[Meme] EPO 'Democracy': Friend Brings Friends
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2022-06-14 19:18:19 UTC
- Modified: 2022-06-14 19:18:19 UTC
Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos have turned the EPO into a laughing stock; even the examiners' morale is affected by this corruption (it's like a monarchy without elections, making up by kinship and nepotism)
Summary: The EPO should quit pretending to be a patent office rather than a family or circle of friends who plunder the institution by illicitly selling Europe-wide monopolies to very large corporations, most of which aren't even European
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