The new desk spacing rules for the EQE exams were regarded as a bit OTT (Photo by jessica_seewer at Morguefile.com)

UK based patent trainees must be thinking that they’ve done something wrong in a previous life.

Last year the EQE exams were held in Bristol in a venue that attracted a number of complaints. This year’s UK exams included a venue that didn’t have tables at the start of the exam.

Now, a number of UK based EQE candidates, for both the 2017 pre-exam and 2017 main exam, have been told that they have not secured a place at the UK venue in Birmingham (the “WFC The Venue” in Walsall)  and are going to have to travel to Munich (the MOC centre).

Warning: those involved in the organisation of the EQE exams in the UK are encouraged to read the apology notice¹ below before proceeding…. (more…)