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● 08.11.16

●● The EPO’s Twitter Account is Drunk (on Battistelli’s Kool-Aid)

Posted in Europe, Patents at 7:17 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Unprofessional PR:

@uspto Nominate some great researchers for the European Inventor Award 2017 https://t.co/EQAKMTT9AT— EuropeanPatentOffice (@EPOorg) August 9, 2016

@AUTM_Network We welcome your proposals for next year's European Inventor Award. Please submit them here https://t.co/qkJJ68daQg— EuropeanPatentOffice (@EPOorg) August 9, 2016

@BUSINESSEUROPE We invite you to nominate an #inventor for the European Inventor Award 2017! https://t.co/Nwc7ynnQkS— EuropeanPatentOffice (@EPOorg) August 10, 2016

@FICPI We're keen to get your European Inventor Award 2017 nominations https://t.co/jEfa1w9vVs— EuropeanPatentOffice (@EPOorg) August 10, 2016

@EUBIC We're keen to get your European Inventor Award 2017 nominations https://t.co/8z6tNv4w8v— EuropeanPatentOffice (@EPOorg) August 11, 2016

@H2020SME The European Inventor Award 2017 is now open for nominations! We look forward to your proposals https://t.co/yZlFh62AtH— EuropeanPatentOffice (@EPOorg) August 11, 2016

Summary: The EPO’s PR people are getting desperate for attention and resorting to borderline spam (as before, e.g. [1, 2])

THE EPO’s Twitter account, presumably run by the PR team, is rather comical at times. These people are warning the public about scams while Kongstad's people fall for it themselves and there are strong rumours of financial scam/fraud inside the EPO.

=> the PR team | ↺ warning the public about scams | Kongstad's people fall for it themselves | strong rumours of financial scam/fraud inside the EPO

“When the EPO is getting this desperate, pathetic and even shameless it’s hard to deny that something is profoundly wrong.”What’s more comical however is the pathetic effort to appease Battistelli. “You can even nominate yourself!” they say. Nominate oneself for Battistelli’s very expensive lobbying event? What’s the use? It’s a low point for the EPO (even the USPTO does not have such a charade which elevates one patent over another and carries liability/risk).

=> ↺ they say | very expensive | lobbying event | ↺ EPO | ↺ USPTO | carries liability/risk

With a deadline apparently approaching they have gotten pretty desperate for attention — to the point where they have begun ‘spamming’ lots of people and institutions (like the USPTO) with a request to submit nominations for the lobbying and PR campaign [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. When the EPO is getting this desperate, pathetic and even shameless it’s hard to deny that something is profoundly wrong. █

=> ↺ deadline apparently approaching | ↺ 1 | ↺ 2 | ↺ 3 | ↺ 4 | ↺ 5 | ↺ 6

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