THE bribery and intimidation by EPO management may pay off. They even tried that against me several times. Just like they're lawyering up/aggressing against staff they do the same against media, even bloggers. They're an aggressive "Mafia". Ask the original "Kats" (remember the real Merpel?) or my lawyer, who warned me that the EPO had escalated to a notoriously aggressive/combative law firm in London (after the original law firm repeatedly tried -- but failed -- to silence me). Since then the entire PR team of the EPO (bar one person at most) has left the EPO. Maybe that was too disgusting to them as well! They were taking orders from a Mafioso with nazi-esque family roots and a bunch of military veterans who somehow found their way into a patent office (with no relevant experience). It was like the Office became a battleground rather than a place of the sciences.

"It was like the Office became a battleground rather than a place of the sciences.""The Deafening Silence of the Media," as noted here back in April, enabled Benoît Battistelli to carry on with his crimes. Today's media continues to pretend that drunkard António Campinos is a nice guy, no matter all or any evidence to the contrary. He landed at the EPO (with no prior experience there) enjoying presumption of innocence, but he lost the trust of all staff a lot faster than Battistelli had lost it.

Now, with a major situation on his lap (for nearly a month as we've just noted in a meme), he doesn't show any intention to actually comply with the law. This authoritarian loser is rigging courts in a Trumpian fashion while pretending that other courts (those he does not control) lack legitimacy. Staff is losing patience and a PR blitz won't change their minds. They're not gullible. ⬆