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CHAPTER I: Introduction

CHAPTER II: Content of the Application (Other Than Claims)

1.     General                                 

2.    Abstract                                 
3.    Request For Grant and Title                         
4.    Description         
5.    Drawings 
6.    Inventions Relating to Micro-Organism and Biological Material 
7.    Prohibited Matter                            

CHAPTER III: The Claims

1.    General                                
2.    Form and Content of Claims                    
3.    Kinds of Claim - Categories                        
4.    Clarity and Interpretation of Claims                
5.    Conciseness, Number of Claims                    
6.    Support in Description                        
7.    Unity of Invention                                  

Annex to Chapter III: Guidance on Assessment of Unity    


CHAPTER IV: Patentability

1.    General                                
2.    Inventions                                
3.    Further Exclusions From Patentability (Sections 22.6 and 22.4)
4.    Industrial Application Section Medical Inventions Section 22.3
5.    Novelty: Prior Art                            
6.    Conflict With Other Philippine Applications            
7.    Test for Novelty                            
8.    Non-Prejudicial Disclosures                        
9.    Inventive Step                            

Annex 1 to Chapter IV, 9:
Guidance for the Assessment 
of Inventive Step                
 
Annex 2 to Chapter IV, 9:
Concerning Inventive Step
            


CHAPTER V: Priority

1.    The right to Prioriity                            
2.    Determining Priority Dates                        
2.6    Some Examples of Determining Priority Dates   
3.    Claiming Priority                            

CHAPTER VI: Examination procedure

1.    The Start of the Examination                   
2.    Examination Procedure in General                   
3.    The First Stage of Examination                   
4.    Further Stages of Examination                   
5.    Amendments                               
6.    Discussion With the Applicant                   
7.    Work Within the Examination Divisions               
8.    Searching and the Search Report                   
9.    Special Applications                           
10.    Time Limits for Response to Communications
          From the Examiner; Requirements on Reply               

11.    Examination of Observations by Third Parties           
12.    Oral Proceedings                           
13.    Taking of Evidence                           
14.    Grant and Publication of Patents                   

CHAPTER VII: Examples

1.    The Problem and Solution Approach               
2.    Patentability and Industrial Application               
3.    Clarity                                   
4.    Unity of Invention                           
5.    Chemical Problems                           
5.1   Patentable Inventions               
5.2  Inventions Relating to Surgery, Therapy, or Diagnostic Methods    
5.3    Novelty

5.4    Inventive Step                   
5.5    Disclosure of Invention               
5.6    The Claims                       
5.7  Microbiological Processes, Genetic Manipulation,
         and Products Obtained by Such Procedures                   




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