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6.1.12.5.6 Citing patent Documents Retrieved from EPOQUE

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8.16.2 Convention Country Status Change

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8.15.5 Determining Whether Amendments Made Under Articles and Rules of the PCT are Considered During Exam

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5.5.4.4 Swiss Claims

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Volume 5. National

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6.1.2 Introduction International Searching

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4.2.3.3 Indexing According to IPC Edition (2006) - Discontinued

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4.2.3.5 Recording Classification Symbols on Machine-Readable Records

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5.5.4 Claim construction and claim types

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5.7.2.2 Non-allowable amendments to a patent request

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6.1.15.1 Background Patent Search Aids and Documentation

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8.10.3 Time Limits for Filing Applications

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4.1 Search Theory

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5.3.2.6 Scandalous matter

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6.1.4.9 Issuing the Invitation to Pay Additional Search Fees

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6.1.7.1.5 Implications of the Hierarchy on Searching

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6.1.5.1 Abstract

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6.1.7.1.7 Interpretation of Citations - Inherency

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