Munich European Patent Opposition Advocacy Masterclass

The European Patent Opposition Advocacy Workshop is the gold standard advocacy course where attendees will get hands-on experience together with personal tuition and feedback.

• Insights into the European Patent Opposition environment
• Inventive step, prior use and clarity: what needs to be considered
• Auxiliary requests, late-filing, admissibility, added matter
• Develop your own advocacy style
• Highlight: Full-day mock Oral Proceeding
• Led by four coaches with extensive EPO Oppositions Oral Proceedings experience

You are a European Patent Attorney but have limited European Patent Oppositions Oral Proceedings experience?

You are looking to fast-track your ability in this area with like-minded peers? Then this is the right course for you.

European Patent Opposition is a uniquely complex and demanding discipline that requires highly specialised expertise and advocacy skills. European Patent Attorneys therefore need a sound understanding of the key aspects of Opposition Oral Proceedings. This inperson, in-depth training two-day masterclass provides practical coverage of many classic issues that arise at Oral Proceedings, as well as the opportunity to practise advocacy skills under expert tuition.

The coaches will teach topics such as advocacy and the European Patent Opposition environment, as well as introducing the case itself on the first day of the masterclass. The participants will then prepare their argumentation with coach guidance.

Throughout the second day, participants take part in a mock Oral Proceedings before former EPO Opposition Division and Board of Appeal members, based on a simulated case suitable for all technical disciplines. As the case unfolds, they will prepare, present and analyse proprietor and opponent arguments during interactive sessions, interspersed with presentations and discussion of key topics such as inventive step, prior use, clarity, auxiliary requests, late filing and admissibility. Participants also receive one-to-one feedback and advice with respect to their own interventions.

After the course, you will

• understand the key aspects of Opposition Oral Proceedings at the EPO
• have practised your advocacy skills under the tuition of our experts
• have trained practical conduct issues