Guidelines for Examination
PART C
CHAPTER VI EXAMINATION PROCEDURE
4. Further stages of examination
4.8 Examples of inadmissible amendments
 

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PART C
CHAPTER VI EXAMINATION PROCEDURECHAPTER VI EXAMINATION PROCEDURE
4. Further stages of examination4. Further stages of examination
  4.7 Admissibility of amendments made by the applicant4.7 Admissibility of amendments made by the applicant     4.9 Amendments filed in reply to a communication under Rule 51(4)4.9 Amendments filed in reply to a communication under Rule 51(4)  
 

4.8

Examples of inadmissible amendments

 

Any request by an applicant to replace the text of the application on the basis of which a patent could be granted by a text that has been extensively revised should be refused, unless the applicant gives good reasons for proposing the changes only at this stage in the proceedings. This applies particularly in cases where the Examining Division has indicated that a version of the claims proposed by the applicant is grantable and that the applicant has only to bring the description into line with that version.