Guidelines for Examination
PART B
CHAPTER VII UNITY OF INVENTION
1. General remarks
1.3 Documents relevant only to other inventions
 

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PART B
CHAPTER VII UNITY OF INVENTIONCHAPTER VII UNITY OF INVENTION
1. General remarks1. General remarks
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1.3

Documents relevant only to other inventions

 

Whilst documents relevant only to other inventions may be retrieved during the search on the invention first mentioned in the claims, these are not necessarily included in the partial European search report. Such documents must, however, be cited in the partial search report if they form the basis for a lack of unity a posteriori (see C-III, 7.6 and C-III, 7.8).