THE propaganda coming out of the EPO is extremely expensive at the moment. As I point out in the video above, we recently saw documents suggesting that over 10 million euros are wasted on all that reputation laundering and media campaigns. It certainly looks as though António Campinos spends more money than Benoît Battistelli ever did on such nonsense. Is the EPO a patent office or a publicist? What on Earth is going on here?

More importantly, the EPO quickly became a liability and a risk to the EU. It drags down the image of Europe as a whole, not just the EU/EP/EC as institutions. While disguising itself as tolerance and unity, the EPO actively undermines the rule of law and it acts as an agent of corporate occupation against Europeans, and especially against small firms based (and founded) in Europe.

Perception management campaigns are extremely expensive and they can be counterproductive. They certainly don't fool EPO insiders, many of whom are exceptionally reluctant to grant European software patents (they tell us about it, but if such applications are disguised as "Hey Hi", then guidelines compel them to violate the EPC, which was supposed to govern the EPO).

"The video goes through some of the latest shallow fluff from epo.org -- a site that turned from a shrine of Battistelli into an "Hey Hi" algorithm that generates puff pieces with the name António Campinos thrown here and there."At the moment there's not even a proper tribunal at the Office; the Appeals Committee is flawed, the Boards of Appeal are a bunch of 'roos (especially the higher level ones), and ILO doesn't seem to give a damn. ILO-AT became a toothless tiger in the face of an above-the-law institution that flaunts diplomatic immunity.

The video goes through some of the latest shallow fluff from epo.org -- a site that turned from a shrine of Battistelli into an "Hey Hi" algorithm that generates puff pieces with the name António Campinos thrown here and there. ⬆