To all who sat the A-paper today:
What are your first impressions with respect to this year's A-paper? Any
general or specific comments? Surprising elements in the client's letter and
the prior art?
How did this year's paper compare to
the papers of the last few years? Similar difficulty level? Or
harder/easier?
Was the subject-matter well
understandable, for chemists as well as e/m candidates?
Multiple independent claims? Functional features? Could you find the
wording for claim features in the clients letter and the prior art?
Did you have enough time?
How many marks do you expect to have scored? What is your expectation of the
pass rate and the average score?
What was the effect of doing the
paper online? Could you benefit from being able to copy from the exam paper
into your answer? And from copying parts of your answer elsewhere into your
answer? Did you struggle with the online format in any way? What was the effect
of the situation that you had to take the exam largely from the screen as only
a part could be printed?
Did you take the exam from your home
or your office? Or somewhere else? How did that work for you?
Did you experience any technical
difficulties during the exam? How and how fast were they resolved? Did you use
the widget to contact the invigilator?
Please be reminded that, if you wish
to lodge a complaint pursuant to point I.8. of the Instructions to Candidates concerning the conduct of the
examination , you must do so at the latest by the end of the day on
which the paper concerned takes place, by filling in the dedicated form on
the EQE website. The Form for paper A is
(only) available on 13.03.2025, 13:30 - 23:59, CET.
The paper and our answers
We aim to post the core our (provisional) answer shortly after the exam in a
separate blog post, as soon as possible after we have received a copy of the
paper, preferably in all three languages. Should you have a copy, please
send it to any of our tutors or to training@deltapatents.com.
Please be reminded that you can view
and print/download a copy of your exam answer after the exam, via the eye
below the "1. Paper"-icon in the bottom left part of the flow window
of the respective flow. (It may not be available immediately after the official
end of the (part of the) paper, but only 30-60 minutes later.) Apart from the
pre-printable parts, the paper itself cannot be downloaded (unless you copied
it in full into your exam answer).
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 13-03-2025
21:09"), whereas using your real name or a nick name is more personal,
more interesting and makes a more attractive conversation. You do not need to
log in or make an 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 this
blog.
Please post responses to our answer (as soon as available) to the separate blog
post with our answer. Thanks!
