2016 AMBA Panel Discussion on Judicial Independence

We publish in our web site the proceedings of the panel discussion on judicial independence held in Munich on 27^th February, 2016.

AMBA is the Association of the Members of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office, having its seat in Munich.

The Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office as an Independent Judicial Body.

The Boards of Appeal (BoA) is the body within the organisational structure of the European Patent Office (EPO) that takes final decisions on appeals against decisions refusing patent applications and revoking patents. The ECHR, TRIPS, and national constitutions all require that such decisions be open to review by a judicial instance. The BoA are that instance.

Members of the discussion panel were, among other international colleagues, IAJ Honorary President Gerhard Reissner and IAJ Secretary-General Giacomo Oberto.

http://www.iaj-uim.org/iuw/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Proceedings-amba-panel-2016.pdf

This is the AMBA web site address:

http://amba-epo.org/

In that page you can find an open letter AMBA sent to other stakeholders with an interest in maintaining the Boards of Appeal of the EPO as an independent judicial body.