Guidance

Examining patent applications relating to chemical inventions

These guidelines set out how we examine patent applications for chemical inventions

• From: Intellectual Property Office
• Published: 9 May 2014
• Last updated: 11 October 2024
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  1. 11 October 2024

     Examining patent applications relating to chemical inventions has been revised.

  2. 5 June 2017

     Examining patent applications relating to chemical inventions updated.

  3. 9 May 2014

     First published.

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Examining patent applications relating to chemical inventions

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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