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Guidelines for Examination

 
 
Table of Contents - Guidelines for Examination
Part E Guidelines on General Procedural Matters
Chapter VIII – Applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
2. EPO as designated or elected Office
2.3 Provisions of Chapter A-III ("Examination of formal requirements")
2.3.6 Title of the invention
2.3.6
Title of the invention 

In relation to A-III, 7 ("Title of the invention"), the title need only meet the less demanding requirements of Rule 4.3 PCT rather than those set out in A-III, 7.1 and 7.2.