*Extension
of European patent possible.
**May only be designated for a regional patent (the "national route" via the
PCT has been closed).
***Adhered to the PCT but not yet bound by the PCT on the date of issue of the latest
version of the request form.
State can be designated for a regional patent: AP = ARIPO patent, EA = Eurasian
patent, EP = European patent, OA = OAPI patent
If the applicant wishes to designate any States for the purposes of a national patent,
which are bound by the PCT on the date on which the international application is filed but
which are not listed in the request form, he must add them in Box No. V of the request
form and mark the corresponding check-box.
Applicants should always use the latest versions of the request form (PCT/RO/101) and
demand form (PCT/IPEA/401). The latest versions are dated July 1998. The forms
are reproduced in Annexes X and Y, respectively, in Vol. I/B of the PCT Applicant's Guide
(January 1999 update), and can be printed from the WIPO Internet site, in PDF format at: http://www.wipo.int/eng/pct/forms/index.htm.
