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08.24.07 OOXML: Deception, Lies, FUD, Apple & Germany Become Microsoft Tools
10.31.07 Germany Leans Towards ODF, GNOME Receives Public Correction
11.07.07 Quick Mention: Increased Support for ODF and Linux in Germany
11.25.07 OOXML Muscling Its Way Through German Politics
03.19.08 Another Large Migration to OpenDocument Format (ODF), Germany Elevates ODF
03.21.08 Quick Mention: Freiburg City Council in Migration to OpenDocument Format
03.28.08 OOXML Irregularities in Germany (and Britain Again)
03.30.08 Microsoft’s Latest OOXML Corruptions in Germany, Croatia, Norway
04.24.08 Big Set of Shakeups for Microsoft Office, ODF Rises
06.03.08 Germany and Denmark Show Signs of Endorsement of Appeals, Complaints Against ISO OOXML
08.08.08 New OOXML Fiasco: Germany and Canada Propose Microsoft as Editor for ODF-OOXML Convergence
02.14.09 Spiegel: German Military Downed by Microsoft Windows
04.08.09 Microsoft Breaks the Law in Germany and Gets Convicted, Fined
10.06.09 1st, 3rd, and 4th Top-selling Laptops in Amazon Germany Come with GNU/Linux
05.19.10 Siemens Betrays Germans by Legalising Software Patents in Europe
06.08.10 European Lesson About Novell’s Software Patents, Germany Seemingly Continues to Allow Software Patents
06.16.10 “Ballmer’s Departure Seems to be Imminent”
10.04.10 New Article Says Nokia Might be Bought by Microsoft After Appointing Microsoft President as CEO
01.13.11 Microsoft Patent Cartel (CPTN) Dodges German Federal Cartel Office
08.08.11 US Moves Towards Limiting Software Patenting, Germany Remains Confused About EU Patent Laws
08.25.11 Links – Wikileaks Betrayed, Germany’s East Texas, Spying
06.20.12 Germany Against Software Patents
10.01.12 Government of Germany Should Ban Internet Explorer for Crimes, Lock-in, Not Just Security
06.09.13 Software Patenting Under Attack in Germany
06.15.13 Germany Should Follow the ‘Munich Model’ and Move to Free Software After PRISM Revelations
08.07.13 Germany Reaffirms Position Against Software Patents, Free Software Triumphant
12.10.13 Microsoft’s Anti-Linux/Android Patent (FAT) Collapses in Europe, But Microsoft-backed Xamarin Tries to Interject Other Microsoft Patents Into Google Gear
12.22.13 More Details Revealed About How the NSA Infiltrates Windows and Other Proprietary Software, Governments Should Now Ban Microsoft
02.04.15 German Translation of Ruling Against Željko Topić, the EPO’s Vice-President
02.19.15 EPO Staff Protests Against Benoît Battistelli’s Lowering of Patents Quality (Scope Expansion and Software Patents for Profit)
04.18.15 More Translations of French Article About the EPO
08.26.15 Microsoft Aggression Against GNU/Linux Amid Vista 10′s Failure
01.13.16 Germany Needs to Respect the European Patent Convention and Stop Issuing Software Patents, Also Reject UPC
02.04.16 Readers’ Article: A Strange Conspiracy of Silence in the German Media (Part I)
02.18.16 The EPO’s Patent Coup in Europe Moves on With Conflict of Interests-Plagued German Authorities for UPC
02.22.16 Germany, Which Allows People in Europe and Abroad to Patent Software (EPC Shunned), Simply Cannot be Trusted With the EPO and UPC
03.01.16 Ongoing Investigation: Why Mainstream Media — and German Media in Particular — Has Mostly Ignored Latest Developments at the EPO
03.13.16 Kontrovers Coverage of Abuses at the European Patent Office (With Subtitles Added)
03.14.16 German Transcript of Bayerischer Rundfunk Coverage About EPO
03.16.16 Reader’s Article: “Guantanamo Possible in Germany”
06.04.16 Software Patents in Europe and the UPC Already a Problem
12.03.16 Dutch Media Covers Latest EPO Scandals, German Media Totally Absent (a Media Blackout of Convenience)
12.15.16 Shame on the German Media for the Media Blackout Surrounding EPO Protests in Munich (and Sometimes Berlin)
03.12.17 Germany Cannot Ratify the UPC Because Britain is Leaving the EU and Unitary Patent Strongly/Strictly Depends on the UK
03.13.17 How Big a Lie is Team UPC Spreading About Germany and Unitary Patent? A Must Read.
03.16.17 German Media is Not Covering EPO Scandals and Instead Repeating Patently False Claims From EPO Management
06.12.17 German Barrier to the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Bound to Bring the Insidious Plans to a Halt
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
07.16.17 Guest Post: Is Germany’s UPC Ratification Postponement Related to Problems at the EPO?
07.31.17 German Media Finally Waking up to EPO Scandals?
08.03.17 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part II: Andrej Matijević and Željko Topić
08.03.17 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part III: DZIV and EPO Nepotism
08.05.17 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part IV: Tena Mišetić, Ivan Mišetić, Croatia Airlines, Lufthansa, and Deutsche Telekom
08.06.17 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part V: Lufthansa and Croatia Airlines Overlap
08.07.17 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part VI: The Complaint to Merkel
08.07.17 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part VII: Immunity for Topić (EPO VP4) Just When He Really Needed It
08.09.17 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part VIII: Outcome at DZIV (Zagreb) Miraculously Known Six Months in Advance
08.10.17 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part IX: Potentially Fatal Injury to Air Plus Trademark Holder
08.11.17 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part X: In Closing
09.03.17 What Germany and the EPO Could (and Should) Learn From Australia About Patent Scope
09.10.17 Latest Updates on UPC Constitutional Complaint in Germany and Brexit Barrier to UPC in Britain
10.19.17 SUEPO to the Media, Regarding Campinos: “No Comment, It’s Too Dangerous”
11.09.17 Administrative Council of the EPO is Concerned That the Office is Largely German and Male, Recruitment Bar Has Fallen
12.29.17 Raw: When the EPO Violated German Law and ECHR Got Invoked Along With the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht)
01.09.18 Possible Explanation for German Media Barely Covering Very Major EPO Scandals
02.07.18 Team UPC Resorts to Paid ‘Articles’ and Lobbying With Battistelli in an Effort to Cause the UK and Germany to Ignore Their Own Laws
06.01.18 In Gross Violation of German Law, as Per EPO Tradition, Fronleichnam ‘Stolen’ by Benoît Battistelli
11.20.18 Germany Likes EPO in Munich, Litigation Factory in Düsseldorf and Mannheim (Like Eastern District of Texas)
01.26.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: OpenSUSE 11.0, 10.3, and 10.1 in German Government
04.12.08 Increased OpenOffice.org Support in Germany; Updegrove Pitches Real Standards in Texas
08.21.08 Can Germany Fine Microsoft for Slandering GNU/Linux?
02.17.09 German Press on Novell Shafting Its German Employees
03.16.09 Reader’s Article: Microsoft On-my-way in Germany
04.14.09 Defenders of Democracy and Free Speech Under Attack from Germany, AstroTurfers, and Maybe Microsoft
12.02.09 Mozilla Firefox Cruises Past Internet Explorer in Germany
12.09.09 Germany Takes Microsoft’s Bill
01.16.10 Germany’s Office for Information Security Warns Against Microsoft’s Internet Explorer After China Attacks
01.21.10 ODF Roundup: Norway, Germany Migration, ODF 1.2 Support, and ODF 1.1 Interop Profile
01.30.10 German Federal Office of Justice: SCO Breaches Regulations in Germany
02.04.10 Judge Uwe Scharen is Validating Software Patents in Germany
04.23.10 USPTO Starts Rejecting Software Patents While Germany Mistakenly Overrides the Law and Approves Microsoft’s
05.20.10 Patents Roundup: Novell’s and Apple’s Latest Software Patents, Ruling in Germany, and Harms to Software Freedom
05.21.10 Who to Blame for Germany’s Dangerous Decision Regarding Software Patents
05.21.10 Siemens’ and Microsoft’s Actions in Germany May Harm KDE
07.21.10 Fraunhofer FOKUS and the Software Patents Lobby in Germany
02.24.11 Only US Department of Justice and German Federal Cartel Office Can Really Stop AttachMSFT Deal
05.15.11 TechBytes Episode 46: GNU/Linux in Germany, Android’s Openness, and More
08.12.11 Germany Does Badly Regarding Software Patents
04.11.12 Microsoft Misdirection From Germany Amid AOL Patents Snatch
04.17.12 Microsoft’s Love/Hate Relationship With Germany
07.30.12 Home of S.u.S.E., Germany, is Relying on Red Hat and Avoiding Microsoft Extortion Tax
11.29.12 UEFI Apologists Versus Germany’s Government Judgment on UEFI Insecurity
05.04.13 The European Patent Office is Breaking the Law Regarding Software Patents, German Parliament Finally Complains
06.19.13 British and German Governments Under Siege by Lobbyists of Microsoft and Its Local Partners, Free Software Policy Dumped in Favour of Backdoors-Enabled Binaries
08.22.13 NSA Back Doors Get Microsoft Windows Excluded From Procurement in Germany
08.27.13 The Latest NSA Scandals: Espionage in Germany, the United Nations, and Untold Blackmail to Trap the Messengers
11.07.13 The Latest NSA Ugliness: Skype Gets Worse, Snowden Speaks to Germany, New Zealand Becomes NSA’s Little Brother, and ‘Paedophilia’ Used to Defend the NSA
11.25.13 NSA-Guided Assassinations by Drone Face Backlash in Germany, Pakistan, and Beyond
01.29.14 British Government is Cracking Down on Climate Activism, Japan is Nuked, Germany Turns to Renewable Energy
02.03.14 Privacy/NSA Watch: Corporate Spying, Snowden Smears, German Anger, and More Lawsuits
12.13.14 News From France and Germany: Battistelli Under Fire, But Not Fired Yet, Just Firing His Opposition
04.02.15 English, French and German Translations of Dutch Article About EPO Abuses
04.03.15 English, French and German Translations of De Telegraaf Article About Ivo Opstelten’s Defence of Benoît Battistelli
04.29.15 As Core Issues Still Not Addressed, Another Protest Against EPO Management Scheduled for Tomorrow in Munich, Germany
06.03.15 EPO Corruption Compared to FIFA Corruption While ‘Control Risks’ Helps EPO Hide/Suppress Evidence of Corruption; Calls on German Authorities to Crack Down on Both
08.25.15 Letter Signed by Two German Officials Becomes a Microsoft Weapon of Propaganda
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
10.19.15 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 German Broadcaster on European Patent Office (EPO) Preferential Treatment for Microsoft and Others
10.30.15 Former German Constitutional Court Judge Denounces the EPO’s Possible Campaign of Defamation Against Judge Accused of Truth-Telling
11.21.15 German Media Reveals That Out-of-Control EPO Management is Even Threatening and Abusing Lawyers Now
11.21.15 Translation of Thomas Magenheim-Hörmann’s Article in the German Media, Urging European Politicians to Intervene in EPO Chaos and Lawlessness
11.21.15 German Press Says Broken EPO Lets President Severely Punish Staff Not Even Guilty of Any Wrongdoing
12.26.15 Monday Talk at Chaos Computer Club (Germany) Makes the Case Against Software Patents
01.02.16 German and European Patent Attorney Warns That UPC Would Bring More Patent Trolls to Europe, With Help From the EPO
02.05.16 Readers’ Article: A Strange Conspiracy of Silence in the German Media (Part II)
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
03.02.16 German Television to Cover the EPO Scandals at 9 PM (CET) Tonight — Half an Hour From Now (Updated)
03.06.16 Kontrovers: German Program (With Subtitles) About the European Patent Office
03.15.16 German High-Quality Video About the European Patent Office
03.21.16 Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and the United Kingdom Urge Benoît Battistelli to Allow Independent Investigation of His EPO Union-Busting Moves
03.30.16 SUEPO Publishes Translations of German Media Reports About the EPO
04.28.16 If EPO “Form of Thinking Were to be Followed, Guantanamo on German Soil Would be Possible.”
05.26.16 EPO Management Under Growing Stress From Croatian Law Enforcement Authorities, German Politicians, Italian Media
06.01.16 As Bavarian Parliament Expresses Disdain Over EPO Leadership’s Abuses German Media Listens and Staff Union Releases New Survey
06.27.16 Battistelli May Still be on the Way Out as Pressure Grows in Germany, UPC in Shambles
07.17.16 After the FTI Consulting-EPO Reputation Laundering Deal’s Expansion in Germany Süddeutsche Zeitung ‘Forgets’ That the EPO Even Exists
08.12.16 German Media Becomes Aware of Battistelli’s Defiance of the Very Basis of the EPO
09.03.16 Battistelli is Even Attacking the French, and Not Just in Germany But Also on Dutch Territory
11.26.16 The Sad State of German Anti-Corruption Authorities and Investigative Journalism, as Demonstrated by the EPO
12.30.16 German Justice Minister Heiko Maas, Who Flagrantly Ignores Serious EPO Abuses, Helps Battistelli’s Agenda (‘Reform’) With the UPC
01.02.17 365 Days Later, German Justice Minister Heiko Maas Remains Silent and Thus Complicit in EPO Abuses on German Soil
02.07.17 Reception of the New German Ambassador (Dirk Brengelmann) at the EPO, in Presence of the Stasi-Like Investigative Unit
03.21.17 Letter to Angela Merkel Expresses Concerns About Impact of EPO Scandals on Germany and Its Image
03.25.17 Depressing EPO News: Attacks on Staff, Attacks on Life, Brain Drain, Patents on Life, Patent Trolls Come to Germany, and Spain Being Misled
03.26.17 Heiko Maas and the State of Germany Viewed as Increasingly Complicit in EPO Scandals and Toxic UPC Agenda
04.06.17 Like EPO ‘Grants’ (up 40% in a Year), Patent Trolls in Europe Are Growing at Double-Digit Rates (Now 20% of All German Lawsuits)
04.25.17 EPO Fiasco to be Discussed in German Local Authority (Bavarian Parliament) Some Time Today as the Institution Continues Its Avoidable Collapse
04.28.17 Kather Augenstein and Bristows Shift Attention to Germany in an Effort to Ram the Dying UPC Down Everyone’s Throats
06.11.17 German Media Would Rather Write Articles About Beer Than About Serious and Unprecedented EPO Scandals
06.13.17 In Spite of Censorship by IP Kat, Issues Associated With UPC Had Become Apparent, Even Before Germany Halted Ratification
07.25.17 How the EPO’s Terrible Decisions May Implicate the Government of Germany and Lufthansa
07.30.17 EPO, Lufthansa, and the German Government – Part I: Further Information About Andrej Matijević
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”
08.07.17 German Media Names António Campinos as Likely Successor of Battistelli
08.10.17 German Media Paints a Picture of Benoît Battistelli as a Drunken ‘Putin’ Looking to Push UPC at All Costs
08.29.17 Hiring of German Judges for UPC Has Been Halted as the Future of UPC as a Whole Now in Doubt
09.27.17 Battistelli Follows German Law Only When It Suits Him, Three Holidays Just Canceled
10.07.17 Additional Complaints About the Unitary Patent (UPC) Pile Up in Germany, Here’s How to Submit More
10.15.17 Articles in English and German Speak About the Decline in Quality of European Patents (Granted by the EPO)
10.20.17 UPC Looks Like More of a Distant Dream (or Nightmare) as Germany Adds Another Two Months’ Delay
11.24.17 Raw: Why EPO Host Nations (Netherlands and Germany) Turn a Blind Eye to Horrific Scenarios
12.12.17 German Media Helps Cover Up — Not Cover — the Latest EPO Scandal
12.31.17 Raw: The European Patent Office (EPO) is a Cash Cow of Germany
01.11.18 EPO Lobby and Team UPC’s ‘Resistance’ to the UPC Opposition in Germany
01.25.18 A European Unitary Patent-Like System (e.g. UPC) is Not Compatible With Law; Expect it to Rot Away at the German Federal Constitutional Court
02.22.18 As Expected, Bristows and Others Already Lying About UPC Status in Germany, But Doing This Anonymously (to Dodge Accountability for Lies)
05.17.18 Rise in Patent Trolls’ Activity in Germany Noted Amid Declining Patent Quality at the EPO
06.23.18 Mainstream Media in Germany Covers Battistelli’s Corruption at the EPO Just as He Leaves
07.06.18 German Media Compares Team Battistelli at the EPO to the Mafia
10.06.18 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Obsolete for More Reasons Than the German Constitutional Court, But Team UPC in the UK Refuses to Give Up
10.19.18 Ingve Björn Stjerna Has Just Warned That If Team UPC and the European Patent Office Rigged the Proceedings of the German Constitutional Court, Consequences Would be Significant
10.23.18 German Court on UPC Constitutional Complaint: “No Oral Hearing is Currently Scheduled. A Decision Date is Not Foreseeable at Present.”
12.21.18 Team UPC Belatedly Admits Lying About the German UPC Complaint (Fabricated ‘Rumours’)
01.06.19 The German Constitutional Court’s Decision on Unitary Patent (UPC) is Very, Very Far
02.06.19 The Attack on the Independence of the European Judges Has Apparently Expanded to the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht)
02.24.19 Video: Alexandre Benalla on Carrying Weapons in Munich’s EPO Premises (Strictly Illegal in Germany)
02.25.19 English Translation: Alexandre Benalla Thinks He Can Carry a Weapon in Germany
04.12.19 Global Finance Magazine Spreads Lies About the Unitary Patent and German Constitutional Court
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
11.23.06 Analysing the Rationale for the Deal
12.02.06 Novell Discourages Government Supervision, Regulations Over Microsoft
12.05.06 Here Comes Microsoft’s Anti-OpenDocument Study
12.09.06 Danaergeschenk
01.06.07 Assorted Links and Weekend Video
01.16.07 In the News: Novell On Top Distros, OpenOffice, and Support
03.04.07 Microsoft Takes Patents Game to Europe, Uses Novell as Excuse (Then Grabs Toys and Goes Back Home)
05.13.07 Praise Time: Novell Does Something Right
05.17.07 Red Hat Does Well, But Linspire Needs a Gentle Shake
08.12.07 OOXML Deception and Spin
08.22.07 ODF/OOXML Watch: Bill Gates Lobbies Behind the Scenes Again, Jason Matusow Deceives (Updated)
08.27.07 OOXML Watch: More Deception and More Manipulation, Norway ‘Corrupted’
08.28.07 Novell’s “Underperform” and SCO’s Cash Injections That Brought Its Demise
08.28.07 Microsoft Fuels OpenDocument Disinformation with Funded Analyst Propaganda
08.28.07 OOXML ‘Corruption Train’ Arriving at Sweden (Updated)
08.30.07 OOXML Watch: Sweden’s OOXML Fiasco Representative of the Norm?
08.30.07 Dissecting Microsoft’s OOXML/ODF Strategy
08.31.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday: OpenSUSE Faster and Better, Novell’s Financial Results Lift Stock
08.31.07 The Latest News on the Microsoft OOXML Fiasco (Updated)
08.31.07 This Just in: Sweden’s Vote on OOXML Nullified Due to That So-called ”Bribery” Incident (Updatedx3)
09.06.07 OOXML/ISO Watch: Microsoft May Have Broken Antitrust Laws
09.07.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday:OpenSUSE @ Beta3, SLED Preloads, Virtual Iron, and More
10.15.07 Novell, Patents, and Unrest (Updated)
10.20.07 Quick Updates on Linspire and SCO — Two Companies That Won’t Recover
10.28.07 Disinformation on the Rise, Shameless Linux FUD Makes a Comeback
10.31.07 OOXML? Not Any Time Soon, Says Sutor.
11.02.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday: Quiet Week, Novell and SUSE Still Kicking Though
11.12.07 OpenDocument ‘Traitors’ Group is Out, Belgium is In
11.16.07 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part IV: Dell, China, SCO, and Ron Hovsepian Interview
