Judgment No. 3893

• Organization: European Patent Organisation (EPO)
• Date: 28.06.2017
• Original: English
• Judges: Rouiller, Barbagallo, Hansen
• Full judgment text - Full judgment text (french)

Decision

The complaint is dismissed.

Summary

The complainant, who was suffering from invalidity, impugns the decision to reject his internal appeal against the decision to remit his case to the Medical Committee.

Judgment keywords

Keywords

summary procedure; complaint dismissed

Consideration 8

Extract:

[T]he decision to remit the case to a Medical Committee after the expert had renounced her mandate was merely a step in the procedure leading to a final decision on that question. As such, it did not in itself constitute a challengeable decision, though it could be challenged in the context of an appeal directed against the final decision on the cause of the complainant’s invalidity (see, for example, Judgment 2366, under 16).

Reference(s)

ILOAT Judgment(s): 2366

Keywords

step in the procedure