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Exclusive: Leaked E-mail From Grant Philpott (EPO Principal Telecommunications Director) Shows Collusion Between EPO and Microsoft to Prioritise Most Notorious Patent Bully, Microsoft

A closer cooperation with Microsoft, to use Grant Philpott’s own words, with heightened pressure for already-overencumbered patent examiners to work as agents of Microsoft while neglecting other applicants, as seen in a new E-mail from Grant Philpott, a top IT manager and recently a proponent of UPC (as well as software patents) and potentially a huge fan of Microsoft unless just their peon (in exchange for favours, i.e. kickbacks)

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