Europe's Second-Largest Institution (EPO) and Largest Patent Monopoly Office Needs More Transparency, Not Less Transparency
In the US they nowadays use the word "backslide" quite a lot... in relation to a functioning democracy, which means more than just elections. What good are elections when a person like Putin controls all the media and even criminalises looking for information that does not favour him?
In the EPO, what good are elections when one candidate literally bribes all the voters? That actually happened!
This week we hope to write a lot more about patents and specifically about the EPO (last week something else kept us busy).
Had the EPO been transparent, it would be more honest. But just like Putin, the EPO coerced and then muzzled the media. That means that most people in Europe barely have access to actual facts about the EPO.
Our goal is to change that. █
In the news a week ago: Cheap Drugs Matter: Why Make Them More Expensive With Patent Monopolies?