GL-PCT C IV 5 Top-up searches in PCT Chapter II

A top-up search is mandatory at the outset of PCT Chapter II, subject to some exceptions (see GL/PCT‑EPO C‑IV, 5.2). The date – or absence – of this top-up search must be indicated in the IPER.[Rules 66.1ter; Rule 70.2(f); OJ EPO 2014, A57; GL/ISPE 19.15; 19.19; 19.20; ]

5.1 Timing, basis and forms

5.2 Exemptions from top-up search

5.3 Documents newly found in the top-up search, when further objections are present

5.4 Intended positive IPER and top-up search

Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/html/guidelinespct/e/c_iv_5.htm

Date retrieved: 17 May 2021

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EPO PCT GL - B Search

X GL-PCT B VI 4.1 Potentially conflicting European and international applications

EPO PCT GL - C Procedureal Aspects Chapter II

X GL-PCT C General remark

X GL-PCT C IV – Examination of the WO‑ISA and replies

X GL-PCT C IV 2.1 Procedure when the EPO was not the ISA

X GL-PCT C IV 2.2 Procedure when the EPO was the ISA

X GL-PCT C IV 5.1 Timing, basis and forms

X GL-PCT C IV 5.2 Exemptions from top-up search

X GL-PCT C IV 5.3 Documents newly found in the top-up search, when further objections are present

X GL-PCT C IV 5.4 Intended positive IPER and top-up search

PCT Articles

X A.31 PCT Demand for International Preliminary Examination

PCT Implementing Rules

X R.66 PCT Procedure before the International Preliminary Examining Authority

X R.70 PCT International Preliminary Report on Patentability by the International Preliminary Examining Authority (International Preliminary Examination Report)

Offical Journal of the EPO

X OJ EPO 2014, A57 - Notice from the European Patent Office dated 12 May 2014 concerning the introduction of a "top-up" search in the procedure under Chapter II PCT