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  • Results of the Election to the 20th Council
  • Towards a new format of the e:EQE
  • Double patenting prohibition under G4/19: a paper tiger?
  • On topical Article 84 issues
  • Advice from PCC
  • Report of the Online Communications Committee
  • Report of the Harmonisation Committee

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  • Report from the 93rd Council Meeting held in Málaga, Spain on 22nd October 2022
  • Election to Council 2023
  • Advice from PCC
  • The Unitary Patent System
  • Tutors‘ Report on the EQE 2022 Papers and the Meeting between Tutors and EQE Committees
  • Report from the epi Tutors Meeting
  • Annual Subscription 2023
  • Option to update your annual subscription invoice address via our NEW self-service functionality

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  • For discussion: Has the requirement that claims be "supported by the description" been perverted over time?
  • New Rule 56a and amendments to Rule 56 EPC - Background, requirements and consequences
  • J 8/20: DABUS or artificial intelligence as inventor
  • Reimbursement of Appeal Fees due to a violation of right to be heard - Board of Appeal decision T 2610/19
  • Treatment of Interim Injunctions in Patent Disputes – Decision of the ECJ in case C-44/21
  • Results of the 2022 European Qualifying Examination
  • List of Professional Representatives

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  • Report from the 92nd Council Meeting in Munich on 7th May, 2022
  • Election to Council 2023
  • The epi Code of Conduct is now ready for UPC
  • The latest version of the Guidelines – deletion or marking of unclaimed embodiments
  • Paper Submitted by epi concerning new WIPO Standard ST.26 on sequence listings
  • epi starts educational activities on the UP and UPC
  • Preparation for the 2023 EQE on the epi-learning platform

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  • Why is everybody talking about diversity and inclusion?
  • What's next in the Unitary Patent Package?
  • The UPC is already partially into force
  • Intermediate generalisations – a review
  • Où il est question de Expo 2020 Dubaï et de période de grâce.
  • How much priority for entitlement to priority?
  • epi's educational activities during 2021
  • Quo vadis EQE? Reform of EQE – digitalisation or lowering the bar?

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  • Report from the 91st Council Meeting held by videoconference on 13th November 2021
  • Launch of the virtual epi Artists Exhibition on the epi website
  • Time Limits at the EPO
  • Belgian Patent Attorneys are getting organized – Launch of the Belgian Institute
  • Decision No. G4/19 of the European Patent Office - contribution to the discussion on double patenting in Poland
  • Tutors' report on the EQE 2021 papers and the meeting between tutors and EQE committees

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  • An epi update about the progress towards a future e:EQE
  • Decommissioning of online filing (CMS) with effect from 1 January 2022
  • Remote Participation as the New Normal?
  • Amendment of German Patent Attorney Act
  • One year after amending Rule 142 EPC on interruption of proceedings - tidying up the zombie applications
  • Progress on UPC Ratification in Germany
  • Die Entscheidung G 1/19 der GBK des EPA oder „Quo vadis, Patentsystem 4.0?"
  • Results of the 2021 European Qualifying Examination

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  • Report from the 90th Council Meeting held by videoconference on 8th May 2021
  • Interview with John Gray, Chair of the Online Communications Committee
  • Natural language generation and patents: be ready!
  • The modern problem-solution approach
  • Erfinderische Tätigkeit und das Zett-Diagramm
  • e:EQE - Discussion Paper
  • Reaction to epi Discussion Paper on a new format of the e:EQE
  • Previewing EQE 2022 and beyond, and how it will shape the profession

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  • epi welcomes its first Executive Director
  • epi comments on CA/PL 5/20 for submission
  • Patenting of Antibodies in the European Patent Office and the New “Guidelines” – Boon or Bane?
  • Attending ViCo Oral Proceedings as a Member of the Public
  • T844/18 – the CRISPR case – confirms legal certainty in the EPO’s consistent interpretation of priority under Art. 87(1) EPC
  • G 1/19 released: The Enlarged Board of Appeal decides on the Patenting of Computer-implemented Simulations and Designs
  • Survey on Oral Proceedings by Videoconference

