Notification Of Transmittal Of Purported International Application To The International {PCT-RO-151}

PATENT COOPERATION TREATY From the RECEIVING OFFICE To: PCT NOTIFICATION OF TRANSMITTAL OF PURPORTED INTERNATIONAL APPLICATION TO THE INTERNATIONAL BUREAU AS RECEIVING OFFICE AND INVITATION TO PAY FEE (PCT Rule 19.4(a)(i) and (ii) 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 (only if item 3 applies) Receiving Office reference/International application No. Date of receipt of the purported international application (day/month/year) Applicant 1. The applicant is hereby notified that: this receiving Office is not competent, on account of the nationality and residence of the applicant, to receive the international application (Rule 19.1 or 19.2). the international application is not in a language accepted by this receiving Office under Rule 12.1(a) but is in a language accepted by the International Bureau as receiving Office. 2. Consequently, the international application is considered to have been received by this receiving Office on behalf of the International Bureau as receiving Office on the date of receipt indicated above, and is or will be promptly transmitted to it. 3. The transmittal to the International Bureau as receiving Office is subject to the payment of a fee in the amount of: The fee will be deducted from any fee already paid to this receiving Office. The applicant is hereby invited to pay that fee within the time limit indicated above. Failure to pay that fee may result in the international application not being transmitted to the International Bureau as receiving Office. 4. Any fees paid by the applicant will be refunded in due course, except, where applicable, the above-mentioned fee payable to this Office under Rule 19.4(b) (see item 3). 5. 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 actual date of receipt of the international application by the International Bureau as receiving Office (rather than one month from the date of receipt of the international application indicated above). 6. ATTENTION: If the applicant has requested this receiving Office to prepare and transmit to the International Bureau a certified copy of any earlier application the priority of which is claimed by marking the check-box provided for in Box No. VI of the request (see Rule 17.1(b)), it remains the applicants responsibility to submit such certified copy to the International Bureau, or to the International Bureau as receiving Office, within the time limit under Rule 17.1(a). 7. A copy of this notification is being sent to the International Bureau as receiving Office together with the above-mentioned international application. Name and mailing address of the receiving Office Authorized officer Facsimile No. Telephone No. Form PCT/RO/151(January 2004)