Judgment No. 3457

• Organization: European Patent Organisation (EPO)
• Date: 11.02.2015
• Original: English
• Judges: Barbagallo, Hansen, Moore
• Full judgment text - Full judgment text (french)

Decision

The complaint is dismissed.

Summary

The Tribunal considered that the complaint was premature and summarily dismissed it.

Judgment keywords

Keywords

absence of final decision; summary procedure; complaint dismissed

Consideration 5

Extract:

"The decision that the complainant challenges before the Tribunal is a decision of a procedural nature and not a final decision adversely affecting her. It is a decision to start a new process of performance evaluation, and only at the end of this process would the complainant be in position to assess whether or not the outcome of the process is prejudicial to her. Her complaint to the Tribunal is therefore premature [...]."

Keywords

absence of final decision