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Is Ohim Deliberately Suppressing English Translations Of Board Of Appeal Decisions?

's blogs attract real few posted comments, exactly he receives a lot of emails from people who don't desire their comments to hold upward attributed to them. One such interesting e-mail (which has been anonymised for obvious reasons) is reproduced below. The writer industrial plant for OHIM, the Community Trade Mark Office as well as Design Registry. His missive of the alphabet reads:
"Hi,

Since I discovered IPkat I real much bask reading it.

[...] One of your favorite issues is the work of languages of CFI/ECJ cases. But y'all never cite BoA linguistic communication problems. Did y'all know that all non-English linguistic communication decisions of the Boards are internally translated into English? However, they are non published on OHIM's website. I suppose they are non published for political reasons (discrimination of other languages), which is notwithstanding a pity. Maybe users should complain from fourth dimension to time? [...]".
has long been annoyed at the fact that many OHIM Board of Appeal as well as Opposition decisions are non posted on the OHIM website inwards English. Indeed, he has pose his mitt into his suitcase as well as paid a few deserving postgraduate students to interpret them for him. Now he knows that Board of Appeal decisions are routinely translated exactly suppressed, he volition hold upward real much on his guard inwards future.

Can whatsoever IPKat reader who feels an OHIM Board of Appeal determination has been wrongly suppressed delight allow him know past times email?

Search for OHIM Board of Appeal decisions here; Opposition Division decisions here; Cancellation Division decisions here; Community Design decisions here (note that exclusively 3 of the ten decisions listed hither on 29 September were available inwards English).

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