Statement of Grant of Protection Following. a Refusal] (a) An Office which has communicated a notification of refusal and which has decided to either partially or totally withdraw such refusal, may, instead of notifying a withdrawal of refusal in accordance with Rule 18(4)(a), send to the International Bureau a statement to the effect that protection is granted to the industrial designs, or some of the industrial designs, as the case may be, that are the subject of the international registration in the Contracting Party concerned, it being understood that, where Rule 12(3) applies, the grant of protection will be subject to the payment of the second part of the individual designation fee. (b) The statement shall indicate (i) the Office making the notification, (ii) the number of the international registration, (iii) where the statement does not relate to all the industrial designs that are the subject of the international registration, those to which it relates or does not relate, (iv) the date on which the international registration produced the effect as a grant of protection under the applicable law, and (v) the date of the statement. (c) Where the international registration was amended in a procedure before the Office, the statement shall also contain or indicate all amendments.
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Samples: Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registrations of Industrial Designs, Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registrations of Industrial Designs, Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registrations of Industrial Designs
