Presented by
Management Forum
The Art of European Claim Drafting Training Course
This seminar combines one day of claim drafting fundamentals with a further day of focused workshops.
★★★★★ "A professional but also very open and informal approach, easy to interact and ask questions."
16-17 July 2025
+ 12-13 November 2025 »
from £1199
- Format: Classroom, Live online
- CPD: 12 hours for your records
- Certificate of completion
Course overview
It is crucial to understand the fundamentals and the intricacies of European claim drafting so you are equipped to prove patent infringement and patent validity, especially in multi-jurisdictional patent litigation.
These intensive two days will help you refine your drafting skills and master the art of successfully preparing and defending claims according to European practice. You will learn the techniques to achieve adequate protection while meeting official requirements and analyse the crucial aspects of good description, amendments and interpretation to give you the edge in claims drafting.
The in-depth chemical and mechanical workshops will give you the opportunity to apply the knowledge learnt on day one and practise the skills acquired in the safe environment of the training room. There will also be ample opportunity for you to ask the experts your particular questions and find solutions to your specific claim drafting issues.
This seminar combines a full day of claim drafting fundamentals with a further day of focused workshops. Attendees have the choice to attend either a mechanical or chemical workshop on day two.
PLEASE NOTE:
Attendees will benefit from bringing a copy of the European Patent Convention with them.
This course is part of our collection of IP & Patents Training Courses.
Benefits of attending
By attending this highly practical course you will hone your claim drafting skills by learning more about:
- Patentable inventions
- Prior art and inventive step
- Sufficiency of disclosure
- The importance of achieving adequate protection
- The description and drawings
- Selection inventions (chemical workshop)
- Functional claiming (mechanical workshop)
- Differences and compromises between European and US practice
Who should attend?
- European patent attorneys
- Patent attorneys in private practice
- Corporate patent attorneys and lawyers
- Patent consultants and agents
- US attorneys working in Europe
- Trainee patent attorneys
- EQE candidates
This course will cover:
Know the invention
- Know the client
- Understand the invention
- Novelty
- The invention and the prior art
- Inventive step
Claim drafting fundamentals
- Clarity and clarity issues
- Claim scope
- Dos and don’ts
The importance of a good description
- Structure of the description
- Amendments and clarity
- Sufficiency of disclosure
Amendments
- Legal background
- In the priority year
- After filing
- Limitation
- Opposition
- Inescapable trap
Claim interpretation
- Art. 69 EPC
- Before and after grant
- EP vs US
International considerations
- US
- PCT
- Asia
- Drafting a global application
- PCT applications and priority pitfalls
Chemical workshop - Introduction
- Warm-up exercises
- Chemical claim types
Chemical workshop - Further considerations for chemical drafting
- Exclusion from patentability
- Exceptions to patentability
- Parameters
- Selection inventions
- Disclaimers
- Inventive step vs sufficiency
- Sufficiency vs clarity
- Drafting to allow for future amendments
Chemical workshop - Claim drafting exercise
- Invention description
- Essential features
- Optional features
- Examples
- Technical effects
- Prior art
- Drafting independent claims
- Drafting dependent claims
- Drafting the description
Mechanical workshop - Preparation phase
- Closest prior art selection
- Novel and inventive features
- Claim categories, technical fields
Mechanical workshop - Claim sketching
- Requirements of a patent
- Novelty
- Inventive step
- Clarity
- Essential features
Mechanical workshop - Claim drafting
- Functional claiming
- Mere juxtaposition of features
- One- and two-part claims
- Scope of protection. How broad?
Mechanical workshop - Dependent claims
- Claim trees
- Claim dependencies
Mechanical workshop - Drafting the description
- Support inventive step
- Create fall-back positions
Mechanical workshop - Exercises
- The problem-solution approach
- Closest prior art selection
- Claim categories
- Novelty and inventive features
Leythem Wall
Oxon IP
Leythem Wall is a European and UK patent attorney and litigator specialising in the chemical, consumer products, energy, material, mechanical, medical and pharmaceutical sectors. Prior to founding Oxon IP, he was a Partner in major European and US Intellectual Property law firms, and before then in-house patent counsel for ExxonMobil and AkzoNobel. He has extensive experience in patent drafting, prosecution and particularly oppositions before the European Patent Office. Having worked in private practice and industry for European and US companies, he has significant knowledge of the US patent system, and how this compares with Europe.
