This made me rather worried and disrupts my working habits. Lets not forget that they only provided folks with a little over 2 months to become accustomed to this software amongst the madness of getting IT to sort out Admin rights etc. It doesn't matter if the application as filed discloses S+Y+A as well, because the granted claims did not cover the scope of S+Y+A. For questions (a) and (b) it was clear, but (c) got tricky. I found rendering it inadmissible due to lack of disclosure too simple to be true. 123(3) has to be carefully checked.". I think you had to apply the partial priority concept of G1/15 to deciding what was the first application - see T282/12. I thank the Examination Board for their message on the day after the exam.But the EQE secretariat did not make any apologies yet, even though that would have been appropriate. Happened to mr - I was mid flow answering a section and the system just went blank, wiseflow disappeared and could just see my desktop...panicked to get in touch with invigilator and completely lost my flow of concentration tbh. Yes - I really couldn't decide if it was market research where they went out and surveyed people, or market research where they did some private online searches or something. You're not amending the claim to S+Y+B, you are adding a new claim to S+Y+A, which was already disclosed in the application as filed. Hi, Roel or other folks, do you guys have any idea what the message from the Examination Board exactly means? Did they explicitly mention PCT oder international application? The same was indicated in Tips for candidates 1.1. Paper DII (PDF, 116 KB) Candidate's Answer (PDF, 74 KB) Examiners' Report (PDF, 266 KB) 2010. Impossible. Mock 2 e-EQE | Papers and model solutions. I did all the mocks, all the info sessions, all the e-EQE reading, and I never saw these issues. So 30 mins lost + frustration + inadvertent and unexpected end. Anhand einiger Beispiele kann man einen Eindruck über die Tiefe der Fragen erlangen. When can we see the questions on the EPO side? You need to understand your strengths and weaknesses, and to prepare accordingly. Basic Questions for Pre-Exam and Main Exam, References to the European Patent Convention. That's interesting, I got the EN paper at exactly 9:02 (UK time) as well! How about Guidelines H-V,3.1 Replacing features from a claim. 61.80/57.14 vs. I did not suspect this being a typo since the front page also referred to Question 6 ;) Probably the question was added or shifted to have both D parts with equal points? It threw me totally off in D1-1 in the beginning. Gregory, in part c, EP-D0 was indeed 54(2) art. EP-D1 still has valid priority from US patent application. This collection contains the examination papers of the European qualifying examination of the current year in the three official languages, the examiners' reports on each paper drawn up by the examination committees and examples of successful candidates, answers in the three official languages. They have had nearly a year to get something in place. a single error in one of the legal issues or one of the patentability issues in DII have a big knock-on effect on the rest of the paper (the D papers of the last seven years were very well designed in this respect!)? Both times only the DE assignment was available. It was a problem with wiseflow. It may be better to evaluate case by case.Just my 2 cents. Next you need to bring that into EP phase to gain rights from it. I’m really upset and shocked about what I regard as sloppiness in preparing and conducting the exam. Yes easily understandable typo, particularly as we know Qs are split this year. !I cannot refrain from putting some shitty words against EPO on that -- they have asked us to test the system so many times and I have no problems with all of the mocks at all, and today they shitted on all us.sorry but I am so angry....Pitre. 2ys and we get to this :-(, I had language issues in Mock 2 and Mock 3. (We expect that they will be made available in all 3 official EPO languages on the EQE webpages, Compendium, D at … After grant, any amendment must satisfy not only Art.123(2) but also 123(3) - the latter refers to the scope of the claims as granted (or limited during opposition or limitation), so in this case the sole claim to S+Y+B.The main issue with P-EP is that 123(3) prevents to take out B in any kind of way: you would broaden or shift the scope of protection, which is not allowed.See our answer on https://eqe-d.blogspot.com/2021/03/d-2021-dii-part.html. Imo definitely not a case of “all due care taken” by the examination committee. Guidelines H-V,3.1 only applies during examination and not post grant. I just checked my answers again. How did you use the breaks? Based on the mock-sessions, as a colleague experienced this language issue during a mock, I knew what to do if it would happen. I mean, I can understand why that happened in the mocks but they had a whole year to change the numbers to be in the correct order!!AP. The Direct Messages were sober. Participants. I got that part. Enjoy! Any substantive topics in DI (e.g., was partial priority tested; were disclaimer tested)? Chat did not respond. The EPO acknowledges the issues with Paper D1.1. But emotionally, I was stressed and there was basically barely a break between D1-I and DI-II as I was speaking with the EPO. D-Book (Rudge) How to answer legal opinions, draft legal opinions and pass Paper D of the European Qualifying Examination. No EN or FR version available at the start. Paper DII (PDF, 301 KB) If S+Y+A was disclosed in the application as filed then you can add a claim to it without infringing A 123(2) EPC. Wiseflow could supposedly not “establish connection” and