EPO People Power - Part XXV - While EPO Managers Snort Cocaine the Staff Compiles 'Insurance Files' to Expose EPO Corruption
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 | Part XXII | Part XXIII | Part XXIV
I still firmly believe that the EPO's 2026 might - to António Campinos - be like the 2016 of Jesper Kongstad - a year of hard reckoning [1, 2].
As recently as yesterday we reminded Europeans to contact their officials and urged EPO insiders to participate in strikes or any other industrial action/s. The actions a decade ago motivated political involvement/interventions and eventually Benoît Battistelli was wedged out.
We thank insiders and outsiders who read this site for recognising that justice itself is at stake now (even patent courts got hijacked by "the industry").
"Dear Roy," one reader wrote to me, "my best wishes for 2026. Stay healthy and free. 2026 will be a great year for the EPO... in terms of transparency. Nearly every employee of the EPO has "secret files". Understand documents you come across during your professional activities and [sic] may be of some use as a kind of "life insurance". Mine are in several places and the instructions are clear: the documents will be released if something happens to me."
I heard the same from others. The EPO is now seeing a whole bunch of secrets, not limited to the cokeheads, gradually coming out. Later this month and next month we'll name some members of what EPO insiders call "the Mafia". We'll mention their aggression, incompetence, even antisemitism.
One way or another, we can probably all guess that one day - one way or another - all those EPO secrets will spill out. But not too fast. We have more leverage if we tactically and strategically release information (depending on context and dynamics). "That is also the reason why I don't want/can release documents prematurely," the reader said.
I still have thousands of lines of unpublished information (that I wrote) about the EPO. In my TODO list I have indexes for that. And it's not just the EPO; in the face of intimidation we plan to publish a lot for years to come.
Stay tuned. The EPO's management must be talking a lot about us these days. The last thing they can afford is the politicians in member states finding out about it and asking "hard" questions. At the moment the EPO tries to prevent the media from mentioning anything at all about it. I know this because major media privately tells me this. The EUIPO does the same thing. In this increasingly authoritarian world we need more whistleblowers. █