How the EPO is Like Putin's Russia

Looking carefully at the way Team Battistelli and Team UPC operate, they’re no better than RT and Sputnik, but their lies are being tolerated and even spread by European politicians; the EPO is a massive stain on the EU’s reputation/credibility,...

[Meme] We've Been Here Before...

Battistelli 2016, Campinos 2020, and Campinos 2022

[Meme] The Man Who Owned Everything

Benoît Battistelli wrongly assumed that as EPO President he gets to become king or dictator (like Paris Saint-Germain F.C. owner, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani), who in violation of the EPC governs the AC, BoA, the internal appeals, the UPC lobby, and...

[Meme] Reminder That Battistelli Openly Boasted (in the Media) About the EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion

It is worth remembering that as EPO President Benoît Battistelli openly admitted that he had managed to turn his ‘supervisors’ into rubber-stampers (mostly by bribing and blackmailing them)

[Meme] Team UPC and Team Battistelli Above the Law, Ignore the Law, Break the Law

In the Netherlands, EPO management is effectively above the law, so Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos can ignore court rulings, gaslight an International Criminal Court (ICC) judge looking to rectify things at the EPO, and bribe Dutch media...

EPO Pays Out Millions of Euros in Compensation -- to Thousands of Workers Who Deserve a Lot More for Moral Damage -- for Battistelli's Illegal Acts (But Battistelli Himself Has Not Been Punished at All, Nor Have His Enablers)

pushing ahead for justice after more than a decade of chronic, ongoing, systematic injustice, which saw the rule of law abolished, patent quality as "collateral damage", and Europe's reputation/leadership in tatters

ILOAT: Former EPO president Battistelli violated staff's right of free association - Kluwer Patent Blog

The EPO violated the fundamental right of free association of its staff in 2014 by giving (former) president Benoit Battistelli the power to determine the detailed conditions relating to the staff committee elections. The Administrative Tribunal...

Response to Daniel X. Thomas, Former Director at the European Patent Office (EPO)

Techrights takes a moment to respond to Daniel X. Thomas, who worries that his criticism of the way António Campinos handled G 1/21 can get him in trouble

Classic 'Team UPC': This Year Becomes “Next Year” Yet Again

We urge readers to see the deja vu, having somewhat of a flashback moment because Team UPC firms (with a conflict of interest) have long made false predictions, which nevertheless help them sell unicorns to prospective clients (as EPO President...

Board of Appeal finds no legal basis for the requirement to amend the description in line with the claims (T 1989/18)

The IPKat blog reports on copyright, patent, trade mark, info-tech and privacy/confidentiality issues from a mainly UK and European perspective.

Listen: Vesna Stanković Juričić Confronts Corrupt Team Battistelli (Leaked Audio)

Almost exactly 7 years ago Vesna Stanković Juričić cautioned the EPO that it's not to be run like some private company on Wall Street

Patent Quality at the EPO Has Collapsed Since Battistelli Came, According to EPO Staff

Norway highlighted strong concerns about declining patent quality at the EPO several years ago under the Benoît Battistelli administration; like Battistelli before him, António Campinos uses the propaganda mill “IAM” to say the opposite of what is...

The EPO's Staff Does Need to Go on Strike in Order to Highlight Abuse/Misuse of Granting Authority and Mishandling of Patent Examiners

Susanne Sivborg has made the false assumption that regulations for strikes are needed; However, Sivborg was no fan of Team Battistelli and she only abstained when she voted on the illegal "Strike Regulations" 8.5 years ago

[Meme] [Teaser] On Tolerating 'Kings' in Charge of the EPO

The status quo at the EPO (akin to monarchy or Mafia with Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos rigging and undermining democratic processes) isn’t being condoned by everyone at the EPO’s Administrative Council

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

The Central Staff Committee (CSC) of the EPO talks about EPO President António Campinos, arguing that “he seems to subscribe to the Manichean view, introduced by Mr Battistelli…”

EPO Dictatorship Coming Home to Roost

Team Battistelli continues to crush EPO staff, having chased the staff to their own homes where the oppression is nowadays done remotely and digitally and is worse than ever before; the video above explains my personal views on the current...

San Marino: From “Libertas” to a Battistelli and Kongstad Chinchilla

San Marino has moved on from one diarchy (Roman Emperor and the Pope) to another diarchy (Benoît Battistelli and Jesper Kongstad) and now it’s yet another diarchy (António Campinos and Stalin as EPO rubber-stamper), partly because of a former EPO...

[Meme] Bilateral Battistelli

When two parties agree on something detrimental to many other parties it is sometimes known as a collusion or a conspiracy; ask EPO presidents Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos what they’re really looking to accomplish with their Memoranda...

IP Kat Was Declawed by Battistelli's Threats and Sanctions and Now It's Collapsing

The public wants to receive information (e.g. facts about EPO corruption), not self-promotional marketing from law/litigation firms and overt censorship of comments critical of António Campinos; the people who are still in IP Kat — and there...