Table of Contents
Introduction
- Cover 4 | 2020
- Table of Contents
- Christmas Card
- Christmas Letter from the epi President
- Editorial
- Report from the 89th Council Meeting held by videoconference on 13th and 14th November 2020
Patent practice
- 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?
Case Law
PhD thesis review
Educational Events
Committee Reports
- Report of the By-Laws Committee
- Report of the Professional Conduct Committee
- Report of the Nominations Committee
- Report of the Committee on Biotechnological Inventions
- Report of the Harmonisation Committee
- Report of the Online Communications Committee
General Information
- epi Information is seeking occasional and regular contributors
- Annual Subscription 2021
- Contact Data of Legal and Unitary Patent Division
- Next Board and Council meetings
- Next deadline for epi Information
- Imprint
- Council Members 2020-2023
- Board Members
- Presidium
- Auditors
- Disciplinary Committee
- By-Laws Committee
- 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 Committee
- Litigation Committee
- Electoral Committee
- epi Studentship Admissions Committee
- IP Commercialization Committee
- Standing Advisory Committee before the EPO (SACEPO)
