Title: | Section 10 (3), (4) and (5) of the Industrial Property Law No. 6 of 04/09/1997 |
Field of IP: | Patents |
Type of flexibility: | Substantive examination |
Summary table: |
Filing date, Examination.
10-(3) After according a filing date, the Registrar of Patents shall "examine whether the application complies with the requirements of section 6 (1) and (2) and the Regulations pertaining thereto and those requirements of this Act and the Regulations which are designated as formal requirements for the purpose of this Act.
(4) Where the Registrar of Patents is of the opinion that the application complies with the requirements indicated in subsection (3), he shall cause the application to be examined as to whether the requirements of sections 3, 4 and 6 (3), (4) and (5), 7 and 9 and the Regulations pertaining thereto are fulfilled .
(5) The Regulations may prescribe that, in respect of some categories of inventions, the examination shall not cover the requirements of novelty and inventive step under section 4 (2) and (3).