Bonum Certa Men Certa

The EPO is Far Too Rogue to Reform Itself

Yesterday: Watchtroll Demonises People Wrongly Accused of Patent Infringement (or Sued Using Fake Patents), Suggests or Insinuates EPO is More Lenient Than Today's USPTO

Top Gear: I’ll Call Him, Retard: They say patent quality is decreasing
The management refuses to listen to examiners, their representatives, and their union



Summary: The chances of the EPO recovering on its own are slim to none; the way things are going, EPO management is planting the seeds of its own destruction and EPO staff ought to actively prevent that

THE Battistelli/Campinos EPO coup has resulted in a broken institution whose sole goal is to grant as many patents (monopolies) as possible, even illegal ones.



"If anyone out there reading this works for the EPO and has material/information of interest to us, please get in touch."SUEPO has said nothing (or barely anything in public) for a very long time; the staff committee, which is connected to the union (SUEPO overlaps in the personnel sense), is also mostly quiet. This is why we haven't been able to say much about the EPO lately.

If anyone out there reading this works for the EPO and has material/information of interest to us, please get in touch. We can be contacted anonymously. We want to report on the situation at the EPO. We rely on sources as well as expertise among our community and at present there's an information vacuum. Secrecy benefits only wrongdoers.

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