MOPOP - Chapter 13 - Table of Contents

Examination of Applications
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Examination of Applications

• 13.01

  Scope of this chapter
• 13.02

  Request for examination
• 13.03

  Request for advanced examination (special order)
• 13.04

  Rule 29 requisitions
• 13.05

  Examination
  • 13.05.01

    Identifying the invention
    • 13.05.01a

      Identifying the problem and its solution
    • 13.05.01b

      Examining the invention as claimed
  • 13.05.02

    Form and substance examination
  • 13.05.03

    Patentability and contribution
    • 13.05.03a

      Identifying statutory and non-statutory features
    • 13.05.03b

      Examination and the contribution analysis
    • 13.05.03c

      Examples
  • 13.05.04

    Search of the prior art
• 13.06

  Examiner's report
  • 13.06.01

    Withdrawal of an examiner's report
• 13.07

  Amendment of the application
• 13.08

  Final action
• 13.09

  Refusal to grant a patent
• 13.10

  Allowance and notice of allowance
• 13.11

  Withdrawal from allowance
• 13.12

  Grant and issue of a patent
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  Endnotes