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 the receipt on March 29, 2017, of a communication of the European Patent Office, dated March 24, 2017, relating to a change of the name of the Centraalbureau Voor Schimmelcultures (CBS), an International Depositary Authority (IDA) 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, and amended on September 26, 1980 (see Budapest Notification No. 21 of August 27, 1981).
April 24, 2017
Text of the communication by the European Patent Office relating to a change in the name of the Centraalbureau Voor Schimmelcultures (CBS)
[Original: English]
COMMUNICATION
The Centraalbureau Voor Schimmelcultures (CBS), an International Depositary Authority (IDA) under the Budapest Treaty, has changed its name to Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute. Apart from the web site and e-mail address, the contact details have remained unchanged:
Uppsalalaan 8
3584 CT Utrecht
The Netherlands
Mailing address:
P.O. Box 85167
3508 AD Utrecht
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 (0)30 212 26 00
Fax: +31 (0)30 212 26 01
E-mail: info@westerdijkinstitute.nl
Web site: www.westerdijkinstitute.nl
The CBS collection is since the date of name change part of the Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute. The unique CBS reference numbers given to cultures deposited in its restricted or public collection will stay the same and also in future the reference numbers that are given will start with the acronym CBS.