Summary: Nadja Merdaci-Lefèvre, with military background (trendy skill at the EPO right now), officially becomes an EPO Director
THE trend at the Team Battistelli-led EPO never ceases to amaze. An appointment from military to top EPO rank was only mentioned here earlier today (there are also lower level examples and peripheral examples, but we deal only with public officials as their exposure to the press is subjected to other levels of ethics).
"It's rather interesting to see the predominantly French Team Battistelli bolstering/empowering itself."We already knew this a while ago, but staff gets notified a little later, maybe to in order reduce backlash.
"She appeared on Techrights before," our source noted, "as part of the Inner Circle 2.0."
It's rather interesting to see the predominantly French Team Battistelli bolstering/empowering itself. It's a clique. Sometimes it's literally a family. It's not just Bergot anymore (we know some embarrassing stories about her that we cannot publish, at least not yet).
"The intranet page about Merdaci-Lefèvre's would be nice to have here for the record if anyone could kindly leak it to us..."It is going to be a very long night as we have been receiving a lot of new material today. "Dear Mr. Roy Schestowitz," wrote one person to me, "I have definitely found this article very interesting (thought in French): http://www.agoravox.fr/tribune-libre/article/de-quoi-le-conflit-social-a-l-175546
"It might explain indeed the current crisis at the EPO. I am not sure it is known in the IP world. I guess you might feel interested in having it appearing on Techrights."
Someone already works on translating it for us. It's work in progress as it's a long article and one that is exceptionally difficult to translate. In the mean time, if anyone has the time, please keep an eye on the next few articles. We need some translations from Dutch, so native Dutch speakers are needed (for accuracy, automated translations are not sufficiently reliable). ⬆