11.18.07 Flashback: Microsoft’s FUD Against Free Software
11.20.07 Korea Chooses OpenDocument Format
11.23.07 The GNU GPL is Already Proven and Tested in Court
11.27.07 The ‘eet’ Nuisance Has Many Proxies/Indentities
11.28.07 Quick Mention: The Programmer’s Advantage in ODF, OOXML Coverage from Hungary
12.10.07 Microsoft Sends Paid Army to Fight OpenDocument Format in Europe
01.07.08 Patents Roundup: Illustrating the Serious Issue Using Examples
01.08.08 There is No Community and There is No Communism, Either
01.12.08 More Good News for OpenDocument Format, OOXML Slides Down the Gutter
01.17.08 Bill Gates Invades the Land of Linus, Uses Dumping Techniques
01.21.08 If Cattle, Use OOXML; If Wise, Use ODF
01.23.08 The Latest OOXML/ODF FUD from the Philippines, Microsoft and Gates Go Batting in Europe
01.30.08 OOXML Poison: Melvin Calimag Received Redmond’s Kool-Aid Too
02.05.08 Rob Weir and Bob Sutor Return to Discussing the OOXML Frauds
02.08.08 OOXML Abuses: Making Room for Antitrust Regulators
02.19.08 The OSP Lie, the OOXML Bribe and Other Interesting Moves in Portugal
02.28.08 Week of Corruptions :: Day 4 :: Briberies in Sweden
03.03.08 Updates on OpenDocument Format in Europe
03.06.08 Novell Enters a Microsoft Partners Triangle
03.06.08 Novell Does Microsoft’s Legwork, Markets Software Patent Deals
03.06.08 Assorted New Reactions to the OOXML BRM, March Vote
03.16.08 Stephane Rodriguez’s Latest on OOXML Intra-operability, Munich’s Mayor Protests Against OOXML
03.16.08 Novell/Microsoft Translator: Fail
03.18.08 Microsoft Apparently Invaded Vodafone to Made Deal
03.22.08 MonoDevelop in the Press, Which Totally Misses the Point
03.23.08 Document Freedom Day Coming Shortly with Plenty of Support
03.27.08 What Makes Novell the Black Sheep of the Free Software Universe
03.28.08 Quick Mention: Has Korea Just Voted “Yes” to OOXML? (Updated)
03.28.08 OOXML Roundup; BSI’s Sellout Did Not Go Unnoticed
03.29.08 A Look Back at OOXML BRM, Stacking, ISO’s Admission of Failure
03.30.08 Buying Consensus Short of Classical Bribery
03.31.08 ISO Frozen. Too Much Corruption?
04.01.08 British Standards Institute (BSI) Under Fire After Possible ‘Inside Job’
04.01.08 Bye-Bye ‘S’ Oh-Oh!
04.02.08 ISO Feels OK With Corruption, Officially Approves OOXML (Updated)
04.02.08 Microsoft’s Abuse of ISO Made a Lot of Sworn Enemies
04.02.08 ISO Rubber Stamp for OOXML? Not So Fast (Track)
04.04.08 Return of the ‘Peter O’Kelly Mouthpiece’ and Why Microsoft Lost the Standards War
04.04.08 Microsoft’s Software Patent Injection and Other Insanities
04.06.08 Microsoft Bullies Over Software Patents, Takes a Hit Also
04.09.08 European Nations Give the Thumbs Down to Microsoft OOXML, Misconduct Noted
04.19.08 Why Schools Must Embrace ODF and FOSS; Healthy Boost for KOffice and OpenDocument Format
04.20.08 ISO Maxes Up Damage Control, OOXML Storm Looming
04.21.08 Roger Frost (ISO) and Stephen McGibbon (Microsoft) Proudly Lied to the Public (Updated)
04.21.08 Thank You, Norway, for Pictorial Memories
04.28.08 One Decade Later, Same Tricks Persist
04.30.08 Novell’s ‘Binary Bridges’: Could SUSE Ever Inherit the Anti-Features of Windows?
05.10.08 Linspire, Xandros and the Stories Only eWeek Will Tell You About
05.14.08 Off Topic: A World Where Almost One in Two PCs is a Windows Zombie PC
05.16.08 Patents Roundup: From the Fight Against EU Sanity to Novell, Microsoft, and Moonblight [sic]
05.21.08 OOXML Roundup: Complaints, Competition, Cracks and Complacency
05.22.08 Taking Stock of Microsoft’s Vapourware Announcement
05.22.08 Groklaw: Microsoft’s ODF Moves Vapourware, Possible Trojan Horse for Software Patents
05.24.08 OOXML Incidents Index: From A to C
05.25.08 OOXML Incidents Index: From Denmark to Greece
05.25.08 When Technology Meets Politics
05.26.08 OOXML Incidents Index: From Hungary to Jordan
05.26.08 OOXML Incidents Index: From Kenya to Norway
05.26.08 OOXML Incidents Index: From Pakistan to Syria
05.26.08 OOXML Incidents Index: From Thailand to Vietnam
05.27.08 Free Software versus Today’s Intellectual Monopolies — Overview
05.27.08 Phasing Out Malice to Make Room for Necessary Change
05.29.08 Office and OOXML Under Pressure, So Microsoft Retaliates with ODF
05.30.08 Saving Students from The Latest Microsoft Lock-in (Live @ edu)
06.02.08 ODF: Open Standard; OOXML: The New and Unimproved .DOC/.XLS/Other
06.03.08 Interesting New Moves in Kenya After Alleged Microsoft Blackmail
06.07.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: OpenSUSE 11 Evaluations, Pre-orders
06.10.08 The OOXML Fiasco: Updates from 3 Countries That Protested
06.21.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: OpenSUSE 11.0 GM Roundup
07.05.08 Intellectual Monopolies Insanely Out of Control
07.07.08 Maximalists and Lobbyists Take Over Europe, Internet, PCs
07.08.08 WikiLeaks Catches ISO with Pants Down
07.16.08 Charlie Mccreevy to Hollywood: I Hereby Give You Europe
07.16.08 “ODF Has Truly Won,” Say OOXML Voices Again
07.22.08 The Patent Comedy is Real
07.25.08 Free Software vs Microsoft: It’s Down to Patent Law Now
08.10.08 Software Patents: India, OIN, the Trolls, and the Monopolists
08.19.08 British Government Laughs at Digital Standards Organisation with a Straight Face
08.23.08 SCO Roundup: Novell Litigation, Money from Me Inc Software
08.29.08 State of the Intellectual Bully: Patent Raids, Trolls, and Microsoft
09.01.08 Eye on Microsoft: Bigger Clouds and Worse Security
09.01.08 Patents Roundup: China, Theft, TiVo, and Microsoft
09.01.08 Novell’s Stock Options Scandal Just Weeks Before Deal with Microsoft
09.06.08 Patents News: Philips Pirates, Candidates Wants Reform, Trolls Still on the Loose
09.09.08 Quick Mention: Patent Pirate (Philips) to be Sued
09.26.08 A Triumph for Common Sense in the Patent System
10.03.08 A Question About Patents: IBM, OIN, Linux Foundation, and Novell
10.04.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Two Weeks of (Mostly) Proprietary Novell Technology
10.06.08 Norway Changes OOXML Vote, Receives New Microsoft Search Base (Updatedx2)
10.18.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part IV: Miscellaneous Novell News
10.24.08 Important Step for Software Patents in the European Union
10.25.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part II: Business Around SUSE (SLE*) and Xandros
10.29.08 Use of False Promises to Attract Free Software Developers
10.30.08 Failing SCO, Microsoft Eyes EU and Software Patents
11.04.08 Experts Indicate That re Bilski Does Impact Software Patents
11.08.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part III: Almost Eventless Week for Novell
11.20.08 Reader’s Post: The Windows Software Development Minefield, and Mono
11.24.08 Microsoft’s B.A.D. (Bribing, Addicting, Dumping) Comes to the Philippines
11.24.08 Eye on Microsoft: Vista/7 Trouble and More Security Chaos
11.26.08 Apple Attacks GNU/Linux Users, Lies to the Public, Gets Sued by Patent Troll
12.02.08 Patents Roundup: From Microsoft’s Trolls to Obama Policies
12.06.08 OOXML is Patent Trap, Royalties Render it Obsolete
12.09.08 The Many Signs That GNU/Linux Grew Significantly in 2007 – Part 2
12.09.08 Make Peace, Not Windows Zombies
12.10.08 ODF Alliance Newsletter – 10 December 2008
12.13.08 Do-No-Evil Saturday – Part I: OpenSUSE 11.1 Days Away
12.17.08 OpenDocument Gains Traction, So the Redmond Bully Returns
12.23.08 Why is the Gates Foundation Investing in Governments?
12.29.08 Microsoft and Cronies Create Another EU Lobby at Taxpayers’ Expense?
12.31.08 Sander’s Report Ignores Microsoft’s OOXML Corruptions
01.04.09 Is Microsoft ‘Pulling an EDGI’ on Kerala? (Updated)
01.06.09 World Says: ODF Has Truly Won
01.07.09 Attack ODF, Get a Job at Microsoft
01.09.09 Novell is Heckling Boycott Novell, Anonymously
01.09.09 Novell’s EMEA President Quits
01.10.09 Microsoft’s Dumping Strategy Versus GNU/Linux (EDGI Continued)
01.12.09 Microsoft Already Drops Clues About Layoffs
01.16.09 EDGI Finale: Microsoft’s “Linux Compete Squad”
01.20.09 Microsoft Linux in VDI Magazine
01.21.09 Extension Extortion (Updated)">Stop Press: ACTA and Copyright Extension Extortion (Updated)
01.24.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Strategy, CMDB, Virtualisation and More
01.28.09 New Year, New Readers
02.01.09 ODF Alliance Newsletter January 2009
02.05.09 Novell Layoffs May Have Not Been Announced Yet
02.06.09 Ron Hovsepian on Novell Layoffs
02.13.09 Botnets and Bounties Versus Real Security
02.13.09 Quick Mention: SUSE Developers Among Those Laid Off from Novell
02.18.09 Novell Layoffs Next Week, Europe Affected the Most
02.20.09 Novell Promotes ASP.NET, Demotes OpenSUSE
02.24.09 Patents Roundup: Microsoft, RAND, Extortion, and Ending Software Patents
02.26.09 Microsoft Uses Pressure Groups to Push Software Patents Into Europe
02.28.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: More on the Financial Results, Novell Figures
02.28.09 ODF Alliance Newsletter: Latvia and UK Join the ODF Bandwagon
03.01.09 Why Microsoft is Likely to Lose the TomTom Case (Plus Summary)
03.03.09 Microsoft Faces Investors’ Backlash, More Quiet Layoffs
03.06.09 Signs of Microsoft Corruption in the United Kingdom and Czech Republic
03.10.09 Patents Roundup: Splashtop Encumbered by Patents, Google Linux Phone Sued by Patent Troll, TomTom Update and More
03.12.09 Patent Trolls — Including Acacia — Attack Linux Users/Devices
03.15.09 CompTIA, Martin Bean, Fraunhofer Fokus, and Other Microsoft Boosters
03.17.09 Is the EPO Selling Out to Microsoft?
03.18.09 Patents Roundup: Backlash, Pseudo Reform, Patent Trolls and Microsoft
03.25.09 Microsoft’s “Burning The Ships” is Corporate Patent Propaganda (and How Novell Helps It)
03.28.09 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: March 27th, 2009 – Part 2
03.29.09 Red Hat, Microsoft, EU Lobbyists, and Software Patents
03.30.09 Microsoft Pays Professor to Write a Paper Against IBM’s GNU/Linux-Powered Mainframes
04.01.09 IRC: #boycottnovell @ FreeNode: March 31st, 2009 – Part 1
04.04.09 Novell Offshores Some of Its SUSE Operations to East Asia
04.05.09 Eye on Apple: This is Open?
04.06.09 My Response to the Enlarged Board of Appeal
04.06.09 Patents Roundup: Microsoft Likes Patent Deform, OIN to Strike Back, EU Still Besieged for Software Patents
04.06.09 The Question of Software Patents without Democracy
04.09.09 Project of the Day: GNote
04.10.09 Microsoft and the Economics of Crime
04.10.09 Microsoft Office Crimes and Offenses Against Standards
04.11.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE on ARM
04.17.09 The Latest Patent Comedy from Europe
04.18.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: Past, Present, and Former Novellers All Over the Place
04.19.09 Software Patents Roundup: Protests in the EU, OLPC Suffers, Microsoft Seeds More Patent FUD
04.20.09 Patents Roundup: Microsoft, CSIRO, Patent Hawk, and “Corrupt, Malicious” EPO
04.24.09 Patents Roundup: Attack on Science, Lobby for Software Patents in EU and India, More Rebellion
04.24.09 It’s Unofficial: Microsoft Pays ASUS (Kickbacks) to Block GNU/Linux. Will EU Commission Step in?
05.01.09 Microsoft Teaches Spanish Schools How to Smoke Windows
05.01.09 Microsoft: Red Hat Should be Happy to Take Microsoft Patents
05.01.09 Utah Press Writes About Novell Layoffs, But Does Not Include Numbers
05.02.09 General Electric Joins Microsoft’s Fight Against Free Software
05.02.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE at Heise, LinuxCon 2009, and Google SoC
05.02.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SLED at H-P, SLES at IBM, and Xandros/Scalix
05.02.09 Microsoft’s PR Department (Waggener Edstrom) Patents AstroTurfing-related Methods
05.04.09 Microsoft Fights to Make GNU/Linux a Fringe Phenomenon
05.05.09 OIN Explains TomTom’s Settlement with Microsoft (and Other Patent News)
05.09.09 EPO and the Swiss Department of Justice Want to Make Some Free Software a Crime
05.10.09 Microsoft Uses Lobbyists to Attack Holland’s Migration to Free Software and Sort of Bribes South African Teachers Who Use Windows
05.12.09 Software Patents Want to Enter Europe from the Back Door
05.14.09 Is Net Applications One Order of Magnitude Off Target?
05.18.09 Microsoft Unleashes the Gartner Group to Sabotage Migration to GNU/Linux in Europe
05.20.09 The EU Council Answers Marco Cappato’s Question About Microsoft Dependence vs. Europe’s IT Independence
05.24.09 Microsoft’s Sabotage of ODF Still in the News
05.27.09 Reddit Accommodated by Mono Boosters, Including Novell Employees
05.27.09 US Breeds Software Patents
05.29.09 Lawsuit Against Microsoft/Switzerland Succeeds So Far, More Countries/Companies Should Follow Suit
05.29.09 Patents Roundup: Updates from Europe, Many More Patent Trolls, and Backlash
06.01.09 Is This Bing or is it Bong?
06.05.09 The EPO Does Not Work for European Citizens
06.05.09 Details of Microsoft’s Lobbying in Europe
06.21.09 SCO, Microsoft, Novell, and Other News from Utah
06.27.09 Lunch with Microsoft to Talk About ODF, Which it is Attacking
06.27.09 Patents Roundup: Novell Still Applying for Software Patents (and Other Patent News)
06.29.09 Microsoft Prepares a Bogus Study to Defend Abandonment of American Workforce
07.11.09 Groklaw Unearths Another SCO Scandal; SCO Heads Sued for Theft, Computer Fraud and Abuse
07.11.09 Why the United Patent Litigation System Could Bring Software Patents to Europe
07.13.09 Patents Roundup: Software Landmines in New Zealand, the US, and Microsoft/Linux
07.14.09 SCO Scandals Get Worse: unXis Seems to be All About SCO
07.19.09 The Ukraine’s GNU/Linux Ambitions and Microsoft’s MOU Response
07.24.09 SCO Scandals Finally in the News
07.29.09 SCO Lies About Hans Bayer
08.01.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: HackWeek, SUSE Studio, and OpenSUSE 11.2 Milestone 4
08.08.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: Hackweek, KDE in OpenSUSE, and More
08.08.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SUSE Studio, National Vision, and Xandros
08.14.09 Novell Creates OpenSUSE Team But Decreases OpenSUSE Support
08.18.09 Reminder of What Microsoft Did in Denmark and What It’s Up to Now
08.26.09 Bill Gates Called “LUNIX” a Threat Back in 1997
08.28.09 Linux to Fill the Gap Left by Exploding iPhones and Overweight Sub-notebooks
08.29.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE 11.2 Milestone 6
08.31.09 What People Say About Microsoft’s War on Open Standards
09.03.09 Patents Roundup: Patent Propaganda from the BBC, IBM in the Shadows, and Early Mistakes from David Kappos
09.05.09 Novell News Summary – Part II: SLES/SLED and Xandros in the News
09.10.09 More Anti-Red Hat Whitepapers from Novell, More Mono/.NET Convergence
09.11.09 Why Does Novell Still Neglect OpenSUSE?
09.12.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE with KDE 4.3.1, Conference Near
09.12.09 Latest Wins for OpenDocument Format
09.14.09 Nathan Myhrvold Connected to Father of Patent Trolling, Ray Niro
09.19.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE 11.2 Reaches 7th Milestone, Conference Takes Place
09.21.09 ODF Alliance Newsletter: September 2009
09.23.09 Novell Helps Microsoft Zune and CodePlex Foundation Helps Novell
09.23.09 ODF Olympiad 2009 Announced, Now Accepting Submissions
09.26.09 Novell News Summary – Part III: iFolder, Teaming 2, and Other Minor Issues
09.26.09 Microsoft Abuse with Software Patents Carries on
09.26.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE Conference 2009 Reports
09.28.09 With Friends Like These, Who Needs Microsoft?
10.02.09 Microsoft Fights Back as More Nations Adopt ODF
10.02.09 Company That Attacks ODF Gains More Control of ODF (and Why Open Source Should be Careful, Too)
10.07.09 Richard Stallman Explains Why Not SUSE
10.10.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: Official OpenSUSE Boosting Team
10.23.09 Lots of New Vendor/Developer Support for OpenDocument Format
10.26.09 What Went Wrong with Vista 7 Launch (and How GNU/Linux Already Takes Advantage)
10.28.09 Some Perceive Toddlers as Emerging Markets, a Business
10.28.09 Patents Roundup: OIN Grows, Microsoft Ally LG Uses Patent Bullies, Microsoft and Amazon Advance Anti-Free Software Laws
10.30.09 Free Software Sued by Red Bend, Patent Reform Called for Again
10.31.09 The Guardian Tells Microsoft’s Lies
11.05.09 Confirmed: Microsoft Publicly Lies About Market Share of GNU/Linux
11.07.09 Man of the Day: Matthias Ettrich
11.07.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE 11.2 Days Away, Events Organised, New Board Needed
11.18.09 EIF Scrutinised, ODF Evolves, and Microsoft’s OOXML “Lies” Lead to Backlash from Danish Standards Committee
11.19.09 How Denmark Avoids a “Scientology Cult” in IT
11.27.09 FSFE and Others Denounce Latest Microsoft-inspired FUD Against GNU/Linux and Free Software
11.28.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: More Reviews of OpenSUSE – Rants and Raves
11.28.09 Video Transcript of Vandana Shiva on Insane Patents
11.30.09 Helge Sander Helps Microsoft Again by Blocking ODF in Denmark
11.30.09 Patents Roundup: Threat of Software Patents in Mexico, Sweden; Microsoft Still Fights with (and for) Software Patents
12.05.09 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE in London, Nürnberg; Infrastructure Repositories Migration
12.06.09 Eye on Microsoft: BitLocker Offers No Protection, Webcams and Windows Compromise
12.12.09 Japanese ODF Standard Released, Alex Brown Seemingly Attacks OOXML Dissent (Again)
12.14.09 Don’t Mention the L Word!
12.16.09 Microsoft Assumes You Too Are a Criminal
12.16.09 ODF Gains in Europe, Microsoft Still Sneakily Attacks ODF
12.17.09 Research: Internet in Developing Countries Crippled by Microsoft Windows Zombies
12.23.09 Patents Roundup: Software Patents and ACTA at STOA, Gates-backed Monsanto Wants to Own Mexico’s Food Supply
12.25.09 ODF Roundup: More Developer Support, But More FUD as Well
12.26.09 Novell Legal News: SCO and MoFo
12.30.09 Kerala is Still Ahead of the Curve
01.03.10 Microsoft Bribes to Make Education Microsoft-based
01.07.10 Novell is Still Fishing for Software Patents, Microsoft and Apple Do Patent Evils
01.09.10 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE Survey and Site Changes, Breakage
01.11.10 Microsoft Recruits Partners to Fight Against Google
01.17.10 Microsoft Takes Responsibility for Internet Explorer Chaos, Conficker Damage Carries on
01.19.10 Reader’s Post: 3 Stories on Advising Against Using IE
01.19.10 More Nations Make Statements Against Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, So Microsoft Advertises ‘Upgrades’
01.19.10 Microsoft Sues Google
01.20.10 “Emergency!” Says Microsoft as It’s Losing Market Share; All Versions of Windows Are Vulnerable
01.20.10 Patriotic Duty to Abandon Microsoft
01.20.10 Obama Finally Slams the USPTO, But Parrots Talking Point from Microsoft and Intellectual Monopolists
Obama Finally Slams the USPTO, But Parrots Talking Point from Microsoft and Intellectual Monopolists
01.22.10 Microsoft Security Negligence Confirmed: Critical Internet Explorer Flaw Known and Ignored for 4 Months
01.23.10 Internet Explorer Vulnerable a Day After the Critical Patch, Firefox Keeps Gaining, But China Remains Stuck
01.25.10 Croatian Association of GNU/Linux Users Fights Against Microsoft Abusers
01.26.10 Australia May Ban Infected Windows PCs; Nearly Half of Europe No Longer Uses Internet Explorer
01.30.10 GNU/Linux Yawns at Apple’s Large iPhone (Without the Phone Functionality)
01.30.10 Novell News Summary – Part I: Two Weeks of OpenSUSE, Some Reviews Accumulated
01.30.10 ODF is Winning in Europe; ‘Microsoft Press’ Spreads ODF FUD as OpenOffice.org Passes to Oracle
02.02.10 Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Faces More Bans or Backlash
02.02.10 Patents Roundup: Software Patents in the United States, Europe, and Rise of the Patent Trolls
02.04.10 Computer History Development Timeline: Microsoft Perspective
02.04.10 Microsoft Whitewashes Criminal History in the Press and Attacks the GPL Using Allies
02.07.10 Another Misdirected Response from the Government to the Company “Not Engineered for Security”
02.09.10 Steve Ballmer Visits Obama Once Again as His Fight Against Google Continues
02.09.10 Norwegian Agency for Public Management and eGovernment Slams Microsoft OOXML
02.13.10 ODF Roundup: News from Scandinavia, OpenOffice.org 3.2, and Symphony 3.0 Beta 2
02.14.10 Patents Roundup: Escalations in Europe, SAP Pretense, CCIA Goes Wrong, and IETF Opens Up
02.18.10 ODF Alliance Newsletter: February 2009
02.19.10 Patents Roundup: America, Europe and Asia Share a Problem with Software Patents
02.22.10 Bill Gates Invests Heavily in Deception About Global Warming and in Abusive Monopolies
02.25.10 Microsoft Unleashes the Hounds on Google While Abusing the Law With Warrantless Spying
02.26.10 Patents Roundup: Google Versus Patent Trolls, Patents Unrest, Microsoft’s Friend Fraunhofer to Report on Software Patents in Europe
02.27.10 Novell News Summary – Part I: Milestone 2 of OpenSUSE 11.3, FOSDEM
03.02.10 Patents Roundup: H.264, ‘Innovation Alliance’, and Microsoft’s Patent Racketeer
03.03.10 Bull Migrates Desktops to OpenOffice.org, Munich Succeeds With Migration as Well
03.03.10 Microsoft’s Government Insider Wants Mac Users and GNU/Linux Users to Pay Microsoft for Its Incompetence
03.04.10 Firm Behind Novell Bid Has Shady Past, Could be Tied to Microsoft (Paul E. Singer’s ‘Vulture Fund’)
03.06.10 Microsoft Angers the World by Asking for a Form of Security Bailout, More Fundamental Windows Flaws Found
03.08.10 Microsoft to Use FDA Official to Take Over Patient Records in the United States
03.08.10 Apple the Bully Goes Hunting for Patent ‘Violators’ With the Sisvel Army
03.13.10 Novell News Summary – Part I: OpenSUSE Build Service 1.7.2, live.opensuse.org, and OpenSUSE on TV
03.19.10 Patents Roundup: Europe, ACTA, Aldi Attacked by the MPEG Cartel, and More
03.23.10 Mono, the Monopolist’s Sidekick
03.25.10 Microsoft Accused by US Senate of “Enabling Tyranny”
03.27.10 Vista 7 Cracked Again
03.31.10 Patents Roundup: Several Defeats for Bad Types of Patents, Apple Risks Embargo, and Microsoft Lobbies Europe Intensely
04.01.10 Deutschlandfunk, Deutschlandradio, and the Nation of New Zealand Show the Way Regarding Software Patentability
04.03.10 Novell News Summary – Part I: Matt Berringer at UKUUG, OpenSUSE Beego, and FAIL Page
04.07.10 Aggressive Marketing for Vista 7
04.10.10 Patents Roundup: Fordham Conference for Software Patents in Europe, NZOSS Responds to Pro-Software Patents Lobbyists, and TurboHercules’ Ties With Microsoft Explained
04.19.10 Bribery at HP and Penalty on GNU/Linux Use
04.22.10 Hugo Lueders (CompTIA): Association’s Members Are “Trade Secret”
04.27.10 Why Klaus-Heiner Lehne Lobbies for Software Patents (Money of Course)
04.28.10 Patents Roundup: Bilski Excerpts, MAFIAA Patenting P2P-Spamming Methods, More on FAT in Europe
04.30.10 Steve Jobs: “A Patent Pool is Being Assembled to Go After Theora and Other “Open Source” Codecs Now.”
05.02.10 “Those Who Can, Do. Those Who Can’t, Sue.” (Updated)
05.17.10 FFII and End Software Patents (ESP) Respond to Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA) Regarding Software Patentability
05.17.10 Bad Apple, Part I: Is Apple Trademark-Bullying Linux Competition, Again?
05.21.10 Advocates of Free/Open Source Software and Standards Do Not Welcome EU ICT Plan (Digital Agenda)
05.22.10 By Pushing Mono Into Android, Novell Puts Microsoft Before Freedom
05.22.10 OpenSUSE Needs an Independent Equivalent (Like PCLinuxOS for Mandriva) to Ensure Takeover of Novell Leaves it Safe
05.23.10 Patents Roundup: Patent Bully Erich Spangenberg Finally Loses, Europe Still Troubled, Microsoft Bullies With Software Patents, Monsanto Uses Earthquakes to Spread Patent Liabilities
05.24.10 Microsoft’s Cloudy Skies Over Norway
05.25.10 Samba Lawyer About Software Patents: The Only Solution is Abolition
05.26.10 Microsoft and MPEG-LA Called “Patent Trolls”, Antitrust Complaint Filed
05.26.10 Patents Roundup: USPTO Workshop, Bilski Action, and Patents-Imposed Death
05.30.10 Google: Do Know Evil?
06.02.10 What a Difference Patentability of Software Makes: Microsoft #3 in USPTO, #33 in EPO
06.04.10 Microsoft’s Attack on GNU/Linux and ODF Continues
06.07.10 Patents Roundup: More Regarding Red Hat, Klaus-Heiner Lehne, Patents on Genes, and USPTO Speed Lane
06.09.10 Patents Roundup: CSIRO Slammed, TiVo Loses, WIPO Harms China, and Patents Do Yoga
06.10.10 UPLS is on the Rocks
06.12.10 Software Patents Debate in LinuxTag 2010 and Elsewhere in Europe
06.15.10 Debate Rages on Regarding the Open Invention Network (OIN)
06.16.10 United States of Microsoft?
06.24.10 New Zealand’s Legislation Regarding Software Patents Shows That the US is the Boss
06.25.10 Patents Roundup: EU Patent Deform, MPEG-LA, OIN, New Zealand, and Patent Trolls
06.26.10 Entryism Watch: Australia’s Largest ISP Dumps GNU/Linux Mirror Months After Putting Microsoft in Charge
06.28.10 Manual for Removing Microsoft Trap From Ubuntu GNU/Linux (and Lessons of TomTom and SCO Cases)
06.29.10 IBM’s Black Helicopters
07.01.10 Microsoft is Trying to Kill Linux Conferences
07.09.10 Patents Roundup: Bosch Security Systems Patents Signals, NetApp Bullies ZFS Providers, New Zealand Infiltrated by Foreign Lobby ‘NZ’ICT
07.10.10 Keeping the Software Patents Monster Caged in Japan and in the United States
07.20.10 Eye on Security: Internet Still Threatened by Microsoft Windows
07.20.10 Links: Women in Free Software, India’s “National Browser” is Free Software, Apple Calls Firefox Home “Adults Only”, OpenSolaris Blues, WordPress on GPL, New Wine…
07.21.10 Siemens is Bad for Industry, Partly Due to Microsoft
07.22.10 Links: Putting GNU/Linux On One’s Netbook, Free Software Week in the Basque Country, and Leftover News
07.22.10 Links: Net Neutrality and Digital Economy Act Under Fire
07.22.10 ASUS Dumps Vista 7, Goes With Linux Instead (and Windows Has Other New Problems)
07.23.10 Novell Too Busy (With Proprietary Software) to Promote OpenSUSE
07.23.10 Links: Many New Releases of GNU/Linux, More Tablets
07.24.10 Links: KDevelop 4.0.1, GNOME 3…
07.28.10 Windows Trojans and Potential for Paedophilia
07.31.10 The Price of Personal Data
08.11.10 Open Invention Network (OIN) and Linux Foundation Still Legitimise Software Patents
08.11.10 OpenSUSE Turns 5
08.11.10 Klinkert Zindel Partner is Promoting Software Patents in Europe
08.13.10 “EPO Still Operating in a Vacuum”
08.16.10 Apple News in July-August, Culminating in Fraud
08.17.10 Novell Still Negotiating Sale – Touching Base With the News
08.23.10 EU: Advocate General on Community Patent and Software Patents Still at Stake
08.23.10 Microsoft and Facebook Share Data, Advertisements, and Bad Practices
08.25.10 Microsoft Can’t Do Hardware
08.25.10 Response to Judith Wilcox and Axel H. Horns Regarding Patents to Software Developers
08.30.10 Oracle Promotes hypePod/hypeTunes Just Weeks After Suing Android, Java’s Founder Has Message for Ellison
09.03.10 Microsoft Crashes Rival’s Event (OpenOffice.org Conference) Using Moritz Berger
09.10.10 GNU/Linux Desktop Market Share in the United States Not the Global Share
09.13.10 Microsoft-funded IDC (IDG) Attacks GNU/Linux in Russian Schools, Accused of Using “Corrupt” Data
09.13.10 ‘Microsoft Tax’ Comes in More Than One Form
09.14.10 Open Tech Exchange Explains How Microsoft Derailed GNU/Linux in Governments, Using “Corruption”
09.16.10 Full Lobbyists Lineup From Association for Competitive Technology
09.17.10 Microsoft Attacks Android With Software Patents, This Time Verbally
09.19.10 In Search of the Full Story About Swiss Canton and Microsoft
09.20.10 Silverlight is Dying Not Just Because of HTML 5 But Because of Adobe Trash Too
09.21.10 Novell and Affiliates Turn to Software Patents While US Senators Make Things Worse, Not Better
09.21.10 Bad September for Microsoft Security, Symantec Buyout Rumours
09.23.10 Today’s SCO Bankruptcy Hearing is Called Off, Potential Suitors Named
09.26.10 What Everyone Needs to Know About Wikileaks and Microsoft Lobbyists Like Anke Domscheit-Berg, Zuck, and Maybe Florian Müller
09.28.10 LibreOffice is Launched, Offering Independence from Oracle
09.30.10 Strong Momentum in the Fight Against Weak Patents
09.30.10 Microsoft Canada is Sending Out the Shills, Trying to ‘Consume’ Free Software Advocates
09.30.10 Stuxnet is Immortal on Microsoft Windows, Siemens Should Just Move Fully to GNU/Linux
10.12.10 Belgian EU Presidency and BSA Threaten Europe’s Digital Future With Software Patents
10.12.10 Novell is Very Focused on Fog Computing So Far This Month
10.21.10 How Mono Helps Microsoft DirectX, With Contribution From VMB_ware
10.21.10 Free Software Proponents Expose the Microsoft-Funded (F)RAND Lobbyists and Their Lies, Microsoft to Lobby Directly in SOSOCON 2010
