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sequences will be examined with claims drawn to any
sequence combinations whichhave a common technical
feature with the selected sequences. Nucleotide
sequences encoding the same protein are considered
to satisfy the unity of invention standard and will con"
tinue to be examined together.
See MPEP § 803.04 for examples of nucleotide
sequence claims impacted by this partial waiver of
37 CFR 1.475 and 1.499 et seq.
1851 Identification of Patent Documents
The examiner, in completing the international
search report as well as the Chapter II written opinion
and final report, is required to cite the references in
accordance with the provisions of Administrative
Instructions 503 and 611. These sections of the
Administrative Instructions require reference citations
to include, in addition to other information which is
apparent from the forms which the examiner fills out,
an indication of the two"letter country code of the
country or entity issuing or publishing the document
and the standard code for identifying the kind of
patent document. The discussion which follows is
limited to the identification of patent documents (and
nonpatent publications) and a listing of the two-letter
country codes for countries or other entities which
issue or publish industrial property information.
The standard codes for identifying different kinds
of patent documents are found in the "WIPO Hand"
book on Industrial Property Information and Documentation"
- WIPO Standard ST.16 which is
published by the World Intellectual Property Organization.
The listing is extensive. The Special Program
Examiners in each Technology Center (TC) have a
complete copy of Standard ST.16. It is also accessible
on WIPO's web site (http://www.wipo.int/scit/en/)
under the heading "WIPO Standards and Other Documentation."
Provided herein is an abbreviated version
representing the countries and codes commonly used
by the examiner in preparing search reports.
U.S. patents published before January 2, 2001 are
Code A documents generally. Beginning with patents
published on January 2, 2001, U.S. patents are Code
.B documents. Patent Application Publications, first
published on March 15,2001, are Code A documents.
Reexamination certificates published before January
2,2001 are Code B documents. Reexamination certificates
published on or after January 2, 2001 are Code
PATENT COOPERATION TREATY 1851
C documents. Tables providing a complete list of the
kind codes ofpatents and other documents published
by the USPTO are included in MPEP § 901.04(a). All
nonpatent litf"ratlJIe documents are Code N"' Numerical
designations are sometimes found ()n published
documents along with the letter code designation.
These should be used by the examiner only if such
numerical designation is on the document. Numerical
codes along with letter codes can be found, for example,
on certain published patent documents such as the
German Offenlegungsschrift and published international
applications. If numerical designations are not
provided, the examiner should use only the letter code
designation.
The most commonly cited documents are patents
and published patent applications. A guideline for the
citation of such documents is listed below. The listing
is indicated in the order in which the elements should
be listed.
In the case of a patent or published patent application:
(A) The Office that issued the document, by the
two letter code (WIPO Standard ST.3);
(B) The number of the document as given to it by
the Office that issued it (for Japanese patent documents
the indication of the year of the reign of the
Emperor must precede the serial number of the patent
document);
(C) The kind of document, by the appropriate
symbols as indicated on the original document or as
given in Appendix II to WIPO Standard ST.16;
(0) The name of the patentee or applicant (in capital
letters, where appropriate, abbreviated);
(E) The date of publication of the cited patent
document indicated thereon;
(F) Where applicable, the pages, columns or lines
where the relevant passages appear, or the relevant
figures of the drawings.
The following examples illustrate the citation of a
patent document as indicated above:
JP 50-14535 B (NCR CORP.) 28 May 1975
(28.05.75), see column 4, lines 3 to 27.
DE 3744403 Al (A. JOSEF) 29 August 1991 (29­
08-91), page I, abstract.
US 4,540,573 A (NEURATH etal.) 10 September
1985 (10109/85), see entire document, especially
column I, lines 10-23.
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