PCT AI Section 410 — Numbering of Sheets for the Purposes of International Publication; Procedure in Case of Missing or Erroneously Filed Sheets
Ninth Edition, Revision 01.2024
- (a) In the course of preparing the international application for international publication, the International Bureau shall sequentially renumber the sheets to be published only when necessitated by the addition of any new sheet, the deletion of entire sheets or a change in the order of the sheets. Otherwise, the numbering provided under Section 207 shall be maintained.
- (b) Where a sheet has not been filed or is not to be taken into consideration for the purposes of international processing under Section 310bis or 310ter , the International Bureau shall include an indication to that effect in the published international application.
- (c) Where the receiving Office fails to correct the numbering of the sheets in accordance with Section 311(b)(iii) , the International Bureau shall number the sheets accordingly.
Cited authority
- PCT AI Section 207 Arrangement of Elements and Numbering of Sheets of the International Application
- PCT AI Section 310 bis Procedure in the Case of Later Submitted Sheets Resulting in the Correction of the International Filing Date under Rule 20.5(c) or 20.5 bis(c)
- PCT AI Section 310 ter Procedure in the Case of Later Submitted Sheets Furnished after the Expiration of the Applicable Time Limit Referred to in Rule 20.7
- PCT AI Section 311 Renumbering in the Case of Deletion, Substitution or Addition of Sheets of the International Application and of the Translation Thereof