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The European Inventor Award will take place on 17 June 2021 at 19:00 CEST.

For the first time in the history of the event, the ceremony will be entirely digital and will be broadcasted live around the globe.

In the wake of oral proceedings in case G1/21, the President of the EPO has announced (see here) that the pilot project for oral proceedings by videoconference before opposition divisions, initially set to run until 14 September 2021, is further extended to run until 31 January 2022.

Find out how to set up and execute a licensing program in our upcoming webinar with Tony Tangena on 14 June 2021.

epi C90 Council meeting took place on 8 May 2021 by videoconference.

A total of 160 members attended the meeting.

The epi Council approved the recruitment of an Executive Director at the Council meeting C86 and approved the amendments to the corresponding epi regulations at the Council meeting C87 including a transitional provision which conferred to the Presidium the competence to determine the date of entry into force of the new provisions.