Friday, February 12, 2010 For qualified attorneys - continous education

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 train from Amsterdam Schiphol airport.

This is an updated version of the seminar of 11/11/09, focussing on:
- The Raising The Bar program, and the changes for 1 April 2010 (divisionals/amendments/responding to search opinion), 1 Jan 2011 and beyond
- The PCT changes on 1 July 2010
- Recent case law and current referrals to the Enlarged Board
- Lessons learned from the Petition For Review

As with any changes in the law, we focus on the practical implications rather than the changes in the articles and rules. We also give advice how to deal with the changes in your daily work.
For more details, see here


If preferred, we can also provide an in-house version, tailored to your requirements. We can also provide discussions on case law topics not covered here. Please contact us for more details

Monday, November 30, 2009 Draft 2010 version of EPO Examination Guidelines now available

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 be used on the EQE2010 is the version of 1 April 2009.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Changes to EPC on1 April 2010 (1/4/10) will NOT be tested on EQE 2010

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 mean that they automatically form part of the syllabus.
That should make studying a little bit easier.