INTERNATIONAL APPLICATION AND INTERNATIONAL SEARCH
Article 3
The International Application
(1)
Applications for the protection of
inventions in any of the Contracting States may be filed as international
applications under this Treaty.
(2)
An international application shall
contain, as specified in this Treaty and the Regulations, a request, a
description, one or more claims, one or more drawings (where required),
and an abstract.
(3)
The abstract merely serves the purpose
of technical information and cannot be taken into account for any other
purpose, particularly not for the purpose of interpreting the scope of
the protection sought.
(4)
The international application shall:
(i)
be in a prescribed language;
(ii)
comply with the prescribed physical
requirements;
(iii)
comply with the prescribed requirement
of unity of invention;