2024 General Assembly of the EPO's Local Staff Committee Munich, Haar and Brussels (LSCMN) Presents Damning Evidence of the EPO Granting Illegal Patents, Then Conflating This Illegality With "Quality" (Speed)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 17, 2024

Report on the General Assembly of Wednesday 9 October

YESTERDAY the EPO's Local Staff Committee Munich (LSCMN) circulated the slides from a 'meeting' that had been virtually 'set up' in Germany (outsourced to Microsoft, even the voting got outsourced to Microsoft - an eye sore given the EPO's relationship with corrupt EPO management). It was done with browsers and "apps", unlike a physical meeting on the same week (different country).

Having published the "DRAFT RESOLUTION to be adopted on EPO procedures" and the final version too, today we just want to put the full report in the public domain along with the slides.

The report is a PDF:

Or HTML:

Resolution on EPO procedures adopted & Presentation slides available
 
Dear colleagues,

On Wednesday 9 October, 820 colleagues from all EPO sites followed the third 2024 General Assembly of the Local Staff Committee Munich, Haar & Brussels (LSCMN).

We would like to thank everybody for their participation and for submitting questions during the event. EPO staff showed a clear interest in the topic of patent quality.

The presented slides can be found at the link below:

• Quality – How and why were patent applications arbitrarily reallocated

A resolution on EPO procedures was put to a vote. Staff of all EPO sites voted in favour of the resolution with an overwhelming majority: 773 voted in favour, 66 against and 52 abstentions.

The resolution urges the President and the Administrative Council to:

• respect the EPC’s regulations on patent examination, which is further oriented on the interpretation and case law of the Boards of Appeal, and guided by publicly available Guidelines for Examination;

• put an end to interferences with Examining Divisions and arbitrary reallocation of files on the advice of “special units” and hidden instructions;

• clearly and transparently define regulations for the allocation and for the exceptional reallocation of files to competent Examining Divisions;

On 10 October 2024, the Central Staff Committee (CSC) sent the resolution to the President and the Administrative Council together with a cover letter.

Sincerely yours,

The Local Staff Committee Munich, Haar & Brussels

Data Protection Statement

The slides presented online:

Notice in the slides above what they say and show about patent quality, including European software patents - i.e. patents which are both illegal and undesirable.

The EPO represents crimes in Europe that have already spread to the EU and nobody does anything about. Brussels is becoming more like Moscow. █