Sheet No. . . . . . . .
Box No. VIII DECLARATIONS
Filing date (day/month/year) Application Number Country (or regional Offi ce)
Box No. VIII (i) Declaration as to the identity of the inventor :
Box No. VIII (ii) Declaration as to the applicant’s entitlement, as at the international fi ling
date, to apply for and be granted a patent :
Box No. VIII (iii) Declaration as to the applicant’s entitlement, as at the international fi ling
date, to claim the priority of the earlier application :
Box No. VIII (iv) Declaration of inventorship (only for the purposes of the designation of the
United States of America) :
Box No. VIII (v) Declaration as to non-prejudicial disclosures or exceptions to lack of novelty :
1.1 The ISA indicated in Box No. VII is requested to take into account the results of the earlier search(es) indicated
below (see also Notes to Continuation of Box No. VII, item 1; use of results of more than one earlier search)
The following declarations are contained in Boxes Nos. VIII (i) to (v) (mark the applicable Number of
check-boxes below and indicate in the right column the number of each type of declaration): declarations
See Notes to the request form
Form PCT/RO/101 (third sheet) (July 2019)
Continuation of Box No. VII USE OF EARLIER SEARCH AND CLASSIFICATION RESULTS
Statement (Rule 4.12(ii)): this international application is the same, or substantially the same, as the application in respect of
which the earlier search was carried out except, where applicable, that it is fi led in a diff erent language.
1.2 Submission of the earlier search results, where necessary*
Availability of documents (Rules 12bis.1(c) and (d) and 12bis.2(b)): the following documents are available to the ISA in a
form and a manner acceptable to it, and therefore DO NOT need to be submitted by the applicant to the receiving Offi ce, or to
the ISA.
a copy of the results of the earlier search,
a copy of the earlier application,
a translation of the earlier application into a language which is accepted by the ISA,
a translation of the results of the earlier search into a language which is accepted by the ISA,
a copy of any document cited in the earlier search results (if known, please indicate below the documents available to the ISA):
Request from the applicant to the receiving Offi ce to transmit to the ISA a copy of the earlier search results (Rule 12bis.1(b)
and (d)): (where the earlier search was not carried out by the ISA indicated in Box No. VII but by the same Offi ce as that which
is acting as receiving Offi ce; or where the earlier search results are otherwise available to the receiving Offi ce): the applicant
requests the receiving Offi ce to prepare and transmit to the ISA a copy of the earlier search results.
* The applicant only needs to furnish a copy of the earlier search results to the receiving Offi ce, or the ISA, if none of the scenarios
mentioned under item 1 applies. (See item 10 in the check-list and also Notes to Continuation of Box No. VII, item 1).
Further earlier searches are indicated on a continuation sheet.
2.1 Where the international application claims priority of an earlier application, subject to Article 30(2)(a) and (3), the receiving Offi ce:
– shall transmit a copy of the earlier search and classifi cation results to the ISA (unless such copy is already available to the ISA),
where the earlier application was fi led with the same Offi ce as that which is acting as the receiving Offi ce and that Offi ce has
carried out the earlier search in respect of the earlier application (Rule 23bis.2(a));
– may transmit such a copy if the earlier application was fi led with a diff erent Offi ce, but where the results of that earlier search
and classifi cation are nevertheless available to the receiving Offi ce (Rule 23bis.2(c)).
However, where the applicant did not request the receiving Offi ce to transmit to the ISA a copy of the earlier search results under
Rule 4.12 (see above item 1), in respect of an earlier search carried out on the following earlier application, the priority of which is
subsequently claimed in this international application, the applicant may consider (see also Notes to Continuation of Box No. VII,
item 2; use of more than one earlier search):
Filing date (day/month/year) Application Number Country (or regional Offi ce)
2.2 Request not to transmit the earlier search results by the receiving Offi ce to the ISA (Rule 23bis.2(b))
to request that the receiving Offi ce DOES NOT transmit the results of the earlier search to the ISA (Rule 23bis.2(b)) (may only
be checked where the international application is fi led with the following receiving Offi ces: DE, FI and SE)
2.3 Authorization to transmit the earlier search and classifi cation results by the receiving Offi ce to the ISA (Rule 23bis.2(a) and (e))
to authorize the receiving Offi ce to transmit the results of the earlier search and classifi cation to the ISA (Rule 23bis.2(e)) (may
only be checked where the international application is fi led with the following receiving Offi ces: AU, CZ, FI, HU, IL, JP, NO, SE,
SG and US)
to authorize the
receiving Offi
ce to transmit the results of the earlier international search and classifi cation to the ISA (Rule 23bis.2(a)
and Article 30(2)(a) and (3)) (may only be checked where the earlier search concerns an international application, the priority
of which is subsequently claimed in this international application and where the earlier international search was carried out by a
diff erent ISA than the ISA chosen in Box No. VII)
Further earlier searches are indicated on a continuation sheet.
2. Transmission of the earlier search and classifi cation results to the ISA by the receiving Offi ce where the applicant DID NOT
make a request under Rule 4.12
1. Request by the applicant under Rule 4.12
10 December 2018 (19.12.2018)