Guidelines for Examination
PART A
 CHAPTER III EXAMINATION OF FORMAL REQUIREMENTS 		 

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PART A
  CHAPTER II FILING OF APPLICATIONS AND EXAMINATION ON FILINGCHAPTER II FILING OF APPLICATIONS AND EXAMINATION ON FILING     CHAPTER IV SPECIAL PROVISIONSCHAPTER IV SPECIAL PROVISIONS  
1. General

1.1 Formal requirements

1.2 Further checks

2. Representation

2.1 Requirements

2.2 Non-compliance

3. Physical requirements

3.1 General remarks

3.2 Documents making up the application, replacement documents, translations

3.3 Other documents

3.4 Signature

4. Request for grant

4.1 General remarks

4.2 Examination of the Request for Grant form

4.2.1 Information on the applicant

4.2.2 Signature

5. Designation of inventor

5.1 General remarks

5.2 Waiver of right to be mentioned as inventor

5.3 Designation filed in a separate document

5.4 Notification

5.5 Deficiencies

5.6 Incorrect designation

6. Claim to priority (see also C-V)

6.1 General remarks

6.2 List of Contracting States to the Paris Convention

6.3 Multiple priorities

6.4 Examination of the priority document

6.5 Declaration of priority

6.6 Priority period

6.7 Copy of the previous application (priority document)

6.8 Translation of the previous application

6.9 Non-entitlement to right to priority

6.10 Loss of right to priority

6.11 Notification

7. Title of the invention

7.1 Requirements

7.2 Responsibility

8. Prohibited matter

8.1 Morality or ordre public

8.2 Disparaging statements

9. Claims fee

10. Filing of drawings

11. Abstract

11.1 General remark

11.2 Content of the abstract

11.3 Figure accompanying the abstract

12. Designation of Contracting States

12.1 General remarks

12.2 Designation fee; time limits

12.3 Consequences of non-payment of designation fees; period of grace

12.4 Surcharge paid insufficient

12.5 Application deemed to be withdrawn

12.6 Request for Grant form

12.7 Indication of the Contracting States

12.8 Amount payable

12.9 Withdrawal of designation

12.10 Euro-PCT applications entering the European phase

13. Extension of European patent applications and patents to States not party to the EPC

13.1 General remarks

13.2 Time limit for payment of extension fee

13.3 Withdrawal of extension

13.4 Extension deemed requested

13.5 National register

14. Correction of deficiencies

14.1 Procedure formalities officer

14.2 Period allowed for remedying deficiencies

CHAPTER III Annex LIST OF CONTRACTING STATES TO THE PARIS CONVENTION (see III, 6.2)

 
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