Notification Of Non-Inclusion Of Drawings With The International Application {PCT-RO-107}

PATENT COOPERATION TREATY From the RECEIVING OFFICE To: PCT NOTIFICATION OF NON-INCLUSION OF DRAWINGS WITH THE INTERNATIONAL APPLICATION (PCT Article 14(2) and Rule 20.2(a)(iii)) Date of mailing (day/month/year) Applicants or agents file reference REPLY DUE within 30 DAYS from the date of receipt indicated below. See also item 5 below. International application No. Date of receipt (day/month/year) Priority date (day/month/year) Applicant 1. The applicant is hereby notified that this receiving Office has found that reference to drawings which were not included in the international application is made on pages: 2. The applicant may, within the time limit indicated above, submit the said drawings (Rule 20.2(a)(iii)). 3. IF THE DRAWINGS REACH this receiving Office within that time limit, the date on which they are received will become the international filing date. 4. IF THE DRAWINGS DO NOT REACH this receiving Office within that time limit, or IF NO DRAWINGS are submitted, any reference in the international application to these drawings will be considered non-existent, the drawings will not be taken into account for the purposes of the international processing and the date of receipt of the international application indicated above will be the international filing date. 5. The time limit for responding to this notification expires later than one year from the filing date of the earliest application whose priority is claimed. Thus, any drawing submitted in reply to this notification, which is received by this receiving Office after the priority year, will require the receiving Office to declare ex officio that the priority claim is considered, for the purposes of the procedure under the PCT, not to have been made. Name and mailing address of the receiving Office Authorized officer Facsimile No. Telephone No. Form PCT/RO/107(July 1998; reprint January 2004)