Ah “pa-tent” – hit me with more!

As we have covered the basic outlines, we will now look in detail at a few core patent concepts. These have been touched on in the previous section.

Core Patent Concepts

• Priority
  • Introduction – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priority_right – 1 page – Time: 10 minutes.
  • European Patents – Article 88 EPC – pages 192 to 199 of The Annotated European Patent Convention (Blue Book) – Time: 20 minutes.
  • UK Patents – Section 5 PA – Manual of Patent Practice (MOPP) – http://www.ipo.gov.uk/practice-sec-005.pdf – 13 pages – Time: 30 minutes.
• Unity
  • European Patents – Article 82 EPC – pages 169 to 170 of The Annotated European Patent Convention (Blue Book) – Time: 5 minutes.
  • UK Patents –Section 14 PA – MOPP – Pages 38 to 40 (14.157 to 14.168) – http://www.ipo.gov.uk/practice-sec-014.pdf – revised July 2013 – Time: 15 minutes.
• Clarity
  • European Patents – Article 84 EPC – pages 173 to 181 of The Annotated European Patent Convention (Blue Book) – Time: 30 minutes.
  • UK Patents – Section 14 PA – MOPP – Pages 15 to 16 (14.62 to 14.65), Pages 24 to 33 (14.108 to 14.139) – http://www.ipo.gov.uk/practice-sec-014.pdf – revised July 2013 – Time: 30 to 45 minutes.
• Sufficiency
  • European Patents – Guidelines F-III – http://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/html/guidelines/e/f_iii.htm – 11 sections – Time 30 minutes.
  • European Patents – Article 83 EPC – pages 170 to 173 of The Annotated European Patent Convention (Blue Book) – Time: 15 minutes.
  • UK Patents – Section 14 PA – MOPP – Completeness of Disclosure – Pages 17 to 23 (14.72 to 14.90) – http://www.ipo.gov.uk/practice-sec-014.pdf – 6 pages – revised July 2013 – Time: 20 minutes.
• Novelty
  • European Patents – Article 54 EPC – pages 78 to 100 of The Annotated European Patent Convention (Blue Book) – Time: 45 to 1 hour.
  • UK Patents – Section 2 PA – MOPP – Novelty – http://www.ipo.gov.uk/practice-sec-002.pdf – 15 pages – revised July 2013 – Time: 30 to 45 minutes.
• Inventive Step
  • European Patents – Article 56 EPC – pages 102 to 121 of The Annotated European Patent Convention (Blue Book) – Time: 1 hour.
  • European Patents – Guidelines for Examination – http://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/html/guidelines/e/g_vii.htm – 14 sections plus examples – Time: 2 hours.
  • European Patents – Problem-Solution Exercises – https://e-courses.epo.org/course/view.php?id=300 – three chemistry and two non-chemistry examples in English – Time: 2 hours+.
  • UK Patents – Section 3 PA – MOPP – Inventive Step – http://www.ipo.gov.uk/practice-sec-003.pdf – 28 pages – Time: 1 to 1.5 hours.