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Many of the National Delegations (or Delegates) in the EPO's Administrative Council Have No Understanding of What They Vote on

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Summary: One must consider the possibility that ignorance or gullibility (which lack of qualifications may entail) possibly became a contributing factor -- malice and bribery aside -- in systemic failure of the EPO's governance

THE 25th part of the series was published this morning (index below). We may take a short recess and then continue; in the meantime we have this discussion about what António Campinos tells people in the EPO's Administrative Council as well as the EC; based on the EPO's site (the "news" section), he openly tells them lies about the UPC, which Benoît Battistelli might still be planning to preside over. They've long used this unconstitutional piece of trash (an illegal coup) as an excuse for their staff-crushing 'reforms'. The whole thing is just insane. Earlier this week the EPO's "news" section told a bunch of lies about "quality" (more keyword-stuffing than actual information) and we've already seen that many delegates lack background (educational and/or experience) when it comes to matters of patents; many don't understand the sciences, either, as they're basically political animals who compensate for a lack of skills with a breadth of connections. The sooner the public understands this, the better. The media sure is trying to keep the public in the dark on these matters. Such media apathy is complicity in the coup -- a takeover whose end goal is to crush scientists for the financial benefit of law firms and their largest clients (multinational monopolistic corporations).



Series parts:

  1. The EPO's Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part I: Let the Sunshine In!
  2. The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part II: A “Unanimous” Endorsement?
  3. The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part III: Three Missing Votes
  4. The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part IV: The Founding States
  5. The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part V: Germany Says “Ja”
  6. The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part VI: A Distinct Lack of Dutch Courage
  7. The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part VII: Luxembourgish Laxity
  8. The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part VIII: Perfidious Albion and Pusillanimous Hibernia
  9. The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part IX: More Holes Than Swiss Cheese
  10. The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part X: Introducing the Controversial Christian Bock
  11. The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XI: “General Bock” - Battistelli's Swiss Apprentice?
  12. The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XII: The French Connection
  13. The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XIII: Battistelli's Iberian Facilitators - Spain
  14. The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XIV: Battistelli's Iberian Facilitators - Portugal
  15. The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XV: Et Tu Felix Austria…
  16. The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XVI: The Demise of the Austrian Double-Dipper
  17. The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XVII: The Non-Monolithic Nordic Bloc
  18. The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XVIII: Helsinki's Accord
  19. The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part IXX: The Baltic States
  20. The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XX: The Visegrád Group
  21. The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXI: The Balkan League – The Doyen and His “Protégée”
  22. The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXII: The Balkan League - North Macedonia and Albania
  23. The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXIII: The Balkan League - Bulgaria
  24. The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXIV: The Balkan League - Romania
  25. The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XXV: The Balkan League - Fresh Blood or Same Old, Same Old?

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