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epi continues with this successful webinar series focusing this time on South Korea. The webinar is free of charge for epi members and epi students.

The EPO has announced here that the existing web-based online filing service (also known as CMS) will be decommissioned with effect from 1 January 2022. It will be replaced by the EPO’s new web-based filing service Online Filing 2.0, which was launched on 1 April 2021. The eOLF and web-form filing services are not affected by this announcement.

The EPO has announced here that with effect from 1 October 2021, all oral proceedings before the Receiving Section, the Legal Division and the Examining Divisions will be held exclusively by Zoom.
The EPO has decided to decommission Skype for Business as of 1 October 2021.

Yesterday, the Enlarged Board of Appeal answered the questions referred to it by Technical Board of Appeal 3.3.01 in case T 0318/14 (“Double patenting”).

Last week, on 10th June 2021, the lower house of the German Parliament (Bundestag) approved a law which will allow European Patent Attorneys working in private practice to professionally and economically associate with nationally qualified patent attorneys and attorneys-at-law in Germany to exercise their free profession.