[Meme] EPO Cannot Recover by Brushing Aside Issues and by Bribing the Media

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2020-09-15 14:34:52 UTC
Modified: 2020-09-15 14:34:52 UTC

Canada watching US politics: spun as EPO and IAM

Time To Reassess Your Patent Cooperation Treaty Strategy
Source: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP (September 2020)

Summary: Swept under the rug are a bunch of perfectly legitimate EPO problems, which EPO staff (through the union and staff representatives) keeps bringing up, only to meet the deaf ears and iron fists of Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos since one decade ago

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[Meme] EPO Cannot Recover by Brushing Aside Issues and by Bribing the Media

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