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00:15 schestowitz-TR2; Had to put the stupid dots back in, at the moment removing them would break
00:15 schestowitz-TR2; things in title scraping of the gemtext. Found a non-fatal warning
00:15 schestowitz-TR2; tracking it down
00:15 Techrights-sec2; Had to put the stupid dots back in, at the moment removing them would break
00:15 Techrights-sec2; things in title scraping of the gemtext. Found a non-fatal warning
00:15 Techrights-sec2; tracking it down
00:15 schestowitz-TR2; thanks, must be late there. I plan to stay up tonight catching up with patent news
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00:31 Techrights-sec2; np
00:31 Techrights-sec2; patent coverage is very important
00:44 schestowitz-TR2; adding andy's part 4 to drafts now
00:54 Techrights-sec2; ack
00:54 Techrights-sec2; part iv could lead in with a more specific thesis statement
00:54 Techrights-sec2; ok the scripts seem ok now, the one set of warnings is because
00:54 Techrights-sec2; the XML gradually gets replaced/ contaminated by non-XML (gemtext)
00:54 Techrights-sec2; and that bothers the parser module
00:54 schestowitz-TR2; unforeseen consequences of other coding? I still occasionally check the gemtext irc logs for sanity
00:55 schestowitz-TR2; I could use clarity on" part iv could lead in with a more specific thesis statement"
00:55 schestowitz-TR2; I am not sure what you have in mind; I can ask him, we speak like 5 times per day
00:57 Techrights-sec2; not so much coding as the result of mixing and matching XML with Gemtext
00:57 Techrights-sec2; the XML/HTML parser expects valid, well-formed elements. Gemtext is
00:57 Techrights-sec2; an error in that regard. I suppose there might be a different work flow
00:57 Techrights-sec2; to build up Gemtext, but for now the scripts go through a page
00:57 Techrights-sec2; and replace whole blocks of XHTML with Gemtext eventually leaving on
00:57 Techrights-sec2; only the Gemtext.
00:57 schestowitz-TR2; gemini is still young and there's time to improve things, the code is shown publicly in its latest form and sometimes I point to it in case someone wishes to reuse bits
00:58 Techrights-sec2; Thanks. I'm not sure what I have in mind either but have an easier time
00:58 Techrights-sec2; of the so-called inverted pyramid style of writing, so benefit from having
00:58 Techrights-sec2; the key info up top. I don't want to interfere with the writing style (much)
00:58 Techrights-sec2; just need a pointer at the beginning of what thread to follow as I read the
00:58 Techrights-sec2; body of the article.
00:59 schestowitz-TR2; the essay is many unconnected thoughts and experiences, it's not supposed to be very coherent as a whole
01:02 Techrights-sec2; Gemtext and XML don't mix. Nothing will change that. An XML parser will
01:02 Techrights-sec2; always choke on Gemtext. The trick would be to build a new document parallel
01:02 Techrights-sec2; to the old one as the old one is deleted, but I am not sure how to deal
01:02 Techrights-sec2; with making the place holders. I guess I could build some complicated structure
01:02 Techrights-sec2; of associative arrays and dump that as text at the end.
01:02 Techrights-sec2; I see, then maybe just a half-sentence at the beginning mentioning that
01:02 Techrights-sec2; it is a collection of thoughts and experiences.
01:02 schestowitz-TR2; I am extending the summary now
01:03 Techrights-sec2; Thanks.
01:05 schestowitz__[TR]; Dr. Andy Farnell shares his experiences from this past year -- a sporadic collection of thoughts that can hopefully start a dialogue about unhealthy and unethical trends in today's increasingly regressive if not Orwellian technology; he now focuses on pandemic response and knowledge sharing, as opposed to privateering and profiteering (this includes a modest proposal/critique of some problematic aspects of patent and copyright laws)
01:07 Techrights-sec2; I'll take a break in a bit. Any last minute things? I think the Gemtext is ok
01:07 Techrights-sec2; now.
01:07 Techrights-sec2; I'd like to remove the bullets from the headings since I suspect they may
01:07 Techrights-sec2; be annoying for screenreaders. But that would require a major revision and
01:07 Techrights-sec2; might make scraping even harder later. I'll have to think on that for a long
01:07 Techrights-sec2; while.
01:07 Techrights-sec2; Excellent.
