Concept House
Cardiff Road
NewportSouth Wales
NP10 8QQPatents Form 9A
Patents Act 1977 (Rule 27)

Request for search(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. Is this request for (please tick one box):a)

A search under Section 17(1) for an international application which has been
searched in the international phase?

b) A search under Section 17 (1) for any other application?
c)

A supplementary search under Section 17(8)?
(See note (b) for help choosing which search you require)d) A search of a further invention under Section 17(6)?
If your answer is (d), identify which invention you would like to be searched byreferring to the claims to be searched (See note (c)):(we will automatically send you a paper copy of any cited non-patent documents, see note (d))

5. Are you paying the application fee with this form?
(See note (e))

YESNo

6. Number of claims in your application:
Only relevant for options (a) and (b) above. See note (f)7.

(please see note (g))

Signature

Date

8. Name, email address, telephone and/or mobile
number, if any, of a contact point for
the applicant:Intellectual Property Ofﬁce is an operating name of the Patent Ofﬁce

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Notesa)

Please type or write your answers using black ink. If you need help to ﬁll in this form or you have any questions,please contact the Ofﬁce on 0300 300 2000.

b) Identifying the type of search you require:
Option a) choose this option if your application is a PCT application.
Option b) choose this option if your application is a UK national application, and this is the ﬁrst search you haverequested for your application.
Option c)

this option is used if you have already had a search done, but the claims have since been amended orcorrected so that the deﬁned invention has changed, and was not covered by the original search. An
examiner will tell you if you need to request a supplementary search.

Option d) sometimes an examiner will tell you that your claims relate to more than one invention. In suchcircumstances the examiner will only search the ﬁrst invention of the claims. If you wish otherinventions to be searched you should use this option, ﬁling a separate form with this option ticked foreach invention you wish to be searched. You should also indicate on the form(s) the claims relating to
the invention to be searched. You will need to pay a fee for each further invention to be searched.
c)

If you do not identify an invention, the second invention speciﬁed in the search report previously made underSection 17(5) will be searched.

d) We will supply one copy of each non-patent document such as journal articles cited in the search report orduring the substantive examination process. Patent documents cited during the application process are usuallyaccessible for free on the internet (particularly from http://worldwide.espacenet.com/) and you will not be issued
with a copy of them. For copyright reasons, all copies of citations supplied by the Ofﬁce must be used for thesole purpose of processing the patent application.
e)

Before your application is searched you must pay an application fee, as well as the search fee required withthis form. If you have not already paid the application fee you can do so when ﬁling this form. Note that theapplication fee is higher when paid after the date you ﬁled your application. For details of the fees and ways topay them, please contact the Ofﬁce.

f)

If you have selected option (a) or (b) in part 4 of this form, please indicate the current number of claims in yourapplication. The search fee increases if your application includes more than 25 claims. Such an increase does
not apply to searches under option (c) or (d). For details of the fee payable with this form and ways to pay, pleasecontact the Ofﬁce.

g) 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 searchand 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.
h)Once you have ﬁlled in this form remember to sign and date it.

Data Privacy: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/intellectual-property-ofﬁce/about/personal-information-charter

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Fees and payment
We will only process the form with this section completed (one form per payment)
To check the correct fee for this form, search on GOV.UK for ‘patent forms and fees’
Search fee
Application fee(only if not paid with Patent Form 1)

Excess claims fee
Total fee paying
Your own reference (Optional)
Your contact details should we have a query
NameEmailPhone
How would you like to pay?
Tick one
Using a debit or credit card – you will need the internet to pay by card1

Go to our secure website – https://fees.ipo.gov.uk/pay

2

Enter your name, email address and total amount to pay from above

3

As proof of payment, write below the 16-digit reference number displayed from theonline payment screen.
DO NOT write your debit/credit card number

Deduct from IPO deposit accountIPO deposit account number

Cheque – make payable to ‘Intellectual Property Ofﬁce’
and please send to the address speciﬁed below.
Bank transfer
Reference – use your IPO deposit account number if you have one or anapplication number or your name if you don’t.
Use the following bank account details
Sort code
Account number
Account name
SWIFT code
IBAN number

20-18-2380531766
Intellectual Property Ofﬁce
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Post to: Intellectual Property Ofﬁce, Concept House, Cardiff Road, Newport, South Wales, NP10 8QQ, United Kingdom
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