Rule 2

1. [Names]
(a) Where the name of a person is to be indicated, any Contracting Party may require,
(i) where the person is a natural person, that the name to be indicated be the family or principal name and the given or secondary name or names of that person or that the name to be indicated be, at that person’s option, the name or names customarily used by the said person;
(ii) where the person is a legal entity, that the name to be indicated be the full official designation of the legal entity.
(b) Where the name of a representative which is a firm or partnership is to be indicated, any Contracting Party shall accept as indication of the name the indication that the firm or partnership customarily uses.
 

2. [Addresses]
(a) Where the address of a person is to be indicated, any Contracting Party may require that the address be indicated in such a way as to satisfy the customary requirements for prompt postal delivery at the indicated address and, in any case, consist of all the relevant administrative units up to, and including, the house or building number, if any.
(b) Where a communication to the Office of a Contracting Party is in the name of two or more persons with different addresses, that Contracting Party may require that such communication indicate a single address as the address for correspondence.
(c) The indication of an address may contain a telephone number, a telefacsimile number and an e-mail address and, for the purposes of correspondence, an address different from the address indicated under subparagraph (a).
(d) Subparagraphs (a) and (c) shall apply,mutatis mutandis, to addresses for service.
 

3. [Other Means of Identification] Any Contracting Party may require that a communication to the Office indicate the number or other means of identification, if any, with which the applicant, holder, representative or interested person is registered with its Office. No Contracting Party may refuse a communication on grounds of failure to comply with any such requirement, except for applications filed in electronic form.

4. [Script to Be Used] Any Contracting Party may require that any indication referred to in paragraphs (1) to (3) be in the script used by the Office.