Concept House
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NewportSouth Wales
NP10 8QQPatents Form 10
Patents Act 1977 (Rule 28)

Request for a substantive examination(See the notes on the back of this form)
1. Your reference:(optional)

2. Patent application number (e.g. GB7654321.0):

3. Full name of the applicant or of each applicant:4. Number of pages of description in your application:(see note(c))

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(please see note (d) and (e))

I/We request substantive examination of this application.

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and/or mobile number, if any, of acontact point for the applicant:Intellectual Property Ofﬁce is an operating name of the Patent Ofﬁce

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b) Please type or write your answers using black ink.
c)Please indicate the current number of pages of description in your application. The fee for substantive
examination increases if your application contains more than 35 pages of description.

d) In order to promote efﬁcient and high quality patent processing internationally, we are cooperating withother patent ofﬁces to share the results of searches and examinations. We are obliged to provide some
information before publication to the European Patent Ofﬁce. We may also provide the results of the search
and any examination that has been carried out to other patent ofﬁces, even if this is prior to publication of yourapplication. Any sharing prior to publication of your application will be carried out on a conﬁdential basis and theresults will not become publicly available through the other patent ofﬁce before publication takes place in the UK.
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If you are ﬁling this form with a Patents Form 9A for the same application and you do not want the search andsubstantive examination to be done at the same time, you should indicate this by writing “Not combined searchand examination” on the front of this form in the space below part 5.

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