Key points
- The referral decision in case G 1/23 refers to the "Proceedings of the 1st meeting of the Patents Working Party held at Brussels from 17 to 28 April 1961 (LT 234/82, Section 5, IV/2767/61-E)" and cites that document in English.
- This slightly puzzled me because, in 1961, English was no official language of the Working Party - England was no EU member then. However, it turns out that an English translation of the minutes of that meeting is contained in the "per article" collection of the travaux préparatoires to Article 54 EPC. Even though that translation can not be found in the "per document" travaux. Possibly, the translation was prepared in 1982?
- The document discussed at that meeting is the Haertel draft, which is available in German and French only (in the published travaux). I'm not aware of a published English version of it.
- Linking to the individual PDF files of that travaux is no longer possible after the update of the EPO website, it seems.
EPO
The link to the decision is provided after the jump, as well as (an extract of) the decision text.
source http://justpatentlaw.blogspot.com/2023/12/t-043819-ii-on-english-travaux.html
