In some cases, national authorities may license companies or individuals other than the patent owner to use the rights of the patent without the consent of the patent owner. “Compulsory licensing in Europe” provides a country-by-country overview of compulsory licensing regimes across the 38 EPC contracting states including possible grounds for grant, procedural framework and jurisprudence.

This series of four one-hour virtual classrooms cover some of the topics offered in the second half of 2018 in the series of seminars EPO2day, which had been designed for patent attorneys and IP professionals with experience in filing and prosecuting European patent applications. They deal with four different aspects of procedural and substantive law before the EPO.

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.

The European Patent Office addressed the challenges and opportunities of patenting Artificial Intelligence at a one-day conference on 30 May 2018, which connected people from business, academia, the judiciary, policy making and patent offices. This course room offers access to the recordings of the lectures and panel discussions.

This course looks at the importance of patents as a source of information for research and new projects and as a means of protecting inventions.

This course room offers access to material (e-learning modules, recording of events, and public webinars) covering topics related to computer-implemented inventions, such as:

• Patentability of computer-implemented inventions (CII)
• New technologies and the patent system
• CII in biotech and healthcare

You can watch the entire recorded events, quickly access specific parts of the presentations or questions asked by the public and download the presentation materials in PDF format.