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 April 15, 1985, of the notification of the Government of the United States of America stating a change in the fees charged, and an extension of the list of kinds of microorganisms accepted, by the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) 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 will apply as from the thirtieth day following the date (May 31, 1985) of the publication of the said fees in the May 1985 issue of Industrial Property/La Propriété industrielle, that is, as from June 30, 1985 (see Rule 12.2(c) of the Regulations under the Budapest Treaty). The kinds of microorganisms to which the list of microorganisms accepted for deposit has been extended will be accepted as from May 31, 1985, date of the publication in the said issue of the list set forth in the said notification (see Article 7(2)(b) of the Budapest Treaty and Rule 3.3 of the Regulations under that Treaty). The said fees and the said list will replace the fees for the furnishing of a sample under Rules 11.2 and 11.3 and the list of the kinds of microorganisms accepted for deposit by the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), as published in the July/August 1982 and the January 1981 issues of Industrial Property/La Propriété industrielle, respectively (see Budapest Notifications No. 27 of June 29, 1982, and No. 12 of December 8, 1980).
April 26, 1985
Text of the Notification of the Government of the United States of America, dated April 3, 1985, stating a change in the fees charged, and an extension of the list of kinds of microorganisms accepted, by the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC)
NOTIFICATION
The fee schedule of the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) as published in the July/August 1982 issue of Industrial Property is changed as follows in respect of the fees for the furnishing of a sample under Rules 11.2 and 11.3 of the Regulations 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:
| ATCC Cultures | |||
| - United States non-profit institutions | US $40.00+ | ||
| - Foreign non-profit institutions | US $40.00+* | ||
| - Other United States and foreign institutions | US $64.00+ | ||
| - Cell lines ordered as flasks of growing cells, additional laboratory fee | US $35.00+ | ||
| ATCC Preceptrol Cultures | |||
| - All United States and foreign customers | US $12.00+ | ||
+ Per sample.
* Subject to an additional US $24.00 per culture handling and processing charge.
Pursuant to Rule 3.3 of the Regulations under the Budapest Treaty, the list of kinds of microorganisms that the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) has accepted for deposit under the Budapest Treaty (see Note C.3749 of December 3, 1980) is extended and will be the following: algae, animal viruses, bacteria, cell lines, fungi, hybridomas, oncogenes, phages, plant tissue cultures, plant viruses, plasmids, protozoa, seeds, yeasts.