Guidance
Examining patent applications relating to chemical inventions
These guidelines set out how we examine patent applications for chemical inventions
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This guide covers
- introduction
- basic considerations
- novelty
- plausibility
- inventive step
- industrial application
- plurality
- sufficiency
- annex A - index of court cases and IPO decisions
- annex B - index of European Patent Office and Technical Board of Appeal decisions
- footnotes
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Published 9 May 2014
Last updated 11 October 2024
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Examining patent applications relating to chemical inventions has been revised.
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Examining patent applications relating to chemical inventions updated.
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First published.