Joeri Beetz
Keltie LLP
Joeri Beetz, Patent Attorney, Keltie LLP, specialises in patents in the fields of mechanical engineering, physics and control software. Amongst all the different technologies he has been extensively involved in are optical recording, medical devices, agricultural equipment, lighting, displays and automotive. He regularly represents clients in opposition procedures at the EPO, both to defend and to attack patents.
Joeri spent nine years in a Dutch patent firm based in Eindhoven, after five years of working at the in-house patent department of CNH Industrial. He joined Keltie in 2017. During his in-house period he managed a large patent portfolio for a broad range of different combine harvesters. At CNH Industrial, he built an extensive expertise in freedom to operate and patent infringement analysis and gained a keen insight in the commercial implications of different IP strategies.
In 2002, Joeri obtained his masters degree in physics at the University of Utrecht. In his final year at University, he built and tested equipment for testing particle detectors for the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
NEW higher discounts for multiple bookings - bring your colleagues to make your training budget go further:
- 30% off the 2nd delegate*
- 40% off the 3rd delegate*
- 50% off the 4th delegate*
Please contact us for pricing if you are interested in booking 5 or more delegates
16-17 July 2025
Classroom
Rembrandt Hotel
London
09:00-17:00 UK (London)
Course code 15047
Optional £300/€419/$479 per night
- GBP 1,399 1,599
- EUR 1,959 2,239
- USD 2,247 2,559
Until 11 Jun
- 2 days classroom-based training
- Optional accommodation - 2 nights including breakfast, checking in the day before the course
- Meet presenters and fellow attendees in person
- Lunch and refreshments provided
- Download documentation and certification of completion
- Fair transfer and cancellation policy
Not ready to book yet?
for 7 days, no obligation
12-13 November 2025
Live online
09:00-17:00 UK (London) (UTC+00)
10:00-18:00 Paris (UTC+01)
04:00-12:00 New York (UTC-05)
Course code 14826
- GBP 1,199 1,399
- EUR 1,679 1,959
- USD 1,927 2,239
Until 08 Oct
- 2 days live online training
- Browser-based, no download usually required
- See presenters and interact with fellow attendees
- Download documentation and certification of completion
- Fair transfer and cancellation policy
Not ready to book yet?
for 7 days, no obligation
* Early booking discounts may not be combined with other discounts or offers. As such, the discounts for 2nd/3rd/4th delegates are based on the full price; and apply only when booking multiple delegates on the same date.
Reviews of IPI's The Art of European Claim Drafting training course
A professional but also very open and informal approach, easy to interact and ask questions.
Nov 2 2023
Kim Hed 
Patent Specialist, Jotun AS
Nov 2 2023
Overall opinion is that it was great. Interesting content, well presented, nice speakers that involved the audience. The level of difficulty and complexity was spot on for me, I knew about some things beforehand, but new information was scattered throughout which always kept things interesting.
Per Görts 
Patent Consultant, Ström och Gulliksson
May 24 2022
[Speakers were] Energetic and willing to share their knowledge and professional experience. Created a good atmosphere which made possible the attendees to intervene. The speakers always took the best from their audience and incorporated in the flow of the lesson. The content was very well organized to include all the important aspects of EPC and the case law seemed easy to understand. The speakers were very focused and insisted on the important aspects, not only for those preparing for the EQE, but business view.
Rita Noronha 
Patent Manager, BIAL – Portela & Cª, S.A.
May 20 2021
Very good.
Mathilda Janson
Patent consultant, Ström & Gulliksson
Nov 7 2019
The course was excellent: the content and the speakers. I will be sure to recommend it.
Mariana Oliveira
Technological Scouting / Patent Attorney, The Navigator Company
Nov 7 2019
Excellent.
Ali Almulla 
Director of Innovation & Invention Support Directorate, The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf _ GCCPO
Nov 7 2019
The speakers were both very passionate and knowledgeable about the subject and provided some good insights and personal reflections on the course material. The content of the course was excellent, and the second day (mechanical workshop) was particularly good because learning by doing is more beneficial for my learning process.
Emil Tostrup
Patent Consultant, Ström & Gulliksson
Nov 7 2019
Professional speakers coming from two different technical fields gave valuable insights on how to structure claims. The best part of the course was practising claim drafting and learning how to better build suitable claims.
Nastasia Andersson
Patent Consultant, Ström & Gulliksson
Nov 26 2018
The course is well organised, the speaker (Joeri) is excellent, competent, clear, patient and available to answer all our questions. The practical workshop was really useful. Overall opinion: excellent course.
