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Counterclaim (170,-666)
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Total judgments found: 78
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Judgment 5198
141st Session, 2026
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges the issuing of automatic communications to patent applicants on behalf of the examining division dealing with the application or a member thereof.
Consideration 10
Extract:
“[T]he defendant organisation seeks a costs order against the complainant on the footing that the complaint is an abuse of process. It gives several reasons. One is that the complainant declined a settlement proposal advanced by the EPO. This consideration is irrelevant. While the Tribunal is actively supportive of parties endeavoring to settle complaints by agreement, the fact that discussions have occurred but have not borne fruit cannot, of itself, sustain an order for costs against one of the parties. Other factors would need to be present.”
Keywords:
abuse of process; costs; counterclaim; settlement out of court;
Judgment 5192
141st Session, 2026
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant contests the implied rejection of his request for an investigation of his complaint of institutional harassment.
Consideration 6
Extract:
“The EPO’s counterclaim for costs must be rejected, as the complaint cannot be regarded as vexatious or frivolous.”
Keywords:
counterclaim;
Judgment 5179
141st Session, 2026
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges the decision to reject his request to access his complete medical file and contests the validity of the internal appeals proceedings.
Consideration 13
Extract:
"[T]he Tribunal will avail itself of the possibility to order a complainant to pay costs only in exceptional situations. Indeed, it is essential that the Tribunal should be open and accessible to international civil servants without the dissuasive and chilling effect of possible adverse awards of that kind […]. The Tribunal considers that not only is the present complaint manifestly irreceivable and unfounded, it is also vexatious and frivolous, aimed, as it appears, at multiplying litigation. The complainant will therefore be ordered to pay the EPO costs in the amount of 1,000 euros."
Keywords:
counterclaim;
Judgment 5138
141st Session, 2026
International Criminal Police Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant contests Interpol’s disclosure of a medical report in separate proceedings before the Tribunal.
Consideration 5
Extract:
“In light of its case law, the Tribunal will avail itself of the possibility to order a complainant to pay costs only in exceptional situations. Indeed, it is essential that the Tribunal should be open and accessible to international civil servants without the dissuasive and chilling effect of possible adverse awards of that kind (see Judgments 4798, consideration 12, and 4143, consideration 7). The Tribunal considers that not only is the present complaint irreceivable, it is also vexatious and frivolous, aimed, as it appears, at multiplying litigation […] The complainant should be ordered to pay Interpol 1,000 euros.”
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 4143, 4798
Keywords:
counterclaim;
Judgment 4991
139th Session, 2025
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges Internal Instructions that modified the examination of patent law applications.
Consideration 7
Extract:
The EPO submits a counterclaim for costs, alleging that the complaint amounts to an abuse of process as it is “frivolous, vexatious and repeated”. While there is substance to that argument the Tribunal is not satisfied, on balance, that the proceeding should be characterised in that way. Accordingly, no costs will be awarded against the complainant.
Keywords:
counterclaim;
Judgment 4987
139th Session, 2025
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant contests the decision to close the area of competence G01R in Berlin.
Consideration 10
Extract:
The counterclaim for costs filed by the Organisation is rejected. It is based on a contention that the complaint is vexatious. While there is substance to that argument the Tribunal is not satisfied, on balance, that the proceeding should be characterised in that way. Accordingly, no costs will be awarded against the complainant.
Keywords:
counterclaim;
Judgment 4984
139th Session, 2025
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges his appraisal report for 2017.
Consideration 9
Extract:
The EPO seeks an order for costs against the complainant on the basis that his complaint was frivolous (see Judgments 4722, consideration 6, 4717, consideration 4, and the case law cited therein). It was, and for the reasons the EPO gave. In proceedings where costs are ordered to be paid by one party, usually the defendant organisation, to another party, usually a successful complainant, the amount of costs will usually depend on the nature of the legal representation of the successful party. If the successful party was represented by external lawyers, they are usually paid 10,000 euros or an equivalent amount. In point of principle, once liability to pay costs is established, the amount should be the same. In this case, the EPO was represented by external lawyers. However, the EPO explicitly limits its claim for costs to 1,000 euros. Accordingly, costs of that amount should be ordered. The complainant, a frivolous litigant in these proceedings, should be ordered to pay the EPO 1,000 euros.
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 4717, 4722
Keywords:
counterclaim;
Judgment 4949
139th Session, 2025
International Criminal Court
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges his summary dismissal for serious misconduct.
