The course is about providing complimentary information and experience for participants with regards to EPO Case Law related to the specific topics.

Level of expertise: Intermediate and advanced level

Please see the complete training programme.

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 course comprises 35 recorded lectures in which expert examiners present their CPC technical fields.

The lectures are based on the presentations delivered during the CPC field-specific trainings that took place in 2018 in The Hague and in 2019 in Munich. The events were aimed at staff who use the CPC in classification at national offices in both member states and non-member states.

This distance learning course is offered to patent examiners of national IP offices, in particular those in charge of drafting communications on the merits of a patent application with respect to patentability requirements. Participants will broaden their skills in preparing the written search opinion accompanying a search report according to EPO Guidelines. Training will consist of on-line modules and tests. Recorded sessions of virtual classrooms which took place during the course OD09-2017 further enhance the understanding of the topics.

If you are interested in the course, get in touch with the Academy contact person at your office or with academy@epo.org.

This distance learning course is offered to patent examiners at national IP offices who have started to use the EPOQUE Net tool. The course comprises on-line material, such as e-learning modules and will be articulated around a series of 6 virtual classroom (VC) sessions. The course has a focus on the hands-on experience, translated in the form of assignments, exercises and examples. The material will help EPOQUE Net users at national offices to efficiently perform searches using EPOQUE Net. The tutors are experienced EPO examiners. 

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

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".

The expert exchange on procedural and expert matters addresses which important aspects are to be considered regarding amendments and corrections during substantive examination proceedings.

The workshop includes detailed discussions on the admissibility of amendments at the various stages of the proceedings, in conjunction with the applicable legal requirements as well as with other elements, such as auxiliary requests, substantive priority claims and divisional applications, as examples.

Registration

This course offers CPC field-specific training for DPMA examiners for selected sub-classes:

This course offers CPC field-specific training for CNIPA examiners for selected sub-classes:

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.

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