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13.4 Dependent Claims - Patent Cooperation Treaty
§ 13.4 Dependent Claims
Subject to Rule 13.1, it shall be permitted to include in the same international application a reasonable number of dependent claims, claiming specific forms of the invention claimed in an independent claim, even where the features of any dependent claim could be considered as constituting in themselves an invention.
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