EPO Poll: 68% Dissatisfied With Quality of Slop (Wrongly Framed as "AI") for Patent Classification

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 30, 2025

Slop does not work, it's just falsely advertised with extra hype (funded by slop pushers that sponsor the major media)

Yesterday: EPO Workers Caution That the Officials Are Still Illegally Trying to Replace Staff With Slop (to Lower Quality and Validity of European Patents)

Background reading: New EPO Leaks: Replacing Patent Examiners and Classifiers With Deficient Bots (Without Even Asking for Permission) | EPO Likely Breaking the Law Yet Again, This Time by Using Slop for Patents (to Lower Costs While Producing Monopolies That Cause Ruinous Lawsuits)

Today we continue writing about the EPO, probably Europe's most corrupt institution, which has been run for 15 years by two closely-connected corrupt Frenchman, Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos, who basically buy elections and gleefully violate laws, conventions, constitutions etc. They cheat and break laws to get ahead, e.g. by granting European software patents - i.e. patents which are both illegal and undesirable. Don't take our word for it. Listen to EPO staff. They know.

If it's not bad enough that they illegally grant practically invalid patents, now they move a step closer to having algorithms do it. No staff means no dissent, or so they assume.

There's a resolution being circulated this week. It reads as follows:

DRAFT RESOLUTION to be adopted on EPO AI Policy

The staff of the EPO, gathered in a General Assembly,

Noting that:

• The President of the EPO adopted a Policy on the use of AI systems in February 2025 without consulting staff nor their representation;

• The EPO hides behind its administrative autonomy under Article 4(1) EPC to consider international texts on AI (e.g. EU AI Act) as not legally binding;

• The EPO defines its “human-centric” approach as “final decisions at the EPO being taken by human actors” while the EU AI Act (Recital 6) defines human- centric AI as having the aim of increasing human well-being;

• The EPO explicitly does not exclude using AI systems in employment matters:

- for recruitment, promotions and termination of service¹,

- for evaluating the eligibility of individuals for essential benefits and services, including healthcare coverage²,

- for assessing the likelihood that an individual will engage in misconduct and in the course of investigations³

• In a poll run among gérants, 247 responded and 67.61% of them replied they are dissatisfied with the quality of classification provided by AI-autoclose;

• AI systems hold the potential to support EPO staff in reducing routine workload and enhancing service quality — provided they are implemented transparently, responsibly, and with genuine consultation and training.

Fearing:

• the loss of human- oversight in intermediate steps and the resulting influence of AI in the final decision(s);

• the categorisation and profiling of EPO employees by AI systems;

• a detrimental effect on the quality of services provided by the EPO;

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¹ page 12, EPO AI POLICY, Appendix A: Impact assessment and risk management, 2c(ii)

² page 12, EPO AI POLICY, Appendix A: Impact assessment and risk management, 2d(i)

³ page 12, EPO AI POLICY, Appendix A: Impact assessment and risk management, 2e

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Requests the President and the Administrative Council to:

• bring the EPO AI Policy in line with the EU AI Act;

• revise the SP2028 goal aiming at target proportion of 90% of classification tasks that no longer require human intellectual classification;

• ensure that AI is not used as a substitute for human management;

• systematically consult staff and their representation prior to any implementation of AI;

• provide comprehensive training and dedicated time budget for staff to master AI tools relevant to their functions;

• transparently disclose where and how AI systems are implemented (model used, training and dataset used);

The Hague and Munich, xx xxxx 2025

What happens next is, they get staff to approve (or not approve) the above.

There are Microsoft-controlled spying sessions devoted to this (a bit tasteless as Microsoft is part of the EPO corruption and prominent slop pusher, hence a huge contributor to this problem):

To quote: (as above)

A resolution will be presented and submitted to a vote by all sites.

Agenda

AI and Quality

Actuarial Study 2025

Vote on resolution

AOB

"Vote on resolution" is important.

Days earlier SUEPO Munich announced the SUEPO meeting as well, albeit without the above resolution: (different agenda)

Dear SUEPO Members,

We are pleased to invite you to the upcoming Annual General Assembly, which will take place on Friday, 6 June 2025, from 16:30 to 18:00 via Microsoft Teams.

For practical and logistical reasons, this year’s meeting will be held exclusively online.

All members should have received an email with the invitation and the Teams meeting link. If you are a member and have not received this email, please don’t hesitate to contact us—we will be happy to resend the access details.

We look forward to your participation and engagement during the General Assembly.

Using Microsoft Teams is a mistake. Prior to it, as we covered during lock-downs, the EPO used Microsoft Skype, which is now shut down. They'll never learn, will they?

Here's the full flyer:

Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO)

26 May 2025
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Invitation to the SUEPO Annual General Meeting 2025

Dear SUEPO members,

We invite you to the SUEPO Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Friday 6 June 2025 from 16.30 - 18.00 hr. The AGM will take place in a virtual way (on-line). Within the next two weeks all SUEPO members will receive a link to join the virtual AGM.

AGENDA

1. Approval of the agenda

2. Presentation Chairman’s Report 2023-2024 *

3. Presentation Financial Reports 2021, 2022 and 2023 *

4. Presentation of the finances 2024.

5. Presentation of the Auditors Reports 2021, 2022 and 2023

6. Acceptance of the Accounts

7. Discharge of the Committee for 2023 and 2024

8. Election of the Auditors (for 2025-2026)

9. Election of the Election Committee

10. Setting of dates for the start and end of the voting period for election of a new Executive Committee for the next term (2025-2026)

11. Motions (if any)

12. AOB

Motions can be submitted per e-mail at feedback_munich@suepo.org at the latest 48 hours before the start of the AGM.

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Please note that:

-According to Art. 9(1) of the SUEPO constitution the Executive Committee shall include in the agenda all points whose inclusion is requested by at least 10% of members and that such requests shall be presented in writing; and

- According to Art. 9(3) of the SUEPO constitution further points which are not otherwise expressly included in the agenda may be discussed under the point "any other business" (AOB) if the General Meeting agrees to this. However, no decisions may be taken on these questions.

** Note that the Reports are scheduled for publication on Friday, 30 May 2025.

The SUEPO constitution can be found here.

Your Munich SUEPO committee

"Note that the Reports are scheduled for publication on Friday, 30 May 2025," it says. That's today. █