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Manual of Patent
Examining Procedure (MPEP)
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If the receiving Office does not, within the prescribed time limit, receive a reply to its invitation to correct, or if the correction offered by the applicant still does not fulfill the requirements provided for under Article 11(1), it shall:
(i) promptly notify the applicant that his application is not and will not be treated as an international application and shall indicate the reasons therefor,
(ii) notify the International Bureau that the number it has marked on the papers will not be used as an international application number,
(iii) keep the papers constituting the purported international application and any correspondence relating thereto as provided in Rule 93.1, and
(iv) send a copy of the said papers to the International Bureau where, pursuant to a request by the applicant under Article 25(1), the International Bureau needs such a copy and specially asks for it.
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