Which is stronger: the easier marking of a typed answer compared to a written answer, or the probably more than double the amount of answers papers? And is there a way to see our given answers. I have no words at this stage. What do you suggest to insert in the complaint? All worked fine in the Mocks. We will need to wait to know the answer. Massive blunder. What a disaster. I am trying too but can't re-focus tonight for Paper A tomorrow. The way Zendesk is operating is NOT ideal. During Pre-Exam, entry photo successful. [sigh]. No guarantees, but that is one advantage of an online system (if technically everybody gets their clocks reset). I had to sit there knowing I didn't finish whilst watching the extra 30 minutes most people got. If you want to try yourself, see here for complete copies with first the printable parts and the online only parts. Appeal. the worse could be that they cancel the paper and we all would have to take it ... again. Prior art documents were available 20 minutes before (as promised) , Own answers were available about 20 minutes after the scheduled end of the last part (as promised) . If you lost any time today (or extra stress, loss of focus etc), then you need to explain your own experiences and how it affected your performance. More than 1000 tickets in line!!!! the. Published: 24 July, 2019 The 2019 European Qualifying Examination (EQE) results have been released and they continue to show that year-on-year, the high standard of training in the United Kingdom is delivering world-leading European patent attorneys. Enrolment to the pre-examination 2021 will only be possible for candidates who have registered by 15 January 2020 at the latest (see Notice of the Examination Secretariat OJ EPO 2018, A99). Were others also cheated out of the extra 30 minutes???? I wasn't understanding what was happening since in all the other mocks the paper was in the 3 languages. I agree - certainly on papers like C and DII, where there are large sections of your argumentation with similar structure, copy/paste in your own answer can help (as long as you don't forget to change all the facts). I did not get an extra 30 minutes. Thank you EPO for the unnecessary stress you've caused me today. My counter did not indicate it. You're not alone Leigh. By then, everyone was rushing their answers to finish/get to the final question. You can also state what evidence/facts you will provide later. Terrible Terrible Terrible. A bit of pragmatism amongst the chaos of the last 2 days: submit your complaint if you have one and forget about D completely for now. Took 30 minutes for someone to answer. Or did I waste my time? Really trying not to worry Pete it is affecting me tonight. If they contact you, they will help you figure it out. Holy holy holy.....PAPER D. Only the German version was there. Badly affected by today. Presumably, the paper was originally designed as a EQE2021 paper D paper, with 50 mark DI and 50 mark DII (in line with the announcement that it would not necessarily be 40:60, but somewhere in the range 40:60 - 60:40) and that paper was basically ready and approved at all various levels in July. But during exam, contacted by Zendesk and told that his webcam only took black photos. The proposed methodology is verified through two numerical studies—one for an individual building, and the other, regional case, involving the buildings in the Tsinghua University campus. Took me half an hour to acces the englush version. Pete/Preston made a good point that todays event can have a knock on effect for the days ahead - how can anyone feel relaxed about this system. 25 mins and was badly shaken! Yes! We just know that some papers, C and D in particular will be cut like sausages. Thanks for the draft! I imagine the EQE people were swearing too perhaps! How to go about compensating some but not others?! Thanks - I even pinged my EPO friend who said, well, you had an extra 30 minutes, and I said NO I DID NOT, AND I brought this up in the Zen chat, and I was told to calm down instead of actually fixing that I got kicked out. In summary, we have candidates who:- had no issue, but received 30 minutes extra (DE native)- had no EN/FR paper, started somehow using the DE paper, received 30 minutes extra (DE speakers)- had no EN/FR paper but received 30 minutes extra - had no EN/FR paper and did NOT receive 30 minutes extra It would be wrong if the "examination conditions put certain candidates at a disadvantage for no good reason". The EQE is made up of 4 papers, inspirationally named paper A, B, C and D. In 2012, the pre-exam was introduced. Refreshing the browser and/or unplugging the USB of the camera can help. I was really distressed and in panic for not having the paper in English. It was a real disaster for some. Delta Patents. And according to art. the same problem as before. The Examination Board guarantees that the marking process will be conducted