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REPRESENTATION

European qualifying examination

List of references to landmark decisions

THE EXAMINATION SECRETARIAT,

Having regard to Articles 8(d) and 9, paragraph 2(d), of the Regulation on the European qualifying examination for professional representatives (REE) of 9 December 1993 (OJ EPO 1994, 7), and Rule 1 of the REE implementing provisions of 19 May 1994 (OJ EPO 1994, 595),

Hereby publishes the list of references to landmark decisions in EPO case law pursuant to Article 12 REE and applicable to the European qualifying examination 1997:

(a) All decisions mentioned in the Guidelines for Examination in the European Patent Office (version valid as at 31 December 1996);

(b) All decisions mentioned in the EPO publication "Case Law of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office 1987-1992";

(c) All decisions published in the Official Journal of the EPO in 1996 and those mentioned in the special editions on EPO Board of Appeal case law from 1993 to 1995;

(d) The following decisions:

LEGAL

TECHNICAL

PCT PROTESTS

Publication of this list does not imply that candidates will not be tested on additional case law relevant to interpretation of the law referred to in Article 12(a)(i) to (iii) REE.