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PART C
CHAPTER II CONTENT OF A EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION (OTHER THAN CLAIMS)
 

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PART C
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1. General

2. Abstract

3. Request for grant the title

4. Description

4.1 General remarks

4.2 Technical field

4.3 Background art

4.4 Irrelevant matter

4.5 Technical problem and its solution

4.6 Rule 27(1)(c) vs. Art. 52(1)

4.7 Drawings

4.8 Reference signs

4.9 Sufficiency of disclosure

4.10 Art. 83 vs. Art. 123(2)

4.11 Insufficient disclosure

4.12 Industrial application

4.13 Manner and order of presentation

4.14 Terminology

4.14a Computer programs

4.15 Physical values, units

4.16 Proper names, trademarks and trade names

4.17 Registered trademarks

4.18 Reference documents

5. Drawings

5.1 Form and content

5.2 Printing quality

5.3 Photographs

6. Inventions relating to biological material

6.1 Biological material

6.2 Public availability of biological material

6.3 Deposit of biological material

7. Prohibited matter

7.1 Categories

7.2 Matter contrary to ordre public or morality

7.3 Disparaging statements

7.4 Irrelevant matter

7.5 Omission of matter from publication

CHAPTER II Annex UNITS RECOGNISED IN INTERNATIONAL PRACTICE AND COMPLYING WITH RULE 35(12) (see II,...

1. SI units and their decimal multiples and submultiples

1.1 SI base units

1.1.1 Special name and symbol of the SI unit of temperature for expressing Celsius temperature

1.2 Other SI units

1.2.1 Supplementary SI units

1.2.2 Derived SI units

1.2.3 Derived SI units having names and symbols

1.3 Prefixes and their symbols used to designate certain decimal multiples and submultiples

1.4 Special authorised names and symbols of decimal multiples and submultiples of SI units

2. Units which are defined on the basis of SI units but are not decimal multiples or submultiples...

3. Units used with the SI, and whose values in SI are obtained experimentally

4. Units and names of units permitted in specialised fields only

5. Compound units