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Summary: When countries without European Patents get to vote on important issues (and are easy to sway/bribe) it's hardly surprising that the EPO became a defunct institution, run partly by despots

THE governance of the EPO has elements inside it that even the EU rejects. To make matters worse, those elements have as much voting power as that of countries like France and Germany. Imagine a 30-year-old ethnic Albanian (barely any European Patents there) having as much of a say on Benoît Battistelli's proposals as the German representatives. Does that make sense? Whether it makes sense of not, this means that António Campinos and his court-rigging maniacs can do almost anything they please; maybe they'll just need to drop a bribe here and there...

Where's North Macedonia in this image from the EPO?



It is very difficult to find reports or past "results" (quality-agnostic statistics). We've tried hard (both navigation and search), so those got buried away if not altogether removed (only press releases remain fully in tact and discoverable). The EPO appears to no longer make it possible to look up number of patents per nation (except for top filers), unlike past years. Are they trying to spare them the embarrassment? Or to spare EPO dictators the embarrassment? Like EPO signing lots of deals and MoU stuff with countries that have zero European Patents? North Macedonia isn't even mentioned in the latest report [PDF] (at all).

Looking at archives, which are very difficult to find anymore (not in navigation menus any longer), we have this:



That's right, zero patents in 2017. Back when it was possible to look up such information...

"Expect part 5 some time tonight. There’s lots more in the pipeline, running well into the month of September."As a side note, this sordid status quo helps explain why the EPO somehow managed to still justify European software patents, no matter if the law is sternly against these. A bribe here and there...

The video above concerns an ongoing series (see part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4) with focus on the latest part that's political in nature. Expect part 5 some time tonight. There's lots more in the pipeline, running well into the month of September. Buying the media has its limits; some people out there are impossible to bribe. ⬆