10.23.10 From Copyrights to Patents: How Software Patents Became the Top Linux Issue
11.08.10 Newly-elected UK Government Hopes to Imitate the United States With Software Patents
11.12.10 EU Plan to Potentially Welcome Software Patents is Finally Defeated
11.23.10 AttachMSFT and Novell for Fog Computing, Worse Than Proprietary Software
11.28.10 New Push for Software Patents in Europe (Innovation Union) While UK’s Tim Berners-Lee Opposes (F)RAND
12.03.10 The Problem is Microsoft Windows, Not the Computer
12.04.10 Microsoft Lobbyists Are Still Duping EU Politicians for Software Patents to be Legalised
12.08.10 Using Financial Blackmail to Convince Spain to Allow Software Patents to Enter Europe
12.13.10 McCreevy’s Successors Are Getting Their Way With Software Patents in Europe
12.17.10 New Details Surface About Novell/Microsoft/AttachMSFT [sic Deal]
12.27.10 Microsoft Cannot Offer Security on the Web, Either
12.29.10 Exploring Novell’s Passing of Software Patents to Microsoft – Now Reported to The Competition Authorities
01.04.11 Yet More Microsoft Staff (Now Suzan DelBene) Enters Government to Assist Microsoft’s Looting of the System
01.05.11 Ukraine, Russia, China and Several More Countries Under Attack From Microsoft Pirates
01.06.11 Use Microsoft Windows, Get Assassinated
01.11.11 Microsoft-run Patent Cartel Retreats Following Formal Complaint, But Why? (Updated)
01.12.11 OpenSUSE Board (Non-Novell Part) Realises There Are Novell Ownership Issues, Novell Exploits the Community
01.16.11 Iran Shows the Downside of Using Proprietary Software
01.16.11 Novell Does More Harm Than Good at This Stage
01.19.11 Patents Roundup: Software Patent Opinions in the UK
01.19.11 OIN is Very Different From CPTN and UNIX Risk is Revisited
01.20.11 OSI and FSF Unite in Face of Common Enemy CPTN/Microsoft
01.20.11 Dubious News From Microsoft Boosters
01.21.11 European Commission Disappoints Regarding Free Software and Patents
01.21.11 In Defence of OIN and Android
01.26.11 Should Techrights Watch Facebook?
01.26.11 Michael McLoughlin, Kevin McBride, and Florian Müller
02.05.11 Free Software Foundation’s Statement on Microsoft/Novell/CPTN Patent Attack Against Software Freedom
Free Software Foundation’s Statement on Microsoft/Novell/CPTN Patent Attack Against Software Freedom
02.05.11 Shock, Horror: International Chamber of Commerce Promotes Intellectual Monopolies
02.06.11 Report: Nokia’s New CEO From Microsoft About to Fire Existing Nokia Executives
02.10.11 Bad Security News for Apple and for Microsoft (Updated)
02.10.11 USPTO Has Patents Blocking American Innovation, Brainwashed European Minority Wants to Emulate This Mess
02.11.11 Microsoft’s Nokia ‘Deal’ is More Like a Takeover, Patents Pose a Problem
02.13.11 Maneuverers of Microsoft in an Age of Software Patents
02.16.11 Microsoft is Bribing Teachers Again, Maybe Others Too
02.16.11 Ostracise Miguel de Icaza Like Stephen Elop Should Have Been Ostracised From Nokia
02.21.11 Novell Keeps Amassing More Software Patents, Feeding a Rogue System
02.21.11 Shareholders’ Announcement of Class Action Lawsuit Against AttachMSFT Deal (While Novell Claims to Have Received an OK, Lawsuits and CPTN Probe Ignored)
02.22.11 When Intellectual Monopolies Become Criminal
03.02.11 Spain is Still Against the EU Patent
03.03.11 Microsoft is Still Fueling Anti-Linux ‘IP’ Wars Using Other Companies (SCO, Novell, Maybe Nokia)
03.16.11 Triumph Against Software Patents in Europe as EU Treaty Brought Up
04.05.11 Links /4/2011: Mourning Mozilla Messaging, Celebrating Simple Java API for ODF
04.05.11 Microsoft’s Refined Plan of Using Novell to Attack Competitors
04.09.11 Noted: Issue of Microsoft’s Anti-Competitive Operating System Bundling Raised by European Parliamentarians
04.10.11 Novell’s Patents Will Harm GNU/Linux, Proving That Everyone’s Software Patents Are Bad
04.16.11 Articles of ZDNet UK
04.18.11 Losing the Battle Against Software Patents?
04.20.11 Apple’s Anti-Linux Patent Lawsuits Give Another Reason for Concern Over CPTN
04.21.11 How Novell Betrayed OIN and Joined Microsoft Instead
04.22.11 Proprietary Software Increasingly Eliminates Freedom, Privacy, and Dignity
04.24.11 Shades of SCO in Action Against Android
04.26.11 The Lobby Against Linux
04.27.11 Claim: Bill Gates Hired Patent Trolls to Attack the Competition of Microsoft While Mystery Lawyer Tries Taking Debian GNU/Linux Off the Web
04.27.11 Federal Agents Should Prosecute Microsoft for Market Abuses With Patents Following Extortiongate
05.03.11 Mono Development Canned (Updated: Everyone Laid Off)
05.04.11 Attachmate’s Novell Strategy So Far: Kill Mono, Keep SUSE, Maybe Antitrust Against Microsoft
05.05.11 Groklaw Worried About Novell Polluting Ubuntu With Mono, IBM’s Open Source VP Thinks Microsoft Might Scoop Mono
05.09.11 Season of Renames
05.09.11 Proprietary Software Against Civil Rights
05.12.11 People Who Left SUSE Because of Novell’s Atrocious Patent Deal
05.13.11 Exclusive: Microsoft Patent Schemes Nobody Knows About
05.19.11 AttachMSFT Still in Control of SUSE, Even After Novell Takeover and Split
05.20.11 Europe’s Peanut Gallery Wants Software Patents
05.21.11 TechBytes Episode 47: Unity With the Wife
05.27.11 TechBytes Episode 48: Will The Real Steve Ballmer Please Step Down?
06.03.11 TechBytes Episode 49: Linux – To Boldly Go…
06.05.11 TechBytes Episode 50: With Rusty Again, Challenging FUD
06.10.11 Q&A With Puppet Labs’ James Turnbull Regarding Pro Puppet
06.13.11 France and the United Kingdom Want to Drown in Software Patents Sea of Risk
06.15.11 TechBytes Episode 51: Nokia and Apple, GPL’s Importance, Silverlight’s Death, and Copyrights Unrest
06.26.11 TechBytes Episode 52: Desktop Environments and the Demise of Ubuntu
07.06.11 TechBytes Episode 53: WebOS, Universal Laws, and Tablets
07.06.11 TechBytes Episode 54: Patent Extortion, Economy Shifting, Tablets Lacking
07.07.11 Federal Agents Unhappy About Microsoft’s and Apple’s Patent Strategy, Reversals Possible
07.13.11 Regulators in the US/Canada Authorise Linux-hostile Patent Cartel, Google Must Help Abolish Software Patents Now
07.15.11 TechBytes Episode 55: Google’s Growth, Sabayon Linux 6, and Sony-Microsoft
07.24.11 TechBytes Episode 56: GNU/Linux Versus Mac OS X
07.31.11 Links White Spaces, Police Hacking, Pollution and Censorship
08.03.11 Links – Mesh Nets, More on US Gene Patents, Big Pollution
08.06.11 TechBytes Episode 57: Desktop Choice is Grand
08.08.11 Microsoft Caught Paying Burson-Marsteller to Smear Google
08.08.11 Attachmate’s First Milestone: Sign Another Patent Deal With Microsoft, Pay Microsoft a ‘Linux Tax’ on SUSE
08.10.11 Apple is Killing Jobs, Killing Products
08.12.11 Links – Nokia Dying, Astroturf as Warfare, Protest as Hacking, Big Pollution.
08.12.11 Global Dimming for the Cult of Patents
08.13.11 After Icahn Entryism, Motorola Too Considers Strategy of Extorting Linux Phone Makers
08.14.11 Tablets, Phones, Linux, and Android Are Dragged Into Patent Mayhem by Microsoft, Apple, and Their Allies
08.16.11 Apple Fabricates ‘Evidence’ to Ban Linux Devices
08.16.11 Links – More Google/Motorola/Android, Wind Power, Wealth and Political Power
08.17.11 A Demise of the Patent Plot Against Linux
08.20.11 Links – More on the Demise of webOS, SpyPhone and Facebook Busted
08.22.11 Links – Addiction Redefined, Microsoft Florian and Barbarous Trump.
08.23.11 Europe Under Threat From Software Patents Through the Back Door, Warns FSF Founder
08.24.11 TechBytes Episode 58: HP’s 180, Google’s New Patents, and the New GIMP
08.28.11 Cablegate Reveals US Pressure for EU Patent (Unitary Patent) Alongside ACTA, More Pro-Patents Lobbyists Observed
09.02.11 Developers Who Leave SUSE/Attachmate
09.05.11 As Attachmate Distances Itself From SUSE, Commitment to UNIX Copyrights Doubted
09.05.11 Links – Web Stats, Mego Petrospective, Tracking Company Busted, MPAA Exposed.
09.05.11 TechBytes Episode 59: Privacy, Tablets, and Dream Studio
09.08.11 Cablegate: How Microsoft Apparently Attacked GNU/Linux Adoption in Turkey
09.09.11 Cablegate: Importing the USPTO Into Europe, Using the ‘EU Patent’
09.10.11 Cablegate: US Government Assesses Value of New EU Commission to Itself
09.10.11 2011 Patent ‘Reform’: Change We Can’t Believe in
09.11.11 Cablegate: Investigation Launched Against Initiator of Kurdish GNU/Linux Distribution
09.11.11 Cablegate: Turkey’s Patents Trajectory on Bad TRIPS
09.11.11 Cablegate: Chancellor Merkel Organises Initiative Striving for “Increased Support for Cooperation Between U.S. and EU Patent Agencies”
09.11.11 Cablegate: US Reaction to Minister Ewa Bjorling Pushing for EU Patent, Pressure on Slovenia to Jump Along
09.12.11 Current Patent ‘Reform’ Criticised in the Press, Software Patents Need to Go
09.14.11 Cablegate: Even Amid Departure From Microsoft, Bill Gates Lobbies Pakistani Government to Pay Microsoft
09.14.11 Mobile Patent Wars Merely a Symptom of a Broken Patent System
09.15.11 Cablegate: Bill Gates Belittles the World
09.15.11 Cablegate: Microsoft’s “Relationship With the Government” and Pressure for Countries to Adopt Intellectual Monopolies Using Shame Lists
09.16.11 Cablegate: Government Uses Google Earth, Blames Google Earth
09.16.11 Cablegate: Microsoft’s Tax Dodge
09.16.11 Cablegate: Lord Mandelson Meets the Qaddafi Family and Dates the Copyright Lobby
09.17.11 Cablegate: EU Negotiations About EU Patent/Community Patent
09.21.11 Patent Reform and Android
09.22.11 TechBytes Episode 60: Microsoft Versus Dual Booters, Google Competition Matters, and Google+
09.24.11 MAD Wars: Apple Faces Patent Blowback
09.24.11 British Industry Invaded by US Patent Aggressors and Parasitic Patent Lawyers
09.24.11 TechBytes Episode 61: Sebastian on Mageia and the GNU/Linux Desktop
09.25.11 The Parallel Universe of Patent Lawyers
09.27.11 Novell/Attachmate Emphasises Fog Computing/Hypervisors Rather Than Open Source
09.27.11 Attachmate Too Passive as Novell Products Dissolve
09.30.11 Microsoft Systematically Corrupts the Media
10.03.11 TechBytes Episode 62: I Told You So
10.04.11 Attachmate Apathetic and SUSE No Better Than Free GNU/Linux (With No Microsoft Tax)
10.07.11 Halliburton in a War With European Patent Law
10.09.11 OpenSUSE Wants Donations, Loses Volunteers Force
10.09.11 Links – Brazil Defies ACTA, Creeping Biometrics Use
10.10.11 TechBytes Episode 63: Enter KDE
10.13.11 TechBytes Episode 64: From Russia to Bristol
10.14.11 Links – Lots of bad deals made behind closed doors.
10.16.11 Links – Microsoft Security Failure, Spyware, Pollution and Corruption
10.24.11 Apple Badgeware
10.25.11 Microsoft Throws More Lobbyists Into the Ring to Ban Linux Phones
11.02.11 TechBytes Episode 65: End of the Season
11.06.11 Links – Education update, Anti-Trust and Privacy
11.07.11 SUSE Gets Lost in the ‘Cloud’
11.10.11 Apple’s Latest Attacks and Problems Clearly Show That Apple is Losing
11.12.11 “Patent Judges Want the Last Word Over Patent Law in Europe”
11.23.11 Apple’s Patent Aggression Against Linux/Android Hits the Wall in Europe
11.27.11 Patents Roundup: Broken System as the News Attests to the Failure
11.29.11 ‘Pulling an ACTA’ to Legalise Software Patents in Europe
12.01.11 Apple is Losing Its Mind and Its Cases Against Linux
12.01.11 Software Patents Come to Europe Through the Back Door
12.14.11 Software Patents in the EU Become a Central Concern Again
12.15.11 Apple’s Patent War on Linux Turns Back Against Apple, Which Allegedly Resorts to Using Patent Trolls
Apple’s Patent War on Linux Turns Back Against Apple, Which Allegedly Resorts to Using Patent Trolls
12.15.11 When OOXML Attacks Free Software
12.18.11 Updates on Novell and Other FOSS Taxers
12.21.11 Latest Patent Attacks on Linux/Android and Why They Matter
12.23.11 Apple Does Malicious Stuff With Patents as More Courts Sidle With Linux/Android
12.27.11 The Exodus of Novell Executives and Life After Novell
12.28.11 Cablegate: Brazil Advocates, Praises “the Usefulness of Free, Open Source Software”
12.28.11 Cablegate: US Government Talks About Providing Free Software that Helps Chinese Netizens Overcome Filters
12.28.11 Cablegate: Indian Ambassador Criticises UNESCO for Signing a Software Agreement With Microsoft (Updated)
12.28.11 EPO and Other Lawyers-dominated Circles Push for Software Patenting
12.30.11 Cablegate: Lithuania ‘Watched’ for Not Accepting Monopoly/’IP’ Regime From West, Government Adoption of Free Software Noted
12.30.11 Cablegate: UNESCO Was Pro-Free Software Before Gates and Microsoft Intervention
01.07.12 Links – An Unhappy New Year at the Marriott, Microsoft set backs, GNU/Linux and Free Software Advances.
01.12.12 Links – Microsoft Malware and Lockouts, Idiots Press SOPA Forward, US “Bailouts” add up to $16 Trillion
01.13.12 Apple Cult Defends Android-Hostile Cult Leader, Engages in Extortion of Android and Shops, Gets Sued for It
01.14.12 Links – A quick SOPA Update – they don’t hear you.
01.23.12 Patents Roundup: Windows Declining, Microsoft and Apple Attack Linux
01.25.12 Patents Roundup: Oracle, Microsoft (via MOSAID), and Apple Lawsuits Against Linux/Android
01.29.12 Links – Please sign the Avaaz petition against ACTA.
02.01.12 Microsoft Mole Failed to Sell Phones, Managed to Pass Patents to Microsoft’s Patent Trolls
02.03.12 Groklaw Update on Android Patent Cases and Response to FUD From Microsoft Lobbyists
02.05.12 Apple, Which Started Patent Wars, Gets What It Deserves
02.14.12 Patent Forecast Improves for Android/Linux
02.15.12 Links – Education Watch, BBC Apologizes for Selling Out, BP Oil Lingers
02.19.12 Apple Versus Google When the Patent System Approves ‘Slide to Unlock’ as a Monopoly
02.22.12 Patents Let Giants Attack the Rest, Apple Attack FOSS
03.01.12 Google Helps EPO Manage Monopolies, Unitary Patent Aided
03.05.12 Novell Decommissioned
03.05.12 Patents Roundup: Hype, Critics, and Threat to Linux/Android
03.31.12 Microsoft’s 352 Patent is a Needle in the Haystack
04.02.12 Update on Patent Failures and Microsoft Lawsuits Against Linux Companies
04.04.12 Microsoft Patent War on Android/Linux is Backfiring, Oracle is Still Unable to Win a Single Case
04.12.12 Apple, Microsoft, Oracle (CPTN) and the Latest Patent Hoard Against Android/Linux
04.14.12 Apple and Google/Android Suffer the Wrath of intellectual Monopolies
04.17.12 Microsoft is Attacking Free Software and Standards in the UK, Behind Closed Doors
04.20.12 After the Demise of Microsoft’s FAT Patent
04.26.12 Links – ACTA/CISPA Update, Other Crimes, Corruption and Failure.
05.12.12 Software Patents and Trolls Devour Jobs While Microsoft Proxies Sue Android Companies
05.21.12 In Motorola Case, Microsoft Boosters Use Slashdot for Anti-Linux/Android Patent Propaganda
05.26.12 Microsoft Linux (SUSE) Developed More Closely With Microsoft
06.02.12 Microsoft Takes Up a Notch Effort to Tax and Control Linux
06.20.12 The Alternative Press Explains What the Gates Foundation Et Al. Are Doing
07.01.12 European Council Slows Down Software Patents
07.01.12 The FSF Moves From Petition to Recommendations Regarding UEFI Fight
07.03.12 Apple’s (and MPEG-LA’s) Fight Against Diversity
07.12.12 Microsoft is Working to Make Android Non-Free by Extortion, Apple Works to Ban It
07.20.12 Microsoft-funded SUSE Promotes the Microsoft-controlled OOXML
07.23.12 Microsoft Uses Proprietary Formats to Impede and Derail Government Migrations to Free Software
07.23.12 The Skype Interception Campaign
07.28.12 Microsoft- and Bill Gates-funded Gartner Quickly Deletes Evidence of Vista 8 Disdain
07.30.12 Software Patents Protest Spreads Everywhere
07.30.12 Microsoft Already Uses Software Patents to Actually Remove Linux Devices from the European Market
08.06.12 Vista 8′s Catastrophic Arrival Will Make GNU/Linux a Superior Gaming Platform, Claims Creator of Minecraft, Not Just Valve
08.06.12 TechBytes Episode 74: Charles-H. Schulz on ODF, OOXML, and LibreOffice
08.13.12 Judge Koh Bamboozled by Apple to Block Computing Freedom, Should Penalise Apple for Contempt of the Court
08.18.12 Rogue Lobbyist Microsoft Florian Ousted by Judge
08.20.12 Android Litigation Update
09.27.12 Europe and New Zealand Share a Software Patents Problem As Such
09.27.12 Microsoft Admits Rogue Play on Standards, ODF Suffers
10.02.12 Apple and Microsoft Bias
10.06.12 Patents Can Drive Apple and Microsoft Away From Litigation Tactics
10.12.12 Samsung May Be Trying to Reduce Microsoft Patent Tax With F2FS
10.16.12 Microsoft Patent Trolls Get Staff From Microsoft While ‘Mother Ship’ Sues Google Over Android
11.05.12 Apple Hides Apology
11.15.12 Rotten Patent System Not Just a Bad Apple, CCIA Seeks Change
11.18.12 Bogus Correlations for Disinformation on Software Patents
11.19.12 Holding Back Standards Adoption in Europe
11.21.12 Freiburg Should Use ODF Only, Just Like Portugal
11.21.12 Software Patents Through ‘Union’ in Europe
11.22.12 Vista 8 Endorsements Are Fake, Microsoft Decided to Break Rather Than Make
12.02.12 Microsoft Enjoys Seattle Bias in Patent Case Against Android
12.04.12 SCOTUS Can Show Support for Public Interests by Stopping USPTO’s Systemic Corruption
12.05.12 Supporting UEFI in 2012 is Like Supporting OOXML in 2007
12.10.12 Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Glyn Moody, April, FSFE and Many Others Oppose Unitary Patent (Vote is Today)
12.11.12 ‘Unitary Patent’ Helps Microsoft Extend Linux/Android Patent Extortion to Europe
01.04.13 US Media Bias in Android Patent Cases
01.08.13 Guest Post: Windows RT – Jail Breaking!
01.10.13 FRAND Quite Likely the First Casualty at USPTO, Not Patents (Directly)
01.19.13 Vista 8 is Dying With the Desktop Based on More Data Points, Security Issues Persist
01.24.13 Confirmed: Microsoft Coordinated Propaganda Against Munich’s Migration to GNU/Linux
01.25.13 Munich Responds to Microsoft FUD
01.31.13 Microsoft by Proxy: Intellectual Ventures, Silver Lake, Ignition, and Now HP
02.05.13 Former Novell Employees in Microsoft’s Fight Against GNU/Linux Adoption
02.05.13 USPTO Shows That It Wants to Go Global
02.07.13 Adventures in UEFI Mischief and Selective Criticism of Google
03.01.13 FRAND Challenged by CCIA Amid FRAND Pressure From Anti-Android Camp
03.06.13 Microsoft MVP Miguel de Icaza Finally Quits GNU/Linux; Even He Does Not Want Vista 8, Samsung Dumps Vista 8 Tablets
03.14.13 Android/Google Under Patent Attacks, Calls for Other Companies to Stop the Patent Litigation Frenzy
03.14.13 Nokia is Suing Android Directly, Using Patents; Microsoft’s Elop to Blame
03.24.13 Boycott Nokia for Attacking Free Software, FFII’s President Suggests
03.26.13 European Commission Finally Receives Complaint About Microsoft’s UEFI Restricted Boot Scheme
03.31.13 Rackspace and Red Hat Battle Against Vile Troll (‘Uniloc USA’) Can Help Weaken Software Patents in the US
04.07.13 Red Hat et al. (Including Android’s Guardian) Complain About Companies That Attack FOSS With Patents, Apple Sites Quote ‘FOSS Patents’ Spin on Yet Another Loss Against Android
04.09.13 Those Who Push for Patent Reform and Those Who Protect Protectionism
05.03.13 Bill Gates — Not Just Microsoft — Stole Millions From Irish Taxpayers, US Taxpayers Still Robbed by Corruption of Microsoft Moles
05.12.13 Unitary Patent Impediments Covertly Addressed by EU Member Governments
05.14.13 Software Patents Reality Distortion Field
05.16.13 Microsoft Skype Messaging Surveillance Not the Main Issue, Audio Recording (Bugging) and Computer Hijacking Are
05.18.13 The Reality Distortion Field of Patent Lawyers Helps Impede Abolition of Software Patents
05.19.13 Microsoft-controlled Nokia is Lobbying to Enable Bans on Android Imports (Linux Phones as a Whole in Danger)
05.19.13 Microsoft Spin Regarding Skype Spying Does Not Withstand Scrutiny
05.23.13 CAFC Decision Still Overridden by Overzealous Patent Lawyers in the Press, The Guardian and Other Corporate Press (CBS and AFP Included) Still Guard the Establishment
05.25.13 Microsoft Brings the Notion of Buying Games to End, Consumer Rights Groups Should Sue
05.27.13 With Xbox, Microsoft Helps Spy on Living Rooms, Not Just Personal Space Through Webcam/Microphone (Skype)
05.30.13 The EPO Has Gone Rogue, Disregards the Law
05.30.13 Proof That Microsoft — Not Google — is Top Privacy Infringer
06.01.13 Patent Lawyers Fight to Keep and Facilitate Software Patents Worldwide, Using Misinterpretation, Distraction, and Loopholes
