• Preface
• Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations used in these Guidelines
• Section 1: Novelty (26.1.2024)
• Section 2: Inventive Step
• Section 3: Industrial Application
• Section 4: Exclusions from Patentability (26.1.2024)
• Section 5: Medical or Diagnostic Use Claims (26.11.2021)
• Section 6: Specification (29.7.2022)
• Section 7: Kinds of Claims (26.1.2024)
• Section 8: Requirements for Claims
• Section 9: Sufficiency of Disclosure
• Section 10: Unity of Invention
• Section 11: Double Patenting
• Section 12: Construction of Claims
• Section 13: Patent Applications (26.1.2024)
• Section 14: Formality Examination of Patent Applications (26.11.2021)
• Section 15: Substantive Examination of Standard Patent (O) Applications and Short-term Patents (26.1.2024)
• Section 16: Amendments to Patent Applications and Patents (27.5.2022)

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