Requirements
1.
Simply signed Power of Attorney.
2.
Claim of Priority, if applicable:
If priority is claimed, a copy of that earlier application, certified by the authority with which it was filed (i.e. the priority document), shall be filed either together with the international application in which the priority claim is made, or be submitted by the applicant to the International Bureau, or to the receiving Office not later than 16 months after the priority date, provided that any copy of the said earlier application which is received by the International Bureau after the expiration of that time limit shall be considered to have been received by that Bureau on the last day of that time limit, if it reaches it before the date of international publication of the international application.
3.
Request
a) The petition.
b) The title of the invention, which shall be short (preferably from two to seven words when in English or translated into English) and precise.
c) The name, address, nationality (indicated by the name of the state of which he is a national) and residence (indicated by the name of the state of which he is a resident) of the applicant(s) and the agent, or a common representative, if any (note that if an agent is appointed, the request shall so indicate, and shall state the agent’s name and address).
d) The designation of states.
e) The name and address of the inventor(s), if required by the national law of at least one of the designated states, i.e. the name of and other prescribed particulars of the inventor shall be furnished at the time of filing a national application.
4.
Description
The description shall disclose the invention in a manner sufficiently clear and complete for it to be carried out by a person skilled in the art.
The description shall contain, in the following order (except where because of the nature of the invention, a different manner or order would result in a better understanding and a more economic presentation):
a) The title of the invention as it appears on the request.
b) The background art which, as far as known to the applicant, can be regarded as useful for the understanding, searching, and examination of the invention, and, preferably, cite the documents reflecting such art.
c) The disclosure of the invention, as claimed, in such terms that the technical problem (even if not expressly stated as such) and its solution can be understood, and state the advantageous effects, if any, of the invention with reference to the background art.
d) A brief description of the figures in the drawings, if any.
e) An indication of at least the best mode contemplated by the applicant for carrying out the invention claimed, by way of examples, where appropriate, and with reference to the drawings, if any. (Note that where the national law of the designated state does not require the description of the best mode but is satisfied with the description of any mode. Failure to describe the best mode contemplated shall have no effect in that state).
f) An explicit indication, when it is not obvious from the description or nature of the invention, of the way in which the invention is capable of exploitation in industry and the way in which it can be made and used, or, if it can only be used, the way in which it can be used.
Each such part of the description shall preferably be preceded by an appropriate heading. Such headings are as follows: "Technical Field"; "Background Art"; "Disclosure of Invention"; "Brief Description of Drawings"; "Best Mode for Carrying Out the Invention," or, where appropriate, "Mode(s) for Carrying Out the Invention"; "Industrial Applicability"; "Sequence Listing"; and "Sequence Listing Free Text."
In the case of international application containing a disclosure of one or more nucleotide and/or amino acid sequences, the description shall contain a sequence listing complying with the prescribed standard and presented as a separate part of the description in accordance therewith.
5. Deposit of Biological Material
In the case of inventions relating to biological material, the appropriate reference to deposited biological material shall be made, giving the name and the address of the depositary institution with which the deposit was made; the date of deposit of the biological material with that institution; the accession number given to the deposit by that institution; and any additional matter of which the International Bureau has been notified.
6. Claims
Claims shall be clear and concise, and shall define the matter for which protection is sought. They shall be fully supported by the description.
The number of the claims shall be reasonable according to the nature of the invention claimed. Where more than one claim is included, they shall be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals.
7. Drawings
Drawings shall not contain text matter, except a single word or words, when absolutely indispensable, such as "water," "steam," "open," "closed," "section on AB," and, in the case of electric circuits and block schematic or flow sheet diagrams, a few short catchwords indispensable for understanding.
Drawings shall be executed in durable, black, sufficiently dense and dark, uniformly thick and well-defined, lines and strokes without colorings.
8. Abstract
The abstract shall consist of a summary of the disclosure contained in the description, the claims, and any drawings. The length of the abstract shall be preferably 50 to 150 words, if it is in English or when translated into English. It shall not contain statements on the alleged merits or value of the claimed invention or on its speculative application.