Recent Developments in the EP- and PCT-Procedure

PCT- Procedure

• The most common mistakes and how to avoid them
• Subsequent naming of the inventor - change of owner, change of name, death of the inventor, other mistakes
• search – subsequent payment of a further search fee - What happens in the national phases and in the European phase when there is no search for special parts of the invention?
• General Amendments - Amendments according to Art. 19 and rules concerning the language - Art. 34 incl. Amendments during entry into the national and European phase
• Current developments concerning PCT - Review of the changes in 2011 - Amendments coming into force on April 1, 2012 - ePCT
• Topics from the participants Send us 1 week before the course starts your own special cases, which will be discussed during the seminar

EP-Procedure

• New rule 71 /71a EPC (enter into force on 1st April 2012)
• Reply of the extended search report (rule 70a and 161 EPC)
• Limited filing possibilities of divisional applications (rule 36 EPC)
• Providing State of the art of priority applications and exceptions (rule 141 EPC)
• Topics from the participantsSend us 1 week before the course starts your own special cases, which will be discussed during the seminar