01:08 schestowitz-TR2; my guess is, screenreaders will skip a "bullet"
01:08 schestowitz-TR2; but I never used a screenreader
01:08 Techrights-sec2; Orca might be easy to set up here, but I'd have to rearrange some systems first
01:08 Techrights-sec2; since I want to keep my main system as uncomplicated as possible.
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04:01 schestowitz__[TR]; >> Hmmm... you know what? Sod it, I'll publish part 3 now as I want to be
04:01 schestowitz__[TR]; >> sure I didn't miss some new edits. This means it'll still go into
04:01 schestowitz__[TR]; >> today's bulletin
04:01 schestowitz__[TR]; > That was fine.
04:01 schestowitz__[TR]; >
04:01 schestowitz__[TR]; > But can we hold off on Part 4 until we've talked about it today
04:01 schestowitz__[TR]; > please Roy.
04:01 schestowitz__[TR]; >
04:01 schestowitz__[TR]; >
04:01 schestowitz__[TR]; > I am just concerned to make it punchy, better balanced and to
04:01 schestowitz__[TR]; > think hard about what the questions are that are being raised
04:01 schestowitz__[TR]; > and how they affect us all, not just a _too_ personal take.
04:01 schestowitz__[TR]; >
04:01 schestowitz__[TR]; > Speak to you about lunchtime I hope
04:01 schestowitz__[TR]; > best
04:49 schestowitz-TR2; o/ gn
04:49 schestowitz-TR2; trying to free up about 500MB on the pi to avoid having to move to external
04:49 schestowitz-TR2; disk
04:49 schestowitz-TR2; I'm near to gettinhg it below 80% disk usage (SD)
04:55 schestowitz-TR2; w00t!
04:55 schestowitz-TR2; available 3gb, usage 75%
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09:15 Techrights-sec2; since I want to keep my main system as uncomplicated as possible.
09:17 Techrights-sec2; afk
09:17 Techrights-sec2; +1
09:17 Techrights-sec2; https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-dead-voters-georgia-big
09:17 Techrights-sec2; Ms GNU Linux has been unavailable for a very long time. I have now removed
09:17 Techrights-sec2; it from the list of sites to check.
09:17 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 404 @ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-dead-voters-georgia-big )
09:17 Techrights-sec2; Notice the highlighted text in the search results. StartPage injects M$ products,
09:17 Techrights-sec2; unwanted, into the mix:
09:17 Techrights-sec2; https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=cran+import+opendocument+spreadsheet+r&cat=web&pl=ext-ff&language=english&extVersion=1.3.0
09:17 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.startpage.com |
09:17 Techrights-sec2; -
09:17 Techrights-sec2; https://cdn.c3voc.de/relive/rc3-2021/487/muxed.mp4
09:17 Techrights-sec2; https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-2021-cwtv-879-stop-general-data-rete
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09:18 TechrightsBN; Hello World! I'm TechrightsBN running phIRCe v0.75
09:20 schestowitz-TR2; i do not see ads in startpage
09:20 schestowitz-TR2; the rollingstones URL is broken
09:27 Techrights-sec2; The RS link is a wrong paste, the buffer is fscked in Firefox.
09:27 Techrights-sec2; Check the startpage search results and note the returned results and the words
09:27 Techrights-sec2; which are highlighed by bold face. If one searches for "spreadsheet", startpage
09:27 Techrights-sec2; spams the results with unrelated "excel" links instead.
09:28 schestowitz-TR2; I cannot reproduce this in startpage on my side but either
09:28 schestowitz-TR2; way we know that this is fake 'pprivacy'
09:31 Techrights-sec2; I should have taken screen shots. Did you try more than the first page of result
09:31 Techrights-sec2; s?
09:32 schestowitz-TR2; no, just page 1, but to me that site is dead
09:32 schestowitz-TR2; at one point it was OK
09:33 schestowitz-TR2; ixquick or the bloated startpage
10:02 Techrights-sec2; the EPO hasn't focused on patent examination for a long time. You've shown
10:02 Techrights-sec2; documentation that they have become simply a rubber stamp for a fee.
10:02 schestowitz-TR2; some people focus on squashing UPC at the moment. I focus mostly on showing the disarray at EPO, inc. the Haar affair which discredits the courts there.
10:03 Techrights-sec2; EPC is dead but the EPO and other crooks have to be forced to publicly admit
10:03 Techrights-sec2; it so that it stays dead.
