The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) presents his compliments to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and has the honor to notify him of the receipt, on March 23, 1981, of the notification of the Government of the United States of America stating a change in the fees charged by the American Type Culture Collection as an international depositary authority under the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure, done at Budapest on April 28, 1977. The text of that notification is attached.
The fees set forth in the said notification of the Government of the United States of America will apply as from the thirtieth day following the date (April 30, 1981) of the publication of the said fees in the April 1981 issue of Industrial Property/La Propriété industrielle, that is, as from May 30, 1981 (see Rule 12.2(c) of the Regulations under the Budapest Treaty), and will replace the fees published in the January 1981 issue of Industrial Property/La Propriété industrielle.
April 6, 1981
Text of the Notification of the Government of the United States of America received on March 23, 1981, stating a change in the fees charged by the American Type Culture Collection
NOTIFICATION
The fee schedule of the American Type Culture Collection as published in the January 1981 issue of Industrial Property is replaced by the following fee schedule.
FEE SCHEDULE
The fee for storage is U.S. dollars 870 or, if the right under Rule 11.4(g) to be notified of the furnishing of samples is waived, U.S. dollars 570.
The fee for the issuance of a viability statement is:
| U.S. dollars | |||
| - bacteria (without plasmids) | 100.00 | ||
| - fungi (including yeast) | 100.00 | ||
| - protozoa | 100.00 | ||
| - algae | 100.00 | ||
| - animal cell cultures (including hybridoma lines) - animal and plant viruses - bacteria (with plasmids) |
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(+) The testing of some of these items may require testing in animals (i.e., horse) or other expensive procedures, and the fee cannot be determined until the exact nature of the material is known.
The fee for the furnishing of a sample under Rules 11.2 and 11.3 is (per sample):
| U.S. dollars | |||
| - selected samples furnished to high schools | 9.00 (++) | ||
| - non-profit institutions: | |||
| - selected samples for educational use | 19.50 (++) | ||
| - other samples | 34.00 (++) | ||
| - commercial firms | 54.50 (++) | ||
(++) Shipping charges are to be added to the fee itself.