Judgment No. 763

• Organization: European Patent Organisation (EPO)
• Date: 12.06.1986
• Original: French
• Judges: Grisel, Ducoux, Douglas
• Full judgment text - Full judgment text (french)

Decision

THE COMPLAINTS ARE DISMISSED.

Consideration 3

Extract:

"Even if the decisions appointing the complainants were tainted with a formal flaw [...] the decisions were challengeable under the internal appeals procedure and before the Tribunal. The formal flaws the complainants allege did not suspend the time limits".

Keywords

receivability of the complaint; internal appeal; time limit; new time limit; appointment; flaw; formal flaw