European Patent Office is a Kakistocracy Illustrated

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2022-06-30 01:35:26 UTC
Modified: 2022-06-30 01:35:26 UTC

American poet James Russell Lowell used the term in 1876, in a letter to Joel Benton, writing, 'What fills me with doubt and dismay is the degradation of the moral tone. Is it or is it not a result of Democracy? Is ours a 'government of the people by the people for the people,' or a Kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?'
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Summary: Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos aren't just a "dark era" for the EPO; they might in fact be the end of the EPO, having made corruption the "new normal" or "new ways of working"

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