The "EPO Sticks to North Korean Standards"
North Europe. Granting monopolies to Asian and American corporations (only a third of "European" patents - as in litigated in Europe - goes to Europeans, under notoriously oppressive conditions for European workers).
Over the next few months we'll cover examples from Debian and FSFE (Germany) concerning labour law violations and accountability. This theme conveniently overlaps or covers a lot of EPO issues as well because of understaffed examination teams, falling under an avalanche of applications. Why more applications? Because Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos opened an illegal, unconstitutional kangaroo 'court', giving 'unitary effect' (i.e. broader damage) to European Patents that are increasingly easy to attain, even European software patents (they know it's illegal). They just try to turn Europe into another Eastern District of Texas whilst attacking examiners who caution about the broader, collateral effect.
Regarding "Health and working conditions," one reader who knows the workplace told me, "I came across this old German publication "Assessment of psychological stress". It is about the health of staff in organisations, companies, etc."
"Does this apply to the EPO? Nope. The EPO sticks to North Korean standards. Stressing and harassing staff is part of the "new normal" as well as corruption, nepotism and managerial incompetence."
Stress is a killer, albeit a slow (but not silent) killer. It shortens many people's lives - probably faster than modern medication can make up for or catch up with.
Examiners at the EPO are destroying their bodies and minds to make very rich people even richer, they don't help the mythical or forgotten sole inventor. Very few European Patents get granted to 'independent' inventors. █