 03.25.16 “The Decision of the President Battistelli to Overstep the Recommendation of the Disciplinary Committee is Arbitrary and Shows Bad Faith.”
  • 03.25.16 La Voz de Sus Amos (¿Quiénes Bloquean Techrights?): La FFPE-EPO Abiertamente Desalienta a Sus Miembros a Leer Techrights
  • 03.25.16 Letter Says EPO MoU “Raises Questions About FFPE’s Credibility as a Federation of Genuine Staff Unions”
  • 03.26.16 Battistelli is Trying to Save His EPO Job After Getting Called Out, But Doesn’t Give Back Busted Union Leaders Their Jobs; Strike Imminent
  • 03.28.16 Preserving Material About the European Patent Office (EPO) and Abuses by EPO Management
  • 03.30.16 EPO Losing Time: Two Weeks Later, Benoît Battistelli Has Made Virtually No Progress to Save Himself From Sacking
  • 03.30.16 SUEPO Publishes Translations of German Media Reports About the EPO
  • 03.31.16 SUEPO Publica Traducciones de los Medios Alemanes Acerca de la EPO
  • 04.03.16 EPO Strike in 3.5 Days Effective in All Sites, Lots for EPO Staff to be Angry About
  • 04.04.16 EPO Management Says Not a Word About Strike This Week, Not Informing Customers/Stakeholders Either
  • 04.06.16 Muestra Solidaridad a tus Compañeros Trabajadores. Ponte en Huelga Mañana
  • 04.06.16 Show Solidarity to Fellow EPO Workers. Go on Strike Tomorrow.
  • 04.06.16 Staff Union of the European Patent Office Sends Out a Striking Message With a T-Shirts Campaign
  • 04.07.16 European Patent Office Half Empty Today
  • 04.07.16 On Day of Strike FFPE-EPO Reaffirms Status as Yellow (Fake/Management-Leaning) Union, Receives ‘Gifts’
  • 04.08.16 Oficina Europea De Patentes Vacía Hasta la Mitad Hoy
  • 04.08.16 EPSU Explains Why SUEPO Fights for More Than Just EPO Employees and for Rights of Workers at International Institutions
  • 04.09.16 EPSU Explica Porqué la SUEPO Lucha Por Más que los Empleados de la EPO Y Los Derechos de los Trabajadores de Instituciones Internacionales
  • 04.10.16 What is Known (and Not Known) About Attacks on Croatian Portal That Exposed Željko Topić, the Notorious EPO Vice-President
  • 04.11.16 Church of EPO: How Team Battistelli Engineered the Dismissal of People Not Sufficiently Loyal to Them – Part II
  • 04.14.16 Needed Urgently: Information About the Secret Meeting of Board 28 and Battistelli’s Yellow Union, FFPE-EPO
  • 04.16.16 Administrative Council “Openly Showed Disapproval of Battistelli’s Behaviour” at the EPO
  • 04.16.16 European Patent Office and Human Rights Violations: Article Translation Into English Reveals Upcoming Lawsuit Against the EPO Over Institutional Harassment
  • 04.17.16 European Patent Office and Violaciónes a los Derechos Humanos: Traducción de Artículo Revela Juicio Pendiente Contra la EPO por Acoso Instituciónal
  • 04.18.16 Bavarian Parliament to Discuss the EPO’s Abuses in 24 Hours
  • 04.19.16 Munich State Attorney is Pursuing Criminal Charges Against the European Patent Office
  • 04.21.16 Bavarian Parliament Discusses EPO Abuses
  • 04.22.16 The Chaos in the EPO Impacts Stakeholders
  • 04.22.16 ES: El Parlamento Bávaro Discute los Abusos de la EPO
  • 04.22.16 In Battistelli’s Mini Union (Minion) It Takes Less Than 10 Votes to ‘Win’ an Election
  • 04.24.16 The EPO’s Departure From Truth and Entrance Into the Realms of Chinese Industrial-Grade Propaganda
  • 04.24.16 ES: Toma Menos de 10 Votos para ‘Ganar’ una Elección en la Mini Unión (Minion) de Battistelli
  • 04.27.16 ES: La Departura de la Readidad de la EPO Y Su Entrada en la Esféra Industrial China de Propaganda
  • 04.28.16 If EPO “Form of Thinking Were to be Followed, Guantanamo on German Soil Would be Possible.”
  • 04.29.16 ES: ”Si la Forma de Pensar de la EPO fuese Seguida, Guantánamo Sería Posible en Suelo Alemán.”
  • 05.02.16 Governments in Europe Still Active Against EPO Management
  • 05.03.16 ES: Gobiernos en Europa Todavía Activos en Contra de la Gerencia de la EPO
  • 05.05.16 Amid French Political Actions Against EPO Management French Consulate the Target of Next Week’s EPO Staff Protest
  • 05.10.16 EPO an Ill Organisation, Lots to Protest Against Tomorrow
  • 05.12.16 Italian Television to Cover EPO Abuses, Bringing the Outrage to the Mainstream in Another Country
  • 05.16.16 UPC an Attack Not Only on the European Public But Also on Staff of the EPO
  • 05.17.16 Two Months Down the Line, Battistelli Has Done None of What the Administrative Council Told Him to Do; He Should be Sacked Next Month
  • 05.18.16 ES: La UPC un Ataque No Sólo Contra el Público Europeo Pero También Contra los Empleados de la EPO
  • 05.18.16 Another Almost Empty EPO Presentation at The Hague
  • 05.19.16 It’s All Just Artificial Distractions From EPO Management, ‘Yellow’ Union Comes Under Scrutiny Again
  • 05.21.16 ES: Otra Casi Vacía Presentación de la EPO en La Hague
  • 05.22.16 Disrupting Battistelli’s Distracting Propaganda: EPO Staff to Protest Again in About a Fortnight
  • 05.24.16 Some Details About How the EPO’s President is Rumoured to be ‘Buying’ Votes and Why It’s Grounds/Basis for “Immediate Dismissal”
  • 05.24.16 ES: Interrumpiendo la Propagánda Distractante de Battistelli: los Empleados de la EPO Protestará de Nuevo en una Quincena
  • 05.26.16 EPO Management Under Growing Stress From Croatian Law Enforcement Authorities, German Politicians, Italian Media
  • 05.28.16 ES: Algunos Detalles Acerca de ¿Cómo el Presidente de la EPO Es Rumoreado Estar Comprando Votos, y el Porqué es Suficientemente Base Para un Despido Inmediato?
  • 05.28.16 ES: La Gerencia de la EPO Bajo Creciénte Estres por las Autoridades Legales Croatas, Políticas Alemanas, y los Medios Italianos
  • 05.31.16 Extremely Dodgy Dealings at the European Patent Office
  • 06.01.16 As Bavarian Parliament Expresses Disdain Over EPO Leadership’s Abuses German Media Listens and Staff Union Releases New Survey
  • 06.01.16 ES: Tratos Extremádamente Astutos en La Oficina Europea de Patentes
  • 06.01.16 FFPE-EPO Going Ad Hominem Against FICSA, Brings Nationality Into It
  • 06.07.16 Streisand Effect Award Won by EPO: It Has Just Blocked IP Kat Blog (Updatedx7)
  • 06.07.16 Politicians Susann Biedefeld (MdL) and Agnes Jongerius (S and D) the Latest to Express Anger at EPO’s Management Over Its Abuses
  • 06.07.16 EPO Protest Tomorrow: Help the Media (Not ‘Media Partners’ in EPO Management’s Pocket) See What EPO Staff Really Thinks (Updated)
  • 06.07.16 Perpetual Attack on EPO Staff, Even After the Staff Leaves the EPO
  • 06.07.16 Time to Call Out Joff Wild (IAM’s Editor in Chief) for His EPO-Connected UPC Propaganda, Other Agenda-Pushing Initiatives
  • 06.08.16 Goodbye to Patent Quality at the EPO, Thanks to Team Battistelli With Its Extreme Policies
  • 06.08.16 Leaks Required: EPO’s Plan to Crush the Appeal Boards and Media Contracts for Puff Pieces
  • 06.09.16 Battistelli is Said to be Engineering Further Attacks on People Whom He Already Fired From the EPO
  • 06.09.16 Dutch Media Reveals That Battistelli Continues His Vicious War on Staff Unions, Laurent Prunier the Latest Casualty (The Hague)
  • 06.10.16 The Commission is Complicit in EPO Abuses, According to Marc Tarabella
  • 06.10.16 The EPO is in a Mess So Sordid That It Pays for Positive Publicity, Further Abolishes Labour Rights (to Punish Whistleblowers) and More
  • 06.11.16 ES: Se Dice Que Battistelli Esta Fabricando Más Ataques en Contra de la Gente a la Que Ya Despidió de la EPO
  • 06.11.16 ES: Medios Holandeses Revelan que Battistelli Continua su Feroz Guerra Contra el Sindicato de Empleados, Laurent Prunier la Última Victima (La Hague)
  • 06.12.16 Why Anonymous Dissent Against EPO on Google Platforms May be Risky
  • 06.12.16 ES: La Comisión es Complice en los Abusos de la EPO, De Acuerdo a Marc Tarabella
  • 06.13.16 Report From Thursday Protest in EPO Munich Branch/Headquarters
  • 06.13.16 Another EPO Staff Demonstration Planned for a Fortnight From Now When Battistelli Wishes to Make the EPO Even Crazier
  • 06.13.16 Spontaneous Protest at EPO Today as Battistelli Still Acts Defiantly, Three Days of ‘Trial’ Starting Tomorrow
  • 06.14.16 Endgame of Manipulating Media With Payments and PR: The ‘Blame Everything and Everyone But EPO Management’ Tactics
  • 06.15.16 Benoît Battistelli Apparently Breaks the Rules Again and Says That Transparent Trial is Unlawful, Threatens Those Involved
  • 06.15.16 EPO Brain Drain Goes All the Way to the Top as Head of Patent Administration Abruptly Resigns
  • 06.15.16 EPO Investigative Unit Causes “Trauma, Will Ruin the Health or Even the Family”
  • 06.18.16 When the EPO’s PR Team Says About UPC (Unitary Patent) That It Can be Delayed It Means Derailed or Called Off
  • 06.18.16 No Exaggeration Necessary: the EPO Under Benoît Battistelli Has North Korean Standards of ‘Justice’
  • 06.20.16 Under Battistelli’s Regime the EPO is a Lawless, Dark Place
  • 06.21.16 EPO Self-Censorship by IP Kat or Just Censorship of Opinions That IP Kat Does Not Share/Accept (Updated)
  • 06.23.16 Looks Increasingly Plausible That Battistelli is Covering up Bogus and/or Illegally-Obtained ‘Evidence’ From the EPO’s Investigative Unit
  • 06.23.16 Another Demonstration by European Patent Office (EPO) Staff on Same Day as Administrative Council’s Meeting
  • 06.25.16 With UPC Dead for Battistelli’s Entire Remaining Term, No Reason for the EPO or the Administrative Council to Keep Battistelli Around
  • 06.28.16 ES: Con la UPC Muerta por el Resto del Termino de Battistelli, No Hay Razón para que la EPO o el Consejo Administrativo Sigan Manteniéndolo Más
  • 06.28.16 Injunction Against Battistelli’s Investigative Unit (Known Internally as ‘Gestapo’) Amid Serious Injustices and Bogus ‘Trials’
  • 06.29.16 The EPO Has Become Battistelli’s Circus and the Administrative Council Has Been Reduced to (Illegal) Circus Animals Controlled With ‘Treats’
  • 06.29.16 Short Report From Today’s EPO Protest in Munich
  • 06.29.16 Battistelli Attacks Not Only His Staff But Also Patents Themselves (Their Quality) and the Legal Legitimacy Surrounding the EPO
  • 06.29.16 Battistelli is Creating an Atmosphere of Terror at the EPO While Exploiting Terror Attacks to Garner Sympathy
  • 06.29.16 EPO Management Bunker: “The Bailiff Who Came to Deliver the Subpoena was Escorted off the Property by Five Security Guards.”
