Guidelines for Examination
PART B
CHAPTER IX SEARCH DOCUMENTATION
 

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1. General

1.1 Organisation and composition of the documentation available to the Search Divisions

1.2 Systematic access systems

1.3 Numerical lists

2. Patent documents arranged for systematic access

2.1 PCT minimum documentation

2.2 Other national patent documents

2.3 Unpublished patent applications

2.4 Search reports

2.5 Arrangements for manual search

2.6 Patent family system

3. Non-patent literature arranged for systematic access

3.1 Periodicals, records, reports, books, etc.

3.2 Arrangements for manual search

4. Patent documents in the library collection of the Netherlands Industrial Property Office (Bureau voor de...

4.1 Numerically arranged collection of patent documents

4.2 Arrangement

4.3 Systematically arranged patent documents

4.4 Form of use

5. Non-patent literature arranged for library-type access

5.1 Composition

5.2 Arrangement and location

5.3 Collection of the Netherlands Industrial Property Office (Bureau voor de Industriële Eigendom)

6. Search documentation at the various EPO sites

6.1 Electronic search documentation

6.2 Search documentation in paper form

7. Search documentation in national offices carrying out transferred searches on behalf of the EPO

7.1 Electronic search documentation provided by the EPO

7.2 Additional search documentation in national patent offices