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In order to be registered as a patent agent in the United States, one must pass the USPTO registration examination, a 100-question, multiple-choice test. The required score to pass is 70%. In the legal community, the exam is frequently and incorrectly referred to as the patent bar. It is not required to have a law degree to sit for the exam; indeed, it is not necessary to have even taken a course in law. However, the USPTO requires that all candidates for registration have a background in one of the hard sciences. This requirement is typically met with a bachelor's degree in a field such as chemistry, physics, biology, or engineering.
Before June 2004, the USPTO registration exam was a pencil-and-paper test given at approximately 15 locations around the country. The USPTO has moved to a computer-based examination, which can be taken on any business day at any of several hundred locations around the country. Once an applicant has been approved to sit for the exam, he or she has 90 days in which to schedule an examination date with the USPTO contractor that administers the exam. The pencil-and-paper test is still offered once a year at the USPTO's office.
If a law student passes the registration exam and becomes admitted as a patent agent before admission to the bar, he or she is allowed to change registration to patent attorney upon supplying USPTO with proof of admission.
In order to practice before the European Patent Office (EPO) as a registered professional representative or European Patent Attorney, it is necessary to pass a pencil-and-paper examination - the European qualifying examination or EQE. In addition, an engineering or scientific degree is required (though a long experience in a scientific domain can be sufficient under certain conditions) and at least three years of practice in the domain of national or European patent law.
The European Patent ConventionThe European Patent Convention (EPC) or Convention on the Grant of European Patents of 5 October 1973 is a legal text instituting the European Patent Organisation and the system according to which European patents are granted. There is currently no single precisely specifies in which case it is required to be represented a professional representative in proceedings (Art. 133 EPC). Effectively, a representative is required if all the applicants for a patent do not have a place of business in an EPO contracting state.
Each of the EPO contracting states may have requirements of its own.
The United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in Western Europe, usually known simply as the United Kingdom the UK Britain or less accurately as Great Britain . The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly has a series of exams one must pass in order to be entered on the Register of Patent Agents. This gives the right to call oneself a Registered Patent Attorney or Registered Patent Agent; the terms are synonymous in the UK. Membership of the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents as a fellow gives the right to call oneself a Chartered Patent Agent or Chartered Patent Attorney. Note that there is no restriction on representation, merely the terms listed; however any applicant for a Patent must give an address for service within the United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in Western Europe, usually known simply as the United Kingdom the UK Britain or less accurately as Great Britain . The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly or Isle of ManThe Isle of Man Ellan Vannin in Manx), a British crown dependency, lies in the Irish Sea almost equidistant from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. With an area of 572 kmē (221 square miles) and a population of around 76,315 (2001 Census) it arguably h.
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