  • 06.30.16 Battistelli’s Last Moves Are Desperate Attempts to Crush the Messenger (SUEPO), Which Will Almost Certainly Backfire on (if Not Fire) Battistelli
  • 06.30.16 Publicly-Available Information About the Meeting of the EPO’s Administrative Council
  • 07.01.16 At the European Patent Organisation the Administrative Council Does Not Care About Staff
  • 07.04.16 Team Battistelli Parties Like It’s Still 2010 (Pre-Battistelli Governance), Fails to Acknowledge Demise of EPO as Popular Employer and Instead Lies to Staff
  • 07.05.16 SUEPO “Speechless” About Administrative Council Delegates for “Cavalier Attitude Towards Law-Making” and “Contempt for Consultative Processes”
  • 07.11.16 Coup D’état in Relation to the European Patent Office
  • 07.11.16 “We Need to Inform Politicians, Journalists ... Ministers or Representatives that the Whole European Patent System is at Risk.”
  • 07.11.16 Benoît Battistelli’s Attacks on EPO Unions, Judges, Boards, and Even Justice Itself the Subject of Media Fascination
  • 07.12.16 Hot Summer: EPO Management on Trial This Week
  • 07.14.16 EPO Management on Trial Tomorrow, But It Stated Upfront It Would Not Obey the Legal Ruling While It Rigs Its Own Rulings
  • 07.22.16 Haar Mentioned as Likely Site of Appeal Boards as Their Eradication or Marginalisation Envisioned by UPC Proponent Benoît Battistelli
  • 07.22.16 EPO Insiders Explain Why the EPO’s Examination Quality Rapidly Declines and Will Get Even Worse Because of Willy Minnoye
  • 07.27.16 Patent Lawyers Move Closer to Battistelli’s Rubber-stamping Office While the Appeal Boards Pushed Away as Collective Punishment Which Masks Decline in Patent Quality
  • 07.28.16 To Understand What Battistelli Has Turned the EPO Into Look at Turkey and China
  • 07.30.16 EPO Crushed the Boards of Appeal (i.e. Quality Control) and Insiders Explain Why
  • 08.04.16 Patent Quality in Europe (EPO) Declining Under Battistelli in Spite of the USPTO’s Cautionary Tale
  • 08.06.16 Francis Gurry — Like Benoît Battistelli — Compared to Sepp Blatter of FIFA
  • 08.09.16 “EPO is Quickly Turning Into a Registration System”
  • 08.11.16 ‘Constitutional Crisis’ at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 08.15.16 Clawing Back the Staff Benefits at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 08.16.16 The EPO’s Administrative Council Keeps Postponing Debate About Grounds for Firing the President
  • 08.19.16 The Cost/Toll of the ‘New’ EPO and Where All That Money Goes or Comes From
  • 08.22.16 Battistelli the Liar Causes a Climate of Confrontation in French Politics, Lies About Patent Quality (Among Many Other Things)
  • 08.25.16 Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice Calls the European Patent Office “Rotten”, Other Sources Scrutinise Recent Moves
  • 08.29.16 Nothing Whatsoever Has Improved at the European Patent Office, It’s Just Summer’s Recess (and Silence)
  • 09.02.16 UPC Threatens to Send the European Patent Office Circling Down the Drain
  • 09.03.16 Battistelli is Even Attacking the French, and Not Just in Germany But Also on Dutch Territory
  • 09.03.16 Specialists in Public International Law Bemoan Privacy Violations at the European Patent Office
  • 09.04.16 There is No Future for the UPC in Spite of What the EPO and the Patent Microcosm Keep Telling Us
  • 09.06.16 High on EPO: Battistelli’s ‘Social Conference’ Nonsense is Intended to Help Suppress Debate About His Abuses Against Staff and Union-Busting Activities
  • 09.08.16 A New Wave of the EPO’s Much-Expected Propaganda Push, Aided by ‘Managing IP’ and IAM ‘Magazine’
  • 09.12.16 Benoît Battistelli is Putting More EPO Staff Representatives in Front of His Firing Line
  • 09.13.16 Web Site ‘Managing IP’ is Managing to Come Across as an EPO Mouthpiece
  • 09.19.16 With or Without the UPC (Which Will Probably Never Happen) Battistelli is Crushing the EPO and Ejects Experienced Staff, a Future Without Examination Possible
  • 09.23.16 Journalism 101: Do Not Believe Anything That Benoît Battistelli and the EPO’s Management Say (Also Don’t Fall for the UPC Hype)
  • 09.23.16 White Male-Dominated EPO Management Sinks to New Lows, Again
  • 09.25.16 The EPO Does Not Want Skilled (and ‘Expensive’) Staff, Layoffs a Growing Concern
  • 09.25.16 What Insiders Are Saying About the Sad State of the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 09.27.16 Team Battistelli Intensifies the Attack on the Boards of Appeal Again
  • 09.27.16 The Battistelli Effect: “We Will be Gradually Forced to File Our Patent Applications Outside the EPO in the Interests of Our Clients”
  • 09.28.16 EPO’s Board 28 Notes Battistelli’s “Three Current Investigations/Disciplinary Proceedings Involving SUEPO Members in The Hague.”
