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Summary: Patent offices are meant to carry out patent examination, but today's EPO is so focused on money (by granting a ton of legally-invalid monopolies) that it is willing to enlist incapable and inexperienced workers as 'machine operators'; this is done in violation of many EPC provisions

THE latest EPO post discussed António Campinos attacking EPO workers even more than Benoît Battistelli had done, in effect abolishing a lot of rights and lowering the salary by a factor of 2-3 during massive inflation. There's no doubt that the objective of today's management is to replace competent examiners with rubberstampters, common patent courts with kangaroo courts, and high-quality patents with a sea of junk like in INPI and CNIPA (imagine millions of European software patents whose examination process involved little but Google Search).

"By the time the EPC turns 50 it will have been so thoroughly violated that one can wonder if the EPO even deserves to exist anymore."Everything that EPO was supposed to stand for gets dismantled one step at a time. By the time the EPC turns 50 it will have been so thoroughly violated that one can wonder if the EPO even deserves to exist anymore. ⬆