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BLOG@IP::JURPatent Attorney Axel H Horns' Blog on Intellectual Property Law.
Wednesday, July 12, 2006Issue 02/2006 of epi-Information Now On-Line.Each and every European Patent Attorney is, by virtue of statutory provisions, a member of epi, the Instutute of the professional representatives entitled to act before the European Patent Office. The Institute is an international non-governmental public law corporation and has its own by-laws and code of professional conduct. At present, the Institute which represents the first all-European patent profession comprises more than 8.000 members from 31 European countries, both from industry and free profession.Inter alia, epi publishes a quarterly journal "epi Information". The recent issue 02/2006 is ready for download here (PDF).In the Editorial section, Mr. Johnson considers the overall relations between epi and EPO as follows: "[...] We take the view that as part of the European Patent Organisation, the epi is part of a team with the EPO. However, as in any good team, there must be a balance. Applicants and their attorneys should not be criticised merely for using the system to protect what are valuable rights. We have in mind here the filing of divisional applications, which seem to be under attack, as is the right to argue for a properly defined invention in a patent claim, which after all is a definition, not a description. Also, as is evident from a document published on the EPO website, attorneys' fees (including those 'in-house') are mentioned in such a way that those fees are implied artificially to inflate the cost of obtaining a European patent. Your Council is questioning the basis on which the EPO figures are founded. Watch this space. [...]"Moreover, issue 02/2006 conveys in particular:
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