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Negative Publicity (Personal or by Association With the EPO) is Devouring the Institution

The precious snowflakes of EPO management cannot handle criticism from the public

Snowflakes



Summary: Willy Minnoye, Ciarán McGinley, Lionel Baranès, Theano Evangelou and others near the top of the EPO pyramid recalled in light of old news about them

THE EPO is about to have an exceptionally tough year that's agonising to Battistelli's circle (or "Team Battistelli"), which already falls apart (Minnoye will be leaving before his term ends and so will Ciarán McGinley).



"I very much liked what you published in this article, which I second," one reader told us, regarding the article that led to the following E-mail being sent to me in March:

Dear Sir,

I would like to refer to the Article/post on the EPO published on the Techrights webpage on the 15.3.2016 which quotes an anonymous reader who inter Alia makes reference to my name Theano Evangelou.

I would like to note that I do not wish to be mentioned neither by name nor would I like to be identifiable. I would thus kindly ask you to withdraw my name or any such information from the blog and not to spread it further. I must further note that I feel personally impacted by such mention.

Yours faithfully,

Theano Evangelou


Some people at the EPO's management foolishly think we'll self-censor just because they don't want to be held accountable for their behaviour. Some even resort to legal threats. These precious snowflakes think that as heads of an international public institution they deserve to live in a cocoon with privacy levels greater than those of the CIA? They want not only immunity from the law but also invisibility (from the public which they purport to be 'serving')?

"They want not only immunity from the law but also invisibility (from the public which they purport to be 'serving')?"I shared the above letter with someone, who later said to me: "if you want to have a bit of fun with it.... You may ask back if being mentioned as "head of legal department, lawyer" of such an ethically challenging (and challenged) organization is of any bother: If you search in Google for "theano evangelou legal patent", the first result is her LinkedIn profile in all its pretentious pride. I mean, not just a lawyer, but the Head of the Legal Department! Of EPO! And she feels "impacted" by seeing her name? ... give me a break. What a laugh..."

"I think Ciarán McGinley also belongs in the list of rogues," another person added. "He's a former SUEPO official turned manager. (This phenomenon isn't unique to the EPO.)"

Well, McGinley is leaving soon. Maybe seeing SUEPO under attack, combined with a morsel of consciousness, was enough to compel him to withdraw from his "Career Climber" tendencies.

"Remember the PR head that left the EPO almost as soon as he had joined?""My memories of Lionel Baranès are about as faint as his tenure was brief (2002-2004, IIRC)," told us another person. Well, maybe he didn't 'fit in', so to speak. Remember the PR head that left the EPO almost as soon as he had joined? Not just Vincent Bénard...

Baranès' open letter of resignation is quite revealing, but few people even care to remember it. If anyone has a copy of that letter, please get in touch with us.

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