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01.01.18

Raw: The EPO’s Disregard for Christmas and New Year’s Days Off

Posted in Europe, Patents at 8:22 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Related: Battistelli Follows German Law Only When It Suits Him, Three Holidays Just Canceled

The EPO is back to tweeting this morning, so someone is working.

Original/full: English [PDF] | French [PDF]

Christmas and New Year's break

Summary: The EPO’s ‘cheapening’ of public holidays goes quite a way back; it was challenged by staff representatives who, even at the time, complained that the committee had been stuffed (or stacked) by Battistelli

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