The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part II - It's About Politics, Not Science
In Finland, for instance, officials in patent offices can commit fraud and still remain politically active (and directly involved in patent/trademark affairs), so this isn't about law, it's about power and nepotism
The EPO is on strike - led by courageous people - as workers know they're governed by deeply corrupt officials. We know who those officials are. Some of them do cocaine, some of them try to cover up the cocaine use, and some have sex with the "Mafia".
What was once the hub or magnet of academic excellence in Europe is becoming an underworld, to put it mildly or politely. It's just some "cash register" to people with no prior experience in patents but plenty of political connections in the Iberian peninsula.
Yesterday (in Part I) we reminded readers that all the top-level management at the EPO has no background in patents! They're pretenders basically!
"Do Campinos, Rowan, Simon, or Ernst have even a science or technology background?" a reader has since asked us. "Not having a background in patents is one thing," this reader has noted, "not being even in the same field is another."
We gave other examples before, e.g. Georg Weber. One day you study agriculture, the next day you make decisions on granting patents on algorithms to fake "production" (by granting unlawful patents).
We'll continue to remind our readers who live in Europe to contact their national officials about this [1, 2]. This is a political issue, as we'll explain tomorrow. This is politics. It's neither about science nor law. Maybe Luis isn't performing but his sister is performing. And the president, another politician, does not seem to understand that running Europe's second-largest institution (or speaking for it) while doing cocaine is a really bad thing.
Tomorrow we'll discuss what the cocaine proponents (or apologists) deem to be "ethics". █