so that no candidate will be disadvantaged because of that. Put me back all the way through in the first part even though we were given a bit of time, the announcement came late. If you want to try yourself, see here for main copy with EN printable parts, and the printable parts in Germanand in French. f veltz. no life, cut off from family, kids, 9h30 - 16h45 of complete stress. => opened lid, but no change. Yes and it seems that all candidates had this problem. I have just helped Preston Richard create a framework to help with submitting a complaint to make it go at lot faster. A lot of them handed in on time because either their clocks were not updated, or they were unsure what is going on. 30 mins before Part 3, in contact with technical expert => disabled integrated webcam of my laptop, did Part 3 without interruption. I have asked the invigilator. Soo frustrating and disappointment by today's event. The recent publication of results for the UK patent attorney qualifying examinations revealed that this has been a stellar year so far for Potter Clarkson’s trainee patent attorneys. Just file a report by e-mail of what happened, and that it was out of reach, and you did not move or answer it. About the EQE The European qualifying examination and its aims, syllabus, languages; passing the examination. Enter the approximate time you think you did.Otherwise, word it generally.For the future, keep a record of any issue you have. I wonder what the statistics are with how fast people can type! I was thinking I had a blackout at the beginning, frantically searching for how to change that language, then a bit ashamed putting on the chat that I could not switch language and then being totally surprised there were more than 1000 others waiting before me ... Well, I learned a bit of extra German. Results should be announced at some point before July ��. this is a reliable error!!! Yes - there were quite a few, judging from the Telegram group. (see e-EQE webpage) Today, 3 February 2021, Paper A of Mock 2 was organized, using the Wiseflow platform which will be used for the e-EQE 2021 in the week of 1-5 March 2021. In Part 2, contacted via zendesk, and told that cam not working correctly. This version is identical to 2.0.10~beta-3127f1 (also known as A12 beta5).. Changes since 2.0.9: iOS 12 support; A12 support; Add compressor (beta) Add crossfeed (beta) A bunch of other stuff I … Could we know if the same camera problem happened during the mocks ? Good luck with C! Tutors Jack Gunning Mark Yeadon. The calm and concentration required all gone, affecting not only the first part, but the whole day. Tuesday, March 2, 2021. e-EQE - Pre-Exam 2021: copy to try yourself, and some technical problems. Potentially a few compensatory marks, but this can only be assessed once the raw grades are all in, normalised and the Board can somehow identify and assess the impact of the issue. The written exam's results always came out by the end of June. Exactly. Whatever compensation for D will look like, it will still be better to have to just retake D next year than have to retake multiple papers. Also, the number of marks will not yet have been decided one: the marking and the weights of the questions and topics are only finally decided after an extensive sub-set of the papers has been pre-marked, probably also taking into accounts any input that they received via emails to the EQE secretariat and the information they get from the blogs (which they have said that they read and take into account … Also, copy paste from the paper is a game changer, in particular for C where the claims have to be recopied N times. Will be interesting what the EPO says all about this madness today. Allowed to complete Part 4. I've always given the EPO the benefit of the doubt as I supported exams moving online BUT this system is utterly inadequate. The EPO need to consider this. Very difficult to focus after today and very disappointed. Wait for a decision? It is really interesting to consider german speakers would have has almost an hour time advantage + composure over ohher candidates! shortly after the exams. are allowed), no requesting or sharing of exam materials until after the scheduled end of the last part of that exam, no requesting or sharing of invigilator password. Bad decision probably, was back in less than a minute. Problem seen in Mock1, reported to helpdesk, moved to cable connection instead of WiFi which seemed to help. (available 1h after the exam ended). It is still badly affecting me the events of today. Only DE version!! Contacted the invigilators and managed to enter Browser again using invigilator password after 20 min or so, b) Laptop with external monitor and external webcam. For future eEQE this should be considered. In DII - the select assignment tab kept freezing when I click on the arrows to navigate through the pages. EPC 2021 : Art.14(1) The official language[s] of