Mr Battistelli has not replied to the questions of SUEPO on his earnings raised in a letter sent to him.
Mr Battistelli has not replied to the questions of SUEPO on his earnings raised in a letter sent to him.
The Munich Employment Court proposed mediation proceedings in the ongoing dispute, but Mr Battistelli refused.Full details are available here.
The IPKat Blog has published a post on 18.06.2014 reporting on Mr Battistelli's interference with the right to strike and demonstrate, and the suggestion from the staff representation that Transparency International makes an assessment on the EPO's integrity.
The document CA/xxxx/14 was drafted for submission to the Administrative Council's session of March 2014.
In this document, the Central Staff Committee turns to the Administrative Council as the supervisory body ultimately responsible with overseeing the European Patent Office for support with re-establishing a proper balance in the Organisation’s governance and to restoring a better working environment within the Office.
Mr Battistelli refused to transmit the document to the Administrative Council.
Press interest in the impartiality debate followingR 0019/12continues, with apiece on awapatent's blog about stricter ethics in IP and yet another take ontheconflict-of-interest between VP3's management role and his chairmanship of the EBAover at EPLAW Patent Blog.
A few days ago, World IP Review published an article entitledEPO facing more strike action; yesterday, they followed it up withthe news that the President refuses to let the strike ballot go ahead.
The IPKat reports on thesurprising growth of support for Europe's Unified Patent Court.
Meanwhile,the EPO's Wikipedia entry has been updatedto take account of the recentdevelopments with regard to the independence of the members of the Boards of Appeal.
The IPKat Blog has published a post (printable version) reporting on the latest developments regarding the problems of governance at the EPO. First is the call for a strike named the Unity Initiative, and the second is the stripping of the chairman of the Enlarged Board of Appeal of his administrative functions following decisionR 0019/12.
French parliamentarian Philip Cordery'sletterabout the social situation at the EPO is now available inDutch, Italian and Spanish (as well as the English, French and Germantranslations already published).
Also, Pierre-Yves Le Borgn'sblog article is now available inGerman, English & Dutch as well as the original French publication.