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  • Report from the 89th Council Meeting held by videoconference on 13th and 14th November 2020
  • Novelty, added subject-matter, and the ‘gold standard’
  • Admissibility of referrals before the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office
  • EPO fees – how much and what for?
  • T 0161/18 brings to the fore the requirement of disclosing training data in AI case
  • The Lawfulness of Using Competitors’ Trade Marks in Keyword Advertising

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  • Report from the 88th Council Meeting held by videoconference on 29th June 2020
  • Considerations about the training of EQE candidates during the Covid-19 crisis
  • Amendment of the EPC Rule on interruption of proceedings puts an end to zombie applications
  • Competition, Innovation, Patients and Patents in the antibodies field
  • Oral proceedings before the Enlarged Board of Appeal in case G1/19
  • A critical review: The EPC.App – a combination of an electronic platform and a printed book
  • epi has successfully started with online learning

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  • Mock Videoconference Opposition Oral Proceedings
  • Reform of the European Qualifying Examination
  • Divide and conquer! A proposal for an amended Rule 36 EPC
  • An extension of periods and further measures taken to handle the Covid-19 situation
  • Admissibility of new arguments based on already on file prior art refused by Board of Appeal: Exception or the Rule?
  • Who is the notional business person?
  • Book Review: Topic-Related Index to the EPC and PCT – Quick Reference for Daily Practice, EQE Paper D and Pre-Exam
  • Book Review: Proceedings Before the European Patent Office - A Practical Guide to Success in Opposition and Appeal

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  • Results of the Election to the 19th Council
  • epi Quo vadis? by J. Pereira da Cruz, T. Tangena
  • Patents on Artificial Intelligence – Valuable Assets or Not Worth the Paper They are Printed on? by M. Fischer
  • Book review: Europäisches Patentübereinkommen, Taschenkommentar 8. Auflage
  • Report of the Online Communications Committee (OCC), by D. Brophy
  • Report of the Litigation Committee, by T. Walshe
  • Report of the Editorial Committee, by M. Névant
  • First meeting of the Working Group set up at C87 to explore a new epi IP Commercialisation Committee (IPCC)

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  • Report on the 87th Council meeting in Lisbon on 23rd November 2019
  • The IP Office of the Czech Republic Celebrates its 100 year
  • Report on “WIPO Conversation on Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence”
  • Translators at Oral Proceedings
  • Disclaimers - Examples of global (dis)harmony
  • Novelty Test for Sub-Ran
  • Guidelines November 2019: Purposive selection no longer needed for novelty of sub-ranges?
  • Tutors‘ Report on the EQE 2019 Papers and the Meeting between Tutors and EQE Committees

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  • Election to Council 2020
  • Introduction of web-based “Work Share” platform
  • The New Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal are Coming
  • Update on EPC Practice
  • Breeding Issues: Fruits of Crossing the Administrative Council – Part II
  • Who bears the burden to show that an objective technical problem has been credibly solved?
  • Opinion G1/18: common sense prevails

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  • Report of the 86th Council Meeting in Sofia on 11 May 2019
  • Canadian Professor Seeks Interviewees
  • Foreign Filing License
  • Bombshell Decision - T 2101/12 (Vasco) questions the technical/non-technical distinction
  • The Patenting of Mathematical Methods at the EPO
  • Breeding Issues: Fruits if Crossing the Administrative Council – Part I
  • epi Seminar “Opposition and Appeal” in Madrid

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  • News from the Presidium
  • Increased Flexibility in the Timing of the Examination Process
  • Some Thoughts after the Conference on the New Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal
  • Artificial Intelligence – A New Challenge for Technology and Law?
  • Assessment of Assertions of Synergy as a Basis for Invenitive Step in Compositions Comprising Mixtures
  • Monoclonal Antibodies and Sequence Identity
  • Patenting Emerging Computing Technologies before the EPO

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  • Report of the 85th Council meeting in Helsinki on 10th November 2018
  • Tutors' Report on the EQE 2018 Papers
  • Technical problems in AI inventions in the light of the Guidelines for Examination in the EPO
  • News from the EPO – Report about the VPP conference in October 2018
  • Blood, sweat and tears - in vitro diagnostic method claims limited by intended use
  • The Patent attorney of the future: The Dutch view
  • Another Attempt at Deferred Examination: New User Consultation by the EPO on Increased Flexibility in the Timing of the Examination Process

