If individuals exposed would be humiliated without any perspective of improvement of the situation, your action might rather do harm than good. Once you are certain about your feelings and your goals, and that your motivation is a valid one, you can proceed.Ĭonsider carefully what the impact of the leaked document will be. Don’t be self-righteous, don’t confound base motives with heroism. Whatever your personal motivation is, please be honest to yourself. Your personal reasons may include, for example, a general sense of justice, concern about the future of the Organisation, disgust of some appalling behaviour you witnessed, or even a wish for revenge. Whistleblowers have many different reasons for reporting misdeeds or leaking secret documents. The goal is to repair the Office (the employer), not to destroy it, after all…įor the staff of the European Patent Office Think carefully what to leak before leaking, irrespective of the safety of the act of leaking. Today, in the second part, we deal with motivation and impact. THIS series, which deals with “Whistleblowing Guidelines” for the EPO, will come in four parts. Summary: Advice on when to leak and what to leak for the desired effect, which is reformatory (though transparency and accountability) Previous in this series: European Patent Office (EPO) Whistleblowing Guidelines Posted in Europe, Patents at 12:28 am by Dr. Leave Your Comment Send this to a friendĮuropean Patent Office (EPO) Whistleblowing Guidelines: Motivation and Impact of Leaks In our next post we’ll facilitate easier communication with delegates. If you look back at the past years, each of the reforms of Battistelli followed the same pattern: the text looked relatively innocuous, but they were a few hooks that gave the President more arbitrary powers. It seems that they are fed up with the President and are simply waiting for his end of term, the reasonable thing to do would be to simply halt the reforms till next year. As one person put it a short while ago: “The Office can only hope that these further reforms will be rejected by the Council. They need to be warned in advance.”It’s already expected that the Administrative Council will rebuff and antagonise Battistelli next week. “In our next post we’ll facilitate easier communication with delegates. Some go further and hypothetise that Battistelli will later use this as an opportunity for eternal tyranny (by him or a crony of his) and the job note - a note which makes Battistelli's departure virtually irreversible - is supposed to come out (published in the Web site) in less than a fortnight, namely on the 3 rd of July. Someone commented on it by saying that “Battistelli can digg deeper! more ill conceived reforms in sight…” “Some go further and hypothetise that Battistelli will later use this as an opportunity for eternal tyranny…”As The Register pointed out some days ago, Battistelli now plans to more than halve the number of directors, giving yet more power to himself.
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Yes, the President is organising his own strike ballot and won’t let staff decide how to ballot themselves.” And two days later he is organising a strike ballot for staff, although he is trying to do it with minimal knowledge by staff, presumably to keep the turnout below his quorate level. “It’s imperative that people do participate and reaffirm the message - at the very least to delegates - that they are fed up with the management.”There is a vote in 2 days (after a request was made) and according to this anonymous comment, “Battistelli is organising elections to his staff committee this week (having changed the rules again to try to improve the chances of some candidates). It’s imperative that people do participate and reaffirm the message - at the very least to delegates - that they are fed up with the management. THE management of the EPO is trying to ‘hide’ the fact that there’s an important vote coming. Summary: A reminder that there’s a vote on a strike at the European Patent Office later this week, giving an opportunity to rebut the “vocal minority” myth which Benoît Battistelli likes to spread Posted in Europe, Patents at 12:53 am by Dr. 06.20.17 Don’t Forget to Vote for EPO Strike This Week (Thursday)