PCT International Search and Preliminary Examination Guidelines
PART I INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
Chapter 3 Overview of the International Preliminary Examination Stage
Copies of Documents Cited in International Preliminary Examination Report
3.30 At any time within seven years of the international filing date of the international application, either the applicant or any elected Office is entitled to request copies of any documents cited in the international preliminary examination report which were not cited in the international search report to be sent to them by the International Preliminary Examining Authority, subject, if required by the Authority, to the payment of costs for preparing and mailing the copies (the applicant may be sent copies of such citations automatically with the international preliminary examination report).