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  • The Right of Priorities: Recent Developments in EPO Case Law
  • PCT Practical Advice and Updates, a Report from the Seminar “PCT at the EPO” in Bucharest
  • Price-Winning Inventors of Michelin’s Auto-Regenerating Tyre Tread Band Regenion, Patented as EP2379352B1
  • Implications of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for Detecting Infringement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Patents
  • Dealing with Non-Technical Features before the EPO
  • Position paper on Client-Attorney Privilege in IP advice

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  • Report from the 84th Council Meeting in Malta
  • epi Artists Exhibition Opening
  • Prepare yourself and be ready for the UPC
  • Common General Knowledge in the Age of the Internet
  • User Driven Early Certainty
  • On the level of the appeal fee
  • PCT-Direct Service
  • Key Criteria in Evaluating Description Requirements for Harmonisation of the US and European Patent Systems

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  • If something went wrong: Professional Liability Insurance IPRISK for epi members
  • Terminology training manual for professional representatives
  • Revision of the Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal at the EPO
  • G 1/16 – Disclaimers – History, Decision and Practice
  • New EPO Guidelines for Examination on the Patenting of Graphical User Interfaces
  • Decision G 1/15 – Consequences, Implications and Possible Problems

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  • Report from the 83rd Council Meeting in Warsaw
  • Decisions of the Disciplinary Committee – Case CD #/2012
  • Report from epi Tutors meeting: epi 3-years Training plan
  • Image Processing and Generation from a Patent Perspective
  • Notes on R.43 (2) EPC
  • Interruption of the proceedings due to insolvency before the EPO and UPC

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  • Professional Liability Insurance for epi members
  • Information from the Disciplinary Committee
  • Election to epi Committee
  • Report of the 5th meeting of EPO PAOC directors with epi (EPPC) members
  • Results of the 2017 EuropeanQualifying Examination
  • Improved opposition statistics in the EPO annual reports
  • Patentanwaltsausbildung in der Industrie
  • Book Reviews

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  • Report from the 82nd Council Meeting in Munich
  • Forthcoming Educational Events
  • Amendment of Rule 51(2) EPC relating to the payment of renewal fees in the 6‑month additional period and its consequences
  • Reconsideration of G3/93 “Priority interval” from the perspective of G1/15 “Partial priority”
  • Book Review

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  • Results of the election to the 18th Council
  • Inventor Assistance Program (IAP) - Meeting between WIPO and the epi in Munich
  • Decision T102/08 and the 2016 Guidelines
  • Annual meeting of epi (EPPC) delegation with EPO directors
  • The Long-Awaited European Patent with Unitary Effect and ad hoc Unified Patent Court: United Kingdom shows goodwill for driving the patent package to entry into force

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  • Report from the 81st Council Meeting in Berlin
  • Tutors Report on the EQE 2016 Papers
  • Results of the EQE 2016
  • Fast and Sure: Options to Quicker Processing Before the EPO
  • The Problem and Solution Approach – Objective Technical Problem, Part 2
  • Grace Period for Patents
  • Optional Features, Article 84 EPC and Rule 137(5) EPC – An Ambiguous Relationship?

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  • 95th Board Meeting in Haarlem
  • Considerations about the Code of Conduct for UPC representatives
  • Toujours la politesse
  • A Review of the “Problem and Solution” Approach to Inventive Step under Article 56 EPC, Part 3
  • Limits of a Limited Opposition
  • Thoughts About the EQE, Part 2
  • The Problem and Solution Approach – Basic Case Law and Recent Development, Part 1
  • Evaluation of Claim Amendments

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  • Report from the 80th Council Meeting in Athens
  • A Review of the “Problem and Solution” Approach to Inventive Step under Article 56 EPC, Part 2
  • Limits of a Limited Opposition
  • Decision G1/14 Appeal Inadmissible or Deemed Not Filed?
  • Thoughts About the EQE – Part 1
  • The History of Partial Priority System of the Paris Convention

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  • A Solution to eDrex OCR Problems
  • Post Brüstle Developments in EU Biotech Patent Law at the CJEU
  • A New Scenario for Infringement of Second Medical Use Patents: Are Generics Liable when They Participate in Discount Contract Tenders?
  • A Review of the “Problem and Solution” Approach to Inventive Step under Article 56 EPC, Part 1
  • Unintentional Abandonment?

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