5.5.

5.5. Does your National Patent Office’s administrative practice provide that, without prejudice to the requirement of unity of invention, a patent application may contain more than one independent claim in the same category (product, process, apparatus or use) only if the subject-matter of the application involves one of the following:

   a. a plurality of interrelated products,
   b. different uses of a product or apparatus,
   c. alternative solutions to a particular problem, where it is inappropriate to cover these alternatives by a single claim?