13/03/2015

What actually happened at the December Administrative Council meeting?

IPKat reveals the minutes of the Administrative Council meeting of December 2014 in two posts:
  • Part I deals with the "house ban" controversially imposed on a member of the Boards of Appeal,
  • Part II deals with the "new career system" at the EPO.
"Readers from European Patent contracting states may wish to note how their own delegations responded to the EPO at this critical time. Bearing in mind that the delegations to the Administrative Council are effectively the legislature of the EPO and their primary constitutional function is to act as a check on the executive (namely the President and his management structure)."