Video download link | md5sum a5e2aade7a2a72ff78d2c9de88d34275 The EPO’s Fake Gap Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0



Summary: Benoît Battistelli's EPO, which is now run by his longtime sidekick António Campinos, is racing to the bottom of patent quality and patent examination; the ramifications are profound, even if the media is mostly silent on this issue

THE video above, which is the first we make with metadata in it (experimental code), was improperly recorded so there's background noise. Nevertheless, it looks back at the parts published here throughout the week, dealing with the "race to the bottom" seen at the EPO. The parts discussed are as follows:

1. The EPO's Race to the Bottom — Part I — From Bad to Worse
2. The EPO's Race to the Bottom — Part II — “Playing People Off Against Each Other is Not the Way We Want to Go Forward!”
3. The EPO's Race to the Bottom — Part III — “The King is Naked” (a Fake Financial Shortage and 'Missing' -- or Plundered -- Billions)
4. The EPO's Race to the Bottom — Part IV — New Career System (NCS) and New Pension System (NPS)
5. The EPO's Race to the Bottom — Part V — An Assault on Pensioners

As noted near the start of the video, there's some experimental code involved (changelog here), so it's not exactly shocking that the quality was subpar. Over the coming year we'll hopefully make further improvements to the workflow and provide more material per time unit. At the EPO, the number of workers is decreasing, so the load each person deals with is increasing. It's hardly surprising that quality goes down the drain. ⬆