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10.27.16

Leaked: Budget and Finance Committee Outcomes That Jeopardise What’s Left of the EPO’s Future

Posted in Europe, Patents at 2:18 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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… rest of it includes a lot of budget numbers, which is the sort of thing that they would not like leaked and probably serve no purpose for this post.” Here are the outcomes from the meeting of the 26 th of October (that’s yesterday): “Continuing the implementation of the Boards of Appeal reform, the contract related to the lease of a building in Haar / Munich, which will be the new location of the Boards of Appeal Unit, was submitted to the BFC. Although several delegations …

10.26.16

Leaked: EPO’s Vice-President Willie Minnoye Saying the Unsayable, Then Threatening Anyone Who Keeps Record (Evidence) of It

Posted in Europe, Patents at 3:49 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Sounds like a threat…

Summary : E-mail that would leave Vice-President Willie Minnoye bashful, as it helps show not only bad policy but also attempts at suppression of discussion about it

T HE ABOVE message is almost self-explanatory (it’s an old E-mail). We understand that Willie Minnoye is very concerned about EPO material ending up in Techrights (for reporting that …

10.25.16

Leaked: Minutes From the Administrative Council of the EPO Regarding the ‘Reform’ (Exile) of the Boards of Appeal

Posted in Europe, Patents at 4:10 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Exile is to “independence” what prison is to “freedom”

Summary : Details of the relatively secret proceedings back in June (belatedly released only a short while ago), carefully abbreviated to demonstrate which delegations helped Battistelli crush the Boards of Appeal and which ones insisted on maintaining the status quo, as per the EPC

E ARLIER TODAY we published one …

Leaked Minutes From the EPO Reveal That Battistelli is Detached From Reality and Blames Everything on “Union Officials”

Posted in Deception, Europe, Patents at 9:13 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Trying to decapitate the unions of the European Patent Office (EPO) before he attacks the staff these unions represent

Reference : Reality Deficiency Syndrome

Summary : Minutes of the Administrative Council’s meeting reveal some truly bizarre rants from Battistelli, who simply refuses to accept that the European Patent Office is burning (without a future direction, only burnout …

10.22.16

Battistelli-Commissioned PwC ‘Study’: Leaked Document Shows PwC’s Dishonesty and Misrepresentation of EPO Staff

Posted in Deception, Europe, Patents at 10:47 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

… . Soon afterwards, in part 2 of this little 'series', we presented a comparison that had been leaked to us. Well, an insider has also just leaked to us a much more comprehensive document (from which the latter material had been snapped), pertaining to those so-called 'studies' which are accessible only internally. With literally thousands of disgruntled employees it’s no wonder almost everything ends up being sent to us.

We have uploaded the leaked document [PDF] and wish to …

10.18.16

Leaked Documents Shed More Light on What Happened to Alison Brimelow and How Battistelli Rose to Power

Posted in Europe, Patents at 12:55 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

The secretive Board 28′s Summary of Conclusions — from the EPO in 2009

Summary : How Battistelli’s (almost) all-male (and all-white, mostly French) management came into being, not too long after Ms Alison Brimelow got elbowed out the Office

T HE OTHER day, writing about Roland Grossenbacher and recalling rumours about him and Battistelli [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ] (how they had …

Leaked: Outcomes of 149th Administrative Council’s Meeting at the European Patent Organisation

Posted in Europe, Patents at 12:39 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Outcomes of 149 th Administrative Council’s meeting at the EPO

Summary : The raw details or a summary thereof, based on the above which serves to confirm what we wrote about several days ago, right after the quarterly meeting had ended

B attistelli is losing (after a coup) and the EPO’s staff regains control of the Office which they work for, based on the outcomes of the 149 …

09.29.16

Leaked: Conclusions of the Secretive EPO Board 28 Meeting (8th of September 2016)

Posted in Europe, Patents at 5:56 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

… of Board 28. We are pleased to report that, after repeated requests, the entire document has been leaked to us. We present it below with highlights on important bits, excluding the cover page (seen above):

The Board of the Administrative Council (“the Board”) held its 74th meeting in Munich on 8 September 2016, with Mr Kongstad in the chair. Mr Debrulle had sent his apologies.

1. Adoption of the provisional agenda (B28/8/16 e)

1. The Board adopted the provisional agenda set …

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