Judgment No. 697

• Organization: European Patent Organisation (EPO)
• Date: 14.11.1985
• Original: English
• Judges: Grisel, Ducoux, Devlin
• Full judgment text - Full judgment text (french)

Decision

THE COMPLAINT IS DISMISSED AS IRRECEIVABLE.

Summary

Extract:

The Tribunal will hold the internal means of redress to have been exhausted if the complainant has pursued them with all diligence but without being able within a reasonable period of time to obtain a result. In this case, for the Tribunal to entertain the complaint, the complainant would have to satisfy it that there was no objective prospect of the internal process being concluded within a reasonable time. He has not done so.

Keywords

failure to answer claim; receivability of the complaint; internal appeal; internal remedies exhausted; time limit; reasonable time