Judgment No. 4367

• Organization: European Patent Organisation (EPO)
• Date: 07.12.2020
• Original: English
• Judges: Frydman, Hansen, Barbagallo
• Full judgment text - Full judgment text (french)

Decision

The applications for review are dismissed.

Summary

The complainant seeks a review of Judgments 4255 and 4256.

Judgment keywords

Keywords

application for review; summary procedure; complaint dismissed

Consideration 4

Extract:

Concerning the alleged omission to rule on a claim, the complainant submits that the Tribunal failed to rule on his claim that his complaints were receivable at the time they were filed. However, this is not a claim but a plea inherent to all complaints submitted to the Tribunal, as all complainants necessarily consider that their complaints are receivable. Moreover, once the Tribunal had found that the complaints in question had become without object, there was no reason to deal with the question of their receivability at the time they were filed. Accordingly, this ground for review is rejected.

Keywords

omission to rule on a claim