Tuesday, March 04, 2014 Training for EQE 2015 - first courses start already on 31 March 2014

For candidates that sat the Pre-Exam 2014 or one or more main exam paper last week: congratulations: you survived! And hopefully, you passed the paper(s) that you sat.
For new sitters: welcome to the world of the EQE.

The EQE 2015 may seem to be quite far in the future, but your preparation should not start to long from now if you want to be well-prepared.

Below, we provide suggestions as to how to prepare for the EQE 2015 (Pre-Exam or main exam papers):

• if you plan to sit next year's Pre-Exam;
• if you passed the Pre-Exam but want/need further basic legal training;
• if you plan to sit next year's paper D;
• if you plan to sit one of the other main exam papers A, B and/or C

The first courses start on 31 March 2014!

Monday, March 03, 2014 EQE 2015-2017: dates, times and Regulations

The Exam Secretariat announced the dates and times of the exam papers of EQE 2015, 2016 and 2017:

EQE 2015: 23.02.2015 – 26.02.2015

EQE 2016: 29.02.2016 – 03.03.2016

EQE 2017: 06.03.2017 – 09.03.2017

Further, the EPO published a consolidated version of all EQE regulations in "Supplementary publication - Official Journal EPO 2/2014 - Regulation on the European qualifying examination for professional representatives".

Monday, March 03, 2014 DeltaPatents EQE blogs

DeltaPatents provides the following blogs for the various EQE Papers of EQE 2014:

• DeltaPatents EQE Pre-Exam blog with our solution and many comments from many candidates on the legal as well as the claims analysis parts;
• DeltaPatents EQE paper A E/M blog has a copy of the paper and our solution, open for discussion and comments!;
• DeltaPatents EQE paper B E/M blog shows our solution as well as comments from candidates to the amendments proposed by us and our argumentation in their support;
• DeltaPatents EQE paper A ch blog gives our independent claims and considerations that led to the proposed independent claims;
• DeltaPatents EQE paper B ch blog shows our set of amended claims and supporting arguments; 
• DeltaPatents EQE paper C blog indicates the main attacks and has quite extensive discussions with a large number of candidates;
• DeltaPatents EQE paper D blog  has with our answers to the DI-questions as well as our legal advice for DII, and interesting legal discussions with many candidates.

as well as blogs addressing other (European) patent related topics:

• Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court
• Patent Law

Please feel invited to join the discussions at our blogs!

And... do not forget to read the comment posted to this blog!!!