PCT Rule 71 — Transmittal of the International Preliminary Examination Report and Related Documents
Ninth Edition, Revision 01.2024
71.1 Recipients
- (a) The International Preliminary Examining Authority shall, on the same day, transmit one copy of the international preliminary examination report and its annexes, if any, to the International Bureau, and one copy to the applicant.
- (b) The International Preliminary Examining Authority shall transmit copies of other documents from the file of the international preliminary examination to the International Bureau in accordance with the Administrative Instructions.
71.2 Copies of Cited Documents
- (a) The request under Article 36(4) may be presented any time during seven years from the international filing date of the international application to which the report relates.
- (b) The International Preliminary Examining Authority may require that the party (applicant or elected Office) presenting the request pay to it the cost of preparing and mailing the copies. The level of the cost of preparing copies shall be provided for in the agreements referred to in Article 32(2) between the International Preliminary Examining Authorities and the International Bureau.
- (c) [Deleted]
- (d) Any International Preliminary Examining Authority may perform the obligations referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) through another agency responsible to it.
Cited authority
Cited by
- PCT Rule 73 Communication of the International Preliminary Examination Report or the Written Opinion of the International Searching Authority
- PCT Rule 94 Access to Files
- PCT AI Section 420 bis Communication of Other Documents to Elected Offices
- PCT AI Section 602 bis Transmittal of Other Documents to the International Bureau under Rule 71.1(b)