European Patent Office

G 2301/16 (Request for a proposal of removal from office) vom 14.06.2016

Europäischer Rechtsprechungsidentifikator
ECLI:EP:BA:2016:G230116.20160614
Datum der Entscheidung
14. Juni 2016
Aktenzeichen
G 2301/16
Antrag auf Überprüfung von
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Anmeldenummer
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IPC-Klasse
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Verfahrenssprache
Englisch
Verteilung
An die Kammervorsitzenden und -mitglieder verteilt (B)
Amtsblattfassungen
Keine AB-Links gefunden
Weitere Entscheidungen für diese Akte
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Zusammenfassungen für diese Entscheidung
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Bezeichnung der Anmeldung
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Name des Antragstellers
Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation
Name des Einsprechenden
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Kammer
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Leitsatz
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Relevante Rechtsnormen
European Patent Convention Art 23(1) 1973European Patent Convention Art 23(3) 1973Rules of procedure of the Enlarged Board of Appeal Art 12a(10)Rules of procedure of the Enlarged Board of Appeal Art 12a(9)Rules of procedure of the Enlarged Board of Appeal Art 18(3)
Schlagwörter
Decision on the request of the Administrative Council under Article 23(1) EPC to make a proposal to remove the respondent from office: The Enlarged Board decides to make no proposal
Petitioner party to adversarial proceedings (yes)
Publication (yes)
Reimbursement of all the respondent's procedural costs proposed
Violation of Article 23(3) EPC, judicial independence, by Office President’s letter of 10 June 2016 (yes)
Orientierungssatz
For the Enlarged Board to be able to continue with these proceedings the position of the Petitioner would have to be that it did not agree with the Office President and acknowledged that, from an institutional point of view, the pressure exercised by the Office President in the present case was incompatible with the judicial independence of the Enlarged Board guaranteed by the EPC. As the Petitioner did not clearly distance itself from the Office President’s position, there is the threat of disciplinary measures against the members of the Enlarged Board. It is then the Enlarged Board’s judicial independence in deciding on this case which is fundamentally denied.
Zitierte Akten
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Zitierende Akten
G 0003/19

ORDER

For these reasons it is decided that:

1. The Enlarged Board of Appeal does not make a proposal for removal from office of the Respondent.

2. Reimbursement of all costs incurred by the Respondent in the present proceedings before the Enlarged Board of Appeal is proposed.

3. The decision in case Art. 23 1/16 is to be published.