Consideration 34
Extract:
La demande de l’organisation tendant à ce qu’il soit ordonné à l’intéressé de payer, en raison du caractère prétendument futile et abusif de sa requête, les frais de procédure et l’ensemble des frais du dossier est, par suite, rejetée. Comme il a été dit dans les jugements 4947 et 4948, également prononcés ce jour, au sujet de demandes semblables que la CPI a formulées mécaniquement à l’encontre de chacune des cinq requêtes du requérant découlant des mesures prises à la suite de l’incident du 11 octobre 2021, cette demande est manifestement injustifiée et dénuée de tout fondement, et plus encore en l’espèce au regard du fait que la requête concerne la contestation d’un renvoi sans préavis pour faute grave.
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 4947, 4948
Keywords:
abuse of process; counterclaim;
Judgment 4948
139th Session, 2025
International Criminal Court
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges the decision to suspend him from duty with pay and with immediate effect.
Consideration 21
Extract:
Dans ses écritures, la CPI demande qu’il soit ordonné au requérant de payer les dépens, les frais de procédure et l’ensemble des frais du dossier, au motif que la requête serait non seulement infondée, mais également futile et abusive. Le Tribunal observe que l’organisation formule d’ailleurs une telle demande, mécaniquement et sans nuance, à l’encontre de chacune des cinq requêtes du requérant découlant des mesures prises à la suite de l’incident du 11 octobre 2021, dans ce qui semble s’inscrire dans une tactique regrettable, voire elle-même abusive dans la mesure où elle viserait à dissuader le requérant d'exercer ses droits.
Comme il a déjà été dit dans le jugement 4947, également prononcé ce jour, la condamnation d’un requérant aux dépens ne peut être prononcée que dans des circonstances exceptionnelles.
En l’espèce, cette demande est à l’évidence injustifiée.
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 4947
Keywords:
abuse of process; counterclaim;
Judgment 4947
139th Session, 2025
International Criminal Court
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges the decisions to reject his requests for the suspension of action on the decision to suspend him with pay and with immediate effect, and on the decisions to extend that measure, pending the outcome of the internal appeal procedures.
Consideration 19
Extract:
Dans ses écritures, la CPI demande qu’il soit ordonné au requérant de payer des dépens ainsi que les « frais de procédure » et l’« ensemble des frais » dans chaque dossier au motif que les requêtes présenteraient, selon elle, un caractère abusif. Elle demande, à titre subsidiaire, que même si le Tribunal ne prononce pas une telle condamnation, il déclare les requêtes abusives.
Le Tribunal considère ces demandes étonnantes et tout à fait injustifiées dans les circonstances des présentes affaires. Une jurisprudence constante du Tribunal rappelle clairement qu’une condamnation d’un requérant aux dépens ne peut être prononcée que dans des circonstances exceptionnelles, où elle aurait pour finalité de sanctionner le caractère abusif ou vexatoire d’une procédure introduite ou maintenue (voir, par exemple, les jugements 4487, au considérant 17, 4143, au considérant 7, 3679, au considérant 20, et 3506, au considérant 4). Il est en effet essentiel que l’accès des fonctionnaires internationaux à une juridiction indépendante et impartiale demeure garanti et ne soit pas entravé par la perspective d’une condamnation éventuelle à assumer des dépens, sauf dans des situations exceptionnelles.
En l’espèce, il est manifeste que des demandes de cette nature sont dénuées de tout fondement.
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 3506, 3679, 4143, 4487
Keywords:
abuse of process; counterclaim;
Judgment 4940
139th Session, 2025
Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges the non-renewal of his employment contract and alleges breach of a promise of employment made to him.
Consideration 13
Extract:
Le Tribunal estime enfin qu’à défaut de pouvoir considérer que la requête devrait être regardée comme abusive, il n’y a pas lieu non plus de faire droit aux diverses demandes reconventionnelles formulées par l’OEACP.
Keywords:
counterclaim; vexatious complaint;
Judgment 4939
139th Session, 2025
Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges the non-renewal of his employment contract and alleges breach of a promise of employment made to him.
Consideration 13
Extract:
Le Tribunal estime enfin qu’à défaut de pouvoir considérer que la requête devrait être regardée comme abusive, il n’y a pas lieu non plus de faire droit aux diverses demandes reconventionnelles formulées par l’OEACP.
Keywords:
counterclaim; vexatious complaint;
Judgment 4938
139th Session, 2025
Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges the non-renewal of his employment contract and alleges breach of a promise of employment made to him.
Consideration 13
Extract:
Le Tribunal estime enfin qu’à défaut de pouvoir considérer que la requête devrait être regardée comme abusive, il n’y a pas lieu non plus de faire droit aux diverses demandes reconventionnelles formulées par l’OEACP.
Keywords:
counterclaim; vexatious complaint;
Judgment 4846
138th Session, 2024
World Intellectual Property Organization
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges a finding made in the decision not to initiate disciplinary proceedings against her.
