Bonum Certa Men Certa

Under Battistelli, EPO Ceased to Reward Inventors, Rewards Only Battistelli and Fellow Thugs Instead

Related: Information From SUEPO on the Functional Allowance Reveals How Top-Level Management Intends to 'Rob' the Cash Cow (EPO Budget)

Ernst Krendlinger



Summary: Benoît Battistelli, who has turned EIA into an event all about himself (same as the EPO's Web site, now a shrine to Battistelli), has also damaged the mission statement of the EPO and lowered the quality of everything

"Disgruntled examiner," an anonymous commenter, said the other day (presumably about his/her employer, the EPO): "It's interesting to see, how far the quality level can fall."



We wrote many articles about this, but here comes the interesting (and new to us) part:

"There is even an "inventor" who got a prize, yet does not seem to be the real inventor (look at the SME section...). According to https://www.heise.de/tr/artikel/Erfinderpreis-fuer-den-Erfinder-aus-Zufall-3750059.html and https://www.heise.de/tr/artikel/Erfinder-aus-Zufall-3606163.html the inventor was Ernst Krendlinger (though a lot of the information in these articles does not quite fit to the published documents). And my former colleagues tell me, there is yet another person named for the German priority application (they did not want to tell me the name). Maybe someone interested could request "Akteneinsicht" to confirm this?

"It's disgusting to see low quality even on the pet projects of our beloved president..."

Previously, the EPO awarded a fraud who may be responsible for deaths.

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