  • 09.28.16 Cementing Autocracy: The European Patent Office Against Democracy, Against Media, and Against the Rule of Law
  • 09.29.16 Leaked: Conclusions of the Secretive EPO Board 28 Meeting (8th of September 2016)
  • 09.29.16 Letter From the Dutch Institute of Patent Attorneys (Nederlandse Orde van Octrooigemachtigden) to the Administrative Council of the EPO
  • 09.30.16 Battistelli Locks EPO Staff Union Out of Social Conference So That He Can Lie About the Union and the Social Climate
  • 09.30.16 Dutch Court Rules Against SUEPO (in a Reversal), But EPO Management Would Have Ignored the Ruling Even If SUEPO Won (Updated)
  • 10.01.16 Immunity of the European Patent Office and Lack of Oversight Within the Organisation Mean That It’s a Rogue Entity Above the Law
  • 10.02.16 Not Just the European Patent Office But the Organisation Too a Culprit in Immunity and Impunity
  • 10.04.16 Staff of the EPO is Going Out in Protest (Munich and The Hague) While EPO Management Buys European Media to Control This Media, Promote UPC
  • 10.05.16 No Justice Even for a Judge at the EPO, as the Whole Institution is Beyond Rotten and Quite Corrupt
  • 10.06.16 Battistelli’s Preparation for a Propaganda Session That Excludes EPO Staff Representation
  • 10.07.16 Rumour: The European Patent Office Intends to Sack Staff Representatives at The Hague Like It Did in Munich
  • 10.09.16 The Administrative Council Seems to Have No Issues With Battistelli Wasting Millions of Euros Buying the Media and Fake ‘Studies’
  • 10.10.16 New Letter to the Delegates of the Administrative Council
  • 10.11.16 “Very Mysterious Things Going on at the IPKat Recently”
  • 10.11.16 The Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) Protested Today in Munich (Against the EPO’s Management) While President Benoît Battistelli Lied
  • 10.16.16 Outline of Latest Press Coverage Regarding the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 10.16.16 As Expected, Benoît Battistelli Puts Longtime Ally Roland Grossenbacher on Top of Boards of Appeal
  • 10.18.16 Danish Press Coverage of the European Patent Office and the Problems Explored by Techrights
  • 10.18.16 Battistelli Wants Us to Believe a Patent Office in a Freefall (EPO) is “Stronger and More Sustainable”
  • 10.18.16 French Article About the EPO “Crisis”
  • 10.18.16 Leaked: Outcomes of 149th Administrative Council’s Meeting at the European Patent Organisation
  • 10.19.16 Team Battistelli’s Conspiracy Theory: SUEPO is Behind Everything, EPO Management is Trying to Tell the Media
  • 10.19.16 Battistelli-Commissioned PwC ‘Study’: The Raw Outcome Shows Distortion of the Facts at the EPO’s Notorious ‘Social Conference’
  • 10.22.16 Battistelli-Commissioned PwC ‘Study’: Leaked Document Shows PwC’s Dishonesty and Misrepresentation of EPO Staff
  • 10.23.16 Open Letter Exposing the Farce Which Was Battistelli’s ‘Social Conference’ Coinciding With Further (New) Attacks on EPO Staff Representatives
  • 10.24.16 Battistelli Plans to Expand the Social ‘Study’ (Then ‘Conference’) Propaganda Until Next Month, Under the ‘Workshop’ Umbrella
  • 10.25.16 Leaked Minutes From the EPO Reveal That Battistelli is Detached From Reality and Blames Everything on “Union Officials”
  • 11.04.16 In the Case of Frenchman Laurent Prunier, Battistelli Reasserts Himself as Psychopathic Bully
  • 11.05.16 Dismissal of Laurent Prunier Worse Than It Seems as Battistelli Almost ‘Pulls a Hardon’ by Taking Away Pension Rights Too
  • 11.06.16 EPO Ally IAM Magazine Calls Battistelli’s Dismissal of EPO Staff Representative Laurent Prunier “a Needless Own Goal.”
  • 11.07.16 Threats to Dismissed EPO Staff Representative Allegedly Hold Pension (Blackmail Point) to Silence Him Even After Unjust Dismissal, Munich Goes Protesting for Him
  • 11.08.16 EPO Social Workshops on Monday and Tuesday? No, EPO Staff up in Arms!
  • 11.10.16 SUEPO (EPO Staff Union) “Fears Now That the Intention Behind This Blow is “to Destroy” the Union.”
  • 11.10.16 Battistelli Must Go, Says Yet Another French Politician, Arguing He is “Extremely Damaging to the Image of France”
  • 11.10.16 “Not My President“: The Sentiment of European Patent Office Staff Towards Their Fascistic Boss
  • 11.14.16 Leaked: Proof That Benoît Battistelli Disregarded Orders From the Administrative Council (Again)
  • 11.15.16 Leaked Letter Reveals How Battistelli Still Exploits FFPE-EPO (Yellow Union) to Attack the Real EPO Union, SUEPO
  • 11.15.16 Guest Post: Behind the GCC Meeting and How Battistelli Finds Excuses for His Union-Busting Campaign at the EPO
  • 11.16.16 Amid Scapegoating, Union-Shaming and Gagging by Battistelli, SUEPO’s Prunier Provides More Details on Union Busting at the EPO
  • 11.17.16 Battistelli Should be Made Redundant (Fired) Before All EPO Staff Becomes Redundant in a Defunct Office That Flagrantly Mocks the Law
  • 11.18.16 Concerns Over ‘Terror’ Patent Office: New Article From Dutch Media (Telegraaf)
  • 11.19.16 European Media, Dutch Parliament and Spectacularly Enough Even IP Kat (Yes, It’s Back!) Subject the EPO to Serious Scrutiny
  • 11.20.16 Cases Against the European Patent Office (EPO) and the Demise of Transparency International (Which EPO Partly ‘Absorbed’)
  • 11.23.16 EPO Protest Tomorrow at The Hague
  • 11.23.16 Union Syndicale Fédérale Writes Letters to the Chinchilla Man of the Administrative Council About Battistelli’s EPO Abuses, No Sign of Reply/Reaction
  • 11.24.16 Video and Audio: Press Coverage From Today’s EPO Protest at The Hague
  • 11.25.16 EPO and the Art of Distraction, Disinformation
  • 11.26.16 Caught in a Lie Again: EPO Management Just Cannot Stop Lying, Even About People Whom It Gags Using Threats (to Cover Up Battistelli’s Abuses)
  • 11.26.16 Benoît Battistelli’s Affinity for Tiny Countries Exploits the Ease of ‘Buying’ Their Votes
  • 11.29.16 European Public Service Union Asks EPO Administrative Council “to Re-establish the Rule of Law at the European Patent Office”
  • 12.01.16 Dutch and French Politicians Complain About the European Patent Office, British Media Coverage Regular Now
  • 12.03.16 Dutch Media Covers Latest EPO Scandals, German Media Totally Absent (a Media Blackout of Convenience)
  • 12.05.16 EPO at a Tipping Point: Battistelli Quarrelling With French Politicians, Administrative Council Urged to Act, Staff Unrest Peaking
  • 12.10.16 EPO Protest This Coming Wednesday Strives to Restore the Rule of Law and Freedom of Speech at the Office
  • 12.11.16 EPO ‘Reform’ Seems to Strive for Echo Chamber Mentality, Elimination of Unions, Crackdown on Experienced (Well-Paid) Employees, and Departure From Patent Quality
  • 12.13.16 EPO Staff: Mr. Battistelli is Causing Immeasurable Damage to the Office; He is Now Untenable
  • 12.13.16 The EPO Keeps Bullying Examiners and Even Judges, EPO’s Mouthpiece PwC Now Bullies Researchers
  • 12.13.16 Staff Union of the European Central Bank Blasts Benoît Battistelli
  • 12.14.16 Outside Pressure is Growing: CERN Staff Association Reaffirms Commitment to SUEPO, The Staff Union of the EPO
  • 12.15.16 Confirmed: Judge Carl Josefsson Chosen by the Administrative Council for the Secretive Patent Organisation
  • 12.15.16 Shame on the German Media for the Media Blackout Surrounding EPO Protests in Munich (and Sometimes Berlin)
  • 12.19.16 From Bad to Worse: When a Horrible Regime (EPO) Publicly Makes Itself Look Like One
  • 12.20.16 Leaked: After Vicious Attacks on SUEPO — in Defiance of the Administrative Council’s Demands! — Team Battistelli Pretends to Want Union Recognition
  • 12.21.16 With Lucy Neville-Rolfe Out (Confirmed Today!) and Chaos in the EPO’s Management, the UPC’s Prospects Look Worse Than Ever in the UK and Europe as a Whole
  • 12.27.16 2017 Will be the Year Team Battistelli Collapsed and EPO ‘Reform’ Became All About Detoxifying the Organisation
  • 12.27.16 Negative Publicity (Personal or by Association With the EPO) is Devouring the Institution
  • 12.31.16 EPO’s Central Staff Committee Complains About Battistelli’s Bodyguards Fetish and Corruption of the Media
  • 12.31.16 Open EPO Letter Bemoans Battistelli’s Antisocial Autocracy Disguised/Camouflaged Under the Misleading Term “Social Democracy”
  • 01.01.17 Video: French State Secretary for Digital Economy Speaks Out Against Benoît Battistelli at Battistelli’s PR Event
  • 01.01.17 FFPE-EPO is a Zombie (if Not Dead) Yellow Union Whose Only de Facto Purpose Has Been Attacking the EPO’s Staff Union
  • 01.01.17 When EPO Vice-President, Who Will Resign Soon, Made a Mockery of the EPO
  • 01.02.17 365 Days Later, German Justice Minister Heiko Maas Remains Silent and Thus Complicit in EPO Abuses on German Soil
  • 01.02.17 Teaser: Corruption Indictments Brought Against Vice-President of the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 01.03.17 New Article From Heise Explains Erosion of Patent Quality at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 01.07.17 2017: Latest Year That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Still Stuck in a Limbo
  • 01.10.17 FFPE-EPO, the EPO Management’s Pet/Yellow Union, Helps Union-Busting (Against SUEPO) in Letter to Notorious Vice-President
