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Form P24

REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA

PATENTS ACT, 1978

REQUEST FOR A CERTIFICATE FROM THE REGISTRAR AUTHORISING

THE RELEASE OF A SAMPLE FROM A DEPOSITORY INSTITUTION

(Section 32(6) - Regulation 28A)

Official Patent/Application No.	Lodging Date	Reference

Full name(s) of patentee(s)/applicant(s)

Full name requesting party(ies)

Address for service of requesting party(ies)

Title of invention

I/We,..............................................................................................................................………….................

............................………………………………………………………………………………………………………….....................................

(a)	hereby declare that-

1.	I/We am/are the requesting party(ies) mentioned above or I/We have been authorised by the requesting party(ies) to make this declaration in the capacity of ........................................................................................... of the requesting party(ies);

2.	The micro-organism deposited at ........................................................................... under Accession No. ....................................... is referred to on page .................. of the complete specification of Patent/Application No. .....................; and

(b)

hereby undertake vis-à-vis the patent(s)/applicant(s), that if a sample of the said microorganism is furnished to me/us, not to make the deposited culture or any culture derived therefrom available to any third party until the patent application has been abandoned or has lapsed or until the patent ceases to have effect by way of expiration, revocation, voluntary surrender, or lapsing without the possibility of renewal in accordance with section 46 of the Act; provided that this undertaking shall not prevent me/us from depositing with an international depositary authority a derived culture or the culture itself necessary for the purpose of complying with section 32(6) of the Act; and

(c)	accordingly request that the attached Form P23 be certified by the Registrar and forwarded to me/us.

Signed at...................................................., this .................... day of ......................... 19 .........

Received

Official date stamp

Registrar of Patents

.......................................................

Signature of requesting party(ies)

Patents Act, 1978 (Act No. 57 of 1978)

Regulations

Patent Regulations, 1978

Schedules

Schedule 2

Form P24