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Summary: The EPO's guidelines for examiners have long been perturbed by Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos on behalf of the same interest groups which lobby for the illegal, unconstitutional kangaroo court, UPC; all they want is more and more patents -- even software patents -- because they profit from applications, litigation and so on, not innovation

THIS "news" from Monday (warning: epo.org link) is misleading propaganda with the term "EPC" (European Patent Convention) preceding everything else in the headline. The general idea here is to give the false impression that with EPC in mind the guidelines of the EPO are being shaped; the body, including some charts (shown in the video above), contradicts this. The vision and the future of the EPO are shaped by patent maximalists and multinational monopolists; a lot of the input comes from non-scientists.

"The EPO is in a deep, highly profound state of crisis. Many of the stakeholders are perfectly aware of the crisis; few of them are willing to speak out about it, at least not without some conditions of anonymity. Some stakeholders stand to lose a lot (investment in European Patents), so they hope to just hide the crisis instead of tackling it."This rapid and troublesome departure from the European Patent Convention was mentioned here on Tuesday morning along with this meme about "Illegal EPO Guidelines".

Thankfully, many workers of the EPO are rebelling against this injustice and have made the decision to follow the EPC, not those guidelines or illegitimate orders from management. EPC governs the EPO, in theory but no longer in practice. That needs to change. The first step would be for Josef to "grow a pair" and oust Campinos later this month (declining, outright refusing, to extend the term); of course that would be only the start because most of the high-level management at the EPO is unskilled and unqualified, imported by Campinos to join Battistelli's despots. It's one heck of a kakistocracy that shames Europe and harms the European economy. The EPO should be run by scientists, not banksters.

The EPO is in a deep, highly profound state of crisis. Many of the stakeholders are perfectly aware of the crisis; few of them are willing to speak out about it, at least not without some conditions of anonymity. Some stakeholders stand to lose a lot (investment in European Patents), so they hope to just hide the crisis instead of tackling it. ⬆