It has come to the attention of the International Bureau that PCT applicants and agents are receiving invitations to pay fees that do not come from the International Bureau of WIPO and are unrelated to the processing of international applications under the PCT. Whatever registration services might be offered in such invitations, they bear no connection to WIPO or to any of its official publications.
The invitations often identify a particular PCT application by its international publication number (eg: WO 02 xxxxxx), publication date, title of the invention, international application number, priority information and IPC symbols. A number of new invitations have been identified originating from the following:
IPTG – International Patent and Trademark Guide
WOPD – Worldwide Online Patent Database
UPTS – Universal Patents and Trademarks Service
Commercial Center for Industry and Trade
Euro IP Register
WIPD – World Intellectual Property Database
WPTI – World Patent and Trademark Index
UPTS - Universal Patents and Trademarks Service
IPT PATENTS - Register of International Patents
FOIP - Federated Organization for Intellectual Property
IPTS - International Patent and Trademark Service
IPTR - International Patent and Trademark Register
IP DATA - Register of International Patents
WBIP - World Bureau for Intellectual Property
TPS - Trademark and Patent Service
European Register of Brands and Patents (REGIPAT)
Novislink limited
PCT applicants and agents should note that it is the International Bureau of WIPO alone which publishes all PCT applications promptly after the expiration of 18 months from the priority date (see PCT Article 21(2)(a)); there is no separate fee for such international publication, and the legal effects of international publication are set out in PCT Article 29.
If they have not already done so, PCT applicants and agents are advised to bring this information to the attention of the people responsible for handling payments of fees within their organizations, as well as to the attention of inventors who might also receive such requests. - WIPO
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