Judgment No. 4187

• Organization: European Patent Organisation (EPO)
• Date: 03.07.2019
• Original: English
• Judges: Barbagallo, Rawlins, Kreins
• Full judgment text - Full judgment text (french)

Decision

The application for interpretation is dismissed.

Summary

The complainant filed an application for interpretation of Judgment 4052.

Judgment keywords

Keywords

application for interpretation; complaint dismissed

Consideration 5

Extract:

The application for interpretation is irreceivable. According to the Tribunal’s established case law, “an application for interpretation is receivable only if the meaning of the judgment concerned is uncertain or ambiguous to such an extent that the judgment cannot be executed (see, for example, Judgments 1306, under 2, 3014, under 3, or [...] 3271, under 4)” (see Judgment 3984, under 10).

Reference(s)

ILOAT Judgment(s): 1306, 3014, 3271, 3984

Keywords

application for interpretation

Consideration 7

Extract:

The complainant’s request for clarification under (a) in consideration 3 [...] is an attempt to relitigate a question which was already decided in Judgment 4052 and which is therefore res judicata.

Reference(s)

ILOAT Judgment(s): 4052

Keywords

application for interpretation; res judicata