  • 01.15.17 EPO Abuses Come Under Fire From Politicians in Luxembourg
  • 01.17.17 EPO Totally Silent for a Month, But Deep Inside There Are Serious Cracks
  • 01.18.17 A Lot More Fake News About the UPC, Trying to Convince People That the UK is Ratifying (It’s Not, It Cannot)
  • 01.18.17 Union-Busting Action by Team Battistelli Takes Heavy Toll, Techrights Will Continue to Expose EPO Injustices to the World
  • 01.20.17 Battistelli is an Autocrat Above the Law and It’s OK, Holland’s High Council Says
  • 01.21.17 EPO Abuses Now Make the Netherlands Look Like a Facilitator of Human/Labour Rights Abuses
  • 01.21.17 ‘Reform’ at the EPO Means Destroying the Staff Union, Crushing Patent Examiners, and Imposing on Europe a System It Does Not Want (UPC)
  • 01.23.17 Media Blasts EPO Over Immunity Amid Suicides, Battistelli’s Behaviour Compared to Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s
  • 01.24.17 The EPO’s Freedom to Disregard the Law and Abuse Employees is “Being Taken up by the Council of Europe”
  • 01.24.17 Leaked: Team Battistelli, Exploiting a Controversial Decision From the Netherlands, is Trying to Squash SUEPO
  • 01.26.17 French Media Says Benoît Battistelli Turned the Patent Office Into a Sort of North Korea
  • 01.27.17 The European Spam Office: 37% of Twitter ‘Followers’ Are Fake, Maybe Even Paid For (Waste of EPO Budget)
  • 01.29.17 Battistelli Keeps Filling His Swamp at the European Patent Office for Social Control and Immunity Purposes
  • 01.29.17 Revealed: Lack of Justice at the European Patent Office (EPO), No Valid Courts
  • 01.31.17 Battistelli “Got Full Dictatorial Unaccountable Control of a Diplomatically Immune Organisation”
  • 02.01.17 The Netherlands With Its Bizarre Decision to Let the EPO Violate Dutch Law, Now in English
  • 02.01.17 EPO Stakeholders Want Battistelli and His Goons Ousted, They Can Accomplish This by Working Together (Like a Union)
  • 02.03.17 “Team Battistelli Continues With Intimidation Tactics”
  • 02.05.17 Culture of Terror at The European Patent Office Escalates Thanks to Dutch Government’s Complicity
  • 02.06.17 The EPO’s President, Benoît Battistelli, May Have Become One of Europe’s Most Hated People
  • 02.07.17 Translation: Juve Survey That Shows 0% Approval of Battistelli and Growing Concerns About the EPO
  • 02.07.17 Translation: Battistelli’s Patent Office Remains a Legal Island
  • 02.07.17 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part VI: Fear Climate and Antipathy Now the ‘Norm’
  • 02.07.17 The European Patent Office Officially Dishonours Justice, So It’s Time for SUEPO to Become Clandestine
  • 02.07.17 Reception of the New German Ambassador (Dirk Brengelmann) at the EPO, in Presence of the Stasi-Like Investigative Unit
  • 02.14.17 Leaked: European Patent Office a Fire Hazard Waiting to Cause Tragedy (Possible Deaths)
  • 02.15.17 Claude Rouiller (ILOAT) and ILO Rulings Effectively Disregarded by the European Patent Office
  • 02.16.17 Yet More Complaints About the European Patent Office in the Bavarian Regional Government
  • 02.16.17 EPO Staff Representatives to Escalate Complaint About Severe Injustices to the EPO’s Secretive Board 28
  • 02.19.17 The EPO is Becoming an Embarrassment to Europe and a Growing Threat to the European Union
  • 02.20.17 Lack of Justice in and Around the EPO Drawing Scrutiny
  • 02.23.17 The Sickness of the EPO – Part IV: Cruel Management That Deliberately Attacks the Sick and the Weak
  • 02.24.17 Yes, There is Definitely Brain Drain (Experience Deficit) at the European Patent Office and Stakeholders Feel It
  • 02.27.17 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part VIII: When Governed by Criminals, Truth-Tellers Are Cast as Criminals and Criminals as Justice Deliverers
  • 02.27.17 Top Officials in French Government Are Growing Tired of Battistelli’s Abuses at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 02.28.17 Web Site of French Senator Richard Yung Cracked Just Days After Criticising the EPO
  • 03.03.17 What Battistelli Means by Social Democracy at the EPO is What North Korea Means by Democratic People’s Republic
  • 03.03.17 Dutch Foreign Minister Reads the Riot Act to EPO Vice-President Willy/Guillaume Minnoye
  • 03.06.17 ILO: “EPO Threaten(s) the Ability of the Administrative Tribunal of the ILO to Serve All Other Organizations”
  • 03.07.17 Caricature: ‘Posterrorism’ at the EPO
  • 03.08.17 Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs Bert Koenders: Rapid Improvements in European Patent Office or Else ‘High Level’ Action
  • 03.09.17 Ousting of Benoît Battistelli Next Week Seems Feasible, But Jesper Kongstad Protects Rather Than Supervises Battistelli
  • 03.10.17 After EPO Sanctions Against IP Kat (Censorship of More Than 10,000 Articles) Even Merpel Throws in the Towel
  • 03.11.17 Information From SUEPO on the Functional Allowance Reveals How Top-Level Management Intends to ‘Rob’ the Cash Cow (EPO Budget)
  • 03.11.17 The Battistelli Mafia and Corsica
  • 03.14.17 Battistelli Receives Another Letter From FICSA, is Urged to Meet EPO Staff Representatives Whom He Fired to Bust the Unions
  • 03.14.17 Long New Letter From Battistelli’s ‘Nemesis’, Dutch Secretary of State Martijn van Dam
  • 03.16.17 Benoît Battistelli “Should Not Have Been in Charge of Anything More Involved Than a Hamster Cage Without the Hamster…”
  • 03.16.17 CERN Staff Association “Profoundly Shocked by the Situation That Has Persisted in the European Patent Office (EPO)”
  • 03.16.17 German Media is Not Covering EPO Scandals and Instead Repeating Patently False Claims From EPO Management
  • 03.16.17 Battistelli Wants to be ‘King’ for a Decade or Longer, Jesper Kongstad Protects Him
  • 03.17.17 The EPO’s Abuses and Claims of Immunity From Prosecution Increasingly Fracture the Dutch Establishment
  • 03.18.17 Letter From European Public Services Organisation (IPSO) to Angela Merkel and Heiko Maas Regarding EPO Union-Busting Catastrophe
  • 03.21.17 Letter to Angela Merkel Expresses Concerns About Impact of EPO Scandals on Germany and Its Image
  • 03.22.17 The Battistelli Regime, With Its Endless Scandals, Threatens to Crash the Unitary Patent (UPC), Stakeholders Concerned
  • 03.26.17 Everyone, Including Patent Law Firms, Will Suffer From the Demise of the EPO
  • 03.31.17 Culpability for EPO Injustice in the Administrative Council Chaired by Battistelli’s Protector, Jesper Kongstad
  • 04.03.17 Politicians Hubert Aiwanger, Florian Streibl, Gabi Schmidt and Others Fight for EPO Workers in Bavarian Parliament
  • 04.04.17 Reign of Fear (Even Terror) at EPO Prevents People From Speaking About Injustices
  • 04.06.17 The EPO’s Management is Silencing Its Critics by Sheer Intimidation
  • 04.09.17 The Latest on the Collapse of the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 04.10.17 These Terrifying Comments From Patent Practitioners Suggest They Too Believe UPC is Intended to Make EPO Virtually Obsolete
  • 04.13.17 Politician Links UPC to EPO Abuses and Slams the European Commission for Overlooking EPO Tragedies Like “Violations of Fundamental Rights” and Deaths
  • 04.21.17 EPO in 2017: Erroneously Grant a Lot of Patents in Bulk or Get Sacked
  • 04.23.17 EPO Staff Representatives Fired Using “Disciplinary Committee That Was Improperly Composed” as Per ILO’s Decision
  • 04.23.17 Why Authorities in the Netherlands Need to Strip the EPO of Immunity and Investigate Fire Safety Violations
  • 04.25.17 EPO Fiasco to be Discussed in German Local Authority (Bavarian Parliament) Some Time Today as the Institution Continues Its Avoidable Collapse
  • 04.29.17 Battistelli is Busy Securing the Vote of Countries Whose Support and Tickets Are Easy to ‘Buy’
  • 05.01.17 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part X: When EPO Calls the Truth “Defamation”
  • 05.04.17 The EPO’s Administrative Council (AC) is “Amazingly Complicit” or “Awfully Compliant” (Like Much of the Media and Much of the System)
  • 05.04.17 Latest WIPO Scandal, Echoing EPO Scandals, Demonstrates Freedom of the Press Coming Under Attack From International Patent Institutions
  • 05.07.17 ILO Gives the European Patent Office Unfair Advantage in Disputes With Staff
  • 05.08.17 The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) Against the European Patent Office (EPO), Lower House to Debate the Issue Today
  • 05.08.17 All Members of the European Parliament Get Warned About the Deterioration at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 05.09.17 SUEPO Releases Statement About Its Complaint Regarding the EPO’s Immunity, Filed Yesterday at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg
  • 05.10.17 English-Speaking Media Catches Up With Latest Twists in EPO Fiasco, Including Appeal to the European Court of Human Rights
  • 05.10.17 English-Speaking Media Catches Up With Latest Twists in EPO Fiasco, Including Appeal to the European Court of Human Rights
  • 05.11.17 The EPO is in Disarray and Additional Complaints to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) May Be Imminent
  • 05.20.17 EPO: Can the Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) Still Save It?
