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Article 27. National Requirements (1) No national law shall require compliance with requirements relating to the form or contents of the international application different from or additional to those which are provided for in this Treaty and the Regulations.

The applicant has to file a PCT Chapter II Demand to make amendments under Article 34. The Demand must be filed within three months from the issuance of the ISR or 22 months from the priority date, whichever is later. An additional fee is paid under Article 34.

Legally, a utility patent may cover “any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof.” A design patent may cover “any new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture,” and a plant patent may cover a “distinct and new variety of ...

(4) Failure to indicate in the request the name and other prescribed data concerning the inventor shall have no consequence in any designated State whose national law requires the furnishing of the said indications but allows that they be furnished at a time later than that of the filing of a national application.

SIGNATURE OF APPLICANT OR AGENT Pursuant to PCT Rule 4.15, the international application must be signed in Box No. X of the request by the applicant, or, where there are two or more applicants, by all of them.

An Article 34 amendment allows for amendment of not only the claims, but also of the written description and drawings, without adding new matter.

Article 33 - The International Preliminary Examination (4) For the purposes of the international preliminary examination, a claimed invention shall be considered industrially applicable if, ing to its nature, it can be made or used (in the technological sense) in any kind of industry.