Reduced rate available if booked with European patents – The Case Law on 27 January 2012. This seminar will consider, drawing on case law and the speakers’ experience, the present working of opposition and appeal procedures at the European Patent Office, including recent developments. This course, together with European patents – The Case Law on the following day, offers a summary of both background and recent developments from the perspective of speakers with day to day involvement in the practice and procedure of EPO oppositions and appeals.