so I had to download my answer. And in that case, there are two possible offices that can be the receiving office: the EPO or, if you do not satisfy the requirements, the IB by the act of R.19.4. So. I will try to put myself together.. still 3 days to go. This really correct. How can they give us any guarantee that the disadvantages involved here will be compensated?? Though the addition of 30 min helped but it is unjust for those who couldn't read DE compared to those who can!Later for D1-2 my 'hand-in' was not successful and I was told to manually upload my answer. I mean the third question in D1-1 was labeled Q6. Also I was not able to hand in my DII. Did you have a look at this? I spend a lot of time on this question but I just cannot see how it is not an extension of the scope of protection under Art. D2 was a bit longer than usual but at least there were not so many different applications to consider. Paper D1-1 91 KB: Download: Paper D1-2 91 KB: Download: Paper D2: 99 KB: Download: Calendar for Paper D 2021: 232 KB: Download: 2019: Paper D 128 KB Download : Examiners' report 92 KB Download : Candidate's answer : 203 KB Download : Calendar for Paper D 2019 : 173 KB Download : 2018: Paper D 134 KB Download : Examiners' report : 124 KB Download *********Any ideas as to how to "guarantees that no candidate will be disadvantaged as a result during the marking process” are welcome!If you were in the Examination Board, what measure would you take to make sure that candidates are “compensated” in a fair and proportional way?Any ideas are welcome, as long as you consider your solution to be fair and reasonable; preferably realistic, but it may be original and quasi-exotic.**********. basically, the claim can't include B because of insufficiency. @Confused: See my answer to this same question in the DI-post:https://eqe-d.blogspot.com/2021/03/d-2021-di-parts.html. I think the question required a lot of analysis in relation to why such amendments are not possible. I was thinking it was punishment for Brexit? How did you experience taking the exam from your home or office location rather than in an examination center? )After the exam, I tried to find the information on the issue (by looking for the issue=language versions missing, but also using hindsight by looking for the solution= refresh) in the the FAQ or the 8 documents with instructions, step-by-step, wiseflow tutorial, user guide, tips, …. It was horrible. Ich muss zugeben als Deutsch Muttersprachler waren die 30 Minuten extra gigantisch. Our answers will be given in two separate blog posts: Comments are welcome in any official EPO language, not just English. Problem is that I think today's event will affect me for the rest of the week. XD. It says: “If you want to open the assignment in another language either open it in a separate tab or refresh the browser if the second assignment is not displayed in the desired language (see “Tips for candidates”)”. I think this is the most likley solution. That made me completely unable to concentrate afterwards....We put so much efforts in preparation of the examination but the effort was easily blown away by the mistake of the EPO!!! But I was in the lucky situation of being a benchmarker rather than a candidate “for real”, so I remembered that there had been reports on our blog on the same issue during the Mocks and that the solution was to refresh your browser. A few of those today I would think! ; Paper B - requires candidates to prepare a reply to an official letter in which prior art has been cited. Luckily I still managed to finish that section, tbh I don't know how since I started it 30 min late because of the unavailability of the EN paper. Same for mandatory filing with your national office for an EP.There is "just" a sanction on you in your national law. In the end - i was more distraught about the language issue then dealing with question numbering. And then, decision was made to make it an online exam... in 3 parts of 25:25;50 marks. Home. A PDF viewer!! I agree with Gregory. The breaking up of the D paper in parts, without the possibility to change the answers from the completed parts, also has pros and cons. Priority claim was not valid and so the same prior art document became art 54(2) prior art for the last part of the question. I feel your pain, same situation. There was no evidence that anyone outside of the two parties saw the subject matter, right? This was distracting and I lost time and concentration because of that. If I had a little more time on the test (lost time due technial issues), I probably could have figured it out. Following the notice of an extra 30 mins, I tried my best to reprofile my attempt accordingly only for my flow to end on the normal time, pop up saying hand in with no way out. Paper. 1. Mock 2's C paper was based on C 2017 (original paper here; original examiner's report here), adapted to the 2-part form of the C in e-EQE by providing only part of the claims of Annex 1 in part 1 (claims 5-7) and the rest in part 2 (claims 1-4), and by indicating that today is 8 March 2017. I hope the EPO does something to fix the lost time and stress with D. 20 min in my opinion (when you spent 2 years studying for this) is not enough. This collection contains the examination papers of the European qualifying examination of the current year in the three official languages, the examiners' reports on each paper drawn up by the examination committees and examples of successful candidates, answers in the three official languages. into the exam - that I restart and use the invigilator password. In order to I had the same issue when trying to hand in D2. Anonymous 20:07, don't need to claim S+Y+A from S+Y+B, because