REPRESENTATION
CEIPI
Seminars on the European patent
Seminars organised with the assistance of the European Patent Office and European industrial property practitioners
The Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) is organising two seminars at Strasbourg each lasting one week and dealing with the current state of European patent law and practice.
The seminars are aimed at candidates for the European qualifying examination for professional representatives before the European Patent Office.
The participants in the seminars will receive documents based on actual cases, in particular in the form of former qualifying examination papers.
The first seminar, which deals with legal problems, will take place from 18 to 22 January 1999.
Programme: legal problems concerning the European Patent Convention, the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, the PCT and the Community Patent Convention, dealt with primarily on the basis of actual cases and of precedents relating to the EPC.
The second seminar has as its theme the practical drafting of claims and of oppositions and will take place from 22 to 26 February 1999.
Programme: drafting of claims and introduction to the description, drafting of responses to communications from the examiner, drafting of notices of opposition on the basis of the examination papers for 1998.
Emphasis is placed on the international character of the seminars, which is ensured by the choice of lecturers and participants. Work will take place in groups in such a way as to allow discussion between the teachers and participants.
In the second seminar, the working groups will be divided between chemical subjects and non-chemical subjects in each of the official languages.
Knowledge of one of the official languages of the EPO (German, English or French) is sufficient for participation in the seminars.
To allow for proper discussions, the number of participants may have to be limited.
The fees are FRF 5 000 for each seminar. This price includes lunch on three or four days.
CEIPI has detailed information pamphlets available.
For further information and registration, please contact
Mme Rosemarie Blott
CEIPI
Section Internationale
Université Robert Schuman
Boîte Postale 68
11, rue du Maréchal Juin
F-67046 Strasbourg
Tel. (+33-388) 14 45 92
Fax: (+33-388) 14 45 94