CLR II B Unity of invention

1.
Introduction
2.
Unity in the context of different types of claims
2.1.
Plurality of independent claims
2.2.
Dependent claims
2.3.
Intermediate products
3.
Assessing lack of unity of invention
3.1.
General approach – content of claims
3.2.
Assessment of lack of unity at the search stage
3.3.
Assessment of lack of unity and of requests for refund of further search fees in examination proceedings
3.4.
No assessment of lack of unity in opposition proceedings
4.
Criteria for determining lack of unity
4.1.
Determination of the technical problem
4.2.
Examination as to novelty and inventive step
5.
The single general inventive concept
5.1.
General
5.2.
Special technical features and inventive character of the single general concept
5.3.
Unity of single claims defining alternatives ("Markush claims")
6.
Plurality of inventions – further search fees
6.1.
Consequences of non-payment of a further search fee
6.2.
Euro-PCT applications
6.2.1
Treatment of non-unity according to former R. 164 EPC
6.3.
Applicability of Rule 64, (former) Rule 164(2) EPC or Rule 137(5) EPC
6.4.
Dispensing with further search fee
 

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Date retrieved: 17 May 2021

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