Course: Guidelines2day | e-learning centre
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Guidelines 2025
This series of recorded web seminars gives an overview of the new Guidelines (in force as of 1 April 2025) and the updates relevant for examiner procedures.
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Guidelines 2024
This series of recorded web seminars gives an overview of the new Guidelines (in force as of March 2024) and the updates relevant for examiner procedures.
Legal changes to support digital transformation
06 March 2024 | Speakers: L. Brüning-Petit, Max Valk, Jochen Moser and Eva Bach
The Unitary Patent
Speakers: Marko Schauwecker and Camille Bogliolo
Changes related to the fees
20 March 2024 | Speakers: Marko Schauwecker and Camille Bogliolo
Decision of the EBoA G2/21 and G1/22 and G2/22
10 April 2024 | Speakers: Philipp Römer-Siegl, Marko Schauwecker, Nicolas Wyplosz and Markus Zwerger
Representatives' area in MyEPO
17 April 2024 | Speakers: Kristina J Almer, Kieran Donnelly and Donny Kettenis
Case law for changes in the Guidelines
24 April 2024 | Speakers: Katarzyna Walert and Josef Schriefl
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Guidelines 2023
This series of recorded web seminars gives an overview of the new Guidelines (in force as of March 2023) and the updates relevant for examiner procedures.
Legal changes for digital transformation
08 March 2023 | Speakers: Heli Pihlajamaa, Eva Bach, Vytenis Semeta and Helena Madeira
Opposition by ViCo
15 March 2023 | Speakers: Marko Schauwecker and Josef Schriefl
Updated practice concerning late filed submissions
22 March 2023 | Speakers: Britta Kley and Katja Eberle
Rule 56a EPC - correction of erroneously filed application documents
29 March 2023 | Speakers: Nicolas Wyplosz and Eva Bach
Video citations
04 April 2023 | Speakers: Philipp Römer and Cécile Vanier
Case law for changes in the Guidelines
18 April 2023 | Speakers: Yasemin Türkeli and Katarzyna Walert
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Guidelines 2022
This series of recorded web seminars gives an overview of the new Guidelines (in force as of March 2022) and the updates relevant for examiner procedures.
Adaptation of the description
09 March 2022 | Speakers: Georg Wolfbauer and Jean-Luc Gal
Oral proceedings
16 March 2022 | Speakers: Josef Schriefl and Tobias Irmscher
Computer-implemented inventions and artificial intelligence
23 March 2022 | Speakers: Magdalena Kolasa and Yasemin Türkeli
Biotechnology
30 March 2022 | Speakers: Zoran Cilenšek, Scott Stanley and Marko Schauwecker
Validity of the priority claim and information on new Rule 56a EPC
06 April 2022 | Speakers: Britta Kley, Eva Bach and Nicolas Wyplosz
Recent legal changes
26 April 2022 | Speakers: Heli Pihlajamaa, Luigi Petrucci, Monika Neumann, Laurence Brüning-Petit and Anna Maria Bach Pedrocchi
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Guidelines 2021
This series of recorded web seminars gives an overview of the Guidelines entered into force as of March 2021 and the updates relevant for examiner procedures.
Biotechnology
22 April 2021 | Speakers: Marko Schauwecker and René Wagner
Computer-implemented inventions in Guidelines 2021
25 March 2021 | Speakers: Magdalena Kolasa and Yasemin Türkeli
Clarity and disclosure
11 March 2021 | Speakers: Magdalena Kolasa and Yasemin Türkeli
Oral proceedings in opposition via videoconference
04 March 2021 | Speakers: Britta Kley and Frédéric Bockstahl
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Non-unity
25 February 2021 | Speakers: Johanna Guidet and Jaime Jiménez
Overview of the revised Guidelines
18 February 2021 | Speakers: Heli Pihlajamaa, Luigi Petrucci, Monika Neumann, Laurence Brüning-Petit and Anna Maria Bach Pedrocchi
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Updates 2019
This series of recorded web seminars gives an overview of the Updates relevant for formalities procedures which entered into force in 2019 and the updates relevant for examiner procedures.
Updates 2019 relevant for formalities procedures
This recorded session presents the updates to the Guidelines for Examination in the EPO relevant for formalities procedures. The topics discussed comprise a. o.
- Filing of priority documents
- File inspection and abolishment of certain administrative fees
- Amendments to the Arrangements for Deposit Accounts (ADA)
- Refund of fees
- Requesting further processing in respect of the time limit under Rule 71(3) EPC
- Translation of the international application
16 November 2019 | Speakers: Monika Neumann and Luise Zimmermann
Updates 2019 relevant for examiner procedures
Watch this recorded session on the new Guidelines 2019 which provides an overview of the updates relevant for examiner procedures which may affect the day-to-day work of a patent practitioner. It discusses in detail some important amendments like.
- Novelty of sub-ranges in selection inventions
- Mathematical methods and artificial intelligence
- Deletion of alternatives from lists
- Oral proceedings
- Characterisation of a product by parameters
- Interpretation of statements of purpose
20 November 2019 | Speakers: Yasemin Türkeli and Marko Schauwecker