Judgment No. 842

• Organization: European Southern Observatory (ESO)
• Date: 10.12.1987
• Original: English
• Judges: Ducoux, Carroll, Douglas
• Full judgment text - Full judgment text (french)

Decision

THE COMPLAINT IS DISMISSED.

Consideration 3

Extract:

The organisation's "patent attorney may have made use of the papers but that is immaterial to the issue in dispute between it and the complainant. The fact remains that he retained the patent attorney on his own initiative and in his own interest, and without any authorisation from the ESO. That being so, the ESO is not under any legal obligation to reimburse to the complainant the amount of fees he contracted to pay the patent attorney."

Reference(s)

ILOAT Judgment(s): 780, 840, 841

Keywords

complainant; organisation's duties; proprietary rights; refund; counsel; request by a party