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§ 65.1 Approach to Prior Art - none Patent Cooperation Treaty
§ 65.1 Approach to Prior Art
For the purposes of Article 33(3), the international preliminary examination shall take into consideration the relation of any particular claim to the prior art as a whole. It shall take into consideration the claim"s relation not only to individual documents or parts thereof taken separately but also its relation to combinations of such documents or parts of documents, where such combinations are obvious to a person skilled in the art.
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