Behind the scenes: Opposition and Appeal

Do you want to get insight into the various procedures before the EPO and enter into dialogue with experienced examiners and members of the Boards of Appeal, to have a look at what happens behind the scenes?

Would you like to learn more about how texts laid down in the EPC and described in the EPO Guidelines for Examination are implemented by EPO examiners on a day-to-day basis? Or about how examiners tackle challenging searches? How a division reaches a consensus on proposing a patent grant or, conversely, on refusing a patent application? What patent examiners discuss during the breaks in oral proceedings in opposition? Or how members of the Boards of Appeal review decisions of the first-instance departments?

This course is an advanced-level course and the second of a series of two courses. It deals with opposition and appeal proceedings. The first course focused on the search and examination phase.

This course addresses the topics of "opposition and appeal". It gives you a unique insight in the work of an opposition examiner/board of appeal member that is generally not or barely described in guidelines or in the EPC. It gives you the opportunity to exchange interactively during a live session with EPO opposition examiners and board of appeal (BoA) members, who will present examples illustrating the practical application of the legal texts in their daily work. 

The online course is fully booked.