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Guidelines for Examination

 
 
Table of Contents - Guidelines for Examination
Part B Guidelines for Search
Chapter I – Introduction
2. Search Division
2.1 Consultation with other examiners
2.1
Consultation with other examiners 

The examiner entrusted with the search may consult other examiners for advice on any number of issues, for example:

(i)
online searches in databases with which the examiner is not familiar; 
(ii)
understanding aspects of the claimed invention which may lie outside the area of technical expertise of the examiner concerned; 
(iii)
constructing a search strategy; 
(iv)
interpreting the relevance of a prior-art document for determining the patentability of claimed subject-matter (see B-X, 9.2).