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Formal Requirements of the European Patent System Training Course: face to face & live webinar
A two-day seminar for administrative staff in the patent profession on how to competently prepare an application for filing before the EPO.
*INCLUDES: Practical and interactive exercises*
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Course overview
This practical and interactive course will help administrative staff in the competent preparation of an application for filing before the EPO. The programme will deepen your understanding of this highly complex area by providing information on all the key administrative aspects including the documentation required on filing, the procedural steps to be followed, and details of time limits and fee payments.
These intensive and highly valuable two days will enhance your knowledge of the formalities procedures at the EPO and enable you to be more efficient in your role. The course will also offer the opportunity to network with like-minded professionals from other companies and question our expert trainers on the procedures.
Key topics to be covered:
- Introduction to the European patent system
- The European patent application
- Electronic filing
- Procedure before the receiving section and search divisions
- Time limits, fees
- Loss of rights, transfer of rights
- Examination procedure
- Post-grant proceedings
- Overview of PCT
- Regional entry before the European Patent Office (EPO)
Why you should attend
By attending this seminar, you will:
- Master the art of competently preparing an application for filing before the EPO
- Receive guidance and insights on all the latest administrative aspects
- Learn which documents are required on filing
- Understand the procedural steps involved and how to complete them successfully
- Get to grips with time limits and how they can affect your application
- Review all aspects of fee payments
Who should attend?
- Patent administrators and patent formalities staff
- Office managers in industrial patent departments
- Patent administrators in private practice
- Those needing a good understanding of the formal requirements of the European patent system
Programme
Introduction to the European patent system
- History and development
- Organisation of the EPO
- Departmental responsibilities
The European patent application
- Documents needed on filing
- Accordance of a date of filing
- Formalities examination
- Missing parts of the description and missing drawings
- Case management
Practical excercise: Divisional application
Introduction to electronic filing
- Case management system
- Web-form filing
Procedure before the receiving section and search divisions
- Search report and search opinion
- Response to the search opinion
- Publication of the application
Practical exercise: Fee payment
Time limits – notification
- Calculation
- Extensions
- Notification
Loss of rights – remedies
- Further processing
- Re-establishment of rights
- Transfer of rights
Practical exercise: Time limits
Substantive examination – examining division
- Formal procedures up to grant of the European patent
- Refusal of the application
- Withdrawal of the application
- Deemed to be withdrawn
- Accelerated examination
Post-grant proceedings
- Opposition
- Limitation
- Appeal
Overview of PCT
- Overview of the international phase
- Entry in the regional phase
Regional entry before the EPO as designated office
- EPO Form 1200
- Payment of fees
- Supplementary European search
- Substantive examination
Presenters
Cees Mulder (More...)
Dr Cees Mulder is a European patent attorney. From 2001-09 he was a founding partner of DeltaPatents (NL). Since 2009, he has been lecturing European Patent Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Maastricht, where he teaches in the post-doc curriculum ‘Intellectual Property Law and Knowledge Management’. In 2017, he was appointed professor of European Patent Law in a Global Context. In addition, Dr Mulder is a senior lecturer in many courses and seminars on industrial property law. He is the author of the book ‘The Cross-Referenced Patent Cooperation Treaty’ and co-author of the book ‘Proceedings before the European Patent Office – A Practical Guide to Success in Opposition and Appeal’.
Petra Schmitz (More...)
Petra Schmitz, European Patent Office, Munich. After studying law at university she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Private Law and Patent Law at the Technical University Munich. In 1989 she started work in the EPO as a lawyer in Directorate Patent Law. Since October 2005 she has been a legally qualified member of the Boards of Appeal. She is also a member of the Presidium of the Boards of Appeal. Petra is acting as CEIPI tutor at the University of Strasbourg for the preparation of Part D of the European Qualifying Examination (EQE). She is a co-author in the EPC commentary Singer/Stauder.
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25-26 Nov 2021 Live webinar & Face-to-face (venue not yet confirmed) |
GBP 899.00 EUR 1,299.00 USD 1,474.00 Until 14 Oct 21* |
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