Common use of [Information Relating to Possible Oppositions and Time Limit for Notifying Provisional Clause in Contracts

[Information Relating to Possible Oppositions and Time Limit for Notifying Provisional. Refusal Based on an Opposition] (a) Subject to Article 9sexies(1)(b) of the Protocol, where a declaration has been made by a Contracting Party pursuant to Article 5(2)(b) and (c), first sentence, of the Protocol, the Office of that Contracting Party shall, where it has become apparent with regard to a given international registration designating that Contracting Party that the opposition period will expire too late for any provisional refusal based on an opposition to be notified to the International Bureau within the 18-month time limit referred to in Article 5(2)(b), inform the International Bureau of the number, and the name of the holder, of that international registration.