DeltaPatents EQE Paper A Blog

With the results of the EQE expected to come out soon (or maybe they are already out when you read this), we of course hope that you passed all the papers you sat with flying colours. However, if it turns out you have not been not successful in a paper, maybe you are wondering whether it is worthwhile for you to file an appeal against the decision of the Examination Board.

Like last year, Nyske and Nico were benchmarkers for paper A. We both concluded that this was not an easy paper. Though we both identified the same relevant issues and problems to be solved in the paper, we sometimes made different decisions or took a different approach. We hope that the Exam Committee will take different solutions into account for this paper, as we fe...

 To all who sat the A-paper today:

What are your first impressions with respect to the very final A-paper? Any general or specific comments?

For example, was the subject-matter...

 Our Paper A 2026 blog will open for comments shortly after the end of the A-paper (so on 5 March 2026, shortly after 13:30).

We aim to post our provisional answers to the paper shortly after we have a copy of the respective exam paper. Keep an eye out for further blog posts!

Do not post any comments as to the merits of the answers of a certain exam...

Two DP-tutors (Nico and Nyske) sat paper A this year as benchmarkers. When comparing our answers, it turned out that we had largely the same solution, differing only in details of the wording.We both stuck closely to the wording of the paper, and incorporated some embodiments of D1 into our (dependent) claims. D1 turned out (again) to have some useful things in it.

A cl...