Judgment No. 785

• Organization: European Patent Organisation (EPO)
• Date: 12.12.1986
• Original: Français
• Judges: Grisel, Ducoux, Suffian
• Full judgment text (anglais) - Texte intégral du jugement

Decision

THE COMPLAINT AND THE APPLICATIONS TO INTERVENE ARE DISMISSED.

Consideration 8

Extract:

"A complainant may not eschew the res judicata rule by just prompting a new decision and saying it is not the same as the one he challenged earlier. The criterion is not the substance of the decision but the complainant's true intentions"

Keywords

decision; res judicata; purpose