Tag: B Exam


  • EQE: 14 Mar 2023 – B Exam – no copy (sorry) and my comments

    Tuesday was the e-EQE B Exam (0930-1300 CET – 210 mins). Sorry, I do not have a copy available (I was not a benchmarker), but please post any comments you have. The EPO normally makes official copies of the exams available in the compendium in the week after the EQE. I heard from many people…

  • Yesterday was the e-EQE B Exam (0930-1300 CET – 210 mins). Unfortunately, I do not have a complete copy of the non-printable parts yet = application description, claims as filed, EPO communication, clients letter with proposed claims. The EPO normally makes official copies available in the compendium in the week after the EQE.  It was shorter…

  • Final preparationsUpdated 11 Mar 22: added entry photo requirementsUpdate 10 Mar 22: clarify printing must be done before starting FLOWlock Browser This is a detailed exam schedule for B 2022, indicating unscheduled break times.  External Resources at www.epo.org are available online during the exam. For all other materials, you will need to have them on paper. If you…

  • 10 Mar 22: extra comment added about view mode. 6 Mar 22: added highlighting notes from EQE FAQ’s. Updated 1 Mar 22: updated with link to DeltaPatents blog. Working digitally has many advantages, but there are still many limitations in WISEflow, and the adaptation of the EQE exams to this format has not yet been completed. …

  • 😱Update 6 Mar 21: note added on formatting. Yesterday was the e-EQE B Exam. Sorry for the delay, but I was waiting for the compendium version. They are being put online the day after the exam 👍. It is difficult to extract 13 non-printable pages, and there were complaints about the formatting, so I wanted to…

  • This was a great initiative – Russell IP hosted almost 10 hours of free tutoring last week, primarily for candidates affected by the cancellation of  EQE 2020. From across Europe and further afield, almost 400 candidates attended the five webinars. Recordings of the webinars, copies of the presentations, and several templates are now available on…

  • Updated 28 Jan 21 with comments from eEQE FAQs Updated 27 Jan 21: see post on using digital functionality more during exam. Based on Mock1, C seems doable with 2 papers practice – it is a struggle to deal with such a long answer in a single view, so you really need to be organised. The…

  • I have been asked by a couple of people to go through the list again, so see below for the update of this post from Dec 2018. It has not changed much (removed A EM 2011), but I have added some general guidance, as well as a list of not-recommended papers. With so few combined…

  • ** See amended advice here: EQE 2021 – which legal texts to use? **  The syllabus is defined in Regulation on EQE (REE) A.13 and IPREE R.2 and R.22 (latest: OJEPO 2019,SE2). R.22 specifies that legal texts valid on 31 Oct in the year before the exam are relevant. This cut-off was intended to simplify EQE…

  • EQELIBRIUM camps – learning by doing EQE papers

    A vital part of any exam preparation is to practice exams. At the EQE, you will need to make a thousand micro-decisions on each paper about where to start, what you need to do, in which order to do it, what to write, what not to write, things not to be forgotten and when to…