Guidelines for Examination in the European Patent Office

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Guidelines for Examination in the EPO

Guidelines for Examination - Table of Contents

PART C GUIDELINES FOR SUBSTANTIVE EXAMINATION

PART B

PART D

CHAPTER II CONTENT OF A EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION (OTHER THAN CLAIMS)

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER III CLAIMS

CHAPTER II Annex UNITS RECOGNISED IN INTERNATIONAL PRACTICE AND COMPLYING WITH RULE 49(11) (see II,...

2. Units which are defined on the basis of SI units but are not decimal multiples or submultiples...

1. SI units and their decimal multiples and submultiples

3. Units used with the SI, and whose values in SI are obtained experimentally

2.	Units which are defined on the basis of SI units but are not decimal multiples or submultiples thereof

Quantity	Unit
	Name	Symbol	Value
Plane angle	revolution(a)		1 revolution = 2 p rad
	grade or gon	gon	1 gon = p / 200 rad
	degree	°	1° = p / 180 rad
	minute of angle	'	1' = p / 10 800 rad
	second of angle	"	1" = p / 648 000 rad
Time	minute	min	1 min = 60 s
	hour	h	1 h = 3 600 s
	day	d	1 d = 86 400 s

(a)	No international symbol exists

The prefixes listed in 1.3 may only be used in conjunction with the names 'grade' or 'gon' and the symbols only with the symbol 'gon'.

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