Key points
- The EPO runs the online course on evidence again. The main topics are evidence of public prior use and witness hearings in general (e.g., also about lectures and brochures as prior art).
- The online lectures are on:
- 17 October 2024, 10.00 - 12.00 hrs (CEST)
- 24 October 2024, 10.00 - 13.00 hrs (CEST)
- https://www.epo.org/en/learning/events/pu20-2024
- Registration deadline: 01.10.2024
- I signed up for the course two years ago and enjoyed it. Evidence is a topic that is highly important in practice, that is usually not tested on the EQE (and therefore not part of the training courses). Most handbooks are perhaps a bit short on it (though I revised the (still brief) chapter in Visser's Annotated EPC on Art. 117 last year in view of G2/21 (blogpost here) and other recent decisions). I think we, as a profession, perhaps do not fully use the possibilities of evidence in EPO proceedings.
- At any rate, we now have a useful tutorial on the procural aspects of evidence in G2/21 (which was mostly about inventive step), and recent decision T0778/21.
- Recent posts about the topic can be found here:
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