Main Exam Paper C - EIPEF

Main Exam Paper C – EIPEF

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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Brochure & Schedule

A detailed brochure of our Foundation Integrated and Main Exam – EIPEF courses is available here.

A provisional schedule of Main Exam Paper C – EIPEF course is available here.

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, 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

When to register?

This courses has limited participant slots. To ensure your place, we highly recommend registering as early as possible.

This course includes the shipment of physical materials to the meeting venue, please register at least 10 days in advance, provided that seats are still available. Late registrations may result in delayed delivery of course materials. Note that digital copies of the course materials will not be provided if there are delays in the physical shipment due to late registration.