[El Confidencial] Suicidios, espionaje, nepotismo. La Oficina Europea de Patentes es un polvorÃn
Translated title: Suicides, espionage, nepotism... The European Patent Office is a powder keg
El Confidencial, a highly praised spanish media reports on the deteriorated social situation at European Patent Office and in particular about its authoritarian drift:
Florian Mueller, a world authority on the granting of patents, says: “The most recent information we’re getting describes a situation that would be inconceivable anywhere in the civilized world, but then the European Patent Organization, quite simply, is not a part of the civilized world”. It has even been said that the Office today is the last dictatorship on European soil.
So what is Mueller, a German, talking about? Nothing more and nothing less than the fact that an atmosphere of panic at work and psychological terror has been created among many of the 7,000 or so employees of the European Patent Office (EPO).