Euro Patent Office staff demand new rights to deal with terrifying boss

Staff at the European Patent Office (EPO) have asked its administrative council to adopt new guidelines to protect them from the organization's rampaging president. The open letter [PDF] urges the council – which meets this week in Munich – to adopt the same rules for disciplinary proceedings and internal investigations that …

[Anonymous Coward]

Sorry, are we still talking about Samsung?

As per title.

[tony72]

Brexit

And yet, for largely political reasons, the Administrative Council – which consists of representatives from all the European countries that make up the EPO – refuses to fire the president.

It's stuff like this that means I'm beginning to warm up to the whole Brexit thing.

['s water music]

Re: Brexit, Hobson's choice

It's stuff like this that means I'm beginning to warm up to the whole Brexit thing.

If only it were being run on the same lines as the IICSA

[Cynical Observer]

Re: Brexit

Except that the EPO is not an organ of the EU - at all.

[Spanners]

Reforms?

As with those done in the UK, you need to indicate the possible reality by calling them "reforms".

This quotation marks would indicate that someone had used the word but that they were not necessarily truly an advancement or improvement.

[Mark 85]

Re: Reforms?

Perhaps the best reform is to bulldoze the EPO and WIPO management and start over? I recommend a Cat D10.

[allthecoolshortnamesweretaken]

Re: King Battistelli

By the sound of all this - why 'King' when 'Duce' seems so much more appropiate?