● 01.07.22

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●● Fictional Gaps and an Attack on Workers

Posted in Europe, Patents at 11:58 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Video download link | md5sum a5e2aade7a2a72ff78d2c9de88d34275The EPO’s Fake Gap Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0

http://techrights.org/videos/epo-finances-fake-gap.webm

Summary: Benoît Battistelli‘s EPO, which is now run by his longtime sidekick António Campinos, is racing to the bottom of patent quality and patent examination; the ramifications are profound, even if the media is mostly silent on this issue

THE video above, which is the first we make with metadata in it (experimental code), was improperly recorded so there’s background noise. Nevertheless, it looks back at the parts published here throughout the week, dealing with the “race to the bottom” seen at the EPO. The parts discussed are as follows:

As noted near the start of the video, there’s some experimental code involved (changelog here), so it’s not exactly shocking that the quality was subpar. Over the coming year we’ll hopefully make further improvements to the workflow and provide more material per time unit. At the EPO, the number of workers is decreasing, so the load each person deals with is increasing. It’s hardly surprising that quality goes down the drain. █

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