Consideration 12
Extract:
[T]his is not a case where costs should be awarded in favour of the organisation, as it seeks, since the complaint cannot be regarded as vexatious or frivolous (see, for example, Judgment 4780, consideration 9).
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 4780
Keywords:
counterclaim;
Judgment 4799
137th Session, 2024
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant contests, firstly, the decision to reassign him pursuant to the closure of his area of competence in Berlin, and to reallocate some patent files, secondly, the decision to reallocate some patent files in the context of his reassignment and, thirdly, the closure of an area of competence per se.
Consideration 11
Extract:
The counterclaims for costs filed by the Organisation in the three complaints are rejected. The Tribunal will avail itself of the possibility to condemn a complainant to costs only in exceptional situations. Indeed, it is essential that the Tribunal should be open and accessible to international civil servants without the dissuasive and chilling effect of possible adverse awards of that kind. In the instant case, the complaints cannot be regarded as manifestly vexatious (see Judgment 4143, consideration 7).
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 4143
Keywords:
counterclaim;
Judgment 4798
137th Session, 2024
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant contests the closure of an area of competence in the Berlin sub-office, and her reassignment.
Consideration 12
Extract:
The counterclaim for costs filed by the Organisation regarding the fourteenth complaint is rejected. The Tribunal will avail itself of the possibility to condemn a complainant to costs only in exceptional situations. Indeed, it is essential that the Tribunal should be open and accessible to international civil servants without the dissuasive and chilling effect of possible adverse awards of that kind. In the instant case, the complaints cannot be regarded as manifestly vexatious (see Judgment 4143, consideration 7).
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 4143
Keywords:
counterclaim;
Judgment 4780
137th Session, 2024
International Telecommunication Union
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant contests the monthly amount deducted from her pension as contribution to her after-service health insurance in the period from May 2001 to December 2019.
Consideration 9
Extract:
With regard to the [organisation]’s counterclaim for costs, the Tribunal considers that, although the complaint was obviously misconceived and the language used by the complainant in her submissions to the Tribunal is highly inappropriate, the [organisation] has not sufficiently established that the complaint is vexatious or frivolous (see, for example, Judgments 4726, consideration 14, and 3672, consideration 6). The [organisation]’s counterclaim for costs will be dismissed.
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 3672, 4726
Keywords:
costs; counterclaim; frivolous complaint; vexatious complaint;
Judgment 4751
137th Session, 2024
International Criminal Court
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges the ICC’s refusal to grant his request for several special post allowances.
Consideration 5
Extract:
As a counterclaim, the ICC has asked the Tribunal “to award costs against the [c]omplainant, including the costs of filing submissions”, on the grounds that he “pointlessly and wilfully initiated and prolonged a dispute, with considerable consequences for the defendant [o]rganisation’s resources in terms of the related costs”, in particular by refusing the offer of an amicable settlement.
While it follows from what has been said above that the complaint is unfounded, that does not mean that it can be considered as vexatious. Admittedly, in the present case, the organisation does not contend that the complaint is vexatious on account of its actual content but that the complainant did not have a legitimate reason for filing it since he was offered an amicable settlement. However, the Tribunal cannot take account of information concerning any negotiations – which are inherently confidential – conducted by the parties with a view to settling a dispute before it amicably (see Judgments 4457, consideration 2, and 3586, consideration 5). Hence it could not, in any event, issue orders on the basis of such information (see Judgment 4639, consideration 11).
There are therefore no grounds for granting the ICC’s counterclaim.
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 3586, 4457, 4639
Keywords:
amicable settlement; confidentiality; counterclaim;
Judgment 4722
136th Session, 2023
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges his appraisal report for 2015.
Consideration 6
Extract:
As to the EPO’s counterclaim for costs, the Tribunal is satisfied that a review of the complainant’s pleadings alone reflects a case that obviously had no possibility of success and is frivolous (see Judgment 4025, consideration 11). Accordingly, the Tribunal will order that the complainant pay the EPO the nominal amount of 100 euros in costs within sixty days of the date of the public delivery of this judgment.
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 4025
Keywords:
counterclaim;
Judgment 4717
136th Session, 2023
European Patent Organisation
Extracts: EN,
FR
Full Judgment Text: EN,
FR
Summary: The complainant challenges his staff report for 2014.
Consideration 4
Extract:
As to the EPO’s counterclaim for costs, the Tribunal is satisfied that a review of the complainant’s pleadings alone reflects a case that obviously had no possibility of success and is frivolous (see Judgment 4025, consideration 11). Accordingly, the Tribunal will order that the complainant pay the EPO the nominal amount of 100 euros in costs within sixty days of the date of the public delivery of this judgment.
Reference(s)
ILOAT Judgment(s): 4025
Keywords:
counterclaim;
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