S+Y+A was already disclosed in the application as filed. Multiple types of quizzes. I thought this question was about undisclosed disclaimers... maybe I'm wrong. So you have to do S+Y+B+A because B must be construed as a limitation, even if not enabled. You do not need to log in or make an account - it is OK to just put your (nick) name at the end of your post. The EPO normally makes official copies available in the compendium in the week after the EQE. Good idea for me: I worked in Q.1 and Q.2 in normal detail level and did not get to Q.6 in D1-1.But I can imagine that others were completely shocked and could hardly act.Or that they rushed to try to finish in time. I told the invigilator I need to place a note under the door that exam overrunning, so do not disturb, the invigilator said get on with it and be quick. I am shocked about what I read here. by amendment proposed by client)? If so, why (e.g., too difficult, allocating the time for another question, no time left)? I'm envious of your position as 505th in the queue, I was over position 1000 in the queue! The purpose of the EQE is to make candidates pass if they have showed the competences and knowledge to pass." I tried to fix as best I could but it was a disastrous start to the day. I prepared a lot. They cannot of course undo the course of events, so they cannot undo that the trouble affected you and your paper.Any ideas from all of you? Of these, 100 marks are assigned to each paper, 50 being the pass mark. Candidates that scored well on it, in whatever language and in whatever time, should not be adversely affected by having their answers to D1-1 ignored. Incredible. The D paper is generally considered the most challenging of all EQE papers. I had the same issue with the EN version of the exam not being available during the first 15-20’. Pure stress. If you want to try yourself, see here for combined EN & DE copy. Essential test in guidelines H? Lack of sufficiency meant any combination with B was out of the question. I don't know how the EPO will compensate stress and the power loss we as candidates got and also the negative impact that had on the performances of other papers, which were very very though compared to other years including 2018 which was supposed to be the harder one ! I ended up writing "If the market research was public then...", "If the market research was not public then..." for every part to cover all bases, but I worry that it made my answer very long and a bit confusing! This could be an issue for graders? www.deltapatents.com | 04 Course Concept Competing courses often concentrate on explaining and defending the EQE Compendium answer – this can help the legal understanding, but it does not give the tools to … My feeling was the question addressed whether the priority date or filing date is the relevant date. Still shaking now. I was also happy when the extra time was announced, as there were a number of things I was hoping to look up. You can't remove B from the claim because then you are extending the scope of protection. Good job sticking with it though! Did you skip any DI-questions? For example, I couldn't open the paper next to the editor in D2 (worked in D1 and A-C, but not for D2). Did i miss something? So that actually was leading away from the solution rather than pointing to itTips for candidates v 0.4 (as updated after Mock 2 and 3), section 1 addresses language selection, but does not indicate that it may happen that you cannot select the language. When I moved the mouse to the side making room on the working table, I was thrown out of the LockdownBrowser and landed on the Windows surface. The client was left in a dire situation, very depressing after the language mess earlier.I could kill S+O+C but that is useless as Wuff still keeps S+O. epi-learning. The first info I found relating to refreshing was in User Guide indicating in 6.4.2 “Refreshing the browser is not recommended, as doing so will re-trigger the steps for launching the LOCKdown browser, e.g. 54(3), not against ARt. [Updated 04.03.2021 9:00:] We compiled a complete version of the D 2021 paper (both D1 parts, the DII part and the calendars): it is available here. as I opened zendesk, there is a queue of 872!! Was DII similar as 2013-2017 & 2019 (on top of that it was shorter) or more like 2018 with a large legal case part of the DII? Let's hope the committee keeps into account the exceptional circumstances of this year's exam and of poor guinea-pig candidates Y_Y. Compliance with national security prescriptions where the international application is filed with the International Bureau as receiving Office will not be checked by the International Bureau; such compliance is the applicant’s responsibility. I didn't get the EN paper until 9:02 UK time. A good pass is possible by scoring 75% of the available points for 75% of the legal issues. Those parts of the question paper, which candidates have included in their answer, have been reproduced in italics. I started the flow D1-1 in time and was in the LockdownBrowser. So I still did not find the solution for not being presented with the Selection option..... ... (continued from previous comment - max 4096 characters per comment)Also the “Q&A session of 11.02.2021”, slide 14 only addressed seeing the wrong language in the overlay view, it did also not address not being presented with any Selection option:“Claim: only the German version is available / works effectively in the overlay window (is this right)?=> see “Tips for candidates” sections 1.1 second paragraph”Note: “Tips for candidates” sections 1.1 second paragraph only refers to what you see in the side-by-side view:“If the assignment is changed during the exam, e.g.