Continuing Professional Education (CPE) seminars 2019
Opposition and Appeal
The “Opposition and Appeal” seminar will provide you with an intensive and practical overview of all relevant legal and practical issues concerning opposition and appeal proceedings before the European Patent Office.
The new Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal entering into force on 1 January 2020 and their implications on the proceedings will also be dealt with in detail at the seminar in Hamburg.
| 26 November 2019 | Hamburg (DE) | epi roadshow supported by the EPO |
Case Law seminars in 2019
The "Case Law" seminars will provide you with an overview of the most recent key decisions and developments in the EPO’s board of appeal case law. This collection of lectures offers a range of subjects, including procedural and substantive topics, and with a mixture of general-interest and more field-specific topics. The seminar also includes the demonstration of a mock EPO Oral Proceedings.
Select a suitable date our of our event calendar on the epi website and register for the seminar.
| 12 September 2019 | Stockholm (SE) | epi roadshow supported by the EPO |
| 11 October 2019 | Istanbul (TR) | epi roadshow supported by the EPO |
| 15 November 2019 | Milan (IT) | epi roadshow supported by the EPO |
Seminar series “Life of a patent”
In 2013 epi started a series of seminars on the “life of a patent”. The series covers 4 topics which are “Pre-drafting”, “Drafting of Applications”, “Prosecution” and “Opposition”.
The first two topics will be presented in Ljubljana in October and in Lisbon in January 2020.
| 24-25 October 2019 (Pre-Drafting & Drafting) |
Ljubljana (SI) | epi roadshow supported by the EPO |
In planning: January 2020 Lisbon (PT)
All information and registration is available in the event calendar on the epi website.
