How to draft claims and the introductory part of a European patent application and pass paper A of the European Qualifying Examination (Heymanns Intellectual Property)
This book is a guide for trainee patent attorneys preparing for Paper A of the European Qualifying Examination (EQE). It covers patent application drafting, common mistakes, and includes model solutions in multiple languages. It also discusses upcoming changes to the EQE format starting in 2025.
How to reply to an official communication and pass paper B of the European Qualifying Examination
This book is a practical guide for candidates intending to sit paper B of the European Qualifying Examination on how to respond to an office action issued by an EPO Examiner. It also provides a general introduction on the procedure up to grant of a European Patent and a detailed elaboration on how to deal with paper B of the EQE. Particularly, on the basis of the actual papers B of 2017-2019, which papers are unitary papers and no longer differentiate between the technical fields of Electricity/Mechanics and Chemistry, useful approaches and key aspects for the solving of these papers are given. In addition, examples are taken from papers of a few years before. These additional papers do differentiate between the fields of Electricity/Mechanics and Chemistry, but already anticipate on the new single papers.