tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post8427191853141260442..comments2024-03-19T06:27:47.905+00:00Comments on The IPKat: More news of EPO unrest reaches the IPKatVerónica Rodríguez Arguijohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763207846940036921noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-70458070591873194202014-07-10T21:25:53.840+01:002014-07-10T21:25:53.840+01:00News from the top of Maslov's pyramid:
It is v...News from the top of Maslov's pyramid:<br /><i>It is very VERY windy here. Few food, even less people. (Saw a few kats though). Can't really see EPO from here. Is it due to a cloudy day or should I start worrying?</i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-28486875485558139402014-07-10T18:51:43.498+01:002014-07-10T18:51:43.498+01:00But I have no motivation to go check it out. The ...But I have no motivation to go check it out. The effort will be wasted as I am happy to be none-the-wiser.<br />Anon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-7429280907465309142014-07-10T16:01:38.480+01:002014-07-10T16:01:38.480+01:00You might want to check it out, as it might change...You might want to check it out, as it might change your view of the optimum tool for instigating effort.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-56450120225102215532014-07-10T15:00:04.028+01:002014-07-10T15:00:04.028+01:00No, should I have?
AnonNo, should I have?<br />AnonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-88937805547038388442014-07-10T11:40:22.881+01:002014-07-10T11:40:22.881+01:00Anonymous @ 09:23,
Ever hear of Maslov's hier...Anonymous @ 09:23,<br /><br />Ever hear of Maslov's hierarchy?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-30312100855227431302014-07-10T09:23:18.170+01:002014-07-10T09:23:18.170+01:00Happy people get lazy. People who worry about pay...Happy people get lazy. People who worry about paying the bills or worry about the risk of redundancy work hard. Imagine yourself swimming gently in the MEd on your summer hols. If you see a shark do you carry on regardless or put a little more effort in?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-52323103659982913322014-07-10T05:59:43.278+01:002014-07-10T05:59:43.278+01:00The reason being that "after all, he delivers...The reason being that "after all, he delivers the numbers". huh?? Who does? I never heard of the president granting patents? It is the examiners who deliver the numbers, not the president! I also heard by rumour, that there is some lack of confidence in the reliability of the figures presented by the president.... I can imagine. It is not a good idea to put the people who deliver the numbers under constant threat and creating such a negative atmosphere as appears the case at the EPO now. After all, happy people work better, don't they?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-84889564359359930842014-06-27T17:09:26.921+01:002014-06-27T17:09:26.921+01:00On June 24th, the mandate of president Battistelli...On June 24th, the mandate of president Battistelli was reconducted for 3 more years, starting August 2015, by the administrative council "at an overwhelming majority".Overwhelmingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-57628684060753475242014-06-16T11:35:08.435+01:002014-06-16T11:35:08.435+01:00Meanwhile... president, upholder of the right to s...Meanwhile... president, upholder of the right to strike, has instructed his Investigation Unit that:<br />“From various sources it appears SUEPO are calling on staff to be absent from work on 17 June. The President recalls that no legal strike is possible on 17 June. He expects strict monitoring of absences in each of your areas on 17 June, with close scrutiny of the list of absentees and reasons for absence. Cases where staff are absent during the day or part of the day without legitimate reasons will be treated as cases of unauthorised absence. Particular vigilance is required in Berlin. Please take all necessary measure to ensure strict compliance with the rules and be prepared to report on absences/unauthorised absences on 17 June”<br />June 17 in Berlin is Inventor of the Year awards.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-59939923232278957522014-06-13T10:09:21.657+01:002014-06-13T10:09:21.657+01:00No connection with strike but serious try to remov...No connection with strike but serious try to remove independence.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-25737158383233732522014-06-12T11:11:11.026+01:002014-06-12T11:11:11.026+01:00"No appointments for board members on the cou...<i>"No appointments for board members on the council agenda for June, it seems. If true, why? What can be the object of effectively hindering the boards in doing their job?"</i><br /><br />Perhaps the answer can be found here ?<br />http://www.chinaipmagazine.com/en/news-show.asp?id=6966<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-19637487165798104902014-06-12T05:17:48.919+01:002014-06-12T05:17:48.919+01:00No appointments for board members on the council a...No appointments for board members on the council agenda for June, it seems. If true, why? What can be the object of effectively hindering the boards in doing their job?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-61599854559419307732014-06-10T12:08:49.778+01:002014-06-10T12:08:49.778+01:00Any truth to rumour that presedant blocks new appo...Any truth to rumour that presedant blocks new appointments to boards?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-36191018057713116352014-06-05T13:24:00.727+01:002014-06-05T13:24:00.727+01:00The full request for the challenge on the grounds ...The full request for the challenge on the grounds of bias against the chairman of the Enlarged Board of Appeal can be found here: <br /><br />http://www.wallinger.de/en/node/649Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-81719909142595101662014-06-04T00:26:33.586+01:002014-06-04T00:26:33.586+01:00Anon 17:00,