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10:24 Techrights-sec2; https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-2021-cwtv-879-stop-general-data-rete
10:24 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-media.ccc.de | media.ccc.de - Stop general data retention in the EU current plans for mass surveillance
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10:58 Techrights-sec2; https://media.ccc.de/c/rc3-2021
10:58 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-media.ccc.de | media.ccc.de - rC3 NOWHERE
11:09 schestowitz__[TR]; > morning Roy, thanks for the logs excerpt, I will try to address
11:09 schestowitz__[TR]; > these points of writing style this morning
11:09 schestowitz__[TR]; > update later
11:11 Techrights-sec2; ack
11:11 Techrights-sec2; see the second speaker (patrick breyer) in the cwtv link
11:12 schestowitz-TR2; i saw but id not click play as I am rather pissed off hat xmas was treated as just a weekend
11:12 schestowitz-TR2; I mean, the workload is almost the same as any weeek, I wrongly assumed things would slow down
11:12 schestowitz-TR2; and that I would have more free time
11:15 Techrights-sec2; :(
11:15 Techrights-sec2; people in the US don't even get it as a weekend off; that problem is spreading
11:15 Techrights-sec2; to many countries lately
11:15 schestowitz-TR2; glad that itis not just me noticing that. I ranted publicly severasl times, it gets worse each year
11:16 Techrights-sec2; here shops are now open late hours even on weekends and not just open sunday
11:16 Techrights-sec2; but even long hours. that means that people have to miss life in order to
11:16 Techrights-sec2; show up for a shift
11:17 schestowitz-TR2; rianne right now: "this systems should die"
11:17 schestowitz-TR2; rianne right now: "this system should die"
11:19 Techrights-sec2; yeah but it's being fed by people apparently thinking *they* are getting somethin
11:19 Techrights-sec2; g
11:19 Techrights-sec2; good by using a gig service or shopping during off hours, weekends, or holidays
11:19 Techrights-sec2; they are dselling out at the cost of their colleagues and even themselves
11:19 Techrights-sec2; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma
11:19 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-en.wikipedia.org | Prisoner's dilemma - Wikipedia
11:20 schestowitz-TR2; I still think mass publication and protected leakers are the way out of this
11:20 schestowitz-TR2; we did have some amazon WBers in the past
11:21 Techrights-sec2; yes but the JA case, and accompanying law changes, is setting things up to make
11:21 Techrights-sec2; that all but impossible. In addition the WWW is in the last stages of being
11:21 Techrights-sec2; locked into a cable TV like state.
11:22 schestowitz-TR2; so we keep moving, shifting to better things
11:28 Techrights-sec2; the trick with shifting like that is to not leave the public behind
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13:59 Techrights-sec2; In order to keep moving like that the public must retain access to general-
13:59 Techrights-sec2; purpose computing so that they may have the choice to move too or not.
13:59 Techrights-sec2; In a walled garden, they cannot communicate outside the fenced area.
13:59 schestowitz-TR2; good point
14:00 schestowitz-TR2; "Download Tore now from Appls Store(C), you dirty pedophile..."
14:00 schestowitz-TR2; "Download Tor now from Apple(TM) Store(R), you dirty pedophile..."
14:00 schestowitz-TR2; sounds legit
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15:45 schestowitz__[TR]; > Hi Roy,
15:46 schestowitz__[TR]; >
15:46 schestowitz__[TR]; > If you refresh xxxxxx
15:46 schestowitz__[TR]; > you'll see I have completed PART 4
15:46 schestowitz__[TR]; >
15:46 schestowitz__[TR]; > More structure and a common theme to address the IRC comments
15:46 schestowitz__[TR]; >
15:46 schestowitz__[TR]; > Please notive I have marked the major sections in keeping with
15:46 schestowitz__[TR]; > your daily publishing schedule.
15:46 schestowitz__[TR]; >
15:46 schestowitz__[TR]; > Please don't publish past UNFINISHED. I will work through these
15:46 schestowitz__[TR]; > improving the prose, subject focus and links.
15:46 schestowitz__[TR]; >
15:46 schestowitz__[TR]; > all best and thanks
15:46 schestowitz__[TR]; Excllent, thanks a bunch!!
15:46 schestowitz__[TR]; Regards,
16:09 schestowitz-TR2; draft updates, have a look...
