Search results for: “treaty definition”

Patent Cooperation Treaty; with Regulations   RULE 87 COPIES OF PUBLICATIONS 87.1 International Searching and Preliminary Examining Authorities Any International Searching or Preliminary Examining Authority shall have the right to receive, free of charge, two copies of every published international application, of the Gazette, and of any other publication of general interest published by the…

Patent Cooperation Treaty; with Regulations   RULE 69 TIME LIMIT FOR INTERNATIONAL PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION 69.1 Time Limit for International Preliminary Examination (a) All agreements concluded with International Preliminary Examining Authorities shall provide for the same time limit for the establishment of the international preliminary examination report. This time limit shall not exceed: (i) 6 months…

Patent Cooperation Treaty; with Regulations   RULE 65 INVENTIVE STEP OR NON-OBVIOUSNESS 65.1 Approach to Prior Art For the purposes of Article 33(3), the international preliminary examination shall take into consideration the relation of any particular claim to the prior art as a whole. It shall take into consideration the claims’s relation not only to…

Patent Cooperation Treaty; with Regulations   RULE 60 CERTAIN DEFECTS IN THE DEMAND OR ELECTIONS 60.1 Defects in the Demand (a) If the demand does not comply with the requirements specified in Rules 53 and 55, the International Preliminary Examining Authority shall invite the applicant to correct the defects within 1 month from the date…

Patent Cooperation Treaty; with Regulations   RULE 34 MINIMUM DOCUMENTATION 34.1 Definition (a) The definitions contained in Article 2(i) and (ii) shall not apply for the purposes of this Rule. (b) The documentation referred to in Article 15(4) (“minimum documentation”) shall consist of: (i) the “national patent documents”as specified in paragraph (c), (ii) the published…

Patent Cooperation Treaty; with Regulations   RULE 8 THE ABSTRACT 8.1 Contents and Form of the Abstract (a) The abstract shall consist of the following: (i) a summary of the disclosure as contained in the description, the claims, and any drawings; the summary shall indicate the technical field to which the invention pertains and shall…

Patent Cooperation Treaty; with Regulations   RULE 5 THE DESCRIPTION 5.1 Manner of the Description (a) The description shall first state the title of the invention as appearing in the request and shall: (i) specify the technical field to which the invention relates; (ii) indicate the background art which, as far as known to the…

Patent Cooperation Treaty; with Regulations   Article 27 National Requirements (1) No national law shall require compliance with requirements relating to the form or contents of the international application different from or additional to those which are provided for in this Treaty and the Regulations. (2) The provisions of paragraph (1) neither affect the application…

Patent Cooperation Treaty; with Regulations   INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS Article 1 Establishment of a Union (1) The States party to this Treaty (hereinafter called “the Contracting States”) constitute a Union for cooperation in the filing, searching, and examination, of applications for the protection of inventions, and for rendering special technical services. The Union shall be known…