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epi members will be well advised to review their pending cases and submit any new requests, evidence or arguments before the end of this year. Though the new RPBA are, by and large, a codification of the stricter side of the case-law of the Boards of Appeal, it must be expected that the risk that new matter will be excluded will sharply increase.

epi kindly invites you to nominate your inventors for the 2020 Award before the deadline of 30 September 2019

WIPO intends to discontinue the use by PCT applicants of fax services at the International Bureau. epi representatives and others have been working hard to ensure that the fax service is not switched off, until a suitable contingency filing service is in place, and tried and fully tested by users over a period of time.

Appeal not to have been filed or inadmissible? The Enlarged Board of Appeal endorses the prevailing view of the Boards and the comments sent by epi in its amicus curiae brief.

Today, oral proceedings took place before the Enlarged Board of Appeal in case G 2/19.