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16:31 schestowitz-TR2; added 2 photos
16:31 schestowitz-TR2; the text was changed a huge deal
16:31 schestowitz-TR2; due to go live around midnight, I think
16:32 schestowitz-TR2; I have put the older version in IRC logs as I had spent some time on it and don't wish to feel like I "lost" work
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18:59 schestowitz__[TR]; http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/12/breaking-board-of-appeal-finds-no-legal.html?showComment=1640624219598#c3404769031165484240
18:59 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-ipkitten.blogspot.com | Board of Appeal finds no legal basis for the requirement to amend the description in line with the claims (T 1989/18) - The IPKat
18:59 schestowitz__[TR]; "
18:59 schestowitz__[TR]; Arguing that we shouldn't seek legal certainty in one area because there are other bigger issues in another area is a fallacy.
18:59 schestowitz__[TR]; Description amendments put us in a trance because they waste our clients' money and do not improve legal certainty enough to justify the additional costs. When I am prosecuting, description amendments are purely a waste of my time and the client's money. When I am reviewing third parties' patents, it makes essentially no difference to my infringement opinions whether the description has been amended. So what is the point, particularly when
18:59 schestowitz__[TR]; the legal justification is so weak? Article 84 requires the description to support the claimed invention, but a bridge can support many cars simultaneously.
18:59 schestowitz__[TR]; "
19:00 schestowitz__[TR]; "
19:00 schestowitz__[TR]; I'm a representative, Attentive, but I'm not one of those put into a trance. I am somwhat equivocal about the whole issue of conforming the description. If we see the description as a historical record of what was filed by the Applicant on the filing date of the application, then any effort to conform it to the allowed claims is misguided. Conversely, if the description of the B publication is to be that which informs the task of
19:00 schestowitz__[TR]; construing the issued claims, then it should be conformed.
19:00 schestowitz__[TR]; For me, the more interesting choice is whether to excise passages of the description or, instead, hang on to them but preface them with words indicating that they are not descriptions of subject matter within the ambit of the claim. I find that my decision varies from case to case, often turning on Art 83 EPC considerations. Sometimes I want to hang on to those passages but in other cases I am thinking that the scope of infringement by
19:00 schestowitz__[TR]; equivalent is best optimised by excision of such passages of the descrption. As ever , Applicant has to decide what text goes to issue.
19:00 schestowitz__[TR]; "
19:01 schestowitz__[TR]; http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/12/breaking-board-of-appeal-finds-no-legal.html?showComment=1640618793728#c1246003659220456904
19:01 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-ipkitten.blogspot.com | Board of Appeal finds no legal basis for the requirement to amend the description in line with the claims (T 1989/18) - The IPKat
19:01 schestowitz__[TR]; "
19:01 schestowitz__[TR]; There is one decision T 1989/18 which goes against T 1808/06 which is the reference in matters of adaptation of the description.
19:01 schestowitz__[TR]; Should the president file a referral for every decision which is contrary to another one the legal department of the EPO would only be busy with such matters. This is not reasonable.
19:01 schestowitz__[TR]; To me there is one referral which could be useful: depending on the BA to which the file goes, the absence of a measuring method is considered sometimes as a matter under under Art 83 which leads to the revocation of the patent. For other BA it is a mere problem of Art 84 which under G 3/14 cannot be discussed in opposition.
19:01 schestowitz__[TR]; This lottery effect should be brought to an end, and if a BA is not prepared to refer the question to the EBA, then the president should do so.
19:01 schestowitz__[TR]; The adaptation of the description seems to become kind of fixation that puts representatives in a trance.
19:01 schestowitz__[TR]; "
19:07 schestowitz__[TR]; http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-end-mad-men-litigation-settled.html?showComment=1640172445379#c6847119686047886775
19:07 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-ipkitten.blogspot.com | The end: Mad Men litigation settled - The IPKat
19:07 schestowitz__[TR]; |Actually, Mad Men, the three-time Emmy Award-winning drama, will not return to television until sometime early next year, AMC confirmed on Tuesday, because of a deepening dispute with the shows creator, Matthew Weiner.|
19:07 schestowitz__[TR]; http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/12/breaking-board-of-appeal-finds-no-legal.html?showComment=1640604421423#c768850941176300743
19:07 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-ipkitten.blogspot.com | Board of Appeal finds no legal basis for the requirement to amend the description in line with the claims (T 1989/18) - The IPKat
19:07 schestowitz__[TR]; "
19:07 schestowitz__[TR]; There is a lot of discussion on LinkedIn about this decision.