  • 05.21.17 Media and Staff Association Elections at EPO and WIPO Are Compromised
  • 05.27.17 Colossal Institutional Failure Surrounding the European Patent Office (EPO) and EPO Chickens Out of Debate About It
  • 05.30.17 The Silencing of Critics of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) in Media and in Blogs
  • 06.01.17 Shame on the Administrative Tribunal of ILO for Helping Team Battistelli Abuse EPO Staff
  • 06.10.17 Benoît Battistelli is Scheming to Further Erode the Rule of Law and Promote More of His Cronies at the EPO
  • 06.11.17 German Media Would Rather Write Articles About Beer Than About Serious and Unprecedented EPO Scandals
  • 06.13.17 Battistelli to Leave the European Patent Office Without the Unitary Patent He Repeatedly Promised in Vain Over the Years
  • 06.13.17 The UPC Gravy Train is Claimed to Have Been “Halted” in Germany and More Oppositions or Constitutional Complaints Are on Their Way
  • 06.22.17 Benoît Battistelli Has Lost the Election at the EPO
  • 06.24.17 SUEPO and the EPO’s Central Staff Committee Condemn Battistelli’s Latest Attempt to Change the Rules in Defiance of Laws
  • 06.24.17 The Tide Has Turned Against the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and It Finally Looks as ‘Alive’ as TPP
  • 06.25.17 Systemic Injustice at the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Causes Serious Harm to Complainants’ Health, Including EPO Complainants
  • 06.26.17 EPO Strikes in All Four EPO Sites for Two Days This Month and Next Month, Under the “Respect Staff” Banner
  • 06.28.17 Christoph Ernst, Long Speculated to be Battistelli’s Successor, Becomes Battistelli’s ‘Boss’
  • 06.29.17 Feedback From the Administrative Council Meeting at The Hague: Worse Than Anyone Expected
  • 06.29.17 European Patent Office is on Strike Until Tuesday and Insiders Study the New Head of the Organisation
  • 06.30.17 The EPO Has Officially Confirmed That Christoph Ernst Will ‘Boss’ (and Soon Replace) Battistelli
  • 07.01.17 The Future of the EPO Does Not Look Encouraging as Injustice and Abuse Carry On While the Press Looks the Other Way
  • 07.03.17 4 Days of Strike in a Row (Including Weekend), But Tomorrow is No Independence Day at the EPO
  • 07.03.17 4 Days of Strike in a Row (Including Weekend), But Tomorrow is No Independence Day at the EPO
  • 07.05.17 Suspicion That Antonio Campinos Will Apply for Benoît Battistelli’s Job to Succeed Him
  • 07.05.17 Death Trap: The ‘New’ (Nouvel) Building of the EPO
  • 07.06.17 Elżbieta Bieńkowska Cares More About the Unitary Patent Coup D’état (Which She Encourages) Than She Cares About the Rule of Law and People’s Lives
  • 07.08.17 On the EPO’s Premises, Investigation After a Small Fall But Not After Suicide of Staff
  • 07.08.17 If Antonio Campinos (EUIPO) Takes Over the EPO With Alberto Casado Cerviño (Former OHIM/EUIPO) in Charge of Patent Granting, Subversive Loyalty to Battistelli Will Remain
  • 07.12.17 The European Patent Office (EPO) Under Benoît Battistelli is Compared to “Soviet Times”
  • 07.26.17 The Latest Lies From the EPO (Regarding Quality) and the Reason the UPC Won’t Happen (Any Time Soon at Least)
  • 07.31.17 German Media Finally Waking up to EPO Scandals?
  • 08.01.17 Heiko Maas May Need to Belatedly Answer Complaint About Illegal Spying on Staff at the EPO
  • 08.02.17 EPO: Germans “Discover That Behind the Mad Figures, the Granted Patents Are of Crap Quality and That This Does Not Serve Their Interests”
  • 08.03.17 Antonio Campinos in Charge of the EPO Would Mean Greater EUIPO/EPO Overlap
  • 08.07.17 German Media Names António Campinos as Likely Successor of Battistelli
  • 08.07.17 The Very Political Background of António Campinos, Allegedly a Forefront Candidate to Lead the European Patent Office Next Year
  • 08.10.17 German Media Paints a Picture of Benoît Battistelli as a Drunken ‘Putin’ Looking to Push UPC at All Costs
  • 08.12.17 Under Battistelli, EPO Ceased to Reward Inventors, Rewards Only Battistelli and Fellow Thugs Instead
  • 08.17.17 Corruption at the European Patent Office and Systematic Bullying That Leads People to Suicide/Bankruptcy
  • 08.18.17 The Staff Union of the EPO Has Long Warned About Declining Patent Quality
  • 08.20.17 Quality of European Patents Has Sunk, Value Diminished
  • 08.29.17 Hiring of German Judges for UPC Has Been Halted as the Future of UPC as a Whole Now in Doubt
  • 09.05.17 One Week Left for Battistelli’s Coronation of Another Frenchman, António Campinos, to Lobby for UPC?
  • 09.06.17 Juve Reveals That Ingve Stjerna is the ‘UPC Slayer’ While the EPO Continues to Lobby, Mislead
  • 09.07.17 SUEPO Protests Against the Apparent Complicity of ILO in EPO Abuses
  • 09.11.17 Ingve Stjerna’s Complaint Casts a Shadow Over the Unconstitutional Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • 09.15.17 The UPC Fantasy is Going Nowhere as Complaints and Paperwork Pile Up
  • 09.21.17 The Latest Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and CIPO’s Participation in Those
  • 09.26.17 EPO Lies About the UPC, Violations of Human Rights, and ‘Green’ European Patents
  • 09.29.17 EPO Staff Representatives Help Prevent Seventh Suicide Under Benoît Battistelli
  • 10.05.17 The European Patent Office’s New Relationship With Former Portuguese Colonies and the Connection to Battistelli’s Choice of Next President
  • 10.09.17 EPO Protest at 12:30 in Munich and Why EPO Staff Should Attend
  • 10.12.17 Truly Terrible ‘Journalism’ About António Campinos Boils Down to Lobbying and Agenda-Pushing
  • 10.12.17 The Hogwash Begins: Patent Microcosm’s Media Pretends Campinos is Anything But Battistelli’s French Succession Plan
  • 10.14.17 Lying and Faking Now a Standard Procedure at the European Patent Office
  • 10.15.17 Articles in English and German Speak About the Decline in Quality of European Patents (Granted by the EPO)
  • 10.16.17 The Systematic Erosion of Workers’ Rights and Holidays at the EPO Goes Years Back
  • 10.17.17 Rumours That António Campinos Initially Had No Competition at All (for Battistelli’s Succession) Are Confirmed
  • 10.17.17 SUEPO Representatives Like Elizabeth Hardon Vindicated as Battistelli’s Detrimental Effect on Patent Quality is Widely Confirmed
  • 10.18.17 Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) Willing to Work With Campinos But Foresees Difficulties
  • 10.19.17 SUEPO to the Media, Regarding Campinos: “No Comment, It’s Too Dangerous”
  • 10.19.17 António Campinos: A True EPO Reformer or More of the Same?
  • 10.21.17 Anonymous Professionals Speak of Benoît Battistelli’s Destruction of the EPO, But Why Does the Media Turn a Blind Eye?
  • 10.22.17 Management by Intimidation Has Caused Deaths at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 10.22.17 Speaking of “Social Democracy” While Suffering Extreme Democratic Deficiency
  • 10.22.17 The EPO No Longer Measures Quality of Patents; Instead It Publishes Fake Statistics
  • 10.22.17 The Difference Between Alain Pompidou and Benoît Battistelli as EPO President
  • 10.23.17 IP Kat Participates in Deletion of Information About EPO Scandals
  • 10.23.17 In the European Patent Office, One Gets Rewarded for Mentally Torturing (‘Interrogating’) Staff
  • 10.23.17 SUEPO Has Just Warned That Patent Quality at the EPO is About to Get Even Worse
  • 10.24.17 The Last Comment in IP Kat (Before Censorship) Was About Patent Quality at the EPO
  • 10.24.17 Freedom of Expression is Dying Not Only at the EPO But Also Outside the EPO (Media Coverage of the EPO)
  • 10.25.17 IP Kat Admits It Was Its Own Choice to Censor (Delete) Many Comments About the European Patent Office
  • 10.26.17 The EPO is Breaking the Law and Its Employees Cannot Speak About It (Updated)
  • 10.26.17 Professor Siegfried Broß Again Complains About the Situation at the EPO and Issues With the UPC
  • 10.28.17 The Financial Handling of the EPO is Incredibly Scandalous
  • 10.30.17 Irregularities at the EPO and UPC (Unitary Patent) Dodgy Dealings Should Draw Ire
  • 10.31.17 “EPI Makes No Protest When the AC Connives With Battistelli to Trash the Rule of Law”
  • 11.02.17 The Screws Tighten on Benoît Battistelli as His Departure is Just Two Seasons Away, Media Still Largely Complicit
  • 11.05.17 At the EPO Under Battistelli Truth is Being Called “Defamation”
  • 11.05.17 Raw: Staff Representative Whom Battistelli Drove to Collapse for Wanting to Conduct an EPO Staff Survey (Which Battistelli Had Abolished)
  • 11.08.17 Kluwer Patent Blog is Down/Sabotaged, But UPC and EPO Spin Carries on in Other Sites
  • 11.08.17 Benoît Battistelli Brews New Scandals in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and in Haar
  • 11.09.17 The EPO in the Hands of Politicians Who Serve Their Towns Rather Than Users of the EPO
  • 11.11.17 Next EPO President Will Continue a Cooperation Which Does Not Exist
  • 11.13.17 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby is Losing the Battle for Europe
  • 11.15.17 Declines in Patent Quality at the EPO and ‘Independent’ Judges Can No Longer Say a Thing
  • 11.16.17 The Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) is Rightly Upset If Not Shocked at What Battistelli and Bergot Are Doing to the Office
  • 11.20.17 Team Battistelli’s Attacks on the EPO Boards of Appeal Predate the Illegal Sanctions Against a Judge
  • 11.23.17 The European Patent Office Has Become the ‘Foxconn’ of Patent Offices
  • 11.23.17 EPO is Imploding as Benoît Battistelli Drains Out Work, Talent, and Justice
  • 11.25.17 Raw: The EPO’s Elodie Bergot Suppressed Staff Representation While Cracking Down on Staff’s Rights
  • 11.25.17 Raw: Stacking the Deck to Interfere With a Fair Election at the EPO
  • 11.25.17 In New EPO Interview With Juve, Chairman of the Administrative Council Criticises Battistelli
  • 11.26.17 Early Certainty Battistelli Will be Gone Soon: “JUVE Interview Creates the Impression That Benoit Battistelli’s Term in Office is Already Over.”
