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The celebration of the 100th epi Council Meeting started on Friday afternoon with a memorable retrospective of the history and look into the future of the Institute.

EQE 2026 Papers A, B, C, and D and M2 – 5, 10, 12 and 3 March 2025, respectively

The Examination Board of the European qualifying examination is looking for volunteers from epi to bench mark the 2026 papers A, B, C and D. Volunteers will be expected to sit one or more of the papers under the same conditions as candidates.

On 21 October 2025, a meeting of the MSBA took place.

Historically, “MSBA” stood for meeting of members of SACEPO with the Boards of Appeal” but now it just signifies a meeting of the President of the Boards of Appeal, a number of senior Chairs of Boards and some of the President’s staff with 4 person delegations from Business Europe and epi.

On 13 October 2025, experts from epi, representing the European Patent Practice Committee (EPPC) and the Biotechnology Committee, met with the European Patent Office’s Directorate General 1 (responsible for the patent granting process) for a hybrid meeting hosted at the EPO’s Isar building in Munich.

The Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office ruled in its decision G2/24 that after withdrawal of all appeals, proceedings cannot continue with a third party who intervened during the appeal stage.