Abuse Inside the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) - Part IV: Political Scrutiny and Errors/Inconsistencies in Official Documents
When such organisations receive scrutiny they start focusing on cover-up and muzzling of facts (or crushing people who say the truth)
In Part I, which was published days ago (we strive to write about this every day), we mentioned a report about UPRP. In Part II and Part III we began dealing with some of the key findings.
It cannot be stressed strongly enough that many similarities exist or many of the same abuses we see in the EPO happen at NPOs (National Patent Offices). This can help explain why many national delegates, who are typically NPO staff, help the agenda of corrupt dictators, who moreover bribe them to play along. When officials from Poland go to Munich and get paid a salary of Germans they would be inclined to protect that position; it's nowadays a lot of money, not just "free dental". It's a bribe. Techrights covered (about a decades ago) how free dental care for national delegates was misused; to people from poor member states such stuff could cost as much as several months' salaries in their home country.
There are now officials at UPRP who distort facts or lie. The authors of the publication above, we've learned, also draw attention to errors in official documents, inconsistencies between official reports submitted to the Ministry of Development and annual UPRP reports, the refusal to conduct remote hearings, and the absence of recording access—all of which prompted 130 MPs to file formal interpellations.
So this is becoming a political issue in Poland. Amid changes in their government we don't expect this to change for the better. █