THE latest EPO article is 'annotated' (verbally) somewhat on the go. Scientists and judges ought to have been put in charge. If it's a scientific institution, then they should elevate successful examiners (with good track record of accuracy, not something like so-called 'production') to management positions, not import a bunch of incompetent and deeply corrupt buddies from former employers of existing managers (INPI in the case of Benoît Battistelli and EUIPO in the case of António Campinos).

"Techrights unwittingly became a vector for informants, communications, and dissemination of hard evidence."The video above isn't long; it's a little more than a simple reading -- the first attempt at such a thing. The delivery is done in one take, the first take, based on mental 'notes' (thoughts) and hopefully adds some context to the aforementioned story/text.

Over the past six and half years I've grown sufficiently close to EPO insiders and want to help them at least communicate with one another (knowing that EPO management tries to make that rather tough and increasingly scary while trowing lots of misinformation into the mix to breed mistrust, e.g. painting union leaders as unruly nazis who constantly look to seed institutional chaos). Techrights unwittingly became a vector for informants, communications, and dissemination of hard evidence. It's difficult to muzzle us (they've threatened me repeatedly and still block the site; when blocking backfired because examiners can access the Web outside the workplace they started with malicious, baseless, ill-spirited blackmail). Typical union-busting tactics are employed, with military-connected (sometimes outright fascistic) elements actively deployed to make it scary to organise, to politely speak to staff representatives, and discreetly communicate with the press (what's left of it to cover this; they play whack-a-mole to discourage transparency through media coverage by independent/investigative publishers). ⬆