THE EPO needs and deserves change. It needs it for its survival and the staff (examiners mostly) deserve their rights back. Some press coverage in central Europe says "München (DK) Der Streit zwischen der Behördenleitung und den Mitarbeitern im Europäischen Patentamt (EPA) in München eskaliert." (dispute between the management and the employees of the European Patent Office (EPO) in Munich has escalated)

"It is a lawful process and historic protest against the lawlessness of the management."Show them tomorrow that an entire Office can be shut down on a Thursday as though it was a Sunday. This will send a strong message to the Board 28 folks a week before their surprise meeting.

I won't be able to write many articles this week (I'm working for the third day in a row today, thus unable to work on this Web site), but for more details see the related PDFs recently published by SUEPO (we posted the text quite a while ago). As some PDFs related to this [1, 2] help show, tomorrow's strike is all about lawfulness. It is a lawful process and historic protest against the lawlessness of the management. ⬆

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

--Martin Luther King, Jr.