Deletion of All Claims Is Permitted in the JPO’s Q&A
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Article type: Legal and examination updates
Categories: Patents
Topics: Patent corrections, Examination and appeal practice, Divisional applications
First published on this website: 2026-10-16
Display and classification checked: 2026-10-17
A note, although this is hardly new.
Deletion of all claims is permitted in the JPO’s Q&A. I should therefore keep it in mind as a last resort for satisfying the requirement of restriction of claims in the parent-child-grandchild divisional-application problem.
Originally published: 2025-03-31
Original Japanese post: https://ameblo.jp/hideki-takaishi/entry-12892033192.html
English translations of the Japanese source figures
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