Patents, paper and microbreaks: a day in the life of an EPO examiner

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Patents, paper and microbreaks: a day in the life of an EPO examiner

January 23 2012
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Willem Gijsels is an examiner in the telecommunications cluster at the EPO. He joined the Office in 1996 after five years in industry and works in The Hague. This EPO site is home to about 2,500 EPO staff, roughly half of whom are examiners. He tells Emma Barraclough about a typical working day

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