Section

  • Special PCT seminars

  • PCT advanced topics

    • Recorded online lecture: Sequence listings: the EPO's practice under the new PCT procedure

      This video provides an insight into the procedure applicable to sequence listings at the EPO.

      Speakers: Emmanuelle Tang & Eva Bach
      Moderator: Yannick Rouault


    • Recorded online lecture: PCT Direct: a new service to improve your search experience at the EPO

      This video explains what PCT direct is, how to make use of the PCT Direct procedure and which advantages PCT Direct can provide.

      Speaker: Tobias Lüddemann
      Moderator: Elke con Brevern


    • Recorded online lecture: The restoration of priority rights at the EPO acting as PCT receiving Office

      This video explains the principles followed by the EPO acting as receiving Office when deciding on the merits of the case, and provide some examples. It provides guidance with regard to filing requests for restoration of the right of priority under Rule 26bis.3 PCT and focus in particular the admissibility criteria applied to such requests.

      Speaker: Veronika Sadloňová
      Moderator: Adriana Mazurkiewicz


    • Recorded online lecture: The handling of erroneous filings and missing parts at the EPO in PCT proceedings

      This video presents the procedure before the EPO as PCT authority with respect to Rules 20.5 and 20.5bis PCT and explains the different scenarios involving requests to correct an erroneous filing or requests to incorporate by reference missing elements or parts and the way those requests are handled at the EPO in PCT proceedings.

      Speakers: Johanna Guidet and Monika Neumann
      Moderator: Marina Micheli


    • Recorded online lecture: New PCT procedure for the handling of ST26 sequence listings

      This video provides an insight on the procedure which applies to ST26 sequence listings at the EPO.

      Speakers: Emmanuelle Tang & Scott Stanley
      Moderator: Yannick Rouault


    • Recorded online lecture: WIPO Sequence training course for the submission of ST26 sequence listings

      This video provides an insight on the procedure which applies to ST26 sequence listings at WIPO, and builds familiarity with the WIPO Sequence tool.

      Speaker: Emma Francis, WIPO
      Moderator: Emmanuelle Tang, EPO


    • Recorded online lecture: Language requirements and priority documents at the EPO under the PCT

      This video provides guidance with respect to the language requirements to be considered when filing an international application with the EPO and explains the processing of the priority documents at the EPO. The various options at the applicant’s disposal both in terms of filing and obtaining a priority document from the EPO in the international phase are explored.

      Particular emphasis is given to practical examples.

      Speaker: Paola Giancane
      Moderator: Elke von Brevern


    • Recorded online lecture: Clarification and protest procedures at the EPO acting as ISA

      This video provides information on the legal framework and procedural specifics of the informal clarification and protest procedures at the EPO acting as ISA, the mechanism of interaction between the users and the EPO as ISA in the clarification and protest procedures and recommendations to the users on the effective use of the informal clarification and protest procedures at the EPO as ISA.

      Speaker: Veronika Sadlonova
      Moderator: Tobias Lüddemann


    • Recorded online lecture: PCT Biotech – Filing sequence listings at the EPO in the framework of the PCT

      This video provides insight into the procedure that applies to the submission and processing of sequence listings at the EPO.

      Speaker: Isabel Auría Lansac


    • Recorded online lecture: PCT Rule 20.5bis – Incorporation by reference at the EPO

      This video introduces the incorporation-by-reference procedure in use at the EPO since 1 July 2020.

      Speakers: Paola Giancane and Eva Bach


    • Recorded online lecture: PCT Practice – A practical update on EPO services in the framework of the PCT

      This video focuses in particular on the Covid-19 remedies available at the EPO and the PCT Direct service.

      Speaker: Christof Mathoi

  • PCT basics

    • Recorded online lecture: Filing with the EPO as Receiving Office

      This video covers the specificities of filing an international application with the EPO as receiving Office and highlights the opportunities for applicants choosing this route.

      Speakers: Camille-Rémy Bogliolo and Elke von Brevern


    • Recorded online lecture: Working with the EPO as ISA

      The EPO is one of the leading International Searching Authorities world-wide. To get the most out of the searches performed by the EPO in the international phase, it is important for applicants and agents to fully understand how the EPO operates. This video provides an insight into EPO procedures.

      Speaker: Isabel Auría Lansac


    • Recorded online lecture: Working with the EPO as SISA and IPEA

      As an optional procedure, applicants can file a “demand” under Chapter II PCT and receive an international preliminary examination report from the EPO. This procedure gives applicants the opportunity to respond to any negative finding of the ISA during the international phase, as opposed to drafting and filing multiple responses with the national/regional offices where national phase entry is made. This video also presents the possibility to receive a supplementary international search report in addition to the search carried out by the competent ISA.

      Speaker: Christof Mathoi


    • Recorded online lecture: Entry into the European phase: processing your application before the EPO as designated Office

      An applicantinterested in obtaining a European patent based on an international application needs to take the steps required for the so-called “entry into the European phase” within 31-months from the filing/priority date of an international application. The webinar will provide an overview of the requirements for entry into the European phase and of the procedural options available to the applicant at this stage of the procedure for the grant of a European patent.

      Speaker: Reinoud Hesper