07.06.17
Gemini version available ♊︎EPO Plans to Replace Examiners With Software, Yielding Poor Results
Related: The EPO Does Not Want Skilled (and ‘Expensive’) Staff, Layoffs a Growing Concern
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently”
–Friedrich Nietzsche
Summary: European Patents (EPs) will no longer be worth the money, as the work associated with studying (prior art), granting, and ‘gardening’ patents is reduced to appalling quality that assures neither certainty nor value
THERE IS ABSOLUTELY nothing that the Battistelli regime won’t say to save face. Lies have become routine and sometimes we see people who repeat these lies. “Found on LinkedIn,” told us an EPO insider, was the following post.
“Martin Schweiger, Schweiger & Partner on promo tour?
“Please fill in…”
Well, EPO insiders probably know the issue with that statement, especially now that EPO stakeholders openly speak about the declining quality of EPO ‘products’.
The leaks from Vacca help contradict him by demonstrating that the end result is appalling and does not merit actual payment for a ‘service’. It’s a ripoff. In fact, insiders have long worried about Battistelli, an unscientific boss, trying to throw everything at machines with no human supervision/operators and with virtually no human judgment. There’s already a detailed explanation of why this would not work. Not even the USPTO ever attempted something crazy like that. Battistelli was probably ‘sold’ on some pseudo-science.
Now that EPO receives a decreasing number of applications it’s not clear if there’s much of a future beyond Battistelli. All he brags about are deals with countries like Cambodia (a former French colony with no European Patents) and days ago we saw an ‘article’ by Shilpi Saxena from Khurana and Khurana. It said this:
The second amendment came into existence on January 23rd 20174 when Cambodia signed an agreement of validation with the European Patent Organization (EPO) and became the first country in Asia to do so. This change will be effective once it is incorporated and adopted into the law of kingdom of Cambodia, possibly by July 1st 2017. Based on this amendment, the European Patent applicants will be able to submit in future a request for validation in the kingdom of Cambodia, where the European Patent will have the same value and effect as a Cambodian national patent application and will be subjected to national law. The 2 major amendments discussed above will now be discussed in more detail below.
All that talk about “European Patent applicants”, but Cambodia does not even register on the radar at the EPO. It’s somewhat symptomatic of what the Battistelli regime will leave the EPO with — a legacy of shame and disgrace, not to mention brain drain and layoffs. We can’t help wondering what companies that invested millions if not billions in EPs think these days. █
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