The Examiner's Report for Pre-Exam 2024 has just been published (Compendium)!

Surprisingly, six (!) individual statements were neutralized, corresponding to (almost) 11 marks (numbering according to sequence in Examiners...

This year's claims analysis part 3 was about electronic cigarettes while part 4 was about a Product X for use in treating infectious diseases.

Our answers to both claims part are given below. We have numbered the questions and statements for easy reference in the discussion.

As the earlier Pre-Exams since 2021, this online EQE Pre-Exam was again held in four parts of 70 minutes each. The questions had to be taken, almost fully, from the screen (only the description of the application and the prior-art documents in the claims analysis parts were printable; also no calendars were provided).

Our ans...