12.16.21
Gemini version available ♊︎The EPO is in ‘Damage Control’ Mode (and It Shows)
The 'difficult legacy' of courts improperly located (in exile) to end soon?
Summary: The regime of Team Battistelli/Campinos has issued some interesting statements during the ‘meeting’ and right after the ‘meeting’ (or this week’s ‘webchat’) of the Administrative Council
LESS than a fortnight ago we pointed out the festival of lies at EPO.org, a vulnerable site that celebrates crimes.
Over the past week we’ve repeatedly mentioned this bug. We kept saying that the EPO was affected and its systems could definitely be exploited by just crafting special requests. It was horrifyingly simple. Well, they failed to patch their systems, but what do they know about software anyway? They’ve repelled/driven away many of their software experts and are instead promoting European software patents in defiance of the will of actual software practitioners.
“It seems likely they won’t be issuing any more communications until next year.”In any case, upon my birthday I was greeted with a bunch of pages tacitly indicative of the impact of our reporting, ranging from this decision or “[p]lan to relocate Boards of Appeal” back to Munich (warning: epo.org link).
Finally? A belated admission that this was wrong? What might this mean to all the decisions previously handed down in Haar? The EPO’s management hopes nobody will ever bring up that question again (the “Haar question”). They refused to even answer the question, instead deeming it “inadmissible” a couple of years back.
Next we have this face-saving (warning: epo.org link) or red-faced admission:
They’re not only affected. They were left completely vulnerable for a very long time. Some people reported this to us. This is what happens when there’s profound ‘brain drain’ (poor staff retention and lack of attraction as an employer — an inevitable side effect of crushing one’s own staff).
Last but not least there’s this mindless fluff about closure (warning: epo.org link) and a greeting (warning: epo.org link). Screenshots below.
It seems likely they won’t be issuing any more communications until next year. Maybe except the report from this week’s ‘meeting’.
Either way, get ready as we’ll be publishing 6 more parts in the ongoing series (“The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion“) and during the holidays we plan to publish some more documents and do a live ‘letter-ripping’ video (legal threats and SLAPP). █
Update: “Just got the attached e-mail telling me that the USPTO was shut down because of fear of a cyber attack,” a reader has told us. So the USPTO apparently responded to it faster than the EPO (based on the date stamp).
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