  • 11.28.17 Pressure is Growing for Christoph Ernst to Stop Destruction of Career System Ahead of Arrival of Campinos as EPO President
  • 11.28.17 French Stress Levels at the EPO and Replacement of Patent Quality With ‘Autopilot’ (Like INPI, France)
  • 11.29.17 EPO Spreads Two Lies Today, One About Patent ‘Production’ and Another About ‘Quality’
  • 11.30.17 EPO Fiasco Deepens While the Media Writes Puff Pieces About the EPO
  • 12.01.17 Irish Media Coverage of the EPO
  • 12.04.17 SUEPO on “the Belief of the President That He is Above the Law.”
  • 12.06.17 CEIPI and EPO: The Story So Far
  • 12.07.17 ILO is ‘Forcing’ Team Battistelli to Compensate the Banned Judge and Give Him Back His Job
  • 12.08.17 European Media Covers the Latest EPO Scandal and the EPO’s Refusal to Obey Orders of a Court
  • 12.08.17 EPO Scandal Spills Over to Irish Media, So It’s Time for the Backstory
  • 12.08.17 SUEPO Announces Protest, EPO Distracts From the Scandal, and Readers Spill the Beans
  • 12.12.17 Claim: Judge Corcoran to Be Put Under Benoît Battistelli’s Control in DG1
  • 12.12.17 Carl Josefsson Lets Judge Patrick Corcoran Come Back to Work at the EPO
  • 12.12.17 German Media Helps Cover Up — Not Cover — the Latest EPO Scandal
  • 12.12.17 The EPO Protest Tomorrow Isn’t Just About Judge Corcoran But About the EPO as a Whole
  • 12.16.17 EPO Busy Distracting From Miscarriage/Abuse of Justice at the EPO (Both Office and Organisation)
  • 12.17.17 Raw: Benoît Battistelli Has Long Been Obsessed With ‘Alternative Facts’ (Lying) Regarding Everything
  • 12.18.17 “As an EPO Employee, I Am Actually Embarrassed by the Behaviour of the President and the Administrative Council”
  • 12.19.17 Bavarian Regional Parliament Talks About the EPO’s Outrageous Decisions to Simply Disregard International Courts
  • 12.19.17 CERN Staff Association Condemns the European Patent Office (EPO) for Disobeying ILO/ILOAT Judgments
  • 12.23.17 Raw: How to Tell Benoît Battistelli is Lying
  • 12.23.17 Raw: How SUEPO Explained the EPO Situation Three Years Ago
  • 12.23.17 Patent Quality Nosedives at EPO, Say Insiders Whose Permanent Contract is About to be Terminated in 8 Days to Increase Pressure to Grant Patents Sparingly
  • 12.23.17 “Change of Attitude and Behaviour Needed,” Say Anonymous EPO Workers About the Management and Administrative Council
  • 12.25.17 Raw: European Patent Organisation Knew About Benoît Battistelli’s Gross Nepotism for at Least Four Years, Did Nothing to Stop It
  • 12.25.17 Raw: SUEPO Connected the Unitary Patent (UPC) to Abuses at the European Patent Office
  • 12.26.17 Raw: Administrative Council of the EPO Was Warned 4 Years Ago About “Governance and Overall Reputation of the Organisation.”
  • 12.26.17 Raw: EPO Staff Union Illustrates Structural Deficiency of the EPO
  • 12.28.17 Raw: Bergot and Topić Sent Threats to Hundreds of EPO Staff as Far Back as Half a Decade Ago
  • 12.28.17 Raw: “A Vote on Strike Action Has Turned Into a Vote of Non-Confidence.”
  • 12.29.17 Raw: Battistelli the Patent Office Shark Shouting From the Rooftop (Isar)
  • 12.29.17 Raw: Rights Which the Dutch Court Ruled That the EPO Had Violation
  • 12.31.17 Raw: EPO Was Forewarned About the Investigative Unit (IU) Turning Against Law-Abiding Dissent Using Illegal Surveillance
  • 12.31.17 Raw: The European Patent Office (EPO) is a Cash Cow of Germany
  • 12.31.17 Raw: EPO Staff Went on Strike, Referencing — Among Other Things — Battistelli’s French Nepotism
  • 12.31.17 Raw: Fake Consultations at the EPO Give the False Impression Legal Procedures Are Followed
  • 12.31.17 Raw: Battistelli Nervous About Perception of EPO Nepotism (French Cronyism) and Attacks Those Who Take Note of It
  • 01.03.18 Translation Shows That Carl Josefsson and Christoph Ernst Refuse to Comment on EPO Injustice as It Might Embarrass Battistelli
  • 01.03.18 Battistelli’s Attacks on Judge Corcoran Threaten Not Only the EPC But Also UPC
  • 01.11.18 126th Session of the ILO Administrative Tribunal is Around the Corner and EPO Staff Representatives Will Have Their Cases Heard Soon
  • 01.14.18 2010: Blaming the Messenger (SUEPO) for Staff Unhappiness at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 01.22.18 How the Opposition to CRISPR Patents at the EPO Sent Shockwaves Through the Industry
  • 01.24.18 CRISPR Patent Debacle Demonstrated That Opposition Divisions Do Their Job, But Also Highlighted Serious Deficiency in Patent-Granting Process
  • 01.25.18 The EPO is Already in Violation of ILO Rulings on Judge Corcoran
  • 01.26.18 The Corcoran Incident Demonstrates That the EPO’s Boards of Appeal Are Threatened and Battistelli Violates Laws
  • 01.30.18 ILO Has Once Again Let Down Labour at the EPO by Siding With Union Busters
  • 01.30.18 The EPO’s Central Staff Committee Explains How Battistelli’s Attacks on Judge Corcoran Annul Any Perception of Independence
  • 01.31.18 Even Kluwer Patent Blog Decides to Comment on the EPO’s Bizarre Financial Behaviour
  • 02.01.18 Too Much to Cover Up at the EPO, the UN, and UN Agencies
  • 02.03.18 Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on “Jurisdictional Immunity of International Organisations and Rights of Their Staff”
  • 02.03.18 The European Council Confirms That the Unitary/Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA) is “Outside the Legal Framework of the European Union”
  • 02.08.18 Mark Rutte Under Pressure to Stop Battistelli’s EPO From Violating Laws With Impunity
  • 02.14.18 The EPO Now Censors the Central Staff Committee Like It Used to Censor SUEPO
  • 02.15.18 Speech Deficit and No Freedom of Association at the EPO
  • 02.15.18 The EPO is Being Destroyed and There’s Nothing Left to Replace It Except National Patent Offices
  • 02.17.18 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
  • 02.20.18 Today, at 12:30 CET, Bavarian State Parliament Will Speak About EPO Abuses (Updated)
  • 02.20.18 Another Loud Warning From EPO Workers About the Decline of Patent Quality
  • 02.20.18 The Patent Microcosm’s Embrace of Buzzwords and False Marketing Strives to Make Patent Examiners Redundant and Patent Quality Extremely Low
  • 02.23.18 EPO Roundup: Low Profile, Employment Changes, Patent Trolls, Refusal to Obey Courts, and Animal Breeding Patents
  • 03.01.18 European Patent Office (EPO) in Chaos and Attempting to Silence the Staff Would Only Exacerbate Matters
  • 03.01.18 USF Warns Campinos (EPO President in 4 Months) of “Extreme” Situation at the EPO
  • 03.06.18 Dr. Thorsten Bausch: Quality of European Patents Going Down, “Likely Caused by the Current EPO Policy Focusing too Much on ‘Production’.”
  • 03.06.18 There’s No Patent Trolls Problem in Europe, Say Law Firms That Represent and Front for Patent Trolls
  • 03.07.18 EPO Annual Results/Report: Revenue From Patent Applications is Apparently Down Yet Again and Work is Running Out
  • 03.08.18 EPO Hires External PR Agencies to Control Coverage of Its Annual Report, Deny Investigative Journalism
  • 03.09.18 The EPO’s PR Department Receives Return on Investment (Puff Pieces) for Paying the Media
  • 03.10.18 Glimmer of Hope for the EPO’s Boards of Appeal as Bavarian Parliament ‘Regroups’ on Tuesday
  • 03.12.18 EPO Patent ‘Growth’ Not Achieved But Demanded/Mandated by Battistelli, by Lowering Quality of Patents/Services
  • 03.13.18 EPO Staff Union Organises Protest to Complain About Inability “of the Office to Recruit the Highly Qualified Staff it Needs.”
  • 03.13.18 Battistelli Likes to Describe His Critics as ‘Nazis’, Team UPC Will Attempt the Same Thing Against UPC Critics
  • 03.14.18 The EPO Under Battistelli Has Become Like China Under Xi and CPC
  • 03.15.18 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
  • 03.15.18 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
  • 03.16.18 Deleted EPO Tweets and Promotion of Software Patents Amid Complaints About Abuse and Demise of Patent Quality
  • 03.18.18 European Commission Again Urged to Tackle Abuses at the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 03.21.18 SUEPO: “Today May Be Your Last Chance to Demonstrate Against the Seriously Flawed Reforms That Mr Battistelli Has Imposed” on EPO Staff
  • 03.22.18 The Federation of International Civil Servants’ Association: Frenchman “Campinos is Known for Having Close Ties to Mr. Battistelli Who Strongly Supported His Candidacy.”
