05.05.16
US Congress Should Investigate EPO and Battistelli, Not Just WIPO and Francis Gurry
EPO is not really European (US firms rely on it), so it shouldn’t be unthinkable for the US to launch a probe
Francis Gurry. Photo source: WIPO
Summary: The US takes more and more actions against WIPO for abuses against workers, but why not the European Patent Office (EPO) as well?
EARLIER this year we mentioned Federal/US scrutiny against WIPO. Why go only as far as WIPO though?
Crucial fact to note here is that both Gurry and Battistelli (two notorious self-righteous sociopaths) competed for the same WIPO post. Members of the US Congress should investigate EPO abuses (it’s not a European body but an international one), but instead they go after WIPO ([1] below). The main difference is that EPO employs European citizens, whereas WIPO employs (and habitually abuses) US citizens, among others.
There is meanwhile a WIPO event in Geneva (Europe) and it is expected to have software patents promotion, as Benjamin Henrion noticed yesterday (Battistelli and his EPO maximalists surely would approve such a move). █
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Citing “Toxic” Environment, US Congress Members Urge Secretary Kerry To Get UN Report On Gurry
WIPO Director General Francis Gurry was investigated after charges were levelled by a deputy director that he wrongfully ordered DNA samples to be taken from several unknowing staff members, and that he improperly influenced a WIPO contract to steer it toward a particular businessman. The congressional members said Gurry is “engaging in a lobbying effort to prevent disclosure of the report or to have the report heavily redacted.” Redacted means sections are blacked out.