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1.10.4 Minimum Levels of Responsibility

Date Published

Supervising Examiners and the Chief of PBR are authorised officers at the minimum level of responsibility for:

ISA

ISA

ISA

ISA

IPEA

Art 15(5)

Unity of Invention (form PCT/ISA/206)

Unity of Invention, additional fees outside time

Refund of international search fees (forms PCT/ISA/213 and 224)

Excluded subject matter (form PCT/ISA/203)

Unity of Invention (form PCT/IPEA/405)

Excluded subject matter

Senior Examiners and Examiners are authorised officers at the minimum level of responsibility for:

ISA

ISA

ISA

IPEA

IPEA

IPEA

THAI

WIPO

FIJI

FIJI

International search report/opinion (forms PCT/ISA/210, PCT/IPEA/237)

Notification of Transmittal of ISR (form PCT/ISA/220)

International-type search report

IPE Opinion (form PCT/IPEA/408)

IPE Report (form PCT/IPEA/409)

Notification of Transmittal of IPRP (form PCT/IPEA/416)

Search report

Search report

Search report and Advisory opinion

Further advisory opinion

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