The EPO is Run by Dictators, Elected Staff Representatives Are Left Out of Key Consultations

Clueless politicians with no grasp (or very scarce understanding) of patent law are taking over the entire state of EPOnia; it is a recipe for disaster as it facilitates coups by "special interests" (or moneyed interests), detached entirely from...

The Patent Distortion: Promotion of Illegal Agenda (and Nobody Could Mention Industrial Action/Strikes at EPO, Protesting Illegal Agenda)

When one searches for news about the EPO — or about patents in general — a vast majority of the results is just misleading junk and self-promotional spam (webspam); this has never been so bad and it merits a detailed response

[Meme] Patent Invasion

We’ve just seen that the European Council, which includes the President of the European Commission (Miss Ladson), is fine with violations of very fundamental rights at the EPO

European Council Complicit in European Patent Office (EPO) Abuses

The EPO continues to become more of a massive liability to the reputation and functioning of the European Union (EU); tolerating the profound corruption of Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos for the sake of imposing an illegal ‘legal’ system...

'A Game-Changer': Defying Big Pharma, WHO Expands Vaccine Tech Sharing

"The pharmaceutical system is being remade from the ground up by lower- and middle-income countries."

Opinion | The World's Failed Response to Covid-19 in Africa Must End

"Africans are paying the price of global abandonment with their lives."

[Meme] IAM's Patent Benchmark

Patent "quality" never meant speed of granting anyway; ignore the EPO-funded gremlin and carry on

I’ve switched from Samsung phones and will never come back.

Samsung phones have taken a huge nosedive in the last several years. The price has gone up, the quality has gone way down. They’re the most overrated brand this side of Apple. In fact, betwee…

[Meme] IAM's Patent Benchmark

Patent "quality" never meant speed of granting anyway; ignore the EPO-funded gremlin and carry on

ICIJ statement on Ericsson investigation - ICIJ

The telecommunications company released a statement in response to media inquiries today.

EPO -- Both the Patent Office and the Patent Organisation -- Celebrating Constitutional Violations, Covering Up Human Rights Abuses, and Promoting the Facilitators

There’s no hope or real prospect of the EPO‘s administration correcting its ways or properly assessing itself; industrial action by people who do all the actual work at the EPO might be the last remaining avenue

EPO -- Both the Patent Office and the Patent Organisation -- Celebrating Constitutional Violations, Covering Up Human Rights Abuses, and Promoting the Facilitators

There’s no hope or real prospect of the EPO‘s administration correcting its ways or properly assessing itself; industrial action by people who do all the actual work at the EPO might be the last remaining avenue

To Stop 'Endless Cycle of Death,' Biden Urged to Push Emergency Patent Waiver

"President Biden must exercise his current power and bulk up Covid vaccine, test, and treatment production abroad," more than 80 civil society groups write in a new letter.

'European' Patent Office (EPO) Accelerates Outsourcing of Its Operations to the United States of America, Quite Likely in Defiance of GDPR and Basic Common Sense

Catastrophic situation at the EPO persists; somehow, incredibly enough, not a single publisher has written about this (we've checked English- and Dutch-speaking media using several search engines), so transparency is well overdue and today may be...

Today Begins a Battle for Rights of Patent Examiners at the EPO

After over a decade of relentless assaults on very basic rights of EPO workers we're seeing industrial action, which is akin to civil disobedience (refusing to obey illegal instructions from EPO management)

EPO Management Still Treats EPO Workers Poorly, Even During Pandemic

A candid letter from the EPO's staff representatives helps shed light on how staff of the EPO feels, with particular focus on DG1 colleagues in Job Groups 5 and 6