06.07.13 The Good News: White House Knows the Patent System is Broken. The Bad News: It Does Not Understand Why.
06.14.13 As the Battle to Legitimise Software Patents in New Zealand and Europe Carries on, New Systemic Corruption Found
06.15.13 Confirmed: Microsoft Tells the NSA About Back Doors in Windows
06.15.13 Still Missing the Point of Patent Scope (Patents on Mathematics and Nature) as the Problem in the United States
06.18.13 Judge Jackson Dies While Microsoft Continues to Abuse the System, This Time Using Nokia as a Front
06.19.13 White House Should Identify USPTO as the Problem, Not Patent Trolls
06.21.13 Microsoft is Suing Android/Google/Motorola Again, This Time Through Intellectual Ventures (Updated)
06.24.13 If You Use Microsoft Windows, the NSA Can Brick Your Computer Hardware Remotely
06.27.13 Back Door Access Discovered in Backup Servers of HP, Showing Urgent Need to Dump Proprietary Software
06.28.13 The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Ought to Refocus on Crushing Software Patents, Not Patent Trolls or “Stupid Patents”
07.01.13 The British Military Gives the United States Back Doors Into All of Its Computers
07.06.13 Novell/SUSE is Microsoft in Linux
07.08.13 Bill and Melinda Gates: The Couple That Made Eugenics Hip
07.10.13 The Patent Lawyers in the EU and NZ Must Not Decide on Patent Policy Including Software Patents
07.11.13 Microsoft Tries in Phones the Same Bribery Strategy It Allegedly Tried for Elimination of GNU/Linux in Sub-notebook
07.11.13 Privacy Crimes of Microsoft Confirmed: Microsoft Colluded With the NSA in Criminal Surveillance (Illegal, Unconstitutional Program)
07.11.13 Microsoft Windows Has New NSA Back Doors, Copies Spyware From Ubuntu
07.14.13 US Patent System Utterly Broken and Threatens Expansion to Europe
07.15.13 Another Back Door Found in HP Servers (LeftHand)
08.12.13 Groklaw Slams the US Legal Framework for (Mis)Handling of Patents
08.20.13 Actions of US Government Shut Down Groklaw Pre-emptively; Observing the US’ Sanctions Economy and the Danger of Expansion to Europe
08.24.13 Microsoft’s International Crimes, NSA Collusion, and Taxpayers’ Payments for Microsoft to Collude With the NSA
09.20.13 Big Money in FUD Against Free/Libre Software Licensing
09.20.13 Fighting the Lies
09.24.13 With Government Support, GNU/Linux is Growing in the City of Munich, the Argentinian, Chinese, British Markets
09.27.13 Microsoft’s Patent Mafia Called the Proof That Patent Trolls Must be Eradicated or Patent Law Changed
10.03.13 Even Microsoft Chief (Departed) Admits That Microsoft is a Very Serious Violator of Privacy
10.07.13 Fighting Spies: Public Services in Europe Keep Moving to Free/Open Source Software
10.18.13 Scarcity of Women is Not a Free Software Issue But a Western Issue (Science Stereotypes)
10.21.13 Richard Stallman: How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?
10.23.13 Mozilla Gains More Credibility by Hiring Xiph.org Founder Monty Montgomery
10.24.13 GNU/Linux Desktops Continue to Multiply to Appease Users
10.24.13 The World According to Forrester’s Clients: Bashing Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice
10.24.13 Free Software/Open Source-Related Links for September-October 2013
10.28.13 The NSA Causes an Atlantic Blunder
10.28.13 Black Tuesday 2013 is Tomorrow (Wall Street, New York)
10.30.13 British Prime Minister David Cameron Takes His War on Press Freedom Even Further, Japan Follows Suit
British Prime Minister David Cameron Takes His War on Press Freedom Even Further, Japan Follows Suit
11.12.13 New Evidence of Criminality in Spying Agencies, Going as Far as Exploiting FOSS Sites to Spread Malware
11.12.13 If What We Have is Really Democracy, Then Corporations Are People
11.14.13 Torture in the United States and What It Means to US Citizens
11.15.13 Free/Libre Software Has Conquered the Area of Content Management Systems
11.15.13 Latest CIA/NSA Scandals: More Espionage, Intimidation Against Journalists, Illegal Activities, and Facebook Cooperation
11.17.13 How The Corporate Media Plays a Role in Climatic Disasters, Then Exploits Them for Ratings
11.18.13 NSA-Created Malware Used Politically and Relied on Microsoft-Provided Back Doors/Weak Encryption
11.22.13 Microsoft Windows is a Trojan Horse for the NSA
11.24.13 Trusting Trust and Trusting Red Hat et al.
11.27.13 The Cheapening of ‘Open Source’, Where Source No Longer Means Source Code
11.27.13 Latest NSA Scandals: Interception of UK Wired Communications, Blackmail and Demonisation by Spying on Sex Surfing
11.28.13 As Europe Vows to Embrace Free/Libre Software, Transparency Required to Expose Microsoft Bribery and Other Corruption
12.04.13 NSA Leaks: Still Yielding New Scandals, But Fewer Than Before
12.06.13 ‘Unauthorised’ Programming and What It Means to Software Freedom
12.10.13 The Time for Freedom-Respecting Routers Has Come
12.16.13 NSA Roundup: Latest News in a Nutshell
12.18.13 New Examples of Censorship in West Europe, Facebook, Google, Saudi Arabia, China, Japan, and North America
12.18.13 Copyright Infringement/Sharing is the New ‘Terrorism’, No Laws Required for Authorities to Take Extreme (and Sometimes Illegal) Action
12.19.13 Most Famous Derivative of Debian Could Become SteamOS, Not Ubuntu
12.20.13 Microsoft Booster at the Microsoft-Leaning Ars Technica: UEFI Restricted Boot is Good
12.26.13 Urge Hardware Companies to Stop Using UEFI (or Boycott Them), Don’t Work on UEFI
12.30.13 Wrapping Up a Year of NSA Disgrace, Propaganda Film Advocating State Abuses Already in Preparation (Starring Benedict Cumberbatch Again)
01.07.14 Microsoft is Still Dreaming of Crushing Android by Doing What It Accuses Google of Doing
01.10.14 Snowden’s Impact Continues to Drive Change in 2014
01.14.14 DRM is Not Dying, It is Spreading Like a Virus, Even to the World Wide Web
01.15.14 Copyright Law May be Reformed in the West, Infringement (For Now) Treated as Worse Than Murder and Rape
01.15.14 Privacy Watch: Latest Stories
01.16.14 Economic Disparity Watch: January 2014
01.16.14 Interventions Watch: January 2014
01.16.14 Police Watch: January 2014
01.20.14 Linking Surveillance to Assassinations
01.21.14 NSA Watch: Latest News About Privacy
01.22.14 Linux Foundation’s Events, LCA 2014, and Other FOSS Events
01.22.14 Heise Breaks Promise: Takes ‘H Online’ Offline, Essentially Deleting Thousands of High-Quality FOSS Articles
01.22.14 Snowden’s Defence, Snowden Q & A, Privacy Advantage in Industry, The Coming End of Facebook
01.23.14 Privacy Watch: Today’s Stories of Interest
01.24.14 Amid NSA Scandals and Revelations Delhi Government and European Governments Are Moving to GNU/Linux and Free Software
01.25.14 Privacy Watch: NHS Sells Out, Snowden Makes Headlines, GOP Uses NSA for Anti-Obama Partisanship, NSA Program Deemed Illegal, Bieber Rips NSA Coverage
01.27.14 Privacy News: Ten States Against the NSA, Snowden Speaks About Espionage
01.28.14 NSA Watch: GCHQ/NSA Gang Up Against Servers, Hide Violations, Face Blowback
01.29.14 Snowden Nominated for Nobel Prize, Europe Moves Away From NSA, Surveillance ‘Reform’ Revolves Around Useless Figures (Update: Head of GCHQ Steps Down!)
01.30.14 NSA Watch: Climate as ‘Terrorism’, War on Journalism and Anonymity, Anger in Europe and Angry Birds
01.31.14 NSA Watch: New Faces, Same Policy, Obama Defends Clapper
02.05.14 NSA Watch: More Disturbing Revelations
02.06.14 Privacy Watch: GCHQ Resorts to DDOS Attacks, New Smears Against Snowden, Greenwald to Get Journalism Award
02.11.14 Latest News About Surveillance, Torture, and Assassination
02.12.14 Skynet Watch: From Targeting Terrorists to Targeting Protesters and From Foreign to Domestic
02.13.14 DRM is Protectionism and Misuse of Laws, Nothing Technical
02.14.14 Skynet Watch in the Media (Friday)
02.16.14 Weekend News: Surveillance, Espionage, Foreign Policy, and Assassination Debate
02.17.14 Latest Headlines About Surveillance and Drone Strikes
02.21.14 Latest Examples of Public Sector Moves to Free Software
02.23.14 Intelligence Abuses: Ombudsman Spied on, Phone Data Sold, Bugging by Media, Espionage, Monarchy, PRISM, Lawsuits…
02.25.14 Abuses of Rights: News About Surveillance, Torture, and Assassination
02.27.14 Erosion of Rights: Latest Headlines
03.02.14 Leftovers: Cybervandalism in China, US/UK, Destabilisation of Ukraine and Militarism
03.04.14 Skype Chief Executive Quits Microsoft Amid NSA Scandals
03.05.14 An Android World: Limitless Expansion in Tablets, Smaller Devices, and New Hardware
03.11.14 DroNSA: Targeted Assassinations, Surveillance on Torture Reporters/Researchers, and Snowden’s Latest Speeches
03.12.14 Copyright News: EU Copyright Consultation Not Serious, Google ‘Gets’ It on Copyrights
03.12.14 News Roundup: Public Services in Europe Rush to Free Software
03.16.14 Watching Abuses of Power: Police, Secret Agencies, Militarism, Surveillance, and Censorship
03.18.14 GNU/Linux at Google: Android, ChromeOS, Chromebooks, and Chrome News
03.18.14 Assassination, Imprisoning Dissent, Torture, Interventions, Surveillance, and Censorship
03.19.14 Desktop Environments: GNOME 3.12, KDE Wins Award, Enlightenment Updates
03.19.14 Servers and Networks: GNU/Linux Still a Leader
03.21.14 End of Week News: Mass Surveillance, Drones, Oversight Failure, Ukraine…
03.23.14 More Drones Debate, Espionage Against China
03.25.14 Nobody Sent to Prison After Microsoft Abused Privacy of Customers
03.26.14 Law No Longer Matters When it Comes to Copyrights, as the Copyright Monopoly is Above the Law, Uses Anti-Terrorism Instruments
03.27.14 Modern Warfare: Assassination, Surveillance, Censorship and More Digital Abuses
03.30.14 Links: Civil Rights Abuses, Secrecy, Surveillance and Assassination Without Oversight
03.31.14 Copyright and Monopoly News
04.01.14 Links: Latest Reports on Modernised (Digitised) Oppression
04.01.14 UEFI is Bricking Computers When One Removes Spyware With Back Doors (Microsoft Windows)
04.03.14 News Links: Aggression and Surveillance
04.05.14 News Links: Human Rights, Surveillance, International Law…
04.06.14 Links: News About Surveillance, Covert Intervention, Drones…
04.07.14 Newegg Beats Patent Troll, Sony Becomes DMCA Troll, NSA/PRISM Dropbox Blocks Accounts Based on Suspicion
04.07.14 Links: Privacy Erosion and Other Technological Erosions of Rights
04.10.14 eGov News: Moves to Free/Libre Software
04.10.14 ODF News: ODF 1.2, European Support for ODF, LibreOffice and More
04.10.14 Political News: Western Foreign Policy, Torture, Surveillance, and Assassination
04.11.14 FOSS News: Latest Developments and Breakthroughs
04.12.14 Political News: Protests Face a Ban, Covert Actions Continue, Cold War Era Imperialism, Privacy, and War on Justice
04.13.14 Mobile Linux Not Just Android: Jolla, WebOS, and Firefox OS News
04.13.14 Open Access on the Rise: Textbooks, Journals, Etc.
04.13.14 Links: Surveillance, Intervention, Torture and Drones
04.18.14 Some Perspective on Heartbleed®
05.11.14 Former CIA Head Says Metadata Kills, So Don’t Use Duck Duck Go (Hosted by the CIA’s #1 Technology Partner)
05.22.14 World’s Largest Population Heading Towards GNU/Linux Because Windows is Not Secure (NSA Trojan Horse)
05.30.14 When NSA/PRISM/Microsoft Skype Turns Voice Conversations Into Text in Real Time
07.05.14 Publicly-funded NHS Would Enjoy Symbiotic Relationship With Free — as in Freedom — Software
07.06.14 Internet of Things Alliance Now Has a Mole, Microsoft
07.13.14 Wirelessly-Controlled Contraceptives and Other Villainous Bill Gates Initiatives
07.13.14 Cronyism at Play: European Hostility Towards Free/Libre Software Despite Espionage and Moles
07.16.14 Secrecy Allows British Government to be Manipulated by Microsoft for Spyware Behind Closed Doors
08.03.14 Windows Will Go Extinct in the Back End and the Desktop
08.18.14 Gartner Group Advocates Using Defective Software With Back Doors
08.19.14 After Microsoft’s Soft Bribe Some Non-Technical Deputy Does Not Like Free Software, Microsoft-Linked Media Responds to This Non-News by Making Bogus Claims of Munich Leaving GNU/Linux (Updated)
08.20.14 Corruption Watch: Microsoft Lobbying Designed to Kill Chile’s Free Software Policy and Promote Microsoft With Subsidies, More Dirty Tricks Emerge in Munich
08.22.14 Microsoft is Still Preying on British Taxpayers, Playing Politics
08.23.14 Blowback in Chile and Munich After Microsoft Intervention
08.27.14 FUD Against Google and FOSS Security Amid Microsoft Windows Security Blunders
08.28.14 Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) Companies Versus FOSS Moles (VMware, Sonatype, Xamarin)
09.08.14 Suspicion of High-Level Corruption at the European Patent Office (EPO): Part I
09.15.14 Željko Topić, Benoît Battistelli, and the European Patent Office (EPO): Part II
09.16.14 The United Kingdom Should Dump Microsoft For the Sake of National Security
09.17.14 Italy is Cracking Down on Microsoft’s Monopoly Abuse While Gradually Moving to GNU/Linux
10.07.14 Benoît Battistelli’s Balkan Standards in EPO: Part V
10.08.14 How Microsoft Handles Disasters: Grace Hopper Conference Has Been Infiltrated by “Microsoft Disaster Response”
10.20.14 The EPO’s Public Relations Disaster Amid Distrust From Within (and EPO Communications Chief Leaves): Part VII
10.25.14 City of Berlin Does Not Abandon Free Software, It’s Only Tax Authorities
10.31.14 The EPO Is More Corrupt Under Battistelli Than Under Alison Brimelow: Part VIII
11.01.14 How to Complain About the EPO to National Delegations in Europe: Part IX
11.13.14 Microsoft Windows is Still Designed as a Paradise of Back Doors, Intrusion, Wiretaps, and Interception
12.08.14 EPO Staff Protests Today and Protested Last Week, Targeting Corruption in the Institution
12.11.14 Rolling of Heads Likely Imminent at EPO
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
01.02.15 New NSA Leaks Confirm That Microsoft Skype is a Wiretapping Hub
01.04.15 Just in: Fresh Call From Croatia to Arrest EPO Vice-President Željko Topić
01.07.15 Intellectual Property Judges’ Association (IPJA) Speaks Out Against EPO Tyrant Battistelli
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
01.18.15 Battistelli’s Latest Propaganda War Tries to Convince EPO Staff That Željko Topić’s Many Criminal Charges Don’t Exist
01.19.15 Translations of Member of the European Parliament Complaining About European Patent Office (EPO)
01.20.15 Failure of the EPO Can Derail the Trojan Horse of Software Patents and Patent Trolls
01.24.15 As Battistelli Breaks the Rules and Topić Silences Staff, New European Parliament Petition for Tackling the EPO’s Abuses is Needed
01.30.15 Text of Ruling/Decision Against Željko Topić (Regarding Audi as a Bribe)
02.01.15 Catarina Holtz From the EPO Boards of Appeal Explains Bad Behaviour of the Management With Regards to EPC 2000
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 Shaken by Croatian Revelations: Part XIV
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
02.11.15 EPO Staff to March to British Consulate to Protest Against the Administrative Council (AC)
02.11.15 Corruption at the Croatian State Intellectual Property Office Which Željko Topić Came From: Part XV
02.15.15 FFII and the American IP Law Association Comment on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Envisioned by EPO
FFII and the American IP Law Association Comment on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Envisioned by EPO
02.15.15 English Translation of Article About Protest at Danish Consulate Over EPO Abuses
02.15.15 The Case of Rikard Frgacic Versus the Croatian SIPO: Allegation of Corruption in Relation to Trademark Reassignment Under Željko Topić’s Watch: Part XVI
02.18.15 EPO Scandals: The Story So Far
02.19.15 Željko Topić’s History in SIPO Leaves a Legacy of Alleged DZIV Vehicles (Bribes), Authorship Abuses, and Intimidation Against Reporters
02.22.15 The EPO’s Sham ‘Internal Investigation’ of EPO Vice-President Željko Topić’s Affairs
03.17.15 Rikard Frgačić Explains Željko Topić’s Behaviour and the Lufthansa Case
03.18.15 Benoît Battistelli Allegedly Turns to Moscow and Putin-Inspired Tactics to Oppress and Suppress EPO Staff (Updated)
03.24.15 Benoît Battistelli’s EPO is Under Attack From French Politicians Yet Again
03.25.15 The EPO’s Administrative Council is Under Increased Pressure to Rein in and to Finally Stop Benoît Battistelli
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.”
04.10.15 New Article Chronicles Suicides and Nervous Breakdowns at the EPO Due to the Management’s Abuses
05.11.15 Europe is Saying Goodbye to Microsoft, Moves to ODF
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
05.26.15 Patent Scope at the EPO is Totally Out of Control, UPC Will Make Things Worse
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 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
06.09.15 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 Full Translation of Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About Blackhat Tactics (Keyloggers) in EPO (Updated)
Full Translation of Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About Blackhat Tactics (Keyloggers) in EPO (Updated)
06.09.15 When the European Patent Office Lost in Court and Refused to Obey the Law: An Analysis
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)
06.14.15 EPO Data Protection Officer ‘Just a Dictator’s Minion’, Approved Keyloggers and Hidden Cameras
06.15.15 Translation of Süddeutsche Zeitung Article Calling for External Oversight of Data Protection at the EPO
06.17.15 SUEPO to SUE Government of the Netherlands for Protecting the EPO’s Thugs
06.20.15 Better Watch Out or the United States Will Export Software Patents to Europe, Along With Patent Trolls
06.26.15 The Council of Europe Slams the EPO as Political Pressure Grows for EPO Management to Obey the Law
06.28.15 After Intervention by the Council of Europe Comes a Detailed Summary of the Situation in the European Patent Office (EPO)
06.30.15 Techrights Confirmed as a Target of EPO Surveillance, With Help From Control Risks Group (CRG)
07.01.15 Munich Press, Münchner Merkur, Slams the Munich-based EPO
07.09.15 The Real Reason Microsoft Gives Money to OpenBSD is Not Security or Free Software But Proprietary Windows With Back Doors
07.14.15 Governments-Connected ‘Hacking Team’ Targets UEFI, Reveal Leaks
07.20.15 Patents Expansion in Europe May be Looming
07.21.15 Patents Regime in Europe: Mixture of Greed, Competition Abuses, and Propaganda
08.04.15 ‘Sanader’s Protégé’ Željko Topić Slammed by Press in His Home Country
08.05.15 Microsoft’s Patent Attacks on Free Software Intensify as Microsoft’s Mobile Ambitions Officially Dead and Vista 10 Failing
08.20.15 After OOXML Propaganda, New Assocham Propaganda Calls for Back Doors, Spyware and Other Malicious, Self-defeating Traps Inside Government of India
08.24.15 Sabine Pfeiler and Otto Seidl Should Take Note as Russia — Like China — is in the Process of Banning Microsoft Windows for Security Reasons
08.27.15 Microsoft Loves Linux to Death and Still Tries to Kill GNU/Linux
08.27.15 Censorship, Self-Censorship and Intimidation Now the Modus Operandi at EPO
08.29.15 Apple’s Patent Cases Against Android Are Falling Apart, as Acknowledged Even by the Anti-Android Lobby
09.09.15 Benoît Battistelli and His Goons From Control Risks (CRG) Try to Crush Unions, Not Just Journalism
09.09.15 EPO Management May Not Have Resigned (Yet), But the Rest of the Staff is Leaving in Droves
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
09.17.15 European Patent Office Expands Censorship and Intimidation Against Staff as Pressure Mounts
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 Europe’s Acceptance of and Resistance to Software Patents, Courtesy of Corporate Front Groups and Courtrooms Respectively
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
10.05.15 With Software Patents in Europe (and Pushes for the Same Thing in Australia and India) Patent Trolls Now Come to Europe, Attack Android/Linux
10.05.15 Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna Explains Why the UPC (“Unitary Patent“ System) is an Undemocratic Sham Whilst UPC Silently Advanced by Patent Lawyers and Politicians
10.06.15 Commenters Provide Possible Explanations for Mr Van der Eijk Being on Unlimited Sick Leave
10.06.15 Željko Topić Attacks EPO Staff for ‘Daring’ to Legally Challenge the EPO’s Management Over Its Gross Abuses in Europe
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
10.13.15 EPO Management is Running Out of Time as More Media Remarks on Its Abuses
10.13.15 EPO Management Lobbies for the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Uses This to Advance Software Patents in Europe
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 EPO is Trademark-Bullying Its Critics, Trying Repeatedly to Remove Bad Publicity With Help From Menacing Legal Threats (SLAPP)
10.16.15 EPO Cleverly Frames Total War Against Its Own Staff as a War Against Nazism
10.16.15 Microsoft-Connected FOSS FUD Firm Black Duck Says It Can Cost $25,000 to Fix a Bug in FOSS
10.19.15 Benoît Battistelli et al in an Allegedly New Campaign of Defamation Against Staff Member
10.20.15 Brute Force Cracking Attempts Against Techrights
10.26.15 The Deteriorating Working Conditions at the EPO Show Reluctance to Make Talented Staff (or Ill Staff) Happy
10.27.15 Board of Appeal Thwarts a Software Patent Application in the EPO, From Company Indirectly Connected to the EPO
10.27.15 European Patent Organisation: Hallmark of a Corrupted (by Corporations) Entity
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 Private Eye Covers the EPO Scandals, Says EPO Hired ‘British Snooping Firm Global Risk Consultants’
10.31.15 Patents Roundup: Software Patents in India, the US, Microsoft’s Dubious Software Patents, and Mark Cuban
11.03.15 The Benoît Battistelli Way or the Highway: EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal is Being Discredited, SUEPO Web Site is Down Again
11.04.15 The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part II
11.04.15 A State Within a State: Süddeutsche Zeitung Article About the EPO’s Bizarre Existence Above the Law
11.05.15 CopyCamp ’15 in Warsaw Discussed the Problem of Patents on Software, Which Still Exist in Europe
11.05.15 Dutch Political Action Against the EPO’s Management Greater Than Previously Estimated
11.05.15 Dutch Political Action Against the EPO’s Management Greater Than Previously Estimated
11.06.15 IP Kat Bemoans Crushing of the EPO’s Boards by an Increasingly Paranoid EPO Management
11.06.15 The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part IV
11.08.15 The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part VI
11.09.15 The EPO’s Investigative Unit Exposed: Part VII
11.10.15 New Reports Highlight Need to Crack Down on the European Patent Office and Microsoft
11.13.15 New Academic Paper Explains Why Europe Has Virtually No Patent Trolls, Italian Patent Troll Sisvel Makes a Comeback, Patent Lawyers Belittle the Problem
11.18.15 EPO: It’s Like a Family Business – Part II
11.18.15 Meltdown at the EPO, Massive Staff Protests This Afternoon
11.19.15 Patent Lawyers Want to Bring Software Patents (Hence Patent Trolls Too) to Europe, Piggyback Battistelli’s Habitual UPC Promotion
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
11.22.15 Rumour About Efforts to Dismiss a Board Judge by Intimidating Boards of Appeal
11.23.15 EPO President Battistelli Now Intimidates Even National Delegations
11.23.15 NRC Handelsblad (Dutch Evening Newspaper) Speaks About EPO’s Refusal to Accept Court Orders From The Hague
11.24.15 Censoring WIPR Article About Censorship by EPO
11.24.15 Response to Bogus Accusations That EPO Staff Protests Are Really an Attempt to Derail UPC
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
11.26.15 European Patent Office (EPO) a “Kingdom Above the EU Countries, a Tyranny With ZERO Accountability”
11.26.15 A Call for Bloggers and Journalists: Did EPO Intimidate and Threaten You Too? Please Speak Out.
11.26.15 Documents Needed: Contract or Information About EPO PR/Media Campaign to Mislead the World
11.27.15 The European Private Office: What Was Once a Public Service is Now Crony Capitalism With Private Contractors
11.27.15 Leaked: EPO Award of €880,000 “in Order to Address the Media Presence of the EPO” (Reputation Laundering)
11.28.15 What Everyone Needs to Know About the EPO’s New War on Journalism
11.29.15 How the EPO Twisted Defamation Law in a Failed Bid to Silence Techrights
11.29.15 Why the European Patent Office Cannot Really Sue and Why It’s All — More Likely Than Not — Just SLAPP
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”
12.04.15 EurActiv’s Puff Piece for EPO (Amid High-Budget Media Blitz) Reveals Just How Clueless and Tactless the EPO’s President Really is
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 The EPO’s PR Agency is Connected to Fracking AstroTurf in the United States
12.06.15 EPO “Synonymous With Psychological Depressions, Nervous Breakdowns, and Even Suicides”
12.06.15 Staff Union of the EPO Responds to Benoît Battistelli’s Alleged Defamation of Staff Representatives
12.08.15 Team Battistelli Plans to Send to Exile (or Effectively Fire) Law-abiding Staff Because the Staff is Independent and Unwilling to Sack a Whistleblower
12.09.15 An Introduction and an Overview of European Patent Office (EPO) Scandals
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 Contacting National Delegations to Complain About the European Patent Office (EPO)
12.10.15 The EPO’s Double Standard on Confidentiality
12.10.15 Surveillance Audits at the EPO
12.12.15 The EPO’s Failed (Dismissed) Attempt to Dismiss a Judge Alleged to Have Communicated About EPO Abuses
12.12.15 A Day After Massive EPO Protest Benoît Battistelli Tries Using Money to Appease Staff
12.12.15 EPO ‘Sweetener’ for Administrative Council National Delegates
12.12.15 The European Patent Office is a Lobby Organisation, Was and Still is Lobbying for Expansion of Patent Scope (Also to Software) Through UPC
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 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
12.16.15 AIPPI Sends Angry Letter to the Administrative Council Regarding the EPO’s Attacks on the Boards and Staff Unions, Saying it Damages the EPO’s Function and Reputation
12.16.15 European Patent Institute (EPI) Not Happy With the EPO’s Terrible Treatment of the Boards of Appeal
12.17.15 Administrative Council Does Not Crush the Boards But Does Crush the Unions (Suspension Duration Sextupled)
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 EPO Irrelevancy, Two Decades to be Granted an EPO Patent, Outrage Over Patents on Plants in EPO
12.20.15 EPO Management Discovers Media is Against It
12.20.15 More Sunday Humour: Fictional Diary From the European Patent Office
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
12.24.15 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 Concerns About the Unitary Patent Court (UPC) Among EPO Staff an Outcome of Battistelli’s Attacks on Staff
12.26.15 Benoît Battistelli Fails to Get Majority of 38 Member States to Crush the Boards, Which Are Already Being Crushed Anyway (23 Vacant Judge Positions)
12.26.15 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part II: Patent Office as a Cancer
12.26.15 Insensitivity at the EPO’s Management – Part III: Death in the Family
12.27.15 Battistelli’s Proposed Changes to Pensions “Difficult to Understand”, “Liable to Cause Instability”, Without Consultation or Justification
12.27.15 Revolving Doors of High-Level EPO Management: Jacques Michel and the Questel Deal With the EPO
12.31.15 Software Patents Used by Patent Trolls in the United States Are Squashed in Courts
01.01.16 Microsoft, Which Actively Aids State-Sponsored Attacks Even in Russia (Cold War Archrival), Says It Will Battle State-Sponsored Attacks
01.05.16 The European Patent Office (EPO) Has Become a Propaganda Mill After the FTI Consulting Deal
01.05.16 Patent Lawyers and People in ‘IP’ Jobs Warp the Debate About the Patent System: EPO-Funded Writers, Glorification of Patent Trolls, and Software Patents
