Category: EPC
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Our distance learning package for the paper D legal part is now available here for EQE 2011. This unique course concept allows you to study the EPC/PCT whenever and wherever you want, but with the security and guidance of individual feedback, and a steady study and homework schedule to get you through the material. We…
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Please let me know if any of the posts helped you. Also if anything was wrong or misleading. Of course, you may want to wait for the results in August 😉 Enjoy the summer.
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I am not involved with the Exam Committee, so I have no inside information. I always do the D exam in the office as soon as possible after the exam, under exam conditions – books on paper, exam timing etc. This gives me a feeling for the difficulty and any unclear parts of the papers.…
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The EPO has removed the Ancillary Regulations EPC1973 from their web site. As I pointed out, many of the references have been superseded, so probably the EPO feels that making old references available is confusing for users. They suggest accessing the references via the on-line EPC and OJEPO’s, but that is rather time-consuming if you…
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It is hard to find time to keep up with the changes in the law, and recent case law. We read everything and pick out the important things so you don’t have to 😉 We are organising a Patent Law update in Utrecht, NL on 8 March 2010. Utrecht is about 20 minutes in the…
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I get asked many times what I think will be on the D exam. Most of the questions and issues will be based upon the core of the EPC, which changes little. However, they also like to ask questions based on things that have been published and changed “recently”. These “recent changes” can be found…
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One of the problems learning the EPC is the large amount of detail presented in case law. For certain subjects, it helps to understand the general principles before you look at the details. One such area is Art.54(2) – when is something made available to the public ? For those doing the EQE, this is…
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In an interlocutory decision, the Board of Appeal in T1427/09 decided that filing appeal documents using the wrong electronic signature (the wrong smart card) may be remedied under R.50(3). The signature of someone who is not authorised is considered to the same as omitting the signature.
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Today (30/11/09), the EPO published a draft version of the Examination Guidelines. These Guidelines are updated based upon the EPC changes scheduled for 1/4/10, and may possibly be updated again. For those sitting the EQE in 2010: The Chairman of the Examination Board has also posted a notice, stating very clearly, that the version to…
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At the meeting between the tutors and the examination committees two weeks ago, it was clearly stated by the D committee that the changes scheduled for 1/4/10 will NOT be tested. The exam tests the law on the 31/12/09 – the fact that these changes have been published in the OJEPO this year does not…