● 10.15.21

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●● From Competitive (Top-Level, High-Calibre, Well-Paid) Jobs to 2,000 Euros a Month — How the EPO is Becoming a Sweatshop by Patent Examiners’ Standards

Posted in Europe, Patents at 3:21 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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Summary: A longish video about the dreadful situation at the EPO, where staff is being ‘robbed’ and EPO funds get funnelled into some dodgy stock market investments (a clear violation of the institution’s charter)

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THE CURRENT EPO is a deeply corrupt institution that exists not to advance science and technology but to make the rich even richer. One might think of the boisterous Benoît Battistelli and drunkard António Campinos as either the ‘engineers’ (of the scheme) or mere implementors, working at the behest of their ‘handlers’.

↺ Benoît Battistelli

↺ António Campinos

“Monopolistic barbwires actively discourage invention and market participation; those usher in neo- or corporate-feudalism.”As a patent office, the EPO is already failing. It seems to be better at bribing scholars and so-called 'journalists' in order to restrict access to information. This is what some cults or organised crime syndicates do, hiding behind a veil or secrecy and PR stunts. The video goes through the articles below and discusses why it’s a very big deal. With anti-strike regulations having been ruled unlawful, it took no more than 2 months for Team Campinos to bring a bunch of people aboard (minimal vetting), ready to potentially replace existing workers at about one fifth the salary. As if patent examination is just some production pipeline; the ramifications associated with fake patents in large volume were explored in scholarly literature for decades. Monopolistic barbwires actively discourage invention and market participation; those usher in neo- or corporate-feudalism. █

so-called 'journalists'

PR stunts

Articles from the video:

With EPO ‘Strike Regulations’ Belatedly Ruled Unlawful, EPO Management May be Lowering the Salary Even Further by Introducing Outside ‘Temps’ or Casual WorkersThe EPO’s Overseer/Overseen Collusion — Part XII: The French ConnectionNew Leak: Today’s EPO Breaks Its Contract With Former Staff of the EPO, Not Just Existing StaffILOAT Finally Overturns Battistelli’s Vichyite Strike RegulationsEPO May be Financially Defrauding the Public and Its Employees

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