Sunday, December 27, 2020 Answering D (esp. DI questions) in the e-EQE platform

I am using a laptop with its camera positioned just below my external 23" monitor. The laptop screen is disabled. I use an external USB keyboard and USB mouse, plugged into the USB-hub that my monitor provides and that is connected to my dockingstation. I use a wired UTP connection from my docking station to my ADSL modem. This is my normal workplace for home working, except that my laptop screen is enabled during normal operation.

When I log on to the Wiseflow System from Chrome, Wiseflow opens as a separate application and forces me to close two instances of Chrome as well as, if I have that still running, Teams and Outlook.

After having selected the DI, part 2 flow, I open the paper in a separate Tab in the WISEflow e-EQE platform so that I can copy from the question into my answer.

I start the answering by first copying the question in full from the pdf into the editor so that I will be able to work from a single window/Tab and also being able to annotate the question.

Unfortunately, the copying looses the formatting of the question, so that I need to reformat the question. While reformatting, I also annotate the question by highlighting using boldface and highlight with yellow background.

I keep the question in fontsize 10 pt, but I could also resize it with the fontsize pulldown to, e.g., 12 pt.

I then answer in bulletlist-style, as I do when ansering on paper. This automatically changes the fontsize to 11 and put the lines a but further apart than the original line spacing. 

The bulletlist format also allows to have a further indent, e.g., to have open sub-bullets for testing each requirements of a long legal provision.

I organize my bullets in groups (paragraphs), with a blank line in between, to reflect the various main ingredients of my argumentation. You may wish to add a short heading to each group (paragraph).

With the bulletlist-style, I can present my answer in clear and concise way. It also allows me to easily check whether I missed reasoning steps or legal basis. I use bulletlist-style for answering DI as well as DII.

A major advantage of using an editor rather than handwriting is than you can easy insert steps in your reasoning - you can easily insert a bullet or even a complete group (paragraph).

Note: if you want a larger line spacing, you can select Heading 4 from the Paragraph pulldown and then set the font size to a convenient size.

(Question used is from the second part of Mock 1 - it corresponds to Q.2 of DI 2016. My answer is updated to reflect the current version of the EPO-WIPO Agreement)

Good luck with practicing! And best wishes for 2021!