The Spring Patentability e-Academy seminar is an online platform for exchanging views with EPO examiners. Participants should complete three online self-paced courses and prepare three personal contributions on specific topics of their choice, to be shared and discussed in two online sessions with EPO tutors and other participants.

REGISTRATION FORM

This distance learning course is offered to patent examiners at national IP offices and comprises a series of ten live virtual classroom (VC) sessions on the use of EPOQUE Net. They will help to broaden skills of EPOQUE Net users at national offices. Practical cases will be provided as short assignments prior to each VC. Solution(s) proposed by participants and the tutor(s) will be therein discussed. Tips and tricks on efficient use of the EPO's professional patent search tool will be brought to participants. Features of possible new roll-outs will also be included in the course. 

During the VC sessions, participants have the possibility to communicate live with the experts and ask questions.

This self-paced course has been created to provide TUM students with  an overview of what patents are, what requirements an invention has to fulfill to be patentable and what a patent application should generally comply with. The course also deals with patent documentation and other intellectual property (IP) rights. Students can obtain a certificate after passing a quiz.

The Boards of Appeal and key decisions conference is a unique opportunity for patent practitioners to gain an insight into the Board of Appeal case law and practice. The 10^th edition of this conference, online in 2020 provides updates on:

• - Boards of Appeal selected case law highlights
• - Novelty - ranges and multiple selections
• - AI and computer implemented inventions
• - Enlarged Board of Appeal opinion: G3/19

This distance-learning course is offered to staff of PATLIB centres. Participants will learn how to perform patent searches and draft informative search reports. Virtual classroom sessions allow for direct interaction with expert tutors from three different PATLIB centres from three different countries.

This self-paced course will give you an overview of how patentability requirements are assessed at the EPO and what objections might be raised during the process. It includes a number of examples of different situations.

From October to December 2020, D-type questions were sent on a daily basis to subscribers. You can still find the questions in an online course room with the answers and a forum which was tutored until the end of December 2020.
Enrol to the online course "EQE | Daily D questions".

Examination Matters has become the meeting place for patent attorneys dealing with the EPO in the patent granting procedure. This year's event focused on a single broad thematic area, chemistry, and included four specialised, advanced-level workshops given by senior examiners. In addition, there were a roundtable on how the procedural, legal and administrative changes introduced under SP2023 will impact the work of patent attorneys and a lecture on substantive law.

This high-level event was once again organised in close co-operation with the epi.