REPRESENTATION
European qualifying examination
Examination Board for the European qualifying examination
Having regard to Articles 7(2), 13 and 15(1), (2) of the Regulation on the European qualifying examination for professional representatives (REE) as worded in the text dated 9 December 1993 (OJ EPO 1994, 7), the Examination Board has amended the following points of its instructions with effect from 1 January 2007:
Instructions to candidates concerning the conduct of the examination
- Point 3(a) has been amended to read as follows:
3. In the hall, each candidate will be supplied with:
(a) a single copy of the relevant papers in German, English and French, which contains in the case of Paper B an additional copy of the claims with the title "Working copy (for cutting and pasting)",
Instructions to candidates for preparing their answers
- III. Paper B
A new point 13 has been added:
13. To assist candidates wishing to cut and paste passages from the claims into their answer, an additional copy of the claims of the European patent application will be provided in all official languages ("Working copy").
- IV. Paper C
Former points 13 to 17 are now to be found under points 14 to 17.
- V. Paper D
Point 23 has been amended to read as follows:
23. Paper D Part II comprises an enquiry from a client requiring an answer in the form of a legal opinion.
In their opinion candidates must explain the legal consequences of the situation as described.
Candidates will be expected to demonstrate their ability to deal with a complex industrial property law situation involving fundamental issues of patentability, rights of inventors, inventions as property and third party rights, as defined in particular, but not solely, in Articles 52 to 89 EPC, corresponding articles of the PCT, the Agreement relating to Community Patents and the Paris Convention, as well as in the relevant laws of the contracting states.