Indeed the examiners et al are not in ...Anon 17:00,<br />Indeed the examiners et al are not in physical danger. But does this mean that justice is to be limited to only certain people and that arbitrary decision-making by one man is not to be challenged? I suspect that applicants and attorneys will be glad that I would oppose the idea that all appeals to the boards of appeal should apply such a filter with regard to admissibility for those that we might deem to be big enough to be able to just take it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-10830425483506285632014-06-01T10:33:20.405+01:002014-06-01T10:33:20.405+01:00Who says the appalling disclosure of an internal e...Who says the appalling disclosure of an internal email came from the department involved, i.e. DG3? More people knew about it, I suppose. People who might even have an interest in exacerbating the situation? Speculations are dangerous!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-66099197132772825572014-06-01T10:28:54.319+01:002014-06-01T10:28:54.319+01:00@ anon Nr.1: you seem to confuse the union at the ...@ anon Nr.1: you seem to confuse the union at the EPO and staff representation. SR is for all staff, the union only for those who want to be a member. From what I understood, it is the SR that has been reformed. The SR is a body within the EPO with no legal personality, I suppose. I doubt if any EPO manager has the power to reform the union though, which, from what I hear, is a separate body with perhaps its own legal personality?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-73819001684879341892014-05-31T00:57:40.025+01:002014-05-31T00:57:40.025+01:00I just learned from an examiner that the president...I just learned from an examiner that the president of the EPO will not organise the next strike ballot. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-88733220129510211822014-05-29T21:09:57.025+01:002014-05-29T21:09:57.025+01:00FYI, the the "EPO Investigation Guidelines&qu...FYI, the the "EPO Investigation Guidelines" were enacted unilaterally by means of a Presidential "Circular" which means that they were never subject to the legislative oversight of the Administrative Council.<br />They unilaterally granted the President wide-ranging powers to "investigate" all EPO employees including those for whom the AC is the appointing authority (i.e. Board of Appeal members and Vice-Presidents). The President's exercise of these powers is subject to no supervisory oversight whatsoever.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-63944958031998904212014-05-29T17:00:29.769+01:002014-05-29T17:00:29.769+01:00Hardly as toxic an atmosphere as in many other wor...Hardly as toxic an atmosphere as in many other workplaces. If I was an examiner sitting... sorry.. If anon was an examiner sitting in the airy EPO restaurant enjoying a 3-courser and a slowly drunk mocha chocca latte double cream afterwards, anon may be breathing easily and relaxed. If anon was down a hot, dangerous coalmine, on the other hand, anon may understanding the true meaning of 'work'.<br /><br />Compared to some, I'm sure 'anon the examiner' has it tough, but not compared to most.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-17953959710347670572014-05-29T13:22:04.061+01:002014-05-29T13:22:04.061+01:00I'm also trying to picture the next sitting of...I'm also trying to picture the next sitting of a board which would comprise the (presently) former VP3.Roufousse T. Fairflynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-23131111185132193822014-05-29T13:19:03.514+01:002014-05-29T13:19:03.514+01:00If this is supposed to be good news, I shudder at ...If this is supposed to be good news, I shudder at the thought of what bad news could be like...<br /><br />VP3 didn't exactly help his standing in the matter of the "EPO Investigation Guidelines" mentioned in the first part of your post. I was told that these provide the President's minions a <i>carte blanche</i> for indiscriminately snooping using just about any means conceivable with regard to any alleged misconduct. I never knew there were any problems of the sort, at least not with the operational staff. <br /><br />These would also allow dishing out punishment to anyone who would refuse to incriminate himself. (I wonder how this is drafted, and under what circumstances this is supposed to be applied).<br /><br />These "guidelines" are said to have been unanimously adopted without reservations by the instances to which VP3 was formerly a part of. Nothing in their wording would exempt DG3 members from their applications.<br /><br />The atmosphere at the EPO is getting downright toxic.Roufousse T. Fairflynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-79620692352384526002014-05-29T10:41:32.705+01:002014-05-29T10:41:32.705+01:00Anon at 08:49 - you are agreeing with Merpel. Mer...Anon at 08:49 - you are agreeing with Merpel. Merpel speaks in the third person, just like her friend the IPKat.Merpelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01092387011898424303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-17431820056678746062014-05-29T08:49:36.267+01:002014-05-29T08:49:36.267+01:00I agree with Merpel - please clarify. Although, i...I agree with Merpel - please clarify. Although, is it Merpel I am agreeng with as 'Merpel' appears to be speakeng on Merpel's behalf.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-2022465647926051612014-05-28T22:48:25.033+01:002014-05-28T22:48:25.033+01:00Merpel does not understand what Anon at 19:47:00 i...Merpel does not understand what Anon at 19:47:00 is saying. She understood the facts as she reported them to be be basically true, and she also believes that this was acknowledged in the decision at para 17.6. She reminds her commenters that this blog is about a community of IP enthusiasts and therefore clarification, amplification and correction are welcomed. Implications that a comment is not correct without any clarification are on the other hand rather unhelpful to the entire readership.Merpelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01092387011898424303noreply@blogger.com