CEIPI will offer in autumn 2022 a training preparing candidates for the EPAC. Building on our expertise in organizing, during several years, professional training for EPO formalities taking a similar examination, the new CEIPI course will cover the EPAC syllabus and help candidates to prepare themselves successfully for this examination.
The EPAC course will be organized online and last four days. It will be offered, at the participant's choice, in the two following formats:
- as six half-day morning sessions on 19/10, 21/10, 02/11, 04/11, 09/11 and 11/11/2022, completed by a full-day Q&A session on 28/11, wherein also the EPO mock exam from 21/11 will be discussed
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- as three full-day sessions on 19/10, 02/11 and 09/11,completed by a full-day Q&A session on 28/11, wherein also the EPO mock exam from 21/11 will be discussed
Content and structure of the CEIPI course:
The EPAC course is offered on the basis of 6 half-day substantive teaching sessions (grouped into three full-day sessions according to the participants' choice), consisting of general presentations and exercises covering the following topics:
The first half-day session will cover the background of the patent system, the aim of patents, the criteria for patentability, patenting systems and the hierarchy therein, the priority concept, the PCT system and the International Bureau, the EPC system and the EPO.
The second half-day session will focus on filing a PCT application and filing a (direct) European application including the requirements of obtaining a filing date and the formal requirements.
The third half-day session will deal with the search and publication and filing divisional applications.
The fourth half-day session will deal with entry in the national and regional phase after PCT and, especially the entry into the European phase.
The fifth half-day session will deal with international preliminary examination and examination in the EPO.
The sixth half-day session will deal with post-grant procedures (oppositions, limitations and revocations), national validation and appeal procedures.
The above sessions are completed by a one-day Question and Answer session, wherein the EPO mock exam is also discussed in detail.
This CEIPI training specifically preparing for the EPAC/CEAB is in line with the Certificate of Patent Assistant (CAB) delivered by INPI, and is therefore particularly aimed at holders of the INPI's CAB.
Download the programme of the training
Tutors:
The EPAC course is taught by experienced CEIPI tutors, all of them being European patent attorneys and working in private practice.
Harrie Marsman
Harrie (born 1963) graduated in chemistry at Nijmegen University in 1988. Harrie was registered as Dutch patent attorney in 1992 and as European patent attorney in 1994. In 1998 he became a partner in the firm V.O. Patents and Trademarks. Since July 1, 2018 he is “of counsel” for V.O. Harrie has gained particularly expert knowledge in the formal aspects of the Patent Cooperation Treaty and the European Patent Convention, and has considerable experience in dealing with oppositions before the European Patent Office.
For long years, Harrie is a CEIPI tutor for Papers A and B of the EQE and for the Pre-Exam. Additionally, he is a tutor in the CEIPI basic course, assisting, a.o., EPO Examiners (Rijswijk) in the preparation for the European Qualification Examination, and he is responsible for the practical exams chemistry in the national Dutch Qualification Examination.
Harrie is author of the A- and B-book.
Thomas L. Lederer
Thomas is a German and European Patent Attorney at the Munich office of ABP Burger Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH.
He studied at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and the Technische Universität Berlin, and is one of the very few German Patent Attorneys with a degree in Computer Science (Diplom-Informatiker Univ., LMU Munich).
Being a computer scientist, he is specialized in patents for artificial intelligence and computer-implemented inventions.
In IP since 2007, he worked as inhouse counsel and in law firms. In addition to serving as CEIPI tutor for the EQE and EPAC courses, he is also one of the co-authors of the KLEY EPÜ 2000 compendium.
Matthieu Objois
Matthieu graduated as an engineer in applied mathematics at the Ecole des Mines de Paris (France) in 2009. After 13 years as a patent attorney in Regimbeau in Paris then Lyon, where he gained experience in prosecution and litigation cases, especially in the field of information technology, he joined Germain Maureau in 2022 and he is now specialized in AI-related inventions. He qualified as a French Patent Attorney in 2012 and as a European Patent Attorney in 2013 after passing the first pre-examination. He completed a Master in Intellectual Property Law in 2017.