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EPO: Privatising Everything and Passing Capital to Corrupt Executives' Pockets (or Monetising the Abolition of the EPC)

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Summary: The Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation may make an important decision by month's end, but we predict that the corrupt cabal will stay, deepening a growing EPO crisis which spills over to the EU and other institutions

THE EPO has an important decision to make this month. Will António Campinos be tentatively shown the door? He clearly wants to stay, but he is breaking the rules of the Office and almost nobody in the Office trusts him.



The video above covers this this latest inane puff piece (warning: epo.org link) and then discusses what's next for the Office. It seems a little too late to restore calm and legality at the EPO; too many self-serving, corrupt individuals helped themselves to the cookie jar; the lack of oversight emboldened such behaviour.

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