  • 03.23.18 The European Patent Office’s (EPO) Declining Patent Quality ‘Tackled’ by Making Appeals/Oppositions Harder and More Expensive
  • 03.29.18 Senator Jean-Yves Leconte Accuses EPO and/or ILO of Injustice, But Don’t Expect Media to Notice or Cover It
  • 04.03.18 Benoît Battistelli’s Era Yields Not Only Invalid and Harmful Monopolies But Also Breeds Distrust and Layoffs
  • 04.11.18 One Last Battistelli Heist: Millions of Euros for Saint-Germain-en-Laye
  • 04.16.18 The European Patent Office Will Never Hold Its Destroyers Accountable
  • 04.17.18 The European Patent Office (EPO) Grants Patents in Error, Insiders Are Complaining That It’s the Management’s Fault
  • 04.19.18 The Boards of Appeal at the European Patent Organisation (EPO) Complain That They Are Understaffed, Not Just Lacking the Independence They Depend on
  • 04.30.18 The European Patent System is Nowadays Based on a ‘Banana Republic’ Model
  • 05.01.18 A Test for European Media: Will It Cover the Battistelli-TAD Scandal Like It Covered FIFA Scandals?
  • 05.02.18 Not Enough Opposition/s to Wrongly-Granted European Patents
  • 05.03.18 The European Patent Office Has Become a Kakistocracy
  • 05.04.18 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
  • 05.10.18 EPO Scandals Are Far Worse Than FIFA’s (or Even Emissionsgate/Dieselgate), But Will European Media Belatedly Realise This?
  • 05.10.18 Report on the (Mal)Functioning of the ILOAT From the 332nd Session of the ILO Governing Body
  • 05.12.18 EPO Staff Deprived and Denied Basic Rights, Even Justice, But Almost Nobody in the ‘Mainstream’ Wants to Talk About It
  • 05.14.18 Reader’s Post: The Last Delusion of Benoît Battistelli Before His Departure on June 30th
  • 05.17.18 Today’s EPO Financially Rewards Abuses and Violations of the Law
  • 05.19.18 Aurélien Pétiaud’s ILO Case (EPO Appeal) an Early Sign That ILO Protects Abusers and Power, Not Workers
  • 05.22.18 Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans”: The Emperor’s New Investment Guidelines
  • 05.25.18 EPO, a Longtime Privacy Offender, Uses General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Day to Lie to the Public
  • 05.30.18 St. Germain’s “Système Lamy” and Its EPO Clone – Part 3: Shooting the Messengers and Defaming Opponents
  • 06.07.18 Today, at the Expense of Millions (€) of EPO Budget, Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos Engage in Shameless Self Promotion
  • 06.14.18 Grünecker, Hoffmann Eitle, Maiwald and Vossius & Partner Find the Courage to Express Concerns About Battistelli’s Ugly Legacy and Low Patent Quality
  • 06.15.18 The EPO’s Response to the Open Letter About Decline in Patent Quality as the Latest Example of Arrogance and Resistance to Facts, Truth
  • 06.20.18 EPO Insiders Correct the Record of Benoît Battistelli’s Tyranny and Abuse of Law: “Legal Harassment and Retaliation”
  • 06.21.18 Battistelli and Topić Lose Their Bogus ‘Case’ Against Judge Corcoran After They Defamed Him and Ruined His Career/Life
  • 06.21.18 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
  • 06.23.18 Mainstream Media in Germany Covers Battistelli’s Corruption at the EPO Just as He Leaves
  • 06.24.18 The ILO Tribunal: Is It Still Worthy of Our Trust?
  • 06.25.18 Benoît Battistelli’s ‘Dowry’ From the Administrative Council of the EPO
  • 06.25.18 The EPO Seems to Have Corrupted ILO/ILO-AT Like It Corrupted the Media and Academia (Using ‘Toxic’ EPO Budget)
  • 06.26.18 Battistelli is ‘Pulling a Lamy’ With a Lot More Money at Stake (and Examiners’ Future)
  • 06.26.18 Something is Clearly Wrong and Patently Defunct at ILO/ILO-AT (Updated)
  • 06.26.18 This Afternoon ILO Has an Opportunity to Salvage Its Reputation (or Reaffirm Growing Suspicions That It Has Been Compromised by the EPO)
  • 06.27.18 Corruption at the EPO Should be a Subject Anybody Can Speak About, Even Insiders
  • 06.27.18 ‘Party Poopers’: Protests Greet Battistelli’s Premature Inauguration of an Unfinished Building That Caused Massive Losses
  • 06.27.18 SUEPO and EPO Staff Respond to Yesterday’s ILO-AT Rulings on Malika Weaver, Ion Brumme, and Elizabeth Hardon
  • 06.28.18 President Benoît Battistelli is Finished, But the Huge Mess He Has Created is Not
  • 06.28.18 Eight Years of Battistelli
  • 06.29.18 Insults, Lies and Propaganda on Battistelli’s Last Day at the European Patent Office
  • 06.29.18 WirtschaftsWoche Authors Articles About Corruption of the European Patent Office
  • 06.29.18 Three Days Later Still Not a Single Word From the EPO About Union Busting Gone Awry and Court Orders to Reinstate/Promote Staff Representatives
  • 06.29.18 Union Syndicale Fédérale: Apparently ILO Considered Kicking Out the EPO for Repeatedly Refusing and Failing to Obey the Law
  • 07.01.18 The EPO’s Attacks on Bloggers Other Than Me (and ILO-AT Being Utterly Unpredictable)
  • 07.01.18 Welcoming António Campinos, New President of the European Patent Office
  • 07.02.18 Asked by the Media Why European Inventor Award Was Held in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the EPO Refuses to Explain
  • 07.02.18 First Day for António Campinos is Done, But Some Media is Still Publishing 90th-Minute Battistelli Puff Pieces
  • 07.03.18 First Act of António Campinos: Pushing the Unconstitutional Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 07.04.18 EPO Protest/s Suppressed Even at the Opening of a Construction Site for Battistelli’s Guests
  • 07.04.18 António Campinos Tries to Come Across as a Goodwill Manager, But He Will be Judged by His Actions, Not by His Words
  • 07.04.18 Staff Union of the EPO: “ILO-AT Remains Very Much an Employer’s Court” (Not Employees’)
  • 07.06.18 German Media Compares Team Battistelli at the EPO to the Mafia
  • 07.06.18 Team UPC Suggested Changing Constitutions to Facilitate the Unconstitutional UPC. It Didn’t Go Well…
  • 07.07.18 One Week of António Campinos at the EPO: Early Uncertainty
  • 07.14.18 EPO Abuses Against People With Disabilities Followed by Legal Bullying?
  • 07.14.18 Number of Oppositions to Grants/Awards of European Patents at the EPO Has Skyrocketed, Based on Internal Data
  • 07.15.18 Cautionary Tale: ILO Administrative Tribunal Cases (Appeals) ‘Intercepted’ Under António Campinos
  • 07.17.18 What Patent Lawyers Aren’t Saying: Most Patent Litigation Has Become Too Risky to be Worth It
  • 07.26.18 António Campinos, Four Weeks on the Job, Still in Defiance/Violation of ILO Rulings, Still Engaging in PR and Face-Saving Distraction Instead
  • 07.27.18 Correspondence With Dražen Petrović Reveals That ILO-AT is Indeed an Employer’s Court, Favouring EPO Management Over EPO Staff
  • 07.31.18 SUEPO Seems to be Disappointed by António Campinos as His First Month in Office Comes to an End
  • 08.02.18 The EPO’s Systematic Attacks on Justice and on Judges Have Likely Played the Biggest Role in the Death of Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 08.04.18 António Campinos is Not Improving Patent Quality or Even the Social Climate at the EPO (False Promises)
  • 08.16.18 Almost Two Months After the ILO Ruling Staff Representative Brumme is Finally Back on the Job at EPO
  • 08.30.18 António Campinos Already Implements a ‘Shadow’ Layoffs Method at the EPO
  • 09.01.18 Coming to Grips With the Fact That EPO Layoffs Are Already in Effect
  • 09.05.18 EPO Has “Far Too High Production Targets” Which “Deteriorates the Quality of Products [sic Delivered”]
  • 09.06.18 ‘Reformist’ Campinos Seems to be Accelerating EPO Layoffs by Removing Without Warning Staff That’s Perceived as Not Loyal Enough
  • 09.06.18 Even Overzealous Patent Maximalists Nowadays Admit That Time is Running Out for the Unitary Patent (UPC)
  • 09.20.18 It Wasn’t Judges With Weapons in Their Office, It Was Benoît Battistelli Who Brought Firearms to the European Patent Office (EPO)
  • 09.20.18 Criticism of Unitary Patent (UPC) Agreement Doomed the UPC and Patent Trolls’ Plan — Along With the Litigation Lobby — for Unified ‘Extortion Vector’
  • 09.23.18 Benoît Battistelli Refuses to Talk to the Media About Bringing Firearms to the EPO
  • 09.26.18 Lots of UPC Noise/News This Week Over a Document Which Merely Weakens Commitment to the UPC
  • 09.26.18 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!)
