[Meme] Protecting European Patent Courts From EPO 'Mafia'

With flagrant disregard for court rulings (or workarounds to dodge actual compliance) it seems clear that today's EPO management is allergic to justice and to judges; European Patents perish at unprecedented levels in national European courts and...

The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XII: The French Connection

The EPO‘s presidency (led by Frenchmen for nearly 15 years out of the past 18 years; Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos are both French despite their somewhat misleading surnames) is extremely unlikely to even be mildly scrutinised by the...

Europe’s IPR rules need to be strengthened to ensure they meet current and future challenges, explains Marion Walsmann

Creating a well-functioning, strong and effective system for the protection of IPR is a win-win for the single market and for European citizens, ar...

Monday Miscellany

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

UPC (Unethical Paid Coverage): Fake News and Paid-For 'Planted' Articles Everywhere

Paid and unpaid puff pieces (P and U) are intended to accomplish nothing but to mislead people; it's the "Fake it Till You Make it" approach

Visa working on blockchain interoperability hub for crypto payments

The Visa research team originally began working on the UPC concept back in 2018.

A history of barcodes - a revolution that took 20 years to happen | Benoni City Times

It’s a fascinating history that can be traced back to the original concept developed in the late 1940s, its official patent in the early 1950s, and finally its commercial take off more than 20 years later in the 1970s.

Angela Merkel's Coalition Has Not Helped EPO Staff and Not Even Bloggers Blackmailed by EPO Management

Without admonishing any individual in particular, as there was at least some written and verbal communication (the other two who claim to be interested in SLAPP just completely stonewalled), we finally share our findings about Germany’s passive...

Patent lawyers want harmonisation for incremental inventions

Counsel from Asia discuss the disparities in patentability standards for incremental inventions and the need for consistency in IP office practice

[Meme] Took Longer Than Battistelli's Presidency (and as Long as False UPC Promises)

The chaos left by Team Battistelli is more than a decade old and it’s nowhere near resolved; the way things are going, it’s more likely that the EPO will get dissolved for being captured by people who undermine the EPO’s goals/mission and now...

[Meme] Paid-for UPC Echo Chamber: How Disinformation Campaigns or Political Meddling Work Online

Examples from the past 24 hours alone; this is what propaganda campaigns look like (with so-called ‘law’ firms as their perpetrators)

[Meme] Planting UPC Fiction in the Media

The comments (not media plugs of Team UPC) say it all — as the above is one of many; people aren’t falling for fake news and there’s an impending punishment for those who are constantly spreading such fake news

[Meme] Paid-for UPC Echo Chamber: How Disinformation Campaigns or Political Meddling Work Online

Examples from the past 24 hours alone; this is what propaganda campaigns look like (with so-called ‘law’ firms as their perpetrators)

[Meme] Planting UPC Fiction in the Media

The comments (not media plugs of Team UPC) say it all — as the above is one of many; people aren’t falling for fake news and there’s an impending punishment for those who are constantly spreading such fake news

Slovenia and Germany (or Austria) Are Not Called “United Kingdom”

They don't always lie to clients; but when they do, it's about the Unified Patent Court (UPC)

Slovenia and Germany (or Austria) Are Not Called “United Kingdom”

They don't always lie to clients; but when they do, it's about the Unified Patent Court (UPC)