Because of the Covid-19 situation, we held all our 2020 courses remotely, using Zoom or Microsoft Teams, instead of in person in Milton Keynes. In February 2021, the Covid-19 situation in the UK remains very challenging. But, with vaccination gathering pace and the potential for transmission rates to drop significantly during the summer, it seems feasible that we may be …
We have now agreed with tutors the dates for our summer 2021 revision courses for the Foundation Certificate (FC) and Final Diploma (FD) 2021 Patent Examination Board (PEB) exams. Leaflet PEB 2021 We are opening booking this week. There will be an Introduction to FD4 course on 27 May and then the main suite of FD courses will be held …
Extra Paper D course on 16-17 November In response to high demand, the Paper D tutors have agreed to hold a further revision course for EQE Paper D, 21 E10 on Mon-Tue 16-17 November 2020. This course, will be held remotely using Zoom-meetings. Our other Papers A&B, Paper C and Paper D course between 9-13 November and 20-21 November will …
In response to high demand, we have added the following additional Zoom-based courses: FC4 (Design & Copyright Law) with Caroline Marshall and Darren Mitchell, 20/X on 13-14 July 2020; FC5 (Trade Mark Law) with Sharon Daboul, 20/Z on 10-11 July 2020; FD1 (Advanced IP Law & Practice), with Dan Mercer and Gareth Scaddan, 20/Y on 6-7 August 2020; FD2 (Drafting …
We have agreed dates with our tutors for our courses for EQE 2021 – please see our EQE pages and EQE 2021 courses leaflet. Our suite of Papers A&B, C and D courses are in the week 9-13 November 2020 – you can take, one, two or three courses and there is a special discount if you book the full …
Pass rates for all candidates taking the Final Diploma (FD) papers in the PEB 2019 exams fell significantly for FD1, FD2 and FD3. The pass rate rose marginally for FD4 but remained near its twenty year low. The FD1 pass rate was 57% for those attending JDD FD1 courses in 2019. This compared to a pass rate of 39% for other …
The EPO has announced today (5 March 2020) that, “in response to the latest developments regarding the spread of the COVID-19 (novel Coronavirus) and in line with the precautionary measures taken by the EPO, the Supervisory Board of the European qualifying examination has decided to cancel the EQE (pre-examination and main examination papers). The Supervisory Board is currently assessing whether …
We have now agreed with tutors* the dates for our summer 2020 revision courses for the Foundation Certificate (FC) and Final Diploma (FD) 2020 Patent Examination Board (PEB) exams. Leaflet PEB 2020 We are opening booking this week. There will be an Introduction to FD4 course on 28 May and then the main suite of FD courses will be held …
Soon after our E6 course on 28-29 November 2019, we received complaints from two firms that at the end of a session, during the lunch period, the tutors displayed some slides which contained information about their firm, including one slide which set out a vacancy. Unsurprisingly the firms complained that this had the appearance of headhunting in front of a …
Below is the current status (as at 9am on 31 July) of places still available on our courses for the PEB and EQE examinations. PEB courses Courses full: 19A; 19B; 19C; 19D; 19E; 19F; 19G; 19H; 19I; 19J; 19K; 19L; 19P; 19Q; 19R; 19S; 19V. Courses with 3 or fewer places left: 19M; 19N, 19O; 19W. EQE courses Courses E2, …
