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PART C
 CHAPTER IV PATENTABILITY
9. Inventive step 		 

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PART C
CHAPTER IV PATENTABILITYCHAPTER IV PATENTABILITY
  8. Non-prejudicial disclosures8. Non-prejudicial disclosures       
 

9.

Inventive step

 
9.1 General

9.2 State of the art; date of filing

9.3 Person skilled in the art

9.4 Obviousness

9.5 Combination vs. juxtaposition or aggregation

9.6 Origin of an invention

9.7 (deleted)

9.8 Problem-and-solution approach

9.9 Combining prior-art documents

9.10 Indicators

9.11 Arguments and evidence submitted by the applicant

9.11a Selection inventions

9.12 Dependent claims; claims in different categories

9.13 Examples

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