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The update of our EPC.App reference book to legal status of 1st April 2026 is completed. Key changes since the last update in November were the new EPO Guidelines with practice changes on the interpretation of claims based on the description after G 1/24 and on novelty of sub-ranges, the increase of EPO fees, amendment of Rule 93, abolishment of PACE requests in the search phase, decommission of legacy online filing (OLF), official introduction of DOCX filing, and limitation of the registration of general authorisations to employees.

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 always, we also released this 16th edition in English and German with same content.

The update of our EPC.App reference book to legal status of 1st November 2025 is completed. Key changes since the last update in April were Enlarged Board of Appeal decisions G 1/23 about state of the art formed by products put on the market, G 1/24 about interpretation of claims based on the description and G 2/24 about intervention during appeal, a new referral G 1/25 about adaptation of the description, the new case law book as of July 2025, associations of representatives opened for legal practitioners, audio recording of oral proceedings for preparing minutes using AI, electronically filed colour drawings, and London Agreement accession by Montenegro.

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 always, we also released this 15th edition in English and German with same content.

The update of our EPC.App reference book to legal status of 1st April 2025 is completed. Key changes since the last update in November were the new EPO Guidelines as of April 2025, amendments to Rules 36, 39 and 160 in accordance with an EU sanction against Russia, changes of terminology in 50 EPC Rules for adoption to gender-neutral language, updated ADA regulations introducing automatic orders for renewal fees only or all fees except these, the abolishment of web form filing and smartcards, new referral G 2/24, and validation of EP patents in Lao PDR.

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 always, we also released this 14th edition in English and German with same content.

EQE is now a qualification lottery – it is only fair that you can buy more tickets😉. Preparation => Passing is now completely disconnected for Papers B / C. So please sign the Petition to Increase the Frequency of the EQE.

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Download up-to-date exam calendars and Instructions to Candidates with the link. Please pass on quickly to any EQE candidates – the D exam will be held on Tu 11 Mar 2025.