Table of Contents
Introduction
Patent practice
- 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
Case Law
- 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
Education
- Preparation for the 2023 EQE on the epi-learning platform
- epi Student membership
- epi-learning
- Results of the 2022 European Qualifying Examination
- List of Professional Representatives
Committee Reports
- Report of the Professional Conduct Committee
- Report of the Litigation Committee
- Report of the Committee on Biotechnological Inventions
General Information
- Contact Data of EPO Legal Division
- Next Board and Council Meetings
- Next deadline for epi Information
- Cover Art: Charles Robert Clark
- Imprint
- Council Members 2020-2023
- Board Members
- Presidium
- Auditors
- Disciplinary Committee
- By-Laws Committe
- Editorial Committee
- epi-Finances Committee
- EPO Finances Committee
- Online Communication Committee
- Harmonisation Committee
- Committee on Biotechnological Invention
- Professional Conduct Committee
- European Patent Practice Committee
- Professional Education Committ
- Litigation Committee
- Electoral Committee
- Nominations Committee
- epi Studentship Admissions Committee
- IP Commercialization Committee
- Standing Advisory Committee before the EPO (SACEPO)