Tag: D Exam
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Welcome to PCT.App ! By IP.appify : www.pctapp.net/en/pct-app The only self-editable guide to PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty). Readable on your mobile phone & tablet. It is extensively commented, with many summaries of key issues. The screenshot above is simulated – “See Inside” for examples of actual screenshots. Search full-text, and navigate with hyperlinks & cross-references to internal & external resources. Organisation is chronological, mirroring…
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Updated 15 Mar 22: to add blurry preview window problem.Updated 14 Mar 22: possible remedy for frozen chat window added.Updated 10 Mar 22: clarified that you cannot print after starting the Browser, added problem with missing words. Update 9 Mar 22: added note about Refresh. Also added a note about a backup system. Added additional…
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Final preparations Updated 11 Mar 22: added entry photo requirementsUpdated 10 Mar 22: clarify printing must be done before starting FLOWlock Browser. This is a detailed exam schedule for D 2022, indicating scheduled and unscheduled break times. If you are planning to annotate digitally, be prepared to deal with limitations in the software. Don’t forget your…
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I was not planning to post this so close to the exam, but I have been getting a lot of questions about Calendars. You only need to know the EPO closing days, but you need the weekends on paper. I have also made some calendars you can use – as pdf (in English) or as Excel…
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In most years, official PCT documents are updated in July/August. However, this year, the WIPO has confirmed that few documents will be changed in 2021. There are no amendments to the PCT Regulations coming into force on 1 July 2021. Expected: possibly some changes to the PCT AIs and Forms later this year. 1 July…
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While doing the D Exam as an official benchmarker, I kept track of how I used the EPC.App and PCT.App references to answer questions. I did this to check usability and completeness. Below are notes on how and where I found the main legal issues, so there are spoilers. The D Exam can be downloaded…
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Updated: 3 Mar 21 after message from Exam Board Yesterday was the e-EQE D Exam (still called Paper D even though no paper is used any more 😉. If you want to try yourself, see here for combined EN & DE copy. The text was extracted from peoples answers (sorry, no French). The EPO normally makes…
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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…
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The law being tested at EQE 2020 is theoretically the status on 31 Oct 2019. Unless specified otherwise, “today” on the exam is the actual day of the exam (16 or 17 Mar 2020), so the law of 31 Oct 2019 should be applied to these situations. In particular, fee amounts valid on this date…
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** 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…