Judgment No. 3554

• Organization: European Patent Organisation (EPO)
• Date: 30.06.2015
• Original: Anglais
• Judges: Barbagallo, Hansen, Rawlins
• Full judgment text (anglais) - Texte intégral du jugement

Decision

The complaints are dismissed.

Summary

The complaints are summarily dismissed for failure to exhaust internal remedies.

Judgment keywords

Keywords

joinder; summary procedure; failure to exhaust internal remedies; complaint dismissed

Consideration 8

Extract:

"Referring to its case law, the Tribunal emphasised that a complainant cannot claim to have exhausted the internal means of redress simply because he or she has sent an ultimatum to the decision-making authority to no avail
(see Judgment 3302, under 4)."

Reference(s)

Jugement(s) TAOIT: 3302

Keywords

direct appeal to tribunal