Daniele Montanari 
Trainee Patent Attorney, NLO - Nederlandsch Octrooibureau
Nov 26 2018
The course is really well prepared and presented and the speaker makes it easy to understand everything.
Cristina Rojo Matey
Patent Attorney Trainee, NLO
May 8 2018
A great course, great content, with competent speakers.
Niels Peder Moeller 
Patent Attorney, Chas. Hude A/S
May 8 2018
Well planned, nice overview. Nice to have only two speakers.
Eline Van Kappel
Trainee Patent Attorney, VO Patents and Trademarks
May 8 2018
Excellent course.
Elen Margrethe Brendeford
Patent Attorney, Zacco Norway AS
Nov 26 2018
I thought it was a brilliant course that I would recommend to others. It was really good that there were so few people so one could ask all the "stupid" beginners' questions in a closed forum.
Vibeke Bay
Patent Attorney, Høiberg
Nov 15 2017
Extremely well-prepared setup – I particularly liked the interactive approach and the discussions.
Filip Skarp
Patent Consultant, Ström & Gulliksson AB
Nov 15 2017
Great!
Andreas Dietzel
IP Manager, Leogriff
Nov 15 2017
I enjoyed the course and felt encouraged and valued in having decided to train as a Patent Attorney. I was given good suggestions and tips on how to approach the EQE exam and, eventually, be successful at it.
Marie Lacombe
Junior Patent Attorney, Yara International ASA
Nov 21 2016
Course was well organised and the content and speakers were good.
Heikki Salomaki 
Salomaki
Nov 21 2016
Very educational.
Erika Ermens
Trainee Patent Attorney, Nederlandsch Octrooibureau (NLO)
Nov 21 2016
Kept attendees always active - perfect training
Agnieszka Zebrowska - Kucharzyk 
PATPOL
May 12 2016
I thought it was very good. The content was good and went at a decent pace.
James Riley 
Patent Engineer, TEVA Runcorn
May 12 2016
It was very good overall, very useful in focusing the mins on the important aspects to consider when drafting a European patent application.
James Riley
Patent Engineer, TEVA Runcorn
Norway
- Acapo AS
- Bryn Aarflot AS
- JOTUN A/S
- Jotun AS
- Leogriff
- Leogriff AS
- Onsagers AS
- Yara International ASA
- Zacco Norway AS
Denmark
- Chas. Hude
- Chas. Hude A/S
- Chas.Hude
- Haldor Topsoe A/S
- Høiberg
- Novo Nordisk
- Patentgruppen A/S
- ROCKWOOL International A/S
Netherlands
- Arnold&Siedsma
- Nederlandsch Octrooibureau (NLO)
- NLO
- NLO - Nederlandsch Octrooibureau
- NLO European Patent and Trademark Attorneys
- Synthon Biopharmaceuticals BV
- VO Patents & Trademarks
- VO Patents and Trademarks
Switzerland
- Autoneum Management AS
- F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd
- Linhart IP
- Nestlé
- Philip Morris Products
- PMPSA
- Sika Technology AG
- Ypsomed AG
Sweden
- Bergenstråhle & Partners
- Strom & Gulliksson
- Ström & Gulliksson AB
- Ström och Gulliksson
- Valea AB
United Kingdom
- Cambridge Display Technology Ltd
- DSTL
- Jenkins IP Ltd
- TEVA Runcorn
Belgium
- Huntsman (Europe) BVBA
- NLO
- Yara SA/NV
Austria
- Sonn & Partner Patentanwälte
- Weiser und Voith Patentanwälte Partnerschaft
Finland
- Nordic Semiconductors
- Salomaki
Germany
- BSN medical GmbH
- Helm AG
Portugal
- BIAL – Portela & Cª, S.A.
- The Navigator Company
Australia
- Shelston
Greece
- Pharmathen SA
India
- Mettler Toledo India (GBSI)
Ireland
- C-squared PHARMA Ltd
Italy
- Chiesi Farmaceutici SpA
Japan
- Lexia Partners
Luxembourg
- Office Freylinger
Poland
- Patpol
Saudi Arabia
- The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf _ GCCPO
Spain
- INGENIAS CREACIONES, SIGNOS E INVENCIONES, S.L.P.
United States of America
- Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner
Run The Art of European Claim Drafting Classroom/Live online for your team
2 days
Typical duration
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- Per attendee, based on 10 attendees
- Course tailored to your requirements
- At your choice of location, or online
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