What if the council were to first propose a vacancy for the chairman ?
Euro nations push for vote to axe Europe's patent office president
European governments have finally had enough of the head of the European Patent Office, Benoit Battistelli, and are pushing for a vote that could turn him into a lame duck president. The EPO's Administrative Council is due to meet in Munich next week and on the agenda is a discussion over the appointment of a new president of …
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Thursday 9th March 2017 09:57 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: He's not losing his job.
Except for the important detail that th EPO is not an EU institution, so he's not an EU employee.
Hasn't that been repeated about a billion times? Not everything labelled "European" is part of the EU.
I can understand that the EU deserves criticism - but can't we get it thoughtful, and established on facts, rather than the usual drivel based on urban myths and complete misunderstandings?
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Thursday 9th March 2017 20:38 GMT Mk4
Battistelli is an unbeliveable c**t. The fact that the EPO has had this happen should make the states who are participating in this circus of scary clowns change the f**king rules by which this most important institution is run.
FFS - this isn't the dark ages and the EPO is not some kind of fiefdom to be abused at will.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
