[Filing Date Where Applicant’s Contracting Party Requires a Security Clearance. Notwithstanding paragraph (3), a Contracting Party whose law, at the time that it becomes party to the 1999 Act, requires security clearance may, in a declaration, notify the Director General that the period of one month referred to in that paragraph shall be replaced by a period of six months. Rule 14
(1) [Time Limit for Correcting Irregularities] If the International Bureau finds that the international application does not, at the time of its receipt by the International Bureau, fulfill the applicable requirements, it shall invite the applicant to make the required corrections within three months from the date of the invitation sent by the International Bureau.
(2) [Irregularities Entailing a Postponement of the Filing Date of the International Application] Where the international application has, on the date on which it is received by the International Bureau, an irregularity which is prescribed as an irregularity entailing a postponement of the filing date of the international application, the filing date shall be the date on which the correction of such irregularity is received by the International Bureau. The irregularities which are prescribed as entailing a postponement of the filing date of the international application are the following:
(a) the international application is not in one of the prescribed languages;
(b) any of the following elements is missing from the international application:
(i) an express or implicit indication that international registration under the 1999 Act or the 1960 Act is sought;
(ii) indications allowing the identity of the applicant to be established;
(iii) indications sufficient to enable the applicant or its representative, if any, to be contacted;
(iv) a reproduction, or, in accordance with Article 5(1)(iii) of the 1999 Act, a specimen, of each industrial design that is the subject of the international application;
(v) the designation of at least one Contracting Party.
[Filing Date Where Applicant’s Contracting Party Requires a Security Clearance. Notwithstanding paragraph (3), a Contracting Party whose law, at the time that it becomes party to the 1999 Act, requires security clearance may, in a declaration, notify the Director General that the period of one month referred to in that paragraph shall be replaced by a period of six months.
[Filing Date Where Applicant’s Contracting Party Requires a Security Clearance. Notwithstanding paragraph (3), a Contracting Party whose law, at the time that it becomes party to the 1999 Act, requires security clearance may, in a declaration, notify the Director General that the period of one month referred to in that paragraph shall be replaced by a period of six months. Rule 14
(1) [Time Limit for Correcting Irregularities] (a) If the International Bureau finds that the international application does not, at the time of its receipt by the International Bureau, fulfill the applicable requirements, it shall invite the applicant to make the required corrections within three months from the date of the invitation sent by the International Bureau.
