14/10/2015
World Intellectual Property Review, "EPO labelled 'totalitarian state' as controversy and demo hit"
WIPR reports that Mr Battistelli has "urged the Administrative Council (AC) to dismiss a member of the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) despite that body not recommending such action. [...] [Although the] EBA [had] called for 'a clear limitation on the executive power' of the EPO.
In addition to that, "Elizabeth Hardon, vice-chair of SUEPO has asked AC chair Jesper Kongstad to allow an independent body to assess her claim that she has been on the receiving end of institutional harassment by EPO management." "She demanded a 'misconduct investigation into the institutional harassment against [her] and other EPO staff representatives... and that the EPO be instructed immediately to cease and desist from such illegal and irregular misconduct".