Invitation To Authorize Transmittal Of Purported International Application {PCT-RO-152}

PATENT COOPERATION TREATY From the RECEIVING OFFICE To: PCT INVITATION TO AUTHORIZE TRANSMITTAL OF PURPORTED INTERNATIONAL APPLICATION TO THE INTERNATIONAL BUREAU AS RECEIVING OFFICE AND TO PAY FEE (PCT Rule 19.4(a)(iii) and Administrative Instructions, Section 333) Date of mailing (day/month/year) Applicants or agents file reference REPLY DUE 15 days from the above date of mailing Receiving Office reference/International application No. Date of receipt of purported international application (day/month/year) Applicant 1. The applicant is hereby informed that this receiving Office and the International Bureau have, subject t o the authorization of the applicant and, where required, payment of a fee (see items 2 and 4), a greed to transmit the international application to the International Bureau as receiving Office (the reason may be specified). 2. The applicant is hereby invited, within the time limit indicated above, to authorize the transmittal of the international application to the International Bureau as receiving Office by filing a written not ice to this effect. 3. This receiving Office acknowledges receipt of the authorization of the a pplicant to transmit the international application to the International Bureau as receiving Office. 4. The transmittal of the international application is also subject to the payment of a fee in the amount of: The fee will be deducted from any fee already paid to this ng viiecreOffice. The applicant is hereby invited to pay that fee within the time limit indicated above. 5. If the transmittal is authorized by the applicant and any required fee i s paid (see item 4), the international application will be considered to have been received by this receiving Office on behalf of t he International Bureau as receiving Office on the date of receipt indicated above, and will be transmitted to the International Bureau as receiving Office (Rule 19.4(a) and (b)) and the following will apply: Any fees paid by the applicant will be refunded in due course, except, w here applicable, the above-mentioned fee payable to this Office under Rule 19.4(b) (see item 4). The transmittal fee, the international filing fee and the search fee are payable to the International Bureau as receiving Office, in a currency prescribed by it within a time limit of one month from the actu al date of receipt of the international application by the International Bureau as receiving Office (rather than one month from th e date of receipt of the international application indicated above). If the applicant has requested this receiving Office to prepare and tran smit to the International Bureau a certified copy of any earlier application the priority of which is claimed by marking the check-box pr ovided for in Box No. VI of the request (see Rule 17.1(b)), it remains the applicants responsibility to submit a certified copy of any such earlier application to the International Bureau, or to the International Bureau as receiving Office within the time limit un der Rule 17.1(a). 6. If the applicant does not authorize the transmittal of the international application to the International Bureau as receivi ng Office, this receiving Office will process the application. 7. A copy of this invitation is being sent to the International Bureau as r eceiving Office. Name and mailing address of the receiving Office Authorized officer Facsimile No. Telephone No. Form PCT/RO/152(January 2004)