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ILOAT Judgment No. 4550 Shows Why ILO Can Never Truly Restore Justice at the EPO and Reminds Us Why ILO Wanted to Kick the EPO Out, Recognising the Highly Exceptional Level of Abuse

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Summary: "Better late than never" is a dreary old cliché; in the case we've just covered [PDF] "late" is almost a decade late (those involved have already retired!), nobody is being held accountable, and the compensation is astoundingly small (maybe a thousand times smaller than the equivalent amount of effort -- the effort taken to get the decision overturned)

THE EPO's extensive violations of the law and the assault on civil/labour rights became a subject of great notoriety during the Benoît Battistelli era. But these did not end with his departure; the same violations -- and some newer ones too -- are perpetuated by Battistelli's friend and fellow Frenchman António Campinos, who bought himself a reappointment last month.



"We've repeatedly seen how the EPO violates laws, constitutions, and treaties."The next item on his agenda is spreading European software patents everywhere he can and replacing real patent courts with kangaroo courts -- tribunals deliberately stacked for patent maximalism and overzealous presumption of patent validity/compliance. Only this was they can mask the collapse of European Patents' (EPs) quality.

The above video deals with Part II of a series we started last night and will continue until Thursday. The International Labour Organization (headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and operating for over 103 years already) has belatedly overturned illegal EPO policies. But will the EPO obey these rulings? We've repeatedly seen how the EPO violates laws, constitutions, and treaties. The EPO's concept of "justice" is truly catastrophic and there's no oversight. In fact, those entrusted to oversee the Office are being bribed by the Office.

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