01.08.16 The European Patent Office (EPO) Doesn’t Like Spanish, So Why Should the Spanish Tolerate the EPO?
01.08.16 Patent Lawyers Continue to Spin Grim News About Patents (UPC, Lawsuits Peak, Patent Raids) as Good News
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 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 Hundreds of EPO Staff at The Hague (Including Managers) Spontaneously Protested Today, Making Almost Half of All Staff Present
01.16.16 Summarising the Latest Attacks by the European Patent Office (EPO) on European Society, With Complicity of Corporate Media
01.16.16 The EPO “Hearing Was a Mockery.”
01.16.16 EPO Staff Protests in Berlin and Vienna
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 Unitary Patent (UPC) Highlights Reality Behind the EPO’s Management and Its Multinational/Overseas Bosses
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
01.19.16 SLAPP-Happy EPO Vice-President Željko Topić Loses Croatian Defamation Lawsuit — AGAIN!
01.19.16 Poor Journalism From Süddeutsche Zeitung Perpetuates the EPO Management’s Lies
01.20.16 The EPO’s PR Team May be Trying a New ‘Damage Control’ Strategy Amid Historic Protests by Staff
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
01.23.16 EPO Implicitly Acknowledges Declining Patent Quality by Agreeing to Finally Dump Some Monsanto GMO Patents
01.23.16 Additional Information About EPO Management and Its Abuses, as Told by Anonymous Comments
01.23.16 Union-Busting Strategies Backfire: After Additional EPO Protests/Actions (Over 2,000 in Attendance With More to Come) a STRIKE is Being Planned
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 The United States’ Patent System Lets Software Patents Rot, as Patent Trolls Take Over the System and Unrest Grows
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 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
01.30.16 When European SMEs Make the Mistake of Relying on the EPO’s Integrity, Now Want to Even SUE the EPO
01.30.16 Translation: What If the European Patent Office Were to Torture?
01.31.16 MEP Konstantina Kouneva (Former Trade Unionist) Again Takes Action Against the European Patent Office for Union-Busting Actions
02.01.16 Under Battistelli’s Regime the European Patent Office is Rapidly Rotting
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 Patent Invalidation Statistics and Cost of Patent Litigation (Even If Bogus) Show That Patent Scope and Examination Standards a Problem in Europe, Not Just the US
02.03.16 The Most Detailed Explanation (Yet) of What’s Wrong With the EPO
02.04.16 The Siege Continues: Patent Lawyers Want More Patents, Including Software Patents, In Spite of Alice
The Siege Continues: Patent Lawyers Want More Patents, Including Software Patents, In Spite of Alice
02.06.16 The ‘Offenses’ of EPO Staff Representatives Boil Down to Truth-Telling
02.07.16 UPC: To Understand Who Would Benefit From It Just Look at Who’s Promoting It (Like TPP)
02.08.16 ‘Aversion to Change’ Propaganda From the EPO Echoes or Parrots Lenin and Stalin
02.08.16 Latest Propaganda From the EPO’s Management an Effort to Make the EPO the Tool of Megacorporations
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 Even the Legal Community is Upset at Benoît Battistelli for the Damage He Did to the EPO
02.09.16 Several Political Parties Directly Challenge the European Patent Office for Ignoring the Law, Not Obeying Court Orders
02.10.16 Member of European Parliament Brings Up “Ongoing Violations of the Fundamental and Employment Rights of the Staff of EPO”
02.10.16 UPC Nepotism, Political Abuses, and UPC Involvement From the Legal Firm That EPO Hired to Bully Techrights
02.11.16 Only Half a Dozen Cuban Patents Filed at EPO, But Hugely Unpopular Battistelli Goes to Cuba to Garner Cheap Support
02.12.16 In Lawyerland, Simulated UPC ‘Trials’ and More Extraordinary EPO Propaganda for Change That Would Harm Europe to Help Patent Lawyers and Their Big Clients
02.13.16 The European Patent Office, Aloof/Apathetic to Inventors and Human Rights, Simply Cannot be Trusted With the Unitary Patent (UPC)
02.14.16 Patents Roundup: Software Patents, Patenting Loopholes, PTAB, Patent Trolls, and Software Patents Propagandists
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)
02.16.16 Transcript of EPO Official Admitting on Television (Nieuwsuur Interview) That Courts Are of No Interest to Him
02.18.16 EPO Management Reportedly in a State of Collapse, Rumours Suggest Battistelli Possibly Out Soon, Events Canceled
02.18.16 Open Letter Explains Why Disciplinary Committees at the EPO Have Become a Sham Under Battistelli’s Regime
02.18.16 Team Battistelli Tries to Bend the Rules to Prevent the European Patent Office From Going on Strike
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
02.19.16 Source: EPO’s Administrative Council Not Pursuing Battistelli’s Witch-hunt Against a Judge Anymore
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
02.22.16 Call for Information: Separating EPO Rumours From Confirmed Facts
02.24.16 EPO-Funded Unitary Patent (UPC) Propaganda Events and the Latest on the Undemocratic (Even Antidemocratic) UPC Push
02.24.16 Possible Connections Found Between WIPO Misconduct and “a Dozen Serious Criminal Charges” Against EPO’s Željko Topić
02.25.16 The English Version of the Central Staff Committee’s Open Letter to the Praesidium of the Administrative Council Regarding Battistelli’s ‘Social Study’ EPO Propaganda
02.25.16 European Patent Office: Battistelli Gets Official Warning
02.25.16 The Mass Media Recognises This May be the End of the Battistelli Regime
02.25.16 Dutch Media Reinforces Rumours That Battistelli is on His Way Out, Only a Matter of Money Now
02.26.16 Article Translation (de Volkskrant): EPO Employees Are Tired of Tyranny and Take to the Streets
02.26.16 New Evidence Emerges, Showing That Unitary Patent (UPC) is Indeed an SME Killer That Negatively Affects Europe for Patent Lawyers’ Sake
02.27.16 EPO “Management by Fear… Within a System Which is Not Subject to Any Outside Control.”
02.28.16 Problems of Governance in International Organizations: the EPO
02.29.16 Update on Civil Complaints and Criminal Complaints Against EPO Vice-President Željko Topić in Lufthansa/Airplus Case
03.01.16 Battistelli and Godwin’s Law (Comparing One’s Opposition to Nazis)
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 EPO at Boiling Point: Why Battistelli is Believed to be Paid About $2,000,000 Per Year and Who Created and Circulated a Letter in His Support
03.02.16 Brace Yourselves for Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Tomorrow the European Patent Office Will Spread Propaganda Based on Half Truths and Misdirection
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 Why the Letter in Support of Battistelli is Worse Than a Lie and Should be Thrown to the Wastebasket by the Organisation’s Administrative Council
03.04.16 Unitary Patent (UPC) Propagandists Are Louder Than Ever as Its Architect in Chief (Battistelli) is Probably About to Get Sacked
03.05.16 Remember What Benoît Battistelli Said About His Salary and His Bonus
03.05.16 Forget Staff Union-busting ‘Strike Ballots’, How About Ballots on Presidential Matters?
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 The EPO’s Media Strategy at Work: Union Feuds and Group Fracturing
03.08.16 Claim and Perception: Under Battistelli, EPO More Permissive on Software Patents Than USPTO, In Spite of the EPC
03.08.16 Rumoured Successor of Battistelli, Christoph Ernst, Previously Seen as Antagonist of Battistelli But What About UPC?
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’
The European Patent Office is in a State of Transition, But Not Battistelli’s Transition or ‘Reform’
03.10.16 A Patent Office or a Lobbying Firm? ‘European’ Patent Office (EPO) Sticking its Nose in UPC Matters Again.
03.11.16 EPO Tells La Tribune That Benoît Battistelli’s Salary is “We Don’t Comment on Rumours”
03.11.16 The Article Which Reinforces Rumours About Christoph Ernst Replacing President Battistelli at the EPO
03.12.16 Growing Awareness of Microsoft’s Campaign Against Linux, Based on Poor Quality Software Patents and Secret Settlements
03.13.16 European Patent Office Kontrovers TV Coverage (English Version)
03.13.16 L’Office Européen des Brevets (OEB/European Patent Office) Kontrovers Coverage
03.14.16 English Transcript of Bayerischer Rundfunk Coverage About EPO
03.14.16 French Transcript of Bayerischer Rundfunk Coverage About 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 Rumours About Antonio Campinos as Replacement for Benoît Battistelli
03.14.16 Old Article About Battistelli’s Right-hand Man, Željko Topić, Highlights Severity of the Whole Situation
03.16.16 EPO’s Leadership All-time Low: Benoît Battistelli’s Meeting With Secretary Martijn van Dam Explodes
03.16.16 Dutch Media (NRC) Cites Documents Leaked to Techrights and EPO Refuses to Comment on Them
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 Patents Roundup: EMC, Pure Storage, OpenTV, Apple, Segway, and Alice (Software Patents)
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 Translation of Article Highlights Bavarian Political Motion, Protest Scale and Severity in Munich
03.18.16 Article Highlights Madness When It Comes to Overstressing EPO Staff and Pushing Towards Overpatenting (Even Life!) in Pursuit of Profits
03.19.16 Conflict at the European Patent Office: Battistelli gets away with a slap on the wrist
03.22.16 Software Patents: Dying, Spreading, or Hardly Surviving?
03.23.16 Ongoing Investigations: EPO’s Attacks on the Media
03.23.16 Focus on Patent Trolls Persists, With Increasing Use of Euphemisms Such as NPEs and PAEs
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
03.26.16 Ingve Björn Stjerna’s New Book About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Why It’s Important
03.27.16 Battistelli esta Tratando de Salvar Su Trabajo en la EPO Despues que le llamaron la Atención, Pero no Regresa su Trabajo A los Lideres Sindicales Despedidos; Huelga Inminente
03.28.16 Preserving Material About the European Patent Office (EPO) and Abuses by EPO Management
03.29.16 Crisis Deepens at the European Patent Office, General Strike Planned for Next Thursday
03.29.16 The Media is Still Awash With Unitary Patent (UPC) Misinformation
03.30.16 EPO Losing Time: Two Weeks Later, Benoît Battistelli Has Made Virtually No Progress to Save Himself From Sacking
03.30.16 UPC Would Bring Software Patents to Europe and Open the Floodgates to Litigation
03.31.16 New EPO Marketing Campaign: Drive Your Audi Home
04.02.16 Biased IAM’s Editor in Chief Goes on the Offensive Against (Software) Patent Sceptics, Still a Trolls Denialist
04.02.16 UPC Lobbying and Propaganda at the Fordham IP Think Tank (‘Conference’) 2016 in New York, With a Clear EPO Role
04.04.16 EPO Management Says Not a Word About Strike This Week, Not Informing Customers/Stakeholders Either
04.05.16 European Patent Office Insists That Obeying the Law is Not Realistic, UPC Another Example of That
04.07.16 EPO is on Strike, Battistelli Escapes to London With His Bodyguards for More UPC Lobbying, FTI Consulting Goes for Brussels
04.08.16 Lobbyists for Software Patents in ‘Journalism’ and ‘Reform’ Clothing (With Microsoft Connections)
04.10.16 What is Known (and Not Known) About Attacks on Croatian Portal That Exposed Željko Topić, the Notorious EPO Vice-President
04.14.16 Croatian News Site Explains Where Criminal Cases Against EPO Vice-President Željko Topić Stand
04.14.16 US Lobbyist for Software Patents, David Kappos, Uses EPO’s Snubbing of the EPC to Spread Misinformation and Patent Monopolies on Software/Algorithms
04.14.16 Patent Trolls in the US, Storm of Patent Litigation Expected in China, and Yahoo’s Patents (Potentially on Sale) Become Subject of Intrigue
04.16.16 Administrative Council “Openly Showed Disapproval of Battistelli’s Behaviour” at the EPO
04.16.16 Benoît Battistelli “Left in Anger During an Initial Meeting With the State Secretary Who Started Talking About Working Conditions for the Staff”
04.18.16 EPO Integrity on the Line: The Story of Željko Topić’s Controversial Diploma – Part I
04.19.16 Munich State Attorney is Pursuing Criminal Charges Against the European Patent Office
04.19.16 The ‘Great Conspiracy’ of Patent Lawyers, Lobbyists and Large Corporations for UPC and for Software Patents
04.21.16 Bavarian Parliament Discusses EPO Abuses
04.22.16 The Chaos in the EPO Impacts Stakeholders
04.22.16 EPO Integrity on the Line: The Story of Željko Topić’s Controversial Diploma – Part V
04.22.16 Fighting Back Against Limitations on Software Development in Europe
05.02.16 Governments in Europe Still Active Against EPO Management
05.03.16 New Paper About the UPC Explains Why It is Bad for Small- and Medium-sized European Businesses
05.05.16 Enemies of Europe: A Month After Promoting UPC in London, Benoît Battistelli and the EPO Do This in Helsinki
05.05.16 Amid French Political Actions Against EPO Management French Consulate the Target of Next Week’s EPO Staff Protest
05.09.16 European Digital SME Alliance: Unified Patent Court (UPC) “Unconstitutional”, Harms SMEs, Brings Software Patents to Europe, “Should be Based on EU Law and Not on an International Agreement.”
05.15.16 With Software Patents Abound, Free/Open Source Software Loses, Patent Lawyers Gain
05.16.16 UPC an Attack Not Only on the European Public But Also on Staff of the EPO
05.19.16 Anonymous Commenters Debate Whether Battistelli’s EPO Can Revoke Pensions of Dismissed Employees Who Dare — GASP — Find Alternative Employment
05.20.16 Notorious EPO Tyrant, Benoît Battistelli, Meets Other Tyrants, Reportedly ‘Cleanses’ the Administrative Council
05.22.16 Disrupting Battistelli’s Distracting Propaganda: EPO Staff to Protest Again in About a Fortnight
05.22.16 Corrupting Democracy? Growing Frequency of Rumours That the EPO’s President Battistelli is ‘Buying’ Votes of Small Member States
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”
05.26.16 Italian Report About EPO Now Available in English
05.31.16 Extremely Dodgy Dealings at the European Patent Office
06.01.16 Crazed Battistelli is Trying Plan B to Demolish the Boards of Appeal (Quality Control), Praesidium/Association of Members Strikes Back
06.02.16 Closer Look at Players in Battistelli’s Information War: Part I
06.02.16 Closer Look at Players in Battistelli’s Information War: Part II (BlueCoat)
06.02.16 Closer Look at Players in Battistelli’s Information War: Part III (Buying the Media, Manufacturing ‘Studies’ With Secret Contracts)
06.04.16 Battistelli is Destroying the European Patent Office and Wasting a Lot of Money Hiding This Fact
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)
06.08.16 ES: Mirada Cercana a los Protagonistas en la Guerra Informativa de Battistelli: Parte III (Comprando a los Medios, Fabricando ´estudios´con Contratos Secrétos)
06.09.16 Battistelli is Said to be Engineering Further Attacks on People Whom He Already Fired From the EPO
06.09.16 EPO’s European Inventor Award 2016 (EIA16) is Not an Award Event, It Is a Propaganda and Lobbying Event of Battistelli, EPO Just Foots the Bill
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 EPO ‘Bought’ the Financial Times, Which Now Operates in ‘Mouthpiece Mode’ for Mr. Battistelli
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 EPO Press Spokesperson and Director External Communications Busy Creating Distractions From EPO Controversies
06.12.16 ES: La Comisión es Complice en los Abusos de la EPO, De Acuerdo a Marc Tarabella
06.13.16 Bought Media Coverage at the European Patent Office
06.13.16 Report From Thursday Protest in EPO Munich Branch/Headquarters
06.13.16 Spontaneous Protest at EPO Today as Battistelli Still Acts Defiantly, Three Days of ‘Trial’ Starting Tomorrow
06.14.16 EPO and Its ‘Buddies’ in the Media Lobby for the UPC in Spite of and in the Face of Resistance
06.14.16 Rights Groups, Media, Developers and Others Are Rising Up Against Patent Trolls, But the Problem is Always Software Patents
06.14.16 Endgame of Manipulating Media With Payments and PR: The ‘Blame Everything and Everyone But EPO Management’ Tactics
06.15.16 Battistelli’s European Patent Office Broadens FTI Consulting Contract to Undermine the Media, Wastes Millions of Euros
06.15.16 EPO Investigative Unit Causes “Trauma, Will Ruin the Health or Even the Family”
06.15.16 British Media Tackling Other British Media That the EPO’s Benoît Battistelli Paid for His Propaganda Campaign
06.18.16 Brain Drain at the EPO: Qualified Patent Examiners Leave in Droves, Young Ones Blindly Loyal to Management Reduce Patent Quality
06.18.16 The Rule of Money and Power, Not the Rule of Law, at the European Patent Office
06.20.16 Under Battistelli’s Regime the EPO is a Lawless, Dark Place
06.20.16 New Paper Demonstrates That Unitary Patent (UPC) is Little More Than a Conspiracy of Patent ‘Professionals’ and Their Self Interest
06.21.16 EPO Self-Censorship by IP Kat or Just Censorship of Opinions That IP Kat Does Not Share/Accept (Updated)
06.21.16 The Conspiracy of Patent Lawyers for UPC and Battistelli’s Role in Preparing by Firing People
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 As Decision on the UK’s EU Status Looms, EPO Deep in a Crisis of Patent Quality
06.23.16 Benoît Battistelli Should Resign in Light of New Leak of Decision in His Vendetta Against Truth-Telling Judge (Updated)
06.26.16 Patents Roundup: Bad Quality (USPTO), Bad Analysis (India), Bad Microsoft, Bad Actors (Trolls), Bad Scope (Software Patents), and the Ugly
06.28.16 New Efforts to Work Around Barriers to UPC in Light of ‘Brexit’; Behind These Efforts Are Self-Serving Patent Profiteers
06.28.16 Injunction Against Battistelli’s Investigative Unit (Known Internally as ‘Gestapo’) Amid Serious Injustices and Bogus ‘Trials’
06.29.16 Rumours That EPO President Battistelli Got Sacked to be Replaced by Christoph Ernst Appear to be Baseless
06.29.16 EPO Management Bunker: “The Bailiff Who Came to Deliver the Subpoena was Escorted off the Property by Five Security Guards.”
06.29.16 Growing Consensus Even Among Patent Professionals That UPC is Dying Everywhere If Not Just in the UK
Growing Consensus Even Among Patent Professionals That UPC is Dying Everywhere If Not Just in the UK
07.01.16 Battistelli’s Destructive Actions Will Drive EPO Applicants Away to National Patent Offices, Putting at Risk the Whole EU-Wide (and Beyond) Project
07.01.16 Realistic English Translation of EPO Announcement About Crushing of Patent Quality
07.01.16 The European Patent Organisation’s Administrative Council Helps Benoît Battistelli Destroy Patent Quality for the Sake of ‘Production’
07.03.16 Grim Situation at the European Patent Office Following Battistelli’s Latest Lawlessness Tendencies, as Explained by Concerned Insiders
07.03.16 Post-Jeremy IP Kat Deems It OK to Publish Anonymous Comment Comparing Techrights to “Daesh” While Censoring Polite Response to That
07.04.16 Image of Battistelli’s EPO Tarnished in the UK and Elsewhere as Battistelli Warms up to Cuba, Colombia, and Panama
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
07.07.16 Weapons of Mass Distraction at the EPO Cost the EPO Millions of Euros
07.09.16 Battistelli and Team UPC Working Behind Closed Doors to Overcome Brexit and Impose Patent Injustice
07.11.16 Will Battistelli’s Friend/Ally Lucy Neville-Rolfe Shamelessly Attack British Democracy and Push for UPC in Spite of Brexit?
07.11.16 “We Need to Inform Politicians, Journalists ... Ministers or Representatives that the Whole European Patent System is at Risk.”
07.12.16 Hot Summer: EPO Management on Trial This Week
07.14.16 Deathwatch of the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPC)
07.15.16 What If EPO Under Battistelli Gets Broken Beyond Repair Just Like the UPC?
07.18.16 Battistelli Has Implemented De Facto EPO Coup to Remove Oversight, Give Himself Total Power, and Allegedly Give UPC Gifts (Loot) to French Officials
07.22.16 Blockstream Has No Patents, But Pledges Not to Sue Using Patents
07.22.16 Glimpse at Patent Systems Across the World: Better Quality Control at the USPTO Post-America Invents Act (2011), Unlike the EPO Post-Battistelli (2010)
07.26.16 Munich Attack Mentioned by EPO But Not Ansbach
08.01.16 Software Patents Still a Problem in Europe (in Spite of the European Patent Convention), the UPC Would Make Things Worse
08.14.16 Pushers of Software Patents Outside the United States (Which is Belatedly Squashing These Patents)
08.18.16 The End of an Era at the USPTO as Battistelli-Like (EPO) Granting Policies Are Over
08.26.16 The EPO’s Francesco Zaccà Presenting in Turin Alongside Patent Trolls (Like the Patent Mafia Sisvel) and Lobbyists/Front Groups for Software Patents, UPC
08.28.16 More Lies From President Benoît Battistelli and the EPO Crisis Which Continues to Deepen
09.02.16 UPC Threatens to Send the European Patent Office Circling Down the Drain
09.03.16 Specialists in Public International Law Bemoan Privacy Violations at the European Patent Office
09.08.16 Another New Low for the EPO and Battistelli (Updated)
09.08.16 A New Wave of the EPO’s Much-Expected Propaganda Push, Aided by ‘Managing IP’ and IAM ‘Magazine’
09.11.16 New Paper Outlines Concerns That the EPO as a Patent Examination Office is Dying, Gradually Turning Into a Registration Office
09.12.16 Benoît Battistelli is Putting More EPO Staff Representatives in Front of His Firing Line
09.12.16 Brain Drain at the EPO Under Battistelli is Becoming a Critical Problem
09.12.16 EU Law and UPC: Brought to You by Microsoft and the European Patent Office
09.13.16 Web Site ‘Managing IP’ is Managing to Come Across as an EPO Mouthpiece
09.14.16 As Part of So-called ‘Reforms’, the EPO’s President is Gradually Eliminating the Boards of Appeal, Not Just Their Independence
09.15.16 Battistelli and His Circle — Not Just Team UPC — Still Delusional About the Prospects of a Unified Patent Court (UPC)
09.19.16 When EPO Liar-in-Chief Benoît Battistelli Defamed His Staff in Parliament, Comparing Them to Nazis and Criminals
09.20.16 Like Big Tobacco Lobbyists, Benoît Battistelli and Team UPC Are Just Chronically Lying and Manipulating Politicians With Their Lies
09.24.16 Bristows LLP’s Hatred/Disdain of UK/EU Democracy Demonstrated; Says “Not Only Will the Pressure for UK Ratification of the UPC Agreement Continue, But a Decision is Wanted Within Weeks.”
09.27.16 Team Battistelli Intensifies the Attack on the Boards of Appeal Again
09.27.16 Beware the Patent Law Firms Insinuating That Software Patents Are Back Because of McRO
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.”
09.29.16 Letter From the Dutch Institute of Patent Attorneys (Nederlandse Orde van Octrooigemachtigden) to the Administrative Council of the EPO
09.30.16 New Paper Provides Evidence of Sinking Patent Quality at the EPO, Refuting the Liar in Chief Battistelli
10.02.16 Guest Post: Lenovo Forums Possibly Banned All Comcast Users in Illinois in Order to Silence Discussion of Linux on Yoga Problems
10.03.16 Translation and Response to Battistelli’s Face-Saving ‘Interview’ With Juve
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
10.05.16 Echo Chamber’s Lobbying: Team UPC Citing Team UPC as ‘Proof’ Regarding the UPC
10.09.16 Danish Stories – Part IV: Jesper Kongstad and FJORDBLINK MEDICAL ApS
10.09.16 Has IP Kat’s Unofficial (Self-)Censorship Policy Expanded From Protecting the EPO’s Image to Protecting the UPC?
