Who should be the next EPO president?

The professional body for European Patent Attorneys epi has recently announced the results of interviews with each of the four candidates for the post of EPO president, which will become vacant when Alison Brimelow departs at the end of June 2010.

The four candidates are:

• Susanne Ås Sivborg (interview)
• Benoît Battistelli (interview)
• Roland Grossenbacher (interview)
• Jesper Kongstad (interview)

The final decision will apparently be made at the next meeting of the EPO Administrative Council, starting tomorrow in Munich. The IPKat is entirely impartial in this matter, but would be interested to see who his readers think should be elected as the next president. To find out, he has placed a new poll on the sidebar. Please cast your vote before the poll closes, and we find out the real result, this coming Friday, 30 October.