Pre-Exam 2016: First impressions?
To all who sat the Pre-Exam today:
What
are your first impressions to this year's Pre-Exam? Any general or specific
comments?
Were
the legal topics well balanced?
Were
the various aspects of claims analysis well balanced?
Was
the balance between EPC and PCT right for you?
Which
of the legal questions did you consider particularly difficult, and which
relatively 'easy'?
How
much time did you allocate for the legal questions, how much for the claims
analysis part? Did you deviate from our original plan (for example, took more
time for the legal questions than planned)?
Which
part did you do first, the legal part or the claims analysis?
How
many marks do you expect to have scored in the legal part, in the claims
analysis, and for the whole
What
is your expectation of the pass rate and the average score?
paper?
How
did this year's paper compare to the earlier pre-exams of 2012-2015 (assuming your
practiced those) w.r.t. the pre-exam as a whole, w.r.t. the legal part and
w.r.t. the claims analysis part?
The paper and our answers
Copies of the paper will be provided on this blog as soon as we have
received copies of the papers, in all three languages here (English, French and German).
The
core of our answers will be given as soon as possible in two separate blog posts:one for the legal questions and the
another post for the claims analysis part.
We look forward to your comments!
Comments are welcome in any official EPO language, not just English. So, comments in German and French are also very welcome!
Please
do not post your comments anonymously - it is allowed, but it makes responding
more difficult and rather clumsy ("Dear Mr/Mrs/Ms Anonymous of 13-13-2015
13:13"), whereas using your real name or a pseudonym is more
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account - it is OK to just put your (nick) name at the end of your post.
Please
post your comments as to first
impressions and general remarks to the Pre-Exam paper as a whole, and to the two
parts (legal part and claims analysis) as whole parts to this blog.
Please
post substantial
questions to specific
legal questions to our post with our answers (available here) and claims analysis related questions to
our post for that part (available here). Thanks!