10.10.16 Towards the End of Software Patents in the United States
10.11.16 The Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) Protested Today in Munich (Against the EPO’s Management) While President Benoît Battistelli Lied
10.13.16 EPO Administrative Council Meeting Turning Point – Part III: How Benoît Battistelli Planned to Expand His Attacks on EPO Staff (But Failed)
10.16.16 EPO Social Conference Another Example of Astronomical Waste of Money by Benoît Battistelli
10.16.16 As Expected, Benoît Battistelli Puts Longtime Ally Roland Grossenbacher on Top of Boards of Appeal
10.18.16 French Article About the EPO “Crisis”
10.18.16 Subject of the European Patent Office’s Abuses Raised in European Parliament by Ulrike Müller (ALDE)
Subject of the European Patent Office’s Abuses Raised in European Parliament by Ulrike Müller (ALDE)
10.20.16 Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead, But ‘Managing IP’ and Selfish Patent Law Firms Still Try to Resurrect It
10.25.16 Leaked: Minutes From the Administrative Council of the EPO Regarding the ‘Reform’ (Exile) of the Boards of Appeal
10.25.16 No Promising Future For the EPO Under Battistelli (If Any Future At All)
10.25.16 Leaked Minutes From the EPO Reveal That Battistelli is Detached From Reality and Blames Everything on “Union Officials”
10.31.16 The Insane World of Patent Maximalism and Professor Joshua Pearce’s Case for Weakening Patent Rights
The Insane World of Patent Maximalism and Professor Joshua Pearce’s Case for Weakening Patent Rights
11.02.16 Patent Maximalism is Destroying the European Patent Office (Just a Paperwork Assembly Line), Exile of Boards Ensures No Turnaround
11.02.16 Breaking the European Patent System With the UPC Hammer, Courtesy of the EPO and Lawyers-Centric ‘News’ Sites
11.04.16 In the Case of Frenchman Laurent Prunier, Battistelli Reasserts Himself as Psychopathic Bully
11.05.16 The Death of Patent Quality at the EPO and the European Commission’s Latest Smackdown of the EPO’s Patent Maximalism
11.05.16 Dismissal of Laurent Prunier Worse Than It Seems as Battistelli Almost ‘Pulls a Hardon’ by Taking Away Pension Rights Too
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 “Not My President“: The Sentiment of European Patent Office Staff Towards Their Fascistic Boss
11.13.16 Benoît Battistelli Reinforces the Perception That García-Escudero is His Pet Chinchilla at the Board of Appeals Committee (BoAC)
11.14.16 Leaked: Proof That Benoît Battistelli Disregarded Orders From the Administrative Council (Again)
11.16.16 The EPO Lowering Patent Quality, Accused of Issuing Invalid Patents, and Promoting Software Patents (Hence Trolls)
11.18.16 Drunk on ‘Production’, the European Patent Office (EPO) Grants Patents on Recipes
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 Union Syndicale Fédérale Writes Letters to the Chinchilla Man of the Administrative Council About Battistelli’s EPO Abuses, No Sign of Reply/Reaction
11.26.16 Benoît Battistelli’s Affinity for Tiny Countries Exploits the Ease of ‘Buying’ Their Votes
11.26.16 China Creates a Patent Bubble That Contributes to Patent Inflation
11.26.16 SLAPP-Happy EPO Vice-President Slapped Out of the Municipal Criminal Court in Zagreb for the Third Time!
11.29.16 The UPC Scam Part II: The Patent Echo Chamber at Work, Prematurely Congratulating Itself in Its ‘News’ Sites
11.29.16 The UPC Scam Part IV: Bumps Along the Road for UPC, With or Without the UK and Brexit
12.01.16 Dutch and French Politicians Complain About the European Patent Office, British Media Coverage Regular Now
12.01.16 The Rule of Law and Justice Don’t Exist Inside the EPO, Confirms the International Labour Organisation (ILO)
12.02.16 Relocating the Boards of Appeal to Haar is a Poisonous Priority at Battistelli’s EPO
12.04.16 Patent Trolls of Microsoft and Ericsson Are Trying to Tax Everything, Especially Linux Devices
12.05.16 Leaked: Battistelli Acknowledges Bunk ‘Justice’ in About 100 Cases at the Internal Appeals Committee of the EPO
12.05.16 EPO at a Tipping Point: Battistelli Quarrelling With French Politicians, Administrative Council Urged to Act, Staff Unrest Peaking
12.05.16 Quality of Patents at the EPO Dependent on the Appeal Boards When Battistelli Assesses Performance Using the Wrong ‘Production’ Yardstick
12.06.16 EPO Spiraling Down the Drain as Experienced Examiners and Judges Are Seemingly Being Replaced by Interns
12.06.16 EPO Suicides Greater in Number Than is Widely Reported, Unjust System a Contributor to These
12.06.16 Heiko Maas, the SPD “Cash for Access” Affair, and Suspicions of Unwarranted Censorship at IP Kat (Again)
12.06.16 The UPC Scam Part VII: A Fine Mess in the Making, as Nothing Can be Made of It Amid/After Brexit
12.06.16 The UPC Scam Part VI: The Real Story Which People Missed Due to Puff Pieces Seeded by Battistelli-Bribed Media is That UPC Technically Cannot Come to the UK
12.08.16 British Media Slams Battistelli for Attempting to Cover Up 2 Years of Juridical Abuses With Help From the Administrative Council of the EPO
12.10.16 EPO Protest This Coming Wednesday Strives to Restore the Rule of Law and Freedom of Speech at the Office
12.12.16 Benoît Battistelli Besieged
12.12.16 Software Patents Battles: Lobby to Restore US Software Patents, IBM’s and Google’s Positions on the Subject, and Microsoft/Intellectual Ventures With Their Ongoing Attacks on Linux
12.13.16 Media Blackout in Croatian Mainstream Media About Criminal Charges Against EPO’s Croatian Vice-President and EPO President’s Notoriety
12.13.16 Staff Union of the European Central Bank Blasts Benoît Battistelli
12.15.16 Confirmed: Judge Carl Josefsson Chosen by the Administrative Council for the Secretive Patent Organisation
12.15.16 Team UPC Salivating Over Unitary Patent Fantasy Even Though It is Stuck in a Limbo
12.16.16 Will the Patent Microcosm of London Please Stop Misleading the Public About UPC?
12.16.16 Small Nations With Almost Not a Single European Patent Sign the Death Knell of EPO Patent Quality
12.17.16 Fury Over the Administrative Council of the EPO Controlling Nothing and Being Controlled by Battistelli
12.18.16 The USPTO Helps Large Businesses Crush Small Businesses
12.19.16 EPO President Benoît Battistelli “Should Be in Prison”
12.20.16 Benoît Battistelli’s Reign of Terror at the EPO Milks a Terror Attack Again, Shows Extreme Hypocrisy
Benoît Battistelli’s Reign of Terror at the EPO Milks a Terror Attack Again, Shows Extreme Hypocrisy
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
12.21.16 Good Luck to Apple in Exposing the Network of Patent Trolls That is Connected to Microsoft, Nokia, Ericsson, BlackBerry and Other Failed Mobile Players
12.21.16 No Justice at the EPO, Whose Underlying Purpose Was (Originally) to Do Patents Justice
12.27.16 Leaked: Letter to Quality Support (DQS) at the European Patent Office (EPO)
12.27.16 Bad Service at the European Patent Office (EPO) Escalated in the Form of Complaints to European Authorities/Politicians
12.31.16 EPO’s Central Staff Committee Complains About Battistelli’s Bodyguards Fetish and Corruption of the Media
01.01.17 EPO Select Committee is Wrong About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
01.02.17 Europe Should Listen to SMEs Regarding the UPC, as Battistelli, Team UPC and the Select Committee Lie About It
01.02.17 Teaser: Corruption Indictments Brought Against Vice-President of the European Patent Office (EPO)
01.06.17 India Keeps Rejecting Software Patents in Spite of Pressure From Large Foreign Multinationals
01.10.17 FFPE-EPO, the EPO Management’s Pet/Yellow Union, Helps Union-Busting (Against SUEPO) in Letter to Notorious Vice-President
01.11.17 No End to Battistelli’s Witch-hunts Against the Media, Against Staff, and Against Politicians
01.12.17 Brexit Means No UPC (Unified Patent Court)
01.15.17 Constitutionality as a Barrier and Brexit Barriers to UPC Keep the Whole Pipe Dream Deadlocked
01.17.17 More Fake News About the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Based on Lobbying Tactics From Bristows UPC and the Preparatory Committee
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)
01.20.17 Battistelli is an Autocrat Above the Law and It’s OK, Holland’s High Council Says
01.20.17 Beware Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
01.21.17 EPO Abuses Now Make the Netherlands Look Like a Facilitator of Human/Labour Rights Abuses
01.23.17 Media Blasts EPO Over Immunity Amid Suicides, Battistelli’s Behaviour Compared to Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s
01.24.17 Leaked: Team Battistelli, Exploiting a Controversial Decision From the Netherlands, is Trying to Squash SUEPO
01.24.17 Dr. Ingve Björn Stjerna: UPC’s “Entry Into Force is Not at all Secured,” Contrary to What Team UPC Says
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)
01.28.17 Juve Survey: Stakeholders Want Benoît Battistelli Out
01.31.17 Battistelli Brags About Being Unaccountable, But He is Wrong and is Probably in Defiance of the Law
01.31.17 Battistelli “Got Full Dictatorial Unaccountable Control of a Diplomatically Immune Organisation”
02.01.17 EPO Stakeholders Want Battistelli and His Goons Ousted, They Can Accomplish This by Working Together (Like a Union)
02.02.17 Growing Rift Between EPO Stakeholders and the Office, Due to Battistelli’s Appalling Leadership
02.02.17 New WIPR Survey and Other Data Points Suggest That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead, at Least in the UK
02.03.17 “Team Battistelli Continues With Intimidation Tactics”
02.03.17 Why Randall Rader Must Never Be Inside the USPTO, Let Alone the Patent Profession
02.03.17 Team UPC Continues to be a Premier Source of Fake News About Unitary Patent in the United Kingdom
02.05.17 Culture of Terror at The European Patent Office Escalates Thanks to Dutch Government’s Complicity
02.07.17 Translation: Juve Survey That Shows 0% Approval of Battistelli and Growing Concerns About the EPO
02.07.17 Battistelli’s EPO is Under Fire From Major Applicants for So-called ‘Early Certainty’ (Low Quality and Rushed Patent Examination)
02.07.17 Translation: Battistelli’s Patent Office Remains a Legal Island
02.07.17 The European Patent Office Officially Dishonours Justice, So It’s Time for SUEPO to Become Clandestine
02.12.17 Nazi Analogies at the EPO Are the Work of Battistelli, Who Libels Staff Representatives and Judges by Calling Them Nazis and Criminals
02.13.17 UPC Petition Launched to Halt Ratification Plans in the United Kingdom Amid Nefarious Back Room Deals
02.14.17 India Cites Public Interest in Patent Case Where Embargo Attempted Against Local Drugmaker
02.14.17 EPO-Connected Writers Are Using Alternative Facts or Fake News to Promote the Unitary Patent in British Media
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 Guest Post: EPO, an Idyllic Place to Work
02.16.17 New Scholarly Paper Says “UK’s Withdrawal From the EU Could Mean That the Entire (Unitary Patent) System Will Not Go Into Effect”
02.17.17 Technicolor, Having Turned Into a Patent Troll, Attacks Android/Tizen/Linux With Patents in Europe
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
02.20.17 Paid-for UPC Proponent, IAM ‘Magazine’, Debunked on UPC Again
02.22.17 Report From Yesterday’s Debate About the European Patent Office (EPO) at the Bavarian Landtag
02.22.17 French Politician Richard Yung Tells the Government About Abuses at the European Patent Office (EPO)
French Politician Richard Yung Tells the Government About Abuses at the European Patent Office (EPO)
03.01.17 Now is the Time to Sign the Petition Against the Unitary Patent (UPC)
03.02.17 EPO Budget Obscures and Distorts Facts About the Unitary Patent (UPC) in a Classic Antidemocratic Exercise by an Unaccountable Institution
03.04.17 EPO Mimics Interpol, But Interpol Should Raid the EPO and End the Management’s Abuses Once and for All
03.05.17 EPO President Benoît Battistelli, Like Far-Right Politicians, is a Great Danger to Europe
03.05.17 The Very Thought of UPC in the UK “is a Perfect Example of What Lobbying Can Achieve!”
03.07.17 Raise Your Glass to the Monopoly — New Article About the European Patent Office Losing It on Patent Scope
03.07.17 With a Week Left Before the Administrative Council’s Meeting, Pressure on Battistelli to Leave the EPO Continues to Grow
03.08.17 EPO “Too Industry-Friendly, Say the Critics”
03.09.17 ‘Evil Tongues’ Inside and Outside the EPO Explain Why Battistelli’s 2016 ‘Results’ Are Bad While the Media Mindlessly Repeats EPO Management’s Talking Points
03.09.17 Ousting of Benoît Battistelli Next Week Seems Feasible, But Jesper Kongstad Protects Rather Than Supervises Battistelli
03.10.17 ‘Lobbyists’ Annsley Merelle Ward and Alan Johnson (Bristows) Return to Using IP Kat to Spread Fake News About Unitary Patent (UPC)
03.12.17 The Patent Microcosm is Lobbying by Shaming, Typically for Patent Maximalism in the United States and Elsewhere
03.12.17 No, Spain is Not Joining the UPC, That’s Just What UPC Lobbyists Want Everyone to Believe
03.14.17 EPO Protest Tomorrow, Heads of Delegations Informed Regarding the Reasons
03.14.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) Misinformation in Spanish Media and EPO-Connected (Paid) Media That Lobbies Spain
03.15.17 New Examples of Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC), Courtesy of Patent Law Firms Looking to Prey on Gullible SMEs
03.16.17 Benoît Battistelli “Should Not Have Been in Charge of Anything More Involved Than a Hamster Cage Without the Hamster…”
03.16.17 CERN Staff Association “Profoundly Shocked by the Situation That Has Persisted in the European Patent Office (EPO)”
03.16.17 Battistelli Wants to be ‘King’ for a Decade or Longer, Jesper Kongstad Protects Him
03.17.17 IAM Remains Battistelli’s Propaganda Mill, Helping to Manufacture and Reinforce Lies About Quality
03.18.17 Letter From European Public Services Organisation (IPSO) to Angela Merkel and Heiko Maas Regarding EPO Union-Busting Catastrophe
03.20.17 Insulting Reversal of Narratives at the EPO: Team Battistelli as the Victim
03.20.17 Supposedly ‘Pampered’ Prisoners Are Still Prisoners of the EPO
03.21.17 At EPO “I Have the Feeling That Lowering Quality is Part of a Concerted Plan.”
03.21.17 What the Patent Microcosm is Saying About the EPO and the UPC
03.22.17 EPO’s Georg Weber Continues Horrifying Trend of EPO Promoting Software Patents in Defiance of Directive, EPC, and Common Sense
03.22.17 The Battistelli Regime, With Its Endless Scandals, Threatens to Crash the Unitary Patent (UPC), Stakeholders Concerned
03.23.17 Nepotism at the European Patent Office and Suspicious Absence of Tenders for Big Projects
03.24.17 Bernhard Rapkay, Former MEP and Rapporteur on Unitary Patent, Shoots Down UPC Hopes While UPC Hopefuls Recognise That Spain Isn’t Interested Either
03.26.17 Yes, Battistelli’s Ban on EPO Strikes (or Severe Limitation Thereof) is a Violation of Human Rights
03.26.17 His Master’s Voice, Jesper Kongstad, Blocks Discussion of Investigative and Disciplinary Procedures at the EPO
03.28.17 In Attempt to Promote the Horrific UPC (Poor Quality of Patents Everywhere), Minnoye and Casado Cerviño Attack Their Own Staff for Saying the Truth
03.28.17 A “Perfect Recipe for Fraud” at the European Patent Office (EPO)
03.28.17 Techrights Was Right About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
03.29.17 Kongstad and Battistelli Have Staged a Coup at the European Patent Organisation (EPO)
03.30.17 Devaluation of European Patents is a Recipe for Institutional Suicide and Immeasurable Harm to Europe’s Economy
03.30.17 Deconstructing the Latest ‘Damage Control’ From Team UPC Amid Demise of Unitary Patent Pipe Dreams
03.31.17 EPO Likes to Pretend to be Tolerated in Spite of Patenting Life, Seeds, Plants and More
03.31.17 EPO Central Staff Committee Points Out to Benoît Battistelli That He is in Gross Violation and Contempt of the Founding Document/Treaty of the EPO
03.31.17 Culpability for EPO Injustice in the Administrative Council Chaired by Battistelli’s Protector, Jesper Kongstad
04.01.17 Bristows UPC Delusions Are Back, Attempting to Distract From Bad News (UPC Isn’t Happening)
04.01.17 Bad Patent Quality (and Software Patents) Good for Patent Law Firms and Trolls, But Not for Anybody Else
04.02.17 The Litigation Lobby is Causing Chaos in Patent Offices, Still in a Coordinated Effort to Convert Patents Into Nothing But Legal Chaos That Harms Science
04.02.17 Team UPC ‘Took Over’ IP Kat, Readers Don’t Believe What It Says
04.03.17 Politicians Hubert Aiwanger, Florian Streibl, Gabi Schmidt and Others Fight for EPO Workers in Bavarian Parliament
04.06.17 The EPO’s Management is Silencing Its Critics by Sheer Intimidation
04.07.17 IP Kat or IP Troll? IP2Innovate Warns That UPC Would Help Patent Trolls While IP Kat Promotes UPC
04.09.17 “There is Still No Sufficient Control Over the Despotism of the EPO President, Benoît Battistelli”
04.09.17 Lying Has Become the Norm When It Comes to the Unitary Patent (UPC)
04.09.17 Asian Companies Already Suffer From Patent Maximalism/Radicalism and UPC Would Make Things Even Worse
04.10.17 These Terrifying Comments From Patent Practitioners Suggest They Too Believe UPC is Intended to Make EPO Virtually Obsolete
04.11.17 The European Patent Office Has Entered a Dark Era of Anti-Science and Fake ‘Research’
04.11.17 Voices of Patent Trolls Are Alive and Well (and Partly Paid by Battistelli’s EPO)
04.11.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) is Stuck as the “British Are Hesitant in UPC Ratification,” According to New Report
04.12.17 It’s Not Natural for the European Patent Office to Make Nature Patentable
04.13.17 Awful Quality of EPO-Granted European Patents (EPs) Becomes a Mainstream Topic
04.14.17 Adding Insult to Suicide: European Commission’s Site Publishes Benoît Battistelli’s EPO Puff Pieces
04.19.17 IAM, the Patent Trolls’ Voice, is Trying to Deny There is a Growing Trolling Problem in Europe
04.19.17 Another Final Nail in the UPC Coffin: UK General Election
04.20.17 Bristows-Run IP Kat Continues to Spread Lies to Promote the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Advance the EPO Management’s Agenda
04.21.17 Affordable and Sophisticated Mobile Devices Are Kept Away by Patent Trolls and Aggressors That Tax Everything
04.21.17 Expect Team UPC to Remain in Deep Denial About the Unitary Patent/Unified Court (UPC) Having No Prospects
04.26.17 Blog ‘Takeovers’ by Bristows and Then Censorship: Now This Firm Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Then Deletes Comments That Point Out the Errors
04.29.17 Battistelli is Busy Securing the Vote of Countries Whose Support and Tickets Are Easy to ‘Buy’
04.30.17 Unified Patent Propaganda Courtesy of a Cabal of Firms That Constructed the UPC
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)
05.08.17 Death of ‘IP’ Media: Front Groups of Microsoft Described as “Representing SME Developers” by Bristows
05.08.17 All Members of the European Parliament Get Warned About the Deterioration at the European Patent Office (EPO)
05.09.17 ‘European Media Intervention Award’ (EIA), EPO Censorship, Self-Censorship, and Paid ‘Media Partners’
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
05.10.17 Team UPC Still Twists and Fabricates Statements to Make It Seem Like Unitary Patent is Happening Soon
05.11.17 The EPO is in Disarray and Additional Complaints to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) May Be Imminent
05.13.17 Countries With a Dozen European Patents Are an Easy Photo-Op ‘Sell’ for Battistelli While the EPO’s Demise is Largely Ignored by the Patent Microcosm
05.14.17 The Attacks of Patent Trolls as Outlined in the Media This Past Week
05.14.17 3 Years After the Alice Case at the Supreme Court the Plague of Software Patents is Easier to Cope With
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 Patent Trolls in Europe and the Looming Collapse of the UPC
06.05.17 EPO Workers May be About to Go on Strike Again
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 The British Election May Have Just ‘Killed’ the Unitary Patent (UPC)
06.14.17 Even UPC Proponents, Paid by the EPO’s PR Firm, Admit That UPC May Never Happen
06.15.17 Software Patents in Europe Are Still Promoted by the EPO, Even in Defiance of the Ban
06.15.17 Leaked: Job Advertisement for Removing Battistelli From the European Patent Office
06.15.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) Will Start “Real Soon” Now… Said Team UPC For So Many Years
06.17.17 Appalling Press Coverage Regarding the Unitary Patent (UPC)
06.20.17 Contact Details for the EPO’s Administrative Council Delegations
06.20.17 At the European Inventor Award Ceremony Benoît Battistelli Lied to a Lot of Scientists and “Media Partners” About the UPC
06.21.17 EPO’s Elodie Bergot Calls Staff Suicide Just ‘Passing Away’, Pretends to Care
06.22.17 You Know That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is in Huge Peril When Its Biggest Fans Admit It’s Unlikely to Happen Even Next Year
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 Wouter Pors Under Fire for Lying or Manipulating in the Name of the Unitary Patent (UPC)
06.28.17 Ignore the Press Releases and Puff Pieces, the EPO is Going on Strikes
06.28.17 Letter Warns of “Reform Marathon” a Few Days Before Benoît Battistelli’s Job is Offered to Someone Else
06.28.17 Christoph Ernst, Long Speculated to be Battistelli’s Successor, Becomes Battistelli’s ‘Boss’
06.28.17 Bristows LLP is Still Trying to Attach Wings to the UPC and Distract From Serious (Likely Fatal) Barriers to It
06.29.17 European Patent Office is on Strike Until Tuesday and Insiders Study the New Head of the Organisation
06.29.17 The UPC’s Figurehead, Alexander Ramsay, Admits UPC is Stuck, Bristows LLP Comes Up With ‘Alternative Facts’
06.30.17 The EPO Has Officially Confirmed That Christoph Ernst Will ‘Boss’ (and Soon Replace) Battistelli
06.30.17 Former ‘Kats’ Debunk IP Kat (Bristows) on Unitary Patent, Insisting It May Even be Dead
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
07.02.17 Professor Pamela Samuelson Debunks the Concept of ‘IP’ by Separating Copyrights From Patents and Demonstrating That Copyrights Are Sufficient for Software
07.03.17 It’s Official: Battistelli Will Leave the EPO in Less Than a Year
07.04.17 EPO Silent About EPO Strikes and Battistelli Leaving
07.05.17 Expect No Progress Whatsoever on the Unified Patent Court (UPC) During the Summer and Likely Too Little Even in Fall
07.06.17 Weeks Later, British Media Writes About British EPO Worker That Committed Suicide and the Administrative Council’s ‘Coverup’
07.06.17 No UPC Progress, Only Further Delays and Lots of Puff Pieces From the EPO and Bristows (Team UPC) Today
07.08.17 On the EPO’s Premises, Investigation After a Small Fall But Not After Suicide of Staff
07.09.17 French Giants Resort to Patent Trolling While Battistelli Attracts Patent Trolls to Europe
07.11.17 In an Age of Mass Deception by Team UPC Benjamin Henrion (FFII) to Deliver a Talk About UPC and Software Patents
07.13.17 Looking Forward to a Battistelli-less and Kongstad-less European Patent Office
07.13.17 Status and Potency of European Patents Compromised
07.14.17 “EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal Has Brought an Unprecedented Level of Certainty to the Law,” But Benoît Battistelli Crushes It
07.15.17 European Commission Betrays the Public by Promoting Software Patents
07.16.17 Serious Factual Errors in UPC Coverage at Science|Business and Lack of Coverage in the General Media
Serious Factual Errors in UPC Coverage at Science|Business and Lack of Coverage in the General Media
07.17.17 UPC Puff Piece in the Scottish Media is Just an Advertisement by Marks & Clerk
07.18.17 New Paper Explains Why UPC Ratification Efforts Have Been Just About as Corrupt as EPO Under Battistelli
07.19.17 The British Government May be Pulling Out of the UPC Fantasy, Team UPC in Panic or Denial About It
07.20.17 Battistelli’s EPO Abuses May Soon Lead to the Death of the UPC and Return of the Old Order (‘EPO Glory’)
07.20.17 Unified Patent Court (UPC): A Conspiracy of Lies and Silence
07.22.17 Lack of Independence of the Boards of Appeal at the European Patent Organisation (EPO) a Fatal Blow for the UPC
07.23.17 STRASBOURG: Representative of Lufthansa Accused of Corruption
07.23.17 Patents Roundup: Cisco and Arista, MP3 Liberated, and ‘Phone (Patent) Tax’ Estimated
07.24.17 Qualcomm-Apple Dispute Escalates Further (Lawsuits Come to Europe) With the Cost of Linux-Powered Devices Also at Stake
07.26.17 Lufthansa Leaks? Nokia Leaks? Prepare for Further Digging Into EPO Scandals
07.26.17 The Latest Lies From the EPO (Regarding Quality) and the Reason the UPC Won’t Happen (Any Time Soon at Least)
07.29.17 Anonymous Comments Discuss Erosion of Lawful Activity at the EPO, Lowered Patent Quality, Software Patents, and Trump Comparisons
07.30.17 Dutch Government Publication Confirms Battistelli’s Influence Over Smaller EPC States
08.01.17 Heiko Maas May Need to Belatedly Answer Complaint About Illegal Spying on Staff at the EPO
08.01.17 90% of WIPR Readers Give Up Hope on Unitary Patent (UPC) in the UK, But Team UPC Keeps Lying About It
08.03.17 Antonio Campinos in Charge of the EPO Would Mean Greater EUIPO/EPO Overlap
08.03.17 Benoît Battistelli Distracts From Declining Patent Quality at the EPO by Diverting Attention Away to “Timeliness”
08.05.17 Professor Siegfried Broß Has a Long New Article About the EPO
08.07.17 The Very Political Background of António Campinos, Allegedly a Forefront Candidate to Lead the European Patent Office Next Year
08.12.17 Under Battistelli, EPO Ceased to Reward Inventors, Rewards Only Battistelli and Fellow Thugs Instead
Under Battistelli, EPO Ceased to Reward Inventors, Rewards Only Battistelli and Fellow Thugs Instead
08.12.17 The Corruption of the European Patent Office and CIPO’s (Canada) Participation in This
08.12.17 The Corrupt European Patent Office (EPO) Appears to be SLAPPing Judges Now
08.15.17 The EPO is Paying Journalists For Trips Abroad and May be Buying Fake Twitter Followers (Still)
08.15.17 The Collapse of Patent Quality at the EPO is Inviting to Europe Some of the World’s Worst Patent Trolls
08.18.17 The Staff Union of the EPO Has Long Warned About Declining Patent Quality
08.18.17 The EPO’s Management Needs a Perception of Security Crisis
08.18.17 Lack of Independent Judiciary Under the Unitary Patent (Like Boards of Appeal Under Battistelli, in Defiance of the EPC) Will Possibly Kill the Unified Patent Court
08.22.17 News About Patents Dominated by Patent Trolls/Aggressors, Their Press Releases, and Sympathisers
08.23.17 Benoît Battistelli’s Misbehaviour Condemned the UPC to Death
08.23.17 UPC Hopefuls (Litigation Firms) Come to Life Amid Unitary Patent EPO Text, But Nothing New to See Here
08.25.17 At EPO, “Producing Stronger Patents (or Being Able to Produce Them) is Also a Matter of Professional Pride for the Examiners”
08.27.17 Patent Aggression is Bad for Business
08.27.17 EPO Silencers of the Media – Part I: Introduction
08.29.17 Rumours That Another Frenchman is the Only Candidate to Succeed Benoît Battistelli at the EPO
08.30.17 IP Kat Missing in Action as Unitary Patent (UPC) Rots
09.05.17 One Week Left for Battistelli’s Coronation of Another Frenchman, António Campinos, to Lobby for UPC?
One Week Left for Battistelli’s Coronation of Another Frenchman, António Campinos, to Lobby for UPC?