19:07 schestowitz__[TR]; There are two distinct threads but both are about the same decision:
19:07 schestowitz__[TR]; https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6880822812777443328/
19:07 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.linkedin.com | Rose Hughes on LinkedIn: Board of Appeal finds no legal basis for the requirement to amend | 85 comments
19:07 schestowitz__[TR]; https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6880931690655584256/
19:07 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.linkedin.com | Sebastian Roth on LinkedIn: T 1989/18 (Adaptation of the description/HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE) of 16.12.2021
19:07 schestowitz__[TR]; "
19:08 schestowitz__[TR]; http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/12/breaking-board-of-appeal-finds-no-legal.html?showComment=1640603957985#c306265963017855413
19:08 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-ipkitten.blogspot.com | Board of Appeal finds no legal basis for the requirement to amend the description in line with the claims (T 1989/18) - The IPKat
19:08 schestowitz__[TR]; "
19:08 schestowitz__[TR]; Dear Max Drei,
19:08 schestowitz__[TR]; I can agree with you that it would help if the description would not have to be adapted to the new claims like in the US.
19:08 schestowitz__[TR]; There are however two conditions to fulfil:
19:08 schestowitz__[TR]; 1) the last sentence of Art 84 should be deleted, and this needs an amendment of the EPC other than by "secondary legislation";
19:08 schestowitz__[TR]; 2) like in the US, the behaviour of the applicant/proprietor during examination should be taken into account.
19:08 schestowitz__[TR]; The problem is that there is a fluctuating legislation about the doctrine of equivalents. This results to a large part of the refusal of the contracting state to adopt a definition of equivalents in the protocol on Art 69 during the diplomatic conference of 2000. An Art 2 has been added, but the Art 3 about equivalents has been rejected.
19:08 schestowitz__[TR]; The EPO cannot cater for the various ways equivalents are dealt with by the national jurisdiction and can thus not accept that what is claimed is not really what is claimed but could also be something else.
19:08 schestowitz__[TR]; By the way the BA in T 1989/18 seems to have confused clarity of the claims as such (first part of Art 84) and support by the description (last sentence of Art 84).
19:08 schestowitz__[TR]; Last but not least, it is, at least for the time being, a single decision.
19:08 schestowitz__[TR]; Should the Guidelines be adapted, it might indeed take quite a while.
19:08 schestowitz__[TR]; How long did it take to remove the purposive selection in the Guidelines?
19:08 schestowitz__[TR]; The three points test = ex essentiality test is still in the Guidelines in spite of the heavy criticism by the BA.
19:08 schestowitz__[TR]; "
19:08 schestowitz__[TR]; http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/12/breaking-board-of-appeal-finds-no-legal.html?showComment=1640596976924#c7796019141511801534
19:08 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-ipkitten.blogspot.com | Board of Appeal finds no legal basis for the requirement to amend the description in line with the claims (T 1989/18) - The IPKat
19:08 schestowitz__[TR]; "
19:08 schestowitz__[TR]; For me, this decision is a bolt out of the blue but, on reflection, perhaps we should have been expecting it. Striking out the requirement for strictly conforming the description to the allowed claims will deliver a huge boost (to use the technical term de jour) to efficiency at the EPO. Such a huge uplift in efficiency would clear the way for management to reduce the numbers of highly paid EPo Examiners quite considerably. Besides, the
19:08 schestowitz__[TR]; Americans don't do it, and their courts can still manage to do patent litigation, so why should we Euro's worry, eh?
19:08 schestowitz__[TR]; One would have thought that Boards of Appeal are unswayed by thoughts about efficiency. Not any more though. The topic seems to weigh more and more heavily in their delibarations. Perhaps the members of this deciding Board are all still young, in tune with the times, and at this stage of their career within the EPO find thoughts about improving efficiency particularly persuasive.
19:08 schestowitz__[TR]; Meanwhile, if past performance is any guide to the immediate future, we shall all have to continue delivering strict conformity, that is, until the Examiners' Bible, The Guidelines, suffers its next revision by management.
19:08 schestowitz__[TR]; "
19:09 schestowitz__[TR]; http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/12/breaking-board-of-appeal-finds-no-legal.html?showComment=1640615634712#c5594854956463181890
19:09 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-ipkitten.blogspot.com | Board of Appeal finds no legal basis for the requirement to amend the description in line with the claims (T 1989/18) - The IPKat
19:09 schestowitz__[TR]; "Shouldn't this pave the way for a further referral by the President to the EBoA? Clearly, conflicting decisions by different Boards concerning a point of fundamental nature."
