tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post7120886929585687470..comments2024-03-28T16:45:51.051+00:00Comments on The IPKat: Interest in unlikely sources - the Business Distribution Scheme for the Technical Boards of Appeal Verónica Rodríguez Arguijohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763207846940036921noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-42789013375233540902015-02-13T17:39:32.286+00:002015-02-13T17:39:32.286+00:00Apparent lack of internal good candidates => ob...Apparent lack of internal good candidates => obvious need to recruit from external sources.<br />From .... which western European country where cheese rhymes with damages?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-78843423009528640222015-01-08T16:58:30.780+00:002015-01-08T16:58:30.780+00:00Maybe there are the competent people but not the a...Maybe there are the competent people but not the appropriate ones for BB: French speaking BB's apple polishers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-58364965381552250472015-01-08T11:46:26.313+00:002015-01-08T11:46:26.313+00:00In order to receive said bonus (of 20 million €) B...In order to receive said bonus (of 20 million €) BB needs to reduce costs.<br /><br />Clearly the Boards of Appeal are expensive and cost more than all appeal fees imposed by the EPO.<br /><br />Thus, it is a very likely aim of BB to separate the Boards of Appeal from the EPO (of course also in a financial manner so that the Boards will have their own budget responsibility and will need their own financial sources) or at least to reduce the man power within the Boards of Appeal. <br /><br />Therefore, it is a logical and understandable approach not to reappoint vacant Board member posts.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-38095681696782855902015-01-08T08:46:36.372+00:002015-01-08T08:46:36.372+00:00The number of vacancies for Board Members posted o...The number of vacancies for Board Members posted on the EPO website last year was extremely low in comparison with 2013. Strange indeed...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-29478551809242619992015-01-08T07:03:03.447+00:002015-01-08T07:03:03.447+00:00it reminds me:
some years ago, in Hungary, a reti...it reminds me:<br /><br />some years ago, in Hungary, a retirement age of national judges was lowered, what allowed a significant rotation of judges within a short period of time. it led to the CJEU case Commission vs Hungary. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-21378920122738453842015-01-08T00:05:36.304+00:002015-01-08T00:05:36.304+00:00Breaking the system may have dear consequences in ...Breaking the system may have dear consequences in this case. After all, the Community Patent as well as the TRIPS agreement depend on the presence of a judicial = independent body. Now that it becomes clearer and clearer that the EPC does not guarantee the indpendence of the BoA, the EPO cannot be seen as providing the required judicial body, so that the institution does not qualify for either of the Community Patent or the TRIPS agreemtn. Does the AC realize these consequences of their lack of control? Is it their intention? Or incompetence? Or don't they simply care?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-65420996625729253832015-01-07T23:54:06.600+00:002015-01-07T23:54:06.600+00:00Regarding the question if there were no suitable c...Regarding the question if there were no suitable candidates or no proposal form Batistalli to the AC, from the way the business distribution scheme is worded, my conclusion would be the latter. Please note that the BDS has only been prepared for the unusual period of only three months. Also the fact that the empty posts are not indicated as usual as N.N. but rather as "vacant" is a sure sighn that suitable candidates had been selected but that Batistelli refuses to propose them to the AC. In fact I heard more than rumours that such is the actual case. Now if the president of the EPO can do this, it is in fact the president, not the AC who decides on the nomination of new members and chairmen of the BoA. How is that for independence??? As to what the motivation behind hindering the proper functioning of the BoA might be, one can only wonder......but the notion of revenge does come to ones mind.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-35015901655625562562015-01-07T18:17:09.088+00:002015-01-07T18:17:09.088+00:00"Of course causing the system to break furthe..."<i>Of course causing the system to break further is a sure way to get your own plans through?</i>"<br /><br />Look up false flag operations.<br /><br />This is decidedly NOT a new trick...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-61722606371630190032015-01-07T15:25:25.753+00:002015-01-07T15:25:25.753+00:000843,
Of course causing the system to break furthe...0843,<br />Of course causing the system to break further is a sure way to get your own plans through?<br />The lack of recruitment or contract extension /renewal is a handy means to simplify any changes which will be clear at AC in March 15. Rumours abound but what reason could there be for systematically not filling vacancies? No need? Alternative candidates who wouldn't meet current rules? Plan to replace those who don't agree to new scheme? New contract to be signed after March? The most obvious is that the EPO has no benefit on giving BoA members a renewal of their current contract of it isn't totally necessary i.e. changes are to be expected. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-84803039925128172112015-01-07T13:08:03.634+00:002015-01-07T13:08:03.634+00:00Look at the 2015 Membership List of Board 3.5.04. ...Look at the 2015 Membership List of Board 3.5.04. One named member has been "exempt" since 01.07.14. Who will explain that to us?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-88496923051953809052015-01-07T12:53:23.205+00:002015-01-07T12:53:23.205+00:00Supremely relaxed about multiple unfiled posts in ...Supremely relaxed about multiple unfiled posts in DG3, is it? <br /><br />Anybody would think that the President is not bothered by ever-growing case pendency. But that can't be, can it, for that would flatly contradict the message he is giving the world in his energetic international advocacy in support of the painful medicine he is obliged to administer to his beloved EPO.MaxDreinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-49620176839186449902015-01-07T12:01:18.467+00:002015-01-07T12:01:18.467+00:001107.
