Withdrawal of Notification of Applicability of PCT Rule 4.9(b)

RU Russian Federation

Further to its notification of the applicability of PCT Rule 4.9(b) to the designation of the Russian Federation (see PCT Newsletter No. 02/2003), the Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks (Rospatent), in its capacity as designated Office, has notified the International Bureau that it has withdrawn its notification with effect from 5 June 2009.

This means that where the international application claims the priority of an earlier national application filed in the Russian Federation (RU), it is no longer necessary to exclude the RU designation in the international application in order to prevent the automatic withdrawal of the earlier national application.  Box No. V of the request form, as well as the relevant part of the PCT-SAFE software, will be revised accordingly in due course.