"Dear Roy," one reader wrote, "here an article in French about the disastrous management of the INPI. I sounds familiar, isn't it?"
Red card for the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI). In a court decision released Tuesday, the Court of Accounts severely pinpoints the management of this institution under the supervision of the Ministry of Economy, which manages and centralizes industrial property rights. "The persistence of dysfunctions within the INPI, even though these shortcomings and bad practices have long been criticized by the Court as other stakeholders, is not acceptable," warn the sages of the street Cambon.
These flaws include the purchasing processes that must be "reviewed and centralized", the management of the housing stock that "lacks rigor" and the allocation of remuneration and bonuses, which turns out to be "a problem recurrent". So the performance bonus was given to ... all the staff. In addition, the objective of dematerialization of patent management seems, for the time being, to be compromised. "The court found that this approach did not rely on a master plan information systems duly approved," said the interlocutory, which points to the "deficiencies of the general management in the supervision of the project."