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Guidelines for Examination in the EPO

Guidelines for Examination - Table of Contents  
PART A GUIDELINES FOR FORMALITIES EXAMINATION General Part PART B  
CHAPTER X DRAWINGS CHAPTER IX COMMON PROVISIONS CHAPTER XI FEES  
8. Text matter on drawings 7. Executing of drawings 9. Conventional symbols  


8.

Text matter on drawings

 

It should first be noted that Rule 46(2)(d) and (g) also applies to text matter on the drawings.

Rule 46(2)(d)

Rule 46(2)(g)



For indications of the type "section on AB", see X, 7.3.1.

 

The drawings must not contain text matter, except, when absolutely indispensable, a single word or a few words.

Rule 46(2)(j)



Where text matter is deemed indispensable for understanding the drawing, a minimum of words should be used, and a space free of all lines of drawings should be left around them for the translation.

 

As regards the justification for text matter on drawings, see C-II, 5.1.

 


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