Judgment No. 4561

• Organization: European Patent Organisation (EPO)
• Date: 06.07.2022
• Original: English
• Judges: Moore, Frydman, Rawlins
• Full judgment text - Full judgment text (french)

Decision

The complaint is dismissed, as are the applications to intervene.

Summary

The complainant challenges the decision to reject as time-barred his appeal against the President’s refusal to organise a strike ballot in accordance with the applicable rules.

Judgment keywords

Keywords

late appeal; internal remedies not exhausted; complaint dismissed

Consideration 3

Extract:

[The organization] is entitled to rely upon a failure to comply with time limits for internal review as a basis for challenging, ultimately, the receivability of a complaint before the Tribunal, as it has done in this case (see, for example, Judgment 4369, consideration 3).

Reference(s)

ILOAT Judgment(s): 4369

Keywords

late appeal