09.05.17 Deepening EPO Crisis and a New Report Titled “EPO Patent Filing a Rigged Game in Europe”
09.06.17 Juve Reveals That Ingve Stjerna is the ‘UPC Slayer’ While the EPO Continues to Lobby, Mislead
09.07.17 Personal Attacks, Censorship of Comments and More Nefarious Tricks Expected in the Wake of UPC Panic
Personal Attacks, Censorship of Comments and More Nefarious Tricks Expected in the Wake of UPC Panic
09.10.17 Microsoft-Connected Patent Troll Finjan is Now Threatening and Also Suing Firms From Europe
09.10.17 European Patent Office in Shambles and the EU’s Brexit Position Paper Suggests UPC is Off the Agenda
European Patent Office in Shambles and the EU’s Brexit Position Paper Suggests UPC is Off the Agenda
09.11.17 EPO Guest Article: “Pope” Benoît Refuses to Recognise Reformation Day 2017!
09.11.17 “The Constitutional Problems Linked to the UPC are Far From Being Minor”
09.11.17 Ingve Stjerna’s Complaint Casts a Shadow Over the Unconstitutional Unified Patent Court (UPC)
09.13.17 Latest Attempts to Blow Air Into the Sails of the Sinking Unitary Patent (UPC)
09.15.17 The UPC Fantasy is Going Nowhere as Complaints and Paperwork Pile Up
09.16.17 European Patent Office Continues to Paint a Rosy UPC Picture Even Though the UPC May Already be Dead
European Patent Office Continues to Paint a Rosy UPC Picture Even Though the UPC May Already be Dead
09.17.17 Microsoft is Promoting Software Patents in India in Another Effort to Undermine Free/Open Source Software, Microsoft-Connected Trolls Are Still Suing
09.21.17 The Latest Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC) and CIPO’s Participation in Those
09.21.17 In an Effort to Push the Unitary Patent (UPC), EPO and the Liar in Chief Spread the Famous Lie About SMEs
09.21.17 UPC Threatens to Weaponise Software Patents in Countries That Forbade These
09.22.17 Intellectual Ventures, GNU/Linux/Android/FOSS Patents, and the Ascent of European Patent Trolls
09.22.17 The EPO’s Latest Lies About the UPC and SMEs Unraveled, Long-Term Plan Described as Daunting
09.23.17 Latest EPO Rumours Allege That Benoît Battistelli Rigged the Process of EPO President’s Selection
09.26.17 EPO Lies About the UPC, Violations of Human Rights, and ‘Green’ European Patents
09.27.17 The Unitary Patent (UPC) is Now Rotting in Ireland
09.30.17 Jesper Kongstad’s Last Day is Today, But the EPO Remains a Sordid Mess Like the UPC
10.08.17 Depressing State of Affairs at the European Patent Office (EPO)
10.08.17 Microsoft Lobbying, the EPO, and Software Patents Disguised as ‘Internet of Things’
10.08.17 Battistelli’s Club Med at the EPO – Part VII: Quo Vadis EPO?
10.09.17 EPO Protest at 12:30 in Munich and Why EPO Staff Should Attend
10.10.17 Early Reports Suggest That Battistelli’s Policies Will Remain at the EPO (in the Form of Campinos)
10.11.17 Musical Chairs as Battistelli’s ‘Chinchilla’ García-Escudero Márquez Could Reportedly Take António Campinos’ Place
10.12.17 Truly Terrible ‘Journalism’ About António Campinos Boils Down to Lobbying and Agenda-Pushing
10.12.17 Patent Quality at the EPO (European Patents) is Slipping While Battistelli’s Office Boasts “Expansion of Early Certainty” (Even Worse)
10.12.17 The Hogwash Begins: Patent Microcosm’s Media Pretends Campinos is Anything But Battistelli’s French Succession Plan
10.14.17 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Rotting Like the European Patent Office
10.16.17 Monika Ermert’s Reports About the Crisis at the EPO and IP Kat’s Uncharacteristically Shallow Coverage
10.16.17 The Systematic Erosion of Workers’ Rights and Holidays at the EPO Goes Years Back
10.17.17 SUEPO Representatives Like Elizabeth Hardon Vindicated as Battistelli’s Detrimental Effect on Patent Quality is Widely Confirmed
10.17.17 EPO Stakeholders Complain That the New Chairman Does Not Grasp the Issues at the EPO (or Denies These)
10.18.17 Patent Firms From the United States Try Hard to Push the Unitary Patent (UPC), Which Would Foment Litigation Wars in Europe
10.18.17 Confessions of EPO Insiders Reveal That European Patents (EPs) Have Lost Their Legitimacy/Value Due to Battistelli’s Policies
10.19.17 Juve Has Confirmed That António Campinos is French
10.19.17 The Spanish Supreme Court Rejects the EPO’s “Problem and Solution Approach” While Quality of European Patents Nosedives
10.19.17 Team UPC Continues to Promote Illusion of UPC Progress Where There’s None
10.20.17 Battistelli’s Destruction of the EPO is Bad for Everyone, Even Patent Attorneys
10.21.17 Anonymous Professionals Speak of Benoît Battistelli’s Destruction of the EPO, But Why Does the Media Turn a Blind Eye?
10.23.17 IP Kat Participates in Deletion of Information About EPO Scandals
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)
10.26.17 The EPO is Breaking the Law and Its Employees Cannot Speak About It (Updated)
10.26.17 Big Blow for the Unitary Patent (UPC) as Even Patent Professionals Say “It’s Dead”
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
10.30.17 Belgium’s Jérôme Debrulle, the EPO and the UPC Connection
10.31.17 “EPI Makes No Protest When the AC Connives With Battistelli to Trash the Rule of Law”
11.02.17 UPC is Collapsing, But Bristows LLP is Pushing Propaganda Into the Media, Which Gives Misleading News
11.02.17 The Screws Tighten on Benoît Battistelli as His Departure is Just Two Seasons Away, Media Still Largely Complicit
11.04.17 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby Advocates More and More Patent Lawsuits (Litigation ‘Industry’ Profits)
11.04.17 Patent Trolls Are Moving to Asia and That’s a Good Thing for Science and Technology in the West
11.04.17 Even One of the UPC’s Biggest Boosters, Wolters Kluwer, Admits UPC is in Trouble
11.06.17 Battistelli’s Serious Conflict of Interest in Saint-Germain-en-Laye Disqualifies Him as EPO President
11.08.17 Benoît Battistelli Brews New Scandals in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and in Haar
11.08.17 Kluwer Patent Blog Down for Over a Day, Key Article Archived, UPC Deception Carries On
11.09.17 Patent Office of the Netherlands Expresses Uncertainty About UPC, Voices Concern About Benoît Battistelli’s Attack on Staff
11.09.17 Consensus Around the High Likelihood That the Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead and Backlash Against Deniers of It
11.11.17 Next EPO President Will Continue a Cooperation Which Does Not Exist
11.13.17 Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead to the EPO and ANSERA is Not the Answer as Patent Quality Declines and Talented Staff Leaves
11.15.17 Benoît Battistelli and Elodie Bergot Have Just Ensured That EPO Will Get Even More Corrupt
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
11.17.17 Today’s EPO and Team UPC Do Not Work for Europe But Actively Work Against Europe
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
11.23.17 Amid Constitutional Court Barrier, Unitary Patent (UPC) Looks Dead Even to UPC Proponents, the EPO’s UPC ‘Study’ Comes Under Fire
11.24.17 Raw: EPO ‘Social Democracy’ is Like a 1AM Vote on UPC by Only 5% of Politicians
11.25.17 In New EPO Interview With Juve, Chairman of the Administrative Council Criticises Battistelli
11.25.17 EPO Uses Bunk ‘Study’ and Team UPC Uses Italy to Prop Up Delusions About the Unitary Patent
11.25.17 Even UPC Proponents Admit UPC is Dead: “This is the End, My Friend”
11.26.17 “Legal and Administrative Rules at the EPO Are Similar to Those at SIPO” (China)
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 EPO Budget (Users’ Money) Has Been Corrupting Media and Academia
11.28.17 Pressure is Growing for Christoph Ernst to Stop Destruction of Career System Ahead of Arrival of Campinos as EPO President
11.30.17 Ignore Today’s Fake News From IP Kat/Bristows, the UK is Not Ratifying the Unitary Patent (UPC)
11.30.17 EPO Fiasco Deepens While the Media Writes Puff Pieces About the EPO
12.02.17 The European Patent Office No Longer Acts Like a Patent Office But a Prosecutor
12.03.17 Bristows Again Rebutted, Few Days After Telling Lies and Spreading Fake News About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
12.03.17 Guest Post: Free Dental Care in BRD (Banana Republik Deutschland)
12.04.17 SUEPO on “the Belief of the President That He is Above the Law.”
12.05.17 The Latest Noise About UPC in the UK
12.05.17 Ericsson’s Chief ‘IP’ Officer Kasim Alfalahi Has Become a Parasite and Patent Troll in Avanci
12.06.17 Another Day of EPO Injustices in Europe and Campinos/Battistelli Connections at CEIPI
12.07.17 ILO Said Give the Judge His Job Back, But Christoph Ernst’s Administrative Council Will Likely Let Him Go (Unemployed)
12.07.17 ILO is ‘Forcing’ Team Battistelli to Compensate the Banned Judge and Give Him Back His Job
12.07.17 Battistelli’s ‘Mole’ Lucy Neville-Rolfe is Still Trying to Push Unitary Patent (UPC) Through in the United Kingdom
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
12.09.17 Bristows Continues to Lie About Unitary Patent (UPC) in Britain Only to Get Rebutted in Comments, As Usual (Criticism Not Deleted Yet)
12.10.17 Patents Are Becoming a Welfare System for the Rich and Powerful
12.12.17 Battistelli-Campinos Transition Will Be a Smooth One as the Administrative Council Remains the Same and the Boards Still Besieged
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 The Mask Falls: Lobbyist David Kappos Now Composes Pieces for the Patent Trolls’ Lobby (IAM)
12.12.17 The EPO Protest Tomorrow Isn’t Just About Judge Corcoran But About the EPO as a Whole
12.12.17 Team UPC’s Tilmann Defends Rogue Vote at 1 AM in the Morning With Just 5% of Politicians (Those With Vested Interests) Attending
12.13.17 EPO Administrative Council Disallows Discussion About Violations of the Law by Benoît Battistelli
12.14.17 Patrick Corcoran is Innocent, Yet Battistelli Will/May Have the Power to Sack Him Next Month (in DG1)
12.16.17 EPO Busy Distracting From Miscarriage/Abuse of Justice at the EPO (Both Office and Organisation)
12.17.17 The Latest IAM Puff Pieces That Launder the ‘Reputation’ of Patent Trolls
12.17.17 Battistelli’s ‘UPC Buddy’ Michel Barnier Helped Squash EU Intervention in Dysfunctional (Subverted by Battistelli) Administrative Council
12.18.17 Battistelli Feels as Though He’s Above the Law, So No Wonder He Pursues Software Patents in Europe (Against the Rules)
12.18.17 “As an EPO Employee, I Am Actually Embarrassed by the Behaviour of the President and the Administrative Council”
12.19.17 Today’s Report From the Administrative Council (AC) of the European Patent Organisation ‘Tackles’ the Most Important Issue: Judge Corcoran
12.19.17 Bavarian Regional Parliament Talks About the EPO’s Outrageous Decisions to Simply Disregard International Courts
12.19.17 Secrecy Surrounds the Fate of Patrick Corcoran, Even AMBA is Being Kept in the Dark by Carl Josefsson
12.19.17 Dr. Siegfried Broß Says UPC is in Constitutional and Democratic Grey Area, Abuses at the European Patent Office Contribute to That
12.19.17 French and Korean Patent Trolls
12.21.17 EPO Judicial Crisis Has Not Ended, But the Administrative Council Certainly Tries to Sell That Impression
12.21.17 Media Blackout in Most European Media Regarding the Latest Major EPO Scandal
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
12.24.17 2017: The Year Software Patents Died Even in the Court Which Started Them
12.25.17 Raw: French-Led EPO Gives Air France Non-Exclusive Contract for All Staff Flights (Even Though EPO Lacks Branches in France)
12.26.17 Raw: Consultation Process at the EPO, Rooted in Basic Rules, Has Been Compromised and Stacked by Battistelli
12.26.17 Raw: Benoît Battistelli Would Not Openly Discuss Staff Suicides
12.27.17 Raw: Battistelli’s “Behaviour is Not Only Dangerous for the EPO Staff But is Also Putting the Reputation of the Organisation at Risks.”
12.27.17 Raw: Battistelli Stacking the Deck of the Internal EPO ‘Court’
12.27.17 The Unitary Patent is Dying or Dead, But Team UPC Might Rebrand Again and Reattempt
12.28.17 Raw: Collective Accountability for Staff Committees Over Anonymous Letters?
12.28.17 UPC IT Working Group is Chasing Rainbows and Unicorns
12.28.17 EPO Remains in Defiance or Violation of ILO Rulings as Corcoran Contract Ends in 3 Days
12.28.17 Raw: European Patent Office’s Willy Minnoye Interferes With Discussion of EPO Policies
12.29.17 Battistelli Becomes Judge Corcoran’s (Almost) Direct Boss and People Doubt He Will Last Long
12.29.17 Raw: Battistelli the Patent Office Shark Shouting From the Rooftop (Isar)
12.29.17 Raw: Željko Topić Tries to Defend an Illegal Suppression of Labour Rights
12.31.17 Just 3 Days Before Christmas Judge Corcoran is Told That His Boss Becomes Battistelli, Who Wants to Remain in Control for Years to Come
12.31.17 Raw: Circular Decision-Making as Consultation at the EPO Done by Same Party That Suggests and Approves Changes
12.31.17 Raw: Battistelli Had Already Spoiled the Independence of the EPO’s Boards of Appeal More Than Half a Decade Ago
01.01.18 Raw: Battistelli’s Stacking of the General Advisory Committee Not Legal, Asserted Staff Representatives
01.01.18 How Institut International des Brevets (IIB), INPADOC and Other Historic Endeavours Relate to EPO and DG1/DG2
01.01.18 Raw: EPO Violates ILO Rulings by Denying the Consultation Process Access to Vital Information
01.01.18 Raw: Battistelli Comes Up With a “Chief Information Officer” Role and Offers This Position to Man From Same Place as Him
01.01.18 Raw: The EPO’s Disregard for Christmas and New Year’s Days Off
01.01.18 Raw: Separation of Powers Obliterated by EPO President and Vice-Presidents
01.02.18 2018 Starts at the EPO and Both EPC and UPC Are in State of Crisis
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 EPO Management Claims “Higher Quality Patents” and Everyone at the EPO Knows That It’s a Face-Saving Lie
01.03.18 Job Applicants at the EPO Disappointed, Reference Made in Interview to Slavery
01.03.18 Battistelli’s Attacks on Judge Corcoran Threaten Not Only the EPC But Also UPC
01.05.18 The EPO’s Attack on the Boards of Appeal Dooms the Unitary Patent (UPC) and Team UPC Alters Its Tactics
01.06.18 The Mystery and Secrecy of the Decision to Disband the EPO’s Auditory Function After Battistelli Became President
01.06.18 President Battistelli Has Acted Like a King Since His Early Days at the EPO
01.07.18 In US District Courts Patent Litigation Fell by a Whopping 17% Last Year
01.08.18 How the Creation of a Role for ‘Chief Information Officer’ at the EPO Came About
01.08.18 President Battistelli Silently Curtailed Part Time Home Working Introduced by His British Predecessor, Alison Brimelow
01.09.18 Battistelli’s Year 1 at EPO: General Advisory Committee Not Being Provided Crucial Information
01.09.18 Battistelli’s Year 1 at EPO: Using ‘Staff Dignity’ as a Pretext to Attack the Dignity of EPO Staff and Staff Representatives
01.10.18 Benoît Battistelli Lies About Patent Quality; the Numbers Speak for Themselves However
01.10.18 Jo Johnson’s Departure is Another Major Blow for Team UPC (Unified Patent Court)
01.13.18 Top Rank at USPTO Goes to the Biggest Patent Bully, IBM
01.13.18 Less Than Half a Year in the Job, Battistelli Already Disobeys/Disregards Rulings From ILO’s Tribunal
01.13.18 Late on a Friday is a Good Time to Spread Misinformation About Unified Patent Court (UPC) Without Being Challenged
01.14.18 2010: Blaming the Messenger (SUEPO) for Staff Unhappiness at the European Patent Office (EPO)
01.14.18 Budget at the EPO Decided Before Consultation
01.14.18 2010: Deterioration of Working Conditions (e.g. Office Space) for EPO Staff
01.14.18 Automotives, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and Industry 4.0 Among the Buzz Terms Used to Bypass Alice and the EPC Nowadays
01.15.18 Roundup of Patent News From Canada, South America and Australia
01.16.18 EPO Management and Team UPC Carry on Lying About Unified Patent Court, Sinking to New Lows in the Process
01.17.18 Only Two Weeks on the Job, Judge Patrick Corcoran is Already Being Threatened by EPO Management
01.20.18 Patent Quality (Not Numbers) as an Asset: Oppositions, Appeals and Rejections at the EPO
01.22.18 Team UPC Calls Critics of the UPC Idiots, Deletes Their Comments, and Blocks Them
01.23.18 The Response to Accusations of Censorship by Team UPC? Yet More Censorship to Shield UPC From Criticism
01.24.18 CRISPR Patent Debacle Demonstrated That Opposition Divisions Do Their Job, But Also Highlighted Serious Deficiency in Patent-Granting Process
01.24.18 Team UPC Has Been Reduced to Rubble and Misinformation
01.25.18 Sam Gyimah Replaced Jo Johnson More Than a Fortnight Ago, But Team UPC Has Ignored It Until Now
01.27.18 Another Blow for the Unitary Patent (UPC) as More Delays Are Confirmed, Court Won’t Rule on Constitutional Issues Any Time Soon
01.30.18 The EPO’s Central Staff Committee Explains How Battistelli’s Attacks on Judge Corcoran Annul Any Perception of Independence
01.30.18 The Failure of ILO’s Administrative Tribunal Highlights Poor State of Justice in Europe and Worldwide
01.31.18 Even Kluwer Patent Blog Decides to Comment on the EPO’s Bizarre Financial Behaviour
01.31.18 The UPC/SEP/FRAND Lobby Has Resorted to Just Insulting the Opposition
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”
02.04.18 USPTO May Get a New Director Tomorrow, But It’s Not Good News
02.06.18 Battistelli Works With IAM and Pays European Media to Promote Software Patents in Europe
02.07.18 China’s Patent Strategy Seems to be Driving Away Foreign Companies and Causing Legal Chaos From Within
02.08.18 Mark Rutte Under Pressure to Stop Battistelli’s EPO From Violating Laws With Impunity
02.08.18 When INPI Met INPI and IAM Met the EPO
02.08.18 The UPC Lobby Wants to Crush the Boards of Appeal (BoA) While EPO Changes Rules of Procedure of the BoA
02.10.18 Lawyer Fraud and the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
02.10.18 The Relationship Between IAM and the EPO’s President Battistelli Tightens Further After Payments for UPC Promotion
02.12.18 Patent Maximalists Won’t Get Their Way and UPC Will Likely Never Happen (Even After Battistelli)
02.12.18 Denialists of Patent Trolls Are at It Again
02.13.18 EPO Opposition to CRISPR Patents Has Wide-Ranging and Far-Reaching Impact, But Mind Not the Lobbyists
02.14.18 The EPO Now Censors the Central Staff Committee Like It Used to Censor SUEPO
02.14.18 No, Britain is Not Ratifying ‘Unitary’ Anything, But Team UPC Insinuates It Will (Desperate Effort to Affect Tomorrow’s Outcome)
02.15.18 Bavarian State Parliament Has Upcoming Debate About Issues Which Can Thwart UPC for Good
02.15.18 The EPO is Being Destroyed and There’s Nothing Left to Replace It Except National Patent Offices
02.16.18 Microsoft’s Patent Moves: Dominion Harbor, Intellectual Ventures, Intellectual Discovery, NEC and Uber
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
02.18.18 UPC Optimism Languishes Even Among Paid UPC Propagandists Such as IAM
02.20.18 The Patent Trolls’ Lobby, Bristows and IAM Among Others, Downplays Darts-IP/IP2Innovate Report About Rising If Not Soaring Troll Activity in Europe
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
02.21.18 EPO’s Board 28 Spikes Article 53 in CA/3/18, Apparently After Battistelli Withdrew It
02.21.18 End of the UPC Lobby and Withdrawal of UPCA May Seem Imminent
02.21.18 Rumour: European Patent Office to Lay Off a Significant Proportion of Its Workforce
02.22.18 Further Attacks on EPO Staff and the Appeal Boards; Former EPO Boards of Appeal Member Speaks About EPO Scandals
02.23.18 EPO Roundup: Low Profile, Employment Changes, Patent Trolls, Refusal to Obey Courts, and Animal Breeding Patents
02.23.18 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Dead, But Spin From Team UPC is Now Abundant
02.25.18 Changes Introduced by the EPO’s Administrative Council Made It Abundantly Clear That Separation of Powers Does Not Exist for Independence of Judges
02.27.18 The EPO’s Appeal Boards Remain Utterly Dependent and Far From Impartial After Battistelli’s Assault on Their Independence
02.27.18 EPO Refuses to Admit that Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Dead, But It’s Boosting Others Who Are Lying About It for a Living
03.01.18 The Latest Bristows Spin Distracts From the Fact that Britain Has No Intention of Ratifying UPC and Brexit Agreement Altogether Omits It
03.01.18 Élodie Bergot Threatens Staff Representatives Who Spread Information About the EPO
03.01.18 European Patent Office (EPO) in Chaos and Attempting to Silence the Staff Would Only Exacerbate Matters
03.01.18 The UPC is Dead, But Team UPC is Lying to British Politicians in an Effort to Trick Them
03.02.18 Battistelli’s Last Four Months: Peak Censorship at the European Patent Office (EPO)
03.03.18 EPO Annual Report Will Dominate the News Next Week, Whereas Unitary Patent (UPC) is a Goner
03.06.18 There’s No Patent Trolls Problem in Europe, Say Law Firms That Represent and Front for Patent Trolls
There’s No Patent Trolls Problem in Europe, Say Law Firms That Represent and Front for Patent Trolls
03.07.18 The Right-Wing Alternative für Deutschland Opposes Unitary Patent (UPC), Just Like UKIP in Britain
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
03.13.18 Session in Bavaria to Discuss the Abuses of the European Patent Office Later Today
03.13.18 Battistelli Likes to Describe His Critics as ‘Nazis’, Team UPC Will Attempt the Same Thing Against UPC Critics
03.15.18 Careful Not to Conflate UPC Critics With AfD or Anti-EU Elements
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
03.17.18 Luxembourg Can Become a Hub of Patent Trolls If the EPO Carries on With Its ‘Reforms’, Even Without the UPC
03.18.18 UPC/Battistelli Booster IAM Blames Brexit Rather Than EPO Abuses
03.23.18 The European Patent Office’s (EPO) Declining Patent Quality ‘Tackled’ by Making Appeals/Oppositions Harder and More Expensive
03.27.18 Professionals’ Survey: Almost Everybody (90%) Accepts That EPO Patent Quality Has Fallen Under Battistelli
03.29.18 Senator Jean-Yves Leconte Accuses EPO and/or ILO of Injustice, But Don’t Expect Media to Notice or Cover It
04.01.18 EPO is Untrustworthy
04.03.18 Benoît Battistelli’s Era Yields Not Only Invalid and Harmful Monopolies But Also Breeds Distrust and Layoffs
04.07.18 Patent Maximalists Against Patent Quality and Against the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Organisation (EPO)
04.07.18 Team UPC’s and Team Battistelli’s Lobbying Not Over Yet, Even Though the UPC is Likely Dead for Good
Team UPC’s and Team Battistelli’s Lobbying Not Over Yet, Even Though the UPC is Likely Dead for Good
04.11.18 More SCOTUS Patent Cases on Their Way, But Nothing That Will Change 35 U.S.C. § 101/Alice
04.14.18 The ‘Blockchaining’ of Software Patents (to Dodge the Rules/Guidelines) Now Coming to Europe
04.14.18 Crisis of Quality at the EPO Extends to Staff (Notably Examiners) and Management as Institutional Integrity is Severely Compromised
04.16.18 The European Patent Office Will Never Hold Its Destroyers Accountable
04.18.18 The EPO in 2018: Partnering With Saudi Arabia and Cambodia (With Zero European Patents)
04.19.18 Microsoft’s Lobbying for FRAND Pays Off as Microsoft-Connected Patent Troll Conversant (Formerly MOSAID) Goes After Android OEMs in Europe
04.24.18 Today’s EPO is Not Compatible With the Law and It’s Grossly Incompatible With Truth and Justice
04.26.18 Britain Has Not Fully Completed Unified Patent Court (UPC) Ratification and It Remains Incompatible With Brexit
04.26.18 With Unified Patent Court (UPC) on Its Death Throes, Team UPC Now Resorts to Promoting Pertinent Parts of the Agreement (UPCA)
04.27.18 Sam Gyimah Did What Was Expected Since 2016, But Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Still Completely Stuck in Most Important Country and Is Not Compatible With Brexit
04.28.18 British Technology News Sites Point Out the Absurdity of Ratifying UPC in the UK Amid Brexit
04.29.18 Guest Article: Is the EPO Deliberately Disseminating “False Facts” About Benoît Battistelli’s Political Activities in Saint-Germain-en-Laye?
