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On 25 February 2025, the Grand Chamber of the CJEU handed down a decision on the interpretation of the Brussels Ibis Regulation on the jurisdiction of Courts in Europe on patent litigation and validity of a European Patent in another country.

Join our distance learning course on Life of a patent starting on 1 April 2025.
This distance learning course is intended for beginners in the profession but also for any patent practitioners/patent engineers that would like to refresh their EPC knowledge and skills.

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The Examination Board of the European qualifying examination is looking for volunteers from epi (5 per paper) to bench mark the 2025 papers A, B, C and D. Volunteers will be expected to sit one or more of the papers under the same conditions as candidates.

On January 15, 2025, an epi delegation led by epi President Mr. Peter Thomsen and a European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) delegation headed by Executive Director Mr. João Negrão held a bilateral meeting at the EUIPO headquarters in Alicante, Spain. This event served as an opportunity for both organisations to discuss their missions, operations, and shared commitment to promoting intellectual property rights and respect to those rights, to foster innovation across Europe.