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Eqe-b-em title: DeltaPatents EQE Paper B
This year Nyske and I tried Paper B. First impression is that this was a doable paper. There seems to be only one direction to go for a solution. As always there was some minor disagreement about the exact formulation of the claims, or what claims to include, but on the whole we were pretty much in agreement.
Below is our amended claim set. Below the cla...
To all who sat the B-paper today:
What are your first impressions with respect to the very final B-paper? Any
general or specific comments?
For example, was the subject-matter...
Our Paper B 2026 blog will open for comments shortly after the end of the B-paper (so on 10 March 2026, shortly after 13:00).
We aim to post our provisional answers to the paper shortly after we have received 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 ce...
A few last-minute remarks in view of the papers of the second EQE week and maybe your final preparations for those.
Firstly, the EPO-website may look strange when you open for example the website compendium, the Guidelines or the Case Law Book. See the screenshot below:
If yours looks like this, cleari...
Hats off to all of you who bravely faced paper B! Nico and I had a go too.
Like last year, it was a long paper. Again 30 pages (same as 2024), and this time 11 claims, 7 figures and 3 prior art documents, the third one covering multiple embodiments. It took me personally a bit longer than usual to get to grips with the technology, as there were many details and it took ...