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Guidelines for Examination in the EPO

Guidelines for Examination - Table of Contents  
PART B GUIDELINES FOR SEARCH PART A PART C  
CHAPTER VI THE STATE OF THE ART CHAPTER V PRECLASSIFICATION (ROUTING) AND OFFICIAL CLASSIFICATION OF EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATIONS CHAPTER VII UNITY OF INVENTION  
1. General   2. State of the art oral disclosure, etc.  


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General

  

The general considerations relating to the state of the art and patentability, especially with regard to the determination of novelty and inventive step, are set out in C-IV.

 

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