19/10/2015
Heise Online, "Memo Shock: European Patent Office suspected of giving priority to major clients like Microsoft"
Heise Online (archive) comments on the project titled "Closer contacts with major applicants" designedto "foster a better esprit de service, not least to ensure that [the EPO] do not lose workload market share to other major offices" and so that "[i]tcan be explored as to what the EPO can do for them and vice versa".
Canon, Philips, Microsoft, Qualcomm, BASF, Bayer, Samsung, Huawei, Siemens, Ericsson and Fujitsu are the companies which are part of the project. Most of them are not European.
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