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40.—(1) The documentation prescribed for the purposes of section 29 (“minimum documentation”) shall consist of —

(a)	the patents issued by or registered in Singapore;
(b)	the patent applications published in Singapore;
(c)	the “national patent documents” as specified in paragraph (2); and
(d)	the published international (Patent Co-operation Treaty) applications.

(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), the “national patent documents” shall be the following:

(a)	the patents issued by Australia, France, the former Reichspatentamt of Germany, Japan, Switzerland (in French and German languages only), the United Kingdom and the United States of America;
(b)	the patents issued by the Federal Republic of Germany; and
(c)	the patent applications, if any, published in the countries referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b).

(3) The patent documents of Japan, for which no abstracts in the English language are generally available, need not form part of the “minimum documentation”.

(4) Only those patents issued and those patent applications published, after a date not more than 50 years before the declared priority date or, where there is no declared priority date, the date of filing of the application being subjected to a search, need form part of the “minimum documentation”.

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