Guidelines for Examination
PART C
CHAPTER VI EXAMINATION PROCEDURE
1. The start of examination
1.2 Allocation of the application
 

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PART C
CHAPTER VI EXAMINATION PROCEDURECHAPTER VI EXAMINATION PROCEDURE
1. The start of examination1. The start of examination
  1.1 Request for examination1.1 Request for examination     1.3 Examining Division1.3 Examining Division  
 

1.2

Allocation of the application

 

The dossier will normally be allocated to an Examining Division responsible for the examination of applications in the technical field in which the particular application has been classified by the Search Division or PCT International Searching Authority which carried out the search. There may be instances where it is appropriate to allocate the application to an Examining Division comprising examiners who are not normally responsible for the indicated part of the IPC. There are a number of possible reasons for this: e.g. if examination of an application requires very specialist technical knowledge; or to make it possible, where appropriate, that an original and a divisional application are dealt with by the same Examining Division (this could sometimes be more efficient even when the two applications are classified in different technical fields); or if the classification of the published application does not correspond to the subject-matter of the application in the form in which it reaches the substantive examiner (e.g. because the application has been amended after receipt of the search report).