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EPO Examiners to Adopt Resolution Condemning EPO Management for Breaking the Law in Order to Grant Many Illegal Software Patents

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 05, 2024

[LSCTH] Invitation to staff from all EPO sites - General Assembly - Wednesday 9 October, 15.00

Europe's second-largest institution (EPO) is a law-breaking institution hiding behind the veil of "law"

The EPO's Local Staff Committee Munich (LSCTH) is meeting in less than 4 days. As they've put it, this is "the General Assembly for all staff organized by the Local Staff Committee Munich on Wednesday 9 October, at 15.00" (outsourced to Microsoft and the NSA unfortunately).

To quote what they say:

resolution will be presented and submitted to a vote by all sites.

Agenda:

The resolution in question mentions European software patents - i.e. patents which are both illegal and undesirable - just as they mentioned before (we had published leaks about this more than 2 years ago). The EPO managers nowadays use this illegality as a bribe, i.e. a crime to cover up another crime.

Here's the (draft for now) resolution as plain text/HTML/GemText:

DRAFT RESOLUTION to be adopted on EPO procedures

Staff of the EPO, gathered in a General Assembly,

Noting that:

• DG1 Operations arbitrarily initiated the cancellation of oral proceedings and reallocated patent applications i.a. from IPQC members to so-called “Repair Teams” working in another Directorate of a different technical field without consulting nor providing any feedback to the competent Examining Division;

• DG1 Operations mandated, outside of any legal framework of the EPC or quality management system, “special units” to check summons for oral proceedings and communications on patent applications, i.a., from IPQC members;

• new “Golden Rules” are circulating in some Directorates with the explicit mention that they shall remain confidential;

• DG1 Operations frequently interfered with the work of the Examining Division especially in the field of Software Patents (e.g., CII, digital simulations)

Fears:

• an abolition of the obligation for neutrality of the EPO in the treatment of patent applications;

• the failure of the Organisation’s mission to grant legally sound patents, and

• a negative effect on European society and industry;

Urges the President and the Administrative Council to:

• respect the EPC’s regulations on patent examination, which is further oriented on the interpretation and case law of the Boards of Appeal, and guided by publicly available Guidelines for Examination;

• put an end to interferences with Examining Divisions and arbitrary reallocation of files on the advice of “special units” and hidden instructions;

• clearly and transparently define regulations for the allocation and for the exceptional reallocation of files to competent Examining Divisions;

Munich/The Hague/Berlin, 9 October 2024

By failing to curb Benoît Battistelli's crimes or hold him accountable for anything, no matter the now-irreversible damage, the EU and German authorities paved the way for his unqualified friend to persist in the same criminal behaviour. We know who stands to benefit from this criminal behaviour. There's a lack of incentive (at the top) to do something about it.

Sure, the Kremlin is highly corrupt, but so is the EPO and this corruption has spread from the EPO to the EU. What will happen if nobody stops it? They've already attacked the very legitimacy of courts (now just a zombie run by industry in defiance of constitutions, international conventions, laws, and public interest). We saw what happens to the press when courts get captured like this and justice becomes "unrealisable", to quote Julian Assange.

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