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It should be needed, because word format is required!
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Generally yes;
Some notes on the patent specification:
1. An application for a patent for invention or utility model shall be submitted in duplicate with a description.
2. The instruction manual shall be typed or printed, the handwriting shall be neat and clear, black, meet the requirements of plate making, shall not be altered, the height of the words shall be between millimeters and millimeters, and the line spacing shall be between millimeters and millimeters.
This page is used for the first page of the manual, and the same size and quality of white paper can be used for the continuation page. The paper should be used vertically, on the front side only, with margins on all sides: 25 mm on the left and top, 15 mm on the right and bottom.
3. The name of the invention-creation shall be indicated in the first line of the first page of the specification, which shall be consistent with the name in the request and centered on the left and right. There shall be a blank line between the name of the invention and the body of the description.
The format of the description shall include the following five parts, and the title shall be indicated in front of each part: technical field, background art, invention content, description of drawings, specific embodiments, and if there are no drawings in the description, the text part of the description shall not include the description of the drawings and their corresponding titles. The text part of the manual may have chemical formulas, mathematical formulas, or **, but there shall be no illustrations.
4. For applications involving nucleotides or amino acids, the sequence listing shall be included as a separate part of the description and page numbers shall be prepared separately. The applicant shall submit a CD-ROM or floppy disk consistent with the sequence listing at the same time as the application, and the CD-ROM or floppy disk shall comply with the relevant regulations of the State Intellectual Property Office.
5. The description shall be numbered in the order in which the bottom line of each page is centered in the center.
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Notice of Business on the Prohibition of Paragraph Lead and Numbering in the Specification
Patent Institutions:
In the process of data processing of documents, the Patent Office of the State Intellectual Property Office found that the specification of the paper patent application submitted by some ** institutions has a paragraph number before the natural paragraph, which has a certain adverse impact on the processing and examination of the data of the patent office's application documents. In order to cooperate with the smooth launch of the electronic examination and approval system of the Patent Office and adapt to the changes in the examination mode in the future, from now on, it is required that the specifications of paper patent applications submitted by all patent institutions shall not contain any form of paragraph numbering.
All patent institutions are requested to cooperate in the implementation.
Patent Office of the State Intellectual Property Office.
January 11, 2010.
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