1. Communications

2. Notification

The limitation is different in different contracting states because the claims forming the basis of the limitation procedure were different in different contracting states.

Art. 105b(3) specifies that the decision to limit or revoke will apply to the patent in all contracting states for which it has been granted. There is thus a single decision, covering all contracting states, but this decision may include different sets of claims for different contracting states, or determine that the limitation is in other ways different for different contracting states.

The decisions rejecting the request for limitation or revocation as either inadmissible or not allowable (see D‑X, 2 and D-X, 6) are open to appeal, as they are decisions of the examining division terminating a procedure. Accordingly they are decisions listed as such in Art. 21(3)(a).[Art. 106(1); ]