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December 2021 Mock e-EQE provides participants with the chance to sit the EQE exams under exam like circumstances.

In a <a href=“https://www.epo.org/news-events/news/2021/20211124.html”target=“_blank“>notice from the EPO dated 24 November 2021 the EPO announced an extension of the pilot for oral proceedings in opposition by videoconference to 31 May 2022.

Today, the Austrian Nationalrat (lower Chamber of the Austrian Parliament) unanimously decided in favour of ratifying the Protocol to the Agreement on a Unified Patent Court on Provisional Application (PPA).

The EPO has indicated that it is considering whether there need to be any changes to the rules relating to time limits to support the end-to-end digitalisation of the patent granting process. epi invites all its member to read a <a href=“https://patentepi.org/en/epi/57fc763e-2482-4944-9a96-ce865517cb05/download/211117_Time%20Limits%20at%20the%20EPO.pdf”target=“_blank“>paper prepared by EPPC on this matter and send their comments by 31st December, 2021.

Council remembers Terry Johnson and Francisco Bernardo Noriega, and discusses the latest EPO developments with EPO President

**epi **C91 Council meeting took place on 13 November 2021 by videoconference. A total of 188 participants attended the meeting.