the European Patent Office shall be [English, French and] German. Got extra time to get the first part done, but then a reduced time for lunch break, meaning no time to rest and calm down. I submitted my complaint under 39 (within 24 hours), so, now prep time for C. I am about 20 years older than the trainees, so, I've done the EQE in chunks. Pete and Preston, thanks again for the support. I don't think so. Before Pre-Exam, entry photo was no problem. Candidates may enrol as from 1 April 2020. Our EQE blogs will be open for your comments and opinions w.r.t. For those that had the break times eaten away --> no time to recovered. Utterly disgraceful.Started the assignment and only the German documents were available. Same here. As a max 4-finger typer, I found I was several times slower at typing than writing. e-EQE 2021 - emails from candidates to EQE Secretariat will be forwarded to the Examination Board That is the worst.I noticed on my clock that it did not update when they announced 10 minutes. I waited 2 years to do this as EQE2020 was cancelled and got a BIG SHOCK at the start today. 58 Results found for "secretariat " ... EPO Information about the EQE...of the year in which they intend to enrol for the pre-examination. I just submitted a compliant to helpdesk and said I had to wait for a long time on Zendesk. If I am not mistaken, folks fluent in German were clearly in a better position with the advantage of an extra 15-20 mins access whilst others were waiting for the En versiobs plus everyone would have (with the exception of a few having issues) had 30 mins extra. (My view is that all papers in the same week is no longer so essential as before given the online nature of the exams). any advice wrt what to do now ? They will always consider individual cases. Certainly on papers where there are large sections of your argumentation with similar structure, copy/paste can help (as long as you don't forget to change all the facts). We wish all candidates that sit one or more EQE papers next week good luck / bonne chance / gute Fahrt! As such this was already late, but it is adding insult to injury not to know yet what the system will look like. Some candidates informed me that the individual Pre-Exam results are available in MyEQE now (31/3/2021, 15h) The E xaminer's Report is not yet available, nor is a full list of marks which would allow to determine the pass rate. Pete, Preston thank you for the draft! I found D2 to be an OK paper, but agree it was too long for the "slow typers". Do they realise how much damage this has caused candidates for the whole of the week. Thanks Pete and Preston. Or reasonable outcome: they offer an extra fully optional re-sit for volunteers who consider having prejudice, in the coming months... For those, like me, who are totally exhausted, i won't retry. Hello, did anyone else have problems accessing the english version of paper DI-I? /irony. Nightmare. And of course, the panic affected my performance on the paper. One major learning here is: does it make sense to have mutiple (parts of) exams on the same day?The stress right at the beginning had for me awful consequences for the rest of the exams. This comment has been removed by the author. As far as I know no one has received any feedback from invigilators. The full program for Dutch patent attorneys is shown here: 1st year preparation Pre-Exam: Pre-Exam Integrated (13-day), price € 5.925 Early bird discount: € 165 2nd year preparation Main Exam: D-Legal (8-day), price € 4.880 and lets not forget the overly long C paper - when compared to other years. Also for D2. It was not ideal today in many respects but if you are sitting other papers this week, the only thing to do now is put the experience behind you and focus on the remaining papers. Artikel. It covers key points of law and elements Papers A&B relevant to the Pre-exam, practice of questions (with tutor feedback), guidance on study preparation and technique for the exam. This is a huge mistake considering there was no issues with language versions in Mock 2.Disappointed that they didn't extend the break between D1-2 and D2. We will post our (provisional) answers to the various papers shortly after the exam. Aaaaaaarrrrrrggggggghhhhhhh! You can post your comments in English, French or German. Queue 300+. The spirits for the upcoming assignments are obviously at the lowest possible level. I'm sure an AI handwriting analysis is easily possible. I still feel physically sick now. I thought I was done for. In 2021, e.g., 50 marks were available for each part of the D exam. Overview full EQE training The path to the Main EQE starts with this Pre-Exam Integrated training. The language thing and waiting for 30 minutes or more (i can't remember) is so stressful. Focus on digital platforms. Everybody who is in Paper A right now, and Paper B tomorrow, deep breath, chin up, Ohren steif! Yes. Just to add, we were only