Patent Rules

Marginal note:No references to description or drawings

• 62 (1) Subject to subsections (2) to (4), the claims must not, except when necessary, rely, in respect of the features of the invention, on references to the description or the drawings and, in particular, they must not rely on such references as “as described in Part of the description” or “as illustrated in figure of the drawings”.

• Marginal note:Reference characters

  (2) If the application for a patent contains drawings, the features mentioned in the claims may be followed by the reference characters, placed between parentheses, that appear in the drawings and relate to those features.

• (3) [Repealed, SOR/2022-120, s. 10]

• Marginal note:Deposit of biological material

  (4) If the description refers to a deposit of biological material, the claims may refer to that deposit.