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Guidance: Examining patent applications relating to chemical inventions

Intellectual Property Office

October 11
11:34 2024

This guide covers

  • introduction
  • basic considerations
  • novelty
  • plausibility
  • inventive step
  • industrial application
  • plurality
  • sufficiency
  • annex A - index of court cases and IPO decisions
  • annex B - index of European Patent Office and Technical Board of Appeal decisions
  • footnotes

Updates to this page

Published 9 May 2014
Last updated 11 October 2024 +show all updates
  1. Examining patent applications relating to chemical inventions has been revised.

  2. Examining patent applications relating to chemical inventions updated.

  3. First published.

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