told about the extra 30 minutes 10 minutes to go. For a long time, 40 marks were available for Part I and 60 for Part II, but this division of marks has now been made more flexible. Only later when the pop-up came for 30 minutes. So, German speakers got 45-50 mins extra and not the 30 mins like most - I would imagine? I barely read the answer until the buzz off and then forcing me to queue again as what they suggested didn't resolve my issue. I also answered q3 of d ii with late entry to the European phase. Not sure how it was solved, it seems likely that LockDown Browser later defaults back to camera selected automatically default in screen to take entry photo, some suggested disabling internal webcam in software if you have this setup, one tried unplugging USB plug of webcam and this helped. Good to know I didn't wander off track... Paper D, A and B 2021 are put already in the Compedium, C probably on Monday. Problem is that I think today's event will affect me for the rest of the week. I was terrified because I got kicked out in the morning with no extra time. So my bet is they will give another free-pass for all candidates sitting for the D1-1 part due to the unforseen technical difficulties! I don't want to throw blame around now, but I am just dreading the results! i'll suicide. There cannot be a single candidate who thinks "I'll do nothing for the EQE and get my "EQE expert" to sit under my desk and hand me answers" -VERY high risk. 25 min lunch break after sitting 3.5 hrs for D1! They don't penalised you for this do they? ... Today is the first day of the online EQE (eEQE), following on from Monday’s online pre-EQE . I swore too without even thinking so hoping it will be ok. That gave me 15 mins to run to the toilet, come back, clear my desk and get me preparation stuff for D2. here for main copy with EN printable parts, a framework to help with submitting a complaint, Book Review: The Law of Artificial Intelligence, T 1764/17 - Insufficient number of dependent claims, T 488/18 - Withdrawn request for Oral Proceedings need not be made by orignal party for reimbursement. Main examination 2 to 4 March 2021 (Papers A, B, C and D) Please be informed that enrolment to the main examination 2021, which was due to start on 1 April 2020, has been postponed until 4 May 2020. Salted Patent. The Italian Competition Authority clarifies how to improve the internal market competitiveness. Group rules: no discussions of ways to cheat, no exchanges of large sections of copyrighted materials (excerpts, annotated examples, WIPO/EPO docs etc. Deadline for compulsory registration prior to enrolment to Pre-examination 2022 - 15 January 2021; Read more about the EQE When I called Zendesk I saw I was at 1000+ and the counter ticked down slowly. At that stage, the stress levels had gone through the roof. 54(3) prior art against w-ep and the client can get a patent on s+o+c, that hinders the competitor from realizing their product. Thank you! Even though it was fixed I was badly shaken for the entire exam, I still am. Thanks DP!I feel like this year's eEQE is like launching a new space probe... before the lift off, so many system checks needed !! I am so upset. Stress is at MAX and I'm not sure it bodes well for the rest of the week. Helen Bartlett, Alice Mortiboy and Bethany Seccombe passed all three of the Foundations Exams that they took. It's a shame that the exams are all close together, as such a shock lasts a few days I guess. All candidates, as well as tutors who helped candidates prepare for EQE 2021, are invited to contribute to the discussions on our EQE blogs! And it is not just the marking, it is also the review/approval by the Examination Board and the Supervisory Board, and... how they deal with the D1-1 false start and the strange B...I GUESS they aim to have it all out before the summer holidays, in June or early July. This is fantastic, especially considering all those candidates must be so exhausted after yesterday's ordeal. I feel like I'm the lucky one, many candidates didn't even get the extra time. So everything seems fine and the beginning and later switches to the laptop camera but you have no idea about it unless contacted by the invigilators... Is there a technical way to check it in advance or ensure that this does not happen ? I think the issues today actually has a knock on effect for the whole of the exam and not just limited to DI part 1. It was the expectation of the EQE Paper D committee that the correlation would be most visible for their paper. If a candidate wants to file a complaint concerning the conduct of the pre-examination or the main examination, they must do so as soon as possible (at the latest by the end of the day on which the examination was taken) by emailing it together with a written statement of the facts to the Examination Secretariat (helpdesk@eqe.org).39.

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