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 CHAPTER VI THE STATE OF THE ART 		 

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PART B
  CHAPTER V PRECLASSIFICATION (ROUTING) AND OFFICIAL CLASSIFICATION OF EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATIONSCHAPTER V PRECLASSIFICATION (ROUTING) AND OFFICIAL CLASSIFICATION OF EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATIONS     CHAPTER VII UNITY OF INVENTIONCHAPTER VII UNITY OF INVENTION  
1. General

2. State of the art oral disclosure, etc.

3. Priority

4. Conflicting applications

4.1 Potentially conflicting European and international applications

4.2 National earlier rights

5. Date of reference for documents cited in the search report; filing and priority date

5.1 Verification of claimed priority date(s)

5.2 Intermediate documents

5.3 Doubts as to the validity of the priority claim; extension of the search

5.4 Documents published after the filing date

5.5 Non-prejudicial disclosures

6. Contents of prior-art disclosures

6.1 General remark

6.2 Citation of documents corresponding to documents not available or not published in one of the official...

 
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