2024
13-14 June 2024 - 11th Annual Meeting in Stockholm
EPLIT's 11th
Annual Meeting was been held in Stockholm on 13 and 14 June 2024.
Those who attended can access the presentations here
2023
25-26 May 2023 - 10th Annual Meeting in Paris
EPLIT's 10th
Annual Meeting was been held in Paris on 25 and 26 May 2023.
This was EPLIT’s tenth anniversary, having been founded shortly after
the signing of the UPC Agreement.
Members will find the some of presentations under the "Member pages".
Click here for the photo album of the reception, the dinner and the meeting
2022
12 May 2022 - 9th Annual Meeting in Brussels
2021
27 May 2021 -
8th Annual Meeting
The 8th Annual
Meeting was been held
online on Thursday
27 May 2021 from
14.00 till
17.30 CET.
As well as the annual update on EPLIT’s activities and progress, a panel
session on oral hearings by videoconference in national proceedings
across Europe has been held. For our second panel discussion, Tessa
Donavan (EPO Opposition Division Member) and Graham Ashley (former EPO
Board of Appeal member) joined us to speak about the effect one year
after the introduction of the 2020 EPO Board of Appeal Rule changes, in
both Opposition and Appeal proceedings
11 March 2021 -
webinar on EPO video conferencing proceedings
EPLIT
organized an online webinar on the EPO video conferencing (VICO)
proceedings, particularly before the opposition divisions and the boards
of appeal.
- Please
click
here for the handout of the Presentation “Oral
Proceedings by Videoconference in Opposition” by Theodora
Butkowskyj-Walkiw (EPO senior expert, member of the opposition
directorate and opposition trainer | Healthcare, Biotechnology and
Chemistry)
- A panel session was given by Koen Bijvank (NL), Dr. Christian
Köster (DE) and Lucy Samuels (UK), European patent attorneys, on
their positive experiences and best practices in VICO proceedings
2020
EPLIT's 7th Annual Meeting on 15 May 2020 held online
New president and new board members
The Board of EPLIT was pleased to receive many members to the Annual
Meeting online on Friday 15 May . During this meeting the Board informed
on various aspects within our association, appointed its new President
and nominated
new Board members. The official press release can be found
here.
Progress in Germany
Mr Johannes Karcher, Head of Division for Patent Law – Head of Project Group EU-Patent and Unified Patent Court, Ministry of Justice
and for Consumer Protection in Berlin gave a presentation on “UPC developments and State of Play”, during which he indicated a new
bill was being drafted for ratification of the UPC Agreement by the German parliament. As recently reported, this draft bill
has now been made available for comment. Further information can be found
here.
2019
6th Annual Meeting on 4-5 April 2019 in Vienna (AT)
A great 6th Annual Meeting in Vienna!
On 5 April EPLIT’s 6th Annual Meeting has been held in the Steigenberger
Hotel Herrenhof in
Vienna, Austria
Over 40 participants were
present. The meeting was opened by EPLIT’s President Koen Bijvank by
welcoming all speakers and participants. Members can find the handouts
of the presentations in the Member Area
2018
5th Annual Meeting on 13-14 May 2018 in Milan (IT)
On Monday 14 May 2018 the 5th Annual Meeting of EPLIT took place in
Milan.
Over 40 participants were present. The meeting was opened by
EPLIT’s President Koen Bijvank by welcoming all the distinguished
speakers and participants.
These were followed by presentations of which the following are
available
Members can find the presentations by EPLIT’s board and working
groups in the member area.
Please find here
the link to the pictures made during the event.
