Historical Judgments of the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organisation (ILOAT) on the fundamental right to strike breached by the European Patent Office (EPO). On 7 July 2021, the ILOAT ruled that the EPO [...]
EPO staff goes on strike on 15th December After two and a half years of presidency of Mr. Campinos, the situation is again tense at the European Patent Office. Many of the issues inherited from [...]
In recent years, social dialogue at the European Patent Office has been badly damaged. Since 2014, the EPO has been strongly criticised for its directives which go against the rights and interests of employees. Legal [...]
Future President of European Patent Office responds to USF letter (https://www.unionsyndicale.eu/en/open-letter-to-new-epo-director/) ... In English only ! 20171103 - Answer of Mr Campinos to USF - EN In English too, the EPSU letter to Mr. Antonio [...]
USF welcomes the arrival of a new director at the EPO while reminding him of the difficult conditions he will find there. The USF also recalls its commitment to the establishment of a constructive social [...]
Below are articles about the new EPO president: The Register 11 OCT 2017 Fed up with years of willful ignorance, staff at the European Patent Office publicly called out their president in front of the [...]
Social rights : European civil servants in trouble In 2016, the President of the European Patent Office (EPO) dismissed three elected staff representatives, all of them members of the staff union. Three other staff representatives [...]
SUEPO takes case about strike to ECHR Two staff unions at the European Patent Agency, VEOB and SUEPO, filed a complaint against the Netherlands with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for violation of [...]
European Patent Office (EPO) : leadership crisis In the discreet and policed world of international organisations, demonstration is an extremely rare practice. The events scheduled for Tuesday 11 October in Munich and Thursday 13 October [...]
