Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> Euro patent workers have no faith in their masters
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> | European Patent Office (EPO) staff have "worryingly low" levels of
> | trust in the organisation's highest governing bodies, according to
> | a leaked internal document entitled Governance of the EPO: a
> | staff perspective.
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/11/epo_faithless_staff/
"The survey of EPO staff reveals that 96 per cent of employees failed to
give their unconditional trust and support for the administrative
council, while just seven per cent said they had faith in the EPO's
president. In a similar survey carried out just two years earlier, 28
per cent of staff gave the president their vote of confidence.
Much of the staff's mistrust of its management stems from the perception
that the European Council (those national reps again) "is pursuing
financial self interest" through a fee structure under which annual
renewal fees from European patents are split 50/50 with national patent
offices."
Seems like a scam to me. They should shut down the EPO and tell them to
take their rotten patents with them.
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K.
http://slated.org
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