Webinar: Added Matter, Clarity and Sufficiency of Disclosure – The “Formal” Boundaries of Patent Protection and Amendments

Venue

Online

Description

The third session will address more "formal" requirements that determine whether a patent may validly be maintained in the form in which it has been granted or amended, respectively. Central to the discussion will be the prohibition of added matter, including the treatment of intermediate generalisations and the application of the EPO’s "gold standard" for assessing whether subject-matter extends beyond the application as filed. Alongside this, the session will consider the level of precision required for clarity of claims – including the question in which situations clarity can be examined at all – and the standard for sufficiency of disclosure, focusing on what the skilled person must be able to derive and implement from the patent specification. The Court’s developing case law will again be examined in light of EPO practice and, where relevant, national approaches.

Speakers

• Tilman Pfrang
• Andrea Perronace

Target group

Level of expertise
Intermediate / advanced level

Medium
Online training

Technical requirements
In order to attend the on-line course participants need a computer with an internet browser and a high-speed broadband internet connection. For the webinar, epi uses Zoom. Security settings on local Firewalls need to be checked. In order to make full use of the webinar session, we recommend to use headsets.

To access to the webinar epi sends out a link and the guidelines for participants shortly before the webinar.

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Working language

• English

Contact

For further information, please contact Barbara Riffert ([email protected]).

Minimum number of participants

30*
*If the minimum number of participants was not reached by the registration deadline, the event will be cancelled. In this case the epi will inform you immediately.

Registration deadline

Registration is open until 24.10.2025 The order of receipt by epi will determine the attendance in case of over-subscription.