1. General 

The results of the search will be recorded in an international search report. A number of different possible limitations of the scope of the search report exist. These are:

(i)a declaration issued instead of the search report according to Art. 17(2)(a) (see B‑VIII);

(ii)an incomplete search report according to Art. 17(2)(b) (see B‑VIII);

(iii)a partial international search report due to a finding of a lack of unity according to Art. 17(3)(a) and Rule 13; and

(iv)an incomplete search report due to missing sequence listings (see B‑VIII, 3.2).

The Search Division is responsible for drawing up the international search report (see B‑I, 2 and subsections).

This chapter contains the information which is necessary to enable the examiner to correctly prepare the search report.