23/05/2014

Landmark DG3 decision on partiality

In interlocutory decisionR 0019/12, the Chairman of the Enlarged Board of Appeal (at the same timeVice-President of DG3, VP 3) had to be replaced by his alternatebecause a party's suspicion of partiality was found to be objectivelyjustified since VP 3 was too closely involved in the Office'sadministration, e.g. in the MAC or in the GAC.

The story has been picked up by German legal-issues website juve.de, the French Blog du Droit Européen and the EPLAW Patent Blog

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Landmark DG3 decision on partiality