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Every year, the EPO (Patent Procedures Management | Directorate 1.3.2) produces a poster with a summary of the procedural changes that occurred during the last year or already planned for the future.

On the occasion of a pre-Council seminar on “Inventive step and recent case law at the EPO” held on 10th May 2019 in Sofia, epi’s speaker and EPO former director of DG1 Mr Daniel Thomas gave an in-depth presentation on Inventive step and gave an overview on the Case Law of the Boards of Appeal.

Professor Wissam Aoun, who will be visiting at Oxford University and the Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition in Munich over the summer of 2019, is examining the nature of patent practice across Europe.

Pr. Aoun is actively seeking individuals who might be interested in participating in this study. Interested attorneys are encouraged to email Pr. Aoun at waoun@uwindsor.ca for more information on participation.

epi weekend workshops: for epi students who have passed the Pre-Exam and are preparing for the main EQE. Depending on the workshop, the tutors will go through the requirements for Papers A, B or the Legal Opinion (known as Part 2) of Paper D. All workshops will be in English and will have a maximum of 20 participants.

The updated version of the Collection of Decisions, including the new set of epi Rules governing the payment of the annual subscription, is already available on the epi website.