Requests for all or some kinds of such international applications must be renewed for each year by means of a notification addressed by that Office before November 30 of the preceding year to the International Bureau.
(a) Requests under Article 13(1) may relate to all, some kinds of, or individual international applications in which the national Office making the request is designated.
(b) The amount of the contribution of each Contracting State shall be decided by the Assembly with due regard to the number of international applications which has emanated from each of them in the relevant year.
The fee for filing an international application will increase from 164,300 yen to 178,100 yen for the first 30 pages, with a further charge of 2,000 yen per page from the 31st page onwards.
The filing of an international application designating the United States of America, which contains multiple designs and a single claim, has the same effect in the United States of America as if such an application was filed directly with the USPTO.
The trend of international applications filed under the PCT shows that the annual count of international applications filed increased in 2011 to 182,000 applications, about three times as many as in the year 1997.
As described above, the international application filing system under the PCT is an internationally standardized system of patent application filing procedures, and is a system that is effective if you wish to obtain patents in many countries.
The international application filing system under the Patent Cooperation Treaty(PCT) is a scheme to ameliorate such complicated and inefficient procedures involved in directly filing an application in each country.
(b) where the international application is not in English or French, provide the Commissioner with a translation of the international application into either English or French; and.
(b) These Regulations shall apply mutatis mutandis to international applications filed in electronic form or by electronic means, subject to any special provisions of the Administrative Instructions.
On the date of the entry into force of this Law, a right to a mark results from an international filing based on a registration of origin outside the Benelux territory, maintenance of such right shall be independent of the conditions prescribed in the preceding paragraph.
International applicants for whom English is not the first language also must take the Test of English as a Foreign Language(TOEFL), administered by the Educational Testing Service, PO Box 6151 Princeton, New Jersey 08541.
(c) Any applicant may pay the additional fees under protest, that is, accompanied by a reasoned statement to the effect that the international application complies with the requirement of unity of invention or that the amount of the required additional fees is excessive.
The report shall identify the International Preliminary Examining Authority which established it by indicating the name of such Authority, and the international application by indicating the international application number, the name of the applicant, and the international filing date.
If the international application does not comply with the applicable requirements, the International Bureau sends an“irregularity letter” to the applicant, inviting that person to make the required corrections within three months from the date of the letter sent by the International Bureau.
Alongside the planned publication of revisions to the regulations of the Patent Cooperation Treaty(PCT) on July 1, 2012, a ministerial ordinance partially revision the legal enforcement regulations regarding international applications etc. based on the PCT was officially announced on May 10, 2012.
The international search report shall identify the International Searching Authority which established it by indicating the name of such Authority, and the international application by indicating the international application number, the name of the applicant, and the international filing date.
The effective date of a U.S. patent, U.S. patent application publication, or international application publication under PCT Article 21(2) is the earlier of its publication date or the date that it is effective as a reference under 35 U.S. C.
(a) If the determination under Article 11(1) is positive, and unless prescriptions concerning national security prevent the international application from being treated as such, the receiving Office shall transmit the record copy to the International Bureau.
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