Open Letter from the EPO-Flyer Team - by email on 13 March 2017 to the Heads of Delegation.
Time to put an end to the deterioration of the European Patent system.
Question orale sur la dégradation du climat social au sein de l'OEB: réponse du Gouvernement - Richard Yung, senateur des francais de l'etranger
Video starts at 2 h 30 mn 22 s
Le 21 février, j’ai interrogé le Gouvernement sur la dégradation du climat social au sein de l'Office européen des brevets (OEB).
Translations are available in English, German and Dutch.
This document provides a non-exhaustive list of some articles, blog posts or videos published in February 2017 (sorted in reverse chronological order, not necessarily by relevance). Latest additions are highlighted in yellow:
"Déjà vu: Euro Patent Office prez ignores yet another formal rebuke" (The Register, 17 February 2017).
Bayerischer Landtag Veröffentlichung vom 02 Februar 2017
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Bavarian State Parliament published on 02 February 2017
This document provides a non-exhaustive list of some articles, blog posts or videos published in January 2017 (sorted in reverse chronological order, not necessarily by relevance). Latest additions are highlighted in yellow:
"Industrie-Umfrage zum Europäischen Patentamt: Mehrheit für Rücktritt von Amtschef Battistelli" (Juve.de, 31 January 2017). Translations are available in English and French.
"King Battistelli tries again to break Euro Patent Office union" (The Register, 31 January 2017).
PATENT-UMFRAGE - Klarer Auftrag" (Juve.de, 27 January 2017). Translations are available in English, French and Dutch. UPDATED!
"EPO immune from Dutch jurisdiction in trade union row, says Supreme Court" (WIPR, 24 January 2017).
"Streit über Mitarbeitervertretung: Niederländisches Verfassungsgericht stellt Europäischem Patentamt Freibrief aus" (Heise.de, 23 January 2017).
"Leiding Europees Octrooibureau Rijswijk kan zijn gang gaan" (NOS.nl, 20 January 2017).
"Dutch Supreme Court upholds immunity EPO in conflict with trade unions" (Kluwer Patent Blog, 20 January 2017).
"Dutch courts can’t act in European Patent Office dispute" (DutchNews.nl, 20 January 2017).
"Battistelli's octrooibureau blijft een juridisch eiland" (NRC.nl, 19 January 2017) Translations are available in English, German and French. UPDATED!
"Riche cuisine a l'Office européen des brevets" (Le Canard Enchaîné, 18 January 2017).
Translations are available in English and German.
"Brexit and EPO unrest in top ten of most popular posts Kluwer Patent Blog in 2016" (Kluwer Patent Blog, 01 January 2017). EPO info can be found at reference points 1, 3, 5, 7 and 10.
"Patentbeurteilungen, Arbeitsbedingungen, Gewerkschaftsrechte: Europäische Patentbeamte im Clinch mit ihrem Chef" (Heise.de, 03 January 2017).
JUDGMENT OF THE DUTCH COURT OF CASSATION IN SUEPO v EPO ISSUED ON 20 JANUARY 2017
Dutch courts have no jurisdiction in European Patent Organisation dispute
The European Patent Organisation can invoke jurisdiction immunity in a dispute with trade unions. That is the ruling issued by the Supreme Court 5 today, and means the Dutch courts have no jurisdiction to examine disputes brought before them between the European Patent Organisation (EPOrg) and two trade unions: the Trade Union of the European Patent Office (VEOB) and the Staff Union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO). Previous rulings by the court in preliminary relief proceedings and the Court of Appeal in The Hague 10 have been set aside by the Supreme Court.
We are disappointed to inform you that the Supreme Court of the Netherlands has decided to uphold the EPO’s immunity in the case brought by SUEPO to complain about infringement of fundamental rights.