The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXXI: Public Service or Self-Service?

Benoît Battistelli‘s EPO corruption (persisting under the current administration of his friend, António Campinos) is under investigation again; we consider how an instutions meant to be run by public servants became self-serving money machine with...

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Le pacte illégal entre l’État et l’industrie pour faire gagner les tueurs d’abeilles

[#DémantelerDéméter] Les groupes agro-industriels mènent la guerre aux défenseurs des abeilles et de la nature. Grâce à la complicité du ministère de l’Intérieur, ils ont obtenu une cellule de gendarmerie, nommée Déméter, chargée de criminaliser...

Executives personally signed off on Facebook-Google ad collusion plot, states claim

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google’s Sundar Pichai personally approved a deal that would see the social media giant gain an advantage in the search engine’s ad auctions, according to a group of state attorneys general.

Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai were involved in ad collusion plot, claims court filing

Google & Facebook vs. everyone else

EPO Breaking the Law in Collusion With -- and to the Benefit of -- Microsoft

The EPO's disregard for the rule of law is helping another entity that has disregarded the law and routinely broke the law for over 4 decades (Microsoft)

The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXXX: The Idiosyncratic Italians

At last, Techrights takes a look at the person who represented Italy in the EPO for over 15 years

The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXX: San Marino and the Perfidious Betrayal of Liberty

San Marino took a payment from the notorious Battistelli just months after approving an unlawful proposal from him; the payment to San Marino was authorised on the very same occasion (136th meeting of the Administrative Council) as these unlawful...

The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part IXXX: The EPOnian Micro-States - Monaco and Malta

As it turns out, the enablement of dictatorship is possible by controlling a very large number of tiny states which are inexpensive to bribe

The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXVIII: Benoît and António's Loyal “Habibi”

TürkPatent's Habip Asan has consistently helped dictators seize and maintain power, even at the expense of basic laws

The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXVII: Cypriot Complicity

Another small ‘outpost’ in the ‘Club Med’ of António Campinos et al is the island of Cyprus, which has been largely docile, even when it comes to completely unlawful proposals

[Meme] Asleep at the Wheel

It’s still unclear what level of criminality, corruption and collusion (e.g. Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos buying votes at EU's expense) it’ll take for European authorities to not only take note but also take action against EPO...

The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXVI: A Trojan Horse on the Budget and Finance Committee

The Greek EPO delegation has a special relationship with the Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos regime

The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXV: The Balkan League - Fresh Blood or Same Old, Same Old?

We take stock of "captured states" that voted in favour of unlawful "Strike Regulations"

The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXIV: The Balkan League - Romania

Romania’s patent office has been in flux this past decade, occasionally led by people with no relevant experience, but rather political connections (like EPO President António Campinos) and sometimes forged documents and fake degrees

The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXIII: The Balkan League - Bulgaria

Today we examine the role of Bulgaria in Benoît Battistelli‘s liberticidal regime at the EPO (as well as under António Campinos, from 2018 to present) with particular focus on political machinations

The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXII: The Balkan League - North Macedonia and Albania

We continue to look at Benoît Battistelli‘s enablers at the EPO

The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXI: The Balkan League – The Doyen and His “Protégée”

The EPO‘s circle of corruption in the Balkan region will be the focus of today’s (and upcoming) coverage, showing some of the controversial enablers of Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos, two deeply corrupt French officials who rapidly drive...