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Item amended Date Amended Amended Reason
6.1.4.3 Combinations of Different Categories of Claims

Edited to improve readability and accessibility. Broke up text into subheadings. Edited to reduce long sentences and increased spacing between paragraphs. Reorganised for better logical progression.
6.1.4.14 Reported Decisions on Unity

Edited for better readability and accessibility. Edited for consistency with Style Manual. Added formatted subheadings and On this Page menu. Broke long sentences into lists.
6.1.1 Procedural Outline - PCT International Search

Edited to improve readability and accessibility. Added On this Page links and broke instructions into subsections. Updated flow chart for better readability and use of screen space.
6.1.11.1 Overview - Novelty / Inventive Step

Edited to improve readability and accessibility. Broke up text into subheadings rather than a numbered list. Edited to reduce long sentences and increased spacing between paragraphs.
6.1.10 Non-Patent Literature

Edited to improve readability and accessibility. Added On this Page links and simplified the language for consistency with the Style Manual. Added links to external websites where available.
6.1.4.2 Determining Lack of Unity

Edited for better readability and accessibility. Edited for consistency with Style Manual. Added subheadings and On this Page menu. Rearranged some paragraphs for better logical flow.
6.1.4.11 Payment of Additional Search Fees Under Protest

Edited to improve readability and accessibility. Added headings and On this Page section. Fixed links to creating case notes in RIO.
6.1.4.15 Other Decisions from the EPO

Edited to improve readability and accessibility. Added On this Page links and simplified the language for consistency with the Style Manual.
6.1.2.9 Copending Applications

Edited to improve readability and accessibility. Added links to RIO guidance material for creating case notes.
6.1.4.10 Unsupported, Unclear, Long and/or Complex Claim Sets with Clear Lack of Unity

Edited to improve readability, clarity, and accessibility. Added links to RIO guidance material for issuing ITPs. Reorganised content for better logical flow and broke long sentences into either shorter sentences or lists.
6.1.13 Reissued, Amended or Corrected ISRs and ISOs

Updated links to RIO guidance material for reissuing PCT reports.
Annex S - Refund of Search Fees

Added and updated links to RIO guidance material for creating correspondence tasks.
6.1.2.4 Extent of Search

Edited to improve clarity, accessibility and consistency with Australian Government style guidelines. Fixed links in key legislation and in text. Added white spaces between dot points and bulk quotation paragraphs.
6.1.12.8 Refund Due

Updated links for RIO guidance material to new manual.
6.1.18.1 Background Nucleotide and/or Amino Acid Sequence Listings

Added links to RIO guidance material for processing PCT tasks.
6.2.8 Search Report

Added link to RIO guidance material for processing international type search tasks.
6.2.3 Classification and Search Indication

Added link to RIO guidance material for processing international type searches, request for search statement and classification tasks.
6.2.9 Completing Search Report and Opinion Form

Added link to RIO guidance material for processing international type search tasks. Updated links to new RIO guidance material.
6.2.4 Unity of Invention

Updated links to RIO guidance material for requesting a search statement for lack of unity.
5.7.1.7 Granting leave to amend

Added links to RIO guidance material for granting leave to amend in national examination and voluntary S104 tasks.
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