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●● [Meme] [Teaser] Buying Power or Securing Control (the Leadership Positions) of Europe’s Largest Patent Office

Posted in Europe, Patents at 3:50 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Who needs elections when you can buy the vote(r)s (by meeting the boss of the boss while offering cash, conditionally)?

Image: Buying the office: Tomáš Malatinský and EPO

Image: Slovakia abstains

Summary: Slovakian Minister of Economic Affairs Tomáš Malatinský met Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos in May 2013, only weeks ahead of the vote on the EPO‘s unlawful “Strike Regulations”

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