  • 09.26.18 EPO Central Staff Committee: 30 Percent of Staff Are in Principle Targetable as ‘Challenging People’
  • 10.04.18 Submissive, Bribed and EPO-Connected Media Organisations Help Perpetuate Corruption by Failing or Refusing to Cover It
  • 10.05.18 Patents on Life and on Algorithms in Europe Will Doom the EPO
  • 10.06.18 The European Patent Office Has Assaulted Patent Quality While Trying to Distract From That
  • 10.09.18 António Campinos Makes Excuses for Granting European Patents on Software in Spite of the EPC
  • 10.11.18 Friend Brings a Friend, Boss Becomes Subordinate: the EPO Under António Campinos is Starting to Look a Lot Like Team Battistelli 2.0
  • 10.25.18 António Campinos Just a Quieter Version of Battistelli
  • 11.07.18 Guy Ryder (ILO) Should Meet Staff Representatives, Not Corrupt Team Battistelli
  • 11.08.18 The António Campinos Private/Secret Meeting With ILO Officials a Slap Across the Face to Employees of the European Patent Office
  • 11.11.18 Guest Post: EPO Spins Censorship of Staff Representation
  • 11.13.18 The USPTO and EPO Pretend to Care About Patent Quality by Mingling With the Terms “Patent” and “Quality”
  • 11.14.18 USF Revisits EPO Abuses, Highlighting an Urgent Need for Action
  • 11.14.18 WIPO Corruption and Coverup Mirror EPO Tactics
  • 11.15.18 Ignoring and Bashing Courts: Is This the Future of Patent Offices in the West?
  • 11.20.18 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
  • 11.20.18 Germany Likes EPO in Munich, Litigation Factory in Düsseldorf and Mannheim (Like Eastern District of Texas)
  • 11.21.18 Patent Trolls in EPO Events That Promote Software Patents
  • 11.22.18 Thanksgiving EPO Roundup: UPC Lies, Software Patents Considered Harmful and SUEPO Condemns Union-Busting Activities (Which Carry on Under António Campinos)
  • 11.24.18 António Campinos Has Run Out of Time, EPO Staff Representation Now Views Him as Just Another Battistelli and Wants Immediate Change
  • 11.27.18 127th Session of ILO Tribunal Rulings Will Deal With European Patent Organisation Complaints (Appeals) Tomorrow Afternoon, Staff Grows Tired of Office President António Campinos
  • 11.29.18 Union Syndicale Fédérale Tells António Campinos to End ‘Political’ Cases Against EPO Staff Representatives
  • 12.01.18 “ILO Gave the EPO Medical Committee a Good Slapping”
  • 12.06.18 Many of the Same People Are Still in Charge of the European Patent Office Even Though They Broke the Law
  • 12.12.18 EPO Trust, Leadership and Commitment
  • 12.13.18 The European Patent Troll Wants as Much Litigation as Possible
  • 12.15.18 The European Patent Organisation (EPO) Loses Legitimacy If (or When) Christoph Ernst Becomes Subservient to António Campinos
  • 12.22.18 UPC Died in 2016 or 2017; But the EPO Continues to Issue Fake Software Patents That European Courts Reject
  • 12.24.18 The Quality of European Patents Likely Declined Even Further in 2018
  • 12.28.18 The Demise of the UPC ‘Legislative Coup’ Continued in 2018
  • 01.06.19 EPO Leaks
  • 01.09.19 European Patent Office Saga in 2019: “95% of the People Responsible for the Misery Are Still in Place and Have Not Even Been Rebuked”
  • 01.10.19 EPO President “Campinos is Wasting His Credibility With “Sweet” Communiqués Full of Hot Air and Storytelling”
  • 01.14.19 Council of Europe (CoE) Recognises There’s No Justice at the EPO
  • 01.22.19 The Whitewashing of the EPO Under António Campinos
  • 01.27.19 British Courts Once Again Reject Bogus European Patents Granted on Software
  • 01.28.19 Another Call for EPO Leaks
  • 01.29.19 “HE DID NOTHING Since He Arrived, Full Stop.” What EPO People Make of President Campinos…
  • 01.30.19 People Are Dying Because of Low Quality of (Wrongly-Granted) European Patents
  • 01.31.19 President Campinos Maintains Battistelli’s Abusive Sanctions, EPO Staff Increasingly Losing Faith and Hope in Him
  • 02.19.19 Battistelli Trashed 223 Millions (of Stakeholders’ Euros) on a System That Destroyed the European Patent Office and Made Few Private Corporations a Lot Richer
  • 02.19.19 Search Matters Not at the European Patent Office
  • 02.19.19 António Campinos Still Needs to Undo Battistelli’s Union-Busting Activities at the EPO
  • 02.22.19 Battistelli’s Bodyguard Has Been Arrested, But Battistelli Should Join Him
  • 02.27.19 Teff Just One Among Countless Examples of Sheer Disregard for Patent Quality
  • 03.02.19 The Collapse of Poor-Quality European Patents Continues in European Courts
  • 03.04.19 EPO Staff Union: ‘New’ Team Campinos Practice “Reminds Us Strongly of the Battistelli Times.”
  • 03.04.19 European Patent Office Careers Bad for One’s Health, Properly Assessing Patents is ‘Professional Incompetence’ Now
  • 03.05.19 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
  • 03.06.19 Fraud at the European Patent Office, But All Those Arrested Are Perpetrators Without Misused Immunity
  • 03.06.19 Quality Issues at the European Patent Office Can Lead It Down the Same Downward Path as the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
  • 03.08.19 António Campinos Will Not Tackle Any of the Lingering Issues at the European Patent Office
  • 03.15.19 Stopping António Campinos and His Software Patents Agenda (Not Legal in Europe) Would Require Independent Courts
  • 03.17.19 To Team UPC the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Has Become a Joke and the European Patent Office (EPO) Never Mentions It Anymore
  • 03.21.19 António Campinos Makes Up Claims About Patent Quality, Only to be Rebutted by Examiners, Union (Anyone But the ‘Puff Pieces’ Industry)
  • 03.24.19 Just Published: Irrational Ignorance at the Patent Office
  • 03.26.19 The Campinos-Battistelli Strategy is Working: Patent Trolls Are Coming to Europe!
  • 03.27.19 The European Patent Scope is a Lost Cause, Does Not Exist Anymore
  • 03.30.19 A March in Brussels Next Month, Disgruntled EPO Staff Invited
  • 04.01.19 Patent Trolls Destroy the European Economy Because EPO Gives Them Questionable Patents
  • 04.02.19 EPO Judges Lack Independence and the Internal Courts Are Seen to be Lacking Legitimacy (Decisions’ Validity) Under António Campinos
  • 04.03.19 The EPO Continues Granting Bogus Patents on Mathematics and Nature, But There’s Hope Over the Horizon
  • 04.04.19 EPO Management is Knowingly and Consciously Granting Invalid European Patents, Including Patents on Life and Nature
  • 04.04.19 The Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) Warns About the Granting of Tens of Thousands of Invalid European Patents Every Year
  • 04.05.19 The European Patent Office Will Come to Regret the Fake Patents It Has Granted for Short-Term Financial Gains
  • 04.06.19 Even Patent Maximalists Are Not Happy With António Campinos Referring Question of Patents on Life to the Enlarged Board of Appeal
  • 04.08.19 Only One in Six EPO Workers Trusts the Management, According to New Survey Skewed by Management
  • 04.09.19 The Media is (Still) Failing to Cover EPO Corruption
  • 04.11.19 EPO Still Wasting Budget, Paying Media and Academics for Spin
  • 04.16.19 Corporate Media Will Never Cover the EPO’s Violations of the Law With Respect to Patent Scope
  • 04.18.19 The European Patent Office Does Not Care About the Law, Today’s Management Constantly Attempts to Bypass the Law
  • 04.20.19 The Likes of Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA), Team Campinos and Team UPC Don’t Represent Europe But Hurt Europe
  • 04.22.19 António Campinos Would Not Refer to the EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal If He Did Not Control the Outcomes
  • 04.22.19 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
  • 04.24.19 German Federal Patent Court Curbs the Patent Maximalism of the EPO, Which Promotes Patents on Nature and/or Maths Every Single Day
  • 04.25.19 The Quality of Patents is Connected to the Quality of Life of Patent Examiners
  • 04.29.19 Haar is Where EPO Justice Came to Meet Euthanasia
  • 05.01.19 Lack of Justice at the EPO Continues to Usher in Fake Patents on Abstract Things
  • 05.01.19 Union Syndicale Federale (USF) Writes to António Campinos Again Regarding the Appalling Atmosphere at the EPO
  • 05.02.19 EPO in 2019: Pushing (and Bribing) for Buzzwords to Bypass/Cheat the Law Whilst Abolishing the Court System
  • 05.02.19 Even EPO Patent ‘Justice’ is Now Measured in Industrial Terms Like ‘Production’ Rather Than Accuracy
  • 05.07.19 Even IAM Admits That When It Comes to Patents It’s Quality That Counts, Not Quantity
  • 05.08.19 Corruption at the EPO is a Threat Not Only to Europe But to Every Continent in the World
  • 05.09.19 Lusting for a Unified Patent Court (UPC) That Respects Invalid European Patents, Including Software Patents
  • 05.09.19 Stephen Rowan: From UK-IPO to Operation Coverup of Team António Campinos
  • 05.11.19 Making the Patent System About Productive Actors (Again), Not a Bunch of Law Firms and Trolls
  • 05.12.19 Professionally Incompetent EPO Management
  • 05.15.19 The Race to the Bottom of Patent Quality at the EPO
  • 05.16.19 The EPO’s Key Function — Like the UPC’s Vision — Has Virtually Collapsed
  • 05.18.19 The War on Patent Quality