Indeed some of these posts were with closing...1107.<br />Indeed some of these posts were with closing date in 03/14 and there have been no posts listed since. Assuming they're were no suitable candidates(?), that surely leaves time to widen the scope (externally?) or re-list the posts. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-64045748011789840362015-01-07T11:36:44.093+00:002015-01-07T11:36:44.093+00:00There have been no adverts internally for board po...There have been no adverts internally for board positions recently. A colleague did get a post last year but BB did not put it to the AC so he has not started. Why? Who knows...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-18341835022777532282015-01-07T11:21:58.404+00:002015-01-07T11:21:58.404+00:00Hhhmm, 3-5-01 has no chairman seems to be quite th...Hhhmm, 3-5-01 has no chairman seems to be quite the mystery. It was, historically, the main board for software decisions though now seems to be more concerned with business method cases. As for 3-5-07 being understaffed, again not a good sign for those who deal with software based applications.DrZnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-63616130659631417402015-01-07T11:07:04.254+00:002015-01-07T11:07:04.254+00:00Anon 08.43 said "This is shocking and a clear...Anon 08.43 said "This is shocking and a clear sign that the EPO has failed to recruit and train the best people in recent years"<br /><br />Or perhaps there are well-trained candidates available, but the Administrative Council cannot appoint them because Article 11(3) requires Battistelli to propose them first, and he is failing to do so?<br /><br />If so, then the AC should get a grip with Battistelli. They want him to reduce the EPO's unacceptable delays. He tells them that his aggressive policies are aimed at that. Yet some of the longest delays in the EPO occur in the appeals process. Failure to appoint sufficient staff to man the Boards of Appeal is not designed to reduce delays. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-5992832895289108582015-01-07T09:53:28.080+00:002015-01-07T09:53:28.080+00:00This analysis confirms the real intentions of Batt...This analysis confirms the real intentions of Battistelli. He can do it because he faces no resistance from the Vice-President of DG3 who is one of his servants. The former VP would have gone mad. And rightly so.<br />If Battistelli dares this with the Boards can you imagine what he does at other levels, i.e. DG1 , DG2, DGs 4 and 5? Pure terror and intimidation.<br />Can this ensure a smooth functioning? <br />Those who did not want to see this coming should now open their eyes and begin to act as brighter mind do under constant threath of disciplinary measures and investigation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-5501938237051910932015-01-07T09:19:47.027+00:002015-01-07T09:19:47.027+00:00We live in an age where words are routinely devalu...We live in an age where words are routinely devalued, one of them beiung "outrage" and another being "scandal". But when EPO management plays fast and loose, to make "biddable" the judges who routinely decide validity of patents for 40 European states, i think that is an outrage and a genuine scandal. MaxDreinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-70449166055403477692015-01-07T08:43:54.481+00:002015-01-07T08:43:54.481+00:00This is shocking and a clear sign that the EPO has...This is shocking and a clear sign that the EPO has failed to recruit and train the best people in recent years, such that there are no clear candidates to replace the present high-quality Board members who came through the system when examiners were more able, diligent and put the interests of those affected by the patent system (patentees and third parties) ahead of other concerns.<br /><br />I wish the current President well in fixing the system that is now so clearly broken.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com