EPO: T1938/09, European Patent Office (EPO), Board of Appeal, ECLI:EP:BA:2014:T193809.20141002, 2 November 2014
A panel of the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) of the EPO rejected a request to replace the EBA chairman for suspected partiality. The reasons for allowing such a request in decision R19/12 had since been removed because the chairman had discontinued all his managerial activities in the senior management committees of the EPO. Under…