A-Book

This English-language book is intended for trainee patent attorneys to prepare and train them for Paper A (drafting a patent application) of the European qualifying examination (EQE). After a general introduction, in a specific section the procedure to obtain a patent is discussed followed by systematic approaches to draft a patent application for the EQE with references to often made mistakes. In the appendices, Model Solutions for two past papers in all three formal languages of the EPO (DE, FR, EN) are given.

Founding Author and Editor: Erich Wäckerlin was former member of a Technical Board of Appeal of the EPO and tutor at the International Section of CEIPI, Université Robert Schumann, Strasbourg.

Continued by: Harrie Marsman, European representative and tutor at CEIPI, Strasbourg.

Aus den Besprechungen: »Zusammenfassend ist das A-Book ein wertvoller Baustein für Qualifikationen und Kenntnisse für die Vertretung von Anmeldern vor dem EPA.« Patentanwalt Dr. Stefan Exner, CBDL Patentanwälte, München, in: Mitteilungen 03/16