Swiss Public Prosecutor will probe WIPO's misconduct allegations against CIO, says his legal counsel The legal brief of Wei Lei, the UN patent body's CIO – temporarily suspended amid a probe into an allegation of misconduct – is claiming that Geneva's Public Prosecutor has opened its own investigation into the case. As revealed by The Reg late last year, Lei gave evidence in an inquiry by the United Nations Office of Internal …
Actually its more like this: based on an allegation that Mr Lei apparently stole a colleagues bank card and withdrew money from it, although neither the police nor the bank have even been asked if a bank card was ever used at the supposed time or was reported stolen, and that the person whose card was used, has left the organisation, fled to china, and disappeared from contact (considering China's surveillance state, i find that one of the more astounding claims), then lei has been suspended and investigated. Whilst Gurry who was found (not suspected, but proven) to have used undue influenced and broke the organisations procurement rules is free to go about his duties.
Lets hope the Swiss, can give the WIPO a good kicking, no-one else seems to be able to.
By the way, what is it with IPO organisation that attracts such scum bags to the top? Gurry and Batastelli must be two peas in a pod...
Patents themselves have become unfit for purpose. They no longer provide temporary protection for the patent holder in exchange for disclosure to society as a whole but are instead abused as trading cards to protect large institutions from innovation.
It's hardly surprising that the officers overseeing this failure are themselves the target of corruption, and that it sometimes succeeds.
Hmmm:
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Patents themselves have become unfit for purpose. They no longer provide temporary protection for the patent holder in exchange for disclosure to society as a whole but are instead abused as trading cards to protect large institutions from innovation.
It's hardly surprising that the officers overseeing this failure are themselves the target of corruption, and that it sometimes succeeds in spades.
Yup, that reads more accurately.
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