PCT Rule 65 — Inventive Step or Non-Obviousness (MPEP Coverage Index) – BlueIron IP
PCT Rule 65 Inventive Step or Non-Obviousness
This page consolidates MPEP guidance interpreting PCT Rule 65, including 0 rules from the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure. It is provided as guidance, with links to the ground truth sources. This is information only, it is not legal advice.
Official MPEP § 65 — Inventive Step or Non-Obviousness
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Rule 65 Inventive Step or Non-Obviousness
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.
65.2 Relevant Date
For the purposes of Article 33(3) , the relevant date for the consideration of inventive step (non-obviousness) is the date prescribed in Rule 64.1 .