EPO People Power - Part XXII - Contact Officials and Inform Your National Representatives (Delegates) of the EPO's Cocainegate
Also see: Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V | Part VI | Part VII | Part VIII | Part IX | Part X | Part XI | Part XII | Part XIII | Part Part XIV | Part XV | Part XVI | Part XVII | Part XVIII | Part XIX | Part XX | Part XXI
Today it is a Friday and no longer a holiday. Many national representatives, often the heads of patent offices (NPOs), will be at the office. It's time to tell them that the EPO isn't just deeply corrupt (in the Benoît Battistelli era the corruption became the norm) but also high on illegal drugs. See, to António Campinos it's "norm" to do cocaine while running the Office.
What sort of serious patent attorney would tolerate this?
The EPO may have never been more fragile, set aside the industrial actions that are coming. "Its president is a horrible, abusive person living his dream of his own monarchy," a reader told us, "only terrified by the impact the Administrative Council could have, if it really were independent, competent and decisive. Maybe this is where the solution lies: the AC and its delegates do not want to be seen as corrupt at all. These are all serious people, technocrats who worked years and years to gain their reputation and they don't want it to be smeared by this current scandal, a scandal an organisation like the EPO has never seen since its foundation. This applies even more to the vice presidents of the EPO."
If you live in Europe, contact your representative/s today. We've already provided the contact details for them all and they're checking E-mail, sometimes they even respond. Do not assume they know about Cocainegate; the media that spoke to us is going out of its way not to mention it despite knowing it is true. Later in the series we'll debate what it means when Europe's largest media intentionally covers up serious scandals in Europe's second-largest institution. █
