The ECTA delegation composed of Carina Gommers (ECTA President), Benjamin Fontaine (2nd Vice-President), Anna Ostanina (Head of Legal Affairs), and Peter Müller (Chair of the ECTA Patent Committee) held the first bilateral meeting with the EPO yesterday. This meeting presented an opportunity to introduce ECTA’s work on patents and the ECTA Patent Committee. We also appreciated the chance to learn more about EPO’s recent developments and activities impacting our profession. We look forward to strengthening our collaboration and having more regular exchanges between our patent experts and the EPO representatives.

We are also pleased to welcome several EPO colleagues at today’s ECTA ®ETREAT “UPC - A Success Story?” at the German Patent and Trade Mark Office in Munich - it promises to be a full day of very interesting discussions!