Guidelines for Examination
PART C
 CHAPTER IV PATENTABILITY
1. General
1.1 Basic requirements 		 

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PART C
CHAPTER IV PATENTABILITYCHAPTER IV PATENTABILITY
1. General1. General
       1.2 Further requirements1.2 Further requirements  
 

1.1

Basic requirements

 

There are four basic requirements for patentability:

 

(i)

there must be an "invention";

 

Art. 52(1)



(ii)

the invention must be "susceptible of industrial application";

 

(iii)

the invention must be "new"; and

 

(iv)

the invention must involve an "inventive step".

 

These requirements will be dealt with in turn in IV, 2, IV, 2a, and 3, 4, 5 to 8 and 9, respectively.

 
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