Brochure

A detailed brochure of this course is available here.

The following topics are covered

  • An overview of how Paper C has developed through the years, expected attacks and level of argumentation
  • Legal background: priority, added subject-matter, claim interpretation, state of the art, novelty and inventive step
  • Analyzing the client’s letter
  • Analyzing the patent to be opposed (claim interpretation, claimed objects, effects and definitions of features)
  • Determining the effective dates of the claims, making a time line, solving and arguing any priority issue (same invention, 1st application issue, various tests)
  • Establishing the state-of-the-art, dealing with European prior rights
  • Recognising and dealing with added subject-matter attacks on the description and the claims; detailed explanation of the various test
  • 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
  • Time efficient analysis of the documents and recording of information

Materials

  • A book with sheets on C Methodology
  • The EQE 2022 Exam paper will be used during the course, with the DeltaPatents’ model solutions
  • Cases and answers
  • Where relevant, we will use WISEflow, giving you the opportunity to get familiar with the system used during the e-EQE

Course fee

  • 3-day Paper C Methodology online: € 1.450
  • 3-day Paper C Methodology onsite in Europe: € 1.715

Discount

If you register for the 3-day Paper C Methodology course as well as the 2-day Paper C Guided Exam course, you will receive a discount of € 200 (on the course fee of the Guided Exam). This offer only applies to courses taken in the same EQE year.

Registration fee and VAT

You may register multiple participants for the same course within a single registration. However, each course requires a separate registration. 

  • If you book multiple courses individually on the same day, only one administrative fee of €125 will apply. A consolidated invoice, including any applicable discounts, will be issued.
  • All fees listed above are exclusive of 21% VAT. If a valid VAT number is provided, VAT will be exempted.

When to register?

Both our onsite and online courses have limited participant slots. To ensure your place, we highly recommend registering as early as possible.

The online version of this course includes the shipment of physical materials, please register at least two weeks 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.