Examination Matters 2023

Description

Examination Matters has become the meeting place for patent attorneys dealing with the EPO in the patent granting procedure. Examiners and practitioners provide insight into the mind of the examiner and the day-to-day work performed. The workshops offer the opportunity to conduct detailed discussions with your peers on relevant aspects of examination, share day-to-day experiences and get immediate answers to your practical questions from EPO examiners, EPO lawyers and epi experts.

After some years of Examination Matters in online format, this year the format will be hybrid, offering you the opportunity to join the different workshops “in person” or online. 

This year's event will focus on several procedural and substantive aspects of examination proceedings, such as amendments, computer-implemented inventions, inventions in quantum computing, ranges in claims, plausibility and what to do when a case is remitted to the opposition division by the boards of appeal. Moreover, a round table with internal and external speakers will discuss about the opportunities for the EPO to improve based on feedback.

This high-level event is once again organised in close co-operation with the epi. 

Further information and registration are available here.