Section : Wednesday, 19 February 2025 | Search and Examination Matters 2025 | e-learning centre
Page principale du coursWednesday, 19 February 2025
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Wednesday, 19 February 2025
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Quality at source: procedure
Quality is a shared activity: EPO quality-controlled measures work together with quality-controlled processes. Presentation of cases, showing the positive effects of high-quality patent applications, their influence on EPO divisions’ work, search results and granting, and emphasising the importance of a detailed disclosure in the application, closest prior art, clarity of claims and proper formatting and compliance.
13.00-14.00 hrs How to influence timeliness and delays: what means are available to the applicant to accelerate or decelerate the procedure?
Which tools are available to applicants to accelerate or decelerate the patent granting process? Learn about the various options and strategies that can impact the timeline, from fast-tracking to postponing procedures. Understand how to effectively manage the timing of your patent application with guidance from EPO professionals. Gain insights into optimizing the process to suit your strategic needs.
Niclas Morey, Principal Director, EPO
Thomas Pott, Patent Attorney, epiQuality at examination
Specific topics that are relevant to secure quality at the examination phase, identifying how examiners as well as applicants can positively contribute to it.
14.15-15.15 hrs Plausibility: focus on post-published evidence and G2/21
The discussion will explore the practical implications of the Enlarged Board of Appeal decision G2/21 for patent granting. Experts will address how evidence submitted after the filing date can now be considered if it proves a technical effect relevant to the inventive step, challenging traditional boundaries. The panel will also touch on the new criteria allowing reliance on technical effects if they are derivable from the original application and common general knowledge. Attendees will gain insights into navigating these changes in the patent granting process.
Thomas Pott, Patent Attorney, epi
Josef Schriefl, Examiner, EPO
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