| Examination guidelines | Principles and their use to be focused | Relation with “principle”, “use of principle” and “ways of use” | |
| Inventive step denial | motivation | whole | principle and use of principle |
| design variation | part and whole | ways of use. principle and use of principle | |
| aggregation | whole | principle and use of principle | |
| Inventive step affirmation | advantageous effects | whole | principle and use of principle |
| obstructive factors | part | ways of use |