Judgment No. 626

• Organization: European Patent Organisation (EPO)
• Date: 05.12.1984
• Original: French
• Judges: Grisel, Ducoux, Devlin
• Full judgment text - Full judgment text (french)

Decision

THE COMPLAINTS AND THE APPLICATIONS TO INTERVENE ARE DISMISSED.

Consideration 1

Extract:

The complaints "raise the same issues of fact and of law. [...] The Tribunal therefore joins the two cases and delivers a single judgment."

Keywords

joinder; identical facts

Consideration 2

Extract:

"Decisions which may be challenged before the Tribunal do not have to be individual in nature. That they may also be general is plain from Article VII, paragraph 2, of the Statute of the Tribunal [...] but a complaint against a general decision will not perforce on that account be receivable. There is also the rule in Article VII(1) of the Statute that the internal means of redress must have been exhausted."

Reference(s)

ILOAT reference: ARTICLE VII, PARAGRAPHS 1 AND 2, OF THE STATUTE

Keywords

general decision; individual decision; receivability of the complaint; internal remedies exhausted; competence of tribunal; iloat statute; condition

Consideration 2

Extract:

Vide Judgment 624, consideration 4.

Reference(s)

ILOAT Judgment(s): 624

Keywords

general decision; individual decision; receivability of the complaint