Part B – Guidelines for Search
Overview
Part B
Guidelines for Search
Contents
Chapter I – Introduction
Chapter II – General
Chapter III – Characteristics of the search
Chapter IV – Search procedure and strategy
Chapter V – Preclassification, IPC and CPC classification of European patent applications
Chapter VI – The state of the art at the search stage
Chapter VII – Unity of invention
Chapter VIII – Subject-matter to be excluded from the search
Chapter IX – Search documentation
Chapter X – Search report
Chapter XI – The search opinion