Main Exam Paper C - Orde

Main Exam Paper C – Orde

This course aims to give the candidates an insight into how to scrutinize an opposition paper of the European Qualifying Examination. By the end of the course the candidates will have learnt how to analyse a client’s letter and efficiently extract and administrate information in the patent in suit and in the prior art. Candidates will be able to identify the important attacks and execute those attacks in a structured manner with the aim of scoring a sufficient number of marks in the available time. Time management is an integral part of the course.

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Start date

Duration

Location

1-09-2023

8 Days

Utrecht

The following topics are covered

Legal background: priority, added subject-matter, claim interpretation, state of the art, novelty and inventive step

Time management: how to efficiently handle the various documents, how to divide time between the various elements of the C Exam Paper

Analyzing the client’s letter, distilling the questions and writing the response to the client’s letter (legal issues)

Analyzing the patent to be opposed (claim interpretation, claimed object, claim effects, definitions)

Determining the effective dates of the claims in the patent to be opposed

Establishing the state-of-the-art, making a Time Line (date display) and a Claim-Document matrix; recognizing and dealing with European prior rights, publication problems, priority problems, non-prejudicial disclosures, etc.

Added subject-matter attacks on the description and the claims

Identifying and performing novelty attacks based on European prior rights under Art.54(3)

Identifying for each claimed embodiment the relevant sections of the Art.54(2) prior art documents and performing the ‘must-have’ attack(s) under novelty or inventive step

Optionally, recording identified claim features and recording the attack

Finalizing the Notice of Opposition form and the Legal Issues.

Training material

Over 500 overhead sheets introducing and explaining how to tackle the C exam

A book entitled “Methodology for Paper C”, over 300 pages, including over 60 figures, 16 flow-charts, 6 A3 flow-charts, and several matrix templates

The six papers that will be practiced and an analysis/model solution. The analysis/model solution also demonstrates how the goal oriented searching method and the tactics have been applied for the specific paper.

Course fee

Onsite – Main Exam Paper C (6-day), price € 4.785

Early bird discount for full Main Exam preparation: € 520

Registration fee and VAT information

An administrative fee of € 125 is charged for every booking. If more than one course is booked at the same time, only one administrative fee will be charged

All fees are excluding 21% VAT