04.29.18 Even Vocal Proponents of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Admit That There Are ‘Holes’ in the Announcement From Sam Gyimah
04.29.18 35 U.S.C. § 101 is Still in Tact and Enforceable En Masse (Thousands of Times) by PTAB
05.01.18 A Test for European Media: Will It Cover the Battistelli-TAD Scandal Like It Covered FIFA Scandals?
05.03.18 Bristows LLP Already Uses Kluwer Patent Blog and IP Kat as Its UPC Megaphone, Now IAM as Well
05.03.18 Marks & Clerk is Still Pushing Patent Maximalism Agenda in Europe and Britain, Including UPC/UPCA/Unitary Patent (UP)
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
05.04.18 Elizabeth Holmes Charged With “Massive Fraud” and Team Battistelli Rushes to Distance Itself From Her
05.05.18 The European Patent Office’s Decline in Patent Quality a ‘Blessing’ in Disguise But Mostly a Curse to Apple
05.07.18 Rumour: The European Patent Office Has Just ‘Done a Patrick Corcoran’ Again (Forced Removal)
05.09.18 Barker Brettell is Wrong About Unified Patent Court (UPC) and the United Kingdom
05.09.18 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) is Not Happening, But Kluwer Patent Blog Pretends It’s Already in Force
05.10.18 EPO Scandals Are Far Worse Than FIFA’s (or Even Emissionsgate/Dieselgate), But Will European Media Belatedly Realise This?
05.12.18 The Patent Trolls’ Lobbyists Continue to Deny That the Concept of Trolling Even Exists or Needs Addressing
05.12.18 EPO Staff Deprived and Denied Basic Rights, Even Justice, But Almost Nobody in the ‘Mainstream’ Wants to Talk About It
05.12.18 Patents on Life (or Supposed ‘Gene-Editing’/CRISPR) Are a Gross Distortion of the Raison D’être of Patents
05.15.18 The EPO Has Become Extremely Corrupt and Dishonest
05.15.18 EPO Has Become Overzealous About Software Patents, Probably More So Than Almost Anywhere Else
05.15.18 Xiaomi, Samsung, TCL and Others Demonstrate That in a World With an Abundance of Stupid Patents Like Design Patents Nobody is Safe
05.16.18 The EPO’s ‘Inventor Award’ Scam: Part III
05.17.18 Fishy Things Noticed Ahead of the Passage of a Lot of EPO Budget (Applicants’ Money) to Battistelli’s Other (and Simultaneous) Employer
05.19.18 Aurélien Pétiaud’s ILO Case (EPO Appeal) an Early Sign That ILO Protects Abusers and Power, Not Workers
05.20.18 António Campinos Will Push Toward a France-Based Unified Patent Court (UPC)
05.22.18 Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans”: The Emperor’s New Investment Guidelines
05.22.18 France is Irrelevant to Whether or Not UPC Ever Becomes a Reality, Moving/Outsourcing de Facto Patent Examination to European Courts Managed in/Presided by France
05.23.18 Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans”: The Cautionary Tale of SIDRU and Its “Toxic Loans”
05.24.18 Perpetuating the Big Lie That Unitary Patent (UPC) is About to Kick Off
05.25.18 EPO, a Longtime Privacy Offender, Uses General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Day to Lie to the Public
05.25.18 The Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court (UPC): This Week’s Latest Spin and Lies
05.26.18 Saint-Germain’s Poisonous Legacy of “Toxic Loans”: Quo Vadis EPO?
05.27.18 The Patent Extremists Resort to Trump-Styled China-Baiting in an Effort to Destroy US Patent Policy
05.30.18 The European Patent Office: From Patent Maximalism to Corruption and Gerrymandering
05.30.18 EUROCHAMBRES is an Echo Chamber of the Patent Litigation ‘Industry’ Hoping to Mislead the EU’s Competitiveness Council on UPC
05.30.18 Märpel Looks at Benoît Battistelli’s Toxic Financial Affairs at the EPO
05.31.18 IP Kat is Still Acting as a Propaganda Front for UPC (and EU Software Patents) Lobbying by US-Based Front Groups
06.02.18 The European Patent Office Dominates Media Coverage in the Form of Paid-For Puff Pieces, Suppresses Coverage About Corruption
06.02.18 Team UPC Turns to a Spanish ‘Flavour’ of Unitary Patent Propaganda (Just Like Last Year)
06.05.18 IP Kat as an Extension of Team UPC After Departure of the Blog’s Founder
06.05.18 The Demise of the EPO and Collapse of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) May Mean That António Campinos Will Soon Fire ~15% of the Workforce
06.07.18 Today, at the Expense of Millions (€) of EPO Budget, Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos Engage in Shameless Self Promotion
06.07.18 What Team UPC Wants: Patent Trolls, Unified Patent Court (UPC), Software Patents, and Supplementary Protection Certificates (SPCs)
06.09.18 Battistelli is Still Patently Delusional About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
06.09.18 Patents on Nature, Life and the Environment: Lessons From EPO and Australian Courts
06.10.18 Everyone Talks About Apple’s Notorious Design Patents But Not About ‘Abstract’ European Patents Used Against Apple and Linux
06.11.18 Another Victim of Corrupt Benoît Battistelli
06.11.18 Latest Docket Reports Show That the American Courts/Legal System Still Anything But Patents-Hostile
06.12.18 The EPO’s ‘Expert’ Georg Weber is Still Advocating Software Patents in Europe (But He Disguises Them Using Buzzwords)
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
06.14.18 The ’4iP Council’ is a Megaphone of Team UPC and Team Battistelli at the EPO
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
06.17.18 The Affairs of the USPTO Have Turned Into Somewhat of a Battle Against the Courts, Which Are Simply Applying the Law to Invalidate US Patents
06.18.18 Beware Team UPC’s Biggest Two Lies About the Unitary Patent (UPC)
06.19.18 The Decline in Patent Quality at the EPO Causes Frivolous Lawsuits That Only Lawyers Profit From
06.19.18 Articles About a Unitary Patent System Are Lies and Marketing From Law Firms With ‘Lawsuits Lust’
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
06.22.18 “Dr Ernst Should be Forced by National Politicians to Step Down With Immediate Effect” After Battistelli’s Latest EPO Scandals
06.24.18 The ILO Tribunal: Is It Still Worthy of Our Trust?
06.24.18 Nearly Half of Patent Applications at the EPO Are (at Least Partly) Software Patents, According to the EPO, and Not Many Patents Are European (Foreign, Not Domestic)
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)
06.28.18 Eight Years of Battistelli
06.29.18 Insults, Lies and Propaganda on Battistelli’s Last Day at the European Patent Office
06.29.18 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
06.30.18 Team UPC’s Radicals, Firms Like Bristows LLP, Have Decided That It’s Time to Change Constitutions to Accommodate Clearly Unconstitutional Unitary Patent (UPC)
07.01.18 Welcoming António Campinos, New President of the European Patent Office
07.02.18 Patent Law Firms Have Become Debased and Intolerant of Courts/Judges, Just Like EPO Management
07.02.18 First Day for António Campinos is Done, But Some Media is Still Publishing 90th-Minute Battistelli Puff Pieces
07.02.18 IAM is Still Working for Benoît Battistelli and His Toxic Agenda
07.04.18 Yesterday’s UPC Event Was a Reminder That Team Battistelli is Still in Charge of the European Patent Organisation, Fronting for Team UPC
07.06.18 Team UPC Suggested Changing Constitutions to Facilitate the Unconstitutional UPC. It Didn’t Go Well…
Team UPC Suggested Changing Constitutions to Facilitate the Unconstitutional UPC. It Didn’t Go Well…
07.08.18 Battistelli’s ‘Legacy’ Up in Flames as Britain is “Ending the Jurisdiction of the CJEU in the UK, With No More Preliminary References from UK Courts…”
07.11.18 The Lack of Genuine, Honest Discussion About Patent Quality Means That Under António Campinos Software Patents Will Continue to be Granted, Campinos Strives to Make Them ‘Unitary’
07.13.18 Constitutionality and CJEU as Barriers, the UPC Agreement (UPCA) is Already Moot in the United Kingdom
07.14.18 Number of Oppositions to Grants/Awards of European Patents at the EPO Has Skyrocketed, Based on Internal Data
07.14.18 ‘Transaction’ Complete: Former EPO Executive From Belgium Takes the Seat of António Campinos at EU-IPO
07.17.18 Time for the European Commission to Investigate EPO Corruption Because It May be Partly or Indirectly Connected to EU-IPO, an EU Agency
07.19.18 Mafia Tactics in Team UPC and Battistelli’s Circle
07.28.18 The EPO Abandoned Patent Quality and António Campinos Has No Intention of Changing That
07.31.18 SUEPO Seems to be Disappointed by António Campinos as His First Month in Office Comes to an End
08.01.18 Government Decision to Start Corruption Investigation Into Croatia Airlines and Its Director Jasmin Bajic Could Implicate EPO Vice-President
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)
08.05.18 Ericsson’s Wi-Fi Patent Thicket and Patent Trolls Like Sisvel Harm the Smallest Players in the Market
08.09.18 The Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement is Paralysed, So Team UPC is Twisting Old News
08.15.18 President Battistelli ‘Killed’ the EPO; António Campinos Will ‘Finish the Job’
08.21.18 Admissibility of the Unitary Patent Constitutional Complaint Was Likely the Final Nail in the Coffin of the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
08.25.18 The Unitary Patent (UPC) is Not Delayed; It’s Dead and Without Any Major Rework It Will Go Nowhere
08.30.18 António Campinos Already Implements a ‘Shadow’ Layoffs Method at the EPO
08.30.18 Feeling Shut Out of the European Patent System, Team UPC Persists With Misleading Claims and Falsehoods
09.05.18 EPO Has “Far Too High Production [sic Targets” Which “Deteriorates the Quality of Products [sic] Delivered”]
09.06.18 Even Overzealous Patent Maximalists Nowadays Admit That Time is Running Out for the Unitary Patent (UPC)
09.07.18 ITC is Serving Patent Trolls Now
09.09.18 Watchtroll Calls Company That Defends Itself From Patent-Trolling-Like Behaviour a ‘Patent Troll’
09.14.18 Max Planck Institute Pours More Water on the Dying Unitary Patent (UPC)
09.15.18 The Max Planck Institute’s Determination on UPC’s (Unitary Patent) Demise is Only “Controversial” in the Eyes of Rabid Members of Team UPC
09.16.18 Battistelli “Has Deeply Hurt the Whole Patent Profession, Examiners as Well as Agents” and Also the Image of France
09.16.18 IAM, Watchtroll and the EPO Still Spread the Mentality of Patent Maximalism
09.17.18 Qualcomm’s Patent Aggression Threatens Rationality of Patent Scope in Europe and Elsewhere
09.18.18 The EPO Has Quit Pretending That It Cares About Patent Quality, All It Cares About is Quantity of Lawsuits
09.18.18 Today’s European Patent Office (EPO) Works for Large, Foreign Pharmaceutical Companies in Pursuit of Patents on Nature, Life, and Essential/Basic Drugs
09.18.18 Qualcomm’s Escalating Patent Wars Have Already Caused Massive Buybacks (Loss of Reserves) and Loss of Massive Clients
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’
09.22.18 Bogus Patents Which Oughtn’t Have Been Granted Make Products Deliberately Worse, Reducing Innovation and Worsening Customers’ Experience
09.23.18 Advocacy of the Unitary Patent System Has Become Almost Identical to the ‘Leave’ (Brexit) Campaign
09.24.18 Reader’s Article: Affaire Benalla Strongly Connected to EPO/OEB/EPA and Former President Benoît Battistelli
09.24.18 Guest Post on Ronan Le Gleut and Benalla at the French Senate (in Light of Battistelli’s Epic Abuses)
09.25.18 António Campinos Goes to UPC-Hostile Country, UPC Continues to Languish and Team UPC Carries on Pushing for Software Patents in Europe (Courts Also)
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!)
09.28.18 How Team UPC is Reacting to the Demise of EPO- and EU-Connected Court That Would Have Put Patent Maximalists in Charge
09.29.18 Team UPC Wants More (Patent) Taxes on Society While Defending/Shielding the Super-rich From Taxes That Might Otherwise Benefit Society
09.30.18 AIPPI is Led by Team UPC’s People and ‘AIPPI Congress Report’ Published by Team UPC
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
10.11.18 Friend Brings a Friend, Boss Becomes Subordinate: the EPO Under António Campinos is Starting to Look a Lot Like Team Battistelli 2.0
10.11.18 UPC Cowardice: Team UPC Uses Cloaks of Anonymity to Discredit Authors of Scholarly UPC Paper They Don’t Like
10.13.18 Quality of Patents Granted by the EPO is Still Low and Nobody Will Benefit Except Lawyers, Jubilant Over Growing Lenience on Software Patents
10.13.18 100 Days Into the Term of Campinos There is Already an EPO Suicide
10.18.18 IAM and IP Kat Are Still Megaphones of Battistelli and His Agenda
10.18.18 It’s Almost 2019 and Team UPC is Still Pretending Unitary Patent (UPC) Exists, Merely Waiting for Britain to Join
10.25.18 Battistelli and Team UPC Still Waiting for a Campinos Miracle
11.04.18 Team UPC’s Last Resort: Stacked Panels, Anonymously Belittling the Opposition (e.g. Ingve Björn Stjerna) and Taking Control of the Media
11.06.18 The European Patent Office Lost Its Way, Found Buzzwords Instead
11.08.18 The António Campinos Private/Secret Meeting With ILO Officials a Slap Across the Face to Employees of the European Patent Office
11.10.18 Latest Loophole: To Get Software Patents From the EPO One Can Just Claim That They’re ‘on a Car’
11.11.18 Automation of Searches Will Not Solve the Legitimacy Problem Caused by Patents Lust
11.12.18 Team UPC, Fronting for Patent Trolls From the US, is Calling Facts “Resistance”
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 Science Minister Sam Gyimah and the EPO Are Eager to Attack Science by Bringing Patent Trolls to Europe/European Union and the United Kingdom
11.17.18 Patent Maximalists in Europe Keep Mentioning China Even Though It Barely Matters to European Patents
Patent Maximalists in Europe Keep Mentioning China Even Though It Barely Matters to European Patents
11.17.18 Team UPC Has Been Reduced to Lies, Lies, and More Lies about the Unified Patent Court Agreement
11.18.18 The European Patent Office is Attracting Patent Trolls
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
11.24.18 Team UPC Refuses to Stop Lying, Pays Money to Spread Its Unified Patent Court (UPC) Lies in the Media
11.26.18 No, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Has Not Changed Its Position on Software Patents, Which Are Bunk
11.29.18 Union Syndicale Fédérale Tells António Campinos to End ‘Political’ Cases Against EPO Staff Representatives
11.29.18 Even Sites That Served UPC Propaganda for Years (for These Sites’ Owners) Have Come to Admit That the UPC Might Already be Dead
12.01.18 EPO Management High-Fiving Patent Propaganda Sites Like ‘Managing IP’ While Granting Illegitimate Patents on Algorithms
12.01.18 Science Minister Sam Gyimah, Who Tactlessly Ratified UPC in the UK, Has Just Resigned
12.02.18 Be Wary of the Latest Lies About the Unified Patent Court (UPC), Courtesy of CIPA and Marks & Clerk (Team UPC)
12.05.18 The Patent Litigation Bubble is Imploding in the US While the UPC Dies in Europe
12.06.18 The European Patent Office Remains a Lawless Place Where Judges Are Afraid of the Banker in Chief
12.09.18 Patents on Life and Patents That Kill the Poor Would Only Delegitimise the European Patent Office
12.09.18 Florian Müller’s Article About SEPs and the EPO
12.09.18 Team UPC is Still Spreading False Rumours in an Effort to Trick Politicians and Pressure Judges
12.13.18 António Campinos Turns His ‘Boss’ Into His Lapdog, Just Like Battistelli and Kongstad
12.13.18 The European Patent Troll Wants as Much Litigation as Possible
12.19.18 EPO: Adherence to the Law at the Office Postponed Indefinitely, ‘Reform’ Going Ahead (Divergence From the Law)
12.19.18 UPC Would Mean Patent Scope Gone Out of Control and Beyond/Above the Law
12.22.18 UPC Died in 2016 or 2017; But the EPO Continues to Issue Fake Software Patents That European Courts Reject
12.28.18 The Demise of the UPC ‘Legislative Coup’ Continued in 2018
12.30.18 Even Joff Wild and the Patent Trolls’ Lobby Finally Admit Unitary Patent (UPC) is Dead
01.02.19 The Real Harm of Really Bad European Patent Grants
01.03.19 The EPO is So Backwards That the Boss Has Just Become Subservient to the Subject of Oversight
01.06.19 Pirate Party Championing Free/Open Source Software in Europe
01.08.19 EPO Corruption is Helping Patent Maximalists in the United States
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”
01.11.19 The EPO’s Low Patent Quality Can Kill the European Software Industry and Kill People Too
01.12.19 IP Kat Has Turned From EPO Critic (to the Point of Being Blocked by the EPO) to EPO Whitewasher That Gags EPO Whistleblowers
01.15.19 Team UPC on Dead UPC: Choosing Gowns for Corpses
01.16.19 Brexit Has Failed, But So Has the Unitary Patent (UPC)
01.19.19 The UPC is Dead. But Bristows is Now Fully Engaged in Necrophilia.
01.20.19 JUVE Creates English Site, Promotes Unified Patent Court (UPC)
01.22.19 The Whitewashing of the EPO Under António Campinos
01.25.19 Declining Patent Quality and Lies About Software Patents at the EPO
01.29.19 “HE DID NOTHING Since He Arrived, Full Stop.” What EPO People Make of President Campinos…
01.29.19 The Management of the EPO Will Not Manage to Recruit Any Talent If It’s Killing Its Own Staff
01.30.19 People Are Dying Because of Low Quality of (Wrongly-Granted) European Patents
01.31.19 Fake Software Patents, Patent Trolls and Assault on Generic Medicine in Europe
02.01.19 The Reputation of the EPO is Ruined But Now It Ruins the Lives of Staff and Europeans
02.02.19 The European Patent Office’s Promotion of Software Patents Overlooks Ongoing ‘Spillage’ of the Patent Crisis to Patent Courts (Rejecting Such Patents)
02.02.19 Concerns About Stephan Harbarth’s Unitary Patent (UPC) Vested Interests and His Entrance Into the Constitutional Court That Decides on UPC
02.06.19 Bogus European Patents Kill Cancer Patients, But EPO Still Has the Audacity to Ride the Wave of World Cancer Day
02.07.19 UPC Part of the Litigation ‘Industry’ Lobby and the Efforts to Change (Significantly Lower) Patent Quality Bar/Scope
02.09.19 EPO President Campinos Works With Patent Trolls and With Team UPC to Promote Software Patents
02.10.19 Corrupt Battistelli Paid a Fortune (EPO Budget) for Outlaw/Rogue ‘Bodyguards’ From Firm Linked to Russian Oligarch Iskander Makhmudov
02.12.19 Innovating the Idea That Software Patents (Monopolies on Algorithms) Are Covering ‘Artificial’ ‘Intelligence’ (AI and ML as Loopholes)
02.12.19 European Patent Office’s Exploitation of the ‘AI’ Catchphrase/Buzzword to Grant Patents on Algorithms in Defiance of the Rules, the Law, and Common Sense
02.13.19 Battistelli’s Bodyguard, Part II: Fishing Expedition for Sources in the Alexandre Benalla ‘Underworld’ Scandal
02.14.19 “EPO Lawlessness Again”
02.16.19 EPO Grants Fake European Patents — Including Software Patents — and European Courts Keep Rejecting These
02.18.19 António Campinos Still Needs to Hold Team Battistelli Accountable for Illegally Bringing Weapons to the EPO
02.20.19 How Long Can the EPO Bend the Rules Before the Avalanche of Invalid Software Patents?
02.22.19 Team UPC Excited Over Nothing, President Campinos Rarely Even Mentions UPC Anymore
02.23.19 Hallmark of Corruption: Benalla and Fellow Thugs Paid Roughly the Same Salary as Battistelli (Each!) and There’s a New Chinese Contract Worth €7.2 Million
02.23.19 Bristows is Still Hoping to ‘Overthrow’ the Courts and Throw Out Ingve Stjerna’s Complaint (About the Likes of Bristows)
02.25.19 English Translation: I Have Huge Respect for Battistelli, Said Alexandre Benalla Under Pressure
02.25.19 English Translation: Alexandre Benalla Cannot Tell the Difference Between EPO and the French Republic (or Battistelli and Macron)
02.25.19 English Translation: Alexandre Benalla on His Work Experience (or Lack Thereof)
02.25.19 Ben and Ben: Benalla and His Enabler, Beny Battistelli
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 Unitary Patent (UPC/A) Constitutional Complaint Can be Decided in a Matter of Years (If Ever)
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 Quality Issues at the European Patent Office Can Lead It Down the Same Downward Path as the Unified Patent Court (UPC)
03.08.19 3,000 Posts About the European Patent Office and Why We’ll Maintain Our Focus on It
03.09.19 European Patent Office Press Releases (Two in Two Days) Are Disguised as ‘News’ and Tell the Opposite of the Truth
03.12.19 EPO’s Latest ‘Results’ Show That António Campinos Has Already Given Up on Patent Quality and is Just Another Battistelli
03.14.19 Good News Everyone! UPC Ready to Go… in 2015!
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
03.22.19 “Criminal Organisation”
03.23.19 The Unified Patent Court is Dead, But Doubts Remain Over the EPO’s Appeal Boards’ Ability to Rule Independently Against Patents on Nature and Code
03.26.19 Dimitris Xenos on Unconstitutional Supranational Arrangements for Patent Law: Leaving Out the Elected Legislators and the People’s Participatory Rights
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 The UK Supreme Court’s Latest Decision is Ammunition for the FCC to Scuttle the Unified Patent Court Agreement (UPCA)
04.01.19 Patent Trolls Destroy the European Economy Because EPO Gives Them Questionable Patents
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
04.10.19 EPO Benefits European Patent Trolls With Dodgy European Patents
04.10.19 The Myth of Quality of European Patents
04.20.19 The Likes of Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA), Team Campinos and Team UPC Don’t Represent Europe But Hurt Europe
04.24.19 Supreme Court of the UK, Which Habitually Throws Out European Patents, May Overturn Troublesome Unwired Planet v Huawei Decision
04.29.19 Haar is Where EPO Justice Came to Meet Euthanasia
05.02.19 EPO in 2019: Pushing (and Bribing) for Buzzwords to Bypass/Cheat the Law Whilst Abolishing the Court System
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
05.11.19 The Biased EPO Does Not Want to Hear From Anyone Except Those Who Pay the EPO
05.11.19 Team UPC Has Run Out of Arguments, So Now It’s Just Writing Anti-Brexit Rants With Testicles in the Headlines
05.14.19 Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 2: Meet the Kötters
05.15.19 False Hope for Patent Maximalists and Litigation Zealots
05.16.19 The EPO’s Key Function — Like the UPC’s Vision — Has Virtually Collapsed
05.16.19 Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 3: “Ein kritikwürdiges Unternehmen”
05.17.19 Q2 Midterm Weather Forecast for EPOnia, Part 4: Happy Birthday to the Kötter Group?
05.18.19 Unified Patent Court Won’t Happen Just Because the Litigation Microcosm Wants It
05.18.19 The War on Patent Quality
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