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The 3-hour pre-seminar, structured in 3 parts, will provide you with 2 parts on the latest development on the unitary patent (UP) and the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and it will be followed by a one-hour workshop on inventive step.

The meeting between epi, EPO and the President of the ACPI (Colombian Association of Intellectual Property) was organized by the EPO in the framework of the cooperation between Europe and Colombia as a follow-up to the recent signature of the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) agreement in January 2016 in Bogotá.

38 out of 41 Board members together with Mr Giorgio Checcacci (chair of the Professional Conduct Committee) and Mr Maarten Nollen (member of the Editorial Committee) attended the 94th Board meeting in Tallinn (EE).

The first seminar of the new epi roadshow on the unitary patent (UP) and the Unified Patent Court (UPC) takes place on 15 April at the EPO Isarbuilding in Munich. This roadshow offers knowledge of both systems to allow epi members to work with the systems and to advise clients on strategic choices, for example on opting out of the UPC, and UP versus classical individual state validation. To register and view all the cities where the roadshow will take place, please click here.

epi meets with a delegation of JPAA (Organisation of Japanese Patent Attorneys Association).

Focus was on the recent Supreme Court decisions in Japan and the Unitary Patent and UPC.