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Budapest Notification No. 351
Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure

Certified Copy
Amendments of the Regulations under the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure

Adopted on July 22, 2022, by the Assembly of the Union for the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure (Budapest Union) during its thirty-ninth (18th extraordinary) session held from July 14 to 22, 2022, with effect from January 1, 2023

AMENDMENTS

Rule 11
Furnishing of Samples

11.4 Common Rules

    (a)  Any request, declaration, certification or communication referred to in Rules 11.1, 11.2 and 11.3 shall be

      (i) in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian or Spanish where it is addressed to an international depositary authority whose official language is or whose official languages include Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian or Spanish, respectively, provided that, where it must be in Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Spanish, it may be instead filed in English or French and, if it is so filed, the International Bureau shall, on the request of the interested party referred to in the said Rules or the international depositary authority, establish, promptly and free of charge, a certified translation into Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Spanish;

      (ii) in all other cases, it shall be in English or French, provided that it may be, instead, in the official language or one of the official languages of the international depositary authority.

    (b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a), where the request referred to in Rule 11.1 is made by an industrial property office whose official language is Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Spanish, the said request may be in Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Spanish, respectively, and the International Bureau shall establish, promptly and free of charge, a certified translation into English or French, on the request of that office or the international depositary authority which received the said request.

    (c) to (h) [No change]

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the original text in English of the amendments of the Regulations under the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure, adopted on July 22, 2022, by the Assembly of the Union for the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure (Budapest Union), during its thirty-ninth (18th extraordinary) session held from July 14 to 22, 2022, with effect from January 1, 2023.

For the Director General,
Anna Morawiec Mansfield
Deputy Legal Counsel
World Intellectual Property Organization

October 10, 2022