Waiting for the EQE results?

Waiting for the EQE results and the examiners reports?

In my opinion you should not worry how your answers compare with those of other bloggers. It’s best to forget about this year’s exam and pick it up when the results come in.

Meantime, continue working on papers you didn’t already sit and do some steady work on areas where you know you are in need of improvement.

If you’ve taken the pre-exam, the result will come in soon and, pass or fail, you should review your answers and correct where necessary, then in case of success, resume work in earnest on the main papers.

The moral is: don’t have an idle summer and start work until after you’ve discovered that you failed some papers. Keep working over the summer period so you continue to progress.

The tutorials “Approaching the EQE” and those on specific papers are ideal for continued learning. You can access the following tutorials on YouTube by keying in “EQE Cronin” :

Approaching the EQE :	EQE Pre-exam :
1st Approach Serving the Client	Legal Basics
2nd Approach Working Method	Claim Analysis 2014
3rd Approach Legal Thinking	Claim Analysis 2015
4th Approach Presenting Arguments
5th Approach Substantive Law
EQE Drafting Paper A 2014 :	EQE Reply Paper B 2013 :
Part 1 - Assimilation of information	Part 1 - Assimilation of information
Part 2 – Planning	Part 2 - Planning
Part 3 - The End Product	Part 3 - The End Product
EQE Opposition Paper C 2015 :	EQE Legal Opinion Paper DII 2015 :
Part 1 - Assimilation and Organisation of Information	Part 1 - Assimilating and Organising Information
Part 2 - Planning	Part 2 - Legal Consequences and Planning
Part 3 - The End Product	Part 3 - The Legal Opinion

I hope you will find these tutorials useful for your ongoing preparations and wish you a relaxed summer.

Brian Cronin

PATSKILLS

Legal Opinion EQE Paper DII

I am pleased to inform you of the publication of a tutorial entitled “Legal Opinion EQE Paper DII” in three separate slideshows. You can access them on YouTube by keying in “EQE Legal Opinion” or you can access all tutorials in the  series by keying in “EQE Cronin”

The Legal Opinion tutorial is based on the 2015 EQE Paper D Part II, a complex legal situation involving several successive improvements in the printing machines of TIPOGRAF-X and its competitors PRINT-L and ICPR-G.

Part 1 – assimilating and organising information - covers analysing the complex legal situation as a function of the client’s questions, identifying relevant facts and making date diagrams. Part 2 covers developing legal consequences using the date diagrams and assembling a plan in note form. Part 3 covers writing the legal opinion from pre-prepared notes.

This tutorial will be of interest to all candidates preparing for the legal paper of the EQE who want to demystify the difficult legal opinion part.

I hope you enjoy the tutorial and wish you well in your preparations for the EQE.

Brian Cronin

PATSKILLS

Opposition – Paper C of the EQE

I am pleased to inform you about the publication of a tutorial entitled “Opposition – Paper C of the EQE" in three separate video slideshows  You can access them on YouTube by keying in “Opposition EQE” or you can access all tutorials in the series by keying in « EQE Cronin ».

The tutorial covers drafting a statement of opposition to a fictional European patent  based on the invention of a sports article (a snowboard) with improved damping, that was the subject of the 2015 Paper C. It is presented in three parts : Part 1 – Assimilating and Organising Information; Part 2 – Planning; and Part 3 – Final Product and Comments.

This tutorial will be of interest to candidates preparing for Paper C the EQE. The 2015 paper was difficult to finish in time with a complete answer. Careful analysis of this paper - for example with this tutorial - will be good practice for tackling any C paper.

I hope you enjoy the tutorial and wish you well in your preparations for the EQE.

Brian Cronin

PATSKILLS

Reply - Paper B of the EQE

I am pleased to inform you about the publication of a tutorial entitled “Reply – Paper B of the EQE" in three separate video slideshows  You can access them on YouTube by keying in “Reply EQE”.

The tutorial covers a reply to an EPO communication based on the invention of a closure for a beverage container that was the subject of the 2013 Paper B electrical-mechanical. It is presented in three parts : Part 1 – Assimilating Information; Part 2 – Organisation and Planning; and Part 3 – Final Product and comments.

This tutorial will be of interest to candidates preparing for Paper B the EQE. The beverage container closure invention is accessible to everyone and is good practice for chemists. Note that from 2017 there will be a single EQE B paper with the same subject matter for all candidates.

This Paper B tutorial will be followed by tutorials on the other papers of the EQE.  Keep on the lookout for the follow-up.

I hope you enjoy the tutorial and wish you well in your preparations for the EQE.

Brian Cronin

PATSKILLS

Patent Claim Analysis 2015 EQE pre-exam

I am pleased to inform you that a tutorial entitled « Patent Claim Analysis 2015 EQE pre-exam » has been published on YouTube.You can access it by keying in “EQE Analysis 2015”.

In this tutorial, we examine the patent claim analysis questions of the 2015 EQE pre-exam with reference to the explanations given in the examiners report. It will be of interest to candidates preparing for the 2016 EQE pre-exam or as a revision of the 2015 pre-exam in preparation for the main papers of the EQE.

I hope you enjoy the tutorial and wish you well in your preparations for the EQE.

Brian Cronin

PATSKILLS