An “incremental” five-week strike at the European Patent Office (EPO) will end today (December 19) but certain workers have hinted at more action next year.
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8 December 2014 Staff at the European Patent Office have claimed that the quality of patent examination will suffer if new career guidelines that could change how workers are paid are voted through this week.