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Up-to-date exam calendars can be downloaded with the link. Please pass on quickly to any EPAC candidates – the exam is on 12 Oct 2023. With a summary about the 10-d rule changes which are likely to be tested.

A big advantage of our online references is that they are automatically updated without disturbing your own notes. Any errors can be corrected immediately, and legal changes can be incorporated regularly.

This year, there have been no major legal updates in PCT, and very few significant updates in the guidelines and applicants guides.

EQE candidates: influence the online exams in 2024 by giving direct feedback to the epi about your problems with Paper C in 2021, 2022 or 2023. We need as many responses as possible – please fill it in, even if you passed, and forward to all the candidates that you know.

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The update of our EPC.App reference book to legal status of 1st April 2023 is completed. Key changes since the last update in November were the new EPO Guidelines as of March 2023, G 2/21 on plausibility, amendments to Rules 46, 49, 50, 57, 82 on format requirements of application documents as well as to Rule 65 on the transmittal of the search report, the increase of EPO fees, and the upcoming UPCA entry into force.

In the self-editable online version of our EPC commentary, all changes of the update are rolled-out automatically, while personal user annotations from before the update are retained. They can be exported into a customized printable PDF offline version, which may further be ordered as colored paperback via the integrated print-on-demand service. As usual, we also released this 10th edition as standalone softcover books in English or German with same content.