Rule 102

1. The form provided by the Office for the filing of an international application, as referred to in Article 142(1) of the Regulation, shall be an adaptation of the official form provided by the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (hereinafter ‘the International Bureau’) having the same format but including such additional indications and elements as are required or may be appropriate pursuant to these Rules. Applicants may also use the official form provided by the International Bureau.

2. Paragraph 1 shall apply mutatis mutandis for the form for a request for territorial extension subsequent to the international registration pursuant to Article 144 of the Regulation.

3. The Office shall inform the applicant filing the international application of the date on which the documents making up the international application are received by the Office.

4. Where the international application is filed in an official language of the European Community other than a language allowed under the Madrid Protocol for the filing of an international application and where the international application does not contain, or is not accompanied by, a translation of the list of goods and services and of any other text matter forming part of the international application in the language in which the application is to be submitted to the International Bureau pursuant to Article 142(2) of the Regulation, the applicant shall authorise the Office to include in the international application a translation of the said list of goods and services and other text matter in the language in which the application is to be submitted to the International Bureau pursuant to Article 142(2) of the Regulation. Where the translation has not yet been established in the course of the registration procedure for the Community trade mark application on which the international application is based, the Office shall without delay arrange for the translation.