The European Patent Office continues to  amend the European Patent Convention with the latest  changes  coming into effect at the begining of  the year.

The 2012 edition of the  Chartered Institute’s best selling Guide to the EPC 2000 has been updated to account for the latest EPO rule changes. 

As previously, the guide contains an  extensively annotated and cross-referenced copy of the revised Convention and Implementing Regulations, as well as the Rules Relating to Fees, the Protocol on Jurisdiction, the London Agreement and an updated thematic index of the decisions and opinions of the Enlarged Board of Appeal. Articles and their most relevant rules are printed together to enable them to be read in context. Practical commentaries illustrate how the rules and articles interact in practice.