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Patent Index 2020

Part IV – Implementing Regulations to Part IV of the Convention

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Rule 61 – Content of the European search report

Rule 62 – Extended European search report

Rule 62a – Applications containing a plurality of independent claims

Rule 63 – Incomplete search

Rule 64 – European search report where the invention lacks unity

Rule 65 – Transmittal of the European search report

Rule 66 – Definitive content of the abstract

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