Showing posts with label European Patent Organisation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label European Patent Organisation. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 1, 2015

17 Members of the European Parliament raise questions about human rights situation at the EPO

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As I reported last week , the human rights conflict at the European Patent Office continues and certain national governments acknowledge tha...
Monday, June 1, 2015

Striking structural parallels between the European Patent Office and soccer body FIFA

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With all the attention that corruption scandals relating to soccer body FIFA are getting these days after certain arrests due to U.S. crimin...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

EPO president reportedly threatened to resign; Dutch diplomat concedes concern over bad press

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Today's EPO staff demonstration in Munich ( see my previous post ) turned out a lot more interesting than expected. An estimated 700 p...

Promise of union recognition insufficient to solve conflict at European Patent Office: new protests

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By promising (after approximately four decades) formal recognition of EPO staff unions , the Administrative Council of the European Patent O...
Friday, March 27, 2015

Administrative Council offers 'formal recognition of the trade unions within the EPO's legal framework'

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My hopes for some progress resulting from this week's meeting of the Administrative Council (AC) of the European Patent Organisation (E...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

This week's EPO Administrative Council meeting: revolution unlikely, progress badly needed

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The Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation, which operates the European Patent Office, still has to decide what to do ab...
Thursday, January 8, 2015

Pressure mounts on EPO president and administrative council over suspension of patent judge

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About a month ago, the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation , the international body running the European Patent Offic...
Friday, December 12, 2014

Government delegates express 'concern at an incident unique in the history of EPO': suspension of judge

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On its website, the European Patent Office has published a " communiqué " concerning this week's meeting of the Administrative...
Monday, December 8, 2014

European Patent Office: examiners fear they won't "be able to ensure appropriate quality standards"

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This morning, the EPO-FLIER team, an anonymous group of European Patent Office employees who send independent information to private email a...