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20:36 schestowitz__[TR]; https://nitter.eu/43blah/status/1475844054273470464
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20:36 schestowitz__[TR]; https://twitter.com/43blah/status/1475844054273470464
20:36 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@43blah: @schestowitz Ioannidis estimated the Diamond Princess IFR at 0.125%, with a range 0.025% to 0.625% with several cav https://t.co/O5pz2OlshD
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20:36 schestowitz__[TR]; "Ioannidis estimated the Diamond Princess IFR at 0.125%, with a range 0.025% to 0.625% with several caveats. By 2/21 before vaccinates were widely in effect, the U.S. had a CFR of ~1.72% or an IFR ~0.43% assuming the CDC's est of 4 infections per case. His estimates held up well."
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21:39 schestowitz__[TR]; "
21:39 schestowitz__[TR]; All indicators show that we, as a society, will be facing one of the most disruptive health challenges ever. Clearly the coming months will be tough for all of us. If EPO management wants staff to soldier on during the current crisis, it will need to do better itself. We expect senior management to:
21:39 schestowitz__[TR]; - recognise that the corona pandemic will inevitably have an impact on the operation of the EPO, its production and services, for which the staff will not be held responsible
21:39 schestowitz__[TR]; - foresee supportive measures like favourable conditions for part-time working and special leave in order to take care of children that are at home and/or for family members in need
21:39 schestowitz__[TR]; - abandon or at least postpone the introduction of further reforms that will have a negative impact on staff working conditions and instead reward staff for its commitment and high performance over many years
21:39 schestowitz__[TR]; "
21:46 schestowitz__[TR]; "
21:46 schestowitz__[TR]; Dear SUEPO members, dear colleagues,
21:46 schestowitz__[TR];
21:46 schestowitz__[TR];
21:46 schestowitz__[TR]; Mr Campinos had announced, in his Communiqu of 30.10.2018, that he would work
21:46 schestowitz__[TR]; towards amicable settlements. SUEPO, FICSA and the Union Syndicale Fdrale
21:46 schestowitz__[TR]; (USF) wrote to the President and the Administrative Council 1 , calling for proper
21:47 schestowitz__[TR]; solutions for all staff representatives and SUEPO officials targeted by Battistelli & co,
21:47 schestowitz__[TR]; including those dismissed. Dr Bausch advocated for an amnesty in a post on
21:47 schestowitz__[TR]; Kluwer Patent Blog in May 20192.
21:47 schestowitz__[TR];
21:47 schestowitz__[TR]; As we write these lines, three cases of unfairly sanctioned former staff
21:47 schestowitz__[TR]; representatives and/or union officials remain unresolved:
21:47 schestowitz__[TR];
21:47 schestowitz__[TR]; Aurlien Ptiaud and Michael Lund, former nominees of the CSC in the
21:47 schestowitz__[TR]; Appeals Committee, were both downgraded by Mr Battistelli for their activities
21:47 schestowitz__[TR]; in the Appeals Committee;
21:47 schestowitz__[TR]; Laurent Prunier, former member of the CSC and Secretary of the SUEPO
21:47 schestowitz__[TR]; Committee The Hague, was dismissed by Mr Battistelli after years of
21:47 schestowitz__[TR]; deliberate targeting by a handful of EPO top officials.
21:47 schestowitz__[TR]; Although Mr Campinos took office more than 18 (!) months ago, he has so far failed
21:47 schestowitz__[TR]; to heal the most hurtful wounds of the Battistelli era. Laurent remains dismissed. No
21:47 schestowitz__[TR]; settlement has been reached. It is about time that Mr Campinos shows his ability
21:47 schestowitz__[TR]; to clean the slate he inherited from his predecessor once and for all.
21:47 schestowitz__[TR]; "
22:54 schestowitz__[TR]; The Financial Survey: A divisive exercise
22:54 schestowitz__[TR]; Mr Campinos has asked you to inform your team manager which of the financial measures 1 to 10 have your support. This question is wrong at many levels.
22:54 schestowitz__[TR];
22:54 schestowitz__[TR]; Our comments and recommendation can be found in this publication.
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